WAISTAWAYS Team Chat - MAY 2020
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Look at us # 1....... woohoo Go team !
It's monday, but my last monday for a couple of weeks...
I did my 2 miles this morning, I came up with every excuse not to, but none of them worked, so I did them, they may not have been the best miles, but they are done...
SO my goal this week, it to get the 10K steps EVERYDAY, and to do 20 min of pilates twice, and to do 3 20 min yoga sessions... It's tough getting my 10k steps in on work days, on average I get 1-2 thousand steps during my time at work, then with the 2 miles in the morning, I get about 3500- So I have to walk for like an hour once I get home... I gotta start walking while here at work. I need to just make it a habit.. If I could just get in 2 - 10 min, or a 20 minute walk, it would give me more time in the evening to get some pilates or yoga in...
Shoulder is feeling much better, I thought kayaking would irritate it, but it didn't so thats awesome...
We moved our camping trip, we decided to go the weekend after memorial day, We all took off Friday and Monday, so it will still be a long weekend.. We figured this way, there will be less people around...
Yesterday was my off day, so I binged watched a couple of shows on netflix while doing laundry... SO my steps are embarrassingly low... They = 1382
Last week according to my fit bit I got 6 days of exercise which equaled 5 hrs and 41 minutes... This week, I will beat that...
I have started a new bedtime routine, since we got that adjustable bed, Its very comfortable to sit in bed and read, so instead of watching TV in the evening after I shower, I have been sitting in bed reading... I used to have the hardest time falling asleep, well now, I fall asleep so easily, and quickly, it's great.. I always threw off the idea that looking at your phone or TV before bed was bad for you, and affected your sleep.. well I was wrong, it seems it did effect mine..
Okay well Have a wonderful day !
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Happy Monday! I had a really good weekend. I ate well, worked out, cleaned house, did some work, and spent quality time with my kids. It was the most balanced weekend I've had in awhile. The scale is actually up MORE but I hope that is because I changed my workout routine. This is my last week of teaching. I have tons of paperwork to do. It doesnt have the typical magical last week of school. We don't even have a budget from the state for next year, so I don't know forsure what I am teaching (it's more likely one of my teammates will be asked to switch grades). Plus, we don't have a school calendar for next year so I don't know when I go back to work. In 14 years, this has never happened.6
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CanadianGiraffe wrote: »It's been a busy weekend. I have officially finished planting all my garden except transplanting 18 tomato plants. But that's tomorrow's project.
Happy Victoria Day tomorrow to all the Canadian friends!
Sounds wonderful! Just curious, how big is your garden/property? I'm still itching to get my tomato plants and a few others, but have ventured out with the virus out there.
And thanks for the adorable compliment!
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KellyBgetsfit wrote: »Happy Monday! I had a really good weekend. I ate well, worked out, cleaned house, did some work, and spent quality time with my kids. It was the most balanced weekend I've had in awhile. The scale is actually up MORE but I hope that is because I changed my workout routine. This is my last week of teaching. I have tons of paperwork to do. It doesnt have the typical magical last week of school. We don't even have a budget from the state for next year, so I don't know forsure what I am teaching (it's more likely one of my teammates will be asked to switch grades). Plus, we don't have a school calendar for next year so I don't know when I go back to work. In 14 years, this has never happened.
What a fabulous weekend with your family. You have such a great attitude about the scale. It inspires me to not let it get to me. What a strange and oddly memorable last week of school. I remember the magic of it, the goodbyes, the sweet cards. Hugs to you on the uncertainty of your next school year. I know my colleagues are feeling it too. How will the school open? In person or continue with distance learning? What will you be teaching? Who will your partners be? When do you start and how much can you spend ordering materials? How weird and uncertain. My heart really does go out to all my teaching comrades. Hope you get some answers sooner rather than later...and a few sweet "I love you" cards!
@Gidgitgoescrazy What a great plan you have for exercise and steps and for your camping trip. I think you are smart to go the weekend after Memorial Day. Are you interested in connecting with the rest of us on fitbit? If so, let us know. It may give you that extra motivation to get those 10K steps.
Completed 17 minutes of pilates this morning. Boy, did I REALLY need that to wake up this stiff body. I feel so much better having done it. But, those side planks, particularly on my left side, still get me.
Hope everyone has a productive on target day. I think I need to spend some time looking at my data to get my numbers to go down.
