@vegan4lyfe2012 Congrats on the loss! Woot woot!

@TeresaW1020 No, you are not alone my friend! I also face-planted for many weeks. I hope 2022 will be better for us all.

@FushiaKat I like your phrases! Very powerful.

@gem_t_86 Welcome! Happy New Year!

Hi all. Happy New Year! I am one of your team motivators along with @Katmary71! I'm in my 50s and live in Southern California with my husband and our cute rescue pug, Daisy. I've been struggling with my weight since my mid-20s. I'm currently on WW so I track my food there. I have about 60 lbs to lose. In my spare time, I make artwork, do photography, crafts, read a LOT, and love listening to music. I'm glad to see all of the new faces.

My husband and I didn't even make it to the EST New Year's ball drop, we went to bed at 8:45 p.m. lol. We did enjoy our appetizers and drinks, though. I'm going to spend some time working on my goals after this post. I will post them afterward.

As far as my phrase for last year, CHANGE HAPPENS, I believe I did have some minor changes so I am content to put that phrase to bed. My new phrase for the year is below. Enjoy!

My phrase for the year: "I take no crap and eat no crap."

@broncobuddee
Username: murdog3t
Weigh In Day: Friday
Staring weight :160
PW 11/26 :156.6
CW 12/31 :155

Our Week 1 January Group Challenge is open and ready to go for Sunday, Jan. 2nd. I hope you'll join us as this challenge accompanies last week's New Year/New You Challenge with "Things to Do in 2022!" Here's the link:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10852416/january-week-1-group-challenge-things-to-do-in-2022#latest

Jessica

@19shmoo69 Happy New Year Darren! For Christmas, my husband bought me not one but two coffee makers, two new coffee mugs, and my favorite coffee. My mom bought me a huge box of K-cups and my boss gave me a VERY generous Starbucks gift card. Just so you don’t think you’re the only coffee lover on this team!

@FushiaKat You have great goals for 2022! Did you see the Habit Tracker on the main page? Many of us have really liked using it to help keep us mindful of our goals for the month. I love your 2022 phrase!

@adoglover Wow you have a lot of stuff going on and I will cross my fingers for you that all your dreams come true this year!

@Jactop It’s wonderful to have you back on the team! I have been thinking about you and hoping that you were doing well.

@murdog3t Woot, you lost weight over the Christmas week. Way to go!!

@Cornanda Sorry you are still sick and glad that your daughter and guys haven’t come down with it. So many people have it right now!


Hi Team! I have heard of several people in my church who have come down with this stupid new virus, so hubby and I have decided that he will stay home tomorrow. They will run a Covid test on him Monday morning before doing his surgery. I would stay home too but I don’t have anyone to teach the kids in Sunday school. I will go and just teach them, at a distance, and then come straight home. Since we did get our boosters, we aren’t overly concerned but we really don’t want the surgery canceled. Hubby has been dealing with a lot of dizziness and passed out yesterday morning on the kitchen floor and almost again today. I am so stressed out with his cancer and all the other issues going on with him. My nails have been bitten down to the quick and I am fighting the urge to eat all the things. I did have a good workout this morning which helped. I want to write out my 2022 goals but honestly, I just can’t right now because I’m not focused enough. I have my 2022 word, INTENTION and I’m clinging to that and my faith that this will all end soon. Thanks for reading my rant.

Hi to all. Happy new year. I'm Roz, 28 from England. I'm back after a few months off. I'm here to finally take control of my weight. My goals are:

💙 Login daily and log all food
💙 Stay within calorie goal
💙 Drink 2+litres of water daily
💙 Try to exercise a little

Good luck all!

@TeresaW1020 - Good plan on hubby staying home today. It sounds like he's not feeling great anyway. What's up with the dizzyness? How scary. Hanging on to your intention is a great plan. Remember your inner strength. It's always there even when you don't feel strong. I've been admiring how strong you are all the time I've been in this group with you. I've been praying for you and will continue to do so.

Lisa

Weekly weigh in
Username. laurelfit57
Weigh in day. Sunday
PW. 145.2
CW. 143

Weekly weigh in
Username. Shawetan
Weigh in day. Sunday
PW. 120
CW. 120

@shawetan You have great goals going into 2022 and you have a right that nothing is impossible! You will be posting your weight every Sunday from now on. Unless you decide to change your weigh-in day and then you just need to less @broncobuddee know.

@ros0810 Hi Roz! Great to have you back! Never giving up on ourselves is so important and you are proving that you aren’t going to do that.

@Katmary71 Wow three yoga challenges are great! Just don’t overdo it. I am right there with you about needing to get sugar back out of my diet. It does no favors for anyone!

@Cornanda We think hubby’s dizziness is due to his blood pressure meds but it could also be from cancer. All I know is that I’m so tired of being stressed out that he going to crack his skull open and give me heartache in the process. I will remember my inner strength and from whom it comes. Thank you, my friend.

