🍃🍂September Daily Weigh-in and Logging Challenge🍂🍃

stormywxs288 wrote: »

In addition to weighing every day, I've been taking my blood pressure since July 29th. Today my BP was 129/86. Although not perfect yet, it was the lowest it has been since August. Losing weight has been a big factor in lowering my BP.

Sep 4 - Sep 10: 190.0 -185.2 (4.8 Lbs) week-one
Sep 11-Sep 17 185.2 -184.0 (1.2 Lbs) week-two Total (6 lbs)
Sep 18: 183.4
Sep 19: 184.0

That's awesome progress on getting your blood pressure down!!! That's one of the big reasons I needed to lose weight too. Mine has been low for several months now and I couldn't be happier.

@jm16 I don't know how you do it. My daughter is in the healthcare field, every third week she has to work a seven day stretch - and she is exhausted on the seventh day - I can't even imagine 14 days. I hope you get a few days off after it is done to recouperate.

@Laufmane Take care of yourself, hope you feel better.

@makanacapellocullen Look at you go! You Sept goal is right around the corner!

@stormywxs288 Fantastic news on the blood pressure.

My name is Donna. I am 5’ 5” tall, 63 years old and from the Michigan USA. In 2016 I weighed 253 lbs. I am on a journey of health and to get back to the real me.
Every healthy habit brings me closer to scratching each of these off to NEVER see them again!
250’s; 240’s; 230’s; 220's; 210's; 200's; 190's; 180’s; 170's; 160's; 150’s



Starting Weight (from Aug 31st): 191.8
Goal: 187.8 (Four lb Loss)
Actual Ending Weight: xxxxx

**************************************ONE DAY, ONE STEP, ONE DECISION AT A TIME************************************


Weight in blue makes me blue because it’s a gain. Weight in fuchsia pink makes me feel cheery because it’s a loss. Weight in black means no change.


09/01-193.2-(Trend Weight 195.0)-


09/02-192.2-(Trend Weight 194.7)-

09/03-NWP-(Trend Weight 194.7)-

09/04-193.6-(Trend Weight 194.6)-


09/05-192.0-(Trend Weight 194.3)-

09/06-192.0-(Trend Weight 194.1)-

09/07-191.0-(Trend Weight 193.8)-

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09/11-192.4-(Trend Weight 193.6)-

09/12-191.2-(Trend Weight 193.4)-

09/13-191.0-(Trend Weight 193.1)-

09/14-191.0-(Trend Weight 192.9)-

09/15-189.8-(Trend Weight 192.6)-

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09/17-190.4-(Trend Weight 192.3)-

09/18-190.4-(Trend Weight 192.1)-

09/19-190.0-(Trend Weight 191.9)- I went over to the school to walk the tracks in the hallways of the school for the first time this school year. My handymen cancelled the day so I was able to leave. By the time I left my knees were aching. Luckily I had already done my aerobic dancing. Today is travel so I may get some rest from the exercise. I expect the scale will go up but I know from experience it won’t last. What I do in the days following is what really matters. I just can’t let it put me on a bingefest. I did really well last time I traveled so I hope to keep up the momentum.

09/20-189.2-(Trend Weight 191.7)- I don’t know how this wonderful scale reading happened for me today. I can only guess that the past few days of careful eating and extra commitment to exercise caught up with me. However, yesterday was travel day and I ate at a Chinese food buffet which was a real rare treat. Of course, I overate and also had some sugary desserts afterward. All of those really good habits I thought I had were out the window at a buffet. So I must learn to work on that or stay away from them altogether. So the next scale reading “catching up with me” might not be so good in a day or two based on yesterday, but I will stick to plan, pre-log my meals, drink extra water and make sure I push myself to exercise each night. If that bloat and weight shows up at my doorstep, I’ll be ready for it! I’m happy and grateful today though.


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My name is Kelly. I am 52 and watch my grandkids 5 days a week. I watch 4 of them 5 days a weeks and 6 on Wednesdays so I keep busy with babies all week. They are all 3yrs and under. I weigh weekly. This daily group accountability is awesome! I absolutely love this group.

Goals for September:
Walk for 30 minutes a day 6 days a week
Log all my food daily
Hit at least 10,000 steps 6 days a week
Strength training...what I can tolerate and build from there
Hit my original goal weight of 150

I am going to be transitioning slowly to a maintaining phase of my journey. But I think I do want to get into the mid 140's. So, I want to take this month to lose weight but slow the process down. I will be doing my morning 5 mile walks during the week but I won't push myself to get the same amount of steps each day. I think about 12-15k per day will be good. I will be adding strength training. I have never been good at maintaining so this will be a learning process and I want to slow my weight loss down and gradually get there.


