WaistAways Team Chat - JULY 2022
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What a horrendously hot day here yesterday. Fortunately, got both dog walked and horse taken care of before the worst of it. Finally had rain this morning and the temps have broken ... high only mid-80s today. At least being forced inside led to getting some much-needed cleaning done!
Super pleased with the way things are going. The Habit Tracker is a great motivational tool and so easy to do. I find the visual presentation of objectives met very motivational without taking hardly any time each day.
Feeling hungry ... good mini-discussion. This is something I struggle with a bit. I have to find the balance between eating just because it is time to eat and getting too hungry. Not eating enough, or waiting too long to eat, can be a huge trigger for me if I get overly hungry. The other thing I am working on is trying to learn to differentiate being tired, thirsty or hungry. Sounds simple, but turns out it is not (at least for me). I think using the habit tracker is going to help with this.
@micki48 There is definitely an advantage to living alone when it comes to food management! Maybe pick a time when you can sit and talk with your husband about what this is like for you and how he could be helpful? Sounds like he wants to be involved/included??
@jugar "This is so good! It is always exciting to feel how much more energy there is once the exercise becomes a habit." Yes!! Note to self ... try to keep in my psyche how good I feel when I eat clean and get consistent exercise. And how bad I feel when I don't! The difference is so profound, I find it perplexing that when I get into a bad place emotionally, I manage to lose track of this really important fact.
Doc appt today. So hoping he can isolate the reason for my hip/butt pain and has a solution that gets me back in the saddle soon. Tired of spending all the time with my horse on the ground!
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I ended yesterday meeting all my tracker goals, but I was 48 calories over on my log, including eating my exercise calories. Baby steps right? Managed to get my steps, water, logging, and check ins done. That's something. Today will be a better day. I have a lot of grilled chicken left over so I think I will make something using that for dinner. For breakfast I think I am going to make this recipe I tried once before with oatmeal, chia, and blueberries. It was so filling and tasty.
May take the little one to a playground today and get in some steps. Speaking of steps...Great walking steppers!!!
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@jugar can I please push my weigh in until Friday this week?1
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PW: 215.4
CW: 215.0
@jugar I had asked a few days ago if I could change my weigh in day from Saturdays to Wednesdays. I hope thats ok as I won't be near my scale on Saturdays for a bit.5 -
Good morning everyone. I'm back from vacation and a day late in checking in. UGH ... not a great way to start a new month.
Last weight; 238.2
Todays weight: 240.4
Today my concentration will be to getting my 8 cups of water in and staying within my calorie and carb goals. I got into WAY to many carbs on vacation and my FBS showed it.6 -
Lots to catch up on today!
@DD265 I'm glad to get you thinking about breathing! Keep a dumbbell nearby for practice
Your allotment sounds like it is really becoming awesome, and everything will taste amazing when it is eaten within a couple of hours of being picked. Nothing like it. You are what you eat! So that means when you are eating all the lovely results of your hard work, you are even more fabulous, right?
@jan110144 I wish you cooler weather. We are having the most perfect spell of mid-70s at the highest, and I would share it with everyone if I could. The hot is especially bad for working with horses, unless, of course, you have a young horse who goes really well when it is so hot out that the effort of misbehaving is not worth it! Keep up the great work on your habit tracking, figuring out the hunger vs thirst vs fatigue jumble, and good luck at the doc today. I hope you can start riding again soon
@micki48 the baby steps are working I am sure! Logged ice cream is always better than unlogged
and all those steps are taking you closer to getting the scale heading down.
@lauren_989 you are now moved to Wednesdays - sorry about letting that slip through the cracks... And you are having another green week! Hats off
@PlaneMonkey no problem for delayed weigh-in
@JEB03253 your gain is small! That looks like a big success as vacations go. It will come off in no time. Getting right back on plan is going to work so fast your head will spin.
Have a fabulous Wednesday, everyone! I'm off to a sheep farm to collect raw wool for my upcoming project. What does wool have to do with music, you ask? My colleague and I will be finding the sounds that reflect the wool, the working of it, the women spinning and weaving it - and the sheep! It will have everything from speech rhythms and contours in several languages to sound textures resembling the work the women do with the wool, the gestures they make, and who knows what else. We're going to have fun, I'm sure!
