WaistAways - January 2021 Team Chat
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That's definitely a win, Sarah! Welcome to the group. I'm a haphazard poster since last January. Check in, read the comments - you'll glean tips and hints - and post when you can. Is that a cute cat on your shoulder in the pic?
Yes! That is my stepdaughters cat, Sawyer. He is cute, but also fat and can’t do that anymore!
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Met all goals. Steps 12,613.3
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Hello everyone!
Steps today 6,717
I wanted to have a lazy day again but I convinced myself to go for a walk.
I had a good day calorie wise and finished off the last of the ice cream cake from my son's birthday so that won't be tempting me anymore.
My grandmother has been having some health problems so my mom may go stay with her for a few days. Typically my mom is here with my son while hes remote learning so if she goes to stay with my grandmother, I may have to take a day or 2 off work, so hopefully that will be okay.3 -
PW: 211.4
CW: 210.5
I’m still going down even though I did very little last week. I call it a win.
I realize I never really introduced my self. I’m Sarah. I live in the middle of nowhere in Nebraska. I have 2 step children (20&14) and a 2 year old daughter. I love to bake and read. I don’t always check in, but I do read all the comments.
Welcome Sarah! Didn't you check in earlier and tell us you had Covid or was that someone else on the team? If it was you, how are you feeling? If it wasn't you, I am so sorry.
@Kali225 Way to go girlie!!! Congratulations!!!! You have been working so hard. Your steps are awesome and your dedication to your journey is amazing. Wahoooooo, 50.2 pounds!!
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@sarkrisd good to know a bit more about you! Being from the middle of nowhere is wonderful, especially these days. I am glad to be far off the beaten path and able to enjoy a lot of land between me and any neighbours. Your stepdaughter's cat needs to do whatever you're doing - first place last week, and still going down this week! Excellent work.
@MandiSaysHey I hope your schedule works out all right with your mother gone for a few days, and that your grandmother feels better soon. Hang in there! And keep taking those walks, even on lazy days
Here is the heads up notice for the Wednesday people:
@offitgoes
@PlaneMonkey
@AshenMoon
@evelynladams527
@KellyBgetsFit
@tschwery
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Met all goals. Steps 12,613.
You are doing so great every day! Keep up the great work.
Met my 9,000+ step goal today. Took a short walk with the short one. But I also did ballet with her, and bounced on my ball. That got me to a disco ball reward of 150 minute active minutes so far this week. I am ahead of my goal. Yay! Logged all my food. Pretty good day. Did have a brownie and sorbet for dessert.
@Gidgitgoescrazy So sorry to hear you were having so much pain. That's not fun and a little scary. Glad you found a work around. Hope you feel better soon. When is your start date for the new job?
@jugar My fingernails are also little paper thin finger coverings. Maybe I need something too.
@MandiSaysHey Hope your grandmother is feeling better soon.
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Barre3 class 45 minutes medium level 6391 steps2
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@Kali225 Congrats 👏 that is a huge milestone for you. Well done!
@micki48 You are doing a wonderful job and I can see how dedicated you are!
@MandiSaysHey Great job getting exercise when you would rather be lazy.
@jugar The squat challenge sounds tough! Glad you are getting snow. We have none😪
@Gidgitgoescrazy Hope you figure out the tummy stuff! That is no fun 😕
Today was busy! I may have been exposed to covid at work. Waiting for that person to get test results. Scrambled to put packets together because the entire therapy team might be out for 24 days quaritine Yikes! Saw all my kids at work, got my packets made, ran some errands after work and then went to Costco. Came home, had dinner, put kids to bed and then lifted weights. Just about ready for bed. Phew!6 -
I haven’t posted for awhile but just caught up on reading and wow lots of inspiration here!
So glad to be with this group!6 -
Good morning lovely Slimmers 🤗😊
Thank you very much for your lovely comments. I'm ok, it is what it is. I'm ready to move on now 😊
The strange part is that my husband lost his dad on 2nd January last year and I lost mine on the 6th January this year. My husband's birthday is on the 4th of January so he lost his dad two days before his birthday, my birthday was on the 12th January and I lost my dad five days before my birthday, what a coincidence 🤷
Anyway I'm back.
My life has changed, too. I gave up one of my part time jobs so I can spend more time with my family. The job wasn't really worth it. It was one hour a day, breakfast club in primary school. It took me 15 minutes to get there and 15 minutes back. When my boys used to attend that primary school it was worth for me going just to take them there. Now they are all in high school it is pointless for me working there. Now I can drive my boys to high school instead of them catching a bus. They are happy, they can have extra 20 minutes in bed 😂 Money wise, by the time I deduct the petrol money I'll only lose £50, so not too bad.
@jugar thank you for excusing me for the weigh in.
I'm really in good place diet wise. Also it is the time of the month so I'm hoping for great weight loss next Monday. I'm going to log my food, too. I have normal meal sections in my diary and I have one section of foods that are 'noughty' foods. I'll be using that section a bit I guess to start with 😂
Thank you again every one for your patience. If I'm not friend with you yet, you are welcome to invite me 😊
I'll do my best to be supportive ♥️
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@micki48 steps for January 12
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Hi everyone
We're having a takeaway for tea tonight (it's my birthday) and I've guesstimated the calories based on database entries. I looked at getting the food from a chain where I might be able to get accurate nutritional information, but the only local option I would have fancied is Wagamama and they're closed. We're not supposed to travel outside of our local area so that limits the options.
