WaistAways Team Chat - JUNE 2022
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@kellie_erin I have taken several breaks from the team over my time here. I highly recommend going on support and changing your goal focus but continue to read posts and post yourself. Sounds like you really need to focus on stress relief and I'm guessing energy with everything going on. Exercise and nutrition can definitely be a part of that but maybe calorie tracking isn't. You can still feel like you are supporting your health and well-being during this stressful time. Just get rid of the scale pressure and focus on feeding good enough to deal with everything.
@lauren_989 I generally weight most days of the week and it does go up and down. Sometimes I use the previous days weight if I had take out the night before my weigh in and I know it's just water weight. This doesn't happen too often but sometimes life happens. I have my weigh in day on Friday since that is the day of the week I tend to weigh the least. If you have a regular work week there is research to suggest that most people weigh the least on this day. I find the work week gives me structure and I can be more flexible with my weekends.
@eggfreak So glad you're here. I know life has been crazy for you these last few months. Just know that we care about you here! I hope you find some time for self care and your own goals. Sending hugs.
@Kali225 The drive sounds miserable but I hope you have fun with your mom!
@ashleycarole86 I definitely thought of you yesterday when I didn't see your usual post! I figured you had a busy day. Glad you had a great time.1 -
@Kali225 Hope your Mom has a great birthday! Sounds like the celebrations are going to be a lot of fun!
@conleywoods Definitely was thinking of the team! It does me no good to not be here - if I'm not it likely means I'm getting into trouble
Anyway, I still logged my food - but knew I needed a proper sit down to catch up here.
Exercise catch-up:
6/8 - 17,305 steps, 17 minutes Peloton
6/9 - 11,735 steps
6/10 - 14,602 steps2 -
kellie_erin wrote: »CW: 194.7
I'm thinking I might need to drop out for a while. I don't need the extra guilt this is causing me over gaining weight beyond the self-loathing I already carry
Hugs, Kellie. As several people have mentioned, we love having you with us in any way that works for you. Even if you are not weighing in every week (that will take away some of the bad feelings, I hope!), just coming in here and posting from time to time, reading the general news and ideas can hopefully keep you from going too far away from healthy habits. I'll put you in the support team for now and you can let me know if that works for you. No weigh-ins, just hanging here with the team when you want. Then you just ask when you're ready to jump back into the weighing in part. OK?3 -
@lauren_989 good question about the weighing daily vs weekly - this one comes back from time to time and the different ways that either one can "mess with our heads" is fascinating, if not fun
One option that anyone on the team can use is to post your average for the week on your official weigh-in day. This means, of course, weighing yourself every day, but it takes away the bad feeling if your weight is a bit up on the day you have to report it. You do not need to tell me if that is what you are doing - some weeks it is a great option, others not so much. But if the daily weighing itself is really causing issues, the weekly works better for many people.
Personally, I weigh daily, except on days when I know it won't be a good number - one skipped day allowed - and that helps me stick with a better plan so that the next day is better. Sometimes I skip more than one day if I'm on vacation or just needing a break for a bit. So go ahead and be somewhat flexible, just don't let the momentum slip through your fingers for too long or it is hard to get it back.4 -
Thanks everyone for your support. I read posts here daily even if I don't post much. @jugar thank you for putting me on the support team, I'll hopefully join back on the regular team in the fall.7
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PW- 89,10kg
CW- 89,50Kg
steps 5-11
Sunday - 2,900
Monday - 2,137
Tuesday - 0
Wednesday - 8,055
Thursday - 0
Friday - 0
Saturday - 7,512
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The Week 3 Group Challenge is up and ready for Sunday! Join in if you need some more accountability to stick to the little numbers that add up to the future you!
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10866779/june-week-3-group-challenge-magic-numbers/p1?new=12 -
Hi everyone I have not been on MFP for weeks, I am getting my life back on track again and also trying to start loosing weight again. I am exited to be back.6
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@graceojo999 Good to see you! Let us know if you want to stay with the support team for the rest of this month so that you can ease back in, or if you want to be on the weekly weigh-ins with the team. Thanks!
And now it is time for this weeks LAST CALL! Get these weigh-ins done or you miss out for the week:
@MoonlitMuse
@JessiBelleW
@EvMakesChanges
@ells_bellz
@bonnie_red
@once_mas
@mmarceau2
Thanks!1 -
@jugar CW: 180.6
Sorry about being late. I’m off a day. Well, probably more than a day but here I am. Out church choir is singing Louis Vierne “Messe Solemn” as our final program before the summer break. There are many lovely contrasting parts in the amazing organ and voice sections.
The rehearsal today was really good and I had a lot more energy than expected after having my 2nd booster yesterday afternoon.
Have a good night y’all!4 -
@jugar I'm so sorry that I'm late. I am going to be traveling quite a bit this summer and I was hoping to be put on the support team (at least for June)
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Sunday weigh in:
PW - 185.8
CW - 185.5
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Happy Sunday Friends!
