Hurray to everyone on Team Slimpossibles for being 50% in the green last week!

And special congratulations to @Jactop @eahrenee and @caitlingfry for being our "Loss Leaders" for the week!

And double congrats @eahrenee for getting into Onederland! That's such an exciting accomplishment!



@trooworld - Zowie! Thank you for saying yes to being a motivator. You are already great at exactly that!

@raleighgirl09 - I am just so glad you will still be checking in. You have had me think, reflect and learn so many times! 👐

@eahrenee - What a great weigh-in! Congratulations on being in the 180s now! 🥳 Is there anything you are doing that seems particularly helpful?

@laurelfit57
Hurray! What a great weigh-in! 🎉
You made me laugh about the chips! What are you doing right now when you get a craving for chips? Is there anything a little healthier that you eat instead?

@caitlingfry
Your comment about time to unwind after the family holiday made me laugh!
So were you and your mom making *sourdough* croissants? I am thinking so from your mention of starters? Anyway, I salute you both for your baking prowess and energy!
And hurray for the outdoor hiking and climbing! 🥾
Sending you a hug as regards the awful experience with the endocrinologist. 👐
*sigh* I have a friend from college who went to medical school and then became the professor in a medical program who was in charge of teaching medical students to work with patients with more empathy and respect. Medical school doesn't particularly sort for those qualities, or hasn't always.
And the thing with talking about you as if you are not there, yeah, that can be so maddening.
(I know someone who almost died of a chronic immune disease before getting admitted at an emergency room at a teaching hospital. It took a couple of tries to get them to look at him, as he looked young, handsome and fit. Once he did get in, the hospital/school brought by a seemingly endless string of med students to check out his symptoms with the laudable goal of having future people get diagnosed faster. He laughed about it, but got a wee bit tired of it, too.)
Anyway, happy unwinding from the holiday!

@vegan4lyfe2012
WOOHOO! I am so happy for you! What a great weigh-in! Look at you, breaking into the 190s!
I loved your staying within your daily points on a day when you went to the movies! Ratatouille might be one of the world's great underrated weight loss secrets!
And how great that you included a hike in your holiday! 🥾
It sounds like you did a great job of staying focused on your overall PURPOSE!

@TeresaW1020
Changes of musical director is a big deal. The music director at my church just retired, and I am so hoping to like the new one. We have a new rector, too, and I feel like I am holding on to my hat!

@Katmary71
Your music director sounds great! Music that makes you smile is wonderful!

@trooworld
Up a pound in a day does indeed sound like a salty food thing. 🧂 I love that you enjoyed your holiday and are right back at work today! 👍🏿👍🏿

@Firefly743
Wowsers! What a great weigh-in! And hurray for the arrival of the new scale! 🥳 Did you get one of the spiffy new ones with lots of cool features?

@apple852hk
I am sending you a hug as regards your chocolate bars. You sound like you were very stressed.

@trooworld You are going to be a great motivator!! Just try to stay focused this week so that stressful times don’t get the better of you. That is what I’m telling myself too!

@Jactop Wahhoooo indeed!! I know how happy you are to be seeing that low number after so many years. All your hard work is totally paying off for you.

@AustinRuadhain Change can definitely be a good thing for a church, but it is stressful as well. Just gotta trust that it will all be ok. Yayyy for closing the kitchen! I agree that it can be very hard to eat in moderation when certain foods are a real trigger food. I’ve had to fight off my cravings all day because I overdid it on the carbs the last two days.


Hi Team! So, my two-day holiday eating fest is over and I am very glad that it is. While I did enjoy the food and wine, it really doesn’t work for my body. I have got to figure out how better to do celebrations without the side effects of being bloated and tired the next day. Tomorrow is my big shopping day with my hubby to buy some new spring and summer clothes. I am excited! I do plan to be wise with my shopping because I’m not at goal and I don’t want to buy more than I really need at this time. But it will still be a fun day out together and that is really what I’m looking forward to the most.

