TEAM: The Slimsons (January)
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Daily post for Saturday morning:
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Jan week 2
Lively_2020
Thursday
Pw: 228.6
Cw: 227.2
Hope its not too late!0 -
@AB0215 I already posted my weight yesterday. You commented that it was a nice loss above.
Here it is again though:
Username: caloricus
Week: January, week 2
Friday
PW: 155
CW: 153
@caloricus Sorry! I forgot to enter it! And I though I saw it, but couldn't find it again, thank you!1 -
Username: walk4today
January week 2
Weigh in day: Saturday
PW: 247.6
CW: 245.4
Feeling good about this loss. Logging my weight in several times a week seems to help as I can see the results of my efforts as well as the consequences of eating too much, not getting enough exercise, etc. I'm looking froward to getting back to where I was 6-9 months ago (about 5 pounds less than now), then continuing to lose by managing stress in a healthy way and not using food as an escape.0 -
walk4today wrote: »Username: walk4today
January week 2
Weigh in day: Saturday
PW: 247.6
CW: 245.4
Feeling good about this loss. Logging my weight in several times a week seems to help as I can see the results of my efforts as well as the consequences of eating too much, not getting enough exercise, etc. I'm looking froward to getting back to where I was 6-9 months ago (about 5 pounds less than now), then continuing to lose by managing stress in a healthy way and not using food as an escape.
@walk4today One of the things I've noticed is that accountability really does help, and not necessarily with others, but with yourself. You have to be honest with yourself, and sometimes that is all it takes. Great job!!0 -
So true! Thanks.0
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KT4everFree wrote: »
What does everyone do with their earned exercise calories? Do you eat them?
@KT4everFree I really can't recommend eating back those calories. One big reason why I don't is that they're estimates and are generally very over estimated and if you eat them back, you will likely over eat because of the over estimation. And I look at it as a bonus, anything you burn over what you planned to is just less fat on your body...which is really the goal anyway.
I have written this response and re-written it 3 times now, trying not to give too much information on a somewhat simple question.
The bottom line is that for the first 2.75 years of my journey I did not pay any attention to those exercise calories, but now I am looking at them a bit differently because of my current situation so for most people what I am currently worried about won't apply since I am a competitive weightlifter and fuel for my body matters and my weight also matters.KT4everFree wrote: »
What does everyone do with their earned exercise calories? Do you eat them?
@KT4everFree I really can't recommend eating back those calories. One big reason why I don't is that they're estimates and are generally very over estimated and if you eat them back, you will likely over eat because of the over estimation. And I look at it as a bonus, anything you burn over what you planned to is just less fat on your body...which is really the goal anyway.
I have written this response and re-written it 3 times now, trying not to give too much information on a somewhat simple question.
The bottom line is that for the first 2.75 years of my journey I did not pay any attention to those exercise calories, but now I am looking at them a bit differently because of my current situation so for most people what I am currently worried about won't apply since I am a competitive weightlifter and fuel for my body matters and my weight also matters.
Thanks, I don’t eat them. I was just curious what everyone else did. I’ve been using th MYZONE when I exercise to see my heart rate and effort level as well as calories burned.
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AB0215
January Week 2
Saturday
PW: 135.7 lbs
CW: 138.5 lbs
I am very not happy about this, but have only myself to blame. The reality is I am currently trying to forgive myself for letting go of my goals and eating my feelings, but that isn't coming easy. Also, it's forced me to be honest with myself and realize that I need to adjust my goals in the first place because I've reached a point where I am working less towards actual weight loss and more towards body recomposition and that will likely mean that my weight loss will slow a bit and I need to be okay with that but that's been hard too. I do think that the bottom line is I need to be okay with where I am at now and move forward from there.4 -
Daily Post
Track: yes
Calories: yes
Exercise: No
Goal for today: I am still sick so, I need to use my second pass for the exercise portion but I am keeping track and watching my calories.1 -
Daily Post - Saturday
Track ✔
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All day......snow, sleet, rain.1 -
Saturday
Track: Yes
Calories: Under
Exercise: Yes
Did a little extra on top of the gym, walked my beautiful dog in the snow, so peaceful. 😊0 -
Saturday
Track: Yes
Calories: Under
Exercise: Upper body0 -
Daily Post Saturday week 2
Track yes
Calories under
Exercise Kettlebell
Comments besides my Kettlebell Workout I was on my feet straight for 9 hours. I was helping my nephew sell his ebikes at an RV show.
