August Healthy Living and Weight Loss

I ended July down 1.6, pretty pitiful...however I was down not up!!! My goal is still to lose the 5 pounds before I get on the plane to France on the 23rd.

I did take the advice of one of the Peas and moved my dinner salad to lunch time and added another veggie/salad at dinner...I'll see tomorrow how that worked. I only get on the scale once a week.
The salad and some fruit did help hold me till dinner.
I also stopped having wine EVERY night at dinner....so I'm sure those saved calories will make a difference.

I just want to say I am officially down 35 pounds (the weight of a microwave apparently). I expected it to be easier to lose weight on the Ozempic/Wegovy, I've been on since late September, but I'm good with slow if it helps to keep it off!

I was down 2 lbs in July. My walking has been a little less with the heat. Clothes have been fitting better so it's a win in my book.

My August goal is to increase my daily steps and add more strength training.

I add cheese, hard boiled egg, avocado and reduced sugar crasins to the salads. If there is left over chicken I will add that in as well

I keep forgetting to participate in this thread.  

I lost 2 pounds this week, despite eating out several times. We had my ds and his family up from Georgia for a week, then the following week my dh's cousins from Denmark were here. So even though I ate out (and didn't necessarily make great choices) we also walked a million miles. omg I did Arlington Cemetery twice, once by tram and once part tram and part on foot (although even when you take the tram you still do a fair amount of walking), and walked the monuments around the Tidal Basic twice. That's about 3.5 miles to get all of them in.  Plus walked a few museums. So that's why I lost weight.

My big accomplishment has been to eliminate all junk sugar -- cake, cookies, candy, etc. I started this several months ago after I had covid and lost all desire for coffee. That meant cutting out all that sweetened coffee creamer. So I just decided to do all sugar. Except for now I'm not fussing about sugar that's in things like bbq sauce or bottled spaghetti sauce because I really don't eat much of those things. If I was having a burger every day slathered in bbq sauce I'd probably have to rethink that, lol. But for now, no.

I also gave up Diet Coke, which is amazing. I switched to flavored sparkling water, which I used to hate. ick and yuck. But, somehow I think my taste buds have changed, either from covid or from just cutting out sugar, and now I like it. It satisfies my desire for a cold bubbly drink.

The most amazing thing about giving up almost all sugar is that I don't have the desire for it now. The thought of eating an entire large size Snickers Bar (my absolute favorite) makes me slightly nauseous. I joined a FB group for giving up added sugar, and of course it's full of wacky people (as all these groups are, lol). Some of them are fanatics and have given up all fruit except berries, all dairy, and some other things. Not me. I eat a lot of fruit, and it's what got me through cravings at the beginning. Watermelon especially. I figure that if my doctor wants me to give up fruit she'll tell me. (my blood work was all normal, so there's no reason to...)

I have been working out this entire summer and tracking my foods and the most I can say is, at least I didn't gain. Menopause is hard. I'll keep doing all the things but it would be great if my body would just give me a little encouragement. I do appreciate that I'm healthy and can do things, lift things, run if needed and take no meds but smaller pants would be nice too!

Wondering how the diagnosis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is made...can you shed some light? 

I'm starting this week to cut down (eventually hope to nearly cut OUT) added sugar, which is my primary 'poor food choice'. If I can get that under control, I think I will not only feel better but perhaps drop the few pounds that I hope to. Trying to eat mostly from the fridge (that is, fresh foods) and less from the pantry (that is, processed foods). 

Hi! Good morning. I haven't yet checked in this month but things are going well. I have 119 days (17 weeks) cigarette free. The cravings are getting less and less. I had a little stress this week which made me want to smoke. But I didn't because that wouldn't have helped anything.

I am 10 weeks into my plant based eating and I am down 13 pounds. I consider that a big win as I have a lot of health challenges and I haven't limited quantities or sugar or anything like that.

One interesting thing is that I've almost totally weaned myself off caffeine. I really didn't think that with my bipolar I felt any effects of caffeine. So I kept thinking why drink caffeinated coffee then. My morning coffee right now is 1/3 caffeinated. My afternoon coffee is all decaf. Everything would be decaf except that I can't bring myself to just throw the caffeinated away. Seems wasteful. But I was hoping it would have good effects on my blood pressure.