F2F has a new chat thread for members from any team who are now at their goal weight, getting near it, or just want to see what maintenance is like. Drop by any time!

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10803339/goal-zone-maintenance-chat-july-2020/p1?new=1

If you are already at goal, or want to stop where you are to see if it is indeed your final weight goal, be sure you are in the "Goal Zone" section of your team spreadsheet. Then come to this chat to explore this new and much longer phase together with others. Let's not be a statistic and just gain it all back, right?

@TeresaW1020 Thanks! Yay, team!

Hello, everyone! Not much is going on today. I'm taking my mother-in-law on another 2-hour grocery shopping trip lol. It should be "fun" considering it's supposed to get up to 95F here today and I'm waiting in the car. I will leave the a/c on and listen to an audiobook. I'm making another Thug Kitchen recipe tonight: Sweet Potato, Squash, and Black Bean Enchiladas from Thug Kitchen: The Official Cookbook. This may be a mistake to run the oven in such heat, but then again, we may have our portable a/c on so it may be okay.

Saturday
Calories: over/under: over
Water: over/under: under
Exercise: ---
Goals or Improvements for tomorrow: stay within my points, 2 bottles (26 oz) of water

AustinRuadhain wrote: »

MommaGemz wrote: »

AustinRuadhain wrote: »

I sent a note to support@fitrockr.com to let them know. It looks like a glitch with the data coming from FitBit, as everyone with a suspiciously low step count is a Fitbit user (currently 6 through 18 on our team rankings). 
Bethanie P and Michelle M are FitBit users, but their step counts are not so obviously problematic (maybe they just had a larger number of steps in when the issue occurred?).

Their support has been amazingly helpful for a free app (appears to be just a labor of love). Based on past experience, they will sort this out pretty quickly. They are based in Europe, and may not look at this until tomorrow?

Do you know if there are any standard troubleshooting steps I could take that might help out? It's still showing a sync date of July 6th. I've even logged into the desktop version of Fitbit thinking that might help it out. It's just hard to get excited about a program that is inconsistent (this is the Data Nerd in me that is cringing about the effect of a "forgotten" week on my overall statistics). FitBit is syncing with MFP just fine, so at least some exchange of the data is happening with Fitbit.

Thanks for your help with this!

Hi there!

@MommaGemz - Phew! So glad that you found the manual sync option!

I did get got a reply from FitRockr:

We have opened a ticket at Fitbit as it seems that syncs have stopped on July 6. Fitbit rarely answers tickets so the best way forward is for participants that experience issues with Fitbit syncing to reconnect. This can be done in the Fitrockr profile. Just click on disconnect and connect again.

@MommaGemz , @GretchenReine and @bethanie0825 - If automatic syncing is not working right now, you might try disconnecting and reconnecting?

We have 3 other people that were affected by the Fitbit glitch on July 6 and whose data has not been synced since.
@raleighgirl09 , @Jactop , and @leonadixon -- It sounds like the best things to do, per FitRockr, is to log on to your FitRockr profile, and then disconnect and reconnect to Fitbit. I think if you do that sometime Saturday or Sunday, your data for the entire week will be updated.

I am sorry for the inconvenience.

So, if anybody knows a better way to do this, please feel free to say so! We used to manage a Slimpossibles Step Challenge by having challengers report their steps in this discussion thread and having someone collect those and add them up each week on a spreadsheet, so that's one option if anyone is up for it!

I think mine finally synced.

If FitRockr ever becomes an issue, I am more than happy to man a spreadsheet and keep track of it to keep us going. I am a spreadsheet junkie!!!

trooworld wrote: »

@vegan4lyfe2012 Hopefully the 9 days will fly by. Good luck with your new program! Your lunch looks yummy. I love the purple potatoes. Usually, when I cook them, they come out gray lol. I must be cooking them too long.

@GretchenReine WOO HOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS, GIRL!

Hello everyone! Lately, the weekend has become the weakend for me. I don't mind one day of less nutritious choices, but this weekend, it was two days. This is not going to get me to goal! What happens is my husband is home, it's the weekend, I want to relax and have fun and then this happens. I didn't go hog-wild binging, but here's an example of my weekend behavior, this happened this weekend:
Saturday
Breakfast: frozen fruit smoothie
Lunch: tuna salad sandwich w/single serving Cheetos
Dinner: Hot dog on a bun with air-fried frozen fries
Sunday
Breakfast: fat-free Greek yogurt with bananas and sliced almonds
Lunch: Panda Express 1/2 Super Greens, 1/2 chow mein + String Bean Chicken Breast + Firecracker Shrimp (didn't eat all of this)
Dinner: 2 pieces of thin-sliced pizza
Plus I had 2 beers on both nights. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Sunday
Calories: over/under: over
Water: over/under: under
Exercise: ---
Goals or Improvements for tomorrow: ride the spin bike, eat what is on the menu for dinner, 2 bottles (26 oz) of water

Weekends are absolutely the hardest...and it's a mental game for sure! Maybe meal planning for the weekend with him? Even if y'all discuss ahead of time where you're going to eat so you can look at the menu and plan ahead of time with your calories (or whatever you track). All in all it doesn't sound like you did really bad with food. Maybe be a little more active? I'm sure it's tough when you're home with him...you want quality time and all.

