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Hi team! How was everyone’s weekend, and what are your plans for next week? Today was a fun, albeit long day. My husband went to play dungeons&dragons with a group of friends at our daughter’s future godparents’ place, so her godmother evacuated herself to our place for some relative peace and quiet. We hung out with the…

Are your in-laws obese, or why is there a need for them to eat less junk food? I ask because literally all elderly people I know and need to somehow care for are eating too little, and we are resorting to sneak tactics to add calories to everything. If that’s the case with your in-laws, ”junk food” aka energy dense food…

Steps: 8.12. 9281 9.12. 11029 10.12 7459 11.12 4541

@jessicakrall8 if it makes you feel any better, my jeans are super stretchy and I’m currently between XXL and XL in their sizing ;) maybe one day I’ll buy ”real” jeans, these are kind of stretching the definition of denim… I need to find time to clear my wardrobe, try things on and figure out what is actually fitting me…

I’m joining the clothing problem brigade… I gained way more weight during pregnancy than necessary, and now I’m losing it pretty fast while my middle is still recovering. Pretty much none of my old clothes fit and my body changes so fast I should probably check my storage weekly for stuff that might fit right now. The one…

@justanotherloser007 may I ask, how tall are you and what’s your goal weight for maintenance? I’m curious, as 175lbs is pretty much my goal weight. It’s interesting to see how different goals people have. I absolutely agree with your thought of keeping it off rather than losing fast! I’ve always thought I’d rather only…

@jessicakrall8 I’ve found that I do best and stay most accountable on MFP when I’m as anonymous as possible, so there’s no temptation to sugar coat things in case someone somehow connects my profile to me in real life. That’s why I don’t even share the city I’m located, I don’t have a face photo and I have never shared my…

@LaurieWrobo sending extra strength to you, your husband and your family and friends! Hoping the oncologist can give you best possible news in terms of spreading and treatment.

Good morning team! We had an annoyingly busy start to the day, as we had a doctor’s appointment for the baby first thing in the morning. She’s perfectly healthy, growing fast and got her first vaccination today <3 after that I’ve been cleaning the house, organizing her Christening and now pumping milk again. I’m hoping to…

@jessicakrall8 is there a specific format to post steps to the challenge? Either way, here’s the start: 5.12. 7538 6.12. 5960 7.12. 8055 It was a holiday weekend as I mentioned, so more sitting at the dinner table and less running errands. By the way, I went to check the spreadsheet to see how te step challenge works, and…

Dress update: I found one! It’s a one size fits all wrap dress made from leftover fabrics from name brands, so it really ticks all the boxes: fits any size I can imagine being, works for breastfeeding/pumping, and is made locally from sustainable fabrics. I’m really happy with this one. Next up, I need to find new shoes as…

@jessicakrall8 I could join the step challenge, but I have to wait for a few days or until next week! This is a life-with-baby problem as it’s currently too cold in here for the baby to be outdoors for anything more than mandatory transportation and errands. That’s saying a lot in a country where babies are regularly left…

Lol, it’s a holiday weekend here so I’m thrilled! It’s independence day here (Finland) so we’re celebrating, and most importantly, since it’s a long weekend I got to sleep for 4.5 hours straight as my husband takes the baby night shift on weekends so I get to sleep and only have to wake up to pump milk, which is what I’m…

Hi team! I’m really looking forward to getting to know everyone in our new team, so I’ll go ahead and introduce myself. I live in Finland with my husband and our 6-week-old baby daughter. I just turned 30 in November and our baby was born in October, so it’s safe to say I have entered a brand new phase of my life. I’m on…

You’re right on about the Finland-Sweden games! As the saying goes, the only thing more important than Finland winning is that Sweden loses - so much so, that in World Cup and Olympics pretty much any team that plays against Sweden is a fan favorite on game day. @justanotherloser007 hopefully everything continues to go…

