Mission Slimpossibles - September 2020 Team Chat
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Hi Team! Just a quick check-in tonight because I am beat! I just got home from a lovely little wedding shower my staff and their spouses surprised our worship pastor and his bride-to-be with. We all ate and laughed and it was so good to just hang out with my favorite group of people and have fun. I have my plan set for September and plan to hit it hard starting tomorrow. I tried out a sample workout of the new program I'm going to start in another week. It's called Ten Rounds and it is a combo of boxing and weights. I'm very uncoordinated but it looks super fun and guaranteed to make me sweat!
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So I'm not sure whether I was supposed to weigh in or not...my weigh in day is Friday, which is in August not September...anyway I'll put it here and if it's not relevant then just ignore please!
***WEIGH IN ***
USER: TwistedSassette
WEIGH-IN DAY: Friday
PW: 138.3kg
CW: 138.0kg
***DAILY CHECK IN - SUNDAY 30TH AUGUST***
Calories: Under
Water: Under
Exercise: None, just a little stretching
Goals/Improvements for tomorrow: Track calories, 30 mins exercise.
I spent some time on my "Set Me Up Sunday" getting ready for the week ahead - made a tuna mornay for lunches for the week, did all my washing etc. so I'm ready to have a good week!2 -
@vegan4lyfe2012 Great loss! I love this: "I hope everyone has a wonderful Sunday! Don't forget to hydrate, eat your veggies, and love yourself for who you are!"
@apple852hk Yay, another September baby, let's pull out those sapphires! I've done no sweetener for over a month and am finding cocoa powder rolled on frozen grapes and on frozen bananas are just like having chocolate! I went through a Costco-sized container of grapes in three days they're so good!
@BethB554 Sounds like you made good decisions all the way around, we can't expect to be perfect as much as we want to be!
@andreiya12 We need to get that scale moving! You have a bunch of horror lovers here, I just finished an Anne Rice book!4 -
Sunday check-in
Exercise- arm cardio (2 hours, I went crazy listening to Prince and Nightwish!), arm resistance bands, guided meditation for sacral chakra, earth energy meditation, Kundalini medidtation
Calories- under
Water- awesome!
I've been working on my September goals and am a little down, I miss being able to do new stuff and having fitness goals SO bad! I did the same two videos for two hours, one's 8 minutes and the other is 12. I went through my old videos and it's pretty depressing, I still can't do any of the other things. I'm going to try dancing to one song a day just to do something different than arm cardio and perhaps I can start doing 1 mile walks again by the end of the month. I'll switch up the chakra healing and yoga a bit so it's something I can do without it being too strenuous. A lot of those videos are long and I prefer short videos, I'll see what I can find.3 -
Good morning y'all and Happy Monday! I'm Gretchen and I am in Fairfax, Virginia. I'm a 49 year old mother of 2. My daughter is 11 and lives in Florida with her father. My son is 24 and lives about 5 minutes from me. I have struggled with my weight my whole life. I struggle with liking myself even more than that! This is my 3rd month of this challenge. I did a pretty good job the first month and then last month was just flat. I'm looking forward to pushing myself a little more in September. Work will be busier this month so I won't be sitting around snacking the whole time. I also need to be a little more diligent with sticking to my goals. I was very lax with them in August. I don't know why. I just was. My goal today is to get in at least a 1/2 hour at the gym...maybe an hour...just to finish off August with a bang. I'll do my September weigh-in in the morning. My normal weigh-in is on Wednesday.
I hope everyone has a great day!
I really need a lot of support and I'm horrible about checking in daily...so anyone that wants to harass me...feel free to add me!5 -
Last night I had 3 friends over for dinner and I killed it! Not exactly in terms of food quantity, but quality: I overate fish, salad and watermelon !!! - and beer, but will ignore that.
The second thing I’m so proud of myself is that I did not make 10 dishes this time, only 3, so I was not exhausted when the doorbell rang.
I kept on walking past my scale this morning and that’s it.
Baby steps to be kind and patient to/with yourself, are awesome!2 -
Good morning everyone! Not much to report here. Have a good day!
