TEAM: The Slimsons (November)
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Stopping my planks for now due to my chronic pain. 😥1 -
Daily Post
Tuesday
Track yes
Calories yes under
Exercise a little
Water 96oz
Goals/comments so still here in the hospital waiting for rehab but won my HRA case fair Hearing over the phone so my case will stay open for another month. Yay!
Wednesday
Track yes
Calories yes under
Exercise yes
Water 120oz
Goals/comments
Yes still in the hospital today made 19 days but told my doctor if they so not hear anything I want to go home Friday. And guess what Yep the insurance called me at 4pm said they reverse the denial for Rehab so hopefully I get transfer soon so I can get back to my journey because eating all these carbs I am gaining instead of losing.
P.S. Probably for the rest of this month my weight will be listed under the cheer squad so as not to hurt the team. Until I return home which won't be until Dec 5th🤞🏾🤞🏾
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Daily Post - Wednesday
Track: Mentally
Calories: Under
Exercise: Nope
Ok, so Monday and Tuesday were a disaster food-wise. The stress of prepping for the party led me to stress eat and I decided that I would just be really crabby at my son's party if I tried to fast or keep it keto so I gave myself free reign. So I probably ate enough calories over those two days to feed me for a week. Today I didn't track but I know my calories were under. I'm also rethinking this OMAD thing. Trying to participate in a weight loss challenge while doing experimental eating just puts too much pressure on me because instead of focusing on what might work for me (or not) in the long run, I'm too worried about gaining weight for weigh in day. So I might not participate in this challenge next month.
Oh, and thanks for all the responses about the messy houses. It feels good knowing I'm not alone. And maybe I should look into a cleaning app. If I can clean up my phone to make room for yet another app.
I understand your frustration in trying to find what works for you, I've been there. If it's the weight issue maybe try being on the cheer squad so you don't have that pressure with your weight next month. Regardless of what you decide WE ARE ALL ROOTING FOR YOUR SUCCESS!1 -
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Daily Post: November 12th
Track: Yes
Calories under goal: Yes
Exercise: 7,355 steps
I had a long afternoon meeting followed by a dental appointment so I didn't get all of my steps in. I hope to make it up over the next couple of days.0 -
Daily Post - Thursday
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A1C is down to a normal level!!1 -
Daily check in
Thurs Nov 14
Tracked yes
Calories under
Exercise walked fir an hour plus started some doing some exercises with free weights0 -
Nov Wk 2 - Thurs, 11/14
Track: Yes
Calories: Under
Exercise: 45 minutes of cardio0 -
Thursday.
Track: yes
Calories: over
Exercise: no
I was in meetings all day and then had lunch and dinner ordered and paid for by companies I was with during the business talks.
HOW do you stay under calories and not upset the apple cart of not eating what they ordered? We're not talking mini sandwiches; lunch was steak and baked potatoes and dinner was a fried seafood smorgasbord. 😔😔😔😔😔0 -
Daily Post (Wednesday)
Comments: Well today is the day that I start cooking for my weekend thanksgiving celebration with my family. Made my pie crusts today, and I did this on purpose while fasting because I tend to eat the pie crust as I cook it...literally every time, there is just something about pie crust.... so got that out of the way, and finishing the pies today while I can taste the middle, and so far the pumpkin pie is great, about to go make my chocolate peanut butter pie and that is going to be hard not to eat it allll while cooking it but I can do it. And these are of course low carb and sugar free
This is awesome. My kids have been begging me to make pumpkin pie but I've been so busy and the pumpkin I have is HUGE so I've been trying to figure out the best way to cook it. I'm going to have to freeze a good portion of it, but our freezers are so tiny and always full. I will make a couple of regular pies for them and one for me. So whatever I do make...I will need to freeze some of the finished product...but again...no freezer space.
Please share the recipe for the chocolate PB pie!!0 -
Daily Post: Thursday November 14th
Track: No
Calories: I didn't track, but I know they were under.
