Shape Shifters Team Chat - September 2024
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Steps
9/19: 17,376
9/20: 10,818
No gym yesterday for me, but I am absolutely loving being able to get out for more walks. We have some more heat coming next week, so my boys and I are taking advantage of the cooler weather while it lasts.4 -
My husband has been sick this past week, and seems to have passed it on to me. I have a sore throat and headache. I might be taking it a bit easier the next few days. I'm hoping the boys don't get it too bad, but one had a little cough when he woke up, so now I guess we have to just wait and see.
@ganival I have the same issue about home cooked meals. I enter the recipe (either manually or uploading from a site) and go off of that but I don't feel like that's very accurate. I do a lot of casseroles and crockpot meals for convenience. My ability to guesstimate of what 1/8th of what's in the crockpot doesn't give me much confidence. If I am exact[ in my measurements while making it, I guess I may be able to measure out a cup, or whatever the serving size is supposed to be, but I frequently throw in some extra veggies or broth depending what I want to use up. It gets more complicated than I am willing to deal with, so it's frequently just a guess. All this is to say, I have the same problem and don't have a realistic solution that I would do.3 -
CasandraW
Saturday weigh in
PW 228.4
CW 229.6
LTD 38.43 -
@ganival I actually use the app Eat This Much to track my food. (When I do). It has a ton of recipes already in the app and has a food data base similar to fitness pal.
You set it up based on your macros and calorie requirements and it generates a meal plan. You then modify as you see fit.
I’ll post a couple pictures. It’s free if you do one day at a time, a cost for multiple days/weeks.
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I can’t remember who recommended adding some unflavored collagen to their morning coffee but I bought some this weekend as a way to boost my protein. My weekly macronutrient goal is 50% carbs, 25% protein, and 25% fat but I haven’t been reaching my protein target.
On Saturdays, I check my tracking stats for the week and try to make adjustments based on the data. My protein levels are consistently lower than my carbs and fat.
Behavior change is hard, but I’m making incremental progress. Some people make great strides, others inch along; I think I make improvements by millimeters! 😂 That’s better than no improvement though — I’m determined not to let perfect get in the way of good, as they say!3 -
Thanks for sharing the app information @CasandraW! I might try it. Right now, I just do the best I can to “guesstimate” - like @Zaxa2021 - or use the recipe information as a guide - like @globalhiker. Generally, I try to overestimate calories “in” and underestimate calories “out” because I know our tendency is to do the opposite. The weekly reflection on my macros, calories, and nutrition data help me gauge how accurate I was with my tracking based on my weigh in, etc.
I’m hoping the time I dedicate to getting the right balance now helps me learn enough to get the formula right so I don’t have to think about it so much in the future. Thanks for prompting others to share their strategies @ganival! I hope you find a solution that works for you.2 -
globalhiker wrote: »@ganival with counting calories and nutrients from home cooking, I often rely on recipes that already have the counts provided. I avoid recipes that don't come with the calorie data I need. I like and use the site Once Upon A Chef. Her recipes are really good. I can select what to make based on the calories displayed. This is the type of data provided for a smoked chickpea, lentil, and vegetable soup I want to make:
Nutrition Information
Per serving (6 servings)Calories: 222kcal
Carbohydrates: 32g
Protein: 10g
Fat: 7g
Saturated Fat: 1g
Sodium: 622mg
Fiber: 10g
Sugar: 7g
Takeout: that is a disaster for me. I just try to avoid knowing this tends to be 1,000 calories +.
Thanks for sharing the website, I've made use of Skinnytaste in the past and liked some of their recipes. If you use MFP to log, do you enter the recipe using the recipe builder, or do Quick Add of X calories? I have done quick add, or sometimes I luck out and find someone has entered popular recipes into the database, which is great because then I have the macros beyond just calorie.
I agree takeout is so tricky to track, esp if it's not from a chain. I get a lot of poke bowls and just have to eat it mindfully, ie eat half now and maybe half for another meal.3 -
My husband has been sick this past week, and seems to have passed it on to me. I have a sore throat and headache. I might be taking it a bit easier the next few days. I'm hoping the boys don't get it too bad, but one had a little cough when he woke up, so now I guess we have to just wait and see.