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Happy Monday! And Happy Victoria Day to all the Canadians! We call it la Journée des Patriotes in Québec, of course. Heaven forfend a British Queen should have a day! It's just nice for people to have a day off if they are working, and it is traditionally the "get your garden in gear" weekend. I don't care what it is called
My son is finally getting so lonely he came up to visit last evening, and stayed to talk for a couple of hours! He lives alone, just goes to work and keeps away from everyone there, so even though he is quite the loner, he was desperate enough to come and spend some time with us. It was great.
So in the holiday mood, that tea party dress on Michele @micki48 is the most beautiful ever! And you are making it look really great - the Pilates waistline is definitely happening
My tomato plants all got upgraded to much bigger pots yesterday, and they'll go out into the garden in another week or two, depending on the temps. They are looking very happy this morning, but taking up way too much room in my little solarium window. They'll start going outside in their pots every day to get used to wind and real sun now. Toughen them up!
You will love the Fitbit! And @Steph1498 too! We'll connect with you for sure. I was a complete tracker sceptic until I actually got one. I used the phone, thinking that was good enough, but got sick of having to carry it absolutely everywhere and tell it what I was doing. The fitbit pesters you to get in 250 steps every hour, which is surprisingly easy even if you wait until the 10 minute warning to do them. It is simple to use, and really makes it more fun than I thought. I'm a convert for sure! So, sister mine - get that thing set up and have fun! I'm glad you're doing the Tiny Habits thing too. The tinier and sillier your habits and celebrations are, the more they stick and then can grow into something bigger gradually. I have a completely ridiculous thing I do every single time I leave the bathroom, and it not only helps me keep working on pushups, it makes me laugh about it. Who'd ever think that pushups could be FUN!!!evelynladams527 wrote: »I'll be starting the "tiny steps" week tomorrow and the book should arrive soon. That'll help.
My goal this week is to move more. I've got to get this fit-bit of Em's set up so I can keep it going when I'm not lugging my phone around.
My meals tomorrow will be eaten off my very small plate so I can pay better attention to quantity.
Onwards!
I advise caution about the small plate, though - be sure to also eat low density foods that can be served in bigger quantities. Large plates full of vegetables, really big salads (watch out on dressing, though!!) - I find the pleasure of chewing and eating a good quantity of food helps - but you have to make sure they are low density. Then the small helping of the main course, or whatever has more caloric density, feels like enough, where it might not if all you are getting is that small plate of food and nothing more.
17 days with no sweets and half the miles done - you are going to finish the month with a medal for sure!SMcFall0215 wrote: »Wow we did great y’all!!!!! Congrats to everyone let’s keep up the great work. I have stayed at my calorie goal all weekend. So I’m pretty proud of that.. 17 days strong with no sweets ANDDDDDD I have officially finished half my miles for the month.. 30 more to go!! Here’s🍹🍻 to a great week everyone
I love that attitude. They don't have to be good miles, but they have to be miles. And your excuses FAIL! The best kind of excuses - feeble and stupid - and YOU strong enough to knock them down and walk right over them.Gidgitgoescrazy wrote: »I did my 2 miles this morning, I came up with every excuse not to, but none of them worked, so I did them, they may not have been the best miles, but they are done...
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@Gidgitgoescrazy What a great plan you have for exercise and steps and for your camping trip. I think you are smart to go the weekend after Memorial Day. Are you interested in connecting with the rest of us on fitbit? If so, let us know. It may give you that extra motivation to get those 10K steps.
Absolutely, I'd love to connect on Fitbit, I just don't know how.... My Name on there is Vikki H.
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@micki48 gardening steps for yesterday 5/17, 25,612. Sure wish it was part of the 'workweek hustle'. It wasn't all in my garden but I got a lot done. It was a heavenly day and evening to be outside - some weeding and 3 rows of potatoes in. I'll hold off on the tomatoes - the nights are still cool and, having babied them along from seeds, I'd hate to stunt them with rushing it with cold weather - I also have to think harder about how to keep the deer from eating them - we are inundated with deer in this busy suburb.
Love the photo of you and your granddaughter!
