TEAM: The Big Butt Theory (July)
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@DaffyGirl88 It must have been! They asked if we could go back to the same part of the trail today after my littlest gets home from kindergarten camp! Fo' sho'!2
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rawrxamberx wrote: »Username: rawrxamberx
Week: July Week #3
Day: Wednesday
PW: 318.6
CW: 321.4
Now I’m really motivated to get back up!
Startiiiiiing NOW!!
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@CycleMomOf3 I LOVE the pics of the trail and good for you for showing your kids a healthy, active lifestyle. I am just back, all hot and sweaty, from a quick bike ride (25 minutes on the cruiser). I had to pick something up in town and decided why not ride the bike?! My husband has been riding his every day to the grocery store. I am thinking anything less than 5miles we ride, unless thunderstorms.
In less wonderful news, I got a call last night that the bride's brother, from the weekend wedding we went to, tested positive for covid. ARGH...I hope that the wedding wasn't a superspreader. Called my parents to give them a heads up and they were at a restaurant after choir practice with 60 people. Fingers crossed we didn't interact enough to catch anything - we are all vaccinated, but know many vaccinated people getting milder cases right now in Florida. <sigh> AND I am heading to Utah Tuesday....maybe2 -
Username: rpkg62
Weigh in week: July 18 -24
Weigh in day: Thursday
Initial Weight: 156??
Previous Week's weight: 154.6
Todays Weight: 153.9
Hopefully this works this time
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@annabananamc
Niiiiice re: reducing your carbon footprint and doing small commutes with your sweet-@$$ed cruiser! I'm a member of an organization up here that is an advocacy group for making our area more bike-friendly and pushes folks to commute via bike more when they can.
Also, while I hit "hug" on your post re: the Covid exposure, I DO realize the irony of said response. Air hug? E-hug? Zoom hug? Regardless, that so totally SUCKS. Hopefully it wasn't a superspreader event, and that those affected/exposed have mild cases. Ugh. And Utah sounds LOVELY. Hope you can go!!!2 -
user name = maryc11
Date = Thursday July 22, 2021
Tracked = Yes
Exercise = Yes
Under = Yes
Water = 66 oz
Steps = 9,6690 -
I had some ripening bananas and I don't like to bake in the summer.
So I tried making some chocolate n'ice cream for the kids for dessert tonight, and it was surprisingly tasty. Really tasty, and even kid-approved!
Just 4 ingredients: unsweetened almond milk, vanilla extract, ripe bananas, and dark cocoa powder.
Worth a try, teammates, if you're wanting a sweet fix. We really liked it, for what it's worth.
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Thursday, 07.22.21 check-in:
Tracked: Yes
Under: Yes
Exercise: Yes, just lots of errands. Swam with the kids and shot some hoops with them.
Tomorrow is weigh-in, and it's a crap shoot. I weigh daily and enter into a personal excel sheet, even though only my Friday weigh-ins get entered into MFP. It helps me see the big picture and trends.
This week was a ToM week, and while I was always carefully tracking (under) and I exercised and moved a lot, the scale was...reticent...to acknowledge my hard work. It usually bounces back after the cycle ends (today), so we shall see.
Things are tense here at home, and I've been very successful at not eating my anxiety and stress and emotions, so a win this week would mean a lot to me. We shall see.
Hopefully getting my butt to the gym in the early AM, and the kids asked for another hike tomorrow.
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Thursday 23 July
Track: yes
Under: yes
Exercise: yes
Steps: 14,569
Water: 120 oz0 -
Weigh in Week ? (I've lost track 😂)
PW: 143.0
CW: 143.0
Happy Friday y'all!1 -
DaffyGirl88 wrote: »Weigh in Week ? (I've lost track 😂)
PW: 143.0
CW: 143.0
Happy Friday y'all!