I don't have a birthday cake for possibly the first time in my life which kind of sucks but it was my choice. The one I wanted served 8, and there's just the two of us, and I don't want to be eating it for days, but then they didn't have any stock of cupcakes either. I made some lemon drizzle cupcakes at the weekend, so OH stuck a candle in one of those this morning and that'll do.
Whilst I wanted to do something to celebrate my birthday (and we're extremely limited due to lockdown) I also don't want to blow my calorie goal out of the water. It's not worry about gaining weight, it's that I've been doing so well sticking to it, and I want to keep on with that. I might make another concession and order rice, instead of chips, with my crispy chilli chicken.7 -
@jugar
PW 210.6
CW 209.4
Almost back to pre-holiday numbers. Behaviour is back on track at least! I'm going for a skate after French class today and before it gets too dark so that should burn a few calories. I've been walking around the house and doing random exercises with the free weights I have set up in the corner of the bedroom but haven't done a full workout yet due to some lingering back pain from last weekend. Hubby's co-worker's teenage daughter came over to skate and tried to teach me some figure skating jumps and spins. I'm a hockey player... The techniques are very different so I spent a lot of time picking myself back up off the ice after failed attempts. Hope to be all better by this weekend to do it again!4 -
@DD265 Happy Birthday ! That stinks not having a cake for your birthday, but a lemon drizzle cupcake sounds yummy !
@fuschiabolero Barre for 45 min ? I have an app that does Barre workouts, and I would die if I had to do 45 minutes... LOL So Kudos to you !
So I didn't get my exercise done like I had scheduled this morning, I actually woke up super early, so I thought I would try this new app I downloaded, called Fiton, and I even paid for the year subscription, (it was onsale)... Anyway, I really should have tried it first because I totally did not care for their version of cardio, so I wasted my morning trying 4 different workouts for about 5 minutes each.. I will give the other sections of the app a try before I completely give up, I am actually going to start an 8 week strength program on it, next week, so hopefully that suits me better, it's not that the cardio portion was bad, it's just not what I am used to at 5.30am, lol.
Yesterday was good, although I was way under calories, under enough I couldn't even close my day, but it doesn't happen often, so no biggie...
@micki48 I don't start the new job until Feb 2nd and I will be working from 9 till 5.30 - Now I work 7.30 till 4 - so this is going to be an adjustment, but atleast I will be able to get all of my workouts done in the morning and have plenty of time to shower, etc... This job I also have to dress business casual, whereas here it's a jeans and sneakers kinda place.. So I got to go shopping, that was fun ( I did it all online, I don't like shopping in store even when there isn't a pandemic). I also bought some books to brush up on my financial spreadsheets, and a book called Financial analyzing for dummies. So as you can see I am kinda excited..
Have a great day everyone !
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@jugar @micki48 @conleywoods thanks ladies!
I am still donning the tiara today - I (drumroll) got yoga done before I logged onto work!! Who am I. It was a quick practice today so maybe that helped mentally motivate.
@DD265 HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! A very strong-willed choice to forgo cake.
Another very long work day for me yesterday, but I have added another 3 miles ran to my January total the last 3 days, which is now 7.5/21 miles. My Panera dinner was delicious, just what I wanted, but ate it quite late. I cannot wait for February when work calms down again! I have my regular Zumba class at 5:30 which will be a good excuse to pause work. Hoping to get in a separate workout as well, although not sure what time that would end up being. This weekend will be one for NAPPING. I also did a haul of online clothes shopping post-holidays, so the weekend will also be for trying on new things, which I love to do now (a sharp shift from just a few years ago when I dreaded getting new clothes because I thought nothing would fit me. Progress!).
@Gidgitgoescrazy I love FitOn! My favorite trainers on there are Danielle, Sydney, and Kenta. Kenta has really good, not too long, arms videos and one of my fave cardio options - "Fat Burn Cardio." (It's tabata style, so if that isn't your groove, then ignore this haha). And Sydney has a lot of Barre and dance-style workouts that I really enjoy. (Core Barre and Booty Barre Toning are my top faves - killers). Which ones did you try that you weren't feeling?3 -
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PW 152.6
CW 154.8
My weight was really high last week due to my earing and period Thank you everyone for your kind words. 🥰3 -
Great morning for reading! You all are putting the smiles on my face this morning. I was feeling very serious before that
I can't get over how many Capricorns we have in this team - I may be missing some, but @ells_runs @eggfreak @DD265 and me. Happy BDs all! I will also plan to have no cake, unless I can give most of it away to my son. It will have to be a cake he likes! We do have an amazing gluten free upside down cake that I have been making from time to time (my husband has celiac disease) that might make an appearance, though. It is SO good, spicy, and not too sweet. And my husband will finish it fast!
@ells_runs your post is beautiful. I am glad you left that one small job - driving your kids to school will be wonderful time spent with them. I always found I had the best conversations with mine while there were in the car, especially while they were in high school. They like it better when we can't look them in the eye!
@Kali225 Who are you indeed! Sending off sparks like a comet! And giving me serious grief in the Fitbit steps challenge...
@Gidgitgoescrazy I can just picture you poring over your new books and trying on clothes for your upcoming job change. So exciting!
@happimess01 I don't like guns either, but this way I can impress my daughter (who is in the Canadian Army, go figure) without ever touching one
Don't make me come and pester you for weigh-ins, ok? Two late ones are @sodonovan74 and @Evallusion and all the remaining Wednesday people know who they are, right? Thanks!4
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