WaistAways Team Chat - OCTOBER 2021
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PlaneMonkey wrote: »CW 197.8
I'm bouncing all over the place but wesnesday seems to be on the high side of the zig zags on my tracking chart unfortunately. I'm amazed I can fluctuate by 5lbs every 3 days.
Oh well.
I'll try to make better choices and not give in to emotions. My habit tracker on the wall is looking sadly colourless because I haven't been drinking my water or fitting in my exercise. Time to start colouring in those boxes.
My weight can fluctuate up wildly too, unfortunately it doesn’t come down as quickly as it goes up for me! Keep grinding, we’ve got this!4 -
Hang in there folks! You can get there.
I have enjoyed talking with my mom, who has seen me through all the times. I was a kind of lethargic and chubby kid, but slowly (very very slowly for some of them!) changed to make a new "normal" where eating is vegetable-centric rather than carb/protein centric, where moving/being outdoors/keeping the muscled strong is the norm instead of just letting things go along without consideration. She has kept evolving as well, and at 91 is still able to do a lot, even though getting old is no picnic, she says! I got a heavy dose of endorphins on in the gym this morning (rowing machine - my drug of choice), hit the kettlebells, and had a good walk in this gorgeous summery weather. Days like today are the best!
I wish some of those days on all of you. No more colourless habit trackers, @PlaneMonkey - get at least a few splashes on there! And hang in there @MoStacy and @ashenmoon ! You have not slipped much at all. Hit one of those perfect days and go from there
Thursday people - you're on soon!
@ashleycarole86
@eggfreak
Enjoy
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@tasoconnor !!
Jump in and introduce yourself, let us know if you have any questions, and we'll all be there with you in November. Tally ho!3 -
PlaneMonkey wrote: »CW 197.8
I'm bouncing all over the place but wesnesday seems to be on the high side of the zig zags on my tracking chart unfortunately. I'm amazed I can fluctuate by 5lbs every 3 days.
Oh well.
I'll try to make better choices and not give in to emotions. My habit tracker on the wall is looking sadly colourless because I haven't been drinking my water or fitting in my exercise. Time to start colouring in those boxes.
My weight can fluctuate up wildly too, unfortunately it doesn’t come down as quickly as it goes up for me! Keep grinding, we’ve got this!
@gak71 ^^^^Isn’t that the truth!! Weight gain is in pounds. Losses in tenth of a pound!! So frustrating. Why can’t it come off quickly?!
I am so tired. My new schedule is totaling me. Back at it again for two more days.
Got in Pilates this am. Took a slow walk. Logged food. I thought it would be worse but was still under.
Falling asleep. Gotta go.6 -
@micki48 Sounds like you're putting in some long tiring days with your granddaughter. Schedule changes are no joke... good job on making it work today. Hope you've fallen into a deep restorative sleep.
@jugar Sounds like a great visit - nothing beats those good talks.
@tasoconnor Welcome to the team! We have a few new folks joining for November so you're in good company - let us know how we as teammates can help you on your journey!
I helped some dear non-tech savvy friends get set up on Netflix tonight and had a great visit over coffee as well. Got a nice compliment about the weight loss - they know about the journey and I see them often but it was at a stage to say something (or maybe just where the latest progress felt noticeable I guess)... I love these people like family and it just filled my heart with warmth to have their support and to know that they're cheering Brad and I on.
Exercise for today:
20 minutes yoga + 8057 steps4 -
Hey everyone. Yesterday was a long day for me but was able to go to cardiac rehab and get a walk in. Over 8000 steps and that is good for me. While at cardiac rehab my heart rate got to high while on the treadmill so they made me slow down. I hate when my heart does not cooperate but I better listen to it cause I don't want to be back in the hospital.
Can I get some input on a problem I am having....I live with my boyfriend. We have been together 18 years. He is 6ft 3 and weighs 290. Ever since I started losing weight he has said he needs to lose weight too. I tried cooking the same thing for him that I eat and he says he can't eat like me. So I started preparing different types of healthy meals for him. That means double cooking but I don't mind, I would do anything for him. That didn't last long before he started eating little Debbie cakes and drinking pepsi after pepsi again. So yesterday he says he has to get serious about weight loss so he didn't want dinner. I tried to explain to him that he shouldn't be skipping meals and his response was that he wanted 2 fried cheese sandwiches and ramen noodles. The noodles alone have 410 calories. I know I can't make him do it but how do I help without forcing him? I think it is making him resent my weightloss and I don't want that either. It's frustrating me.4 -
Ohh @kdblpn you are my weight-loss soul mate! Living with a partner who wants to lose weight but doesn't want to do the work of tracking and research on healthy choices turns you into the food police and breeds resentment. They are proud of you, but jealous that you make it look easy when the truth is, it's almost a full time job to be healthy. Your boyfriend has a choice to eat the things he wants, IF he's willing to log it himself to be aware of what he's putting in his body. Logging is the eye opener that can lead to change. I feel your struggle. My husband also has IBS so most vegetables are not welcome in his diet so I usually make a side dish or steamed broccoli or roasted cauliflower for myself with the meat and rice/potatoes.
