WeightNoMore Team Chat - JULY 2023
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Zumba_luvah
Pw- 209. 8
Cw- 211.6
I have been getting positives on home pregnancy tests! I still want to be part of the group but I obviously won't be losing weight. I want to focus on making sure I don't gain a bunch of weight. I still want to weigh in weekly but not be added into the groups weight loss7 -
Zumba_Luvah wrote: »Zumba_luvah
Pw- 209. 8
Cw- 211.6
I have been getting positives on home pregnancy tests!
🎉🎊😁 CONGRATS!!!0 -
@JacquelineRochelle
PW: 236.6
CW: 239.6
There is no way I gained 3 pounds in a week! I had a large meal last night and I suspect it is still around. Will redouble efforts this week. I am on holidays now and so my regular routines are all messed up.
Steps
S 10,156
S 11,586
M 10,912
T 11,270
W 16,055
T 17,027
F 6,957 (swimming not stepping today!)4 -
Hey y'all:
Getting ready to head out and run some errands, but wanted to drop a little teaser before I leave. Got my creative juices flowing this week and I have a very exciting CONTEST for the July Week 2 Group Challenge.
I'll pop in once I get everything all set up and am ready to open the chat thread, but I hope you'll start talking to your friends and encourage everyone to join us for it...there's a prize and it will be a lot of discussion, competition and fun this next week. It's gonna be GREAT!
Watch for the announcement late this afternoon!
Jessica
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Rachelrjh
Pw: 155
Cw: 1543 -
The July Week 2 Group Challenge is open and ready to begin on Sunday, Jul 9th. Join us for the Veg Out Challenge! Here's your link:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10894466/july-week-2-group-challenge-veg-out-challenge#latest
Come to the chat room and get registered...good luck!
Jessica 2 -
BodyTalking
Steps 2-8Jul: 41,087
S 4269
M 7275
T 10330
W 555
T 6594
F 6939
S 51251 -
I promised two things today...a proper intro and steps for today...Steps: 19985. Yes, you read that right. 8.3 miles. Which, considering a mile is generally 3000 steps, the count should be higher, but this is what the pedometer says.
And now for the intro. I'm stealing Ashley's spoilers idea, as mine is also a bit long...
Welcome to all the new ladies & gents! And welcome back to a couple of our returners. And congrats to the newly preggers!
I'm Melanie and I'm from Kansas. I’m the other team Co-captain. Truly, Ashley does most of the heavy lifting. I generally do the steps post.
My (short version) storyWhen I was young, I was always was skinny. I got away from my nutty family, met my husband, learned to be happy. Then I got fat. I found myself weighing in about 230 and my six sixteens were too small. I bought a couple pairs of 18 pants from the thrift store and joined MFP.My special snowflake challenges
I lost ~70 pounds in about a year and was pretty pleased. But I wanted another 20 off...and it didn't move. And things got a bit crazy with my husband's family...so I decided to maintain for a bit. Instead of maintaining, I gained a lot of the weight back. Then my MIL died and I've spent more time trying to keep my husband okay than taking care of me. And now I'm actually a bit over my prior highest weight. So...now I'm working on the weight all over.I'm fairly significantly asthmatic (on meds all the time).What I do about it
I have terrible allergies, mostly mold. Which is literally everywhere.
I have migraines.
And I have connective tissue issues (not enough collagen, too stretchy, lots of joint slippage).
August 2020, I acquired some vertigo problems and persistent deafness on one side. Yay.Several years ago, my doctor recommended glucosamine for the connective tissue disorder. I didn't think it helped until I stopped taking it. It helps. But a couple years ago, it wasn't helping as much. So I added collagen supplements. And that helps a lot. When I have bad days, I also drink collagen peptides (but I really dislike them). That helps, too. And I've been supplementing with Vitamin C for decades, not really knowing why. In the past few years, I learned Vit C helps the body produce and process collagen. Suddenly,my obsession with the C makes sense.What is the point behind all this?
