Donna

  • My week is starting off different than what I was planning in my head.  DIL called and my 3 year old granddaughter is sick so I will be staying with her tomorrow.   But that gives me time to plan my meals and make my grocery list while she is napping.  🙂

    I found a 2017  daily planner on clearance and purchased it last week so that I can wri…[Read more]

  • Food-wise I’m sorta winging it. My fridge was on the fritz for a few days. Just long enough for my milk, eggs, cottage cheese and some other stuff to go bad. I didn’t have the wherewithall to grocery shop again this week so I will have to do that.

    Other parts of my plan:

    • Monday: I’m going to follow the 5k plan by walking 2.5 miles during my…

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  • baylorbev replied to the topic September 17 in the forum Daily Check-Ins 7 years, 2 months ago

    Laundry and yard work this morning.  This afternoon we went shopping for granddaughter’s 1st birthday and then I watched Nascar and football!!!

    Breakfast   Protein shake

    Lunch  Protein bar

    Dinner  pulled pork and veggies

    snacks – cashews

  • So our first FNC Self Assessment is OVER!

    I hope you guys don’t hate me too much. 😉

    By my count, there were six of you who let me know that you finished it by the 15th and so that’s who went into the pot of the prize drawing and the winner is:

    Bev! (@baylorbev)

    Congratulations! Please message me the email address to which you’d like your gift…[Read more]

  • I didn’t forget! Life just gets ahead of me every now and again.

    I waited until I could go through and see who all did plans every week of the mini-Pledge. (I didn’t hold it against you if you didn’t do that final, “add-on” week. That was something I sprung at the last moment!)

    Congrats to:

    Maria! (@thinkhealthy)

    You are the prize winner. I…[Read more]

  • Maria A replied to the topic September 17 in the forum Daily Check-Ins 7 years, 2 months ago

    Grocery shopped this morning (meals listed in weekly plan). Did some meal prepping and worked a detailed schedule for this week.

    Dinner today were hamburgers and buffalo chickpea salad.

  • I’m hoping this week will be a little less stressful than last week. Did lots of planning and partial prepping of meals for the week. So this week my plan is:

    1. Follow through with my written daily schedule I set up for this week which includes all obligations as well as what needs to be done to finish preparing dinners.
    2. Work on my 5k training,…

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  • Well this week is going to be nuts … meetings every day after school so a plan is most definately necessary.  First, my hubby is away for work so I don’t have to feed him (whoo hoo) so my food will be easier.  I am prepped for breakfasts, lunches, snacks and dinners.  I just need to “stick to the plan”. I do have a dinner meeting tomorrow wh…[Read more]

  • My eating goal for this week is to get 90 grams of protein a day.  I averaged 72 grams this week because of my “don’t care” attitude.

    Activity will be physical therapy every day. The therapist will come to the house 3x and the rest will be on my own.

     

    For wellness  I  will be making an appointment for a long overdue pap test. I’m also going to…[Read more]

  • I’m feeling slightly less dizzy today, so I just put a load of laundry in the washer.

    My “mental health” goal is to do something on my master bedroom closet every day.  I took the shelving out in April or May, and ordered a new shelving system.  It’s been sitting in my hallway for the last 4 or 5 months.  Since it’s stressing me, my goal is to ge…[Read more]

  • Still working on cleaning out the house. Hopefully, I’ll be done with the office and front bedroom by Wednesday night so I can let the kids go through the boxes of cookbooks and other things that I’m not going to keep. My younger daughter is coming for the weekend and this is a great time to get this done and out of the way.

    Steps, push-ups,…[Read more]

  • I actually got to sleep in the morning, however, since I was up until the wee hours of the morning, that’s not really saying a whole lot!

    Still shredding papers (how can we have this much?), giving my husband a haircut, taking a set of bed room furniture that my husband has been repairing over to my son’s. (it’s the furniture that my husband and…[Read more]

  • Resting mostly today. My stomach isn’t right and my entire shoulder and neck area is a mangled knot of muscle tension.

    My fridge broke (got it fixed) and thus all perishables are now spoiled. Sigh. Always something, like I said.

    Not sure of eats yet but I’m gonna take a long walk today and clear my head. I just need some quiet.

    Looking forward…[Read more]

  • Thanks @baylorbev for starting the thread!

    Yesterday was a mixed bag for me. I didn’t get my walking in (doing it today) and generally loafed but I’m pretty sure that’s what I needed to do.

  • Wow Nik … stress is word!  I totally agree with all above.  Take the time you need to care for yourself … fight with your insurance … let others with knowledge help you … your stress management plan is amazing and you deserve to follow your own advice.  We are all here for you … thinking about and praying for you!

  • Today (actually the whole weekend) will be spent on working on the house. I’ve spent most of the day shredding old papers from the filing cabinet. Just right beside me, I have a box and a half to go and I know that there is probably still another box worth I haven’t seen yet.

    Breakfast was a protein shake

    Lunch was a half a ham and cheese…[Read more]

  • Medical stuff is a full time job!

    There were only two surgeons on my plan that specialize in breast reconstruction after mastectomy. The first one had a full patient load so I didn’t get an appointment with him even. The second has declined. So at this point it’d all be out of network doctors, so I figure I should probably just work with the…[Read more]

  • Nik, I don’t know what to say but am deeply sorry for what you have to deal with right now and as everyone has said we are there for you just like you are always there for us. I’m in as far as what our community decides to help YOU.

    Hugs and prayers!! 💗💗💗

  • Wow! This makes my stress seem like nothing!

    Having had to deal with many, many doctors and especially surgeons through the years. (a child with chronic (and a lot of times acute GI hemorrhages), the thing that immediately popped into my mind is that you need to get a consultation with a third reconstruction surgeon. If he concurs that the first…[Read more]

  • For the most part I did manage to eat healthy this week. Other than that, I didn’t do so well with planning my time, following the 5k training (although I was quite active) and didn’t finish my self assessment (and am totally bummed about this).

    This weekend it is my goal to do some serious planning around my new routine. So I will be be making…[Read more]

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