TEAM WAISTAWAYS JANUARY 2019 TEAM CHAT
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THIS! Nancy, you are welcome and even though you have had a really rough time in December (take a deep breath!), this line gives us a glimpse of a really fun person. You are also highly ambitious! 30 pounds in 3 months will take some doing - I'll be rooting for you all the way, as will all your other teammates here. And if you make 10 or 15 instead of the 30 you hope for, you will still be amazing - so, let's go!Inspire2019 wrote: »I’m seeing a doctor now to iron out my iron issues
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I promise to stop after this one.
Just my little report for the day. I did running around and errands, but stuck to my determination to EARN THE SHOWER. I did a pretty intense core circuit workout, and then for fun tried an exercise bike video. I had never tried one, and don't really have a spinning bike, but what the heck. I wanted to sweat more. It was billed as a Dance and Rhythm session, so it sounded fun. Sadly, the music was terrible and not loud enough to really hear the beat, and the instructor was not with the music in any case! On the plus side, it was a good 25 minute sweat-fest, but I can guarantee I won't be using that video ever again.
The shower still felt amazing. Ahhhhhh.3 -
Thanks for the welcome. We moved for my husbands job. He works in the airline industry & this was a good opportunity & promotion for him. We've completed 2 years & looking to potentially extend another 2. The setting is beautiful though hot & humid & we're looking forward to exploring Asia some more!!@tdrjustus3 Welcome to the group, we are glad to have you! I am a type 1 diabetic (since I was 9) and would gladly do anything to rid myself of the disease so I can understand why you are working to get away from it. How do you like being on Keto? My husband tried it a few years back and liked it at first but felt super sick after a few weeks so ultimately gave it up.
@asheetagupte7272 Welcome! That seems like a BIG move, can I ask why you relocated? Let us know how we can support you as you move forward this month
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Username kkmark
January Week 1
Previous Weight:163.5
Current Weight:161.93 -
Hello Team Waist Aways,
Sorry about the slow logging. This group is a first time me. Had a great 2018 with my weight loss, took a break during the holidays, now I’m back. Looking forward to getting my workouts back along with the diet. Thanks for letting me join, I’ll do my part!
Username: MoStacy
Weigh in week: week 1
Weigh in day: Monday
Previous Weight: 170lbs.
Todays Weight: 169.6 lbs
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Navydaddjtc wrote: »THIS IS THE CURRENT LIST I GOT FOR THE JANUARY STEP CHALLENGE
IF YOU ARE NO LONGER INTERESTED IN IT PLEASE LET ME KNOW
THIS IS A DAILY OR BI DAILY REPORT SO WE CAN KEEP UP WITH THE LOGGING OF IT.
@AmyHammons1
@BMcC9
@Karenesg
@hope002
@Offitgoes
@sue_01
@vicky2767
@orngnerdz
@bear479
@gabi_texanmom
@andreabroadley
Please take me off the list. Thank you!!
Please take me off the step challenge too0 -
hello fellow teammates so happy to be in January and the freaking holidays are over. we were at my inlaws for almost 2 weeks and I am soo happy to be home. I think I gained a million pounds and I am too afraid to step on the scale. I am definitely detoxing from sugar and just threw away a bag of delicious lindt chocolates and a christmas cake my mother in law sent home with us. Went shopping for healthy food and ready to get back in my normal routine. I only have 1 month left of my maternity leave before going back to work in Feb so I need to make january an awesome weight loss month and establish good habits for the new year. lets rock this!!5
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Welcome @Inspire2019 or welcome back should I say! Isn't it funny how bad things seem to come in clusters? I remember when I was a kid my gram always used to say that bad things came in 3's and I never believed her. Now, I see it! I also had a tough go of December and I am working hard to get back on track. For me that means eating better (tracking my macros) and setting reasonable goals for the gym that I can work toward. Here's to a better January for all of us!1
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Username: orngnerdz
Weigh in week: week 1
Weigh in day: Tuesday
Previous Weight: 196.7.
