Introductions
Austin here. I joined the group 9 months ago, part way through my journey, and find this group to be super helpful and supportive. I have lost over 130 pounds since I started work on losing weight (January 2018), and reached (!) my initial goal. I have a bit more body fat to lose, and am working on weight lifting and building muscle. I study martial arts and love walks, especially outdoor walks, so you'll see lots of those activities on my check-ins. I love to read up on things, and have studied nutritional science* and habit building** as I have worked on losing weight and getting healthier. Every body and every person is different, and I have enjoyed learning more and engaging in the kind of science experiment of figuring out what works for me. Making it happen has been all about developing new habits for me, so every so often I burble about habit building, as that has been super useful to me.

Welcome to Mission Slimpossibles! This is such a fabulous group of people, and we are so glad you are joining us on the journey! This is a group of people that would love to hear about what you are up to as you work on your health and fitness on a daily basis using whatever plan you find is best for you. We want to hear about both the struggles and the victories, and will be sharing ours with you.


* If interested, check out the nonprofit, research-based site nutritionfacts.org as a great place to start.

** If interested, check out the work of James Clear. He has a book called Atomic Habits. This video on How to Get 1% Better Every Day has been particularly useful to me.

AustinRuadhain wrote: »

Introductions
Austin here. I joined the group 9 months ago, part way through my journey, and find this group to be super helpful and supportive. I have lost over 130 pounds since I started work on losing weight (January 2018), and reached (!) my initial goal. I have a bit more body fat to lose, and am working on weight lifting and building muscle. I study martial arts and love walks, especially outdoor walks, so you'll see lots of those activities on my check-ins. I love to read up on things, and have studied nutritional science* and habit building** as I have worked on losing weight and getting healthier. Every body and every person is different, and I have enjoyed learning more and engaging in the kind of science experiment of figuring out what works for me. Making it happen has been all about developing new habits for me, so every so often I burble about habit building, as that has been super useful to me.

Welcome to Mission Slimpossibles! This is such a fabulous group of people, and we are so glad you are joining us on the journey! This is a group of people that would love to hear about what you are up to as you work on your health and fitness on a daily basis using whatever plan you find is best for you. We want to hear about both the struggles and the victories, and will be sharing ours with you.


* If interested, check out the nonprofit, research-based site nutritionfacts.org as a great place to start.

** If interested, check out the work of James Clear. He has a book called Atomic Habits. This video on How to Get 1% Better Every Day has been particularly useful to me.

@AustinRuadhain, you are so inspirational!! Did I miss how you lost over 130 lbs so quickly? If you could share your story, I and probably others would love to read it!!

That video from James Clear was excellent!! I have an app on my phone called "Don't Break The Chain" and I also have it on my desktop. It's a great visual to help me try to create better habits. Here is the link to the desktop and you can find the app in your app store. https://dontbreakthechain.com/welcome

I especially liked when James Clear said, "The actions you take provide the evidence of who you are." How true is that!!

Great challenge this week! I love the traffic light system and really want my day to be in the Green! The four strategies that I have to work on are:
1) Notice my chewing-how true that when I eat junk food I consume it so fast. It's like I can't slow down!
3) Habit patterns-I have the hardest time at work. For some reason, I just want to eat stuff and that is when I get in trouble. Fasting for me has helped but it's still a struggle that I have to work on.
6) Slow down my eating-Seriously, NO one eats as fast as me. It's embarrassing!!
7) Be nice to myself-I think most of us need to work on this habit. I say things about myself that I would never say to someone else. Why is that OK? It's not!!

AustinRuadhain wrote: »

Kres567 wrote: »

buniphuphu wrote: »

Hello all!

It's my first check in.
Calories: under
Exercise: 32 minutes of swimming
Goal or Improvement for tomorrow: 33 minutes of swimming

Love that you added the 1 extra minute! That’s all it takes to make change right?

You are both inspiring me so much!

Thanks to you both! If I can add an extra minute a day, that will get me to over an hour by the end of the month, which is where I'd like to be.

