WEIGHT NO MORE Team Chat - June 2020
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@xX_PhoenixRising_Xx Outstanding cake. I love the chicken feathers and the steampunk decorations ~ they look so metallic and real. Good job, you and the twins!2
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@lenka1 and @xX_PhoenixRising_Xx Love LOVE LOVE the cakes! So much work and love have gone into them - fabulous!
Just a quick check in. Have been keeping within my calorie goal and trying to get my exercise in. Must admit finding it a bit difficult at the moment - the desire for sweet stuff and alcohol is really creeping in, but since my last blow out (last weekend), I really want to keep control. This struggle mirrors my mood/emotions - I think I am coming to the end of my lockdown "patience" and really really need more normality (not used to having partner and kids around ALL the time - just all too much for a hermit like me!). I am however enjoying getting my frustrations out with a good workout 🏋4 -
@xX_PhoenixRising_Xx what an amazing cake! Certainly not one of my strengths
Was great to read your posts after my weekend wobble - today was a great day, ate well, no alcohol and even managed an hours walk after a long day at work
Steps:12902
Week 1 checkin
Weight: 107.8 kg which is up almost 1kg ahhh trying not to beat myself up too much about it but it was 3 days of excess.
No excuses but I am struggling with the isolation and no gym, also being inactive at home in winter means I just eat more.
So refocus and move on to week 24 -
This week's F2F Challenge is UP!! Feeling cranky? You're going to love this one
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10799606/rant-and-plan-challenge-june-week-2#latest1 -
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Username: jedaschultz
Week: 2
Weight in day: Monday
Previous weight:202.4
Current weight: 201.24 -
Hi all,
Weigh in
username - podperson1
week - 2
PW - 182.4
CW - 181.8
Been a bit of a rubbish week so will take any loss I guess. Sorry have been a bit MIA this week, will catch up your posts later - hope all the US peeps on here are safe and not getting caught up in the riots x4 -
JillyBT
week 2
Monday
PW: 159
CW: 160
Goal for June, keep up to date on Myfitness and really try to follow the tracking4 -
Daily check in Sunday
Cleanse transition-going well
Yoga-yes
sleep-7 1/2
Had a great weekend. Very productive plus lots of rest time. At 5:30 last night I was ready for bed. Put on Pj's, brushed and flossed but had to force myself to stay up. That was way too early even for me. Mom came upstairs and the 3 of us played gin rummy. It was fun.
I am doing great today and making the best of my life situation.
I was thinking this morning of an article I read about “Aunt Helen” in a readers digest a long time ago. Aunt Helen’s fiancé was killed in the war and she never married. Her niece asked her how it is that she could always appear to be so happy.
Here was her daily recipe for Happiness. She did these 6 things every day.
1-do something you don’t want to do but you know needs to be done
2-do something nice for someone else
3-do something physical
4-do something mentally stimulating
5-do something spiritual
6-do something nice for yourself
Just thought I would pass this on.
Here is my checklist for the day
1-I organized my tea cabinet this morning and scrubbed our kitchen sinks
2-I am picking up my mom from Davita today so she doesn’t have to take the shuttle
3-I did a 15 minute walk this morning and a 25 minute yoga
4-I plan on reading a chapter of Omnivores dilemma at lunch today
5-I will start my meditation practice back up today by starting with 5 minutes this evening
6-I will have fun working on a Summer jigsaw puzzle tonight
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This week's F2F Challenge is UP!! Feeling cranky? You're going to love this one
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10799606/rant-and-plan-challenge-june-week-2#latest
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I had a successful weekend. A couple of times I was really something ~ I couldn't tell if it was hunger or cravings or wanting to eat for the sake of eating, perhaps due to boredom. On Saturday, I went for a walk to pass the time until the next meal. Then Sunday, I put half of my supper away for lunch today in order to have some treats.
I was excited to get that honourable mention last week!
@Ademann1 I'm glad you're in our group. Your first post was lovely and I would have been sorry to see you go. Great loss last week too!
@sleepymom5 Great loss last week. I know you worked really hard given all that you're keeping in balance. It must feel great. As they say, you have to sharpen the saw.
@lennoncpa Great loss considering you seem to be plateauing. I'm on a 1,200 calorie plan right now and when I looked back to the time when I lost the most weight consistently over time, I switched to doing 1,700 cal on Thu/Sat and 1,000 plus 1/2 my exercise calories on Sun/Mon/Tue/Wed/Fri. I think it's effective at shaking me out of a plateau. I'm not recommending it per se, because it's a little extreme. But I think one could still fit in their delicious hummus. The 'eat-up' days are something to look forward to. In order to do it without 'going over,' I used MFP Premium when I do this. You can change your calories by day of the week in there. Once I'm back into a groove, I go back to the 1,200 per day. BEBE looks amazing after his makeover!
@lenka1 Outstanding cakes! Your girls look so smart in their dressy/Christening outfits. I think a celebration should be enjoyed. You'll get back into the grove.
@danisp Celebrating your husband's birthday sounds so fun! You too will get back into the groove.
