WAISTAWAYS TEAM CHAT - May 2019
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Tuesday steps: 6471
slacked off today and did not exercise other than my hour walk.3 -
GOOD MORNING TEAM WAISTAWAYS... LISELYN
I HAVE ADDED @SueSueDio TO YOUR TEAM
SHE IS ON THE SUPPORT TEAM UNTIL THE JUNE CHALLENGE IS UNDER WEIGH
PLEASE WELCOME YOUR NEWEST TEAM MATE
GREGA HEADS UP HERE SHE HAS SOME PRETTY SPECIFIC GOALS HERE
@Navydaddjtc Is there any difference in the focus of the various teams? (e.g. "Workout Warriors" sounds more fitness focused.) If not, then I don't mind where you put me.Otherwise, I'd like to be in a team that has calorie tracking as its main focus, since that's where I'm really having trouble at the moment. Thank you![/quote]
THIS IS THE MAIN REASON I PLACED HER WITH THIS TEAM.
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Welcome @SueSueDio it is encouraged to post anything you involved with your goals, how you are doing what you want to track etc. We are all here to support each other and encourage.2
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Happy Wednesday!
The sun is actually shining today, and it might even go above 50 degrees F. The leaves are really popping out now, but so are the black flies... I love living here, but there are issues, like anywhere
@perla4686 - looks like you did not do too much damage! Your weigh in still shows green
@jlbtnc - enjoy a slack day - but it isn't too slack if you managed over 6000 steps. Bump those numbers back up today and you'll be golden.
@micki48 - I love your description of the strawberry cake. For a good cause. Even if it slows down your personal cause, it sounds like you enjoyed it thoroughly and well. Back on the S&N today and you'll hit onederland SOON. Even if your scale is being a jerk. Stupid thing.
@SueSueDio - WELCOME! I spoke with @Navydaddjtc yesterday, and I'm more than happy to welcome you here to our team. There are many calorie counters here (including myself). We try to keep that calorie deficit going. We try to increase our TDEE (total daily energy expenditure), balance our diets in ways to (hopefully!) match our own systems, and learn as much as we can about this whole health thing. We have some members doing intermittent fasting (IF), but most keep their counts and calculate daily calorie deficit as a way to keep things moving in the right direction. Jump in the discussions - there are people at every stage of their journey here, so tell us a bit about yourself, and see if this is the right team for you. It is possible to change at any time if it doesn't fit!2 -
Username: fourathomej
Weigh in day: WED
PW: 148
CW: 149
I blame the long weekend...3 -
@SueSueDio I'm a calorie tracker and IF as well!! WELCOME!!!1
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STEPS:
05/18 - 12311
05/19 - 14566
05/20 - 12390
05/21 - 15681
Sorry...life is just plain stoopid right now!!!2 -
fourathomej wrote: »STEPS:
05/18 - 12311
05/19 - 14566
05/20 - 12390
05/21 - 15681
Sorry...life is just plain stoopid right now!!!2 -
AT LONG LAST -- LAST WEEK'S STEPPING REPORT
Our tracking steppers put in enough steps last week to complete the Tour du Lot in France. This beautiful trail wends its way through the Department of Lot (northern end of the Midi-Pyrénées region). There are rivers, villages, fields, woods, castles - a bit of everything.
656,747 steps were tracked : 525.4 km / 315.2 miles.
Top 3 steppers:
@reflectionofme 121,594 steps / 97.3 km / 58.4 miles
@jlbtnc 776,998 steps / 61.6 km / 37 miles
@BMcC9 76,524 steps / 61.2 km / 36.7 miles
Have a look at this beautiful trail, and maybe one day you will walk it for real. http://maradene.net/walks/tour-du-lot/ WELL DONE!
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Weigh day - Wednesday
PW - 176.8
CW - 175.84 -
Welcome @SueSueDio! Wishing you the best of luck!!
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Hello everyone, thank you for the welcome! I'm looking forward to getting to know you all.
A bit about me...
I joined MFP in January 2016, after losing just a couple of pounds from my highest weight of somewhere around 220lbs. Over the course of the next couple of years I lost slowly but surely, mainly by calorie deficit as I'm very sedentary - partly because I was unemployed and depressed for a lot of the time, but also partly because I'm just plain lazy...(Hey, at least I admit it!
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I got down to my lowest weight of 145lbs last summer (just a few short of my goal), but gained a few pounds back over the winter with holidays and good food. I expected that, and figured I'd lose them again before summer because that's what had happened the previous year. I started this year at 150lbs.
