Downsizers Team Chat - FEBRUARY 2023
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aneedlecraft
Super Late Friday weigh-in
PW: 324
CW: 324
Thanks for your patience.
A NSV this week - went furniture shopping with my husband. We both noticed my stamina was much better than it was about a year ago when we were in the same store. Less pausing to catch my breath or give my knees a break.3 -
justlog2day wrote: »@Megan_smartiepants1970
Hi Megan, here is this week's weigh in info.
Would it be possible to change my weigh in day from Monday to Friday going forward? If so, I'll post my updated number this Friday as well.
Weigh-in Day: Monday
PW: 145. lbs
CW: 144.2 lbs
I will have you moved. Nice loss!2 -
We have a new member joining our team for March ... Please welcome @Tail0rMade22
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Weigh in day: Saturday
PW 151.8
CW 151.2
I weighed myself Saturday morning but then was out all day on a road trip and forgot to post.
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Went out with my spouse for V Day dinner last night. We always go the weekend after to avoid set menus.
Had penne arrabiata last night. Lol already had it logged on the app a couple days in advance. My gf commented "are you really trying to measure out two cups of pasta on your plate"
Yes Tara. Yes I am. Haha!
Great job logging in advance and sticking to your serving size.Weigh In Day: Sunday , Feb. 19
PW (Previous Weight): 153 lb
CW (Current Weight): 152.5 lb
Many people here reported great weight loss this week, congratulations! It wasn't my case, but it was very inspiring since we are in the same journey. ♥️
That is an awesome loss. We are all at different points in our journey. I had a big loss but I was not eating due to my tooth extraction. Your weight loss since you joined the team has been amazing.
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Eatthefruitnotthecake78 wrote: »Hi, i forgot to weigh in on Friday, its been quite a week, can i request a weigh in break for Friday just gone and I'll weigh in this Friday instead, many thanks
Glad to see you post.@lindamtuck2018
Hi, Linda, here are my weigh-in numbers:
Weigh-in Day: Sunday
PW: 277.2 lbs
CW: 276.4 lbs (Down 0.8 lbs)
I just keep telling myself, "Small improvements will add up to big wins!"
I think that is a great thing to tell yourself. We can try to do too much at once and end up giving up. Nice loss!Slimmersixties wrote: »@888Angie888 @rachjolly
Congratulations, great losses!!
@lindamtuck2018 a loss is a loss no matter how you earned it!! You suffered for that 5lb. Own it !! Congratulations
Congratulations to you also.JimBoden3
Weigh-in Day: Monday (Feb 20, 2023)
PW: 239
CW: 235.9
SW: 240
Last week's weight gain was an anomaly so I did expect a sizable drop but still, this was reassuring.
Awesome loss!aneedlecraft wrote: »aneedlecraft
Super Late Friday weigh-in
PW: 324
CW: 324
Thanks for your patience.
A NSV this week - went furniture shopping with my husband. We both noticed my stamina was much better than it was about a year ago when we were in the same store. Less pausing to catch my breath or give my knees a break.
Awesome NSV. They are such an important part of our journey.Weigh in day: Saturday
PW 151.8
CW 151.2
I weighed myself Saturday morning but then was out all day on a road trip and forgot to post.
Nice loss! How was your road trip?
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We have another new member joining our wonderful team ...Please welcome @rgreen65 2
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Steps: 2,835
Sleep: ✔️
Log food: ✔️
Exercise: ✔️
Happy Family Day! We are enjoying the holiday by visiting the grandkids soon and going for a car ride.
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Steps:
2/15- 5,912
2/18-9,871
Water✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️
Calories✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️❌❌ - I didn't log Saturday and was over on Friday
Exercise✔️✔️✔️✔️❌✔️✔️2 -
Steps:
2/19- 12,343
Water✔️
Calories❌ - didn't log Sunday
Exercise✔️2 -
lindamtuck2018 wrote: »justlog2day wrote: »@Megan_smartiepants1970
Hi Megan, here is this week's weigh in info.
Would it be possible to change my weigh in day from Monday to Friday going forward? If so, I'll post my updated number this Friday as well.
