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WAIST AWAYS - NOVEMBER CHAT
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No problem! And if you are having plantar fasciitis or however you spell that, you might trade some of the steps for exercise bike or some other lower impact but good cardio/strength thing. If you work out at home, weirdly enough bouncing on one of those large swiss balls (gymnastic balls - they go by many names) is a lot of fun and you can work up quite a sweat even while being super easy on your feet. I used to send my family into gales of laughter turning on some good tunes and bouncing myself all over the livingroom. Good thing they didn't have video cameras... You can pick one up for a small cost, and there are tons of easy fun exercises that can fit in just about any time. Whichever kind of exercise you pick, tracking your food is the most important thing you can do. It isn't always pretty (but log it anyhow!), but it is just about the most effective tool there is. Great to have you with us!eyezbydiana wrote: »Hi, Ill keep 212 as my starting and current weight :-) didn't weigh myself last week
Thanks! I hadn't thought about the stationary bike..i usually avoid it as i don't feel like i break a sweat as much as running or the elliptical.. but that's definitely better than nothing at all! Thanks1 -
Things still challenging for exercise. Gained a bit this week. Ate no Halloween stuff though!
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Connie7355 wrote: »Hey @micki48 I’ll give the step challenge a try. I’ve never done it. Do we post daily or weekly? Hoping it helps me get through holidays!eyezbydiana wrote: »
Waistaways Step Challenge - Who else is in? You don’t have to do 8k or 10k or 20k to join. The goal is to just increase your own stepping. Or maintain it if you are where you want to be. Join us.
@Connie7355 @eyezbydiana Glad to have you on the step team. Every bit of motivation helps. You can post steps daily or at the end of the week. You could also just give a total for the week. Whatever works for you. Please try to have steps in by the end of our week.
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I messed up the above post, but you get the idea. Join our step challenge.1
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@Safari_Gal_ Happy to have you with us!! Good luck!!1
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Connie7355 wrote: »Hey @micki48 I’ll give the step challenge a try. I’ve never done it. Do we post daily or weekly? Hoping it helps me get through holidays!eyezbydiana wrote: »
Waistaways Step Challenge - Who else is in? You don’t have to do 8k or 10k or 20k to join. The goal is to just increase your own stepping. Or maintain it if you are where you want to be. Join us.
@Connie7355 @eyezbydiana Glad to have you on the step team. Every bit of motivation helps. You can post steps daily or at the end of the week. You could also just give a total for the week. Whatever works for you. Please try to have steps in by the end of our week.
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Dumb question but is Saturday considered the end of the week? Would we post Sunday morning for the week before to get all of Saturday in?0 -
Sometimes it helps to have a daily goal (I picture people walking madly around their house before bed to make up the last couple of hundred steps!).
@jugar Dat me🖐🏼😂🚶🏽♀️
Glad your with us for steps. Are you putting these names in for me? Do I have permission yet to add stats?
Also, I’m in for Pilates.0 -
Dumb question but is Saturday considered the end of the week? Would we post Sunday morning for the week before to get all of Saturday in?
@Connie7355 Not a dumb question at all. Saturday is the last day of our week here. So, yes you can post Sunday to get in all of your steps. (I did the same.) I want credit for every step. Please get them in as early as possible and by noon at the latest. That way I can do my stats and report back to everyone.
Also, steppers please tag me and include “steps” in your post so I can find it. Like @jugar I will mark them insightful when I have seen and recorded them. Thanks a bunch!!🚶🏽♀️🚶♀️🚶🏼♀️🚶🏽♀️🚶🏾♀️🚶🏿♂️🏆1 -
Sometimes it helps to have a daily goal (I picture people walking madly around their house before bed to make up the last couple of hundred steps!).
@jugar Dat me🖐🏼😂🚶🏽♀️
Glad your with us for steps. Are you putting these names in for me? Do I have permission yet to add stats?
Also, I’m in for Pilates.
You should be able to add steps no problem. I put in some names just to get it up and running, but as long as you have opened the spreadsheet from the email invitation sent to you last week, then you'll be able to edit. Just let me know if you have any problems!
