Downsizers - June 2021 Team Chat
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Steps 6/4: 20,768
A good portion of those steps were from moving 6 yards of rock from the front driveway to the backyard-pretty much a six hour solid workout! Surprisingly not too sore today-but it could still hit tomorrow.
Happy Weekend!6 -
Megan_smartiepants1970 wrote: »
Is the date a typo if it is not I do not have steps for the 4th ..Please confirm ..Thank you
Oops yes, those are for yesterday the 4th2 -
Steps 6/29 15,300
6/30 10,966
Busy day yesterday so forgot to post. Cleaned my house for the in laws to visit, lunch with a friends and spent time with the In laws. Dinner was skinnytaste Mac & cheese with broccoli the kids favorite!5 -
@Megan_smartiepants1970
I'd say with that distance to just round up. LOL. Still amazes me that you can walk that long and that far. That scale had better start to show your hard work soon.
@rlaskey2
Sounds like a great day! Good steps!
@888Angie888
Wow! Now that is some hard work!
@lindamtuck2018
Yay on the pizza! You had a plan and followed it through for a successful evening. I'm so glad your scale was kind to you this morning. Our neighborhood pool never shut down. Not ever. It was ridiculous to see and it upset us because we have to pass the pool on the way in and out of the subdivision. Then I figured out why the pool never closed. One of the homeowner association board members was one of the ones using the pool regularly. I haven't been swimming yet this year, but I want to. It is such good exercise.
@Tazaria87
It really is so weird how the scale can fluctuate so much from one day to the next. I'm going to look for the Yasso bars. I've never heard of them.
@Poobah1972
Oh, my! That picture. That description of your meal. Amazingly delicious!
@amymartin555
I used to jump rope for exercise. It really gets your heart rate up there! It really is great for burning calories. My knees can no longer handle it, so I totally get it when you said your knees thanked you. Still a super high step count!
@jimboden3
I agree that we do have to enjoy sometimes and not be so uptight about calories 100% of the time. I am much better with that now. There were times in the first several months where I was brought to tears over my family wanting to go out to eat...again...and feeling overwhelmed with how to make it all work when my family wants takeout, dessert or going out to eat. I would get so frustrated, sometimes angry, etc. but not show it to them. I held it inside. Anyway, yes, balance is so much better for me and making good choices that are in line with my goals most of the time. Your son brings KK home? Okay, well that's another story. I do not know if I could handle that on a regular basis. They melt in your mouth. I think I drooled a little bit just seeing that picture with the KK name on it. Hahahaha.5 -
I made it 16 hours again today 😁 The scale headed in the right direction and I stopped to get my daughter started me fiber one bars before her 5 hour long dance rehearsal today and when I rung it up it immediately spit out a receipt as paid. Gotta love digital coupons!
My good mood triggered a pay it forward moment and I paid for the car behind me a Starbucks. @littleflutterby - I have always wondered, do Starbucks workers like when you get a chain reaction of cars paying for the car behind or do you hate it? Does it cause a lot of having to explain and does that cause delay? I’m just curious as to the impact on the workers. Of course I even gave the max tip just to my barista
Honestly- it depends on the barista you talk to.
I LOVE it when people pay for the car behind, I think it's a lovely gesture, and it can cheer up the person behind . However, I am not a fan of chains. Only because at some point someone gets screwed and feels compelled to pay a crazy amount of money when all they ordered was a cheese danish and a small coffee haha.
But paying it forward is a lovely concept as a whole. I just say "the person in front of you paid for your coffee today, have a wonderful day!" Buuuuut like i said, some baristas think chains are awesome.
And on behalf of all starbucks partners- THANKYOU FOR TIPPING!!!! It's super helpful
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PW: 160.0
CW: 159.2
(SW: 179.6; LTD: 20.4 lbs)
I’ve officially crossed into 20 lbs LTD. While the scale keeps fluctuating a little bit, I’ve had 2 readings below 160! I have a lot more work to do, but this is encouraging!
Steps for the last few days:
6/1: 10,371
6/2: 4,920
6/3: 8,623
6/4: 10,236
I’ve been cleaning, walking, etc…though, there have been a couple days where I’ve taken it slightly easier. Today is going to be one of those days, as well. I’m spending the day with my nephew. We walked around a museum, but idk that I will actually get my full 6K, let alone 10+.
