Shape Shifters Team Chat - MARCH 2024
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The daily card:
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JenHul
Monday weigh-in day
PW: 133
CW: 131.5
Steps:
Mar 14= 9533
Mar 15= 8321
Mar 16= 1472 (forgot fitbit on charger for most of the day lol)
Mar 17= 8732
@Itadakimasu7 & @CasandraW thank you for the suggestions and advice for my back, I really appreciate any help or ideas. A sore back really is exhausting to deal with, and I don't like taking a whole bunch of pain meds if I can avoid it.
@Yukie_OP I have a protein drink every morning before I walk to work and this is how I have been doing so well on my weight loss, I believe. It's not too filling as to make you feel full or sluggish, but it gives you enough fuel to walk and start your day. I then have a "coffee" break snack at work, followed by lunch a few hours later. Sometimes I have an afternoon snack if I'm hungry or just wait and eat supper. I think more smaller meals in the day is better than 3 big meals. I feel better and seem to keep my energy up. Good Luck, I hope it works for you too!8 -
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Week 3 Weigh-in:
Step Count:CW: 173.9
PW: 172.8
~ 1.1 lbs gain
03/17: 3705
What I’ve been tracking:
Sat(Wk2; Day 7)- Track / Under / 20minExercise ?
N / N / Y - NetCalories: 1938
- NetCarbs: 117
- Steps: 16604
- Track / Under / 20min Exercise?
Yes / Yes / Yes - NetCalories: 1409
- NetCarbs: 35
- Steps: 7554
Summary:Previous week:- Net Calories (13179 / 10500
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= Daily Avg: 1882 (Goal: 1500) - Net Carbs (425 / 350)
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= Daily Avg: 60 (Goal: 50) - Steps (69432 / 70000)
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= Daily Avg: 60 (Goal: 50)
~ I was a bit out of sorts this week with hubby being gone and Tom compounded the situation. I lacked good sleep and worked overtime so I really didn’t have time to read the posts here (which usually lifts me up and motivates me)
Overall grade for the week: B for Blah😒
sorry for the gain team
Prev Weights:
March 2024 SW: 175.6
📐📐📐📐Wk1: 175.6
📐📐📐Wk2: 172.8
📐📐Wk3: 173.9
📐Wk4:4 - Track / Under / 20minExercise ?
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Today we had pretty nice weather, started out cold and foggy. I live by a river and the boats were sounding their horns in the fog. Only two kitties showed up for Yoga!Because the grass was wet my yoga mat now has dirty paw prints on it. I have another nicer mat for indoors!
Today I went to Home Depot with my son and picked up some plants / spent too much on gardening stuff. I bought a couple of Jasmine plants, which I haven't ever grown before and three rhododendrons (sp?) which grow wild here in Oregon and don't get eaten by elk / deer, so maybe they'll survive. The critters here eat everything.
I think I've figured out my health. I was walking through the store and dislocated a couple of joints in my foot and was leaning on the cart until thankfully they popped back into place and it dawned on me, do I have a connective tissue disorder? Anyone else pop out your joints all the time? Is it normal to do that? I never thought to tell the doctor about it probably because it's always been like this for me. Hmm. Anyway, maybe I'll get my medical mystery solved eventually.
Happy Spring everyone! I tracked calories today, and although my food choices included a Snickers bar - I was under calories. Huzzah! lol
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Monday ~ March 18
Good morning Shape Shifters. A very foggy morning, everything was wet. The smell from the pine trees was amazing. Probably my favourite scent! It was really quiet again and I didn't see a single person during my walk. I explored some more forest and followed the little ditch with water. It went on for a long time and there was a path to the left to go back and a path right which goes who knows where. Maybe something to check out next time.
Since I biked to my walk, I headed to the store right after to get some groceries. In the afternoon I biked to the little gardencenter we have because I needed new woodpellets for the litterbox. I also picked up some freesia plant bulbs to put in the front yard, new pruning shears and I had a birthday coupon for free garden gloves. I pruned some plants and tried to tidy up the backyard a bit, though it feels like a waste of time. The backyard looks so bad and it will stay that way this year. I don't have the energy to fix it and I have already spent so much money on plants. Everything keeps getting drowned in weeds and high grass. I just can't.
