SHRINKING ASSETS Team Chat - April 2020
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Hipari
Starting weight for May: 98.9kg / 218 lbs1 -
Guess what? @hipari is coming back for May! She is feeling better, and misses you...
You may also have one other person coming - I'm waiting for confirmation. Happy Monday, everyone!
Thanks @jugar ! It's been a rough 4 months, with everything already hitting the fan in my life health-wise, and then this whole corona and social isolating situation. I feel like now I'm adjusted to the stay-at-home life enough to rejoin this lovely community. Also in the health department, I'm happy to share that I got tested for the virus last week, and the test came back negative. I also participated in a (Finnish) national antibody research project so I gave some blood they are testing for antibodies and immunity against the virus, still waiting on those results.
I'm still planning on taking it slower to start, so here are my goals for this week:
- get back to food logging routine
- get back to morning weigh-in routine
- average 5500 steps per day (yup, this is a goal, just think how low the count has been)
I'll be in tomorrow with a starting weigh-in, even though it's Tuesday and not Sunday, which is my official weigh-in day. If I could turn back time...
WOOOO HOOOO! Glad to have you back!!! My nerd report has been dusted off and in full participation for the last 2 months. Progress, not perfection! As a desk jockey, my step goal is 6k M-F, so I understand the goal.
Welcome back!!!
Thanks, Beka! I also remade the nerd report, but in a slightly different format, it's more about goal-setting per week than actual reporting since Fitbit, MFP and HappyScale already produce all kinds of reports for me. I really hope the group accountability here helps me stay on track through isolation and the rest of the year, and there's no more health surprises this year.
I'm super pumped, I get to actually see a friend today! One of my childhood friends lives in two cities, and this weekend she returned to where I live to continue isolating here for a while. Her place here is close enough to mine that we can meet halfway and go for a walk together, so I'm super excited. The only people I've seen in person in the last 5 weeks are my husband, grocery store clerks, medical staff and my mom who dropped off some stuff and we met at the parking lot. Video chats are a thing, but I'm still going out of my mind. My gym reopened last week but I'm still not sure if I feel safe to actually go there. Might try some non-peak hours later this week, luckily my work is pretty flexible and I can take a gym break in the middle of the day.1 -
Is it Friday yet???? Days seem to never end lately! Ugh!!
NSV?? Maybe???
A few months ago I posted about my wedding ring. I had it resized when I lost 70 lbs in 2017. I began gaining back in mid 2018. Slow at first then I blinked and was only 10 lbs short of my highest weight again. I feel like I FINALLY have my head screwed back on properly and starting the way down again.
Back to the wedding ring thing. I didn't have my ring sized bigger. It is still sized at 175-185 lbs. When I gained the weight back, I began to wear a plain silver band. One I had picked up at Walmart for $27 to wear on my honeymoon bc I was afraid to lose my 'good one' in the ocean. I've worn this plain band for over a year. When I made this original post in August, I think, I had lost enough to wear a right hand ring that kind of looks like an engagement ring. A little nicer than the plain band. I was so excited for it to fit. I have been wearing this ring for a few weeks. The ring was still too tight for my right hand as it was purchased at about 175-185...
While working today, I kept noticing the ring rotate on my finger as I would type. The setting would drift downhill. Now that I am noticing it I keep fiddling with it. I decided to try it on my right hand. It fits, but snuggly.
My point to this is... MY REAL WEDDING RING is just around the corner. I have not worn this ring in a long time -- last confirmed time wearing was 12/2018.
Once this occurs, I will post a transformation Tuesday - Wedding ring edition
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Another new member coming your way! I figured @peachplace would do well in a team where one of the co-captains is in Georgia! Enjoy
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That’s an awesome NSV! My rings have been occasionally slipping around too so I bought these little plastic adapters that wrap around your ring. I haven’t been able to convince myself to put them on yet for some reason. I guess because my fingers still fluctuate and I’ve been eating too much sodium lately. Maybe I should make that one of my goals for May?Is it Friday yet???? Days seem to never end lately! Ugh!!
NSV?? Maybe???
A few months ago I posted about my wedding ring. I had it resized when I lost 70 lbs in 2017. I began gaining back in mid 2018. Slow at first then I blinked and was only 10 lbs short of my highest weight again. I feel like I FINALLY have my head screwed back on properly and starting the way down again.
Back to the wedding ring thing. I didn't have my ring sized bigger. It is still sized at 175-185 lbs. When I gained the weight back, I began to wear a plain silver band. One I had picked up at Walmart for $27 to wear on my honeymoon bc I was afraid to lose my 'good one' in the ocean. I've worn this plain band for over a year. When I made this original post in August, I think, I had lost enough to wear a right hand ring that kind of looks like an engagement ring. A little nicer than the plain band. I was so excited for it to fit. I have been wearing this ring for a few weeks. The ring was still too tight for my right hand as it was purchased at about 175-185...
