Monday check-in
Calories- under
Exercise- stair treadmill, weights, core, yoga
Water- over

Upped intensity the last half of stair treadmill, it was hard and I was so thirsty but I did it! I've upped weights on a few exercises in the last week, reps of core exercises, and bike resistance, it's been motivating to see improvement. Back is still sore from roller skating but icing it has helped.

Habits
Gym 3xs a week- went today
Cardio 30 minutes- done
Fit On yoga- done
Core/stretches- done
Recipe- not sure I'll get around to making something new, I have a lot of meals frozen. I'll definitely make veggie broth. I'll check out skinnytaste.com and see if there's anything inspiring.
Cleaning/decluttering- got through freezer today and everything is in its place, it feels great! Made dinner tonight so much easier.

Weigh in

Metubal
Week 3 - Jan 2020
Monday 1/20
PW 180.3
CW 178.6


Weekly report:)
Calories: mostly not tracked and assuming slightly under
Exercise: only 2 walks as "exercise" but snowshoeing, snow shoveling, and chicken coop cleaning were my life last week.
Snacking: once
Sleep: 7hrs 25mins average, about the same as last week:))

Yesterday was a great day for me! I can only hope I keep it up.

@AustinRuadhain I love how you have a date with your husband to lift weights. My husband has been talking about getting to the gym with me but hasn’t found his way there yet. Maybe one day...

@raleigh_girl09 how is the pnp course coming? I think of you each time I hear her podcast.

rachelleahsmom wrote: »

Just checking in to let you know how inspiring you all are. I'm reading all your posts and am crazy impressed!

Rachelle, I am right there with you -- this is a very inspiring group! I have not hit my goals yet for the day, so off to work on them!

Nice day gang!! Cold as heck here (AF, as the kids say) and I am not a happy camper in the cold. But the days are getting longer and that is a GOOD Thing!

@Katmary71 I so get the emotions of watching the changes...amazing stuff. I just love skinnytaste.com, she has an excellent site and recipes!
@wwood008 excellent loss this week, congrats!
@Metubal very nice loss this week, congrats!! Your exercise has been of the cold variety but I bet it's an excellent workout!
@its_cleo hey, thanks for creds on the up at 5am to get to the gym! I don't particularly enjoy the getting up way early but it is, unfortunately, only 1/2 an hour earlier than I have to get up. We have a gym at work and showers and it helps me ensure getting my steps in on office days. We're moving office locations at the end of the month and I won't have that. I have a wobbly eliptical and squeaky treadmill at home but am always less inclined to use them. I'll probably have to make myself sometimes to be sure I can get the steps
@mrmcgrath just curious - are you trying to stay low in protein or it just keeps landing that way? My fat and protein are always up and carbs down, many days I am almost equal on them, percentage wise. The PnP tribe experience has been a mixed bag of tricks, quite honestly. There is a *lot* of material to be obtained as a member and I love the courses and videos - fabulous content, very helpful. The FB page stresses me out - it is so busy there is no way (for me) to try to keep up. The member's only podcast is amazing, I'm sure, but my non-technical behind has not been able how to figure it out on my phone so I am currently still listening to the free podcast because...well...I already figured it out and it's easy. I tried (in a very lame way) to find an accountability group or person who is stuck in calorie land and I wanted it to be someone with experience with the PnP philosophy....read, not a new tribe member. No luck with that, so far, but I call BS on my amount of effort not really put into that. All in all - I am enjoying what I am getting from it and have decided that I'll continue being in it, at least until I give a couple of my lower points more effort and ask for help; no sense crying foul when I haven't given 100%
@rachelleahsmom, I agree and just love what a dynamic group of folks we have on the Slimpossibles!
@AustinRuadhain I second the emotion that your dedication is always so inspiring! The workouts that you and @Katmary71 and @its_cleo do are nothing short of amazing to me - and I can see that you guys are successful not only the dedication to the goals but because you all choose varying and extensive exercise. You all mix it up, work different body parts, focus on different types of exercise. I know that this all comes with some moments that you don't want to do it or you're busy or you don't feel well or whatever the obstacle de jour is but, by and large, you all consistently keep at it over the long haul. KUDOS, it is most excellent!!

raleighgirl09
Tuesday check in

I am less than 2 pounds from the first goal I set in May last year, 48.4 pounds ago, right after I got back on this horse. 185 pounds. 185 is a smallish 14/largish 12 pants size. My second goal is wrapped in the other direction - I am heading to a size 8 and I think it will be between 160 and 165. So I'll set the next goal for 165 and see what happens.

