Weigh Day
Bethanie0825
PW - 236
CW - 238

In Charlotte for the weekend but already watched what I had for dinner. I'm bummed at the scale but it was my doing and I've already started being aware of what and how much I eat vs move.

Steps
8th - 5074
9th - 4688

Week two
Weigh in Day: Saturday
P. W. 258
C. W. 257

I had a birthday this week. I turned 61 Thursday. I am so blessed by all of the love shown by family and friends! I'm trying to get back on my game. Let's go get it!!

Username: trooworld
Weigh-in day: Saturday
PW: 232.2
CW: 231.8

@askewcr Happy Birthday! 🎈

My 3 goals thru 9/22:
1. 11K+ steps/day weekly avg ✔️
2. Close exercise ring 5 days/week (4/5) ✔️
3. Track water 9+ cups/day

Digger61
Sat
PW 211
CW 209

Hi everyone, I’ve had a great few days, meeting all my goals and eating well. I have noticed that on days I do extra exercise I am quite hungry so it may not be realistic to restrict to myself to the standard calorie goal (no exercise bonus) on those days. Ideally I’d like to but will have to see how it goes. I still should be fine for 3 days per week because those days are always busy and I don’t have time for extra exercise anyway. And the days I do a lot of exercise I still come in well under the extended goal - sometimes by the hundreds!! - So I think I’m doing okay 😊

@leti126. I’ve been having a lot of trouble with snacking too. It’s a good idea to seperate into portions, I try to make grab-n-go baggies around 100cals each so I take it with me then leave the kitchen and it’s easy to keep tabs on. I don’t really focus on high protein, but my go to this week has been plain rice cakes. Not sure if you have them where you are, or what you call them, but they are really low calorie and feel like I’m having a crunchy snack. Some people hate them cause they are pretty dry. Will find or take a photo later.

@trooworld Congrats on your loss!! Hope the weekend is going smoothly - how’s the combining water and breathing going?

@askewcr Happy birthday! And well done for achieving a loss during birthday week!

@trooworld ooh I love the rolled Turkey idea - definitely stealing that one 👍. You added a breathing exercise - excellent work. And I’m assuming you had at least SOME water through the day, so it’s not a “fail”. I’ve decided I hate that word and am not acknowledging it anymore 😂. So you didn’t meet goal, it happens, but I’m going with the no-zeros plan, so as long as there was SOME movement, you’re still succeeding 😊.

@megnolia82 Congrats on the loss! Yes it is definitely on the right track - slow and steady 👍

@trooworld Interesting meeting with the weight loss physician, sounds like he had some answers for you. I hope you can get Saxenda covered, I'm not familiar with that one. A medication I take for inflammation is starting to go into the weight loss clinics as it helps with cravings and is used for addiction issues, I'm lucky at a low dose it seems to help me with that too though another friend who tried it didn't see a difference. Sounds like if you had something to balance the increased hunger it would help a lot, I hope Saxenda does that for you.

@happysquidmuffin Sounds like a good thing to try with cutting the streak goal. I had to do that with the mindset of good and bad or off-limit foods or else if I had one of the “bad” ones I'd get REALLY bad because I'd already crossed to the dark side.

@askewcr Happy birthday my friend! Let's get it!

@leti126 Hm, higher protein snacks in my case are usually cheese or roasted chickpeas, I try to get most of my protein in my meals. I used to get protein bars on trips so I'd have more protein while away. Greek yogurt is always good too and fairly high calorie.

@Tamevv Glad you're doing well! I noticed that too when I was ignoring exercise calories, if I didn't eat more after hard workouts I would want to eat everything in the house the next day. Even if I just ate a little more it seemed to help a lot and I noticed my workouts were better with a little more food too so eating a bit more and working out harder was worth it in my case. Your cake sounds amazing! I'm coming back to check out that chile Verde, sounds awesome.

Woohoo, we made the Leaderboard! @Megnolia82 you're on fire, 7lbs is amazing! Team winners Megnolia82 @shaunarlr83 @Vegan4lyfe2012 way to go gang!

@Megnolia82 A pound a week is awesome, wtg!

@19shmoo69 Hugs my friend.

Hi everyone, sorry for being MIA this weekend, yesterday was my Dad's 80th birthday and I haven't been feeling well so I'm not doing much and resting a lot. Having female issues again, my ovaries are definitely my most disliked body part (been dealing with endometriosis since a teen and had nerves burned during my first surgery so any increase in pelvic stuff with that and back fusions aren't fun). I'm trying one more thing (I'm on the pill to suppress my cycle but if I'm at the point where I'd stop having a cycle it can have the opposite effect which has been the case this last month) before I see my doctor to schedule a hysterectomy. I stayed up until 2AM reading Friday night, last in a series and it was really good so it was worth it. Didn't do the greatest eating, had a fall out with the head of the charity and I ate my anger then last night was dinner out and cake and ice cream. Back at it today though! I think after craving chocolate for a month finally having it helped a little. Let's have an amazing week team!

Shout out to the whole Mission Slimpossibles team for getting 2nd place on the leaderboard!!! Special mention goes to @megnolia82 @shaunarlr83 @Vegan4lyfe2012 for leading the way!

@megnolia82 Congrats on the loss! Exactly, 1 lb is a great healthy rate of loss! Woot woot!

@Tamevv I did get some but just not enough water. That is a bad word to use and I hardly use it. Good points!

@19shmoo69 Keep up your efforts, the scale will catch up. Hugs, Darren.

@Katmary71 Yes! I don't think they are going to cover it, I got a message from my mail-order pharmacy saying they denied it. Unless the doc challenges it and can make it happen, we'll have to go with the alternative medication. Yes, I need something. I'm sorry you haven't been feeling well. I hope you had fun with your family. How fun to read until 2am! I'm impressed you held out on chocolate for a month.

@barbylucedistelle That's the way to do it. Hang in there. Just make the next food decision a healthy one. You've got this!

Hello all. The rest of the cake went to my brother-in-law's house for them to enjoy, all but a small amount which I will let my husband eat. The photoshoot for my dog went well, I got a little exercise in walking around the park and beach and hopefully, we got some good shots. I made some poor food decisions yesterday but am determined to make the best of today.

FALL CHALLENGE CHECK-IN: I didn't drink enough water. I did a few minutes of deep breathing exercises in the morning which is a great way to start out the day.

My phrase for the year: "Something needs to change…so I will take no crap and eat no crap!"