Sunday (it's sad how long it takes me to remember what day it is!)
Exercise: Advanced chair cardio, chair cardio with arms, chair boxing workout, chair yoga (sensing a theme?), mobility stretch with Sidney Cummings, foam rolling

Habits
Cardio 30 minutes- done
Weights- upper body 3xs a week total, no lower goals for now
Yoga or stretch/core- done
Recipe- none, made a big Swiss chard, spring onion, sweet potato scramble for dinner and it was delicious, the asparagus needs to be cooked soon so whatever I come up with for it and the other half of the onion then figure out protein from there. Going to look into cabbage rolls though I've never made them.
10,000 steps- 7,800

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I'm going to have to revise my goals since I'll be down for at least another week, not accomplishing them when I can't is irritating me. Also need to fill in Habit Tracker and figure out what I'm doing about Tiny Habits.

Well gang, had a decent day, got my produce box and was excited, then had some bad news. My uncle went into the hospital with a bacterial infection a few days ago. He's been on major pain medication and isn't allowed any visitors. Turns out the infection spread to his heart, he's being transferred to a hospital a few hours away from his city for open heart surgery as it spread to his aortic valve and they need to get in there before it bursts. He's not much older than I am, I can't even imagine going in for a surgery like that without being able to hug his 11-year-old daughter and wife first. If you pray please say a prayer for him.

Good morning team! Are you ready to have an awesome week?

@Katmary71 I'm so very sorry about your uncle, I hope he's okay. I send my very best thoughts.

Good morning team! Not much happening in my world. I did check in yesterday and I posted my 3 tiny habits but somehow, my post got deleted so I will post my 3 tiny habits again. Here they are:

My 3 tiny habits recipes for May:
After I drop off my husband at work, I will do 1 minute of exercise. Then I will spend 5 minutes on social media.
After I drink my morning coffee, I will focus for 5 minutes on Photoshop tutorials. Then I will relax with a book for 15 minutes.
After I brush my teeth, I will track my food for the day. Then I will enjoy a cup of coffee.

Saturday
Calories: over/under: over
Water: over/under over
Exercise: walk with the dog and the hubs
Goals or Improvements for tomorrow: Stick to meal plan, 1 minute of exercise, 52+ oz of water.

Friday weigh in
Cornanda
week 1 (5/1)
PW: 188
CW: 187.3

Kelly_2013 wrote: »

Good Morning, I Missed my weigh in last friday should I just give my weight from this AM or wait until this Friday?

Welcome @Kelly_2013 !

I'd say we update the spreadsheet based on this morning's weigh-in but defer to @jugar if she has other thoughts.

Sunday Check-In!
Good day 🟢
Calories: 🟢 all good, on-plan choices
Water: 🟢
Exercise 🟢
- Jenny Ford / Freedom Fit YouTube Channel - Step Across America Program- Wyoming At-Home Cardio Workouts (Beat COVID-19)- Step Aerobics Beginner - Loved it! Super easy. Worked up a good sweat
- Jenny Ford YouTube Channel - Step Aerobics Super Quick Workout At Home Cardio - 2 Combos - Was having fun so wanted some more stepping fun.
- Sydney Cummings YouTube Channel - 30 Minute Total Body HIIT Workout with Dumbbells
- Date walk with husband (35 min)

Monday Goals
- Work on Habits to track in May and get them posted on the Fat2Fit Habit Tracker! This is a challenge -- optional - but I am going to play, for sure! Didn't get this up yesterday but will spend time on it today!
- Cardio platform workout!
- Weights workout of some kind ✔️
- Stretching - Classical Stretch or foam roller series with Sydney
- Tiny Habit - Gardening (pull at least one weed!) ✔️
- 10K steps

Quick reminder of why BABY STEPS are so awesome! If you get 1% better each day -- just a tiny tiny bit -- you will be 37 times better a year from now! So all of us making small changes to improve our health and fitness -- THAT'S LIKE PAYING COMPOUND INTEREST! The payoff is much bigger than it looks on a day-to-day basis!



SO my overall May goal is to remember this -- to focus on the little 1% changes and to celebrate them. And to let it go when I don't meet my own standards or other people's, and just keep going!

@raleighgirl09 I really want to watch Dark Shadows. I think there are some eps on Youtube. This movie is okay- it has Lawrence Olivier in it and Frank Langella plays Dracula and he does a pretty good job.

@katmary71 have you heard any news about your uncle?

Hi to @deadphoenix and all the other newcomers. I’m Cleo, Canadian. Was doing well until the pandemic! Trying to get back on track.

@AustinRuadhain where do you get those green dots?

My goals for today:

-stay under calories - yesterday No. Today- I'm not sure yet will report tomorrow.