Years ago on the way (weigh) down, I didn't set an early goal, I barely set an end goal. I thought I should weigh 150 pounds....the height/weight charts put me around 135ish. The more I lost, the more it became clear that I have a large frame in a short package. My lowest, way back then, was 170 and I didn't set out to stop, I just....did. Life was really in the crapper for a lot of reasons at that point and I stopped active loss. Maintained for a long while, began the road to gaining and losing in a span of 50-60 pounds for quite a few years.

Thanks team, for helping me get here, for being a part of my journey and for being such a great sounding board and helping me see things in a whole new light. This has been an amazing tool in my tool belt this time and I truly feel I am doing what it will take to maintain my weight for life, once I'm ready to maintain. This may seem like an early message but I don't have doubts about making the first and final goals and these things have been on my mind. It's kind of amazing to have had a goal to work toward and to see up close, now. I had no idea what I was missing when I didn't have one.

Planned and Prelog 3 meals? all 3!
Times? B 8a, L 1230p, D 7p
Non-planned eating and thoughts?
Hunger? low hunger, appropriately hungry for all meals, surprised that I was hungry so early for breakfast
Exercise? 2 miles on treadmill at work gym, 1 mile around pond at work [log steps from day before] (steps 20Jan2020 13,943)
Sleep? 1030p-5a [log the morning after]
Assessed the previous day / week / month? Yesterday went very well, it felt almost easy. Oddly, I chose not to have alcohol yesterday - repeated that today.

Tuesday Check-in
Calories: under; all good, on-plan choices
Water: on target
Exercise: date walk with husband (55 min)
5 Habits: Checks for all of them! ✔️ (it really, really helps that I report in here and on the Habit Tracker!)
Decluttering Pomodoros: Not done ❌
Grateful for: kindness, patience and generosity in my family

Goals and Improvements for Today (Wednesday)
- 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 Pomodoros: Let's try that today! 🌅

Way too much carbs and sodium yesterday and my fingers and ankles are feeling it.

@its_cleo
Oooh, another lover of lifting iron! I love it! I was at the gym this morning (MWF are my lifting days when all goes according to schedule), and it always makes me feel great. 💪🏽👍🏽

In spite of all my exercising I can;t seem to lose weight if my life depended on it lol.

It is just so great that you are keeping working at it! Are you weighing and logging all your food? For me, collecting and paying attention to that data helped me figure out what worked for me.

@mrmcgrath - Sorry about the fingers and ankles, but yay to paying so much attention to what you eat, and noticing how it affects you. SO much of health and fitness work feels like detective work! 🔎

@raleighgirl09 - Thanks for sharing your journey! Your posts always interest, delight and/or educate me!

@TeresaW1020 - Thanks for checking in! Things are quieter without you, but we feel the love!

Hi. So, I'm at one of those F ages (the older one) and anyone who is there with me knows that sleep can be an issue. I've had three awful nights and this morning I had a toddler like meltdown. I told my husband that if I have to get fat and have crepey skin and have my kids leave the nest at least I should be able to rest. Wow, did he clear out for work fast! Anyway, I spent some time thinking about me today.... something women tend to ignore. I made a sleep plan to clean up some bad habits. I worked on my 2020 vision for my bod in 2020. And that helped. Not sleeping is a double whammy for me, because if I can't, I might night eat. And then the next day feel too tired to be a good girl and eat well and exercise. Thank you for listening to my venting. Much appreciated. Hopefully tonight I'm tired enough to crash.

