WAISTAWAYS TEAM CHAT - JUNE 2019
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AmyBF
PW 212
CW 212
I am a bit surprised, I have logged and did pretty well with calories.
I have been at the church decorating for VBS, moving pews, climbing stairs, building a cabin, making a waterfall.....I really thought I would lose a little. But that’s ok, I have slept great this week so if that’s my reward I will take it!3 -
@Terytha - you are also going through some tough times. You exercised in anger - and used music to reach the amazing energy you can find there. Anger gives us strength - and you USED the strength instead of letting it eat you up. Another great reminder! You know that wonderful word "hangry" when you're just generally nasty because you are hungry? I think we need one for the awesome exercise we get when we put our anger in there instead of against our loved ones and co-workers. No hunger required! Angrambulation? (walking off the anger) StrengthAng training? Angdancing? Use it. And then eat right. Show them.
Angersize maybe?
I feel better again today. TGIF everyone! It's rainy here today which is a nice break from the heat.2 -
All weights logged up to this point! We've had some ups, some downs, some staying puts. Thanks to @BMcC9 for the reminder and posting of that video. It is a good reminder - and as @evangsimmons170 said, we CAN control how we react to the crazy curves that life throws us. It isn't always easy, and sometimes we blow it. Hang on!
@jlbtnc and @Perla4686 - even though you had a gain, watch that video and don't forget we're all here and have all been there. Perla - there is NOTHING to be embarrassed about. Your friends are not going to run away when things aren't going perfectly. I remember being terribly embarrassed about going to the gym when I first started out. Luckily, more than one person made an encouraging remark about how great it was that I was there, taking the work seriously, and that I was just going to get better and better. It made a difference, and I felt a little less out of place. You are here to work hard at this, and you are sticking with it, even when it gets tough.
@Loriab901 - here is your cake. Play hard and eat some! You have lost over 6 pounds this month - so a little cake is NOT going to do any harm! Well done.
@AmyRobF - stamp your foot! But remember you made a waterfall. How the heck do you do that? WOW.
@Terytha you have made the perfect word. I'll just perfect the spelling. ANGERCIZE. Yes.
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CW 129
I’ve not logged this week and I’m eating lots of treats 🍿🍫☕️🥤🍟. Hopefully I get back on track tomorrow.3 -
So. This nutritionist thing is really quite working out for me. Because I had several pulmonary embolisms earlier this year, I decided I needed to face facts and get down to it. And that I needed face to face support. Because being overweight gives me a greater risk for a reoccurrence of these now that I have had them. And gosh, I do not want more of them.
I don't agree with everything the nutritionist I am seeing espouses. For example, she tells me not to think about calories, but rather, nutritional units. But the reality is that I can easily see how many calories these units convert into. And it is not very many! Unless I go on a carrot binge, lol.
But I think they are right in that the idea behind the nutritional units is to get my macros into a good combination at every meal and snack. They believe this helps me feel satiated and thereby manage portions properly. Based on what is happening to me, I think they are right.
If I am doing it correctly (and I occasionally deviate).. I have cut out all the refined carbs with the exception of a couple of slices of whole grain bread a day. No "sweets" unless it is 2 pieces of fruit. And I have upped the fats and protein, although it is in moderation. But this is nowhere near a keto diet. It is about 30%-40% carbs, 30%-40% fat and 30% protein, based on my average day around 1200-1500 calories.
Eventually, we will pull back on the protein, but the idea for now they tell me is to build/retain muscle while losing weight.
They believe this regimen stabilizes blood sugar in people like me, who don't have diabetes but might be heading there. Who knows about that, it is not like they measure my blood sugar, but I can say that my hunger levels have reduced and I can manage on 1200/1500 calories a day. And I am keeping my TDEE at 2000 or more by walking quite a bit.
So the weight is coming off. And I can see from my scale that most of the weight loss is indeed fat, because my body fat percentage has dropped along the way.
The other thing I will say that is kind of refreshing is that they are not fixated on getting me to any particular weight. The measure of success will be getting my waist down to 35 inches (it is 38-39ish right now). Somewhere along the way, as I have aged, I switched from the pear shape to the apple shape, and they tell me that for health's sake it is important to go back.
