Good morning WNM! Welcome to all the new ladies & gents!
I'm Melanie and I'm from Kansas. I’m the other team Co-captain. Truly, Ashley does most of the heavy lifting.
I was always was skinny (no, not thin, skinny, all knees and elbows). At 18, I weighed between 110 and 120 at 5"6'. Maybe. I got happy. Then I got fat. I found myself weighing in about 230 and my six sixteens were too small. I bought a couple pairs of 18 pants from the thrift store and joined MFP.
I lost ~70 pounds in about a year and was pretty pleased. But I wanted another 20 off...and it didn't move. And things got a bit crazy with my husband's family (we won’t talk about that—it always leads to crazy-pants ranting)...so I decided to maintain for a bit. Instead of maintaining, I gained back most of the weight. So...now I'm here and working on losing 60 pounds (40 of the 50 I 'found' and the 20 I never lost).
My special snowflake challenges
I'm fairly significantly asthmatic (on meds all the time), have terrible allergies and connective tissue issues (not enough collagen, too stretchy, lots of joint slippage). The past five and a half months have been difficult for me because of the slippy joints—one of my shoulders slipped, refused to relocate and…well. Now I’m in PT once a week and doing PT exercises to the tune of about 45-60 minutes most days. I’m not 100% sure what I weigh because of all the shoulder inflammation. August 2020, I acquired some vertigo problems (or, maybe they just got worse). After adding some meds, adjusting my diet a bit, and stopping coffee (so sad), I’ve got it mostly under control, with only intermittent episodes. The point behind saying this is not woe-is-me, it is that a lot of exercise people promote is bad (anything high impact), and sometimes dangerous, for me.
Outside of PT, I’m not exercising much. I do get about 30 minutes of walking at least during the week because I have to walk to and from my car for work and all around the building to get to anyone I need to see or the ladies’. I try to get a walk in otherwise but frequently fail. Weekends are a mixed bag. Even walking had become painful with the shoulder, so I’d not even been doing much there.
My 2022 Goals
I’m not going to talk about last year or the year before any more.
I have a closet full of size 10's that I want to wear.
Back to Wedding Weight (165) before the end of the year. Maybe lower...
Daily goals
Walk at least 30 minutes a day. (I plan to start participating in the step challenge again)
Get back to doing core exercises every day (I add these in to my PT because shoulder exercises are boring).
80 oz of water or non-alcoholic liquid a day, mostly water.
Cut down on sugar and junk food (but it is Girl Scout cookie season!!)
I'm part of a leadership group at work (state government, staff training, tech support) and we meet quarterly. This last week we talked about resolutions and such, being the new year an all. Some of the team talked about not doing 'resolutions' but choosing an annual focus word (examples: gratitude, healing, listen, focus, positive) and using that word to focus each day. I found that interesting (I don't generally do resolutions as I don't make promises I won't keep, even to myself). I really like the gratitude and positive...so I will try to focus on these this year. I'm positive we can meet our goals this year and I'm grateful to have found this group of truly lovely people!
I want to congratulate all our losers this month! Small losses add up. Don’t get discouraged if you ‘only’ lose half a pound or pound. I am super proud of all of you! 😊 And several of you have maintained, which is terrific, too. Not seeing losses or not seeing the losses you want can be disheartening. Don’t give up! Think of all the things you have accomplished…you can do anything you put your mind to!
Welcome to the team newbies! I’ve sent friend requests to all of you (many have already added). Looking forward to getting to know you all!
I've been on the support team for a few months and I think I will stay there for January but I plan to do weighins. I think last week my weigh in was 220. Today was 218.6 (for yesterday, I'm posting a morning late...I intended to post yesterday but...well, you know what they say about good intentions).

The first week of the year is in the bag! Congrats to all of our members for bringing our average weight lost this week to over a pound per person! Find all of our weekly results in the link below...



Here's a sneak peek into how your team did...

MortylekOkruchy

steps:
Sunday: 7128
Monday: 7553
Tuesday: 12006
Wednesday: 15338
Thursday: 11207
Friday: 16138
Saturday: 11516

School resumed on Tuesday - walking my daughter to and from school adds about 4000 steps to the day count.
Done with painting my son's bedroom, still cleaning some mess around the house though, but at least access to treadmill has been regained!

I am excited to see that there are more of us in the step challenge now!
Joanna

MayLan
Saturdays
PW 244.8
CW 248.8

User name: seltzer_lover
Weigh-in day: Mondays
1/3: 263.8
1/10: 262.1

I was down about 2 more pounds during the week last week, but a loss is a loss is a loss. Progress!

Steps..

Sun- 10,064
Mon- 12,366
Tues- 8,416
Wed- 10,626
Thurs- 8,783
Fri- 7,491
Sat- 5,859

January week 2?
Username GingerPwr
PW: 157.5
CW: 155

Amazing what being done with your cycle can do, lol. 😆😆

It's exam week so I'll be doing a lot of standing still and staring at kids today. I need to make up for that with a dance video or something.

Have an awesome Tuesday!

Consumed a lot of salt yesterday. And maybe went a tad too hard at the gym on Sunday and Monday... just a tad, a tidbit, a little... So, I'm assuming this is water retention. Or it's the bounce back from my large loss from last week. Either option is really fine with me, honestly. Just happy to be in the 160s rather than hovering around 170 as I have been for the past... year.

@lorieconnellcassity AWESOME job!!!!!