WAISTAWAYS Team Chat - MAY 2020
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Steps for sat = 10,2523
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I’m enjoying my Fitbit - thanks to everyone for the suggestions! I’m going to figure how how to get connected to the challenges this week!
Here are my steps from last week
5/17: 15,547
5/18: 17,702
5/19: 6,620
5/20: 28,206
5/21: 10,487
5/22: 4,027
5/23: 6,4846 -
At the first of 2020 I decided o wanted to run a half marathon in Luxembourg. I thought it would help me with making and sticking to my plans.
The race I signed up was scheduled for this month but was cancelled in March. I ran it anyways! This afternoon I ran 13.1 miles through (and beyond) my neighborhood. I’m feeling strong and sore.!9 -
A half marathon!!! I am so impressed. And you did it just this afternoon! That must be some impressive number of steps! WTGAt the first of 2020 I decided o wanted to run a half marathon in Luxembourg. I thought it would help me with making and sticking to my plans.
The race I signed up was scheduled for this month but was cancelled in March. I ran it anyways! This afternoon I ran 13.1 miles through (and beyond) my neighborhood. I’m feeling strong and sore.!
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Sunday weigh in
PW 185
Cw. 183
Good week. I have taken up gardening. Had to buy some pots and get some soil. Borrowed some gardening tools. Will plant peppers, Tomatoes and spices. I’ll start clearing out the tiny patch of grass this week.
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A good week indeed! 2 pounds down, and a garden up. What spices are you planting?graceojo999 wrote: »Sunday weigh in
PW 185
Cw. 183
Good week. I have taken up gardening. Had to buy some pots and get some soil. Borrowed some gardening tools. Will plant peppers, Tomatoes and spices. I’ll start clearing out the tiny patch of grass this week.1 -
I’m enjoying my Fitbit - thanks to everyone for the suggestions! I’m going to figure how how to get connected to the challenges this week!
Here are my steps from last week
5/17: 15,547
5/18: 17,702
5/19: 6,620
5/20: 28,206
5/21: 10,487
5/22: 4,027
5/23: 6,484
@Steph1498 Congrats on running a half marathon! That's amazing! Was that your first? Is that what you did on 5/20 for nearly 30,000 steps in one day? You're doing phenomenal work!😄😄7 -
I posted my weigh in today, but I don't see it now.
PW: 148
CW: 147.53 -
Hi everyone! Just a quick check in. I was so happy to take a walk today. I may have had a delicious strawberry margarita this afternoon. 🍓 Back on it tomorrow.
Congratulations to all our losers.6 -
@steph1498 Wow, Wow, Wow! That is so amazing. That is a huge goal that took a ton of time and dedication. Way to go for seeing it through even after the race was canceled. That had to be a tough moment to find out your race was canceled. Way to turn the situation into a positive!3
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Today went better than yesterday as far as the energy level goes. It's almost that time of the month which likely is responsible for being tired and craving carbs and sugar. Got in an hour and 40 minutes of walking today, hooray! I just had coffee for breakfast. Lunch was a huge ceasar salad with chopped up chicken and homemade cutouts. I love creamy salad dressing like ceasar. I always dilute my creamy dressing with water and red wine vinegar and whisk it up. It's like having double the dressing at half the calories and it spreads better. My kids slept overnight at grandma's house. I made coffee for my husband and I and we went for a walk in the woods and had a little bonfire. He really wanted to Bbq steaks tonight. I had half of mine and will make beef broccoli with the leftovers tomorrow. I had dessert too but didn't get too crazy with the calories. It was a fun night and nice to spend time with my husband without kids.
I met my goal to not eat my exercise calories 3 days a week again. This week I want to work on desserts. I really have been thinking about redefining what dessert is in our house. I would like to shift more towards fruit. The other night we made whipped cream and served it on top of fresh berries with mini chocolate chips sprinkled on top. It was a big hit. So something along those lines. If you have any ideas I would love to hear about them.5 -
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A favourite in our house was diced fruit & berries dressed with a little lime flavoured yogurt.conleywoods wrote: »If you have any ideas I would love to hear about them.
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I had a busy day in the yard. And then tried to do a Pilates PVR when I got back in but my legs said that was too much! Sciatic nerve was on fire in both legs so didn't get it finished. Heading to the hot tub to soothe my aches and star gaze.
