Waist Aways - October 2020 Team Chat
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I am struggling. It's a combo of PMS and anxiety. I am eating too much junk. I am grumpy. I am sad. Basically, all the feels.10
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PLACE TEAM PERCENTAGE
PLACE TEAM LBS LOSS
PLACE INDIVIDUAL PERCENTAGE
1st @queenieamy 3.43 %
2nd @darleenturner 2.93%
3rd @iHUSTLE4MUSCLE 2.35 %
PLACE INDIVIDUAL LBS LOSS
1st @cnb124 6.2 Lbs
2nd @queenieamy 6.0 Lbs
3rd @darleenturner 5.8 Lbs
HONORABLE MENTIONS
@ljdanny
@GingerPwr
@Beka3695
@zaralovesKatz
@mbakhtiaruz
@travisspring
@ells_runs
@beije24
@bigblues11
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KellyBgetsfit wrote: »I am struggling. It's a combo of PMS and anxiety. I am eating too much junk. I am grumpy. I am sad. Basically, all the feels.
Awww Kelly, hope you feel better! Drink water to flush the negative feelings out with the salt from any junk eating. Your step count and exercise amounts are amazing. You are super inspiring to do all this with a young baby at home. Hats off to you!
I didn't lose weight this week for the first time since joining the group a month and a half ago, and it was inevitable cause it's always easier at first when the willpower is fresh! I decided to adjust my goals to losing 2lbs a week instead of 1.5 and it slashed 300 calories daily from my allowance, but then I allowed myself to eat my exercise calories so I doubt I've actually changed anything. 😉 Only time will tell!
We're having new countertops installed in our kitchen on Tuesday so I won't be able to use the sink for 24 hours afterwards which means takeout food the night before weigh-in.... Any recommendations on non-salty options?
Great week everyone, next week will be even better!
Courtney
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Step and Exercise update for 17th October:
Steps - 2379
Exercise - 35 min core workout2 -
Hi team!
Great job on the weigh ins for the week all of you who had a green week 👍
I am feeling very unmotivated lately 😕 I feel like I just go through the motions with food and workouts. I am trying to figure out a way to take a break from weight loss but I want to be able to maintain. Im thinking a planned break for 1 or 2 weeks.Not sure how to do this but I have been working on my weight for over a year and a half. I need to get my spark back. Any ideas welcome!
Yesterday the kids and I went on a nice walk with the dogs. Then we collected all of the pumpkins from the garden and brought them up to the house. Tonight we will carve pumpkins. I made carmels today and it feels like fall outside. I made a big batch of vegetable soup for the week.
I got my new dresses in the mail this weekend. One is going back but the other one is amazing and I love it so much!6 -
A planned break (a planned plateau!) is a very good thing to do from time to time. We cannot just lose, lose, lose. It is better to decide to have a pause than to just let one happen any old way. Maintaining for 2 weeks is so good for your body - it gets a chance to become accustomed to the new reality, finish building what it needs to build, and take down what it needs to take down. Just be careful not to give up altogether and just eat all the things and not exercise - that will confuse your poor body something terrible! Plateaus are good things, and you will get your energy back to take on the next level after you sit with this one for a bit. So call it "tracking lite" or something. Move, enjoy, but don't go crazy.conleywoods wrote: »I am feeling very unmotivated lately 😕 I feel like I just go through the motions with food and workouts. I am trying to figure out a way to take a break from weight loss but I want to be able to maintain. Im thinking a planned break for 1 or 2 weeks.Not sure how to do this but I have been working on my weight for over a year and a half. I need to get my spark back. Any ideas welcome!
I got my new dresses in the mail this weekend. One is going back but the other one is amazing and I love it so much!
And wear that new dress often! Try it on every couple of days - it will inspire you. Get people to take your picture wearing it. Loving a new dress is a great feeling.3 -
PW 167
CW 166.24 -
Once again, another week gets rolling fast! Time for the bedtime (for me!) weigh-in update -
Due today (Sunday):
@travisspring
@graceojo999
Due Monday:
@jguldi11
@reflectionofme
@ells_runs
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@micki48
Steps for last week:
10/11: 1,900
10/12: 8,306* +15 minutes moderate strength training/arms & core
10/13: 5,399*
10/14: 6,413* +15 minutes moderate strength training/legs
10/15: 2,774
10/16: 6,785* +15 minutes moderate strength training/arms & upper body
10/17: 9,111*
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@KellyBgetsfit So sorry you are struggling
PMS really sucks... I have some issues around that time of the month as well so know how it feels! Be kind to yourself and remind yourself there is a reason for the way you're feeling right now... and hopefully in a few days time you will be right back on it and feeling better!