Weigh-in Day: Monday
PW: 145. lbs
CW: 144.2 lbs
I will have you moved. Nice loss!
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We have I think a returning member ... Please welcome back @Beverly2Hansen 0
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Another new member joining our team ...Please welcome @adianeschu 0
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@lindamtuck2018 Road trip was great. We drove down to White Sands National Park. We had not been in about 15+ years.
@Megan_smartiepants1970 not sure when I last posted my steps:
2/12 8132
2/13 10186
2/14 8212
2/15 9503
2/16 6961
2/17 4947
2/18 11987
2/19 56781 -
@lindamtuck2018 Road trip was great. We drove down to White Sands National Park. We had not been in about 15+ years.
@Megan_smartiepants1970 not sure when I last posted my steps:
2/12 8132
2/13 10186
2/14 8212
2/15 9503
2/16 6961
2/17 4947
2/18 11987
2/19 5678
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1. Tell us a little about yourself? Where are you from? What are some of your hobbies? Etc.
Hey everyone! My name is Taylor and I'm 23 years old. I am from Florida, and I love it here! SOme of my hobbies include: Gaming, 360 Photography, Cricut crafting (vinyl t-shirts,etc), Walking/Swimming, Making music playlists on Spotify, etc.
2. Why are you on this journey? What pushed you to start?
A few different things have pushed me to start this journey. I believe my body is the temple of Christ and I want to treat it as such. I'm tired of my knees hurting especially at my age. I want to look in the mirror and feel confident. I don't want to feel ashamed of how I look anymore. I want to take care of my body and live life with my best foot forward in everything I do!
3. What are your triggers and how can you avoid them?
Hmm... I would definitely say my triggers are emotional eating and just hating to cook. I literally cannot cook to save my life and it almost always causes me to choose to eat out or some horrible microwave dinner instead. I'm trying to learn how to make easy meals on dish at a time. It's definitely a learning process!
4. Do you have a favourite diet you go by? ie keto, low carb
I have found the most health benefits while eating whole foods plant-based but as of right now I really don't want to put myself in a box. I am still eating meats, seafoods, etc. I am currently just focusing on CICO (calories in - calories out) and going from there. Gotta start somewhere.
5. What is your favourite way to workout?
Definitely swimming, walking, dancing, skating, and playing soccer when I get the chance.
6. What are some of your goals this month? Year?
My goals are to hopefully get down to 190-185IBS by the time of my college graduation in May. I would like to be able to cook some good and easy healthy meals and some reliable workouts that I can do that are efficient as well.
7. What do you expect to gain from the team? Do you have any suggestions?
I would love to gain motivation, encouragement, and partnership! What I receive, I would like to give back to someone else! Contrary to what we like to believe, I think it's so hard to do this by ourselves. It's not impossible of course, but having people to keep us accountable is so challenging and fun all at once!
8. Share some words of wisdom with your teammates.
Persistence. You mess up one meal? Pick it right back up during the next meal. You miss a day of exercise? Be kind to yourself and take a rest. At the end of the day, just don't give up. Don't let the naysayers win. You can do this!! Persistence is key in almost all aspects of our lives. Lastly, create the most amazing workout music playlist you can think of. Stay motivated and remember why you're doing what you're doing! Music is life changing.
P.S. My start weight was 218IBS. My current weight is now 198.4IBS. So excited!!3 -
Tail0rMade22 wrote: »1. Tell us a little about yourself? Where are you from? What are some of your hobbies? Etc.
Hey everyone! My name is Taylor and I'm 23 years old. I am from Florida, and I love it here! SOme of my hobbies include: Gaming, 360 Photography, Cricut crafting (vinyl t-shirts,etc), Walking/Swimming, Making music playlists on Spotify, etc.
2. Why are you on this journey? What pushed you to start?
A few different things have pushed me to start this journey. I believe my body is the temple of Christ and I want to treat it as such. I'm tired of my knees hurting especially at my age. I want to look in the mirror and feel confident. I don't want to feel ashamed of how I look anymore. I want to take care of my body and live life with my best foot forward in everything I do!
