Shape Shifters Team Chat - DECEMBER 2021
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Covid update: a slightly stuffy nose, but otherwise symptom free already. Husband is still sleeping (and I’m going back to bed after pumping), hopefully he’s better too. We’re still in quarantine until next Tuesday, but healthy is better than sick. Today’s plans include cleaning, prepping our next grocery delivery order, and going for a walk. The baby and I have been inside the apartment since Sunday night, we need some fresh air.
On that note, my steps:
22.12. 9687
23.12. 8349
24.12. 3351
25.12. 7357
26.12. 5242
27.12. 3298
28.12. 5416
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Steps for Tuesday 28 Dec: 12.650
Steps for Wednesday 29 Dec: 14.741
Hello team. I hope everyone is doing well. I know I haven't been as active as usual here and I am sorry for that. I am doing fine; I have just been distracted/busy with other things and I haven't taken the time to check in as much. Still not completely back to normal with my food. I am having a hard time behaving, but I know that I will easily fall back into the groove once I have managed for a few days. I have also banned myself from the grocery store for at least a week! So time to go back to eating healthy stuff.
I decided to already get some new plants. They arrived yesterday and they are ready and settled in their pots. I was 3 euros short of being able to get free shipping. After some looking around, I also saw they sold cuttings from other plants. They were all so tiny and adorable looking. My moms birthday is next week, and she will come over to sleep again soon. So I decided to get her a Hoya Kerrii as a small extra present. It is a climbing plant with heart shaped leafs which is often sold as just 1 single heart leaf. It is so stinking cute!
@jessicakrall8
I am happy to share pictures of course! But the weather is quite dreadful lately; a lot of wind and rain and just drab and grey. So not sure when my new batch will be here.
I do have some updated pictures of my plant set up to share under the spoiler. Happy Thursday everyone
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@pupowl Your plants and your home are simply lovely. You've been graced with the gift of decorating, something I sorely lack. I could use just a smidgen of your skills. I know what I like when I see it, but cannot for the life of me arrange things properly. Wish I could hire you to help me!! LOL The 3-D design of the birds on your window make it appear as if a flock are flying right outside...just love that! The heart-shaped leaf is adorable and what an awesome gift that will make! I'm sure she'll love it...
I just received word that our entire office will work from home until Jan 10th and then they'll make a decision on how to proceed. COVID rates because of New Year's are expected to rise even more in the US. People will undoubtedly attend New Year's parties. Everyone so desperately wants to return to "normal", whatever that means, that they take rash chances and in most cases, don't consider what it will mean for others. I don't think we'll ever see "normal" again. Frightening. Please stay safe everyone! Switched out my cloth masks for N95 ones this week. I imagine this is how the previous generations felt during the time of Polio.
Back to work! Hope you all have a wonderful day!
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Greetings Shape Shifters - a former member of the Trimstones is back - welcome to @Fattleass for January!0
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MFP USER NAME Fattleass
YOUR CHOSEN WEIGH-IN DAY Wednesday
YOUR CURRENT WEIGHT 194.7
YOUR ORIGINAL STARTING WEIGHT (highest weight ever) - optional, but great for celebrating milestones! 299.8
Hello everyone glad to be back
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MFP USER NAME Fattleass
YOUR CHOSEN WEIGH-IN DAY Wednesday
YOUR CURRENT WEIGHT 194.7
YOUR ORIGINAL STARTING WEIGHT (highest weight ever) - optional, but great for celebrating milestones! 299.8
Hello everyone glad to be back
Charles
WELCOME BACK, my friend!!! So glad to have watched your journey and all of your success blossoming in recent months!!! SO PROUD OF YOU!!! And now, we'll all share in you continued weight loss! I bet you feel like a different person at this point. When you feel like it, would love if you would share your story for those who haven't watched it as I have. You're definitely a Shape Shifter!
Jessica2 -
This week is my last week of teaching piano after 23 years...two lessons now to go. Tonight was particularly tough as the student who has been with me for 7 years had her last lesson. I have to say I cried a little but didn't fall apart. I've watched her grow from a tiny little 6/7 year old with no musical background to such an accomplished musician with multiple instruments under her belt and she's a singer as well...at 14 she has such a bright future ahead. Can't wait to see where it takes her. I have no doubt that I'll stay in touch with her and her family, but it will be hard not seeing her on a regular basis.
