WaistAways - January 2021 Team Chat
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I'm having another crazy-about-winter day today. Those of you who put up with me last winter will know it's true! Today was the first wild toboggan ride down my half-mile long driveway to get to my car parked at the bottom to go grocery shopping. It is quite a steep switchback - used to be a logging road - and it is a total blast when the snow is new and deep enough to slow you down. Once it gets packed, it is SO fast - I have a particular pair of boots I wear when it is like that and I need to drag them off the back of the toboggan to keep from reaching escape velocity. The price for the fun ride down the hill? Dragging the groceries back up the hill on said toboggan. I even like that part. It is a good heart pounding trudge, the views are great, the animal tracks interesting. Of course the groceries get unloaded and lunch has been earned! I hope you all have some exercise you enjoy as much as that. You have permission to remind me of this when I'm griping about the times it gets really icy and is not any fun at ALL.
Tuesday weigh-ins!
@Kali225
@sarkrisd
Already due weigh-ins!
@sodonovan74
@Evallusion
@ells_runs
@fuschiabolero
I know, I know - nag, nag, nag...
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@jugar oh there’s a stepping team. Do we sign up? I can use the motivation. I’m new here and trying to figure out what all I am supposed to do.2 -
25 + Lbs Lost
@azkunk
@Bluetail6
40 + Lbs Lost
@draby2011
@KUMEcyclingteam
50 + Lbs Lost
@littleflutterby
60 + Lbs Lost
@Beautyofdreams
MILESTONES
Under 175
@CurvyCalorie
ONEDERLAND
@tazaria
@spyro88
@floecity
Under 225
@MandiSaysHey
Under 250
@888Angie888
@ewilhelm2487
Under 275
@happimess01
TWOTERVILLE
@davidji82
Sorry David.... couldn't find a graphic
Under 325
@lelbarou
@littleflutterby
Congratulations @izzyred94006 -
I am not sure I am doing this right. Do we report everything at once or private message exercise separately? I also thought reporting started on the 4th because of the tracker. Sorry - newbie confusion.
PW - 182
CW - 181.4
1/1 - step aerobics 45 min (high-med intensity)
1/2 - 7,209 steps
1/3- Bodypump Barbell class 60 min (high)
1/4 - Barre3 class 45 min (low-medium intensity)
Please let me know if I need to do this differently. Have a great night everyone!4 -
@sarkrisd so sorry to hear you have covid, hope you recover quickly! ❤1
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Well today was an exhausting day!!! I worked until 515.. hour drive home... get youngest to cheer competition by 7... home at 830... walk 1 mile!! Unfortunately I didn’t go as far as I wanted to this evening but at least I did something... that is all for tonight folks, carry on6
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Steps for monday: 10,334
I didnt walk as much as I wanted at work today because I was working on a project that had me tied to one area most of the day. But, i was out of milk and really wanted a milkshake so after work i ran into the grocery store to get milk and a couple other things which put me over my 10k steps. Woo!
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fuschiabolero wrote: »I am not sure I am doing this right. Do we report everything at once or private message exercise separately? I also thought reporting started on the 4th because of the tracker. Sorry - newbie confusion.
PW - 182
CW - 181.4
1/1 - step aerobics 45 min (high-med intensity)
1/2 - 7,209 steps
1/3- Bodypump Barbell class 60 min (high)
1/4 - Barre3 class 45 min (low-medium intensity)
Please let me know if I need to do this differently. Have a great night everyone!
Hi Ana! No worries about newbie confusion - it happened to every single one of us at first.
Everything happens here on this team chat. Once a week (on Mondays for you, unless you want to change to a different day), post your weight. If you forget your previous one or anything, don't worry - as long as I get the new number each week, that's great! Then I record those in the F2F spreadsheet.
For exercise, you report that any time you want - daily, weekly, every few days - whatever works, as long as it is all up to day by Sunday mornings. Our weeks run from Sunday through Saturday. This is week 1 January 3 - 9.
Reporting started on the 3rd (Sunday), so you are now all up to date, and off to a great start!4 -
Evallusion
Sunday
PW: 173
CW: 173
Sorry for being late. Didnt know where to go.4 -
@sarkrisd Sorry you are 😷 sick. Wishing you a speedy recovery.
@Gidgitgoescrazy and @MandiSaysHey Love the new pics!
@CurvyCalorie and @happimess01 Great job on the new milestone celebrations!
I have been trying really hard lately but I'm having trouble with late night eating. I had a gain on the scale today and I am trying to remind myself to take it one day at a time.
Today was no late night snacking. Food was good today. I tried to keep low carb for breakfast and lunch and use my carbs in the evening. That worked really well today. My mother in law joined my daughter and I for about 45 minutes of ballet. Our wood stove got a little warm so it's a new trend, hot ballet. Phew!5 -
Here is how I'm currently dealing with my run away thoughts when the scale goes up.9 -
So sorry for the late reply, time zone is killing!!
sodonovan74
Sunday
PW: 159
CW: 1594 -
@sarkrisd I hope you get over it quickly.
