Today was busy! And I’ve had a headache all day.

I honestly am not thinking well enough to do a meaningful report back (my apologies!) but tomorrow is a new day.

Good night, my dear friends!

@thinkhealthy

LOL – borrow away!!

Okay @sarahlareina, you are officially my hero!!! I love your organization skills and would love to be able to mimic them!! I love lists and organization, but don’t always know how to accomplish!!! Hope you don’t mind me “borrowing” some of your ideas???

haha, thanks Nikki! As you’ve seen I’m a talker once I’m talking, but until then I’m a total wallflower. I have the cute and sassy outfit ready and everything!

Well I know this advice can be useless if you are not really comfortable talking to people but here are my tips:

1. Go in with a smile on your face! They don’t know you so they don’t know you’re nervous. Fake it til you make it.
2. My best line for meeting people and making friends is, “Hi, I don’t know you but I’d like to. My name is Nikki. What’s…

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Good afternoon sunshines! I’m fessing up to a margarita last night, which of course led to a minor problem at work this morning (thank goodness I was wearing black pants, live close to the office and can work from home, just saying).

Challenge for me tonight, another confession, I don’t have friends I can hang out with much. Kids, married all…[Read more]

Yep, I definitely make lists to categorize them and am using those to guide my time; i.e., spending my time primarily on those items I control. I’m not sure where I came up with this idea, but I’m putting things in 3 buckets: What I control, what I can influence, and what I just need to be aware of/watch progress.

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Stress is definitely starting to take a toll on both my husband and me. Neither of us are sleeping well and our eating is becoming more of an issue. He’s eating too much and I’m not wanting to eat because everything makes me queasy. Even my favorite foods.

Working on steps (I’m having a lot of pain in my hip so this is slow) and my…[Read more]

The stress of getting ready for vacation has been causing havoc with my eating. Eating too fast and some not so good food choices. I finally said you have got to stop, so I just sat down with my feet up and closed my eyes for a while to regroup. It’s a slow process, but I am learning that if I start to get too overwhelmed that the best thing for…[Read more]

Don’t even get me started. We have this coffee bar thing on my floor (high counter with stools and laptop plugs, etc.) which has become the “I want it out of my house so I’m going to sit it here in hopes that you save me from eating it by eating it first” space.

Ugh.

And the worst part is you have to go past that bar to get to the coffee and…[Read more]

Rock on, sista!

I feel you on the chips. They are my kryptonite.

This is a test to see how easy it is to utilize this site on my smart phone.  I continue to fight the good fight against the pretzels and chips that are kept in the communal area at work.  Can I tell you how much I hate the communal area???  Everyone seems to bring in junk food and leaves it there.  So annoying.

My day started early with the dog deciding we needed to get up NOW!

I got my shopping done including the roasted turkey breast for lunches from the grocery store.

Steps are done (and no, Nikki, not on the treadmill) I have 12 ounces to go before hitting my 80 ounce goal

Breakfast was sausage and lentil soup

Lunch was some of the turkey and…[Read more]

I’m interested in this stress management process. Is this something you learned about? Tell me more! Like…I know you are a list-maker. Is this about making lists of things you control vs. influence? And what do you do with that info?

I was so glad you joined us!

I think we each have our different reasons for being here in the FNC and different ways of using it and that’s ok. I want you to feel empowered to reach out to me or any other member whenever you need some support.

I wrote your goal down!

As for my day, it’s busy as usual. I prepped breakfasts (that is my vulnerable…[Read more]