If anyone is interested, I am essentially following a plan laid out by Dr. Joey Shulman, a Toronto nutritionist. She has written a few books. You can probably get her books in the library or used on Amazon for cheap. The program I am following is based on the latest book "The Last 15". This is not an ad, but I thought I would share since it seems to be working for me.
Thanks for your support!5 -
JUST A HEADS UP TEAM CAPTAINS...I AM GOING TO OPEN REGISTRATION ON SUNDAY AFTER TALLIES ARE DONE SO I HAVE SENSE OF WHAT TEAM NUMBERS ARE AFTER LISELYN AND I ROOT OUT ALL OF THE NO SHOWS.0
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@Andreabroadley I really like your approach. Accountability and learning with the nutritionist, but not slavishly stuck on this as some kind of perfect plan for you. I also have had success through the simple macro approach, and initially I found the protein way too high. I have been able to bring a lot of it down now, mostly because I am smaller (!) and have kept up the strength training since it is sooooo helpful in keeping the body fat from climbing back up. I do not eat low carb, but found at a certain point that grains in general, especially when refined, just don't sit well. I'm big on legumes, vegetables, and fruits as sources of carbohydrates, and it all rolls along fairly easily once I got used to it. Please, anyone who is interested in this kind of approach, post away!
If you want to invite anyone to the team for next month, as soon as our fabulous @Navydaddjtc has the link up for July registrations, you can direct them along.
Happy weekend!!2 -
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HEADS UP!
Tomorrow's weigh ins:
@Terytha
@allieelliott17
@bfitb440n2022
@evangsimmons170
@matthewsfive
@Micki48
Due today, still not reported:
@Kittu125
@martinesther88
Overdue!
@Blackbeautysue
PSSSSST -- if you signed up and started the month with a lot of energy, you posted a lot, you were doing great - it is normal that this is the tough time. You know what that means? Get in here! Post, let us know what is going on, and get inspired and back on track! Do it now before it goes on too long! And if you're doing great? Inspire us!!!!1 -
Username~martinesther88
Weigh in day~Friday
PW~151.8
CW~1532 -
Happy Saturday team!! This weeks update: This week (June 13th) was my 2 year gastric bypass anniversary. I had my 2 year visit with my endocrinologist and she is very pleased with my progress. All is well and she says I have reached goal even if I am still not in “normal” BMI range. (I’m at 27 and “normal is under 25). The thing is, I’ve more or less maintained my current weight for 6 months now and she says this seems to be where my body is comfortable. She suggests I no longer focus on weight loss but on maintenance. I’ve been aiming to get down to 150 lbs. She says that if I really want to lose more and at the same speed, that I will have to be super strict with diet and exercise and therefore may make myself miserable in the process. So I have now decided to slowly work myself into maintenance phase. I have changed my weight loss goals from 2 lbs a week to 0.5 lbs a week. This will slowly get me ready for maintenance both emotionally and psychologically. After a lifetime of always thinking weight loss, changing to maintaining will be hard. I think this will be the hardest part of the journey by far.
Username: mari_moulin
Weigh in week: Week 2
Weigh in day: Saturday
Previous Weight: 169.9
Todays Weight: 169.2
Steps:
Sun - 16,484
Mon - 4,757 (too much time driving around)
Tue - 15,790
Wed - 16,362
Thu - 19,684
Fri - 8,823 (another day of driving)
Sat - TBA3 -
PW- 224.4
CW- 223.2
Steps:
June 6- 4,518
June 7- 7,491
June 8- 6,164
June 9- 4,477
June 10- 4,363
June 11- 9,380
June 12- 8,286
Reflections:
I have had a lot of motivational support which has helped me a lot. I am very grateful. I am now more focussed4 -
You are right @jugar, it is a lot of protein. It took me a while to get used to it. About 90 grams a day, which is 1.25 grams per kg of body weight. Quite a bit more than the RDA of 0.8.. I think I will be able to go back to a lower level once I reach my ultimate goal. Kind of looking forward to that!4
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matthewsfive
Saturday
PW 220.0
CW 218.2
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Wow @mari_moulin, congratulations on transitioning to maintenance. It will be challenging, but you will master it, just as you have mastered your weight loss!