APRIL GOALS
Track using Carb Manager Yup!!
Stay under 30 total grams of Carbs Total carbs was 27 grams. I had a big salad for dinner!
Clean Fast 19+ hours 17 hrs. 42 min. This was due to drinking wine later in the evening.
Exercise 45+ minutes 80 Day Obsession, leg day
Post on the Habit Tracker Daily I sure did!
2021 Word: TRANSFORMATION

***WEEKLY WEIGH-IN***
TwistedSassette
Weigh in day: Friday
SW: 138.5kg
PW: 128.0kg
CW: 129.5kg
LTD: 9.0kg
LTW: +1.5kg

I haven't the time to catch up on posts but will check back in later!

@TeresaW1020 Good luck for your covid jab Mine was really not too bad. Congrats on the closet clearing! I wear disposable contacts which are multi-focals and work even with my astigmatism - it's amazing how far they've come! It's funny, I can tell when I am not drinking enough water because apparently my eyes are the first thing to dry out...
Congrats on your loss!! Yay!

@laurelfit57 Ugh, back pain is the worst. I'm glad that you're making progress on your recovery. Meanwhile, I'm sorry about your fall at the mechanic - that sounds both painful and embarrassing! I hope your injuries heal up quickly.

@trooworld I really like that you have planned goal revisions - what a great way to make sure your goalposts are still where they should be!
Also, congrats on stepping up as a motivator! That's awesome!
Sorry about your pupper removing the stitches prematurely. I don't even know how that's possible! But I hope this doesn't make his recovery longer than it already is, poor guy!

@AustinRuadhain I love the idea of adding a habit to something you already do. Thanks for sharing this idea!

@Jypsy1 Wow, that dead sleep sounds a little scary. Can they do anything to help you, or is it something you just have to live with (excuse my ignorance, I have never heard of Sjogren's Syndrome)?

@Jactop Thanks for the suggestion re goals. That's pretty much what I did. I did well in February, so I set my goals harder for March but realised that I probably went a bit too hard on it so I've backed them down a bit for April. Even though I made progress in March, I didn't hit the goals I'd set and that's not a nice feeling so I think it's best for me to make them challenging, but achievable!
I don't know how you survived Easter in a chocolate store! You're amazing, staying sugar-free through all that craziness and with all the temptation! And not only survived, but thrived and lost a bunch of weight - awesome!

@mlhopp93 Congrats on hitting the 95!

@fierce1alicia Small losses all add up, so well done!

@RYcare I'm glad you didn't lose that many pounds that quickly, though! Still a great loss anyway!!

@apple852hk Sorry you had a tough night. It sounds like you know what your triggers are, now you just need to find an alternative thing that soothes them. Sending hugs.

@Katmary71 Oh dear! I wonder why the lady with the plant stand would leave her own plant with the ones to be taken! Dressing it up is a nice idea.

@vegan4lyfe2012 Yay!! Great loss!

@raleighgirl09 Sorry to see you stepping down, but totally understand it. I hope this gives you the time to focus on your own goals!
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Wow, didn't realise how far behind I was on posts! There has been a lot going on here over the weekend! I hope everyone had a happy Easter, and was able to relax with family and friends.
Congrats to everyone who nabbed themselves a lower number on the scale this week - well done! My scale was up, just from water retention which is slowly coming down again now.
We had one of hubby's old school friends visit us overnight on Thursday - we hadn't seen him for about a year and a half so it was good to catch up (albeit with pizza and beers...hence my awful weigh in on Friday morning!). On Friday, we spent much of the day baking hot cross buns to take to a friend's house for dinner (yes, dinner was hot cross buns and Easter eggs for the kids...). The buns we made were delicious though, and well worth the effort over the store-bought ones. They did a little Easter egg hunt for the kids, which is the first time our toddler has done a hunt so he was obsessed with his basket lol. We played board games and chatted and just had a wonderful time. The rest of the weekend we just spent at home, enjoying our time together as a family and watching Easter movies. Here's a little pic of the toddler on Sunday morning, having collected all the eggs we hid for him and checked out the goodies that the Easter Bunny left. He had the best weekend!


I got lots of good sleep which was nice, including an extra hour on Saturday night as daylight savings ended here! Aside from that, I didn't do much exercise. Some yoga on Saturday and I played Beat Saber last night and meditated before bed. I did overindulge, though not as much as I would have in the past. I didn't track though. So I have made some progress on my goals for the month already, now I just need to keep it up and get back to tracking again.
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@AustinRuadhain re: Bright-Line rules...that was an excellent article! I can see how it would be more empowering to make rules like this. My new bright-line rules are:

- I drink a minimum of 50 oz of water each day.
- I only have a less healthy meal once a week.
- I exercise a minimum of three times a week.
- I go to bed by 8:00 p.m. Sunday through Thursday.
- I get up at 4:00 a.m. Monday through Friday.

