Hi! Starting July with challenges, but that is life, Thanks for the inspiration, @CeeBeeSlim
@angelahammon great to hear from you!

Getting through the week ahead will be interesting since my 2-year-old and 5 year old granddaughters developed covid and my son also. They were running fevers and vomiting yesterday. I'm not sure if I'm sick yet. All except the baby girls are vaccinated. I will try to post. The goal is to drink lots of fluids and eat only healthy food. That will be a health reset in general.

I'll do a formal weigh-in tomorrow, but my pants are informing me that it won't be good. Stress in a variety of forms has me losing discipline in food and exercise (my part time jobs and hobbies are still very active, but don't make up for my eating!).

Interview tomorrow for a job I really REALLY want - I've been preparing the past 2 weeks, and pretty sure I can interview great, but not sure how I'll stand up compared to other applicants - can't control that though, so have done a ton of prep work, and going to go in with my own goals and passions out there since this role would align with my own 'impact' goal in life...

@HoneyBadger302 I am right there with you. I have undone my losses and starting over. But going to hold myself accountable every day. Because my pants are too tight…

How was the interview - good luck 🍀

OMG @CeeBeeSlim me too! I just did that yesterday or day before. We are all in this together. But I love being accountable with others. I have never done one of those bet sites (I looked at Dietbet I think) but we could start our own thing if that would be good motivation. Not so interested in the $ part but would def try.

Drink lots of water and put this weekend behind us!

Interview was - interesting. I think I would have some clear advantages (passion, adaptability, broad range of experience, etc) but also a disadvantage (no titled experience in that role or in that industry), so it's really going to boil down to a) what they value the most and b) what the other applicants bring to the table.

Hard to tell how an interview goes, but still going to keep on applying elsewhere (and would go back to my previous company if they'd hire me as a PM rather than a PC with the pay range to go with it - the only reason I left is they wouldn't promote me even though I was doing the work and had gotten the certs). Current/new job is NOT working out - not what I thought I interviewed for, not the type of work I want to do, and the company/division is just a hot freaking mess with no leadership cleaning it up - and the one guy kinda carrying the department load is probably going to be gone soon (interviewing places I am positive he would get hired) - which means it's going to be a disaster here. I'd prefer to be gone before the dumpster fire completely explodes.

@HoneyBadger302 glad interview went relatively well. At least you are getting out there to avoid your hot mess job. Right thing to do but always hard to switch jobs - I’ve been there recently.

@CeeBeeSlim I am so there with you. Weight higher than my starting point and that always makes me panic. Ugh. I work out regularly and walk a lot but honestly it makes me so much hungrier. The struggle is real - this is not easy. I feel like the older I get the harder this is (of course) where I used to have wiggle room for travel, meals out and not be rigid but that seems to be gone. Sigh. And it’s really 5 damn pounds. Not as worried about that as I am of the next 5.. I really hate spending mental energy on this but I hate when my pants are tight!

Hello friends! Glad that everyone feeling better and back on track. Yesterday was better and I tracked and felt good. But need to keep that up consistently which is always the problem. And travel this week which is always a challenge for me. Eating out and late night snacking are always my issue…but we are tackling this all together so that helps!

Awesome @CeeBeeSlim - that’s such great news! I’m moving a little slower but going in the right direction. Slowly. On the road tomorrow so let’s hope I can manage with meals out. I will be happy to maintain while away.

Hope everyone has a nice weekend. Keep up the great work!! We will get there!!

Early 60s, 5'-8" (ish)
SW (02.10.22) - 150
CW - 148.8 (07.09.22)
JulyGW - 142.8
FinalGW - 125lbs
Sounds like just about everyone here is going through something similar to me, getting off-track and not having the mental and/or physical energy we want.
I need to recommit to an exercise routine, the heat here has really been taking the desire to exercise out of me. So my plan is same as last month:
Cardio: Last walk I did was 5K walk so I'm going to stick with that distance and try to improve my time. Will be cycling or golfing as cross-training.
ST challenges: Pull-up challenge - I'm up to 20 lb. dumbbell rows
push-ups - If I do these every day this week, I'll be finished with that challenge by the end of the week (60 push-ups)
planks - this week is 4 sets of 55 seconds each.

@HoneyBadger302 , glad the interview went well, fingers crossed you get the job

I too have not had a good start, the scales have gone up a little which is not great but i am logging better and have cut back so hoping this week i start to see a downward change , good luck everyone , we can do this!!!!

@CeeBeeSlim your lying down 'shovel' test made me laugh out loud. Dont we all have a similar fat test?! I sometimes grab my inner or outer thigh (ie my saddle bags) and give them a good shake to measure the amount of jiggle. 😆 same thing with my upper arm flaps..... LOL.

Like the scale though, you can't do it too often when you know you're on a rebound from a bad spell or it will leave you feeling demoralized. Have to give your body time to adjust to a new healthy routine and it will all feel good again!!!!