Shape Shifters Team Chat - August 2024
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Good work on your 75 Soft/ Hard plans and follow through @DaffyGirl88 and @looneycatblue!
That ice cream would be perfect for pregnant women with cravings! So funny @frankwbrown!
You seem to be doing great with maintenance @JenHul. Do you have any tips on what’s working well? Have you adjusted your daily calories by much? Congratulations! 🎉
We are dog sitting for a few days so I’ve been getting more steps. I still miss our wonderful dog but I don’t think we’ll get a new one of our own. Taking care of our friends’ dog gives us a nice connection occasionally without all the planning and daily care. She’s a sweet dog and she’s adjusted well to being with us. We were a little worried that she’d be sad and anxious because she hasn’t been with our friends very long and she’s a bit skittish with both people and other dogs. We spent time with her before their trip so she would be comfortable with us and she’s becoming more and more at ease meeting people and dogs in our walks. So, I’m relieved to see how much she’s grown.
I hope everyone is having a good week! Go Shape Shifters!3 -
Good morning and Happy Hump Day
Tuesday steps
13,911
So close, one more trip to the bathroom and I'd have had 14k.
Soft 75 D4 went well. I'm going to have to make a chart soon because I'm running out of fingers. LOL
Have a great day everyone!5 -
Wednesday Weigh In
PW: 163.2
CW: 164.8
STRESS = GAIN5 -
Steps
8/12 6,942
8/13 7,0554 -
Aug Wk2 Weigh-in:
CW: 167.3lbs
Pw: 167.3lbs5 -
Step Goal: 8500
Sun 08/11: 6131
Mon 08/12: 12226
Tue 08/13: 5584
What I’ve been tracking…Running Average..- Net Calories ( 6345 / 10500 )
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= Daily Avg: 2115 (Goal: 1500) - Net Carbs ( 344 / 350 )
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= Daily Avg: 114 (Goal: 50) - Steps ( 23941 / 59500)
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= Daily Avg: 7980 (Goal: 8500)
Aug; Wk2 (so far):- Log / Exe(1Hr) / Und-Cs
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(Yes Days: 1 / 3 Days) - No Drinking
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(Just Said NO-Days: 3 / 3 Days)
Wed Weight✔️in: 165.7Monday:
- No 🍺
- Lots of 🏃🏻♀️ 🏃🏻♀️
Tuesday: TOM time gots me exhausted🤦🏻♀️
- Still not overeating✅
- Still low carb
- Still no🍺4 - Net Calories ( 6345 / 10500 )
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Good Morning,
thank you @PatriceFitnessPal I have been keeping to the same eating habits, and walking to work as I was when I was actively losing weight. My calories have been up'd to 1500 per day. So far I'm doing pretty good.
Steps:
Aug 13= 69136 -
Soft 75 Challenge
Day 5 8/13 only 3/4. I woke up late, and didn't get my 45 mins in
Steps
8/13 5,8814 -
Today was much better at the office...VERY busy, but low stress...listened to music most of the day, when not on conference calls or helping with remedy fixes. Got a lot accomplished...kept a good attitude, left on time...didn't get to walk this morning, so tried to walk around a few times throughout the day. Nowhere near the steps I usually have when I get home, but working on it now...
How was your day?! I try to walk, but things have been insanely busy lately. Just two more weeks and then I'm off for ten glorious days!! Plan on doing LOTS of walking that week...and I'm still on track to meet my intentional walking and month step goals...
What I need to do, is channel my inner @frankwbrown !!! I can never keep up with him...he's who I will become when I grow up! LOL
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@jessicakrall8 It's amazing how much free time you have when you don't have a job! 😂
A new challenge for me this month has been cycling. I've been wanting to get back to cycling for quite some time, and the Olympics challenge was the encouragement that finally did it for me. Having done well enough on the Ride Like the World's Best challenge, I decided to also join a regular monthly cycling challenge. There are several:- August Time to Ride -- 20 hours of cycling activities during the month
- August Ride to 200 -- 200 km of cycling activities over 14 day period (August 18th to 31st)
- August Tour -- 400 km of cycling activities during the whole month
For the first one, I need my rides to average ~40 minutes/day (no distance specified). So far, I'm almost half way there. All I have left is 10.6 hours over 17 days = 38 minutes/day.