Exercise: None...but between my job and cleaning all day I went over 13,000 steps.
I did OMAD today but other than a small portion of jalapeno Cheetos I kept it low carb. I just feel better when fasting or eating low carb. On Monday when my eating went all haywire....the meal at work was almost nothing but carbs so I ended up eating a smaller portion but came home to finish my meal so I could add protein but it ended up just snowballing into a two day binge. Yesterday's low carb OMAD went smoothly, but I ate at 5pm and at home in my preferred setting. So my plan is to do OMAD at home again. I don't know if we are allowed to take food home from work (I think they want us to eat it there because they want to encourage comradery) but I think I will start to take a container with me so I can take something I can eat at home later, until someone says otherwise.
I didn't work out this week....but my focus has been cleaning. I do feel weaker when I don't work out regularly but I also know that on days I workout, I just don't have the same time or energy to dedicate to cleaning. So for now I'm going to keep my focus on cleaning (I owe this to my poor family) and once things have reached a decent state, I will resume my workouts. I will still try to get a decent run in this weekend though. I hope it stays dry. I miss running in the woods but the mud makes it difficult.
*and about next month. Yes, joining the cheer squad is a good idea. I'll think about it. It might be the best way to go, especially for December which might prove to be a disaster with all the holiday family pressure. If I don't have the pressure of not letting the team down, I might actually do better.0 -
Daily post weds 13th
Track - yes
Calories-slightly over
Exercise - 10,000 steps
Slight over on calories but I'm on 1200 s always allow myself to 1400 for flexibility as sometimes 1200 just isnt enough and I seem to be losing on 14002 -
Daily Post (Wednesday)
Track: Yes
Calories: Yes, fasting.
Exercise: 70 mins weight training, housework, walked about 6k steps literally around my house cleaning.
Comments: Well today is the day that I start cooking for my weekend thanksgiving celebration with my family. Made my pie crusts today, and I did this on purpose while fasting because I tend to eat the pie crust as I cook it...literally every time, there is just something about pie crust.... so got that out of the way, and finishing the pies today while I can taste the middle, and so far the pumpkin pie is great, about to go make my chocolate peanut butter pie and that is going to be hard not to eat it allll while cooking it but I can do it. And these are of course low carb and sugar free
Chocolate peanut butter pie sounds amazing!0 -
Just had to share...
I've always been a kinda weak guy, or not weak, but average? Always done loads of running and biking, but never trained my upper body.
I always work out alone, with no one to be spotter, so I tend to do more reps of safety reasons. But today I tried, and successfully did 100kg in bench. Big round number!! I knew it was more than doable, since I did my normal sets at 90, and thus should be able to do one rep at 115, but it is a mental wall to put on three numbers with the potential of beeing stuck under it.
Kinda proud of myself today :-)
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Just had to share...
I've always been a kinda weak guy, or not weak, but average? Always done loads of running and biking, but never trained my upper body.
I always work out alone, with no one to be spotter, so I tend to do more reps of safety reasons. But today I tried, and successfully did 100kg in bench. Big round number!! I knew it was more than doable, since I did my normal sets at 90, and thus should be able to do one rep at 115, but it is a mental wall to put on three numbers with the potential of beeing stuck under it.
Kinda proud of myself today :-)
Well done 😁0 -
Hi team
Sorry I haven’t been as active on MFP over the past few days. It was my sons first birthday yesterday so I was quite busy arranging things. I haven’t done very well with my food choices over the past few days because there was a lot of cake and sweets involved, but I’m now back to normality again 😊 I hope everyone is well 🤗3 -
Tdrjustus3
Monday
Week 2
291.0
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Username: caloricus
Week: November, week 2
Friday
PW: 175.5
CW: 173.53 -
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smallhippo1 wrote: »Daily post weds 13th
Track - yes
Calories-slightly over
Exercise - 10,000 steps
Slight over on calories but I'm on 1200 s always allow myself to 1400 for flexibility as sometimes 1200 just isnt enough and I seem to be losing on 1400
I think it's good to be flexable. Have you thought of moving your daily calories up to 1400 and maybe aiming for 1300-1400 any given day? I find I do best when I keep my calories a bit on the higher side. It seems like no matter what weight I am at, I lose consistently and comfortably when I eat around 1650 calories. Any lower and I think it sets off stress (and possibly cortisol) in me. This time around I am eating around 1800 calories a day but that's because I was half marathon training. I'm not doing these crazy workouts at the moment so I need to remind myself that I should probably drop the calories a bit. Or get moving again.Just had to share...
