Happy Monday

@its_cleo I like the chickpea blondies, my husband is meh about them yet he ate them for breakfast yesterday so what's that tell you? They are easy to make. Congrats on the loss! I'm getting cabin fever, too.

@cesse47 Yay! Congratulations!!!! WOot WOot!

@TeresaW1020 Oh the pressure to be in charge of hosting the Zoom meeting! I'm sure you'll do great, though! Happy anniversary of meeting your hubby! I hope you enjoy the pizza and the wine.

@Katmary71 Thanks for the link to Rocky's video, I'd not seen it. I might try it, I was planning on doing a Leslie video today. re: the burgers...yes, and I reheated mine in my air fryer the next day and got it sort of crispy on the outside which was very pleasing to the taste. So, if you don't have an air fryer, I would recommend trying to get it crispy in the oven if you can. The inside won't get crispy like Boca or Morningstar burgers, it will be mushy still, but you should be able to get a sort of crisp on the outside. I hope you like them!

Hello everyone! Happy Monday. I went over last night on my points but boy was it was worth it: we were scheduled to have an on-plan meal, but when I told my husband what we were having he made a face that told me he wasn't into that so I said, "Would you rather have steak?" The little ethnic market near us sells filet mignon for $7.99 a lb, which is an incredible price. I made filet mignon with a blue cheese butter, lyonnaise purple potatoes, and macaroni and cheese. I am not negative in my points for the week, I still have weekly points, and I also still have FitPoints. I will also plan to work out most days this week to make up for this hedonistic meal.

Calories: over/under: over
Water: over/under under
Exercise: rest day
Goals or Improvements for tomorrow: YouTube video of some sort, but 52+ oz of water.

nbbaby
Week 4
Monday
PW: 210.6
CW: 209.5

raleighgirl09
Monday check in

Ah, a week past the job thing and I have better perspective and outlook - not perfect but I'll take progress over perfection, and less awful physical anxiety in the pit of my tummy. =>

Did dance vids in my living room today, it was amazing! I'll be doing them more, working on daily. If I can do that for 30 or so minutes and take my walks, I'll be upping the burn and continuing to give all the stress hormones a kick in the tail on oooouuuutttttaaaa HERE!! Be gone, devil! Haha, I might be crackin'.......

@trooworld and @apple852hk fantastic weigh in!!! NICE!!
@trooworld thanks for sharing the blondie recipe, I MUST try these!
@mlhopp93 excellent loss and a great goal to have!! =>
@bethanie0825 your coworker sounds like a hoot and great inspiration! And I am inspired by your running - still babying the hip but it's improving and I'm excited to get back and do it! Going to take a cue from you and not do it on back to back days - even though I want to, but it's not worth being in pain and having to back off for so long.
@mrmcgrath great weigh in, you are really doing well in the long haul!!! =>
@Katmary71 I'm so curious now, I'm going to try your frozen berries trick. I have frozen fruit for smoothies, which I have not had in a while, but I can imagine that just having them in a bowl, half frozen would be so good! And the stash of herbs you have would make a fantastic scrub - Rosemary/Lavender/Ginger salt scrub with olive oil would be a great spring and summer scrub!!
@trooworld SHAZAM, way to rock the weekly points with a super yummy dinner - it sounds pretty fantastic and I love the flexibility for you to have them where they count most and scale back another day
@TeresaW1020 we also celebrate the 'meetaversary' and ours is 19Apr2009! We also celebrated with some order in calzone and wine!! We're in sync!
@nbbaby very nice weigh in, way to go!!
@its_cleo congrats on the great weigh in and YAY for a delicious and sane ice cream treat!! I'd rather have the scaled back version and feel good about it on a thousand different levels than one blow out and feel crummy I made the Chana Masala and it turned out great - it's on plan for tomorrow and I'll make the Sweet Potato Roti to go with it....I swear, the masala and bread combo just really does it for me. Have never made Roti before but we're forging ahead!

Username: Jactop
Week: 4
Weigh-in day: Monday
Previous Weight: 201
Todays Weight: 201

Monday check-in
Calories- under, have a lot of calories left but I'm stuffed, I walked around while talking on the phone and burned a ton of calories
Exercise- cardio, upper body, abs, yoga
Water- over

Habits
Cardio 30 minutes- done
Weights- 1 upper
Yoga/core- done
Recipe- decided to do something different with the ginger and it's currently being salted overnight to finish pickled ginger.
10,000 steps- done

I got a box of produce sold by the farmer's market yesterday and used the Swiss chard in a huge stir-fry for dinner and had that along with cherry balsamic vinegar brussel sprouts. Enchiladas are on hold until I get through more produce. Had a better day than yesterday, stayed busy and did lots of dancing videos which made me smile.

Yesterday wasn’t a bad day but I ate way too much carbs and the scale showed it today. Thank goodness my official weigh in day isn’t till Friday. I have time to correct it. My weekly average is still lower than last week’s so that is a positive. Yesterday, I helped my husband put out fertilizer on the hay field, so I did not do my 30day yoga challenge. Not good since I am only on day 2. However, I did do some dumbbell exercises later in the evening.

Congratulations to all our Slimpossibles Step Challengers!