Sunday
Calories: over/under: even
Water: over/under: under
Exercise: ---
Goals or Improvements for tomorrow: track everything, 2 bottles (26 oz) of water3 -
Username: buniphuphu
Weigh In Day: Monday
Week: 1
SW: 345.4
PW: 335.5
CW: 334.56 -
Sunday
Calories: over/under: under
Water: over/under: over
Exercise: over 10000 steps
Goals more walking and weights2 -
Username: anido1
Weigh In Day: Monday
PW: 156
CW: 1562 -
Username: leonadixon
Weigh in day: Monday
PW (8/24/2020): 210.4
Check in weight (8/31): 210.6
Check in weight (9/7):
Check in weight (9/14):
Check in weight (9/21):
Check in weight (9/28):
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So hello and good evening. Here is 8 30 pm and i just finished my dinner.today i have eaten a lil bit more carbs than usual. I wanna stay around 1200-13500cal per day with 30 30 40 of macros. Do you think that is ok?
Chek in weight: 78.8 kg
Hope to arrive this month at least at 75...i will do my best...but i am not a very active person.a lot of housework but when i have time for exercise in the evening i am exausted.😣and always skipping😣😥
How do you guys manage this ? Have a great evening and see u tomorow😘🤗3 -
Welcome to all the new members. Looking forward to getting to know all of you
I'm Jackie. I live in Ontario, Canada with my husband of 30yrs and our 23yo son. Our 25yo daughter lives 6hrs away.
I don't follow any specific diet plan but I try to keep my carbs around 100g and avoid foods that raise my blood sugar.
I work in a chocolate factory and just started back to work this week. I'm trying to stay away from sugar completely since I can't seem to eat just a little so day 1 was a little rough
My goals for September are
1. No sugar
2. Weights 3x per week
3. 20 min of cardio per day.
4. At least 15k steps per day
5. Log my food
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Weigh in
Username: Jactop
Weigh In Day: Monday
PW (Previous Weight): 197
CW (Current Weight): 197
LTD (Loss to Date): 28 lbs4 -
Can you believe that it's almost September!! It's great to have so many new people from all over the world! I also like that many of us have our goals set for the month and several of you are planning to use the F2F September Habit Tracker.
Today, was a much better eating day for me. I went into work for a few hours and then grocery shopping. I broke my almost 20 hours fast with a cup of coffee with cream and Greek yogurt with pecans. For dinner, we had grilled hamburger patties with a green salad. I didn't get my workout done today but I was active so I'm counting it!
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I had a mum brain moment and posted this in the wrong thread
***DAILY CHECK IN - MONDAY 31ST AUGUST***
Calories: Under
Water: Over
Exercise: 30 mins walk, pushing my son in the stroller
Goals/Improvements for tomorrow: Track calories, 30 mins exercise.
@Jactop wow you must have some willpower! I would totally eat alllllll the chocolate! I'm sure I'd get sick of it soon enough but it would sure be hard to resist!3 -
@andreiya12 Sure, give the macros and calories a try and see how your body responds, if it doesn't work out in a few weeks switch it up to something that works better. I think trying something and testing is a good way to go, if there's one thing I learned it's being flexible and responding to my body is the best way to go and it's an ongoing process. What's best is to test one thing at a time but I'm usually doing a few things at once which means I never know which works best! For example if you're tired with those calories and macros you won't know if it had to do with the food balance or the calorie balance. As far as being tired I try to get my workouts done in the morning these days then wait for it to cool off a bit before I go outside to meditate. Cleaning is great exercise, if I don't want to work out I'll put on a song and dance to it while doing chores, it usually gives me the energy to keep going because I get so hyped up from music.
Monday check-in
Exercise- arm cardio, dance, chakra meditation, Kundalini meditation. I didn't feel like abs or yoga today so I said the heck with it for a change and just enjoyed being in the sun listening to cool music and sweating my butt off!
Calories- under
Water- great
Roughly have my September goals, I'm going to try to up dance, focus a bit more on meditation, and try to average 10,000 steps a day. All this will depend on how I'm recovering/what happens with the medical situation. I want to accomplish SOMETHING by my birthday and pushing the splits was just making the only thing from the waist-down, my ligaments, hurt along with the nerves so I'm backing off that a bit. Stupid body of mine though at least I can use it still! Keeping up the anti-inflammatory diet, I may go more strict that I'm currently doing but not quite yet, tomorrow I'm cutting back coffee by 1/3 as I've been drinking a ton.3 -
@andreiya12 I'm always exhausted in the evenings too and I never exercise at night. How I find time to exercise is I exercise first thing in the morning. Even if that means getting up 20 minutes early. Or, I take breaks during the day to exercise. If I have to, I'll break my exercise up into 3 10-minute sessions spread throughout the morning/afternoon. I hope this helps!
