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BeUncommon wrote: »

roz0810 wrote: »

hey hun you're in the right place ❤️ sorry for your loss. amazing job on the weight loss so far though! x

Thank you very much roz, appreciate it xx

you're most welcome ❤️ thank you for sharing and best of luck on the rest of your weight loss journey x

Hello Accountability Buddies!

It’s been awhile since I posted an update or set new goals but I’m finding myself a bit short of time lately. I appreciate the core group keeping us all motivated and welcoming new members! @roz0810 @kstpierre52020

Like many of you, @Cerizez @kiay131982 ... I’m also dealing with a stalled scale; however, I haven’t made any adjustments yet so I’ll need to add more movement. I took a nice walk through a local nature preserve with my family yesterday but plan to get more serious about exercise tomorrow (Monday). Today, it’s raining and I have to get an invoice completed so it will be processed this coming week. It will be important to get my new contracts in place before the state government and university I work for make budget cuts due to lost revenue! Anyway, once I can get my finances set for the coming months, I’ll feel more comfortable focusing on increased exercise. We’ll be paying two college tuition bills instead of one this fall so I’ve made peace with the slower weight loss in order to meet broader family goals ... but I’m determined to manage both!!

So, Monday begins my attempt at balancing multiple goals at the same time ...

Instead of planning specific exercise time, which has been difficult to carve out - I’m going to try to build movement into my day. I’ll try moving during virtual meetings like @kiay131982 is doing, and I’ll try to be really active while getting housework done. I hope this new approach works so I can feel ‘caught up enough’ to focus on myself again. I definitely need to gradually put my own needs first but, right now, my need is to lighten the clutter in order to get rid of distractions ... and, ultimately, I hope it leads to lighter body weight! Hold me accountable!!

Thanks for all your inspiration and great ideas @mnalsa83 @camillasmith1987 (& both of you for the work you do on the frontline of the crisis!) @jvando74 @Cerizez @renaegry, strength and bravery (@BeUncommon carrying on your Dad’s legacy through your character!) and good advice @fairestthings and too many others to name! Shoutouts to all for your good work and dedication to keep improving. As I’ve heard: “Every morning we’re born again. What we do today matters most” ... So much for my commitment to starting tomorrow 🤣😂🤣!

Best wishes to everyone and let us know how we can support you in meeting your goals. What are you working on this week?

Hey! Add me too please 😁 looking for friends to motivate and help keep each other on track

Hey, y'all!

I'd like to join and check in with your group.

I'm aiming to lose 20 pounds before the new year. My fitness goal is to get fit enough to join a boxing gym without totally embarrassing myself. As someone who has never run a mile in my life (I did some on an elliptical 8 years ago) or had a gym membership, can't do a real push-up (yet), and can't do a sit-up (yet), I don't feel like I can join any fitness group without a putting myself down and stressing myself out.

Once we're allowed to leave our homes safely, I want to work with a personal trainer to help me learn what exactly my next fitness steps should be.

In the meantime I'll be trying to learn to jump rope in the park!

If anyone has worked with a personal trainer to increase their fitness, let me know how your experience was!

Morning all!!! @Zoejohnse91 welcome!! You dont need joining up to anything, just keep coming on here and update your progress and successess and failures and frustrations too! We are all in the same boat. Feel free to friend add me if you like, my diary is open

@PatriceFitnessPal it was me that wanted the diaries open.... I find it so helpful to see people eating real food and succeeding!! So thankyou for being a real person xxx

@arameni welcome!!! Dont worry about not being able to do a push up... Theyre bloody hard!!! i work with a PT. Before lockdown I did one small group class with her and one private session a week and I love it. Now its all online so its a bit different as Im not lifting heavy weights at home... But I still love having someone that will push me.

@jvando74 you've got this, come on can I ask... Is your 300-500 calorie defecit AFTER the defecit that mfp already gave you when you set your goals?? If so, you may be eating too little and thats why you are finding it hard to stay on track... Once youve let mfp work out your defecit you should try to eat that amount, not drastically under... Or your body will go into stress /starvation mode and losing weight will be even harder!! Xx Better to eat that bit more, lose weight and stay on track. Starving ourselves causes binges and yoyos and the feeling of failure as it isnt sustainable xxxx Sorry to preach... X

@kstpierre52020 - I'm sorry your dad is having to go through chemo, that's tough. It's totally reasonable to live in the moment and ditch tracking sometimes. That's commendable that you're still committed to mfp/weight loss.

If I know what I'm having for dinner, I track the cals before hand. Then I can kind of just set it and forget it, but in my mind, I know how much I'll be having.

I'd say if you want to throw in a beer or two, track it in advance. Or, maybe give yourself the cushion of an extra 200 cals at night for popcorn or beer, and have a sense of what that looks like (2 beers, full bag of popcorn).

For birthdays & special events, I give myself a break from the macros and just stay within the calorie range. 1/3 of the day's calories are on dessert and maybe I'll drink gin instead of beer to keep the cals low, but hey, I stayed within my range!

@kiay131982 Thanks for the encouraging words!

Thank you guys so much. One more question. Do you guys eat your workout calories?

So, I think this is a response to @kiay131982 and @kstpierre52020...I think I have my calories set at 1200 and then MFP also does its little thing where it tracks my calories burned through exercise.
I count my calorie deficit after all those MFP calculations so I end up eating more like 1800-2100 calories per day as I’m burning over 300 most days with my run and other exercise/activity. I’m almost never hungry/starving. I mean, I’m hungry at meal time, but nothing crazy and I’m not starving and denying myself food in between. I actually think my 7am-6:30pm consumption is appropriate and healthy (good amount, nutritious choices), it’s just the after-dinner “reward myself for getting through the day” sweets that kill me. I’m definitely not a dieter — food denial is not something I do happily, I also get migraines if I don't eat enough/regularly, so I try to keep my weight stable through exercise. This usually works except now when I need to practice some sugar denial in the evening. Just need to break the evening sugar binge habit...getting there!

Thank you guys. Your input is insightful. It hit me this morning- anything you want you have to work for. I don’t always want to work out but I do because it’s become my habit- and I never think- boy I wish I hadn’t done that.
I don’t always feel like working on relationships but I do because they matter.
I dont always feel like doing job work, but it’s great when I get the reward.
I think i need to take this same approach with the food side of health- there is space for a break but on a regular basis I need to make good choices even when I dont feel like it. I’ll never wake up the next day and think- I wish I didn’t make that good food choice!
So much if this is mental, but finding the right head space is important -thank you for supporting me and each other’s here!!!

AprilSue welcome!
Jvando, kiay, earthyem- thank you all

Hi guys! I hit the mark yesterday (Monday) with calories and bedtime — it felt so good! I’m a bit off today with both, but nothing crazy. Going to try and regroup tomorrow and hit the mark again. I’m making another cake again, this time for my little guy’s 6th bday on Thursday. This cake is MUCH smaller though, so I’m hopeful it won’t hang around so long. Besides it’s carrot cake, that’s healthy, right??