Weight No More Team Chat - MARCH 2023
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Starting weight Jan 1. 2023: 151.6
PW: 145
CW: 144.8
Weigh in day Thursday4 -
I’ve never used a Fitbit or tracked steps, but I live overseas and don’t own a car so I walk a lot (plus I have four little kids to chase 😜). But have you guys found fitbits to be helpful in motivating you to get exercise? Considering whether to get one or not1
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March 12th
Weigh In Day: Sunday
Previous Weight: March 5th - 226.2
Current Weight: March 12th - 225.84 -
I’ve never used a Fitbit or tracked steps, but I live overseas and don’t own a car so I walk a lot (plus I have four little kids to chase 😜). But have you guys found fitbits to be helpful in motivating you to get exercise? Considering whether to get one or not
I find it very helpful. You can set goals you can mark your progress you can step with friends. You can have competitions. I like it1 -
Username: Stimpy56
Weigh-In Day: Thursday
PW: 246.5
CW: 246.0
1/2 pound loss for the week. Not bad considering that I had Birthday cake twice this week. Hope everyone has a great day!5 -
I’ve never used a Fitbit or tracked steps, but I live overseas and don’t own a car so I walk a lot (plus I have four little kids to chase 😜). But have you guys found fitbits to be helpful in motivating you to get exercise? Considering whether to get one or not
I am very much a numbers person, so having a number in mind and knowing that it's being tracked actually helped me a lot when I used to focus on my step counts! Even without looking at the watch, I would get up more often just because I knew something was tracking my steps, regardless of how many I had taken that day. Kind of a good passive reminder to take walks.2 -
~ Step Challenge Results ~Team Statistics -
MARCH WEEK TWO
Steppers: 9 (-2 from last week)
Total Steps: 587,868 (-21% from last week)
Average Steps Per Stepper: 65,319 (+1.16% from last week)
The Leaderboard -
@OllieandEd2021 - 92,354 total | 13,193 average - Most Steps in One Day!!!
@JacquelineRochelle 85,523 total | 12,218 average
@JessicaVRosati - 83,348 total | 11,907 average
@MotylekOkruchy - 82,983 total | 11,855 average
@abp1025 - 73,868 total | 10,553 average
@ljdanny - 64,927 total | 9,275 average
@BodyTalking - 44,697 total | 6,385 average
@9Harvey - 30,866 total | 4,409 average - Most Consistent!!!
@melaniedscott - 29,302 total | 4,186 average
All of our bolded steppers set a goal and met it, based on their average steps per day!
Even with a slight drop, we are still over half a million steps for the week! Well done!
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I’ve never used a Fitbit or tracked steps, but I live overseas and don’t own a car so I walk a lot (plus I have four little kids to chase 😜). But have you guys found fitbits to be helpful in motivating you to get exercise? Considering whether to get one or not
I don't have one but I installed a pedometer on my phone and it works pretty well when I'm not at home. If I actually carried it around when I as home it would be better but I don't.1 -
Username: DebbsSeattle
Weigh-In Day: Thursday
PW: 189.6
CW: 182.7
Before anyone feels the need to double check for accuracy, yes, that is correct. I’m on my March extended fast, I do one each month.4 -
I’ve never used a Fitbit or tracked steps, but I live overseas and don’t own a car so I walk a lot (plus I have four little kids to chase 😜). But have you guys found fitbits to be helpful in motivating you to get exercise? Considering whether to get one or not
Fitbit is removing the challenges aspect (27 March), open groups, reducing some watch functions and, now as they're owned by Google, are promoting Google Pixel watches and, I read, Fitbit accounts will become Google accounts by 2025. Lots of users are upset and either going for other brands or using mobile phone trackers. Many users are connecting their trackers to an app called Stridekick where you can join challenges. If you're able to have your phone on you most of the time, I suggest using its internal tracker and download GoogleFit app to connect to Fitbit, Stridekick, Strava and MyFitnessPal apps. For more accurate step counting, you can buy a cheaper watch but it might not connect to the apps. I have a cheaper watch, a Xiaomi, and just use the phone plus GoogleFit to be able to participate in the challenges.
People say Garmin and Apple are good watches. Personally, I think they and Fitbit are too expensive now.
I loved having the most basic Fitbit but it stopped working and I chose the xiaomi because I like tracking my steps, sleep and exercising for a fraction of the cost.
Try the phone tracker first, then go for a watch if you want to record all your steps.1 -
This is a screenshot of my Xiaomi watch app so you can see what it tracks.
