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its_cleo wrote: »

Well and right on time my weigh in and I gained liked a pound. I feel like I'm dragging the group down, so I'm sorry. I'm trying to use it as motivation for my upcoming week.

Name: itscleo
Week 1
Weighin day: Sunday
Last weight: 156.4
Current weight: 157.6

I love brussel sprouts too! Maybe I'll make some this week.

@its_cleo - Apology accepted, and know that none was needed! We are all here working on things!

(And it was Halloween week -- not the best and easiest week for lots of people!)

Keep focusing on making great days like yesterday (for Nov 2, you had great steps, you went to the gym, you had your calories on track and you did well with water!). Keep building streaks of days like that, and the results will eventually come!

It is that time of the year again! Time to “fall back”. Today we need to set our clocks back one hour (unless you live in Arizona, Hawaii or other regions where DST is not observed) Many times these time changes effect our sleeping routine. That is why for this week Team Weight No More is challenging everyone to get a better nights sleep! Studies from the US Centers for Disease Control show that over 1/3 of us regularly skimp on sleep. Although it may not seem like it is a big deal to not get proper rest, millions of sleep deprived people mean more dangerous roads, more costly health care and reduced productivity. Sleep deprivation impairs learning, decision making, emotions and adds stress. It also takes a physical toll. The risk of heart disease, Alzheimer disease, diabetes, cancer and obesity all climb with sleep deprivation. These are some of the most significant health concerns facing people today.



One of the best way to improve your chances of getting a good night’s rest is by adopting healthy sleep hygiene habits. The chart below is from the National Sleep Foundation. This is a 7 day plan for incorporating some good habits into your routine.



When you do your daily check in with your team this week. Discuss how the tip for the night before worked for you. Hopefully by the end of the week you are able to incorporate these 7 tips and change your sleeping habits for the better!

Love the sleep challenge. I suffer from insomnia off and on, but right now it's good. Bc it's been a problem my whole life, I rrally enjoy it when I can sleep.

So tonight aiming for 9.5 hours. I know it's a lot but I figure if I sleep I must need it.

steps nov 3 8587

Gym challenge- went in did some mobility work. Did stair climbing. Wanted to do some hill work but I bought new shoes and they hurt. Will try to exchange them this week.

Cals on target today.

nbbaby wrote: »

Hello my name is Sharon
I'm 52 next month. Im married for 29 years. I have 3 grown children and 5 granddaughters. I'm not very healthy, I have Fibromyalgia, Arthritis, Anxiety, Depression, PTSD, Acid Reflux, 9 Herniated Discs. IBS-C. And a few others, and right now I'm fighting some kind of lung problem Docs thinking COPD but I'm hoping it's just an infection or something. Well have to wait for the test to see.

I did just find out 2 months ago that my only son (middle child) who is 31 is dying of cancer and theres nothing I can do. So frustrating to be helpless. I've cried a river. So I thought I would start concentrating on my health because its gonna be hard to do when the time comes.
Although I get through each day by telling myself somehow he'll be ok. It's the only way I can function. Denial I know...

So
My goal is to lose 71 pounds, I've already lost 20 lbs, so I have 41 pounds left to go. I lost those pounds on Keto that I started 2 months ago. I plan on staying on it.
Because of my body and that some days (most) I cant walk to well due to the pain. I need to lose this weight by mostly dieting. Although the days the pain isnt as bad I do try to clean the house or go for a walk on the treadmill.
Taking weight of will help my pain in my joints. It's also great for the mind.

It's very nice to meet you all.

Welcome Sharon! Thank you so much for sharing your story with us! I look forward to being in this journey with you. Stay strong and be kind to yourself!