@ganival I have the same issue about home cooked meals. I enter the recipe (either manually or uploading from a site) and go off of that but I don't feel like that's very accurate. I do a lot of casseroles and crockpot meals for convenience. My ability to guesstimate of what 1/8th of what's in the crockpot doesn't give me much confidence. If I am exact[ in my measurements while making it, I guess I may be able to measure out a cup, or whatever the serving size is supposed to be, but I frequently throw in some extra veggies or broth depending what I want to use up. It gets more complicated than I am willing to deal with, so it's frequently just a guess. All this is to say, I have the same problem and don't have a realistic solution that I would do.
I know the struggle...I also make a lot of one pot meals, or stir frys/instant pot and it just gets a bit tedious to weight all components, plug them into recipe builder then serve yourself a defined serving. Sometimes I enter high calorie components, like if I know I used oil in the meal I'll log 1tsp or 1tbsp oil, along with things like cheese, mayonnaise, meats, pasta/rice and I treat the veggies as freebies.
I do think guesstimating is better than not tracking anything at all, just the act of doing so helps me stay conscious.2 -
@ganival I actually use the app Eat This Much to track my food. (When I do). It has a ton of recipes already in the app and has a food data base similar to fitness pal.
You set it up based on your macros and calorie requirements and it generates a meal plan. You then modify as you see fit.
I’ll post a couple pictures. It’s free if you do one day at a time, a cost for multiple days/weeks.
I've long since wanted to dabble in meal planning so I will check this out, thanks for sharing!2 -
PatriceFitnessPal wrote: »Thanks for sharing the app information @CasandraW! I might try it. Right now, I just do the best I can to “guesstimate” - like @Zaxa2021 - or use the recipe information as a guide - like @globalhiker. Generally, I try to overestimate calories “in” and underestimate calories “out” because I know our tendency is to do the opposite. The weekly reflection on my macros, calories, and nutrition data help me gauge how accurate I was with my tracking based on my weigh in, etc.
I’m hoping the time I dedicate to getting the right balance now helps me learn enough to get the formula right so I don’t have to think about it so much in the future. Thanks for prompting others to share their strategies @ganival! I hope you find a solution that works for you.
I do this alot as well, err on the side of overestimating and I use my actual weight loss to gauge things. I have set my calorie deficit to 0.5lbs/week but have been tracking slightly above that, probably due in part to overestimating calories in - but this allows me to then eat real food that I've prepared and I'm more conscious of portion sizes.2 -
Daily step goal: 7000
9-19: 11738
9-20: 11123
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Saturday Weigh-In
CW: 149.1
PW: 148.9
Gain: 0.2
It's not budging! I'll be stricter with tracking this week for sure.4 -
Hey y'all:
Started having one of those lovely sinus episodes on Thursday night, with lots of sneezing and drainage...no sore throat this time but had a slight fever, chills and achiness all day Friday...made it home, drugged up overnight, woke up with it solidly in my chest, so today I'm hacking and exhausted...UGH! Fun, FUN, FUN!!
Jessica
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Missing 2 weigh-ins this week:
@angmarie28
@cre804
Please report in as stats begin early tomorrow. Thanks!
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Love yourself today. Choose you.
Take care of you.
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Got my COVID booster and my RSV vaccine 💉 I can't lift my arm. 😂4
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The Sep Week 4 Group Challenge is open and ready to begin on Sun., Sep 22nd. Please join us for the second week of the Partner Up Walking Challenge! If you're new to this challenge, no problem, just find your partner, register in the chat thread (link below) and give us a name for your team! Rules are in the first post. Good luck! Here's your link:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10924143/september-week-4-group-challenge-week-2-of-the-partner-up-challenge/p1?new=1
See you in the chat thread!
Jessica
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Good morning
Saturday steps
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Hi all,
I'm really enjoying my Greek holiday.It has been nice to have a break from logging my food.Also I haven't had my Garmin activity tracker replaced yet so eventhough Ive been walking & swimming everyday I haven't known how many steps I've done.