While I remember, @ashleycarole86 , here are my step and exercise stats for the last 7 days:
Sunday - 5478
Monday - 4368 / 31 min Squat, Punch, Plank HIIT (SELF Spring 2022 Challenge - Day 8)
Tuesday - 3572 / 36 min Chest, Back & Shoulders Circuit (SSC22 Day 9)
Wednesday - 8604
Thursday - 3246
Friday - 2556 / 39 min Inner Thigh & Butt Routine (SSC22 Day 10)
Saturday - 7890
Seeing @bonnie_red 's post about travelling this summer reminded me to mention that I will be on holiday for 3 weeks starting in just over a week. We're going to Virginia to see our son and daughter in law.
So next Sunday will be my last weigh in before we travel. However, I still plan to record my steps and exercise while We're away, I just won't be weighing in until we get back.
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Happy Sunday to everyone! We're the #2 team this week, so we can bask in our successes and try to build on them this week. Well done!
I have to post this - the newest resident of our orchard. I might never mow again...
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@lauren_989 I go through phases where I weigh in daily, then other times 2× a week. If I feel like I am developing a negative relationship with the scale (it makes me grumpy) I cut back. Right now, I am weighing in daily and the scale hates me, but I do not feel discouraged.
@kali225 sorry for the travel troubles! Enjoy your trip.
@graceoho999 welcome back!
I don't know what is happening with the scale, but it keeps going up!!!! I know how well I am doing, so I'm not super discouraged, but I wish it would reflect my hard work. My biggest summer hurdle is snacking, but I have doing so well with cucumbers, carrots, and a fruit. My calories are 200-300 lower then the school year. My steps are a little lower, BUT they are more intentional, like taking a walk.6 -
Steps
Sun 10,150
Mon 7,166
Tues 7,496
Wed 10,568
15 min elliptical
Thurs 9,481
20 min elliptical
20 min Barre
Fri 11,922
60 min strength
Sat 10,1565 -
PW 150
CW 150.53 -
@jugar beautiful fawn!
I definitely, without a shadow of doubt, have hayfever. I also, definitely, have covid; tested positive this morning with the thickest, darkest line I've seen on any test. I could be asymptomatic for covid, because the hayfever symptoms are so strong and get way worse after visiting the allotment, plus OH basically had bad flu and I have congestion/itchiness, but will be isolating for 5 days, and I've felt rough enough today to spend almost the entirety of it on my kitten.
We did nip down to the allotment, knowing we wouldn't run into anybody, to water the garlic mainly as it's still struggling. We found some carrot seedlings showing through and my brief happy dance was probably the most energy I have burnt all day! The baby blackbirds are gone and I suspect food for something as I don't think they'll have fledged so fast (and there was a corpse in the nest) which is sad, but it does mean we can work in the top half of the plot without feeling guilty and start preparing it for a greenhouse.6 -
@DD265 Sorry COVID got ya bud.. but I know from experience it's so hard to keep one partner from getting it when the other succumbs to it. Hope it passes uneventfully...
Have I mentioned we are off to Vegas in less than a week? I think it's just setting in now... two of Brad's best friends from Ontario are celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary down there and they've invited us to join them. I don't know their travel style and Vegas can be super indulgent but it can also be great because of how many steps you cover... it will be my first time being down there in the middle of the year so we'll see how I manage the heat!
It's super rainy here at the trailer today, bad thunderstorms, so we are hunkered down. It's 2:15 and I've taken less than 1000 steps. Yikes! It's harder to walk here in the rain as well because the roads are mostly dirty and it gets super muddy. In any event, I have to pop by a friend's houes tonight to let his dogs out so I will likely walk there and back so my goal is still to hit my 10,000 steps regardless. I also want to ride the bike so I may run into the "trying to do too much in a condensed timeframe" syndrome I sometimes suffer from but we'll see!
I'm on call for work again this weekend and it's been another super stressful one.. put in almost double the time I normally would, so that hasn't been super fun. Brad has been looking after me otherwise so I've managed to keep the stress down.
6/11 exercise:
20 minutes strength
10031 steps5 -
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Wow, a third and a first! Thank you all for helping me get there. I’m hoping tomorrow’s weigh-in will help keep me there (I’ve been good 😊)6
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We are all fantastic!!! That was a good week, and even those who did not lose much helped keep the team on 54% green 2 weeks in a row. Week 3 is always a challenge, so hopefully we can still keep a good green %.
I spent many hours in the car today travelling down to my dad's for a few days, so my steps are nothing to brag about. I was happy that every time I thought of a treat to stop for, the more I thought about it, the less I wanted it. I am usually a sucker for goodies while travelling, but not today! And a salad for dinner, even if with some wine, came out ok for the day. Tomorrow back to more exercise.
Sunday - Monday weigh-ins due:
@BlissfulK
@MoonlitMuse
@DD265
@CarolAnnM2
Off we go into week 3!5 -
@jugar i am ok to jump back in. I have been on keto for a week now and I am finally starting to loose weight.
My starting weight now is 105.5kg. I will just weigh in next Sunday. Thanks4 -
@jugar Have a good visit with your dad. Hope he's doing okay?
