WaistAways Team Chat - MARCH 2023
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@LoraineGB Thanks for sharing what's working for you.
30 min of exercise done today. 120 to go to meet my weekly goal.
My daughter and I walked to the park in our neighborhood then I rode her bike while she ran and then I walked while she rode.
I've also logged faithfully, yay!6 -
Don't be afraid to guess! Make it easy, but don't skip logging altogether. Take your best stab at it, enter things that you eat often more carefully, and then they are easy to enter the next time. I am not the most accurate logger, I no longer weigh things - but the basic size of portions and general nutritional count is close enough to make it work anyhow. If you find you are still not losing, then up your guesses a bit!... keep up with logging. I keep getting overwhelmed with it - figuring how to log meals out and portions and just give up. It's not helping me get to my goal weight for sure!5 -
Here we go! Sunday - Monday weigh-in roundup:
@BlueSkyNomad
@nightfeeding1
@CarolAnnM2
@MoonlitMuse
@cleaneater80
I hope everyone had a great weekend.
No zero day "thing" today - I did 3 of the exercises from my workout when I did not want to do any at all. Arms and back were worked! Tomorrow will be leg day for sure. I had no alcohol, and tracked my food for the first time in a while. Tomorrow self? There you go! You'd better appreciate it
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Weigh in Day: MONDAY
PW: 187.3
CW: 185.5
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Hi all
I'm Katie, 35, living in the UK with my husband and our two cats. Last year I got a handle on my binge eating disorder and now I'm working with a dietician to make healthier choices alongside trying to tackle my (low) self esteem and the perfectionism that stems from it. I like to weight lift, I'm less fond of running but trying to get back into it anyway for the social aspect, and I do enjoy hiking although we don't do much of it now as my husband works shifts and when we have free time together, it usually gets filled with other things. I also have an allotment which I adore.
@PlaneMonkey I worked late on Friday so I did the meal plan and asked OH to do the shopping list. He missed some of the peripherals (I don't have enough muesli to last the week, and I've run out of the chicken bites I snack on) but overall splitting the chore worked quite well. In fact, he even did the shopping during the day, too, so I'll count it as a win.
I had a really good weekend. The tree grafting and pruning course was enjoyable. Grafting is both more challenging and easier than I thought! I came home with three apple trees that I grafted, which are now planted at the allotment, so it will be interesting to see if they survive. We didn't get to do any actual pruning, as the orchard is quite new and there weren't many trees in need, but we watched the guy do it and asked questions. I was amazed at how confident he was; I find pruning my plants a bit daunting. I went alone and enjoyed pushing my comfort zone.
Yesterday I spent most of the day at the allotment. The wire supports are in for the raspberry and blackberry canes, I planted my new trees and a comfrey a plot-neighbour gave me, prepped some seed trays for sowing when things warm up, and put more compost down in the greenhouse beds. Doesn't sound like so much when I write it down, but I don't rush things at the allotment and like to just enjoy being there.
Today I'm working and I'm feeling ill again - I think stress has me a bit run down - and I had a restless night. I do remember a really vivid dream involving making the perfect banana sandwich though. Is that weird? I think it's a bit weird.
Anyway, guess what I'm planning for lunch?! I may need to go buy the bread of my dreams though; it was white and crusty. 
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Hope your real sandwich is just as tasty as the perfect dream one was @DD265
I got a decent night of sleep last night which I'm thankful for. These next 5 weeks ahead at work are going to be a doozy with my two senior employees mostly away for personal life events, so things are going to be busy. Focusing on me is going to be critical!5 -
sunny Monday!
I guess it was the Weird Dream Moon last night. @dd265 had banana sandwiches, and mine had creepy mushrooms that were delicious, so I was hunting for them in the woods, but they were creepy. Then I was chopping them up as madly fast as I could make the knife fly. I don't think I want to know what that might mean!
@ashleycarole86 hang in there, kiddo! You're heading into the crazy work week, along with all you other amazing working people, and yes - focus on yourself is the magic sauce you need to keep things from going amok. No zero days. That'll be good enough, and maybe a couple far-from-zero days thrown in for good measure. You'll be back to rocking the Peloton soon!
I gotta make a list, log some stuff, and get outside.3 -
Greetings Team Waistaway! Here's my introduction for our new team members and a reminder of who I am for our lovely regulars.
My name is Yinka, I live in Bewdley in Worcestershire (UK) and am married with a grown-up son. I work as an associate contract business trainer and a part-time college lecturer. I have been on Team Waist Aways for a long time (sorry, I honestly don't know how long - more than a couple of years, I think). So I pretty much breezed through my 20s and 30s without needing to be bothered about my weight, but mid-30s up to now, I find myself really struggling. I will be turning 60 this summer
I exercise regularly, although I will admit to sometimes slacking off. My challenge, however, is my diet. I have a propensity to snack and I don't drink nearly enough water.