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For those that use your phone tracker, I've just bought this belt that I can zip my phone into to encourage me to keep it on me more often around the house 😊
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3/17/23
Friday weigh-in
PW: 162.2
CW: 161.6
The scale moved a little more this week than it did for my last weigh-in. I'm fine with that and still hope to be under 160 by the end of March. 68.4 lbs lost to date but really looking forward to hitting that 70 lb threshold.
Have a great week!4 -
abp1025
Weigh in day Friday.
PW: 193.0 lbs
CW: 193.6 lbs4 -
Cyndiesstuff
Weigh Day: Friday
SW: 172.1
PW 164.9
CW 164.4
Loss: .5 LB3 -
minstrelofsarcasm
March Week Three - Friday Weigh Day
Previous Weight: 175.4 lbs
Current Weight: 172.4 lbs
Loss to Date: 61.6 lbs
This is absolutely the loss of a bloat. I did not burn over 10,000 calories in the past week. I'm still very happy to see the number dropping, but I am incredibly aware of the fact that this is accumulated loss from the past few weeks.4 -
Weigh In Day: Saturday
PW: 233.2
CW: 233.84 -
Ljdanny
Thursday
Cw 1973 -
My weight just keeps going back and forth. I have been walking on the treadmill and trying to eat healthy. I always feel bloated. I did get up at 4am to exercise which I was excited about. I have to figure something out.4
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I have switched to Saturday weigh ins (from Sunday)
JacquelineRochelle
Saturday weighin
PW: 242.8
CW: 240.6
Spring break and the weather has been great! I’ve been out and active every day. ☺️
Sat: 8590
Sun: 12175
Mon: 14081
Tues: 15956
Wed: 16118
Thurs: 13094
Fri: 21281
I’ve also found the “progress” tab on MFP so I will be using that for my data. Can’t figure out why it differs from my Apple Watch/health app on phone!4 -
JessicaVRosati
Weigh Day: Saturday
Previous Weight: 149
Current Weight: 149.2
Starting Weight: 159
Goal Weight: under 140
Steps 03/12-03/18
3732
4551
9793
6820
7421
7278
2018
total: 41613
Hello All,
My sister-in-law visited us in Rwanda last week and she came with lots of goodies. She also made homemade pasta and meatballs. I honestly thought I would have gained a few pounds and am pleasantly surprised to see that I only went up 0.2 lb despite all the indulging I allowed myself.
I had been training for an 11k run/walk event that occured last Saturday. I didn't run as much of it because SIL had not trained for it and walked most of it so I stayed with her most of the time. I ran down a few hills but walked back up to her so I got a bit more than 11K. Now that the 11k is past I am looking forward to focusing more on strength training and running a bit less. My knees are getting creaky so I have been decreasing mileage. No more marathons for me. I also want to get back into a daily yoga practice, even if sometimes it's only 10 minutes of stretching.
Keep up the good work, every one!
Peace,
Jec
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The March Week 4 Group Challenge is open and will begin on Sunday, Mar 19th. Hope you'll join us for a round of Fitness Bingo this week! Here's your link:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10886670/march-week-4-group-challenge-fitness-bingo#latest
Jessica1 -
Buniphuphu
Saturday weigh in
SW: 359.9
PW: 324.4
CW: 322.5
I'm really pleased about this week's progress. It was Spring Break, and I took the whole week off. I spent the week getting caught up on writing for my pre-dissertation paper, which is a 65+ page paper. I also got in extra water fitness classes this week as study breaks to keep me from going crazy from too much time in front of the keyboard. I'm happy to say that I have 67 pages written and I lost weight doing it!5 -
Well done @buniphuphu 👏1
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BodyTalking
Weigh-in-Saturday
Starting weight: 81.7 kg/180.12 lb
Previous weight: 78.6 kg/173.28 lb
Current weight: 79.6 kg/175.49 lb
Sorry, I went up instead of down...maybe next week 😊
Steps 12-18 Mar: 79,554
S 5660
M 9092
T 11439
W 11998
T 16827
F 14037
S 10501
(daily goal 8,300)3 -
Zumba_luvah
Pw- 207.4
Cw- 209.44 -
Good morning!
Emm_165
Weigh in day: Sunday
PW: 284.3
CW: 284🌷
Loss of .3 lbs
Positives: I worked out 4x this week. I am going to alternate biking and walking this week.
Need to improve: log in my food more often. 5x is goal!.4 -
Steps
S - 4045
M - 4026
T - 2391
W - 3171
T - 2776
F - 6209
S - 9639
Total - 32257 steps2 -
March 19th
Weigh In Day: Sunday
Previous Weight: March 12th - 225.8
Current Weight: March 19th - 225.84 -
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