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  • DD265
    DD265 Posts: 651 Member
    PW: 81.2
    CW 81.1

    I've been here or just above for a little while now - hoping to drop below 81 this week!
  • conleywoods
    conleywoods Posts: 986 Member
    Hi everyone!

    @Terytha Ha! Loved all those movies too! I hope you are able to start feeling better soon. Great news on the stomach issues getting close to being solved! Hopefully the job stuff will get better. Keep walking! Have you ever seen the cat strollers? You zip your kitty inside a mesh compartment and stroll them around! My sister in law use to take her cat out it one.

    @PlaneMonkey That is a ton of work! It looks great and your house is beautiful 😍

    @KellyBgetsfit Nice work on more lost inches!

    I had a good exercise weekend but not the best food weekend. I think I finally relaxed about work and really let the sweets pile on! Back on track today. I'm up early today thanks to my doggie. Made the most of it and did a pilates reformer workout for 45 minutes.
  • jugar
    jugar Posts: 10,262 Member
    The usual wild Monday!
    I have my riding coaching sessions on Mondays, so that is always a lot of nervous anticipation, intense work, and (usually) some pretty big revelations and wow moments. Today was tough on the balance issues I am still struggling with since my buttock injury, surgery, and recovery - my lower back is still uneven, and I hold my weight off that side whenever things get tricky. It's getting a lot better, though, and today we had some good jumping (low!) series, better control of stride, and giving up on trying to control everything. This is a horse who knows what he is doing, so I did better when I left more of the details to him and just concentrated on the big picture. I was exhausted and hungry by the end, and had not had enough water, so good reminder on that too - snack first and drink lots more H2O!

    Food went much better yesterday and today. Last week I went a bit loosy-goosy with the flourfatsugar and had a lot of trouble stopping after starting to eat. Reasonable portions went out the window. MUCH better today - gotta rein that stuff in! It is amazing how quickly my resting pulse increases, and stamina falls when I eat too much of that evil (yummy) stuff. Hmmph.

    Steps are all in - report on the way shortly!
  • jugar
    jugar Posts: 10,262 Member
    Step/Exercise Team Report for May 2021, Week 2!
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    All this talk about boats has me seeing beaches. The team trekked 484,620 steps this week. If we had walked along the beach... we would have covered 207.7 miles or 346.2 km as a team of 7 people. That would have given us a fantastic round-trip walk along Cox's Bazar Beach in Bangladesh - the longest natural sea beach in the world. Check it out -
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    So who are the top 3?

    @jugar - 101,932 steps
    @KellyBgetsfit - 89,784 steps
    @micki48 - 68,729 steps

    Well done!! Anyone who wants to join the fun and get us over 500,000 steps for this week is welcome!
  • ashleycarole86
    ashleycarole86 Posts: 6,303 Member
    There are certain things I'm just going to HAVE to try based on this group's interests.. Pilates for one and horseback riding for a real stretch goal someday. Oh, and pickleball @micki48 .. I love racquet sports :)

    @jugar well, speaking of boats.. Brad and I just got back from ours. As it's a new boat for us there is a lots to learn - how to best put on the cover, keeping it clean, opening and closing the Bimini top, all things that actually require a lot of squatting, bending, and maneuvering. I was commenting tonight that had he and I not started to work on ourselves earlier this year that this boat work would feel like way too big of a chore.

    My favorite thing about the weight I've lost so far continues to be all the increased energy I have just just live life!! Man oh man it's great to not be tired all the time.
  • conleywoods
    conleywoods Posts: 986 Member
    @jugar Glad to hear you are keeping after it and with a good horse who knows what to do! Hopefully you'll even out sooner rather than later. I have only done jumping once and it was a lot of fun. It is one of my favorite memories growing up. My sister and I got to go to an overnight horse camp with all kinds of classes including jumping. After a long day of riding we got to go to the neighbors house and swim. The neighbors house was owned by Bruce Willis so we got to swim in a famous person's pool! Hehe

    Today I was good for exercise and calories. Getting on track after the weekend! Just going to let it go and move forward.