That being said, I do plan all of our meals (and I do my food shopping around my plan), we rarely eat takeaways (although this is due to cost, rather than diet, if I'm totally honest), and I cook everything from
I'm very excited to join the Keep it Green challenge and hope it will help me with several events that I have lined up this year.
- I am visiting my sister in the Netherlands in April for a week.
- I am having a big birthday party in the summer and my son and daughter-in-law are flying over from the States to help me celebrate.
- We have been invited to a family wedding in Texas in September.
These events are nicely spaced out so I should be able to apply mini-targets to each one. The first event ties in nicely with the end of our Keep it Green challenge. I'd like to be down by 3lb before I fly to the Netherlands.
I'm going to commit to logging every day and getting to bed before 11.00 pm each night.
Looking forward to learning more about our new team members.
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@ashleycarole86 Here are my step and exercise stats for the last week:
Sunday 19th February - 3151
Monday 20th - 3243 / 43 mins Core & Shoulder Mobility (Heather Robertson 12 Week 3.0 - Day 15)
Tuesday 21st - 5334 / 38 mins Lower Body Metcon (HR12W 3.0 - Day 16)
Wednesday 22nd - 3227 / 42 mins Unilateral Arm Day (HR12W 3.0 - Day 17)
Thursday 23rd - 2026
Friday 24th - 3541 / 43 mins No Repeat Cardio (HR12W 3.0 - Day 18)
Saturday 25th - 2280 / 40 mins Total Body Metcon (HR12W 3.0 - Day 19)
I'm definitely going to have to up these step numbers if I'm going to make good inroads into our Green March challenge.4 -
@DD265 food dreams - I'm going to look that up and see what it might mean. Its great that you have the allotment to keep your mind off of food.
@jugar - were those the special kind of mushrooms? Just kidding. I am impressed with your progress on "No Zero Days!"
@ashleycarole86 You got this! Focus on yourself - you're most important.
@YinxFed Mini targets is a great way to handle it!
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Hellooo do I need to re-register to join in for March and am I too late?1
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39flavours wrote: »Hellooo do I need to re-register to join in for March and am I too late?
No re-register required! You're one of the team. Post away!!2 -
PlaneMonkey wrote: »39flavours wrote: »Hellooo do I need to re-register to join in for March and am I too late?
No re-register required! You're one of the team. Post away!!
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Happy Monday! I have a busy week with conferences before and after school everyday.
Today's Zero
✔logged everything and came in under calories
✔ Did 15 minutes on the elliptical after work even though I was exhausted. I can't wait for the time change and evening walks7 -
PW - 169.4
CW - 167.2
Happy Monday and welcome everyone. Look forward to get to know you7 -
Sorry, I have been super busy last weekend. Missed my weigh in. Now, feeling like I am fighting off a cold. Itchy throat😒.
Steps:
Sun - 16531
Mon- 9616
Tues- 8164
Weds- 11230
Thurs- 8802
Fri- 7535
Sat- 10981
The cold rainy weather is making it difficult getting the activity in.
I stepped on my scale and I am a couple of pounds heavier than my last weigh in. Hoping it levels out by end of week.
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I'm so sorry you're feeling under the weather - get LOTS of sleep, throw on some vitamin C and hopefully you'll feel better soon. As to the extra couple of pounds, you have time to make a dent in those for sure. If you want to put this higher weight as your starting weight for the week, just post your best guess at what it probably was last Friday, and that will give you an updated starting place for this week. Late is OKbobagurl2017 wrote: »Sorry, I have been super busy last weekend. Missed my weigh in. Now, feeling like I am fighting off a cold. Itchy throat😒.
The cold rainy weather is making it difficult getting the activity in.
I stepped on my scale and I am a couple of pounds heavier than my last weigh in. Hoping it levels out by end of week. ~M
and you'll have a better idea of how well you did this week for sure.
Me too! It feels good to get back on a tighter rein. We've got this!Thank you @jugar . Day 2 of logging everything!
I am impressed. Keep it up and you'll be impressed with yourself too!KellyBgetsfit wrote: »Happy Monday! I have a busy week with conferences before and after school everyday.
Today's Zero
✔logged everything and came in under calories
✔ Did 15 minutes on the elliptical after work even though I was exhausted. I can't wait for the time change and evening walks
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No Tuesday weigh-ins, so let's all have a good steady one. On track Tuesday!