SW:262
September SW:155
September GW:150 or a few pounds into 140's
UGW:150 or below

September:
1. Logged, rest day
2. Logged, walked, 10k+
3. Logged, walked, 10k+, strength training
4. Logged, walked, 10k+, strength training
5. Logged, walked, 15k+, strength training
6. Logged, walked, 15k+, weight 154.4
7. Logged, walked, 16k+, strength training
8. Logged, walked, 17k+, strength training
9. Logged, walked, 11k+
10. Logged, strength training
11. Logged, walked, 14k+
12. Logged, walked, 15k+, strength training
13. Logged, walked, 15k+, weight 152
14. Logged, walked, 15k+, strength training
15. Logged, walked, 13k+, strength training
16. Logged, walked, 10k+
17. Logged, strength training
18. Logged, walked, 17k+
19. Logged, walked, 16k+, strength training
20. Logged, walked, 16k+, weight 148.4

So I finally made my UGW! 🎉🥳🎉 I started back on January 2 of this year and have worked hard and very consistent from day one. I don't mind if I lose a few more pounds but I won't mind at all if I just maintain. So this will be a learning curve for me. Thanks to everyone here who has helped to get to this point in my journey...this group has really been motivational and inspirational! I plan on doing basically the same thing but slowly adding more calories to my allowance.

Hello I'm Darlene. I am 63, married, (Greg), have one daughter, 29 (Allyson) and one 4-year-old Goldendoodle, Monty. I have been with this group since April of this year. I love this group.

Happy Fall

September Goals 🍂
Lose 4 pounds ⚖️
Hit the 1,750 mile marker towards my 2,023 in 2,023. 🏃‍♂️
16k Steps Daily 👣
Drink 6-8 Glasses of Water Daily 💦
Strength Train 3 days a week💪
Tai Chi or Some Stretching exercise 1 day a week 🧘
Log my food daily 🖥️
Read 📖
Do something creative daily - Knit, Crochet, Color, puzzel etc. 🧶 🖍️ 🧩
⚖️ 🏃‍♂️👣💦💪🧘 🖥️ 📖🧶 🖍️ 🧩

