TEAM: The Big Butt Theory (August)
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MUAC Daily Post:
Typically posted for morning following for previous day
Wednesday (8/17)
Track: Yes
Calories: Yes - Over / 💧176 oz.
Exercise: Tai Chi, Walking & light rowing
Thursday (8/18)
Track: Yes
Calories: Yes - Gross Under / 💧123 oz.
Exercise: Walking
Goals/Day/Comments: This new schedule with kids schools is kicking my rear ya’ll. I’ve lost 4 hours each hauling them around the last two days! Not sustainable (not what I planned for) but we’re working on some solutions. Posting my weigh in a day early because who knows what tomorrow has in store.
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Weekly Weigh-In Post: (Thursday)
JbeanR0212
Week 3
PW = 159.7
CW = 156.23 -
I'm traveling again this week, please can I roll my weight over to next week?
I wanted to include a picture of my baby sleeping in her new backpack carrier while we are hiking, but it won't attach ☹️
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Wednesday 18 August
Track: yes
Under: yes
Exercise: yes2 -
I thought you guys might likey!!
Omgsh hilarious! 😂Naija82
Week 3
PW = 134.9
CW = 134.9
Sorry only managed to weigh in the evening spent most of the day in the hospital
Update: Mon 15th Aug
Track: Mostly
Calories: Was under, fasted for 19hrs 39mins.
Exercise: Not officially, 10628 steps by walking around the house
Goals/Day/Comments: Did not have a great day today, woke up with severe abdominal pain, nausea and dizziness, I had never experienced pain that bad in my life. Went to A&E where I spent over 7 hours doing tests, a CT scan waiting and waiting. They saw my blood glucose was really low and my ketones were very high so made me drink some glucose gel, didn't want a lecture on low carb so just took it. The CT scan showed I had bladder stones and an inflamed colon so need to get further tests done. As the pain had started to subside and I didn't want to remain overnight they discharged me. Was exhausted by the time I got home.
So far the pain hasn't come back yet
Sorry you went through this and hoping you’re feeling better. Try to stay away from fiber foods and veggies to help your colon heal. If you private message me your email address we can chat more about best options for recovery. Hope you feel at your best soon ❤️🩹
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Update: Tue 16th and Wed 17th Aug
Track: Yes
Calories: Was under
Exercise: Yes - Running and Walking
Goals/Day/Comments: Thanks guys!!! I am feeling much better, by Tuesday I experienced no further pain, went back to the hospital for follow-up and talked with some of the consultants initially thought it may be my appendix but the scan showed it was finem, they think the pain might just have been me passing a stone. Told me I should ensure I'm drinking loads as dehydration contributes to stone formation. I'm not really consistent with my water intake some days I drink loads and other days not so much. I need to ensure I drink enough each day. Also some abnormal labs not related to the pain or diet needs further investigation so it was a good thing the pain brought me to the hospital.
I do love keto/low carb, feel less bloated on it and less likely to overeat but find it hard to sustain long term hence carbs are increasing. Last time I did a keto diet about 5 years ago I felt so great and had so much energy but this time my body doesn't seem to be feeling it as much. I'm taking a break this week to review and refocus
So glad you’re feeling better!! I may have some insight on the keto stall if you private message me your email.
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DaffyGirl88 wrote: »Saw this in another thread and thought I'd share -
You can't get upset with people sucking the life out of you if you keep giving them the straw.
Need to print this out and paste it on my monitor. 😠🖥️2 -
8/18
Tracked: yes
Under: yes
Exercise: yes - 30 min spin class and 1 hour training session1 -
MUAC Daily Post:
Friday (8/18)
Track: Yes
Calories: Yes - Net Under / 💧112 oz.
Exercise: Walking & light rowing
Goals/Day/Comments: Made great progress with the schedule challenges yesterday. Alternate route (10 miles out of the way) and distanced drop off/pick up point for Landen (Office Depot 5 blocks from school) definitely gave me hope. Still not enough to survive responsibilities without fizzling us all out but we’ll get there. Stress triggered a snacking influx and reduction of water intake but I caught myself.