Anxious to see where my next chapter takes me, but man has it been a good 23 years in music. I've enjoyed it...even during the difficult years where I didn't know if my budget would cover everything. Music saved me in many ways...through several deaths in my family and divorce...it helped me to grieve.
WHEW...moving forward...I'm so thankful for all that it's meant to me. Not food or fitness related, but thanks for listening...
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The January Habit Tracker is ready! Everything you need to know is here:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10852143/january-2022-fat2fit-habit-tracker#latest
Add this to your toolkit and put your planning into practice from day one.0 -
Hi SS's ...You have a new member joining your awesome team ... Please welcome @seeless25 1
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Day 6 of quarantine: feeling symptom free, but exhausted for other reasons. We took on a little quarantine project of finally trying to teach our daughter to fall asleep in her own crib and to set her sleep schedule for something more sensible. Until now one of us has stayed up in the living room with her until she falls asleep, usually around 3AM, and then she sleeps all day. Last night it apparently took until 4AM to finally get her settled down (I went to bed around 2AM and now it’s my turn to take care of night/mornin feedings while he sleeps). Hoping tonight goes better and she calms down before midnight so husband and I can ring in the new year watching fireworks from our balcony without a fussy baby. We live in the 4th floor and there would be great views of the surrounding parks where people usually do their fireworks, but last year it was so foggy you couldn’t even see the street below. Hoping for a better weather today.2
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Bearchested
Friday
PW: 200.4
CW: 202.6
I overindulged more than I thought over the holidays.2 -
KHill875
Friday weight
PW: 145.1
CW: 144.8
Finally stopped the upwards trend.3 -
Welcome to our newest members:
@Fattleass
@seeless25
Great time to get motivated and you're starting off with a great group of people. I hope you'll find the support and care that I've found here. Take a moment and introduce yourself, either in this chat or on the new January thread which starts on Sunday, Jan 2nd. Let me know what I can do to help you both and get ready for our New Year group challenge which will start on Jan 2nd as well. Last week we started working on goals, reviewing 2021 and looking forward to what we want to accomplish in 2022.
I hope the New Year brings you joy, health and success in your journey!
Again, welcome!!
Jessica
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@bearchested We've all been guilty of that...and now the work begins for 2022! I've gotta learn to stop buying cookies...SMH
@KHill875 Now you're setting the example of how it's done!! Great loss this week!
Any New Years plans? I'll be watching the ball fall on tv tonight, but I rarely do anything on New Years...hope you have a nice evening!
Jessica0 -
This little guy's adorable...so let's hear about your New Year's plans today...CHIME IN!!!
Jess1 -
Now accepting Step Team Challenge members for the month of January...send me your first name, daily step goal and your favorite place to walk currently and that's it! The Step Team Challenge chart is located on the same spreadsheet as the weigh-in chart, just scroll down and you'll find it. I'm hoping to see many of us pushing our walking to new limits for the month. Join me, won't you?!!
Jessica
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@jessicakrall8 good luck with your transition away from music teacher. It really is a special relationship, I’ve appreciated the music teachers in my life so much over the years.
I will weigh in today instead of tomorrow
CasandraW
Saturday weigh in
PW 232.5
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Does anyone know of a good YouTube Zumba type work out? I miss my Zumba class but will not be joining the commercial gym again. We set up a home gym when Covid started and I much prefer lifting weights without an audience.1
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Dec 31, 2021
Justanotherloser007
PW: 175.4
CW: 172.4
I tried to go on maintenance for December, but I lost 6 lbs total. I think between picking up on my daily walk, and having only a week of maintenance - it sort of all worked to the loss. I plan on being at Church to give thanks for the old year, and the new year! Happy New Year all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!2 -
frankwbrown
Friday, December week 4
PW: 228.4
CW: 229.8 (-1.4 lbs; -0.59%)
Step goal: 10,000 daily
12/26: Sun: 14,572
12/27: Mon: 13,123
12/28: Tue: 13,634
12/29: Wed: 10,286
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Marni3369
PW: 236.4
CW: 236.6
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Chalmation
Friday
PW 142.2
CW 142.4
Gaaah!!! This is just a wobble but its my first gain of the month.