Steps for November 3 - 8567

Steps

10/30 - 5546
10/31 - 10478
11/1 - 12065
11/2 - 3709

Sorry, I super slacked on getting them posted

Sunday check-in
Calories under
Exercise recumbent bike, walking
Water over

5 for 90
1. Gym 3xs a week- going tomorrow
2. Exercise at least 30 minutes a day- biked at home, walked at park while nephews rode scooters, after dinner walk
3. Declutter- filled half a can
4. Social media- checking in, did good as I was real busy today
5. Trigger foods- both bad and good! I didn't even think of popping Altoids as being sugar until I'd already had a bunch. Prepared myself to avoid brownies and candy dishes at parent's for dinner and my mom opened a package of Walker's shortbread! I love those stupid cookies, I didn't sit with everyone eating at first then got some fruit and ate that instead.

Sleep- I don't sleep the best but what's making it most difficult is when I get up to go to the bathroom the kittens get up too. I just started taking Magnesium so perhaps I'll start sleeping through the night. I've been debating on shutting the door with the cats on the other side but it seems mean, I'll see how it goes.

Welcome @nbbaby

To @broncobuddee please may I change my weigh-in day to a Wednesday? I am going to have gained this week anyway, but I think hump day may be better for me for staying positive and motivated.
I'm running on a deficit of about 1400 from last week, but I think processed food, eating out, lack of accuracy... it's likely not right. Also, this is the weekend I said my farewells to booze.

So, let's focus on those positives!

My journey so far...
I think I've been here a year. Took part very enthusiastically in last year's exercise Advent challenges. Discovered HIIT. Thought my new toned belly muscles were looking weird around Easter. Started mysteriously gaining weight no matter what I did, got very demotivated. And then I bloated up. A woman stood up for me on the tube, thinking I was pregnant in June. I decided to go to the doctor, and she could feel/hear something when she knocked my belly so arranged for some scans which showed a huge mass, the size of a 6-month pregnancy. Subsequent scans couldn't determine if this was ovarian or uterine, but we guessed uterine. I called it Eric. 11 weeks ago, I had the surgery to remove Eric. The surgeon underestimated the size of hole he would need to make in me, and it got messy. Eric had got bigger, he was full baby size when he came out, and stuck to all my organs. I had to have a full hysterectomy, and bladder repair, which is still causing me some issues. But luckily he was benign. And weighing me before and after revealed he must have weighed 13lbs. I subsequently lost another 5lbs in recovery, which I am battling to maintain, and may have lost the battle a bit... hence pressing reset.

I would just like to share with you though this visual representation of reset and progress - my allotment, which in the almost 3 months I have been recovering had become a horrible lawn, but I was able to do a bit of digging, and I cleared this corner yesterday.



So, 3rd November.
Calories - just over. Not much.
Water - under - 12/14 glasses (I have a huge target because of the surgery)
Exercise - 45 minutes of digging, and 10024 steps.

Good morning!! I wanted to post the results from our October step challenge. Unfortunately, my Excel program has something majorly wrong with it and I had to do most of the results manually to get these numbers. Ugghhh math!! This month I will be using the Fat 2 Fit spreadsheet so it should be easier and that way you can all go look at your totals throughout the month.

Anyway! You can see that our top winners were Jactop at 440,446 and AustinRuadhain at 401,435 steps! I didn't get all the step counts from everyone so you might have had more than you see below. Let's try to do even better in November!


OCTOBER STEP CHALLENGE
@its_cleo 269,677
@AustinRuadhain 401,435
@Bethanie0825 345,070
@Digger 61 388,990
@hinemoa2088 384,614
@Jactop 440,446
@Leonadixon 155,910
@mrmcgrath 168,816
@raleighgirl09 394,876
@renaegry 259,640
@TeresaW1020 282,534
@TrishasTime 188,268

GRAND TOTAL 3,680,276

Wishusdonna wrote: »

Welcome @nbbaby

To @broncobuddee please may I change my weigh-in day to a Wednesday? I am going to have gained this week anyway, but I think hump day may be better for me for staying positive and motivated.
I'm running on a deficit of about 1400 from last week, but I think processed food, eating out, lack of accuracy... it's likely not right. Also, this is the weekend I said my farewells to booze.

So, let's focus on those positives!