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Digger61
Sat week 2
PW 214
CW 2131 -
@AB0215 thank you! Ya I think I need to start journaling I think that would help. Also with the overtime issues it's alot easier to buy some ramen then to stick with keto. It was a bunch of things all at once and I lost it. But funny thing is I haven't felt as good as I have then when I was on keto. I had so much energy on keto and now I can barley get through the day. I'm starting keto again monday. Also yes running use to make me feel so much better but I'm a heavey smoker and get horrible him splints Everytime I start running. I literally just invested 120 in a new vape to try and stop smoking! Only bought 3mg nicotine juice so I can try to stop with the Mony save on smoking ( around 50 or more a week) I want to put twords keto! I'm trying I know my biggest obstacle is me and I'm standing in my own way! It's so hard to change how u think! But I want this I really do! I've literally been having nightmares where I get really fat lol. It's hard to understand how I'm a control freak and the one thing I could have actual control over is the one thing I feel I have no control over. I'm tired of beating myself up all the time and tired of feeling like I'm nothing if I'm not thin. I think I have a really messed up idea of what my worth is in this life. I honestly feel that the thinner and better looking you are the more worth you have and that's not what I believe but that's how I see life and I wanna change that. I wanna be healthy and happy and have energy. I hate that I feel I got the bad genes in my family I'm the biggest one and I feel nothing but jealousy when I'm around my siblings and see the thin and beautiful and I start to have anger twords them for it. It's not fair to them it's not right and I know it's a problem with me not them. I just can't help but to see them and feel like I'm not worth as much cause they a look better then me. It's hard to cause I come from a family of addicts and I'm the only one that's not so I get this chip on my shoulder of " oh well you wouldn't look like that if it wasn't for the meth" i know that's wrong of me but I feel like I try so hard to do everything and everything just seems to happen for them through other people and then I feel like the only reason that is is because they are thin and beautiful. I know sharing l this may make me seem like a bad person but I'm not ifs just something I struggle with and maybe by sharing it on here maybe people can relate or share how they over came that. I just want this year to be me at my most honest point. I'm so full of love and compassion but I feel like I'm not worth as much as someone who has a smaller Jean size as me. I recognize that it's an issue with me and I want to change. I'm looking into therapy but not sure I can afford it. All I know is I want to do better and be better and bring more into this world and it starts with me.1
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Jan Wk 2 - Sat, 1/18
Track: No
Calories: Over
Exercise: 50 minute hike0 -
KIn59vara
PW- 164.6
CW- 165.6
I know it is my fault...... great all week then yesterday not so much!1 -
Daily Post
Track: yes
Calories: yes
Exercise: Daily Burn: 8277
My calories were good but not my steps yesterday and I ate late last night which impacted my weight.
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galeroke
January Week 2
PW 262.1
CW 261.51 -
Happy Sunday Team!
We have a lot of weigh ins today!
@aprillacey2
@Jen_967
@osier5
@rissahm139
@Sammydee2015
@Schlerin
@WMEJA
And one last chance for those to weigh in from last week:
@Gridirongrrl
@Lorib642
@2bemybest
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aprillacey2
January week 2
PW 141.6
CW 140.51 -
satchel2008 wrote: »@AB0215 thank you! Ya I think I need to start journaling I think that would help.Also with the overtime issues it's alot easier to buy some ramen then to stick with keto. It was a bunch of things all at once and I lost it. But funny thing is I haven't felt as good as I have then when I was on keto. I had so much energy on keto and now I can barley get through the day. I'm starting keto again monday. Also yes running use to make me feel so much better but I'm a heavey smoker and get horrible him splints Everytime I start running. I literally just invested 120 in a new vape to try and stop smoking! Only bought 3mg nicotine juice so I can try to stop with the Mony save on smoking ( around 50 or more a week) I want to put twords keto! I'm trying I know my biggest obstacle is me and I'm standing in my own way! It's so hard to change how u think! But I want this I really do! I've literally been having nightmares where I get really fat lol. It's hard to understand how I'm a control freak and the one thing I could have actual control over is the one thing I feel I have no control over. I'm tired of beating myself up all the time and tired of feeling like I'm nothing if I'm not thin. I think I have a really messed up idea of what my worth is in this life. I honestly feel that the thinner and better looking you are the more worth you have and that's not what I believe but that's how I see life and I wanna change that. I wanna be healthy and happy and have energy. I hate that I feel I got the bad genes in my family I'm the biggest one and I feel nothing but jealousy when I'm around my siblings and see the thin and beautiful and I start to have anger twords them for it. It's not fair to them it's not right and I know it's a problem with me not them. I just can't help but to see them and feel like I'm not worth as much cause they a look better then me. It's hard to cause I come from a family of addicts and I'm the only one that's not so I get this chip on my shoulder of " oh well you wouldn't look like that if it wasn't for the meth" i know that's wrong of me but I feel like I try so hard to do everything and everything just seems to happen for them through other people and then I feel like the only reason that is is because they are thin and beautiful. I know sharing l this may make me seem like a bad person but I'm not ifs just something I struggle with and maybe by sharing it on here maybe people can relate or share how they over came that. I just want this year to be me at my most honest point. I'm so full of love and compassion but I feel like I'm not worth as much as someone who has a smaller Jean size as me. I recognize that it's an issue with me and I want to change.I'm looking into therapy but not sure I can afford it. All I know is I want to do better and be better and bring more into this world and it starts with me.
