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I had to go to a doc in the box recently for a dog bite(my poodle) and their scale said I weighed 3 more lbs. than my home scale. Just keep using the same scale. I never walk with my wallet, of coarse I am on a little dirt country road, everybody knows everybody. Still working up the courage to do my walk, I guess I have a little depression going on.Sometimes I wonder how many more years of mother, it's been 3. When I read on hear about how long some have had their "loved ones" in their home I feel bleak. Somehow I have to find an emotional balance.
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my scale tricked me... I got on and it said I lost three pounds. In my elation I got back on it and nope, it's the same LoL! Darn thing :P
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Keep the faith, Timbuktu. And keep moving! The benefits go way beyond a number on the scale. I, too, felt invigorated by cold-but-clear this weekend. Took a fantastic 6 mile walk yesterday! And lost my debit card along the way. Didn't know it happened til I got home and saw the blinking light on the answering machine. The good samaratin who found my card had googled my name for contact info, and wanted to return my card to me. I hightailed it outta there (in the car, this time!) to meet her and retrieve it. This will be my dinner-table story for Thanksgiving 2015. How perverse! That I would inject something uplifting into the fam's yearly recitations of death, diseases, DUIs and who married a hopeless psycho (everyone, apparently). Can't wait! ;-)
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Well, I should take my own advice. It's been a long week and I dreaded looking down at the scale. However, much to my surprise, I am STILL 239lb. I was so afraid it was going to be more.So now enthused again and with the weather cold but clear unless I have to take Mumsy to the ER I am going to go walking today.
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Always be moving.
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Yesterday I bought myself a couple of chocolate bars and some chips to stash away as my weekly rewards for good behaviour.... of course last night I ate all of it at once. You would think I would know better by now :(
(But I did walk to the store, that counts, right? lol)
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Even if you "fall off the wagon" do those 3 ten minute walks.
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Blackhole, that's amazing health data you have. Tho sobering. Speaking of which, 1 day 'sober' again! heh heh. And more importantly, I exercised! Haven't done that in months. It felt good. Also making sure some of my meals are really healthy - to offset that Halloween candy and now the Thanksgiving goodies that are showing up :-) Thanks for the moral support of this group.
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Hey gang, you inspire me! About 10 years ago, I lost significant weight and did a decent job of maintaining and staying fit.......until 2 years ago, when caregiving turned my world upside down. Lord, what a trip. As they say, "you don't know what you don't know." (Heck, I didn't know the word "caregiver" for the first few months I was one!) And eyes wide open.....yes, I knew I was doing this to myself ....I stopped caring for ME. What a stinkin' mistake.

So here's a beacon I can't ignore: At the same time I started my journey down the elder-care rabbit hole, my employer started requiring a yearly biometric screening for our health insurance.
Nov 2013: weight was decent; all other markers excellent.
Nov 2014: weight higher; BP pre-hypertensive; all other markers good.
Nov 2015: weight even higher; BP Stage 1 hypertensive; glucose too high; all other markers good.

THE CHANGE STARTS NOW. I joined a homemade "biggest loser" group at work last week. Forced myself out for a delightful walk this weekend. Eating better and determined to exercise more. This is not rocket science; I've done it before. But the landscape is different now. Mom's b.s. doesn't suck up all my free time, but it does make me protective of the diminished free time I'm left with. I've talked myself out of countless workouts cuz I just didn't wanna run out the door one more time. TOO BAD. Time to get over myself. I need to be more disciplined with the free time I do have; and stop pointlessly mourning the free time I don't have.

My gene pool and my fondness for sitting on my can and eating whatever I want are a baaaad combination. I fixed myself before, and I can do it again. I'm older now and life is more complicated, but I need to make this work. This is the only life I get. I need to respect my body and treat it better. I distinctly remember having more energy and sleeping better when I exercised regularly – so I will turn to that for motivation (and stop moping around because my last half-marathon has indeed become my LAST half-marathon).

