Healthier Living Thread Part IV

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Part IV

This is the thread where members come to share their journey to wellness and wholeness.

It's a holistic thread, talking about all apects of health, not just diet and exercise, but the mind and spirit as well. All posters are welcome (not just Premium Members) and encouraged on a periodic basis to share what you're doing, what you need to do and how you're going to do it, and what you know!

Specializes in cardiac med-surg.

have a blast blue

don't let them touch your gorgeous hair !

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

Way to go Muffie!

Blue, that does sound nice.

I'm doing well. I didn't give into any junk food. A family member brough some muffins, which are high fat, bad carbs and I resisted, but they looked good. I went to the gym after work. That was tough because I was tired. I had to come home first to meet a painter, next time I'll go straight from work and see if that feels better.

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Specializes in Utilization Management.

Enjoy, Blue! You're going to have a wonderful time!

Muffie, you're doing great. It really keeps me on track to hear that.

Tweety, good for you for passing up the goodies.

I had a "moment" yesterday. When assessing a sweet LOL COPD'er, I noticed a dozen eggs on the windowsill - chocolate marshmallow Easter eggs, that is!! But I pushed away the desire to snatch them and run. Ate my salad (and homegrown tomato - yum!) instead, and didn't feel the least bit self-righteous or deprived.

It's just weird how I'm doing OK and then I'll see something I used to enjoy, and it hits me like a cigarette craving when I first quit smoking.

So now my thinking is that yes, those things used to taste good, but I'm not eating to taste any more; I'm eating to be healthier and lose weight.

I had soup and tuna sandwich for supper (and also brunch) yesterday.

I have to be careful which uniform shirts I wear now. I can't wear my white one, because the only way I can keep the pants up is to hike them up to my chest and you can see the dark pants through the shirt.

Maybe I need suspenders. Because I don't want to have to go buy a whole new set of uniforms with every size change, KWIM? I just don't want to spend the money right now.

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Specializes in Alzheimer's, Geriatrics, Chem. Dep..

hey guys, sounds like you guys are doing well, brava!

bluehair, i am not jealous, not jealous,not jealous,not jealous,not jealous,not jealous,not jealous,not jealous,not jealous,not jealous,not jealous,not jealous,not jealous,not jealous,not jealous,not jealous,not jealous(it's not working),not jealous,not jealous,not jealous,not jealous,not jealous,not jealous,not jealous,not jealous,not jealous,not jealous,not jealous,not jealous,not jealous!

angie, you just need to put in a drawstring and pull it in every two weeks lol - you pooor poor thing! (not!)

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

Angie, I know what you mean about doing good and then just having a craving like an addict. :)

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Specializes in NICU.

Hi guys! Sorry, I haven't had a chance to read a thing, but just wanted to let y'all know I'm still here, just super swamped right now. I'm doing good, although not sure where my weight is now because I need to weigh, but I'm going to try to fit that in tomorrow.

Hope you all are having a happy, healthy day.

Take care!

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Specializes in Alzheimer's, Geriatrics, Chem. Dep..
Hi guys! Sorry, I haven't had a chance to read a thing, but just wanted to let y'all know I'm still here, just super swamped right now. I'm doing good, although not sure where my weight is now because I need to weigh, but I'm going to try to fit that in tomorrow.

Hope you all are having a happy, healthy day.

Take care!

Hi Sarah :)

xoxo

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Specializes in Utilization Management.

Hi Sarah, Zoe, and everyone.

I had a nice piece of fish last night with some mashed potato and steamed spinach.

I went shopping yesterday (details in the journal). I got some pudding and Jello snacks and traded half my oatmeal for a couple of sugar-free puddings.

I need to start doing a little more exercise than jumping around to "Chaiyya Chaiyya" every morning, I suppose, but I'm quite winded after that and the neighbors are probably ready to call the cops because I've been playing it from the Inside Man movie (because we have a pretty good surround sound system) at concert-level decibels. It's just such a joyful song and I can really dance to it. It's been years since I really danced and I used to be pretty good at it.

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Specializes in cardiac med-surg.

doing my thing ...

white flour and white sugar are evil :trout:

good luck to youse and yours

drink thine h2o's !!!!!!!!

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Specializes in NICU.

Hi Zoe, Angie, Muff & everybody!

I'm after the water too this morning. I lost all my pms weight - I really think it was water weight - plus 2 lbs, so yeay! I am down now 17 lbs. from where I started and am feeling really good! 3 more lbs. to reach my first goal of 20 - WooHoo!!! Then my next goal will be 16 lbs. because that will get me to where I was last summer & I was really feeling good then. I was still overweight, but I can work from there once I get to that point, right now I just want to get there. :)

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Specializes in cardiac med-surg.

FANTASTIC sarah :balloons: :jester: :kiss :monkeydance: :lol2:

way to go

or weigh to go !!!!!!

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Specializes in Utilization Management.

Thanks for the reminder, muffie. I usually drink a bottle of water first thing when I get up, but I forgot this morning.

Hi Sarah, glad to hear you're having such good results!

I just had to share this: I found a DVD back in the dusty reaches of the entertainment center, called "Walk Fit" and it's the first workout that I could actually do on the first try. It's only 20 minutes long. I don't feel too exhausted to go to work today, yet it was 20 minutes of aerobic exercise.

So I'm looking forward to continuing with that daily. I'm thinking that if I increase my exercise, that I won't have to cut back too drastically on my calories.

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