Waist Aways - October 2020 Team Chat
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@Terytha
They are good! Singing in tune, good sound, flashy guitar - what more could you ask? Oh yeah, they are hilarious! Yesterday I saw four young men out on the hiking trail with a 3 year-old boy. They looked like the kind of guys you'd see out partying, but they were having a blast with that kid. I could just picture them firing this song up for the kid's bedtime.
I'm glad you liked it. Brian, the one who doesn't sing, has a 6 year old daughter and I'm guessing she probably listens to this before bed.
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KellyBgetsfit wrote: »PW 150.6
CW 150.2
I'm bummed because Monday it was in the 140s and that would have exciting. I have been getting my workouts in this week, so there may be some water retention. 🤷♀️ I am pretty proud of my consistency, but I am worried my small losses the last two weeks will stop me from meeting my next goal by Thanksgiving. My plan was to reach this goal and then maintain for a month - I usually gain over the holidays so I thought maintaining would provide me some grace.
You're only into the 150s by a tiny smidge! And don't forget, it's still a loss. I know how disheartening it can be when you see a number you really like on the scale, only to have it disappear when you calculate the week's average. Just remember, you're still green!
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PW 171.4
CW 172.8
LTD 27.4
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Oh no! It's the mid-month slump for some.
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gahhhh....my eating has been bad. the temptations. If I know it's there, I'm not content until it's gone and no longer an option. I'm definitely in the camp of first step is just NOT to bring it in the house in the first place. Otherwise, it's so easy to pass right on by the healthy things I've prepped or stocked the fridge with.
BTW, loving the dill pickle snack options (but it still didn't beat the marble cake that is now gone).
Also, my weighing and logging has gone out the window for at least a month now...and yet MFP still reports that I've logged the last 28 days or whatever - I wonder if it's a way to get people to see more ads? Don't know, but it's a big lie, I won't take the credit.
Just finished up the last of the office work for the week and woo hoo it's on to the weekend. REASSESSMENT TIME - get moving and resume logging! I'll be working from home for the next three weeks - that takes extra preparation and maybe I'll spend part of this rainy Friday evening planning and prelogging my week - hah! maybe a little lame for a friday night but hey, it's covid time, I'm over 50, content with a warm cosy house, no wine still but I'll live, and I can go to bed early which I love.
Hey Rhonda!, @evangsimmons170, you hanging in there okay? You and a few others on here have a LOT of juggling to do, hope all's well.3 -
@eggfreak
Ah, Sylvia - the siren songs are getting us these days, eh? Pickles help, but sadly there are many things they just can't possibly out-sing. And those days logged? It does not mean that you logged your food or exercise. It just means you logged onto MFP for any purpose at all. So take credit for those days - you were here even if you weren't logging! Stay warm and cozy, and we'll get cracking on those plans. I'm finding the increased indoor time is not easy to manage. Sigh. As you say, we have a lot to be grateful for.
So! update on the end of week 2 weigh-ins. I know you have all just been waiting for this to appear!
Remaining Friday weigh-ins due:
@evangsimmons170
@BaileyCat88 (missing you!)
@Steph1498
@gracermom and @joijumper - last chance! You have not weighed in since joining, and we hope you'll still find us. If not, you will be dropped from the team.
Heads up for Saturday:
@Gidgitgoescrazy
@Terytha
@Micki48
@lovethyneighbor
@spyro88
Hoping for news, stories, questions, and general chitchat along with the numbers
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Today everything got away from me -- food and time. I got to the gym this morning and we got our winter tires on our vehicles. But after that I didn't get anything else on my list accomplished. By evening I was so frustrated that my snack resistance was non-existent! So all my chores will still be there tomorrow and I need to get my eating back on track...5
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PW: 92.3
CW: 91.6
LTD: 6.4kg
Woop! A decent loss and I feel like I worked hard for it this week. Nearly 3 months now since I started this journey and I'm really feeling some benefits.
I also just want to say, I love this group so much. I'm feeling very warmly towards you all despite this being just an online forum and not actually knowing any of you "in real life". I really love catching up on the chit chat and @Terytha that music vid was great, I am definitely gonna look more into that band!
It's really working to keep me motivated and upbeat and is succeeding where the real life groups I've been to have failed! I think there's something great about being able to come on here in our own time when we feel like it... not having to attend a slimming group at a set time after work or something when we're all tired and frankly can't be bothered!