I got the last gear for my horse riding adventure delivered; chaps and a helmet. The colors of everything are a bit all over the place and don't match. Horse riding stuff is expensive enough already, so I looked for things that were on sale. It's fine though; I am looking to have fun and I don't have to look pretty doing it! I finished reading a book (it was good) and started the next one in the series. I cleaned Tinus' litterbox, did the dishes and cleaned the kitchen. It was a productive day.Happy Tuesday everyone
walk, good sleep & food, gardening, cleaning 
nothing! 
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The daily card:While tightness and constriction in your body can literally be a pain, those feelings can also be instructive. Physical tightness is often a symptom of something going on in our minds. Over the course of our lives, we tend to develop patterns of physical tension in response to stress and difficult emotions. If you can learn to recognize the patterns and correlations between your mind and body, you can intentionally relax those parts of the body before the tension builds.
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Pupowl
Wednesday weigh in
PW: 195.3
CW: 193.1
Lost so far: 53.9 lbs
Checking in a day early. Getting groceries delivered today so I can make my favourite wraps.4 -
Steps
3/17 3,730
3/18 2,6602 -
Happy Spring🌷🌷🌷
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Tuesday Weigh In
Itadakimasu7
PW: 188
CW: 187.4
I saw a vet online yesterday say that Easter Lily plants, and plants in the Lily family - all of them, are very, very toxic to cats. Even licking the pollen off their fur from brushing up against one can be enough to shut down their kidneys. He's a vet so I guess he should know, anyway, I had not heard that one so thought I would pass it along to my fellow cat lovers. My fuzzy Wookie Bear eats anything, she tried eating an earthworm the other day. ;-P8 -
Daily step goal: 10,000
Sun 3/17: 11,181
Mon 3/18: 15,2122 -
Mon(Wk3; Day 2)
- Track / Under / 20min Exercise?
Y / Y / Y
- Track / Under / 20min Exercise?
N / NO / N
- Net Calories (4136 / 10500)
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= Daily Avg: 2068 (Goal: 1500) - Net Carbs (341 / 350)
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= Daily Avg: 170 (Goal: 50) - Steps (17048 / 70000)
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= Daily Avg: 8524 (Goal: 10000)
(End of day Notes)- Monday
After my sodium-filled weekend, today was a damage control type of day. Got in a lot of steps, ate well (other then the pint of Rebel pistachio low-carb ice cream I ate late at night) I was really hungry throughout the day though and I finally caved.. This will be the second day my accountability partner/cousin has not answered my calls🫤 My husband thinks I should probably give it up for now, we’ll see. In hindsight, you really can’t force people to change, they have to be ready for it.
**Note to self: Workout gear seems to add about 1.7 lbs - Sunday
Typical post-partying diet today consisting of McDonald’s for brunch and triple scoop ice cream after dinner.
1 - Track / Under / 20min Exercise?
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Step Count:
03/18: 13343
03/19: 96482 -
Tuesday ~ March 19
Good morning Shape Shifters. I had a bad night with a lot of nasty dreams/nightmares. Tinus also woke me up early so that wasn't great. I had a rest from walking. Groceries got delivered at an annoying time in the morning, so I couldn't walk before it. After I didn't feel like it. I made my wraps, ate too much, didn't enjoy it. I am going to stop making the wraps. While I do like the food, it just turns into a binge day because I know the wraps are a lot of calories, so my brain just goes "why not eat EVERYTHING". So then I end up overeating the entire day, throw the wraps on top and feel absolutely miserable. Trying to sleep after a day like that is the worst. Not walking is also really bad for my mood; I could totally feel the difference! I read a lot and I did some more work in the garden and removed dead flowers from a bunch of plants. Also got my gym rings workout done, so it wasn't a completely useless day, though it sure felt like it.Happy Wednesday everyone gym rings workout, gardening food, skipped walked, feeling miserable 7 -
The daily card:
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Wednesday Weigh In
PW: 163.2
CW: 163.43 -
Steps
3/19 9,4113 -
Good Morning
I'll have to drive to work today, we have a snow storm coming in
Suppose to last till the weekend, boo
Steps:
Mar 18= 10,718
Mar 19= 10,6705 -
Good afternoon Yall. Well, therapy is going. My knee is finally getting where it needs to be. I finally have hit my step goal, currently at 3000 steps, Monday and Tuesday. Woot woot. I might not make it today but that's fine.7
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