Mission Slimpossible Team Chat - JULY 2023
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@micaroo4 glad you took the day off! Hope you had a well deserved rest.
@DJill68 congratulations on dropping a dress size!
I donated blood yesterday morning and ending up fainting twice. I've been too tired yesterday afterwards and today to do anything very strenuous, but got a couple of gentle walks in.3 -
I am down a complete dress size! Woohoo! I really want to celebrate with a cheat meal, but I’m afraid I will fall off the wagon if I do.
Congratulations!
As a Maintainer, I would advise that you never celebrate with food. Clothes, jewelry, a fun outing, a book or something...but never food. Food does have a tendency to tip the whole wagon over!4 -
Hot Pickled Yellow Squash, Fresh Lettuce. Had fresh zucchini for supper last night. Patiently waiting on onions, tomatoes, tomatillos, okra, beans & peppers.
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@Brigit02 Why can’t chips be less calories, who is satisfied with 7 chips? I guess we can make them from light tortillas, I’ll have to try that sometime, haven’t done that in awhile. I can only laugh now but I used to get huge bags of Stacy's Naked pita chips and hummus and eat half the bag when I got home, that's like a day's worth of calories when I thought I was being healthy.
@trooworld Thank you! What do you mean bites, are you trying to estimate what you “taste” while cooking? I’m confused not being a jerk just for clarification.
@DJill68 Congratulations, what a great NSV! I’m loving your pickled squash, I’ve never done that! My grandparents canned, I wish I’d gotten into gardening when I was young so I could’ve learned from them. I’m making zucchini boats tomorrow, I have enough for two recipes so I’m going to have to avoid bringing home more from the farm for a bit.
@fourtherecord Oh no, sorry to hear about the fainting! It’s great you donated but sounds like it was really hard on you.
@micaroo4 I’ve tried to be good about not celebrating with food too though sometimes a meal at a nice restaurant sounds pretty awesome.
Hi friends! Had a long day, just wanted to catch up and wish you all a happy Friday.
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davors19
Weigh in day: Friday
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DrewsAnna
Weigh in Thursday
PW 156.9
CW 158.4
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@Brigit02 Why can’t chips be less calories, who is satisfied with 7 chips? I guess we can make them from light tortillas, I’ll have to try that sometime, haven’t done that in awhile. I can only laugh now but I used to get huge bags of Stacy's Naked pita chips and hummus and eat half the bag when I got home, that's like a day's worth of calories when I thought I was being healthy.
Costco sells a huge bag of Stacy's pita chips that we no longer buy because I would devour it quickly. But I still ate the small bag of chips we got at Trader Joes. I can't be around pita chips without losing my mind. LOL1 -
davidji82
weigh in day Friday
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Username: Trooworld
Weigh-in day: Friday
PW: 230.6
CW: 234.8
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@micaroo4 Yay, Mica! What did you do on your day off?
@DJill68 Nice! Way to go! Can you celebrate with a pedicure or something else? Wow, awesome canned stuff! Thanks for the picture.
@fourtherecord Oh gosh, I'm sorry about that. Has that happened in the past? I donate blood but don't have that problem unless I try to donate plasma. If I donate plasma, I feel so weak and faint and I feel awful the rest of the day. So, I don't do it anymore. I just donate blood.
@Katmary71 No, Healthi (the tracking app I use) calls points "bites". So, I'm going over on my points, basically, and I am trying to figure out how many "points" a recipe is before I schedule it for a meal. It's not so easy because it all has to be done on their app, you can't track or build recipes on their website.
It took me 5 minutes to build one recipe yesterday. I ended up just picking some recipes that I had already built + adding a few new ones. Sorry for the confusion! You would never be a jerk lol. I hope you have a good day today.
@davors19 Congrats on the loss!
Hi all. Well, I am proof that tracking alone does not make you lose weight lol. I did a lot of things wrong last week so I'm not surprised by my gain. I am making a plan for next week. I already picked out recipes for a meal plan based on their "bites" (kind of like WW points). My knee is bothering me now so I don't know how much I can exercise.
My phrase for the year: "Every choice is another chance to change my health for the better."3 -
Hey folks!
I hope everyone is doing good.
It has been a very busy week here. Thing are finely slowing down a bit.
@mkksemail when it come to tweaking the part I don't like is having to add every little bit of what you eat. So most of the time by dinner I am not in the mood to make recipes for what I am cooking, adding every single thing I am put on a salad, or I just don't eat cuz I don't want to log it. If that makes sense.
Unfortunately the real deal is not like the show, Orange is the New Black.
@Katmary71 when you say tarp are you referring to the one used to keep thing dry that have no air holes or one that is like a screen with air holes?
Right now I am not having an issue with the sun. Where I put my garden just happens to get shade during some parts of the day.
This fall we are moving the garden to an area that had no natural shade source so I have been looking into different shade screens. I just typed garden shade ideas in Google search to get some ideas.