My neurologist recommended I take 500 mg of ginger and 400 mg of Vitamin B2 every day to reduce migraines, it has helped a lot. The migraines are so much better and manageable when they happen. The ginger also helps some with the vertigo. I have no excuses for not doing exercise when the vertigo is managed, except for being lazy.
After adding some nasal sprays and sinus irrigation, adjusting my diet a bit, and stopping coffee (so sad), I’ve got the vertigo mostly under control. Or I thought I did. Things have been iffy the past month. Don't know why.
The special snowflake stuff is not woe-is-me drama llama. A lot of exercise people promote is bad (anything high impact), and sometimes dangerous, for me. Sometimes people get down on themselves because they don't do the stuff everyone talks about HIIT, Insanity, stair steppers, etc. I not only don't do those things, I shouldn't. But I should exercise.
My GoalsMy daily goal to get about 30 minutes of walking a day at least during the week. I try to get a walk in otherwise but frequently fail.
A while back I did some PT for some shoulder issues and that got me into doing some resistance/mild strength training. I did well for a while and ... then I got tired and stopped. And I haven't done well at walking consistently for, well a year. I need to get back to doing that consistently. When I do light strength training/resistance, it helps the connective tissue issues.
Even when I do well during the week, weekends are a mixed bag, so that's my goal, do better on all days and especially on the weekends...
I also need to consistently drink at least two liters of water daily.
Anyway, I've been with WNM for a while now and this month, I am re-committing to getting back to work on losing and more than losing, improving my exercise. The last week has been a pretty good start. I need to continue doing this--long walks on weekends, at least an extra mile and a half during the week. I hope this next week will continue this way and the week after, I'll have lots of walk opportunity because I'm in Montana for a conference, at a college, where I will literally walk all over the campus and and the city for four days, while dragging a fifteen pound bag around. Did I mention mountains? Yup, it'll be cool. Anyway, lets make July awesome!5 -
Zumba_Luvah wrote: »Zumba_luvah
Pw- 209. 8
Cw- 211.6
I have been getting positives on home pregnancy tests! I still want to be part of the group but I obviously won't be losing weight. I want to focus on making sure I don't gain a bunch of weight. I still want to weigh in weekly but not be added into the groups weight loss
@Zumba_Luvah - oh my goodness, congrats! I'll move you to the support team - you can still post weekly weights, but you will not impact our team numbers!1 -
Weigh Day: Saturday
Previous Weight: 148.2
Current Weight: 148.6
Starting Weight: 159
Goal Weight: under 140
Steps 07/01-07/08: 72340
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Team Results
By Percentage
By Pounds
Individual Results
By Percentage
By Pounds
Team Winners
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Huge congrats to our winners from last week: @GarysGirl78 , @Marcy2890 , and @ssssseika !!!
Overall, it looks like we mostly maintained, which is a fantastic way to start a month. It means we, for the most part, held onto good habits and stayed away from our bad ones. And on that note, let's look at what Week 2 will bring us.- What's one good habit you'd like to continue from last week?
- What's one not-so-good habit from last week you'd like to break?
- How are you feeling about July Week 2?
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July 9th
Weigh In Day: Sunday
Previous Weight: July 2nd - 208.0
Current Weight: July 9th - 207.4
Steps
Sunday - 5965
Monday - 5590
Tuesday - 6286
Wednesday - 7228
Thursday - 9165
Friday - 6676
Saturday - 5729
Total - 46639 steps2 -
Emm_165
Weigh in day: Sunday
PW: 265.9
CW: 263.8
Have a great week Weightnomores! 🌷🙌☀️5 -
Daily Cheers to a BETTER ME!
🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫 2-8Jul
😏😏😏😏😏😏😏 Core/Flex/Balance
😏😏😏😏😏😏😏 Workout - app/vid
😏🧡😏😏😏💜🤎 Tone - BLABs
🩷🧡💛😏💙💜🤎 Walk/cardio
😏🧡💛😏💙💜🤎 6,000+ steps
🩷🧡💛💚💙💜🤎 1.5+ litres water
🩷🧡💛💚💙💜🤎 Caloric deficit
Steps total: 41,087
Caloric deficit total: 5,274
A good habit I'd like to keep is managing my calories...plus drinking lots of water.