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7/5 exercise: 14080 steps
@jugar Sounds neat about the wool! Have a blast
Sun is shining here today, so hoping to get another big day of steps + a Peloton ride
Things are busy so I'm just trying to fit it all in!2 -
Tuesday Weigh-in (one day late!)
PW: 255.8
CW: 251.8
Wahoo! Take that, vacation mode. Determined to keep marching down from here - I may need to adjust my July goal from when I said I wanted to get out of this 250s decade. That's looking too doable now! And it's been quiiiiite a long time since I had to adjust a time-based weight goal for the better, not the worse.
little life update: I got a job offer from the place I've been most interested in! They gave me until tomorrow to accept/decline and I am likely going to accept! Just chatting with my aunt tonight for the final think-through of pro/cons. I value her professional perspective a lot.
Less fun update: I traveled home yesterday from the beach (which was a blast, btw) and I felt like I had pretty small, normal meals. However, after a simple dinner of pasta with butter around 7pm, I started getting some terrible heartburn and indigestion before 8pm that has not gone away since! I took a 65 min walk and burped the entire way. Then when I tried to go to bed, I literally could not lie down without intense chest pain and burning up my whole throat. It was awful! Never experienced heartburn like this before. Anytime I did, it typically passed within an hour of eating! Couldn't fall asleep until almost 2am. I managed to get a doc appt at 4pm today so hopefully they prescribed something or get me to a gastro. I have to wonder if I would be having any problems like this at a lower weight. sad, but encouraging.
happy hump day folks! headed out for a walk now but I am honestly kind of afraid to eat lunch after...7 -
oh also for some fun tracking outside the actual tracker, I added a little grid to my whiteboard in my kitchen for "5 weeks in the green in July" - 2nd check going in today!6
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Hello everyone,
Since my children have left for camp I am having perfect days after perfect days. No cravings. No need for sugar. I cannot believe the difference in my level of stress. It makes me realise to which extent I am affected by my children's needs and emotions.
Anyway,
Last w : 134.2
today 132.2
I have been swimming 3 km every day, spending quality time with my husband, going on cycle rides and making order little by little in my chaos. I really needed this time.
My 127 goal is getting nearer... A little more than 5 pounds. But I know those last 5 pounds won't be easy to remove...
Let's stay focus. One day at a time!9 -
Have a fabulous Wednesday, everyone! I'm off to a sheep farm to collect raw wool for my upcoming project. What does wool have to do with music, you ask? My colleague and I will be finding the sounds that reflect the wool, the working of it, the women spinning and weaving it - and the sheep! It will have everything from speech rhythms and contours in several languages to sound textures resembling the work the women do with the wool, the gestures they make, and who knows what else. We're going to have fun, I'm sure!
@jugar Your project sounds so interesting! My sister is a spinner/weaver and was a sheep and angora rabbit owner. She even taught me how to spin and weave. I have a lovely floor loom she gifted me that I will put out if I ever have a home with some room. I’d love to hear more about it as the project progresses.
@Kali225 Oh how scary! Glad you have a doctor’s appointment today to check that out.
@jan110144 Hope your doctor visit goes well today and you are riding again soon. I know that hippy/butt/back pain too.
@mmarceau2 Sounds like you are making great use of this time while your kids are away.2 -
@jugar, please put me on the sidelines for the rest of the month. I'll jump off this out of control train when I can but it might be at the end of July....I'll read posts and check in but don't want to drag the team down with ugly weigh ins; not when I'm not trying.
August will be my month.7 -
Good evening everyone! I am hoping you are having great Wednesday!
I am writting to ask you all to be excused for the rest of the month.
I am still a little unwell from covid. All I do is sleep and eat and it is not fair on you to log my gain and let the team down.
Next Thursday I am starting my holidays - 7 weeks off from school job.
Oh how I am waiting for that time off!!
