Exercise and Weight Loss Challenges
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Marney where in canada do you live?
I think i should be canadian.0 -
I'm also a bit late, but my mornings ranged from 129.8 -130.4. Actually surprised this morning to see 130.0.
Yesterday was a world-tour, I took Turkish Spinach Cake (with 1lb. of spinach in it, it is incredibly green! let me know if you want the recipe) to Korean class in the morning. Then joined a new group of woman that gather monthly at Renata's house (she is Polish) to cook based on a theme. Fun group, the theme was seafood - not my favorite idea so easy to limit my calories! Then went with DH to a Moroccan Culture Night Dinner. Met a woman from Libya that wants to cook and practice her English. I've taught ESL years ago. If I had a Board of Health approved kitchen (separate frigs and sinks etc.) I could offer a course Cooking in English...
Lilli: awaiting your fermentation story when you have time...!
Charlie: we make Mak (everyday) Kimchi with napa cabbage. From the Kimchi Cookbook we've also made quick kimchi with cumcumbers and one with butternut squash, pinenuts and baby kale.
Yes, that is the hanbok in blue & white that I like, the green is a 'vest' over the white top. I found a website in Korea that makes hanboks and I referred to that episode. They sent back more pics of her in the hanbok and said it would cost $550. The extra photos helped and I'm going to try on my own using a Folkwear pattern. The skirt is done- the easy part.
DramaFever is showing a Rain movie R2B:Return to Base available only this weekend. Dr Who may have to wait another day.0 -
still at the fall chores here in Ontario. It was warm for so long then suddenly cold and the leaves are falling like snow. Literally. I rake a spot and come back in under 10 mins and it doesn't look like I have been there! But beautiful except for the odd snowflake! Below freezing tonight and forecasting up to 70F during the day next Tuesday. WHAT!!!!
I am certainly getting my exercise and the walking is lovely and give us all rosy cheeks.0 -
SNOW SHOWERS!!!... and I was complaining abuot the freeze. Hope the freeze and Snow do not want to stick around.0
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Marney & Beth: We did not have snow this weekend, but sure was cold (nice sunshine though). A little warmer today.
Pam: I went back and yes, the mint is the vest, I see that. I looked at some hanbok design and sewing websites, pretty basic, I think. You won't have any trouble with it at all!
I am not a huge Moroccan food lover, but I do like a lot of the Turkish/Lebanese cuisine.
Oops, missed the Rain movie. Didn't see your post until today. I finished Twenty Again. So sad to see it end.
I have started "She Was Pretty." The lead actress is over the top, but I just haven't been into anything else. Sometimes, when they start exaggerated, they calm down later. I really like both the female and male second leads though. Only watched two episodes, so we will see.
Me, I've been on a "try different restaurants" kick with a friend. We have been splitting our meals so it hasn't shown up on the scale (of course, I haven't lost either), but have had some great variety. Yesterday it was a sandwich of brie, pears, fig and honey jam on a thin sourdough bread, with beet chips, and butternut squash soup garnished with spicy pumpkin seeds, duck confit, and crème fraîche. It was pretty good. But then we are talking brie, figs, butternut squash and duck confit in one meal. How bad can it be?
The local International Festival is the first weekend in November. I think I will join the Tai Chi demonstration on Sunday if they do one then. They have one schedule for Saturday, but I'm not taking off work to do it. I will attend the festival though. It is a big one!
Hope everyone has a great week!
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Challenge from September 4 through November 6
September 3 - 174.0
September 11 - 173.6 = 0.4
September 18 - 173.4 = 0.6
September 25 - 173.4 = 0.6 I will take this...
October 2 - 173.2 = 0.8
October 9 - 173.8 = 0.2 UGH!
October 17 - 173.8 = 0.2
October 23 - 174.0 = 0.0 another UGH!