Cindy
Daily step goal: 8,000
I like to walk at the ball park down the street and indoors with Leslie Sansone.3 -
Missing the following weigh-ins this week (incl today):
@suziieq56 (2x)
@Be_theBest_Me (2x)
@mulecanter
@jennifersusanmcdougall
@leni1us
@cre804
@Yukie_OP
Please report in...thanks! Walkers, send in your steps please...check the chart and fill in the gaps! Thanks all!
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One year ago today I stepped on the scale and it read 299.6. For years I had been in the 281 - 287 range, but the last few months of 2020 I jumped up to my highest weight ever.
I have been overweight most of my adult life. In 2001 I followed the Atkins diet and lost 65 pounds getting down to 201 - 205 (never got back to the 100s). I maintained that for about 7 years and then slowly started putting it back on. By 2013 I hit the 280s and there I stayed, till I didn't.
So back to this day last year... I remember feeling lost, lonely and defeated. Scared that the next time I stepped on the scale the first number would change. For some reason I felt that if that happened, I would never come back from it. A little melodramatic for sure... but it was pretty overwhelming.
January 3rd I decided (a little late) to participate in Sober January. In the first week I lost 6.5 pounds. Clearly water weight but it made me smile. By February 1st I was back in my "zone" at 286 and as the month progressed, also back to drinking wine or beer almost every evening, snacking and not paying attention to what I was eating. I don't exactly know when it happened but somewhere between the end of February and the end of March I realized I felt a lot better in January when I wasn't having that nightly glass (or two) of wine or beer, so I cut way back... with that came better sleep, more energy and a lot less snacking. April 9th I stepped on the scale and for the first time in almost 9 years, my middle number dropped from an 8 to a 7. I weighed 279.8 and I was giddy... crazy happy! I closed out April at 272.8. My focus became on changing my middle number, and I have celebrated myself each time it's happened. Somewhere along the line I recognized that my relationship with food was changing for the better. For so many years I had tried hard to force it and failed over and over again. Alcohol played a huge role in this for me... having a glass of wine while making dinner? Of course I need to have cheese and crackers appetizer with it. Glass of wine after dinner? Oooohhhh... chocolate goes really well with that. Grab a beer while BBQing? Well then I need to have a handful of chips or pretzels too. You get the idea... Cutting back on drinking for me translated to cutting out a lot of mindless eating.
On August 20th I weighed in at 249.6... closer to 200 than 300. That felt really good. Some months have been better than others and honestly, I was worried about the holidays as it was during this time last year that I put on over 10 pounds. So when I stepped on the scale this morning and saw 236.6 I felt great. I can't tell you how many times in my life I had said "If I had started trying to lose weight X number of weeks/months ago, I could have lost (insert crazy unrealistic number here) by now. So this morning I said to myself... "Apparently I can lose just over 60 pounds in a year."
Unfortunately, I really struggle with seeing the change. My clothes are smaller, I can finally wear an XL shirt (at least in some brands) and size 16 jeans... regular, not Womens... fit, tight, but they fit. But pictures? I don't see a difference. I still absolutely hate pictures of myself. AND... because I hate pictures, I avoid the camera so finding pictures of me from previous years to compare is difficult. I also am learning that I'm just as insecure about my appearance but now craving validation. I'm not liking this part of me and trying to figure out how to get the heck over it.
Anyway, I know this is a super long post so for those of you still reading along, thank you. And if you are still reading and asking yourself "Is there a point to all of this?"... Yes, there is a point. At least for me. I have always been afraid to talk about certain things. In some ways I'm terrified of criticism. In other ways, I'm worried that if I verbalize something good I will sabotage it or if I verbalize concerns about something negative, I will bring it to reality. So the point of this post is to face my fears and put it out there... for people to see my numbers to judge and criticize (at least in my mind) and also talk about the good things to learn that I CAN do that without ruining everything (again with the melodrama....).
