My oldest son’s graduation was yesterday and it was a lovely day. I am somewhat sad however because I did not like how I looked in the photos. I wore a modest navy dress with a belt and ankle strap shoes that are very comfy and in the photos I look bigger than I’d like to be, with fatter legs and arm flab and the dress was not as flattering as I thought it was. My MIL liked the dress and she is nice and maybe I just don’t take a good photo. think I am cuter in person
Ugh. The dress size is a 14. I want to be in a 12 or lower by next summer when my middle child graduates. #goals
Otherwise though, a great day. I am so excited for summer and new beginnings!
Pics can be a blessing and a curse! And sometimes depending on the “photographer” not the best angle or too close or too far , etc. that it’s not always a “good” representation of the people!
Are you still keeping your food journal and lifting and working with the trainer? Keep it up - I think you are going to reach your goal! Those two things working hand in hand are excellent!
And congrats on your son’s graduation! 
3 Likes
Yes I am on week 4 of food journaling and I went to the gym 7x last week. Really, 7x! I have a 5:30 a.m. habit. Tomorrow we are driving up to college orientation and I will most likely not eat great or get to the gym since it’s driving both ways and a long day. Last week I had TWO pot lucks for two parties and we went out for a graduation dinner, but not every week is going to look like that. I was moderate at all the food events and logged it all.
4 Likes
You’re doing great and clearly have a routine. It’s ok - and honestly often a good move - to give your body a day break during the week. Muscles need to rest! And enjoy your road trip and enjoy meals with your family - if the choices aren’t the most healthy maybe just eat some smaller portions than normally.
2 Likes
Not sure where your located and where you’re headed to for orientation, but part of losing weight or keeping your weight consistent is finding healthy or healthier food choices. There has to be some sort of healthier option on whatever menu you may encounter on your trip.
Alternatively, I would make some good healthy food and bring it with you. 
2 Likes
Congrats on the graduation celebration!
I’m at my target weight but still don’t look great in photos. So be it. The main thing is to enjoy the event…. says the MOG heading off on tonight for trip to son’s wedding (next Sat).
4 Likes
For me it’s not the weight but the wrinkles I hate seeing in pictures!
I’m in fairly good shape and my weight is fine, but I have more wrinkles than other people my age.
@Colorado_mom - can’t wait to hear about wedding festivities.
2 Likes
Re: photos… I hate most pictures of me… I can think of only a few that I really like. That being said, I can gain and lose 20-50 pounds in a week according to photos… or even in 3 hours. In my marathon pictures, I swear half the pics I was like “yay! Look at me. I look pretty good!” And the other half I looked like a beached whale. How can that be the same person?! And in our last trip to Vienna, some pics I look ginormous, especially my face. Others I look fine. Cameras are weird.
6 Likes
The good news: I am proud to announce that I’ve gotten 10k steps per day just about every day of this year, so far (missed the goal only 4 days).
The bad news: an amazing ice cream parlor opened up a few blocks away from my house (2000 steps, round trip, actually…ask me how I know 
) and in the past three weeks, the journey there has accounted for more of my daily step count than is a good idea.
Time to recommit to treating “treats” as exactly that - a very once in a while indulgence.
8 Likes
This is the single most relatable post I’ve seen in the thread! The torment of available deliciousness. I exercise a fair amount. All for the love of food…
3 Likes
If it weren’t for ice cream and white wine I would be downright skinny. But you gotta live, ya know?
3 Likes
I like to think ice cream strengthens teeth and bones…
3 Likes
Yep, I only drink lattes and eat ice cream for the calcium… good for teeth and bones.
3 Likes
Seriously I like the way you people think!
1 Like
My kind of a tribe, too! 
1 Like
I can’t have ice cream in my home. Ice cream is why I always gain weight when I visit my mom; she keeps three different tubs going at all times.
I did just come back from Colorado, where I did hikes every day at varying difficulties, including one at 11k+. I also ate ice cream and gained four pounds.
5 Likes
Global Running Day. It was not lost on me this morning, doing my 2.5 mile run before work that on this “global” day, some people in our country and Canada will not be able to run due to the poor air conditions due to the fires. Our outdoors is SO precious.
The New York Road Runners always sponsor virtual Global Running Day events - on their main page today for NYC which is said today, because of the fires, to have the worst air quality in the world right now. 
" All NYRR-led Global Running Day events are cancelled. If you’re in NYC or any affected area, please follow your [cIty’s health advisory]"
No run for me today. Legs were toast from yesterday’s run and tough leg workout. I’ve been doing the same stuff. I feel like I don’t look good. My skin is really changing, especially since covid and I feel fluffy. My eating has not been amazing. But I am running much better than I have in the last couple of years. I have lots of stretches < 8:00. And yesterday the middle part of a 7 miler - the out-back stretch a little under 2.5 miles. I went out in 18:30 and back in 17:20. It was peppy, but not out of breath hard - like I am during my stairmonster intervals. And those have been getting better. My rests are getting shorter. Today was 1:05 hard at 148 steps/minutes, 1:15 recoveries for 50 minutes followed by 30 min on the bike and a total body core workout. My lifting has been strong too, so I try to focus on that.
I am just all kind of stressed. We (especially younger S) has so much going on in the next couple of months. Already since graduation, 2 trips up to school and then to NYC and then to Boston and then currently in Iceland for a week. This is his first big trip by himself (with GF), first car rental, first reserving everything in his name… Ambitious trip too driving all over Iceland. I so want it to go well for him. He spent a lot of time planning for it to be perfect. And meanwhile other S was on a Mediterranean cruise with his GF, but I don’t stress over them as much. But when he gets back, he drives to DC for training, then to Richmond, then home, then flies back to Boston, then flies to Miami/Key West for our summer vacation end of June, then flies home with us and turns around to go to Myrtle Beach…
And then he drives back and moves for real to Boston in mid July to start his new job! And we won’t be able to help much because H is getting his hip replaced on July 11th, and I have to cart him to all the pre-op/post-op visits because he can’t possibly find his way to the doctor 1:30 away. (seriously) And at some point older S/GF/dog will breeze through here twice in July on the way to somewhere they’re going. They just don’t know when yet… And then younger S is also wanting to get a new vehicle. He’ll get it up in Boston, but technically we own his car. We were going to sell it to him, but not if he’s just going to replace it. Don’t want to replate it for that. But then he can’t trade it in/sell it up there. So he has the $$$ to put down (and then some) anyway… but we will have to get up there at some point to sell it, but can’t soon because H is having his hip replaced… And school starts August 1st! (and doesn’t get out for the summer until June 9th. We has very short summers now.)
So yeah… a lot going on. I think that’s stressing me out. So many moving pieces that can go wrong. Sorry for the novel… It helps to write it out.