Also, if you're really struggling, consider allowing yourself a little break whilst you feel rubbish... If you eat junk, OK, not great but you know you'll get back to eating healthily soon enough. A few days won't make too big a difference in the overall picture. I think it's much worse to beat yourself up about it and feel loads of guilt.
That is my approach anyway... I am probably losing more slowly than some because of it, but I am managing to keep mostly happy whilst I'm doing it.3 -
Morning all!
Weigh in is here and I've crushed down from the clouds with my less impressive weigh in lol 😂
It is still a loss so all good! 🥰
ells_runs
Week 3?
PW 208.6 lbs
CW 207.2 lbs
LTD 18lbs 😃
Woop! Woop! Good luck everyone! 🎉🎊6 -
Well my weekend was a not very good one...
So I had a good weight in Saturday morning, so I told hubby I wanted a steak for dinner, so we had an early dinner, cause we skipped lunch, but I had the steak and bread, and appetizer, all the good stuff... No drinks or dessert though, so that was a win.. Then on Sunday, we had Chilli cheese hot dogs and tater tots for the football game, so I just had that and didn't have breakfast or dinner, I did have some other snacks that weren't great, and I didn't exercise at all this weekend, I mean like barely got 3k each day... but I don't feel I went overboard at all, just not necessarily weight loss friendly foods - and the scale wasn't horrible this morning, so I am back on track this morning -
Okay now that I've gotten my post of shame out of the way...
@conleywoods I feel you on the stuck, I've been at it a year, so not as long as you, but still a long time, it does get old... I did a couple of things, I bought a new journal it will be here tomorrow, it goes from Nov thru Dec next year, so I am going to make it a goal to keep track of everyday there and earn stickers, lol..
I also think for these last 2 weeks of October, I am going to give up carbs, except for breakfast and my daily apple... so basically I won't have carbs with dinner...
I know just going off track will not work for me, it would be a disaster, I mean I already basically do it on the weekends... Maybe you could try that, stick to it, 5 days a week, and give yourself 2 days where you aren't on...
Have a great day, and remember "perfection is the enemy of progress" !
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@Gidgitgoescrazy that "perfection" quote is SO important, and I fall victim all the time. I am still really obsessed with "streaks" when it comes to weight loss. I keep track of how many days in a row I have logged, and how many days I have hit my step goal - they are much longer now than they have ever been in the past, which is nice, but it also adds pressure and if I do ever mess up, it can lead to like catastrophic thinking/binges/meltdown/whatever.
@jugar happy to report that although there was certainly some snacking this weekend, I actually stayed under calories Fri, Sat, and Sun! Cannot remember the last time I did that. Might have been February lol. So thanks for the encouragement! I did decide that if I have a solid weigh-in this Friday, I am ordering takeout for dinner, and making Belgian waffles (with low cal syrup) on Saturday haha. But getting in some long walks those days should help me stay under again!
@conleywoods I've been using MFP on/off since spring 2014, but I really consider my start Feb 2018 and it is sometimes disheartening to realize that a lot of other people on MFP and the FB groups I'm in have accomplished a LOT more than I have in much less time. Especially when I think about a good week or stretch of weeks that I've had, and think, "Well, if I had done this the whole time, I would probably already be at me goal weight!" But weight loss is SUCH a mental game that way! We absolutely have to go at our own pace. I get exhausted sometimes on Sundays planning my meals for the week and thinking about logging, and do this workout, and taking that work. Like ugh. Can it be done yet?! So I think a planned break to have some time to breathe sounds great. And it may even make losing more afterwards a bit easier, since your body will adjust to hanging out at this level?
Unrelated, I remembered I had a set of popsicle holders in my cabinet that I don't think I have ever used and I made Crystal Light lemonade pops for a super light cal dessert this week! Haven't tried them yet but looking forward to it.
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I think I made a good impression on our new CCO, so that's good. I didn't need to be up all night being anxious about it after all.
