[Stacy2012]

I don't make resolutions.

It is just a matter of getting back on track after a blowout month of holiday eating.

I just got off the treadmill, only 2 miles. Might as well have been 20. Felt like I was being killed, lol. Oh so easy to get out of shape after a couple weeks off. My feet are worse than ever, I think it is because I have been keeping them soo cool now that it is winter that putting on tight shoes and running them hot was worse than in the summer. Yikes.

Took 4 hours of contemplating doing it before I actually got up and did it. All I can say it, glad it is over. I will never enjoy it but I do like how I feel afterwards. Now me and my swollen toes are gonna drink some chlorophyll and collapse, lol

[ElaineD]

No resolutions now, or ever.

Resolutions just get broken, anyway. It's fun to be part of some group related to resolutions (fitness, weight loss) and see the membership jump for about 6 weeks after January 1! Hard to find a place to park!

By mid February, everything goes back to normal.

And I suppose those with resolutions did undo the excesses of the Holidays, so relaxed a bit.

Anyway, I try to eat about the same amount every day........watching calories and timing of intake. I really love food, so nothing is off limits, but limits are there! I use one of those on line food trackers and it is very helpful to write down everything I eat.

I never quite exercise as much as I'd like, but I do more than my temperament warrants (complete couch potato). And I have the best hours for my health club on my calendar every day, so I have a good reminder.

The best part about being 71 is that I no longer expect to transform myself into anything better.

Right now I'm on a regular dose of prednisone (methylprednisolone actually) so I am feeling very good, with very little pain. This won't last of course, eventually I'll have to come off of the 4mg I take each day as part of my attempt to adjust to my IVIG treatments.

But I take it all a day at a time.

Happy New Year!

Hugs, Elaine

[hopeful]

Happy New Year Everyone!!
I'm with you Stacey. I ate way too much over the holidays and probably for a month before. I just went food shopping today and picked good foods.
I'm also the same as you Aussie dark chocolate is my weakness. Even though I asked him not to my husband filled my stocking with all types of it. Of course I'm eating it.

Hopefully, I'll start doing better but I don't think I'll ever give up my dark chocolate. I'll just cut back on the amount I eat. After all, it's said dark chocolate is good for you! HaHa!!!!

[mrsD]

hint: Dark chocolate provides magnesium....

example:
http://www.healthaliciousness.com/ar...-magnesium.php

[Stacy2012]

I have gone 24 hours without carbs and boy am I feeling it. The withdraw headache...yuck.

Just another price for over indulgence.

[CeCe55]

My one resolution is to eat more dark chocolate, now that I know it is good for me!

[Kitt]

Only eat one little block of it each day. Love it.

[Wide-O]

Originally Posted by Stacy2012

It is just a matter of getting back on track

I like that, it's how it is for me too.

Not that I really indulged, but I haven't been eating properly in December. The scales were still mild this morning (95kg coming from 93 beginning of December), but it just doesn't feel right.

Starting next Monday I'll resume my role of "houseman" and do the cooking. My wife is not ill and is very slim, but she misses the healthy food as well, it made her feel better too.

[Stacy2012]

"The scales were still mild this morning (95kg coming from 93 beginning of December), but it just doesn't feel right."

Yes Wide-O!!! (what does your name mean, lol? It seems wrong to call you wide-o during a weight discussion, lololol)

For me, it isn't what the scale says, it is how I feel, and weight distribution. Even if the scale says the same number, if I have stopped exercising it moves around and FEELS heavier. As you know muscle weighs more that fat, and I feel that difference.

OK..will I get on the dreaded treadmill today? Let's hope, lol. They say it takes a week to make it a habit again...I believe that.

[codyc]

During the holidays I eat more sugar than normal as well. I too am feeling it.

Also realize that most of the weight gain during the holidays, from my experience, is due to water retention. Eating more sugar/simple carbs causes the body to retain more water.

Within a week of getting off of the sugars and back to my normal routine my weight goes back down to normal.

Happy New Year!