Digger61
Sat week 2
PW 214
CW 213

Check in 1/17
Tracked: yes
Calories: Under
Exercise: yes

@digger61 good loss!

@sunshineplace I hope your leg continues to improve and you're not in pain.

@rachelleahsmom Cats are funny about workouts! I thought of you when Jasper rolled my yoga mat and stuck his head under it, it was impossible to focus on my deep breathing! Both were laying under my foot when I pedal my bike and swiping at my shoe. I think they want to be part of the excitement!

@its_cleo Great job running in the cold! I was focusing more on form than strength Friday. I definitely have a ways to go with breathing! I was doing good until the dumbbell I'd put on the weight bench to rest rolled off on my foot, luckily it's just a bruise but that broke my restful breaks!

Had a good day, did some cleaning, upped resistance on my bike and stayed on a long time to finish my book, and did my strength exercises and yoga. Oops, forgot the recipe each week habit, I made butternut squash bean turkey chili. It took half a bottle of chili powder, don't know if it's a typo but it's definitely flavorful! Tomorrow's my brother's birthday celebration.

Motiv8tedMom
Sunday weigh in
PW 215.0
CW 212.0

CONGRATS TEAM!

@Motiv8tedMom great loss!

Weigh in
Apple852hk
Week 3 - Jan 2020
Sunday
PW 161.5 (73.3kg)
CW 164.4 (74.6kg)

Stopped logging my food into MFP. Been eating regardless and not being mindful. I found logging was just depressing me more.
Going to try and eat what I want rather than just because its low calorie.
Today ate cheese toastie and a veggie pie for dinner - both high carb but need to fulfill this need. Rather than eating and then feeling guilty.
AIM NEXT WEEK
1. Not to log food but eat smaller portions and more mindfully
2. Continue to eat smaller breakfast
3. Eat wonton dumpling for lunch - see if eating meat helps
4. Always try not to eat a biscuit but instead fruit
5. Buy and eat satsuma instead of biscuit/cookies

Canzone777
Sunday-week 3
Previous: 160
Current: 163

raleighgirl09
Sunday check in

Had a good weekend, saw the granddaughter yesterday, got all of my shopping done, enough food prep to make sense...a little left to do tomorrow. Mostly don't need to do a lot this week because we have some left and there are plans this week so that we won't need as much food around. I have been so grateful on several occasions to just have food in the fridge and not need to cook or stop and grab a chicken, etc.

I'm going through a phase again of the scale going down almost daily and that's good - but it's also fronted by many days, and sometimes weeks, of it not budging or swinging in both directions but not making progress. I'm much less freaked out by that, these days, as I have found that if I keep doing the right things along with paying attention and adjusting what I am doing as needed, the efforts will eventually show the progress. But that whole 'half a pound or a pound a week' or 'a pound and a half a week' business is NOT how it works in my world. Nope. I apparently like to live on the edge and immerse myself in a thriller of a ride on the journey. =>

I'll take it.

Planned and Prelog 3 meals? yes, all 3!
Times? B 1215p, L 4p, D 8p
Non-planned eating and thoughts?
Hunger? Low hunger day, no trouble with it at all - did not eat until I was hungry. I got up at 9 and it's usually 3-4 hours before I eat so this makes sense. When I'm up at 5 or 530, I eat much earlier
Exercise? 3.25 miles in the hood [log steps from day before] (steps 18Jan2020 4,365)
Sleep? 1a-9a [log the morning after]
Assessed the previous day / week / month? yesterday I did not get to 10,000 steps. I had to leave home at 130pm and I chose to hang out and then do some of my weekly shopping rather than skip one of those and do my hour of walking to get 3 miles. Not that long ago, I would not have made that choice - I would have gotten the walk in. I also need to be very careful about having snacks after dinner - even so-called healthy or benign choices like a reasonable serving of chips and salsa. I truly feel like that is the kind of behavior that has seen me have to lose the same weight over and over again - past success is not a shield against current or future missteps and I have to remember that. Getting close to goal does not mean it is ok to start a backward slide.