Happy weekend everybody!7 -
@red1185
Congratulations🎉🎉 20.4 pounds dropped, smashed, burned AND phenomenal steps for the week 🙌🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 I hope you had fun with your nephew at the museum.
@rlaskey2
Terrific two days of steps!! You've had a busy day! Thank you for sharing that the kids love skinny taste's Mac and cheese, I just bookmarked the recipe to try.
@888Angie888
Wowww you should get extra credit for those 20,768 since for six hours you moved extremely heavy rocks! 👏🏻👏🏻
@Megan_smartiepants1970
Wait! There's a 5:30 in the morning? That's crazy 🤩 3 hours and 42 minutes of walking 👏🏻👏🏻 Absolutely amazing walk! By the way, your scale is a "meanie poopy face" (those are fighting words here).
@Tazaria87
Congratulations on another loss 🙌🏻🙌🏻 You're doing amazing! Look at those daily goals CRUSHED! No, I haven't tried Yazzo. I'll add those to my list. Thanks for sharing 🤗
@363days
That's a fantastic list of steps! I love your goal of looking to increase. Are you planning on walking an extra 5 minutes? What's your plan? Share share 😃
@Poobah1972
That sandwich looked DELICIOUS! Have you been doing Keto long?
@lmf1012
Congrats on your loss AND your steps!! 👏🏻👏🏻
@jimboden3
Thank you, I love how you put it, that is exactly how I feel. Oh my goodness, HOW do you resist? How does HE? Congratulations to him going off to Ohio State!
**More posts to come, need to feed the savages**5 -
@TheresaM787
I Started doing Keto over 16 years ago, when I initially lost 200+ pounds and became a hulking Gym beast... So I know just how good it is as a weight loss tool for me. Cause I'm literally never hungry, and all cravings essentially disappear. Also known to be very muscle sparing, especially when combined with weight lifting. So it's a win win in many respects. Lynn and I are going on 4 years of being together, and when we started keto together the first time in 2019 (this is after I put back on 300+ pounds over the prior 11ish years), she was a little skeptical of Keto. One day I'll post a picture approximately Christmas 2018, and I might be close to 600 pounds.... In 2019 we lost quite a bit, but things eventually fell off the tracks a bit for me in the end of july 2019. I think I lost about 100lbs though. And things never fall off the tracks like they did in the past. I still ate breakfast at home every day, I still brought a lunch to work, and it was only on my way home from work that I faltered pretty much every day. But Being so big, I didn't gain a whole lot of weight till we started again this January 2021. (My guess is 487.5 ish pounds)
Anyway she's now a full Keto convert and all in... She too, can't believe how we are practically never hungry. Feel great all the time (well 99%), never get sleepy or drowzy mid-day (unless we did a stupid amount of exercise or didn't sleep well the night before). Plus the biggest thing, we have our foods down, we absolutely love everything we eat. And I make the most amazing Keto Bread every single week.
So why did I gain all the weight back... I was in a horrible relationship... I moved far out of town with this person... I stopped going to the gym. I was in a bad place, I no longer cared about myself. And it all fell to pieces, and I once again found comfort in food. Plus don't get me wrong, once I was benching 380 pounds, and squatting 450+, and deadlifting 750 for reps. I wasn't even on keto anymore, I transitioned to a true power lifters diet, and Ate like a monster... Super high protein, low fat, moderate to high carbs depending on time of day and when my next workout was.
The point is Keto isn't a dead end diet... All diets are a deadend, if you lose the love life, and self and don't care anymore. So Lynn and I already promised ourselves, once we get to maintenance, we will continue to log our food for at least 1 year to ensure whatever our diet looks like at that time, we will have a strong idea of what maintenance is regardless of diet type.
I talk to much yo! 8 -
@lindamtuck2018
Wowww! Look at all of those steps 👏🏻👏🏻 Plus three goals CRUSHED! Hopefully you'll be able to sleep in the morning. You are too good, giving the kids your donuts for Donut Day.