@jessicakrall8 could you please add me to the October Step Challenge.I will use my mobile for tracking.3 -
Greek mama cat feeding very large kittens
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Starting off the week with goal adjustments - 1) move more Mondays and Tuesdays - aim for 15,000 steps OR 1.5 hours activity minimum, 2) more protein, less carbs for lunch, 3) measure it all including salad dressing (one of my downfalls).
Definitely continue no alcohol. I'd rather eat my calories for sure.
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Hello Shape Shifters. I am pretty tired, so going to keep it short today. Yesterday I went for a walk again with my mom. Compared to the other days, we took it easy and went for around 6 kilometers. We did a walk that starts into the village center and goes around some farm land. Not my favourite walk, but it was fine, just a bit warm. Unfortunately, my mom got really bad backpain again when we were almost home. It really sucks that she can't just walk as much anymore. I did my gym rings workout in the afternoon, but started to feel really sick. I skipped 1 exercise and had to go to bed. After laying in the dark with earplugs for an hour, I started to feel a bit better. Eating some food helped too. We went to bed early again after more Rummikub. Happy Sunday everyone
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We are now recruiting new members for October! Please let your friends know and they can join our wonderful teams!
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10924172/registration-for-new-members-october-2024#latest3 -
Daily step goal: 10,000
Fri 9/20: 10,292
Sat 9/21: 10,2865 -
September goals update
- I have continued my logging and feel like I’m getting more accurate 🙂
- Still Halloween candy free house. DH did pick up candy bars, but they were all ones I don’t like 😁
- Attend in person exercise class. I am counting the community hike 50ish and over I went to on Tuesday. It was 2 hours and we covered about 5.5 miles/8.85 km according to our guide. More than double in time and distance to anything else I have done in a single effort plus I had a backpack that added about 10lbs. Kept up with the group the whole trip, wasn’t huffing and puffing at the end and didn’t feel like I needed a day or two recover 😂
- Football game eating seems to be working 🤞
I have been trying to follow advice I frequently see on the community boards of giving things 4 - 6 weeks before evaluating for effectiveness and if it is something I will do long term.3 -
Earlier this week I woke up way early and saw the lights were visible. This is from my backyard and they’re kinda subtle
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Steps
9/18 4,628
9/19 5,845
9/20 5,094
9/21 3,305
Nor many steps - in Alma CO for my son's wedding at 10,700 feet for altitude and I ended up having altitude sickness for the whole time - finally feeling better today, but we leave tomorrow driving 16 hours home so no steps really6 -
Step Goal: 8500
Fri 09/20: 11345
Sat 09/21: 6548
Sep Wk4 Weigh-in:
CW: 165.1 lbs
PW: 165.1
Week4: No Loss/Gain
Week’s Mini-Goals:
UndCals: 🔴🟢🟢🔴🔴🔴🔴
UndCarb:🔴🔴🟢🔴🟢🔴🔴
Scale⏬ :🔴🔴🟢🔴🔴🔴🟢(Mon-Sun)
MVE500: 🔴🟢🔴🟢🔴🟢🔴
No🍺Alc: 🔴🟢🟢🟢🟢🔴🔴
~ I was just maintaining my weight this week
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I found this post from AnnPT77in the suggested features thread and thought it might be helpful?
“ Many of us weigh the finished dish, and put the total number of grams as the number of servings.
Example: Say I make a stew, and the whole pot of fully-cooked stew (minus the pan) weighs 2357 grams. I put 2357 in the number of servings. MFP gives me a message that's some kind of "that's a big number do you mean it" (not that exact text, because I don't remember the exact text). But if I say I want to continue, it accepts the 2357 servings.
Later, maybe I eat 253 grams of the stew. I log 253 servings.
Some people weigh the pans/dishes they use most often to cook recipes, and put the list of weights on the inside of a cupboard door or something like that. That makes it easy to weigh the whole finished pot/dish of food, and subtract the weight of the container to get the number of servings.
This process works fine, for me. YMMV”
I’m going to be trying this going forward.2
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