02/24/2020 Monday

1. Within Range: 9 over !
2. Blue SmartPoints: 21
3. General Wellbeing: 8
4. FSF: walking dogs at the lake
5. Yesterday's Insights: Joan Rivers and Shel have teamed up and are channeling the wisdom we need. Gratitude is powerful.

Up at 2:30 today... just couldn't sleep. I'm down another pound (4 so far), so this is the week I'll shift from Wednesday morning to Thursday evening WW meetings. After DC's next replacement, he'll miss his VA groups for 2-3 months, located in the town I was attending meetings in.

After all of our therapy and awareness of self-care, it is striking that it can be so difficult for us to be accepting and loving of ourselves. We each have attributes we can readily identify, which we view as negative and undesirable. Those thoughts often precede and override the positive traits we can eventually come up with. This made me decide to start and end every day identifying two things about myself I am grateful for. I have found expressing gratitude to be such a powerful practice, yet it is not yet a habit.

Weight 126.4! WW blue points 10. I don't know if that is a totally real weight - it definitely shocked me. I was hoping for something in the 127's... The bathroom and sodium level apparently aligned yesterday. Somehow I think a stall is coming.

Diane, I love that plan to think about what you are grateful for every day. I'm not sure I will be able to remember to end my day that way, but for today's start I am grateful for my Florida Haven which is helping me heal.

I did nothing yesterday other than wait for the garbage disposal to be replaced and sit by the pool. But the house is clean and Justice had several walks, so it was a good day.

Today I have to pick up my repaired car and take it to Jiffy Lube where I had the oil changed two weeks ago. While the car was being worked on they noticed that the oil plug and the filter were leaking! I'm not happy.

Other than that, maybe we will go to the beach today if I get done with the car early enough. Tomorrow would be the only other beach weather day this week, but we have yoga in the afternoon so it would be difficult to get back and cleaned up for that.

Question on my Florida LR (picture on yesterday's post): Should I get a rug with more color in it? Right now there is a sisal rug with some interesting texture. I had been planning on replacing it because it seemed to be a bit too dull, but now with all the color in the furniture, I am unsure about it. I had seen an interesting rug last year with some subtle blues and greens, but maybe that would be too much. Your thoughts?

Enjoy your Monday!

I vote to replace for sure ! How about a blue grey, to bring out the painting over the couch ?

Hmm, I love a good neutral sisal in a coastal inspired room. I vote keep it!

Oh Im going to have to go and take a peek - but I love textured natural looking rugs - especially in a beach/costal environment

Stay with the sisal rug. It melds well with the wood look flooring. I believe adding color to the floor will cramp up the space and create too much motion. You have complimentary colors, but in conflicting patterns. There is already a lot of motion in the room. The balance between thinking, rest, warm and cool is very nice. The sheers add a sense of soft movement. I think it's perfect as is. If you do decide on a new rug, I'd suggest getting rid of the smaller chair in the corner. And that concludes this the op ed piece from this week's episode of Queer Eye for the Snow Bird! LOL!

Ha! Queer Eye for the Snowbird... love it!

LOL! The small chair is one of the 4 dining table chairs btw. They don't fit easily in the table when it isn't in use (which is most of the time).

Much less prosaic response that Peps: keep the rug, it is "the beach" in the room.

Weight: 138.4
Veggies/Fruits: 13
Macronutrients: Cals - 1,282, Carbs - 135, Fats - 33, Proteins - 98, Fiber - 35
WW SmartPoints: 24
Water: 2.5
Fitbit Recorded Sleep: 6'11"
Exercise: 30" yoga@home (mostly restoration poses) and 10,211 steps

And more bouncy bouncy scales.

DianeO, I'm so interested in and impressed by your post today about moving toward being consciously grateful for attributes about yourself.

Lately, I've been thinking about "suffering," both the actual suffering we experience AND the additional suffering we create and inflict on ourselves regarding the actual suffering we're experiencing.

Much of our secondary suffering is also created by us in response to things we don't like about ourselves, about others, about the world, etc. It's said that this kind of secondary suffering is the source of most of our daily misery. More succinctly (my version), we make ourselves miserable about what we don't like.

There's a concept out there that all suffering (whether created by us or not) can be used (practiced with) to liberate ourselves from some of our suffering. And at the same time, there's the concept out there (seemingly universally agreed on by spiritual teachers) that nobody's ever going to get rid of ALL their suffering. Each of us will take away what we can from that discouraging bit of news. But this morning my current takeaway from it is "Alrighty, then just buck up!" My takeaway tomorrow will likely be different.

On that note, last week two women friends here were diagnosed with cancer: one has breast cancer, the other has jaw and neck cancer. They both sound like they're bucking up, but I'm sure they're also navigating other responses and finding "multiple opportunities for personal growth," the admittedly cynical-sounding (cough!) term my beloved and I employed to refer to life's many slings and arrows.

P.S. And yesterday I ate some stuff and moved my body around a bit.