MISSION SLIMPOSSIBLES OCTOBER CHAT
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Saturday check-in
Calories under
Exercise recumbent bike
Water over
Talk about trigger foods, I've decided no more sugar in the house. I wanted to try moderation again and bought a few low calorie treats. I think part of the problem was I only ate back 200 calories the day before after a really long workout, I couldn't sleep the next night and ate both boxes! One was a box of Fiber One brownies and they weren't amazing but more tempting than veggies, I was dying yesterday. I felt horrible mentally and physically and wasn't going to work out but finally dragged myself to my bike and it helped a lot. It frustrates the heck out of me, I'm fine with sugar substitutes but regular sugar is still a problem.
@Katmary71 - OMG, have totally been here. I can't have this type of snack around, either, for the same reasons. 1 leads to 5, or <insert your number here>. My strategy for this (for now), is to wait until I have a special occasion or just a plan to have something I don't usually have - and then enjoy the fudge-a-licious out of it and then it's behind me. I have done this a couple of times in recent months for a grandbaby's birthday and a random ice cream cone. I had it, I enjoyed it, I logged it, and I moved on. The BEST part of your story is pushing yourself to get on that bike and do what you didn't want to do, but did it anyway knowing your future self would be so happy with that decision. You knew it was going to be good and doing it for you - pushing past that gremlin that wants to take you down to suckville - - - PRICELESS.2 -
raleighgirl09
Check in Saturday
Steps: 17,512
5 for 90:
Make time for yourself: We went kayaking today - although it was overcast, it was such a beautiful paddle with lots of coastal birds, a breeze and some fun bumpy waves along the way (coastal paddling)
Exercise 30 minutes a day: one day at a time - I'm doing it
Hydrate: on target
Give up a trigger food / behavior: had some cheese after dinner for a snack with crackers but I did't eat more than planned and I weighed it for accuracy. A win on many levels.
Thankful for: my mom has been sick of late and is getting better! Everyday my parents are in their own apartment with their pup, just perking along on their own power is - very truthfully - a gift
Remember the good, be the good, encourage others on their journey
I have a very tender place in my heart for my sisters who have a lot of weight to lose, 100 pounds or more. No matter how many years ago that was....she - the size 26 woman of 300ish pounds that I was - is with me, always. And although my 50/60 pounds (or 15-25 counting current loss) weighs heavily on me (literally), it is not the same burden it once was with more than twice that amount staring me in the face. Someone I know in my daily life seems ready to take the leap of faith in herself and I am committed to being not only her cheerleader but also imparting info, tips, whatever I can to help her take herself over the threshold for starting and navigating the first days and weeks. Any tips that you all can share - my F2F family and fantastic cheerleading and comrade squad - for someone who is at ground zero would be so appreciated. What worked for you - to get to day 1? What helps you focus, stay on goal or rise from a time of not following plan and get back to it? Concrete actions, podcasts, articles, strategies, mind games.... =>
If you could go back and give your day 1 self some advice and words of wisdom from a more seasoned, weight losing you - what would you say?
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AustinRuadhain wrote: »@Fitness327wk - Thanks so much for all your work on this challenge! 🙏🏽
@raleighgirl09 - You have such a great attitude when the numbers don't go your way -- so inspiring. (Thanks for remembering and being the good!) You are making such great progress. Keep up the great work!
@AustinRuadhain - thank you for being such an amazing cheerleader.... => I need to do what I'm doing, regardless of the number on the hunk o' metal and its crazy ways.1 -
10/18 steps: 10,463
10/19 steps: 18,0572 -
WEEK 3 TALLIES ARE IN FOR THE
WEIGHT LOSS CHALLENGE
HERE IS HOW ALL WENT DOWN
THE WINNERS ARE...
TEAM % Weight No More 0.57%
INDIVIDUAL % TrishasTime 2.67%
TEAM LBS LOST Weight No More 22.0
INDIVIDUAL LBS LOST TrishasTime 6.6
AS A WHOLE WE LOST 11.6 POUNDS OR 0.05%!!
