TEAM: Gutbusters (October)
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12sarah2015 PW 138.5 CW 137.62
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Oh no, we are last in the competition! Feeling a lot better today. Just one minor thing the real estate picked up on. Heat is OK today, so will exercise soon.1
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October 23
Exercise: yard work ad nauseum, missing my hikes, but need to get all this done while it's nice. I can hike anytime, the leaves won't wait.
Calories: Yes!!
Tracked: Yes
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October 24
Exercised. Yes
Calories. Yes
Trached. Yes1 -
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Made it through the weekend without gaining weight. Think I wound up losing a half pound so I'm pretty happy about that. I tried watching what I ate. Salads when I could when we went out to eat. Had some questionable thing's to eat tho but I kept it to a minimum. Well. As much as I could anyways. My daughter is here till Friday from Alaska and we will be going out to eat tomorrow night. Thankfully my weigh in is tomorrow morning hahaha
I could fit into some of my riding gear that never fit before. It was an awesome experience putting it on. The little things am I right? Also when riding all day my knees would ache terribly. Knees are a non issue now. As a matter of fact just my general stamina was way above what it normally was. I rode all day every day with no aches and pains or soreness. That itself was worth losing weight for. It was so nice seeing and feeling other benefits that happens from losing weight.4 -
October 24
Exercised?: Yes (5km walk in forest)
Calories?: Yes
Tracked?: Yes
It's been a while, and I am still here and still tracking.
Only real not 100% day while away was on the trip home from Spain, and that was through lack of exercise.
Still only 63.5kg as of this morning.
Since I last posted I have between Spain and Australia 2 times (from Melbourne to Madrid and back to Melbourne again). Each trip is 24 hours. Only one of them was an "inactive" trip as I was caught with work emails to catch up on while changing flights in Dubai instead of my usual walking.
I have been insanely busy with Spain work and travel, but nice to be back home. Only problem is that I feel like I am working two jobs for the wage of one (daytime support for Australia, the night time work for Spain that is 10 hours offset - soon to be 11 when they exit daylight savings).
Sorry for lack of communication. My Spanish is a lot better
- I can read it at near full speed with 80+% comprehension, but my pronunciation is appalling (by Madrid standards).
My wife is still doing fantastic with her blood sugars and losing weight. She is looking fantastic (and I tell her at every opportunity). Still no insulin. Her blood pressure medication has also been reduced. Will be looking are reducing the oral blood sugar medication in early November when she next sees her specialist. Her "bad" days are better than her "best" days ever used to be. She has way more good days than bad days. She has lost 18kg (40 lbs) so far and looks to be on track to be no longer in the obese BMI well before Christmas. I am so proud of how well she is doing. Diet has been the biggest thing. Her main exercises are walking (daily), spinning (making yarn) and Zumba once a week.
I'll leave you with a photo of a shy little critter I saw on todays walk.
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Username: craigo3154
Weigh in week: Week 3
Weigh in day: Wednesday
Previous Week's Weight: (63.4kg) 139.8
Todays Weight: (63.5kg) 140.0
Finally got a weigh in on Wednesday. Been in Madrid for the last 3, but weigh myself when I get home.
Weight after travelling is always bad (jumps up by 2+lbs, but is gone by the following day). I put it down to water retention and travelling stress.
Managed to maintain my size and strength while travelling, working 12-14 hour days, 10 hours out of phase with home timezone, in a country with a foreign language, in a high stress environment. I call this a MAJOR win.
As coach, not competitor, I am not required to weigh-in. However, as I like to set a good example. I weigh daily (when at home), but I only really take note of my 7 day average.
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Username: Colleen790
PW. 172.6
CW 172.6
Has been a stressful week. At least I've maintained.3 -
Username: inshapeCK
Weigh in week: Week 4
Weigh in day: Wednesday
Previous Week's Weight: 144.3 pounds
Todays Weight: 145.3 pounds
Up exactly 1 pound.
