SHRINKING ASSETS TEAM CHAT - September 2019
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Ahhhhhh holiday over the water is maybe why it's so quiet in here?!
Hope you all had lovely labor days, and, I'm with @Beka3695 , if holidays mean over indulging for you, cool. Just draw the line now the weekend is done!
Still haven't managed a day where I 100% logged but hoping today is that day and I'll actually close my diary!
I was exhausted when I got in from qorm last night and get the feeling this is going to be a lonnnnnnggggg week and exercise is gonna be tough to motivate myself to do while I get back in the swing of work..... but hoping for a little bit if walking/jogging this eve!
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TheMrWobbly wrote: »
My wheel is expressing all you need to know about how my plans are going right now!
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Username: Showkitten
Weigh in Day: Tuesday
Weigh Week: 1
Previous: 228.2
Current: 228.0
Disappointed with scale BUT when I put my bra on this morning I naturally went to the second set of hooks. Before I’d been struggling on the end hook and hoping it didn’t break
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@ShowKitten great NSV!1
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kilobykilo wrote: »TheMrWobbly wrote: »
My wheel is expressing all you need to know about how my plans are going right now!
Oh no! What happened?!
@kilobykilo Attack of the killer daschund on the way home last night sent me into a metal barrier. If anyone at work asks it was the Hound of the Baskervilles!2 -
Guitargirl55
CW: 136
PW: 1372 -
Hi all!
My name is Megan, and I live with my boyfriend of 2.5 years and my pup Lilly. I love to ride horses, and spend a lot of time reading, binging Netflix, and playing board games with friends. My weight loss goal is a bit superficial, I just want to be super fit and HOT.
Stats:
Age: 26
Starting Weight: 160
Current Weight: 136
Goal Weight: 125
I usually just count calories and weigh in on Fridays, but It’s a new month and a new start for me.
I am going to try a new method of measuring my weight loss. I am going to weigh myself every day, and then average the weights for the full week. I will use that averaged number as my official weigh in number on Friday.
I am also challenging myself to 10 minutes of fitness every day. A Day – Abs, B Day – Legs, and C Day – Yoga/Stretch. I know 10 minutes is not much, but I think it is where I am at for this month.
Good luck everyone, let’s smash the competition!
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Iamworthy14
Monday's
Pw 161
Cw 158.8
I logged most faithfully every day which is huge for me...more so than the loss. I allowed myself not to on 1 day. The not right now has been a winner to keeping me from caving to cravings!!Thank you all for your support and encouragement!6 -
Steps
9/2
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Steps 9/2 7,8302
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Hey everyone, I'm still here lol... the long weekend did its damage, so I am gonna delay my weigh in til maybe Friday in hopes of getting the water retention down. Let's just say bbq food and cals was somewhat out of control. I feel ridiculous because it's a bad start to the month this way. But on the other hand, I am motivated to at least lose a few pounds this month.
I have a question - when we weigh in, do we post it in this group chat?4 -
KittyInBoots17 wrote: »I have a question - when we weigh in, do we post it in this group chat?
Yes, post weigh ins here and in this format:
User name
Weigh day
Prior weight
Current weight
Example:
Beka3695
Saturday
PW: 221.0
CW: 220.4
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Sigh - what was I thinking? I bought 2 spaghetti deli meals at the grocery store. I sat down to eat half of the 1st spaghetti meal, which is supposed to feed 2 people, and I ate the entire thing without really thinking about it. There went tomorrow's lunch.
It reminded me of my old eating out habits. First, I ate half my meal, planning to take home the rest. Then I nibble a bit more, but still enough to take home. Then a bit more, then realize it won't make another meal, so I finish it off and am miserable.
For the first time in months, I feel stuffed, and realize I do not like that feeling. Full feels good, stuffed does not. I know it wasn't a huge amount of extra calories, but remember this is what got me to where I am (okay, where I was). I used to eat the 2-serving size in one sitting with some regularity. How quickly I can snap back into old behaviors.
But, I will remind myself that this is the 1st time in several months that I really overate by a lot and stuffed myself. Pick myself up, dust myself off, and move on.
And a learning moment. 1. Next time, don't eat out of the heat-and-serve tray - put 1/2 on a plate. 2. This was the first time in who knows how long when I sat and ate while working on the computer. Lesson to self - don't do that!!5 -
Sunday and Monday didn’t go as planned for my goals. But, I stopped my self from binging Sunday night before major damage was done. I did not get my 8000 steps yesterday and I blame it on my hubby. Just kidding. I was lazy. Today went really well. I am still decluttering my apartment. I have been at it for a week. Lots of trips to the garbage bin. Those steps add up. I hope I am burning calories doing this because I am sure working up a sweat.
@ShowKitten congrats on the loss and NSV!
@kilobykilo after my month away in June it took me awhile to get into a routine. You will get there.
@TheMrWobbly ouch on the bicycle tire.
@iamworthy14 way to go on the loss and logging in daily. Logging daily really helps.
@Pamela_Sue it is great that you can see the steps to preventing this again. I am bad for reading when I am eating. One thing I used to do when reading was read a page then have a few bites. Thanks for reminding me of this way of slowing down my eating.6 -
Everyone in the step challenge from August can you please submit steps so we can do the tally’s for the month.1
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Overdue weights
@Toulon
Wednesday weights
@171lake
@LaurieWrobo
@KittyInBoots ( Friday weigh in this week)0 -
First day of C25K running program. It didn't kill me. In fact, it was easier than I remember from last time, and it underscored how much a mindgame some of this is.