So... yeah... just a big thanks to @jugar and @micki48 really and everyone here!
Quick update also, my partner's MRI scan went OK, but he was a little traumatised afterwards as he found it very dehumanising and that the staff didn't have a good bedside manner with him... so that was a bit sad yesterday. He's been in and out of hospital his whole life with a long term condition and he was getting really down about the whole thing So I've been trying to be super supportive. I think feeling good in myself physically is actually enabling me to be more present for him. There are so many benefits to this outside of the way we look - it affects our whole lives!
So, keep going everyone, and have a good weekend x7 -
CanadianGiraffe wrote: »Today everything got away from me -- food and time. I got to the gym this morning and we got our winter tires on our vehicles. But after that I didn't get anything else on my list accomplished. By evening I was so frustrated that my snack resistance was non-existent! So all my chores will still be there tomorrow and I need to get my eating back on track...
I am a list person too (otherwise I feel listless?
). Lately I am becoming more and more satisfied if I cross even one or two things off my list - the days do just disappear and maybe it would be better to break lists down into long, mid & short term items or 'would like to do' and 'must do'.....nah, too many pieces of paper.
I'm finding too that I get through the day eating well and then....boom something snaps and I'm wolfing down poor choices. BACK ON TRACK - nice rainy day today - we've had such a drought, I'm happy for the good soaking.
@jugar, thanks for clearing up the mystery behind the logging thing - I presumed it meant logging food.2 -
Pw 164.2
Cw 162.2
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@spyro88
Thanks for the love letter to our team! I assure you, it is not just the captains. We are so lucky that the people who stick with us here are open, interested and interesting, ready to try things, and just plain cool. Thanks also for explaining one more "NSV" - the way losing weight, getting fit, and feeling so much better about ourselves has an impact on so many aspects of our lives. Your understanding and support of your partner helps everyone around you. And congrats on the good losses! Yes, the scale helps
@CanadianGiraffe
The things will wait for you. Two things done, and really important ones too, are a win in my books. That reminds me - I have to make an appointment to get my winter tires on too... The snacks will win from time to time, but you know how to step away from them and get yourself feeling better. Take some really deep breaths, drink a long glass of water slowly, and off you go.
@eggfreak
lists. aren't they amazing? I have been using a planner this year, not always consistently, but enough to learn what it can help and what it can't. I really enjoy it. I used to need one for work, of course, and I had an amazing filing system with daily folders for the current month, monthly folders for the rest. But after I retired, I stopped planning altogether, and got really lost in the nothingness, especially since the pandemic started and I can't go places. Now I use my planner a lot - and learn from those things I insist I am going to do and do not do. It forces me to think of the whys and why nots, but mostly it helps me get those daily and weekly tasks taken care of without forgetting too many of them.
great losses rolling in - WTG!
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PW: 170
CW: 168
I'm off those nasty stomach pills, not retaining water, and losing again. I think I'm set to about half a pound a week, which is fine. I don't need to lose fast as long as I lose eventually.
I found a sweater my mom gave me once and wore it to work and got so many compliments. It hasn't fit in like 6 years, so it gives me warm and bittersweet feelings to wear it again. I miss her clothing advice. I'm not nearly as good at business appropriate fashion as she was.8 -
PW: 163
CW: 161.8
Oh I am definitely a list person. I don’t know else to do life. I have lists for my lists... 🤣🤣🤣
This week I created a new list to keep myself on target with my October goal to get below 160. Things were going well until Friday night. Now I need to go refer to my lists again. It’s honestly the only way to remind myself of the why and how and when. If the list is in my face even better.9 -
Step & exercise update for 16th October:
Steps 4928 including 25 minute run2 -
Hey Rhonda!, @evangsimmons170, you hanging in there okay? You and a few others on here have a LOT of juggling to do, hope all's well.
Thanks for checking up on me, @eggfreak
I'm hanging in there. Not sure how well I'm juggling considering I had to get an extension on my 2 doctoral courses because I got behind thanks to the craziness of my full-time job as an assistant principal dealing with the behavior class with the emotionally disturbed kids. I find that part of my job absolutely draining on so many levels. Anyway, the bright spot in my whirlwind life right now is that things are going very well with dating my ex-husband. The older versions of us seem to be working far better than the younger versions, that's for sure. We're enjoying the journey.