Happy Memorial Day tomorrow to all of you south of the 49th!4 -
Today's weigh in I think I have to stick with my 214lbs and start fresh next month 🥺
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May Week 4
PW 214lbs
CW 214 lbs
Good luck everyone 👏👏👏4 -
My deepest apologies for falling down on the job and not motivating you and celebrating these results until now. It's been a crazy month here.
May Step/Exercise Challenge Results
Week 1
Total Steps - 556,308
1st --@jugar 90,254
2nd --@gidgitgoescrazy 69,531
3rd --@KellyBgetsfit 66,751
Week 2
Total Steps - 589,515
1st --@Micki48 89,339
2nd--@eggfreak 83,080
3rd--@jugar 82,692
Week 3 - 45% reporting
Total Steps - 412,611
1st--@jugar 102,904!!!!
2nd--@Steph1498 89,073
3rd--@Gigitgoescrazy 76,423
I hope I have everyone's steps. Just as a reminder, we still need to post here on the Waistaways thread even if you are competing in Fitbit Challenges. I will do my best to be timely in posting next week's results.
Can we beat our total steps and reporting percentage for the last week of May? I KNOW we can do it!! Let's go team!!!2 -
At the first of 2020 I decided o wanted to run a half marathon in Luxembourg. I thought it would help me with making and sticking to my plans.
The race I signed up was scheduled for this month but was cancelled in March. I ran it anyways! This afternoon I ran 13.1 miles through (and beyond) my neighborhood. I’m feeling strong and sore.!
Congratulations!!! What a wonderful accomplishment!!! I hope your muscles are feeling better and recovering today. Yay for you!0 -
conleywoods wrote: »Today went better than yesterday as far as the energy level goes. It's almost that time of the month which likely is responsible for being tired and craving carbs and sugar. Got in an hour and 40 minutes of walking today, hooray! I just had coffee for breakfast. Lunch was a huge ceasar salad with chopped up chicken and homemade cutouts. I love creamy salad dressing like ceasar. I always dilute my creamy dressing with water and red wine vinegar and whisk it up. It's like having double the dressing at half the calories and it spreads better. My kids slept overnight at grandma's house. I made coffee for my husband and I and we went for a walk in the woods and had a little bonfire. He really wanted to Bbq steaks tonight. I had half of mine and will make beef broccoli with the leftovers tomorrow. I had dessert too but didn't get too crazy with the calories. It was a fun night and nice to spend time with my husband without kids.
I met my goal to not eat my exercise calories 3 days a week again. This week I want to work on desserts. I really have been thinking about redefining what dessert is in our house. I would like to shift more towards fruit. The other night we made whipped cream and served it on top of fresh berries with mini chocolate chips sprinkled on top. It was a big hit. So something along those lines. If you have any ideas I would love to hear about them.
Kristi, I love your description of making time for you and your husband and the fun time you spend together. My children are adults, but that is one of the BEST things you can do for a marriage while raising children, making time for yourselves as a couple. Your love shines through so clearly to me. What a wonderful thing!!
I think I need to rethink desserts as well. So I am all ears for suggestions. The past few weeks I have seen the scale creep up. Not sure all of it is fat, but rather holding on to fluids because of injury and salt. I feel stronger and more fit, but still the scale moves up. That cannot continue.
I do have dessert regularly. It's kind of our 9 o'clock thing. I know. Bad idea. Ice cream is the norm. But I think I may put that on hold. I have been having a dermatitis outbreak around my nose (very unusual for me). We were out of ice cream (among many other things like lettuce) for most of last week and it started to clear up. Yesterday, we went shopping and restocked. I had ice cream last night. Today, my dermatitis is acting up. Good thing we are wearing masks! LOL Anyway, my point is I need to make adjustments like you. I just bought a watermelon, so I think that will probably be my dessert this week or maybe I'll make some variation of fruit sorbet or fruit smoothie. I'll just pretend it's my frozen strawberry margarita.
We had many inches of rain last night and thunderstorms predicted for today, so hopefully I can get in a walk. If not, I need to do it here at home.
