WAISTAWAYS Team Chat - April 2020
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Happy Thursday and last day of the 300-day month of April! Well, it’s certainly felt that long.
I missed the rose and thorn share this week. I enjoyed reading your entries, though.
A new month. Yikes. Time for new walks and weather complete with intros tomorrow. Nighty night.
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Well today is May 1st and my weigh in day so...
SW-156.8 I’m pretty sure the group don’t start until Monday but I have to get myself going so here it is! I am super excited to watch everyone’s progress and to help keep people motivated. Anyone have any tips for reducing the sweet tooth or simple healthy snacks? I ALWAYS seem to find cake late at night 🤦🏻♀️.. I’m also not even sure where it comes from because I’m not the one that buys it, it kinda just appears in my kitchen. Sweets are my biggest weakness y’all !!4 -
PW 153.9
CW 153.4
@micki48 Yes, I will continue. This has not been my best step week but I need the motivation to step it up.
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SMcFall0215 wrote: »Well today is May 1st and my weigh in day so...
SW-156.8 I’m pretty sure the group don’t start until Monday but I have to get myself going so here it is! I am super excited to watch everyone’s progress and to help keep people motivated. Anyone have any tips for reducing the sweet tooth or simple healthy snacks? I ALWAYS seem to find cake late at night 🤦🏻♀️.. I’m also not even sure where it comes from because I’m not the one that buys it, it kinda just appears in my kitchen. Sweets are my biggest weakness y’all !!
@smcfall1 Happy May! I have been searching out the sweets lately as well. I know that when I pretty much cut them out completely, the urge for it goes away. The more I have, the more I want. So, I guess my best advice is try to cut them out for a few days and see if the search and rescue for sweets subsides. Also, I play tricks with myself, when I'm being mindful. I tell myself I need to finish a big glass of water first and see if I still want it. Or You have to wait 5 minutes before you eat it. Sometimes the reason we are going after it is actually thirst or boredom. Hope this helps and if you come up with anything else, let me know, because right now, I'm right there with you.
@KellyBgetsfit Great Kelly. I agree, it's a little bit of motivation and every little bit helps. Glad you will be with us.
And congratulations on your loss! Nice work in these trying times.2 -
Happy Friday! It is a dreary rainy day here today, but I'm feeling pretty good. It has been a tough month with an injury and resulting low blood pressure and anemia - but the energy is finally starting to come back! I think the worst is over. I think everyone is happy April is over.
It is NOT too late for roses, thorns, and seeds @evelynladams527 and anyone else who still wants to do this! Our May challenge does not officially start until Sunday, so this is a great time to look back over the past month, figure out what went OK, and what you want to change and plant for May.
Sweet cravings! I have recommended this many times before (call me stuck in my ways...) but weirdly enough, eating something sour can really help. Have a dill pickle (or 3), a grapefruit, a lot of lemon juice in your water, or whatever sour thing you have on hand. Often that kills the craving, and those things sure have way fewer calories than cakes and candies. @micki48 has some great suggestions too with delaying tactics, water guzzling, and just thinking about the reasons. It can also help to fully visualise eating the sweets, lots of them, and keep going through the part where you feel crappy afterwards.
My husband often says "the more you eat, the more you eat". That is a good little ditty to have in your head when it comes to trigger foods like sugar, or the lovely salt+fat + crispy combo. Sometimes the only solution is just to stop completely and then the cravings get easier to control, or go away for periods of time. Let's all keep mentioning our strategies, successes, and learning curves on snack control in May.
Step and Exercise Team Yay! I hope we'll have a nice big team! I'm in for sure!
How it will work for us to record both steps and exercise:- If you only count steps and that is all you want to do, report your total steps for each day and your're done.
- If you only want to record other exercise, report the total number of minutes you did intentional, on purpose exercise, and exactly what the exercise was. I'll use the charts I have found to translate the minutes to step equivalents and record them. Normal light housework, shopping, gardening, etc. do not count, but heavy work does. I think we all know the difference!