Then life hit me hard. At the end of February I had four cats and a job. By Easter I had two cats left (one had to be put to sleep, one died unexpectedly in my arms) and was unemployed again. It's been rough emotionally, and a bit of "allowing a little comfort eating" has got completely out of hand. As of today I'm 159.5lbs and firmly back in the overweight category.I can't keep kidding myself that it's "just water weight"!
I need to get myself back on track, but I'm finding it really hard to get back in the right place mentally. I'll log for a couple of days, even if it's over my goal, and then slide again. I know that logging and tracking faithfully is the right thing to do for me, but I just can't seem to stick to it right now. So, I figured joining a support group like this might help me to get my mind back in the game! I might need a swift kick in the butt now and again, and I think my regular MFP friends are too kind to do that...
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Hello everyone, thank you for the welcome! I'm looking forward to getting to know you all.
A bit about me...
I joined MFP in January 2016, after losing just a couple of pounds from my highest weight of somewhere around 220lbs. Over the course of the next couple of years I lost slowly but surely, mainly by calorie deficit as I'm very sedentary - partly because I was unemployed and depressed for a lot of the time, but also partly because I'm just plain lazy...(Hey, at least I admit it!
)
I got down to my lowest weight of 145lbs last summer (just a few short of my goal), but gained a few pounds back over the winter with holidays and good food. I expected that, and figured I'd lose them again before summer because that's what had happened the previous year. I started this year at 150lbs.
Then life hit me hard. At the end of February I had four cats and a job. By Easter I had two cats left (one had to be put to sleep, one died unexpectedly in my arms) and was unemployed again. It's been rough emotionally, and a bit of "allowing a little comfort eating" has got completely out of hand. As of today I'm 159.5lbs and firmly back in the overweight category.I can't keep kidding myself that it's "just water weight"!
I need to get myself back on track, but I'm finding it really hard to get back in the right place mentally. I'll log for a couple of days, even if it's over my goal, and then slide again. I know that logging and tracking faithfully is the right thing to do for me, but I just can't seem to stick to it right now. So, I figured joining a support group like this might help me to get my mind back in the game! I might need a swift kick in the butt now and again, and I think my regular MFP friends are too kind to do that...
Swift kicks and swift hurrahs can come your way as needed! You are not the only one in here struggling with getting back on after sliding. If it was easy, it wouldn't happen this way, though, would it? So you're doing the right thing by pulling up your socks and getting over here!3 -
Steps 5/20~8,017
5/21~4,073
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@jugar If it was easy we'd all be slim and fit, right?
I know what to do... it's the actual doing of it that's the issue!
I guess I should add that my weigh in day will be Wednesdays, and my goal weight is somewhere around 135-138lbs. I have a thing about wanting to be under 140.
I'm going to spend the time until June 1 trying to get back into the habit of logging, but not worrying about a deficit right now. If I can at least get that back on track it's a start, and then maybe going for a deficit in June will be a bit easier. I want to be able to fit into my summer dresses again!5 -
Hello everyone ...
I need to get myself back on track, but I'm finding it really hard to get back in the right place mentally. I'll log for a couple of days, even if it's over my goal, and then slide again. I know that logging and tracking faithfully is the right thing to do for me, but I just can't seem to stick to it right now. So, I figured joining a support group like this might help me to get my mind back in the game! I might need a swift kick in the butt now and again, and I think my regular MFP friends are too kind to do that...
This F2F sub-thread from back in early March has very valuable Sick-start information - 7 Steps To Never Quit Again https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10731988/week-2-mod-challenge-discussion-7-steps-to-never-quit-again/p1
Comments were invited daily on successive steps. I am also sending you a PM with the 7 detailed steps (minus the various inputs) via PM, so you know who you got mail from.
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@SueSueDio
I get through most of the annoying stuff in my life by promising if I do it this time, I can quit tomorrow. Or in an hour. Or, in the case of exercise, after 10 more squats.
It's one of those lies I tell myself to get going.
Also my phone is always in my pocket, which makes calorie counting more convenient.1 -
Speaking of "phones in your pocket" ... you can set an alarm / countdown - possibly on vibrate for work hours - for (say) 1 hr .... whenever it goes off ... you have to get up and walk around for a bit.1
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or dance around .... although that variation might be better left to AFTER work hours .....
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