It’s check in Wednesday!!! So happy I actually checked all 3 on my habit tracker - that’s a first🤣. I walked a little bit over 8k steps and I was determined to get to my daily calorie goal on my watch. After dinner I went another 20 minutes on the bike. Hoping to get to 10k at some point and go over 500 calories daily. Too bad strides on the bike don’t convert to steps☹️. Thanks to everyone for their stories and motivation❤️

Good night everyone and hope tomorrow’s just as productive as today😄.

Tracey0088 congratulations on your son’s wedding!!!!
Enormous milestone for him and for you!
Please dance for all of us, cheering from the sides

@Jactop That's an interesting correlation you noticed. And if you didn't track, you'd never have been able to look back to notice that!

@vegan4lyfe2012 Congrats on a good first half of your week! It sounds like you deserve a vacation. What a good idea to get a hotel with a kitchenette!

@TeresaW1020 I'm doing okay, thanks for asking! I'm actually feeling energized, being around some of my people (only 3 of us are back). I am a bit tired when I get home so it's good that I planned easy meals/pre-cooked some things because if I didn't, I'd be using Postmates for food delivery! I'm sorry for the headache, those are the worst. I hope you feel better soon. I haven't had Subway in a long time. Yum!

@GabiV125 I love puggles! I love pugs, too, I have a pug!

@Tracey0088 Congrats to your family on your son's wedding!

@raleighgirl09 Great step count! Thanks re: the great days...trying.

@GretchenReine Oh girl, I'm sorry you felt sick! I hope you are feeling better today.

Hello all. Yesterday was a good day for me. I started out with a nice walk with the dog. I had some emotional news but I did not eat over it, I stayed with my eating plan and ended the day at exactly the WW points that I was allotted for the day. I made a really good pork tenderloin in my air fryer which I will post in the RECIPES discussion board in case you are interested. The recipes board can be found here, by the way: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10803881/recipes

Wednesday
Calories: over/under: even
Water: over/under: under
Exercise: walk
Goals or Improvements for tomorrow: eat what is on the menu for dinner, 2 bottles (26 oz) of water

Happy Thursday! Wow, this week is flying by!

WEDNESDAY CHECK-IN: 🟢
Calories: 🟢 all good, on-plan choices; everything weighed/measured and tracked
Water: 🟢 I let myself run short yesterday
Exercise 🟢 THURSDAY GOALS
@GretchenReine - Wow! I am so sorry abotu your rough day yesterday. Your plan for today sounds great! Hope things are going well! 👐🏽

@anido1 - What a great day you had, wow! Thank you for motivating US! 🎉

@LynnJ9 - Hurray for your feeling better yesterday, after Tuesday was rough. It's so great that you kept track of your food on all the days, so when you ate more, you still kept things reasonable. Super smart! 👍🏽

@Katmary71 - Your checkins inspire me every time, especially your workouts! And yay you for finding a healthy, smart dessert choice! I love mangos, too. (I am shopping today and hope to get some!) ❤️

@raleighgirl09 - 👍🏽 SO glad you had such a great day! And that the no-alcohol practice is going well. It sure is a great way to decrease calories. Two walks a day -- impressive commitment and determination! Whatever works for you to get healthier!

👉🏾 I was on the phone last night with a friend who was wishing she had lost more weight so far this year. She has made some huge changes to her eating, but her alcohol consumption is up, and it's cancelling out her other work. She heard as she talked about it -- just like people talking here, online, getting stuff like that said can open up the space to make new choices. So, yay to all of us here for getting in communication about what we are up to!

@Tracey0088 - Oh, my, please set aside any feeling of failure if you don't check in these next couple of days during the wedding celebration. Enjoy the wedding and your grandson's birthday, make the best choices you can. Check in if it supports you and otherwise put us on the calendar for the day after, when you can hit a happy reset. Enjoy your sons wedding! Congratulations! 🎉

I have a hard time passing up my favorite cake; Dairy Queen Ice Cream Cake. So just a nibble. I’m relearning that I am not punishing myself by passing things up, but developing self discipline

Just a quick callout to say -- what great thinking about all this! I hear you being so kind and encouraging to yourself! (I am a huge believer in our getting better by being happy with ourselves and kind to ourselves!)

@GabiV125 - Aww, yay! Your checkin is so happy and sensible! Taking small steps, changing head as well as actions, being kind to yourself -- all brilliant choices! I hoe we can keep being a space to support that for you!

This feels more like a pleasant chat than a challenge! I’m having so much fun!
This time around my approach is just that, to shush the negative talk in my head, to focus on things I like, spend more time outside even if it feels like a sauna sometimes, to listen more, to call the people I truly like.
Maybe the execution of said plan is not perfect...

❤️

@TeresaW1020 - I hope you are feeling better today! Sending hugs! 👐🏽👐🏽👐🏽
And as for the numbers this week -- you SO know the drill, fearless leader! I know you won't let yourself get stopped if it's not the number you want this week! Keep on doing!

@vegan4lyfe2012 - 🏆 WOW! I so love that you have arranged for a kitchenette ion your vacation so you can keep up with the healthy eating! SO smart! So inspiring!

@Jactop - Your looking at your sleep data has ME thinking, so thanks for sharing your analysis and thinking.
ANd a huge WOW 😮 to hearing this from the front lines of a chocolate store:

Week 3 is a big deal in developing habits. At the chocolate store where I work we joke about this trend. The first 2 weeks in Jan are always our slowest of the year with resolutions and people trying to shed holiday pounds. Week 3 our sales jump right back up to normal.

@buniphuphu - It is so excellent to see you, too!
The colored circles are emojis. I copy and paste them from https://emojipedia.org/. I am glad you like them I do, too!

@broncobuddee I've worked out my scale problems, but I need to change my starting weight and this week's weight. Can we make both 340.2? That is what my new scale said when it came on Tuesday.

Yesterday I had plans with my friend to go for a walk. It’s a 20-25 min drive to her house and I worked from home , out at 3 , she’s having a big implementation at work so couldn’t get out until 5:45. I got there just as some black clouds were gathering. I’m just saying that either one of this would have stopped me before, but we walked for an hour with umbrellas on and off. And it did not feel like a chore, but like a reward!

I’m off now to have a talk with my cat who’s having her second hair ball this morning, and it’s not even 8 AM