- If you want to combine steps and exercise minutes, put in your total steps for the day and minutes of NON-walking exercise.
- Count running as minutes of exercise and not steps - it counts more per step than walking.
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Another new member is on the way! We're looking good for May and welcome @Alexsandramorff !4
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SMcFall0215 wrote: »Well today is May 1st and my weigh in day so...
SW-156.8 I’m pretty sure the group don’t start until Monday but I have to get myself going so here it is! I am super excited to watch everyone’s progress and to help keep people motivated. Anyone have any tips for reducing the sweet tooth or simple healthy snacks? I ALWAYS seem to find cake late at night 🤦🏻♀️.. I’m also not even sure where it comes from because I’m not the one that buys it, it kinda just appears in my kitchen. Sweets are my biggest weakness y’all !!
If salty things and avoidance don't work, you can try my strategy: eat a small number of M&Ms or Reese's Pieces or the like, very slowly.
20 grams of Reese's pieces are 100 calories and I've found that eating them slowly one by one, even if it's only a few, tricks my brain into thinking I've had more chocolate than if I'd just had one large, 100 calorie chocolate. Because it's more bites and more chewing I guess.
Doing this successfully kept me out of husband's cupcakes this past week. I didn't even have one!
Alternative strategy: mints or little hard candies. They're like 5-10 calories each depending on the type you get, and they last long enough for cravings to ease sometimes.5 -
Weigh in Friday coming up!
@KellyBgetsFit
@Steph1498
@evangsimmons170
This is the last one of the month - and it will be your starting weight for May. Bring on the numbers!
PW 345.2
CW 348.8
I really felt bummed this morning about my weight gain, although it was inevitable due to minimal exercise (again) this week. Then I started fussing at myself because I'm so sick and tired of starting over, especially when my starting point is where I started from at the last starting point. It's the same vicious cycle, where I'm on a serious roll, and then I let something derail me emotionally that totally interrupts my motivation, and I quit! I even concluded that @jugar would having something supportive but firm to say, which made me smile. Then I saw this quote on a site I was on that really spoke to me, and I thought I'd share it.“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So What? Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self confident and more and more successful.”
- Mark Victor Hansen
Here's to starting over....one more time!5 -
Step and Exercise Team Yay! I hope we'll have a nice big team! I'm in for sure!
How it will work for us to record both steps and exercise:- If you only count steps and that is all you want to do, report your total steps for each day and your're done.
- If you only want to record other exercise, report the total number of minutes you did intentional, on purpose exercise, and exactly what the exercise was. I'll use the charts I have found to translate the minutes to step equivalents and record them. Normal light housework, shopping, gardening, etc. do not count, but heavy work does. I think we all know the difference!
- If you want to combine steps and exercise minutes, put in your total steps for the day and minutes of NON-walking exercise.
- Count running as minutes of exercise and not steps - it counts more per step than walking.
@jugar Is this experiment going to be on the May spreadsheet? I looked for it but didn't see it.0 -
It just looks like the same old step team spreadsheet - the exercise minutes will be converted to a step equivalent, so it will all look like steps. We just have to rename the team! The record keeping has to be the same for all the teams, since we share the same spreadsheet format.evangsimmons170 wrote: »Step and Exercise Team Yay! I hope we'll have a nice big team! I'm in for sure!
How it will work for us to record both steps and exercise:- If you only count steps and that is all you want to do, report your total steps for each day and your're done.
- If you only want to record other exercise, report the total number of minutes you did intentional, on purpose exercise, and exactly what the exercise was. I'll use the charts I have found to translate the minutes to step equivalents and record them. Normal light housework, shopping, gardening, etc. do not count, but heavy work does. I think we all know the difference!
- If you want to combine steps and exercise minutes, put in your total steps for the day and minutes of NON-walking exercise.
- Count running as minutes of exercise and not steps - it counts more per step than walking.
