WaistAways Team Chat - MAY 2023
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@PlaneMonkey - My husband and I use a shared Google calendar as well for appointments, and any contractors that he has contacted that need to come to the house. It’s good that he adds them so that I can plan my work from home days to be here when they need to get in to work on something. I also use it to plan our social events, which he would say in the past he wouldn’t know about until the day was here (not true; I’d say it multiple times to him but ya’know), so now he can’t use that excuse anymore lol.
Then finally, I do have a shared chores list on our google calendar, which has weekly and monthly to-dos. I’ve been bad about keeping to it since we moved and are having a ton of work done at the house, but we did find it very helpful when things were calmer at our old place. Hopefully we’ll get back to that soon.2 -
@conleywoods
Welcome back. Glad to hear you're wrapping so many things up. We will benefit from you being back.
@jugar
A new friend to ride horses with - divine!2 -
IDebraK
Weigh in: Saturday
CW: 136
I'm a little discouraged about my weight. I know it could be worse, but I think I've tacked on about 14 pounds or so. 14? 12. Something like that.
I'm not posting a previous weight at all. TODAY IS DAY 1. I'm resetting and starting all over.
I have a wedding in August. I need motivation, for sure.
I have a 60" zero turn lawn mower and live on 2 acres. I have chickens on about a quarter acre, so there's not a blade of grass in their area. Today, I'm going to buy a push mower. Yep! I'm going to use a push mower to cut the grass. Debra needs to do SOMETHING to get back down to a weight that makes her happy. This one isn't it.
I rescued a pigeon from a neighboring Tractor Supply. It (I have no idea if it's a male or female) is getting a new home. Currently, it lives in a cage in the house. It will get a much larger pen this weekend.
I'm also tearing my dogs' room on the patio apart. It's still set up for winter. That seems to be over now. We get a bit cool still at night, but the dogs no longer need heat.
So those are my "activities" planned for today.
I'm about to finish this coffee, get in the shower, make a trip to Home Depot and Walmart. I'm feeling like putting some mulch down in front of the house.
Yesterday, I made a log for my father-in-law's grave. It's for memorial day, but I think we're leaving it there for always. I also made flowers. My camera takes horrible pictures, so excuse the blur. I broke the back glass. When I replaced it, I didn't see a stray piece floating around, so it just moves where it wants and sometimes obscures my photos. I'll post pictures of the log when it's actually finished. I was just pretty proud of my wood carving skills on this one. I hand carved the Army insignia with a Dremel.
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PW: 159.7
CW: 161.7
Oops - not enough activity and too much food. Time to stop it now!
Otherwise feeling pretty good, had my post op visit yesterday and everything is healing well. Can start increasing my weight restriction next week - honestly 10 lbs really is nothing!
This weekend will be filled with gardening and walks! Not planning much more.
Now off to get caught up on all your posts ☺️6 -
Happy Saturday Waistaways!
@jugar so sorry Liselyn! I completely forgot to give you my weight for last Sunday 🤦
CW 231lbs.
It is up, so not pretty 😥
I promise I'll weigh in on time tomorrow 🤗4 -
Debra! I have news for you. You did not tack on 12 or 14 pounds - not this month, anyhow. You got me worried with that large number, but when I put your weight in, you had only gained 1.6 pounds. Yes, you gained a few pounds this month, and maybe have put on 12 or 14 since your lowest point, but this month is not terrible when you remember that you have lost 60.6 pounds since your highest point.IDebraK
Weigh in: Saturday
CW: 136
I'm a little discouraged about my weight. I know it could be worse, but I think I've tacked on about 14 pounds or so. 14? 12. Something like that.
I'm not posting a previous weight at all. TODAY IS DAY 1. I'm resetting and starting all over.
I have a wedding in August. I need motivation, for sure.
60 pounds. That's an average 9 year old child! A grizzly bear cub! Be proud.
Your body is still not used to this state of affairs and it will try to convince you to go back. Just put it in its room until it stops lying to you. Get it out there with your push mower and make it do chores! You've got this. Join those of us having a logging-fest. Whatever works - and come on in here and brag
Brag about that gorgeous Dremel work, too. Blurry photos or no - that is seriously impressive.
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205.9
June will be different.3 -
My Farmers Market haul ☺️
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The May Week 5 Group Challenge is live and ready to begin on Sunday, May 28th. Join us for Take Care of YOU and THEM! Here's your link:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10891344/may-week-5-group-challenge-take-care-of-you-and-them#latest
Hope to see you there!
Jessica
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Friday weigh in on Saturday
PW 204.9
CW 203.7
Gained some back since my lower unofficial weight, but still a tiny loss officially. Just sweated a bunch of water out putting together my patio set. Had some tricky manufacturing parts, but all done! Now can’t wait to enjoy it when the sun moves from directly overhead.
