Saturday Weight Loss Tips

 

Saturday Weight Loss Tip

 

Daily Update

 Getting late - I almost forgot my update!

Water is in check.

One mile walk was completed after lunch.

Tracking is on track!

So things are going well!

This evening I had this for dinner:

Good old grilled cheese with fries and grapes for 9 bites!

Tonight I went to the store and bought Life Cereal.  Cereal has been so hard to eat on the past few WW programs.  Yes, I know I could eat them...but their point values were too much.  Like I said back to the basics and I can eat anything within reason.  I'm so looking forward to a bowl of cereal with skim milk and a piece of fruit in the morning.

Oh and turkey pot pie for dinner tomorrow!!

Daily Update and Some Other Stuff

Still moving on and staying on plan!

One mile walk is complete and I did it in a misty rain!  So glad I invested in a raincoat!

Tracking is right on track.

In the process with the water but have no doubt that will be complete.

Since the Healthi App was having a 67% off sale on everything in the store (FYI, the store is small don't expect WW) I decided to buy some swag to keep me motivated.  I ordered late Thursday night and it arrived today!  I ordered their Box and a t-shirt (shirt hasn't arrived yet).  In the box was the following:

This was really nice to see as soon as I opened the box!  I hung that card on the refrigerator 

so I see it everyday.

These are stickers and bite stickers to mark food products.

This is the Tote Bag with inspirational sayings.  This isn't the size of one of the grocery store bags you can buy, it's just a small tote bag that's perfect to carry things to work!

This is the collapsible lunch box.  It's pretty much like the WW ones you can buy.

This is the food scale and the water bottle.  The water bottle is GLASS with a silicone sleeve.  

Very nice.

So I'm extremely happy with this purchase.  Can't wait for the t-shirt to arrive!

I've been so happy being back on a plan that works for me!  I know longer have the obsession with what I'm going to eat to fit into plan because everything truly does fit into this plan.  And I had this for lunch:

Came to 10 bites total and I loved every bite of it! 😁AND I still have 14 points left over for dinner...yep, you read that right FOURTEEN! 😲

A Trip Around The Kitchen

 In my younger days, the local bars use to have something called "A Trip Around The Kitchen".

Basically it was a snack tray with things in the kitchen that could just be grabbed and didn't need cooked.  For the most part you could expect some type of bologna, cheese and pickles along with whatever else they felt like they could throw on it (pretzels, chips, crackers).  It was a nice thing to have with drinks.

Today, I did something similar for lunch:

A little healthier than the ones the bars put together, but it made a nice lunch, something different; and I had everything in the refrigerator!  Share your "trips" with the hashtag  #atriparoundthekitchen

It's Weight Watchers Again!

 Weight Watchers has a new CEO - Sima Sistani.

She has a digital background.

When I first heard of her background, I imagined the in person meetings getting smaller.  Why would you hire a digital professional otherwise?  I was wrong.

The first transcript of the quarterly meeting has hit the internet and Sima has decided to go back to basics.

No, digital isn't going away.  The Digital 360 membership will be going away because it just serves no purpose.  Those members will be upgraded to the meeting membership, but at the price they are currently paying.

And we don't have to do the WW (dubya dubya) thing anymore.  Sima says weight loss is what the company is known and trusted for and we should embrace it.  So it's Weight Watchers again and I'm told some meetings have already started to use it.  She also wants to revamp the app.

You can read the whole thing here:  Transcript

But I'll Try

 Well I tried and got nothing done.....

It's been a bad month.  I found out a cousin (who I have not seen in years) passed and no one notified anyone.  I lost an Uncle this month; and in this past week I had to travel south to stay with my sister as my brother-in-law was ill and passed.  

No time for dieting.

But I haven't given up....hopefully things will be more consistent now and I can do a restart!  I still want to do all those "tries" from my last post.

And I still want to give the new WW program an honest try.  I can't get to my meetings anymore as 5:30 is too early of a start time, but I'm going to try some virtual meetings (though I don't really care for them at all).

But I'll try....

Loki

 Last month we adopted a new dog that we call Loki:

He's a bassett beagle mix and cute as can be!

Loki is a year old and came from a rescue we've dealt with in the past.  Loki's a year old and not house trained at all!

