PunkiC

Unfortunately, they don't seem to know what the program is for the ships that have the new internet.  We are sailing on the Grand later this month and nobody seems to understand how the pricing will work for elites.  I have spoken to two different Customer Relations agent and they don't have the answer.

LOL, I started another thread but dated it 3/18/18. Silly me. In any event I lost one more pound and which brings me up to a total of 10. Yeah me! Now I just need to keep plugging away until I get to where I want to be.

Woo Hoo! I am down another pound which makes 10 total. :D:D:D

It's going slower than I would have liked, but little by little, I will get where I want to be.

This week was a little more of a challenge. For the first time I had a couple of days when I felt hungry even though I had eaten properly and drunk quarts of water. Good news is that I made it through without caving in to temptation.

I just threw myself a curve and booked a 15 day cruise from Tokyo to Vancouver this April. I hate being away from home in the spring when I can work in the garden, but this came up and it was ridiculously cheap--15 days for $599 for an outside cabin. The balconies were all sold out, but it's primarily a crossing so it's not a huge deal.

So, now I really do need lots of extra help to keep myself on track because my birthday (my next target date) will still roll around on June 8th and my family cruise will still be October 6th and I really want to look great for that.

I guess I will eat a lot of salad. :)

I have been pretty much perfect for the past 8 weeks and have been losing a consistent one pound a week. I'm fine with that.

This week, however, I lost 2 pounds and I am totally amazed and thrilled. I am still shooting for another 15 pounds off before my birthday on June 8th, but if I happen to have another week when I lose 2 pounds instead of one, I will celebrate.

Total to date: 9 pounds down.

I have been concerned about my weight for over 60 years and handled it with varying degrees of success over time. I lost 9 pounds last fall and then turned around and gained them back as a result of a long cruise and lots of holiday parties and dinners. :-(

I started being careful again in mid January and have to date lost the 9 pounds once again. This time, I am determined to go all the way back to my old Weight Watchers goal weight, which is now 35 pounds away.

My 74th birthday is June 8th and I am hoping to be down another 15 pounds by that time. I am taking an extended family cruise in October and would like to hit my goal by that time, but will be happy if I am just down thirty additional pounds by that time.

Truth be told, I don't even know if my old WW goal is appropriate at this age. It was 12 pounds under the WW high goal at the time it was set and they have raised thei weight ranges since that time, so we will see.

For now, I am content to plug along losing one pound a week, working out regularly to keep myself toned. I tried on my old Miracle Suit yesterday and I really didn't look too bad for an old lady, but I hope to look a whole lot better when we sail to Cuba.

Waywardspirit, are you hoping to lose and additional 60 pounds before your cruise, or 60 pounds total?

I wish everyone success in taking control of their body!

I am down another pounds this week for a total of 7. Looks like this will be a long journey.

I saw the doctor today and told him all about my plan. At first he thought 1,200 calories was not enough but when he thought about the fact that it causes me to lose only one pound a week. He said it must be the perfect amount. I have a very low metabolism. He was also please with my exercise progress and the fact that I have been getting my heart rate up into the 140s, with an average of 126 during my workouts. One week at a time.

You go, Mike!

I am only down 1 pound again this week, but that is a 6 pound total so, little by little, I am getting there. Even if it continuous to come off this slowly, I will be looking decent by my birthday, which is June 8th, and even better by my next cruise which is September 14th. Moreover, I will have to be good during my September cruise because I have another October 6 with some extended family, including both of my sisters, and I really want to look good for that.

The most important thing is that I am in it for the long haul, and realistic about my goals. I haven't had any wine, or any kind of alcohol, in a month and I don't miss it one bit, even at parties. My new drink is soda, ice, lime a d bitters, which looks good, tastes good, and can be ordered in any bar air restaurant, For my cruises, I plan to take a case of Perrier and a bottle of bitters to make it easy on myself.

Hurray for Me! I am down another pound, and in a new decade. It's amazing how easy it is to lose weight when you stick to the program.

Thanks, Mike, for starting the thread. I came on to do it and it was already there.

I was down one pound and was a little disappointed because I was absolutely perfect with my food all week and did a pretty good job on my exercise. Oh well, three last week and one this week is four. If I keep at it, eventually I will get there.

Thanks for being here. It encourages me.

Sharon, you can probably ask someone at your church where they send people in need of shelter. We have a

Martha's Workers group at our church that does a great deal to help those in need and they always have great ideas.

