SHRINKING ASSETS TEAM CHAT - AUGUST 2019

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  • ngk2000
    ngk2000 Posts: 192 Member
    edited August 2019
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    This week's goals (Monday-Saturday):
    At least 15,000 steps each day
    Two strength training workouts
    Three running workouts
    At least 5 minutes of meditation daily
    No alcohol
    Log everything

    Here's to a new week! Happy Monday!
  • boehle
    boehle Posts: 5,062 Member
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    Yay, I like that everyone is trying to do a play on the age game.
    3+7 = 10 items

    1. My very favorite person, my son, Cody
    2. My parents giving me such a good life.
    3. My mom beating breast cancer.
    4. My dog Peter.. He helps me with my empty nest syndrome that I have gone on.
    5. My boyfriend, he is such a good supporter of everything I do.
    6. My jobs. I wouldn't be able to give my son or myself the life we have without having my job securities.

    I will have to ponder the 7-10 items.
  • Pamela_Sue
    Pamela_Sue Posts: 563 Member
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    60 years old, so 6 items.

    1. Becoming a Christian 10 years ago is my Number One gratitude. I have learned to lean on God and rely on Him, and not on my own understanding. This has brought me much peace during some really rocky times, and has also helped with my weight loss journey.
    2. My best friend. He has helped me in my spiritual walk so much during this past 10 years. Although we have been friends for 30 years, our friendship has grown and strengthed mightily during this time.
  • Beka3695
    Beka3695 Posts: 4,126 Member
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    ngk2000 wrote: »
    Steps:
    8/24 17,363
    8/25 15,729

    I can’t find 8/22 to log. Do you mind resubmitting?

    Sorry about puppers.
  • Pamela_Sue
    Pamela_Sue Posts: 563 Member
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    @ngk2000
    So sorry about your doggie. I know very well how difficult those final days can be. My dear old boy has been gone over a year and I still think about him so often. But they leave us with so many happy memories and treasured moments. I wish you the best.
  • ngk2000
    ngk2000 Posts: 192 Member
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    Steps 8/22 16,934
  • boehle
    boehle Posts: 5,062 Member
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    @Beka3695
    What us the all mighty world is that
  • lindamtuck2018
    lindamtuck2018 Posts: 9,528 Member
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    Number 2 and 3 of my list of 10 today.

    2. I am thankful for my husband. He is very supportive and he makes me laugh. Today we celebrate 19 years of marriage and I still am as happy as the day we met.

    3. I am thankful for my 3 children. They make me proud everyday. It is a privilege to be their Mother.
  • iamworthy14
    iamworthy14 Posts: 413 Member
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    iamworthy14
    mondaysCW 161

    I am 47=11
    1. My 2 kids 17 and 19
    2. My significant other He is an amazing soul
    3. my coworker she is always there for me
    4. my fanily they too have been there for me
    5. the sunrise and Sunsets.....amazing.
    6. God He should be at the top but He forgives me
    7. My house after divorce I wasn't sure I cld make it
    8. Friends they keep me strong when I am weak
    9. my fitness pal peeps...strangers yet they are my cheer squad!
    10. my running shoes.....I love to run...free therapy
    11. my courage to keep going

    Goals
    to track my food
    stay around 1300
    think about why I am eating when I want to eat all the food
  • kilobykilo
    kilobykilo Posts: 800 Member
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    Here are my steps that I missed posting over the last couple of weeks:

    Sun 11 24106
    Mon 12 8024
    Tue 13 14539
    Wed 14 8068
    Thu 15 18320
    Fri 16 5710
    Sat 17 13862
    Sun 18 12757
    Mon 19 10152
    Tue 20 8592
    Wed 21 21699
    Thu 22 23315
    Fri 23 12699
    Sat 24 22220
    Sun 25 19188

    Thank you!
  • Efsim
    Efsim Posts: 129 Member
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    PW 205
    CW 203.4

    2. I am grateful for family and friends, they are always there to help you when you need it, and they are just amazing
  • lindamtuck2018
    lindamtuck2018 Posts: 9,528 Member
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    Week 3 Step Challenge Results
    We walked a total of 607,035 steps
    Top Steppers
    @kilobykilo 122,912 steps
    @ngk2000 111,434 steps
    @boehle 86,530 steps
    Great stepping!
  • lindamtuck2018
    lindamtuck2018 Posts: 9,528 Member
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    Looking for after supper snack ideas. I usually eat a tuna and cracker snack pack but I am sick of them. I have been snacking on fruit but it drives my blood glucose up in the mornings.
  • Pamela_Sue
    Pamela_Sue Posts: 563 Member
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    @lindamtuck2018 My favorite evening snack is Triscuit Fire Roasted Tomato crackers with Swiss cheese. I follow a lower sodium diet and just love the saltiness and crunch of these crackers. Plus the Swiss cheese is lower in calories.
  • TheMrWobbly
    TheMrWobbly Posts: 2,537 Member
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    I am a cheese and crackers man as well. There is a wholemeal cracker from a local store, mature cheddar or wensleydale with cranberries. Not the lowest calories but satisfying.
  • TheMrWobbly
    TheMrWobbly Posts: 2,537 Member
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    August target 300,000, More cycling so less days for steps this month.