Goals for today:
8.5K steps
Drink 80 ounces water
Get at least 15 minutes of active minutes
Log all food
Stay under calorie goal
No ice cream!5 -
PW: 108
CW: 109
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There’s a huge bumble bee hanging out with me on the small porch. It’s funny because the last place we lived (30-minutes away) had one that visited on cloudy days (or evening time) and would crawl into the folds of a blanket. It did that through the fall. Never found a dead one so not sure where it wintered.
At any rate, I’ve been wildly distracted and missing writing & reading Waistaways’ entries. My goal this week is to write every day and get my steps in more quickly. I missed last week so will do them this week for sure.
I’m struggling with communication with my adult daughters. When sharing experiences and misunderstandings it’s apparently my “job” to just listen, pause, and reflect. If I speak too soon about my side of things, I’m being “defensive...it’s better to understand than to be understood...” OK, so, at what point do I have the chance to share my part? I’m encouraged to “take up my space and be proud” while also remembering the “Four Agreements” (“...it’s not personal”).
WTH
I’m sick of parenting strong thinkers. I call them other things sometimes, but will refrain here. I’m sure y’all understand!
I’m going for a walk now.
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Two more weeks. Just two more weeks and I'm on vacation. So far away. -_-
Something messed up in my stomach again. I'm gaining a pound a day, I'm already up 5. I am definitely not eating that much! Its disheartening though.
I used to hate walking so much but now I really look forward to the long walks we take on the weekend. That said, we need to prep before we go on another. I sunburned my face a bit. Got those fair skinned redhead genes, I am only either white or burnt. =P6 -
Username: reflectionofme
Weigh in day: Monday
PW: 122.9
CW: 1234 -
Username: unevano
Weigh in day: Monday
PW: 225.5 lbs.
CW: 224 lbs.
I thought I was going to have a great week this week because on Thursday I weighed in at 222. I think at that point I decided I was doing good so I didn't need to be so strict and I had a couple meals where I stuffed myself with less than Keto friendly foods. Unfortunately those 2 meals have delayed my progress a week or more from where I would have been if I didn't do that. I need to file this emotion of regret into my subconscious so that next time I want to "celebrate" with food, I will remember this week in full emotional detail and that should be enough to make the right food choice next time. On the plus side I am happy I lost 1.5 lbs. but my goal was missed by 2 pounds. I also experimented with eliminating dairy out of my diet which actually made me feel really good. I tried cheese again yesterday on top of some almond crackers I baked for the first time and had cream cheese with celery. I woke up this morning with a headache and runny nose and sneezing. Just a coincidence? Maybe. Further experiments will be needed for me to know.
Here are my current Bio-metrics.
age:66
Weight 224
Blood pressure 126/70/ pulse 57 (I always take my blood pressure 4 times and use the average)
Glucose 99 (I am very happy about this because last week it was 110 which is a pre-diabetic reading.)
Ketones 1.1 (happy with this being above 1.0. Last week it was only .3)
Glucose Ketone Index (GKI) 5.0 (I am in moderate ketosis which is good for weight loss)
Previous stats.
5/18/2020
age - 66
weight 225.5
blood pressure 125/68 pulse 62
glucose - 110
ketones .3
glucose ketone index (GKI) - 20.37 (not in ketosis)
5/11/2020
age - 65
weight 225.5
Blood Pressure 128/65 pulse 55
blood glucose 99
ketone level 1.0
GKI 5.5 in ketosis
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
GKI - >56.67 not in ketosis
Goals.
This weeks goals from 5am on 5/25/2020 to 5am on 6/1/2020
1) Keep my GKI number in the range of 1-5
2) My weight goals: 220
3) Eating Goal - Track my calories, fats, total carbs, protein, fiber, trans-fats. Figure net carbs per day.
4) My water intake to be 64 fl. oz. or more.
5) 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.
6) Directed Meditation for 15 minutes 2 times per day or longer.
7) Celebrate my wins with activities that I love doing rather than food.
8) Learn how to make fat bombs and make at least 1 batch this week.
9) Learn to make keto crackers and make at least 1 batch this week.
Scoring my goals from last week 0-7 (0 being not done at all thru 7 being perfect)
Goals for I set for myself from 5am on 5/18/2020 to 5am on 5/25/2020
**3** 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
**0** 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** 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.
**7** 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.
**0** 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.
**7** 6) Directed Meditation for 15 minutes per day or longer.
Score for all goals this week combined **3**
Must do better this week!
My longer term goals haven't changed.
