WaistAways Team Chat - MARCH 2023
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We've got some fun travel coming up in the group! @adrimango with Australia, @LoraineGB with Cancun.. am I missing anyone else?
Brad and I have some travel coming up too, a lot of which falls into the March period... mostly for work, but some for personal:
Week of Mar 13 - Brad travels to Lloyd for work
Week of Mar 20 - Brad travels to B.C. for work, I travel to Lloyd for work, then I fly to meet Brad in B.C. for the weekend
Easter weekend - Travel back to Ontario to visit Brad's mom who hasn't been feeling well lately
I definitely had an easier time managing my lifestyle during COVID because none of this stuff was going on and everything was easy to control.
So, I'm learning again, that's all. Loved all your great ideas @jugar for things to think about to have a great March
Here are some of my own:- Log even if it's ugly. When you're dialed in, you're more likely to make good decisions. If I don't have the data behind what I'm doing, I might look the other way. If I put it in, I often notice it's not as bad as I thought it was anyway, and that motivates me to get back on track.
- Log, then eat. No surprises.
- I completely agree with what @jugar said about sometimes just having to suck up that the choices you made earlier that day/week may mean some harder choices later on. Not to restrict and get into a binge cycle, but to be reasonable in consideration that if you had some extra, you maybe don't need as much now.
- Exercise because of how it makes you feel. It will inspire you to eat better. Plus, if I have exercise in the plans I'm less likely to have a drink because those two aren't as fun together.
- Track as precisely as you can, weighing to the gram, if possible.... but if you can't, estimates are better than nothing.
- Make this group an important part of your day, and stay focused.
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Got some exercise catch-up to do. You'll see a very distinct difference between Costa Rica vacation Ashley crushing all the steps and back to work Ashley! Gotta get my routine sorted out so I can be back on the bike more because I really miss it!
Sun Feb 12 - 10026 steps
Mon Feb 13 - 8859 steps
Tues Feb 14 - 22293 steps
Wed Feb 15 - 9387 steps
Thurs Feb 16 - 10672 steps
Fri Feb 17 - 14743 steps
Sat Feb 18 - 23702 steps + 46 minutes jogging
Sun Feb 19 - 5579 steps
Mon Feb 20 - 7990 steps + 36 minutes Peloton
Tues Feb 21 - 8777 steps
Wed Feb 22 - 9749 steps
Thurs Feb 23 - 8023 steps
Fri Feb 24 - 13069 steps
Sat Feb 25 - 7124 steps6 -
Here are the February Week 3 results (Feb 12-18)
Keep those results for Week 4 rolling in and I'll get that and Feb month end posted as soon as I have it all!
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@LoraineGB Hi vacation goal buddy! What's your plan for this week? My goal is a min of 150 minutes of cardio this week and to keep up with logging. I keep getting overwhelmed with it - figuring how to log meals out and portions and just give up. It's not helping me get to my goal weight for sure!
My plan this week is pretty much the same as last week, I have meal planned but kept our dinners as ‘light’ meals as I’ve over done it this weekend and want to get some balance back. I shop to our meal plan so there are no snacks in the house right now. Mr B often brings snacks home at the weekend, I’ve asked him to refrain until we go to Mexico, I have a hard time resisting 🤷🏼♀️
On the next page @ashleycarole86 has given some good tips for tracking. I do most of them. I do my base tracking at night for the next day. I will update with the portion sizes and weights if needed. Even the ugly. This keeps me tidy. If I eat out and I haven’t pre tracked, I might take a photo of my food to try and figure it out later. I do not track water, I drink a minimum of 4 0.5L bottle of water so I know I’m getting 2L each day and it really isn’t on my priority list right now.
My goal for exercise is three sessions in the gym and something outdoors on Tuesday when the weather is supposed to good. I am over Winter and waiting for Spring!
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Hello! My name is Kelly, wife, mother of 4, Kindergarten teacher.
I joined shortly after baby number 4. I pretty much gain and lose the same 5ish pounds. I am really getting tired of that. I need to make changes...for more then a few days. I am currently on the high end of my weight and I am not happy.