Todays Weight: 198.6
Not shocked and not really that upset beyond hurting the team numbers. After I was in the hospital, the foods I could tolerate were not that healthy (lots of pasta and comfort food) but all the more reason to get back on track for January!
Yesterday I had a really mixed day but it ended up being great. I've been going to my gym since June and love the strength program I've been doing. Over the months, several trainers have left and the programs have started to change. On Tuesday when I went to the gym, I found that the strength program for January was WAY out of my league and had very few areas for modification. For example, I was supposed to do weighted pull ups every week. I can't do REGULAR pull ups and can barely do band assisted pull ups. Needless to say, I was frustrated. Thankfully, my favorite trainer that I have worked closely with was in and she created a squat workout for me that makes sense where I am right now. AND she is going to make three more days so that I have four different days a week.
The best part of yesterday was that I FINALLY did a low box squat with 20 pounds of racked kettlebells on each side! I have struggled with my hip hinge and being able to push up from the bottom of the position but yesterday we changed two things: she made me look up at a fixed point the entire time and she had me take off my shoes. Looking up kept me from dipping my chest and no shoes made it easier for me to feel how I should be pushing off. It was a tremendous difference. Ending the day this way made me feel much better about the coming months.3 -
Hello Team Waist Aways,
Sorry about the slow logging. This group is a first time me. Had a great 2018 with my weight loss, took a break during the holidays, now I’m back. Looking forward to getting my workouts back along with the diet. Thanks for letting me join, I’ll do my part!
Username: MoStacy
Weigh in week: week 1
Weigh in day: Monday
Previous Weight: 170lbs.
Todays Weight: 169.6 lbs
@MoStacy Nice loss! Don't worry about being a bit late on logging, it takes a bit to get into the groove!2 -
WEIGH INS DUE TODAY
@Blackbeautysue
PAST DUE WEEKLY WEIGH INS
@iluvnufoods
@AmyHammons1
@kkmark
@Raven9145
The following people do not have a set weigh in day, please let us know what day you would like to weigh in:
@Claucescu
@jennykriz
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Group Challenge
208??! That is the number I have come up with for how many times, at minimum, that I want to go tot he gym in 2019. Basically, since there are 52 weeks in a year, my goal is to go to the gym at least four times a week. Really, I want to go five times but I know that life happens and want to make the goal attainable. Also, it means that I need to go 17.3 times each month. I've decided to attach rewards to each month and something to the end of the year if I meet my goals.
The reason I am setting this goal is because I too often hyper focus on losing weight and making gains at the gym that I lose sight of the fact that I am working hard just by showing up. By going to the gym, I will ultimately reach my other goals, and that's what I want to focus on.
My challenge to you is two fold: set a goal for yourself for the year and then break it down into monthly chunks that you can measure. You don't need to have the same type of goal, the gym isn't for everyone. Maybe you want your goal to be that you workout so many days or you hit your step goal or you meet your water intake goal, it really could be anything. The only condition is that you make it something you CAN do, not something that is so lofty that you are just setting yourself up for failure.
I'll share my "rewards" later, I am still working on what they actually will be because I am bad and often reward myself just because, so I'm hoping this might help me with me spending habits as well!4 -
GettingFitTash wrote: »GettingFitTash
Week 1 weigh in
SW: 198.4
Monday will be my weigh day 😁
Greetings @GettingFitTash ! I do not see you on our spreadsheet, so I'll get after our awesome moderators to see if we can fix that. Then you'll be rolling with the Monday crowd. They are a great bunch.
@jugar
this situation has been rectified1 -
Navydaddjtc wrote: »THIS IS THE CURRENT LIST I GOT FOR THE JANUARY STEP CHALLENGE
IF YOU ARE NO LONGER INTERESTED IN IT PLEASE LET ME KNOW
THIS IS A DAILY OR BI DAILY REPORT SO WE CAN KEEP UP WITH THE LOGGING OF IT.
@AmyHammons1
@BMcC9
@Karenesg
@hope002
@Offitgoes
@sue_01
@vicky2767
@orngnerdz
@bear479
@gabi_texanmom
@andreabroadley
Please take me off the list. Thank you!!