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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Wow! After some quiet days, you have all given me a lot to catch up on!
I am good and worn out after putting out ALL of my plants into the garden today. We are having a really hot week, so the soil is nice and warm from all the sun. It was time! I won't miss carrying all those plants in at night and back out in the morning as I have been during the past week or so to harden them off. And I am sorry to hear about all the rain down South
We are so dry I have to water the gardens a lot or nothing will come up. Rain might be coming on Friday...
Amazing step report @micki48! Thanks! I hope I have kept up with everyone's exercise minutes. You are remembering to post your exercise minutes, right? If you're on the team, both steps and other exercise count, so make sure you report them and I'll try to make sure I post them on the spreadsheet. I'll bet @Steph1498 is going to whip us all with her steps from yesterday! It will be a tough number to beat.
@conleywoods and other dessert fans - it is hard to change the dessert thing. What works for me is sorbet. I have an inexpensive ice cream maker (the kind where you freeze the bowl, and then the electric motor stirs the mixture around - no ice and salt or hand cranking!). I just use fruit and a simple syrup when needed, and whatever herbs, grated lime or lemon peel, etc. that seems good. There is zero fat, not too much sugar, but it sure keeps the ice cream monster in me happy. Now that I have stopped eating ice cream altogether, I don't want it anymore at all, as long as there is some sorbet around. Mango, strawberries, cranberries, rhubarb, currants, pears, just about anything. Throw it in the blender then in the machine, and you have it. Other fave more or less healthy things are apple slices with almond butter (or sunflower butter). My kids always loved those too.
@Terytha I hope your tum feels better soon! Keep on walking - and these 2 weeks will fly by.1 -
SW- 192.4 (5/4)
LW- 189.4 (5/18)
CW- 189.2 (5/25)
Need to increase exercise activity (have been back on the bike, feels great), less whoops eating (obviously).
On a side note; now that we are getting back in the office, can I share how much the Table of Torture is making me twitch?! The Table of Torture being that area where there is a cornucopia of doughnuts, cakes, cookies on a daily basis, YIKES!!! I have not caved, yet, but man. And while I’m at it, why can’t we keep these temptations in the kitchen and out of the common area? Soooo hard.3 -
Decided to thin out a dogwood and then noticed how shabby the juniper next to it was looking. So I tackled it as well which turned out to be a much bigger job than I had time! Sadly it is all waiting for me for tomorrow...2
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Well that weekend went by entirely too fast...
Did some canoeing, did some kayaking, scrubbed my tent, then waterproofed it, sorted through all of my camping gear and got rid of the extra stuff.. Still haven't' found my nice hammock, or other Bluetooth speaker..
3 Day work week, then 4 day weekend for me
We leave friday morning for the mountains, so I will have to do my weigh in on Friday instead of Saturday, because cell service there is really spotty, and I won't have a scale, so yeahhhh...
So I took yesterday as my day off, and I did not exercise this morning, My back was killing me, I'm not sure what I did but it is super irritated, so I have my tens unit on it, and it's working well, so hopefully I can make it up after work, if not, I will get as close as possible...
My steps for 5/25 = 5506
Won't be having a 10k day everyday week, this week, but I am going to shoot to beat the total steps, since I have a 5 mile and a 8 mile walk planned, plus all the walking done with camping anyway...
My stats for last week were pretty good, I got a total of 80,622 steps - 521 active minutes - I think that would be my best week ever..
Okay have a great day !
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Happy Tuesday!
Our weekly no weigh-ins day, and everyone is all caught up so far. If you have a minute, reflect on your month of May. What flowers bloomed for you? What weeds are you having to pull? What are your plans for a beautiful June?
I have enjoyed the later part of May the most - getting outside so much more, and soaking up the rays. It feels wonderful, in spite of the countless black fly and now mosquito bites. Intake has been good, with a couple of days off, and exercise is not looking like it used to, but it is working! I do less workout and more work outside, and that is good. The weeds? I get too silent. I need more interaction in my diet, even when I don't feel like it. Being inside the bubble is a bit of a trap - it is easy, feels fine, but is not very nourishing. More music, more talk -
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grrrrrrr.....lost my comment....forgot I couldn't go back in the thread to look...well, more later on today then...sorry steps from last week are so late....I now know how to get the screenshot from fitbit on here.
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