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“The workshop is a must if you want to find yourself and your songs. My first Mercyland Songwriter Workshop was one of the most astonishing weeks of my life and I've been doing this a long time. The workshops open doors in hallways I did not know exist. I can't wait to spread the word.” -Jimmy Abegg
"Mercyland Songwriter Workshop was everything I hoped for, and more. It helped me to tap into and express thoughts and ideas that I wasn’t aware even existed. The experience helped me craft my thoughts into tangible and coherent lyrics. Mercyland created an environment of trust, intimacy and learning." -Jonathan RichardsonI don't have time for anything but a quick starter with goals, but I'm here to finish out the month strong! I've joined Bea, Libby and Debbie in taking on the challenge to post my daily weight. I know there will be water fluctuation (always is) and my hormones are probably still going crazy, but perhaps talking about it daily might help? Who knows. So that will be one of my goals. I didn't post over the weekend simply due to busy-ness, but I will try not to do that again.
I did take some time this morning while eating breakfast to go over my old logs when I was losing consistently and look for any patterns I'm not following now. A big one that popped out at me was DAIRY. I did not eat a ton of it when I was losing consistently. I am not lactose intolerant (heavy creams will sometimes give me a bad stomach, though) but I do know that dairy can cause bloat and other bad things, and maybe I suffer from this. So I am going to try to think about my dairy intake. It's a difficult one for me because I LOVE cheese and such, but obviously not impossible, because I did it before.
In life news - classes start today! Here come the fresh-eyed freshmen and the anxious seniors!
Terri, welcome back to school!!
Anybody use any of those fitbit or nike plus wt loss bands.... I'm wanting something like.... what are your suggestions...
What about pedometers that fit better on your waist..the kind I have scratches me and leaves bruises when it hit my skins...
Good morning all! Ready for another week? I did some food prep yesterday, so I feel ready to make it a good week! I've been aiming to follow the 21 Day Fix food plan. I really do like it because I don't have to count calories so it sort of takes the pressure off in a way.
Terri - Interesting about the dairy thing. I'll be interested to see if you reduce dairy, if it gets the scale moving in for you. Enjoy the first day of classes!
Becca - I use a Polar heart rate monitor when I workout so I know how many calories I'm burning. I've never tried anything like a fitbit, but a friend of mine uses one and she loves it!
My weekly goals are simple, follow the 21 Day Fix eating plan, exercise daily (I'm giving myself a free pass today since we'll be away all day), drink 64-80 oz. of water daily, weigh in and post daily in the new thread.
Have an awesome day all! I'll check back in later.
Hi all. My chicken dish was very salty and I am retaining water today. I will not use that recipe again. Live and learn. There is still room for more every day weighers on the new thread. Come and join us.
Good morning all. Wow, hard to believe it's the end of August, where has the summer gone?
Well, my neighbour commented that I look like I've lost weight. That's something, even if I don't feel like I have.
I weighed this morning and lost another.4 since Friday.
Here goes for my week ahead.
2.	Pre plan lunches the night before. If no leftovers, soak beans for a bean dish.
I went shopping yesterday afternoon, so I am prepared for my week of menus.
Monday— Chicken Quesadillas with fresh cut vegetables. For my husband I will make up a hot potato salad.
Last week I stuck to my plan of walking, walked 2 nights, did low-impact aerobics 2 nights. Also did a lot of housework Sat & Sun…took down window blinds, cleaned them, laundry, vacuum, painted windowsills and, moved furniture.
Weighed myself, but the scale gave me 4 different numbers each time, I will weigh myself again end of this week. Clothes feel looser and I do feel like I lost a few pounds, but I don't want to be a slave to the scale and numbers.
Planning to continue to eat healthy this week and do low impact aerobics...temp are in the high 80's & 90's this week...walking is on hold until cooler temps.
Good Luck to everyone one this week.
Wow, I have never been so full on so few calories before.
We had an awesome day at the water park!! The kids faces were priceless when they saw the big slides!! I told them we were going to a splash pad. They were in the back seat complaining and wondering when we would get to our destination. They were saying 'Mom, do you even know where we're going?!?!' I would reply'someone told me there was a nice splash pad around here somewhere!'. We passed a mini golf place that had some water fountains. My son said that must be what we're looking for. I said we'd drive a little more and if we didn't see anything we'd turn around and go back to the mini golf place. As soon as we saw the first big slide, my daughter gasped, pointed and squealed! I said, nope this isn't what we're looking for, better turn around and go back to the mini golf place! Here eyes were huge! She said 'Well since we're here can we just stay here!!' I turned around and told her I was just teasing them and that this was our destination all along! They were so happy! What a fun day! I had a feeling it would be awesome!
I did well with food since I preplanned and packed for our day out. I did sneak a few goldfish crackers with my snack (damn those things are addictive!!) and had a small bowl of air popped popcorn this evening, but otherwise I stayed on track. I didn't get in as much water as intended since the line ups at the bathrooms were huge so I did my best to avoid that! All in all a good day, but I may be up a little tomorrow since I didn't get in as much water as needed.
Another quiet week! Where oh where is everyone!?!?!?!Coinbase adds Civic, district0x, Loom Network, and Decentraland to its Coinbase Pro trading platform and is considering 27 other tokens — UPDATE, 12/7/18 18:00 UTC: Four hours after announcing the list, Coinbase Pro said it was launching support for Civic, District0x, Loom Network and Decentraland's tokens.
Coinbase Pro / @coinbasepro: CVC, DNT, LOOM and MANA order books will soon enter transfer-only mode. We will accept inbound transfers of these assets, but traders cannot place orders and no orders will be filled. Order books will be in transfer-only mode for a minimum of 48 hours. http://blog.coinbase.com/...
Larry Cermak / @lawmaster: Translation: Volumes on Coinbase are so low that they are going full on Binance mode. Soon to be shitcoin paradise https://twitter.com/...
@cryptogat: Very interesting coinbase is adding a lot of coins all the sudden. They are very compliant with US regulations, makes me think there are some positive regulatory measures in the works that we have not seen yet. Or exit scam. Who knows. http://twitter.com/...
Jon Russell / @jonrussell: Coinbase enters the shitcoin domain https://twitter.com/...
@deaterbob: Coinbase is entering its death throes phase. http://twitter.com/...
New York Times: With the Economy Uncertain, Tech ‘Unicorns’ Rush Toward I.P.O.
Mike Dudas / @mdudas: This is going to be fascinating to watch. Did the Tech Unicorns just lollygag through one of the longest bull runs in history only to miss their decade long IPO window? http://www.nytimes.com/...
Rat King / @mikeisaac: two tech unicorn ipos occuring in the same week could drastically influence the appetite for shares of each It would be worse for lyft, likely, if investors want to wait for uber. it also makes things kind of insane since there will be non-stop news coming out of both of them.
D.O / @docolumide: Lyft, Uber, Airbnb, Slack, Zoom etc. The mad dash for the IPO window is now in full swing. http://www.nytimes.com/...
Rat King / @mikeisaac: yep, uber confidentially filed it's s-1 to go public this week. The *same day* as lyft filed its S1. story coming.
Maureen Farrell / @maureenmfarrell: Uber is also stepping on the gas — filing for its IPO the same week as Lyft #projectliberty https