WaistAways - June 2021 Chat
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PW - 208.8 lbs
CW - 205.5 lbs
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Friday's here at last. This has felt like a long week and it's been a stressful one.
I start 24/7 on call tonight, so went into the office yesterday to pick up a new dual-sim work phone. Unfortunately it doesn't solve my issue, which is that I wanted to avoid carrying two phones around, unless I switch fully from my personal phone to this which I don't want to do because it's not as good. I will probably suck it up and carry both, but I could use my personal phone for being on call. Undecided.
I didn't drink as much yesterday as I would at home which I think is something to be aware of. Also, I find the thought of food in the office really stressful (when I'm planning a trip in). I'm worried about getting hungry and not having enough to eat - to be fair when my stomach is rumbling, it's like a jet plane so that would be embarrassing. There is a shop locally so I could walk out at lunch time to get food, and then I guess I feel that I may make bad choices; I used to buy large quantities of crisps/chocolate and then eat said large quantities. I guess the more I go into the office, the more I'll get used to it and I need to get my mindset to thinking that if it's enough at home, it's enough at work, too; plus being hungry isn't going to kill me in a day so it's really the embarrassment factor.
This weekend we've got to do the food shopping and I want to get all the charity stuff in the garage gone or ready to go (there's a collection on Monday if I'm willing to wait) and I'm feeling inclined to have a wardrobe clear out. We're doing a long walk on Sunday with my co-worker, and whilst it might not be as long as some it has a big climb in it which makes it a good preparation one for September. We did this walk last year and I really struggled to get up the hill so I'm hoping to feel a big difference from all the running.4 -
PW: 244.2
CW: 241.45 -
@DD265 getting hungry at work is one of my biggest struggles. And even more so now because last month I switched from a role where I was walking/moving at least 70% of the time to a new role that is 99% a desk job. I got in the habit of buying chocolate from the vending machine almost daily. So I went to the store and bought individually wrapped things that aren't high in calories for when I get munchies and I keep them in my desk. Even though it can be tempting to have a snack drawer, at least they're relatively healthy options and I can control myself better with individually packaged servings vs bringing a whole bag of something.3
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Friday weigh-in
CW 85.73 -
MandiSaysHey wrote: »Hello, my all time starting weight was 288. This week was 220.8, and I will weigh in on Mondays.
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Sorry for my disappearance. I had a lot going on, some good (new relationship, going GREAT) and some stressful (family stuff, re-org) at work. So I just let my eating habits go. But after gaining back 12-14 lbs over the last few months I am ready to get back to business. Thank you all for having me back! ❤
Welcome back! Glad to see you here. Congratulations on the relationshipSooooo it was my birthday yesterday and well, I've had quite the fun week! It hasn't been so great for my weigh-in but I had a lovely birthday and it was nice, now it's back to business
I'm at 224
Happy birthday to you!! 🎂🎉🎈
@bowens1973 Congratulations on a fabulous loss this week. 👏🏼👏🏼
@EvMakesChanges So glad Noom is giving you the motivation you were looking for. I’ve been curious. Not sure it’s in the budget here. But maybe some day. Thanks for sharing. I’ll glean what I can from you and @conleywoods
I had a half of a perfect day the other day. Still looking for that dedication I used to have. Not quitting. Scale came down a little, but it’s still up. Trying to figure out where to start. What do I do first? Log, exercise, cut calories back, measure every little thing, get my steps in? One tiny step. 🚶🏽♀️@terytha one hour at a time.
@jugar So glad you enjoyed your visit with your daughter. Wishing you a solution to your ride issues. Hope you get home safely and easily.
Happy Friday! Wishing everyone a great day!3 -
@MandiSaysHey I used to do that exact thing with the snack drawer, but now it's all hot desks. We used to have a small 'tuck shop' with crisps, choccy bars and there was always a free fruit bowl, but that's all gone with Covid. A normal day for me has 3x meals and 3x snacks, so I took 1 meal and 2 snacks into work. It was enough yesterday, but I was worried that it wouldn't be - I guess experience will take care of that if/when I go back into the office more regularly.
@ashleycarole86 I'll be amazed if using the work phone lasts 3 months but don't tell HR lol. I think when I was on call before I wasn't as active as I am now. It's only really running when it's a big issue as I'd have more pockets/a bag otherwise, but I also feel a bit uncomfortable being out and about with a phone set to loud, because I feel like that's very disruptive to other people (and it irritates me).
Anxiety levels are high today (I'm officially 'on call') but so far I've made good choices. Same breakfast and morning snack as normal, I skipped the crisps at lunch as I had a naan wrap which was a big chunk of calories so just had that and an apple, then nothing this afternoon. I reached for a diet coke in the middle of a stressy moment this afternoon, but put it back and had cordial instead - I'm now enjoying that diet coke having calmed down and actually being able to savour it. The book I'm reading is perfect timing wise and it's got me trying to reframe my anxiety, and take steps to control it. Instead of having my afternoon off I've been watching knowledge transfers about this customer's process, and speaking to colleagues who know them to help build my confidence. The videos are jogging my memory so I know I'm not as incapable as I fear.