Weight Loss to Date: 48.2 Pounds
July Ending Weight: 179.8

Sep 1: 179.8 👣💦💪🖥️📖🧶 🖍️
Sep 2: 179.6 👣💦🖥️📖 🖍️
Sep 3: 179.8👣💦 🖥️ 🧶 🖍️
Sep 4: 179.4👣💦 🖥️ 📖🧶
Sep 5: 179.2 👣 💦🖥️ 📖
Sep 6: 179 💦🧘🖥️We are refinishing our hallway/pantry floor this week, so emptied the pantry, washed the shelves and painted. Busy day - starting refinishing the floors today. It's surprising how much stuff I had in that pantry closet. My living room is filled with junk! Can't wait for it to be finished so I can put my house back in order. Met my 1,600 mile marker yesterday! 😁
Sep 7: 178.6 😁 💦 🖥️ 🖍️ Had a snag in the refinishing yesterday - After sanding for a couple hours yesterday, realized the floors are in worse shape than we thought. The machine we rented wasn't powerful enough to go down as far as we need; so we returned it. Renting a different kind today - hoping it will work! If not, I think we'll need to rip it up and put down a new floor. Regardless, when they are done I will be happy- now a dusty, messy house! YUCK!
Sep 8: 179.6 😠 👣 💦🖥️ 🖍️ It's what I "sort of" expected. Didn't eat all day yesterday until dinnertime. (Working on the floors). I didn't want to cook when were done, so we order a plain cheese pizza. Under my calories for the day, but the sodium gets me every time. On a good note, we finished sanding the floors, and they came out really nice. Today we put the polyurethane one (keeping natural); it has to dry for a couple days and then I can move the stuff back in. Then a full day (or two) of cleaning the rest of the rooms. Even though you put up plastic to keep the dust out - it travels everywhere! Can't wait!
Sep 9: 179.8 😠💦🖥️🧶Don't like the direction I'm going. Hoping it will swish down when I get back into my normal routine. Although I walked yesterday - it was in little spirts - a mile at a time. Although I stayed within my calorie budget, didn't have time to make healty things and didn't eat at regular times. Was ravenous at the end of the day and had salty cashews before I went to bed. On a better note, two coats of polyurethane down. Two (or three if we need it) more today. It's getting close!
Sep 10: 179.6 😐 👣💦💪 🖥️ 🧶The floor has one more coat to go - then touch up any spots at the end; it needs to dry overnight and then I can start moving the stuff back in. Last night I woke up and couldn't sleep - since there is only one more light sand left I cleaned the family room (the farthest room from the foyer). There was even dust INSIDE the TV cabinet - had to take everything out, dust and put everything back. Hoping that it was worth my effort and it doesn't get dusty again today. Thinking about how much I needed to deep clean anyway and how sparkly my house will be next week. 😉
Sep 11: 179.4 👣💦💪 🖥️ 📖 Floors done, kitchen and family room (second time) cleaned. Today can put the shelves back in, and filled. Just need to keep the stuff off the floor. Also is Hubby's birthday today, so will celebrate tonight with dinner of his choice.
Sep 12: 179.4 👣💦💪 🖥️ 📖 🖍️ We ended up going out to dinner on the lake. I had a lovely peach and Burrata salad, but with the glass of beer and dessert (and a couple of hubby's fries), went over my calorie limit. When I got home, I worked off the extra so I could end the day under. This was the view of the lake with a beautiful rainbow.
Sep 13: 178.6 😁👣💦💪 🖥️ 📖And look at that! A little normalcy and whoosh! The pantry is back in order - just my office left to clean (my old dining room). It was messy to begin with so it will be nice to get it done. Here's my organized pantry!
Sep 14: 178.6 👣💦🖥️ 🖍️ Trivia last night; made some good choices. I had a burger, without the bun, and a side salad instead of fries. A seltzer with lemon instead of the beer. We tied for third place with a score of 0! LOL. For the last question, you can answer and get it right to double your score for the whole game, do nothing and keep your score, or answer and get it wrong and lose all your points for the game. A lot of teams guessed, we all got it wrong, so we all tied for third. The top two teams didn't answer. Unfortunately, we lost the tie breaker so didn't come up with a prize this week. (They give gift certificates to the restaurant to come back another time). We haven't been in a few weeks, I forgotten what great fun it is.
Sep 15: 178.4 👣💦💪 🖥️ 🖍️ We made 2 gallons of homemade salsa yesterday with the abundance of tomatoes and peppers in the garden. Yummy; but ate a few chips - made sure I drank plenty of water to compensate and it looks ok so far. Sometimes it shows up the next day though, we'll see tomorrow.
Sep 16: 177.2 😁 👣💦🧘 🖥️ Woo Hoo! I still don't understand the body - but I'll take it. I've offically (for today anyway) lost 50+ pounds since I started this journey in January. Today we are going to the Goodspeed Opera House to see a musical. Every year we get tickets to see some show for my daughter for her birthday (in May). This year she picked "The 12 -Jerusalem. The disciples are in disarray. Torn apart by the unthinkable death of their leader, see how twelve ordinary individuals come together to create one of the most powerful movements ever known. A universal story of love that you will never forget!" Really looking forward to it. Also celebrating Greg's birthday again today with her - He decided Thai Food - so am looking to see what is the best option. Any suggestions?
Sep 17: 177 💦💪 🖥️ 📖 Went to my husband's cousin's house today - It's an all day affair. She is in her 90's and lives alone, no children; hubby passed a couple of years ago and she doesn't drive. Greg calls her every day to make sure she is ok, I shop for her groceries and necessities. Unfortunately, she lives an hour and a half away so can't get there as much as we would like. But she is doing well, and fortunately has wonderful neighbors. It's always a nice visit. Had to walk on the treadmill last night instead of my morning walk - managed to get in my 4 miles (my new mini goal), but didn't get my 16K steps.
Sep 18: 176.8 😁 👣💦💪🧘 🖥️ 📖Tonight is bingo night with Mom. I always leave a little wiggle room on the calories when I go, because somehow there is always some kind of dessert that end up nibbling on.
Sep 19: 176.4 😁👣💦💪 🖥️ 📖
Sep 20: 176.8 - 👣💦💪🧘 🖥️ 📖Made a delicious soup yesterday; low in calories but had canned tomatoes in it , so a little higher in sodium than is good for me - and I had two bowls. Should come down pretty quickly. On a good note - I hit the 1,700 mile mark. 😁
Sep 21: 176.4 I just notice that the last couple days I had myself in the 160's - wishful thinking - No I didn't lose 10+ pounds in a day. HA!

Today is a bowling day for me. I bowl in a league twice a week, both Thursdays and Fridays. Believe it or not, at 73 years old, I'm one of the youngest guys in my leagues. My rule for sports is to play with kids your own age whenever possible! Our team of 4 bowlers starts at 1 pm, bowl 3 games against another team of 4, are finished by 3 pm and I'm home at about 3:30.

I love bowling days but I am starving by the time I get home. Lucky for me I have found a solution for my hunger that has been working for me. It is called. "Instapot". I will tell you more about that when I post tomorrow's weigh-in.