The other thing I've been wanting to get back to is doing a yoga class twice a week at 6:15am. The class is much better than doing yoga on my own.
So, tomorrow hopefully, I will get up on time and ride to the gym and yoga.
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Wednesday Weigh-In
PW: 212.0
CW: 211.2
LTD: 41.4 lbs5 -
Good morning all!
Wednesday Steps
12,230
D4/75 Soft, did pretty good. Was really hungry at work but successfully avoided the candy jar. SCORE!!
A couple of pictures from my yard. First a new caterpillar, probably about 2 days old, second is a box turtle that stopped by my compost for some watermelon.
Enjoy your day everyone!
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Hello Shape Shifters. Tuesday was a quiet day for me. I was pretty tired because of all the work and the night was horribly warm. Just laying still in bed everything was sticky. During the day it got up to 33 degrees which was not fun at all. I only filled all the holes in the wall, didn't even make my stepgoal. That basically never happens. I also got a package from Ikea with a turtle light I adore, some shelves for paintings/pictures and 3 new frames for the bird posters. The frames didn't come with any backing paper, so I need to get some white paper for them later. There were warnings for rain and thunder in the afternoon and evening, but where I live, we got like 5 raindrops and that was it. So Tue/Wed night was again very sweaty.
Wednesday I finally got the paint delivered. It got here pretty late (15:20) though I had everything taped and ready so I started right away when I got it. The wall was sucking up paint like a freaking hoover and I could also tell from the start I needed to apply 2 coats. I was really worried I wouldn't have enough paint. After layer one, I had probably 1/4th of the bucket left. After waiting two hours, I started on the second coat which thankfully went faster and needed a lot less paint so I ended up having enough. It looks very nice from far away, but from up close you can still see the areas where I wasn't able to remove the old layer. At this point though, I don't care. I am happy with it, it was a crapton of work and I am glad that it is over with. The painting was a good workout. While it did finally started raining later in the day, it was still warm inside and I got absolutely soaked in sweat twice.
Today after some more vacuuming and mopping, I finally started to move furniture back in place so my house doesn't look like a construction site anymore. Now the 'problem' is that I can't figure out where to place everything. It just looks bad. It doesn't help that I don't have all the stuff yet. I am getting my new chair and bookcase delivered on Saturday. So maybe I just have to wait until then. My dad it also visiting on Saturday, but I don't know at what time the furniture will show up. Either way it is nice to have him help me move things around. It is not very easy to do that alone. Maybe he will have some ideas on where to put everything.
Have a good day everyone
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@Pupowl Your paintjob looks Great! I am happy that you stayed with the same color.
@DaffyGirl88 I've been thinking more about your suggestion of doing the 75 Hard on the weekends... do you want to give it a go this weekend with me?
@jessicakrall8 I hope your day was less stressful. Maybe one of these weeks we can do a group challenge that includes "7" Soft (only 7 days, not 75)?
Steps: 8/14 11,114
75 Soft, Day 5, 4/4 going well 1 -
For the first time since last October I think, I made it to early morning yoga!
At 5:30am, I rode my bike 3.5 miles to my gym. The yoga class was challenging... but wonderful. 😩😂
Then I rode the 3.5 miles back home, had breakfast and then almost fell asleep. But I managed to make it to tai chi at 9am, only a few minutes late. I skipped the last section and headed home to rest. After a rest, I did some steps to finish off my day.
So, it would've been a good day, if I hadn't just binged on potato chips and ice cream. 🫤
Tomorrow's another chance to do better. All I need do is remember this bloated feeling. 🤔
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Here’s my weekly weigh in report:
Name: PatriceFitnessPal
Weigh in day: Thursday
PW: 147.7
CW: 148.5
SW: 168
LTD: 19.5
I’m in Boston helping my mother with some appointments, car maintenance, and household tasks. So, my routine has been disrupted for the past couple of days. Tomorrow (Friday) will be another busy day but I hope to build in some time for exercise this weekend. Best wishes everyone!3 -
Good morning and TGIF!