@trooworld Yeah, he bought us a Mr. Coffee for the full pots and a Keurig for the K-cups. The Keurig makes a cup of coffee in under two minutes. I love it! I hope your throat and the rest of you feel better really soon.


Hi Team! We have some really good losses this week and I hope we all keep up our goals and crush this month. Last week we had some great discussions among a few of us on the importance of journaling. This morning my Beachbody coach asked her group to do a writing assignment we were to write down where we’ve missed our health goals in the past. And then to write down what we KNOW we’re capable of. She said, “You know that you're capable of finishing something, you know you’re capable of doing the right thing, you know you’re capable of hitting goals, etc.”

So, I did the assignment and it felt good to write it all out. I even admitted that with my husband’s surgery tomorrow for his cancer, I would have to have some extra grace and patience with myself. I’m OK with that, but I also don’t want to get to the end of the week feeling ashamed of my actions. And I will know the difference.

I am not sure how much I will or won’t be around the next few days. It will come down to how my husband does with his surgery. I also have to find a way to juggle my work at the church. I know that our awesome motivators and the rest of your amazing team members will help support each other and I can’t wait to read about all your successes.

Username: @gem_t_86
Weigh In Day: Sunday - 2/1/22
PW (Previous Weight): 13 stone 1lb
CW (Current Weight): 13 stone 1lb

Hi everyone, and well done everyone for the losses! Sorry for the delay in moving over to this month's new chat. I'm Gem and I live in the UK. I'm in my mid-thirties, single. I've been struggling with my weight for a long time, mostly because I've developed really bad eating habits over the past few years. I only signed up a few days ago so haven't lost much so far but I'm motivated to lose by next week

I'm not setting yearly goals at the moment because I find that if I set really ambitious goals, I tend to get overwhelmed. So I'm taking things one step at a time. The things I'm aiming for so far are:

- No diet coke/diet pepsi during January
- Cook dinner every day this week
- Track food every day in January even if I've gone way over my calories (starting tomorrow)

I'll come back with some new goals later but I'm gonna see how these pan out for me for a week or so first

User Name: Future Trophy Wife
Weigh In Day: Sunday [Jan. 2, 2022]
Previous/Starting Weight: 152
Current Weight: 150

[Please let me know if I failed to put this in the correct format. Thank you!].

Introduction:

Hi Everyone,

My name is Lisa. I live in the Midwest in the U.S. I am 61 years old and have been married 31 years. I have three adult children. I retired just before the pandemic began in early 2020. My plan was to travel a lot, ride my bicycle a lot more and spend more time on the volunteer projects that I love. I have a real passion for outdoor cycling and I am active in two local cycling clubs. Through my participation in the cycling clubs I have met many really nice people, and discovered that there are a lot of lovely bike paths in the area that I never noticed. In addition to cycling locally my goal is to go on more “Bike-cations”. I managed to do one in February of 2020 right before the pandemic started, and I did two in 2021. All of them were a lot of fun!

I have always loved reading and I belong to two book clubs. I think of myself as a nice person who does not mind hard work, and who likes making any activity - work or pleasure - fun. I may not always achieve it, but my goal is fun, fun, fun. I have been fortunate enough to find an exercise class that I actually like, since prior to this group I thought of exercise classes as incredibly dreary, icky and something to be tolerated (very occasionally!) I also feel very blessed to have found the bicycle clubs that I joined since riding in a group makes exercise fun (instead of dreary, icky… ).

I want to lose weight for several reasons. First of all, my doctor has been bugging me about it. Diabetes runs on both sides of my family and it is starting to knock at my door. I am kind of in denial, but I learned last year when I was about 10 pounds lighter than I am now that my “numbers” at the doctor’s office took me out of diabetes range. Sooo, I am trying to buckle down and lose 15 or more pounds so that I will have some ‘wiggle room’ to gain a couple of pounds and still be out of diabetes range. I have seen the really tough things that diabetes can do within my family and I really hope to a avoid that road. Secondly, I would like to be able to keep up with the stronger cyclists in my bicycle club. I think if I shed some pounds, and exercise to build both strength and aerobic endurance (if, if, if…) I will be able to do longer and faster rides without being completely exhausted or getting cramps in my legs. Third, I would just like to fit in clothes without them feeling tight in the waist, legs, etc. Did I say stomach?? I would love to have a flat stomach one day!

I am very nervous about this challenge, but I am also excited about the accountability, the support and the prospect of losing this weight and feeling healthier. I love food and have a lot of difficulty with portion control. Tracking food and weighing food have never been easy, but I am going to try hard. When I lost weight before I took a little post-it note to my doctor (who I like) and wrote the following lines for her to tell me: “Well done, my good and faithful servant!” We both had a good laugh, but she was very happy for me. I hope to be able to present that little post-it note to her again soon.

I worried about coming up with something to say in this introduction and now I have gone on and on. Good luck to everyone!