raleighgirl09
Wednesday check in

@TeresaW1020 we look forward to hearing all about your day(s) when you can come up for air - been there, done that and designed a t-shirt that I didn't get any credit for or royalties on!!! =>
@its_cleo ok - you're officially a badash (please read between the censored lines)! Agree with @AustinRuadhain, logging and weighing are great tools and it is *awesome* that you are remaining engaged with the exercise despite obstacles. I also think that there has been a lot going on and while you are dealing with all of the things going on, the obstacles and remaining true to the exercise, you might need to be kind to yourself on the calories and ice cream, work through it all and come back to hard core calories and food work when you can take that back on, mentally. In the meantime, your're an exercise badash beast! I love your four week plan!
@AustinRuadhain I have bookmarked, especially interested in the first and third suggestions!
@Cornanda I hope you are snoozing deeply and gently and don't see this until tomorrow! I have the same issue - if I am up late, I get hungry and the later it gets, the harder to not eat. So glad you took the time to just really ponder and absorb for *you* - absolutely key to understanding how to help yourself


Planned and Prelog 3 meals? yes, all 3!
Times? B 8a, L 130p, D 7p
Non-planned eating and thoughts?
Hunger? Hungry for meals, not unduly - calling a low hunger day
Exercise? 2 mile walk in work gym and 1.65 mile walk outside [log steps from day before] (steps 21Jan2020 12,416)
Sleep? 945p-5a [log the morning after]
Assessed the previous day / week / month? this week I have been back to getting at least 10,000 steps a day and being intentional with exercise. Making a better Plan A and including a Plan B because - life. Eating on plan, not extra, and much less mindless eating. Now - I do still sometimes eat a bite or two of some dinner, or component of dinner, while making dinner, for example. What I have been doing for the last week or so, has been to be super intentional and not have it be extra - I eat a little less at dinner. I'm not sure if I need to worry about this habit on the whole now that I have a kinda. sorta solution but I need to remain aware. One thing I have never nailed down, is when the slope became so slippery that I didn't know (or care?) that I was sliding faster than I could handle and went spinning past the point of reason. I only know I'd look up and have gained weight and wonder what happened - I'm striving to avoid that kind of party this time. Hence me wondering if the having a few bites of dinner before dinner that I make a part of the dinner and not on top of the dinner is the beginning of the end. Ha!

Checking in....

Although I read posts yesterday I forgot to later check in. 🤪 Anyway it wasn’t a great day, I made some less than stellar choices. This week has been very busy so everything has gone by the wayside. Taking good care of myself is time consuming! Hoping to get back on track in the next few days. In the meantime I’m here reading and rooting you all on even if I don’t post too much.

I do agree that this group is amazing!

@Motiv8tedMom I'm sorry to hear about your dental procedure and hope you feel better soon!

@raleighgirl09 I'm always impressed by how insightful you are about your eating!

@sunshineplace glad you had the chance to check in!

Sunshineplace
Week 3
Thursday
PW 158.4
CW 158.2

Cornanda wrote: »

Hi. So, I'm at one of those F ages (the older one) and anyone who is there with me knows that sleep can be an issue. I've had three awful nights and this morning I had a toddler like meltdown. I told my husband that if I have to get fat and have crepey skin and have my kids leave the nest at least I should be able to rest. Wow, did he clear out for work fast! Anyway, I spent some time thinking about me today.... something women tend to ignore. I made a sleep plan to clean up some bad habits. I worked on my 2020 vision for my bod in 2020. And that helped. Not sleeping is a double whammy for me, because if I can't, I might night eat. And then the next day feel too tired to be a good girl and eat well and exercise. Thank you for listening to my venting. Much appreciated. Hopefully tonight I'm tired enough to crash.

Sending you a hug! Sleep is my issue (one of many!), too. It seems like EVERYTHING is worse without the right amount and kind of sleep. I have to be so careful because I tend to spiral. I have my last child graduating high school this year and I just keep telling myself that it will be fine. I'm going to miss her so much. Also, so much of my life activities and my identity are wrapped up in motherhood. In anticipation of her leaving, I got a job and a cat. One day at a time and one foot in front of the other is about all I can manage at this point.
P.S. Eating, sleeping, whatever - you ARE a good girl!