CW 187.4

Username~martinesther88
PW~148.8
CW~150
Steps 7/18~10,181

I can't remember what my green pledge was, but I think I have surpassed it. Happy to increase if it helps the team!

My morning comment about yesterday's biking seems to have gotten lost in cyberspace somewhere .... so I repeat. And expand.

Yesterday, I "biked" (stationary recumbent in the cool of the basement) 5 minutes (very) HIIT when I got home from work, then another 15 minutes (three 5-minute slightly lower IITs back to back) in the late evening. For those 15 minutes, I was also "virtually (visually) hiking" the first leg of the South Downs Trail from Winchester to Eastbourne. ( a youtube set of 6 parts)

I made a point of doing a 5-minute HIIT set today (after weigh-in / while morning coffee-maker was doing its thing) and Hubby is under orders to REMIND ( read BUG/NAG if necessary! ) me to do at least one 5-minute set right after work and another after supper. If I don't also do any game-walking, it has to be MORE than 5 minutes biking after supper.

Given the difference in calories burned per time invested .... this needs to become more of a routine "just how my day is organized" thing ... particularly come the Fall when more and more of the evening NEEDS to be devoted to French review. Right now, it is more like "playing at Duolingo French" review ~ 15 minutes per day at bedtime just before lights out. (85+ consecutive Duo-day streak still going strong!)

@AmyRobF great loss! Yay you. 🎉

@jugar I hear you with the bad week. I am not expecting anything good with my weigh in tomorrow. Busy social week, wine multiple nights, too toooooo hot to walk. Everything dying outside and my motivation inside. It was almost a spiteful week for me, not wanting to log and eating whatever I wanted. So, we’ll see. I’ll report tomorrow.

I have given up on the phone app - it's terrible for the community pages. Here are my results for the past week

PW 201.2 (I think - it's been a few weeks)
CW 200.8
Steps (exercise really kills the numbers, but I definitely need to be more consistent)

7/12 9146
7/13 13928
7/14 5221
7/15 4036
7/16 5807
7/17 2673
7/18 3093

Steps 7/19~10,035

Connie7355
Weigh in day Friday
Week 3
PW 185
CW 187.2
Vacation got me...too much frozen custard!! Sorry to bring down the numbers!!

Happy HOT Saturday! hope it is cooler where some of you live... I know we'll be in the roaster today. Ugh. Maybe I'll finally go shopping for a new gas stove. Mine is just about dead, and I have been putting off getting a new one. Or maybe I'll clean the laundry room, in the nice cool basement. Or just move my desk down there and forget the outside world altogether!

@micki48 - don't forget to send me last Saturday's steps (and today's when you get done with them). Thanks!

This has certainly been our slump week! So far, with still 9 weigh-ins to come, we have gained some weight this week as a team. It happens Let's hope the remaining 9 have had some good losses, but if not - we'll have to climb on out of here. We know what to do.

My lessons learned - PORTIONS are slipping towards larger and larger. EVEN HEALTHY SNACKS have calories. Yes, I mean you, watermelon, strawberries, and homemade sorbet. And that refreshing white wine with seltzer that turns into 2, or that nice cold beer - those are the biggest culprits. And needing to get back to more high intensity exercise, which I find horrible in this heat. Maybe I should move my exercise bike to the basement too!

My promise for this week is to work on the portions and the snacks for sure, and to at least pedal during whatever I'm watching during the cool evening. I have skipped that for a few days by not watching anything. Sigh.

So get those last 9 updates in, and we'll enter next week with some changes, however small, to make. What are yours?