I will still be working in the hotel in the evenings but days will be peaceful and my own to spend with my family
So I am hoping in the next 2 weeks I can get my head straight, start loging my food and get back to the weight I am on the board
so @jugar
Please can I be put on team support, please Liselyn
Have a lovely Thursday all!6 -
@eggfreak and @ells_bellz you are now both on support team. I will pester you at the end of the month to see about August! In the meantime, you are always welcome to post any time, and stick with the group without worrying about the weigh-ins. The break can be great to reduce the stress. Hugs!
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Got in a 29 minute cardio workout dancing to the soundtrack of Momma Mia 😂 Hey it works. It was not looking like a good time to walk. Probably burned more calories.
All logged, under goal today. Hurray!! Working on the water. Passed my step goal. Yay5 -
Go @micki48 Go! Dancing can certainly get the heart rate up
Ready for Thursday? Here's the list of everyone due:
@MoonlitMuse
@KellyBgetsFit
@PlaneMonkey
@bowens1973
@ashleycarole86
Thanks!2 -
@jugar sorry, I didn't change my scale batteries until this afternoon. I will weighing tomorrow morning.
I am feeling pretty good about my weigh in. I haven't been on the scale in 2 weeks, which included a vacation and the 4th of July, but I feel like I made good food choices. I put on a dress today that I hated a few months ago. 👍7 -
oh also for some fun tracking outside the actual tracker, I added a little grid to my whiteboard in my kitchen for "5 weeks in the green in July" - 2nd check going in today!
So inspiring!
Way to kick your vacation's butt girl!
Also, congrats on the job offer.
Hopefully the heartburn situation was a one and done.. that sounds terrible.4 -
Good day of work, came home and hopped right on the Peloton and got my long ride (60 minutes) out of the way early on this week.
I am VERY busy for the next month or so - it's literally one foot in front of the other. I think about all of the stuff and it gets me overwhelmed and then I go "nope - just focus on this moment, and what you can control now".
Today and tomorrow are dull in the plans department but busy in the life execution area! Gotta get some cleaning done - the house feels disatrous for the fact my brother is coming on Friday.
I tend to worry about these things but I honestly won't really have an option to do better than I have so it's just going to have to be good enough!
See you in the morning for weigh-in
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I now have yet another motivation for losing weight. Doc appt confirmed a hip issue. Will be scheduled for injection asap. That should resolve the problem for the time being. Next challenge is to push back the ultimately inevitable hip replacement as long as possible. Turns out that for each pound you lose you decrease force on your hips by a factor of 6. That's pretty good motivation! Can't wait to get back on Ms. Lucy.
Will finally have a chance to get to the store today (has been a particularly busy week) to get new batteries for scale. Still convinced that something was wrong with scale given the huge one-week loss when I weighed on Sunday.
@eggfreak and @ells_bellz Take care of yourselves.
@micki48 Sounds like a fun way to get your exercise in! Particularly if your weather has been as obnoxiously hot as ours. If I could just talk the dog into the fact that it would be as good as a walk ...
@Kali225 Good job!! Looks like a new decade is just a step away!!
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Username ashleycarole86
Thursday weigh-in
Goal Zone
Maintenance range 160-165
CW 164.45 -
@jan110144 Sounds like very good motivation
My husband lost his weight after his hip replacement but it's great for the life of the hip... should delay when he needs to get it redone.
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@Kali225 Hoping the heartburn thing will not repeat! That said, as soon as I read that you had pasta and butter, I thought of heartburn - for me, the combo of flour and fat will do it just about every time. Try not to go on the medication if you can avoid it - again, this is just my experience, but the meds were very weird and made me feel quite icky. It takes some time (and having gaviscon or something on hand!) but figuring out what sets it off and then changing your eating in consequence works well. As we age, we cannot keep eating the same things, at least for some of us, right @jan110144 ? We older ladies will give you a preview of what might be to come - the good and the not-so-good!
Having a wonderful horse to ride and a doctor willing to give you the good information are strong motivators, for sure. Wish we could go ride together!I now have yet another motivation for losing weight. Doc appt confirmed a hip issue. Will be scheduled for injection asap. That should resolve the problem for the time being. Next challenge is to push back the ultimately inevitable hip replacement as long as possible. Turns out that for each pound you lose you decrease force on your hips by a factor of 6. That's pretty good motivation! Can't wait to get back on Ms. Lucy.
