Waist Aways - October 2020 Team Chat
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Whoah, awesome job team! I'm very proud of you all.
Thank you for all the kind words. I'll be OK. There are dietary things I can do to ease the symptoms and all in all, I'm just glad there's nothing serious going on.
I'm making Thanksgiving dinner today. The menu is extensive! I'm going all out even though it's just the two of us.
Besides my pumpkin pie turned out darn nice and at under 90 calories per slice, totally guilt free. Might as well feast!7 -
Steps and exercise update for 11th October:
Steps - 6188
Exercise - 32 mins Leslie Sansom3 -
evangsimmons170 wrote: »@micki48 Please include me in this month's step challenge if you haven't already. Thanks.
@evangsimmons170
You've got it! Great numbers this week too. Are you keeping the 10k goal?0 -
Thanks for the step numbers step team. I am only missing a couple.
@YinxFed I need 10/7 and 10/10
@jugar just 10/10
@Kali225 10/10
Today has been a dark and gloomy day. It's almost felt like nighttime the whole day with no inkling of sun being seen. Pretty sure it's Delta's fault. Hopefully, it will be better soon.
Today has been a sit on my butt looking at the computer kind of day. Well, that and cooking breakfast, preparing dinner in the crockpot and making cupcakes. My family will be over for dinner tonight.
Not much else to report. I had 6/7 days hitting my 9k step goal, but got no where near it yesterday. Probably today too, but I'm going to go gets some steps right now.
@eggfreak Sylvia, I LOOOOOOOVVVVVVEEEEE your new photo! The gray is looking awesome!
Make it a good one friends!5 -
Hello!!
PW: 218
CW: 214.67 -
My steps for Saturday!: 18,5472
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You're all in the presence of the turkey cooking master.
Dinner was ambitious but fun to make. The menu was:
Turkey
Mashed potatoes w/ garlic and butter
Grilled asparagus
Mashed yams and marshmallows
Biscuits
This is the first time I tried to coordinate so many different dishes in one dinner, and make everything from scratch. It was hectic but fun. I have enough leftover turkey for lunches for a few weeks too.
It was an OMAD day that finished out at 1466 calories. At least, on paper. I have no idea how much extra I consumed due to my habit of sticking crispy bits in my mouth while carving the bird.
And I found the wishbone! That's rare. It's often missing.10 -
@Terytha wow that’s a beautiful turkey. 😭😭...mine never looks like this. Just yum 😋2
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graceojo999 wrote: »@Terytha wow that’s a beautiful turkey. 😭😭...mine never looks like this. Just yum 😋
The secret is butter (or margarine, whichever.)
I take a couple spoons of butter and put them under the skin as far as I can go. Every time I do it, my husband turns green and runs away because my hand moving under the skin upsets him
That keeps the white meat from drying out.
Then I rub a couple more spoons of butter all over the outside so the skin browns and crisps up.
Lessons learned working in a deli back in the day.4 -
Steps and exercise update for 11th October:
Steps - 6188
Exercise - 32 mins Leslie Sansom
I am always in a quandary whether to count walking workouts in addition to steps. It seems to me that the steps = the walking workout. If there are steps + other workouts that do not involve steps, I'm happy to add it up, but the Sansone workouts are like a walk with benefits. What do you all think? Should we add on for Leslie Sansone workouts? Are they more intense than a vigorous walk? I don't do them myself (unless desperate due to terrible weather or something), and since my step tracker counts them as steps, I stick with that. If you do them regularly, chime in on whether they should count more than steps - thanks!2 -
travisspring wrote: »Hello!!
PW: 218
CW: 214.6
WOW!! That is an impressive loss this week! Let us know how you did it!3 -
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@Terytha @CanadianGiraffe @PlaneMonkey
Happy Thanksgiving! We had a fabulous dinner of salmon, roasted buttercup squash and brussels sprouts, potato, broccoli, and my most awesome pumpkin pie. I don't do the beautiful turkey like you do, Amber, but I used to - this year it was just me and my boys (hubby and son), and we prefer fish. It is so much easier!
Tomorrow I'll recover, really... I was supposed to get on the exercise bike tonight, but didn't make it. I'll do it in the morning!6 -
A good day today both for food and exercise, not so much for weather. It has turned cold and windy, even a possibility of snow by next weekend.
We are traveling tomorrow to my home town about 4 1/2 hours drive to celebrate Thanksgiving with my parents, son and daughter-in-law with our eldest son driving in to join us as well. We are each bringing part of the feast with us but I think what we will be most thankful for is the chance to get together as this year we missed Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day and several birthdays along the the way. Having said that we are usually a larger group at Thanksgiving as my daughter-in-law's side of the family also joins us. But this year they decided with the group restrictions in place and the fact that sadly where they live has had a large increase in COVID numbers in recent weeks they would give it a pass this year.
So Happy Thanksgiving to my Canadian compatriots, although it sounds like you may have celebrated already today. I know am thankful for where this journey has brought me this year and for all of you and your support. (And I have decided for one day I am not logging anything!)6 -
PW:168
CW:167
Started the week well but later stress got the best of me. Hoping for more consistency this week.8 -
Happy Thanksgiving, Canadian friends! Sorry that Covid is restricting your get togethers
It is so sad but @CanadianGiraffe glad you are getting to celebrate with some family, at least!
I have been wondering what Christmas will have in store - we normally go all over the place visiting various family and friends across the UK but I think it will have to be very toned down this year.
Yesterday we had takeaway pizza for dinner, my partner had been craving it and it's something we used to do regularly but haven't done now since July! So I tried hard to fit it into my calories by eating a bit less for breakfast and lunch and making sure I got a good workout at the gym. It was nice to have a guilt-free takeaway, and delicious too!8 -
Hi friends
I'm very sorry for the very late intro. I'm 38, live in the UK and studying for a master's in mental health which appears to be taking over my life. I'm also mum and wife to a very busy household where everyone continuously wants food! I love baking which is a real problem as I can't resist the goodies when the whole house smells heavenly.
I've been overweight/obese my whole adult life and have lost and regained weight many times. This time hopefully it will be for good! That's the plan!9 -
Happy Thanksgiving, Canadian friends! @Terytha your turkey looks delicious! I haven't made one for a few years, but we may stay home this year, so I will remember your butter trick. @CanadianGiraffe I am glad you finally got to spend the holidays with your family.💕
I had a great weekend, balanced with family and household chores. I had to work some (should have worked more). I woke up motivated to workout 💪 and the baby woke up motivated for snuggles. I know I need to enjoy this time, but I really miss my workouts. I hope everyone has a fabulous Monday.5
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