TEAM: Gutbusters (September)
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It's Monday, Week 2!! Happy Weigh-In Day to:
@Be_Lively
@cheeso1
@Clarkski262
@eevang
@metubal
@mthomas0228 -- gotcha already - well done on your loss!
@mycocoabubbles -- ditto!
@pilpolf
@Sophiegreeny
@westray16
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LesIckaBod
Week 2 September
PW: 173.1
CW: 174.8
Scale to Les: You think you have me where you want me? Never!! (sinister laugh)
Les, taking off earrings: Oh, it's on now, scale. I'm stronger than ever. Just wait til next Monday!5 -
@leslckaBod
I just came off one of them weeks. I think last Thursday was just a bad weigh in day because I'm looking to have my best loss weeks this week. Well.... as long as things go well the rest of the week. Thursday is far away still.
Just goes to show from week to week your weight can go any direction. Especially if you have an off-day you're trying to make up for.
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@leslckaBod
I just came off one of them weeks. I think last Thursday was just a bad weigh in day because I'm looking to have my best loss weeks this week. Well.... as long as things go well the rest of the week. Thursday is far away still.
Just goes to show from week to week your weight can go any direction. Especially if you have an off-day you're trying to make up for.
@grebber1 Keep up the good fight, and we'll celebrate your win on Thursday here together. Thursday is far away and gives you more time to own that scale!!
I've been on plan today and just exercised. I'm already down a pound from this morning (you hear that, scale? I'm coming for you!). Also, got dressed and realized my pants are so loose they look like Higgins' pants from Magnum PI (open spoiler for Higgins pic). Not quite the look I was aiming for after weight loss....
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Sep 10th
Exercised: Yes
Calories under: Yes
Tracked: Yes
Had an awesome upper body workout today. Also bicycled for 15 minutes. Gonna head to the gym tomorrow aswell. Trying to cut back a bit on carbs again, since I've had a few heavy carb days.. My weight won't budge if I eat over 50 grams of carbs, even if I stick to 1200 calories.2 -
Westray16
Week 2 September Monday
PW 195 lbs
CW 194 lbs2 -
Username: Metubal
Weigh in Week: September Week 2
Weigh in Day: Monday
Previous Weight: 162
Today's Weight: 160.5
Deck finished! In 12 hours, I'm flying to Turkey!3 -
B_Lively
Sept Week 2
Monday
PW: 222
CW: 2182 -
Sept wk 2
Mon
PW 149
CW 150.5
Gone up 1.5 but hopefully it’s just bloat as I actually feel and look slimmer. I had a very active weekend and every muscle aches!1 -
September 11 Week 2
Exercise Yes. Walked just over 3 km on the treadmill
Tracked. Yes
Calories. Yes1 -
Happy Tuesday! Today I'm looking for a weigh-in from:
@littleflutterby
@eevang (from Monday)
Also, we had a few who I didn't get weigh-ins from a week ago. Be sure to weigh in this week to stay on the spreadsheet this month. Here's who I'm looking for:
@jaygirl3
@cheeso1
@Clarkski262
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Gutbuster Week 1 Results:
Way to go, Gutbusters! We finished in second place with a 0.80% loss as a team. Slimsons beat us with only 0.89%.
Here are our top three team losers for Week 1:
1st - @pilpolf - 2.96%
2nd - @akerra27 - 2.87%
3rd - @fe452436 - 2.47%
We're in the midst of Week 2 now, and there's plenty of September left. No matter what that scale tells you today, there's plenty of time to assess your progress, evaluate your methods, and take the actions that will get you closer to your goals, whatever they are.
Question for the day
What are you proud of - either a scale victory or NSV - from Week 1, that can help motivate you in Week 2?
For me, I'm finally making some progress on push-ups! Yes, I still do them from my knees, but I can do about 5 or 6 all the way down and back up again at a reasonable pace before I get shaky. I even did 5 "staggered hand" push-ups a couple days ago. For someone who had trouble just doing the negative portion without crashing to the floor back in April, when I started focusing on my exercise, this seems unbelievable. Even better, I actually feel stronger, and that feeling is helping me get back down to the basement for exercise each day to keep moving ahead.
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Note to self. When looking in fridge in the morning to pull out lunch for the day at work and you tell yourself, "hey, I'll drink my shake for breakfast at work", bring the shake.2
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Happy with my loss and surprised because I didn't not do so well over the weekend. We had a grill cook quit last week so I am working on the grill line this week. The heat back there should help me burn some extra calories. I am also taking the kids to the fair this week, so I have to stay away from the fair foods. I can't really afford that overpriced junk anyways so that helps out a bunch.3
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September 10
Exercised?: Yes (20 mins walk to and from office from hotel)
Calories?: Yes
Tracked?: Yes
Tiring day. 6 hours sleep, then work in a new country (and language). 8 hours time zone change so add jet lag into the mix.
Too late for breakfast, lunch was a sandwich (all that was available). Was almost 24 hours from last meal on Sunday to lunch on Monday and was feeling feint.
Exhausted when I got back to hotel after long work day (8:00am - 8:30pm).
Must remember to bring protein bars to work as lunch was 2 hours later than expected.
September 11
Exercised?: Yes (20 mins walk to and from office from hotel)
Calories?: Yes
Tracked?: Yes
Still not enough sleep (not in time zone yet).
Feeling out of depth in Spanish (only had about 6 weeks to pick up enough to get by). Barely managing. Can read it OK (just), but understanding real time conversation from native speakers in still very tough (get about 40% of the words and it takes time to filter out meaning and context). Fortunately the work team can speak english (and one or two of the client team), so communication of difficult points can be translated to and from english.
Very tiring.