    Great job step team! That is a lot of walking. I think I would walk more if most of my walking was done on a sandy beach.
  • jugar
    jugar Posts: 10,262 Member
    Happy Tuesday!

    Another beautiful day, and some inspiring posts from you wonderful people. I gotta say, though, that swimming in a pool owned by Bruce Willis after riding horses all day sounds amazing!!! Thanks @conleywoods for that. Lucky you! Just about the only time I like to swim (or mess about in the water, really I can't swim worth beans) is after a really sweaty, dusty ride.

    @ashleycarole86 - hats off! Looking back a year or more when you have made progress but kind of forget how far you have come is worthy of a light bulb glowing over your head. Enjoy those little moments - squatting more easily, lifting stuff, bounding up the stairs - all that stuff that used to be harder. If you're just starting out, look forward to these! I'll never forget the first time I was carrying one 15 pound dumbbell in each hand, walking over to a free area in the gym. It struck me that I had weighed that much a few months before. I thanked my knees and feet for the hard work they had been doing! Then when I got to 40 pounds down, I did it on purpose, just to remind myself of how far I came. For some of you amazing losers, you could carry a whole me around! Looking at you @happimess01 and @terytha . For now, though, I think I'll stick to letting a big ol' horse do the heavy lifting, ok? :wink:

    OK - sun's out. My first salad to include some baby greens from my garden is happening for lunch, and I'm already looking forward to it. :smiley:

    What's up?
  • DD265
    DD265 Posts: 651 Member
    edited May 2021
    Hey all

    Tuesday afternoon here - we just got invited for our first Covid jabs, so booked in for next Wednesday. I'll be a nervous wreck when the time comes but by all accounts the injection isn't that bad. As long as we don't get any side effects which derail my running or our plans that weekend I'll be fine.

    I finally dropped under 81kg this morning so happy with that but I'm struggling with wants at the moment. I've been this way a few days and I'm eating back exercise calories daily, craving salt and/or sugar. My 1-a-day rule has gone out of the window. I think it could be stress related as the change in restrictions might be positive change but it's still change, could also be PMS I suppose but it's not normally this bad. I'm trying to up my water intake, but I'm not sure whether to:

    - eat exercise calories daily (current approach... walking after work to earn some!)
    - track 'weekly' so that overall for the week I'm in a deficit
    - have a day at maintenance
    - have a day where I go over maintenance calories
    - something else I haven't thought of

    I've not gone over my calorie goal once this year (since I started on 1st Jan), but I'm not sure that eating all the sugar/salt is going to "cure" me. What works for you guys when you feel this way out?

    Also I need to find an alternative to the word 'but'. I apologise for the amount of 'but' in my post!
  • Terytha
    Terytha Posts: 2,097 Member
    My stress is so high for the silliest reason you guys.

    My 10th wedding anniversary is in just three weeks and I have no idea what gift to get him. And since I already know what he got me I'm feeling extra inadequate.

    It's silly but it's actually seriously stressing me out. Also I feel weird about year 10. I was only 17 when we met. I basically don't feel any different as a person either. I'm an adult in name only.

    Anyways. I finally found some non-gross protein powder so this upcoming weekend I'll be playing with those recipes again. Protein cupcakes are only like 80 calories each I hear.
  • Terytha
    Terytha Posts: 2,097 Member
    ashleycarole86 wrote: »

    @Terytha Congrats on the upcoming milestone and sorry for the stress... is gifting something that normally stresses you or is it a new stressor related to how you've been feeling overall as of late? I also stress about gifting and feelings of inadequacies around "getting the right thing", so I can empathize. How did you find out what he got you already?

