Downsizers Team Chat - AUGUST 2022
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lindamtuck2018 wrote: »Awesome job Downsizers! We made the top 3 for both week 5 and the entire month!
Congrats to our top 3! 🎉👏🎉
Week 5
@JaysFan82
@motivatedmom13
@jimboden3
July
@Eatthefruitnotthecake78
@JaysFan82
@MadDuck62
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Megan_smartiepants1970 wrote: »oops I forgot to add the July winners ..I apologize .. Congrats to @Eatthefruitnotthecake78 , @JaysFan82 and @MadDuck62
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1. Tell us a little about yourself? Where are you from? What are some of your hobbies? Etc.
I m lis 59 from the UK but have lived in Spain for 20 years. Yoyo dieter all my life. But this is the last time!
2. Why are you on this journey? What pushed you to start?
A photo someone took in August 2021, couldn't believe it was me. I'd had a knee injury for 6 months and stopped all exercise
3. What are your triggers and how can you avoid them?
Emotional stress. Thought I'd beaten it but just had a really really bad week! I've put on 8lb this week .... hopefully lots of water as I fell off my low carb / fasting diet
4. Do you have a favourite diet you go by? ie keto, low carb
I count calories, stay low carb and only eat between 1.30pm and 8.30pm! Mad but works for me as I'm nearly 70lb down
5. What is your favourite way to workout?
I swim 1km 3 or 4 times a week and walk 7,000 steps plus on non swim days
6. What are some of your goals this month? Year?
Get the 8lb off I've just gained and hopefully reach 70lb loss
7. What do you expect to gain from the team? Do you have any suggestions?
Enjoy the responsibility of losing for the team and reading people's experiences
8. Share some words of wisdom with your teammates.
Don't let a few bad days turn into a week or a month or a year. Write them off pick yourself up and get back on track
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Fatfifties
Cw: 216lb
Pw: 208.6
Yes an incredible 8lb gain. Sorry team. Out of control emotional eating for 6 days. But I've dealt with the issue and I'm back on track and hoping lots of the gain is due to eating tons of carbs which I normally avoid!4 -
Let’s get to know each other!
1. Tell us a little about yourself? Where are you from? What are some of your hobbies? Etc.
I'm a nurse, I'm in NP school. I currently work nights and have a family (a husband and 3 kids)
I'm a huge nerd, I'm into Harry Potter and this webtoons called Lore Olympus. So, I read and study right now haha.
3. Why are you on this journey? What pushed you to start?
I started back in 2011 after my son was born. I was 240lbs. I stopped eating at night and lost weight. Probably from the reduction in added calories. Then I plateued at 210lbs until I stick to a 1500 calories. I lost a lot of weight in 6 months and was 170lbs. Then I got down to 158 with diet and adding exercise.
I started working night and didnt watch what I was eating so went ip to 185. Then a car accident happened and I went up to 195. Then I finished nursing school and because of a med I was on I gained A LOT of weight and ended school at 240. I've been trying for the last 2 years to get the weight off and it's just been up and down. So, I'm having a hard time with motivation and sticking to anything without getting discouraged.
4. What are your triggers and how can you avoid them?
Sugar. Absolutely. Ive been better lately about only having 1 serving size of it.
5. Do you have a favourite diet you go by? ie keto, low carb
I have tried them all. I like whole30 the best because it gives a little bit more control but it also is really restrictive. I would love a buddy to actually do the whole 30 days of it.
6. What is your favourite way to workout?
I love strength training. I want to be strong!!
7. What are some of your goals this month? Yearstrong!!
My goal this month is too work out every week and stick to my diet with only have 2 days out of the month with going over.
8. What do you expect to gain from the team? Do you have any suggestions?
I'm hoping to having some support and to be around other in the same situation and just having this group as support
8. Share some words of wisdom with your teammates.
Stick to it. You are the only person stopping you.
My weigh in days are Fridays. But I'm out of town this Friday. I'll post my weight Saturday 8/7.3 -
fatfifties wrote: »Fatfifties
Cw: 216lb
Pw: 208.6
Yes an incredible 8lb gain. Sorry team. Out of control emotional eating for 6 days. But I've dealt with the issue and I'm back on track and hoping lots of the gain is due to eating tons of carbs which I normally avoid!
No need to apologize. We are here for both the ups and downs. You are right a good bit of it is water retention.2 -
lindamtuck2018 wrote: »@Megan_smartiepants1970 I would like to rejoin - 10,000 steps a day.
1) Hi all, I’m Laura from Wisconsin. I enjoy reading and crafting.
2) I put on a lot of weight after starting my current job 15 years ago. It’s now greatly affecting my health and it needs to stop.
3) Being bored, anything that makes me derail slightly. Junk food always starts a binge
4) Low carb/sugar/junk food
5) Walking/dancing
6) Close my Apple Watch rings daily, log food daily
7) Motivation
Are you having problems with your exercise being written to mfp from Apple health? Mine has been hit and miss. I need to set closing my rings as a goal again. Thanks for the reminder!