Food Prep Planning this week:
Soup - Wendys Chili
entree - none (we have enough protein because some food prep was Tuesday night this week
on hand - salad, rice, green beans, cole slaw,
idea - sheet pan quesadillas with Xtreme Wellness tortillas

@raleighgirl09 thanks for the helpful suggestion. I've made a wonton batch and will eat it every lunch time for a week. Will plan for dinners. Thanks for passing on the advice. I'll write every meal instead.
By chance I photograph every meal - do you think writing down what you eat is more beneficial?

raleighgirl09 wrote: »

Wowsers, excellent work Slimpossibles - more than 70% of us in the green!! Looks like I might be past my own stall and join you for the final week!

@vanjan14 great loss and even though the lowest weight in years is not technically a NSV - the awesome feelings go waaay beyond that hunk o' metal in the bathroom! =>
@sunshineplace I hope your leg keeps improving and I love that you can keep the numbers in perspective!
@Katmary71 stacking up days of yoga, getting organized - you're making excellent use of 2020, so far!
@its_cleo glad to see your progress and stick-to-it-ness. Keep taking care of yourself and getting out for the runs as often as you can and the numbers will follow suit
@Motiv8tedMom most excellent place on the leaderboard and *still* going strong - congrats!
@kayla7303 wow, great work and congrats - 2.56%!!!
@digger61 nice loss, way to go!
@rachelleahsmom OMG that is cold - and I have a hard time when it dips below 40 degrees...
@Apple852hk this is a good list of goals. I have had times when logging into MFP became a source of anxiety on its own, when I was on a couple of years ago. I would offer this suggestion - write down your meals on paper, not the calories or amounts, but what you are eating - if you can do it the day before so that it isn't spur of the moment, that would also help. Eat to your plan of smaller amounts and over time you'll know what the choices were and what worked best for you. I hope you don't mind this advice - I wish someone had told me that when I became weary of the logging, I think it would have benefited me so I am passing that along

nbbaby
Week 3
Monday
PW: 219.7
CW: 213.8

Did Intermittent fasting all week and back on Keto. Seems to work.

Sorry, I went MIA briefly.

apple852hk wrote: »

@raleighgirl09 thanks for the helpful suggestion. I've made a wonton batch and will eat it every lunch time for a week. Will plan for dinners. Thanks for passing on the advice. I'll write every meal instead.
By chance I photograph every meal - do you think writing down what you eat is more beneficial?

@apple852hk I see a lot of value in writing down what you'll eat primarily because that gives you the best opportunity for planning what you'll eat. You're 1/3 of the way there with your wonton lunches (sounds amazing, love me some wontons!). However, what works best for me may not for you - a lot of people photograph the meal and do a neato app like 'Ate' to help them keep track. The most important thing, from my perspective, is to not distance yourself from some kind of structure. Even if (when) whatever you are doing has a slip-up and you wonder why that happened and how to get back on track - going back to your recorded history will bring you back to a visual log (either reading or pics) and give you a sense of foundation. Mistakes will happen and without some solid tie to the plan you're doing, in whatever fashion you are doing it, it is more difficult to get back to.

I have been doing food prep for a couple weeks and, like your wontons, it really makes life easy for me in planning what I'll eat the next day and not have to think much about it. Sometimes I plan for several days in a row, at least one of the meals, and I love the convenience. =>

Monday Check-in
Calories: all good, on-plan choices; on target
Water: slightly over
Exercise: pre-sunrise walk (47 min); gym date (weights) with husband (35 min); martial arts class (90 min)
5 Habits: Checks for all of them! ✔️
Grateful for: this group, and the fabulous conversation here!

Goals and Improvements for Tomorrow (Tuesday)
- Work my 5 Habits
--- Breathing Exercises (daily 2+ min)
--- Meditation (daily 2+ min)
--- M.A. Forms Practice (daily 2+ min)
--- Exercise (6 x week/45+ min) - Goal is an outdoor walk
--- Food weighed/measured/on plan (daily)
- Decluttering - home office and office work (going to try pomodoros tomorrow - 25 minutes on, 5 minute break)

Checking in quick. Crazy busy week. I’ve been slacking with the tracking but I’m making good choices.