Three. I think. Weigh in week three…. Probably…1 -
mooreshelly09
Week 3
PW: 174.8
CW: 173.6
Happy Friday y'all 2 -
MargaretYakoda wrote: »DaffyGirl88 wrote: »rawrxamberx wrote: »Hey everyone! I’m so sorry I haven’t been as active. I’ve been in such a bad slump. At one point I debated on leaving the challenge because I just felt like I was failing not only myself, but you guys too.
But last night i decided I wasn’t going to do that because that would give me another reason to not get back into the swing of things. I decided last night that I really need to do this for myself because nothing is going to change if I don’t try.
I know I didn’t weigh in last week, but I’m definitely weighing in tomorrow!! I’m also gonna start posting everyday for accountability.
@rawrxamberx Definitely DO NOT leave this group!! You are in no way letting us down. Remember that we're here for you if you need a pick me up. Sometimes I just come here to chat.
SECONDED!
I see this as a place of support in a wild and often unsupportive world.
You’re not perfect. I’m not perfect
Stick around. Let’s be imperfect together!
Thank you to both of you! I truly appreciate that 😊 you both are inspiring!1 -
Well whomp whomp...my weigh-in is another gain:
Starting weight: 165.6
Previous weight: 165.8
Current weight: 166.4
In looking back I can see some factors in this up and down weight cycle - stress and sleep really negatively affect me on the scale, and skipping walks, even when substituting other exercise, is problematic. Honestly, I think the walks help with the stress and sleep, so it's probably one big thing. I can literally FEEL the stress and bad sleep nights as 'puffiness' in my body for the next day or two.
What seems to be less of a factor is food - I pretty much eat the same things, or same amount of things, all the time, and almost always within calorie budget. So I guess that's something.
I need to think of my walks like I think of brushing my teeth - just something I do daily. Then biking, yoga, weights, etc can be the bonus exercise.
We live and we learn, even if we don't lose, huh?7 -
Weekly weigh-in, 07.23.21:
Previous weight: 206.8
Current weight: 205.5
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I'm weighing in because if I don't I'll put on even more pounds.
It won't look good for the group stats, but it will make me face up to where I am.
I didn't weigh in on Wednesday, my usual day, but I weiged in yesterday, Thursday, and I was 139.2lbs. I am determined not to go back to the 140s6 -
user name = maryc11
Date = Friday July 23, 2021
Tracked = Yes
Exercise = Yes
Under = Yes
Water = 58 oz
Steps = 1,7000 -
7/23
Username Gamommy2
Steps 6725
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Friday, 07.23.21 daily check-in:
Tracked: yes and under
Exercised: Yes, took the kids for 2 walks for a cumulative total of 3.84 miles.
Tomorrow: kayaking in the AM.1 -
Maryc11
7/17/2021= 200.2
7/24/2021= 198.1
Yipee!!!4 -
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MINI ULTIMATE ACCOUNTABILITY CHALLENGE - JULY WEEK #2
(Sunday the 11th to Saturday the 17th)
Winner's Circle - 6 or 7 "yes" days
@CycleMomOf3 (7)
@DaffyGirl88 (7)
@maryc11 (6)
Notable Effort - 4 or 5 "yes" days
@murdog3t (5)
@MargaretYakoda (4)
Attempted
@annabananamc (2)
@Krysless2 (2)
@gamommy2 (1)
Congratulations to our three Winners this week, Traci, Sue and Mary!! They have made it two weeks in a row!! Will they go for three? Stay tuned....2 -
cmhubbard92 wrote: »But, for some people, though, changing their activity level from "active" to "sedentary" can give them a better goal to aim for on non-active days, and really see a jump in earned exercise calories on active days.
This is what I do (when I am working the program) as I really do have a sedentary lifestyle. Add in that I am a 55 year old, 5'5" female at my current weight, and MFP gives me 1220 daily calories. I cannot survive on that, both physically and mentally!! So I need to get in my steps to be able to eat a reasonable number of calories and still be under my daily limit.0 -
cmhubbard92 wrote: »But, for some people, though, changing their activity level from "active" to "sedentary" can give them a better goal to aim for on non-active days, and really see a jump in earned exercise calories on active days.
