Steps
02/03: 14,735

TeresaW1020 wrote: »

@Cornanda, Lisa I lived in Florida for 15 years. I’m going down there at the end of the month to move my 77-year-old mother in with me. So, my empty nest is getting filled again. Just in a much different way. Fortunately, I didn’t have any Super Bowl food to tempt me! If it is tempting, you then just throw it away! I’m so glad you are here and working on your health.
So, I opened that bag of cookies, smelled their deliciousness and then sprayed furniture polish into the bag and tossed them into the garbage. How many times have I been determined to stay on plan only to be confronted with temptation and giving in to it? NOT today!! I was so proud of myself that I called hubby and told him, who was also so proud of me.

Wow- that will be a big change for you- Mom moving in. Will pray for you both.

Loooooovvvvee the furniture polish!

2/3 steps: 12,007

@Cornanda , @TeraBbreakingFree - Zowie! You had a great steps days yesterday! 👣 👍🏽

@TeresaW1020 - Wow! Like @Cornanda , I think that spraying the tempting cookies with furniture polish was brilliant! 🤣

@mrmcgrath - A huge HURRAY for not being stopped by how you looked on the stair climber! Is this the super challenging version that has actual steps that rotate? I have not tried that in a while, but last time I did, only got to 3 or 4 minutes, just like you!

@Wwood008 - 👐 Sending you a hug. Sorry the number is more than what you expected, but super glad to see you checking in rather than getting stopped! That says to me that you are still in the game, and that you'll be looking for how to make this week a little better than last week! Hang in there! 👐

@nbbaby - No worries about the hour! We are just glad to see you checking in. Hang in there, and keep up all the work you have been doing! The scale may tick up some weeks, but with your steady efforts, we know you'll get there! 👍🏽

@Jactop - 🎈 Great weigh-in! Congratulations!

@Katmary71 - 👐 Big hugs on the off eating day while watching your nephew. Knowing you, I bet you are back on plan today!
Oh, and I am looking forward to hearing what you do with cassava! All I know is that you are supposed to eat it cooked but NOT raw.
I'll let you know if the new battery works. 🤞🏽 Crossing my fingers, as I don't feel like phone shopping, but do feel stuck and irritated at not being reachable in the usual ways!

@prowell57 - What @raleighgirl09 said! 👣 Every day is a baby step. Keep making small improvements, and you WILL get there. You are tackling some huge changes.
I hope your meal planning is continuing to go well -- that's definitely a great strategy!

🎈 Hurray to the Slimpossibles team for being down 1.61% as a group last week! Awesome work!
🎉 Hurray for the Slimpossibles team mebbers on yesterday's leaderboard -- @MaegyS , @kayla7303 , @Motiv8tedMom ! Great work everyone!

Tuesday steps 9671

raleighgirl09
Tuesday Thinking
Steps 03Feb2020 13,508

Had a great walk today listening to my podcast and thinking about things, the below are those -well, at least what I can recall. =>

Where I am now in the journey my mind feels like when I lost weight years ago, I'm much more consistent and successful and I have been at it for several months and feel really good about continuing my progress. It's been about 13 years since that feeling has been with me; I wasn't as committed to the long haul during those intermittent times, apparently, I think I was trying to ride the coattails of my past success rather than put in the hard work again. I maintained for a while and then began the climb and yo-yo cycle with the 50-60 pounds so I am super happy to be back with the needed mindset - occasional fails and all. I try really hard to remind myself daily now to not become complacent with food choices or skipping the walks, journaling and checking in here.

Exercise I have this odd thing happen to me that I don't know I've ever talked about - exercise induced anaphylaxis; allergic to exercise, true story. Well, it's actually a very mild allergy to wheat that can manifest into a dangerous event when triggered by exercise. I also get really strong endorphins from exercise and there are times I drive myself with very intense exercise which is what can create a problem with wheat in my system. Long story short (too late), I was super enjoying my walk today and really pushing at it as it was a really nice day but the prickly before-the-hives feeling reminded me to take it easy. I still got in a good walk but it's good to listen to the warning signs.

