WaistAways Team Chat - MARCH 2023
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OK - time for the Friday people. How did we get there so fast??
@bobagurl2017
@EvMakesChanges
@micki48
@LoraineGB
@DianaGetsFit512
@wishfuljune
@PlaneMonkey
@BrownMargaret3021
@jugar
And a few stragglers:
@AshenMoon
@MoStacy
@DD265
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Friday
PW 203.4
CW 202.9
Happy to be in the green. Three and a half weeks to Cancun.4 -
@conleywoods Funny thing you mention not absorbing vitamins. For a very long time my dr kept giving me PPIs for my heartburn, finally went to a new Gastro dr, and she did a test, ( smart pill) turns out I have the complete opposite of what they were treating me for, I have low stomach acid.
Which in turn means you can not digest protein, well you can, but you just do it slowly. It also means you don't absorb minerals and vitamins. Your stomach isn't able to digest food very well, which means the food can ferment in your tummy, which tells your immune system something is wrong, which stresses your body, so you create a ton of cortisol.
I knew something didn't make sense, I have no problem eating spicy food, or acidic food, which most people with Gerd or acid reflux can't tolerate. I can't eat a cucumber, but they help high stomach acid, but not mine... Spicy and acidic foods help to naturally create stomach acid...
Anyway, there is a simple test if you want to see without another dr appointment...
Take an 4 ounce cup of room temp water, add a 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda, drink it, time 3 minutes. If you have high stomach acid you will burp immediately, after 1 but before 3 you have good level of stomach acid, after 3 minutes, you have low stomach acid. This needs to be done on a completely empty stomach, like 1st thing in the morning.
Might be worth a shot to at least see.5 -
PW 168 lb
CW 167.2 lb
120 minutes of exercise this week.
My goal next week is to have 165 minutes of exercise (two 60 min classes and one 45 min class). When it starts to get warmer here in MN I'll start to throw some short walks in the mix hopefully.
I'm just purely counting calories at the moment. I'll probably need to focus on bumping up my protein soon. One step at a time. I'm trying to prevent overwhelm too.5 -
CW 192.0Gidgitgoescrzy wrote: »
Take an 4 ounce cup of room temp water, add a 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda, drink it, time 3 minutes. If you have high stomach acid you will burp immediately, after 1 but before 3 you have good level of stomach acid, after 3 minutes, you have low stomach acid. This needs to be done on a completely empty stomach, like 1st thing in the morning.
Might be worth a shot to at least see.
I happened to be reading this on an empty stomach as I prepared my first coffee of the day so I tried it and I had a little burp while I was drinking the water, and then not again so I'm going to try it again tomorrow to see if maybe I just don't know how to drink water.... Lol
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@Gidgitgoescrazy I am definitely going to try that! Something is definitely going on because my diet quality is generally pretty good. If I'm not absorbing stuff I probably want to quit buying so much organic food 🤣 I have no issues with spicy foods either.
@jugar The sauna sounds soooo nice. Our hot tub died last week. I spent $1000 Repairing it last year. It's old so I think we're going to be done with the hot tub. We are thinking of getting a sauna instead. I'm having a hard time talking my husband into building one. We have tons of lumber, a forest, a saw mill and an old wood stove. The biggest problem is my father in law deeply attached to our cedar trees. I think he would disown us if we took one. Makes sense to me😁4 -
Today is my hungry day.... Hungry hungry hippo! Luckily (I guess) I'm stuck in the car for most of the day so I won't be able to snack. Will just have to stay under control at the restaurant for dinner.
So hungry..... Lol7 -
PW: 188.4
CW: 189.8
I missed my weigh-in last Friday because we were moving and my scale was packed away. Now that we’re getting settled into the new house, we’ve only just started having home cooked meals again now that our kitchen is set up. I also haven’t had a ton of opportunity this week to workout, but I did unpack my yoga mat and committed to myself to close all 3 rings of my Apple Watch every day this month. I did that on the 1st with a cardio pilates workout and dance workout, and again yesterday with a walk and yoga workout.