@roz0810
Congrats on your new treadmill arriving! Very nice steps 👏🏻👏🏻
@Beautyofdreams
I am so sorry to hear that. You're doing so well with your grafts and understanding that the scale is not the measurement to look at right now. You are so very close to finishing the grafts. You have done so much to get to this point. You can do this. Please keep wearing masks and social distancing, we keep hearing about people who are not vaccinated and they are choosing not to wear masks. You are especially susceptible right now. May I please put you in a bubble? 🤗
@rwood566
Thank you! I'm looking forward to my morning walk and then getting back on the bike with a bit of strength training. The fun holidays list that I pulled says tomorrow is also... Drive-In Movie Day (that's more my speed).
Nicely done, with steps and super low calorie day (yummy watermelon dessert). You are super speedy on the bike, that is really fast! Plus more leg machines, jelly legs for sure. Are you going to Black Bear Diner in honor of Black Bear Day?
@363days & @Aqualang26
Nice loss 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@Tazaria87
You decorated your cookies so beautifully! You have serious willpower to not eat them, that was a brilliant idea to make an equal number of each. Now I want cookies 😆
@Poobah1972
I am so sorry to hear about what you went through, that is terrible that another person can do that to you. I'm glad that person is out of your life and that you have found Lynn, someone who is so supportive of you and wants the best for you (now that's a silver lining). It sounds like you found an eating style that works really well for you, and Lynn. It's important to love what you're eating while in deficit (because that's usually how you'll be eating in maintenance). Your keto bread sounds fantastic. There are several Ketoers (is that the term?) here, feel free to bounce recipes off one another.1 -
6/5/21
11,192 steps so far I'll update if I do anymore walking.
I'm on day 2 of a 48hour diet break. I meant to keep it to 24 hours but I have pretty restrictive for a long time and didn't want to go back to eating in my deficit until having an unholy amount of hot cheetos and a giant bluberry muffin. That being said it's no wonder how I gained 30lbs in 3 months apparently I have some issues.
I weighed in at 149.0lbs all the junk food messed my weigh in up pretty bad but it happens.
6/4/21
I walked 1,927 steps it was an active rest day where I cleaned a lot.5 -
@Tazaria87
Amazing loss!
@888Angie888
That would be such a good workout. I wonder how many calories you burned.
@red1185
Congrats on losing 20 pounds! Welcome to a new decade!
@Beverly2Hansen
How long have you been counting calories for? A few people on the team have done diet breaks. I sort of took one but it was more of a time to reassess my eating while not weighing in officially for 2 weeks.
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Steps- 10,000 ✅
Seltzer- 8 cups ❌ only five
Tracked everything ate and drank✅
Under calorie budget ❌ over by 325
@Megan_smartiepants1970
14,700 steps
Staycation is over. Time to get back to reality. Plan for tomorrow:
-Walk after coffee
-Make Sunday breakfast
-Bike, arms and core
-Walmart trunk order (online grocery order- pop trunk, Walmart places groceries in trunk)
-Kids choice ( thinking they are going to choose bookstores again)
-Attend a friend’s soft opening of his Italian restaurant3 -
@TheresaM787 yes, went to honor the day. They think we eat like bears there. OMG portions.
@Poobah1972 it looks like your will and determination is as large as your muscles were before. Amazing work.
There are so many of you with high steps. Great work. Then there is @Megan_smartiepants1970 who passes high step counts half way thru her walk. You are a goddess.
Check in for 6/5:
Steps - 2897. 2 trips to the store. Have to stop reading cookbooks.
Calories - 1537. Ate half my breakfast and light lunch and dinner. Ate a twinkie for dessert with some raisins. First twinkie in about 3 years.
Exercise - off day. Ate 4 tums since my chest started up again last night. Lots of burping but no reflux up the throat. Want to do slow walk in a.m.
Edit - just ate the twinkie. I wrote the first part before eating it. Now I remember why I haven't had one in so long. Looks great, smells wonderful, tastes like whip cream inside plastic. Hope it'll be a few years before I eat it again. Sadly, I used to love them.4 -
There are so many of you with high steps. Great work. Then there is @Megan_smartiepants1970 who passes high step counts half way thru her walk. You are a goddess.
LOL I am making up for lost time
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Steps so far is 28,590 but it is still quite early here in Cali5
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littleflutterby wrote: »I made it 16 hours again today 😁 The scale headed in the right direction and I stopped to get my daughter started me fiber one bars before her 5 hour long dance rehearsal today and when I rung it up it immediately spit out a receipt as paid. Gotta love digital coupons!
