Weight No More-July Chat 2021
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Kandi3570
Weigh in day Saturday
PW 175.4
CW 174.8
Steps. 88683
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Zumba_luvah
Pw- 173.6
Cw- 175.22 -
ha110w33nsp00k
Saturday
PW: 176 (7-3-21)
CW: 175.4 (7-10-21)
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So I decided I needed a break from weighin today. It has been a rough week...anniversary of my sister's death and...just too much reality...
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This my weightloss this week.6 -
kirsten11872
Week:2
Weigh-in day: Saturday
Previous weight: 178.5
Current weight:180.1
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@melaniedscott what a change! I hope you are loving it!!!2
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That's me on the left with my granddaughter Pip in the middle and her brother Gil on the right
I can't believe it's already July 10th!
Hello everyone. Sorry I'm a bit late with this. I’m Theresa and I live in downtown Toronto, Canada. I joined Team Weight No More in January 2020. In January 2021 I took some time off to support my sister (virtually) who has been receiving treatment for Lyme Disease (that went undiagnosed for two years) while also being the primary caregiver for our mother who was terminally ill and passed away on Easter Sunday.
About me
I have two grown children. My daughter Elisabeth lives nearby with her partner, Jake. She just recovered from cancer (yay!) and started her own advertising agency. He is starting a PhD program for the next five years. My son Phil lives in a small town an hour away with his wife, Katie, and two children. Pippa turns four July 28th (she'll tell you every day) and Gilbert is two. I have a Havanese dog named Xavy. He doesn't say much about it, but he turns five on August 1st.
I had a career as an advertising and publishing executive. For years I ran, cycled, and swam. Then one day, as my daughter says, just like Forrest Gump I stopped.
My weight story
As a child, I was an healthy weight, except this one time when my next-door neighbour's grandmother babysat and introduced us to three course lunches with whipped cream on every dessert. When my children were small, I was very slim, about 120 lbs, probably from chasing them around. In my forties I was at my ideal weight, a toned 142 lbs.
Almost four years ago, when my granddaughter was born, I saw a photo and didn’t recognize myself. I did look like a happy nana and I’m sure I was comfy to hug, but I want to live to be a ‘little’ old lady.
In January 2018, I weighed 177.4 lbs with a goal of a toned 142 lbs. I’ve reset this to 145 lbs and toned because I when I was at 145 lbs and toned in 2020, I found that it was perfect for me.
The present
I’m generally very healthy though was diagnosed with Meniere’s Disease over the past couple of years. Some of the symptoms, particularly vertigo, aren’t great for exercise but I’m persistent. It accounts for some of my slow progress but I’m now on medication that reduces the severity of the vertigo, ear pressure, and tinnitus. It won’t reverse the hearing loss but I am okay with that.
I launched a new business called Ancestree Detectives in January. It’s an on-demand service for DIY family historians to hire professional genealogists for as few as 30 minutes. It’s going really well and whoa ~ am I busy! We've even been on TV.
We're finally getting out of lockdown here in Toronto, after being in a stay-at-home order all of 2021 and most of last year. I'm getting my hair cut on Wednesday and I think I'm more excited than getting my second vaccine.
My July goals- Log food, water, and exercise daily
- Sleep eight hours each night
- Increase strength exercise to 3 times a week
- Do higher intensity cardio 2 times a week
- Move every day in a variety of fun ways
My stats- Highest weight: 177.4 lbs
- Lowest weight: 6 lbs 11 ounces (see, I took that joke from Ashley)
- Lowest weight as an adult: 117 lbs (when my children were toddlers, they were super active)
- Weight now: 152.1
- Goal: 145 and toned
Welcome @Kaken21 !
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Weigh Day
Username: 1theresamcvean
Weigh-in week: Week 2
Weigh-in day: Friday
Starting weight: 177.4
Last weigh-in (I missed week one for July): 151.5
Today's weight: 152.1
Loss to date: 25.33 -
Username:gottagetthisdown
Weigh In Day:Friday
PW (Previous Weight):172.8
CW (Current Weight):173.44 -
Pw 122
CW 123
Steps
Sun 3,768
Mon 1,498
Tues -726
Wed - 5,591
Thur - 13,110
Fri - 16,707
Sat - 16,8974 -
Steps..