While working today, I kept noticing the ring rotate on my finger as I would type. The setting would drift downhill. Now that I am noticing it I keep fiddling with it. I decided to try it on my right hand. It fits, but snuggly.
My point to this is... MY REAL WEDDING RING is just around the corner. I have not worn this ring in a long time -- last confirmed time wearing was 12/2018.
Once this occurs, I will post a transformation Tuesday - Wedding ring edition
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That’s an awesome NSV! My rings have been occasionally slipping around too so I bought these little plastic adapters that wrap around your ring. I haven’t been able to convince myself to put them on yet for some reason. I guess because my fingers still fluctuate and I’ve been eating too much sodium lately. Maybe I should make that one of my goals for May?Is it Friday yet???? Days seem to never end lately! Ugh!!
NSV?? Maybe???
A few months ago I posted about my wedding ring. I had it resized when I lost 70 lbs in 2017. I began gaining back in mid 2018. Slow at first then I blinked and was only 10 lbs short of my highest weight again. I feel like I FINALLY have my head screwed back on properly and starting the way down again.
Back to the wedding ring thing. I didn't have my ring sized bigger. It is still sized at 175-185 lbs. When I gained the weight back, I began to wear a plain silver band. One I had picked up at Walmart for $27 to wear on my honeymoon bc I was afraid to lose my 'good one' in the ocean. I've worn this plain band for over a year. When I made this original post in August, I think, I had lost enough to wear a right hand ring that kind of looks like an engagement ring. A little nicer than the plain band. I was so excited for it to fit. I have been wearing this ring for a few weeks. The ring was still too tight for my right hand as it was purchased at about 175-185...
While working today, I kept noticing the ring rotate on my finger as I would type. The setting would drift downhill. Now that I am noticing it I keep fiddling with it. I decided to try it on my right hand. It fits, but snuggly.
My point to this is... MY REAL WEDDING RING is just around the corner. I have not worn this ring in a long time -- last confirmed time wearing was 12/2018.
Once this occurs, I will post a transformation Tuesday - Wedding ring edition
My anniversary is 5/23 - my goal is to wear my wedding ring by then 😊❤️😊3 -
What a great photo that will be! I'm still 15 up from my wedding weight, but it was almost 30 years ago that I said "I do". I'd like to get back there this year! My ring fits, but it was getting quite uncomfortable when I was 15 pounds more. I don't think I could get my ring off at that point! Today's photo is of a happy cluster of small pink roses peeking over a fence. I can only imagine what they looked like on the other side!
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That’s an awesome NSV! My rings have been occasionally slipping around too so I bought these little plastic adapters that wrap around your ring. I haven’t been able to convince myself to put them on yet for some reason. I guess because my fingers still fluctuate and I’ve been eating too much sodium lately. Maybe I should make that one of my goals for May?Is it Friday yet???? Days seem to never end lately! Ugh!!
NSV?? Maybe???
A few months ago I posted about my wedding ring. I had it resized when I lost 70 lbs in 2017. I began gaining back in mid 2018. Slow at first then I blinked and was only 10 lbs short of my highest weight again. I feel like I FINALLY have my head screwed back on properly and starting the way down again.
Back to the wedding ring thing. I didn't have my ring sized bigger. It is still sized at 175-185 lbs. When I gained the weight back, I began to wear a plain silver band. One I had picked up at Walmart for $27 to wear on my honeymoon bc I was afraid to lose my 'good one' in the ocean. I've worn this plain band for over a year. When I made this original post in August, I think, I had lost enough to wear a right hand ring that kind of looks like an engagement ring. A little nicer than the plain band. I was so excited for it to fit. I have been wearing this ring for a few weeks. The ring was still too tight for my right hand as it was purchased at about 175-185...
While working today, I kept noticing the ring rotate on my finger as I would type. The setting would drift downhill. Now that I am noticing it I keep fiddling with it. I decided to try it on my right hand. It fits, but snuggly.
My point to this is... MY REAL WEDDING RING is just around the corner. I have not worn this ring in a long time -- last confirmed time wearing was 12/2018.
Once this occurs, I will post a transformation Tuesday - Wedding ring edition
My anniversary is 5/23 - my goal is to wear my wedding ring by then 😊❤️😊
This is an awesome goal, hope it works!
