Username: morenin
Weigh-in Day: Sunday

SW: 255
PW: 215.2
CW: 210.1

Had a scale victory and a non-scale victory today. I finally hit my mini-goal of 210 lb. My new mini-goal is 200! And my size 18 pants are starting to fall off if I don't cinch them tightly enough!

micaroo4 wrote: »

Just a quick post - I'm not sure if the 5% Challenge is still accepting members for the Fall Challenge. Go to this link, see if you can join the group, and then look for the instructions:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/147090-2024-5-fall-challenge-community-team-we-would-love-to-have-you-join-us

As for choosing a team, because they need to keep the teams balanced, I don't know if you will get on Mission Slimpossibles if you request it, but you can try.

-Mica

Thanks for sharing. I have to admit it is a bit confusing. I looked through a few groups but I couldn’t understand what to do or where to go. I did mange to tap on a join button. lol I got that far.

Username: laurelfit57
Weigh In Day: Sunday
PW: 148
CW: 147

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Megnolia82 weigh in October 6

213.6

I’m feeling discouraged. I’m working hard. I can feel and see a difference in my body, especially in how my clothes fit. I have lost a couple inches in the waist. But the scale creeps up.

megnolia82 wrote: »

I’m feeling discouraged. I’m working hard. I can feel and see a difference in my body, especially in how my clothes fit. I have lost a couple inches in the waist. But the scale creeps up.

Celebrate how much better your clothes fit, losing inches, and how you look!!!
The number on the scale is just that, a number, and really should be of less importance. Fluctuations in weight occur when we eat processed food (my weight went up today because I ate a package burrito last night!) or we don't drink enough water to flush salt out of our system! That's why I weigh myself every day (I know many folks have a good health reasons, not to do this), so I can keep my weight in check, because of past problems with severe edema.

OH MY! I must have hit the Save Draft button instead of the Post Reply button. It was still in the comments box.

Weigh In Sunday: October 6
SW 175
PW 166.4
CW 168.8

Was a bad week eating. My Birthday was this past Wednesday so it was a week of eating out with family and friend.
This week I will be strongly focusing on eating right and doing my workouts. I hope to see some great results this next week.

@micaroo4 I tried to join, but I'm not sure if I did it right.

@micaroo4 I think I tried that group before not sure why I didn't stick with it. The more help the better thanks for helping everyone get there. That's funny about Mission Slimpossibles there too (like a parallel reality or something!), did you and Baodell meet there or here?

@txcritter69 Oh no I'm glad you'd saved it and didn't lose this post! Happy belated birthday awesome Libra! There's a lot of us here! I'm looking forward to seeing some great results for you next week too.

@TeresaW2024 I'm sorry your entry was bittersweet, one bright note to look at is how you've been helping your church so much being secretary this long. I hope it will be something you'll be able to continue as well. As for blood sugar I'm up 15lbs since surgery and haven't been eating too good but have done better the last few days, blood sugar was 106 this morning so it's working thank goodness.


@trooworld Love that Act of Kindness finding it's way to you! I'm curious like @TeresaW2024 what did you get? Oh I hope you show us your decorations! I put up some fall stuff but seem to have lost by Halloween gnomes. Are the kittens adoptable? I would have a hard time not bringing one home! My blood sugar went up because I haven't gotten my weight down since surgery and have been eating too much crap! That stinks about the parking lot being full how disappointing.

@bobboyardee @txcritter69 @865jessica Congratulations top winners of the week!

Go Mission Slimpossibles in 3rd Place for the Week!

@megnolia82 Hugs to you that's so frustrating! @baodell17724 had great advice!

@laurelfit57 OMG Ty is LOVING it swimming around at the end, love it! What are you thinking of trying?

@19shmoo69 Are you going to do the 5% challenge now that you've joined?

@morenin Congratulations on your mini goal being achieved! You're doing amazing!

@baodel117724 That's awesome the 5% challenge is working so well for you. I vaguely remember trying that group when I joined here in 2019. I haven't heard of Stephen Guise sounds like good books! Our old motivator loved James Clear and BJ Fogg., check them out if you haven't I think you'd enjoy them. Funny I keep thinking I put an extra “l” in your name and deleting it then realize it's a one!