And I didn't get steps counted for today, like an idiot, but will turn it on tomorrow for sure!! I'll be joining you walking around before bedtime...1 -
@jugar Im going to try out the Pilates challenge as well
Just double checking.. currently it's the step challenge, weigh ins and pilates challenges right? Anything else going on I need/ should join/do?0 -
Steps for 11/3: 9,102
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eyezbydiana wrote: »Steps for 11/3: 9,102
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Got it! Thanks. I will put it on the spreadsheet. Great going!!fourathomej wrote: »@micki48 I'd love to be on the step team too...it's the one thing I can do right...lol
@fourathomej Great to have you along.
Every little thing makes a difference.@micki48 I’m going to report my steps here each day so that I can be accountable.
11/3: 8927
@Steph1498 Sounds great! I'll look for them and mark them "insightful". Great going for day 1
FYI - If you ever want to check the numbers and check up on me
, you can go to the November spreadsheet, Click on Waistaways and scroll to the bottom to see our step numbers. If you ever see an error, feel free to let me know. I'm new at this job. Happy stepping!!! 1 -
eyezbydiana wrote: »@jugar Im going to try out the Pilates challenge as well
Just double checking.. currently it's the step challenge, weigh ins and pilates challenges right? Anything else going on I need/ should join/do?
@eyezbydiana There are also optional challenges led by a team each week. (Our turn is next week, I believe, so any ideas welcome.) The current challenge is on getting better sleep. And there is a Moderators challenge which is ongoing 5 for 90, which is posting on 5 specific things you will do each day to get us to the end of the year. Hope I didn't confuse you. I will get the links and post them here or maybe @jugar or @Terytha will get to it before me.0 -
eyezbydiana wrote: »@jugar Im going to try out the Pilates challenge as well
Just double checking.. currently it's the step challenge, weigh ins and pilates challenges right? Anything else going on I need/ should join/do?
Fantastic! As @micki48 said, all of the challenges are voluntary - you can pick which ones interest you the most. The steps continue all month, the pilates challenge is just this week (I just did it and feel great!). The moderators are running a challenge for the rest of 2019 (5 for 90) that you can find in the "announcements" section of the F2F main page or hit directly on
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10766872/5-for-90-the-last-90-days-of-2019/p1
That is the first page of the challenge so you can see what the five things are. The idea is to adapt that list to yourself, and then try to do all five things every day until 2020 starts and see how it helped you. If you want to post your progress here or on that thread - either is great. But as always, this is optional. If it helps you, dive in!
The sleep challenge is on our first page from this chat thread. Personally I have no sleep problems now that I am retired and everyone in my family is doing well at the moment. But if you struggle to get your full sleep quota, this is a good one.2 -
Happy Monday!
It is feeling crisp and cold here this morning, and the first day of this new Pilates challenge was a good one. I finally got back to doing some aerobic exercise last night while watching an episode of something - it felt good to get sweaty, but I saw how much I have slipped since the last time I was on the exercise bike. Usually I do 10 miles during one episode of this one, and I only did 8.6 last night! Maybe it was a boring episode... Or I was just boring. Can't wait for snowshoe season - then I really love getting my sweat on!3 -
Happy Monday All!
@jugar and the rest of the team - it’s so great being a part of a team where people are all working hard and have similiar goals!
It’s so refreshing see the team chug along determined. Yay!
My contribution today - I have a 45 min SoulCycle with weights on the menu.
Onward! 😉2 -
Username: reflectionofme
Weigh in day: Monday
PW: 128
CW: 126.1
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Better sleep challenge-day 1
I’m fairly good here. Although I’m a late nighter in bed around midnight, I usually average about 7 hours a night. With one job I had, I averaged about 5 hours a night and I can tell you, I never got used to it. It was awful.
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@micki48 Nov. 3rd Steps - 10,172
@reflectionofme Very nice weigh in!!
As for sleep I do pretty well. The one thing I do that I shouldn’t is read ebooks on a tablet in bed. I know that’s a no no.
Goals for today:
Walk every hour
Drink water!! 💦 (I do not drink near enough water)
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Pilates for a purpose Day 1 ✅
I’m hoping for a walk or to get to the gym later.2 -
@reflectionofme you are a champ!!! You just quietly go on getting the job done. What is your goal? Are you close? Or are you a super shorty like me and the goal is way down there somewhere?
@micki48 steps are going OK today! I got my counter back on and in use.
