11/23/18, Friday

1. Within Range: Yes
2. General Wellbeing: 9 on SS
3. 10,000+ Steps: 7819
4. Fitness: walking outside in single digit weather
5. Self-Care: skin care regimen ; pedicure touch up ; organize fitness planner
6. Play/Leisure: Knitting ; organizing my Rodan and Fields business
7. Intention: Live in the moment ! JFDI and make today's fitness accomplishments an improvement over yesterday. Me first !

Peps, the new scale and cleaner air sound like wins ! Can't wait to hear how your dressing turned out ! I did a quinoa, sausage, mushroom, wild rice, sage combo with NO BREAD....yummy ! Shel, don't know which challenges are tougher to navigate, cougars or DH ! My former DH was passive/aggressive like that. At some point, I started saying, "Not going is your choice. We will be going either way." Ann, thanks for the reminder about Pentatonix AND Amazon music ! Just LOVE them, and had forgotten about Amazon Music too !

My mom's 90^th birthday bash is tomorrow. Thanksgiving feast, cake and ice cream. Right now, I've avoided awakening the sugar monster. My youngest DD is having great success with carb cycling. She does a high day followed by a low day, but you can do it by multiple days or weeks too. If my cravings get reactivated, I may try this.

Weight 122.2, calories around 1400. Not terrible for thanksgiving except that a large chunk was from the carrot cake. Yes, the sugar monster needs to be quelled quickly! The restaurant we went to was beautiful! An old Florida style Naples restaurant with an inside, a covered porch area and an outside area. We were inside on the edge next to the porch and all the doors were open. It was tastefully decorated for Christmas with white lights. Really lovely and the thanksgiving food was the best I have had at a restaurant. The service was quite good as well. A nice holiday overall.

Now to online Christmas shopping! The item I was watching for DH (stationary bike) didn't drop in price on Amazon so I don't know whether to wait or order. DH doesn't realize, but he already ordered me a Dyson cordless animal vacuum for Christmas which arrived a couple of days ago. The model had been discontinued and was no longer available on Amazon last week but I was able to snag one of the last ones at Best Buy for a great price.

Thanks for the movie recommendation Devon. We saw Love, Simon at the suggestion of our son who felt that it was much like his own story. I like the actors in Boy Erased but I bet it is a tough movie at times. The idea of aversion therapy just makes me cringe.

I need to finish my coffee, then out to walk with the neighborhood group. Have a fun Friday!

Weight: 134.0
Macros: Cals - 2,250, Carbs - ?, Fats - ?, Protein - ?, Fiber - ?
Sleep hours: 6
Vegetable/Fruit Servings: 5
Water glasses: 6 (definitely the right direction!)
Exercise: 11,500 steps + 50" yoga @ home
Meditation: Yes

Good morning, self-carers! :)

Cougars! Even before this last cougar discussion I've seriously considered carrying my .38 when I walk on my property. There's one wooded stretch (on a ridge between two sinkholes) where I sometimes have "a feeling" that something's eyeballing me. Time to find a holster.

It'll be a cooler, rainy day here. I've got the Yule Log Channel playing. Shocking how comforting that is. I guess in our hearts and in our DNA we're all still cave people. ;) I have a gas log living room fireplace, but it's silly to turn it on when the inside temp is already 70 degrees.

Yesterday at Thanksgiving dinner I gave up trying to figure out calories and macronutrients and last night just plugged into MFP 2,000 calories. I didn't overeat. But, as often happens, these traditional meals of dishes that aren't really my favorites aren't as tempting as they sound "on paper." Now, if I were in Venice looking down at risotto, a sauced veal, luscious Italian bread, and all the Amarone wine in the world with an amazing dessert being rustled up in the kitchen, that's a different story. But I can easily turn down a dressing recipe I don't care for, mashed potatoes, and store-bought crescent rolls. Still, there were two pretty good pies, and I had small pieces.

This morning I'm jazzed about my ten-day challenge at 1,200 calories, daily yoga, and (eventually) 15,000 steps. I'm also spurred by the fact that some much needed bathroom activity yesterday helped me lose 1.4 pounds overnight, even with the T-giving pie.

By the way, drinking 6 glasses of water yesterday (my bes****er stat in months!) made my skin look much better in the mirror this morning. That result alone inspires me to make 8 glasses of water a daily habit.

Today's theme: A simple T.G.I.F. the day after Thanksgiving!

P.S. Liz, what in the world is an animal vacuum?

Animal Vacuum = vacuum designed specifically to excel in sucking up pet hair and dander. One of Dyson's big sellers.

Saw Liz was up early yesterday, waited for her to post but never made it around to posting.

Lesa-glad you checked in

Paula-was thinking of you on this First holiday.

Devon-your Thanksgiving plan sounded like a good one.

Weight unknown. But cannot say I overindulged because I couldn't even smell the food, let alone taste it :(

Mom made the dinner and I was thankful. My sister and aunt and grandma and I did go over to help the day before so it was primarily a game of moving things in and out of ovens (which is still a lot!). Always go through a sort of post-mortem. What recipes were good, which ones to nix, what to do differently next year.

But the main excitement was we got to find out gender! I bought this kind of fun/complicated "game" called gender roulette. The idea was you have 6 confetti cannons, and all but one are filled with white confetti, the last one filled with pink or blue (we did not know--we had one friend arrange the correct color). Roll a dice to find out which canon to explode. Unfortunately we got the "hot" canon on the first try, so there wasn't AS much anticipation, but I'm still so shocked to find out IT'S A ....

GIRL!

That's just crazy! I'm one of 3 girls, my older sister has 4 daughters, and now I'll have 2 daughters. I slightly wished for a boy for my dad (and probably would've named his grandson after him) but we all already love and know girls. And I have literally everything I need. And Becca will get a sister...just like I have!

Congratulations!!!!!!! So very happy for you. I hope that cold is clearing!

Oh, Bonnie! That's wonderful. Sisters really are great. We had three in our family before the first boy appeared. Then we had two more sisters and another brother.

The boys are "interesting" -- NOT because they are male, but because of their personalities and consequential life experiences. The sisters have proven much more useful to me in almost every way.

BTW, the two boys are currently not speaking to each other. ;)

Hey congrats to BB and Rich. Girls are great. I've always wished I had a sister. But I now have great SILs. Diane S

Congratulations! Girls are fantastic!

Yay for pink! Congrats!