Check back in later.5 -
PW: 156.9
CW: 157.4
Sun- 1845
Mon: 14659
Tue- 6391
Wed - 6752
Thur - 4112
Fri - 20mins stair master + 25mins treadmill
Sat -10005 -
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Happy Saturday Team WaistAways!
@jugar, as I write this, I am imagining you being reunited with lovely Jasper! You're going to have so much fun with him.
@conleywoods - so good to have you back with us. I miss your updates and seeing the progress of your darling little piggies!
@wishfuljune - thanks for the idea of Google calendars. I need to find a place to log the new teaching qualification that I've just started. I want to have it finished by April 2024.
I am just emerging from an extremely stressful week. I spent a couple of days in London training, then a night with my lovely Mum just before she took off for a month-long holiday with my sister in the Netherlands. I did get a lovely surprise meeting up with one of my brothers who had come to London to help her with her bags and get her safely to the airport. We haven't seen each other for a couple of years (how does that even happen?)
Then I had a long drive back up to Worcestershire on Wednesday, just in time for an online meeting with my head of HR, then some prep for my apprentices. A face-to-face meeting with a prospective new college for my apprentices on Thursday - then home for more prep, followed by me delivering a lecture to this group yesterday. They now have a two-week break for half term, and I shall definitely benefit from the pause.
So, not surprisingly, I stayed in bed for the longest time this morning. Consciously listening to my body and feeling all the creaks of the week slowly leave me.
No workouts so far this week - although I am determined to do a Power Hour tomorrow morning!
Next week promises to be a lot calmer, we have a good friend coming to stay for a few days and now that the sun has decided to make a regular appearance, my project of tidying up my patio should be enjoyable as well as necessary!
Back tomorrow for my Sunday weigh-in. There are no workouts for me to forget - as I did last week!
Be well, my friends!6 -
PW=78,9Kg
CW=79,8Kg
I moved to the house this week and I don't know where my Fitbit is, so I couldn't count my steps this week, but I made 10 minutes of stretching every day and walked for 25 minutes.7 -
CW: 190.3
If I can change the batteries early enough tomorrow (and there's a positive "lower" weight, I'll let you know first thing tomorrow. Otherwise, we'll go with this one. It's not lower but it's not up by that much. I can give myself a little bit of grace and chill. I have 2 major house projects afoot which actually amount to 15 or 20 if you count all of the tiny steps that will need to happen in the middle of it all. Sigh. So annoying to not have endless amounts of energy to just get it all sorted and done - BOOM!- wouldn't that be nice.
The white board idea is great as is writing things down on the existing calendar. We'll see how the next few days go. This is the last late night shift OH is having to do and starting Tuesday, 7 a.m. - 3:00. Wahoo!
Time to make some tea and settle down for the evening. I'll be in bed early tonight and plan to get up early for a good walk.
Have a happy evening, everyone!
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Weigh-in
Username: Project_Shan
Weigh-in day: Sunday
PW: 163.0
CW: 163.0
Steps: May 21-27
How is it the end of May already? Have a lovely week everyone!4 -
Sunday weigh in
PW - 186.9
CW - 185.75 -
Sunday
PW: 190.8
CW: 189.4
So sorry this has been such a bad month with travel/family complications/etc, I hope to be checking in more regularly very soon. Apologies again for any inconvenience caused by my sporadic weight reporting, but I definitely want to stay on the team!5 -
I bought the push mower and mowed the yard yesterday. The Emu didn't freak out as bad with a push mower. She absolutely goes nuts over the rider.
My boyfriend's father passed away in 2020. We visit the cemetery a lot. I have some family at the same cemetery, so we usually do our walk through when we go and check everyone's grave. We keep them up and clean them regularly, changing flowers frequently. When we go, we see a lot of old graves. He made a comment about how dirty some of the graves were. This has been on-going since 2020. He will point and say, "That grave is dirty," or "Look at that one." That led him to purchase a mobile pressure washer. So, after I cut the grass yesterday, we hitched the trailer and took the pressure washer on it's maiden voyage. Our first test was on my uncle's headstone. I figured if it was too much, we'd know on one of "mine." It did not disappoint.
There is another cemetery here that contains some very old graves. 3 In particular, caught our eye. We've been trying to research these women, but haven't found much yet. They are in a family plot containing 5 graves, but these three women are all buried in a North-South direction. Most graves are in an East-West direction. Anyway, we decided to adopt these graves. We take flowers and decided that this family plot was going to be our first secret "clean-up." I guess it's not a secret posting it here, but we are sure this family has no one left. The flowers we leave are never disturbed. The last person died in 1943. There is only one male in the plot. I'm going to do a rubbing of his headstone. It's the only one that's a different style, and it was damaged and broke in half at some point and has been repaired. I believe the death date is 1899. Anyway, We did a total of 15 headstones yesterday and plan to do more today.
Here's some before and afters of our secret mission.
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