PLACE INDIVIDUAL PERCENTAGE
1st @TrishasTime 2.67%
2nd @Sunshineplace 2.59%
3rd @Katmary71 2.48%
PLACE INDIVIDUAL LBS LOST
1st @TrishasTime 6.6
2nd @Zumba_Luvah 4.4
3rd @Sunshineplace 4.2
HONORABLE MENTIONS
@SLIMN2016
@Zumba_Luvah
@amytriesww
@jedaschultz
@TheMrWobbly
@iamworthy14
@jtarmom
@KathynDes
@kateberard
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Good morning all,
Weigh in Day
Name: itscleo
Week 4
Weigh in day Sunday
Previous weight: 159.6
Current Weight: 157.8
Well it's the right direction. I have a good plan today so hope to get the next week off on the right foot.raleighgirl09 wrote: »raleighgirl09
Any tips that you all can share - my F2F family and fantastic cheerleading and comrade squad - for someone who is at ground zero would be so appreciated. What worked for you - to get to day 1? What helps you focus, stay on goal or rise from a time of not following plan and get back to it? Concrete actions, podcasts, articles, strategies, mind games.... =>
If you could go back and give your day 1 self some advice and words of wisdom from a more seasoned, weight losing you - what would you say?
I make weekly goals, sometimes that helps me. I try to make them achievable, so small steps. Sometimes I'll stick the paper I've written them on the fridge, so I can just do a check mark each day. Then at the end of the week I'll write down what my accomplishments were. If I didn't meet a goal, I think what went wrong and how can I adjust it.
It works- sometimes! I find keeping it on the fridge where I can see it really helps me as a reminder. Glad your mom is feeling better.
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steps 14- 10024
15- 11239
16- 12671
17- 13208
18- 15234
19- 94011 -
Saturday check-in
Calories under
Exercise walking and cleaning
Water over
Digger61
Week 3
Weigh in day: Saturday
Previous weight: 220
Current weight: 220
Sorry i missed the weigh in yesterday
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Steps
10/18 - 13,955
10/19 - 11,6800 -
Steps. Oct 17-6228. Oct 18-11,111. Oct 19-10,0161
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Weigh in
Apple852hk
Week 3 - Oct 2019
Sunday
PW 164.9
CW 167.3
Ate too much and snacking too much. I tried today to eat a light lunch but then wanted to snack more. Ate 6 slices of bread with butter in one sitting. I'm sharing with you all as I need to be accountable. Writing it makes me realise to myself i ate too much.
Hope next week i have better portion control.
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Saturday Check-in
Calories: over
Water: over
Exercise: 77 min platform stepping (proud of this, as it was challenging to get exercise fit into the day; car is in the shop, and that makes things more complicated)
Steps for 10/19 - 11,179
5 for 90
1. Make some time for myself—YES meditation and platform stepping with fluffy show to watch
2. Exercise 30 minutes a day—YES
3. Hydrate-YES I went over
4. Give up a “Trigger Food”—YES
5. Thankful—YES, especially for my family (son who was excited to be getting ready to be acolyte in church for first time today) and martial arts friends (scheduled Sunday trip to park to practice)
Day 7: Share with your team your goals for year-end and the 5 things that will help you get there!
My goals for year-end:
- Stick with my healthy eating plan
- Basically maintain my weight; I am doing resistance work and hope to add a little muscle but I think that will be 1-2 pounds by Jan 1 at best
- In martial arts, test for next rank at the December exam
Actions to get me there:
- Keep up with my food plan
- Keep up with measuring & logging my food
- Attend 18 martial arts classes between today and Dec 31
- Complete 30 resistance training sessions at gym between today and Dec 31
- Complete 70 100-Kicks sessions by end of Dec 311 -
Username Trishastime
Weigh in week: week 4
Weigh in day: Monday
Previous weight: 240.7
Current weight: 239.8
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Daily check in
Sunday
Calories: Under
Water: Over
Steps: Not enough
Macros: Within limits
Goal for today
Steps1 -
steps oct 20- 10612
5 forb90
1. Time alone- y
2. Water- y
3. Exercise-y
4. Fast food- none
5. Gratitude- grateful to get my place clean!
Calories- on track today.