I was so proud of myself today for finally giving away the kids encyclopedias. Even knowing that they would never use them again I their lives, it was hard to part with them.

I wasn't quite so proud of my eating. I just didn't feel like eating dinner so I had abagbof popcorn instead. I managed to stay within my 1,200 calories a day, but it certainly wasn't the healthiest choice. Oh well, I enjoyed it and feel like I had a huge indulgence without really doing any damage.

We have a fabulous store in the Northwest called Fred Meyer and they sell just about everything. They have what I call "Old Ladies' Day" on the first Tuesday where all seniors get a 10% discount not on their entire order, so tomorrow I shop. I need to stock up on food and I. mignt buy a couple of little blacks T-shirts if they have them on sale. They have a V-neck and are very light and easy to wear around the house. They also look good enough to wear out and about.

It's funny to hear about snow. It's cold here, but not that cold. My husband mowed the lawn today and I thought about pruning roses but decided to wait for a nicer day. I am such a whimp.

Diana, you are so lucky to be able to grow veggies so early in the year. My husband had a hip replacement last August so he is still healing. Of course he goes skiing several times a week, but says it is too soon to turn the solid in the garden.

It has been an amazingly warm winter and it looks like all of my geraniums have made it through, which is very exciting. They are always so much bigger and more beautiful if I can keep them for more than one year.

The diet is still going very well and I have been building up to the point where I am able to go for over 15 minutes straight in my Simply Fit board.

Good luck to all,

Belle, I will start a weekly thread. I won't forget because I am excited to see how much I will lose by Thursday and will want to share if it's great, or get encouragement if it's not so good.

I started a private Facebook support group with my friend Sherri who also started on her weight-loss/fitness. Let me know if you would like to join and I will add you. My name is Della Maricich and the group is called Snerri's Support Group. Let's do it!

Now I need a nap.

I am so exhausted. I have spent the last three days cleaning like a crazy person. Our suite has three rooms, plus a bathroom. I got through our bedroom, our sitting room, the bathroom and about half of our dressing room, plus totally gunned out two closets in our upstairs hallway and one cabinet I our main bathroom. My next big project is to clean my vanity, which is a major project which I can't do until the garbage is emptied.

I have one cupboard where I out all of the shampoo, conditioners, etc., that I pick up from my travels, plus all of the amenity kits that I get when we fly. I gave away a bunch of amenity kits to family and packed up all the rest to take to a women's shelter. It feel really good to have it all nice and clean.

Last night I got less than 5 hours sleep so I am going to go take a nap now.

Retiring soon writes:

PunkiC ~ welcome to the thread!:D I use my Fitness Pal too but I think you added an extra 0 to your calorie count. I'd love to be able to eat 12,000 a day but would be afraid of the weight gain!;)

LOL, you are so right. Would 't it be amazing if we could have 12,000 calories a day and still lose weight?

Truth be told I don't think it would be possible for me to eat that much. I am satisfied with 1,200, and with all of the tools we have available in 2018, it's much easier to keep track of calories than it was back in 1977, which was the last time that I was truly successful with a large, long-term weight loss. Since then I have been battling the same 20 pounds over and over again. If I lose 20 pounds, I will look fine, but I am shooting for 30.

Thank you for the welcome. I really do need all of the support I can get.

I also just joined My Fitness Pal and did a complete diary for yesterday. It takes a bit to set up one's favorite foods initially, but since I eat pretty much the same things all of the time, it can only get easier. My goal is 12,000 calories a day.

Veggie Hamburgers and veggie chicken burgers are high on my list for lunches. Even with lettuce, onions, dill pickle slices, tomato, mayo, ketchup and mustard, they are pretty low calorie and very filling and satisfying. I also eat a lot of frozen meals because they are easy and easily calorie-controlled.

Since I gave up wine entirely, my favorite drink is Perrier with lemon and bitters, which I drink all day long. It is also an easy drink to order when one goes out for a drink or dinner. My son gave me that trick as he drinks very little and in almost always in training g for one thing or another.

Do any of you have any good diet tricks?

May I join you?

I have only been dieting for a week and have so far lost 3 pounds, which is great, but even better, my head is in the right place. It's easy when you are on a roll, but it can be murderous to get on a roll once you fall off.

My goal is to lose 30 pounds befor my birthday, which is June 8th. One day at a time.