Keep your positivity! He's an adult and is responsible for his own choices. Continue to lead by example. Hopefully you find a balance.
@jugar can I please change my weigh in for this week? Today clocked in at 196.4. I took screenshots of my tracking for the last 2 months, 6 months and since the beginning. The yoyo recently isn't fun, but understandable since I haven't been putting the effort to logging that I had expected to have time for once fall hit. The last 6 months is not the best trend but I need to hold onto the big picture since the beginning just over a year ago. Grace and progress over perfection.
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Username ashleycarole86
Thursday weigh-in
PW 202
CW 199
94 pounds torched.. in Onederland.. 75% of the way to my goal of 168. Looking forward to this last quarter (and the rest of my life)
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@ashleycarole86: Awesome weigh-in. You are doing great!2
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@PlaneMonkey: thanks for that! He is pushing me to my wits ends! I have to let him be accountable for himself. He will never log food...he says he doesn't have time...but until he is willing to put in the work it I can't let it bother me.
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Good Morning all 🌻. Still trying to get the lay of the land before my official start on the 31. So impressed with everyone's weight losses and daily posts. Yesterday I did not get in an actual workout as I was on the run from 4am till late, did log 24000 steps at work which helped. Started today with a bit of yoga and indoor cycling, so I'm hoping for a healthy day!
Have a great day☀️6 -
New to the group. Looking forward to this.7
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@kdbpln
I get your dilemma with tall husband thinking he can still eat all the things
Mine is 6'4" and found it hard to figure out how to get down to a reasonable weight. After watching me tracking and making changes for years (yeah, he's slow) he finally understood that it is not by simply cutting out all butter, all whatever, or by skipping meals that he could sustainably hit a good weight and stay there. I cooked separate meals for a long time and now he cooks his own because we still eat differently, but at least he figured out that lots of vegetables and less of lots of other things works. Good luck with yours! Logging will likely be the wake-up call, but just getting rid of the sugary and processed junk food helps a lot too.
@PlaneMonkey
Weight updated! When the weigh-in day is a nasty little spike, I have no problem with changing it. It shows the true nature of the week rather than the weird day that happens sometimes.
@ashleycarole86
WOW! Welcome to Onederland! You will be ending 2021 in a great place, I just know it. It is so cool when friends start to notice and congratulate you. Well done!5 -
I'd like to let everyone know that the wonderful Teresa Wilson @TeresaW1020 is stepping down as Moderator after a wonderful term of service. She has kept the home page looking great, made sure we run all kinds of great challenges, fixed up our graphics, and kept the habit tracker going, among many other things. We will miss her as Moderator, but she will still be Captain of Team Mission Slimpossible and invaluable member of our community. Thanks Teresa! It has been a pleasure working with you 7
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As is said in other places, "He's got his own higher power and it's not you."@PlaneMonkey: thanks for that! He is pushing me to my wits ends! I have to let him be accountable for himself. He will never log food...he says he doesn't have time...but until he is willing to put in the work it I can't let it bother me.
Quite right. My OH is 6'2" to my 5'2" and is a cook. They're also on female hormones (Transwoman) and the weight has begun to be difficult to lose...for them. It's *always* been hard for me to lose the darned stuff! At any rate, I've been losing in increments all the while they're not doing anything about being winded when we walk...has even begun to have the "non-school night" hard cider every night...some creeping bad habits for sure. However, I can't do anything about their behavior. The best I can hope for is influence. Just like dealing with teenagers. Sigh. Oh well. We'll get through this with each other in this great group, won't we?!
My weigh in day is tomorrow so, see you then!
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Big welcome to all our new members! Great group you’ve joined.
@ashleycarole86 CONGRATULATIONS and welcome to Onederland!!! You have worked so hard and are quite the inspiration to all of us. So proud of you. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
@PlaneMonkey Despite your recent yo-yoing, you have done an excellent job since you started. So proud of your hard work and glad you are here with us. 🎉👏🏼🎉👏🏼💕
Hit my step goal today. Logged my food. We did have a not so great dinner because we were tired and daughter was running late. We ended up with Jersey Mikes. 😬😮 We’ll see how bad that is tomorrow when I weigh in.
The rain is coming down. Tomorrow will be an inside day for sure.5 -
@ashleycarole86 CONGRATS TO YOU GIRL!!!!