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@eggfreak Sylvia, your garden is beautiful! The only way I can make mine deer and other critter proof is to make it ugly. We call it Sing Sing. The fence is high, and it goes into the ground below to discourage the burrowing critters. There are several strands of wire above the cyclone fence to discourage the critters who inspire the Nureyevs and Barishnikovs of the world. For a while, there was a motion detector attached to a truck horn to further discourage the criminal class among the leapers and crashers. And we still never grow anything that raccoons would like because they can get through all our defences! I love living in the woods, but we have to share with a lot of others. And what a step count!!! Yesterday you lapped me like an excited dog off leash on a long walk! I'll try to catch you today
I felt good to do a Pilates session today, a good long walk, and then my physio exercises. The hematoma is still just as large as it has been, and may never completely go away (
) but we're working on draining what can be drained. Drainage is my new fave word. You'd laugh at my side planks on that side, Michele @micki48 - the left hip never touches the ground. Ever. And it is usually my good side! My husband and I have come to the conclusion that I no longer have any external pains in the a** in my life anymore, so I had to grow my own. There might be something to that...
We are missing a lot of weigh-ins! I'll go back and make sure I didn't miss anything between pages or whatever - but if yours is due and not in yet, hop to it, ok?
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CanadianGiraffe wrote: »It's been a busy weekend. I have officially finished planting all my garden except transplanting 18 tomato plants. But that's tomorrow's project.
Happy Victoria Day tomorrow to all the Canadian friends!
It cracks me up that you are so much more north than I am, but you can plant your tomatoes outside already! I don't dare for at least another week or 2...0 -
Gidgitgoescrazy wrote: »
@Gidgitgoescrazy What a great plan you have for exercise and steps and for your camping trip. I think you are smart to go the weekend after Memorial Day. Are you interested in connecting with the rest of us on fitbit? If so, let us know. It may give you that extra motivation to get those 10K steps.
Absolutely, I'd love to connect on Fitbit, I just don't know how.... My Name on there is Vikki H.
I sent you a request (I think). It always tells me no user found but then it finds them, so hopefully you’ll get a request from Michele L.
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Thanks for the compliments you sweet people! 😘
@eggfreak Love your garden. I still haven’t gotten soil for my raised beds. Our actual soil is clay, clay, clay so it needs heavy amendment.
@jugar glad you are getting some help for that pain in your @ss. Hopefully it will go down. Kudos for keeping that side plank up, but not a pleasant incentive. Feel better.0 -
Hi fellow Waistaways, Here are my numbers for Monday.
PW 225.5
CW 225.5
I am actually happy with these numbers since last week I lost a lot of weight because of being sick. So not having a big rebound in weight is a pleasant surprise for me.
I am tracking my bio-metrics weekly on Mondays:
Current bio-metrics:
age - 66
weight 225.5
blood pressure 125/68 pulse 62 (I always take my blood pressure 4 times and use the average)
glucose - 110 (I will want to keep an eye on this. It is higher than I want. I would like to see it less than 100)
ketones .3 (would like to see this higher than 1
glucose ketone index (GKI) - 20.37 I am not in ketosis at this time.
previous week's biometrics
age - 65
weight 225.5
Blood Pressure 128/65 pulse 55
blood glucose 99
ketone level 1.0
GKI 5.5
April 25th when my weight was 234.5:
Blood pressure avg 144/72 pulse 68 (Average of 4 readings)
Glucose 102
ketone level was below .1
Goals for this week from 5am on 5/18/2020 to 5am on 5/25/2020
1) Stay in ketosis. Plan going forward for this week: To cut back on the amount of net carbohydrates I am eating and be consistent for the whole week. Net carbs per day <30 grams
2) My weight goals: I missed my goal to weighing 224 lbs. today by 1.5 lbs. Next Monday my goal weight is 222 lbs. I would like to keep my GKI number in the range of 1-9.
3) Eating Goal - Track my calories, fats, total carbs, protein, fiber, trans-fats. Figure net carbs per day. My Net carbs per day to be 25 grams or less. My calories to be 2500 calories or less. My water intake to be 4 cups or more.
4) Exercise goals: work hard in the yard to where I am breathing hard, sweating and having to take a rest periodically to catch my breath so to speak. Do this at least 3 times this week for a duration of about 2 hours or longer. Weather is predicted to be nice so no excuses.
5) Sleeping goals: re-adjust my sleeping schedule from sleeping during daylight hours to sleeping 4 or more hours during the night and waking up at 5am. My goal is to have at least 2 nights this week where I do this.
6) Directed Meditation for 15 minutes per day or longer.