LOL. I don't want to lose 5 pounds, I want to lose 30. As long as I am on a roll, I had best make the most of it. Having been aware of my body and my weight for the past 60 years, I understand it pretty well and it is now telling me that this is the time to do it.

I have also been in a crazy cleaning phase--emptying out an cleaning drawers that haven't been dumped out and reorganized in a decade. It feels really good. I even went through one hanging rod in my closets today and thought about what I could give away and came up with exactly nothing. That will have to wait u til I have lost at least ten pounds and things start getting too big. Of course, there are a lot of clothes in my closet that I won't fit into for another 10 or fifteen pounds. 😉😉

I started a "My Fitness Pal" diary today. Does anybody else do that? I got pretty close. My daily caloric goal is 1,200 and I hit 1,273. Close enough. Once I enter all of the foods I normally eat, it should become pretty fast and easy.

Are there any other people beside Kathy and Sharon on this thread?

It's really hard for me to give clothes away when I am fat. I always think they will look really good on me when I get thin again, so I will hold off until they are too big and then decide.

At the moment losing is going very well. You know how it is when you are on a roll. It's just getting there that is the struggle. Since I am doing well now, I am doing everything in my power to stay in the groove.

I think I may have pushed the exercise a little too much earlier in the week because today my first set on the Simply Fit Board was painful. I decided to give my lower body a bit of a rest for today and did some arm curls instead. I may be too old to get rid of all of the jiggle but I'll keep trying. We go to a lot of formal affairs and I would like to be able to wear scrappy gowns for a while longer.

How much weight do the rest of you want to lose? I would love to lose thirty pounds. I figure that if I am perfect, I should be able to make it by my birthday, or at least that's the way it used to work when I was younger.

We'll see how it goes.

I was a Weight Watchers lecturer for many years and it is a truly excellent program. I don't go to classes now, but I am pretty much following the old program, except I have two eggs and a piece of dry wheat toast everyday for breakfast. I think on the original program we were restricted to five a week, but since I don't have cholesterol issues, I am not concerned. Anyway, WW really worked well for me. So well that I actually got too thin back in the day when I was perfect for several years. Being a lecturer made it easy to stay on program.

It has been amazingly easy to do without wine and I really like wine.

I have been pretty ill for the past year or so so getting back into exercise is something of a challenge,which is why I am only doing three 10-minute sets a day. I am hoping it wo 't be long before I work up to two 15 minute sets.

My birthday is June 8th, which is my target date. I think I can talk myself into being perfect until then, but having support helps a lot.

It's bright and sunny here today but I couldn't talk my husband I to washing the outside windows of our sitting room. He says it's too cold and promised faithfully yo do it next Wednesday when it is supposed to warm. We got a new TV and dresser in our bedroom so I am getting into serious cleaning mode for our entire suite. It's wonderful to have five extra new dresser drawers (in the stand) so I have lots of place to put to stuff that

I had lying around making a mess.

Time to go do a Simoly Fit set. Thanks for your support.

I recently embarked on a "health kick" and while things are going quite well now, I need a support group to help keep me on the straight and narrow.

I totally quit drinking alcohol and that seems to have made a positive difference in the texture of my skin. I only drink peppermint tea and Perrier with lots of ice and a few drops of bitters, and I really drink a lot of that. The bitters are supposed to be good for your digestion.

I have been trying to get in three ten minute session on my Simply Fit board every day. I like the board because I can do it any time and can easily control my heart rate while I exercise. I listen To audiobooks while I exercise which makes it interesting. I also listen to audiobooks while I drive, and cook, and while I clean.

So if this is a busy, supportive group, with lots of activity, I would like to join.

We have only taken one Norwegian cruise and we hated it. The buffet felt like a high school cafeteria.

We have only taken one Celebrity Cruise and we loved it so much we have booked another. Celebrity is a much classier line.

They don't allow any wine at all? That's really weird. Had I known that I may have passed, even given the excellent price. One of the best part so sailing out of Italy is bringing onboard the amazing Italian wine. Singapore, not so much.

We have been on over 50 cruises but never before on Costa. We just booked a 28 day cruise from Singapore to Savona for a ridiculously low price of about $1,869 for a balcony-$67 per day. I can endure some tribulation for that price.

We also love to dance and are looking forward to that, as well as to exploring few new countries that we have not heretofore visited.

How's the food? Can you take wine on board? We will be traveling with 5 other people, all of whom are experienced cruisers.