“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” - Albert Einstein2 -
Thursday 18 August
Track: yes
Under: yes
Exercise: yes
Good thing for the intentional exercise in the morning because my butt was glued to the chair all day. 🖥️ I only got about 3,000 steps for the day. 😕 And my butt is numb. 😯
Happy Friday y'all and here's to a better day all around! 👍🍹🌞1 -
Weigh-in Week 3
PW: 139.6
CW: 140.02 -
Thursday Aug 18
Track: Yes
Calories: Under
Exercise: 10 min walk1 -
Friday Aug 19
Track: Yes
Calories: Under
Exercise: 60 minutes conducting, 20 min walk3 -
Friday 19 August
Track: yes
Under: no
Exercise: yes
Fitbit still not syncing so "may" be under but 🤷♀️ I tried to eat at maintenance anyway.
@therealbluenote I've noticed a couple 20 minutes walks lately. I hope you are building up strength and stamina and aren't pushing too hard. I know that I could never stand and conduct a chorus for an hour so go you!! 👍😊
In other news, YAY it's the weekend!!; 🥳🍷🎶💃1 -
DaffyGirl88 wrote: »susanshaughnessy80 wrote: »Before I forget, I won’t have access to my scale Saturday, so May I please carry over last Saturday’s weight of 204.4?
Thanks so much.
@susanshaughnessy80 You certainly may!!
Thank you, @DaffyGirl88
I think it’s too late to post this, but this was my week.
Sunday, August 14
Tracked: yes; Under: yes; Exercised: yes
Monday, August 15 & Tuesday, Aug 16
Tracked: yes; Under: yes; Exercised: yes
Wednesday & Thursday, August 17 & 18
Tracked: no; Under: not likely; Exercised: yes
Friday, August 19
No to all
Up early today and getting in my 30-minute walk.
Pray all is well with my MFP BBT peeps ❤️😊🙏🏻☀️🤗
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Fri (Wk3; Day 6)
- Track / Under / W.Out?
Yes / Yes / No - NetCalories: 1508
- NetCarbs: 50
I was right to worry about my “off” schedule this week; then I just added to the madness by making plans to try the new local Chinese buffet on Saturday! 😩 On a happy note: I get to visit some family I never see anymore. In other news, my daughter decided to sign up for Calendar girl at her school, so we’re going to be preparing for that and networking a little bit! I’ll be sure to share pictures as we go through this together🤗
- Net Calories (13566 / 10500)
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= Daily Avg: 2261 (Goal: 1500) - Net Carbs (1097 / 700)
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= Daily Avg: 182 (Goal: 100) - MUAC: 1 / 7 Days
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MUAC Daily Post:
*Feel free to skip past just working things out
Saturday (8/19)
Track: Yes
Calories: Yes - Gross Under / 💧132 oz.
Exercise: Kickboxing, strength + farm labor (parents)
Goals/Day/Comments: We survived the week! Did a couple hours of work and then decided to take the remainder as a mental health day. Worth it! The hours of work this week without kids interrupting, bickering at eachother and well just being around to lightly distract my focus were a bit of a huge wake up call. Many of my working hours have been spent overwhelmed by grief!
I realized the excessive exercise I’ve been doing these past few months hasn’t just been for weight loss, on a deeper level it has been a harmful distraction. One from what has been too painful to process except when the bubbles begin to fester out. This glimpse in the mirror has added to the sense of being overwhelmed.
In April I kinda shut down. In May I showed up here kicking tail and taking no prisoners. Seeing all my former colleagues at the school asking how I am doing with that empathetic little rub on my shoulder brings it back in but after her watching me fight the tears I had a nice walking chat with my counselor friend. I had my heart crushed and less than 3 weeks later lost my best friend of over 26 years suddenly (stomach flu, asphyxiated on vomit). I instantly lost the only two people in the world I would turn to for anything. Realizing how recluse I’ve become outside of open waters or unpopulated hiking trails. And I am so lonely yet….. afraid to get out and actually socialize again at the same time. The sorrow is just so heavy but I’ve allowed it to fortify itself and it’s time to start really clearing that away. Oh the hypocrisy of failing to accomplish what I’ve spent my professional life advocating. Going to be a long and windy journey.