Unfortunately I was, so I'm super tired today. I'm on that train to sleepytime junction.
@conleywoods I took a break this last June during vacation. Set my calories in MFP to maintain and still logged everything more or less but just kind of chilled out about it for a couple weeks. Discipline is all well and good but you have to cut yourself some slack sometimes too. It's refreshing.3 -
PW 243 lbs
CW 243 lbs
LTD 26 lbs
I weighed myself throughout the week to see the fluctuations, the lowest I got was 242.1, but the average stayed right around 243. I had a decent loss last week so I'm not too surprised to have maintained this week.
I went to the gym 3x, and took the pup for 2 walks, so that's quite a bit more physical activity than I've had lately. I've also been logging consistently the past 16 days which is much better than the last couple of months.
@Kali225 ugh I do that type of thinking too.... I've been off and on MFP for years and I've told myself the same thing, if only I had stayed on track consistently I would've lost all this by now. However, I find that type of thinking to be more discouraging than motivating so whenever possible it's best to reframe. You're absolutely right that weightloss is very much a mental process!
It was exactly 1 year ago today that I lost my 365+ day logging streak and started to spiral into a pattern of weight gain. I'm happy to not be in that place any more! I'm feeling more prepared for the holidays and long winter ahead.
@conleywoods as others have stated, there's nothing wrong with a planned maintenance break. Much better than an unplanned streak of the eff-its!4 -
I hear you guys on the perfectionist thing @Gidgitgoescrazy and @jguldi11 . I try really hard to stay off the all or nothing bus. Sometimes the weekly weigh ins get me into some unhealthy patterns of being more relaxed after weigh in and getting strict as the next weigh in approaches. I think this has been getting to me lately and it's hard to shake.
@Kali225 I struggle with comparing too. One of my MFP friends has been loosing ridiculous amounts of weight and it was making me wonder what my deal was. I looked at their diary and it became pretty clear that I would not be willing to keep my calories under 1000 and to exercise more than 500 calories a day. Mystery solved and no thank you!
@terytha glad to hear breaks have worked for you in the past! You have done such a great job and I feel like if it has worked for you than it is worth trying.
I am taking the next 2 weigh ins off and I have raised my calorie budget by 500. I will be tracking and eating normal but bigger portions. I have a BOD account and they have yoga and meditation stuff on there. I am going to give it a try and do some walking and deep breathing. I will journal too. I'm going to look into some audio books on calorie cycling and look at trying this out starting in November.
I was talking to my husband about this and reflecting on where I was last year at this time. I am down 13-16lbs (depending on my scales mood) I use to only work out occasionally and I have made a lot of progress with logging.
It's a slow journey but at least I still move forward eventually 🙂
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Step and Exercise update for 18th October
Steps - 5186 including 23 min run.
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Username: reflectionofme
Weigh in day: Monday
PW: 126.1
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I love Monday evenings - we have no weigh-ins on Tuesdays, so you don't have to read my reminders!
I'm wondering what helpful reading or activities anyone has found lately. A good blog post on nutrition, ways to make that exercise habit stick better, a fun or inspiring video - whatever has piqued your interest. @YinxFed talked about her inspiring and welcoming running group, there are some good mfp blog posts that people have mentioned - if you have not seen or found anything like this lately, it can be good to go look around and see what you find. So let's have a Tuesday trade-fest - drop off link, title, or idea, and take some when you leave.2 -
KellyBgetsfit wrote: »I am struggling. It's a combo of PMS and anxiety. I am eating too much junk. I am grumpy. I am sad. Basically, all the feels.conleywoods wrote: »Hi team!
I am feeling very unmotivated lately 😕 I feel like I just go through the motions with food and workouts. I am trying to figure out a way to take a break from weight loss but I want to be able to maintain. Im thinking a planned break for 1 or 2 weeks.Not sure how to do this but I have been working on my weight for over a year and a half. I need to get my spark back. Any ideas welcome! !
I am right there with you two. Maybe it’s in the air. January will be two years that I’ve been doing this. I have only lost about 30 pounds. Most of it the first year. Very little this year. I am also on the final slide into menopause with only about a month and a half to go to be officially there, so fingers crossed.