My ring-related goal is to lose enough weight to make my summer fingers the size of my old winter fingers. This might need some explaining... I live in Finland with four very distinct seasons, and my fingers tend to bloat in the summer heat and/or shrink in the winter cold. I don't really know which one it is, but my weight has been staying in the same 5-lb ballpark throughout the winter (not counting the food poisoning) and my rings are again getting tighter again towards the summer, without gaining. It's a good thing both my engagement ring and wedding ring were bought in the summer so I can squeeze them on and off all year, but in the summer they leave a pressure mark on the finger and I'd like to have the winter shrinkage be the new all-year normal for my fingers.1 -
Wednesday weigh in:
PW: 158
CW: 157.45 -
Happy Hump Day for those who are unsure of the day of the week! @LaurieWrobo, great loss! Keep up the great work! Today's floral selection is a white rose rather common around here- the Iceberg Rose. My hubby has yet to plant some in our yard, but we will once we get some new planting space. Enjoy and stay strong and healthy!
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This is going to be an interesting rest of the week. Tomorrow, May 1st, is May Day or Walpurgis Day, and today would be Walpurgis Eve. It's a huuuuuge celebration and a city carnival, and everybody wears their high school graduation hats. Especially university students celebrate for weeks leading up to May 1st, but the main festivities kick off at 6PM on Walpurgis Eve, when a specific statue in Helsinki is given its graduation hat and everybody else can also put their hat on. There's usually a crowd of at least 50 000 people gathered around the statue to watch the ceremony, so it's of course cancelled this year and the area around the statue is blocked by temporary walls. The Finnish graduation hat was traditionally worn by all graduates throughout the summer, and you're only allowed to wear it from 6PM at Walpurgis Eve to the end of September (and then on Independence Day in December), so this is also a big celebration for beginning of summer. The rest of the night is, well, a big party and lots of people drinking and going out. Then May Day is a day for outdoor brunches, gatherings and picnics, and there's a specific park in Helsinki that's the center of celebrations, with again about 50 000 people joining for a nice spring day and meeting friends, whether it's rain or shine.
Walpurgis Eve and Day is one of the biggest holidays of the year for me, and now it's effectively cancelled and I'm pretty upset. I still plan on putting my hat on at 6PM and simulating the experience as well as possible, which means taking a walk with my grad hat on and day drinking sparkling wine while on that walk. It's going to be super sad, and this is the most bummed I've been about anything during this social isolation.6 -
WEIGH IN REMINDERS
Thursday
@CharlesScott78
@Kilobykilo
@Boehle - Captain
@suzyjmcd2
@Shandke
Friday
@guitargirl55
@cre804
@mustb60
@Smart_Beautiful_and_Strong
@bigblues11
Saturday
@Be_theBest_Me
@TheMrWobbly - Fit Captain
@Beka3695 - Captain/Mod
@ScottyTheGent
@machchic
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PW. 132.2
CW 132.4
Well...I guess it is, what it is. Probably did indulge some for my husband's birthday. But thought the rest of the week I had behaved. Oh well next week is another opportunity to succeed. Cheers and happy May Day! (tomorrow) 😁5 -
I am down on the scale today! Hoping the number stays the same for tomorrow! I have been trying to focus on goals outside of weight, like meeting my food and exercise goals and inches. My weight is just so all over the place.2
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I am down from last week but up 1.8 for the month.
Ugh. This has def been a trying time but I have been more active this week, so baby steps walking into June.
Ohio begins phase 1 of opening back up tomorrow. This should be very interesting.
My mom has been in the hospital since Monday with no real update besides that she's got an infection in her lungs and that we are waiting on her Covid results6 -
Hi Guys!
May thread is open. Feel free to go introduce yourselves.
PLEASE CONTINUE TO POST WEIGH INS ON APRIL'S THREAD
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10794370/shrinking-assets-team-chat-may-2020#latest1 -
It's been a crazy April, but I'm hopeful, just like today's flower, that good fruit will eventually come from my good choices. The pomegranate flower attracts hummingbirds, which I'm sure are a good source of antioxidants for them ha ha! They and the bees are fed, and they pollinate the flowers so we can have fruit later. It's a win-win! We had only a few on our young trees last year, but there are some trees in the neighborhood that are loaded!
That is my wish for all of you, that you continue to bear fruit in your health journeys, so you can be a blessing to those around you. I'm bowing out of the group, but I can't without sincere thanks to all of you! I'm not quitting MFP, but other groups I'm involved with are taking my time and energy. Your posts are motivating, inspiring, and have made me laugh! Here's to gray roots but warm hearts! Love and success to each of my a$$ets!
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Beka3695
Saturday -- just a couple days early
PW 215.0
CW 214.22
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