Shape Shifters Team Chat - January 2025
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Izzyred9400
PW 138
CW 137.1
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alleykat69
weigh in: Saturday
pw: 192.9
cw: 195.4
I'm eating healthy and exercising everyday. why the weight gain?5 -
CasandraW
Saturday weigh in
PW 228.4
CW 230
@nancyinmiami welcome back.
@izzyred9400 great loss this week. You’ve been doing so well
@Pupowl I hope the shampoo works for you. And I have the same problem with exercise shirts, I wear a men’s t-shirt a lot of the times to get the higher neckline5 -
pedal__power
PW 215.8
CW 217.4
I have lots of yucky bloating today. Sunday to Wednesday I weighed in under 215, so I know I'm making progress. My exercise was really good but I only managed to fully log my food 3 days this week, so need to get back to that for this coming week.
Have a good weekend, everyone!4 -
@CasandraW Thank you! The new shirts I got were mens XXL and they were super small! Like a medium at most. So weird, I've never had that with mens clothing before. So another package I had to return today. I think I will give up for now. Maybe I can go look in person if I go shop with my mom at the end of the month. And otherwise I will just wear my long sleeved shirts.3
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@Pupowl thanks. This is a great group and I’d love to stay! Starting weight is 158.0 and my weigh-in day will be Friday. Thanks so much!4
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1/9-9,842
1/10-8,636
1/11-5,297
1/12-11,292
1/13-7,896
1/14-9,494
1/15-7,268
1/16-7,917
1/17-4,0703 -
@nancyinmiami Hello! If you were happy in our group before, we would love to have you back. Please let us know your starting weight and weigh in day and I will make sure you are added back to the spreadsheet.
FYI @nancyinmiami was formerly nancyinmo (she moved!)
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@nancyinmiami Welcome back...how is lovely Miami?!! Bet you're not missing all the cold weather the rest of the US has been "enjoying"!!! I am SO jealous! I talk to our Miami office every day and tell them, I think I need to pay them a visit!! LOL
So, catch us up with what's been going on in your life!!! Hopefully you're enjoying yourself immensely in retired life...I cannot wait to join that club myself. I turn 59 in two weeks so I'm thinking 62 is looking like a good target!!
Jessica2 -
The January Week 4 Group Challenge is open and ready to begin on Sunday, Jan 19th. Please join us for Fitness Bingo and have a fun and active week!! Here's your link:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10931285/january-week-4-group-challenge-fitness-bingo#latest
See you in the chat thread!
Jessica
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Daily step goal: 10000
1-15: 9139
1-16: 5742
1-17: 2860
Last few days I have felt really drained and like I was on the cusp of getting sick. Today seems to be better, so hopefully more productive 🤞3 -
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Good morning Shape Shifters. Not much going on here. Yesterday was laundry day. Also cleaned my bedroom and washed all the bedsheets. I have been struggling with falling asleep a lot lately which is very frustrating. I am in bed on time, I am tired and then I just lay there for over an hour and a half most of the time before I fall asleep. I tried reading, sudokus, relaxation stuff, my alphabet game and nothing seems to work. Hopefully it will get better soon. My rainbow tracker this week is more a raincloud tracker. I know I was sick, but I still could/should have done better. Tinus woke me up at 5:30 this morning because he wanted to cuddle. I couldn't sleep anymore after so I got up at 6:20 and my head is killing me so that's not fun. Happy Sunday everyone
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Steps
1/17: 16,896
1/18: 14,987
My husband's buddy and his wife came over yesterday and we had pizza. I only had one piece but had too many macaroni and cheese bites. I did manage to avoid the beer, though. I then forced myself to the gym afterwards, and struggled through a 5k. I wasn't fueled properly to run. My weight was up this morning, but it could have been worse.4 -
@CasandraW thank you.At last, what I'm doing seems to be working.Hope you're doing OK?
Welcome back @nancyinmiami hope you're still teaching your fitness classes ?
My steps
1/15 5,938
1/16 10,380
1/17 10,178
1/18 12,2414 -
Step Goal: 10000
Thu 01/16: 7800
Fri 01/17: 3129
Sat 01/18: 6740
Jan Wk4 Weigh-in:
CW: 163.1
Jan-Wk3: 162.6lbs
Week4: Gain +.5lbs
Sun - Sat GoalsWeekly Check-In: - my daughter is doing well… on a strict diet and she understands now that she can never use Excedrin migraine or any medicines with similar components. So we’re in that process of trouble shooting the migraines and so have connected her to a new primary who has prescribed a migraine medicine. As for my food/diet life.. I had a decent week until the day before weigh-in . Thank God there are 5 weeks this month…
UndCal: 🔳🔳🔳⭐️🔳🔳🔳2562
UndCrb:🔳🔳🔳⭐️🔳🔳🔳29%
MV500: 🔳🔳🔳⭐️🔳🔳🔳357
YesDays✖️✖️✖️✅✖️✖️✖️
Scale Reading(Mon - Sun):
⚖️Down:🔺🔺📉📉📉🔺🔺5 -
Week 3 Weigh-in!