So here I was crying, meditating, writing my ex a 27 page letter (which I will NOT mail) and talking out loud to Dani’s spirit (aka myself) while working on a memorial sculpture. It was therapeutic but I’m gonna need countless more moments like those before I feel the healing has even begun. Gotta start somewhere I guess but hopefully it’ll give all of you a bit of a break from my madness. I will make the work time up in chunks today & tomorrow.
“I closed my eyes and let the music flow through me, cleansing my soul of all fear and sin and reminding me that I am always better than I think and stronger than I believe.” - Paulo Coelho6 -
DaffyGirl88 wrote: »
@therealbluenote I've noticed a couple 20 minutes walks lately. I hope you are building up strength and stamina and aren't pushing too hard. I know that I could never stand and conduct a chorus for an hour so go you!! 👍😊
I was thinking the same thing last night.0 -
LOL - said tracking was a priority - should have listed posting here with the tracking too as I seem to have done the tracking - just not the posting
MUAC Daily Post: Wed 8/17
Track: yes
Calories: yes
Exercise: yes
Fast: goal 16 hr actual - decided not to track my fasts and try to just eat mid afternoon/evening and see if that can change the weight loss so while semi-fasting I am not tracking times right now
MUAC Daily Post: Thurs 8/18
Track: yes
Calories: yes
Exercise: yes
Fast: goal 16 hr actual ??
MUAC Daily Post: Friday 8/19
Track: yes
Calories: yes
Exercise: yes
Fast: goal 16 hr actual ??2 -
DaffyGirl88 wrote: »Friday 19 August
Track: yes
Under: no
Exercise: yes
Fitbit still not syncing so "may" be under but 🤷♀️ I tried to eat at maintenance anyway.
@therealbluenote I've noticed a couple 20 minutes walks lately. I hope you are building up strength and stamina and aren't pushing too hard. I know that I could never stand and conduct a chorus for an hour so go you!! 👍😊
In other news, YAY it's the weekend!!; 🥳🍷🎶💃
It’s actually two 10 minute walks. I wasn’t sure how to log it. 😆
Let me tell you about my conducting. When I’m actually conducting, I don’t feel tired or any pain. AFTER, however, especially a long time like 60 minutes, every single bone and muscle in my body hurts like hell. 😬😖😳🤣
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JbeanR0212 wrote: »DaffyGirl88 wrote: »
@therealbluenote I've noticed a couple 20 minutes walks lately. I hope you are building up strength and stamina and aren't pushing too hard. I know that I could never stand and conduct a chorus for an hour so go you!! 👍😊
I was thinking the same thing last night.
I love that my teamies are looking out for me. Thanks. ❤️ I explained my two walks above. And the agonizing pain after the conducting is over. I look forward to the time when I can actually stand and conduct for an hour and not feel paralyzed after! But conducting is my job, and when we have 60 minute singing gigs I have to do it. I wear orthotic shoes, plantar fasciitis socks, and take Tylenol before and after! 😉😊1 -
@JbeanR0212 I felt your angst and pain in your post, and I thank you for sharing. I can’t imagine the walk your journey is taking you on. And I’m truly sorry that you are suffering. I could fill this post with every cliché that I’m sure you’ve heard many times in your journey: You are stronger than you know; This, too, shall pass; One day at a time; Baby steps. But no advice or pearls of cliché wisdom will help you until you are ready. And what does that mean, “when you are ready?”
There is no timeline for grief. No crystal ball that tells us, “Ok, you’re healed now. Time to go conquer the world.” So we keep moving forward, or we stop. There is comfort in both. And now with my best friend also dying I’m finding myself at the very same crossroad. I can understand a tiny fraction of your grief. The fact that you’re becoming aware of your choices is a first step in crawling out. And from the tiny amount of time I’ve been blessed to know you, I can positively say that you are an amazing, loving, introspective woman who deserves to be crawling out - but only at your pace, no one else’s. Take the time you need. We are here for you. Keep checking in on yourself to reevaluate. It’s cleansing, cathartic, and keeps us in the present tense. And it’s easier said than done, I know all too well.