I am struggling right now too. Not being real careful. Not logging. Sometimes not even checking in. (Sorry I was MIA. ) It is a little stressful too being a short bit away from Election Day. The next few months could be the most dangerous the US has seen in a long time. Sorry to be a “Debbie Downer” but it is where I am. My daughter also wants us to move back up north and that feels huge. It’s not happening anytime soon, but there is so much talk about it. Anyway sorry I’m not being a big motivator here. Just trying to hang on. Not sure yet what I plan to do about this funk. Just taking it day by day. I’m not even doing my PT exercises. Hmmm...maybe this is bigger than just weight loss burn out. I am also feeling all the feels. Oh well5 -
@PlaneMonkey and @spyro88 thank you for the words of encouragement! I needed that.
Today was better. I started the day with and workout, which always makes me feel better. I logged everything and hit my macros. I am ready to rock it this week and hopefully see another loss on Friday.
@conleywoods way to focus on the positive. If you had not made those changes, you could have gained in the last year, rather then lose 15ish pounds. If you are feeling burnt on, maybe consider focusing on one thing for a week or two. Add in meditation, or do x amount of walks with your family. Eat x amount of vegetables. Pick something you can do to feel GOOD about yourself, but don't worry about the rest.
@kali225 I'm usually the opposite with streaks. I actually turned of my days logged streak a long time ago, but I'm currently obsessed with staying green this week (although I don't think that will happen 🙄) but what you said about seeing others hit their goals -100% me. I get so frustrated that other people are more disciplined then I am or, even more frustrating, their not but they still seem to reach their goals faster.5 -
I need your help&advice on getting a better workout routine.
I tried my best to not get tempted by food and now I can have self-control in that area.
For years I tried lots of methods to stop eating sweets/added sugar, but at the end, the method that helped me was way different than "you should avoid sugar because it is unhealthy". So I'm sure there are also some methods to help me to back on track for exercising that I'm not yet aware of and I would highly appreciate getting any help regarding this.
At the moment getting back to have a good working out routine seems impossible for me. I gave up going to the gym because of the corona situation and feeling that I m not yet at that point. I intended to do walking/biking/pilates for 7 hours per week. I could do it by having 4 hours of it at the weekends, but yet I can not find the right plan to exercise on working days. also doing pilates is yet so hard for me that I even have not started doing it ( i used to do 3 years ago but can not do it now ). The main excuses that I make every day are:
- I am too busy with work and my workload is too much (but I do not have kids, so seeing moms/dads at MFP doing daily routine shows me that I m doing something way wrong.)
- I have other tasks to do in my free time (chores, reading extra work-related materials)
- I'm so exhausted after work to workout.
- I do not know where to begin.
- I yet need to buy some stuff to exercise (I bought an aerobic stepper and some resistance bands, but yet they are at the corner of my room).
- I m afraid to harm myself to do exercises in the wrong way.
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If I want to be honest with myself all these are just excuses, but I do not yet know how to avoid making them and take the actual action and where to begin.4 -
@mbakhtiaruz 10 minutes at a time, thats how I started.... I started doing 10 min every morning before work, I now do 30-40 minutes, then 2 or 3 10-15 min walks during work, and about 30 minutes of various stuff when I get home... I love my morning exercise, it sets my tone for the day, and I know on days I don't do it, I eat bad, and I just feel like something is missing...
@micki48 Sorry you are having such a hard time, but don't worry about the coulds... Worrying has never fixed, or changed anything, so it's not really worth doing, Your PT and pilates are worth doing though... so I hope you find what you need to lift yourself up !
I had a good day yesterday, today will be good too !
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So let's have a Tuesday trade-fest - drop off link, title, or idea, and take some when you leave.
Most of my inspiration comes from this site: https://www.aworkoutroutine.com/blog/
It gets posted a fair amount in the forums, but this guy is so down to earth and sensible that I even joined his mailing list.