I finally had a better night's sleep - not perfect but better. Maybe being back in the work routine is helping. I did have restless legs though and that's always a problem for me after a step up in workout intensity. Yesterday was 30 minutes of resistance bands and body weight exercises, focused mainly on glutes and core.
England is back in a national lockdown for at least 6 weeks so that's fun. It doesn't affect us too much; we were working from home anyway, no children, but we won't be seeing family any time soon as we're not local to them and it means my running group have to pair off again. The positives are that I spend less - as non-essential retail/hospitality are all closed - and I eat less as I'm not walking past tempting snacks, or feeling like I can make a specific trip to get them.
Unless OH comes for his first run in a year, I shall be going on my own tonight - the first time since I got into running again in November. I'm adamant that I won't skip it just to avoid being a billy no mates.7 -
OMG my anxiety is off the charts, I am turning in my notice today, and being that I am the type of person who takes things personally and never wants to rock the boat, I know this is going to be extremely tough for me, and there will be tears, but I am taking a " I don't care" pill a little bit before I do it, so hopefully it will go well...
I did not get to Yoga yesterday, when I got home, I discovered my son ate what I had planned for dinner, then I got the Handbook and benefits package from the new job, so I reviewed that, then the son made me tacos, by then it was 7.30 - so I just took a shower and chilled...
But my food was good, and that is my #1 focus this month, so I am not going to even worry about it.
This morning I did 30 min of aerobics, tonight is Strength training day... I might make up my yoga afterwards, or even before, and I might make it a restorative one, to get off some of this stress and anxiety I have..
Change is hard....8 -
Tuesday Weigh-In
PW: 188.3
CW: 189.1
Not green, but still under the dreaded previous "decade" so I will take it - especially after NYE and a new weigh-in day for me!
I finally followed through on my plan yesterday - first real workout of 2021, and it was a sweaaaty 65 min HIIT. My arms and chest and back are definitely sore, but not crazy so. It's a very gray day here today so I am going to try to get my steps mostly done on my lunch break. I also want to finish a book I started late last year today.5 -
Evallusion wrote: »Evallusion
Sunday
PW: 173
CW: 173
Sorry for being late. Didnt know where to go.
So glad you made it! It is confusing at first, especially with MFP's group sign-up issues that started last month and seem to have gotten even worse. Be sure to mark the F2F home page as a favourite (star) so that you can always get there easily. Under "Announcements" are all the threads for everyone on any of our teams (group challenges, recipes, ideas, etc.) and under "Discussions" are the team chat threads so you will always be able to find Team WaistAways.
When you have a minute, tell us a bit about yourself!sodonovan74 wrote: »So sorry for the late reply, time zone is killing!!
sodonovan74
Sunday
PW: 159
CW: 159
Don't sweat the timing - we have members in so many time zones I do not worry about the exact time, except for the Saturday people who really need to have everything in before I do tallies on Sunday mornings. I just make the reminders in my own time zone, so it might not fit everyone! Where are you?I finally followed through on my plan yesterday - first real workout of 2021, and it was a sweaaaty 65 min HIIT. My arms and chest and back are definitely sore, but not crazy so. It's a very gray day here today so I am going to try to get my steps mostly done on my lunch break. I also want to finish a book I started late last year today.
You are on fire! 65 minutes of HIIT is seriously long! It will give you a juicy big number of equivalent steps, though
@conleywoods
I love your points about the ups and downs of that danged # on the scale, speaking of numbers. Our bodies have many mysterious ways of being. We have many other ways of measuring how things are on the short term (how we feel, how things fit, how we sleep, etc.), and the longer term is where the weight number starts to have some significance. It is no straight path, that's for sure!
@Gidgitgoescrazy
You will make it! I just know you have a pair of kick*kitten* pants in your wardrobe, and doing something to make things better for you will make your work friends proud, even if they are sad you are leaving. You are doing great!!!
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CW: 211.4
I know that this has to do with not drinking as much pop. Hopefully I can start to fill better and actually start exercising soon.5 -
Its great to see all the new faces and hear the energy in the posts! Yeah!
Here's my intro for this month - I'm Stephanie. Originally from Oklahoma but living in Luxembourg for the next few years due to my husbands work. We have three kids, two here and my oldest son is in the US. I am not working here and its driving me a little crazy so I am starting to look for a job again to get back into my career.
I'm working to lose 15 pounds by June 2021. I like to run and hike and have just figured out that my eating (and drinking) really affects my weight. SO this year I am focusing on eating real food and only eating when I am actually hungry.7 -
Oh, a little about myself.
I'm from NJ. I am a former Head Librarian/Library Director. Now I'm a stay at home mom of 3 little girls and 1 boy (if you include my husband). I love books, movies, video games and hiking. This is my first time really struggling with my weight. I'm the "eat whatever she wants and doesn't gain a thing" girl...or well I used to be. My last pregnancy I had hyperemesis gravidarum so bad I was given an in-home nurse and had to inject my self with a Zofran pump everyday, twice a day. So after delivery, I...ATE...EVERY...THING...IN...SIGHT! Reese cups and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are my Kryptonite. So here I am...about 40 pounds later, trying to get back to the old me.