Not surprised as since my last weigh in I spent 7 hours at the hospital with my dad who needed to get an angiogram done then stayed at his place for a couple days to look after him and to monitor him to make sure he didn't have another serious health episode then went to an appointment with him then once I got the okay from a doctor finished planning and throwing a big 75th birthday party for him then spent his actually birthday the day after with him doing what he chose to do then no surprise spent 1 day with either food poisoning or a virus or extreme exhaustion from the go go go and stress so spent the entire day at home and a good amount of it lying on the couch. October has been a very challenging, stressful, and upsetting month for me with everything that happened with my dad's health that is still ongoing so my weight has been up more weeks then down but haven't given up and still have a bit of motivation left and hope to make November a more successful weight loss month.
Trying to look at the big picture which is:
-I am only up 1.2 pounds from my starting weight for this month's challenge
-still down 24.8 pounds from my highest weight
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October 24 (How did that happen already???)
Exercise: yes, a hike finally, and oddly, my husband did some yard work while I was gone.
Calories: yes
Tracked: yes2 -
Username: Bendiz_
Weigh in week: October Week 4
Weigh in day: Wednesday
Previous Weight: 165.1
Today's Weight: 165.1
No loss this week, but that’s not strange at all
I lost so much the weeks before, so my body is taking a break from losing now 😂 3 -
October 25
Exercise. No
Calories. Yes
Tracked. Yes
Back at the hospital after work today. Mum seems to be doing well.1 -
Name: grebber1
Weigh in day: Thursday
Last week: 330.8
This week: 328.04 -
October 25
Exercised?: Not yet (20 mins bodyweight planned before bed)
Calories?: Yes
Tracked?: Yes
Busy work day at home. Did not manage to get out so bodyweight set planned before bed.
Looking forward to the weekend.
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Happy Thursday, Gutbusters!
@cjscoey - How are you this week?
@Colleen790 - Good job maintaining through a stressful week!
@Grebber1 - Great loss after your weekend trip! Enjoy your daughter's visit this week!2 -
@craigo3154 Glad to see you again here! Congrats on your growing fluency in Spanish! After all these trips back and forth to Spain, will you have some frequent flyer miles you can spend on your family to go someplace fun? (I like to love vicariously, so keep sharing those fun pics)0
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LesIckaBod wrote: »@craigo3154 Glad to see you again here! Congrats on your growing fluency in Spanish! After all these trips back and forth to Spain, will you have some frequent flyer miles you can spend on your family to go someplace fun? (I like to love vicariously, so keep sharing those fun pics)
@LesIckaBod. My initial thought when I read your comment was "de nada".
Thank you for continuing to do a fantastic job here captaining Gutbusters. Keeping your own and other focused is a continuous task.
Yes I have been accumulating a lot for frequent flyer miles, but my preference is always to be there for family instead of away.
Just noticed I am still so far out of sorts that it is week 4, not week 3.
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General discussion topic for the team.
Is there someone that you want to inspire to take more care of their health/size/weight?
Most of us are working relentlessly on ourselves. However, so often, I look around and see others I would dearly love to make the journey I have taken (from overweight to healthy).
Often as one person in a household works at losing weight, others in the household do as well.
From my perspective, if I want someone else to change, I change myself to be what I want them to be. At least then if they choose to change, I can help. If they choose not to change, i am still better for it.2 -
@craigo3154 As I'm sitting here waiting for my husband to return with his carton of ice cream I find your post very timely. I've been on my "Lois Reduction Plan" for 3 years now inspired in part by my husband's near death experience from a ruptured colon. I lost 60 pounds and although he was/is proud of my success it has not inspired him in the least to get healthy. Now, next week he's meeting with his cardiologist to discuss his valve replacement coming up in November. I might add that 6 years ago he had a stent put in his brachial artery (he did quit smoking after that procedure). 6 years of health issues have not inspired him to change. I've resigned myself that our golden years are not going to be as I'd hoped. In the meantime, I'll keep hiking, skiing, snowshoeing and doing all I can to stay healthy. It makes me so sad though.3
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