Health and Fitness December, 2024

[Lady Maverick]

Posting daily to confirm (to myself) that I will do my best to TAKE CARE OF MYSELF today.

I have returned to eating what works for my body. It feels good to feel good. IYKWIM

My overall guide is the RDA (recommended daily allowance) for 84 different micronutrients that Cronometer tracks. To accomplish this, I choose to eat a wide variety of foods every day. I eat 4-5 mini meals each day which add up to about 1200 calories a day. I will occasionally eat packaged and processed food, but my preference is for single ingredient food items. I rarely eat fast food (couple times a year?) and am very selective about who prepares & cooks my food. I rather cook it myself but do have a handful of resturants that I trust the owner/cook & personally know how the kitchen operates. yes....I know this is weird.
I tend to eat in about a 4-5 hour window. I am not fasting for 20 hours on purpose but because it is what makes me feel the best. When I have eaten my food budget for the day, then i am done eating. I am learning it is worth the effort to put a priority on my food selection & timing.

[Nancy]

Had late bfast healthier than yesterday calling it brunch.
Then we walked.
Lovely sunny 44* ish out.
Yesterday say 3 deer on my street did not get a pic of em however as I was inside on the phone w/ my dsis.

[Lady Maverick]

Yesterday DS16 and DH told me "You are getting skinny!" That made me laugh because I am definitely not skinny. But it also made me aware that after watching everything I eat for the past 163 days, my weight loss is finally showing. The first 20 lbs is off, now I will continue in an effort to lose another 20 lbs.

[Ramblinrose]

LadyM… good for you! Sweetie never remarks about my weight loss, but my friends wide so. Nice reward for your hard work.

Yesterday I got my steps in, however I had a bowl of ice cream. Haven’t done that in 3 months and it tasted really good.

Staying focused on food. Sometimes if I eat a large lunch around 2, I’m not hungry for dinner. Just trying to listen to my body. Now if it would only tell me it needs more water. This is always my struggle in the winter time.

[Twins' Mom]

Wow, that is great, LadyM. And RR too. You two work hard at it and it shows!

As for me, I'm four injections in to the Zepbound. I hit the refill button on CVS dot com and it's backordered again. Next injection not until next Sunday.

My weight is trending slightly lower. I have to been recording weight in spread sheet so I need to catch up there to see if it's real. Right now I'm not working out and only trying to increase my steps slightly, and I'm not eating particularly well at times. I'm getting through the holidays.

[Lady Maverick]

The moment I start getting confident .......SPLAT!

I know my triggers, but I get over confidence in my ability to resist them.

I started yesterday full of confidence with doing what works for me........ but then had major temptation (homemade peanut brittle) show up at our home. I told myself it would be okay to eat it once a year.......
The thing is it is okay to enjoy a treat. There is nothing wrong or bad about enjoying a treat.
But I get caught off guard by how it affects me. It is like giving an addict their drug of choice.
It awakens the hunger monster (and yes, I consider it an addiction monster) and the need for MORE becomes uncontrollable.
So yesterday my day started full of confidence and hope but ended with once again experiencing that it isn't easy. I went to bed feeling defeated.

But shaking that off, today is a fresh start. So, I am starting again.

[Ramblinrose]

Well somethings working. Made my flaxseed muffin for breakfast, cottage cheese with raspberries and blue berries for lunch and plain sweet potato with chicken for dinner. Nibbled on a few berries ..perhaps a
1/4 after dinner.

I was reading a fitness fellow that I like to follow and he suggest only weighing yourself once or every other week instead of every day because your weight can Fluctuate and that can cause you to loose your motivation.

He also suggesta to have a weekly step goal like Twins does instead of a daily one. I’ve been thinking about trying that as well cause some days I reach 12k steps and other days only 8K.

New year, new way of thinking

[Lady Maverick]

posting because I don't want to completely lose my focus in taking care of myself.

I am starting to understand I probably won't lose any weight this month. I don't like that but on the other hand.....it is better than giving up and returning to ignoring my health.

If I don't stop trying, then I am hopeful that I will eventually get my groove back. In the meantime, I am just treading the waters while my weight graph continues to flatline.

While waiting for my groove to return I am keeping these well-established daily habits -
** 7-8 hours of sleep
** Hydration of at least 100oz
** logging everything past the 1st bite into Cronometer

[Lady Maverick]

Staying under 1300 calories a day (averaging). My weight is flatlining mostly with a slight drop downward (1 pound) this month.

My goal now is to not quit.
If I am not in lose weight mode, then at least don't undo all the effort and progress I have made.
I recognize there are ebb & flow of life happening. It can't all be mountain top highs. Sometimes it is just trudging along.
Keep my mind on the importance of TAKE CARE OF MYSELF.

[Ramblinrose]

My friend gave me some of her homemade toffee at class today. Ate two pieces and put the rest of it in the garbage when I got home. Not guilt for doing that.

Ate repeat from the day before … my tummy seems to like that. I will be baking my cheesecake on Monday. I do ok with that, it’s eating it once it’s done. I know both Sweetie and my son love it, so I plan to send a large portion home with my son and keep a bit for Sweetie. M

I’m not a fool and know it will be calling to me, so I plan to put a very small bit in my very small bowl and smother it with fresh berries. I will eat a piece at Cmas dinner, it’s afterwards I worry about.