Sunday
PW: 252.9 lbs
CW: 253.3 lbs
I'm not surprised but I'm not disappointed, considering that I did very little 'official' logging this past week.3 -
Missing weigh ins, please check in asap.
@looneycatblue
I'm sorry for the lateness, I thought I posted this:
looneycatblue
Sun, Jan 12
PW: 160.4
CW: 161.2
Sun, Jan 19
PW: 161.2
CW: 161.8
My weight keeps going up and up! Need to get it back together this week!3 -
I'm making homemade greek yogurt in my slow cooker, 1st time. Partly due to the cost of good yogurt and for the challenge. I started yesterday with 1 gallon of milk in the cooker, was suppose to only take 2.5-3 hours to come up to 180 f, took my cooker, on high, more than 4 hours... I was starting to get a bit worried. You turn it off, and then just let it sit overnight for another 12 hours. I was so happy this morning to see it looking and smelling like it should. It is now draining off the whey. I should end up with about 12 cups of yogurt and a few cups of whey. Now I will need some ideas of what to do with the whey... any thoughts? Have any of you tried this before? Can't wait to try it with the blueberries and strawberries I bought yesterday! I'll try to post some pictures.4
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Daily step goal: 10,000
Fri 1/17: 10,117
Sat 1/18: 13,0764 -
Good morning Shape Shifters. Not much going on here. Yesterday was laundry day. Also cleaned my bedroom and washed all the bedsheets. I have been struggling with falling asleep a lot lately which is very frustrating. I am in bed on time, I am tired and then I just lay there for over an hour and a half most of the time before I fall asleep. I tried reading, sudokus, relaxation stuff, my alphabet game and nothing seems to work. Hopefully it will get better soon. My rainbow tracker this week is more a raincloud tracker. I know I was sick, but I still could/should have done better. Tinus woke me up at 5:30 this morning because he wanted to cuddle. I couldn't sleep anymore after so I got up at 6:20 and my head is killing me so that's not fun. Happy Sunday everyone
Unexpected cuddle times with our fur babies are just simply life's little blessing! Hope you ate it up! Also, I hope you feel better...I've been struggling not only with the leg pain/swelling, but also, everyone seems to be coming down with something and I've felt like I'm fighting it off every day!
Jessica3 -
I've encountered that same sizing problem. I've found that clothing from Asia is consistently much smaller than in Europe and America. Often I'll see a sizing chart for the product that correlates "brand size" with chest/waist size in cm or inches.@CasandraW Thank you! The new shirts I got were mens XXL and they were super small! Like a medium at most. So weird, I've never had that with mens clothing before. So another package I had to return today. I think I will give up for now. Maybe I can go look in person if I go shop with my mom at the end of the month. And otherwise I will just wear my long sleeved shirts.
I'll give a shout-out to one company. I've bought a lot of t-shirts from https://themountain.com, and they have size charts: https://themountain.com/assistance/#assistance_size_chart
Their t-shirts are:
● Pre-Shrunk, Medium Weight, 100% Cotton
● Relaxed, Classic Fit
● Hand-Dyed and Printed Using Soft, Non-Toxic Water-Based Inks
● Reinforced Double-Stitching On All Seams
I've never been disappointed in the shirts. My only disappointment is that 1) I used to be able to pick the color, now they choose the color for each pattern, and 2) their prices have gone up quite a bit over the years.
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@looneycatblue I make yogurt all the time. It’s been years since I’ve purchased any.
I use my instant pot instead of a slow cooker. I heat my milk up on the stove instead of using the pot, it’s faster and I’m impatient. I incubate mine for 12 hours, then drain the whey to make Greek yogurt.
The whey is good in baked goods, it makes a bread dough taste like sour dough. I haven’t used it in much else. This is the bread recipe I use.
https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/no-knead-crusty-white-bread-recipe3 -
@izzyred9400 I’m ok. Most days are good with a sprinkle of terrible. We had a birthday celebration for my husband and I was ok during dinner and preparation but later that night it hit me hard that she wasn’t there. It’s like I know she is gone but my brain just doesn’t fully accept it as true. It’s weird. Like she is just gone on a long vacation and I’ll see her again.3
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@CasandraW
Thank you for the bread idea!!! I love sourdough bread, but have never had any luck trying to make the starter. I'll definitely try the recipe you shared and swap out the water for Whey. 0 -
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JessicaKrall8
PW: 303.6
CW: 301.21