Sep 4 - Sep 10: 190.0 -185.2 (4.8 Lbs) week-one
Sep 11-Sep 17 185.2 -184.0 (1.2 Lbs) week-two Total (6 lbs)
Sep 18: 183.4
Sep 19: 184.0
Sep 20: 183.4
Sep 21 184.0

My name is Donna. I am 5’ 5” tall, 63 years old and from the Michigan USA. In 2016 I weighed 253 lbs. I am on a journey of health and to get back to the real me.
Every healthy habit brings me closer to scratching each of these off to NEVER see them again!
250’s; 240’s; 230’s; 220's; 210's; 200's; 190's; 180’s; 170's; 160's; 150’s



Starting Weight (from Aug 31st): 191.8
Goal: 187.8 (Four lb Loss)
Actual Ending Weight: xxxxx

**************************************ONE DAY, ONE STEP, ONE DECISION AT A TIME************************************


Weight in blue makes me blue because it’s a gain. Weight in fuchsia pink makes me feel cheery because it’s a loss. Weight in black means no change.


09/01-193.2-(Trend Weight 195.0)-


09/02-192.2-(Trend Weight 194.7)-

09/03-NWP-(Trend Weight 194.7)-

09/04-193.6-(Trend Weight 194.6)-


09/05-192.0-(Trend Weight 194.3)-

09/06-192.0-(Trend Weight 194.1)-

09/07-191.0-(Trend Weight 193.8)-

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09/09-192.0-(Trend Weight 193.6)-

09/10-194.2-(Trend Weight 193.7)-

09/11-192.4-(Trend Weight 193.6)-

09/12-191.2-(Trend Weight 193.4)-

09/13-191.0-(Trend Weight 193.1)-

09/14-191.0-(Trend Weight 192.9)-

09/15-189.8-(Trend Weight 192.6)-

09/16-190.6-(Trend Weight 192.4)-


09/17-190.4-(Trend Weight 192.3)-

09/18-190.4-(Trend Weight 192.1)-

09/19-190.0-(Trend Weight 191.9)-

09/20-189.2-(Trend Weight 191.7)- I don’t know how this wonderful scale reading happened for me today. I can only guess that the past few days of careful eating and extra commitment to exercise caught up with me. However, yesterday was travel day and I ate at a Chinese food buffet which was a real rare treat. Of course, I overate and also had some sugary desserts afterward. All of those really good habits I thought I had were out the window at a buffet. So I must learn to work on that or stay away from them altogether. So the next scale reading “catching up with me” might not be so good in a day or two based on yesterday, but I will stick to plan, pre-log my meals, drink extra water and make sure I push myself to exercise each night. If that bloat and weight shows up at my doorstep, I’ll be ready for it! I’m happy and grateful today though.

09/21-187.6-(Trend Weight 191.2)- I got the “7” in there today at 187. I’m so happy that it is all paying off. My handymen left early enough that it allowed me to get to the school in time for walking the hallways again yesterday. They require that I come at 4:30 otherwise I am locked out. I got in over 100 minutes of walking. I got a bit hungry late last night. Bingeing was a possibility but I managed to stick to my guns. I grabbed a small hand full of nuts as an unplanned snack. I knew that it would add a bit over 100 calories to my day but I also knew it was healthy and that it would stave off any uncontrollable hunger. I worked. I’m so glad I didn’t give in to those snacky night-time, TV time monsters. When I’ve stayed in the 187’s (or less) a day or two longer I will cross off my 190’s with confidence. I am very very close to challenge goal.


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My name is Kelly. I am 52 and watch my grandkids 5 days a week. I watch 4 of them 5 days a weeks and 6 on Wednesdays so I keep busy with babies all week. They are all 3yrs and under. I weigh weekly. This daily group accountability is awesome! I absolutely love this group.

Goals for September:
Walk for 30 minutes a day 6 days a week
Log all my food daily
Hit at least 10,000 steps 6 days a week
Strength training...what I can tolerate and build from there
Hit my original goal weight of 150

I am going to be transitioning slowly to a maintaining phase of my journey. But I think I do want to get into the mid 140's. So, I want to take this month to lose weight but slow the process down. I will be doing my morning 5 mile walks during the week but I won't push myself to get the same amount of steps each day. I think about 12-15k per day will be good. I will be adding strength training. I have never been good at maintaining so this will be a learning process and I want to slow my weight loss down and gradually get there.