The world only spins forward.1 -
Weigh-in Week 3
PW: 398.4
CW: 395.8
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Behind on my logging
8/19
Tracked:no
Under: no
Exercised: yes - 2 mile walk
Yesterday was the 10 year anniversary of my brothers passing, did well with my eating until I had a few drinks with friends and then caved for some pizza 🤷🏻♀️
PW: 191.4
CW: 191.0
At least it’s some movement.5 -
@therealbluenote I kinda laughed nervously yesterday while rambling out loud and working on my sculpture. I was telling my friends ghost I only live within the virtual world these days. One where I can filter my thoughts better, dress the agony up as success and hide my face behind a screen. Like I’m just a damn avatar! Some days are so surreal you question whether you are dreaming, in reality or simply loosing all of your marbles.
You want to claim you find solace only in those ‘fake friends’ but I mean all of you are real people and I wouldn’t deem you so shallow. I attended a few grief support meetings at our church and the air was too thick, too unbalanced. MFP however has been great, you can check in and out simply pausing as you please without disrupting the environment (TOO MUCH). We have a mutual friend (and I’m sure your thinking about her right now) who met in different groups but related over the same loss. Funny how a fitness app can bring people together in such a way. Hearing you and her speak about this pain is helpful. It is a bit comforting to know that you are not alone. And it is in that I am finding the courage to work through it myself. Thank you!
I still can’t even put words to how it feels when your close lifelong friend is torn from you. That soul who knows you better than yourself. Who has been a constant comfort and source of joy. The rare memories that hardly ever precede them! My heart goes out to you because I’m starting to find there simply aren’t words to express such a loss. I love how eloquently you said “no advice or pearls of cliché wisdom will help you until you are ready”! Unapologetically poetic in such a beautiful manner.
One of my favorite comedians Patton Oswalt speaks very openly about his wife’s passing and I have found myself clinging to a particular line in a skit he did “If one more person wishes me ‘strength’ on my ‘healing journey’, I’m gonna throw a balloon full of (urine) in the window of every candle store on the planet”. I just love how raw he is in that moment but when he’s not doing a comic act, his words are incredibly profound. He points to how helpful it is to talk about grief because we as a society tremble at it’s feet attempting to sweep it under the rug at every opportunity. Maternity leave 6 months, bereavement 3 days! He says “it’s not a healing journey. It would be phrased much better as dark slog”. Similarly to you he says “We have only one choice to keep moving forward but not you nor anyone else has a say, only grief will let you know when she’s done with you”.
Big congrats on another loss by the way. Again, thank you for being that glimmer of sunshine to mute the shadows if for just a moment. Should you need an outlet to vent, you are welcome to PM me anytime.2 -
You are doing great @mooreshelly09! Every drop counts and after pizza and beer I bet it’s more than the scale wanted to admit 😉. Big hugs to you as well. I hope the anniversary helped serve as a celebration of your brother and the lives he touched. Even in the deepest sorrow, joy remains.1
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I think you are on a great plan @sandkp. I’m rooting for you. When are you and @daffygirl88 getting together?
And @KimR_1986 how are you holding up?0 -
Weigh in 193.72
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@mooreshelly09 I second @JbeanR0212 ’s comments. I personally love that you ate the pizza and had some drinks. In this situation, it wasn’t “caving” - think of it more as celebrating your brother’s life. And even if it was unplanned, he was on your mind, and once in a while situations come up where we might choose celebration over sadness. And that is perfectly OK.
I’m proud of your loss! 💐1 -
Saturday Aug 20
Track: Yes
Calories: 54 over 🙄
Exercise: Zero. Zilch. Stayed in my pjs all day, which those days are becoming more far and few between! I needed a day to recover from the conducting and I don’t feel one bit guilty over it! Talk about a milestone - here it is: Me not stressing over exercise! 💪🏼 Now, laying around did cause Fitbit to steal a lot of my calories, which is why I’m over. 😒 Oh well! It was worth it!2