In March I will be 53. My goal is to be in the 220s and take a picture on my birthday that I don't hate. Let's see how that goes...
Happy New Year everyone. May 2022 be amazing for us all.
Marni
Weight loss 12/31/20 - 12/31/21 = 63 pounds
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Daily step goal 10,000
Dec 25: 14,386
Dec 26: 15,350
Dec 27: 15,985
Dec 28: 14,589
Dec 29: 11,825
Dec 30: 14,971
Dec 31: 16,724
Here is a funny picture I took from the day after Christmas, I call it "Rage quit Christmas puzzle" it looks like someone threw it from their backyard lols...
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Thank you for sharing @Marni3369 ((((hugs))))2
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@Marnie3369 thank you for your honesty, I read till the end.Wish you every success for 2022 you deserve to feel happy in your own skin.Whatever size you are,you are beautiful & worthy.
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Pupowl
Saturday weigh in
PW: 195.3
CW: 195.3
A little disappointed with myself that I didn't do better this month. I do have the food ordering under control again and I am mostly free from side-effects from quitting my meds. So I am very excited to see what 2022 will bring. I wish all of you a very happy and healthy New Year and thank you for making this group such a lovely place to share struggles and successes.
Steps for Thursday 30 December: 11.581
Steps for Friday 31 December: 12.791
I would like to join the step challenge again for January with a goal of 12.000 a day, thank you!
@jessicakrall8
Thank you very much for your compliment about my home. To be honest, 80% of the stuff is probably for my cat Tinus with some bits and pieces of decoration thrown in. I don't really own a lot of things, but the things I do have make me really happy. I think that is more important than making it look all matching and pretty. The birds are stickers on the outside. They help to make sure that no real birds fly into the window since I have another big one on the opposite side of the house which to them may seem like they can fly through. The stickers prevent that from happening, so it wasn't really a decorative choice, though I personally also think it looks fun.
It is already January the 1st here. I am not a big fan of fireworks (that's an understatement), so I always just go to bed, get woken up by the noise and fall asleep again when things have calmed down. It is my first New Year in this town and house, but it was fairly quiet. It could also be because there was actually a firework ban, though I think it will be okay here normally as well. It is supposed to stay dry today for a change, so I will see if I can go for a walk.
I did my monthly body meassuring as well this morning. Weight wise, I am down 3.3 pounds (goal is 4.4 a month). But I did lose 3 cm from my chest, 3 from my belly and 4 from my hips. So those numbers are still pretty good to me!
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@jessicakrall8 as I said, I’d like to rejoin the weight loss squad for January! You can put me down as a Saturday weigher, with a starting weight of 237.4 lbs. I’m not sure what my all-time high was postpartum, but 250lbs would be close enough if you’re still recording all time highs.
It’s a gorgeous sunny day today, and we’re going for a walk soon. I’ve been thinking about my goals for January, but they’re not really resolutions despite happening on Jan 1st. They’re more of a continuation of being cleared for exercise, the christening and Christmas and covid just got in the way.
My overall goal is a healthier lifestyle and major weight loss (60-ish lbs), but on January I will work on the following to get there:
1) I will phase out my night pumping snack. If it’s not possible to leave it out altogether yet, I’ll at least work on switching from a full breakfast sandwich to fruits, berries or cherry tomatoes. Yes, I’ve become a hobbit, eating a first and second and possibly third breakfast every day with my pumping sessions.
2) I will do something intentional to improve my fitness every day. I have to be realistic about having a 2-month-old, so anything counts. I’m really hoping my weekly baby&mama pilates class doesn’t get canceled due to lockdown rules and the gym reopens, and I plan on going on walks and doing some YouTube yoga videos at home, but even a five-minute stretching session or just doing my physical therapy exercises counts if that’s all I can do that day.
3) I will do at least one ”extra” home improvement or cleaning task on top of my routine chores every day. I function better in a clean home but am really bad at keeping it tidy and clean, this is something I need to improve. If my home is a mess, I tend to just slump on the couch and feel down instead of staying active and happy. Today I plan on cleaning our nightstands.
I’ll report back every day on my fitness action and home improvement action of the day 4
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