Sun- 11,711
Mon- 14,717
Tues- 11,125
Wed- 17,145
Thurs- 8,719
Fri- 8,606
Sat- 13,5744 -
Steps for the last week..
7/4- 6,638
7/5- 6,688
7/6- 11,502
7/7- 12,280
7/8- 12,866
7/9- 13,382
7/10- 3,406
Total: 66,762
Yesterday it was 111 degrees here and I did some swimming and spent the rest of the day lazy inside. Looking forward to the weather cooling down this week. Below 100 would be great.6 -
sandielewis2001 wrote: »@melaniedscott what a change! I hope you are loving it!!!
I really am. This is the fourth time. I've been doing hair "cycles". Two years short, one grow year, two years long. We will see where things stand in two years...
Steps..
Sun- 653
Mon- 1,453 (in all fairness...it was a slug fest weekend ...)
Tues-8,964
Wed- 1,231 (that can't be right, I didn't move much but surely more than that...but that's what it says...)
Thurs- 7,655
Fri- 3,443
Sat- 4,273
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steps
July 4 7446
July 5 7519
July 6 8722
July 7 5538
July 8 4931
July 9 4748
July 10 7286
Total miles: 16.1
Had a few days of just sitting around though I walked a little further this week. Felt sleepy and lazy.
Have not been sleeping well this week - not sure why.4 -
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EVERYONE EXTEND A BIG CONGRATULATIONS TO
@gwamajtw91
SHE REACHED HER GOAL WEIGHT THIS WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!7 -
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sandielewis2001 wrote: »Steps for the last week..
7/4- 6,638
7/5- 6,688
7/6- 11,502
7/7- 12,280
7/8- 12,866
7/9- 13,382
7/10- 3,406
Total: 66,762
Yesterday it was 111 degrees here and I did some swimming and spent the rest of the day lazy inside. Looking forward to the weather cooling down this week. Below 100 would be great.
So good, considering the heat. @sandielewis20012 -
melaniedscott wrote: »
This my weightloss this week.
Great hair, Melanie! Reminds me of this. So popular when I was in grade eight
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1theresamcvean wrote: »melaniedscott wrote: »
This my weightloss this week.
Great hair, Melanie! Reminds me of this. So popular when I was in grade eight
Trying to decide if that is good thing or a bad thing...Is that Mary Lou Retton?
My hair is too...everything to be as smooth and flat as that pic. I think it (hair) is excited to not be heavy and is aiming for floofy. We'll see.2 -
Twyla77
Weigh In Day: Sunday July 11
Previous Weight: 146.5
Today’s Weight: 144.6
Pleased to see the scale moved in the right direction this week!
I had a good week, for the most part, and I even did a few YouTube workouts from Tracy Steen’s channel! This low-impact one is great for apartment-living!
https://youtu.be/OoeS4S9p-Eo
I did a really good grocery shop this morning and have done all my meal prep, so I’m feeling confident about the week ahead!
I hope everyone is having a great Sunday! 😊7 -
Username: Antiopelle
Weigh In Day: Monday
PW (Previous Weight): 162
CW (Current Weight): 161.4
I've done really well on the food side this past week, and I had tons of exercise: diving on Thursday, bike2work on Friday, diving on Saturday, and big clean-up and moving furniture yesterday to prepare for our new couch which will arrive this Thursday. I feel I'm in a good space in my personal life which is good to balance out the stress from work.3 -
Hope002
PW 186.7
CW 185.75 -
melaniedscott wrote: »Antiopelle wrote: »melaniedscott wrote: »melaniedscott
week 1 Sat weigh-in
PW: 204
CW: 204
No change. Grr. It's okay. The universe is making sure I know I'm not doing all the things I need to do to totally commit to this. And I keep making excuses, or saying I'll do more when X is done or I start out the day with good intentions but the phone never stops ringing and it makes me want to bite something...and I do, just m&m's, not celery or OMG I have six projects that need completed RIGHT NOW and not enough time to do it, chips are the answer to the immediate problem, as before, wanting to bite something. And then I eat everything in the evening. I've been over but not drastically and probably high on salt... Anyway, I need to stop this.
Okay. That was word vomit but, hey...