My journey so far...
I think I've been here a year. Took part very enthusiastically in last year's exercise Advent challenges. Discovered HIIT. Thought my new toned belly muscles were looking weird around Easter. Started mysteriously gaining weight no matter what I did, got very demotivated. And then I bloated up. A woman stood up for me on the tube, thinking I was pregnant in June. I decided to go to the doctor, and she could feel/hear something when she knocked my belly so arranged for some scans which showed a huge mass, the size of a 6-month pregnancy. Subsequent scans couldn't determine if this was ovarian or uterine, but we guessed uterine. I called it Eric. 11 weeks ago, I had the surgery to remove Eric. The surgeon underestimated the size of hole he would need to make in me, and it got messy. Eric had got bigger, he was full baby size when he came out, and stuck to all my organs. I had to have a full hysterectomy, and bladder repair, which is still causing me some issues. But luckily he was benign. And weighing me before and after revealed he must have weighed 13lbs. I subsequently lost another 5lbs in recovery, which I am battling to maintain, and may have lost the battle a bit... hence pressing reset.

I would just like to share with you though this visual representation of reset and progress - my allotment, which in the almost 3 months I have been recovering had become a horrible lawn, but I was able to do a bit of digging, and I cleared this corner yesterday.



So, 3rd November.
Calories - just over. Not much.
Water - under - 12/14 glasses (I have a huge target because of the surgery)
Exercise - 45 minutes of digging, and 10024 steps.

So sorry to hear your story. Hang in there, it can only get better for you now. By the way great job on the corner ground, but pace yourself you dont want to hurt yourself.

Kres567 wrote: »

nbbaby wrote: »

Hello my name is Sharon
I'm 52 next month. Im married for 29 years. I have 3 grown children and 5 granddaughters. I'm not very healthy, I have Fibromyalgia, Arthritis, Anxiety, Depression, PTSD, Acid Reflux, 9 Herniated Discs. IBS-C. And a few others, and right now I'm fighting some kind of lung problem Docs thinking COPD but I'm hoping it's just an infection or something. Well have to wait for the test to see.

I did just find out 2 months ago that my only son (middle child) who is 31 is dying of cancer and theres nothing I can do. So frustrating to be helpless. I've cried a river. So I thought I would start concentrating on my health because its gonna be hard to do when the time comes.
Although I get through each day by telling myself somehow he'll be ok. It's the only way I can function. Denial I know...

So
My goal is to lose 71 pounds, I've already lost 20 lbs, so I have 41 pounds left to go. I lost those pounds on Keto that I started 2 months ago. I plan on staying on it.
Because of my body and that some days (most) I cant walk to well due to the pain. I need to lose this weight by mostly dieting. Although the days the pain isnt as bad I do try to clean the house or go for a walk on the treadmill.
Taking weight of will help my pain in my joints. It's also great for the mind.

It's very nice to meet you all.

Welcome Sharon! Thank you so much for sharing your story with us! I look forward to being in this journey with you. Stay strong and be kind to yourself!

Thank you.
Everyone is very nice in this group. I'm excited to have (and give) support. I have no one for support in my life and I think I'll do much better with it.
I dont mean to come across whinning about myself. I was just putting some of my story. I'm really excited to be here. With so much in my life go on, it's nice to try to forget it all even if it's just for a few seconds a day to come on here and worry about myself and my health, and to support others.
Take Care

nbbaby
Week 1
Monday
PW 211.4
CW 209.8

TeresaW1020 wrote: »

OCTOBER STEP CHALLENGE

I need the steps from the following steppers:

@its_cleo, 10/31
@bethanie0825, 10/30 & 10/31
@digger61, 10/27 thru 10/31
@hinemoa2088, 10/29, 10/30/ 10/31
@Jactop, 10/28
@leonadixon 10/31
@raleighgirl09, 10/28 thru 10/31
@renaegry, 10/23 & 10/31

I am going out of town for the weekend and will tally the steps on Monday and give you all the final October report and the winning steppers.

Steps 10/31:6494

Steps
11/1: 2640 (migraine, slept half the day)
11/2: 5158
11/3: 5628