@jugar here's by weigh-in:
PW: 337.2
CW 341.6
Yeah, it's been a rough week!
I hope everyone is doing well. I have not been keeping up with the posts this month, and I'm sorry about that. Life has got to get better than this real soon!
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@evangsimmons170
So halppy to see you!! It sounds like things have been rough, but I am glad to hear about the bright spot. A few months ago when you started seeing your ex again it sounded good, and it is wonderful to hear that it is continuing to go well. I hope things calm down for you one of these days. And don't worry too much about your doctoral course extensions - if your supervisors cannot see that you are juggling umpteen simultaneous flaming torches, they don't deserve you! 2 -
Saturday
PW 192.4
CW 192.6
I’m sure it was a tiny loss later. 😉3 -
Amen, sister!There are so many benefits to this outside of the way we look - it affects our whole lives!
I bet she would be glad to know that something she gave you is making you feel good today.I found a sweater my mom gave me once and wore it to work and got so many compliments. It hasn't fit in like 6 years, so it gives me warm and bittersweet feelings to wear it again. I miss her clothing advice. I'm not nearly as good at business appropriate fashion as she was.
My day was better. We got most of the Christmas lights up in the yard. The theory is that it is always better to do it before it gets too cold. But it was already -12C (10 F) with the wind chill so not sure we picked the best day for it. We don't turn them on until the first Sunday in Advent but it feels good to have them mostly done.
Also enjoying all the list makers of the world standing up to be recognized! I don't think I would get anything accomplished without my lists!
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Here it comes - the Saturday Night Nag!
Last call for week 2 weigh-ins:
@coll7246
@gracermom
@joijumper
@lovethyneighbor
Hope to see your weigh-ins by 8 am Eastern tomorrow! That's Sunday.
Then our wonderful Sunday people can start in on week 3!
@YinxFed
@krcapone78
@travisspring
@mbakhtiaruz
@graceojo999
Thanks for all your lovely numbers2 -
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PW 27sep: 65.9kg (145.2lbs)
PW 4oct: 65.3kg (143.96lbs)
PW 11oct: 64.2kg (141.54 lbs)
CW 18oct: 63.8kg (140.65lbs)
LTD: 2.1kg (4.63lbs)
This week I was too busy with work to be able to cook and my husband cooked more high carb food and we had minimal vegi portions, and my movements were minimal, so I expected to not lose too much. But this is the first time in the past two years that I am at this weight, so I am happy that I've joined this challenge.
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Happy Sunday Fabulous Friends!
PW - 183.1
CW - 183.0
Another week with the tiniest of losses, but still a loss, which means another GREEN. (Can you see me doing my "I'm in the Green" dance 💃?)
And I went for a walk/run after our morning family call - still alternate walking and running for each track that plays through my headphones).
Have a lovely day 😘6 -
to all the Canadian crew....I just have to report that I've spotted my first junco of the season in Massachusetts...for me it marks the beginning of winter. It cracks me up that they migrate from Canada to us...because our winters are milder (?) One of my favorite birds, such a modest little beauty.2
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to all the Canadian crew....I just have to report that I've spotted my first junco of the season in Massachusetts...for me it marks the beginning of winter. It cracks me up that they migrate from Canada to us...because our winters are milder (?) One of my favorite birds, such a modest little beauty.
It certainly is milder in Massachusetts than here! Having lived in both places, I can assure you - and the juncos are still coming. They got here a couple of weeks ago, and are still chowing down under the feeder. Fattening up for the trip. I love those little guys too. I think they hang out a lot farther north than here during the summer, so they must like it cold. Maybe there are fewer cats stalking them up there too
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WaistAways! We are still in the top 3 this week Congrats to our top 3 in the team:
@mbakhtiaruz
@travisspring
@ells_runs
Don't let it go to your heads, now! Keep on going in the same direction, ok?4 -
The Green Challenge Percentage of people who lost weight this week. No matter how small the loss the weights are recorded in green. Remember that even if your team doesn’t rank the highest in weight loss for the week you can still be the Green Percentage winner by having the most losses in your team! So keep it up!! 
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Steps/workouts
Sun 17,669
30 min interval
Mon 13,111
15 min strength
Tues 12,436
25 min cardio
Wed 9,526
30 min Barre
Thurs 12,444
30 min Strength
Fri 13,325
Sat 15,733
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