My good mood triggered a pay it forward moment and I paid for the car behind me a Starbucks. @littleflutterby - I have always wondered, do Starbucks workers like when you get a chain reaction of cars paying for the car behind or do you hate it? Does it cause a lot of having to explain and does that cause delay? I’m just curious as to the impact on the workers. Of course I even gave the max tip just to my barista
Honestly- it depends on the barista you talk to.
I LOVE it when people pay for the car behind, I think it's a lovely gesture, and it can cheer up the person behind . However, I am not a fan of chains. Only because at some point someone gets screwed and feels compelled to pay a crazy amount of money when all they ordered was a cheese danish and a small coffee haha.
But paying it forward is a lovely concept as a whole. I just say "the person in front of you paid for your coffee today, have a wonderful day!" Buuuuut like i said, some baristas think chains are awesome.
And on behalf of all starbucks partners- THANKYOU FOR TIPPING!!!! It's super helpful
Thanks for clarifying that. Don’t look at it as someone gets screwed. They made a choice to keep it going even if their original order was cheaper. They don’t know if the chain gets broken behind them. When the chain does break, you only hope that it was that person that needed it that day. 😊
PS- I always tip well to make up for those who don’t.2 -
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In Gretchen Rubin’s book, Better Than Before, she writes,
“What we do every day matters more then what we do once in a while.”
What is one habit that you do every day that helps you on your path to become healthier?1 -
@Beverly2Hansen
Nicely done Beverly over 13,000 steps 👏🏻👏🏻 @azkunk & @rwood566 both gave me brilliant advice "Moderation not deprivation ... that is the key to making this a sustainable lifestyle." When I used to restrict foods (desserts or baked goods), I couldn't stop thinking about them. I'd then finally eat until I thought my belly would pop, feel guilty, feel failure and then lose motivation. It took me a long while to understand how to include certain foods back in, but other foods I still find triggering and it makes me nervous. I'm now trying to learn how to moderate my trigger foods. Look how far you've come Beverly. 🤗 You're putting in the work everyday. You're getting in your purposeful movement. You are doing awesome!
@rwood566
Huge portions and delicious food. I love giant breakfast plates (well platters). I think we drive waitstaff a bit nuts, we are a family of four, but always order three extra plates. Instead of ordering four items off the menu, we order three. When the food arrives, we wind up eating family style. I give the kids and myself an empty plate, we then serve ourselves from the giant plates of food (hubby doesn't join in- he usually has a burger for breakfast).
I agree, @Megan_smartiepants1970 actually plans on walking for three hours. I don't know how she does it. My body would revolt, as I'm typing I can hear my body start saying, "nope, don't even THINK about going for half that amount of time". My bladder just chimed in and said "not to worry guys, I got this".
Terrific step day👏🏻👏🏻 what recipes are you planning on making? Another really low calorie day, you are awesome at staying so low. Oh my goodness, Twinkies, that lovable cowboy. I know what you mean, I tried one a few years ago and couldn't believe how awful it now tastes. It used to be so delicious. I'm glad it tastes like plastic, it helped kill the craving. I'm glad you are taking a rest day, especially with your chest. Were the docs able to get you in any earlier?
@Megan_smartiepants1970
28,590!!! Plus, it's still early yet 🤣👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I need to stop typing and get in some steps!
@iradi8
Look at all of those high steps this week🙌🏻🙌🏻 You hit your goal all three days! Well done🎉
@roz0810
It looks like you are enjoying your treadmill (and dog walking) 👏🏻👏🏻 Nice going!
@lindamtuck2018
Maintenance is going well. I do need to find a new motivating podcast, I finally binged all of the We Only Look Thin episodes. I may just give that podcast another listen, until I find something new.
CW 120.2
I was happy that I didn't gain my usual five-ten pounds during staycation with the in-laws, especially since I wasn't able to bike during the staycation (and I drank a few more Bud Lights than I normally do). I did eat/drink mostly what I planned and went for two walks each day, that helped a lot.
Ok, it's getting really late now. I need to get out and walk, before the kids wake up. Enjoy your day everyone!7
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