Yesterday was a good day, I checked all the boxes and earned a sticker !

ashleycarole86 wrote: »

How will you be successful today?

I've already logged breakfast and I promise that won't be where it ends for today. Today won't be as much planned movement but tomorrow is my first tabata session with the program my municipality set up after I get to bus into the office for the first time ever. It's going to be a long day and I'm being a bit childish about going back to the office by purposefully taking the bus while carrying large company IT equipment just to see if I get mugged (extremely unlikely) to poke it in the boss's face... Yeah, not too mature. But unless they want to pay my gas and parking, guess that's how it's going to be! Lol

Cue malicious compliance! 😂😉

I will turn this frustration into kinetic energy and kick butt at Tabata afterwards.

micki48 wrote: »

I need to get my act together and log everything again. I’ve had a sloppy log the last few days. Took a short walk with hubby yesterday. Today was rainy but I took a botanical water color class with a dear friend. We had a blast!!

Supervised Juliet making a blueberry cake this afternoon. She was so proud and it was so good. Oops, did I admit I ate cake?! 😂

Back to work tomorrow. It will be a challenging week with the kids because there’s a lot of rain in the forecast.

Have a great week everyone.

I was sloppy in logging last week as well. I'm determined to do better this week.

Welcome @BlueSkyNomad!

I survived my first foray on the bus to the office and I made it through my first tabata class today. I was exhausted and discouraged after the commute home from work and there is an ongoing blizzard but I didn't let it stop me from trekking out to the local elementary school gym to sweat for an hour with a bunch of like-minded people. We're using 5lb weights and doing a lot of aerobic style movements so I will probably move up to 8lb dumbbells after a few classes as I didn't feel I was working hard enough on most of the moves, but I definitely noticed my lower body imbalance when we had to stand on one leg while doing bicep curls. I kept wobbling and toppling over. The weak hip has come back to say hi!
Since I am now a person who exercises in the evenings.... I will spend an evening strengthening that weak hip and working on my grip strength (waterskiing season will be here before I know it!)

I was super hungry after tabata so I snacked on bad stuff but tomorrow I will have a perfect day, play hockey, and recentre myself.

I think I want to make my paper habit tracker like I used 2 years ago and highlight the boxes when I hit my goals for the week. I will have to come up with a third habit to go along with drinking enough water and exercising intentionally. I used to have limits on my wine consumption as it was creeping into a glass with dinner daily habit but that has long since been squashed. Maybe logging the full day? I seem to give up whenever the meal gets confusing or there's something I don't know the ingredients of. If it's hard, I give up for the day. Maybe THAT is the thing that will make all the difference for me.

No more breakfast club! Lol

After I was here asking about what would make others successful I went and had a bit of a rotten day on my end!! So it goes, eh?

I can sometimes not react well when plans change. I knew I had lunch with my boss, and I ate a healthy meal then, but there were no steps. So, by the time I left work, my step count was quite low. I had pre-tracked the dinner we were supposed to have, but Brad was tired and wanted subs instead. For some reason I suggested a place that does other things and then when we got there I ordered a higher calorie meal. Then, we got home and I realized I erroneously had a meal kit delivered even though we're leaving for Costa Rica on Saturday. D'oh! We then watched TV while eating, I was feeling crappy, and I cleaned up the leftovers from everyone else's meal. And no more steps or exercise.

Woke up today.. bloated.. grumpy... but hey, on the plus side:
-No alcohol yesterday
-I stopped the binge before it got REALLY out of hand
-I slept well (miraculously). I think I just got so grumpy I took myself to bed early and that was that

Today was better. Started with oatmeal for lunch, a tuna rice bowl for lunch (low cal option), and then we left work early as a group to do indoor skydiving. There is a weight limit and while I was never quite over it even at my highest, I would have been close, and you have to get on a scale and I just thought of how nice it was to not feel singled out for my weight. Cool experience - highly recommend!!

Steps are above 10K. Weight was up like 3 pounds overnight so unless there's a small miracle, my green streak is over....

Last call for any steppers with unreported stats Jan 15-21

Boo on the return to office @PlaneMonkey .. I feel your pain, glad you had a good workout experience
Welcome @BlueSkyNomad

Oops always late sorry @ashleycarole86
15: 6269
16: 6270 and 30 min peloton
17: 7000
18: 5955
19: 7136
20: 7058
21: 6730

Probably my least active week

Username ashleycarole86
Thursday weigh-in

PW 176 4
CW 178.2

PW 154.6
CW 153.4

I have been sick with a nasty cold this week. I haven't worked out and I have been comfort eating carbs. My stomach is killing me today.

Hi Everyone,
@jugar I am trying to slide back into the fold for February. Is it ok if I post here?
MoStacy
Weigh-in: Thursdays
CW: 211.2

Let me know if I should post somewhere else to start with the February weigh-ins. Glad to be re-connecting with this supportive community.