Sunday 16 September
Exercise. No. Only a walk around the supermarket
Calories. No
Tracked. Yes

Happy Sunday weigh-in to

@WishfulThinning18 !!

Here's a question to comment on this week during our weigh-ins, if anyone would like to participate:

Question of the Week
Days don't always go as planned, but to be successful at weight loss (or other challenges), we have to find a way to overcome, minimize, work around, or otherwise deal with the unexpected. Have you dealt with something unexpected in the last week, and if so, how did you handle it?

I'm looking forward to hearing about your NSVs (non-scale victories) this week!

Congratulations @grebber1 !!!

Monday 17 September. Week 3
Exercise. Yes. An hour of Body Pump
Calories. Yes
Tracked. Yes

I had an off day yesterday. It was my son's birthday. I still didn't do so bad, and I definitely didn't blow the entire weekend like I tend to do at times. But with me going over on calories yesterday, plus it's the time of the month, Im not expecting a loss in today's weigh in. However, I know that overall for the week, I stayed under my calories and tracked well, so in the longrun, there will be a loss!

Happy Monday everyone!

Happy Monday!
OK I have a small vacation coming up next month. 19th-22nd of October. Just going out of state to ride 4 wheelers. Now it's almost a month away exactly. I would absolutely love to lose another 26ish pounds in that time. It's kind of a lot to ask for, I know this. But I'm still pretty overweight so it's not too far off what I've been losing already. I know my big numbers will start slowing down soon too.
Either way as long as I'm losing I'll be happy. This is just kind of a personal challenge to myself. My goal is be at 325 by October weigh in on Thursday the 18th.
I think it's very possible just by cleaning and tightening up my food logging that I keep talking about doing but haven't. I'm good at logging. Just think I could be a Lil better.

LesIckaBod
Week 3
PW: 174.8
CW: 170.9

Looks like a big drop, but it really just means I recovered from my post-big-weekend blip last week. I weigh daily and track the weekly average also, and it looks a lot more reasonable: 174.4, 172.3, 171.9 were the weekly averages from the last week of Aug to Sept. Week 2.

Question of the Week
Days don't always go as planned, but to be successful at weight loss (or other challenges), we have to find a way to overcome, minimize, work around, or otherwise deal with the unexpected. Have you dealt with something unexpected in the last week, and if so, how did you handle it?

I was going to write about getting through a workout yesterday that got interrupted when my younger son fell off a bench and cracked his noggin on the floor (not a literal crack, though it did seem to hurt a lot). Exercising around little kids always seems to be a challenging and it took me a long time to just accept that I was going to be interrupted, and getting interrupted but still exercising was vastly better than not exercising at all.

But my challenge today is that I didn't get anywhere near enough sleep last night due to some heavy equipment operating outside my home the entire night, emitting both noise and diesel fumes. So I'm trying to overcome this by recognizing that (1) I probably need to scale back my goals for the day, because the brain is just not functioning at peak capacity, and (2) I should stick to my easiest meals for the day so that I don't have to challenge mind or body to stay on target. So, smoothie for lunch, nuts for snack, pre-cooked chicken strips at dinner, with whatever vegetables are set to go already.

And then early to bed!!

BTW: I don't think I've got great skills at asking these questions, so please feel free to ask your own group questions -- I'd love to have someone else share ideas!

LesIckaBod wrote: »

Question of the Week
Days don't always go as planned, but to be successful at weight loss (or other challenges), we have to find a way to overcome, minimize, work around, or otherwise deal with the unexpected. Have you dealt with something unexpected in the last week, and if so, how did you handle it?

I'm looking forward to hearing about your NSVs (non-scale victories) this week!

This week had many unexpected moments. My grandma's hospitalization really frustrated me, and I didn't always handle it well. I had multiple days where I just tried to stick to maintenance calories.

Due to all the frustration, I would take a break by going to the gym and trying to burn away the anger and extra calories. You can't outrun a bad diet. But on days where it's just truly hard to deal, I think it's a good band aid solution. I worked out around 2.5 hours Saturday and 1.5 hours Sunday. I wouldn't recommend this for everyone, but I left the gym feeling SO GOOD after feeling so crappy. I just kept going until I felt better and that's how long it took.

Grandma is doing well after a procedure. I'm feeling much more steady now. Also I'm going to try to spend some more time on this thread in the upcoming weeks. Recommit myself to being a part of this community. I've really had to prioritize some other stuff in my life for a few weeks now but I'm excited be more engaged. I know it helps me stay on track.