oh I agree. the cost of veggies and fruit is just absurd! ALthough the asparagus around us is now around $1.89 a pound, and you can still get that 5 pd bag of oranges for $4. I've been doing that.

I was doing great on my treadmill routine, then I twisted my knee, that got better now my sac problems.

Have you asked Ally to rub it for you?

I told her it won't take much and all she had to do was push on it a little.

I've been doing pretty well eating healthy again the last month or so.

But I let the store decide my diet for the most part.  I go once a week and only buy sale items.

For example last week they had 10 Yoplait Yogurts for $4.00.   That's a healthy snack and about half of what it would normally cost.

Also, I've finally followed the advice of others and instead of starvation dieting have tried to eat breakfast, lunch and supper with a healthy snack between each meal.

Breakfast has usually been egg whites, either in an omlette or scrambled.

Morning snack yogurt

Lunch has been a chunky soup or maybe a lean cuisine and some veggies

afternoon snack veggies

Supper has been baked fish or chicken, something like that.

The nice thing is I've been losing weight without feeling too deprived.  I'm still going out to eat for one or two meals a week and having whatever I want.

During the week I might have frozen pizza once or twice but I actually cut the pizza into fourths before I bake it and just have 1/4'th of a 12" pizza.

In the past I'd eat a pizza for supper and easily eat half of it or more just because I didn't want to throw it out and I don't like reheated pizza.

going at this pace I haven't felt deprived and I've still lost about 3 lbs. a week.


Now I have to bump  up the exercising.  But I'm always aching so it's been hard.  Yesterday 22 minutes on the bike was brutal with this pain in my shoulder.  I think today I'm skipping the bike and just relaxing a bit.

I usually skip breakfast on weekdays, or if I do have it its just an orange or apple. very rarely eat between meals. If I do its a 50 cent bag of schneider pretzles to hold me over till dinner.

I'll pay the copay for the massage and crack job.

Yeah, I used to do a lot of walking everyday. I sitll have my pedometer. With weather getting nicer I'll have to start getting back into that.

Jeremy Riggs wrote:

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Yeah, I used to do a lot of walking everyday. I sitll have my pedometer. With weather getting nicer I'll have to start getting back into that.

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Leave the pedometer home.  Walk just to walk.  Just enjoy yourself.  It's a lot better than trying to exercise, and you'll start a healthy habit.  If you do it to exercise, it'll last a couple months and you'll give up on it.  Once you've made it a habit and enjoy doing it, then start to track stuff and push yourself.

I guess what I'm trying to say, is don't exercise because you feel like you have to.  Find something you enjoy doing that gets you out of the house and on your feet, and maybe it'll last longer.  It's not the maximum benefit and not what you're "supposed" to do, but I imagine mild activity for a year or more is better than something that you'll give up on eventually.