So I decided I needed a break from weighin today. It has been a rough week...anniversary of my sister's death and...just too much reality...

That's me on the left with my granddaughter Pip in the middle and her brother Gil on the right


Hello everyone. Sorry I'm a bit late with this. I’m Theresa and I live in downtown Toronto, Canada. I joined Team Weight No More in January 2020. In January 2021 I took some time off to support my sister (virtually) who has been receiving treatment for Lyme Disease (that went undiagnosed for two years) while also being the primary caregiver for our mother who was terminally ill and passed away on Easter Sunday.

About me
I have two grown children. My daughter Elisabeth lives nearby with her partner, Jake. She just recovered from cancer (yay!) and started her own advertising agency. He is starting a PhD program for the next five years. My son Phil lives in a small town an hour away with his wife, Katie, and two children. Pippa turns four July 28th (she'll tell you every day) and Gilbert is two. I have a Havanese dog named Xavy. He doesn't say much about it, but he turns five on August 1st.

I had a career as an advertising and publishing executive. For years I ran, cycled, and swam. Then one day, as my daughter says, just like Forrest Gump I stopped.

My weight story
As a child, I was an healthy weight, except this one time when my next-door neighbour's grandmother babysat and introduced us to three course lunches with whipped cream on every dessert. When my children were small, I was very slim, about 120 lbs, probably from chasing them around. In my forties I was at my ideal weight, a toned 142 lbs.

Almost four years ago, when my granddaughter was born, I saw a photo and didn’t recognize myself. I did look like a happy nana and I’m sure I was comfy to hug, but I want to live to be a ‘little’ old lady.

In January 2018, I weighed 177.4 lbs with a goal of a toned 142 lbs. I’ve reset this to 145 lbs and toned because I when I was at 145 lbs and toned in 2020, I found that it was perfect for me.

The present
I’m generally very healthy though was diagnosed with Meniere’s Disease over the past couple of years. Some of the symptoms, particularly vertigo, aren’t great for exercise but I’m persistent. It accounts for some of my slow progress but I’m now on medication that reduces the severity of the vertigo, ear pressure, and tinnitus. It won’t reverse the hearing loss but I am okay with that.

I launched a new business called Ancestree Detectives in January. It’s an on-demand service for DIY family historians to hire professional genealogists for as few as 30 minutes. It’s going really well and whoa ~ am I busy! We've even been on TV.

We're finally getting out of lockdown here in Toronto, after being in a stay-at-home order all of 2021 and most of last year. I'm getting my hair cut on Wednesday and I think I'm more excited than getting my second vaccine.


My July goals

• Log food, water, and exercise daily
• Sleep eight hours each night
• Increase strength exercise to 3 times a week
• Do higher intensity cardio 2 times a week
• Move every day in a variety of fun ways

My stats

• Highest weight: 177.4 lbs
• Lowest weight: 6 lbs 11 ounces (see, I took that joke from Ashley)
• Lowest weight as an adult: 117 lbs (when my children were toddlers, they were super active)
• Weight now: 152.1
• Goal: 145 and toned

Welcome @Kaken21 !

Steps for the last week..

7/4- 6,638
7/5- 6,688
7/6- 11,502
7/7- 12,280
7/8- 12,866
7/9- 13,382
7/10- 3,406

Total: 66,762

Yesterday it was 111 degrees here and I did some swimming and spent the rest of the day lazy inside. Looking forward to the weather cooling down this week. Below 100 would be great.

Welcome to our third week of July, everybody! We've seen some incredible losses over the past week, and some of you have been maintaining momentum (and making it look easy!) - so proud of our team!

As for me, I'm eating leftover fried chicken for breakfast. So, I'm happy. It's Tuesday, so I am not worried about eating too many calories (lifting before work, two spin classes after), and I'll be happy to have these tempting foods out of my fridge for my rest day tomorrow.

I also wrote a blog post yesterday, while MFP was acting wonky. If you want to read it, here ya go: LINK



Our mighty team of eight steppers walked a staggering 493,595 steps over the course of the week - who knows what they're going to accomplish next!

Here's the leaderboard...

Over 10,000 Steps Per Day:

@kandi3570 - 88,683 total | 12,669 average
@ljdanny - 85,597 total | 12,228 average - Most Steps in One Day!

Over 5,000 Steps Per Day:

@sandielewis2001 - 66,762 total | 9,537 average
@lennoncpa - 65,094 total | 9,299 average
@annliz23 - 58,297 total | 8,328 average - End of the Week Glow Up!
@dbrinkmeyer - 55,300 total | 7,900 average
@pacsnc6 - 46,190 total | 6,599 average - Most Consistent!
@melaniedscott - 27,672 total | 3,953 average

What do we think about the current format of the steps announcement? Do we want more statistics? Less? Back to my old format? Should I drop the steps and stick more to screaming motivational nonsense into the void? Let me know what you think.