A habit I'd like to improve on is walking more.
A not-so-good habit I'd like to break is my "I'll do it later" excuse because later never comes...the 😏 says it all.
I feel good going into week 2.3 -
PW: 242.8 (Sunday, July 02)
CW: 243.0 (Sunday, July 09)
I'm bummed that I did not lose any weight this week. I didn't spend much time tracking my meals because my family and I are packing our house to move. That being said, I was still very conscious of what I ate. Most of my meals were VERY veggie salads with no dressing -- just a lot of Tajin for flavor and seasoning. I also had watermelon to satisfy my cravings for something sweet.
If anyone has any ideas for low impact workouts that I can do at home, please let me know. I get winded quickly doing most aerobic exercises and it is too hot outside to do many walks.
Congrats to those of you who met your goals this week. Hopefully, I will be in the top three next week.
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GOOD HABIT: I did not have any coffee, sodas, or sweet tea this week. I have been killing it with water with lemon.
NOT SO GREAT HABIT: I'd like to break my habit of staying up late. I am not going to bed until 2 a.m., then my body wakes me up like clockwork at 5:30 a.m. I spend the day feeling exhausted. I've been like this for about two years.
FEELING GOING INTO WEEK 2: I am hopeful that I will reach my goal of a 2 pound weight loss by the next weigh-in. I try not to get discouraged because that causes me to bad food choice decisions.
I never formally introduced myself, so here is the condensed version. My name is Ayanna. I am a female who will be 46 next month. My highest weight was 319. I lost a substantial amount of weight (60 pounds) in early 2022. I had several E.R. visits where I thought I was having heart attacks. Doctors said the pain was stress and the massive amounts of caffeine that I was ingesting. People assumed my weight loss was a response to my divorce, which played out around the same time, but it was honestly just to feel better. Nit stressing over a man and having no caffeine, just made the weight fall off. Now, I have hit a plateau. Nothing that I do is tipping the scales in either direcrion.
I am nervous that my weight will increase over the next few months. I am a self-contained teacher for kiddos with autism. I spend a lot of time stress eating and drinking caffeine just to stay awake and finish all of my paperwork and prepping for the next school day. Also, sleep is non-existent with this type of job. So, I am trying to set better eating and sleep patterns before school officially starts in August.7 -
Good habit to keep: I’ve been tracking calories and weight lifting. I’m feeling stronger and excited to lift.
Bad habit to leave behind: I overate this weekend. It wasn’t because I was hungry, it was because I didn’t say “no”. I’ll be sending a screenshot of my food and calories to an accountability partner who has been partnering with me in seeing health success
How do I feel going into week two: I want to lose at least one pound this week. So going into this really busy week, I’m determined and focused!5 -
Laurabb99
Weigh in day Monday
PW 208.5
CW 209.6
Not bad since I traveled Thursday through Sunday. I'm going to focus on stretching and and tracking while potty training my two year old this week 😁
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@akstamps here is a link to a collection of YouTube videos (click the little icon with 3 lines and an arrow to see them all) I've used for workouts, stretches, how-to do exercises properly, etc. I recommend the gentle morning yoga, full body stretch, and walking with Jo.
Also, these are free apps I've used and would recommend lose weight in 30 days (full body guided exercises that can be repeated), freeletics and 8fit are also good but the exercise routines tend to be more strenuous.
Medito and sleep sounds are helpful for getting to sleep. I'm also a terrible sleeper. I take a melatonin tablet, lavender drops on my pillow and wear a sleep mask most nights. Sometimes, I also take an antihistamine as well. I've seen people claiming that certain warm infusion drinks help, such as melissa, camomile, lettuce (tried that a few nights ago - don't know if it helped but it wasn't worse either). I tend to go to bed late or lie in bed for hours trying to get to sleep. These things have helped me fall asleep quicker. When I don't sleep for long, I no longer stress about it and tell myself that it's ok, you'll get through the day like you always do and can catch up later.
Good luck 🍀2
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