-do my wrist rehab work- Y.

-walk 1 km- I pushed it today and did 1km in the am and 1km in the pm. It was ok but I think that was my limit for sure.

-16 stairs again- this is the hardest thing, tendon was a bit tender. I might drop the stairs tomorrow and give it more time to rest.

-a circuit strength training workout my trainer gave me. This was a great 30 minute workout. It really helped me get out of my fun for a while.

Plus my 3 tiny habits:
-meditate or sit peacefully for 2 to 5 mins > did this on my balcony. Was a nice break from work but it is indeed hard to do nothing!

-1 mobility move for upper and lower body. I am counting this as 2 habits lol! > I did this. For upper body I did a shoulder rotation move- it's good for if your shoulder is like Rice Krispies- snap crackle pop when you move lol. Lower body I just took a foam roller and did my calves.

Goals tomorrow same plus:

-workout session with trainer
-if I get enough work done will try to do a 40 minute mobility session. I have a report due end of week so it depends.

raleighgirl09
Monday check in

Hey-ho, hi to all the gang! At the coast for this week - meaning I have to deal with the dreaded scale that lies and slanders....errrr, or something like that! Ha! Anyway, I'm just gonna report whatever it says on Thursday. Have had some nibbles on my resume this week, spent last week searching out my dream job kinda things. Talking with a company tomorrow, the recruiter who is the first gauntlet before hiring manager, yaddayadda. Interesting thing happened in the job hunt realm - my neighbor came into my yard Saturday chatting on the phone, no biggie, and when he gets up the steps on the deck he says "I'm standing in front of her" and suddenly, on a gorgeous spring Saturday evening, after a hefty Bloody Mary - I am in an interview. Reminds me of the time, a thousand years ago, when a mutual friend of an ex-boyfriend saw me in Starbucks and after some chatting planted a really amazing kiss on me. Like - even if this potential job conversation goes nowhere (uh, it did not with the Kissing Bandit), it sure as heck was nice to have been noticed and deemed attractive for that moment. I still have not heard from her post sending my resume - but that's ok. Sometimes I need the super tiny wins and I'm not ashamed to admit it.

@mrmcgrath wow, exercise planning for the whole week - I find that amazing! I do the food planning and it makes sense to do that for exercise, too! Do you go the simple route of steps per day or more organized such as planning videos to watch, different body parts on different days, etc.?
@deadpheonixrising welcome to the group!! Good for you to recognize the bob and weave you did with staying under despite a little off-track yoghurting!!!
@trooworld you are a girl after my own heart! A world that revolves around coffee is a world worth living in!!!! =>
@Cornanda yay YOU for a great weigh in!!! So happy for you! =>
@leonadixon YAY for the Habit Tracker! Me too - I used to be good on this one and moved to a paper one but it fell by the wayside so I am back on this one....I cheer you on in your efforts!!!
@AustinRuadhain I love the 1% reminder - it really is that simple! Over time, it's the small things - the Tiny Habits, the 1% level ups and all of the nearly imperceptible cheering on and cheering actions we do that add up to a win. And the win can be as simple as - doing what you said you would do. That promise you made to YOU. The end.
@TeresaW1020 way to go, girl!!! You really do have a renewed spark and fervor and I am right there with you - we just have to keep picking and poking away at it, right??? The motto - Never Give Up!!! I absolutely love the Monday Motivation - saved for my desktop!
@katmary71 oThanks s much for the video, I'll try it tomorrow and report back. I am so sorry to hear about your Uncle....so many really hard things for people to deal with it while we all (the world) go through this, but folks not having visitors in the hospital is really hurting my heart.....=< Thoughts and prayers for your family.
@its_cleo snap-crackle-pop is not just for cereal anymore, is it? I'm constantly amazed that on any given day, I can have, without explanation, different body parts be achy and hurty and bitchy and moany andandand...... What the heck happened????
@Jactop I am so doggone happy for you - words do no justice. It's one thing to land into Onderland, quite another to leave that behind and venture into even more exciting territory. Congrats, friend, WAY. TO. GO!!!!! =>

Wishusdonna wrote: »

Starting this May journey at 156lbs, and I have just turned away a plate of biscuits from my hubby!

Hey we are sooo very happy to have you back and doing well! Can you tell us what day of the week will be your weigh-in day so @broncobuddee can get you all set up on the spreadsheet.

Day 5/4
Weigh in : week 1
Weigh in day: Friday
Weight: 192.5
Today’s weight: 192.5

Basic Goal
Workout: 💪🏻🚶🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️
Complete diary : 🥙
Hydrated: 💦
Below sugar goal: 👎🏼
In fiber range: 🤷🏻‍♀️
Self care:🧘🏻‍♀️📚
Breathing exercise : 🌬
Sleep : min 7 hours 🛌

3 habits.
Cleaning something daily
Write down one thing grateful for
5 minutes every hour do some sort of movement (walking, squats, pushups. Etc)


@its_cleo I never could get the app to work right but it seems to sync if I go to the actual webpage.