Thursday steps
13,860
Friday weigh-in
PW: 154.4
CW: 152.0
Day 6/75 another good day. The weekend's here and undecided if I'll try to do "hard" or just keep going. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. LOL5 -
Bearchested
Friday
PW: 191.2
CW: 191.0
Please excuse me next week, I'll be traveling.3 -
frankwbrown
August week 2
Weigh in day: Friday, August 16
PW: 255.9 lbs
CW: 255.0 lbs (↓0.9 lbs; 0.35%)4 -
Hello Shape Shifters. I ended up moving my couch again yesterday. I planned to wait until my dad could help, but it was really annoying me, lol. So it is against the other wall now. I also turned my carpet so it lines up better with the furniture. I think it looks better now so that is good. My dad was supposed to come over on Saturday, but my Ikea stuff is coming pretty late, so we moved it to Sunday so he can help me with the bookcase.
I had a good sleep and was up a bit later than normal. The morning was nice and rainy and the temperature dropped a bit, though inside it is still quite warm. I finally completed the puzzle that was on my table for a while. I wish we had snow instead of this humid mess. I hope we are done with the worst of the heat now. I just finished a youtube workout after taking a break for a few days. All the house stuff was quite exhausting and my body was pretty sore. I feel much better now except my hands still hurt a lot and I get cramps when I grip stuff.
I am having somewhat of an identity crisis as well which is fun. I don't like how I spent most of my days, but I am also not sure what else I can do because I am limited by my chronic fatigue. I feel like I just gravitate towards computer stuff because it is the easiest and I made it a habit. But I don't think it is serving me well. I also don't really know what I enjoy doing. I feel like I do a lot of stuff without any positive emotions about it. I am not sure how to fix this, but one thing I will try is to leave my computer off completely for the whole morning. And then I will see what comes up. Or not I guess. Either way I think it will be good to decrease my screen time.
All the 75 hard talk made me redo the tracker I made for it back in March when all the groups did it. It is not really a 75 hard since I can't be bothered with some of the goals, so I just made my own. I added a few rewards as well. For 1 perfect week, I can buy a book and for 3 perfect weeks in a row, I can buy a puzzle. For 9 pefect total weeks I have no idea yet. I am still on the struggle bus and I am hoping this well help me. I feel pretty motivated so that is good.
Have a good day everyone
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ganival
friday
pw 178.0
cw 176.2
closing in 10 weeks of tracking and being in a deficit. still feel like i could easily fall off the wagon anytime, this is not yet an unconscious lifestyle or way of eating. did the pick up put down chocolate in the drug store today, but i couldn't find anything under 200 calories. loss is def not linear but averaging 0.76 lb loss per week which is great and beyond the 0.5 i've set my calories to, not sure where the error is, but not going to get too much into the weeds on that. wishing everyone a good week, all the steppers and 75 challenge folks - great stuff!7 -
Daily step goal: 10,000
Tue 8/13: 11,926
Wed 8/14: 10,259
Thu 8/15: 10,3653 -
@Pupowl Cool Tracker! I might try to make something like this too.
Steps: 8/15 10,160
75 Soft, Day 6, Didn't stick with the plan
5 / 6 - 69 more to go! 4 -
Tomsgal1985
Weekly Post
Weigh In Day: Saturday (no scale tomorrow)
Highest weight: 239.8
PW (Previous Weight): 230.0
CW (Current Weight): 229.25 -
Angmarie28
Fridays
Prev weight-188.2
Current weight-187.65 -
8/12-10,885
8/13-11,207
8/14-9,344
8/15-9,1945 -
Friday steps
14,621
Day 7/75 ✔️
Good thing the soft version allows a drink as I'm meeting some friends for breakfast and I know that mimosas will be involved. ☺️
I'm going to have to check out @Pupowl tracker from my computer. It looks cool but I can't expand it on my tiny phone screen. 🙃
Have a great day everyone!5 -
@looneycatblue @DaffyGirl88
I made an empty version if you want to use it as well. It is pretty easy to adjust and change the colors and stuff. I really like checking things off and it is handy because you can see patterns. You just need to go to File -> Make a copy and then you can edit your own.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ApSb3Q-Ihmm65WaBrssWNGLZPxVW06LeJ0wbvJnqtrA/edit?usp=sharing3 -
CasandraW
Saturday weigh in
PW 229.2
CW 235
LTD 353
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