02/17/19, Sunday

1. Within Range: yes
2. General Wellbeing: 11 on SS
3. 10,000+ Steps: 9187
4. Fitness: walking
5. Self-Care: exercising healthy boundaries
6. Play/Leisure: walking with the dogs and hand weights with music
7. Intentions: Seek balance & relax, rejuvenate, & recalibrate !!

Every once in a while when I'm logging on MFP, I check in on the Women Over 50 board and browse some of the featured articles. I wanted to share three gems from today:

1. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
2. Discipline is choosing between what you want NOW and what you want MOST.
3. Focus on all around wellness rather than what you think you need to deprive yourself of.

1. These sentiments reinforce recent thoughts expressed by many here. I have many thoughts playing off one another in my head, but at the forefront at the moment is the instant gratification we experience during the initial weight loss phase. ALL of the focus is on rigid rules and the number on the scale, which seldom disappoints. Maintenance is a whole new environment we had little previous success or experience to draw from to navigate. How extraordinary that we have this safe and nurturing space to amplify our learning and attainment of holistic health.

Weight yesterday was 181.2

Brr cold day. Busy, but so much fun! My sister threw a "Galentine's" brunch. Her decorations were beautiful, food great. I'm really impressed by her ability to incorporate things she already has and make it look incredible! I did not want to do a full grocery run in the cold, with a baby, so I ended up making quiche from scratch to take. Of course it was excellent--what's not to like about homemade pastry, egg, cream, cheese, and bacon?! My sister also made a curried chicken salad in endive leaves which was really beautiful and tasty. I won't go into the rest, as this is already verging on food porn.

I took Becca but man things are more complicated with a baby!

Yesterday evening DH and I went to a charity event. I felt so glamorous and seeing my bump photo made me feel really good about where I am, so I'm sharing

Lovely Picture of you both BB

You are glowing

Good morning, All!

To those of you that usually start our thread, thank you so much. It is such a pleasure to see this group humming along.

Our snow-catastrophe has turned a corner. The schools pretty much missed 2 weeks of school. ANY task took longer. Such a mess in so many ways, including a personal return to poor eating. This began to sneak in post holidays and intensified over the last few weeks.

I plan on a personal return to healthy eating. My pants are tight. Weight is up. "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good" is so true. I find myself thinking about eating super low calorie (for me****il the weight is off but PAST EXPERIENCE tells me that will not end well. Plus, that isn't even perfect eating for me. My inner voice can be such a lier.

In maintenance, for me, this is what works to drop weight: eating 1500 calories a day (fat/protein forward), and continue physical activity. Weight will come off and it isn't even a hardship once my lying inner voice shuts the **** up.

I also need to address a healthy food jag of yogurt. (DAVE, save me from the yogurt jag!). This means not buying yogurt. There is a visceral push back from my dysfunctional self as I type that. WHO IS LIVING IN ME?

My general overeating always starts with overeating healthy foods which is a trigger of (dysfunctional) appetite. I honestly don't care why that exactly happens, but the start of the correction has to include interrupting the food jag, which happens to be yogurt right now.

Time to get moving on all fronts. That included posting here, by the way. (DianeS, thank you for creating this space.)

I modifed some of my training plan because of impassible roads/trails/sidewalks. For example, I have spent 2.5 hours on a treadmill, TWICE. That's ok, lots of flat-landers still successfully train for Rainier. (Don't let perfect be the enemy of good")

Even today, most of the lowland hikes are still inaccessible because of snow. Avalanche danger is very high in other places. Still, I think I can get to Tiger Mtn today, to tromp around in either microspikes or snowshoes.

I appreciate you all!

Shel

Chin up Shel x We are all here if you need to talk/vent

Its good you recognise your patterns with the constant battle of maintaining. Its darn hard lots of the time

Stay strong girl

Thanks, Shirl. Good to see you back!

Weight 173.6 (insert happy dance here) I'd love to be back in the 160s...

Nothing worse than a recent convert to religon or a diet! But I am really liking eating this way for a change of pace. Yesterday I had eggs and bacon, coffee/cream x3, chicken thighs and asparagus, cheese and salami, macadamia nuts, caesar salad with homemade caesar dressing (easy from my new keto cookbook) and chicken thighs, and raspberries with a little cream drizzled on them. It feels so wrong. But after all that, I lost another 1.2 pounds. I wonder what my blood fat/cholesterol numbers look like?

When I see you all post about your tiny portions, I think, eek, I can eat a lot more than that! So I think the trick for me is making sure that "a lot" is not carby crap.

It's another (California) cold one today, but most of our rain chances for the next few weeks seem to have disappeared from the weather app. Wonder if they'll stay away?

I have my best friend coming to stay with me for a week in a week. I seriously need to clean out the spare bedroom... anyone have a shovel I can borrow??

Doing well Cec x Have you started Keto (sorry havent caught up with old posts) Food sounds yummo. Its certainly working - you are dropping the weight :)

I have! I got a Whole Foods Keto book/cookbook. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KVPDYLY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect? _encoding=UTF8&btkr=1Down from 181 after my cruise

Greetings Intrepid Ones

156 today. Ok with that considering we had pizza last night. Chicken bacon spinach from Papa Murphy's. One slice was plenty. Maybe one more for lunch today.

Nephew and I went to a movie yesterday "Isn't it Romantic" or something like that. It was a cute piece of fluff but by no means a must see. I kind of wanted to see the Green Book but deferred to nephew. He is a great houseguest - cheerfully makes his own breakfast and not demanding. Today the downpour has stopped and we may get a beach walk in. But mostly video marathons for nephew and DH.

Great that you are feeling high up on the SS DianeO. Your remarks are always inspirational. Yep I am grateful for you all and this special warm little space we have created.

Hey Shel, is Tiger mountain where your friend the stink eye goad lives? Say hi for us. And whats this about yogurt? How can yogurt be bad? I guess I can't see binging on it. Oh, did I mention we got a tub of cookie dough with the pizza? Nephew was eating it with a spoon and we took a photo to text to his wife. I ate two spoons of it myself. Only two. Now I must erase the existence of that stuff from my memory banks lest I be tempted to go buy more.

Time for more coffee and maybe a slice. Diane S