So, my weekend was quite sedentary...as a lot of weekends are. I did not hit my step goal either day. My food was not bad, which I'm happy with...and which will help me...but...I'm still nervous about weighing in on Wednesday. This will only be my second weigh-in with my new goals. I've done quite well with them...although they are far from perfect. The key is progress, not perfection...right?! Anyways, week 1 was beyond amazing as far as weigh-ins go. I was dedicated and on-point and couldn't have asked for a better weigh-in. I'm not unrealistic though. I've seen The Biggest Loser. I know how WEEK 2 goes!!! Don't we all? I've got 2 days to get my butt moving and make sure I hit my goals and do everything to make sure it's the best weigh-in it could be. LOL It's not going to be a week 1 weigh-in...but I'd like for it to not be UP if that's at all possible!

And yes...I am going to stress about it for the next 2 days!!!

On another note...I've already started looking ahead to my August goals...how do I improve upon this month? What can I add? What do I need to change? Things like that!

@vegan4lyfe2012, that is great that you have gotten some new motivation by digging out your old WW materials. Just think if you stick to your plan how great the scale will be once you get that cast off. Those purple potatoes look fun!!

@trooworld, my only suggestion for your weekends is to first plan ahead the best you can and to try to make wiser choices. I know that it’s hard when your DH is around and you both are wanting to relax. You just got to keep your eye on the prize!

@GretchenReine, the Green Challenge is a fun thing we do to try to keep the teams motivated to lose weight. When we record your weigh-in on the spreadsheet it is recorded in green if you have any kind of loss. If you have a gain it is recorded in red. So the percentage is for the team that has the most losses no matter how small. You are smart to be realistic with your week 2 goals. Week one was amazing for you but as you know that was a lot of water weight that you lost. Now you go into fat loss and that will be a lot slower. You just keep working on your goals and doing the best you can you will see results.

Hey team! Well, I ended up not doing my workout this morning. I was all set up with my weights and everything when a friend called who needed to vent, so I listened to her for over an hour. Then I had to rush to get dressed so I could take my mom shopping. I’m going to do some housework in a bit and will call that my workout for the day. I’m also doing something today called meal-less Monday where I am not eating all day and plan to fast for at least 36 hours. I’m going to really try and if I can't do it then I will eat something later that will be under 500 calories. It’s called Alternate Day Fasting so tomorrow will be an up day where I will eat at least two full meals. Lots of IF’s have had success with ADF and getting their weight to move. We will see!

trooworld wrote: »

Hello everyone! Lately, the weekend has become the weakend for me. I don't mind one day of less nutritious choices, but this weekend, it was two days. This is not going to get me to goal! What happens is my husband is home, it's the weekend, I want to relax and have fun and then this happens. I didn't go hog-wild binging, but here's an example of my weekend behavior, this happened this weekend:
Saturday
Breakfast: frozen fruit smoothie
Lunch: tuna salad sandwich w/single serving Cheetos
Dinner: Hot dog on a bun with air-fried frozen fries
Sunday
Breakfast: fat-free Greek yogurt with bananas and sliced almonds
Lunch: Panda Express 1/2 Super Greens, 1/2 chow mein + String Bean Chicken Breast + Firecracker Shrimp (didn't eat all of this)
Dinner: 2 pieces of thin-sliced pizza
Plus I had 2 beers on both nights. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Sunday
Calories: over/under: over
Water: over/under: under
Exercise: ---
Goals or Improvements for tomorrow: ride the spin bike, eat what is on the menu for dinner, 2 bottles (26 oz) of water

@trooworld I totally get the whole weekend and planning for a little more indulgent, laid back fare. Looking at your weekend food posted, I would suggest the following. Breakfast seems pretty benign and likely pretty close to what you normally might have? Then lunch and dinner venture into choices more 'weekendy' or spontaneous. For those, I would suggest planning ahead for the 1 meal per day - either lunch or dinner but not both - to have the more indulgent or fun or spontaneous choices, however it is you're thinking of that type of meal. Make it the one most associated with a fun event, time spent with hubby or a socially distanced event, etc. For the other one, pre-plan a normal meal. You may need to do that around other events such as - you have a party in the afternoon and dinner out at night. Pick the one to plan more indulgent eating and make choices that are on plan for the other meal. You'll have some kind of idea of what the choices will be even if they are not 100% within your control. And if they are - so much the better.

You can also try other things such as @vegan4lyfe2012 has done with calorie averaging and having fewer on 5 days and 'saving' some for the other days, but maintaining your overall average target calories for the week. This could help keep it all together even with some more flexible eating planned.