I get a good 8 hours every night now. This was not always the case, but one thing performing musicians do if they are smart is take care of getting enough sleep. We KNOW how bad things are when you are tired. And in the years I worked like a crazy person both as a musician and as a university prof and denizen of the upper administration, it was much harder. That is when I got up to my highest weight, had the most performance injuries, and generally felt pretty bad. Of course my kids were young too - it was the trifecta of bad sleep. My daughter (now 27) did not sleep through the night for four YEARS. Not months. Years. Thought I would perish. But now I love my sleep.
Oddly enough, @Connie7355 - I have no problems reading on my phone (not table, but e-reader on the phone) before sleeping. I find it much less disruptive than reading with a light on. I set the screen to black with white type, very dim, with blue light filter both on the phone and my glasses. I love to read before sleeping, and this does not seem to cause any excessive wakefulness at all. Maybe you can find a way to have your book and sleep through it too!
So today so far, lots of Pilates (I got carried away), walking, and some exercise bike still to come tonight. I feel back on track for that part of things for now! How is everyone else doing?1 -
I'm sad today. Those of you who have been around for a while know my favourite photo to use when I really need to nag people for weigh-ins. The first time my daughter saw that photo, she said it was me, and that I really needed to get that tattoo. But Gert Boyle, CEO of Columbia Sports, was one kick *kitten* woman who proudly nagged, got that company back on its feet with no more experience than raising a few kids and figuring it out as she went along. She just died, and I'll miss her as a terrific example of what women can do. I first wrote "what women can do in big business". But that isn't right. Gert was a great example of what women can do in small business, in politics, in arts, in life, in a family. You could have many worse examples than her.
I'll continue to use her photo when nagging.
So, your weigh-ins are due:
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Safari_Gal_ wrote: »Happy Monday All!
@jugar and the rest of the team - it’s so great being a part of a team where people are all working hard and have similiar goals!
It’s so refreshing see the team chug along determined. Yay!
My contribution today - I have a 45 min SoulCycle with weights on the menu.
Onward! 😉
SoulCycle sounds really amazing. Wish we had them here! And I'm really glad you're on board. We chug along indeed!2 -
Hey! Guess what? I did Pilates AND got to the gym. 😲 I did 33 minutes on the elliptical, about 15 minutes on weight machines, and 16 minutes of Pilates. That must be a record for me!😜 Next, I need to redo measurements. It’s been a while. I know there is a difference from a year ago because all my cool weather clothes are nice and loose. Yay! Yay! Yay!🎉💪🏼💥😎3
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Connie7355 wrote: »@micki48 Nov. 3rd Steps - 10,172
@reflectionofme Very nice weigh in!!
As for sleep I do pretty well. The one thing I do that I shouldn’t is read ebooks on a tablet in bed. I know that’s a no no.
Goals for today:
Walk every hour
Drink water!! 💦 (I do not drink near enough water)
Plan meals
No eating after 7:30 pm
@Connie7355 How did you do with your goals? It's so important to make them and share. It really helps. Hope your day was great!.0 -
@micki48 & @jugar You both had great workouts today!! Way to get after it!!
@Safari_Gal_ how did your SoulCycle go? I have to admit I don’t know what that is. Have never heard of it but it sounds really cool!!
My day went pretty well. I’m getting a lot more steps in than I usually do. I’m really happy I’m doing the step challenge!
Goals for today:
Walk every hour ✅
Drink water!! 💦 (I do not drink near enough water) Better than usual but still need to improve!
Plan meals ✅
No eating after 7:30 pm✅
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Evening team!
Pretty good day today! Ate within calories, workout was killer, bought some groceries to stay on target this week. The crockpot is in full effect this week! ☺️
@jugar - team dedication for the win!
@Connie7355 - I’m pretty obsessed with SoulCycle lol - it’s spinning with hand weights, choreography and music. Think spin class on steroids and a bit dancy. It’s one of the few workouts I have been able to stick with over the years. I guess the music and fast pace makes it go by quickly and I find the team there to be really motivational and positive. I never thought I’d be into spinning — but I like that Soul included hand weights... I got a ton of reps in tonight and all my muscles are spent. I think I may need a rest day tomorrow! This particular instructor tonight was like a drill sargeant!
Glad all is well with the step challenge! I’ve been drinking a lot more water. I’ve been keeping a bottle by the bed and first thing in am I chug a bit.
Hope you are all having a great night!!
This week - keeping it positive! 🌞3 -
@micki48 steps for 11/4 : 9,696
Struggling with not munching on leftover candy.. hoping tomorrow is better.. aiming for no food after 8 tomorrow2
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