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  • bookart
    bookart Member Posts: 564
    edited August 2012

    Way to go, Zogo!  And sorry to hear about your appendix, Suz!  Yowza!

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  • zogo
    zogo Member Posts: 20,329
    edited August 2012

    So glad to see some of my birdie friends checking in....maybe we can crank this up after labor day and get serious!

    Friday ~ 3

    Water ~ 7

    wt down (170.4) ~ 2  I'm doing my best to get in the 160's.  But, a trip to Minneapolis this weekend might make that tough!

    exercise  ~ 17

    Total ~29 

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited August 2012

    Road runner checking in:

    Friday: 3 points

    water: 7 points

    weight 220 lbs, 1 point

    exercise: 4 points

    Total: 15 points.  

    Boy, do I need to get back into this. 

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  • bookart
    bookart Member Posts: 564
    edited August 2012

    Art reception Friday night, so I missed check-in again.  Phooey.

    2 pts for weight down - broke 215 after hovering around 217 - 220 forever.

    7 pts for water

    12 pts for exercise, despite my aching back.

    1 pt for finally getting to the dr about said back, and got SI joint popped back into place - OMG - pain level dropped by 50% at least.

    22 pts total - better

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  • suzwes
    suzwes Member Posts: 1,740
    edited August 2012

    Checking it for Robins

    Weight - no clue, too afraid to get on the scale - promise to start after labor day.

    Water - 7 points - I do well in this arena.

    exercise - 2 points - I don't even want to talk about it

    Friday Check in - 3 points

    Extra - I have really been good about not taking seconds or large portions of food and when at the restaurants am only eating half of my meal and taking the other half home for lunch the next day. - 1 point.

    Total - 13 points.

    I'm so glad you're feeling better  bookart!

    Oh, and here's a good one for ya - went to the MO on Wednesday and there are some axillary nodes they've been watching.  They're not worried but want to get an ultrasound to double check since it's the side that I had my positive lymph node.  The MO scheduler called my radiology scheduler (I've been going to this place for years and have had ultrasounds with no mammography before) and was told that they wouldn't do the axillary ultrasound unless they did the mammo first.  I told the scheduler - there is no breast there to mammo - too bad, unless I have the mammogram they won't do the ultrasound.  I'm sooooo disgusted - I will go to another equally fine place and actually my radiologist practices at both places but this is ridiculous.  Of course a nasty letter is on it's way to the radiology practice! 

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  • bookart
    bookart Member Posts: 564
    edited August 2012

    AAargh, Suz!  What bogus idiocy!  Sorry to hear it.

    Roadrunner checking in:

    3 pts for Friday

    6 pts for water - probably 7, but drank soda one day

    8 pts for exercise

    0 pts for weight up slightly, sigh

    17 total

    Birdies, get down out of those trees and let's get moving!

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  • zogo
    zogo Member Posts: 20,329
    edited August 2012

     Quick hello to you lovely ladies!!

     Stuck at the same place as 2 weeks ago...(170.4)...At least I checked in today!  

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  • bookart
    bookart Member Posts: 564
    edited August 2012

    Good for you, Zogo - even stuck, at least you are still working at it.  I'm yo-yo-ing - starting to think it's the scale!  But pants don't fit right, so unfortunately, a lot of it is just me - lots of me.  Waah.  Doing PT, AGAIN for a bad back.  At least that's some exercise.  No walking since Monday morning, as one thing after another kept me busy.  About to take another short vacation to the beach, so hopefully will walk aplenty.

    See ya'll next week, hopefully.

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited August 2012

    OK, Roadrunners, the lost has returned.  I've started a new job, with a totally new schedule--I'm now working Monday through Friday, 8 am to 5 PM, no weekends, no holidays, no more call, no more 12 hours shifts then up all night.  So my entire life routine has been turned upside down.  I haven't even been grocery shopping for 3 weeks!  So, as of this 3 days weekend, I am committing myself to getting a new routine established, one that does NOT include eating out for lunch 5 days a week. So my points this week are pretty meager:

    Friday check in = 3 points

    weight 226 lbs == 0 point

    water = 5 points

    exercise =  What's that????

    extra credit = got my annual physical done= 1 point

    Total=  9 points.  At least I know I can do better next week! 

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  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited September 2012

    hi birdies, well I took the summer off but it's after Labor Day so I'm back.

    Will check in 'officially' Friday but just wanted to say hi.

    Had an appendectomy (laparoscopic) on Monday.  Weighed 171 at doc's office.

    Sharp pain in lower belly Sat, no better Sun, spiked a temp Mon which got me to call urgent care.  Went there, got triaged, and ended up in same-day surgery.  CT scan picked up a cyst on one of my ovaries that we are going to watch.  Crap.  My onc will recommend an ooph and I don't wanna.

