jugar wrote: »

leni1us wrote: »

Well, the medical issues I mentioned a few days ago are a bit worse than I thought. I've been diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer and I need to focus all my energy on fighting that battle. The weight loss battle will have to take a back burner for a bit. Please suspend me for the rest of September. Sorry team.

I see the surgeon next week. After that I'll have a plan of attack. I hope all goes well and I'll be back ready and raring to go in a month or so. Please send good thoughts my way. This is a very scaring time for me and my family. Anyone go through this before? I'd love to hear your stories.

Oh my dear - this sounds scary indeed. We will keep you on the support team for as long as it takes, and you are ALWAYS welcome to come in and post about what you are going through, to tell us stories about the new team that will be working with you to help get you well, or anything else. I have not experienced breast cancer myself, but one of my best friends had a serious bout when she was in her early 40s. She had all the surgeries and treatments, and has been strong and healthy ever since - almost 15 years now. I am sure you will have a great medical team working with you, and your family might be scared, but they will be right there with you too. If you need a kind of "anonymous" place to vent and get support - you can always come here. You are in our hearts.

jugar wrote: »

leni1us wrote: »

Well, the medical issues I mentioned a few days ago are a bit worse than I thought. I've been diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer and I need to focus all my energy on fighting that battle. The weight loss battle will have to take a back burner for a bit. Please suspend me for the rest of September. Sorry team.

I see the surgeon next week. After that I'll have a plan of attack. I hope all goes well and I'll be back ready and raring to go in a month or so. Please send good thoughts my way. This is a very scaring time for me and my family. Anyone go through this before? I'd love to hear your stories.

Oh my dear - this sounds scary indeed. We will keep you on the support team for as long as it takes, and you are ALWAYS welcome to come in and post about what you are going through, to tell us stories about the new team that will be working with you to help get you well, or anything else. I have not experienced breast cancer myself, but one of my best friends had a serious bout when she was in her early 40s. She had all the surgeries and treatments, and has been strong and healthy ever since - almost 15 years now. I am sure you will have a great medical team working with you, and your family might be scared, but they will be right there with you too. If you need a kind of "anonymous" place to vent and get support - you can always come here. You are in our hearts.

Thank you. My mom had cancer at 70. She's now 87 and still with us. That's why I go in for a mammogram every year. It was caught early so, I hope I get good news next week. That it can be handled through surgery and radiation treatments. We'll see how it goes. Thanks for all the good thoughts.

jugar wrote: »

@Terytha - do you have a weigh-in for today?

Yep, my last post. I'm the same as last time: 227.2.

So last night we went to my parents and they took me to a local place and I had some fried catfish with all the fixin’s for my birthday dinner. It was SO good. I logged it even knowing I would go over. Today I’m having some Mexican food after church, I will log it too. Then I have the rest of the week to be good. I WILL exercise this week, I WILL log this week and I WILL NOT beat myself up if I slip. 😁
Love y’all!

jugar wrote: »

I'm having a weird day! Eating grains, and even a thing made of flour - I don't do that often, but once in a while. And I got a brand new gas stove and just HAD to try out the oven, right? Gluten free zucchini bread and muffins. They're way too good, and the new oven baked them to perfection. Zucchini from the garden - does that remove some of the extra calories? Probably not, sadly. AND I had a cheese bread stick thingy. Shopping while hungry

Salad for dinner, also from the garden (kale, red cabbage). And I'm about to try a somewhat intense looking shoulder workout after practicing (flute) and finding that some of my shoulder strength is fading. Can't let it!

I think you are being too hard on yourself. You have done so well and are at a low for you. You shouldn’t feel bad about eating a little zucchini bread and a cheese breadstick thingy. I don’t consider that a slip at all. But I am not you and if it makes you feel bad, you know you best. I just wanted to let you know that from here on the sideline, you are still doing fabulous. And take that shower if you want to! Any calorie burn is exercise credit. Hugs to you friend.

jugar wrote: »

Good Morning all, and welcome to WEEK 2.

For week 1 our top 3 weight loss champs are:
@Pearl4686
@cory17
@marieamethyst
All 3 of you had a great week - remember what you did and repeat often!

