Health & Fitness Thread - 5/13

I had my biometric screening yesterday. Fortunately my numbers look good, except for the weight. It's not awful; I'm 5 pounds heavier than I was this time last year.
I'm making mostly good decisions about food and exercise and I don't feel my weight loss goals are unrealistic, but at age 52 my body just doesn't seem to want to let go of the pounds I need and want to lose.

Yes - we can do this! Trainer weighed me on Wednesday when I started- was 123 lbs- won't weigh again until next month. Going to do the same workout today- now 3 days in a row. I am surprised that I'm sore- I get a little sore from my own workouts, but this time it hurts! He makes me do leg extensions and leg curls in sloooow motion. The curls aren't too bad, but those extensions are killers. My quads are screaming and it's only 35 lbs on the machine- burns so bad. Ok -I'll stop whining now. Have a great day, ladies!

My weight was stable today. Still holding at about 0.5 lbs above where I was before our roadtrip.

Had my 2 month post-op check at the endodontist. All healed finally! That means I am no longer on restrictions. I can jump again and I can eat whatever I want. 2 months on a soft and then modified soft diet has been eye opening. I've lost 8 lbs (8.5 if I go from last week). The biggest things I eliminated completely from my diet in that time are tortilla chips (we eat them nacho-style with melted cheddar cheese, sometimes leftover chicken, and salsa fairly often here), pretzels, popcorn and almonds. I'm adding the almonds back in without question. I am going to try to think of pretzels as evil as they are really just processed carbs. Popcorn will come back in moderation. The hardest for me is going to be the tortilla chips.

I think the combination of dropping these foods from my diet and going to OrangeTheory Fitness at least twice each week has really made a difference and I need to make sure I stay conscious of that.

Good evening everyone! It's Friday! Finally Friday. We've had PARCC testing this week and will continue into next week and I'm already over it. Ugh!
Happy note--ALL my grading is D.O.N.E! For the first time in forever I'm all caught up and can enjoy my weekend! Sad note--my plantar fasciitis is flaring up again. Ugh! I had a 10,000 steps/day goal and I need to curtail that or I'm going to be in pain. So, I'm babying my foot right now; wearing my night brace, stretching, etc. hoping I can get back to it soon.

I stepped on the scale this morning and was down about 3 from last week...not sure if the 3 lbs will hold until tomorrow's weigh-in, but I should be good for a decent loss. So eager to get out of this "decade" of weight. Hopefully it'll be soon!