@jugar Is this experiment going to be on the May spreadsheet? I looked for it but didn't see it.
I'm using this for the conversion - (or another one, there are 2 that seem good, and are very similar)
https://www.arhs-nc.org/live-healthy/data/StepConversionChart.pdf
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And yes, @evangsimmons170 you nailed it! The quote you found is beautiful, and the starting over and over and over happens. I did it umpteen times until I was 58 and finally got there! So let my voice say in your head,
"Stop with the all or nothing, will ya!" -- just have a few more good days than bad ones, and try to make the bad ones not TOO bad. Fix one thing in that bad day, and then don't worry if good days aren't perfect!
My grandmother was a concert pianist, and one of the most amazing players I have ever known. She was also quite funny, and one of her lines comes to mind:
"The problem with the piano is that the wrong notes are much too close to the right ones. And there are more of them."
Yep. Got it in one. Not just about the piano!3 -
It just looks like the same old step team spreadsheet - the exercise minutes will be converted to a step equivalent, so it will all look like steps. We just have to rename the team! The record keeping has to be the same for all the teams, since we share the same spreadsheet format.evangsimmons170 wrote: »Step and Exercise Team Yay! I hope we'll have a nice big team! I'm in for sure!
How it will work for us to record both steps and exercise:- If you only count steps and that is all you want to do, report your total steps for each day and your're done.
- If you only want to record other exercise, report the total number of minutes you did intentional, on purpose exercise, and exactly what the exercise was. I'll use the charts I have found to translate the minutes to step equivalents and record them. Normal light housework, shopping, gardening, etc. do not count, but heavy work does. I think we all know the difference!
- If you want to combine steps and exercise minutes, put in your total steps for the day and minutes of NON-walking exercise.
- Count running as minutes of exercise and not steps - it counts more per step than walking.
@jugar Is this experiment going to be on the May spreadsheet? I looked for it but didn't see it.
I'm using this for the conversion - (or another one, there are 2 that seem good, and are very similar)
https://www.arhs-nc.org/live-healthy/data/StepConversionChart.pdf
Ok so we're logging our own steps now? I'm ok with that. Just wanted to be sure.0 -
Final April weigh-ins due!
@Steph1498
@Terytha
@Micki48
@lovethyneighbor
@matthewsfive
@fourathomej - if you have your weight from Wednesday, that would be great! Otherwise, best guess to use as your May starting weight.
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It’s a sunny day! Wow. I’m not sure how to handle it! I’ve had laundry hanging out for 2 days getting dry, wet, wetter, and dry again. It’ll all smell of warm breezes is a few hours.
Got to add the current sheets to the mix, walk, and continue the push to finish homework & projects. That’ll keep me busy!
Thoughts about snacking remind me of recovery strategies. When cravings come up, I tell myself that it’s true that I have a choice - I CAN have that treat tomorrow, but today, I’m choosing to have or do something else instead. Keeping it a “just for today” choice helps me turn the volume down on my “inner brat” and keep moving towards my lofty goals of self improvement and weight loss without beating myself up.
Have a lovely morning. More in a few hours.
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Cw = 176.6
Steps for 5/1 = 12,714.
Have a great Saturday!3 -
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Final April weigh in: 184.8
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Your Saturday weigh-ins only start next week - the first Saturday of the May challenge. So you have an extra long week to keep on losingGidgitgoescrazy wrote: »Cw = 176.6
Steps for 5/1 = 12,714.
Have a great Saturday!
If you prefer, though, I can enter this weight as your new starting weight for May, and still use what you weighed in on Monday as your week 5 weight for April. (173.6)
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Matthewsfive
Saturday Week 5
PW 161.8
CW 161.81 -
Yesterday was a hard day. I did not sleep well the night before. I was grumpy, ate way too many carbs, and skipped my workout. I was determined to make today better. I already got my workout in and plan to enjoy some family time. Have a great weekend, friends!3
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