As a result of doing this work related/confidence building stuff I've not done any of the sorting out I want to do; thankfully there's time for that tomorrow/Sunday afternoon. I'm really looking forward to lifting these weights, but I know a few more days before I start won't hurt. My run this evening has been pushed to tomorrow, and we need to do the supermarket shop so I don't know if we'll get a walk in today. Sometimes though it's nice to have a breather.2 -
Friday
Lorib642
PW: 158.2
CW: 159.43 -
Take care @lorib642 and good luck in your journey! Nice to be teammates for a while
THE WEEKEND IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!! Can you tell how excited I am?????
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PW: 227.0
CW: 226.8
Darn, I was lower yesterday. Oh well, its still a loss!5 -
Hi all! I've been trying to keep up with reading all the posts, like @PlaneMonkey, sometimes all in one go. Even though I've been very absent this month, 'hearing' all your voices keeps me going - the battle of not reaching for junk or just eating more because it tastes so good... I'm happy to read all your good news reports ( @Terytha that dress looked awesome!) and can relate to many of the challenges. What a great group we have!
Things are settling down for me (for now!)..we've managed to get one very good caregiver for my dad for some hours 3 days a week, work is back in person at the office full time- feels good, and I've revamped the veg garden dramatically and it's great for being active and should be lots of good veggies to harvest. Weight is not dramatically yo-yo-ing and that's a relief. Have not been logging nor doing any deliberate exercise. My goal will be to start that again in July in order to reach my goal set last August to be at the same weight a year later. I'm not too far off.
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PW:119.5
CW:119.4
Steps Goal: 10,000
Sat: 10,778
Sun: 11,103
Mon: 10,248
Tue: 10,128
Wed: 10,523
Thur: 10,304
Fri: 10,4824 -
I really try to hit the 10,000 steps. I walk during my lunch period. I need to push up to 12,000 to loose weight consistantly, but 10,000 is my minimum goal.3 -
PW:119.5
CW:119.4
Steps Goal: 10,000
Sat: 10,778
Sun: 11,103
Mon: 10,248
Tue: 10,128
Wed: 10,523
Thur: 10,304
Fri: 10,482
Thanks! If you can also post your Saturday at the end of today, then you'll have at least 10,000 more for the week when they all get added up! Since our tallies go from Sunday - Saturday, that is the best for your steps too. If you post steps always on Sunday it works great. You are doing so well
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Happy Saturday!
I'm back home safe and sound, glad to be back in the hills and forest, and happy that my visit out to the prairies was so wonderful. I loved meeting @ashleycarole86 and getting lots of time with animals. And my daughter
Here's the little mule deciding that human beings aren't so terrible after all. Emmett is a genius! When he arrived, there was absolutely no way to get near him.
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Shoutout to the Men of Team Waistaways -
You are AWESOME. All 3 of you have posted brilliant losses this week - leading the way, and inspiring everyone!
@happimess01 - Sam, your new photo is great. Looking amazing!
@gak71 Gary - amazing recovery from your wild time at the beginning of the month. Tell us how you got back on track so well!
@bowens1973 Brad, you are going to be all over the leaderboard this month. WTG!6 -
Last reminders for this week - please get your weights in by end of day today. Thanks!
@marsipan100
@Steph1498
@evangsimmons170
@Micki48 (you got that half a perfect day! If I were you, I'd start with just aiming to get the calories in closer to where you want them. Go on from there. You can do it!)2 -
Saturday weigh in
CW 198.2
Not even sure what the last official weigh in was.@jugar I was utterly convinced on Thursday morning that it was Wednesday morning ....realized later I'd missed my morning weigh in - yesterday Friday am, was 151.
I’m mixed up with you @eggfreak. I was sure Thursday was actually Friday, so we balance it out. 😂
Hello Saturday. I can report being up a couple pounds from my year long stretch of being 196 does not make my body feel good. I am having all kinds of aches and pains. Boooo!! My knee, my foot, my hips. Ugh. Seems weird that exercise would help (and losing weight of course!—that makes sense.). I have been in my house a LOT. I need to get out and move more.
@jugar You are right. Getting those calories down will make the most difference. It’s also the hardest damn part. 😘 I started my day, like every Saturday, with our big bacon, eggs, and grits breakfast. So that takes up slightly less than half the days calories.
I am also going to work on being better about my water. I do drink, but I’m not actually keeping accurate track. Also I saw this on IG. What do you all think of this? I don’t know if it’s for real or one of those “do this and you’ll lose weight” things. I usually drink my water cold with ice. What do you do?
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The men of team Waistaways.. I like that @jugar
Hope your trip home was uneventful and thanks for the Emmett pic.. he is a cutie.
