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WaistAways Team Chat JANUARY 2022
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Friday weigh-in
PW 86.3
CW 85.4
Very pleased with that. I hope I can keep it going because I know what happens when I fall off. I think I drive the wagon but when I lose my licence (due to reckless eating) it takes me forever to get it back. So must stay in the driving seat. Also must keep moving and not stay static, another thing I seem particularly good at.
Have a lovely weekend
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PW 254.4
CW 253.95 -
PW - 174.7 lbs
CW - 174 lbs5 -
PW 236.2
CW 237.2
Really frustrated 😞 I was within my calorie budget by 50 calorie daily this week. I was really hopeful that I would start loosing. I have been making some changes like more protein and fiber and maybe it's an adjustment period. I even flipped my scale over to make sure no dust bunnies were under it and I changed the batteries. Desperate times call for desperate measures 😅 That didn't help. My husband says I look like I'm slimming down. I also feel pretty good. My new prebiotic arrived yesterday so I am trying it out starting today. They said it can take 1-2 weeks for your body to adjust. Who knows what that means!!!
I love everyone's take on the "On the wagon/off the wagon " topic. I think of my self as the driver but sometimes the wagon breaks down, gets pulled over or maybe I just got some bad directions 🤔5 -
1/20 exercise: 11,780 steps + 60 minutes Orangetheory (treadmill - 15 minutes. Row, weightlift, stretch - 45 minutes. Fitbit gave me 3776 steps for it).
My weight has been hovering within .02 lbs of my last week's weight and I'm trying not to get discouraged. I need to keep reminding mysf that this is the first "normal week" since before Christmas and that my body will respond to the exercise and full time work in unpredictable ways6 -
PW : 206 lbs
CW: 207 lbs
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CW: 168.0 lbs
Hmmmmmmmm I need to make some sort of change.4 -
Friday weigh in
PW 199.5
CW 198.1
Taking a break but still can’t get to all the posts. I’ll try later. Pilates stretching to start the day felt so good. We’ve stArted packing. 😳 Hubby has been a dynamo all day! Impressive! Got 7 wardrobe boxes on a Facebook sales site today. The man was nice enough to drop them at our house because they wouldn’t fit in our Jetta.
I’m already over 8k for steps today. Yay! Benefits to packing. I’ll come back to answer the cart question in a bit but I love the answers so far. And Ashley, from here you are DRIVING that cart girl.7 -
Happy Fri-YAY friends! Oh the feelings of euphoria I have this time of the week... nothing better than the promise of a weekend ahead
@micki48 Thank you for the kind words. Brad and I spent a lot of time on our lunch time walk today talking about how the mind takes a while to catch up to the body. I am in the smallest size body I've been in for YEARS, probably 1.5 decades or so, and I don't know that I realize it yet. It's an odd feeling. I don't feel bad or anything, but all the old thought patterns of how I felt when I weighed more are still there. I think that takes a longer time to change than the physical self.
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@gak71 You seriously have the best trips. Alaska last year, and heli-hiking this year. I knew of heli-skiing but I actually didn't know that heli-hiking exists. Looking forward to hearing all about it... it sounds like something I would absolutely LOVE!4
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Biggest rest day I've had in a while today so we are fresh for tomorrow's PeloFondo where I'll try to ride 100 KM in one day and Brad will do 160 KM.
I'm on call for work so I'm planning on doing my first 1.75 hrs in the early morning before I start those duties... by then it'll be Brad's turn on the bike and his goal is to do his full 160 KM in one go. While he starts I'll be preparing the snack table to fuel him through the ride
Then I'll hop on to finish up.
We happen to have dinner reservations for tomorrow morning at a well rated Italian restaurant in downtown Calgary we've never tried... I made the reservations months in advance as it's hard to get into but I'm sure the carbs will please us both tomorrow night
Wish us luck!7 -
1/20 exercise:
46 minutes biking, 7550 steps5 -
Another beautiful day!
I hope you all have been enjoying it. I'm having fun shopping for snowshoes for my taller half - he has always been a cross-country ski person, but now that he is older and his 2 knee replacements are not quite as solid as they were 10 years ago when he got them, he thinks snowshoeing might be the way to go. I'm looking at used stuff, and I think I have found a great pair for only $80. New they are around $200, so if they really look as good as they should be, we might be in luck. And they are only a 20 minute drive away.
@ashleycarole86 and @micki48 - your exchange about body "feel" is a good one to get into. I have to say, I do not "feel" that much smaller than I was, but I know I sure am. Just like I do not "feel" as old as I am! Yikes! I read a news story about someone who died at age 68 today, and they looked SO much older than I am. I turned 68 a few days ago
So yeah, it is true. Our mental image does NOT keep up with the changes.
@bonnie_red yep. Some kind of change sometimes has to happen! What do you think needs to change? Usually it is diet-related. What stops progress more than other things? For me it is grains, but it is different for our various ages, body types, stage of weight-loss, etc. Take some time to experiment - an entire week with one change (and only one!) to see if that might do it. Then things might be clearer.
So who is up for finishing Week 3 for us? Time for some people to catch up, and for the Saturday people to be ready -
@twdempsey
@Steph1498
@happimess01
@EvMakesChanges
@kellie_erin
@veronica1359
Onward to the final week of January. Wow. How did that happen so fast??5 -
ahhh...Saturday. It's snowing and I have no where I have to be and no one (visiting nurses, home health aides or visitors or family) is coming to our house. Hallelujah! The weekends are usually difficult for me eating-wise but I've had trouble this whole last week - not that I don't have a fridge full of healthy options, other things are around as well and I've just ate it all. So starting out my morning checking in here, getting inspired, and will hit that reset button NOW rather than Monday morning. First step...plan my food day.