Photo please!KellyBgetsfit wrote: »I am feeling pretty good about my weigh in. I haven't been on the scale in 2 weeks, which included a vacation and the 4th of July, but I feel like I made good food choices. I put on a dress today that I hated a few months ago. 👍
This sounds so wonderfulSince my children have left for camp I am having perfect days after perfect days. No cravings. No need for sugar. I cannot believe the difference in my level of stress. It makes me realise to which extent I am affected by my children's needs and emotions. I have been swimming 3 km every day, spending quality time with my husband, going on cycle rides and making order little by little in my chaos. I really needed this time. You needed a break and this lovely time! Time for you. 3 -
PW 152.4
CW 152.4
Wow, I am surprised! I actually thought I lost but after 2 weeks, I am the exact same. I really want to be under 150 by the end of the month. I am going to focus on working out, logging and hitting my macros.
@Jugar I will try to get a picture. My profile photo is so old. It is from my anniversary 3 or 4 years ago.6 -
thanks for well wishes about heartburn - I feel much more normal today, thank goodness.
@jugar good advice -- the doc told me he wants to test for GERD, so I have to stay away from antacids for 2 weeks before I can get the lab work done. see what happens and go from there...
I accepted my job offer this morning!! feeling great about it and I don't start until Aug 1 because they have someone else coming in and this way, we can start off on the exact same foot, which I think will be really nice. And I get 3.5 weeks to truly chill out!! I may splurge for a lunch out today just to celebrate. But I'll walk to pick it up!
maybe get some time at the pool today as well. upper body day for workouts and yoga for balance on deck!6 -
Congrats @Kali225 ... and fun to have a break before you start!
What a wonderful news item for the day
7/6 exercise:
8905 steps
62 minutes Peloton4 -
@kali225 Congratulations on your new job!!! How nice to have a little time to relax and prepare your mindset before starting!
@jan110144 Glad you got some answers from the doctor and newfound motivation. I need to remember that as well. These hips and knees could use a little less stress on them too. Hope you’re back on your horse soon.
We visited our local library today and, wow, what a wonderful children’s library. They had a whole village with firehouse, post office, library, grocery, auto repair shop etc. that kids could play in. They also have a great summer skills and reading program for Juliet to participate in.
Need to get some movement still, but water is going well. Food is logged. Lunch was a little high. Treated ourselves to Wawa hoagies, but I only ate half. Plus it’s our dinner on our own night.
Maybe I should rethink that with weigh in tomorrow.
Here is my win from last night. I told myself No desserts/sweet/food after 9pm. I wanted a cookie so bad. I made chocolate peanut butter oatmeal cookies for the fam. I thought about it about four different times, walked out to the kitchen, looked at my watch and talked myself out of it. It was hard, but I kept my word to myself. Finally, just went to bed. A win for me.
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Username: Bowens1973
PW: 177.2
CW: 177.2
Now that's a first! I've been reducing my exercise this week as I prepare for my bike race on Saturday. 160kms through the Canadian Rockies. I'm so excited!!!7 -
@Kali225 congratulations on the new job! Enjoy these last few weeks off!
My week has been going well. Had some intense cravings for chocolate this week. I made some sugar free chocolate pudding which hit the spot. People talk about cravings and they go for a walk and it's gone 20 minutes later. My cravings can last for weeks 😕 I went to a bbq on July 3 and my MIL mentioned peanut butter m&m's. They have been on my mind every evening since then! Tends to be worse at night but so far haven't caved! Plus I would have to go to the store and buy them. Hopefully this will go away soon 🤷🏼♀️4 -
@micki48 Your cookie refusal strategy was not just one win - it was FOUR wins!! It is hard enough to say no once, but you did it every time you went into the kitchen. Pat yourself on the back for sure.
@bowens1973 Saturday is your race! I'm excited. I hope you have a fantastic time, and that we can see some great photos
@Kali225 a new job. Whew! You did it! Enjoy this lovely time off before starting, and then you'll be off and running.
Friday is coming already. Let's go Friday people! And anyone who needed to put things off to Friday -
@MoonlitMuse
@PlaneMonkey
@EvMakesChanges
@conleywoods
@micki48
@robinhardysmall
See you there!3
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