I could have written this myself... I feel you! Let's try to do better for the next 7 days, ok?
I'll try if you will. I thought I was doing well yesterday but 9 pm hit. When I feel snacky after 9, I think I need to just go to bed. I'm silly tired and...I need to put on my big girl pants and go to sleep. Thank god I have no kinder...it would be a madhouse.
How is it going? Did you get some extra sleep yet?0 -
Antiopelle wrote: »melaniedscott wrote: »Antiopelle wrote: »melaniedscott wrote: »melaniedscott
week 1 Sat weigh-in
PW: 204
CW: 204
No change. Grr. It's okay. The universe is making sure I know I'm not doing all the things I need to do to totally commit to this. And I keep making excuses, or saying I'll do more when X is done or I start out the day with good intentions but the phone never stops ringing and it makes me want to bite something...and I do, just m&m's, not celery or OMG I have six projects that need completed RIGHT NOW and not enough time to do it, chips are the answer to the immediate problem, as before, wanting to bite something. And then I eat everything in the evening. I've been over but not drastically and probably high on salt... Anyway, I need to stop this.
Okay. That was word vomit but, hey...
I could have written this myself... I feel you! Let's try to do better for the next 7 days, ok?
I'll try if you will. I thought I was doing well yesterday but 9 pm hit. When I feel snacky after 9, I think I need to just go to bed. I'm silly tired and...I need to put on my big girl pants and go to sleep. Thank god I have no kinder...it would be a madhouse.
How is it going? Did you get some extra sleep yet?
I think I'm doing okay...and then the raisins atrack. Or my husband slinks in with girl scout cookies. last night, I took my book to the bedroom. that helps. Also, I'd had enough of him watching Roadkill, Dirt Everyday (both car building/fixing shows on YouTube) and incoherent Korean shows on Netflix. The Korean movies/shows they have never make any sense. Surely there is coherent cinema? Anyway, gave up and went to bed. I'd already had several snacks...but prevented more.
I don't know about more sleep...I sleep weird.
You?2 -
~~ July Week Three ~~
Welcome to our third week of July, everybody! We've seen some incredible losses over the past week, and some of you have been maintaining momentum (and making it look easy!) - so proud of our team!
As for me, I'm eating leftover fried chicken for breakfast. So, I'm happy. It's Tuesday, so I am not worried about eating too many calories (lifting before work, two spin classes after), and I'll be happy to have these tempting foods out of my fridge for my rest day tomorrow.
I also wrote a blog post yesterday, while MFP was acting wonky. If you want to read it, here ya go: LINK~ Walk Around the Earth To Ease Your Troubled Mind ~
Our mighty team of eight steppers walked a staggering 493,595 steps over the course of the week - who knows what they're going to accomplish next!
Here's the leaderboard...
Over 10,000 Steps Per Day:
@kandi3570 - 88,683 total | 12,669 average
@ljdanny - 85,597 total | 12,228 average - Most Steps in One Day!
Over 5,000 Steps Per Day:
@sandielewis2001 - 66,762 total | 9,537 average
@lennoncpa - 65,094 total | 9,299 average
@annliz23 - 58,297 total | 8,328 average - End of the Week Glow Up!
@dbrinkmeyer - 55,300 total | 7,900 average
@pacsnc6 - 46,190 total | 6,599 average - Most Consistent!
@melaniedscott - 27,672 total | 3,953 average
What do we think about the current format of the steps announcement? Do we want more statistics? Less? Back to my old format? Should I drop the steps and stick more to screaming motivational nonsense into the void? Let me know what you think.
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Well ill be honest when I say I thought today was Monday....I had appointments yesterday out of town so I took the day off work and its throwing me for a loop!
Today is supposed to be my weigh in day but since I thought it was Monday today I didn't weigh myself. I will weigh in tomorrow and log it.
Sorry!!!!1 -
Well ill be honest when I say I thought today was Monday....I had appointments yesterday out of town so I took the day off work and its throwing me for a loop!
Today is supposed to be my weigh in day but since I thought it was Monday today I didn't weigh myself. I will weigh in tomorrow and log it.
Sorry!!!!
@Kaken21 - Nothing to worry about! Thanks for letting us know. Just weigh in tomorrow morning and we'll be all set.0
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