    Jun '19 total 411,642 ~ average 13,721
    Jul '19 total 405,320 ~ average 13,075; Cycle 31.69 miles

    01/08 - 12,286 (5.43); Cycle 4.54
    02/08 - 18,160 (8.89); Cycle 0.00
    03/08 - 21,100 (10.32); Cycle 9.46
    04/08 - 8,812 (4.16); Cycle 14.53
    05/08 - 16,983 (8.31); Cycle 0.00
    06/08 - 13,612 (6.65); Cycle 16.21
    07/08 - 17,801 (8.71); Cycle 11.85
    08/08 - 4,594 (2.25); Cycle 6.33
    09/08 - 8,063 (3.57); Cycle 8.49
    10/08 - 15,290 (6.76); Cycle 17.55
    11/08 - 14,222 (6.28); Cycle 5.48
    12/08 - 15,757 (6.96); Cycle 1.28
    13/08 - 12,517 (5.44); Cycle 6.46
    14/08 - 5,314 (2.83); Cycle 15.37 Just counting exercise steps now
    15/08 - 5,411 (2.89); Cycle 7.63 This is a stark reality check of just how many of my step we meandering and not really beneficial.
    16/08 - 7,922 (4.23); Cycle 11.46
    17/08 - 15,374 (8.21); Cycle 5.51
    18/08 - 6,745 (3.60); Cycle 3.95
    19/08 - 5,555 (2.96); Cycle 11.62
    20/08 - 11,831 (6.32); Cycle -.--
    21/08 - 10,444 (5.58); Cycle 14.25
    22/08 - 5,538 (2.95); Cycle 3.59
    23/08 - 5,038 (2.69); Cycle 10.48
    24/08 - 8,243 (4.40); Cycle -.--
    25/08 - 11,594 (6.19); Cycle 16.87
    26/08 - 5,055 (2.70); Cycle 17.63

    Aug TD total - 282,961
    Aug average - 10,883

    Item 3 : My health - despite the abuse I have given my body over the years I have lucky so far that I have still got a chance to put things right, and a 49 years old this might be my last chance so no messing this one up.
  • mustb60
    mustb60 Posts: 1,090 Member
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    I am going to try this again.

    Week 4 goals
    1. Walk 8000 steps every day except Sunday
    2. At least 20 minutes of activity daily
    3. Drink lots of water

    Spent most of the day recovering from 2 busy days with the grandkids. Love them to pieces but they wear me out. Next week is the last week of the outdoor pool be open every day so I am considering taking my gym membership off hold. I am thinking with some of the weight gone I may try a group class or two.

    Thursday’s steps: 11,058
    Friday’s steps: 10,578

    I liked your goals! Will be doing same from today.
    27/8/19
    Week 4 goals
    1. Walk 8000 steps every day
    3209 steps done so far
    2. At least 20 minutes of activity daily
    Morning walk 30 min
    3. Drink lots of water
    Already had 4000 ml water going on strong.
  • mustb60
    mustb60 Posts: 1,090 Member
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    Luciicul wrote: »
    Week 4 Challenge from Shrinking Assets
    This week is going to be about what makes us happy or thankful. Let’s make a list of those items. But how long is the list going to be? Well, it’s all about your age. Add the 2 numbers of your age together. For example, I am 55, so 5+5=10. My list will have 10 things that make me happy or thankful. Everyday take a few items from your list and share it with the your teammates.

    I'm 40, so get off easy with only 4 things to list!

    1. I'm grateful for the natural world, and having the privilege to live in such a beautiful place. My home is a suburb between a mountain and the ocean. Almost every day I walk by the beach (in warm weather on the beach, in cooler weather overlooking the sea), and if I turn the other way, my view is of a forested mountain (in fact, at the right angle I can look at both the mountains and the sea at the same time).

    My home itself is nothing special, but on a nice day I can sit in the sun outside or go for a walk, breath in clean air, smell the salt spray, look at the trees, water, or animal life, and appreciate our co-dependence and interconnectedness to all things.

    Yesterday I went canoing with my family at a river about 1 hour from where we live, it was so peaceful, and we saw wombats in the wild for the first time (normally they are nocturnal, and we'd only seen them in a zoo, or dead by the side of the road). We were able to get up really close. My daughter wanted to pat it, but I reminded her that it is a wild animal and could bite if it felt threatened. We also saw an echidna, which is rare for us to see. The day before, we saw a blue tongue lizard in our backyard - which we knew had been living there, but weren't sure if it had moved on as I've only seen it maybe 4 times in the past year and a half. Where we live are also lots of beautiful birds - rosellas, rainbow lorikeets, kookaburra, cockatoos, parrots, corellas.

    I'm not a real "nature" buff, but spending time in nature definitely helps reduce stress and to 'slow down', get perspective, etc.

    Wow! You are living in a wonderful place!👍
  • mustb60
    mustb60 Posts: 1,090 Member
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    I should count 9 things I am thankful for but I would count three today.
    1. My mother: lucky to have such a multi-talented intelligent and intellectual person who cared for me and taught me many things. Always there for me!!

    2. My kid: Nothing can compare to experience of motherhood and though it's not easy I grew up, he is the source of eternal contentment, joy as well as worry for me.

    3. Thankful to God for giving me strength and knowledge and a sense of belonging to it.
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