Could not be more pleased for you! xo4 -
Saturday weigh in
Week 2
PW 199.4
CW 200.5
(coming down. Was up 2# from trip)
I’ll post steps shortly. My Fitbit isn’t syncing for yesterday.3 -
Saturday weigh in, week two.
PW: 244.6
CW: 245.2
Sigh.
All that stress and bad eating, and I basically lost a week of progress. Feels like I'll never drop all this weight.6 -
Happy Saturday indeed!
We are having intermittent sunshine and 100% chance of black flies and mosquitoes, but it is great to spend a few hours out in the veggie garden. It's starting to look real. More planting this afternoon, and lots more digging and weeding...
@Blackbeautysue - if you can also update your steps for Thursday, Friday, and today (once they're done) that would be great! Congrats on the loss - and so glad that you're getting the motivation and support you need. It's working!
@matthewsfive - whatever you are doing, it is WORKING. Steady losses - Yess! Share your secret when you have a minute
@Terytha - you'll get there! stress and bad eating do not have to be forever. If there is ANY way you can get the same comfort and relief from something else besides eating, put it on the top of your list of things to do when the going gets rough. Be super strict in the grocery store, and get your exercise. There. Mom has spoken
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mari_moulin wrote: »After a lifetime of always thinking weight loss, changing to maintaining will be hard. I think this will be the hardest part of the journey by far.
From everything I've read on these forums over the past couple of years or so, it is! Not only because you have to do it for the rest of your life, but also because you don't get the ongoing motivation of scale losses or smaller clothing sizes (and possibly a lack of congratulatory comments from friends and relatives, if you were used to getting those).
It's hard, but there are plenty of success stories in that section from people who've done it for years. It's a different mindset, I think, but it can be learned. Easing into it is a good idea too... if you've reduced your target to a 1/2lb loss per week, then when you're ready to maintain you'll only need to add a few more calories per day. A small dessert, a larger portion of pasta or potatoes, a cookie or packet of chips as a treat, maybe. It won't be a huge difference, unlike suddenly adding another 1,000 calories per day.
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Here are my steps. Not done today yet. Tuesday and Wednesday got entered wrong. Tues numbers were flipped. I think Wed was not done.
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LAST CALL!
4 more weigh-ins still due:
@Kittu125
@allieelliott17
@bfitb440n2022
@evangsimmons170
Ready to wrap up another week - get those last numbers in please!2 -
mari_moulin wrote: »Happy Saturday team!! This weeks update: This week (June 13th) was my 2 year gastric bypass anniversary. I had my 2 year visit with my endocrinologist and she is very pleased with my progress. All is well and she says I have reached goal even if I am still not in “normal” BMI range. (I’m at 27 and “normal is under 25). The thing is, I’ve more or less maintained my current weight for 6 months now and she says this seems to be where my body is comfortable. She suggests I no longer focus on weight loss but on maintenance. I’ve been aiming to get down to 150 lbs. She says that if I really want to lose more and at the same speed, that I will have to be super strict with diet and exercise and therefore may make myself miserable in the process. So I have now decided to slowly work myself into maintenance phase. I have changed my weight loss goals from 2 lbs a week to 0.5 lbs a week. This will slowly get me ready for maintenance both emotionally and psychologically. After a lifetime of always thinking weight loss, changing to maintaining will be hard. I think this will be the hardest part of the journey by far.
Username: mari_moulin
Weigh in week: Week 2
Weigh in day: Saturday
Previous Weight: 169.9
Todays Weight: 169.2
Steps:
Sun - 16,484
Mon - 4,757 (too much time driving around)
Tue - 15,790
Wed - 16,362
Thu - 19,684
Fri - 8,823 (another day of driving)
Sat - TBA
I am not sure how to cut back on the content of a quote while using the app... but I wanted to focus in on the BMI range point.