I gained again this week as you can see. Been working on maintenance till I have this thyroid biopsy and get the results. Guess I am so -so in this right now. You ladies are wonderful and give me insentive to stay here. Thanks to all of you, and I continue to look forward in working with all of you.
Two more weeks on this challenge, I didn't do that great, but I am already anxious to start the new challenge, and hope that I will do better.0 -
Beth! .2 is not a gain, especially when you are keeping to maintenance. If you had weighed an hour later or after the next pee, you probably didn't gain at all. You have done great!
I saw my 141.5 twice this week but today was 143. (Beth, I can easily fluctuate 5 or more pounds in a day or two), I am on one of my never-ending plateaus, but who knows, I could have a whoosh like I do. Probably not though as I don't feel light. Feeling very heavy, achy, and tired. Haven't been working out like I should. Been in bed at 8:30 3 times this week, too. Still having some back and leg issues. My blood work recently was fine. It doesn't feel like medication tired. It is just I'm so busy tired, that my body is rebelling right now, I think. I just need to plow through it. Energy begets energy!
Got my flu shot a few minutes ago.0 -
Hey guys, struggling a bit, lagging at logging. Taking my Saturday login option.0
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Hope the struggling isnt sickness again Gayle0
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Hope the struggling isnt sickness again Gayle
Thanks for your concern Lill. Just stressing a bit and starting a new job and eating a bit more free range than is ideal. But going to stick with it. Working gradually on my health. Just a bunch of little things I could be doing better with. Sorry I've been pretty absent. Will do better in the holiday challenge. And hope to at least finish below my start weight but not looking that promising at this point. But keeping my "chin up".0 -
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9/04/15: 169.5
9/12/15: 173.5
9/18/15: 170.7
9/26/15: 170.2
10/02/15:169.6
10/10/15:169.7
10/24/15:169.5
Well, I am not setting a very good example unless the goal is "holding steady", lol.0 -
Gayle where do you copy and paste your weigh in lust from?
I cant do it from here.
And i dont have time to key it all in right now
Report:
Goal - to not succomb to plateau depression
after last weeks new low, I havent seen even 184.8
Trying to not let it bug me!
10/16/15: 184 lowest so far. Im claiming it.
10/23/15: 185.6 after lots more exercise than usual
Paul the scientist says water is a biproduct of burning calories!
It helps my need for logic to cling to that fact.
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Ha!
That should have been "weigh in list" not "lust" :-)0 -
Staying in maintenance range, this week 129.6-131.0.
I'm reading "Something from the Oven: Reinventing dinner in 1950s America" (published in 2004).
While it is simplistic to say 'I am responsible for what goes in my mouth' that is not to ignore the effects of my low thyroid (treated) or aging metabolism has on my weight. What I didn't realize till I read this book was how food choices changed so dramatically in that era.
My mom was married/set up house in 1952. Many of the topics/food items in the book I remember from her kitchen (dehydrated onions, frozen welsh rarebit, canned bacon) - though adequate she didn't like cooking that much, she'd rather be sewing. One time we were chosen as a test family for canned pudding. My sister and I had to choose the 'face' (sad to smiling) on the input form as to the flavor in the different cans. After 40+ years of my own kitchen I shudder to remember those things!
One sentence stood out:
"Decade by decade, as the proponents of packaged-food cuisine worked tirelessly to make it the center of American cookery, they met less resistance from women who lacked the taste memory and the skills their mothers and grandmothers had brought to the kitchen."
Hope by the end of the book there is a rainbow...! At least my sons know how to cook and bake from scratch.
It is a fascinating read - probably available in libraries.
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gaylebodine wrote: »9/04/15: 169.5
9/12/15: 173.5
9/18/15: 170.7
9/26/15: 170.2
10/02/15:169.6
10/10/15:169.7
10/24/15:169.5
Well, I am not setting a very good example unless the goal is "holding steady", lol.