I did my Functional Threshold Power retest on the bike tonight and it was the first time the result didn't go up. Afterwards, I calculated my power to weight ratio- it had stayed exactly the same. So while my toralt average output was only slightly down, my result stayed the same because of the weight I lost since my last test. There is also no way I can forever test higher and life ebbs and flows so it was good practice to have a result that wasn't what I was hoping for. One of my Peloton groups is starting the summer challenge tomorrow so my goal will be to build my power for a retest at the end to hopefully see my power to weight ratio improve. As I'm not looking to drop any more weight the only way to do that will be to truly increase my power.
I committed to 10K steps this week and I'm just short but I also committed to sleep and I have to pick one. I don't need more exercise after the bike intensity, so sleep it is. I haven't been getting enough quality sleep lately and that is something I want to work on.
See you tomorrow folks. @jugar will you have steps for last week with your travel or no?5 -
I had a really off food day today. I am feeling officially over my cold so today was the first day I actually felt hungry in awhile. Food has been off for a week now. Nothing terrible but I am back on track to hit my macro goals each day. I know it's going to be tricky because it's the last week of school and I know my husband wants to celebrate with food. I'm going to plan ahead and stick to my plan. I walked yesterday and did an easy pilates reformer workout today. They were ok so I am back to regular workouts this week. Just resting as I need.
@jugar I love the fawn! I am always looking for one on my walks. So far we have seen baby rabbits and turkeys. We also found a random Robbin' s egg in the grass far from anything a nest could be on.
@lauren_989 My husband and I are enjoying our sauna blankets. They work really well, clean up is minimal and they store away on a shelf in neat little bags. We can make it about 45 minutes and when the timer goes off it feels great to rip open the velcro and climb out!
@ashleycarole86 Sounds like another busy trip for you coming up. I'm definitely a more mellow vacation person so Vegas is never on my wish list. Hope you guys enjoy yourself.
@jugar Enjoy your trip with your dad!5 -
PW: 88.2
CW: 88.8
Less of a gain than I thought. I really do prefer weighing daily and might go back to that despite what the therapist says. I NEED to lose weight for my health. I know my cholesterol is high, I know my stress levels are probably the worst they've ever been, and my BMI puts me at obese, so I feel like a ticking time bomb.
I was planning to reset this week and work to a calorie goal again. I feel like death warmed up this morning, but I'm going to try my best for breakfast, and go from there.5 -
Weigh in Day: MONDAY
PW: 219.5
CW: 218.7
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Monday again - got permission to work from home today - no one else available, and mum is not up to keeping an eye/ear out for dad. Grateful work has been very flexible thru all this. And thanks to you all for your support & understanding as I went A.W.O.L....it really has been insanely busy.
@jugar ...thinking of you and your drive...I made the rare move of pulling in to McDonald's the other day, just for med.fries, but given a minute of waiting, I pulled out again. Hope your dad's doing okay.
@DD265 sorry to read of your Covid but have been so happy you've got an allotment to tend. I just managed to clear the weeds from my veg garden and got some longsuffering potted veggies in yesterday.
@ashleycarole86 have a good time in Vegas...but get your sleep in Hope things have settled down with your mom's AFIB.
@conleywoods yay for the last week of school! are you able to take the summer off? or do you also do summer school? I hope you're free to just relax, enjoy your kids, read, exercise, and not have school stress.
all for now...everyone have a great Monday!
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Happy Monday, This weekend wasn't too bad. I didn't do much at all, Friday, I got my eyebrows done, so I can't exercise for 2 weeks... haaaa haaa, I will exercise anyway, because what I do, is definitely not what they mean. So I won't mess anything up. I had combo brows done, that's where they tattoo and microblade them... Being vain is hard, not to mention expensive.. LOL - I feel like I look like charley chaplain right now, because they start off much darker than they will end up, and I'm just not used to them...
Anyway, so I took the doggo for a walk yesterday, He is 100lbs and pulls, and I haven't been able to walk him for months, because of the neck/back surgery, so I've had a dog walker walking him... Well he walks like a dream now, I was so happy.. so that means many more walks for us
Although, I am still a little nervous, because if he sees something and jerks me, it could hurt, he's not a small dog.. lol So I think I will not try to walk him by myself, and stick to when the hubby can walk with me for now..
I prepped all my snacks and meals for the week, Costco has these single serving pickles packs, they have regular dill, and then the spicy ones, but they only carry them online, not in store. I bought 3 cases of each, so I am the current owner of 72 single serving pickle snacks, my refrigerator looks like a pregnant lady should live there... But they are yummy and only 15 calories per snack...
This weeks goals are:
Monday - 10 min video, 10 min yoga
Tuesday - 10 min Video, 10 min hiit
Weds - 10 min video, 10 min yoga
Thurs - 10 min Video , 10 min hiit
Friday - Long walk in the woods
Saturday - TBD - I am hoping to go to an Irish Festival in Pa
Sunday - Prep & Rest day !
Have a great day !
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Hey All! So sorry I didn't check in last week. It was a doozy of a week. Transmission problems, a death in the family, being denied telework - it just wasn't good. However, I did have a great time at the yoga fest! I'm going to check in with my weight tomorrow because I have to get new scale batteries and I'm still in recovery mode....5
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