    Gifting is generally stressful for me since I'm bad at it. -_-

    I know because he told me, since there might be a slight delay. He paid my favorite singer to sing me a song, like omg. But said singer has a chest cold and can't sing right now so it'll have to wait until he's better.
  • jugar
    jugar Posts: 10,262 Member
    DD265 wrote: »
    Hey all

    Tuesday afternoon here - we just got invited for our first Covid jabs, so booked in for next Wednesday. I'll be a nervous wreck when the time comes but by all accounts the injection isn't that bad. As long as we don't get any side effects which derail my running or our plans that weekend I'll be fine.

    I finally dropped under 81kg this morning so happy with that but I'm struggling with wants at the moment. I've been this way a few days and I'm eating back exercise calories daily, craving salt and/or sugar. My 1-a-day rule has gone out of the window. I think it could be stress related as the change in restrictions might be positive change but it's still change, could also be PMS I suppose but it's not normally this bad. I'm trying to up my water intake, but I'm not sure whether to:

    - eat exercise calories daily (current approach... walking after work to earn some!)
    - track 'weekly' so that overall for the week I'm in a deficit
    - have a day at maintenance
    - have a day where I go over maintenance calories
    - something else I haven't thought of

    I've not gone over my calorie goal once this year (since I started on 1st Jan), but I'm not sure that eating all the sugar/salt is going to "cure" me. What works for you guys when you feel this way out?

    Also I need to find an alternative to the word 'but'. I apologise for the amount of 'but' in my post!

    Some great questions in here. First of all, don't worry too much about the vaccine - most people get a sore arm, and that's about it. Even the people I know who had a bit more than that found it did not last long and they were fine. I did lots of arm exercises on the day of the jab and continued even when it was sore the next day - cold compresses help a lot too. I figured if I kept it moving, the stuff would get circulated around quicker!

    Your musings about cravings, stress, and how to be flexible without losing it address issues that come up way more often. Sometimes when you're just hungry all the time you need a plateau to let all your systems adjust to the new reality before continuing to lose more weight. Salt and sugar cravings are the curse of being a human - we need those things, but we can get them much too easily! They feel like a solution to stress, and they are - the stress of survival and nourishing our complex bodies. We are way too good at hunting and gathering, it seems :lol:

    When I was in the active losing weight phase(s), I was saved by the "free day". Every week I stuck to my plan for 6 days, and then on Saturdays, anything was fair game. I was very careful never to let that day go any longer than ONE day per week. The food plan did have some small treats included in the calorie count, but I found it easiest to eliminate certain things altogether, except for the free day. No flour or added sugar, whole grains only if any grains at all, etc. I would never have been able to stick with that 7 days a week, but 6 days made the weight loss go well, and the 7th never did so much damage that I had to worry about it. Naturally, they became less crazy than at first in any case. If I got hungry all the time, I upped the calories enough to maintain for a week or two. Building muscle and keeping up on exercise was part of the plan. I'm not sure if that will help through the temptations of re-opening, but that's what worked for me.
  • jugar
    jugar Posts: 10,262 Member
    @Terytha
    Gifts are always a crazy stress for me too! It sounds like your sweetheart has set the bar pretty danged high :grimace: Yikes indeed. You must know other people whose brains you could pick - or an artist friend who does gorgeous hand-blown glass or something unusual that will live with you both forever. I wish you the best with this! And congratulations, kiddo :heart:
  • jugar
    jugar Posts: 10,262 Member
    All right, you #1 fabulous bunch - we have enjoyed our Tuesday with no weigh-ins, and it is time to wake up the Wednesday people! No slacking now - hop on those scales first thing Wednesday morning and be done with it :smiley:

    @PlaneMonkey
    @AshenMoon
    @EvMakesChanges
    @KellyBgetsFit
    @Pearl4686

