Downsizers Team Chat - OCTOBER 2021
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Weigh Day Thursday
PW: 224.4
CW: 225.0
Looking forward to a fresh start for November and a strong finish for the year! 🤨3 -
Welcome to all the new and returning members. Have really enjoyed reading the responses to the daily questions. They are great questions. Have not replied because usually reading a few days after they are posted. Really enjoy that some of these questions have focused on mental and emotional aspects of weight loss. Therapy and financial counseling have been key to me for weight loss.
Went to transplant hospital yesterday to see orthopedics and infectious disease. With covid protocols in place, my mom wasn’t able to enter the hospital. She had to wait 5 hours for me to finish appointments then drive us the hour and a half back home. Feel so bad to put her through this.
Had to have staff wheel me from one department to the next for all appointments. Had cast removed and recast after examination. Antibiotic iv line was removed(surgery) in another department and in the third department oral antibiotics were discontinued. Didn’t get to eat or drink from 9 am to 5pm or use a bathroom from 10:20am to 5pm. Was shaking by the time we left at 5. Don’t know how you IFers manage not to eat for so long.
All departments say that I am healing but orthopedics says if I do not heal completely or develop another open wound in that toe, it will have to be amputated. I have already had my right eye removed from diabetic complications. Not keen on amputation but doctors are encouraging me to do it to prevent more extensive amputation in the future. Will think about it.
Asked the guy casting me how much these plaster casts weigh. He said on average 4 pounds. So like carting around a bag of sugar on my foot. Question: when I rejoin the weigh ins, what do I use as a previous weight? The earliest this cast will come off is November 10th.
Have a happy Halloween and enjoy a piece of candy if you choose.4 -
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
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lindamtuck2018 wrote: »Pippin20206 wrote: »So I wasn't entirely convinced by the accuracy of the manual scales I was using and I found it hard to read which line it was on. Went out and bought some digital scales and they just added 4.6 lbs to my weight 😭 pretty soul destroying but at least I'll have an accurate weight going forward. When I start in Nov what do I need to include in the daily check-in posts?
It’s up to you what you want to post. Some people post exercise, how they did with food, sleep or steps. That’s hard when a new scales weigh more. Can you give me an updated start weight?
I weighed in at 201.2 lbs this morning. Just had my ultrasound and they have discovered 2 more gallstones 😭 so I'm back to the dr in a couple of weeks to find out what happens next.4 -
Luccianaff
Weight in day Thursday
PW 146.6
CW 1443 -
I apologize for being quiet today... I have yet another migraine and slept all afternoon ... It hurts so bad that I am not able to make dinner ...going back to lay down ughhhh6
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Good evening all. Another day closer to Christmas. I hope you are ready.
Check in for 10/28:
Steps - 3643. Back was sore all day. Shot? I will take this amount.
Calories - 1575 or so.
Exercise - slow walk around the block tonight after the aspirin kicked in. Daughter wants to go back to sea world tomorrow to see the Halloween stuff.2 -
Daily Check-in (10/27 stats):
Steps: 18,121
Floors: 8
Calories Burned: 1,185
Daily Intensity Minutes:
Moderate: 35
Vigorous: 248
Daily Total Intensity Minutes: 283
Total Intensity Minutes For The Week: 8242 -
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I have a fun story I'll share tomorrow. I promise I'm not (don't mean to anyway) leaving you hanging. It has been a long, long day, and I'm ready to hit the hay. Hubs just asked me "who are you talking to?" Um, the computer...😳🤣2
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Beautyofdreams wrote: »Welcome to all the new and returning members. Have really enjoyed reading the responses to the daily questions. They are great questions. Have not replied because usually reading a few days after they are posted. Really enjoy that some of these questions have focused on mental and emotional aspects of weight loss. Therapy and financial counseling have been key to me for weight loss.
Went to transplant hospital yesterday to see orthopedics and infectious disease. With covid protocols in place, my mom wasn’t able to enter the hospital. She had to wait 5 hours for me to finish appointments then drive us the hour and a half back home. Feel so bad to put her through this.
Had to have staff wheel me from one department to the next for all appointments. Had cast removed and recast after examination. Antibiotic iv line was removed(surgery) in another department and in the third department oral antibiotics were discontinued. Didn’t get to eat or drink from 9 am to 5pm or use a bathroom from 10:20am to 5pm. Was shaking by the time we left at 5. Don’t know how you IFers manage not to eat for so long.
All departments say that I am healing but orthopedics says if I do not heal completely or develop another open wound in that toe, it will have to be amputated. I have already had my right eye removed from diabetic complications. Not keen on amputation but doctors are encouraging me to do it to prevent more extensive amputation in the future. Will think about it.
Asked the guy casting me how much these plaster casts weigh. He said on average 4 pounds. So like carting around a bag of sugar on my foot. Question: when I rejoin the weigh ins, what do I use as a previous weight? The earliest this cast will come off is November 10th.
Have a happy Halloween and enjoy a piece of candy if you choose.