I am absolutely flabbergasted I made it in the top 3. How did that happen?
But also chuffed to bits.
Congrats fellow champs!

micki48 wrote: »

So today my weight goes down a pound, but not officially so I’m not entering it.

Goals for the week:

•Lose at least a pound
•Walk three times
•Pilates daily (I’m doing a thing. Let me know if your interested. It’s online. Balanced Life)
•Read my 📖 each day
•Log.
•Stay under calories

(Wew, that’s a lot!!)

I will make a little sheet to check off my goals each day. (Teacher in me)

I'm interested! Could you send me the link to the balanced life thing? I think I found it, but want to be sure it's the same one so we can feel like we're doing it together I think it is time for a different style workout for a while, so this sounds like it could be just the ticket.

Great list of goals - and thanks for your kind words! It is true that I find a day of eating like yesterday to be weird (not necessarily discouraging) - grains do something to my insides and the way I feel. As long as I have just a bit (like the crust of my polenta pie which is otherwise all veggies) I'm fine. But more than that speeds up my heart rate and makes my digestion feel like it has stalled right in my stomach. Even whole grains, so I usually just avoid them. I eat carby veg and fruit with no problem, so never feel too deprived!

@jugar Here’s the link. Starts tomorrow. She’s great. I subscribe and don’t use it but know it works. Maybe this jumpstart will get me going.

https://thebalancedlifeonline.com/mind-body-pilates-challenge/?fbclid=IwAR1Y3mHUALwZk37jrocANJdRi2ggP7bMW99Yis8C4_2hIo4IPDGMDtoVltc

Terytha wrote: »

Just need a few more steps!
@fourathomej I need steps from Wednesday on.
@marieamethyst Any ideas for your steps on September 1?
@berriesandsunshine I just need yesterday.
If you aren't sure I can leave some blanks.
@tdrjustus3 @jlbtnc @Blackbeautysue I'd still love to hear from you!

I have had to move jlbtnc and blackbeautysue to the support team, and if they don't check in for another week, they will sadly be dropped and have to re-register if they want to return. No word from either of them. I think you can remove them from the step team for the moment.
tdrjustus3 did weigh in, but you might want to send her a message to see if she will be posting steps. She has not been on at all other than to weigh in.
Thanks for working on this!!

Ok my weigh in is 167.9, not sure how I log this. 6 days this week walking more than 4+ miles a day outside.

It was cold enough here earlier that I used the seat heater in my car for the first time since the spring! LOVE my seat heater... And we have our kitchen wood stove going for the first time this season too. Sigh. Summer is over.

BUT I got off my heated derriere and did a decent workout - not up to my previous standards but I'm getting back in the swing, I hope. I'm also really excited about the Pilates 10 day thing that @micki48 let us know about.

AND the new Motivator's challenge made me think about what the heck my goals really are now. I don't need to lose any more weight, or only a little in any case, so what is the goal? I have been operating with a general "keep fit" goal, but I think it is really to build strength. I need to do something every day that builds strength in some way - and endurance is a form of strength too. I find that strength removes pain in many, many cases. I have a fairly serious tear in one meniscus, and as long as the leg and glutes are strong, I have no pain. Same with other joints as age sets in (curse it...). So a simple change of vocabulary, and I feel renewed in knowing what I need to do.

Feel free to pester me if I don't post some kind of strength building every day! AND sober September continues. So far so good.

jugar wrote: »

micki48 wrote: »

@jugar Here’s the link. Starts tomorrow. She’s great. I subscribe and don’t use it but know it works. Maybe this jumpstart will get me going.

https://thebalancedlifeonline.com/mind-body-pilates-challenge/?fbclid=IwAR1Y3mHUALwZk37jrocANJdRi2ggP7bMW99Yis8C4_2hIo4IPDGMDtoVltc

I just joined, and it really looks like just what the doctor ordered for how I am feeling right now. Will you be my accountability buddy? I'll send you a message...

anyone else? check it out - it is free.

@jugar Yes!!! I’ll be your buddy. Sent you a message back. I am ready. There is a sheet you can print out and cross off each of the 10 days. I think I’ll go print that out for me. And is your last name Adams? Searching for you. If so, what a coincidence because that was my mother’s maiden name.

STEPS
9/4 - 13091
9/5 - 10003
9/6 - 14395
9/7 - 11538
9/8 - 14721