Now it’s just refocusing on nutrition for the rest of the month. We are going to go on a ski trip next weekend, so I will move my weigh-in day to Thursday just for next week if that’s okay @jugar.5 -
Where'd the day go? Wow.
I hope you are all doing OK - still lots of catching up to do for weigh-ins. Here's the state of affairs.
Due Saturday:
@CupcakeCrusoe
@zankash23
@carlsoda
Still due from Friday:
@bobagurl2017
@EvMakesChanges
@micki48
@DianaGetsFit512
Still due from earlier:
@BlueSkyNomad
@nightfeeding1
@MoonlitMuse
@MoStacy
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CW will be done tomorrow, if I have 3 AAA batteries to replace the ones in my scale. The last time I used it I noticed it showed 3.4 lbs showing before it cleared to zero. Perhaps that’s why last weeks seemed much higher. We shall see in the morning!
Snowstorm central tonight and tomorrow. Stay tuned!4 -
Wow! Just finished reading 76 posts. You all have been doing great. Amazing green losses. Real understanding about listening to our bodies, cool trick to learn about stomach acid and stressors and ways to be it. You all rock. That’s why I love this group.
I feel like a broken record but this week was stressful…again. On Monday, I took a half day from work while we frantically did the paperwork to make an offer on a home. We were outbid even after offering $35k more than asking price. I was ok at first but later in the week it hit me. Getting a house in this CRAZY housing market felt impossible. Houses are overpriced and often quite ugly and in need of repairs. Then I thought of my beautiful home and garden in Greensboro and how we are about to list it to sell. Then I’ll be technically “homeless” (don’t worry we are in a nice rental for now -practice gratefulness and breathe) I started crying and boy oh boy couldn’t stop it for a while. I don’t cry often. That’s probably why. I took it as cathartic and accepted it. I was still weepy the next day. Thought of my favorite childhood picture book The Little House and seeped some more. Then a beautiful classical piece on the way to work had me weeping some more - found out it was Copeland HOME!!!! From the movie Our Town. Geez! Then I didn’t want to look at any homes, but today we saw two more with our realtor. Uninspiring and did not feel like HOME. So, I think that’s enough for this weekend. Maybe I’ll look at one on Sunday a few streets from my daughter. It’s priced kinda high so I don’t know.
Anyway, I haven’t logged. Weight is slightly up so I’m waiting until tomorrow. Ate out 2x today so it may not come down. We had lots of running around to do.
We are having a crazy, windy, rainy storm currently. I can hear my chimes outside ringing nonstop.
I’ll talk to you beautiful folks tomorrow.7 -
Weigh in day: Friday
PW: 220.6
CW: 220.45 -
Good morning WaistAways!
PW: 175
CW: 174.8
I'm good with this
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I had a whoosh on Friday morning to 173.4, and I was like OH NO, this is going to be so hard to compete with next week if it sticks! So actually, this very small weight loss is going to help me stay green, and I'm happy. Plus, in the back of my mind, I know I weighed in in the 173s recently, lol.
Which, for my height, was in the OVERWEIGHT rather than OBESE category!!!! 🎉🎉🎉 I know BMI is a flawed indicator, but I'll take any little win along the way, here.
I'm diligently logging everything in MacroFactor, and because I'm using it like I'm supposed to, it's giving me the proper TDEE data. Funny how that works, when I use the tool properly, it works properly.
On track to hit my goal for the year around August, which works well for the way the year usually happens for me- somewhere around October, I fight like heck and only manage to maintain weight through the holidays, what with all the treats around. And if I don't fight, I do gain. So my goal of 160 for the year, if I'm going to hit it, needs to be hit before October.
You can see it here- and last year my holiday period started a little early with getting COVID, then a big vacation, in September, haha.
Anyway! I've jawed on enough, I think. I've read all your posts, all this green and all this effort is extremely inspiring. You're all doing great. Today for me is chair choreography class and splits class, and I'm making burgers for the fam for dinner. I'll likely eat a light lunch to make sure I have the calories, because your girl loves a cheeseburger (although I can forego the bun if I want to save a couple more calories for the beer, haha).