Please take me off the step challenge too
this has been done
Greg
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Hello Team Waist Aways,
Sorry about the slow logging. This group is a first time me. Had a great 2018 with my weight loss, took a break during the holidays, now I’m back. Looking forward to getting my workouts back along with the diet. Thanks for letting me join, I’ll do my part!
Username: MoStacy
Weigh in week: week 1
Weigh in day: Monday
Previous Weight: 170lbs.
Todays Weight: 169.6 lbs
POSTED! And a big bravo to you too. It might not seem like a lot, but as others have said, even small losses, week after week get you there!1 -
Wow - @orngnerdz - your "208" challenge is a fantastic idea. I always make vague commitments, like exercise 20 minutes a day no matter what, but a more specific one with monthly numbers is a lot more serious (in a good way).
I am going to think about this, and about great rewards also! I hope lots of us join in and keep track of those numbers for a while. Revision is not a failure - as long as that is part of the formula, I think I can do this.
Thanks!1 -
WEIGH INS DUE TODAY
@Blackbeautysue
PAST DUE WEEKLY WEIGH INS
@iluvnufoods
@AmyHammons1
@kkmark
@Raven9145
The following people do not have a set weigh in day, please let us know what day you would like to weigh in:
@Claucescu
@jennykriz
@Andreabroadley
@kkmark DONE!
@Andreabroadley SUNDAYS, and DONE!
I love that @Blackbeautysue is our only Thursday person. Thursday would be lonely without you!
The rest of you on the list, I hope we hear from you...0 -
Group Challenge
My challenge to you is two fold: set a goal for yourself for the year and then break it down into monthly chunks that you can measure. You don't need to have the same type of goal, the gym isn't for everyone. Maybe you want your goal to be that you workout so many days or you hit your step goal or you meet your water intake goal, it really could be anything. The only condition is that you make it something you CAN do, not something that is so lofty that you are just setting yourself up for failure.
I'll share my "rewards" later, I am still working on what they actually will be because I am bad and often reward myself just because, so I'm hoping this might help me with me spending habits as well!
For now, I will set a goal to have "exercise" mean MORE than my exergame cardio at least 3 times per week.
I say "at least" because, as of today, I am only in the exploring stage of hunting out possibilities for what I be doing, and have yet to discover what it's gonna feel like the day after (do I need to factor in exergame-only active-rest days? Is it something short-but-intense I could fit in before I go in to work? )
I also say "for now" because I may find that more than 3 days per week will prove realistic over time. (Daily exergame cardio is just soooo much a part of my life-style, it takes something VERY major to make me skip even one day of a minimum 20 minutes ... the fact that I can get it in WHILE watching a tv show or DVD helps with that LOL)
This tells you a lot about my lack of social interaction outside work .... and I mostly deal with "how much of this box of paper is old enough to legally dispose of yet?" at work so not lots there either.0 -
Group challenge Day 1 done.
5 minutes ultra-intense HIIT program setting on my exercise bike. (5 pairs of alternating 30 second lowest-highest resistance setting)
It will always be 5 pairs, so when I try 6 minutes next time, it will be longer than 30 seconds ...