Think I'm all caught up! I went to the farm this morning and did the last basil harvest of the year then finished The Phoenix Crown (Kate Quinn). I made some chicken enchiladas for myself since I didn't have much leftover from last week but had leftover ingredients then went on Facebook for awhile and discovered my last boyfriend will be at the concert I'm going to Thursday with his new girlfriend. Not thrilled about it but at least it's not me listening to him drone on about himself right? I'm hoping we don't run into him. Our Bible Study group got super small because we're stretching it out longer than scheduled and that lost a lot of people but I'm still enjoying it and love the members. I need to get to sleep have to straighten up and get some work and shopping done tomorrow (getting snacks and sandwich stuff so we don't spend a fortune in Reno). Have a great Tuesday!

@Katmary71 - I met baodell17724 here; he found the Mission Slimpossibles team in the parallel universe of the 5% Challenge. I've been with the 5% Challenge since they formed, on SparkPeople. Every season, they create new groups that you have to join. First the Community group, and then you are assigned to a team and you have to join that group as well. They do make it complicated, and there's very little instruction for newbies to figure out what to do to get assigned to a team. Though once you are on a team, the team leaders give a detailed set of instructions, so it gets a bit easier. One of the things I don't like is that each team is set up as private, so you can't interact with the members of another team. I've found other challenges here - like Fat 2 Fit, which are much better run, more organized, and more social. But I stick with the 5% Challenge probably mostly out of habit, and also because I have friends there.

micaroo4 wrote: »

@Katmary71 - I met baodell17724 here; he found the Mission Slimpossibles team in the parallel universe of the 5% Challenge. I've been with the 5% Challenge since they formed, on SparkPeople. Every season, they create new groups that you have to join. First the Community group, and then you are assigned to a team and you have to join that group as well. They do make it complicated, and there's very little instruction for newbies...

As a complete newby, I just assumed the "Slimpossibles" was the same group, with all/some of the same people as this group deciding to participate! LOL I agree the process is confusing... especially if you don't like to read many messages to enroll, and/or you have an "MS brain fog" like I do. Hehehe. I'm looking forward to this challenge and 'upping my game" with protein tracking and fitness more.

@micaroo4 Yes, I believe it's quarterly (four-8week challenges, with 5weeks between them to rest and/or train!) LOL

@trooworld You got the exact meal that I usually get! I love their spicy chicken sandwich. You can also get a spicy cool wrap, which is delicious! And I wish they bottle their honey BBQ sauce like their other sauces. It’s soooo good!! What is your recipe for barbacoa? My favorite Mexican restaurant has this chimichanga that has barbacoa beef in it which I love. It would be fun to try to recreate that dish at home.

@baodell17724 That is a good article on weight loss and cancer and a very good reminder that weight loss is so much more vital than us looking good in clothes.


Good morning! I can’t believe another hurricane is about to hit Florida tomorrow. My sister is very concerned about her two sons, who are in Orlando. We are all just praying it won’t be as bad as predicted. I’ve been listening to Jason Seib's (my guru) podcasts, and in his recent podcasts, he has been talking about the importance of celebrating all our wins daily. We are so outcome-focused that we usually want to wait until we hit a “milestone” before celebrating what we did right. He says that celebrating every win propels us to want more wins to celebrate. It’s like a drug! So, to help me remember, I started a new online journal yesterday, and the goal is to write down everything I do each day, which helps my self-care and gives me a big wahoo! So yesterday, I wrote down that I had worked out, didn’t snack, and stopped eating at 5 pm. I also gave myself a wahoo for sweeping and mopping my floors because that was exercise.

How does what you eat today shape who you'll be tomorrow?

We are what we eat, right? When I eat healthy, I feel healthy, and my weight drops and gets me closer to my goal. When I eat like crap, it’s like stopping the clock, and nothing good happens for my body until I get back to eating the foods that make me feel good.

I have acquired the ultimate weight loss thing (unfortunately)! I picked up the stomach flu somewhere, so it's more a problem to eat ENOUGH calories right now. But it's also messing with my nutrition, since I'm living on chicken noodle soup and toast right now. This too shall pass! But it's interfering with getting more active.

vegan4lyfe2012
Monday 10/7
SW: 215.0
PW: 208.2
CW: 209.6

WEIGH IN UPDATE
WEIGH INS DUE NOW: @AmbersWay @Jactop @FushiaKat (I know it's early just don't know if I'll get on later)
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