All of your hard work is really paying off. So proud of you and what a wonderful gift to give yourself!5 -
I just finished my last long workout of phase 1 in my lifting program. Excited that I finished it and I'm a little nervous for the next phase. Its still just 2 main workouts a week and 5 days of mini workouts. It's just a lot heavier lifting than I have done before. You're supposed to max out at 4-5 reps. I'm not even sure how to pick weight for that??? Progress wise I'm doing well and I just checked a few things. I'll do a full check at the 1 month mark. Weight is up 3-5 lbs depending on the day but I increased my calories from 1350- 2000 for the holidays. My weight has stabilize over the last week. BUT... I have lost an inch in my waist which is really awesome. Lifting is really working well with my kids wanting to interrupt my workout. It's really easy to answer their questions or chat between sets.
Had party day at work and we had a lot of really fun activities for the kids today. Had to squeeze in my sensory bin one more time for the Halloween season! We had a cute photo booth the teacher set up. If anyone would have walked in while all the adults were trying to get kids to smile and stay on their little hay bale they would have gotten quite the show! My arms are so sore from bouncing and lifting kids in the air. It was very fun!
My husband and I are going to start setting up our spooky trail in the field for the kids Halloween activity. The kids loved it so much last year, they want to skip trick or treating and do the trail again. This year I bought a ton of battery powered candles to line the trails with. I think I have 50 candles. It should look pretty cool.4 -
Just a quick heads up for Friday weigh-ins - more news tomorrow!
@EvMakesChanges
@happimess01
@Steph1498
@kellie_erin
@Micki48
@bonnie_red
@gak71
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PlaneMonkey wrote: »They are proud of you, but jealous that you make it look easy when the truth is, it's almost a full time job to be healthy.
THIS!!! So much truth Courtney.
My mom said to me tonight that my weight loss journey has been easy thus far.
Sure, if a full time job is easy
Just funny to read this tonight... you couldn't have said it better!
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Thanks for all the kind messages of support
@conleywoods Very neat about the inch lost.. sounds like the program is fun. Looking forward to seeing the Halloween trail.
@micki48 Had to look up Jersey Mikes to see what it was... there are just days where grab and go is required! I have this thing about wanting to try Jimmy John's sometime when I'm in the States.. lol.. seems to me perhaps they're similar?
Brad is home- this business trip was a quick one. He is gone much longer next week so I'll relish our time together this weekend.
@jugar Was there a cryptic message in there about more news? I'm on the edge of my seat
Night all
10/28 exercise -
30 minutes Peloton, 9718 steps
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CW: 163.6
PW: 163.4
Not too bad considering we just returned from a week in Portugal. Lots of sun, hiking and beach time. Loved it. Now back to work on home life and dreaming about my next travels...9 -
@Steph1498 Portugal...that sounds amazing. Once I lose enough to fit comfortably in a seat on a plane my adventures will begin.4
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Hi WA's...You have a new member joining you soon ....Please welcome @bootilicious 3
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@bootilicious
Welcome! I hope you find a lot of support and fun here - we're a pretty amazing bunch, if I do say so myself. Post an introduction, tell us a bit about yourself and your goals, questions, rants - we'll enjoy it all. I'll be opening up the new November chat thread later today, so everything will be ready to go for your first week's weigh-in on Monday.
@Steph1498
Welcome back from Portugal! What a gorgeous country. You are lucky to be in Europe where it is not too far away - I had a good friend who lived there for years, and I enjoyed my visits to her a lot.
No crazy interesting news from me - sorry to disappoint you @ashleycarole86 ! I had a great time yesterday playing a kind of private concert for my mom and a friend. There is a pianist here in Charlotte that I always play with when I come down, so we had not had a chance to do so since December 2019. I just brought a pile of stuff to read through, and it was so much fun. We were able to use the church where both my mom and this pianist go - fabulous acoustics! That made even our sometimes shambolic sight-reading sound great. This morning I got my covid test results (negative!) so that I can get back into Canada without any problem (hopefully). I'm looking forward to getting back home tomorrow - the last 10 days have been intense, but it has been great to see my parents and help out with some things. Today we cleared out a closet of all old and useless stuff, removed everything that had expired from all the medicine cabinets (yikes - there was a ton of it), and then we shall make cake. Hah! We have been eating very healthy, so I am not too worried about a bit of cake shared with friends
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@jugar CW: 178.6
Little by slowly...good to see the scale nudge in a downward direction again! Heading out for a walk right now. It feels good to be inspired. Yahoo!6 -
CW: 182.4
Ending October with an overall gain. But I'm surprised it didn't go up more considering I had celebratory Indian food for supper last night. It was delicious! I found out my contract got extended for another 6 months (down to the wire since today was supposed to be my last day). This means I really need to figure out eating in the evenings. Balancing everything is so difficult!6 -
CW - 186 lbs6
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CW 163.4lbs
I think I ended October with a gain, but it was a difficult month! Looking forward to November!5
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