Hey, @Kelly_2013 ! Hello @deadpheonixrising ! Hello @veryhotmails !

Welcome to Slimpossibles! We are delighted you have joined us!

@wishusdonna if your friend is working out and is interested in seated workouts let me know, I have a good playlist started. One of the instructors had ACL surgery and has pretty tough ones.

@trooworld wow, beautiful walk! I used to live in Capitola when I went to UC Santa Cruz and was about a block from the beach, I used to stop at a little store and get coffee on the way to the beach. I'm really missing it more than normal right now!

I don't know if anyone would be interested in this but I downloaded a mindfulness app called Stop, Breathe, & Think. I've only done one so far when we were supposed to go outside last Wednesday, it was about being grateful for the people in your life. Not bad, it went by pretty fast. Also, my friend who used to take Ju Jitsu was telling me about a breathing technique, you inhale through your nose, picture it going around your brain and down to your chi, then exhale all the toxins through your mouth. I knew about breathing in your nose and out your mouth but this technique is very relaxing, I tend to count seconds with breathing because of a calming anxiety technique but found all the counting is kind of anxiety-provoking, picturing the breathing helps a lot more.

Monday check-in
Exercise: A bunch of chair cardio and yoga, Sidney Cummings 20 minute stretch, foam rolling, biceps and triceps
Calories- under. Just increased calories and feel like a pig with all I'm eating.

Habits
Cardio 30 minutes- done
Weights- done
Stretching/yoga, core- done
Recipe- making soy-maple salmon but I've made a similar version already.
steps- 5000 (boo!)

Thank you for the support about my uncle. He was transferred and his new doctor is trying to avoid surgery at this point. I hope it works!

I really need to think about goals today, taking a break from legs and standing cardio plus no gym is throwing off my goals. I wanted to lift the whole stack on a leg machine by June and had one stinking plate left! Oh well, better than being sick. I haven't started Habit Tracker yet. Getting the produce box again this week, I complained about beets being in it (don't hate them and will eat them if in something but don't love them) and a neighbor's going to swap me for Bok Choy so I couldn't resist, it's something to look forward to right now. The farmer's market opens in a couple weeks. My legs are healing but slowly. I've been putting my legs up a lot but last night I spent a long time reading in bed and it seemed to help about 20%, I just need to keep resting until they've healed all the way and be careful about using my legs in these chair exercises.

If anyone is curious chair exercises are actually pretty good, I'm most impressed by the core workout it gives! This first instructor had ACL surgery, she was on Amazing Race (didn't see her) and has other videos as well. I wish my body looked like hers!
https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PL3sS7mfUxC34GfAUc0zxovv0lA-ZcUx6J

HASFit is my favorite for weight lifting, I'm so happy they have some chair videos! They use weights which helps raise my heart rate.
https://youtu.be/v7wuh_BQgQg

Hello @Katmary71

I am SO glad things with your uncle seem hopeful.

I loveloveLOVE how inventive you have gotten, putting together a workout plan with chair workouts and yoga and foam rolling. Your commitment is inspiring!

I thought I would check in super quick and say that I have learned to love beets on salad. Not sure if you have tried them that way? I either:
- Cut them into largish chunks and roast in aluminum foil packets on a cookie sheet until tender. Once cool, all that goes into the fridge, and I pull some out and sprinkle them on salad, maybe cutting finer before I sprinkle them on.
- I have also been fine dicing them raw and sprinkling on salad. They are drier this way, so the bits (for me) have to be smaller to keep them pleasant.
- You just reminded me of a recipe I need to make again for my family. It comes from one of my all-time favorite cookbooks -- Crescent Dragonwagon's Passionate Vegetarian. It's a wonderful, practical book that I have gotten a huge amount of cooking mileage out of. The recipe (hope this link works) is called Shocking Pasta.

P.S. If there are any cornbread fans out there -- her book The Cornbread Gospels is also amazing!
P.P.S. AM I outed as a foodie yet?

Hi all- I enjoyed reading the tiny habits posted on the challenge page. I've made a list of things I want to work on- some of them are NOT tiny- working on breaking them down. I've noticed lately that one of my worst habits is a combination of procrastination and not making a decision. See, I could stress about EXACTLY which tiny habits I should pick for the entire month and then it would be over and I did NOTHING!!!!!! Not the purpose of this challenge right- Keep it simple! So, I'm saying right now that I am going to have the tiny habits posted tomorrow. Phew. That's a relief!