I've always been a kinda weak guy, or not weak, but average? Always done loads of running and biking, but never trained my upper body.
I always work out alone, with no one to be spotter, so I tend to do more reps of safety reasons. But today I tried, and successfully did 100kg in bench. Big round number!! I knew it was more than doable, since I did my normal sets at 90, and thus should be able to do one rep at 115, but it is a mental wall to put on three numbers with the potential of beeing stuck under it.
Kinda proud of myself today :-)
That's awesome! Congrats!Hi team
Sorry I haven’t been as active on MFP over the past few days. It was my sons first birthday yesterday so I was quite busy arranging things. I haven’t done very well with my food choices over the past few days because there was a lot of cake and sweets involved, but I’m now back to normality again 😊 I hope everyone is well 🤗
Happy Birthday to your son! I know how that goes
. Back on the wagon together you and me 
tdrjustus3 wrote: »Tdrjustus3
Monday
Week 2
291.0
289.4
Woohoo! Nice loss!Username: caloricus
Week: November, week 2
Friday
PW: 175.5
CW: 173.5
Amazing! Great job!1 -
I'm not ready to do my daily post today, but just wanted to give an update. So I didn't get around to cutting up and cooking my pumpkin yet today, because I had some shredded carrots in the fridge that needed my immediate attention. I made some low carb carrot cake muffins which turned out really nicely and which I got to eat guilt free. Seriously, I just don't think I can make the switch to a regular carb diet. The cool thing is that my husband doesn't eat my low carb baked goods because he thinks he has a reaction to nuts...which totally works for me because low carb baked goods are expensive to make. The carrot cake reminded me of a crazy story, or experience in my life. Just thought I'd share:
When I was in my 20's I was moderately overweight but very active. I went on a backpacking trip with a male friend for a week. We had a blast but I did notice that he had a tendency to be overcautious and maybe leaning towards controlling. (We weren't dating, just friends.) On the long drive back we stopped at a gas station and to grab a snack. I grabbed a freshly packaged carrot cake. The calories were insanely high, but after a week of hiking for hours upon hours a day, I wasn't too concerned about it. My friend however had to ask, "Are you really going to eat that?". It was delicious. Shortly after this trip my friend kind of just ended our friendship. It was so weird but honestly, I didn't dwell on it. A year later out of the blue he calls me up and we go to a concert together. We have a good time and go out to eat afterwards. I order something "bad" like mozzarella sticks and he's like, "It's so late, do you really want to eat that?" He says this in front of the waiter so I grit my teeth and say, "I'll have a salad." (Seriously, who eats salad as a late night after concert snack?) Anyways, he must have been happy that I "listened" to him because next thing you know he's asking me to be his girlfriend. Like officially. It felt great to tell him "No thanks, I've met someone and I'm pretty sure he's THE ONE". THE ONE, did end up being the one. My husband. Although our relationship isn't perfect, my husband has never, not once tried to control or even comment on what I eat. Even at my heaviest he always said that he thought I was beautiful. He didn't even see the fat as I did. A while back he looked at a photo of me at my heaviest and he was very shocked. He said that he does not even remember me looking like that. Bless his heart. I'm glad that he was somehow blinded to my blaring flaws. Anyways, every time I cook or eat or see carrot cake, I think of this whole story and how happy I am that I knew better than to go for a guy like the first guy. We are still facebook friends and we send each other funny memes every once in a while. I think he's a good guy and I will always consider him a friend but I'm so glad I passed on that one.1 -
Daily post Thursday
Track yes
Carbs on track
Exercise yes0 -
Weigh in day Friday
PW: 233
CW: 232
