Auspicious August 2025 W.I.S.H. Thread

[Summer2018]

We're a group of dis-ers of all ages and geographic locations who are here to support and encourage each other in our healthier living goals. Whether you are looking to exercise more, lose weight, eat better, work on self-care or any other healthy living goal, please join us!

We have weekly volunteer hosts and typically follow a Monday-Sunday format:
MOTIVATION MONDAY - TOPIC TUESDAY - WOOHOO WEDNESDAY - THANKFUL THURSDAY - FREE FOR ALL FRIDAY - SOCIAL SATURDAY - SELF-CARE SUNDAY

AUGUST HOSTS:

8/4-8/10: SUMMER
8/11-8/17: POLLYANNAMOM
8/18-8/24: PIGLET1979
8/25-8/31: SHANNYMCB

 

[Summer2018]

MOTIVATION MONDAY


What is motivating you today?

 

[ShannyMcB]

Vacation motivation. Next week is our trip and I know the eating will be less than ideal (although lots more exercise) so trying to stay focused this week to feel good for next!

 

[Oneanne]

When I put on a touch of makeup this morning I could see the weight loss in my face, which is now at about -10 pounds all told. One small positive from the past weeks. It has got me motived to keep going to lose more.

Last week a thing came across my IG feed about being in survival mode (fight/flee/freeze), so I read the article. I realized I've been in survival mode at work for months, since the org I'm in was disbanded. The symptoms of survival mode are very similar to the regular neurodivergent behaviors, so it was a big ah-ha as to why I've been struggling so much lately. So my other motivation this week is to incorporate some of the things that promote feeling safe, so I can get back to better balance.

 

[Oneanne]

apologies I can't pick up the 3rd week... that is when I'll be on PTO.

 

[Summer2018]

I'm highly motivated right now. What I'm doing is working...slowly...but working. I have so many reasons to do this...my health...appearance...how I feel in my body.

So, I keep going...

 

[Summer2018]

TOPIC TUESDAY



How do you stay calm and focused on your goals?

 

[Summer2018]

I have come to accept that the scale does not change daily and sometimes there are gains even though I'm doing everything right. In the beginning of the summer, I was eating well for the most part, but my weight loss was only 1 pound or so, and if I wasn't perfect, I would gain a couple of pounds. I wasn't really getting anywhere.

On average, I've lost 2.5 pounds per week since I started logging and measuring my food. It's a real pain, but it is effective. If I can just remain calm and stay on track, I may finally reach my goals.

 

[piglet1979]

I can take the third week.

The weekend got a bit crazy. My dad came into town and didn't tell me he was coming until Wednesday (this is better then normal. I usually don't get notice but a call saying I am in town wNt to go to dinner tonight). Friday I went to a concert in the park with him, Saturday we visited my grandma and Sunday went to where my grandfather is buried. Sunday was his birthday. This was great for DS as he never got closer since he had the flu for the funeral. He told me on the way that he has closure now.

DD had her wisdom teeth removed today and yesterday my anxiety was super high and I made a poor choice for dinner. We made breakfast and I decided to make bacon gravy. I usually only make this on Christmas morning. This is what we had at my grandparents all the time growing up. It didn't hit me until I was putting my plate together and I started to cry. Grief is a weird thing.

Today has gone good and DD had use laughing until I had tears streaming down my face right after she woke up. With her clotting issue we are staying the night at the hospital and will hopefully be able to go home tomorrow. Bleeding has been less than when DS had his out so the platelets infusion this morning as really helped. So our only hurdle we have now if swallowing pills. She can't go home until she can do that and so far she hasn't been able to. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

 

[Oneanne]

The daily variations in weight don't derail me, but I am challenged at keeping focus for an extended period of time. I also have a hard time staying in the middle ground where deviations to plan don't totally derail me.

I've been looking for local healthcare providers and think I've found a chiropractor and a PC. The chiropractor says he can also help with ADHD and neuropathy... don't see how that can be but I'm intrigued. And they take my insurance so big bonus there. It'll be nice to have people locally.

 

[piglet1979]

Yay!!! It looks like DD will be discharged. There was a bit of time this morning that we thought we would not be able to. She has been in a lot of pain as well as a lot of swelling. The swelling is making it really hard to swallow pills but she is not allowed to have Ibuprofen (only ice) so that has been a challenge. We found out a little bit ago that we can crush the pill for her platelets and that worked well. So tonight she can be comfortable at home. She must be getting stir crazy as she wants to stop on th eway home to get orange sherbert. I told her that DH would go get it but she said she wanted to go and didn't care how she looked. So we will stop on the way home.

 

[Summer2018]

WOO HOO WEDNESDAY!

 

[Summer2018]

WOO HOO! I lost another 1/2 a pound bringing me down to just 6 pounds away from my lowest weight in many years!

WOO HOO! I have successfully logged my food on My Fitness Pal for 20 days bringing me my first measurable progress since April 2024!

WOO HOO! My summer job has kept me BUSY and productive preventing me from wasting money on "bored shopping," eating mindlessly, and feeling all of the feels of an empty nester. (Yes, she still lives at home, but with all of her traveling for work and to see her British BF, plus FaceTiming him at odd hours because they are 5 hours apart, she is barely around.)

WOO HOO! It's my day off! Good thing too, because it appears that one of my campers gave me a stomach bug. Fortunately, it's just diarrhea and not vomiting. I already had to cancel my pool day with my work daughter. The air quality is dangerous thanks to Canada's wildfires. So, I'm just taking it easy today. Hopefully this will pass quickly so I can work tomorrow.

 

[piglet1979]

Woohoo that DD is home. We got home yesterday afternoon. She is doing good. She is still really swollen. Not being able to have a NSAID is making it really tough. I think that is where most of her pain is coming from. She had a rough afternoon since the dental team waited forever to send in her prescription pain meds. Several calls (to just numbers I could find because they did not give me any way to contact them or any info of what I was supposed to do) I finally got them to call it in an hour past when she was supposed to get it. Then it took the pharmacy an hour to get it together (time release safe so had to wait). She is doing really good now and she is just taking Tylenol right now. Her pain med wore off at about 6:45 this morning.

I will never use this detal place again. They have been horrible since the beginning. We had to use them because it needed to be done at the hospital. I will grant them some grace because it is a dental school. So I get arguing with the dental student on our first visit about it being done in the hospital (he finally went and asked the doctor and came back and said it would be done at the hospital). But they get no grace when it comes to no one returning my calls over the past year to get things schedule and the complete lack of giving us information (they didn't even tell us what she can and can't eat). When DS had his out I got a who packet of info ahead of time and they sent him home with the ice packets and wrap to put ice on his face. We got none of that. No one even told us to use ice until things were already too swollen.