06/25/19, Tuesday

1. Within Range: one over
2. General Wellbeing: 9 on SS
3. 10,000+ Steps: 12,053
4. Fitness: walking and mowing
5. Self-Care: manicure and hair trim
6. Fun: chilling at salon
7. I learned/relearned: When I step outside my comfort zone, good things often happen !!
8. Intentions: Seek balance & relax, rejuvenate, & recalibrate !!

Cici... one picture worth a thousand words!! Poor Fergus and you !! I have decided I LOVE my asymmetrical cut and am having a more dramatic contrast at my trim today. I had set up a three week appointment anticipating having her balance it out! I've got to take a walk on the wild side more often !! Peps.. love the idea of our own Watcha Eating. Not sure if you meant within our daily posts or a separate post, so....

Breakfast: Siggi's mixed berry skyr with blueberries and 1/3 c. Purely Elizabeth granola

Snack: Quest bar

Lunch: Chicken, artichoke ,feta and 2 bites of flatbread from half a serving of Mediterranean chicken flatbread

Dinner: Grilled chicken thighs (3 oz.) and coleslaw

Snack: Activia

Good morning! I am taking today off after 5 hours of power washing yesterday and 2 the prior day. All that remains is doing the deck in the screen porch which I'm estimating to be 1-1.5 hours. My back needs a rest. But hallelujah for not being obese. There is no way I could have done this prior to weight loss. But next year I may hire someone. I really didn't anticipate that it would take a full 5 hours for the deck alone. So why are they so dirty? I think primarily it is because of the oak trees that overhang and are filled with aphids. In addition we have a super high level of pollen in the spring accompanied by lots of rain. I may have the Oak tree which overhangs the deck removed as we almost have too much shade and because of the mess.

DS has a summer intern from Belarus staying tonight until his room for the summer opens up tomorrow. Here on Cape Cod they bring in people under visas to fill out the staff during tourist season. DS and his company are going to bring my deck furniture out today.

Time to go and get DH up for daycare today. We went to storytelling at the local artists guild yesterday which he enjoyed though he couldn't say much. No repeat of his former night nastiness, but I did give him a double dose of Trazadone (which the neurologist said was ok periodically).

Have a thoughtful Tuesday!

Very stormy yesterday. Dare I hope some of those biting fly b-tards drowned?

Today I need to grocery shop for my dad's wife's birthday dinner. She wants steaks, baked potatoes, and asparagus. I thought I'd make her brownies too. So baking is on the docket.

I should go work out too, but I've not been good about that either. Argh. Where have my good habits gone??

weight: 174.2

Diane O.-oooh fun salon day!

Liz-I cannot tell you how many times I've thought "hallelujah for not being obese"

I looove the idea of a whatcha eatin. Would that bother anyone if within the thread? I always find it so interesting and helpful to see what others are eating, outside of my head (that like to tell me "poor me, everyone else is eating Chinese food, beer, and ice cream tonight and they all weigh 120lbs.!)

Yesterday was a re-start of trying to eat right again. I set up my body-fat measuring scale that I'd received for Christmas. I've also been trying to wear my fitbit. The scale does all sorts of cool things--of course it tells you weight, body fat percent, but it also tells you water percent, lean body mass, bmr, metabolic age, etc. Who knows how accurate it is? But it's a marker. With this, as with MFP, I think it's more about just trying to do better and acknowledging where you've been. Sometimes I get so hung up on the accuracy of MFP but at the end of the day, who cares? I need to be accountable, I need to be eating less. MFP helps with that. This scale, too, should help give me an idea of a pattern.

