The June Week 2 Group Challenge is open and ready to begin on Sunday, Jun 11th. Please join us this week to "Share a Salad" with your friends and teammates. Here's your link:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10892363/june-week-2-group-challenge-share-a-salad/p1?new=1

Hope to see you there!
Jessica

June 11th

Weigh In Day: Sunday
Previous Weight: June 4th - 213.0
Current Weight: June 11th - 212.0

Steps
Sunday - 8101
Monday - 5858
Tuesday - 6811
Wednesday - 6260
Thursday - 4799
Friday - 5047
Saturday - 5193

Total - 42069 steps

Oh boy, I've been all over the place this month, and things aren't really going to chill out anytime soon, so here's a quick update on what's been going on, and what's coming up:

• I cancelled the meal delivery service I was using - Factor was good, but it was expensive, and half of the meals were things I could make myself at less than $10/meal without an issue (also hot meals + summer = not my favorite combo)
• I was challenged by a coworker to an arm wrestling competition - I'm sure he was joking, but I'm taking it seriously anyway, so now I'm focusing on building more upper body strength
• I started a personal trainer certification program, so I guess there's a ton of studying in my future
• I went on a trip for work this past week and ate absolute garbage, resulting in me forgetting to post my weigh-in, and then posting a nearly 2-lb gain this morning
• I'm leaving for a bachelorette party on Friday, and I am fully expecting to have a bunch of alcohol and cheese and chocolates and all that deliciousness in my body, but at least we're also going on a hike and whitewater rafting, so maybe it will all balance out

Here's hoping July is less chaotic.

USERNAME: i_SWEAT_n_SWEAR
WEIGH-IN DAY: Mondays
PW: 198.6
CW: 194.4


*had a huge water gain last week

Awesome week team, let's do that again!!

@i_SWEAT_n_SWEAR I feel like I'm experiencing that now Great loss though

@minstrelofsarcasm @melaniedscott I'll be travelling to Florida Friday and will miss my weigh-in next week and likely be late (Tuesday) for the week after if that's okay?

Had a great time on vacation. Now I need to detox. Just went and had a salad and slice of pizza for dinner. We didn't ride bikes the other day as planned, we rented a boat instead. Still nice. I would have preferred the exercise but it was so hot. My feet are so swollen hopefully lots of water will fix that. Maybe a pedi also.

Weigh in Day - Monday
PW - 220.2
CW - 221.0

Had a couple of rubbish days Though also totm this week so hoping some might be water weight.
Really need to get back to some proper exercise!

GarysGirl78 wrote: »

@minstrelofsarcasm @melaniedscott I'll be travelling to Florida Friday and will miss my weigh-in next week and likely be late (Tuesday) for the week after if that's okay?

Yeah, not a problem - I'll excuse you for your next weigh-in. And a late weigh-in for the following week is absolutely fine. I won't start harassing you unless you don't weigh in at all.

HH1006 wrote: »

Feeling a bit down and frustrated with myself. I keep sabotaging my own progress and unfortunately my family makes it really hard to follow my diet at times. Going to keep pushing on, I know I can get it together. On the bright side, I've been working out on our new deck every morning and I have really enjoyed that.

Oh goodness, it's always so tricky to stay on top of eating habits when around family, you're not alone in that struggle! And honestly, you're up less than a pound from last week, and that could be due to water retention from muscle recovery, too much salt/sugar, nutritional deficiencies, stress(!), sun exposure... you get the idea. Every increase in your weight is just your body making adjustments and trying to keep functioning based on what you put in and what you take out - it's not an indication of your worth by any means!

minstrelofsarcasm wrote: »

HH1006 wrote: »

Feeling a bit down and frustrated with myself. I keep sabotaging my own progress and unfortunately my family makes it really hard to follow my diet at times. Going to keep pushing on, I know I can get it together. On the bright side, I've been working out on our new deck every morning and I have really enjoyed that.

Oh goodness, it's always so tricky to stay on top of eating habits when around family, you're not alone in that struggle! And honestly, you're up less than a pound from last week, and that could be due to water retention from muscle recovery, too much salt/sugar, nutritional deficiencies, stress(!), sun exposure... you get the idea. Every increase in your weight is just your body making adjustments and trying to keep functioning based on what you put in and what you take out - it's not an indication of your worth by any means!

Thank you for the kind words and reminders. Everything you said is so true and I appreciate it

I know I've been posting steps really late recently... working on them this evening and...I'm missing 3. Are our missing steppers still stepping in June?

I figured while I am waiting, I'd put out the call for new walkers. Do any of our new team members want to join our team?

Just post steps for the previous week by Weds (today post June 4-10). You can post by day or total for the week. If you post by day, we have a weekly "award" for consistency and most steps in a day.

i_SWEAT_n_SWEAR wrote: »

melaniedscott wrote: »

I know I've been posting steps really late recently... working on them this evening and...I'm missing 3. Are our missing steppers still stepping in June?

I figured while I am waiting, I'd put out the call for new walkers. Do any of our new team members want to join our team?

Just post steps for the previous week by Weds (today post June 4-10). You can post by day or total for the week. If you post by day, we have a weekly "award" for consistency and most steps in a day.

I'm late to this post, but I'd like to join! Are the steps Sunday-Saturday? Not sure where to start?

@i_SWEAT_n_SWEAR -

Steps are Sunday-Saturday, results are usually posted by Wednesday/Thursday the following week. All you have to do is post your steps here, and Melanie takes care of the rest!

Ljdanny
Thurs
Cw 196.8

abp1025
Friday Weigh in


PW: 191 lbs.
CW: 190.6 lbs.

Team Statistics -
Steppers: 8 (+1 from last week!)
Total Steps: 507,318
Average Steps Per Stepper: 55,369
The Leaderboard -

@i_SWEAT_n_SWEAR - 94,264 total | 13,466 average - Most Steps in One Day!!!
@JacquelineRochelle 90,354 total | 12,908 average
@GarysGirl78 - 86,705 total | 12,386 average
@OllieandEd2021 - 73,420 total | 10489 average - Most Consistent!!!
@ljdanny - 72,420 total | 10,329 average
@9Harvey - 42,069 total | 6,010 average
@melaniedscott - 27,429 total | 3,918 average
@BodyTalking - 20,775 total | 2,968 average

A new challenger RISES! @i_SWEAT_n_SWEAR has joined our step team strong!

Sorry for how long it took to get this up. I've been running around trying to get everything done at work so my vacay is stress free. All of our bolded steppers set a goal and met it, based on their average steps per day!

First week out and over a half million! Strong start, well done! Welcome to our new step team member.

Nice walking!! Keep it up!