A good day.1 -
Steps for 10/19 - 10,0631
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Steps for 10/20 - 8383
Under on calories but not by much. Tomorrow, I plan on going to the Planet Fitness that they opened in the next city over! Super excited about it!1 -
apple852hk wrote: »Weigh in
Apple852hk
Week 3 - Oct 2019
Sunday
PW 164.9
CW 167.3
Ate too much and snacking too much. I tried today to eat a light lunch but then wanted to snack more. Ate 6 slices of bread with butter in one sitting. I'm sharing with you all as I need to be accountable. Writing it makes me realise to myself i ate too much.
Hope next week i have better portion control.
I hope next week goes better for you! I was embarrassed to admit my sugar attack binge but it felt good to get it out there. You got this!0 -
@bethanie0825 let us know how it goes at the gym! I was so self-conscious when I went back, I thankfully got comfortable real quick.
@AustinRuadhain I ran with your dessert suggestion! The last two nights I had apple, pear, and butternut with pumpkin spice for dessert. Love it! I'm tempted to go buy another one but have two pumpkins, spaghetti squash, and acorn squash to get through! I went winter squash crazy!
@raleighgirl09 Thank you for your support! It's really frustrating to be like that with food! I need to view it like you as an occasional treat and maybe not even that. Sounds like kayaking was amazing and relaxing! As for advice for someone new, I honestly was fed up at being stuck losing, and being unhealthy, it was the 2nd of January, and I didn't want another year to pass with no change. I came back to My Fitness Pal and jumped right in and dusted 10 years of dust off my exercise bike and killed myself doing 10 minutes. It really just snapped for me. I'd actually recommend starting with one habit at a time, like logging food, then tweaking diet, then adding exercise. I think that's easier for most people. Also, there are going to be hard days, don't wait to get back on track and do it now. And motivation definitely doesn't last, do your best to make habits and follow through each day no matter how much you don't feel like it as you'll be proud you did. Have non scale goals and break down goals into smaller pieces.1 -
Sunday check-in
Calories under
Exercise recumbent bike
Water over
5 for 90
I'm still trying to come up with 5 but want to start!
1. Work out every day for minimum 30 minutes
2. Go to the gym 3xs a week
3. Avoid trigger foods- 2nd day avoiding sugar and I was seriously challenged! I was visiting my brother, SIL, and nephews and I was about to leave when my nephew asked me to stay and make chocolate chip cookies with them. Yeah, I held an open bag of chocolate in my hands to read directions, scooped cookie batter without tasting, and said no to fresh-baked cookies. I'm visiting my parents at the end of the week and there's always candy bowls with chocolate so I'll be facing it again this week.
4. Declutter house. Did a bag of clothes for Goidwill, work on closet and drawers this week.
5. Spend less time on social media. I want to check in here daily but overall I spend too much time looking at recipes and other stuff and it sucks up time.
I didn't see the Day 7 challenge but get the gist.
Goals for rest of year
-eat healthy
-lose last 3lbs then maintain
-declutter house as much as possible
-continue gym routine and graduate to the non-wussy weights!
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10/20 steps: 14,5340
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Sharing my goals for years end. Keep concentrating on eating healthy. The 5 ticket items I need to concentrate to do this are.
. Drinking water
. Following keto
. Consistent walking
. Taking breaks at lunchtime rather than work
through
. Limit sugar intake consistently1 -
Ha ha @AustinRuadhain - pants is not even trousers in British English, it's definitely below that!
And I'm still feeling pants...
Getting so frustrated with it all I have been in tears with it. Gah!
2 days of greenzoning, though, and my overall week is only 55 into the red, with a deficit of 3115. So, no surprises, maintained at 153lbs, but I have a chance to drop this week.
1. Time - enough to knit 4 rows of my jumper.
2. Exercise - 12568 steps on Saturday.
and 7223 on Sunday. That was mainly housework.
