Saturday, November 24, 2018

Weight: 135.6
Macros: Cals - 1,193, Carbs - 124, Fats - 32, Protein - 80, Fiber - 28
Sleep hours: 6.5
Vegetable/Fruit Servings: 7
Water glasses: 8 (yea!)
Exercise: 11,700 steps + 60" yoga @ home
Meditation: Yes

Yea! Finally, 8 glasses of water! Like other things, the more you do it, the easier it gets. I've noticed that in cool weather ho****er goes down much easier than cold water.

Yesterday's 1,200 calories, 11,000 steps, an hour of yoga @ home, and 8 glasses of water was easier than I'd feared. Fear - there's a topic to contemplate, eh? This morning, even with the scale bouncing up again, I'm heartened by yesterday's good work on the things I can control.

BTW, I'm yoga-sore again, everywhere, but noticeably in the "windshield wiper" areas. That sucker seems to work ALL the abdominals - uppers, lowers, and sides. Going for a big ole six reps this morning. LOL!

Today's weather will turn gorgeous again in the low 60s and sunny. I plan to walk outside twice, do some errands, and follow my incessant post-cataract-surgery eye drops regimen.

Still watching the Yule Log Channel and listening to Straight No Chaser sing "The Twelve Days of Christmas" ... glorious! https://music.amazon.com/albums/B002UVCI16/B002UVEJS6/CATALO G?ref=dm_wcp_albm_link_search_c

Today's theme: Enjoy the holiday spirit, reject holiday madness. :)

1. Within Range: Yes
2. General Wellbeing: 9 on SS
3. 10,000+ Steps: 6244
4. Fitness: walking; moving pellets
5. Self-Care: reorganize fitness space
6. Play/Leisure: Knitting ; organizing my Rodan and Fields business
7. Intention: Live in the moment ! Be the supercape !

Bonnie 150 !! What a wonderful post ! Your eye hand coordination and wit are serving you well ! So glad the procedure went well, due to your focus on health and getting your head in the game. BB Bonnie, congratulations on the reveal ! A girl... how exciting !! Diane, glad your chosen family were the right people to spend Thanksgiving with ! I so embrace the supercape concept ! Cecily, eager o hear about your fitness progress. PEPS, you continue to slay me in your accomplishments ! Liz, pictures of the kitchen progress, please. Shel, your training continues to amaze me ! Will it be such a let down after the trek ? Plans to fill that void ? Paula, feeling feels is tough. So sorry DD is having a difficult time with her dad in a serious relationship. DD, Shirl, David... thinking of you too.. and everyone else I didn't mention by name !

Will kitchen before and after when done be okay? All will be finished on 1/10.

Good morning, Ann!

Weight today is unknown, but yesterday was 167

I hope you guys don't mind me posting as I'm obviously not losing weight, and in fact am gaining. So far I'm pleased with my weight gain (about 2lbs. at 13 weeks) but cannot say my "good eating" is responsible. I've been eating pretty much as I please.

Still suffering this cold. I think it's breaking, but still coughing. As with Ann, it's gorgeous here today--approaching 70 degrees. This is the kind of day that if you don't put out your Christmas lights, you deserve what you get later! I'm hoping DH will offer to let me off the hook, and do it himself! Wanted to have friends over to visit tonight but I'm afraid that I'll regret it feeling as I do (and wanting to be in bed at 9!). If we do, I'd love to smoke something with this beautiful weather.

Yesterday I went ahead and took Becca to her sitter (since I was paying anyway) and gave DH my blessing to go play poker. He won! Yay! And I went to a tea room for lunch with a friend. It was so fun and girly. Then DH and I watched the OU game last night. Gosh OU keeps winning but not in pretty fashion. Onto the Big 12 championship game. Boomer Sooner.

Goals for today include de-Thanksgiving, installing the ground Christmas lights, and hopefully cleaning up the house enough to prepare it for Christmasing.

You MUST post (and you aren't gaining, the new little girl growing inside and her support structures are growing). LOVE, LOVE to hear about your family and Becca and now the new life!

Mind????? You MUST! I loved your stories of navigation of maintenance and emotional life while waiting for Nugget. I am now looking forward to reading how your experience with Nugget v2.0 differs since you are now an "experienced" mama.

Bonnie, I don't know, what with the pink confetti picture and the plain out written down in words, but somehow I missed the girl part of the announcement. Got the baby part down, but....

I'm thinking that your girls will be about the same age spread as my older sister and I. Like you, my sisters are surely cherished gifts. My grandma and her 3 sisters lived close to and then, later with each other. It has always been a dream of mine- heaven on earth- to have my sisters come live in this big old house with Kurt and me when we get --shoot,--- anytime now would be cool.

Congratulations! Girls rule!

Weight 122.2, calories 762. I feel like I'm stuck at 122.2, as it is the most frequently recorded weight for me since late August. Looking back the last time I was under 120 was late August, just prior to our travels to Europe, then the west US. Related do you think?

I had a very small piece of the insides of a mini pecan pie given to me by a friend. Very different from the ones I've had in the past. It was almost solid pecans with just a small amount of the sugary stuff. Maybe it was more healthy/less calories that way??? Anyway, I fit it into my 762 calories yesterday and actually wasn't terribly hungry yesterday.

Today we are picking up an old wicker chest and cabinet to use for my TV console and a side table (see below). They cost less together than the MDF TV consoles I was seeing on Wayfair, etc. Score (I think).

Have a super Saturday. I will be checking out the Twelve Days of Christmas Ann!

Love the whicker! We could be shopping buddies. I love the thrill of the deal, and repurposing items. Im looking for a dresser or desk or old cabinet to repurpose as a kitchen island. I'll know it when I see it.

I am enjoying catching up on all the posts. Wonderful to see the post from Bonnie, Miss 150. Wonderful to see all the other posts too, and see the holiday from so many different perspectives.

I am loving having my children home. My childhood home had a lot of dysfunction, verbal abuse, emotional neglect, and some physical neglect and abuse. My mother's untreated depression and post traumatic stress from her sexual abuse as a child did not leave her a lot of emotional reserve for parenting. There has been a lot of healing over the years, for which I am very grateful, because I know not everyone who has some toxic childhood events gets that chance. My parents are way better at grandparenting than they were at parenting.

I deliberately worked at breaking the cycle. My therapist told me I had a chance to have a healthy mother daughter relationship, that in the healthy relationship I would play the role of the mother. I took this chance, and my life with my children and husband has brought me more joy and contentment than the little girl I was could ever dreamt was possible. I love just hanging out with them. Yesterday the four of us went to see Bohemian Rhapsody and had an hour long discussion while eating tacos about film, and biopics, and Queen, and who sold out, and who kept their integrity... My young adults are such interesting people! And I love going to bed and hearing brother and sister, talking in the family room as I drift off to sleep. They are so close. I love my brother, but we are not close. When my parents die, it's possible we will never see each other again. Whatever dh and I did that helped facilitate this closeness for our children is something that gives me great satisfaction.

Today we gather with my husband's family. Their parents passed away over 30 years ago, and yet they still , the four siblings, and us spouses, gather for holidays, birthdays. The cousins are close, another wonderful gift. I sometimes marvel at the richness of my rather ordinary life.