The Goals above are for just this week. I will re-assess my goals each week on Monday for the following week. My thinking is that I can do anything for 7 days but thinking I will have to do something for the rest of my life is much harder on my psyche until I have done it for a month or more. But if I keep my week to week goals fluid with my longer term goals in mind, then my longer term goals entrench themselves deeply into my subconscious without the resistance I would normally have if I set off with "set in stone" goals. My long term goals are subject to change as I reassess them each week. I may change my long term goals if I decide they are not what I want or circumstances change. The goals are there as a road map for my subconscious but there are many roads that can be taken on the road map just in case one of the roads my be washed out. There may be a road that goes somewhere better that I can take which I won't hesitate to let my subconscious work on. I have learned that for me, if I don't work with my subconscious when I want to make a change in my life, then it is much harder for me to make a change. Especially when it involves habits that I have developed over decades. I know I can't order my subconscious around because it works 24 hours a day 7 days a week and my conscious mind can not use its will to combat it. Rather I use my conscious mind to gradually introduce the changes to my subconscious by directed meditation, lucid dreaming, visualization, prayer, repetition, and Emotion. When I get my subconscious to accept my objectives and goals as being beneficial, then it will work for me rather than try to sabotage my efforts to change my habits and activities and change becomes inevitable and painless.
My longer term goals.
1) Weight goal for Monday, January 18, 2021 is to weigh 154 pounds.
2) Sleeping goal - By June 18, 2020 I wake up each day at 5 am after getting at least 4 hours of sleep feeling refreshed, excited to experience the coming day, and with a definite purpose to fulfill.
3) By June 18th, 2020 I get 30 minutes of strenuous activity as defined in #4 of this weeks goal.
4) By June 18th, 2020 I do directed meditation at least 2 times per day for 15 minutes or longer.
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Sorry I didn’t send these in sooner but
Pw 185.2
cw. 185
I’ll try and move more this week.
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Username: reflectionofme
Weigh in day: Monday
PW: 123.0
CW: 122.99 -
SW- 192.4 (5/4)
CW- 189.4 (5/18)
GW- 180 (end of month)
Ugh. I’m blaming it on my covid punch (wine). Have been amping up the exercise. I will do better.5 -
Just curious, how big is your garden/property? I'm still itching to get my tomato plants and a few others, but have ventured out with the virus out there.
We have 8 acres but it isn't all garden! I do put in a pretty big garden though. Our son and daughter-in-law own a cafe and they always appreciate fresh produce so I plant lots with them in mind. Looking at the forecast I am pushing the season a little with the tomato transplants but I like to get them going as soon as possible. Our growing season is already so short...5 -
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What a day!
This was our warmest day so far this spring, and it felt good to just spend the whole day outside. Of course, the insects are also happy it is so nice out, so there was a certain amount of swatting, itching, and cursing the black flies. Still, hanging out with the plants, the birds and frogs singing away, and all kinds of lovely outdoor tasks was wonderful.
And we are so good! Of course, a lot of our success is because @unevano was ill last week and lost a lot of weight, but we'll thank him and take it! Let's hope that everyone continues to carefully balance and feel great about eating within the margins.
Remaining weigh-ins for Sunday:
@graceojo999
@justinb_83
@alexsandramorff
Coming up for Monday:
@reflectionofme
@unevano
@MoStacy
@ells_runs
Request! If anyone is getting close to goal, please let me know! How close are you?
PW: 108
CW: 108
I stayed the same, had a lot of deadlines this week but I’ll try to stay within my calories limit this coming week and get some exercise in.5 -
@unevano That seems like a very well thought out plan! I have to look up ketosis. I like the description of the subconscious, that you know to work on it and that there are many roads in there in case one gets washed out.
@jugar I'm not that close to my goal weight and maintenance- still 15 to go until I'm at 145.4 -
Gidgitgoescrazy wrote: »
@Gidgitgoescrazy What a great plan you have for exercise and steps and for your camping trip. I think you are smart to go the weekend after Memorial Day. Are you interested in connecting with the rest of us on fitbit? If so, let us know. It may give you that extra motivation to get those 10K steps.
Absolutely, I'd love to connect on Fitbit, I just don't know how.... My Name on there is Vikki H.
I sent you a request (I think). It always tells me no user found but then it finds them, so hopefully you’ll get a request from Michele L.
Okay I didn't get it, so I'm afraid you friended a different Vikki, but I looked it up and it turns out I never had a user name set up just a display name... So I set up a user name and it's the same as here Gidgitgoescrazy
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