Hello everyone!5 -
conleywoods wrote: »
Here is how I'm currently dealing with my run away thoughts when the scale goes up.
Is that an Erin Condren planner I see? I have a bit of a planner, sticker and washi tape obsession.4 -
Met all goals today. Steps 12,299.5
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Today was a bit quiet. Too quiet - did not get out and do much stepping or anything else, and had trouble stopping at "enough!" at dinner and after. So there will be exercise biking tonight! I still feel not quite back to normal after all the different eating over the holidays. Tomorrow will be more outdoors and more joyful movement - it always helps.
I am waiting for this year's planner to arrive so I can start my own chaotic and not really organised way of planning and reflecting on things. Curse Canada Post! Hopefully it will arrive soon.
Let's get ready for Wednesday, shall we? Looking forward to getting all kinds of lovely weigh-ins:
@offitgoes
@PlaneMonkey
@AshenMoon
@evelynladams527
@KellyBgetsFit
@tschwery
Just to be clear - "lovely" does not necessarily mean a big loss or even a small one - gains are good information and can help steer the next week. And, as @conleywoods so aptly reminded us - sometimes our bodies just do weird things. So all numbers are lovely
even if sometimes we let them get us down. 5 -
I found this over in the Habit Tracker thread! No problem - here it is where it belongs
Greetings Team Waistaways!
So here's my little intro for the new teammates - and a reminder for everyone else!
My name is Yinka, I'm 57 and married with a grown up son. I am an online English language teacher and I live with my husband in a lovely Georgian town called Bewdley in Worcestershire UK. We also have a little cantankerous doggie called Edie. She's a grand old lady so we forgive her her little peccadilloes.
I lost about 30lb a few years ago, but I've managed to put most of it back on in the last few years. The menopause doesn't help! I'm currently the heaviest that I've been for a long time and I'm not happy, so I need to make some real hard changes.
I work out between 5 and 6 times a week for at least 30 minutes each day and I love it. My problems lie in not drinking enough water and sometimes just eating too much. Checking in with myself before I eat is starting to work.
And I have bought a new water bottle - this one has an integrated straw and it's a real game changer! I'm trying to get at least 7 hours of sleep each night. This is an area that I'm still working on.
I've been with the Waistaways for more than a year now. I do love this group, they're all so supportive.
@micki48 sorry that I haven't updated you with last week's steps and activities - here they are:
27/12 - 3672
28/12 - 5494 & 37 minutes HIIT & General Aerobics
29/12 - 2627
30/12 - 7008 & 42 minutes HIIT & General Aerobics
31/12 - 6506 & 43 minutes HIIT & General Aerobics
01/01 - 3068
02/01 - 6684 & 28 minutes Dance
And can I stay in the steppers group please? My target is still 6000 steps a day.
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step aerobics 60 minutes -Kick your butt hard but the 80s music kept me going!
Have a great day/night/morning everyone!4 -
Back to work today. Felt determined. Got my goal met today. Steps for yesterday 12,124. Steps for today 12,118.
Sunny, glad to have you on the step team. Please let me know what your daily goal is when you get a chance.
@fuschiabolero Please let me know your daily step goal as well. Thanks.0 -
@micki48 steps for January 5
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Happy Tuesday (now that it's just about over)! Today was pretty good. Talk to both of my kids. Daughter is clear for Covid. Son and gf just found out they were exposed on NYE and are waiting test results. Never think your bubble is safe. Tomorrow I will most likely get to visit with my Juliet. Very excited!
I did 16 minutes of Pilates this morning. Keep working those muscles. I've been doing good logging food, but have a little more to add. I think I'm ok with my water, but I should probably be more deliberate and measure. I am not quite at my step goal. Probably won't get there today. At this late hour, I am about 4,000 behind.
Oh well, try harder tomorrow.
I am finding it hard to get enough protein with out getting too much fat. Anyone have any suggestions for good protein foods that are low in fat?
Protein definitely is key in keeping me feeling full. I have cut carbs somewhat.
Hope you are all having a good week, making good choices. Go team!!5 -
@micki48 I really like Polly-o 2% reduced fat string cheese for protein with my lunches - 6-7g of protein, but 4g of fat? Not sure where that would rank with other foods for you but it seems pretty low-fat to me. I have also added fat free feta cheese to my salads this week and I am loving the saltiness - virtually no fat in that guy. Chickpeas also maybe? But I suck at cooking those. My falafels were terrible and couldn't get them to crisp up in a hot oven either. Not the protein for me!
I followed the trend and changed my profile pic. My last one was from late 2019 and I was definitely trying to hide my body in the background and my puffy vest. No more of that!
Two days in a row for working out and my Wednesday & Thursdays include an actual scheduled workout with other people so those should get in the books, too. However, I've been working out pretty late and then eating dinner - feeling good - and then once I get into bed, I get snacky. Ideally, I would workout earlier in the day but 1. I procrastinate and 2. my workload is going to get way more intense when year-end data hits this Thursday so I will not have any flexibility within the work day for a few weeks. I wish I was the type of person who just woke up in the morning with the first alarm. But I am a snooze-12-times kind of gal. Humph.5
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