My Why:
Heart health
Keep up with my busy lifestyle
Feel confident
My How:
1. Log everything
2. Eat real food
3. Eats meals, not snacks
4. Intentionally move my body daily7 -
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Sun 6,705
30 min elliptical
Mon 15,636
Barre 30 min elliptical 30 min
Tues 11,8q3
Wed 9,101
Thurs 14,130
Fri 12,720
Sat 10,233
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Sunday: 8,947 + 60 min cardio dance class
Monday: 3,013
Tuesday: 9,233 + 30 min jog @ 4.5mph + 20 min weights
Wednesday: 2,350
Thursday: 2,539
Friday: 2,655
Saturday: 6,684 + 30 min jog @ 4.5
Didn't get to the gym as normal on Thursday, I had a work dinner. And another one this Thursday. Work is very stressful right now. And when other's get stressed and worked up, it makes me even more stressed.
This weekend was kinda lazy. I hit a super low depression yesterday, didn't get out of bed until 11:30am (only because my husband dragged me up) and the only reason I went to the gym was because my husband literally pushed me there. I hoped it would help my sadness, but it was still there. Today is slightly better and I still hit my steps and went to the gym. Luckily, I am not as hungry when these days hit, it was easy to be below my calorie goal. I wished I had one more day off tomorrow, but oh well.7 -
@lauren_989 Amazing you made it to the gym in the high point of your funk, no matter what it took. Sorry it didn't give you the boost you were hoping for. Work stress is rough to contend with and it's terrible when its effects won't let go of you even when you're not there!
Well today was the day to get back on the Peloton and do a retest of my FTP. It was a bit of a face the music moment.. I knew my fitness had dropped considerably since peaking in June but sadly I'm sorta back to square 1 where I started on the bike.
On the plus side, there's lots of room to improve, and fitness isn't linear!
Feels like the weekend has been go go go (Dentist, taxes, visit with friends, concert, walking the dog, shoveling, laundry, on call work duties) so I'm treating myself to a hot tub and magazine reading to unwind.
Make this week great in some way.. even if it's small!6 -
@LoraineGB Thanks for sharing what's working for you.
30 min of exercise done today. 120 to go to meet my weekly goal.
My daughter and I walked to the park in our neighborhood then I rode her bike while she ran and then I walked while she rode.
I've also logged faithfully, yay!6 -
Don't be afraid to guess! Make it easy, but don't skip logging altogether. Take your best stab at it, enter things that you eat often more carefully, and then they are easy to enter the next time. I am not the most accurate logger, I no longer weigh things - but the basic size of portions and general nutritional count is close enough to make it work anyhow. If you find you are still not losing, then up your guesses a bit!... keep up with logging. I keep getting overwhelmed with it - figuring how to log meals out and portions and just give up. It's not helping me get to my goal weight for sure!5 -
Here we go! Sunday - Monday weigh-in roundup:
@BlueSkyNomad
@nightfeeding1
@CarolAnnM2
@MoonlitMuse
@cleaneater80
I hope everyone had a great weekend.
No zero day "thing" today - I did 3 of the exercises from my workout when I did not want to do any at all. Arms and back were worked! Tomorrow will be leg day for sure. I had no alcohol, and tracked my food for the first time in a while. Tomorrow self? There you go! You'd better appreciate it
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Weigh in Day: MONDAY
PW: 187.3
CW: 185.5
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Hi all
I'm Katie, 35, living in the UK with my husband and our two cats. Last year I got a handle on my binge eating disorder and now I'm working with a dietician to make healthier choices alongside trying to tackle my (low) self esteem and the perfectionism that stems from it. I like to weight lift, I'm less fond of running but trying to get back into it anyway for the social aspect, and I do enjoy hiking although we don't do much of it now as my husband works shifts and when we have free time together, it usually gets filled with other things. I also have an allotment which I adore.
@PlaneMonkey I worked late on Friday so I did the meal plan and asked OH to do the shopping list. He missed some of the peripherals (I don't have enough muesli to last the week, and I've run out of the chicken bites I snack on) but overall splitting the chore worked quite well. In fact, he even did the shopping during the day, too, so I'll count it as a win.
I had a really good weekend. The tree grafting and pruning course was enjoyable. Grafting is both more challenging and easier than I thought! I came home with three apple trees that I grafted, which are now planted at the allotment, so it will be interesting to see if they survive. We didn't get to do any actual pruning, as the orchard is quite new and there weren't many trees in need, but we watched the guy do it and asked questions. I was amazed at how confident he was; I find pruning my plants a bit daunting. I went alone and enjoyed pushing my comfort zone.