Great question @PatriceFitnessPal ! I have a couple of rules to live by, not sure if they count as motto… if I can increase happiness and wellbeing in the world without reducing my own happiness too much, I do it. Currently that means donating my leftover breastmilk instead of just dumping it (my freezer ain’t big enough…

Weighed in at the maternity clinic today, another 2lbs down! I guess I should have participated in the team challenge in December, but I’m still not ready for the pressure or at-home weigh-ins. 19lbs of pregnancy weight still to go, and then the pounds of non-pregnancy-related obesity. At this rate, I’m done with baby…

@PatriceFitnessPal ooooh! Did your dad play for a Finnish team so you visited here? I did a high school exchange year in northern Wisconsin so pretty much as high up as continental US goes (excluding Alaska), and people there were of course thinking they are very hardened, live very high up north where it’s dark and so on.…

@PatriceFitnessPal where are you located, how bad is the darkness situation? I’m willing to guess the darkness situation isn’t as bad as here probably, but it’s of course all about what you’re used to. For reference, today sunrise was 9AM and sunset at 3.20PM. On top of that, it’s cloudy/rainy a lot usually - this November…

We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving here, but it’s time to share what I’m grateful for today. I’ve probably never felt so good in November, which is usually a very stressful time of year (exams, essays, end-of-year deadlines etc.) combined with several parties aka alcohol and the darkest time of the year (rarely any snow yet,…

I like Shape Shifters the best, it’s easy to say and has a nice rhythm and rhyme to it. My least favorite is Food Fighters. It’s funny and you could argue rhythm and rhyme with that one too, but: food isn’t our enemy (learning to love and enjoy food in a healthy way is a big goal to all of us, I think), and it’s very…

Shape Shifters sounds good to me too! How did everyone’s weekend go? It’s not a holiday weekend here, but we did have something to celebrate. I turned 30 last week but there was a schedule conflict, so we hosted a birthday brunch with some friends yesterday. This was a big change in celebrations, as usually my birthday has…

We had an appointment at the maternity/baby clinic today and I weighed in, another 3-ish lbs down, in less than 3 weeks! More than half of all pregnancy weight is now gone, I’m out of the 110s and into 100s (in kg) and feeling more and more active each day. There was a very scary moment at the clinic though, Finland…

Hmm, a new team name, so many possibilities! The Trim Shrinkers Shrinkstones Asset Trimmers Dunno, this is hard.

End of January is 10 weeks away, which at 2lbs/week makes… 20 pounds. They’re just calculating your preferred pace until that time, despite you not wanting to go that far. A word of warning, though: you probably won’t reach that 2lb/week rate if you only have 12.2lbs to lose, so don’t get discouraged. Slow and steady wins…

Great job everyone, and especially @justanotherloser007 ! I love that you have a plan for that pecan pie, since life is definitely too short to live without good pie. Besides, if we aren’t going to give up that pie (or ice cream or wine or whatever) for good, we might as well come up with a plan to incorporate it in a…

New week, new plans - how are y’all doing? I had a fun weekend, I had my first night away from my baby as I went to my student organization’s annual white tie gala with a bunch of friends. We had a ”one last time” mentality going in, and there truly is a new generation coming in. We were seated in the table of honor,…

Well, losing this weight might be easier than I thought… I took our baby to a specialist today, and she put me on a breastfeeding diet to help with the baby’s tummy troubles. Nothing too restrictive in general, but she put chocolate on the ban list! That combined with the fact that the local hospital will be picking up my…

I went to the maternity and baby clinic today for the baby’s appointment, and weighed myself while they were checking the baby. The baby has gained 0.7lbs in a week, which is great, and I lost 18lbs between my final pregnancy weigh-in (probably early October) and now. Interesting to see where I’m at mid-December at my…

Next week is going to be interesting. My husband goes back to work on Monday, which means we can no longer split the ”night shift” with the baby 50-50 and then sleep in. Instead, I have to manage nights and his workdays on my own with the baby, so that’s going to be a big change. Luckily he’s working from home, so there’s…