3. hydration, am really bad at getting to 14 on a weekend. 13 and 12.
4. Trigger food - husband bought me a wine after a gig. Shoulda said no.
5. Yays - my pretty avocado bottle to drink my water from.
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CONGRATULATIONS to @TrishasTime for being in 1st place with a 6.6 lb. loss!! That is fantastic!! Also, a big congrats to @Sunshineplace for her 4.2 lb loss. You ladies rocked it out!!
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Step update
19 5123
20 48580 -
Monday weigh-in
Last week: 125
Today: 123.6
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Sunday Check-in
Calories: under
Water: over
Exercise: 79 min martial arts class
Steps for 10/20 - 3,780 Gadget was off for part of the day. Oh, well!
5 for 90
1. Make some time for myself—YES
2. Exercise 30 minutes a day—YES
3. Hydrate-YES I went over
4. Year End Focus - Martial Arts Improvement—YES did a 79 minute class outside class with fellow students Sunday afternoon
5. Thankful—YES 💓 for the kindness of my church friends and my martial arts friends
Monday so far...
I got in my 100 Kicks for today, and also fit in some exercise while I had to wait for something for 20 minutes.
💓💓💓
@KatMary71 - Winter squashes are all such a treat, aren't they? I have been noshing on acorn, too, and just bought my first eating pumpkin. Pear sounds like a great idea! NomNomNom! 🎃
P.S. I just added a recipe to my list of things to try. You might be interested -- 1 Pot Pumpkin Black Bean Soup!
@apple852hk - You are so SMART to share about what's up, and have it be real. Learning new food practices takes a while and can be challenging, but we are all changing all the time. Cool thing about you -- you are choosing to be in the driver's seat! 🏎️
@bethanie0825 -- Oooh ooh! Have fun at the new gym! 💪🏾🔥
@its_cleo - Zowie! What a home run of a day! ⚾
🏆 @renaegry and 🏆 @jactop - Awesome stepping!
🎈 @TrishasTime , 🎈 @Sunshineplace , 🎈 @Katmary71 -- Zowie! Congratulations on being on the leaderboard for the week!
@Katmary71 - Wow! Great weigh-in today! 🎈🎈🎈
@Wishusdonna - From here, I worry you are being hard on yourself about losing weight? Maintaining takes work, and you did that while you are still recovering your health. You know best, but do please be kind to Donna!
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raleighgirl09 wrote: »Saturday check-in
Calories under
Exercise recumbent bike
Water over
Talk about trigger foods, I've decided no more sugar in the house. I wanted to try moderation again and bought a few low calorie treats. I think part of the problem was I only ate back 200 calories the day before after a really long workout, I couldn't sleep the next night and ate both boxes! One was a box of Fiber One brownies and they weren't amazing but more tempting than veggies, I was dying yesterday. I felt horrible mentally and physically and wasn't going to work out but finally dragged myself to my bike and it helped a lot. It frustrates the heck out of me, I'm fine with sugar substitutes but regular sugar is still a problem.
@Katmary71 - OMG, have totally been here. I can't have this type of snack around, either, for the same reasons. 1 leads to 5, or <insert your number here>. My strategy for this (for now), is to wait until I have a special occasion or just a plan to have something I don't usually have - and then enjoy the fudge-a-licious out of it and then it's behind me. I have done this a couple of times in recent months for a grandbaby's birthday and a random ice cream cone. I had it, I enjoyed it, I logged it, and I moved on. The BEST part of your story is pushing yourself to get on that bike and do what you didn't want to do, but did it anyway knowing your future self would be so happy with that decision. You knew it was going to be good and doing it for you - pushing past that gremlin that wants to take you down to suckville - - - PRICELESS.
This is such an awesome conversation. I used to make myself wrong -- "I should be able to eat in moderation, even [Reese's, cinnamon rolls, etc.]" Now I just know there are things I need to avoid having at home. And, yes, Fiber One brownies would totally be on that list!1 -
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Calories- _ well best not to speak about that and just draw a line
Water - Over
Focus of today - Calorie intake1
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