2011 was the first time I did the C25K program, and I'd never run in my life. I had decades of experience believing that I am not a sporty person, I don't have a body built for running, and that I was just no good at it - so the first weeks of the C25K program - especially the first day - I had that negative voice in my head criticising me for being crap, I was hyper-aware that my face was red, I was sweating and puffing , fat and out of shape, I was worried what people thought when they saw me like that. That voice kept telling me to give up, that it was too hard, that I was useless, looked stupid, and would never be any good at this. And I had to work really hard to assert my positive voice to rise above my negative voice, to tell myself to keep going, that it wouldn't be much longer, that I just had to trust in the program, etc. It was a real battle within me.
This time round, there is no battle. I know the running program works, I know I can do it, I've done it before, I just have to put the effort in. Sure I still get hot and bothered doing it, I'm not fit, but I will be by the time I finish the program in 9 weeks.4 -
lindamtuck2018 wrote: »Everyone in the step challenge from August can you please submit steps so we can do the tally’s for the month.
Sorry just noticed I missed last friday: 10053.
@Luciicul loved reading your thoughts on C25K and beating the mind games! Well done for getting back to it
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Wednesday Weigh In
PW: 160.0
CW; 160.4
Been fighting a migraine for the past 2 days so been eating more carbs to curb nausea....*sigh*😞1 -
Steps:
9/3
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lindamtuck2018 wrote: »Everyone in the step challenge from August can you please submit steps so we can do the tally’s for the month.
Mine have been added0 -
lindamtuck2018 wrote: »Everyone in the step challenge from August can you please submit steps so we can do the tally’s for the month.
I’ll catch mine up in just a few0 -
LaurieWrobo wrote: »Wednesday Weigh In
PW: 160.0
CW; 160.4
Been fighting a migraine for the past 2 days so been eating more carbs to curb nausea....*sigh*😞
You have to listen to your body at times.
You will get back on track once the migraine is gone.
Do NOT be hard on yourself.1 -
Pamela_Sue wrote: »Sigh - what was I thinking? I bought 2 spaghetti deli meals at the grocery store. I sat down to eat half of the 1st spaghetti meal, which is supposed to feed 2 people, and I ate the entire thing without really thinking about it. There went tomorrow's lunch.
It reminded me of my old eating out habits. First, I ate half my meal, planning to take home the rest. Then I nibble a bit more, but still enough to take home. Then a bit more, then realize it won't make another meal, so I finish it off and am miserable.
For the first time in months, I feel stuffed, and realize I do not like that feeling. Full feels good, stuffed does not. I know it wasn't a huge amount of extra calories, but remember this is what got me to where I am (okay, where I was). I used to eat the 2-serving size in one sitting with some regularity. How quickly I can snap back into old behaviors.
I had a similar experience last night. My church group/book club started up again last night and I usually try to reserve half of my meal to take home. But I didn’t set it aside at the beginning and I just kept eating and polished off the whole thing. I’m paying for it on the scale this morning. Mindfulness is something I struggle with.
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Pamela_Sue wrote: »Sigh - what was I thinking? I bought 2 spaghetti deli meals at the grocery store. I sat down to eat half of the 1st spaghetti meal, which is supposed to feed 2 people, and I ate the entire thing without really thinking about it. There went tomorrow's lunch.
It reminded me of my old eating out habits. First, I ate half my meal, planning to take home the rest. Then I nibble a bit more, but still enough to take home. Then a bit more, then realize it won't make another meal, so I finish it off and am miserable.
For the first time in months, I feel stuffed, and realize I do not like that feeling. Full feels good, stuffed does not. I know it wasn't a huge amount of extra calories, but remember this is what got me to where I am (okay, where I was). I used to eat the 2-serving size in one sitting with some regularity. How quickly I can snap back into old behaviors.
I had a similar experience last night. My church group/book club started up again last night and I usually try to reserve half of my meal to take home. But I didn’t set it aside at the beginning and I just kept eating and polished off the whole thing. I’m paying for it on the scale this morning. Mindfulness is something I struggle with.
I did the same thing with chicken parm last night. Made enough for 5 meals and then ate 2 of them.
Why did I do that? I also stayed up too late and didn’t wake up in time to do my 10 minute morning exercise, so now I am going to make myself do it at lunch.
It’s always so hard to start up again, but we all make mistakes and have to keep pushing through them.
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PW 137.7
CW 137.6
Not a big loss, but still a loss so I will take it!6 -
POST HOLIDAY REALITY
Well, for those of us in the US, we just celebrated the last hoorah of the summer. Labor Day is the unofficial end of summer and usually one last blow out. I took a personal day yesterday, so my 3 day weekend stretched into 4.
It appears that many of us (myself included) have struggled this past week. I found the photo above and thought it was perfect.
I noticed today that I did not set my weekly goals like I have been doing. Also, I have not kept up with my nerd sheet, I have had 5 days of alcohol, not 2... blah blah blah...
I feel back on track today. Good think -because it is WEDNESDAY! Today, I am drinking my water, no alcohol and I have real, non processed foods to eat. I will work on #3 and 5.
FOR MY SANITY - I am not picking back up the nerd sheet till Saturday. I have missed 4 days of tracking and it will not be accurate for this week. Also, I am not stressing about steps this week. I will be back on the wagon for each of these Saturday. Today forward, I am logging EVERY DARN BITE, get back into a caloric deficit and trying to be a little more active.
Getting back on track after an event or holiday is one of the things WE - the collective we, must learn how to do. This has always been a struggle for me.
Suggestions?
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I also overindulged for the holiday both Sunday and Monday. On a positive note, I hit all of my goals last week Monday through Saturday. Progress, not perfection. Back on track for this week.4
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Steps 9/3 19,4662
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