    Three little holes and I'm so sore, I have a whole new respect for you DIEP girls!

    Doctor's orders are no exercise for 3 weeks so maybe I won't report points quite yet. Innocent

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  • bookart
    bookart Member Posts: 564
    edited September 2012

    Well, it's Friday.  This roadrunner had the day off, so I'm able to report.  It's been a hell of a week, and now I have one day off, one day of work and then - YAY - 4 days off!

    So..

    3 pts for check in

    2 pts for weight loss, although I swear either the scale is wrong or the same 5 pounds keep coming and going

    haven't been walking since school started, except walking the dogs, and doing some of my exercises for PT (she yelled at me for not doing more, sigh).  Also haven't gotten back into the gym, yet.  However, this week was installation week, and I walked, carried stuff, climbed ladders, stooped, kneeled, and variously moved my body all week - believe me, my muscles know I exercised.

    24 pts exercise

    7 pts water

    36 pts total - I'll be lucky if I do half this next week, but I'll try.

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  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited September 2012

    hi ladies, Roadrunner checking in.  Great job, Elaine!  Glad you & NM got to meet up.

    Friday check-in = 3 points

    Weight up a bit = 0 points 

    Exercise = 3 points (60 min walk last Fri, none Sat - Weds, 30 min walk Thurs)

    Daily H2O = 7 points

    Extra credit = 1 point - lap appy Monday. 

    Total = 14 points

    Have a good week everyone!

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited September 2012
    RoadRunner checking in:

    Missed Friday Check in = 0 points
    Weight 226# = 0 points
    Water = 6 points
    Exercised = 0 points
    Extra credit = 1 points--started seeing a chiropractor and getting treatment for the back pain that's slowing me down
    Total = 7 points

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  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited September 2012

    hi birdies, Roadrunner checking in

    Friday check-in = 3 points

    Weight down to 170.0 = 2 points 

    new E-LAB low = 1 point

    Exercise = 9 points (4.5 hours of walking - 30 mins Fri, 45 mins Sat, 1 hour Sun, 30 mins each Mon & Tues, 45 mins Weds, 30 mins Thurs)

    Daily H2O = 7 points

    Extra credit = 1 point - follow-up appt with surgeon Weds, all is well but still on exercise restriction for another week. 

    Total = 23 points

    TGIF!!!

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited September 2012
    RoadRunner checking in:

    Friday Check in = 3 points
    Weight 223# = 2 points!
    Water = 6 points
    Exercised = 1 points
    Extra credit = 1 points--started taking the stairs instead of the elevator at work
    Total = 13 points

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  • bookart
    bookart Member Posts: 564
    edited September 2012

    Roadrunner checking in

    3 pts for Friday

    0 pts for weight up 219, YUCK

    5pts for exercise

    7 pts for water

    No extra points - did get dismissed from going to PT, just need to keep up the home program.  I am doing that, but tightening my transverse abs does not seem like exercise to me, so I'm not counting it.

    15 pts, sigh

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  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited September 2012

    Roadrunner checking in

    Friday check-in = 3 points

    Weight same as last week 170.0 = 1 point

    Exercise = 12 points (6 hours of walking, will start yoga class again next week yay!)

    Daily H2O = 7 points

    Extra credit = 1 point - signed up for a 5K walk/run in Oct.

    Total = 24 points

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  • bookart
    bookart Member Posts: 564
    edited September 2012

    Way to go, Badger!  I missed checking in, so I'll just defer to next week.  But I'm at least down. 

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  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited September 2012

    Thanks, Elaine, way to go for you too! 

    Roadrunner checking in

    Friday check-in = 3 points

    Weight same as last week 170.0 = 1 point (I am stuck on this plateau! Yell)

    Exercise = 14 points

    Daily H2O = 7 points

    Extra credit = 1 point - started yoga again and stayed strong due to all the walking I do.

    Total = 26 points

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  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited October 2012

    hi ladies, seems I'm the only one still posting but I'm staying 'til I get off this dang plateau.

    Friday check-in = 3 points

    Weight up a few oz from last week = 0 points <sigh> but NOT giving up!

    Exercise = 15 points

    Daily H2O = 7 points

    Extra credit = 1 point - got my flu shot this week.

    Total = 26 points

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  • zogo
    zogo Member Posts: 20,329
    edited October 2012

    flying through

    Badger, You are on a roll to beat me to the 160's!  I've been up many and am down a few.

    Today 171.8  Life has been so busy with no let up in sight.  I'll try to get back into the swing of things.

    Hugs to all my birdies! 

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  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited October 2012

    hi Jane, good to see you here!  You are closer than you know to beating me to the 160's.

    Friday check-in = 3 points

    Weight up a few more oz from last week = 0 points Yell

    Exercise = 13 points

    Daily H2O = 7 points

    Extra credit = 1 point - signed up for the landmark Health of Women Study.

