@alleykat69
Do you have steps for the 1st of April? Also do you want to keep your goal at 5000 steps?

Sunday ~ April 9
Steps: 15.748
Sleep: 8h 9m ~ 87 score
Good morning Shape Shifters. Not a great day here. Tinus got 10 walks so he was pretty happy, which made me happy as well. Happy Monday everyone

@pupowl, I loooove today's card. Ty for the reminder.

Mondays are weighing
Pw. 220.0
Cw. 222.0

Some sodium from yesterday's eats and swelling from yard work BUT I have to say it's well worth it yesterday because I am relaxed 😌.

@frankwbrown - Congratulations on the completion of your 30-day step challenge! That’s quite an achievement — 10k a day 🎉🎉🎉

We have some serious steppers in our group, with @pupowl and Tinus setting a phenomenal pace, too! — 10 walks in a day 🤩

Great work @pedal_power, @izzyred9400, @jessicakrall8, @LaurieWrobo, and all the other step challenge competitors. You’re all winners of better health!

@Armygirlarmyof1 — I agree that today’s card is a good reminder not to let perfect get in the way of good. We don’t have to be perfect to be loved AND our body doesn’t have to be perfect to be loved by us. Today, I’m going to remind myself how much ‘good’ my body offers. I’m grateful for the reminder and I might share the sentiment with a few other people in my life who could probably benefit by knowing I don’t need them to be perfect in order to love them.

Have a great Monday everyone!

@Bumbinella - I was thinking about you on Saturday and hoping your birthday celebration worked out well. We used a similar open house tactic when we lived in a small apartment in Tokyo. Those were long get-togethers spanning afternoon and evening but the flow of people worked well. Somehow everyone still ended up in the very tiny kitchen but we think that’s the sign of a good party!? Hope you had fun!! 🎂🍾

@Pupowl - You picked the perfect birthday card for @izzyred9400, our Shape Shifter Dancing Queen!

Happy birthday!! 🎂 Enjoy your trip to Greece! I didn’t realize you had lived there before but that must make it easier to get around to special places that are ‘off the beaten path’ and less touristy. I’m not familiar with the Easter traditions there but it sounds as though they’ll be some dancing!

My close friend is from Poland, which has some beautiful egg decorating techniques and other fun traditions. Unsuspecting tourists might be surprised by the Śmigus-Dyngus Monday following Easter though — People throw water at each other!! I think the loose translation is ‘Wet Monday’ but I’m sure other Shape Shifters know more about it than I do. Here’s a link to some of the pretty eggs and other traditions:

https://keytopoland.com/post/9-polish-easter-traditions

Have a great day, everyone!

steps
4/7 11,459
4/8 13,303
4/9 15,446
4/10 13,552

My steps are lower because we travelled to see family this past weekend for some celebrations. We took a couple of nice walks on new trails, but mostly sat around a lot catching up. I've had way too much Easter chocolate lately and my weight is up because of it. It's such a trigger food for me. I tried not to buy too much this year, so most of it is gone now. But my family were very generous with giving Easter chocolate to my kids and that made me feel very anxious. I think next year I'll chat with them ahead of time about doing something different. However, I'm feeling like I can move past it and get back to being more conscious about my nutrition. Yesterday was our first full day back and my nutrition and exercise were back on track and I'm feeling much better from that!