I’m not hopeful about my weigh in tomorrow. I haven’t lost any of the weight I gained last week. Also ate out a number of times. The scale is going to tell the story of my week. It may not be a pretty picture, but here is a pretty picture of my drink tonight. They call it “The Vodka Drink.”

@evangsimmons170

PW: 345.2
CW: 342.2

Now that I'm feeling better, I can't wait to get back to the gym. I plan to get there today. Hope everyone has a great Saturday.

@micki48 Great job on the weight loss!!

Steps Friday 10,304

PW 209
CW 209

I’m in a slump with my weight loss. I haven’t checked in, I’m late posting my weight and I haven’t logged! 😒

Tomorrow my husband and I are going to start working out. He is a volunteer fire fighter and the fire station has some exercise equipment we can use anytime. Not sure why we didn’t do this years ago! But it will be a start and it will motivate me to go with him!

micki48 wrote: »

Saturday weigh in
Week 1
PW 196.9
CW 195.4

I was very surprised and happy to see this loss. It’s been hiding all week. A little more and I’m back at my low from a couple weeks ago.

I don’t see myself getting to the 180s before the year is out, given my pattern of loss, but you never know. I don’t know about any of you, but maintaining through the holidays is a win too for me.

12/5
Goals for December
1) Aim to be in bed no later than 11:30 🕦🏁 ❌ Nope was up on our chat to almost midnight.
2) Log my food daily! The good, the bad, and the ugly ✅ I missed one thing, but went back and filled it in the following day.
3) 8,000 steps daily 🚶🏽‍♀️🚶🏽‍♀️🚶🏽‍♀️🚶🏽‍♀️✅
4) 150 minutes of exercise each week 💪🏼🧘🏻‍♀️🚶🏽‍♀️🤸🏼‍♂️👌🏼 ✅ 40 minute walk
5) Post to team daily ✅

12/6
Goals for December
1) Aim to be in bed no later than 11:30 🕦🏁 ❌ Nope. Falling asleep on sofa before, but didn’t crawl into bed until after 11:30.
2) Log my food daily! The good, the bad, and the ugly ✅
3) 8,000 steps daily 🚶🏽‍♀️🚶🏽‍♀️🚶🏽‍♀️🚶🏽‍♀️✅ Had to estimate because Fitbit was dead.
4) 150 minutes of exercise each week 💪🏼🧘🏻‍♀️🚶🏽‍♀️🤸🏼‍♂️👌🏼 ✅ 40 minute leisurely walk downtown. 80/150
5) Post to team daily ✅

Happy you got a good number

Super happy about my weight being 104.0 working hard on it this weekend

What a Saturday!
I'm sorry I have been offline - sometimes I just have to step away from the computer and ignore it altogether. It is great to be home, taking care of little things, cooking my favourite messes of veggies, and not doing much. I did get a pilates workout in, and will hit the exercise bike for an episode tonight to make up for all the lazing about.

I had the most depressing weigh-in I have had in a long time today, but it is true, I have been allowing treats and less exercise to creep up on me. I'll be going to North Carolina to see my mom for Christmas, so I had better buckle down a bit more before leaving on the 20th.

But in spite of a few of us not doing so well this week, have you seen the column of green that just went into the spreadsheet since Thursday? It is AMAZING!
3.0
2.2
0.6
0.4
0.5
3.4
1.8
1.5
3.6

ALL OF THIS IS POUNDS LOST! Weigh-ins since Thursday! I'm the only one with a gain in this group, and there were 2 with a 0 - no loss, no gain. But that is an impressive bunch of green numbers. Well done!! We may not place in the week's tallies for top 3, but you have done really well this week. Even though the weights don't tell the whole story, it is still important to keep trying to get those pounds GONE.

So, @AmyRobF - you get in here every day and tell us how it goes in the gym with your very own firefighter, ok? And let's see that number budge - it has been stuck for a while now. You can do it!

I hope things are going better for you too, @reflectionofme - you were our rock star for ages, and will get back to it for sure. Post-surgery can be tough, and I have no doubts you'll be charging through the door again really soon. The edema will subside, and you'll be feeling better I hope!!

And our next surgery candidate @Shexio - keep us posted about everything, ok? Friday... If you want to weigh-in early, that is fine, or just let me know and you can just skip a week.

Have a lovely Saturday evening! I am just missing weigh-ins for @tdrjustus3 and @juliemargaretkim -- hope all is there and we'll hear from you. @juliemargaretkim might be gone, I'm afraid. I hope not, but if there is no message and no weigh-in today, she will be removed from the team at least for now. I will send a message, and anyone else who is her friend could send one as well to see if she'd like to continue. Thanks!

Shexio wrote: »

@jugar I’ll try to keep you posted. I’m expecting a lot of pain. Technically I can weigh in thur or Friday... the next week maybe dicey...idk.

Ate super healthy today. So proud of myself

Wonderful! And be sure that your pain is kept under control! The stress from the pain can really wreak havoc, and does not help with the healing. Sometimes drugs are good Your spot is here in any case, no matter how long it takes to get back on your feet. And you are certainly coming off a few great weeks - even if you gain a few back while you're laid up, you know how to take care of that afterwards, for sure! Be sure to get everyone well trained at waiting on you for a while...

Busy day here. Parade, candlelight walk in our arboretum, and putting up tree. Tired.

Group Challenge is up for Week 2...go and check it out...there will be a new posting each day this week, so jump in, get active, build your candy cane AND keep humming the tune!

Jessica
Capt., Team TrimStones

@micki48 here are my steps to end this week:
12/5: 15,530
12/6: 5,055
12/7: 16,067
It’s cold and rainy here so hard to be consistent in getting in regular steps. I joined the gym finally now just to get in there and get started!

I’m not sure which time zone you’re in and whether it’s noon yet. Thanks again for updating these!

@micki48
Steps 12/7
4800
Still unsure what's going on with my galaxy watch

Terytha wrote: »

Week 2 Weigh in: 206.6

I weighed myself 4 times to be sure. =P
The baking has started now: we've got brownies and rum balls. Weirdly the little rum balls are more calories than the giant brownies, but they are pretty dense.

Anyways let's just see if I can keep my weight down in the face of all these treats.

WOW! I have a hilarious mental image of you stepping on and off the scale now, with your eyebrows creeping higher and higher up your forehead every time. Great job!!! All that walking at the zoo, right? But it is a good reminder not to get too wrapped around those baked goods - they sound scary delicious.

I just gave the family Christmas bread recipe (a swedish coffee ring that is amazing) to my daughter, and I am glad (and sad) that she is so far away. We usually make these together, and this is the first time she isn't around for Christmas. I know one of these coffee breads is in my future too, but I will wait until I'm visiting my mom so that there are lots of other people around to eat it! My husband has celiac disease, so he is NO help whatsoever, and my son is not at home to help me. So yes, I will wait! Otherwise, I would eat a whole one in about 3 days. They are TOO yummy.

@jugar it was more like stepping off the scale and moving it a few inches to be sure it wasn't a fluke lol.

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And the step results are in. We walked 515,974 steps together!!!!

1st - @fourathomej
2nd - @Steph1498
3rd - @Micki48 (I'm guessing someone else would have surpassed my steps if all their steps were in.)

Our cumulative steps are equal to walking 226 miles or 364km. In honor of @jugar's busy travel week. That's like we stepped all the way from Montreal to just outside of Boston. Just a little bit short. So some suburb of it.

Happy Stepping!!!!!

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