SW:262
September SW:155
September GW:150 or a few pounds into 140's
UGW:150 or below

September:
1. Logged, rest day
2. Logged, walked, 10k+
3. Logged, walked, 10k+, strength training
4. Logged, walked, 10k+, strength training
5. Logged, walked, 15k+, strength training
6. Logged, walked, 15k+, weight 154.4
7. Logged, walked, 16k+, strength training
8. Logged, walked, 17k+, strength training
9. Logged, walked, 11k+
10. Logged, strength training
11. Logged, walked, 14k+
12. Logged, walked, 15k+, strength training
13. Logged, walked, 15k+, weight 152
14. Logged, walked, 15k+, strength training
15. Logged, walked, 13k+, strength training
16. Logged, walked, 10k+
17. Logged, strength training
18. Logged, walked, 17k+
19. Logged, walked, 16k+, strength training
20. Logged, walked, 16k+, weight 148.4
21. Logged, walked, 17k+, strength training

Hello I'm Darlene. I am 63, married, (Greg), have one daughter, 29 (Allyson) and one 4-year-old Goldendoodle, Monty. I have been with this group since April of this year. I love this group.

Happy Fall

September Goals 🍂
Lose 4 pounds ⚖️
Hit the 1,750 mile marker towards my 2,023 in 2,023. 🏃‍♂️
16k Steps Daily 👣
Drink 6-8 Glasses of Water Daily 💦
Strength Train 3 days a week💪
Tai Chi or Some Stretching exercise 1 day a week 🧘
Log my food daily 🖥️
Read 📖
Do something creative daily - Knit, Crochet, Color, puzzel etc. 🧶 🖍️ 🧩
⚖️ 🏃‍♂️👣💦💪🧘 🖥️ 📖🧶 🖍️ 🧩