    @graceojo999
    Congrats on being our top loser last week! Don't forget to update on this week B)
  • conleywoods
    conleywoods Posts: 986 Member
    @DD265 Those are some great questions and honestly I struggle with cravings often lately. When we start to see a drop on the scale it also changes the hormones in our body that regulate appetite and how appealing junk food looks. Do some research on the hormones ghrelin and leptin and how they impact cravings. Personally, I am trying to make little changes to this habit. I am having some luck with doing intense exercise right when I get home from work to suppress my appetite (low to moderate exercise increases appetite) I know I can binge at that time. I am also allowing myself the treats I crave and fit in my calories, but I try to leave one bit left of the treat to throw away. This makes me more aware and I am more mindful.
  • conleywoods
    conleywoods Posts: 986 Member
    @Terytha Have you ever heard of a company called Man Crates? They make gifts exclusively for men and they ship to Canada. They have saved my butt on more than one occasion 😉
  • ashleycarole86
    ashleycarole86 Posts: 6,303 Member
    @DD265 Nothing like walking to the spot you're craving to earn those calories... great strategy!

    I've started my last couple of mornings off with a short walk (10-20 minutes) just to sneak in a few extra steps before the day begins. I think my dog really appreciates it too :)
  • Terytha
    Terytha Posts: 2,097 Member
    edited May 2021
    Management bought donuts for breakfast and I pre-ordered pie for lunch last week.

    I want to go home. D:

    @conleywoods I appreciate the suggestion but my husband likes literally none of those things. He's so hard to shop for. XD

    I think I'm gonna buy a ring and "propose." Might be kinda sappy, but he loves sappy stuff. Besides his wedding ring is too big but it can't be resized.

    Edit: I found a better idea. Hopefully it gets here in time!
  • gak71
    gak71 Posts: 192 Member
    Especially as the temperatures have started reaching the 90s it sure has been nice to leave my mask in my pocket the last few days! I’m glad we are getting back to normal!
  • jugar
    jugar Posts: 10,262 Member
    @Terytha
    You are so mean! The teaser without naming the final gift idea! Gimme a spoiler over a teaser any day :astonished:

    @YinxFed
    That is a beautiful photo - there are few things more gorgeous than willows in the spring, especially near flowing water. I can almost hear it too - the breeze, the water, your footsteps. Thanks for posting that one! And I am so happy for you to be able to spend some time with your mum. She must be over the moon to be able to spend time with you :heart:

    @happimess01 and @PlaneMonkey
    You are both rocking it! Keep on going indeed - crash right on past those old goals and feel fabulous. Yes!

    I have had a super busy day. I put tomato and basil plants into the big garden, planted some more seeds, and worked in all the compost and manure that I added to the beds yesterday. My back is feeling it! Then there was grocery shopping, a horse catching rescue (my spotted friend was not letting anyone near him, but I did manage to get him to behave), and some time helping my son with an insurance issue. 16,000 steps, and I will certainly sleep well tonight.

    Weigh-in update - who is due up through Thursday:
    @graceojo999
    @KellyBgetsFit
    @Pearl4686
    @kalaki6145
    @ashleycarole86
    @eggfreak

    Tally ho!
  • Terytha
    Terytha Posts: 2,097 Member
    @jugar But I'm shy!

    Sorry, sorry. Husband mentioned an interest in accessories so I found someone who crafts pendants and things out of meteorite. I thought I'd give it to him with a card saying it was a piece of the universe for my universe.

    I'm so lame. XD

    But he likes that stuff too.
  • Steph1498
    Steph1498 Posts: 307 Member
    The news here is so inspiring today! I am glad I came here to check this morning and thanks for starting my day with this energy!

    @Terytha - awe you are so thoughtful! That's a great gift!
    @YinxFed - I want to walk with you that picture is very inviting!
    @PlaneMonkey - Way to go in reaching your goal weight!!!

    As for me I'm headed to our local outdoor store to buy a map of all the hiking trails in our country. I heard about a great hike and cant find details online. That place is like a candy store for me. I will try to control myself!
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