Well I think my cucumbers are at the end of their life span. I let to many cucumbers mature by accident. Yesterday I started another pickling cucumber and a bush cucumber along with cantaloupe and cilantro. I am trying something out by having my watermelon and cantaloupe climb the trellis instead of growing on the ground. But while rearranging my cantaloupe I stressed out the plants. So planted back ups just in case.
It is time to get around and head out for my morning walk and knock out my to Do list for the day.
Have a blessed day!
GO OUT AND BE AMAZING TODAY!
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Yesterday Rich and I got to spend the day together. I thought perhaps Rich would want to do his own thing, as I know he likes having a day all to himself (as do I). He had breakfast with his friend Ed from work, which is a weekly thing for them, and then he spent the rest of the day with me. When I started out for my first walk of the day (before his breakfast), he joined me. While he was at breakfast, I took a short bike ride, about 30 minutes. When he came back from his breakfast, he suggested another, much longer walk. This was great for me - I had my 6+ walking miles done before 10:30am and mostly beat the heat. It got HOT. We haven't had a hot day since June 9. It got up to 91 yesterday and very humid. After the walk I took another quick bike ride, and then Rich & I went out for lunch. Not the best thing for his diabetes, but it was nice. He took over the agenda after lunch and we went to the bookstore. He bought 5 survival books. I asked if he thought I was going to drop him off in the wilderness with nothing but a pen knife and a bag of m&ms. For some reason, he feels he needs to be prepared to survive in the wilderness. I wish he took as much interest in his diabetes survival. After the bookstore, we went out to walk in the woods at Peverly Pond, where it was a few degrees cooler. Then back home, and he wanted to watch an episode of Alone (this is where the survivalist stuff is coming from). I went out for one last walk around the neighborhood. Today, my "real" day off, I will be doing some housecleaning and running errands. But first, a morning walk. It's going to be another HOT day.3
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@txcritter69 You have a beautiful home!
@trooworld My knees have been bothering me too so I did this workout yesterday:
30-Minute 'Knee Friendly' Total Body Barre Workout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7s8sGwYYUM
It was very easy on my knees, Jessica Smith is fantastic.2 -
Just remember you were prayed for today.6
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Username: tfelts147
Checkin: Thursday
PW: 213.6
CW: 213.0
I'm a day behind because I'm on vacation... this isn't my normal scale but I'll take the measure anyway.... it could throw me off next week in either direction...lol
We are heading home tomorrow morning but my wife and I have our next vacation planned already.... going on our first cruise in September!! I'm trying to be below 200 by the time it gets here....I think I can do it!6 -
Happy Friday, Slims !
Love the garden pix, and ahhh, interesting on the real thing not being like Orange is the New Black, tx!
troo and brigit, with you both on the knees :eek: . Somewhat counterintuitively (to me) squats are a great exercise for poor knees. I had a 25 squats x 3 days mini-challenge as part of one of my other challenges a couple weeks ago, and I was like .... :eek: :eek: :eek: nooooo . But I googled some squats vids bc I wanted to make sure I was getting the form right. I know if you do it wrong, it can hurt your back or your knees, or something like that. I found some super helpful youtubes on squats for beginners, etc. One talked about how it was the most useful and necessary exercise for seniors to do, which shocked me! Another talked about the helpfulness for arthritic knees. I was like, okay, I guess I should do this. I met my 3 day challenge and kept going. Reached 2 weeks on Wed of this week woohoooo. Another useful thing for bum knees is Tai Chi. Also learned that recently, again - also bc of a mini-challenge that was part of another challenge. Dr. Paul Lam makes a Tai Chi for Arthritis video that I tried out last week. It's an hour and a half, Intro and Six lessons. I only listened to the intro and did lesson one so far.
DJill, your canning looks amazing! And mica, your advice to never use food to celebrate sounds perfect. Plus, your day off crashing your hubby's day to himself sounds lovely!! It sounds like hubby really wanted to and enjoyed the day with you. And wtg getting in all your exercise before the heat hit. Nice!
Cheers!
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We went from spring, to hells front porch!3
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DJill68
Weigh in day: Friday
PW: 216.6
CW: 215.6
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Baby quilt done for baby shower. This was fun.7 -
@Brigit02 Yes that’s the best place to get them! Honestly Trader Joe’s chips are like the old “serving” single bags they’re so small. Those parmesan garlic ones there are the bomb though! I don’t know if you remember but I had a gum graft last year and could only eat mushy stuff, I kept threatening to get a Costco bag of those and happily crunch the whole thing once I was better but I had more willpower to not do it thank goodness.
@trooworld OK I hadn’t heard of that, got it. The recipe builder here is pretty awesome, it has mistakes like today it made my cumin 250 teaspoons instead of one but that’s an easy fix (and a good laugh). Is that an app you pay for? I’d be curious to check it out if it is. Oh no I hope your knee is feeling better fast. If you’d like some arm cardio videos lmk!
@txcritter69 Your house is so beautiful! I’m referring to the blue tarps you can put stakes through the end of to hold it down. Nevermind me saying that if I recommended it, don’t recall if I said it but I have some damage from the tarp to a few plants being burned from it. Love your vertical plants so much! Flowers everywhere, yay! I was listening to a talk today about what to start now and with a long gardening season you can start more cukes, I’m thinking of doing that myself. I was listening to YouTube videos of all the things you can start now for fall harvests and once I have some energy I’m going to start more plants.
