WaistAways - March 2021 Team Chat
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PW: 225.1
CW: 224
Yay
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PlaneMonkey wrote: »Guys, I did it! hopefully it stays this way:
CW: 198.4
PW: 200.2
LTD: 45.6 Lbs
I've gotten used to the reduced calories (1300) and I'm in a routine of controlled portions for breakfast, lunch, and snacks. If I could only tame down my weekend dinner and red wine over-indulgences I'd get to goal in no time, but the point for me is sustainable and baby steps otherwise as soon as I stop tracking I'll rebound faster than ever (been there - done THAT!) So Saturday night I probably have a few too many extra scoops of mashed potatoes, but it's all about balance! I don't feel deprived and I probably won't until Sangria Season arrives. That will be the true test! My favourite thing last summer was floating on my boat or an inflatable tube with my Sangria and a book. That's how I got to my starting weight last August. If anyone has low-calorie sangria recipes, pass them my way!!
Enjoy the rest of your Wednesday everyone!
CONGRATULATIONS!!! Yippee! So proud of you. You must be so happy. Keep up the good work. And yes on the Sangria light. Sounds delicious. I’ll keep my eye open.1 -
How it get to be to be Wednesday?! Slow going this morning. Still need to do my Pilates. I spent some good time working in my garden cleaning things up and planting omelet new plants yesterday. Silly me. I did this after having my first mani/pedi in over a year. It’s ok. Mainly needed cuticles cleaned up on my hands and i wear gloves.
Trying to help my son brainstorm a move for next week. He called a moving company, at my suggestion, And they wanted over $3,000 to move a sparse 1 bedroom apt. 200 miles. Yikes. seems so high.
Have a great day everyone And welcome to our new members. 🙂3 -
You have a new member heading your way.....Please welcome @Mandylimbu 2
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@Mandylimbu
Cool! Another Mandy! It will be fun having two
Welcome aboard - please let us know about you, and dive right in. Soon, you will meet the other one!
We will have quite a few new people coming in - I hope you all spend some great time with us and build the kind of habits and health you need and deserve. We're all in this together
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Hi. I m Lori. I signed up for April. I started keto in the end of Jan and that is going well although i end up eating the same things and it gets a little boring. Not much of a cook but I have tried some baking. Luckily my husband makes dinner2
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Met all goals today. Steps 122162
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Hi. I m Lori. I signed up for April. I started keto in the end of Jan and that is going well although i end up eating the same things and it gets a little boring. Not much of a cook but I have tried some baking. Luckily my husband makes dinner
Hi Lori - lucky you with a husband who makes dinner! It is always tricky to balance good old predictable food (where it is easy to track your foods, know what to expect, and keep it under control, but it's, well, boring) with interesting new foods (where it is easy to go off plan, or overboard, or find things you really don't like). I hope the gang here can help you find some inspiration to get in there and try your hand at a few dishes. I'm a big one for eating the same basic recipe every day but varying the sauce or flavour elements - a skillet full of vegetables and whatever protein or legumes, and then toss on pesto, soy/ginger, herbs, curry, etc. There are others in here doing keto or similar plans as well, so I imagine you'll find some buddies. In any case, welcome!
It had an amusing appointment this morning - the surgeon who removed my hematoma six weeks ago finally was to see how it is doing. I got there on time, and waited, and waited... the nurse came out and told the few of us who were waiting that the doctor had not arrived and they were trying to reach him without success. Another 20 minutes later she told us he would be there in 15 minutes. I was the first appointment, so I went into the exam room and after another bit of a wait, in he strolled looking like he had just stepped off the ski slopes. Well he had! He got the days mixed up after several schedule changes, and had thought he had the morning off to go skiing. He looked downright dashing, if rather embarrassed. It made a nice change from tired old scrubs or boring doctor dark trousers and white shirt. In any case, I still have a lot of inflammation and have to be patient. Hmmph. But at least I can do any kind of exercise, pressure won't do any harm, and gradually over the next weeks or months the pain and swelling should subside. I will be able to get back on my horse one of these days! It still hurts a bit too much, but soon, I hope. So it is time to work up the exercise routines again - they have rather fallen off lately...
Sorry for the long story!
HEADS UP for Thursday weigh-ins:
@conleywoods
@kalaki6145 and @ashleycarole86 - you are new, but if you want to submit your Thursday weight, then your starting weight for April will be the most up-to-date. Thanks!2 -
@jugar I am so sorry, but I am not going to be able to weigh in until Friday. I am sorry for the delay.2
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@jugar and group - Good morning! This is my first weigh-in for April. I'm looking forward to the motivation and accountability of this group! Posting my weight each week will definitely keep me focused. Thanks!
