Hello MS ... You have a new member joining your wonderful team .. Please welcome @DietCokeAddict33904 You also have a member re-joining your team ... Please welcome back @Jactop

@bgame4 The produce in summer is so fun, definitely the best time to enjoy it! There's good stuff at other seasons but not like summer.

@TeresaW1020 You got this my friend, you've had one heck of a year so no kicking yourself, dust yourself off and get back to it! I went through that a bit after I relapsed since I gained half my weight back but there's nothing you can do now but set yourself up better for success, shame will only shrink your spirit. So glad things are good for you right now.

@laurelfit57 Can't wait to hear the new goal.

@DietCokeAddict33904 Hi Kim, welcome to Slimpossibles! I look forward to getting to know you, health problems definitely make weight loss a challenge.

@Jactop Yay so happy you're back my friend! You've been missed!

@tahu010 Welcome to Slimpossibles!

Great team percentage everyone!

@bgame4 @RaquelFit2 @trooworld Congratulations on the losses!

@19shmoo69 Welcome back Darren!

Not much new here, I got up and worked out, went to my brother's for awhile, then came home and cleaned and watched a weird movie called Suspiria, I luckily Googled it or I'd have been a little lost to be honest! I'm reading a book called The Nineteen Katherines but the print is light so I can't read it at night, guess I'll read a magazine before bed. Have a great Monday!

@DietCokeAddict33904, @tahu010 - Welcome!

@Jactop @19shmoo69 - Welcome back! Good to see you here!

@katmary- "shame will only shrink your spirit" LOVE THIS!

My job is centered around checking billing problems after a new electronic medical record system goes live. Go live on Saturday. They want us to check things immediately, so starting today, I am working 12 days in a row. I'm on salary. Hopefully after this, there will be two weeks of crazy while bugs are fixed and then my job will settle into a routine of stuff I like to do. Count down the days with me. I got this!

Hubs is also having trouble at work. He and I went to the beach for some zen time yesterday. Sometimes "just being" is just what you need to recharge.

Happy Monday!

Lisa

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@Cornanda Wow, twelve days in a row will be crazy. Yes you do got this! The beach sounds wonderful, I'm glad you and your husband were able to go.

@TeresaW1020 Your house sounds so peaceful aside of the lizard! So happy the scale is moving for you.

@19shmoo69 Hi my friend!

@trooworld Take care my friend, hope you feel better.

@cybernurse251 Welcome to Slimpossibles!

Hi everyone! Did my workout and ran around trying to pick up donations for the charity which was a bust so I'm going to have to go to each place in the next couple days. Still doing good with my rainbow and dancing. Not much else is going on, have a great Tuesday!

Good morning, fitfam!! Coffee anyone?

@Katmary71 – So which Suspiria did you watch? The original (1977) or remake (2018)? I bought them both before having watched either one. Didn’t care for either, but liked the remake a smidgen more.
@19shmoo69 – You got me on that one! I was all like, “What?” Then totally laughed out loud at my desk…good thing no coworkers are around!

Welcome to the newbies and welcome back to some old faves!

My intro: Hello my SlimPeeps! My name is Jennifer and I am a 48 year old single mom of 3 adult children. I live in beautiful Southwest Michigan, right across the Lake from Chicago. My son, Marcus, is 26 and in the Navy, stationed in Virginia and just got married July 10. My new Daughter-in-Love is Ashley. My oldest daughter, Sydney, is 25 and lives about 45 minutes south of me. She and her husband are currently separated and trying to sell their house. My youngest daughter, Hunter, is 22 and just moved into a new townhouse with her fiancé, Michael, last Friday. She’s about 35 minutes south of me. Older daughter will be moving in to the same complex after her house sells, so that makes me feel better knowing they’ll be right by each other. I also have a sweet rabbit, her name is Kismet. I love to rubber stamp (I’m a Stampin’ Up demo) and make cards. I'm an active member of my church (Board member), and also love horror movies and books. I have worked in Community Development at my County for over 17 years.

I’m trying to break free of my food addictions. I use the Healthi app…it’s like a knock-off version of WW. The plan it assigned me is “Conquer Cravings”. I really want to be successful, but I’m definitely a Negative Nancy in all aspects of my life. It’s hard overcoming it.

