Hi Team! Just a quick check-in tonight because I am beat! I just got home from a lovely little wedding shower my staff and their spouses surprised our worship pastor and his bride-to-be with. We all ate and laughed and it was so good to just hang out with my favorite group of people and have fun. I have my plan set for September and plan to hit it hard starting tomorrow. I tried out a sample workout of the new program I'm going to start in another week. It's called Ten Rounds and it is a combo of boxing and weights. I'm very uncoordinated but it looks super fun and guaranteed to make me sweat!

@vegan4lyfe2012 Great loss! I love this: "I hope everyone has a wonderful Sunday! Don't forget to hydrate, eat your veggies, and love yourself for who you are!"

@apple852hk Yay, another September baby, let's pull out those sapphires! I've done no sweetener for over a month and am finding cocoa powder rolled on frozen grapes and on frozen bananas are just like having chocolate! I went through a Costco-sized container of grapes in three days they're so good!

@BethB554 Sounds like you made good decisions all the way around, we can't expect to be perfect as much as we want to be!

@andreiya12 We need to get that scale moving! You have a bunch of horror lovers here, I just finished an Anne Rice book!

Good morning everyone! Not much to report here. Have a good day!

Sunday
Calories: over/under: even
Water: over/under: under
Exercise: ---
Goals or Improvements for tomorrow: track everything, 2 bottles (26 oz) of water

Sunday
Calories: over/under: under
Water: over/under: over
Exercise: over 10000 steps
Goals more walking and weights

Username: leonadixon
Weigh in day: Monday
PW (8/24/2020): 210.4
Check in weight (8/31): 210.6
Check in weight (9/7):
Check in weight (9/14):
Check in weight (9/21):
Check in weight (9/28):

Welcome to all the new members. Looking forward to getting to know all of you

I'm Jackie. I live in Ontario, Canada with my husband of 30yrs and our 23yo son. Our 25yo daughter lives 6hrs away.

I don't follow any specific diet plan but I try to keep my carbs around 100g and avoid foods that raise my blood sugar.

I work in a chocolate factory and just started back to work this week. I'm trying to stay away from sugar completely since I can't seem to eat just a little so day 1 was a little rough

My goals for September are
1. No sugar
2. Weights 3x per week
3. 20 min of cardio per day.
4. At least 15k steps per day
5. Log my food

@andreiya12 Sure, give the macros and calories a try and see how your body responds, if it doesn't work out in a few weeks switch it up to something that works better. I think trying something and testing is a good way to go, if there's one thing I learned it's being flexible and responding to my body is the best way to go and it's an ongoing process. What's best is to test one thing at a time but I'm usually doing a few things at once which means I never know which works best! For example if you're tired with those calories and macros you won't know if it had to do with the food balance or the calorie balance. As far as being tired I try to get my workouts done in the morning these days then wait for it to cool off a bit before I go outside to meditate. Cleaning is great exercise, if I don't want to work out I'll put on a song and dance to it while doing chores, it usually gives me the energy to keep going because I get so hyped up from music.

Monday check-in
Exercise- arm cardio, dance, chakra meditation, Kundalini meditation. I didn't feel like abs or yoga today so I said the heck with it for a change and just enjoyed being in the sun listening to cool music and sweating my butt off!
Calories- under
Water- great

Roughly have my September goals, I'm going to try to up dance, focus a bit more on meditation, and try to average 10,000 steps a day. All this will depend on how I'm recovering/what happens with the medical situation. I want to accomplish SOMETHING by my birthday and pushing the splits was just making the only thing from the waist-down, my ligaments, hurt along with the nerves so I'm backing off that a bit. Stupid body of mine though at least I can use it still! Keeping up the anti-inflammatory diet, I may go more strict that I'm currently doing but not quite yet, tomorrow I'm cutting back coffee by 1/3 as I've been drinking a ton.

Hello and Happy September to all! I am Lisa, I'm 52, and I live in Jacksonville, FL with my husband. We just became mostly empty nesters as both kids are off to college now. I have been mentally checked out from my health goals for the past 20 days or so as I prepared for and adjusted to this event. Finding it harder than I thought to get back to good habits. Baby steps. I managed to log my breakfast only the past couple days- today I'm gonna get the whole day logged! I've been walking a lot during this time, but no other exercise. Today I restarted my strength training. We'll see how those muscles feel tomorrow.