    Birdies, please consider joining too!  https://www.healthofwomenstudy.org/

    Total = 24 points

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited October 2012
    RoadRunner checking in:

    Friday Check in = 3 points
    Weight 225# = 0 points!
    Water = 6 points
    Exercised = 1 points
    Extra credit = 1 points--Parked at the far end of the parking lots all week
    Total = 11 points

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  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited October 2012

    hi NM, good to see you here, too!

    Heard an interview on public radio last week that I thought I'd share.

    It's Dr. Timothy Harlan, with the Tulane U Center for Culinary Medicine.

    He's an MD who started out as a chef, and now he goes by Dr. Gourmet.

    He was talking about his book "Just Tell Me What to Eat: the delicious 6-week weight-loss plan for the real world".  It was fascinating!  Here's his website: http://www.drgourmet.com/  You don't have to buy the book to get great info.

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  • bookart
    bookart Member Posts: 564
    edited October 2012

    Hi, y'all.  I've missed many a Friday, but I'm up late tonight so I thought I would just drop by.  I'm fat and kind of depressed about it.  Keep losing and then putting on the same few pounds.  I don't think I've ever had this problem before - I've either kept a steady weight or gone steadily up or steadily down.  Not up and down, up and down.  I'm blaming it on hormones.  I also think I might have a duodonal ulcer - about an hour after I eat I get a burning in my stomach that feels like hunger, so I eat again, even just a bit.  So it seems like I'm always eating.  I try to make it healthy and eat small amounts, but it adds up, regardless.  If I try to tough it out, it just gets worse.  Sometimes cold water helps.  I don't want to have to go to the dr and take a bunch of tests.  No extra money, and I'm just tired of the medical stuff.  I've decided I don't like it.  So I'm being a big baby tonight.  Waah, waah, waah.  Thanks for listening.  Good night!

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  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited October 2012

    hi Elaine, good to see ya!  Sorry you're not feeling well, that takes a lot out of you. 

    I'm up again too GRRR.  Not happy with myself.  Tried to pin it on reading Julie & Julia - all that wonderful food gave me a mad urge to cook and eat.  

    Went to a wellness seminar last week.  Good speaker.  Couple easy take-away points:

    Take your weight and add a zero.  That's the number of calories you can have in a day. 

    Take your weight and that's how many grams of protein & carbs you can have in a day. 

    Split that number evenly between protein and carbs. 

    So for a 200-pound person: 2,000 calories, 100 grams protein and 100 grams carbs.

    Also, if you're going to spend time reading food labels, pay attention to the list of ingredients.  The more natural ingredients the better.  The fewer preservatives the better (because they can lead to constipation and not losing weight through 'elimination').

    NM I'd be interested in your take on the medical truthiness of all that.  See y'all tomorrow. 

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  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited October 2012

    Friday check-in = 3 points

    Weight up a few lbs from last week = 0 points

    Exercise = 12 points

    Daily H2O = 7 points

    Extra credit = 1 point, dispirited but not giving up!

    Total = 23 points

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited October 2012

    Bookart--I just realized I never said Thank you for the wonderful painting you sent me!  It is absolutely georgeous, and I'm looking for the perfect frame for it.  I already have the perfect place for it in mind in my living room.  That burning does sound like an ulcer, doesn't it?  Yeesh, I hope not!  You could try getting some over the counter ompeprazole (Prilosec) or similar, take one twice a day for 4 to 6 weeks and see if it helps.  That's what you'd be prescribed if you did have an ulcer (along with an antibiotic if you tested positive for H. pylori bacteria).  And being tired of the medical stuff, and not having extra money for medical stuff is not being a baby, it's coping with reality!

    Badger--I've heard that strategy for calculating calories, protein, and carbs before.  It is a good quick way to figure out what you need to MAINTAIN weight.  If you want to lose weight you subtract 500 calories , if I remember correctly.  So a 200 pound woman who wanted to lose weight would go with 1500 calories, 150 grams protein and carbs.  When I run the numbers on my own weight (with the 500 calorie subtraction) I come pretty darn close to what a dietician recommended for me for weight loss.  This was a lot cheaper AND quicker!

     Oh, yeah---

    Missed Friday check in (in Boston for training) = 0 points

    Weight 223# = 2 points

    Water = 6 points

    Exercise = 1 point

    Extra credit--not eating all of the restaurant meals while away = 1 point

    Total = 10 points

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  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited October 2012

    Thanks NM, that makes a lot of sense (and explains why I'm not losing any weight!).

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited October 2012

    I can't believe that I'm the first one posting today!

     Friday Check in = 3 points

    Weight 224# = 0 points

    Water = 6 points

    Exercised = 4 points

    Total = 12 points

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