@GingerPwr I love the sound of the 'senior parade.' That could totally catch on even when we get past this. It's so symbolic of the final year of high school and heading off on the road to young adulthood.
@Cafelelia Great loss! What a lot of work it is to do grades 4 and 8 over again. Even when my daughter and son were in school all day, I remember grade 8 was epic. The projects! I have no memory of grade 4 because I skipped it. Hmm...skipping a year. I bet that would look good to a lot of parents and students right about now. I'm really relieved that we had peaceful marches in Toronto this weekend. I know that many people are self-isolating after marching too. In our neighbourhood we have volunteers shopping for them and helping otherwise.
@tryingagain5 I think being patient with yourself is the best approach. You've got more to worry about than most and have kept up almost all of your good habits. I think the social approach to exercise is a good one. I love walking with neighbours.
@Mrsbell8well You really kicked that bloat out the back door! Well done. That must feel amazing.
@brown6267 Must feel marvelous to be in maintenance. Congratulations! I had to look up Pickleball. BTW, I love pickles. I found it on BlogTO so it must be hip. They have it at my community centre. Well normally they do. It's still closed.
@ljdanny It sounds like life is getting back to normal in some ways for you. I love how you're putting all your healthy morning routines back in place. Outstanding!
@kirsten11872 Yay! Four pounds. I'm thrilled for you. Ditto on what I said to Lisa. Catching kids up in school is such a huge undertaking.
@pacsnc6 As I said to Casey, I love hearing about these drive-by graduations. What a great week this will be for you. I'm sending all my positive energy your way for this week's chemo and the news that follows soon. You are amazing through all of this.
@timibotkin @Freeglerock @nstephenson01 How are your gardens growing? I think about you when I'm out watering my the patch I'm in on with my neighbours.
@melaniedscott That's a lot of gardening you did this weekend considering you say you're not good at it. I've forgotten where you live. Please remind me.
@JillyBT I really feel for you. You are really living the life of the sandwich generation. No rest for you at all. I'm glad you can focus on you a bit this month. As I said to Pam, with all the balancing you do, sharpening the saw will really help.
@twyla77 My daughter's been on Whole30 a few times and last year I did the meal prep for her for one of the months. She must like it as she goes back to it from time to time.
@annliz23 Doesn't HIIT feel great!?! And for such a long time afterward too.
@CassieGets @hope002 @bburrer30 @KUMEcyclingteam @jedaschultz Congrats on your losses!5 -
Week 1 Step Challenge Winners
1. @Cafelelia - 95,575 steps
2. @timibotkin - 90,285 steps
3. @brown6267 - 82,937 steps
Together 8 team members walked 562,897 steps!
Congratulations!5 -
Sunday Check In
Food - on target
Water - 2l
Exercise - 5 km walk, 9,498 steps
Really great day yesterday and it is back to the school grind today. I am so happy as a personal best that I was able to get a great step count last week. Given my injury, at this time last year, I could barely get 4000 steps. Thanks to everyone here for inspiring me and keeping me motivated when I couldn’t move very well.
@brown6267 - We are going to create a F2F thread soon for members who are at goal and maintaining. There are about 4 or 5 F2F members now in maintenance and several who are close. This will be a discussion and advice thread, in addition to how you are tracking and posting here. Will post to let you know as soon as it is ready to go.2 -
[quote="Cafelelia;c-45072866"
@brown6267 - We are going to create a F2F thread soon for members who are at goal and maintaining. There are about 4 or 5 F2F members now in maintenance and several who are close. This will be a discussion and advice thread, in addition to how you are tracking and posting here. Will post to let you know as soon as it is ready to go. [/quote]
Sounds good. Thanks!
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I need to catch up in here, but NZ officially has no cases of Covid 19 and we're at level 1 which basically just means that our border is closed and no other restrictions apply.
School, sports, everything is back and I am crazy busy with work and kids. I didn't miss this tbh. Yesterday afternoon was a write-off, I wound up in a meeting for one son and then having to take the other to basketball training because my kids all forgot their keys. Locked all kids out of the house while I was at this meeting and older son then couldn't ride his bike to training because he couldn't get to it.
By the time I got home last night I was exhausted, managed some quick yoga and 15 mins on spin bike, very slowly! My weigh has fluctuated back down this morning and I am actually 100 grams under my lowest recent weight. Go figure. My plan is to just stick with calories and drink plenty of water, and do what exercise I can.5 -
xX_PhoenixRising_Xx wrote: »I need to catch up in here, but NZ officially has no cases of Covid 19 and we're at level 1 which basically just means that our border is closed and no other restrictions apply.
School, sports, everything is back and I am crazy busy with work and kids. I didn't miss this tbh. Yesterday afternoon was a write-off, I wound up in a meeting for one son and then having to take the other to basketball training because my kids all forgot their keys. Locked all kids out of the house while I was at this meeting and older son then couldn't ride his bike to training because he couldn't get to it.