I've got my sewing machine (I'm a wanna be sewist) on the kitchen table. I haven't had it out since last winter when I had to put away my work-in-progress when my stitches became wonky and no mental energy or time to fix it. That will be a good project for today - get it running smoothly again and back in use.4 -
PW=89,1Kg
CW=88,2Kg
weekly steps= 49.8106 -
PW 147.4
CW 148.8
5 weeks in red. I just can't stay on track. Some of that was holidays, but mostly emotional eating. I ate chips and string cheeses (yes, more then 1) for dinner last night. I have increased my veggies. I have been eating carrots, cucumbers and bell peppers everyday, but I have also had lots of junk.7 -
PW: 188.6
CW: 187.7
Slowly on the downward trend, I hope it continues!4 -
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1/21 exercise:
11,494 steps + 1 hour Orangetheory (25 minutes treadmill + 35 minutes rowing, weightlifting, stretching. Fitbit gave me 4,631 steps for the hour)
Still adjusting my gait to the barefoot shoes. My feet are a bit sore today so I'm going to try some stretches to get things moving. But I'm really loving how the shoes feel2 -
@jugar PLEASE change my weigh in for this week. Finally I had a drop and so glad I didn't get discouraged last night and binge.
New CW: 235.24 -
Week 4 - Group Challenge: Water - Work It - Water is posted and will begin tomorrow, Sunday, 1/23/22. We're getting great feedback this year on the weekly challenges. Hope you'll join us!
Here's your link:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10854509/january-week-4-group-challenge-water-work-it-water#latest
Jessica
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1/21 exercise:
9636 steps
PeloFondo day is going well!
I was up at 5 to do a good chunk of my riding this morning. I have done 62.15 KM towards my 100 KM goal.
I had to break for on call and Brad is doing his full 160 KM in one chunk so he's down there riding now. He is about 50% done.
Off to walk the dog with a friend, finish my riding before supper (I hope), and then head for our yummy Italian dinner!
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conleywoods wrote: »@jugar PLEASE change my weigh in for this week. Finally I had a drop and so glad I didn't get discouraged last night and binge.
New CW: 235.2
well done, you got this!2 -
Sun 16th - 17121
Mon 17th - 7265
Tues 18th - 9595
Weds 19th - 11340
Thurs 20th - 10845
Fri 21st - 26427
Sat 22nd - 21764
I hope everybody is having a good weekend thus far.
It is just after 1am and we're in the office with the cats - another 20 minutes to go before the top coat on the doors should be touch dry (it takes an hour... yes finished painting at 00:20!) and we can let them out and go to bed. This is really taking some doing. I started decorating at 1pm Friday, stopped at 5, picked up again at 8-00:30, then we carried on again from about 5 this evening. The job is taking the decorators far longer than anticipated, though the quality is excellent. It WILL be worth it.
As a result of being more active than normal I've eaten more than normal, so no idea what the scales will show on Monday.
Don't know if the decorators are coming today (they need to, to stand a chance of finishing on time, but they had another job on) and we have some bits and pieces to sort out including another top coat on the doors - about 2.5 hours of work. I also need to put three top coats in the airing
cupboard and OH had a go at repairing some creaky stairs but we think they will need replacing, so we'll see what some adhesive will do. We have a floor board to replace - got the timber for that today - and if the decorators have finished in the downstairs hallway I'd like to start cleaning a bit so there's less to do just before the flooring fitters arrive. No rest for the wicked, I must be an awful person
ETA, I think OH has gone to sleep on the office floor...6 -
Let's end Week 3 with every weigh-in present and accounted for - you have 12 hours. Go!
@twdempsey
@Steph1498
@EvMakesChanges
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My week for you @ashleycarole86
Sunday - 9515 + 60 snowshoe
Monday - 8962 + 30 Pilates
Tuesday - 9318 + 30 Pilates + 60 snowshoe
Wednesday - 15,329 + 45 snowshoe + 40 exercise bike
Thursday - 10,679 + 75 snowshoe
Friday - 9655 + 60 snowshoe
Saturday - 12,104 + 45 snowshoe + 45 exercise bike4 -
@jugar HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎈🎉!! I totally hear you with the age and weight thing. Over my steps today but I had to improvise. See photo. What a terrible time for my Fitbit to break.
Had trouble falling asleep last night and falling asleep now. Somehow I fall asleep on sofa but as soon as I go to bed…wide awake.
I’ve been really busy. At times, really hungry then too full to finish. Seems I’m a paradox. 😂
Oh, I’m the driver but sometimes I take wrong turns and get lost. Luckily, I have good gps (you all) and find my way back in the right direction.
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@jugar CW 179.6
Happy weekend! Sorry I was late getting this in. It’s wild we’re so close to the end of the month. Good grief!
I have some catching up to do and will try to get more walking in this week.
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Happy late birthday @jugar! Hope you had a great day.
@happimess01 Thank you so much for the kind words ❤
@bowens1973 and @ashleycarole86 hope your ride went well today 😀 I'm assuming padded shorts were in order for such a long ride! Glad you guys are loving your 🚲 bike.
@DD265 Sounds so very busy in your house! You will have to share some before and after pictures of the home improvement project.
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Feeling accomplished ending today. @ashleycarole86 and I competed in our first Pelo Fondo today and met our distance and time goals.
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