Highest weight: 248
Ultimate goal weight: 148
Aug 31 goal weight: 172.4

July 31 ending weight - 174.2
Aug 03 - 176.8 egads!!!
Aug 10 -
Aug 17 -
Aug 24 -
Aug 31 -

Egad=good food, salt, alcohol, desserts, and too much sitting. Vacation 🤷🏽‍♀️ We leave on 8/13 for Mom’s birthday trip to St Simons Island, I have to do things differently.

Kathy

Hiya, I just stumbled across this group...can I join in? How does this challenge work?

Back to the gym. 30 minutes kettle bell workout with my trainer, 15 minute on elliptical and 30 minutes on recumbent.

Really busy getting ready for my mom’s birthday trip to St Simons Island. It’s going to be fun. I haven’t traveled with my sisters and nieces as adults. We leave Sunday. I refuse to come back with another 2-3 pound weight gain. Will definitely watch the alcohol. 😎

Kathy

Happy Monday girls! My jetlag is pretty bad...so took it easy this weekend with the exercise. I could go to bed now lol!

I exercised a ton while on Budapest....walked miles (felt like you Chris!)

Working on getting back into my eating groove. Had great food while away...back to reality!

We are on vacation next week....going to the beach, which I'm really excited about.

Karen

Thanks for the welcome! I am trying to make exercise a more consistent part of my day. I work a desk job so I’m sitting for huge chunks of the day. I just recently got a sit/stand desk at work so I can at least break up the sitting a bit!

Today I did this video - I’ve been loving Get Fit With Rick lately!
https://youtu.be/RgzdDZ_Tz5g

I have finished the day just shy of 8000 steps which is great, for me!

I have an Apple Watch I actually just got a new one for my birthday a few days ago lol my old one was about 4-5 years old and was no longer able to last the whole day without a charge, which is of limited use - plus it would occasionally have a glitch where it would decide it was flat, even though it wasn't, and would not work again until it was fully reset. So, a new one was in order!
@cpanus I love that you look after your grandson often! When my son was born, I had 6 months off work to be at home with him but then I had to go back. My mum would look after him while we were both working (2 or 3 days a week depending on hubby's roster) and they built such a beautiful relationship because of that! They're really close and he just lights up when he sees her (he's 4.5 now).

Karen hope you sleep better tonight. Any pics of your trip?

Chris why don't you put Collin in a stroller and take him with you? I am so glad that Rollin likes school.

Kathy your pending trip sounds amazing. Loads of photos will be needed.

Christie please tell me more about the apple watch. I am so upset over forgot taking away our challenges. I love walking videos with upbeat music. Will give it a try. And since I am horrible at names everyone signs off by putting their name at the end of each post.

Worked in the garden yesterday. Today we changed out the water in out tanks. Starting to look at adding some new fish to our tank. A Copperband Angel is a must. I got in over 8000 steps today. Working towards getting 10,000 a day again. My weight is down a few pounds all last week.

Shell

Highest weight: 248
Ultimate goal weight: 148
Aug 31 goal weight: 172.4

July 31 ending weight - 174.2
Aug 03 - 176.8 egads!!!
Aug 10 - 175.3
Aug 17 -
Aug 24 -
Aug 31 -


Kathy

Shelley - I love my Apple Watch, can’t be without it lol. I’m not too familiar with what the Fitbit challenges were so not sure how it compares. But with Apple Watch you have three rings to close each day - movement (calorie burn), exercise (minutes) and stand (basically you have to be standing/moving around for a minute in each hour to close this ring, the idea being that you don’t just sit around all day and then exercise all at once).
You can have competitions with your friends, where you earn points for how far your rings are closed for the day - each competition runs for 7 days and whoever accumulates the most points wins. There are also personal challenges & badges you can earn.

I’ve had a lazier couple of days. I worked on Wednesday and then had my parents and brother visiting for the night which meant we went out for Chinese (belated birthday dinner) and stayed up way too late. I had Thursday off work but couldn’t sleep in as my so. Still had to get up for preschool so I struggled through Thursday terribly tired! My son was so exhausted that he fell asleep in my arms on the lounge before dinner, after an hour I put him to bed and he slept the whole night despite not having had dinner! We’re feeling better rated today!

Hahahha Shelley, I never think about people trying to imagine my accent! Listen to Margot Robbie or Rebel Wilson and my accent is mostly the same as theirs lol.

Today my 4yo and I got the soccer ball out and kicked it around for a while. It was fun and we enjoyed the warm sunshine as we’re starting to come out of winter now. Other than that I just did housework and drank coffee lol.

Christie

Christie so glad you got out with the little one. So good for you both. It has been unseasonably wet here.

Chris I don't think Ronan ever had any adjustment issues. He was always smiling. Collin will come around. Cut back on your coffee! Poor Chris. Is it the caffeine?

I got 10,000 steps again. So happy. After work I had friends over and family. It was a good time. One even brought his dogs. A pug and a French bulldog. They were so sweet. It is late so I must get some sleep.

Shell

Chris I do hope it begins to work without failing. Very frustrating.

Had our HOA meeting this morning. What a pain. It needed to be done. There is a well and large tank for fire mitigation involved. Then went walking with my mom. It became dark and we headed back.

Shelley