Starting weight: 198
Previous weight: 187.2
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Thanks for the reminder @jugar ... I was thinking the same otherwise my week 1 results would be unfairly skewed.
Start weight for April - 268.83 -
Of course you can come back and play! We hope to have you around more and getting back to your usual energy. Do you want to keep your Friday weigh-in day? If so, give us an update tomorrow and you'll be ready to roll. Yay!Good morning everyone 😊
@jugar and the team 😍
Can I please come back and play in April 🥺 please have me back 🙏 I promise I will not stray again 🤭 and I think I've lost a little bit of weight since last time, too 😁
Have a lovely day everyone 🥰
No sorrys needed! A delay is always possible.KellyBgetsfit wrote: »@jugar I am so sorry, but I am not going to be able to weigh in until Friday. I am sorry for the delay.
So happy Thursday, all! Things are warm and lovely here for the last day for a while, so I'm going to try to find somewhere not too muddy to walk. Have a good one!4 -
@jugar my start weight for April will be 227.03
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I had a lovely NSV (non-scale victory) today. Since last April 10th, I have not been able to do many of the Pilates exercises that are part of the workouts I was doing every day. Due to an injury on my left buttock, there were NO roll-ups, no rolling like a ball, no open leg rocker, and only limited exercises lying on my back. I still kept up doing Pilates as much as I could, sticking to more standing work and more downward facing exercises. Yesterday the surgeon told me that even though the site is still quite swollen, there is absolutely no danger now to put as much pressure on it as I want to (or can stand!). Today, almost a year since falling on the danged thing, I did a full Pilates workout including some of those rolls and stuff. It wasn't perfect, but I feel somewhat less lopsided, and very happy to be able to roll over it. Progress!
What have been your NSVs this week, or month? What others might you be looking forward to?5 -
My NSV was needing ankle weights to do a video (Jessica Smith legs, butt, thighs strength training). The first time I did the video, it took days for me to walk normally. I realized it was too easy when I did it today and put on some ankle weights to make it challenging! It's kind of amazing to realize my body does get stronger if I keep at it.
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Putting on pants that I last wore to the office before we returned to working from home and finding they fit much more comfortably than before.4
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PW - 237 lbs
CW - 235.5 lbs
LTD - 126 lbs4 -
Good morning everyone 😊
@jugar and the team 😍
Can I please come back and play in April 🥺 please have me back 🙏 I promise I will not stray again 🤭 and I think I've lost a little bit of weight since last time, too 😁
Have a lovely day everyone 🥰
We are happy to have you back and yay for some weight loss too.2 -
Met all goals today. Steps 127244
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I had a lovely NSV (non-scale victory) today. Since last April 10th, I have not been able to do many of the Pilates exercises that are part of the workouts I was doing every day. Due to an injury on my left buttock, there were NO roll-ups, no rolling like a ball, no open leg rocker, and only limited exercises lying on my back. I still kept up doing Pilates as much as I could, sticking to more standing work and more downward facing exercises. Yesterday the surgeon told me that even though the site is still quite swollen, there is absolutely no danger now to put as much pressure on it as I want to (or can stand!). Today, almost a year since falling on the danged thing, I did a full Pilates workout including some of those rolls and stuff. It wasn't perfect, but I feel somewhat less lopsided, and very happy to be able to roll over it. Progress!
What have been your NSVs this week, or month? What others might you be looking forward to?
@jugar Wahoo! Good for you and sooo so happy for you to feel more and more like yourself. Today's Pilates was hard too it that's the one you did. I struggled, but finished.
My NSV this week has been wearing a pair of old jeans. They seemed super comfortable at first. Oh so roomy and no tightness or love handle squeezing. By the end of the day, they were falling off my butt. As much as they were comfy-ish, they are just too big to wear.4 -
WAISTAWAYS STEP TEAM WEEK 3 RESULTS
TOTAL TEAM STEPS - 460,594
STEP STARS
1st - @kali225 103,154
2nd - @sunny9847 86,671
3rd - @KellyBgetsfit 75,651
STEPPERS MEETING DAILY STEP GOAL
@Kali225 7/7
@Sunny9847 7/7
@Kellybget 4/7
@MandiSaysHey 5/7
Great job everyone!!!
