chupacabragumbo Member

@MuttiNM I'm so sorry you're going through that with your mom, how stressful! I'll sure be keeping her in my thoughts. Good for you for keeping moving, through all of that. @goal06082021 welcome to the group! a late start is better than no start. and your story sounds a heck of a lot like mine. I got as low as 170…

Also? I'm not going to weigh myself until December. I might be up, I might be down. But for now I'm just going to focus on re-forming my healthy habits, and not worry so much about numbers on the scale.

What a month it's been. I've been reading through this group every few days, though I haven't had the gumption to post since the beginning of the month. Y'all are incredibly inspiring to me, and it's nice to have this small sense of community in these tumultuous times. I'm definitely struggling a little, emotionally. I…

well, I'll be honest- this has been not a super great start to November. not so much food-choice wise, even, but life-wise. the past ten days or so have been pretty rough, and I'm having a hard time being optimistic. I'm normally a relatively up-beat person, but that has been harder to maintain recently. we had a hurricane…

@pamiede I'm so sorry about your accident and subsequent hospital stay! I hope you continue to improve and feel better. @KeriA congrats on completing 2 days at the new job, that's pretty exciting. starting a new job can be both exciting and intimidating. @thegillianjohnson welcome! this is a really great group. and yep,…

what's up y'all! I haven't posted or been that active for almost two months, but I'm back! this thread was so helpful, inspiring, and supportive for me, I know it's a good idea to jump back in. I was out of town visiting family/road tripping for most of September, and it was harder than I'd anticipated getting back into my…

Hey y'all- I can't believe it's September already, jeez. What a flippin' year 2020 has been. This is going to be kind of weird month for me- I'm taking three weeks off work to road trip up north with my sister, help her do some projects in her new house, spending a week camping in the mountains of Wyoming, and then driving…

yesterday at work I was eating my lunch, and a coworker looked over at the meal I had packed for myself- baked sweet potato, homemade shrimp salad, and fresh raspberries, and said "oh, I wish I could eat healthy like that, but it just doesn't work for me." and I had this lightning-bolt moment that was like, wow, that's…

Hey all, happy Friday. Feel free to add me as a friend! Challenge Starting Weight: 220.8 lbs Challenge Level: Level 3 - 15lbs ⭐⭐⭐ Challenge Goal weight: 205 lbs Aug 1st - 220.8 lbs 7th -218.2 lbs 14th - 215.5 lbs 21st - 213.1 28th - total loss for August: Sept 4th - 11th - 18th - 25th - total loss for September: Oct 2nd -…

Oh I'm jumping in on this too! Hello! :blush: Feel free to add me as a friend Challenge Starting Weight: 220.8 lbs Challenge Level: Level 3 - 15lbs ⭐⭐⭐ Challenge Goal weight: 205 lbs Aug 1st - 220.8 lbs 7th -218.2 lbs 14th - 215.5 lbs 21st - 28th - total loss for August: Sept 4th - 11th - 18th - 25th - total loss for…

So I'm going to be seeing my family for the first time since Christmas. (Thanks, covid.) And I haven't told any of them about my weight loss, or that I've even been trying to lose some weight. They know I've been running/exercising more, and that I've been trying to eat better, but I haven't said anything specific about…

I'm down almost 40lbs, and I've gotten several "you look great!" which I don't mind, as it comes from a well-meaning place. And then there's the "are you losing weight? I can tell!" The ones I don't like are "wow, how much weight have you lost??" none of your business, weirdo. I also really don't like when people continue…

Hey everyone, hope your weekend is going well. I know I'm pretty ready for August to be over- this heat and humidity is killing me. Seems like I can't go outside for more than 5 minutes without melting into a puddle of sweat. Not that September is much better down here, but I'll be traveling up north for the majority of…

These are my fave two recipes that I make relatively regularly They're both vegan, not too complicated, and delicious. The curry recipe, in particular, makes a huge batch of curry that freezes really well, and is good for days. https://www.acouplecooks.com/cauliflower-and-tomato-coconut-curry/…

JFT August 6 log all food drink 2L water at least 110g protein minimum 2.5 mile run stretch my back

Hope everyone's August is going well so far. I'm both simultaneously horrified it's already the 6th, and surprised it's not later. Time has been so weird this year. I made homemade brioche bread for the first time in my life yesterday, and it turned out amazing, which I'm super proud of. Now I just have to give a bunch of…

I bought "Intuitive Eating" off Amazon. Someone on this group was talking about it, but of course now I can't remember who it was. I haven't had time to dig into it yet, but I have tomorrow and Tuesday off, so I'm hoping to get into it a little on those days. One of the things I struggle with the most is maintaining a…

Hey everyone, happy August! I'm going to be working a bunch this month, because I'll be taking almost three weeks off in September. Gotta grind a little bit this month. But that's ok, it keeps me focused. I also think my eating habits are better when I'm working more- less time to be bored snacking in my house. It is…

I use Strava for documenting my walking, biking, running, and skating. It's a fantastic app that has GPS tracking, so if you don't have a smartwatch (which I don't) that will track your distance, it can do that for you. It also gives me split times, mileage, elevation gain, etc. If you do have a smartwatch, you can link it…

Today I will: take the dog to daycare (it's supposed to rain all day today, so this way he'll get some exercise) S L E E P as much as I want without setting an alarm find a good back stretching yoga video on youtube and do the whole thing log everything drink 2L of water do some recipe research/meal planning for making…

@BrownSugar174 - you look amazing! and that smoothie looks really good too. I've been making a lot of smoothies the past couple weeks, because it's such a quick, easy meal. I think I'm going to get some flax seeds to add into mine, round out the macros a little. I do a lot of spinach in mine too, and I like the idea of…

this is the best app I've ever seen in my dang life. I just started. Only 1900+ miles left! Then I get a ride on a giant eagle, right?

@speyerj - that's exactly it. I work in healthcare, and with a fairly tight-knit group of people, so we're all up in each other's business a lot of the time, but I just never quite know what to say. It's a good thing scrub pants have drawstrings though, or else I'd have to do some shopping. and that's awesome you started…

I weighed myself on 7/21, and I was 221.7, which is 6lbs down from my July start weight! Woo! Heck yeah. Challenge complete :blush:

I haven't posted in here since the beginning of July, whoops. Meant to post a little more frequently, but- well. Oh well. I've been really good about logging pretty consistently- only a few days where I've gone back in and logged, and maybe one or two days where I didn't finish logging. Those were the days I drank, to be…

Yeah, I'm in! Start weight for the beginning of July is 227. Stretch goal for the July 30th is 220

Today I'm gonna go for a run, even if the humidity is above 85% like it was yesterday. I'm always glad when I do it, but not so glad while I'm doing it.

ha! I just checked my license and I'm now a little less than what I lied and said mine was! cool.

I've been feeling a little discouraged with how far I still have to go- at 227 lbs currently, and my goal being ~160, it seems really, really far away. BUT. I've lost 24.1 lbs since I started my journey, which is almost exactly 1/4 of how much I want to lose! So, that's pretty cool. Not too shabby after all. Plus, I can…

Starting weight April 2020 - 252lbs April end weight - 244.2 lbs, 7.8 lbs lost May end weight - 236 lbs, 8 lbs lost June end weight - 227.9 lbs, 8.1 lbs lost Goal weight for the end of July is 220 lbs