@Katmary71 - What a great day you had yesterday! 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
I love how smart you are being about taking care of yourself and giving yourself time to heal. Butt and ab workouts sound fun, too! If you like them, will you share them?
Your new bands sound like a such a treat! I so get the excitement! 🤩
I am also on various cooking groups on Facebook. Somehow in the last month, my use of Facebook has come roaring back, and cooking groups are a new, fun thing to me.
Big hugs on Easter. 👐🏽👐🏽👐🏽
So I did check out the Bob and Brad videos, and am adding Achilles massage to my morning routine. I had plantar fasciitis a couple of years ago -- being almost unable to walk had me get serious about needing to find ways to make changes -- and I had been thinking that was what was whispering to me on one foot. Bob and Brad's video on signs you do/don't have PF suggests its the Achilles. It's not something that hurts a lot, just a whisper. It also confirmed that an Essentrics workout I am doing is a good choice. Yay for that!
Here's a link directly to the Bin Isolation Facebook group. I had linked to a news story, but that site changed something, as that link (which I can see in my history) now does not work for me, either.
"Skin tight pants and no bra" -- this made me laugh, as it describes my weeding attire. I do wear a second shirt, though (long sleeves for weeding, to avoid skin irritation, and, well, modesty. 🤣🤣🤣

@raleighgirl09 - I am with @TeresaW1020 on being super grateful you are up for checking in. You are always such an amazing contribution to the conversation. Don't know if you know that, but you are!
I hope your hip feels better soon. Rest is a smart thing to be doing.
I am a fan of Essentrics/Classical Stretch, and she has this, which might be worth a look. It's a very gentle set of movements, all in or with a chair: Essentrics mini workout for hip pain relief

@leonadixon - Hurray for checking in, regardless of the post birthday cake bump!

@its_cleo - So smart of you to think about the weekend and to make plans! It sounds like you actually have plenty going on. Check in here, too! I know I'll be checking in, and bet some others will be, as well! 👐🏽👐🏽👐🏽
Oh, and for your Achilles -- if you haven't, you might check out the Bob and Brad videos that @Katmary71 pointed us, too. It may all be stuff you are already doing? If not, maybe something will be useful?

@trooworld - Woohoo! I am so glad you enjoyed the Abba video! And hurray to those small wins! Keep it up!
So I started looking for more Abba workout videos. There's a truly deplorable lack, but I did find out that there's an unexpected number of Zumba Cumbia workout "Stayin' Alive" videos like this.

gwamajtw91

Weigh in: Thursday
PW: 167.1
CW: 167.1

Another week, another zero. I was thinking I was heading in the wrong direction so upped my exercise to two 5k runs and a 45 minute bike ride in the last 3 days. Luckily the weather here in Virginia has been great to get outside this week. I have been a little lax with what I have been eating too, so if I'm going to have to focus a little harder on CICO than in recent days.

I'm really glad I have this group to hold myself accountable to (even though I don't post much and don't visit every day)!!
Thanks for all the upbeat and positive comments and suggestions that you all share

@AustinRuadhain Were you interested in the booty band videos? I only did one, my booty was on fire when it was done! I'll definitely do it again soon (probably next leg day since I'm staying away from weights for now) but want to try the other one next. It used the lower leg more than I expected but I wasn't as good as I should've been as I was feeling a little better today. I'm glad you found Bob and Brad helpful! I spent a long time looking through their videos and need to spend some more time checking them out. It's easy for time to fly on YouTube!

Thursday check-in
Calories- under
Exercise- lots of short videos! Yoga with Adriene for Neck, Shoulders, Upper back; dance videos not using legs much; 24Go (gym app on YouTube) pilates stretch and restorative stretching, Walking with Weights/Nick, 5 minute plank challenge, 10 minute abs, Sydney Cummings Butt and Thighs burnout with mini-bands, some other random 5 minute yoga routine that wasn't worth saving

My gym's streaming live workouts and has workout videos on YouTube. Here's the YouTube channel. The streaming is the first choice. I'm bummed that aside of a few dance routines all Les Mills is high impact. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCokTHyQ5VQM1F4lWkiM_0rQ?pbjreload=10

Adriene has to be the most chill person ever, it makes me want to run up behind her and scream BOO to see if she jumps! Here's her neck, shoulders, and upper back yoga, it felt amazing on my neck: https://youtu.be/X3-gKPNyrTA

I decided to try a short walking routine and see how it goes but wasn't in the mood for Leslie, turns out this is one of the walkers in her group, he only has a couple but I liked him and wish he had more. It's 1 mile and goes by real fast: https://youtu.be/kxsglta7Wtg

Habits
Cardio 30 minutes- guilty, kept trying to get dance routines down but without moving much. Did avoid the hip hop ones I was dying to try as they were too long.
Weights 3xs- arms 2, butt with resistance bands and some weight 1 day
Yoga/core- done
Decluttering- none, did too much housecleaning as instead
Recipe- made the roasted cauliflower and lentil tacos with chipotle sauce. The "sauce" is mayo (in my case light) mixed with chipotle chilis in adobo sauce, lime juice, S&P. The whole thing was good but I'll be making that sauce for everything now!

gunderw59
week 2
Friday
PW- 238.0
CW- 240.2

Don't know been using my food scale all the time. Going to lower workout calories burned since i've been eating them. Sorry

OMGoodness! @raleighgirl09 No Licks!!!! I am dying! This is so accurate! Hahaha!