Hello all. I'm going to get a walk in with the dog this morning before the workers come to finish the flooring in the bathroom (this is a long time coming). It's going to be a stressful day: my dog doesn't like people in our house so he'll bark his head off the whole time unless I am in the bedroom with him. The only thing is I can't be in there with him because I have to work from home from 8-12!
I'll figure something out. Have a great day!
Monday
Calories: over/under: over
Water: over/under: under
Exercise: walk
Goals or Improvements for tomorrow: track everything, 2 bottles (26 oz) of water3 -
Hello and Happy September to all! I am Lisa, I'm 52, and I live in Jacksonville, FL with my husband. We just became mostly empty nesters as both kids are off to college now. I have been mentally checked out from my health goals for the past 20 days or so as I prepared for and adjusted to this event. Finding it harder than I thought to get back to good habits. Baby steps. I managed to log my breakfast only the past couple days- today I'm gonna get the whole day logged! I've been walking a lot during this time, but no other exercise. Today I restarted my strength training. We'll see how those muscles feel tomorrow.
My user name is Cornanda- that is a name I made up from "corn on the" cob. Anyone have something to say about the origins of their user name?4 -
Hi everyone - my name is Annie, 54, a Brit who has been living in the US since I got married in 1991. We have 2 sons, our 23 yr old lives in Asia & the 20 yr old is away at college, so we are also empty nesters. I am getting close to my initial goal of 160 and when I get there I'll re-assess. According to the "experts" my "normal" weight range is 126-170 so I may aim for the middle which is 148, but we shall see. One step at a time!
I was logging my meals on MFP to keep myself in check, but have become a bit lazy in that regard. I have been doing IF since January (sometimes 16:8, sometimes 18:6, occasionally 20:4) which has helped a lot. Also upping exercise - I completed the #Run757Challenge which involved running a total of 75.7 miles during the month of August & was pretty chuffed with myself!!
I didn't reach my goal of 160 by my birthday last week but maybe by the end of September?
This month's daily goals:- drink more water than tea & coffee
- go to bed before 11pm each night
- 10,000 steps a day
- do some form of additional exercise 5 days a week
- only drink alcohol at the weekend
- log my food on MFP
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Best of luck to everyone this month - it's a clean slate - let's do this!!!
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***DAILY CHECK IN - TUESDAY 1ST SEPTEMBER***
Calories: Under
Water: Over
Exercise: 20 mins yoga, 22 mins playing Beat Saber
Goals/Improvements for tomorrow: Track calories, 30 mins exercise.3 -
My user name is Cornanda- that is a name I made up from "corn on the" cob. Anyone have something to say about the origins of their user name?
Ha! How original!
My name is Christie, when I was little my uncles nicknamed me Twisty (which is short for twist-top, like a beer bottle is a twist-top). So I often use variations of Twisty or Twisted in my usernames online. Sassette is a female smurf who is kind of a tomboy but sometimes kinda girly, which is me also. So that's how I became TwistedSassette 5 -
GabiV125: is actually borderline boring, Gabi is my name short from Gabriela, V-letter last name, and 125 is my birthday 1/25.2
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My user name is Cornanda- that is a name I made up from "corn on the" cob. Anyone have something to say about the origins of their user name?
@Cornanda what a FUN question - and neato background on your user name! My name is Maria but I came up with raleighgirl09 in 2009 (duh) when I was looking for a good @gmail email address. I lived in Raleigh and plain ol' raleighgirl was taken so - I added the last 2 digits of the year. When I joined MFP, I had no clue there was a 'friends' aspect and that everyone would see me as my username. Had I known, you all would be calling me 'pharmgirl' which is a user name I use when I realize up front that it matters!4 -
Hey gang, have been reading up on the September chats, we're rockin' and rollin' already!
@andreiya12 I agree with @katmary71 - watching what works for you and then tweaking seems to be a cornerstone of success for many folks! I am not the best at evening exercise either and work to get up early as I always make my goals when I do that. Life being what it is - it doesn't always happen, such as today. But I was able to get out and get a shorter walk late in the day. That could be one strategy for you - when evening comes and you're tired, don't try for the 100% exercise routine. Do a shortie - a shorter walk or only 1 curcuit at the gym or....just a little of whatever you would normally do. I feel like even when I cut it short, I have still given some effort and not given up on myself and what I said I would do for me. And bonus - sometimes I do more than a little and feel proud I pushed through! And many times, like @trooworld I will break my exercise into smaller, more manageable breaks throughout the day when a longer period of walking is not going to fit into my day for whatever reason.gwamajtw91 wrote: »
I didn't reach my goal of 160 by my birthday last week but maybe by the end of September?