Things have been super hectic lately with all the life changes happening to my children. I have not been focused on making good choices. I got together to craft with a couple friends, one of which has maintained an awesome weight loss (she started at my biggest size, too) for over 10 years and the other had gastric bypass 4 years ago and has maintained her loss, too. We were all talking weight loss and the one thing they reiterated to me is that, even after all this time, they still track (one uses Healthi and one uses WW). They both agreed that when they get lazy with tracking, that’s when they see an increase and they know they will be tracking the rest of their lives. They also discussed how so many people lose a large amount right off the bat, which is discouraging for people like me, but they experienced fractional losses (like 0.2 to 0.4 lbs at a time). I’m so glad to have had that conversation with them. It’s motivating me. After Hunter moved out, I cleaned out the fridge, freezer and cupboards to take everything to her new place. It’s giving me a feeling of empowerment! It’s time for me to focus on ME! Being an empty nester is so helpful!

I shall sign off now with my 2022 Mantra: NO ZERO DAYS!
(For those that don’t know, No Zero Days is based off an article that was shared on here previously. It’s the idea that, as long as you’ve accomplished something, then you didn’t have a zero day. No need to do it all…just a little is better than nothing.)

Quick pop in....

Well. Someone on my work team must have complained BIG TIME about the 12 days in a row. Because my manager had a one on one with each one of us and mine was all about making sure I was happy and wasn't going to quit because of this. She offered me Thurs off and another day after, or said I could bank the extra time. I need to go see my extended family this fall, so now I can happily tell myself that working all these days is because I want to see them! Yayyyy!

@19shmoo69 - OMG, the yardstick thing made me laugh! Thanks!

Lisa

Another member joining your team .... Please welcome @jbwilson1975

Thanks, all! I feel a little embarrassed to get first place with such a small loss, but it is motivation to keep working on eating healthy and exercising.
A local produce stand sells very reasonably priced vegetables, and my favorite use so far has been these Chocolate Zucchini Brownies: https://www.yammiesnoshery.com/2014/08/secretly-healthy-zucchini-brownies.html. I have also enjoyed BLTs and Creamy Cucumbers.

Welcome to new and returning members!

Welcome to all our new members! This is a great team and I hope you will feel right at home.

@FushiaKat Wahooooo on getting to a new decade on the scale!! You are doing awesome. Just don’t be too impatient because the less you have to lose the longer it can take.

@Cornanda I’m glad that your manager jumped in to make sure that you were OK with working 12 straight days and offered you a choice. Nothing worse than working for a place you don’t feel appreciated or heard. How is your mom doing?


Good morning, Team! Well, I happily lost 4.3 lbs. at TOPS last night. I had expected 3 lbs. from my scale at home so clearly, our scales don’t match, but that is OK! My sister lost 5.6 lbs. and we were both the queen and runner up were given crowns to wear and had a song sung to us. Yeah, TOPS can be really corny! A woman did a program on intermittent fasting from a TOPS article, and it was terrible and I sat shaking my head the whole time on how much misinformation the article contained. TOPS is not a fan of IF, it seems. Afterward the leader asked if any of us do IF and my sister and I raised our hands and had plenty to say about how we disagreed with all of it. That led to lots of questions on IF and other stuff. I have promised to do another program one day on IF and how it can work. OK, I gotta go and head to the church to meet the pest control man. Have a great day!

Another new member joining your amazing team ...Please welcome @shaunarlr83

@trooworld - glad you are feeling better and getting back into your routine.

@TeresaW1020 - Whahoo on the loss! Congrats. My Mom is doing OK right now- she has another little medical issue, but is hanging in there. She and Dad have set a moving date of 10/18. They will be moving to a retirement community where it will be easy for her to enter assisted living when she needs to and easy for Dad to spend time with her. I'm so glad that Dad finally moved that forward! How is Joe?

@shaunarir83- Welcome to the group- hope it helps you!

Well. In addition to having to work all weekend, the big boss decided we all need to meet for dinner on Friday to get pepped up for it. (I'd much rather stay home and chill in my PJs!) On top of that- this week an email came out stating that each team must participate in a lip sync battle at the dinner. Let me tell you, this is not in my wheelhouse at all! The rest of my team agrees. However, we worked up a little routine- not easy when you all work remote! Hoping it will turn out to be fun.

Lisa