WeightNoMore Team Chat - MARCH 2024
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Weigh in day: Thursday
PW: 258.0
CW: 257.2
I lost most of what I gained from last week so that is good.3 -
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I had to go away over the weekend for work. The woman who does our billing made all the food and it was delicious. She did make some goodies and I knoe I ate too many. After all the sitting in the awful chairs and eating all the food, I felt gross and went and took a walk for about 45 minutes. It felt great to get the exercise but my leg was killing me. I am going to try to hop on the treadmill tonight. I was going to last night after work but forgot I only was leaving work for an hour because I had to be back for 2 meetings. I wanted to loose some weight before my trip to Jamaica but that's not happening.
@ljdanny - ooooh, when are you leaving for Jamaica?? I feel like the sunlight there makes you feel lighter, even if you haven't lost a pound. I always have more energy when it's gorgeous outside and I'm near a large body of water, but maybe that's just me.Feels great to be back to weightlifting and normal eating after being on vacation. The weather has been beautiful so I’ve been out for walks too as well. I’ve upped my protein from 100 grams to 150 grams per day and added 6lbs to my bench press today.
This weekend my daughter has a tournament in Salt Lake, followed by a few days in Hawaii. Hoping I can convince myself to use the hotel gyms at least a couple of times. I’m going to start the Caroline Girvan Iron series when I get back. Looking forward to starting something new!
@sydditt - Adding a whole 6 pounds to your bench press is no small feat, great job! I'm hoping some of that strength of yours rubs off on me, I haven't been making any progress with my upper body these last couple months - I'm hoping the stagnation leads to a whoosh out of nowhere.minstrelofsarcasm wrote: »
@minstrelofsarcasm its going! I restarted the 5k training program after like week 3 in the beginning, because until that point I hadn’t been able to consistently run each interval and was walking through some of the run parts, which by then was like 1.5min run 1min walk.
But as of today, I’m on week 6 of the training and have been pushing myself to just do it and I just got through 2 - 10 minute run intervals! I think that’s a huge win and I’m really proud of that.
As for tips, slowing my pace helped a lot to keep myself being able to run the longer intervals earlier on. I was trying to run around 5 mph and was getting too winded and had to walk extra. I slowed myself down to around 3.9mph and was able to get through the runs as they got longer. I think that’s helped me now be able to pick up my pace as I ran the 10 mins at around 4.2 mph. It’s not a huge increase in speed but it’s still something I’m proud of when I look back at my progress lol.
Also the number thing you mentioned has helped a lot. I try not to focus on the time on the treadmill so I watch YouTube videos from channels I enjoy to distract me. But at the same time, I’m also very aware of the time 😂 so I just count myself down by 10-15 second increments to help the time pass if I do focus on it.
It was funny when I first started, I told my friend I’m running with, ‘HOW AM I EVER GOING TO RUN FOR 1.5min STRAIGHT?!’
Then this week when I hit 8-10 min runs, I said ‘How can I run for 8min straight, I wish I could just do 1.5min intervals instead!’ 😂
@andja87 - 10 minutes straight of running?? Good lord, my feet hurt just thinking about it. In case you couldn't figure it out, running is not my favorite haha. You've been making incredible progress and I'm glad you're recognizing how far you've come! Did you ever think you could accomplish nearly this much when you started? Every "little" accomplishment feels so far away until you get there.
I'm glad the number thing helped you! It's still my go-to when it comes to cardio in general. I use the elliptical on my cardio days (typically Wednesdays) and it's a lot of "I'll stay at this rpm with this resistance until the clock says this" or making a change every 8 counts so I don't have time to consider slacking.0 -
@Laurabb99 my race is a smidge over 2 weeks away on April 6th. BTW, great loss this week!minstrelofsarcasm wrote: »
@andja87 - 10 minutes straight of running?? Good lord, my feet hurt just thinking about it. In case you couldn't figure it out, running is not my favorite haha. You've been making incredible progress and I'm glad you're recognizing how far you've come! Did you ever think you could accomplish nearly this much when you started? Every "little" accomplishment feels so far away until you get there.
I'm glad the number thing helped you! It's still my go-to when it comes to cardio in general. I use the elliptical on my cardio days (typically Wednesdays) and it's a lot of "I'll stay at this rpm with this resistance until the clock says this" or making a change every 8 counts so I don't have time to consider slacking.
@minstrelofsarcasm no I absolutely never thought I could accomplish this much let alone sticking to the running for this long! I did manage 12 minutes straight today at 4.2mph and I was struggling to breathe by the end of it lol. But I survived!
Yeah the numbers really help. Especially if I’m going to be looking at them anyway. Breaking up minutes into smaller increments makes it seem easier to achieve.
Finally made a music playlist too so I think I’m going to try just music on my next run. I wonder if that’ll make it easier to get through because I know the songs I picked and how they go so I can use that just like the numbers. “There’s just one more verse and chorus and then you can walk.”