Yesterday I spent most of the day at the allotment. The wire supports are in for the raspberry and blackberry canes, I planted my new trees and a comfrey a plot-neighbour gave me, prepped some seed trays for sowing when things warm up, and put more compost down in the greenhouse beds. Doesn't sound like so much when I write it down, but I don't rush things at the allotment and like to just enjoy being there.
Today I'm working and I'm feeling ill again - I think stress has me a bit run down - and I had a restless night. I do remember a really vivid dream involving making the perfect banana sandwich though. Is that weird? I think it's a bit weird.
Anyway, guess what I'm planning for lunch?! I may need to go buy the bread of my dreams though; it was white and crusty. 
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Hope your real sandwich is just as tasty as the perfect dream one was @DD265
I got a decent night of sleep last night which I'm thankful for. These next 5 weeks ahead at work are going to be a doozy with my two senior employees mostly away for personal life events, so things are going to be busy. Focusing on me is going to be critical!5 -
sunny Monday!
I guess it was the Weird Dream Moon last night. @dd265 had banana sandwiches, and mine had creepy mushrooms that were delicious, so I was hunting for them in the woods, but they were creepy. Then I was chopping them up as madly fast as I could make the knife fly. I don't think I want to know what that might mean!
@ashleycarole86 hang in there, kiddo! You're heading into the crazy work week, along with all you other amazing working people, and yes - focus on yourself is the magic sauce you need to keep things from going amok. No zero days. That'll be good enough, and maybe a couple far-from-zero days thrown in for good measure. You'll be back to rocking the Peloton soon!
I gotta make a list, log some stuff, and get outside.3 -
Greetings Team Waistaway! Here's my introduction for our new team members and a reminder of who I am for our lovely regulars.
My name is Yinka, I live in Bewdley in Worcestershire (UK) and am married with a grown-up son. I work as an associate contract business trainer and a part-time college lecturer. I have been on Team Waist Aways for a long time (sorry, I honestly don't know how long - more than a couple of years, I think). So I pretty much breezed through my 20s and 30s without needing to be bothered about my weight, but mid-30s up to now, I find myself really struggling. I will be turning 60 this summer
I exercise regularly, although I will admit to sometimes slacking off. My challenge, however, is my diet. I have a propensity to snack and I don't drink nearly enough water.
That being said, I do plan all of our meals (and I do my food shopping around my plan), we rarely eat takeaways (although this is due to cost, rather than diet, if I'm totally honest), and I cook everything from
I'm very excited to join the Keep it Green challenge and hope it will help me with several events that I have lined up this year.
- I am visiting my sister in the Netherlands in April for a week.
- I am having a big birthday party in the summer and my son and daughter-in-law are flying over from the States to help me celebrate.
- We have been invited to a family wedding in Texas in September.
These events are nicely spaced out so I should be able to apply mini-targets to each one. The first event ties in nicely with the end of our Keep it Green challenge. I'd like to be down by 3lb before I fly to the Netherlands.
I'm going to commit to logging every day and getting to bed before 11.00 pm each night.
Looking forward to learning more about our new team members.
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@ashleycarole86 Here are my step and exercise stats for the last week:
Sunday 19th February - 3151
Monday 20th - 3243 / 43 mins Core & Shoulder Mobility (Heather Robertson 12 Week 3.0 - Day 15)
Tuesday 21st - 5334 / 38 mins Lower Body Metcon (HR12W 3.0 - Day 16)
Wednesday 22nd - 3227 / 42 mins Unilateral Arm Day (HR12W 3.0 - Day 17)
Thursday 23rd - 2026
Friday 24th - 3541 / 43 mins No Repeat Cardio (HR12W 3.0 - Day 18)
Saturday 25th - 2280 / 40 mins Total Body Metcon (HR12W 3.0 - Day 19)
I'm definitely going to have to up these step numbers if I'm going to make good inroads into our Green March challenge.4 -
@DD265 food dreams - I'm going to look that up and see what it might mean. Its great that you have the allotment to keep your mind off of food.
@jugar - were those the special kind of mushrooms? Just kidding. I am impressed with your progress on "No Zero Days!"
@ashleycarole86 You got this! Focus on yourself - you're most important.
@YinxFed Mini targets is a great way to handle it!
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