TEAM: The Slimsons (March)
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Daily Post: Monday 3/19
Track: Absolutely
Calories: Under
Exercise: The weather in Missouri was beautiful today. Went hiking with a friend and our dogs. Hiking and Geocaching. 5 mile hike in the woods was so much fun!2 -
Question of the Week:
What do you do to reward yourself for staying on track and/or reaching a goal?
I use to reward myself with a cheat meal but I find that is distermental to my progress so now I set mini goals I lose:
20lbs I get a full body massage
50lbs buy an outfit
100lbs plan a weekend trip
Those are my three goals so far and I just found out today cause my Aide kept bugging me to weigh myself that I lost 20lbs YAy! But we'll see what it says on Wednesday my actual weigh day.
20 pounds, way to go. 👏🏻2 -
My sons birthday today. Going to take him to an ice cream place for dessert tonight. Hopefully I can control myself. Lol.3
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Gadgetgirl259 wrote: »
Oooh nice👌🏾👌🏾0 -
I reward myself with lottery scratch offs for every five pounds, but I have been yo-yoing up and down so much, I haven't gotten them in a while.
Daily Post (Monday)
Track: no
Calories: probably over
Exercise: 30 minutes elliptical and some weights1 -
batgirl140 wrote: »When I have a good weighin I get ice cream. 😁
I haven’t decided on any rewards. And food is probably not the best choice. 😋 Id love to get myself an expensive piece of jewelry every 10 lbs or so, I don’t see that happening. 😆 But for sure, I do plan to get a whole wardrobe when I reach goal!! I’ll have to come up with some smaller incentives for along the way.
@batgirl140 I do think it's important to celebrate the successes along the way. Reward yourself for a job well done, maybe ice cream isn't the best, or maybe it is, a treat isn't so bad and can actually help some people!Fitness327wk wrote: »
@Fitness327wk I LOVE getting myself new workout clothes, although I tend to get black pants and then a cute top, only because sweat is real for me and I sweat in weird places...so black pants it is....0 -
Gadgetgirl259 wrote: »
@Gadgetgirl259 That's awesome! One really big reward....keep your eye on the prize!!
@gjaholy33 Massages are a GREAT treat! A new outfit is super motivating and a weekend of rest and relaxation...honestly not sure what I'd do with myself. Love these!!I use to reward myself with a cheat meal but I find that is distermental to my progress so now I set mini goals I lose:
20lbs I get a full body massage
50lbs buy an outfit
100lbs plan a weekend trip
Those are my three goals so far and I just found out today cause my Aide kept bugging me to weigh myself that I lost 20lbs YAy! But we'll see what it says on Wednesday my actual weigh day.CourtneyLomonaco wrote: »I reward myself with lottery scratch offs for every five pounds, but I have been yo-yoing up and down so much, I haven't gotten them in a while.
@CourtneyLomonaco OMG, that's fun. I forget about scratch offs, I used to do them more often, but being that I work and workout at home most of the time and drive a hybrid, I rarely go to the gas station anymore....so I forget allll about them. I find them to be a lot of fun.
And I wouldn't say you've been yo-yoing, you've really just been maintaining, which isn't a terrible thing either. There are times that you'll maintain for a bit, I've gone through a whole 6 months maintaining, so hang in there. It's normal.0 -
Biggest loser challenge
Username: Fitness327wk
Week: March Week Three
PW = 136.3
CW=135 👍💃🙋♀️
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Daily Post (Monday)
Track: Yes
Calories: Yes, OMAD
Exercise:Yes, 60 mins walking
Comments: Working on getting back to the swing of things, been a bit of a struggle these last couple days. Hoping that I can turn this around...just have to remind myself to take it one day at a time.
I understand. I had a few last days that I was tired of being so focused, had some stressful things pop up and just felt off. I am back on track and feel a lot better than I did over the last few days.0 -
Daily Post for Monday (I forgot to do this last night...)
Track: yes
Calories: yes (barely)
Exercise: stairs at work and 100 squats
Water: about 115 oz
I had corned beef and cabbage again for dinner. I think that was a mistake, because the sodium is so high, I can FEEL the bloat. It's worse that TOM! And after 2 days of it, I feel "ugh"... haha
So today and tomorrow I am trying to drink lots of water, cut my sodium intake in half, and try and flush out my system. The bloat is putting a few lbs on me and I don't want them! Hopefully it will be gone before my weigh in!0 -
I had corned beef and cabbage again for dinner. I think that was a mistake, because the sodium is so high, I can FEEL the bloat. It's worse that TOM! And after 2 days of it, I feel "ugh"... haha
So today and tomorrow I am trying to drink lots of water, cut my sodium intake in half, and try and flush out my system. The bloat is putting a few lbs on me and I don't want them! Hopefully it will be gone before my weigh in!
@tinak33 I ballooned up, blaming TOM for that, I'm already back below where I was Saturday, but that in itself is frustrating.
And if you flush your sodium bloat with water, it will help!
And looking at your 100 squats, was thinking that sounded like a lot...good for you!1 -
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I had corned beef and cabbage again for dinner. I think that was a mistake, because the sodium is so high, I can FEEL the bloat. It's worse that TOM! And after 2 days of it, I feel "ugh"... haha
So today and tomorrow I am trying to drink lots of water, cut my sodium intake in half, and try and flush out my system. The bloat is putting a few lbs on me and I don't want them! Hopefully it will be gone before my weigh in!