@satchel2008 Sometimes I think just getting it off your chest can help, yesterday I talked about my weight issues as of late and I think that really helped me to process some of it in my own head.And one of the things I like to do is take like a Sunday where I've caught up on my chores and prep a bunch of food for the freezer, I like to make meat (which is easy to ad to other things later) Keto Lasagna is up one thing I make and freeze in individual portions so I can just heat it up. Things like that are what I like to keep in the freezer so that way on those days where I'm tired, or I worked a lot, or just generally didn't feel like cooking. Also, I like to prep a couple of days at a time if I know I'm going to be working longer hours, which for me is Tuesday and Wednesday right now, I will prep my meals for those days Sunday or Monday so that way I have them and I can just stuff them in my lunch bag and go.Long winded response, but I think it helps to paint the picture that we do all have some "baggage" and that is how a lot of us got to where we are, injuries, emotions, trouble with self confidence/worth, working a lot/time management, and eventually those things ad up to a problem that seems near impossible to get out of. I fell victim to some of those along the way to 241 lbs and when I got to the point of 241 lbs I had soooo many of those and the task of losing the weight really seemed impossible, but I did it and so can you and everyone else. Just taking it one day at a time and finding what strategy works, for some it's just straight calorie reduction and controling intake, for others we needed something else, for me Keto was the only thing that helped my cravings and insulin resistance so I could lose the weight....and it will be different for everyone and the reality is we have to take the time and figure it out and then stick to it. And good for you for recognizing how you were feeling when you were doing Keto, I have a lot of the same feelings when on Keto, more energy, and I just generally feel better and it's been well over a year at this point since I've cheated, and I have no regrets.
And sometimes when we feel like so much of our lives are out of our control, we tend to let that spill into the things we do have control over. I might suggest preparing ahead of time so when you feel like just grabbing things that are easy, you already have something made, and it's easy. Your future self will thank you.
I think one of the things I am really working on these days sort of ties into what you're saying about feeling like things just come easy to people who are thin and beautiful, I've reached a point in my weight loss journey where I do still have a bit of fat left on my body that I can lose and really do want to lose to get myself to that 20-25% bodyfat range, and I'm really not far from it. The issue I am currently facing is I have so much excess skin in my stomach, really don't have it anywhere else, and to me what I see in that area is a belly, when the reality is, it's skin mostly. I can move it around, stretch it out and see my flat stomach, and it's really really hard to think about all the work I've done and all the weight I've lost and what I could have if I hadn't destroyed my body in the first place...and I keep trying to get past that, but it's really been dragging me down and back into that self sabotage cycle I tend to get myself into when I get close to reaching my goals. I'm not really sure what deep seeded emotions I'm really struggling with there, but I am trying to work through them daily and journaling how I'm feeling when I start trying to self sabotage is really helping, however it is a very slow process and I need to keep reminding myself I am worth it, and I will eventually be where I really want to be. And the reality is, I am making an appointment with a plastic surgeon so I can at least look at my options for the skin issue (doctor recommended actually). I think I owe it to myself to at least look at my options. The reallly hard part of looking at surgery is the recovery for me, it will be sooo hard to not be able to weightlift for months if that's what's needed for recovery time, however it may be possible to just have the skin removed without touching any of my abdominal muscles and have what's called a "mini tuck" and just have the skin below my belly button removed and that healing time is normally 2-4 weeks and I do think I can live with that and I'd be happier then.
And you might see if your insurance can help any with therapy, or maybe find a group therapy class, sometimes you can find those for free, like AA, but for other issues. But also, feel free to share here, this is a safe space, and I think we all have our issues and I am no exception.1 -
Osier5
Week 3
PW: 169.6
CW: 170.0
This gain is SUPER annoying! I've done everything "right" this week! I've even stopped eating my exercise calories! It is so demoralizing to have gained. I don't want to let it derail me and I feel like I've let the team down.2 -
Week 3
Sunday
PW: 199.2
CW: 200.2
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Week 2 (Saturday)
Track: Yes
Calories: under
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Week 3
Sunday
PW: 246
CW:2440 -
January 19
WMEJA
Sunday week 2
PW 228
CW 227.70 -
Daily post for Sunday morning:
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Week 3 (Sunday)
Track: Yes
Calories: Yes
Exercise Yes. Rain let up. So was able to get out in walk. But It was a little Chilly.0
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