@micki48 I drink my water cold... not always ice cold but cold enough. At the trailer we bring water from home that's room temperature and I find I don't mind that as much as I thought I would. I read some other articles about water temperature that suggest there may be some truth to at least some points in the pic, but for me it's not a hill to die on... I used to drink hardly no water so just happy to be taking it in now in whatever the form.
Last night Brad and I took the boat out and had a nice dip in the lake. I made a point of actually swimming and moving to make it a form of calorie burn. The heat will be extreme this next while so I'll be walking the dog early before it's too hot for her. I don't mind walking in the heat so will still try to sneak out for more steps.
We have the start of social activities starting to pop back up in our calendar now so I need to shift to my next stage managing weight loss with regular life. I feel like my mindset is in the right place to support this.
I am only a few pounds away from losing half of my 125 lbs goal... feels like a very exciting milestone I'll be surely posting about when the scale hits 230!4 -
Shoutout to the Men of Team Waistaways -
You are AWESOME. All 3 of you have posted brilliant losses this week - leading the way, and inspiring everyone!
@happimess01 - Sam, your new photo is great. Looking amazing!
@gak71 Gary - amazing recovery from your wild time at the beginning of the month. Tell us how you got back on track so well!
@bowens1973 Brad, you are going to be all over the leaderboard this month. WTG!
If @happimess01 wanted to lead a zoom call to teach us his ways I’d be the first to sign up! You’re doing awesome!
I’m down around 46 pounds and want to go further! Remembering how I felt at 287 compared to how I feel now at 241 helped get me back on track. I’m also trying to squash the negative and sometimes hateful self talk inside my head …. life happens and my weight loss graph is going to swing wildly at times. I need to give myself the same grace I give everyone around me.
Finally, I like my water as cold as possible and I will not be changing that!4 -
Shoutout to the Men of Team Waistaways -
You are AWESOME. All 3 of you have posted brilliant losses this week - leading the way, and inspiring everyone!
@happimess01 - Sam, your new photo is great. Looking amazing!
@gak71 Gary - amazing recovery from your wild time at the beginning of the month. Tell us how you got back on track so well!
@bowens1973 Brad, you are going to be all over the leaderboard this month. WTG!
Thank you @jugar. I'd love to take a pic where I don't have to lift my face up to hide the double chin 3 -
It's gonna be hot as heck this week, like 35-40 C, so I bought shorts and a summer dress and sandals. (Size 8 shorts and M dress, how about THAT.)
Hopefully I don't melt. =P
#teamwarmwater5 -
Shoutout to the Men of Team Waistaways -
You are AWESOME. All 3 of you have posted brilliant losses this week - leading the way, and inspiring everyone!
@happimess01 - Sam, your new photo is great. Looking amazing!
@gak71 Gary - amazing recovery from your wild time at the beginning of the month. Tell us how you got back on track so well!
@bowens1973 Brad, you are going to be all over the leaderboard this month. WTG!
If @happimess01 wanted to lead a zoom call to teach us his ways I’d be the first to sign up! You’re doing awesome!
I’m down around 46 pounds and want to go further! Remembering how I felt at 287 compared to how I feel now at 241 helped get me back on track. I’m also trying to squash the negative and sometimes hateful self talk inside my head …. life happens and my weight loss graph is going to swing wildly at times. I need to give myself the same grace I give everyone around me.
Finally, I like my water as cold as possible and I will not be changing that!
Thank you so much but I am still trying to find my way honestly. As I am getting leaner, my body is starting to put up a fight. There is also a diet fatigue setting in since it's been 14 months of dieting so far. My hormones were all over the place the beginning of the month (specially, leptin — that sob!) and I binged heavily for two days straight. Weirdly, I lost 2 pounds 2 days after that. My fl recommended I eat at maintenance for 2 weeks to get my hormones to settle down and after that period, I went back to cutting. I lost 7 pounds in the two weeks since then so the maintenance was definitely a success.3 -
@jugar I will send you a weight 7/2 and then I would like to skip the following three Fridays. I probably won’t be sending steps during that same timeframe. My wife and I are going to Alaska for just over two weeks to celebrate my 50th. We’ll be doing a lot of hiking so I hope I can minimize any gains but I’ll just take it one day at a time!6
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Hello!
I haven't checked in as much lately but things are going good aside from some late night snacking! It is really hot during the day and then my appetite shows up at night when it cools off. We have a record heat wave coming our way this next week. Trying to stay cool 😎. We have a really shady spot near the house and we set up a screen tent and chairs over there. We also set up the outdoor shower to help cool off too. It's a great place for a little date night for my husband and I after the kids go to bed.
I've been swimming, biking, walking and doing pilates. Hopefully we will get to the lake tomorrow.
@micki48 I prefer my water cold!
@Terytha Congrats on all of the smaller clothes!
@gak71 That sounds like a really great birthday. I hope you enjoy your trip 😊5 -
Happy Sunday Lovelies
Here's my weigh-in:
PW - 184.9
CW - 184.8
Miniscule, I know, but still lower than last week. Still green!
Yx5
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