3. What are your triggers and how can you avoid them?
Hmm... I would definitely say my triggers are emotional eating and just hating to cook. I literally cannot cook to save my life and it almost always causes me to choose to eat out or some horrible microwave dinner instead. I'm trying to learn how to make easy meals on dish at a time. It's definitely a learning process!
4. Do you have a favourite diet you go by? ie keto, low carb
I have found the most health benefits while eating whole foods plant-based but as of right now I really don't want to put myself in a box. I am still eating meats, seafoods, etc. I am currently just focusing on CICO (calories in - calories out) and going from there. Gotta start somewhere.
5. What is your favourite way to workout?
Definitely swimming, walking, dancing, skating, and playing soccer when I get the chance.
6. What are some of your goals this month? Year?
My goals are to hopefully get down to 190-185IBS by the time of my college graduation in May. I would like to be able to cook some good and easy healthy meals and some reliable workouts that I can do that are efficient as well.
7. What do you expect to gain from the team? Do you have any suggestions?
I would love to gain motivation, encouragement, and partnership! What I receive, I would like to give back to someone else! Contrary to what we like to believe, I think it's so hard to do this by ourselves. It's not impossible of course, but having people to keep us accountable is so challenging and fun all at once!
8. Share some words of wisdom with your teammates.
Persistence. You mess up one meal? Pick it right back up during the next meal. You miss a day of exercise? Be kind to yourself and take a rest. At the end of the day, just don't give up. Don't let the naysayers win. You can do this!! Persistence is key in almost all aspects of our lives. Lastly, create the most amazing workout music playlist you can think of. Stay motivated and remember why you're doing what you're doing! Music is life changing.
P.S. My start weight was 218IBS. My current weight is now 198.4IBS. So excited!!
Welcome to the team. 20lb down already is brilliant progress!2 -
We have another new member joining our amazing team ...Please welcome @Mama530 0
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I've finally become less "scale obsessed" in Maintenance. Only weighing myself a couple times a week now. It's like my dad took the training wheels off my bike and I realized I'm not gonna crash.5
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Here is my 2nd reminder of the people's steps I need for February Week 3...Please have your steps in no later than this evening 2/21/23 so that I can post the results tomorrow morning ...Thank you
@888Angie888 2/13 - 2/18
@Bluetail6 2/15 - 2/18
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FindingSamMon wrote: »Steps:
2/15- 5,912
2/18-9,871
Water✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️
Calories✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️❌❌ - I didn't log Saturday and was over on Friday
Exercise✔️✔️✔️✔️❌✔️✔️
Do you find the weekends harder? I find my routine is thrown off.0 -
Steps
2/13: 14,807
2/14: 11,673
2/15: 4,568
2/16: 3,993
2/17: 9,506
2/18: 5,1001 -
Tail0rMade22 wrote: »1. Tell us a little about yourself? Where are you from? What are some of your hobbies? Etc.
Hey everyone! My name is Taylor and I'm 23 years old. I am from Florida, and I love it here! SOme of my hobbies include: Gaming, 360 Photography, Cricut crafting (vinyl t-shirts,etc), Walking/Swimming, Making music playlists on Spotify, etc.
2. Why are you on this journey? What pushed you to start?
A few different things have pushed me to start this journey. I believe my body is the temple of Christ and I want to treat it as such. I'm tired of my knees hurting especially at my age. I want to look in the mirror and feel confident. I don't want to feel ashamed of how I look anymore. I want to take care of my body and live life with my best foot forward in everything I do!
3. What are your triggers and how can you avoid them?
Hmm... I would definitely say my triggers are emotional eating and just hating to cook. I literally cannot cook to save my life and it almost always causes me to choose to eat out or some horrible microwave dinner instead. I'm trying to learn how to make easy meals on dish at a time. It's definitely a learning process!
4. Do you have a favourite diet you go by? ie keto, low carb
I have found the most health benefits while eating whole foods plant-based but as of right now I really don't want to put myself in a box. I am still eating meats, seafoods, etc. I am currently just focusing on CICO (calories in - calories out) and going from there. Gotta start somewhere.
5. What is your favourite way to workout?
Definitely swimming, walking, dancing, skating, and playing soccer when I get the chance.