Gayle, We could always say the goal is holding steady....I started at 174, lost a few, now back to 174.. even though this is stress, let's just blame it on the weather change..LOL0 -
Me too. Holding steady. Regardless of exercise or what I eat. This old computer is still holding steady too. Very, very slow and we cannot turn it off. new one is being built but not yet shipped.
Thanks for the book recommendations. It is the time of year that I am looking for books between leaf rakings.
We have a new Prime Minister, as you might have heard, and DH had his check up and he did so well on the new diet that he doesn't need to go back for 6 months and if he does as well again, they will reduce his medication. So we are at square one of reversing diabetes. But we are continuing with the diet.0 -
Gayle and dasher-gal: Have you read any of the Flavia de Luce books by Alan Bradley? DH and I heard the audio-versions - excellent reader Jayne Entwistle!0
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Yay, got some new book ideas! Thanks!
Marney: Yeah, a little deja vu in Canada, huh? It has been years (lots and lots) since I have been your National Parliment Building in Ottawa, but I visited the Parliment building in Québec last year and it was beautiful. Great restaurant, too! Unfortunately, Canada is not my choice for a winter getaway. Maybe an Ottawa vacation next year.
Pam: I am getting into She Was Pretty (unfortunately, I'm caught up though). Once you can get past the lead character's over-the-top comedy, it is pretty good. Hoping lead female ends up with second male and lead male with second female. It just might happen in this one. Even the theme of the show is heading in that direction -- making heros out of second leads. Do you think that one of the reasons we like the Korean drama is this whole second lead scenario? American TV and film makers don't seem to use this formula. In our films the "supporting" actor is just that "supporting." In the Korean formula, the second lead plays a major part in a love triangle -- or in this case a quadrangle. And...often a very likeable part. Of course, when the second lead is nasty, they are usually really nasty. Even then though, they either have some redeeming characteristics or a sad background that made them that way. Anyway, for me, this formula is a big draw.
I'm with Gayle. Really struggling right now with weight loss. Can't seem to move from this plateau. But, then, I keep screwing up, too, so...only myself to blame. I'm actually hoping that once the weather turns and the gym stays open later, I will get back on track. As nice as walking outside is, I don't get as good a workout. I walk slower looking at nature and then I don't get in my bike, rowing, or stretch machine. However, practicing Tai Chi in the park will be ending soon. I have commandeered a vacant office so I can practice at lunchtime. In the meantime, please feel free to kick me in the butt if you guys see me lagging, okay?
Speaking of butts, last night at Tai Chi, we were practicing a move and the instructor said to stick my butt out more. I told him that was counterintuitive to everything that women try to do with their bodies! We spend our lives sucking in our tummies and pulling in our butts!
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Charlie- just read your note from treadmill of my "24 hr fitness " gym.
Do you have similar where you live?
Only 35$/month, and its literally open 24 hrs.
Takes stress off the night owl.
Stopped here after going out to dinner with friends.
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Also, walking uphill immediately areobic despite slow speed.
Im lucky to have hills in town here - walked hills earlier with a student.0 -
I belong to our great Community Center very close to home. Big fitness center. It has an indoor track which is important to me as I don't do treadmills. And a leisure pool and olympic pool. Only $284 for me a year as a senior resident. I really use it (less this year as I will explain), but is only really inconvenient in the summer with Tai Chi two times a week (I didn't take Tai Chi last year). No commercial facilities or 24-hour facilities are as close, as inexpensive, or have an indoor track and pool.
As for hills, I live in Columbus, Ohio. We have no "hills." I used to live in Pittsburgh, much different terrain, but Columbus is flat, flat, flat! From my office to our main office is a 4 story incline over a two block distance. I walk it several times a day but it isn't much of a workout as I'm too used to it and it only takes me a few minutes so no cardio/aerobic burn there (I can remember when it was an effort). We have one trail at a nearby park with a few of decent hills, but again, I'm pretty used to them so not much of a challenge. Of course, I have no incline on the indoor track either, but I make up for it in speed as it is easier to walk fast when not on a dirt trail and not enjoying the scenery.0 -
Hi Folks,
I am so tired of flaky computers. Still waiting for our new one. However, despite the lack of logging, I am sticking to plan with exercise and eating.