I will do what works for where I am right now, and do more as my endurance builds. To the rest of you – keep up the good work! We all have legitimate obstacles, for sure. Gotta stay on it. :-)
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Timbuktu you are doing great! I fell off the wagon. I got home last Monday evening to find out the lady helping us with overnights quit with no notice :-( I had just stopped at the liquor store for hubby so I ended up helping him out. I made it 9 days w/o alcohol though. I definitely felt less bloated. Maybe we'll have help again next week - whenever we do, I'll get back on the diet train, including the exercise train! I'm glad you all are out there staying on track to keep me focused :-)
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Make sure and get your thyroid checked. Start keeping a food journal at first so you can see where the calories are coming from. It's a simple rule, if you burn more calories than you take in you WILL lose weight. However, due to medical conditions, genetics,male or female the rate you lose will vary,we come in all shapes and sizes. No starvation diets!!! Never let yourself get hungry.I myself know my problem is emotional eating and not enough exercise. At first I just kept eating what I wanted but also made time for a walk. Can now walk a 2 mile route but at first I had to break up walking into 3 ten minute walks around my yard just to get my "wind".The more I walked the easier it was to resist the emotional eating , but that is me. I suspect that there are a lot of emotional eaters on these forums and I feel for you. The dieting is hard enough, now throw in dealing with someone's dementia and failing health with no help and trying to watch out for your own health. It's now wonder "some" of us overeat.
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cripe, I thought for sure quitting drinking would lose me a pound... its been a few months! How can i not lose anything after I was having 3-4 beers a day?
I havent replaced it with food...
Someone said something about hormones up there- I'll ask for a test since I am over the 50 hill
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Also the same day after we picked up crazy poodle from vet's, my husband wanted to stop at Jacks', he has a bad weight problem, I wanted them to just shut the store down and bring me everything on the menu. However, after the day I had I just couldn't do that to my self, staying on target.
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Both dogs are okay. Poodle used up one of his 9 lives, got 8 stitches in his neck,very very close call.
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Hoping both dogs are okay!
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Timbuktu, Oxygen does have calories, I think it is 2, as in O-2? The same with water, calories are H-2-O? Or something like that. (Laughing can burn calories).
Hoping that I'm not myth-ing some-thin here.
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I sometimes think oxygen has calories. Well,my morning just got better and better,lol! Actually my morning started last nite when my poodle attacked my boxer who defended himself by grabbing crazy poodle by the neck and I grabbed a very upset boxer by the hind legs and pulled them up,(please don't anyone do this as I took a very big chance of getting hurt which I did anyway,but it does put them off balance) boxer let go, I tried to assess damage to crazy poodle who then bit the cr*p out of my left index finger. As said poodle other than being a little bit bloody but otherwise okay I "let sleeping dogs lie". So this morning as I am getting ready to take crazy poodle to vet, Mom Dearest announces "I have a red spot on my nose" which she did (from cpap mask) . Drop dog at vet ,run home get mom, go to "doc in the box" for her and me, she gets topical med, I get oral antibiotics and a tetanus shot ,run back home and drop mom off , then make 80 mile round trip to get her morphine prescription filled and then will pick up hopefully sedated crazy poodle this afternoon. I picked a H*ll of a time to start a diet.
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Another plateau.Still 239 this am but that is better than going up. Everybody please take at least 30 minutes a day, break it up into 3 ten minute walks, it does work,will help with your thinking/emotions. Exercise is as important as taking your meds and don't forget to take those.Caregiving for someone doesn't mean you forfeit your life.

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Timbuktu, the walking is key, you are right! Thanks for helping us as you are helping others.
Planning that thanksgiving meal is also a good idea! Instead of hating what you did and calling it a slip, plan to have a good amount, guilt free, then resume the following week. Making it only one day is better than slipping up the entire holidays. We will get through!
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You all are such an encouragement to the rest of us!! Thank you for posting your progress.
I am so glad that you time for yourself has made a big difference. We always know these things should help, walking, eating right, taking care of ourselves, etc. It is just great to hear that it really works!!
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Anything fried and I would eat it. Well,I can't believe it but I hit 239lbs. this AM. Walking has made a big difference.I feel so much more empowered by taking at least an hour for myself, totally just for me,.It has helped me say NO and mean it, that "I can't possibly do that" and that this come from a position of strength and not weakness. I deal with a passive/aggressive narcissistic 70yr.old woman EVERY day.
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So last night I cooked some grilled salmon with veggies. My mother asked me why I didn't bread and fry it. I told her, "It's salmon... and I won't to live longer than tomorrow." My mother would fry orange juice if she could.

Fried salmon steak -- imagine.
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So over on the pet peeves thread, Hope has found a way to lose 8 pounds overnight.
As teens, we used to joke we could lose 10 pounds overnight by cutting off our head.
If I focus on losing weight, I gain weight.
So, more steamed veges for me please. My husband loves to eat that way.
Hope everyone has some success this week!
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For myself, I know my thyroid is okay, had it checked out,. However, I am on antidepressants and they are notorious for weight gain but I do need them. I also know the basic of any diet, if you take in fewer calories than you burn you WILL lose weight. The key is to keep a healthy diet, not just cut calories,keep the healthy calories,do not walk around hungry.
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If anyone is struggling weight loss - you need your thyroid checked and hormones balanced. For women over the age of 35, progesterone levels decline and this leads to estrogen dominance - and this leads to difficulty in losing weight. Google estrogen dominance and its symptoms and you'll quickly see how too much estrogen is so bad for the body. The thyroid is responsible for controlling metabolism; if your thyroid is not balanced, this will also cause difficulty in losing weight no matter how you exercise or watch the foods you eat.
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240lb this AM. Haven't seen that number in a long time. The weather right now is against me as it has rained solid for the last 3 days and we are all getting cabin fever. Most of my exercise is cleaning up after the dogs as NO ONE wants to go outside to do their business, however, they will run outside after an "accident" to chase a squirrel.
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FINALLY! I am back to 241lb. It has only taken me 2 weeks to get back to 241. I can't believe it has taken me this long to get back to it. Can't go walking because of all the rain and Mother is stuck up here with us because she can't go outside because of her foot and is having cabin fever.
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Timbuktu, it is so very frustrating to lose your entire post but not any weight. I can relate, being more conscious of the food intake has resulted in gaining one pound. Then, not being able to move more won't help until broken ankle heals, but I am dancing to the music in my head.
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The last song is actually from a Batman movie. I did my 2 mile walk today, this weight is coming off whether it likes it or not.
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Timbuktu....I have one of those scales too....Maybe we can buy one with a different number? I was reading your playlist and got to the Hold me, Thrill me, Kiss me...and i'm thinking yay...Mel Carter...then I saw the rest of it....Kill me?? ha...can't say as I've heard that one...I'd like to be a fly on the wall when you're doing your housework to those tunes...
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