What's on your Monday Menu?

Great job!!

Thanks, Kelly. I was feeling kind of discouraged afterwards, but my trainer reminded me that there was a Tim when I wouldn't have been able to do even one rep, so I try to keep that in mind.

I do think we tend to be our own worst critic.

I agree on that. DS has made some incredible changes in his muscles and strength but it is never good enough.

G'morning all!

QJB - that squirrel is so cute!! Very happy your offer was accepted. I hear people are having a hard time hiring qualified employees.

We had an unexpected unplanned weekend. On Fri a friend of ours called offering us a weekend at a golf resort in Monterey. Turns out a couple of yrs ago, before Covid, he had bid at a school auction on a golf weekend. He just found out it had to be used by the end of Feb 2022 or he would have lost it. Hence the invite, because it was for a foursome. The glitch is that I don't play golf; I can't hit a ball if my life depended on it. So I "sacrificed" and went along with the stipulation they had to find their fourth person on site. We had fun, the resort had e-bikes and miles and miles of path along the coast. I also got to use their state of the art gym while NOBODY was there. I hadn't been in a gym since Mar 2020 and realized how much I miss it, but still not going back to my local gyms. Anyway, it was a nice fun weekend while our friends & DH played golf and I relaxed, biked, used the gym and enjoyed the sun.

QOTD: we used to go to the movies and have lunch/coffe/dinner. Now we plan for hikes and coffee. Outside as much as possible.

My meals yesterday:

• Egg white egg bites + bacon
• Ham & cheese sandwich (no bread, just the innards)
• Parmesan cheese crisps
• Grilled salmon, sautee kale & carrots
• E: Rest day

Happy start of the week.

What an awesome surprise weekend!

Good morning! I'm sorry, but I love Monday's. Not working them gives me some perspective into what retirement is going to look like. I enjoy sitting here at home in the sunlight path, having coffee and catching up. It was a beautiful weekend here and very productive. I royally screwed up the calorie count on Friday night, so I was extra good all weekend. Though the scale is still punishing me from Friday night. I deserve it.

I started my Stephen King book, The Outsider. Holy crap. It's scary. I'm in almost 300 pages and this is NOT a book that gets to go to bed with me for my wind down time reading. No Sir-ee. It is scary as hell and I can't wait to dive back into it this afternoon! Haven't even started the second book but I am blowing through this one fast. A little more than half done, and I still have no idea who did it!

In other news, we finalized and booked hotels for Paris and Romania. Very nervous about the situation in the Ukraine and we are monitoring it. All things are cancellable. But mostly my heart hurts for those folks. I sit and watch the news and cry a bit every evening. Of course, I cried yesterday over a commercial, so... Today is a pedicure and then a bit of shopping while my toes dry. I have a short list of things I need before the big trip and I am working my way through it. And I need some damn Chobani peanut butter dream flips.

QoTD: My bestie bestie and I tend to not see each other enough and then when do it's all gabbing and enjoying wine. We try to add water, but it's all so much fun. Hopefully soon we can get back to daytime dates and then we love to take a huge walk on the beach gabbing and then the husbands meet us somewhere for lunch. Most of my other girlfriend dates are either lunch and shopping or one of us taking turns cooking and blabbing. I'm very grateful for these women. And a few men that fill the bill of bestie too.

Menu: Trying so hard to be good!

B: beef jerky and an ounce of really great cheddar

L: I hope I am home from the mall. If yes, left over pollo asada fajita meat and maybe a bag of quest chips

D: salad with some pot roast from yesterday.

Peace Everybody!

Good morning ~ I hope you have a great day at work today, QJB - stay warm. I had a productive and relaxing weekend, it was really nice I even napped on Saturday. Rob smoked a turkey breast, it was fabulous.

I need to buckle down - I'm losing the battle here and my fat clothes are getting tight. I didn't get out of bed and workout this morning again, I think this is going on 3 weeks? What is my problem? Why can't I stick to healthy boundaries? I guess that is why I needed the surgery to begin with... but I've done SO much inner work on all kinds of levels - non stop. What else is there?

QOTD - My sister is my bff and it's all about the girlie stuff - chick flicks, spa and pools days, hikes that all end up w/fancy food and wine. We could talk forever and never run out of things to talk about.

Accountability - **** show

B- coffee w/HH and SF hazelnut syrup, 2 HB eggs

l- Just chicken, salad mix, FF balsamic dressing

d- smoked turkey breast, pepper jack and Ortega chili melt

s-semi-fro L&F straw/cheesecake

Have a great day!

sometimes the only thing that'll help me rein things in is to make tiny, easily accomplished goals, like keeping my calories at or under 1800 (that is really high for me normally, but when I've been eating 2000 or more for several days in a stretch, keeping it to 1800 seems more do-able than trying it bring down to 1600 or less). Then after a week or two of eating 1800-i****'s a little easier to drop down to 1600 (or less)

or you could do the same thing with exercise. Make a goal for exercising 15 or 20 minutes instead of your usual 30-60 (or whatever). Once that becomes habit again, then increase it.

I have a hard time making drastic changes when I've fallen off the wagon for awhile - but I can usually work my way back there if I do it gradually...

You're right - all or nothing isn't the best way all the time. I don't know how many calories I'm actually eating when I go off plan - once I go rouge I avoid MFP like the plague. I have the best of intentions in the am though and plan really well, but any number of things can kill my resolve when I'm not in full machine mode. I need to figure it out. I keep thinking, I've got this then I don't.