My phrase for the year: CHANGE HAPPENS

Dignow96
Weigh In Day: Sunday
PW: 275.9lbs
CW: 275.7lbs

+/- Week: -0.2lbs
+/- Month (APR): -0.5lbs
+/- 2021: -27.3lbs

GrandDaddySW:467lbs
2021SW: 303lbs
GW: 265lbs

Howdy, y'all. My apologies for the late posting. I've been neck-deep in clients for almost a week and am just now digging myself out. I took Easter Sunday as a day off and while I did weigh in first thing in the morning (so I could enjoy my Easter treats) I didn't get around to posting it. Another week moving in the right direction. I just got caught up on the board traffic and it looks like we're still making some great progress as a team - keep up all the good work everyone!

@AustinRuadhain I need to copy you and think of the kitchen closed after a certain time.

@TeresaW1020 Have fun shopping!

@TwistedSassette Sounds like you've had a great week, sometimes we have to think we're feeding our heart and soul with everything even if we're off-track with our diet for a bit, I think that's what you did! I bet your son loved Easter, that chocolate egg looks good! It's so fun watching kids find eggs. We do egg fights being Orthodox Armenian (yes they celebrate a different day but my mom isn't Armenian and she won religion and traditional holidays) where a person holds an egg and another person taps it and whoever's egg is left whole at the end wins. My nephews love it so much!
@trooworld Way to go on staying strong despite all the stress, I hope your dog is on the mend now and leaves these stitches alone!

Tuesday check-in

Hey gang! Easter was fun seeing my family except I broke one of my parent's chairs! I did it last time and managed to get the "fixed" chair. It cracked before I put my rear down or I'd be really self-conscious since I've gained a lot of weight, I don't know if I'm leaning abnormally hard on the back when I slide down but it's hard to go from standing to sitting without any support. Hopefully it won't be too expensive to fix, I offered to take it in but have no clue who would replace the wood in the center of the back of the chair. My boyfriend was telling my nephews about a ski trip we went on in high school and my mom heard, she asked how old we were and how there's no way she gave permission for that! Can you be grounded at 49? I just told her it was a girl trip and had the girls pick me up then we met all the guys to drive to Tahoe and stay in our rented cabin. I have a telehealth appointment in an hour, it's going on a year since I first went for help and now they're way late on giving me the referral to get the drug test to get the referral to the pain clinic. If the idiots would just let me pay cash I could've gone ages ago! It's hard not to feel hopeless about it but I'm in too much pain to be able to NOT try and get help so I have no choice. Just all the things that can be helpful the first year aren't as likely to help now because of this.

@TwistedSassette That is wonderful that your little guy had such a good time this Easter. Egg hunts are the best! I am sorry that you had such a terrible day at work and a dead computer is always a bummer. That is great that you were able to turn your stress eating around. You are doing so great!

@kellyisonamission Welcome to the group, Kelly! You are now part of a wonderful community that will give you a lot of support and encouragement as you work to getting to your goals. That is so awesome that you lost 30 lbs. during lockdown! Exercising is so good for our bodies, but I’m sure you know that it’s our eating that matters the most. Do you have a particular diet that you are trying to stick to?

@Katmary71 Ohhh I am sorry about the broken chair! You are probably right that you could be putting more pressure on it because of needing support when sitting down. Hopefully, it can be fixed. I had to laugh at that ski trip story. When I was in high school I told my parents that the girls were going hiking in the Rockies (we lived in Denver at that time) and that we would have adults with us. We did have adults. Two of the boys were 18!!

@dignow96 Good job on getting a loss during Easter and such a busy work week!

@caitlingfry Going into a week that is a minefield of birthday cake with a plan is awesome! Do you have any fun plans for your extra long weekend?