and eventually I will most likely be doing chained shorter sessions so that (for example) I don't wind up doing a 50 minute session of 5 pairs of alternating 2.5 minutes each .... that's not what I would call a "short, hard sprint"
How long do HIIT classes (active portion) usually last? I know some of you do those.0 -
@BMcC9 I have been slacking on my HIIT classes lately but I can explain how they typically work at my gym. They aways start with a dynamic warm up, whether it is working with an agility ladder or doing some sort of exercise (like lunges or high kicks) from one point to another. This usually lasts 5-8 minutes. After, the instructor demonstrates the first "section" of the workout, usually multiple stations and you do each round of stations for 30 seconds to two minutes and rotate through (sometimes multiple times). Then, sometimes there is a "new" round. These rounds usually are about 45-50 minutes and I would say we work around 40-45 minutes of that time. The last few minutes of class is some kind of stretching or foam rolling. So to make my longer answer more concise, I would say of the 60 minute HIIT class, I am high impact for 40-50 minutes.0
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@BMcC9 I use a really simple HIIT on the exercise bike or anything else cardio-oriented. This is separate from any strength work or other kinds of circuits. I just warm up at a moderate pace for 5 minutes, then to 30" at TOP PACE or EFFORT, then 60" moderate, and alternate the 30/60 for a minimum of 6 rounds. This takes (with warmup) about 16 minutes, more as you add more rounds. The 30" should really get you out of breath, sweating, and thinking you are about to keel over, but it's only 30"! There are great interval timer apps, but if you can find some interval music with voice-over it really helps. I found one on a site about turbulence training years ago - free download.0
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Thanks for the description, @orngnerdz . That will help me evolve a realistic (self-guided) set of expectations .... and analyze what various Youtube video classes present.0
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@orngnerdz
Hello. Thank you for the message. I have enjoyed Keto so far. My daughter and son are slowly joining me. It has stopped me from eating out so much and to be more careful about what I do eat. I read labels now and realize how sugar is in everything we eat. I hope to make this a lifestyle change. I am hoping to start exercising more consistently.
I did feel dizzy and light headed a few days ago but realized I hadn’t consumed enough calories and potassium. I increased those and felt better right away.2 -
Thank you i was surprised to i lost weight. Hopefully will keep going down
Team work wins lets make this month a happy and healthy month1 -
Group challenge Day 1 done.
5 minutes ultra-intense HIIT program setting on my exercise bike. (5 pairs of alternating 30 second lowest-highest resistance setting)
It will always be 5 pairs, so when I try 6 minutes next time, it will be longer than 30 seconds ...
and eventually I will most likely be doing chained shorter sessions so that (for example) I don't wind up doing a 50 minute session of 5 pairs of alternating 2.5 minutes each .... that's not what I would call a "short, hard sprint"
How long do HIIT classes (active portion) usually last? I know some of you do those.
The usual HIIT class I go to goes about 56 minutes.. technically it’s half on machines like treadmills bikes rowers and other half is strength training. But it is all active really. I can have my heart rate up just as high during the strength training as I do during treadmill..
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Quick hello everyone! I am still SWAMPED at work. I worked from 8am - 11:30pm yesterday, but the week is almost over! I cannot wait until my coworker stops her endless vacation...LOL
I am so ready to get back to normal!
In the meantime - these made me laugh through the stress/tears/pain....
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Happy Thursday!
@steplaj thank you for the kind words, back attcha!
@orngnerdz I do CI/CO with a 1500 calorie limit. I am just getting back to logging, I took a break from the end of November until New Years. I was so happy that I had gained only 3.6 lb over the holidays. I'm still fighting to get those 2 liters a day of water, but improving. I will be adding exercise back later.
I have been thinking of changing eating plans and have been considering WW online, anyone using WW now or in the past, what do you think of it? Any plans any of you would recommend that are budget friendly and not prepared food based? I do have my hubby and 13 yr old son to consider in as well.1 -
Daily Post: Wednesday January 3
Track: Yes
Calories: Yes
Exercise: No
Goals/Day/Comments: Meal prepping for next week for the family meals. They are doing Keto at dinner time but don’t know it. No bread, no potatoes, no rice. I will let you know how it goes.1 -
tdrjustus3 wrote: »Daily Post: Wednesday January 3
Track: Yes
Calories: Yes
Exercise: No
Goals/Day/Comments: Meal prepping for next week for the family meals. They are doing Keto at dinner time but don’t know it. No bread, no potatoes, no rice. I will let you know how it goes.
There was this book I once saw, in my high school library Back In The IceAge of all places ... it may no longer be in print but there have probably been variations over the intervening decades ....
"Confessions of a sneaky organic cook: or how to make your family healthy when they're not looking"
Maybe there's a "sneaky keto cook" variant out there?
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