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Thursday night already. Geez! Who's in charge of this calendar, anyway? Oh, right. I am. Well, it was a lovely day - a bit overcast in the morning but then the sun was out for a while and I got 2 walks in. They were both on the short side but considering how much my butt and upper thighs were complaining, I'd say the pace was pretty good.
@jugar I'm taking this week off for weighing in. I've got to get new batts for my scale (or replace it - not sure which, yet). I'll be heading up to Winooski tomorrow to help Emily through the first of her vaccinations just in case she has any untoward reactions. One of her friends made her promise to have me stay overnight - she worries that the Pulmonary embolism she got when 25-yr-old won't be repeated with the vaccine. All should be well. I *am* glad, though, that the hospital is very closeby...one can't be too careful with blood clots. Nasty things.
I've been terrible about logging my foods for the past week or so. I'll work on that this weekend. My food choices have improved and I'm more interested in salads than heavier winter dinners, which helps inspire me to walk more, etc. All in all, life is moving right along.
Soon, Monica and I will eat according to the low-FODMAP diet so we can assess our respective digestion issues. It'll be a nice change to have "happy guts"!
Happy Friday, y'all.4 -
I wanted to give you guys an update on how my reverse diet went. Some back story for our new people first. I'm Kristi and I have been working on weight loss for just over 2 years. I recently got stuck and was noticing that I was getting a little too determined. My calories were down to 1200 and I was exercising about 6 hours a week and just gaining and losing the same 3 lbs no matter how hard I tried. I needed to try something new.
I spent the last 2 months doing a reverse diet but I didn't follow all of the recommendations exactly. I did follow macros and set my protein grams equal to my pounds of lean mass. I ate 136 g of protein and then I divided the rest of my calories up between carbs and fat. I increased my weekly calories in larger amounts than is recommended. I added these extra calories to fat and carbs equally. This results in some weight gain. You are supposed to do strength training with heavy weights a few times a week. I was inconsistent with this and just recently took 2 weeks off working out.
I started my reverse diet at 220 lbs eating 1200 calories. I ended my reverse diet at 225 lbs eating 1800-1950 calories. I started working out this past week and gained an additional 2 lbs. Right now I'm 7 lbs heavier but I have a lot more energy and generally feel a lot better. I also didn't realize how much my low calories were disrupting my sleep and how often I had BM. I can also work out harder and have fewer cravings.
My plan for next month is to eat 1500 calories and then add in a week of 1800 calories around that time of the month.5 -
@SMcFall0215
Friday
PW-158.4
CW-159.6
Little bit of a gain. I’m not gonna stress about it though I have plenty of other things to stress about right now. However it is friYAY!!!!! So let’s at least celebrate that. We had some pretty crazy storms last night so my kids don’t have school today. We almost had a tornado 🌪 last night (I say almost because it didn’t officially touch down but it still came with plenty of damage and it was def on the radar so we where all prepared thank gosh!. So I will have a weekend of work ahead of me! Well y’all hope you have a great weekend and again happy Friday y’all!!4 -
PW 151
CW 152.4
Dear scale, I don't like you. While my food choices weren't perfect, they weren't horrible. Last Friday, I only ate 400 calories because I was sick in bed. Sat and Sun were carb heavy, but not super high on calories. I went to a brewery on Tues and had street tacos, which didn't have cheese and corn tortillas weren't fried. I also had grilled chicken and veggies for dinner that night so it did balance.
I really wanted to be green all month. I never have before and felt like this was my month. Oh, well.
Welcome back, @conleywoods
@SMcFall0215 we don't get tornados but we had horrible winds the other night. We had stuff blown all over our yard and the neighbors. No fun.4 -
Friday already!
I forgot to do my nightly nagging last night, but you Friday people are on the ball. Only a couple left to come in today -
@healthygirlintransit
@Steph1498
I am back up to my pre-surgery normal weight, and I'm excited to be able to up my exercise. It is really interesting reading about the reverse diet, @conleywoods . I don't do well with high protein and fat, so I know it isn't for me, but it is always good to experiment when we are stuck. There are a lot of choices and one of them is bound to work! Good luck with the low FODMAP @EvMakesChanges - digestion things are a terrible drag. For me, they happen when I get too much protein, not enough fibre, and/or too much fat (even the "healthy" kind
). For others it seems to be the opposite. I am glad not to have much of a FODMAP problem, though - eliminating beans, nuts, and some of the fruits I eat all the time would leave me very sad. I hope it gives you lots of information, though - keep us posted. 3 -
Another new member joining your amazing team ... Please welcome @oshrat117 2
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