And if anyone else gets value out of video and YouTube the way I do, I recommend Obese to Beast: https://www.youtube.com/user/ObesetoBeast
Dude lost hundreds of pounds and now makes videos busting myths, encouraging others to be safe and healthy, and generally being a cool dude with a really relaxing voice. I've started listening to him while I'm on the cardio machines at the gym.3 -
@mbakhtiaruz I had an incredibly hard time fitting exercise in at first. It took me about a year to really start working out consistently. I don't go to a gym because there are too many obstacles. If I work out at home it takes way less time. I used habit bundling to build my exercise habits. Basically you combine a want to do with a need to do. Mine was I want to lay down because I am exhausted but I need to exercise. The answer was pilates with Robin at The Balanced Life. It could be I want to read so I read on my exercise equipment.3
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@jguldi11 I am coming up to a full year of logging daily, but I also know that there are days in there that I didn't log every single little thing, or days when I just slacked. I actually think I lost more weight in the first 1.5 years since Feb 2018 when I was definitely not logging daily. Which is... weird and kind of frustrating. But I am with you! I feel better prepared for the holidays this year! Last year was the first time I actually logged for Thanksgiving & Xmas. I did a workout Christmas morning before the family was even up! Hoping to repeat that lol.
@micki48 I am in a similar boat when I look back - it seems like the majority of my weight loss thus far was in my first year. 2019 was basically a wash? Bleh. But we're in it together! I have a very good feeling about 2021 (election aside. it gives me so much anxiety. I am going to spend my birthday partially with my parents which is 5 days before election night, and not everyone is... on the same page, let's say. But it will be MY bday weekend so everyone has to go along with what I say!)
@conleywoods "mystery solved and no thank you" made me laugh. There are some people out there who can just set a goal, and go, go, go, even if it seems/sounds miserable. I love food so much, I would not want to lose weight in a way where I couldn't still enjoy it! We're at our own pace.
@mbakhtiaruz some good advice in here already - I combine a free app, youtube videos/channels, and walking/running with my Fitbit for home exercising. The app is called FitOn (I think a few other people in this group have mentioned it), I've been using it for more than a year now and I really like it. They have more than 20 trainers and hundreds of videos, all for free. (There is a premium version of the app if you pay, which just adds some other features, but really not necessary). They have a whole section of "Quick Hits" that are truly short videos 10/11 min or less, and lots of beginner videos across pilates, yoga, HIIT, strength, cardio, dance, stretching, Zumba... so much stuff in there. On youtube, I really like MadFit and Chloe Ting - their videos are hard, but they are very encouraging and some of the videos are also 10-15 min, so it feels accessible and if I have to modify the movements, then I have something to work towards! (Almost every youtube workout I have tried includes modifications. Everyone is on a different level. Just try something out!)5 -
Thank you all for the helpful hints. I ll start using some combination of them from today. I've searched before for the apps and YT channels, but I was not aware of these mentioned ones, these ones look good to start with. 4
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I'm loving these helpful conversations - it is so easy to get into a rut and we all need new ideas on a regular basis, no matter how long we have changed our ways of eating or exercise.
A couple of more things for @mbakhtiaruz and everyone -
Sometimes there is way too much choice online and it is easy to get paralysed. I find it hard to pick youtube or other workouts from among the millions if I don't feel I have the knowledge to build a program that can last and show good results without injury. When I started out, I signed up for a 12-week program online from a trainer in New Zealand. It included a daily workout built for home with minimal equipment, daily reflection and reading, dietary guidelines that were helpful and not too restrictive. It was helpful not to have to make any choices about the exercise - just do it and report in. The reporting part was important to keep me at it. Later when I was not using a trainer or going to a gym anymore, I missed having a structured program. I followed a couple of them on grokker.com that I really liked (with Kelly Lee). There was a monthly fee, but it is not too high and there are some good ones. Now I use a pilates program (the balanced life sisterhood) that just runs on a calendar. You just do the day's workout, they are 12-30 minutes, and they work well. She has an excellent program for beginners on her youtube if you want to get back into pilates. Robin Long.
If videos are not your thing, a monthly (or bi-monthly) meeting with a trainer can work well. You do your workouts on your own at home, but there is someone with knowledge (hopefully!!) setting up the program, and helping you increase your fitness. You don't need any equipment at all, or they can work with whatever you have.
All this is making me need to get to my session for the day! Guilt! The boot that keeps on booting! OK, let's call it accountability and remember how good we feel when we do it
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@mbakhtiaruz
One more thought - you saidmbakhtiaruz wrote: »If I want to be honest with myself all these are just excuses, but I do not yet know how to avoid making them and take the actual action and where to begin.
You just did it. You began by telling us here, and that means you are starting to figure it out. Start with those 10 minutes a day. Or with something else. We'll be there!4
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