Our high steppers for last week (I took myself out, since I am running this!):
1 - @bethanie0825 with 89,221 steps
2 - @Katmary71 with 88,771 steps
3 - @raleighgirl09 with 71,475 steps
Together we logged 572,155 steps last week. That's about 255 miles logged doing Leslie Sansone videos, socially distant walks outside and more! Go, SlimSteppers, go!🤩

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JOIN US Didn't join at the start of the month, but think a step challenge would be fun and/or help you stay in motion? (It's doing that for me!) Go ahead and jump in now! Walking is a great way to help stay healthy. Steps taken along with walking videos in the living room count! Outside walking is great; just be careful to keep to that "6+ feet away" social distancing rule.
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Happy and healthy stepping to everyone!

THANK YOU to the Slimsters here who are helping us test the "Team Vs Team" and "Activity Points" functions in FitRockr by being part of our April Activity challenge: @bethanie0825 , @Cornanda , @gwamajtw91 , @Katmary71 , @leonadixon , @mrmcgrath @TeresaW1020 , and myself. (Thanks, too, to @jugar for helping get this going!)

STATUS As of this morning, we are a little behind the Waistaways -- not much, though, so keep up the great work!

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Username: Trlong1308
Weigh-in week: Week 3
Weigh-in day: Monday
Previous Weight: 228.2
Todays Weight: 228.0

Not a big difference but not a gain

Because we cant let that other team win lol!

raleighgirl09
Tuesday check in

Hi all!! Had a wonderful day! Dance vids, a long walk and a long bike ride for exercise! Getting plenty of sleep these days and had about double on water!! Did food prep - uhhhhh - Roti is both simple and hard to execute - but results were so delish! Made some hummus today as well and had to use my extra chick peas in the (now large vat of) hummus because I over salted and had to add to the batch. Ugh! I have a can of chick peas that I can possibly use for the Blondies recipe but hubby doesn't want to eat sweets and I now have 4 more Roti to eat - and a leftover partial sweet potato. I'm thinking, save the blondies for another day and make a tiny amount of no sugar sweet potato cheesecake-kinda-thingy and roll it in a Roti like a cannoli. Yeah. I'm all for supporting the Hub's wishes to not go off of his plan but I kinda wanna make something over here. It's a bit of a tight rope walk but....I can do this!!! (Imagine the Wonder Woman stance and sparks flyin' offa me!!!!)

Much less anxiety again today - I know me and I know I have anxiety ahead because there will be interviews, etc. And I normally interview well (why am I assuming I won't in the future....?) so I need to just practice that and work to not allow outside influences to break my confidence. I actually am good at my job, dammit!!!

But - what if I just ride the anxiety now and don't try to pin it down and make it leave? What if I just watch it laze on by and then turn to something else and see if it will dissipate and be less impactful? I may not be able to control the anxiety and the physical feelings but maybe I can, in turn, not let it control me? Just trying to get some perspective.

@Katmary71 did you already tell us what produce box you get and how you feel about it? It's possible I missed that! I have been online ordering and doing curbside pickup and I like that but wondering if a produce box might also be a good idea - I need to look and see what is available locally
@mrmcgrath I guess I have been watching you from the sidelines for.....about 8 months or so? You're doing well and have such a calm way of going about it and so steady at the race.....I am very inspired by your steadfast progress! I am celebrating you! =>
@trooworld what an excellent way to work the plan - because we can have choices and live while also honoring choices and showing up for us and our goals!! YAY YOU!!!! =>
@TeresaW1020 we also had the most amazing day, here! It was nothing short of the absoLUTE PERFECT spring day!! Hey - what is the mood in GA? Do most Georgians agree with opening or not....? Curious how that strikes the reg'luh folks
@Trlong1308 we'll take it - a loss of any amount is a FABULOUS thing!!! =>
@AustinRuadhain I am in the infancy of dance videos, compared to the veterans here!! I start with this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq7ryQbiSHw

Then I move to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCnyD8kgOkk

Back to the first one, Geetar - then this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbhK_SzqkS8

Back to the second one, Love Set Me Free and then this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0GGn5wj0YQ

These all take about 30-35 minutes and allow for some heart pumping and then slow down and heart pumping, slow down and done. I'm a long way from the hard core stuff but this is a good intro into more cardio and mixing it up. I just know I need to step up my game - and I'm ok to do that. ONE. STEP. AT A TIME.

Love y'alls!!!!!! =>

Tuesday check-in
Exercise- Shaun T, Dance Marshall, Sidney Cummings strength, yoga, foam rolling
Water- over
Calories- under

Habits
Cardio 30 minutes- done
Weights- 1/1
Yoga/core- done
Recipe- made pickled ginger. I made chicken taco meat but that was an easy recipe, came out kind of dry, don't think I like Instant Pot chicken breasts
10,000 steps- done

Katmary71 wrote: »

Tuesday check-in
Exercise- Shaun T, Dance Marshall, Sidney Cummings strength, yoga, foam rolling
Water- over
Calories- under

Habits
Cardio 30 minutes- done
Weights- 1/1
Yoga/core- done
Recipe- made pickled ginger. I made chicken taco meat but that was an easy recipe, came out kind of dry, don't think I like Instant Pot chicken breasts
10,000 steps- done

YUM on pickled ginger! And - yeah, I am not a fan of IP chicken breasts, either. It does a great job on so many foods but I find the chicken breast less than appealing this way - I'd rather poach slowly with stock and seasonings and then shred and use as my base fr taco meat, chicken salad, etc.

@Cornanda - You have such a warm, positive attitude. You are so great about having gratitude be present. When you thank people (you thanked @TeresaW1020 and @raleighgirl09 in the comment I am responding to), I feel grateful to them, to you, and I am reminded to have gratitude be present in the rest of my life. Anyway, thanks!

@AustinRuadhain This made my day!

@raleigh_girl I DID A QUOTE RIGHT!