Please catch up - Sunday-Monday weigh-ins still not received:
@BlueSkyNomad
@nightfeeding1
@MoonlitMuse
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As soon as I got home I hopped on the Peloton tonight while Brad made dinner. Then, I cleaned up while he rode. There was a bit of work in between as we had an after hours issue to deal with, but all in all in was a productive night.
It's bedtime now so I can do it again tomorrow! Hoping to follow a similar pattern if we can make it happen.7 -
My friend in AZ sent me a gift from Fortnum & Mason in the UK. She thought I would like some foods from home. Yes I would, thank you very much. But my oh my since they were delivered, they are all I can think about. I’ve disposed of the packaging, put the chocolates in the back of the fridge and the biscuits on the storage shelf in the pantry. The jams aren’t a binge food for me, I can be around jams without going nuts.
Friday me will be very happy that Monday me distributed the goodies around the house and out of sight. Now all I have to do is wrangle Tues, Wed and Thu me.
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Hi, I'm Kristi and I live near Spokane Washington in the US. I'm 40, married, 3 kids and I work 4 days a week as an occupational therapist at a preschool center. I have 2 dogs and 2 guinea pigs. I have been really stuck with weight loss and have been doing some investigating. I recently had The Dutch hormone test done and found some interesting things that need work. I'm addressing my very high cortisol levels and I'm also not absorbing things like healthy fats, b vitamins and a few other things. Right now I'm not entirely focused on weight loss but trying to get these things in order for future weight loss. I am thinking I will not try to actively loose weight until my masters is done in June. @jugar let me know if you think I should go on support. I still want to weigh in just because I don't want to let everything go.
I'm making progress on my stress! I feel less stress but I'm just using food to cope. That's not what I want. My lumen shows very poor readings for my metabolism. One thing I have learned is after poor choices it takes a lot of days eating right before my body actually catches up. A few days of bad eating has more like a weeks worth of negative impact on my body. Stopping that right now.
I tried restorative yoga and really liked it! I liked it so much I sewed a yoga bolster this weekend. Then I sewed a matching cover with extra padding for my pilates reformer. I was really into sewing this weekend and made a blanket too. The guinea pigs are offended I didn't sew a single thing for them. Giving the piggies extra snuggles at night. Helps me relax and stay out of the kitchen. The piggies live in my workout room so I'm more likely to work out and watch them.
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Can confirm that banana sandwich was dream-worthy. I'm going to have another one shortly I think as it's my hungry day. But I'll have a yoghurt alongside for protein.
@CarolAnnM2 I don't know what the dream meant, but I do really love a banana sandwich - they were a staple of my diet growing up. I've had them a lot less recently as my dietician feels they aren't well balanced, so maybe it was just a craving.
@ashleycarole86 you are an inspiration! Even with the work stress and a hectic life, you make time for the Peloton.
@conleywoods taking a bit of a break from trying to lose weight was really helpful for me. I'm not saying weight loss is now easy, but I feel less pressure in a healthy way. I hope you get things sorted.
I've been to see my personal trainer this morning and we worked on deep squats with kettlebells (increasing strength at the bottom of the squat range) and muscle snatches, which is taking the bar from mid-shin (or ground, if it had full size plates on) to overhead using arms/shoulders/back in a slow and controlled way; so strength at the top of the range of movement. We got up to 25kg then did some reps at that weight. It was a comfortable challenge for what we were doing today and I wouldn't have managed as many reps if we'd increased the weight further.
The aim for today is to stick within the guidelines from my dietician as best I can - I did well on that yesterday. I may not do any more exercise as my legs are already aching from this morning, but we'll see. We're having the slow cooked pork and sweet potato stew for tea which I started off before work. It has carrots and onions in the recipe but I thought it needed more veg so I rummaged around in the fridge and threw in some sugar snap peas too - unfortunately the green beans were past it! I got paid today so I will update the budget and do some other admin this evening, and we were also planning a trip to IKEA for a new lightbulb. It will never just be a lightbulb. 7 -
So it's my second month in team WA, I was really proud to have every week in the green during February and am hoping for a repeat performance!
As of a couple of weeks ago, I have been strength training 5 days a week, as well as really trying to keep my steps up. Some days I'm totally exhausted, some days totally energised, so I guess I'm just getting used to the new normal. I don't know if strength training is going to temporarily slow down my weight loss through water retention but I need to make sure I don't get discouraged if it does.
Had a bit of a bummer of a day yesterday as I found out I didn't get the job I had interviewed for. It was a straight forward shelf stacking job but I was really hoping to get it as I want some financial independence and this role would have kept me fit, given me a chance to meet people, and be flexible around my lifestyle. But they didn't want me, wah wah. Trying not to beat myself up over it, it just wasn't meant to be.