Comments: my body is fighting not to let me see the 20's lol like I'm trying and trying and it's a stubborn toddler. But I'm starting to feel a difference in my body. The way it feels the way my clothes fit so I'm just trying to be a patient parent and let my body throw this stubborn little tantrum until it's ready to play nice again 😂4 -
I'm not ready to do my daily post today, but just wanted to give an update. So I didn't get around to cutting up and cooking my pumpkin yet today, because I had some shredded carrots in the fridge that needed my immediate attention. I made some low carb carrot cake muffins which turned out really nicely and which I got to eat guilt free. Seriously, I just don't think I can make the switch to a regular carb diet. The cool thing is that my husband doesn't eat my low carb baked goods because he thinks he has a reaction to nuts...which totally works for me because low carb baked goods are expensive to make. The carrot cake reminded me of a crazy story, or experience in my life. Just thought I'd share:
When I was in my 20's I was moderately overweight but very active. I went on a backpacking trip with a male friend for a week. We had a blast but I did notice that he had a tendency to be overcautious and maybe leaning towards controlling. (We weren't dating, just friends.) On the long drive back we stopped at a gas station and to grab a snack. I grabbed a freshly packaged carrot cake. The calories were insanely high, but after a week of hiking for hours upon hours a day, I wasn't too concerned about it. My friend however had to ask, "Are you really going to eat that?". It was delicious. Shortly after this trip my friend kind of just ended our friendship. It was so weird but honestly, I didn't dwell on it. A year later out of the blue he calls me up and we go to a concert together. We have a good time and go out to eat afterwards. I order something "bad" like mozzarella sticks and he's like, "It's so late, do you really want to eat that?" He says this in front of the waiter so I grit my teeth and say, "I'll have a salad." (Seriously, who eats salad as a late night after concert snack?) Anyways, he must have been happy that I "listened" to him because next thing you know he's asking me to be his girlfriend. Like officially. It felt great to tell him "No thanks, I've met someone and I'm pretty sure he's THE ONE". THE ONE, did end up being the one. My husband. Although our relationship isn't perfect, my husband has never, not once tried to control or even comment on what I eat. Even at my heaviest he always said that he thought I was beautiful. He didn't even see the fat as I did. A while back he looked at a photo of me at my heaviest and he was very shocked. He said that he does not even remember me looking like that. Bless his heart. I'm glad that he was somehow blinded to my blaring flaws. Anyways, every time I cook or eat or see carrot cake, I think of this whole story and how happy I am that I knew better than to go for a guy like the first guy. We are still facebook friends and we send each other funny memes every once in a while. I think he's a good guy and I will always consider him a friend but I'm so glad I passed on that one.
So happy for you that you've found someone like your husband 💖1 -
Daily Post: November 14th
Track: Yes
Calories under goal: No, 100 calories over ....but I was 170 under on Wednesday
Exercise: 12,572 steps (made up for the Wednesday shortage)
I bought some new gel inserts for my shoes. Hope it eases up the heel pain.
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Just had to share...
I've always been a kinda weak guy, or not weak, but average? Always done loads of running and biking, but never trained my upper body.
I always work out alone, with no one to be spotter, so I tend to do more reps of safety reasons. But today I tried, and successfully did 100kg in bench. Big round number!! I knew it was more than doable, since I did my normal sets at 90, and thus should be able to do one rep at 115, but it is a mental wall to put on three numbers with the potential of beeing stuck under it.
Kinda proud of myself today :-)
Feels great, doesn't it???? You should be proud of your accomplishments!0 -
Daily Post - Saturday
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Another good day. I really love Fridays!!0
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