It can take a bit, but I have never had it not go in before.
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Steps-
7/28: 12,297
7/29: 12,867
7/30: 4,702
7/31: 2,558
...lazy weekend... looking forward to a fresh start for August.2 -
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Weigh in gharvey2753
Previous 169.6ibs
Current 172ibs3 -
Penalty for huge week long carb binge from emotive eating ....8lb on
Reward for getting back on track 4lb gone overnight
It's so motivating when the scales goes down but I'm also really happy that 1. I recognise why I overeat and 2. I can get it back under control easily when I change my mental attitude!1 -
lindamtuck2018 wrote: »@Megan_smartiepants1970 I would like to rejoin - 10,000 steps a day.
1) Hi all, I’m Laura from Wisconsin. I enjoy reading and crafting.
2) I put on a lot of weight after starting my current job 15 years ago. It’s now greatly affecting my health and it needs to stop.
3) Being bored, anything that makes me derail slightly. Junk food always starts a binge
4) Low carb/sugar/junk food
5) Walking/dancing
6) Close my Apple Watch rings daily, log food daily
7) Motivation
Are you having problems with your exercise being written to mfp from Apple health? Mine has been hit and miss. I need to set closing my rings as a goal again. Thanks for the reminder!
It can take a bit, but I have never had it not go in before.
Weird thing is mfp is writing all my nutritional information to the health app but the health app can’t post exercise. I am going to enter it manually from now on.
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fatfifties wrote: »Penalty for huge week long carb binge from emotive eating ....8lb on
Reward for getting back on track 4lb gone overnight
It's so motivating when the scales goes down but I'm also really happy that 1. I recognise why I overeat and 2. I can get it back under control easily when I change my mental attitude!
That’s a big part of the battle is recognizing what causes overeating. I am in the same boat as you this week. I overate all weekend and my weight is up. I know why I am struggling but it is going to take a minute to pull myself back up.0 -
Steps: 8,040
Exercise: 2/5
So glad the long weekend is over. I overate and most of it was high sodium food. I did stay with in my calories yesterday but over on sodium. Of course, the scales is reflecting my weekend indulgence. To be honest, I am feeling a bit down. It was like pulling teeth to get myself to exercise yesterday but I did it. I did water aerobics yesterday for 26 minutes. I am planning on swimming laps today and some water exercises.
Have a great Tuesday!
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Overdue
@nekishaearly637
@motivatedmom13
@Xanathi
Tuesday
@aactuallyaash
@MadDuck62
Wednesday
@IP2021
@debbieluck
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@fatfiftiesI loved hearing about you, I also was low carb/fasting (my husband lost 200 pounds through it, so I do believe in it) and recently switched up to moderate low carb (added in more healthy carbs for heart health reasons) and to grazing – My trainer thinks this will jumpstart me – and – I can’t post what I’ve lost yet because my weigh in is Saturday – but I can say my water weight and such immediately fell off. Sometimes the body just wants a change. Plus I’m really enjoying my food. Emotional stress is also my trigger and I’m really working hard on asking “Will this get me to my goal *and* will this feel like self sabotage later?” It has really helped. Good luck on that 70! Love your mindset, yes – we can get back in control when we change our attitude. That is the number one thing I’m focusing on right now.
@Arya91Fire I’m a huge nerd also – I’ve read 113 books so far this year (okay most are audible) and just got back from a Harry Potter adventure at Universal Studios.
@Megan_smartiepants1970
Thank you for adding me!
Steps:
7/30 8,210 (does not show up on MFP correctly due to phone error)
7/31 10,001 (does not show up on MFP this way due to a phone error)
8/1 11,013
@JaysFan82 first of all – thank you for adding me. I need more friends. 2nd – I love the elliptical – it’s my favorite – it works you hard! Rooting for you on the 100# mark!
@aneedlecraft I do not envy your job – I used to teach high school and my husband currently does – yikes. I love reading and playing games as well. What are some of your favorite books from this year and what games do you play? Rooting for you on your goals!
@rwood566 You used the word palindrome – I’m so so so ready for cooler weather. I’m an “every season except summer” kind of gal.
@jimboden3 woohooo for St. Louis – that’s my home town. Now I’m in KY but I’m STL born and raised. Insomnia Is the devil, and he dances with me too often -I feel this in my bones. Pizza, nachos, and Moose Tracks – triggers here also – some of my most favorite foods. Thankfully my husband is low carbing and my 18 year old moves out next week (college) so I’m hoping to avoid those triggers at home now. Hiking is the best, we have a ton of lake area near me with a plethora of hiking trails (near LBL in KY – if you love traveling, you and your wife should consider it some time, the hiking alone is worth it, lots of lake time and hiking around here – but not much else).