I'll be posting my weight on Thursdays as it helps keep me focused through the week.7 -
Good morning everyone! Checking in to say I hope you all have a great day, I've read all your posts but don't have time to tag!7
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@39flavours
bummer about the job
I get what you mean about excitement over a job that keeps you fit
I sit at a desk 8.5 hours a day and as of late I've thought i should have trained in nursing or something active.
Hope the job that IS meant to be comes around for you!
@DD265
Yes, IKEA and Costco are both like that.. even if you're just going in for one thing you can dare bet there will be more coming out!6 -
@DD265 @ashleycarole86 I have challenged myself a few times and won by entering both a Costco and IKEA and actually coming back out with only the one item I went in for in less than 15 minutes. It's rare and definitely less fun. 😉
Hi team, I'm Courtney, 42 a government office worker in Canada. I've been losing and regaining the same 40lbs my whole adult life. I've managed to maintain the latest loss for over a year now but I would like to lose the final 10-15 to make movement easier and just feel better about myself. I've surrounded myself with athletic women from my team sports and I really see the long term health benefits through their examples of exercise and good food choices. It still leaves room for the occasional drink out with the girls which can be just as therapeutic as a good workout.
I'm in a very negative place right now emotionally with my job, financial and family stress so I'm hoping to stay focused on cleaner eating and portion sizes to lessen my feelings of being overwhelmed and not in control. This team is key for me to know there are others out there with similar stories. Thank you team!!8 -
Friday me will be very happy that Monday me distributed the goodies around the house and out of sight. Now all I have to do is wrangle Tues, Wed and Thu me.
I *love* that image of wrangling your future self on those days! I had a flash of strong-arming myself (similar to my sister's "Bullying-Babe" reminder photo...I know she's got a real name but darned if I can recall it right now. Perhaps @jugar will tell us!)...I felt obligated to eat a whole sleeve of Girl Scout cookies so future me wouldn't have to suffer them sitting there yelling for attention. I drank a cup of tisane and ate 2 individual cookies (which is actually 1/2 of a serving) instead and went onto a zoom meeting for 45 minutes. Ha! Quite effective strategy, actually. I don't *have* to dismiss the month with overeating sweets. I can eat a reasonable supper with a small dessert (like, the other 2 cookies, perhaps?). I'm going to welcome March in like a lamb not a lion and see how Wednesday me likes it.
I, too enjoy hiding things from "today me", although when future me remembers them, it's usually a crazed fest of overeating. Time for a new plan! The insanity of repeating that behavior expecting slimming results is, as they say, INSANE!6 -
Future self wrangling!! What a great concept. It is some difficult sport, for sure (when's the World Cup?). Then there's future self wooing, future self a** kicking, future self wheedling... They're nothing but trouble, those future selves! I think I'd be individually wrapping stuff in a very fussy way and then putting them into the freezer @LoraineGB - those look seriously scary. Good job on hiding them!
Today self did a good one for Wednesday self - I had a late afternoon appointment and hit the grocery afterwards. I needed things from my fave bulk store, and right next door is a place that carries absolutely fabulous gluten-free almond cookies. I bought some (for the tall guy, y'know). I was really hungry and going to make supper the minute I got home. I bravely put the bag with the cookies in the back seat so that I would not dive into them on the way home. I still have not had one! I did have a handful of pecans and raisins for dessert and tomorrow I'll leave room in the plan for one of those gorgeous cookies. I like the way the same cookie can be avoided today (as a gift to tomorrow self), and then can be eaten tomorrow (as a gift to tomorrow self). Go tomorrow self!
@PlaneMonkey I am so sorry you are feeling overwhelmed and negative about things. When I read you describing yourself as a "government office worker" I knew already that you were feeling bad. It is great to see you reaching towards your fellow athletes and inspiring friends - a community like that can make all the difference when life gets discouraging. Hang onto them! And us!
@EvMakesChanges the "born to nag" lady is Gert Boyle. She was the CEO of Columbia Sportswear and ran a campaign called "One Tough Mother" - she and her tattoo were on all the ads. She had quite an amazing life (died at 95 in 2019). One of my heroes! My kids want me to get that tattoo...7 -
Speaking of born to nag! It's that time
Wednesday folks! You're up -
@AshenMoon
@KellyBgetsFit
@lauren_989
@alydanbeads
@Gidgitgoescrzy
Late folks! Let's go - or let me know if you need to adjust your weigh-in day
@BlueSkyNomad
@nightfeeding1
@MoonlitMuse
Thanks!2
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