Weekly Weigh In: Monday Week 1
Username; Dontlookback2018
Sw: 274
Cw: 267.6
Had a rough day over the weekend, and too much fast food made for a small jump on the scale from where I was Saturday.
Goal for the week: stay under 1200 calories, drink more water and ride my bike to work at least 3 days. Also chew more and east slower

Introduction
I'm Marki, and I'm from Oklahoma. I work in higher education assessment after teaching higher ed ESL for 111.5 years. I'm new to Mission Slimpossibles and F2F this month. I came back to MFP last month after I stepped on the scale, and it read 341 pounds. That was my line in the sand. I said this far and no further. I decided then and there that I had to make a change. That was May 5.

Since then, I've made several changes: I eat at least 5 servings of fruits and vegetables every day. I'm even trying new ones; I have fish at least once a week, which is up from MAYBE once a year; I have eliminated soda and replaced it with water, unsweetened tea, and Crystal Light; I have reduced starches down to the occasional breading on something or a small amount of pasta or rice.

For exercise, I'm pretty much limited to swimming because I have a degenerative joint disease, and I'm trying to hold off a hip replacement and a spinal fusion. Losing weight will help on both of those fronts.

Last month, I lost 13.4 pounds. I'm really looking forward to another successful month and hope to get to know you all better.

Brilliant loss @Jactop ! You must be thrilled!

@buniphuphu - Those changes you talk about are inspiring! I hope we can help support you in reaching your goal.

@Katmary71 - Welcome! Yes, you got this!

Wow @AustinRuadhain a loss of 130 lbs is incredible!!! That's more than half of you. You're amazing!!!

Since you weigh in on Mondays as well I always copy and paste your weigh in post as I only have to make a few changes. My long term goal is that one day I won't be changing those last 2 numbers. Thanks for the inspiration.

Another person who inspires me is @Tess5036. The amount of exercise you do is a good reminder that weight loss doesn't come easy but it's worth the work

AustinRuadhain wrote: »

Brilliant loss @Jactop ! You must be thrilled!

I am!!! My weight rarely budges regardless of what I eat or how much I exercise. I think it's a combo of avoiding some recently discovered allergens and a fondness for guiltess gummies

Week 1 group challenge thread
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10747678/week-1-group-challenge-daily-motivation#latest

Monday Check-in
Calories: under
Water: over
Exercise: 40 minutes on the treadmill

I had another good day. Fasted for 21 hours and ate no sugar! Tomorrow is weigh in and I'm not that confident that it will show anything good after the baby shower food I ate, which is ok because I'm working on focusing on the big picture.

Daily check in.
I ate close to, but under 1200 calories I was the last one finished dinner! and not because I ate more than everyone lol We had wings, so chewing more was hard, but I tried lol. I’d call today a success.

Jactop wrote: »

Weekly Weigh-in
Username: Jactop
Weigh in week: Week 1
Weigh in day: Monday
Previous Weight: 208
Today's Weight: 204

Wow, did you have a whoosh? Nice loss

Katmary71 wrote: »

Weekly weigh in: Mindays, week 1
User name: Katmary71
Previous weight: 136
Today's weight: 142

Wow did the scale jump! I was out of town all weekend and ate snacks I normally don't eat plus meals at restaurants and know be between that and starting weight lifting it's water weight, but man does it suck to see that number on the scale again!

For the challenge I need to accept the things I cannot change. I had a great weekend and need to let today's weigh in go and get back to my routine. Thanks for the welcome to the group!

It sounds extremely likely that's water weight, with eating out and starting weights, it's so easy to gain increased lbs,but I know what you mean it's horrible to see the scales go up.

kdv12 wrote: »

I need to conquer late night snacking

These homemade gummie bears have really helped me curb my late night snacking. They're sweet, a little chewy, surprisingly filling, 0 net carbs and only 30 calories if you ate the whole batch. I'm guessing they had a lot to do with my 4lb loss this week

https://youtu.be/54XvhMMcwPk