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Hey folks! I am missing a number of weigh-ins due earlier this week - please let me know if you need to be excused! (I also may have not seen when you posted it, because this week has been stressful, so don't be afraid to let me know I'm being stupid)
@Losingweekly
@9Harvey
@BlueSkyNomad
@ksludwig
@Ljdanny
Step results coming later!0 -
Weigh-in day: Friday
PW 174.3
Mar 8: 176.0
Mar 15: 176.2
Mar 22: 174.6
GW (Mar) 173
Start weight 196
Plan: Strength training, daily walk, Protein 100g+, Fiber 25g+
Age: 48
Basically just about lost the weight I gained - just in time for me to go on vacation.2 -
Weigh in day Friday
Previous weight 186.9 lbs (85.0 kg)
Current weight 185.6 lbs (84.2 kg)
I had a really focused week and am pleased with the loss. I also realised looking at my 75 day challenge chart where I go wrong (or how often) so I will try to correct that and get more consistent with good habits
Here is my challenge chart for those of you interested ⬇️75 day medium challenge
🧡45 min inside + 45 min outside exercise: 1 good workout on work day + add walk on day off
💛Between 2.7 to 5.3 litres of water
💚Read 10 pages of a book
🩵Diet: stay within my calories + up my protein
🩷No alcohol anyway -> replace by limited chocolate intake
19/75 🧡💛💚🩵🩷 1h🚶♀️
18/75 🧡💛💚🩵🩷 1h 🥋 + 40min 🚶♀️
17/75 ✖️💛💚✖️🩷 low on protein
16/75 ✖️💛💚🩵🩷 only a short 🚶♀️
15/75 🧡💛💚🩵🩷🥋 grading +🚶♀️
14/75 ✖️💛💚✖️🩷 no exercise, over calories
13/75 🧡💛💚🩵✖️ 1h 🥋, 🍫 again
12/75 🧡💛💚🩵✖️ 1h40 🚶♀️
11/75 🧡💛💚🩵✖️ 1h 🥋, 🍫 again
10/75 ✖️💛💚🩵🩷 rest day as unwell
9/75 🧡💛✖️🩵🩷 1h 🚶♀️, low on protein
8/75 🧡💛💚🩵✖️ 45min 🚶♀️, 🍫 again
7/75 🧡💛💚🩵✖️ 45min 🚶♀️too much 🍫
6/75 🧡💛💚🩵✖️ 1h 🥋 , too much 🍫
5/75 🧡💛💚🩵🩷 2h 🚶♀️
4/75 🧡💛💚🩵✖️ 1h🥋, too much 🍫
3/75 🧡💛💚🩵🩷 34min 🏃♀️+ 20min 🧘♀️
2/75 ✖️💛💚✖️✖️ not great day ☔, no focus
1/75 🧡💛💚🩵🩷 70min 🚶♀️
Anyway today I have reached 56 days of logging my food and that is a first for me, I have used the app in the past but not consistently. Thank you to this group for keeping me on track
Have a good day everyone
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Weigh In Day: Friday
PW (Previous Weight): 209.2
CW (Current Weight): 207.22 -
Ljdanny
Thurs
Cw 188.61 -
Friday weigh in
CW: 79.9kg
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Weigh In Day: Saturday
PW: 191.8
CW: 190.73 -
Zumba_luvah
Pw- 216.4
Cw- 215.62 -
minstrelofsarcasm wrote: »Step results coming later!
Apparently, by "later", I meant "tomorrow". Anyway...~~ Step Challenge Results - March Week 2 ~~
Team Statistics -
Total Steppers: 6
Total Steps: 384,680
Average Steps Per Stepper: 64,113 (+5.8% over last week!)
Total Steps This Month: 748,419
Individual Statistics -
@andja87 - 76,130 total | 10,876 average - Most Steps in One Day!!!
@Emilienewme - 70,290 total | 10,041 average
@sydditt - 67,702 total | 9,672 average
@BodyTalking - 59,088 total | 8,441 average - Most Consistent!!!
@Ljdanny - 55,767 total | 7,967 average
@daria0919 - 55,703 total | 7,958 average
Our bolded members set a goal and met it! And our team is making small gains every single week when it comes to step counts... can we boost our numbers another 5% for next week? That would push us just over 400k for next week's total, and bring the month's total over 1.1 million steps!1 -
BodyTalking
Weigh-in-Saturday
Starting weight: 81.7 kg/180.12 lb
Previous weight: 80.3 kg/177 lb
Current weight: 80.7 kg/177.9 lb0 -
BodyTalking
Steps Total, 17-23 Mar: 59,637
S 14225
M 5770
T 5361
W 11189
T 8681
F 9150
S 52611 -
The March Week 4 Group Challenge is open and ready to begin on Sunday, Mar 24th. Join us for the Spring Cleaning Time Challenge (a creative adventure)! Here's your link:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10912206/march-week-4-group-challenge-spring-cleaning-time-challenge/p1?new=1
Hope to see you in the chat thread!
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Weigh In Day: Sunday
PW (Previous Weight): 231.4
CW (Current Weight): 230.6
Well, not much of a loss, but to be honest I thought I was going to have a big gain. I just came off my period, and I ate poorly yesterday! Time to use this as motivation, and have good week this week!
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Good Morning WNM...You have a new member joining your wonderful team for April... Please welcome @emmashowen1
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CassieGetsFit2013 wrote: »Weigh In Day: Sunday
PW (Previous Weight): 231.4
CW (Current Weight): 230.6
Well, not much of a loss, but to be honest I thought I was going to have a big gain. I just came off my period, and I ate poorly yesterday! Time to use this as motivation, and have good week this week!
A loss is a loss and next week you may even see the 220s!!!!!! Woo hooo!! Way to go @CassieGetsFit2013!!0
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