Have a great day, everyone!5 -
Happy happy Saturday! Over all I had a pretty good week - super busy but I worked on getting my steps in (success) but also a huge awakening!! Tuesday after work we ran to town quickly to pu a couple of things … I was running out of greens for lunch. Stopped at Aldi and picked up some salad kits (I throw away the dressing and use my own b/c it is so bad!!) and at the very end because we were tired and didn’t like the idea of going home to make supper we picked up one of their pizzas. Yeah they are usually pretty good but I’ve been making my own homemade pizza latey - a healthier version and buying a store bought factory made pizza just doesn’t cut it. Of course I had to look at the ingredients and saw soybean oil when I got home. That ruined it for me. I now have homemade pizza dough in the freezer so it never happens again ☺️ lesson learned and moving one!!
SW: 163
CW: 162.7
FYI: I’m trying to eat Mediterranean at least 90% - I’m a 2 time cancer survivor and currently dealing with a fatty liver and a couple of leaky heart values. I’m blaming chemo and radiation! (Not my past eating history) ☺️
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It's a very snowy morning here. @jugar you must be ecstatic! Fluffy fluffy snow and mild temperatures allow for lots of outdoor time. I will be sure to start my fitness tracker once I'm outside shovelling. I use the GPS tracking option and I find it hilarious to look at all my squiggly lines wandering randomly around the property once I've finished. A skill I have apparently NOT acquired in my 42 years is how to push a shovel in a straight line! The snow isn't scheduled to stop until after dinner so there will be a couple of trips out there plus likely going to help a neighbor with theirs.
Thank you nature, for providing me with this free, at-home workout program! 😉 Lol5 -
Morning all!
@CupcakeCrusoe I could so relate to what you were saying but my weigh-in day happened to fall on my whoosh - I was 2 pounds lighter on Thursday when I weighed in than I was the day before, so that makes for an uphill climb when it comes to making week 2 green!
And then, I had a hard day Thursday and pizza night was on order which is fine if I track but I totally went nuts and ate a ton of food.
Yesterday was better, but not much.
I have a lot of going on this weekend but I want to make sure I get workouts fit in there too.5 -
Happy Fancyman! (story - years ago, we hired a prof from the US who spoke no French. Part of the immigration process in Québec is a series of free French classes. He took the classes happily, but thought it was so weird on the Fridays that everyone was wished a "bonne fancyman". It really confused him. Finally we relieved his confusion and told him it was "bonne fin de semaine"! Have a good weekend! In France, they say "weekend", but somehow we are more old fashioned here in Québec and use the long version of fin de semaine. In the local accent, it does kinda sound like fancyman)
Now. I am putting my foot down.
Please do not apologize when you have a gain, or when things do not go as you had hoped. Try hard not to even think it. In the ensemble I played with for something like 30 years, we had one rule. When you are working hard out there on the edge, trying new things, and searching for the way that really works, apologizing when you mess up is equivalent to calling everyone else in the group a (insert horrible word here). It accuses them of not understanding that you are daring, trying, discovering ways that don't work, or just having a crap day. Well, we understand. We are all a work in progress all the time, and a week with a gain is a learning experience, a vacation, a time we let things go a bit, or just one of those hormonal or complicated-human-body flukes. It is hard also not to feel bad when those things happen. But you are here with friends who have all felt the same things.
So, yes - the energy to build a green March is strong. It feels great! We are doing really well! But it is not going to be perfect all the time. Take that red week and build from the knowledge, pick yourself up and keep trying. Go ahead and stamp your foot, rant, feel like throwing something, but no need to apologize. Figure out what didn't work, and try not to do that in the next week. Or try something else that might or might not work. Go for it!
Hugs to you all
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Fantastic point @jugar and a good message for the team!
I am guilty of letting perfectionist thoughts become the enemy of good progress overall.
The fact is, we're here, showing up, and doing the best we can. And we'd better enjoy the journey, whatever it is, because none of us deserve to wait for happiness. Let the process of working towards your goals build you up, not become a source of feeling less than!
Bonne fancyman indeed!
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