Good morning team! Sorry that I didn’t check in yesterday, but we were out of the house for most of the day and I was exhausted when I came home. Hubby and I had a great day shopping! I didn’t end up with very many new clothes because the styles are just so UGLY!! But I did find two pairs of jeans, a couple of shirts, and a pair of shoes. The best part of the day was that I could wander around all these stores and not once have to go into the plus-size section. It’s so bizarre to see the plus sizes and know by looking at them that they are too big for me. Very exciting! Today, we are all going to get our first Covid shot, and then I have to teach the littles at church this evening.

@TwistedSassette what a day you had! It seemed to snowball and you turned it around with grace! Way to go getting home and keeping your peace. Hopefully today goes better at work 💞

@kellyisonamission hey Kelly, welcome!! I love the lockdown weight loss, I think it has been a tremendous time to look inward and do the self work! Idk about Louisiana but Pennsylvania has decent parks available for nature walks and hikes that have been my respite for lockdown. Gym seems to be working for you tho so get it girl!! 👏👏

@TeresaW1020 no plans really. I’m currently awaiting covid test results which kind of took the wind out of my sails. Today is my boyfriends birthday, my moms birthday is on Sunday, and mines on Monday. My sisters unofficial wedding anniversary is Friday but she cut herself off from the family after her wedding.

*taking suggestions for quarantine birthdays round two* 😂😂😂

PW 3/23:216.3
Check in weight (3/30/2021): 219.4
Check in weight (4/6/2021): 219.8
Check in weight (4/13/2021):
Check in weight (4/20):
Check in weight (4/27):

Hi everyone! Bday was good. Between Easter and my bday, I've been indulging in sweets (I had given them up for Lent and was craving pretty bad). I am going to get back on track this week after that indulgence. I've been walking more as I finally got my knee injection. Have a great week!

@TeresaW1020 I don't like a lot of the modern styles of clothing either. I don't understand the recent trend for ugly patterns and colours like mustard! But wow, that must have been a great feeling to not even look at the plus-size section - one day I hope to get there!

@caitlingfry Fingers crossed for a negative result. I hate that results take so long to come!

@trooworld OMG I have this image of your dog licking his eyeballs - so gross!
I love the words for Wellness Wednesday. I am working on putting my phone down more and feeling better for it!

@AustinRuadhain I tried the Plum Village app last night for the first time - thank you for the recommendation! I just chose a really short meditation as I was preparing for sleep, but I liked that it wasn't really "talky" which annoys me in a lot of the other meditations I have tried.

@leonadixon I'm glad you got your knee injection and that you are able to walk more now. Less than a half-pound gain with Easter and your birthday doesn't actually sound bad! You got this.

@GabiV125 I have that same tendency, my weight stays the same and then whoosh it drops a bunch without me really doing anything differently! Walking and water are great ideas
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Quick update from me - work was better yesterday, I stayed back a little and got my report out on time despite being delayed by a day - luckily I was able to shuffle some things around while waiting. Got a big thank you from my boss and his boss which is always nice! Was exhausted and we ended up getting takeaway for dinner. I ate a little too much but still had a deficit. Up a little on the scale today thanks to the salty foods. Didn't exercise, but did meditate, which was nice.

Today, I have much less stress at work, and should be a fairly normal day. My sister is coming over to cook dinner for us tonight - not sure what she is making so I will try to save as many calories as I can just in case. My biggest thing is portions, even if she makes something deliciously naughty, I can eat it I just need to only have a bit instead of my usual tendency to serve a big plateful and eat it all. Serve it smaller, eat it slower, savour every bite. <- my mantra for tonight!
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May I rejoin the team? I promise to do my best to play nice.

Happy Thursday, awesome Slimsters!

@trooworld
I am glad the Plum Village meditation was a contribution. I too find the body scans helpful.
Having your dog's stitches come out AGAIN is something just about anybody would find overwhelming. I am glad you were gentler and kind with yourself.
🏆 Not stress eating in the midst of that is indeed a choice to be proud of. I am impressed!
I am wishing you peace of mind today, in the midst of supporting your poor doggy. 💮

@19shmoo69
Hey there! Welcome back! 🎉🤗

I am off to tackle my day. I need to get some extra exercise in, and will be doing it be doing yard work later today. Woohoo! More outside time is always good for decreasing my stress level. I have a board meeting this weekend I am prepping for, and feeling a bit crazy about all there is to do, Time to take a break and check my mindset as @trooworld reminded us!