Lastly, I would suggest looking at your thoughts surrounding the weekend eating and choices, as well as the weekdays. Do you feel restricted on weekdays and need a 'break' from those choices on the weekend - and why, if yes? Do you allow flexible enough choices during the week to not feel deprived on the weekends? Are you getting some "relief" from something that you need to focus on and figure out? What is being relieved and what are you telling yourself about that relief? Are you taking yourself into an 'all or nothing' mentality? The backlash of being really good all week (this is the all part) can be when you move off of the plan and it becomes much more than you wanted to indulge in (this is the nothing part -my fave podcast calls this 'eff it' eating). Planning ahead to indulge can actually help when you are maintaining your resolve to not indulge. You can still enjoy the event, outting, evening or lovely midday even with on-plan choices. What I mean by that, as an example, is you can enjoy yogurt and fruit at a ballgame instead of hotdogs and chips and still be with people you like, watching a fun game and having fun and the only difference is the food in your mouth. Many times we equate one with the other when actually - the food isn't the most fun part of the event, it's one component and if we break down, the people and reason for the event are the real reason it's fun - we just typically wrap it all into one fluffy ball and then have a hard time separating the food from the rest of it.

HI Team! Sorry I have been so quiet lately. Last week was very hormonal (that TOM) and my motivation was incredibly low. I still managed to log every day, stay within my calorie window, and meet all my exercise goals, but it took pure strength of willpower to get there. I crashed on the couch and didn't move every evening. But I did read every single post and that also kept me motivated and on the right track! Thank you so much to every one who contributes on this thread - especially at times when I am not contributing back, because it really saved me last week!

Today I am feeling much more energized after getting some sleep this weekend. I did have a bout of stress and anxiety this morning, but that wound down and I was able to kick some butt on the stationary bike.

I have been adjusting my calorie window/deficit so I can have enough energy during the days, but still have a sufficient deficit to lose about a pound a week. I think I'm getting there. I have a rough idea of what I should eat on exercise vs non-exercise days. I just have to give it a week or two to see if it's correct.

Anyone else doing the Week 3 challenge? I decided on flights of stairs and I'm already regretting it

Cornanda wrote: »

@trooworld--- I'm not sure I'm qualified to give advice based on my loss to date.... but I'll throw this out there. I live with a husband who likes to eat healthy, but also can eat pretty much anything and not gain. And two young adults who are junk food junkies..... For me compromise works best. For example- if we eat at Chili's, I can eat off the guiltless grill for 350-600 calories. They can get burgers, fries, ribs- everyone is happy. I especially enjoy not cooking and no dishes! I try to steer toward places where I have better options. They accept it because they understand and also have options available that they enjoy.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a pro at blowing up my whole week on the weekend. And I certainly eat pizza and don't always order the healthy thing. In general, this helps some because we all like to eat out- and some moderation can make it more doable.

@Cornanda what I love about our group is the many voices and viewpoints! Definitely qualified - aaaaaand, I am thrilled with your LTD, as I know you must be. Awesome stuff right there!

raleighgirl09
Monday check in

Hey gang! I'm kickin', I promise, been quite wrapped up for the last several days. I have an interview tomorrow, very happy about it and it's for a position I'd love to have! You know - for more than just the obvious would love to have a position, in general!! =>

Calories and water have been good - sleep is off, not getting enough for many days now. No real reason, kinda like tonight....just don't go to bed soon enough. Ahem. =>

@MommaGemz hey - totally cool to be hormonal and cranky and whatnot - glad the energy is back, that's a great feeling!
@digger61 great days and work, glad to have read several days ago that you've been away camping!! Fabulous way to distance!
@GretchenReine week 1 was fabulous and week 2 sounds like it will be green, which is an awesome goal! But the fluctuations will come and that will be ok, too. The long-term trend is what's important! Keep working it, girl, you're doing a great job! My (unsolicited) advice: work to stay under cals on a no exercise day - imo, this is more important than the exercise. Adjust eating around activity, or lack thereof.
@TeresaW1020 housework, totally a workout. A friend listening and not rushing the pal in their need to vent....priceless Good luck on ADF!!!
@katmary71 oh my gosh, be careful!! People are frootloops, sometimes! Lovin' how it's going for you these days, the meatless days sound quite good! Did you do the pesto with feta????? I'm so curious! And dude, protect that daily log in count. Not sure why it becomes a focal point but I can attest to the sadness if it gets away.

Username- melissa2013m
Weigh In Day- Monday
Previous- 258.0
Current- 258.2

*Didn't have a good week ☹*

@raleighgirl09 Thanks! I try to make sure that I focus on my macros daily. I'm just now getting back on track with them so they're a little trickier...but I'm working on them. If I'm over on one of my macros...I definitely make sure I'm under on calorie total for the day! Thanks!!! :-)