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Introduction Text Update 6-15-20: Down ~10%, working on next 5% on Summer'20 5% team: 39 from highest last summer, including the 27.6 in 2020; I mostly left Spark during Feb-Mar cuz Covid deniers &(*!'d me off, came back when Grim Reaper made most understand seriousness) Happy New Year 2020! SMART* Resolutions (same as 2019): 1) Track Food. DAILY. W phone app if not on PC; else paper. 2) Exercise 10 minutes minimum; most days 20 minimum 3) Water: as much as I can, ideally 8+ cups daily; this is KEY, esp. early in day after coffee *These are steps in furtherance of losing 100 pounds in 2019: 25 every 3 months (~2 pounds weekly, reviewing progress weekly, mo*onthly, seasonally, maybe with challenges)* OTHER GOALS/Resolutions 4) Organize weekly; 5) Code daily, train using Udemy & FreeCodeCamp 6) Book a week 7) Blue wave action weekly 8) Art daily 9) Spirit daily 10) Dentals daily 11) Rx Daily 12) Rewards daily 13) Yoga-Mindfulness every moon phase min WORDs for year: eMbody (to remind myself to be mindfully living in my body) Kind Balance (because that's always important!!!) SMART: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Real/Relevant, Timely I originally joined 8-22-07; have been on & off (sometimes way off, off grid/offline in very rural areas) Still on my voyage of losing half my weight, again, for the third, and final! time; I have the complications of Hashimoto's Thyroiditis w Schmidt's Syndrome (primary ovarian failure @ age 25). I was a vegetarian from 26 to 50, but found out recently (partly via thyroid groups on SparkPeople, -word!) that soy, along with the cabbage family, peanuts, sweet potatoes/yams, etc., is 'goitrogenic': interferes with my synthetic thyroid Rx). *I* CANNOT be a veg without the protein I got from tofu, also tempeh, tvp, seitan (wheat gluten, which may also have thyroid complication implications) —even with the rest of the wide world of legumes which I *have* explored—available to me. So, still grieving a little, years later, I have to eat meat now to meet (ha!) my protein needs. But into the future: This current time has GOT to be, and is going to be! the last time I have to make this a Hera-oic journey into massive weight loss. It's been going slow, taking longer than the last 2 times (yo-yo thyroid), with repeated lost focus, so several years of no weight loss, and some creeping back up the scale. But I'm motivated by my family -two of my younger sisters and my dad, who has weight-related heart issues too, take high blood pressure Rx, and I do not want to have to take more daily pills, especially since blood pressure Rx interferes with thyroid Rx! Also another sister has recently lost 80 pounds in a couple of years, using Weight Watchers, so seeing her success is good motivation-tired of being the fattest in the family! I was successful taking off over 70 pounds in 2008, and made good progress in 2008 and 2010, with about 25 back on and off and on since then; then back to my heaviest again by 2015-6 when I came back for a short while, but punched and derailed by circumstances. SO: The year of 2019 will be the beginning of the end! Then 2020 will be a big year for the biggest changes, and of losing more to my ideal dream goal. So mote it be.

Ultimately to be fit, much thinner, and healthy, and to take my thyroid hormones regularly On 1-1-19: goal for year = 100 pounds down (starting year 20 pounds down, so 'ticker' should read -120 pounds by 1-1-20.... (In 2018, I mostly maintained; started off strong but then lost focus, & was very upset by political crap; ended up putting focus on that (had 10k+ voter contacts, mostly for *now* Senator Krysten Sinema, which was a VERY close election!) {rev Sept 2015}: -35 lbs by 1-1-16 My weight herstory: 2014 to date; -19 2013 +10 2012 +20 2011-plateau 2010: -15 lbs 2009: Strong start to year-lost 50, then plateaued 2008 Sparked; -15 lbs

Flexitarian veg lover. I have to work on consistently getting out there and moving enough, and watching those sweets, and also portion control

I am looking to make changes in body, mind, spirit, work.



Add a Link Looking forward to make the Roaring 20's the best decade!! Making *Motivation* moving into momentum; Making it happen! My 2020 words-of-the-year: *SMART* (goals) & *evolve* ((2018 was persist, 2019 was: *eMbody KIND(/ness) &/ =balance= )) My KEY 2020 strategy is TRACKING FOOD to result in a goal loss of 100 pounds (so 111.20 on ticker, started year 11.2 down from summer 2019) Jan-July fitness goal = PUSH-UPS! Starting with my age (now 58) wall push-ups....
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