Check In
Username: Shoop69
Weigh in week: Week 2
Weigh in day: Friday
Weight last week Friday: 234.8
Todays Weight 234.0

@TeresaW1020- Whoooooohoooooo on your loss!
@AustinRuadhain @Katmary71- thanks for all the work out ideas
@raleigh_girl -- I too am LMAO over your licks post!

Tiny habits I have started this week due to the inspiration provided by ya'll-

track my food EVERY SINGLE DAY
increase calorie burn daily goal to 270+
brush teeth immediately after eating- for some reason this makes me less likely to continue to eat

Stay healthy everyone!

Username: davors19
Weigh-in week: Week 2
Weigh-in day: Fri
Previous Weight: 275
Todays Weight: 271

its_cleo wrote: »

@gunderw59 if you are using MFP to estimate workout calories I do think it overestimates. So I will slightly under record almost all of my exercises, and then I stick with the formula consistently. It seems to work.

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What else? Not much lol. Doing some work this weekend and that is fine. Will take it easy tomorrow. Strength training on Sunday. For strength training I am copying the workout I did with my trainer.

@gunderw59 , I agree with @its_cleo - I found the calorie estimations to be high. This will sound a bit like tough love - but I began having the most success when I stopped eating into my 'extra' calories. I know - tough. It's gotta be the right move for the individual but thought I'd share.

@its_cleo right there with ya - got some work to do over the weekend. => Can't decide if everyday feels like a weekday or weekend but there is, for sure, a lot less difference these days! =>

@TeresaW1020 Great loss, impressive! Hey, since we've done a lot of the same videos did you like any of Jane Fonda's? I looked at them a few days ago and they're so corny I don't think I could do one without laughing! Denise Austin comes up constantly when I do searches for things, there's too many choices to go back to her!

@gunderw59 No reason to apologize to us! I thought that at first too, it's not going to hurt us, it's about what's best for you that matters. Have you increased your workouts? I don't get exactly how it works but when you do, especially weights, your muscles are more likely to retain water. As far as eating calories back I wasn't eating any back then really got run down, I started eating no more than half back and it helped a lot. I agree with everyone about estimates being high. My Fitbit seems better than I expected it to be now but I'm also in maintenance.

@gwamajtw91 Glad you're getting outside and enjoying the fresh air!

@AustinRuadhain Thanks for the Nick video, I saved it to my workout playlist! If I'd had any idea I would be doing more than a couple videos I would've made workout playlist categories, trying to find stuff is ridiculous now! Here's the Sidney Cummings video I did, it wasn't abs, butt and thighs. my mistake! https://youtu.be/Qh_sBoA9Doo She's really good, has all kinds of videos of different types. The only problem I have with them is my weights aren't heavy enough. I did another ab resistance band today and have a few others if you're interested as well as regular resistance bands (just sent my dad a list). I saved the chicken thigh recipe too, it sounds really good. I don't usually cook with chicken thighs (weird aversion to fatty meat) but it could work with chicken breasts, wonder if I could covert it to the Instant Pot? After one recipe with chipotle in adobo sauce I was smart and froze the rest but am flying through it, I have two backup cans now! I normally don't eat mayo (don't eat much bread) and I may be in trouble now! Not weird to not like mayo, I don't like full fat mayo so I'm not one to talk!

@Shoop69 nice loss, I'm impressed with those of you losing weight right now!

@Cornanda great goals, I think those are all doable! I started putting my laptop on the counter when I go online and marching in place/dancing to music while online. Of course I live alone so I'm not bugging anyone! Walking around while on the phone helps up burn too.

@its_cleo YES! I'm so happy it helped your Achilles, that's awesome! My calves are like rocks and the massage they recommend for calves actually breaks them back down into separate muscles, I'm doing it a few times a day along with lower adductor massages and icing. Of course I'm not back to normal but I'm not doing the best at staying still. So glad you got some relief! As far as dance goes I used to like dancing but I'm not the greatest dancer. I feel totally anxious trying to get routines down but once you do start learning the moves it feels awesome to be doing it right! Just tell yourself that it's YOUR dance, you don't have to do it exactly like they do it. Just keep moving and you're getting a workout even if it's walking in place watching them jump around. Here's a "warm up" from Fitness Marshall, I haven't found the right disco fit yet https://youtu.be/4L5cdskEiA4

@davors19 holy cow, great weight loss!