Weight Loss to Date: 48.2 Pounds
July Ending Weight: 179.8

Sep 1: 179.8 👣💦💪🖥️📖🧶 🖍️
Sep 2: 179.6 👣💦🖥️📖 🖍️
Sep 3: 179.8👣💦 🖥️ 🧶 🖍️
Sep 4: 179.4👣💦 🖥️ 📖🧶
Sep 5: 179.2 👣 💦🖥️ 📖
Sep 6: 179 💦🧘🖥️We are refinishing our hallway/pantry floor this week, so emptied the pantry, washed the shelves and painted. Busy day - starting refinishing the floors today. It's surprising how much stuff I had in that pantry closet. My living room is filled with junk! Can't wait for it to be finished so I can put my house back in order. Met my 1,600 mile marker yesterday! 😁
Sep 7: 178.6 😁 💦 🖥️ 🖍️ Had a snag in the refinishing yesterday - After sanding for a couple hours yesterday, realized the floors are in worse shape than we thought. The machine we rented wasn't powerful enough to go down as far as we need; so we returned it. Renting a different kind today - hoping it will work! If not, I think we'll need to rip it up and put down a new floor. Regardless, when they are done I will be happy- now a dusty, messy house! YUCK!
Sep 8: 179.6 😠 👣 💦🖥️ 🖍️ It's what I "sort of" expected. Didn't eat all day yesterday until dinnertime. (Working on the floors). I didn't want to cook when were done, so we order a plain cheese pizza. Under my calories for the day, but the sodium gets me every time. On a good note, we finished sanding the floors, and they came out really nice. Today we put the polyurethane one (keeping natural); it has to dry for a couple days and then I can move the stuff back in. Then a full day (or two) of cleaning the rest of the rooms. Even though you put up plastic to keep the dust out - it travels everywhere! Can't wait!
Sep 9: 179.8 😠💦🖥️🧶Don't like the direction I'm going. Hoping it will swish down when I get back into my normal routine. Although I walked yesterday - it was in little spirts - a mile at a time. Although I stayed within my calorie budget, didn't have time to make healty things and didn't eat at regular times. Was ravenous at the end of the day and had salty cashews before I went to bed. On a better note, two coats of polyurethane down. Two (or three if we need it) more today. It's getting close!
Sep 10: 179.6 😐 👣💦💪 🖥️ 🧶The floor has one more coat to go - then touch up any spots at the end; it needs to dry overnight and then I can start moving the stuff back in. Last night I woke up and couldn't sleep - since there is only one more light sand left I cleaned the family room (the farthest room from the foyer). There was even dust INSIDE the TV cabinet - had to take everything out, dust and put everything back. Hoping that it was worth my effort and it doesn't get dusty again today. Thinking about how much I needed to deep clean anyway and how sparkly my house will be next week. 😉
Sep 11: 179.4 👣💦💪 🖥️ 📖 Floors done, kitchen and family room (second time) cleaned. Today can put the shelves back in, and filled. Just need to keep the stuff off the floor. Also is Hubby's birthday today, so will celebrate tonight with dinner of his choice.
Sep 12: 179.4 👣💦💪 🖥️ 📖 🖍️ We ended up going out to dinner on the lake. I had a lovely peach and Burrata salad, but with the glass of beer and dessert (and a couple of hubby's fries), went over my calorie limit. When I got home, I worked off the extra so I could end the day under. This was the view of the lake with a beautiful rainbow.
Sep 13: 178.6 😁👣💦💪 🖥️ 📖And look at that! A little normalcy and whoosh! The pantry is back in order - just my office left to clean (my old dining room). It was messy to begin with so it will be nice to get it done. Here's my organized pantry!
Sep 14: 178.6 👣💦🖥️ 🖍️ Trivia last night; made some good choices. I had a burger, without the bun, and a side salad instead of fries. A seltzer with lemon instead of the beer. We tied for third place with a score of 0! LOL. For the last question, you can answer and get it right to double your score for the whole game, do nothing and keep your score, or answer and get it wrong and lose all your points for the game. A lot of teams guessed, we all got it wrong, so we all tied for third. The top two teams didn't answer. Unfortunately, we lost the tie breaker so didn't come up with a prize this week. (They give gift certificates to the restaurant to come back another time). We haven't been in a few weeks, I forgotten what great fun it is.
Sep 15: 178.4 👣💦💪 🖥️ 🖍️ We made 2 gallons of homemade salsa yesterday with the abundance of tomatoes and peppers in the garden. Yummy; but ate a few chips - made sure I drank plenty of water to compensate and it looks ok so far. Sometimes it shows up the next day though, we'll see tomorrow.
Sep 16: 177.2 😁 👣💦🧘 🖥️ Woo Hoo! I still don't understand the body - but I'll take it. I've offically (for today anyway) lost 50+ pounds since I started this journey in January. Today we are going to the Goodspeed Opera House to see a musical. Every year we get tickets to see some show for my daughter for her birthday (in May). This year she picked "The 12 -Jerusalem. The disciples are in disarray. Torn apart by the unthinkable death of their leader, see how twelve ordinary individuals come together to create one of the most powerful movements ever known. A universal story of love that you will never forget!" Really looking forward to it. Also celebrating Greg's birthday again today with her - He decided Thai Food - so am looking to see what is the best option. Any suggestions?
Sep 17: 177 💦💪 🖥️ 📖 Went to my husband's cousin's house today - It's an all day affair. She is in her 90's and lives alone, no children; hubby passed a couple of years ago and she doesn't drive. Greg calls her every day to make sure she is ok, I shop for her groceries and necessities. Unfortunately, she lives an hour and a half away so can't get there as much as we would like. But she is doing well, and fortunately has wonderful neighbors. It's always a nice visit. Had to walk on the treadmill last night instead of my morning walk - managed to get in my 4 miles (my new mini goal), but didn't get my 16K steps.
Sep 18: 176.8 😁 👣💦💪🧘 🖥️ 📖Tonight is bingo night with Mom. I always leave a little wiggle room on the calories when I go, because somehow there is always some kind of dessert that end up nibbling on.
Sep 19: 176.4 😁👣💦💪 🖥️ 📖
Sep 20: 176.8 - 👣💦💪🧘 🖥️ 📖Made a delicious soup yesterday; low in calories but had canned tomatoes in it , so a little higher in sodium than is good for me - and I had two bowls. Should come down pretty quickly. On a good note - I hit the 1,700 mile mark. 😁
Sep 21: 176.4 👣💦 🖥️ 📖I just notice that the last couple days I had myself in the 160's - wishful thinking - No I didn't lose 10+ pounds in a day. HA!
Sep 22: 177 ☹️

Sep 4 - Sep 10: 190.0 -185.2 (4.8 Lbs) week-one
Sep 11-Sep 17 185.2 -184.0 (1.2 Lbs) week-two Total (6 lbs)
Sep 18: 183.4
Sep 19: 184.0
Sep 20: 183.4
Sep 21: 184.0
Sep 22: 185.0

Friday is another bowling day for me and again I will be starving by the time I get home. To help with my anticipated hunger, I put some country style ribs in my instapot this morning. This magic cooking machine has a delay button on it so I can set it to start pressure cooking the ribs while I’m bowling with my buddies.
When I get home from bowling all I will have to do is to dress up the ribs with some BBQ sauce and put them under the broiler for a few minutes to char and crisp them up. I love using my instapot on busy days to keep me from making poor choices about what I eat. When I’m in starvation mode after activities away from home, I tend to gravitate to fast food or junk-food. Instapot to the rescue on bowling days.

deepwoodslady wrote: »

....However, yesterday was travel day and I ate at a Chinese food buffet which was a real rare treat. Of course, I overate and also had some sugary desserts afterward. All of those really good habits I thought I had were out the window at a buffet. So I must learn to work on that or stay away from them altogether...

