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3greyhorses
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Good morning!
It's Friday!
One reason I started this group was a selfish one. I knew that posting a daily accountability thread would help keep me on track, keep me positive and motivate me as I try to encourage everyone to keep pushing towards their goals. So far, it's been easy. I've felt good about my journey and happy to have others along for the ride. Today is the day that I'm reaching deep to find my strength. I'm sore, tired and a little depressed. Everything has been work this week and there has been very little fun or enjoyment. My horses are my main therapy and because of constant, strong winds, I have spent little time with them. Feeling low this morning is a clear sign that I need to spend more time doing things I truly love. Today's main focus will be reconnecting with my horses, to my passion. Without incorporating time to do what we love, without recharging our souls, the likelihood of staying strong in our commitment to putting in the work to lose weight is decreased. If we want to make life-long changes, we need to take a holistic approach. As we cut calories and add exercise, I think it's important to also cut out the negatives in our lives and add things that feed our souls. Today, I will swim, track calories, run a mile and give myself the time to recharge with my boys.
Have a great day everyone and please join me in spending some time doing something fun that makes you happy! As always, thanks for being here. I'm proud of all of you!
Paree
It's Friday!
One reason I started this group was a selfish one. I knew that posting a daily accountability thread would help keep me on track, keep me positive and motivate me as I try to encourage everyone to keep pushing towards their goals. So far, it's been easy. I've felt good about my journey and happy to have others along for the ride. Today is the day that I'm reaching deep to find my strength. I'm sore, tired and a little depressed. Everything has been work this week and there has been very little fun or enjoyment. My horses are my main therapy and because of constant, strong winds, I have spent little time with them. Feeling low this morning is a clear sign that I need to spend more time doing things I truly love. Today's main focus will be reconnecting with my horses, to my passion. Without incorporating time to do what we love, without recharging our souls, the likelihood of staying strong in our commitment to putting in the work to lose weight is decreased. If we want to make life-long changes, we need to take a holistic approach. As we cut calories and add exercise, I think it's important to also cut out the negatives in our lives and add things that feed our souls. Today, I will swim, track calories, run a mile and give myself the time to recharge with my boys.
Have a great day everyone and please join me in spending some time doing something fun that makes you happy! As always, thanks for being here. I'm proud of all of you!
Paree
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Morning.
Having a rough start to the morning. I weigh myself every morning and I think that is backfiring. For two days I weighed 340.2, then yesterday at 340.4, and then today at 341.4! I have been eating under my budget and going to the gym. I know that weight fluctuates, but I am so excited to be under 340.
Goals for today;
- Stay under calorie budget
- Drink 65oz of water
- Go to the gym3 -
@jaderbacon - do not let it get to you, it’s just a fake number, and here’s why:
1) you should have had an extra 3500 calories on top of your maintenance number, since yesterday morning, to have an extra pond of fat
2) you ate under calories for a number of days
3) you exercised and went to the gym consistently for a week (or more) and burned extra calories
If the exercise routine it’s relatively new, or harder than before, then surely your muscles are holding onto extra water.
Someone here said to plan on things we can control, like how much, how often we eat/exercise, and never on scale drops, and reward ourselves for the work well done, ideally not with food.
Congrats on following thru with food and exercise for an entire week!3 -
I'm having a crazy week at work but thankfully it is friday!!
I've done well on plan this week all week but today is time of the month
It's weigh day tomorrow too and I have 0.8lbs off of 2 stone loss so fingers crossed!!!3 -
Good morning everyone!
Well yesterday morning and afternoon were good. I did all my goals and then I went home. I ended up having a few beers (11...yep I typed 11) with my husband. This was my dinner. I new I had extra calories from my exercising but wasn't for sure if I would go over my calorie budget. I entered them in this morning for yesterday. I stayed under the budget but I'm pretty disappointed that I had that many. NO ALOCOHOL this weekend.
I listened to one of the motivational speeches this morning and for me it really is putting a fire under me to not quit. I don't like taking the time to enter all my food. I know that if I just continue to do it it will become a habit. If I can learn to love the tracking, after I loose the weight I will be able to maintain it.
Checking in everyday has been extremely helpful to me and I'm so thankful Paree was sooo selfish and started this group.
today:
get 10,000 steps in
stay under calorie budget
@3greyhorses - I really hope that the wind dies down and you are able to enjoy your horses. It sounds wonderful.