@tinak33 I ballooned up, blaming TOM for that, I'm already back below where I was Saturday, but that in itself is frustrating.
And if you flush your sodium bloat with water, it will help!
And looking at your 100 squats, was thinking that sounded like a lot...good for you!
Thanks!
I worked my way up, starting at 30 a day for a week, then adding 15 or so. Once I got to 100, I figured I could easily maintain that daily!
I do 30 at a time, and then the last 10. I already finished my 100 for the today.
Definitely working on that water intake! Making today a fasting day, as well.... after all the cookies I ate yesterday and Sunday... on top of the sodium! UGH. I feel gross. haha0 -
I worked my way up, starting at 30 a day for a week, then adding 15 or so. Once I got to 100, I figured I could easily maintain that daily!
I do 30 at a time, and then the last 10. I already finished my 100 for the today.
Definitely working on that water intake! Making today a fasting day, as well.... after all the cookies I ate yesterday and Sunday... on top of the sodium! UGH. I feel gross. haha
@tinak33 I keep telling my mom she needs to do that, adding a little at a time, but she is trying to be me and just go for it, but that's not necessarily how everyone should do it, it's how I do everything, literally everything. She needs to build up to it like you did.
You crack me up, you always own your food, and I need to be more like you and own it when I eat more than I should lol but I like to blame things like TOM or my tattoo healing, lol, but you just own it. Love it.0 -
I worked my way up, starting at 30 a day for a week, then adding 15 or so. Once I got to 100, I figured I could easily maintain that daily!
I do 30 at a time, and then the last 10. I already finished my 100 for the today.
Definitely working on that water intake! Making today a fasting day, as well.... after all the cookies I ate yesterday and Sunday... on top of the sodium! UGH. I feel gross. haha
@tinak33 I keep telling my mom she needs to do that, adding a little at a time, but she is trying to be me and just go for it, but that's not necessarily how everyone should do it, it's how I do everything, literally everything. She needs to build up to it like you did.
You crack me up, you always own your food, and I need to be more like you and own it when I eat more than I should lol but I like to blame things like TOM or my tattoo healing, lol, but you just own it. Love it.
I have kind of a dumb question for you two. Are squats the same thing as deep knee bends? We used to call squats the exercise you do with a barbell across your shoulder and you do a deep knee bend with the weight. A deep knee bend was a squat without the weight added. I can't do either because of my knees/back and my excess weight...but I'm just curious if the terminology has changed over the years.
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Monday check in
Calories: under
water ; over
Exercise: 90 mins aqua size 30 body weight workout
Goals today: went to swimming early 150 mins aquq size and walking outdoors this afternoon1 -
I worked my way up, starting at 30 a day for a week, then adding 15 or so. Once I got to 100, I figured I could easily maintain that daily!
I do 30 at a time, and then the last 10. I already finished my 100 for the today.
Definitely working on that water intake! Making today a fasting day, as well.... after all the cookies I ate yesterday and Sunday... on top of the sodium! UGH. I feel gross. haha
@tinak33 I keep telling my mom she needs to do that, adding a little at a time, but she is trying to be me and just go for it, but that's not necessarily how everyone should do it, it's how I do everything, literally everything. She needs to build up to it like you did.
You crack me up, you always own your food, and I need to be more like you and own it when I eat more than I should lol but I like to blame things like TOM or my tattoo healing, lol, but you just own it. Love it.
I went from zero squats to 30, and I was super sore for 4 days. After that, it was easy. Now I can do 30-40 at a time! Gradual is definitely better because your body needs to adjust. If you start big, you will get discouraged REALLY fast.
You know..... owning your food intake was something I had to learn to do... for a while it was more "if I don't log it, it never happened."
But the only person I was cheating was myself. I wasn't fooling myself, because I know very well what I wasn't logging. If I really want to hit goals and I really want to be honest about what I am eating... and if I REALLY want those cookies.... log it all and make it work. I ate 4 cookies last night. Still under my calories by like 30. And if I wasn't, I still would have logged it and just been over.
And I also find that by owning what I ate, regardless of how bad it was, made it more relatable for other people. Other people can be like, "oh I did that too! It's not just me!"
I can no longer buy the Coconut Dreams cookies because I will eat the entire pack. No lie. I bought a pack, and ate 1.5 rows just on the 15 minute drive home!!! Ate 2 more before going into the house, and ate another 2 inside, and yelled at everyone to eat the rest before I destroyed it. haha However.... I logged EVERY SINGLE COOKIE. I was surprised it wasn't as bad as I had thought. Still not good, but not 156346843 calories. haha1 -
I had a big victory over food today. Our main software was down today so I decided to take a quick walk through our IT department that has a mezzanine with stairs. Don't you know they were having a bake sale up there with my favorite (banana pudding). I was able to stop and chat with my friends without getting any goodies. It was right before lunch and I was really hungry so I was proud of myself of resisting that. I also felt good walking up that steep set of stairs. They used to kill my knees. I was able to walk down like a normal person too....not half step at a time like I did before.
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