This month's daily goals:- drink more water than tea & coffee
- go to bed before 11pm each night
- 10,000 steps a day
- do some form of additional exercise 5 days a week
- only drink alcohol at the weekend
- log my food on MFP
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Best of luck to everyone this month - it's a clean slate - let's do this!!!
@gwamajtw91 oh my gosh - CHEERING you on for the goal by end of the month!! I absolutley love the simplicity of these goals - and I think this is a big peek into your success to date!
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raleighgirl09
Tuesday check in
Well, today was better for lower calories but dinner was more a junk fest than good for me food. Kinda reminds me of when I was single and would eat whatever - which is kinda the case this week as hubby has stayed at the coast while I had to come back to Raleigh. Odd fun fact....we have an Echo Show at both places so in the evening we call in and just leave it open so we can "be together" before bed. Strange, isn't it???? Kind of like Frank TV with only one channel!
Managed to get in some exercise today and hit the minimum for water - sleep wasn't great for today, what with an early rising hour. Looking to do a better job tomorrow with sodium, it was off the hook today - and on a day that I drove for 3 hours is the least best day for that. Always thinking ahead to the weigh in day and wondering if it will have an impact!
Had to get up super early and drive for 3 hours before arriving to work and then after the long day, came home to see what the flooding rain left us in the basement while we were gone and took care of that. BUT. Not before a GIANT spider on the door made me shriek so loud the neighbor came running thinking there was an intruder!! And indeed - a giant spider IS one helluva intruder!! I have now sprayed the perimeter of my house (not to mention soaking the front door and steps) and will be calling the bug people tomorrow. Last week there was one in the house and after I sprayed him, I had one of my boys come over to retrieve the body that I was skitteshly skirting around!!!
For any spider lovers and spider advocates - I totally get that we need spiders. And I respect them in their environment. BUT. I am also a 5 alarm arachnophobe and can attest that while the fear is irrational, it's also very real and a physical reaction. I have one rule - do not come in the house. All spiders who enter are breaking the rule and will be taken out upon discovery. No prisoners.3 -
That's me too, Kat for my nickname, Mary for my middle, 71 because I couldn't use the rest alone and had no idea what else to use, my email is the same!2 -
@raleighgirl09 I so hear you about spiders! I used to scream until my dad would come kill them. Being single and living alone I had to adjust but of course I'm in a house that gets black widows and I CAN'T adjust to those! I'm trying not to kill anything because it's bad for my karma but I'm next to a greenbelt and it's loaded with critters, especially ants and spiders. Every time I let a house centipede live it ends up on me which feels like spiders!
Tuesday check-in
Calories- right at, I'm over 10 but still have 300 steps to get 10,000 so I'll burn it. I REALLY want to eat but there's only so much veggies in salsa and sausages one can eat! Now if I could eat gluten and peanut butter it would be on!
Exercise- arm cardio, dance, arm resistant bands, stretching/yoga/leg resistance band stretches, chakra meditation, earth energy meditation
Water- great
Nothing new, kind of blue today. I'm going off one of my anti-depressants and not sure if that's why I'm kinda moody but I'm worn out of everyone needing me and not asking how I'm doing. Not the guy I'm seeing who doesn't really ask but listens and keeps being almost too nice, everyone else keeps dumping on me and needing stuff without much reciprocation. I don't mind listening to people's problems and helping them out until it's taken for granted, then I'm frustrated. Not sure if I set myself up for it or not, something to think about. It's not that I'm good at showing vulnerability because I'm pretty strong but come on people, I may not complain about it all the time but life isn't a piece of cake for me right now either. Got that off my chest, thanks! Now maybe I'll resist eating another sausage! I'm supposed to be drinking less caffeine and I'm going to be ahead by 1 cup as long as I don't get it out of the fridge tonight!4 -
GabiV125
Wednesday check in
PW 135lb
CW 133.2 lb
In short, I really let the step count slide and did not keep within my calories for half the week. Monday I dusted myself off and climbed back.
But I’m still sluggish and my sleep is way way off. I’m simply not built for VA type of summers, with temp 85-100+, and humidity 60-90%.
Monday I bought an IF book Fast, Feast, Repeat and per that I’m not doing it right. I have a 16-19h fast window, BUT I have coffee with milk every morning . I did not have breakfast for years and about a month ago I stopped having snacks (and extra meals) after dinner. I thought it’s IF, but maybe not.
Any advice is welcome .0
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