6. What are some of your goals this month? Year?
My goals are to hopefully get down to 190-185IBS by the time of my college graduation in May. I would like to be able to cook some good and easy healthy meals and some reliable workouts that I can do that are efficient as well.
7. What do you expect to gain from the team? Do you have any suggestions?
I would love to gain motivation, encouragement, and partnership! What I receive, I would like to give back to someone else! Contrary to what we like to believe, I think it's so hard to do this by ourselves. It's not impossible of course, but having people to keep us accountable is so challenging and fun all at once!
8. Share some words of wisdom with your teammates.
Persistence. You mess up one meal? Pick it right back up during the next meal. You miss a day of exercise? Be kind to yourself and take a rest. At the end of the day, just don't give up. Don't let the naysayers win. You can do this!! Persistence is key in almost all aspects of our lives. Lastly, create the most amazing workout music playlist you can think of. Stay motivated and remember why you're doing what you're doing! Music is life changing.
P.S. My start weight was 218IBS. My current weight is now 198.4IBS. So excited!!
Welcome! Amazing loss to date.1 -
Steps: 4,540
Sleep: ✔️✔️
Log food: ✔️✔️
Exercise: ✔️
Move quite a bit yesterday. Not off to a good today so I better get moving.
Welcome to all the new team members.1 -
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Hello Downsizers,
Thank you for including me on your team for March.
1. Tell us a little about yourself? Where are you from? What are some of your hobbies? Etc.
I live in a suburb just north of Chicago. I grew up in a south suburb of the same and then lived in Northern California for 14 years and now I'm back in the Chicago area. I enjoy reading, although I don't seem to find as much time for it these days. Instead, I listed to audible books while walking (outside, usually during the mild weather months). I'm addicted to a crazy game that I spend way too much time playing....but I love it. A previous hobby was entering sweepstakes which I plan to get back into later this year.
2. Why are you on this journey? What pushed you to start?
Weight loss/control is a never ending journey. I know that once I hit my goal, I can't just stop or I'll be back right where I am, again! Last year I got serious and lost 20lbs ( a lot people get serious and lose 50 or 100 but I was excited about my 20! I lost the majority between March and July and then started to slack off - meaning more fun things were in front of me, vacations, weddings etc and challenged me. I managed to maintain, until after Thanksgiving which I now know was a gout attack. It took about 3 months to get dr appointments and to settle in on the real issue. So with a painful foot, my level of activity decreased and I started snacking a wee bit more. I found 10 of those pounds again.
3. What are your triggers and how can you avoid them?
Boredom and having snacks available to me - a terrible combination. I know I will get bored, even doing things that I enjoy, so I try to plan for healthier snacks around the house.
4. Do you have a favourite diet you go by? ie keto, low carb
I did keto a few years back and had success but my focus now is CICO while staying on the low carb side of things.
5. What is your favourite way to workout?
During the summer months, I like to walk outside, with a great book from audible and the time just flies. In the colder months, I walk indoors but to add to fun activities - I use my Nintendo Wii and some dance games to keep moving.
6. What are some of your goals this month? Year?
By the end of this year - I'd really like to hit goal and then focus on the maintenance part. In order to do that I've broken down my goals into smaller ones. I'm already passed hitting my first target so I will have to recalibrate.
March Goals:
Stabilize Water intake
Limit alcohol calories
Exercise Daily (5 of 6)
7. What do you expect to gain from the team? Do you have any suggestions?
Friendly motivation, support and accountability.
8. Share some words of wisdom with your teammates.
Never give up. As long you are making an effort, you are half way there.2 -
lindamtuck2018 wrote: »FindingSamMon wrote: »Steps:
2/15- 5,912
2/18-9,871
Water✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️
Calories✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️❌❌ - I didn't log Saturday and was over on Friday
Exercise✔️✔️✔️✔️❌✔️✔️
Do you find the weekends harder? I find my routine is thrown off.
I found this past weekend a little more challenging. I don't fast during the weekends and I'm not too bad usually...but this past long weekend I ate out twice, which messed me up. Not too bad. I find getting the motivation to move on the weekend is lower, so it is harder in that way.
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