Deepwoodslady, It's so easy when unlimited food is just *there* waiting for another round on the plate. My willpower goes out the window on road trips (20 yr old me would eat half a bag of Sun Chips while driving and didn't see any weight gain - sigh). You did it once, you enjoyed it -- good, I'm glad you enjoyed it! It was one day and a rare treat on travel. But seeing your overall success, I know you've got this!

stormywxs288 wrote: »

To help with my anticipated hunger, I put some country style ribs in my instapot this morning. This magic cooking machine has a delay button on it so I can set it to start pressure cooking the ribs while I’m bowling with my buddies...

Stormy, It took me a while to get past my fear of the Instapot blowing up while I'm using it, but we now use it at least once a week for chicken -- something that used to take a ton of prep time, and turning on the oven and heating the already hot house. Now I can run downstairs, take 20 min getting everything set up, turn on the Instapot, and run back upstairs to my office to continue working. We set it to slow release, and by the time both my husband and I have wrapped up work for the day, we have hot chicken ready for us -- to put on salads, or to throw in soup, or with rice and veggies. It's been a game changer! We now keep a bunch of baked chicken frozen too, so we can quickly add it to meals. It has really made a huge difference in our meals.

Melwillbehealthy wrote: »

Sorry, I haven’t participated for the last week with this challenge. Got sick with a cold. Tested and it’s not Covid. Yay! Bad news is I’m prone to lung problems so a cold can hit me hard...

I'm glad it's not Covid, and I hope you are feeling much better soon.

Hello I'm Darlene. I am 63, married, (Greg), have one daughter, 29 (Allyson) and one 4-year-old Goldendoodle, Monty. I have been with this group since April of this year. I love this group.

Happy Fall

September Goals 🍂
Lose 4 pounds ⚖️
Hit the 1,750 mile marker towards my 2,023 in 2,023. 🏃‍♂️
16k Steps Daily 👣
Drink 6-8 Glasses of Water Daily 💦
Strength Train 3 days a week💪
Tai Chi or Some Stretching exercise 1 day a week 🧘
Log my food daily 🖥️
Read 📖
Do something creative daily - Knit, Crochet, Color, puzzel etc. 🧶 🖍️ 🧩
⚖️ 🏃‍♂️👣💦💪🧘 🖥️ 📖🧶 🖍️ 🧩