B-Jimmy Dean delights breakfast crossaintwich (I prefer the English muffin one, shockingly), coffee with whole milk

L-Wrap made with 70g. chimichurri chicken breast from SAm's, low carb wrap, 2 T. cilantro-jalapeno hummus, lettuce

S-Fiber one supreme brownie

D-Smoked sausage hotdog on a bun with relish and mustard, salad with cucumber and red onion and 1.5T ranch dressing, small slice watermelon, 20 grams chips

Oopsy middle of the night cookie was not included in calorie calculation

1285 calories, 58 grams protein

We also took the girls to the park and walked a little around the neighborhood. It was the perfect evening between that and grilling hotdogs. I probably consumed about 1400 calories yesterday and burned maybe 150. I definitely felt that I was eating less! IN my brain I feel like I'm normally eating 1500 calories to maintain. But then when I actually eat 1400 and it feels skimpy, I'm thinking maybe I'm regularly consuming much more.

But I feel mentally strong about it today. Of course I'd rather eat more. Duh. But I also don't feel "deprived". I feel like I'm trying to lose weight and that may take a little sacrificing. Okay.

Today the church is bringing dinner. I know from last time that they'll probably bring me something frozen which is nice so I can decide when to prepare it. But I also know they''ll likely bring deeeelicious cookies. My achilles heel. So I need to either put it straight into the freezer with the rest, or send them on their merry way with DH tomorrow to work.

I'm off to a slow start today. I slept in, and so far what I've accomplished is to drink a chai latte and surf the internet. I'm going to get going here soon, first the grocery store, then some other odds and ends errands. I'll check in later to see how we're posting our menus. Oh, and I was down one pound from my pre vacation weight. I'll take it!

Good morning VSGM Peeps!

I did start a separate thread for the Whatcha Eating thread. Just to be different I'm calling it Daily Eats.... much more 'me' than Whatcha Eating? LOL!

I "felt" my eating was more in line yesterday, but strangely I'm up another .5 to 266.2. Does not make me happy, but I'm not going to flip about a half pound fluctuation. Having today planned out already should prove to be helpful.

I had a session with the shrink yesterday. Was a good one. She pointed out that I'm making changes and choices that are helping me peel away some of my hiding behaviors. That's a good thing.

I ordered some shorts from LL Bean. The purchase reminded me that wearing quality clothes that fit well helps me feel good about my appearance. I will order two more pair of shorts to round out my summer attire and get rid of all the cheap O stuff that I have accumulated through the past few years. One of my symptoms of obesity has been that when I am heavy I don't want to spend money on quality clothing. I do not know if I don't want spend money on nice clothes because I don't deserve to have nice clothes when I am fat or if it's because I always think that I'm going to lose weight and I shouldn't spend money on something that won't fit in a short time. I know when I was losing weight post VSG that was a concept I stuck to - inexpensive stuff on the way down. Then when I hit goal it was retail therapy time! Oh, I had it bad. LOL!

Ron is off again to Sonoma today. I did not get the motor home smogged yesterday, so I need to get that done today. I think perhaps a little power washing here is in order, too. We have nice weather projected for the rest of the week, but cooler than average.

Well, off to make a late breakfast and get on with the day.

Good Morning All - Making myself come here first thing to post - rather than try and fail to get here later in the day. Have been trying to read/catch up when I can.

Weight 176

Today is my 2 year surgiversary - Ive taken a little time to reflect how I felt when I was 255 lbs 2 years ago and I am so glad that I did this. Im still not at my ideal 165 but hoping I get there. Follow up with surgeon mid July so will be interesting to see what he says.

Not a whole lot else to report. Work is crazy busy at the moment. Working longer hours to try and stay afloat. Things should settle after first week in July

Winter is well and truely here. Fireplace at City house is roaring- was at farm last week for a about 4 days and we had -3 to -4 most mornings. Woke to white paddocks but toasty inside. Bliss

Love the idea of a menu thread Peps - I will add in mine tommorrow. Time to start planning my food better. Im thinking of starting a 3 week Keto plan to try and drop some of the extra 10lbs I have hanging around. Its printed but I just need the time to shop plan and cook....

Take care all - I have missed you

S