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JULY WEEK 5 RESULTS:
TOP 5 STEPPERS ARE:
1st @Megan_smartiepants1970 232,277 steps
2nd @mari_moulin 104,853 steps
3rd @888Angie888 73, 529 steps
4th @eatthefruitnotthecake78 56,255 steps
5th @RoniMo16 47,819 steps
GREAT JOB LADIES
As A Group We Walked 768,649 steps
FANTASTIC JOB EVERYONE
RECOGNIZING EVERYONE WHO PLEDGED THEIR STEPS:
@lindamtuck2018 6/7
@Megan_smartiepants1970 7/7
@888Angie888 0/7
@Red1185 2/7
@rwood566 3/7
@Morethanjustanumber 2/7
@aactuallyaash 3/7
@Eatthefruitnotthecake78 3/7
@mari_moulin 7/7
@roniMo16 0/7
@IP2021 5/7
@aneedlecraft 5/7
WELL DONE EVERYONE
JULY GRAND FINALE
TOP 5 STEPPERS ARE:
1st @Megan_smartiepants1970 441,567 steps
2nd @mari_moulin 264,255 steps
3rd @888Angie888 198,644 steps
4th @rwood566 141,413 steps
5th @RoniMo16 130,377 steps
As A Group We Walked 1,702,137 steps
CONGRATULATIONS EVERYONE
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@NanElisaP we just took our kids there this summer!! They had a blast.
I'm probably would be able to lose more weight if I made it more nerdy haha2 -
Megan_smartiepants1970 wrote: »oops I forgot to add the July winners ..I apologize .. Congrats to @Eatthefruitnotthecake78 , @JaysFan82 and @MadDuck62
Thats great, thanks 😀2 -
lindamtuck2018 wrote: »Awesome job Downsizers! We made the top 3 for both week 5 and the entire month!
Congrats to our top 3! 🎉👏🎉
Week 5
@JaysFan82
@motivatedmom13
@jimboden3
July
@Eatthefruitnotthecake78
@JaysFan82
@MadDuck62
Thank you 😃 well done everyone1 -
Good evening everyone.
Check in for 8/2:
Steps - 6437
Calories - 2560. To much snacking.
Exercise - none. Had to add daughter to car insurance this morning so she can get her license. Shopped at the mall, I was the mule. Jury duty in the morning so no gym tonight.
Steps for 8/1 - 53121 -
It's official, I'm no longer extra large! Just bought a new jacket in the summer sales and the extra large was too big. So happy to be large!8
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WEIGH IN DAY!
PW 165
CW 162
SW 187
GOAL: 135
Happy about my loss. I watched a YouTube motivational video the other day and this quote keeps running through my mind when I am tempted to make poor choices. “ If you don’t sacrifice for what you want, what you want will become the sacrifice”. One cookie is a very small sacrifice for me to make in order to gain the health and body I want. One little sacrifice after another. 6 -
Good evening everyone.
Check in for 8/2:
Steps - 6437
Calories - 2560. To much snacking.
Exercise - none. Had to add daughter to car insurance this morning so she can get her license. Shopped at the mall, I was the mule. Jury duty in the morning so no gym tonight.
Steps for 8/1 - 5312
When do you find snacking the worse?fatfifties wrote: »It's official, I'm no longer extra large! Just bought a new jacket in the summer sales and the extra large was too big. So happy to be large!
Awesome NSV!debbieluck wrote: »WEIGH IN DAY!
PW 165
CW 162
SW 187
GOAL: 135
Happy about my loss. I watched a YouTube motivational video the other day and this quote keeps running through my mind when I am tempted to make poor choices. “ If you don’t sacrifice for what you want, what you want will become the sacrifice”. One cookie is a very small sacrifice for me to make in order to gain the health and body I want. One little sacrifice after another.
Fantastic loss! I really like that quote.
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Steps: 10,973
Exercise: 3/5
PW 194.2
CW 195.2
The gain wasn’t as bad as I feared. The scales asked me if it was my weight as there was such a big drop from the day before. Monday and Tuesday my weight was over 200. I moved my weigh day to Wednesday from Friday for a change. My reasoning for Friday weigh in went back to my WW days. I went with a friend and we figured Friday weigh in gave us time to recover from a weekend indulgence. 😆
No pool today. I slept in and there are some things I have to get done around the apartment before my doctors appointment after lunch. Yesterday I did laps and legs. My lap time is way down but I am sure it will improve in the next few weeks. For today, I am going to get some mini walks in to ensure I get my 4K steps.
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Overdue
@nekishaearly637
@motivatedmom13
@Xanathi
@aactuallyaash
@MadDuck62
Wednesday
@IP2021
Thursday
@888Angie888
@Bluetail6
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@Megan_smartiepants1970 steps:
7/31 9125
8/1 9988
8/2 3069
I'm worried that now that my appetite is back post covid that I am going to gain this week.2 -
I gained 3 pounds the week after recovering from Covid. Just kept telling myself it's because I didn't eat for a week because this normally would have crushed me.3
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