My user name is Cornanda- that is a name I made up from "corn on the" cob. Anyone have something to say about the origins of their user name?

***DAILY CHECK IN - TUESDAY 1ST SEPTEMBER***
Calories: Under
Water: Over
Exercise: 20 mins yoga, 22 mins playing Beat Saber
Goals/Improvements for tomorrow: Track calories, 30 mins exercise.

GabiV125: is actually borderline boring, Gabi is my name short from Gabriela, V-letter last name, and 125 is my birthday 1/25.

Cornanda wrote: »

My user name is Cornanda- that is a name I made up from "corn on the" cob. Anyone have something to say about the origins of their user name?

@Cornanda what a FUN question - and neato background on your user name! My name is Maria but I came up with raleighgirl09 in 2009 (duh) when I was looking for a good @gmail email address. I lived in Raleigh and plain ol' raleighgirl was taken so - I added the last 2 digits of the year. When I joined MFP, I had no clue there was a 'friends' aspect and that everyone would see me as my username. Had I known, you all would be calling me 'pharmgirl' which is a user name I use when I realize up front that it matters!

raleighgirl09
Tuesday check in

Well, today was better for lower calories but dinner was more a junk fest than good for me food. Kinda reminds me of when I was single and would eat whatever - which is kinda the case this week as hubby has stayed at the coast while I had to come back to Raleigh. Odd fun fact....we have an Echo Show at both places so in the evening we call in and just leave it open so we can "be together" before bed. Strange, isn't it???? Kind of like Frank TV with only one channel!

Managed to get in some exercise today and hit the minimum for water - sleep wasn't great for today, what with an early rising hour. Looking to do a better job tomorrow with sodium, it was off the hook today - and on a day that I drove for 3 hours is the least best day for that. Always thinking ahead to the weigh in day and wondering if it will have an impact!

Had to get up super early and drive for 3 hours before arriving to work and then after the long day, came home to see what the flooding rain left us in the basement while we were gone and took care of that. BUT. Not before a GIANT spider on the door made me shriek so loud the neighbor came running thinking there was an intruder!! And indeed - a giant spider IS one helluva intruder!! I have now sprayed the perimeter of my house (not to mention soaking the front door and steps) and will be calling the bug people tomorrow. Last week there was one in the house and after I sprayed him, I had one of my boys come over to retrieve the body that I was skitteshly skirting around!!!

For any spider lovers and spider advocates - I totally get that we need spiders. And I respect them in their environment. BUT. I am also a 5 alarm arachnophobe and can attest that while the fear is irrational, it's also very real and a physical reaction. I have one rule - do not come in the house. All spiders who enter are breaking the rule and will be taken out upon discovery. No prisoners.

@raleighgirl09 I so hear you about spiders! I used to scream until my dad would come kill them. Being single and living alone I had to adjust but of course I'm in a house that gets black widows and I CAN'T adjust to those! I'm trying not to kill anything because it's bad for my karma but I'm next to a greenbelt and it's loaded with critters, especially ants and spiders. Every time I let a house centipede live it ends up on me which feels like spiders!

Tuesday check-in
Calories- right at, I'm over 10 but still have 300 steps to get 10,000 so I'll burn it. I REALLY want to eat but there's only so much veggies in salsa and sausages one can eat! Now if I could eat gluten and peanut butter it would be on!
Exercise- arm cardio, dance, arm resistant bands, stretching/yoga/leg resistance band stretches, chakra meditation, earth energy meditation
Water- great

Nothing new, kind of blue today. I'm going off one of my anti-depressants and not sure if that's why I'm kinda moody but I'm worn out of everyone needing me and not asking how I'm doing. Not the guy I'm seeing who doesn't really ask but listens and keeps being almost too nice, everyone else keeps dumping on me and needing stuff without much reciprocation. I don't mind listening to people's problems and helping them out until it's taken for granted, then I'm frustrated. Not sure if I set myself up for it or not, something to think about. It's not that I'm good at showing vulnerability because I'm pretty strong but come on people, I may not complain about it all the time but life isn't a piece of cake for me right now either. Got that off my chest, thanks! Now maybe I'll resist eating another sausage! I'm supposed to be drinking less caffeine and I'm going to be ahead by 1 cup as long as I don't get it out of the fridge tonight!