Did you know that the World Health Organization has issued a revision of the BMI range chart that now takes age into account as well as height / weight? It also has a separate table for Asians who are genetically far more likely to be short compared to the North Americans / Western Europeans the original charts were based around.
I will look for the the link to the site and post it. You may be closer to normal range than you think
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mari_moulin wrote: »After a lifetime of always thinking weight loss, changing to maintaining will be hard. I think this will be the hardest part of the journey by far.
From everything I've read on these forums over the past couple of years or so, it is! Not only because you have to do it for the rest of your life, but also because you don't get the ongoing motivation of scale losses or smaller clothing sizes (and possibly a lack of congratulatory comments from friends and relatives, if you were used to getting those).
It's hard, but there are plenty of success stories in that section from people who've done it for years. It's a different mindset, I think, but it can be learned. Easing into it is a good idea too... if you've reduced your target to a 1/2lb loss per week, then when you're ready to maintain you'll only need to add a few more calories per day. A small dessert, a larger portion of pasta or potatoes, a cookie or packet of chips as a treat, maybe. It won't be a huge difference, unlike suddenly adding another 1,000 calories per day.
I was speaking to my husband yesterday about the whole thing and I put myself in such a state over it. The more I talked about it the more anxiety I got. He asked me why I was crying (I hadn’t even realized I was) and this is where I realized I may actually need professional help while transitioning into my new maintenance stage. My mind has been so conditioned to think weight loss for so many years that the thought of changing this now makes me physically ill. There are so many fears that come with it as well the biggest one being regain. If the scale doesn’t go down that means it’s gonna go up. Adding calories back in with maintenance even if it’s only a few hundred must mean I will gain weight. This fear alone puts me in the dangerous position of thinking I MUST continue to lose which can lead to some very dangerous eating disorders. I mean it starts with small things such as needing to fast more often or skipping more and more meals. (Which has already started).
Back at my highest weight I would hear about people struggling with their weight loss after having reached goal or getting into maintenance and I couldn’t understand why they were reacting and feeling this way. I would just think “man why are they stressing I WISH I was where they are” but now that I am here and I completely understand. I will certainly begin to look for either a therapist or a support group to help me in this next phase.5 -
Did you know that the World Health Organization has issued a revision of the BMI range chart that now takes age into account as well as height / weight? It also has a separate table for Asians who are genetically far more likely to be short compared to the North Americans / Western Europeans the original charts were based around.
I will look for the the link to the site and post it. You may be closer to normal range than you think
Thank you for that. I know there are several different techniques for calculating ones BMI and in all the ones I’ve tried I’m considered overweight. I would love to see the one you know of and see where that one puts me. Thanks ahead of time.
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For the Beat Your Best Challenge:
Username @evangsimmons170
6/9/19
Exercise minutes = 0
Steps = 11,642
Water (in oz) = 32
6/10/19
Exercise minutes = 90
Steps = 12,383
Water (in oz) = 37
6/11/19
Exercise minutes = 60
Steps = 7,971
Water (in oz) = 20
6/12/19
Exercise minutes = 0
Steps = 6,090
Water (in oz) = 0
6/13/19
Exercise minutes = 0
Steps = 5,608
Water (in oz) = 25
6/14/19
Exercise minutes = 25
Steps = 7,664
Water (in oz) = 40
6/15/19
Exercise minutes = 60
Steps = 9,262
Water (in oz) = 60
WEIGH-IN:
User = @evangsimmons170
Week = 2
Weigh-in Day = Saturday (6/15/19)
Previous Weight = 349.6
Current Weight = 343.83 -
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Steps
Sunday 17632
Monday 18189
Tuesday 18621
Wednesday 14961
Thursday 18793
Friday 19722
Saturday 18214
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Did you know that the World Health Organization has issued a revision of the BMI range chart that now takes age into account as well as height / weight?
This is a great one. Makes much more sense to me.
https://www.smartbmicalculator.com/
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Saturday steps 6/15 10,0291
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https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10373426/how-making-choices-has-helped-me-lose-over-80-pounds#latest
I found this in Success stories and it’s a very inspiring read!0
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