House training doesn't bother me, it's the fact that this dog is a year old and no one has taken the time to even give him any basics.  Looking through his paperwork this poor dog has had several names - which indicates that he has been adopted out before and returned (more than once quite possibly).  I can even go back through the rescues fb page and see that he was adopted under one of those names back in April.

I don't mind that the rescue didn't disclose any of this....but I do think it's helpful to prevent future returns by being completely honest with what the issues were.  We have no plans to return him, wouldn't even consider it; but I'm sure the house training issues has been part of the reason he's been returned.  This dog has no understanding of inside and outside.  To him, they are the same.  I partially blame the rescue because they free feed and let the dogs all wander around in an enclosed area where they just do their business and they clean it up.  That's not house training.

Loki's been getting better but the other night he peed in the bed!!  That seemed odd since it was a sleeping area.  So today I dropped him off at the vet so they could check his urine for an infection, give him an examine and check for a few more things.  I mentioned this on the rescue's fb page (I'm not the only one dealing with house training issues).  People gave some advice.  The rescue's advice?  Put a wrap on him.  Wait, what?????

A wrap???  If you're unfamiliar with wraps, they are diapers you wrap around the dog to catch urine. 

Wraps do serve a purpose - if you have an older dog that can no longer hold itself or leaks urine; however, that is not an option when it comes to house training.  I want the dog trained; not trained to think it's okay to go in the house.  

Anyway, hopefully the vet visit will help (I could tell from his poop that he did have tape worms) and we can get things back in order!!!

Hershel

 On Wednesday I had to say good-bye to my dear sweet Hershel.

Hershel was a stray neighborhood cat that followed me home on a dog walk one day about 8 years ago.  He never left.  We were never truly able to find who he belonged to though someone mentioned that they thought his owners had moved and left him behind.  Hershel ran the neighborhood, hunted the wildlife and made pit stops at our house.  He was much loved.

This past year Hershel began to lose weight; half his body weight to be exact despite lots of eating.  Though this was probably due to thyroid issues or diabetes; when you run the neighborhood making pit stops, there's no easy way to medicate.

I was concerned he'd wander off one day and we'd never find him.

So this past Wednesday I took him the vet and said good-bye.

We will meet again at the Rainbow Bridge.

Long Month

 It's been a long month.....

Yesterday we had to have our sweet Lucy put down.  Lucy had throat/thyroid cancer and was slowly declining but really declined the past week.  We had hoped she'd make it to Labor Day or at least the end of the year; but it was not to be.  The situation wasn't without some drama though; we got to the vet's, hopped out of the car, and the back hatch wouldn't open to get Lucy.....hubby had locked the keys in the car!!  We had to wait 40 minutes for a locksmith!!  Only my Lucy......

Lucy was such a good dog and loved everyone - she never met someone she didn't like.  It broke my heart to lose my baby girl.  We do still have Dexter and realized that it has been a long time since we've only had one dog.  We'll get another at some point, but right now we need to grieve.

Needless to say....I haven't done much in the weight loss department.  I did go back to Weight Watchers this past week and am finally getting myself back on track.  It's still hard; but I'm moving forward.

Super Bowl & Planners

 I'm not a Super Bowl person; I'm not even a football person; come to think of it - I'm not into sports at all!

So I'll be in the comfort of my bed watching Netflix, Hulu, Prime, HBOMax or whatever else I can find.  Right now I'm watching the third season of "The Sinner".  I had seen the first season of this, and though it started out good; it lost me at some point and by the time it ended, I thought the whole storyline was stupid.  Season 2 I don't remember at all; so it must not of been that good, lol!  I'm attempted Season 3 and so far, so good....if you ever decide to watch - it is not necessary to watch them each order.  Same cop; but the storylines are all different.  I've also been watching "Freaks & Geeks"...it's an oldie but seeing James Franco and Seth Rogan in the younger days is lots of fun!

I had mentioned the WW 52 Week Meal Planner.  The cost of this is $19.99; actually not bad considering there are others out there that cost much more.  When I first got it, I wasn't impressed; but the more I look at it, it is not all that bad.  Here's some photos:

This plain planner I came across at Dollar General for $3.00.  Though not an actual food planner, you could make this work at a fraction of the cost.

It's all in what you need to get on track.  You could even make your own!  I only bring up planners again because one of the people I follow on YouTube has created one and is selling it at the tune of $50!!  I've seen others priced this way and I really do not think it is necessary to pay that much.