Daily Strength challenge
Challenge for September 11 is plank. (standard, forearm or knee) (https://greatist.com/fitness/perfect-plank)
2 sets- First set 30 seconds if new to them, 60 seconds if a regular, 90 seconds if can regularly make 60 seconds. , wait 2
- Second set 15 seconds, 30 seconds or 60 seconds
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Going to celebrate a friends birthday tomorrow at an amazing pizza place. They have great salads but drench it in dressing with no option for dressing on the side. Still thinking that’s the lesser of the evils... maybe a small salad and a kid size cheese pizza.
Kind of nervous. Sigh. Wish i could just say something came up but I can’t... she’s a really good friend. Wish me luck!2 -
Username: Bendiz_
Weigh in week: Week 2
Weigh in day: Wednesday
Previous weight: 172.6
Today's weight: 171.74 -
September 12
Exercise. Yes 20 minute walking workout
Calories. Yes
Tracked. Yes
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11th sep
Exercise yes 2mile run
Tracking yes
Calories yes1 -
Happy Wednesday Weigh-In Day for:
@Bendiz_ -- Great job this week!
@caitlynns727
@edising
@hayleymace90
@inshapeCK
Have a great day, folks!1 -
WishfulThinning18 wrote: »Going to celebrate a friends birthday tomorrow at an amazing pizza place. They have great salads but drench it in dressing with no option for dressing on the side. Still thinking that’s the lesser of the evils... maybe a small salad and a kid size cheese pizza.
Kind of nervous. Sigh. Wish i could just say something came up but I can’t... she’s a really good friend. Wish me luck!
@WishfulThinning18 I have trouble at my local pizza place, too. If they have non-pizza options -- Italian meals with chicken, fish, or other protein -- you could aim to try those instead. You could also try to pre-log your intended meal of salad w/dressing and kids cheese pizza and see how many calories are left for your day today. If your restaurant isn't in MFP, consider selecting the closest-sounding options you can, with the highest calories, just to make it more likely you're overestimating. Then try to be stingy with your remaining calories for the day.
If that doesn't work, remember that weight loss involves an average deficit. Most of us go over our calorie goal for the day at least once in a while. What matters is that over time, there are more deficit days than non-deficit days, and higher calorie expenditure than calorie consumption.
Celebrate your friend, enjoy your time together, savor your food choices tonight, and stay on track with your meals before and after this celebration. If you can do that, you've had a win, regardless of short term weight-gain from your night out.
Good luck, and have fun!!1 -
Username: hayleymace90
Weigh in week: Week 2
Weigh in day: Wednesday
Previous weight: 193
Today's weight: 195
I had my cousins 21st Birthday party 🎊 on Saturday and then we went out clubbing sorry team4 -
Week #2: 9/12
Weigh in Day: Wednesday
PW: 197.4
CW: 1963 -
Username: Colleen790
Weigh in Week 2
Weigh in Thursday
Previous weight. 179.4
Today's weight. 178.72 -
Sep 11th
Exercised: Yes
Calories under: Yes
Tracked: Yes
Couldn't increase exercise days from 3 to 5, because my physical therapist don't want me to do that just yet. She told me she don't want me to exercise at home in between either. Not at all. Kind of disappointing, since it was our initial plan to increase with 2 days. But I get it, I need to do other stuff aswell.. And my health is just not there.
On a positive note, I gained 2 cm around my butt and 1 cm around my thighs. I can actually feel my muscles there now. I was on bed rest for like 2 years, so I didn't have a good base before starting. I still feel like it's a huge victory that I'm able to have a 50 minute workout now without having to go to bed after. When I started out a few months ago, I could only workout for 10 minutes and I would basically be done for the day
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Username: inshapeCK
Weigh in week: Week 2
Weigh in day: Wednesday
Previous weight: 145.2 pounds
Today's weight: 145.9 pounds
The bad news is I am up 0.7 pounds and I am up 2 weeks in a row now.
The good news is after being out of town for 4 days after my previous weigh in and gaining 2.4 pounds while away I manged to get back down 1.7 pounds of the "out of town weight" the 4 days I was back home in time for today's weigh in.3 -
eptember 12
Exercised?: Yes (20 mins walk to and from office from hotel)
Calories?: Yes
Tracked?: Yes
Another tiring day. 12:46am and still going (started 8:00am).
Fortunately adequate break for lunch.
Looking forward to the weekend, at least I can sleep for a good part of it before having a chance to explore.
Daily Strength challenge
Challenge for September 12 is dips ()
3 sets- First set till the point where you can do no more, wait 2 mins
- Second set of 60% of the number you did in the first set (half, then another 10%), wait 2 mins
- Third set of 50% of the number you did in the first set (half)
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I’ve been eating healthy for about two months now... and man what a difference eating out will do.
Went to this pizza place to celebrate a friend... got meatballs the size of my fist.. ate one and gave the other away. Had two garlic knots with cheese dip and a slice of cake and a light beer. I am stuffed! Like I won’t eat the rest of the night (I’m a night shifter so I don’t flip hours on my days off)
Before I could have ate a whole order of knots (10), three slices of pizza and those meatballs.
Guess you can call that a NSV!4 -
Username: caitlynns727
Weigh in: Week 2
Weigh in: Wednesday
Previous weight. 179.8
Today's weight. 178.93 -
September 12
Exercise: No
Calories: Not even close
Tracked: No
Just got back (early unfortunately) from a camping trip. 2 really bad nights sleep because the hubby was having breathing issues along with incessant coughing. He quit smoking 6 years ago, but I'm afraid his 40+ years of tobacco use may be catching up with him. If, and that's a big IF, I can get him to go to the doctor tomorrow, we can find out what's going on. Kind of odd, if I couldn't breath I'd certainly want to find out why, as scary as the answer may be.
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