Ar_cervantes wrote: »

*Week 4 Weigh In*
Previous Weight: 212.6
Current Weight: 211.2

I have officially surpassed my August goal of losing 7 pounds! 🙌🏻

Month goal with a week and a half left?!! 👍

@Ar_cervantes great job meeting your August goal early.

mirendybryant wrote: »

@cossmoss15 thanks 🤗 have fun on your hike.

Weigh in Wednesday
Last week- 230.4
This week- 231.6
⬆1.2lbs

Idk what happened. I've been under my calorie goals, exercised and drank more than enough water. Maybe just stress. My baby girl started kindergarten this morning. She's super excited but I'm so nervous for her.

Don’t let it get you down! Stress always makes me retain water and bloat ugh. You can easily see a loss next weigh in...keep on course. You got this!!

DreamAchiever33 wrote: »

Username: DreamAchiever33
Weigh in week: August Week 3 or 4?
Weigh in day: Wednesday
Previous Week's weight:186.8
Todays Weight: 187.8

Sorry all. This has been a rough month for me.

No apologies needed! One pound isn’t bad! You can make it up this week. At least you’re still weighing in! Keep going girl!

Fall is almost here 🍁😍 I don't know about you guys but it's my favorite season. I love the crisp air and smells. The Fall flavors tho usually come packed with the calories tho unfortunately. So I've been collecting up since recipes to get all those yummy fall flavors without all the extra calories. Here's the first one I want try. Sorry for the book here but wanted to share in case someone else feels the same 💜

Butternut Squash Soup
1tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 med yellow onion diced
2 med apples diced
2 med Butternut squash diced
2 cups low sodium veggie or chicken broth
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp black pepper
1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
3/4-1 1/2 cups coconut milk
Optional toppings
Toasted pumpkin seeds
Fresh sage
Nonfat Greek yogurt or coconut yogurt

1) cook the onions till translucent in skillet while roasting squash and apples
2) transfer squash, apples, broth and spices to a crockpot. Cover and cook on low 6-8 hours or on high 3-4 hours. Until squash and apples are tender.
3) add 3/4 cup coconut milk and puree (either immersion blender or in batches with a regular blender). Add more coconut milk if a thinner consistency is desired.

Can be refrigerated up to 5 days or can freeze up to 3 months.
Makes eight 1.5cup servings
217 calories / 4g fat / 49g carbs / 8g fiber / 14g sugar / 4g protein

erikNJ wrote: »

pkg1998 wrote: »

Mini challenge, Monday, 8/20/19

Tracked - yes
Under - yes
Exercise - no

Plan was to go walking in the afternoon, but rain showers stopped that from happening. I need to plan to have an indoor activity available for times when the rain comes (it happens a lot in SW Louisiana).

Maybe check out youtube exercise videos? Amazon Prime also has a lot of videos included with the sunscription as well

@erikNJ Thanks for the suggestion. Had no idea Amazon Prime had exercise videos - I’ll definitely check it out.

8/21:
Tracked: yes
Under: yes
Exercise: yes hiked 1 hour

Busy week so not updated

Sat: Yes/yes/yes

Sun: yes/yes/yes *had to run for 70 mins to undo damage of Sunday lunch!

Mon: yes/yes/yes

Tues: yes/yes/rest day (under calories but BAD choices)

Wed yes/yes/kind of - worked 13 hour shift so on feet all day but no time to exercise. Also made terrible choices, choosing chocolate over meals but it got me thru the day and I remainded under.

Monday weigh in: 153.4 ibs
Loss: 0.6Ib (feels like a lot of effort went into a small loss, heho!)

Must now work to stop feeding my sugar addiction. I thought I'd cured it as I'm largely sensible with eating these days but clearly the last two days have shown this not to be the case!

Mini challenge

Wednesday
Tracked: yes
Under: yes
Exercise: yes, hiking for 100 min
Steps: 15,257

@mirendybryant thanks I had a great hike yesterday! Got my steps in and found out that it burns lots of calories even though we were walking very slow we had lots of elevation changes and avoiding roots etc. I was exhausted although we only walked 5.5 km (3.4 miles) @heaz10 how was your hike?

@mirendybryant thanks for the soup recipe! It looks good - I'll be trying it.