This is what I do (when I am working the program) as I really do have a sedentary lifestyle. Add in that I am a 55 year old, 5'5" female at my current weight, and MFP gives me 1220 daily calories. I cannot survive on that, both physically and mentally!! So I need to get in my steps to be able to eat a reasonable number of calories and still be under my daily limit.
@HASWLRS what is the weight loss goal you selected? I'm 5'3, and am allowed almost 1600 calories daily, not including exercise calories. This is for a .5lb loss(26lb/yr). If I were to select 2lb/week, my goal would be 1200, because that's their lowest allowed(but realistically my goal would be 1100-not realistic or sustainable). Choosing .5lb/wk is slow, and loss more hidden, but I'm still on track(I lose more in a month or two, then maintain for a little while, before weight loss comes around again).
Maybe lowering your weekly loss goal (1lb instead of 2, or anything lower than your current) will increase your calorie goal, even as sedentary, and will allow you more room on certain days, even without exercise. It may be easier to stick to your calorie goal as well 0 -
DaffyGirl88 wrote: »One more comment/question on the varying calorie allowance. I have synced my Fitbit half a dozen times today and am currently at 11k steps. My diary is only showing 1500 steps and therefore isn't giving me any exercise calories. With that big of a time lag how do know what you can eat? 🤷♀️🤨
@DaffyGirl88 Yes, some days are like that and it is frustrating, and it messes with your mind! I know from experience that X number of steps for me, will give me Y number of extra calories, so (when I am working the program) I just mentally factor that in. And it usually fixes itself by morning, so even though I may go to bed with my diary registering an "over", it will magically become an "under" when I wake up!0 -
MargaretYakoda wrote: »Username: MargaretYakoda
Weigh in week: July 18 -24
Weigh in day: Wednesday
Previous Week's weight: 217.3
Todays Weight: 213.5. Yeah. I had a whoosh. I epect next week will be another plateau. 😏
@MargaretYakoda Aren't whooshes amazing?!! Congratulations on putting in the hard work and staying the course even when things were slow going on the scales, and earning this "whoosh"!!0 -
@cmhubbard92 - I don't know about @HASWLRS but I am a 5'5" 59 year old and my calorie limit is just 1200 daily. Post-menopause my metabolism slowed to a CRAWL and my muscle mass decreased like crazy for the first time in my life. (estrogen helps you maintain muscle mass so when it's gone, you start to look 'stringy') I always wondered why my mom ate like a bird to stay at her weight, despite daily walks, swims and yoga and now I see. Getting old is not for whimps!4
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cmhubbard92 wrote: »cmhubbard92 wrote: »But, for some people, though, changing their activity level from "active" to "sedentary" can give them a better goal to aim for on non-active days, and really see a jump in earned exercise calories on active days.
This is what I do (when I am working the program) as I really do have a sedentary lifestyle. Add in that I am a 55 year old, 5'5" female at my current weight, and MFP gives me 1220 daily calories. I cannot survive on that, both physically and mentally!! So I need to get in my steps to be able to eat a reasonable number of calories and still be under my daily limit.
@HASWLRS what is the weight loss goal you selected? I'm 5'3, and am allowed almost 1600 calories daily, not including exercise calories. This is for a .5lb loss(26lb/yr). If I were to select 2lb/week, my goal would be 1200, because that's their lowest allowed(but realistically my goal would be 1100-not realistic or sustainable). Choosing .5lb/wk is slow, and loss more hidden, but I'm still on track(I lose more in a month or two, then maintain for a little while, before weight loss comes around again).
Maybe lowering your weekly loss goal (1lb instead of 2, or anything lower than your current) will increase your calorie goal, even as sedentary, and will allow you more room on certain days, even without exercise. It may be easier to stick to your calorie goal as well
@cmhubbard92 How sweet of you, but you are forgetting that I am old enough to be your mother!! Yes, I have it set to 1 lb a week, and with 40 pounds to lose, that is as slow as I would be willing to go on paper.0 -
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