By the time I got home last night I was exhausted, managed some quick yoga and 15 mins on spin bike, very slowly! My weigh has fluctuated back down this morning and I am actually 100 grams under my lowest recent weight. Go figure. My plan is to just stick with calories and drink plenty of water, and do what exercise I can.
Kristy, That's the stress we don't realize we're missing. Congratulations on the weight loss! Maybe being run ragged is good for something.1 -
1theresamcvean wrote: »xX_PhoenixRising_Xx wrote: »I need to catch up in here, but NZ officially has no cases of Covid 19 and we're at level 1 which basically just means that our border is closed and no other restrictions apply.
School, sports, everything is back and I am crazy busy with work and kids. I didn't miss this tbh. Yesterday afternoon was a write-off, I wound up in a meeting for one son and then having to take the other to basketball training because my kids all forgot their keys. Locked all kids out of the house while I was at this meeting and older son then couldn't ride his bike to training because he couldn't get to it.
By the time I got home last night I was exhausted, managed some quick yoga and 15 mins on spin bike, very slowly! My weigh has fluctuated back down this morning and I am actually 100 grams under my lowest recent weight. Go figure. My plan is to just stick with calories and drink plenty of water, and do what exercise I can.
Kristy, That's the stress we don't realize we're missing. Congratulations on the weight loss! Maybe being run ragged is good for something.
You're telling me! I missed 2 hours of work and I have an upcoming deadline. But I did get some basketball coaching pointers from the most qualified and experienced coach I know, so that was helpful - He runs the program here that gets a lot of our kids scholarships to US colleges.3 -
1theresamcvean wrote: »
@melaniedscott That's a lot of gardening you did this weekend considering you say you're not good at it. I've forgotten where you live. Please remind me.
Kansas. I call it gardening but it is really just trying to manage the 8 garden spaces in my yard...16 years ago, we found this house and I these visions of growing vegetables and maybe berries or something, leisurely evenings hanging out in lovely gardens. But I'd never done much gardening. And I worked in a job where I traveled 2 weeks out of 4. And my husband works outside all day. And garden is hard work...not leisurely at all. The beds got out of control (weed-wise) within about 2 years. Every year or two I get one or two managed and the others go crazy. This place needs someone who is good at gardening...which is not me.
There are 8 !?! beds. The smallest is about 3 x 3 (this one is the least terrible). Two are almost the length of my house and 1 1/2-2 feet deep. One of those has daylilies that I had a non-interference agreement with until last year, when I dug most of them up and split them. I don't know how many I gave away. There are still a bunch growing. This bed I got mostly under control last year, did some more clean-up on this spring and...well, needs some more attention now, but doesn't look horrible. Three are raised beds 4 x 4 or bigger. Then there is a 4 1/2 x 3 ish one. The last is a weird shape. One end is about 5-6 feet wide, then it tapers to 2 ish feet. The bed is probably over 8 feet long. The last five have been in terrible shape.
Note: I'm growing 3 things: daylilies, one crazy lavender plant and a ridiculous amount of weeds. The lavender got crazy in self defense--I threatened it when it didn't grow at all for three years straight...Technically, I also have peonies ... but we leave eachother alone and they aren't part of the garden spaces. Well, and peas in a big pot...we'll see how that goes...
My goal this summer is to clear up most of them...The big bed I'm getting close to 1/3 clear. I cleared the tall crap out and now I'm down to digging out thumb sized tap roots, clover of multiple types, and weird creeping viney agressive weeds that look spidery above ground and shoot roots in all direction to create new bases every foot or so. I'd cleared the long bed at the begining of the spring but the weeds are after revenge and I've had to start over. This months goal is to clear the big bed and the long bed in the back of the house...maybe get ahead of the daylily bed.
okay enough yammering about my yard...I'll likey post more about my efforts later. Did none today, my shoulder was complaining and I decided to give it a break today...tomorrow I need to get back to it.
Three joints relocated themselves during my core routine this am...hate that. I did 2 20 minute walks and one 30. I don't know how so many of you get so many steps in! I work a desk job and getting 7000 is a big deal. Got about 7400 today...did well with water, not as well with sodium...today and yesterday I've been over a bit on calories. Had sushi tonight...no motivation to cook...
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JillyBT
Monday check in
Started off with a Monday morning meditation called setting intention. Kept me calm
All day. Unfortunately I didn’t track food or exercise. Didn’t have much time today. But I feel good I did one thing for me.
My son argued with my husband and I today, as soon as he walked out of the room my husband and I looked at each other and both smiled and agreed our son is all better! Never been so happy to have him tell us we don’t understand!
@1theresamcvean thank you for the kind words. This sandwich generation is really difficult.
@mrsbellbwell thank you for sharing the recipe for happiness!
@Cafelelia congrats on all the steps! I’ve got a lot of walking to do to catch up to you!2 -
It is cold and already getting dark at 4pm - but after reading your inspirational posts I am going to go for a walk. @Mrsbell8well I so loved the Aunt Helen quote - so I am off to do something I don’t want to but I know is good for me 😁2
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