Weight Loss to Date: 48.2 Pounds
July Ending Weight: 179.8

Sep 1: 179.8 👣💦💪🖥️📖🧶 🖍️
Sep 2: 179.6 👣💦🖥️📖 🖍️
Sep 3: 179.8👣💦 🖥️ 🧶 🖍️
Sep 4: 179.4👣💦 🖥️ 📖🧶
Sep 5: 179.2 👣 💦🖥️ 📖
Sep 6: 179 💦🧘🖥️We are refinishing our hallway/pantry floor this week, so emptied the pantry, washed the shelves and painted. Busy day - starting refinishing the floors today. It's surprising how much stuff I had in that pantry closet. My living room is filled with junk! Can't wait for it to be finished so I can put my house back in order. Met my 1,600 mile marker yesterday! 😁
Sep 7: 178.6 😁 💦 🖥️ 🖍️ Had a snag in the refinishing yesterday - After sanding for a couple hours yesterday, realized the floors are in worse shape than we thought. The machine we rented wasn't powerful enough to go down as far as we need; so we returned it. Renting a different kind today - hoping it will work! If not, I think we'll need to rip it up and put down a new floor. Regardless, when they are done I will be happy- now a dusty, messy house! YUCK!
Sep 8: 179.6 😠 👣 💦🖥️ 🖍️ It's what I "sort of" expected. Didn't eat all day yesterday until dinnertime. (Working on the floors). I didn't want to cook when were done, so we order a plain cheese pizza. Under my calories for the day, but the sodium gets me every time. On a good note, we finished sanding the floors, and they came out really nice. Today we put the polyurethane one (keeping natural); it has to dry for a couple days and then I can move the stuff back in. Then a full day (or two) of cleaning the rest of the rooms. Even though you put up plastic to keep the dust out - it travels everywhere! Can't wait!
Sep 9: 179.8 😠💦🖥️🧶Don't like the direction I'm going. Hoping it will swish down when I get back into my normal routine. Although I walked yesterday - it was in little spirts - a mile at a time. Although I stayed within my calorie budget, didn't have time to make healty things and didn't eat at regular times. Was ravenous at the end of the day and had salty cashews before I went to bed. On a better note, two coats of polyurethane down. Two (or three if we need it) more today. It's getting close!
Sep 10: 179.6 😐 👣💦💪 🖥️ 🧶The floor has one more coat to go - then touch up any spots at the end; it needs to dry overnight and then I can start moving the stuff back in. Last night I woke up and couldn't sleep - since there is only one more light sand left I cleaned the family room (the farthest room from the foyer). There was even dust INSIDE the TV cabinet - had to take everything out, dust and put everything back. Hoping that it was worth my effort and it doesn't get dusty again today. Thinking about how much I needed to deep clean anyway and how sparkly my house will be next week. 😉
Sep 11: 179.4 👣💦💪 🖥️ 📖 Floors done, kitchen and family room (second time) cleaned. Today can put the shelves back in, and filled. Just need to keep the stuff off the floor. Also is Hubby's birthday today, so will celebrate tonight with dinner of his choice.
Sep 12: 179.4 👣💦💪 🖥️ 📖 🖍️ We ended up going out to dinner on the lake. I had a lovely peach and Burrata salad, but with the glass of beer and dessert (and a couple of hubby's fries), went over my calorie limit. When I got home, I worked off the extra so I could end the day under. This was the view of the lake with a beautiful rainbow.
Sep 13: 178.6 😁👣💦💪 🖥️ 📖And look at that! A little normalcy and whoosh! The pantry is back in order - just my office left to clean (my old dining room). It was messy to begin with so it will be nice to get it done. Here's my organized pantry!
Sep 14: 178.6 👣💦🖥️ 🖍️ Trivia last night; made some good choices. I had a burger, without the bun, and a side salad instead of fries. A seltzer with lemon instead of the beer. We tied for third place with a score of 0! LOL. For the last question, you can answer and get it right to double your score for the whole game, do nothing and keep your score, or answer and get it wrong and lose all your points for the game. A lot of teams guessed, we all got it wrong, so we all tied for third. The top two teams didn't answer. Unfortunately, we lost the tie breaker so didn't come up with a prize this week. (They give gift certificates to the restaurant to come back another time). We haven't been in a few weeks, I forgotten what great fun it is.
Sep 15: 178.4 👣💦💪 🖥️ 🖍️ We made 2 gallons of homemade salsa yesterday with the abundance of tomatoes and peppers in the garden. Yummy; but ate a few chips - made sure I drank plenty of water to compensate and it looks ok so far. Sometimes it shows up the next day though, we'll see tomorrow.
Sep 16: 177.2 😁 👣💦🧘 🖥️ Woo Hoo! I still don't understand the body - but I'll take it. I've offically (for today anyway) lost 50+ pounds since I started this journey in January. Today we are going to the Goodspeed Opera House to see a musical. Every year we get tickets to see some show for my daughter for her birthday (in May). This year she picked "The 12 -Jerusalem. The disciples are in disarray. Torn apart by the unthinkable death of their leader, see how twelve ordinary individuals come together to create one of the most powerful movements ever known. A universal story of love that you will never forget!" Really looking forward to it. Also celebrating Greg's birthday again today with her - He decided Thai Food - so am looking to see what is the best option. Any suggestions?
Sep 17: 177 💦💪 🖥️ 📖 Went to my husband's cousin's house today - It's an all day affair. She is in her 90's and lives alone, no children; hubby passed a couple of years ago and she doesn't drive. Greg calls her every day to make sure she is ok, I shop for her groceries and necessities. Unfortunately, she lives an hour and a half away so can't get there as much as we would like. But she is doing well, and fortunately has wonderful neighbors. It's always a nice visit. Had to walk on the treadmill last night instead of my morning walk - managed to get in my 4 miles (my new mini goal), but didn't get my 16K steps.
Sep 18: 176.8 😁 👣💦💪🧘 🖥️ 📖Tonight is bingo night with Mom. I always leave a little wiggle room on the calories when I go, because somehow there is always some kind of dessert that end up nibbling on.
Sep 19: 176.4 😁👣💦💪 🖥️ 📖
Sep 20: 176.8 - 👣💦💪🧘 🖥️ 📖Made a delicious soup yesterday; low in calories but had canned tomatoes in it , so a little higher in sodium than is good for me - and I had two bowls. Should come down pretty quickly. On a good note - I hit the 1,700 mile mark. 😁
Sep 21: 176.4 I just notice that the last couple days I had myself in the 160's - wishful thinking - No I didn't lose 10+ pounds in a day. HA!
Sep 22: ☹️177 👣💦💪 🖥️ 📖
Sep 23: 😁175.6