That was a crazy day. It’s good to hear from you. I hope your toe heals. For the weigh in, usually when someone is coming back from support they give me a weight from a week before they start. So you could weigh when the cast comes off and then officially start weighing in the next week.3 -
888Angie888 wrote: »Weigh Day Thursday
PW: 224.4
CW: 225.0
Looking forward to a fresh start for November and a strong finish for the year! 🤨
I know you can do it. Just be the little engine who could.Pippin20206 wrote: »lindamtuck2018 wrote: »Pippin20206 wrote: »So I wasn't entirely convinced by the accuracy of the manual scales I was using and I found it hard to read which line it was on. Went out and bought some digital scales and they just added 4.6 lbs to my weight 😭 pretty soul destroying but at least I'll have an accurate weight going forward. When I start in Nov what do I need to include in the daily check-in posts?
It’s up to you what you want to post. Some people post exercise, how they did with food, sleep or steps. That’s hard when a new scales weigh more. Can you give me an updated start weight?
I weighed in at 201.2 lbs this morning. Just had my ultrasound and they have discovered 2 more gallstones 😭 so I'm back to the dr in a couple of weeks to find out what happens next.
I will update your weight. Gallstones aren’t fun. I had mine out about 25 years ago. I still remember the pain of an attack.luccianaff wrote: »Luccianaff
Weight in day Thursday
PW 146.6
CW 144
Nice loss! Is there anything in particular that you did that helped with your loss this week?Megan_smartiepants1970 wrote: »I apologize for being quiet today... I have yet another migraine and slept all afternoon ... It hurts so bad that I am not able to make dinner ...going back to lay down ughhhh
Feel better!Good evening all. Another day closer to Christmas. I hope you are ready.
Check in for 10/28:
Steps - 3643. Back was sore all day. Shot? I will take this amount.
Calories - 1575 or so.
Exercise - slow walk around the block tonight after the aspirin kicked in. Daughter wants to go back to sea world tomorrow to see the Halloween stuff.
I hope your back feels better. Do you have season passes to sea world?
Fantastic loss! Can’t wait to hear your funny story.3 -
Thursday check in
❌Steps 11k daily
✅Stay within calories
✅Track food accurately
Zone minutes 231/500
PW 201.4
CW 198.2
Yup, I am shocked too. The last 2 days my weight dropped. I haven’t had any nighttime eating for a few days so that helped. I am still pretty fatigued and yesterday didn’t help. Left the house at 11 and never got back until after 4. The memory testing was hard. I did pretty good. I just have a few areas with mild impairment. She said it is a combination of many things contributing to it. Things like having had Covid, sleep issues and the constant pain. She said it is important to try and get the pain under control but that is easier said than done. 🤷♀️
Not sure if I will get to the pool. I have a massage at 8 am which I will walk to and from. I meet some friends for coffee at 10 and I need to get housework done. The biggest thing is I am really fatigued.
Happy FriYAY!
@Megan_smartiepants1970
Steps 4,243
Sorry for the book!5 -
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Had to skip the gym this morning because I was trying to get dinner reservations done for Disney and it is not an easy thing to accomplish 🙃6
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shortyjmorgan1 wrote: »Had to skip the gym this morning because I was trying to get dinner reservations done for Disney and it is not an easy thing to accomplish 🙃
Definitely a good reason to skip.3 -
We are getting close to the holidays and halloween is Sunday? Thanksgiving is looming for our American teammates. Some companies have Christmas parties in November. Have you started thinking on how to manage family dinners and holiday parties? What about left over candy from Sunday? Please share some of your strategies.1 -
Mild rant warning.
Got my blood work numbers back and my cholesterol has dramatically risen. The only thing I can think of is the Keto ish diet I have been on. I actually read my results before the nurse called. Her tone and attitude was like she was scolding a child, because of that she triggered my mouth. I pointed out all of my fats were high but my ratios were normal. Silence... "he still wants to see you." Of course I said fine. I hope his first line is not "I want you on statins." Let me change up my diet again so I can lower my fat and check me again when I come in for my covid followup in January. BREATHING... So I am on day 2 of trying to turn those numbers around.5 -
Mild rant warning.
Got my blood work numbers back and my cholesterol has dramatically risen. The only thing I can think of is the Keto ish diet I have been on. I actually read my results before the nurse called. Her tone and attitude was like she was scolding a child, because of that she triggered my mouth. I pointed out all of my fats were high but my ratios were normal. Silence... "he still wants to see you." Of course I said fine. I hope his first line is not "I want you on statins." Let me change up my diet again so I can lower my fat and check me again when I come in for my covid followup in January. BREATHING... So I am on day 2 of trying to turn those numbers around.
I have high cholesterol because of hereditary issues and luckily my doctor worked with me to avoid the statins as they don't play nice with my body. She put me on 4 fish oil pills a day and told me to avoid cheese as much as possible because it's really high in bad cholesterol. I hope everything begins to work out4 -
Megan_smartiepants1970
Weigh-in Day-Friday
PW: 238.5
CW: 235.2 (loss 3.3 lbs)
LTD: 11.8 lbs4
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