Body image TMI warning!! My butt cheek dimples (my mom used to have me run down the hall naked to show them off when I was a toddler!) are sagging in on themselves after nearly 50 pounds off of this 56 year old toushie - what are these??? Wrimples? Drinkles? I'll say this, it's probably not attractive and I'm not going to man the mirrors to try to confirm my suspicions. This was not an issue years back but I'll take it over puffed out dimples on a huger bum! Now this may be an odd thing to say but I've felt pretty a time or two, although sometimes when I look in mirror, I see something not quite as good as what was in my head - like some little bulges by my bra or arms kinda flappy (to match my wrimply dinkles) and I don't like that too much. This is not a body bash, I'm reporting my perception. I do remember that dropping to a size 10 before is where I stopped feeling completely fat and now that I am in a size 12 again (first time in years), I can feel this again, there really is a perceptible difference in how I see myself as I get smaller. It feels strange - and I remember that, too.

Scale thoughts: you don't own me, biyatch! Standing in solidarity with hubby and weighing once a week. He's having trouble enduring the swings and it's affecting his outlook so I made this suggestion to him and he agreed to weigh in on Thursdays, my weigh day in this group. Still comes with a a chance of one bad weigh-in due to sodium, over-indulging yesterday, whathaveyou, but at least he doesn't have to watch the daily thing. I don't mind as much but I've done it this way, too, and either is fine; I feel solid enough to not need the daily weigh.

I am just feeling so positive about this week! I have really dug my heels in and am refusing to be knocked off course. My daughter texted me just before I got off work today, tempting me to get takeout Chinese. I didn't even hesitate and wrote back that it's a trigger food for me (fried foods trigger me to want something sweet, which triggers me to want something salty). Instead, when I got home I asked if she wanted my home made peanut noodles instead. And she did. This may not seem like a big deal to others, but it's a huge accomplishment for me. Ended my calories today 4 under goal 💚

mrmcgrath wrote: »

Well...went to gym yesterday and braved the stair climber. I managed 100 steps at a turtle pace. My goal is to increase steps each week. Normally, I avoid this particular machine because there are people there and I am embarrassed about the amount of time I can spend on it. Yesterday, I said screw it and did my 4 minutes!

@mrmcgrath that's so awesome, sometimes the gym can be quite intimidating - conquering those unknown machines one at a time is a wine! And I imagine stair climber to be quite the workout!

TeresaW1020 wrote: »

2/4 Accountability (Habit Tracker)
Track Every Bite-I sure did and I’m under my calorie goal for the day.
NO gain on the scale-the scale was the same this morning.
Workout or 7500 steps-I did 60 minutes of 80 Day Obsession, Total Body Core. Steps for 2/3-8780
IF (17+ hrs)- 17 hrs. 42 min.
Thoughts for the day-I had a good day and I'm pleased that I was able to do a couple of exercises this morning that I couldn’t do a couple of weeks ago. I am getting stronger and fitter, but boy does my body hurt and tomorrow is booty day, which I’m already dreading! Food was on point today as well.

@TeresaW1020 WOW, you are killing it!! In our house, we talk fitness level and stamina more than anything - we want to grow old happily and in great health and this is the most motivation! The sore muscles are so worth you seeing the strength and fitness bulding.... => Kudos.

Step Challenge
2/5 - 15613

Tuesday check-in
Calories- under
Exercise- stair treadmill, leg weights, back yoga
Water- over

Habits
Weights 3xs a week- did today
Cardio min 30 minutes a day- done
Strength/core- still on hold
Yoga 2xs this week- did back yoga today, aside of one modification I can do this routine with injury
Decluttering/cleaning- sorted through some magazines, I'm dying to put the box of books and bags of clothes in the trunk and drop off but know it'll set my injury back.
Recipe- no plan yet. I'm going to Sam's Club tomorrow so I'll plan meals around whatever vegetables I get.

bethanie0825 wrote: »

Step Challenge
2/5 - 15613

Is this date supposed to be 2/4? Also, what were steps for 2/2?

Fitbit died! 😭. Trying to revive it now and I hope it works. A lot of my goal tracking is based off of my stats. So sad.

Just a friendly reminder!