I saw of photo of myself from August and I was shocked. I was not in my skinny jeans (haha) but the photo did not look like the mirror each morning. I am still way too big! I was looking at my history of weight loss and getting discouraged so I added my real starting weight before I was on MFP and felt better after because it recorded a 26 lb loss. HOWEVER, I have been fiddling with the same 10 -15 lbs for many, many months. So time to buckle down again because I am not where I should be or want to be and although frustrating, I can do better.
So I am with Charlie. I need my butt kicked. (Which I know is hard when I am not here as regularly because of the computer!) But regardless of slow computer, I am going to get this in gear!
Windy and rainy today but I am going to go for a walk.
Thinking of you Beth.0 -
grandmothercharlie wrote: »I belong to our great Community Center very close to home. Big fitness center. It has an indoor track which is important to me as I don't do treadmills. And a leisure pool and olympic pool. Only $284 for me a year as a senior resident. I really use it (less this year as I will explain), but is only really inconvenient in the summer with Tai Chi two times a week (I didn't take Tai Chi last year). No commercial facilities or 24-hour facilities are as close, as inexpensive, or have an indoor track and pool.
Wow only $284 a year! Cool!0 -
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Hi Guys, glad to see you are keeping on! I'm off to work and exercising my Saturday check in option. Yesterday walked for what seemed like hours at Costco, but also ate all the samples. There is even a mfp food category for Costco: "Costco trip - 300 calories"!0
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September 3 - 174.0
September 11 - 173.6 = 0.4
September 18 - 173.4 = 0.6
September 25 - 173.4 = 0.6 I will take this...
October 2 - 173.2 = 0.8
October 9 - 173.8 = 0.2 UGH!
October 17 - 173.8 = 0.2
October 23 - 174.0 = 0.0 another UGH!
October 30 - 174.0 = I will take staying the same!
Didn't do so good on this challenge. I just need to brush this off and hope for the best in next challenge.
Everyone have a good day, I am going for my Biopsy today, will let you know how it turns out.0 -
Thanks Charlie! I giggled. Went for a walk again today. Two days in a row, the others have been taken up with leaves and some golf so I haven't been still.
Do any of you know the Flanders and Swan song about "When the gas man came to call"? I had one of those.
I am taking an online course about copying sewing patterns from existing clothing without taking them apart. My tracing material would not stay still and, after consulting the instructor, the suggestion was to starch the material. So, I did. But, I had already marked some grain lines and seam lines on the fabric. As I ironed, the marker colours came off on my new ironing board cover!!! and smudged my lines. So, I washed the cover and my fabric. After all, markers were apparently water soluafble. I thought I was so clever.
But Niagara Falls broke out in the basement as our laundry sump pump failed!!! I clean up the water on the floor with the shop vac and towels and went to bed with the dryer running. This morning we took the pump apart, located under a workbench, discovered that the float switch was broken, called everywhere but no one had one, checked the bill because the pump was replaced last May, called plumber and he will drop a new switch for us to install some time on Monday. It will be covered by warranty for which I am grateful. $100 switch. And now I am ready to starch my clean material on my clean ironing board cover again!!!! I am reluctant to start again though and the enthusiasm has sort of been lost.
I bounced up .5 lb just this morning so I am still at 166.5 but I have seen 166 and 165.5 this week. So maybe soon I will report a new number.0 -
Sept 11: 168.5
Sept 20: 168.5
Sept 25: 167
Oct 30: 166.5
Are you kidding? I truly am measuring, weighing and logging and staying under goal. I also am exercising at least 3 times a week.
Ok, I am going to cut out nuts, cheese and artificial sweeteners. Up and water and the walking.
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Yeah!!!! New number on the scale this morning!0