@tinacuso - Your are welcome and I hope you enjoy them as much as I am. If you don't and find something else let me know.
@jaderbacon - When I first did WW years ago I fluctuated a lot and it was very aggravating. I was advised to weigh myself twice a day to see what foods might be triggering the fluctuation. So I weighed in the morning as soon as I got up and then weighed again in the evening around 6:00. After doing this almost a month I figured out that I can gain up to 10 lbs in one day if I eat anything really high in sodium like chips, processed lunch meat, pickles and stuff like that. When I started cutting these out I stopped the fluctuating. I still will eat them I just don't do it daily. Anyway something to think about trying. It might help you get under that 340 mark. No matter what you got this!!!
I hope everyone has a great Friday!!!4 -
@3greyhorses unfortunately we can't control the weather good plan to focus on happiness and feeling fulfilled 💜 this journey can be more than weight loss, and it's important to find good new balances
@jaderbacon don't sweat the fluctuations! As you know they're 100% normal 🌈 just focus on doing your best and you'll succeed!!
@MrsAcyprus2015 gaaahh yes TGIF.. remember to take care of yourself during your TOM. If you used to lift your spirits/energy with food (like me), try to make an effort to replace that food with something else that makes you happy! Don't just take something happy (food) away, add something else in its place 🧜🦋 Massage or yoga vid or movie marathon or whatever helps you take care of yourself 🌈
@mrsshots2011 hahha girl I feel you. We took a 2.5 hour walk yesterday (beach, town, shopping, and back carrying packs full of groceries, veggies, etc). Stopped and had a tasty hoppy beer on the beach at sunset and picked up a bottle of rum on the way home. Was just planning on a drink or two but I forgot that we have a Zoom game night with some friends on Thursdays. So we had a few drinks with them and then we kinda had our own in-house party which ended in playing beach ball in the pool for like an hour at midnight 😆😆 aye aye aye.. at least we got in exercise? I did take it way easier than I would have in the past. I used a 1oz shot glass to measure everything and made weaker drinks with calorie-free mixerd, but I still had a beer and 8oz of rum, which amounted to nearly 600 calories of alcohol.. which is close to how many good calories I consumed yesterday.. not the best choice but honestly it was fun and I'm glad I showed some amount of self control (compared to say a month ago) and still made a healthy dinner and logged and measured and didn't midnight snack or anything. Oh well, we're only human 🌈
On a positive note, all that time jumping up and down throwing the ball in the pool actually seems to have loosened my legs up. I don't have foot pain today. 🧜🤓
Fortunately some of my classes rescheduled today so I only have like 3hrs of work tonight so just taking it easy today 🎉🌞
My goal for today is take a bike ride in a few and have sunset walk w partner in the paved neighborhood (might try to jog some if my feet feel happy) then get to sleep early cos I have a mound of work tomorrow.
Stay strong this weekend chicas! Let's make sure to log everything, even if it's not a perfect day 💜🧡🖤5 -
I went over calories yesterday because I gave into an ice cream temptation when I knew that I was out of calories and wasn’t going to exercise again. Oh well.
🤷🏻♀️ Everyday is a new day, right?3 -
My goals this week, for Fri 11/20:
- to only eat back 1/4-1/3 of the exercise calories and stop there ✅, 5/7
- ride bike 2x 30 minutes, ✅, 2/2
- bonus activity: while I was waiting for my work computer to finish some upgrades, I danced to the music my husband was listening in the other room
Writing here every day really works.
Who said you can’t teach an old dog?1 -
@melissalan it happens! did you actually go over your TDEE calories? Or did you just not eat as far under as you'd hoped to?
For what it's worth, my calorie goal is set at like 500 calories a day under my TDEE, so even if I go, say, 100 calories over my goal, I'm actually still eating at a 400 calorie deficit for the day. Obviously we want to reach our goals every day, but it's good to remember these things for perspective
I'm so glad my tummy can't handle ice cream anymore. I had some serious cravings for it a few times about a year ago, until I realized it was giving me awful gas etc since it was like the only dairy product I ever consumed in large quantities.
When I started MFP a few weeks ago I bought these little plastic popsicle maker things, so that if I ever get a craving for a cold, sweet treat I can make popsicles. Not only can I control what's in them, but I also have to wait for them to freeze, so by then maybe the craving isn't so strong
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