@micaroo4 Wow you and Rich did some awesome walking! Oh no it sounds like Rich has a new obsession with doomsday prepping. I can throw myself into hobbies too so I’m not judging, it’s easy to overdo it with something like that though especially watching Alone and other survival shows. I got scared before the election and stocked up the best I could which wasn’t much as I don’t have much money but I still have a huge bag of rice to get through.
@19shmoo69 Thank you! Prayers right back atcha!
@tfelts147 I hope your vacation is going well. How exciting about your cruise, where are you going to go?
@mkksemail Happy Friday!
Hi friends! I’ve done next to nothing today, I wore myself out with two days at the farm and the meeting last night (couldn't sleep the night in between which is the worst part). I did some seed sorting and a short workout and made chicken enchilada zucchini boats but have no energy. I posted in the charity group asking for help at the farm tomorrow so I’ll be going in the morning, it will be interesting to see if we get any helpers. With the charity with have a salsa competition and an event raising money for animal shelters so I may go with the president to pass out flyers at farmer’s market if I have any energy after the farm.
Have an awesome Saturday!
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Username: micaroo4
Weigh In Day: Saturday
PW (Previous Weight): 122.0
CW (Current Weight): 121.6
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tammymccrady6278
Weigh in day Saturday
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Good Morning!
Just a quick stop in to see what's up.
@micaroo4 I love it when my husband and I spend time together. Your day sounds so relaxing. We have been in hell for over a month now🥵
@Brigit02 Thank you
@19shmoo69 Thank you for the prayers.
@tfelts147 Don't you just hate when vacation come to an end. I start planning the next one as soon as possible too.🤪
@mkksemail Thank you. Being a correctional officer is just a glorified babysitter. Imagine having over a 100 teenagers in one big room that you have to do everything for. Not to say that some thing seen on tv is not true. But it is a job some people just can't do.
@DJill68 Great job on loss! I LOVE your baby quilt, it is beautiful.
@Katmary71 Thank you! I would think that a regular tarp would only trap heat in like an oven. You would need to use something like a screen material that would still aloud air to circulate. I to have been watching YouTube videos try to figure out wht I want to do for fall. It will have to stay small while I work on move it for the spring of next yr.
Today is going to be an easy day. No walk but will be outside with Diesel for morning ball fetch. They going to do a little house work. If I do good today with food choices I will be happy with weigh in in the morning. I still struggle
with logging food but I am paying more attention to what and how much I am eating. I am sticking to healthier foods.
Have a blessed day!
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Username: askewcr
Weigh in day: Saturday
PW: 256.5
CW: 256.5
No change but I feel good about me!
No Zero Days: I got up and swept/mopped my kitchen, foyer, and all three bathrooms last night at 9:30. It feels good to have that done this morning. It's going to be a great day no matter what comes my way. The present me knows that. I also went to water aerobics Thursday when they opened back up. That type of exercise is a win, win for me because of these knees. If I want it, I've got to "WORK FOR IT!"
That's what our instructor continues to have us chant. She also says if you work for it, you'll keep it longer. This is good for me!
HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND EVERYONE!!
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@txcritter69 I love your house and your garden! Have a great day!
@micaroo4 Sounds like you had a nice day off. That is interesting about the survival stuff. I guess it's good to be prepared!
At work, they are always having drills for emergencies and we have backpacks with emergency supplies at our desks. Have a great day off today.
@Brigit02 Sorry your knees have been bothering you, too. Thanks for the video, I've never watched her before. I will check it out!
@19shmoo69 Thank you! How are you doing?
@tfelts147 Congrats on the loss! Even on vacation, you had a loss, woo hoo!
@mkksemail I'm familiar with how to do squats the proper way, I've had personal trainers and my husband has corrected my form when I don't do them properly lol. Thanks. Congrats on reaching 2 weeks! I used to do Tai Chi at work, we had an instructor that came in. I loved it. I found the Dr. Lam intro video thanks for the tip. I didn't see one that was 1 1/2 hours, just 49 mins. But maybe I didn't look far enough, I'll look again.
@DJill68 Congrats on the loss! Wow, what a beautiful and unique baby quilt. I love it and they will too!
@Katmary71 I do love the recipe builder on MFP. I liked the import a recipe feature that is now premium-only. Healthi comes in two plans: premium ($39 a year, I think) and free. The free is pretty good but with the paid, you can track some of your macros and you have more plan choices. Thanks for the offer of arm cardio videos, I'll let you know if I decide to do them! I'm glad you are taking it easy. I hope you get some helpers at the farm. How did the zucchini boats come out?
@tammymccrady6278 Congrats on the loss!
Hi all. I did not track yesterday, I think I was just so disheartened by my gain. I don't have a lot planned today so I may try to do a YouTube exercise video as long as my knees hold out. Have a great day!
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@trooworld - what? MFP made import a recipe premium only? Grrrrrrr
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