We used to have these check-ins a little while back, but I can't remember who used to organize it.
So... what do we want to call it? When should we check in? I think we used to do mid-week, which was good because you could have a couple of days to undo the weekend.
Should we post weight lost? Days of healthy eating? Days of working out? Goals for the following week? Anything else?
How about initial goals here, and when you started/plan to start? And add whatever...
I’m trying to run 2 miles a day on the elliptical. Just to move more. I also bought a stand up desk and am trying to work standing up at least 1 hour a day so far. I’ll ease into more but it takes getting used to.
Also I’ve weighed myself in the morning and at bedtime and there is a 3 or more pound difference. How is that possible?
I'm an emotional eater. My weight really piled on when DD1 was going through a lot of stuff at school and I was actively fighting with the administration to get them to deal with bullying. COVID certainly didn't help, but it didn't do as much damage as I thought it might. I was able to remain active throughout, but I ate too much and drank waaaayyyy too much.
When I left my job 3.5 years ago, I had what I believe to be some delayed stress reactions. I was physically ill for quite a while and unable to eat much, so my weight dropped quite a bit. I kept that off for a while until the mess started at school. But, it probably wasn't a realistic weight based on what I ate and how much I was working out to keep it off. So my goals are a little fuzzy.
1. I'd like to start with 10lb weight loss and see how I feel. I started Monday and I'm down 1.5lbs, which is probably just water weight. I will need to lose more, but I don't know how much yet.
2. I'm aiming to be active every day. Right now I'm walking on the treadmill and doing light weights because I'm still coming off a back injury from when I fell on ice right before Christmas. But I have an arc trainer coming in about a month, and I'm really excited for it.
3. I'm planning to pay less attention to my actual weight and more attention to how my clothes fit. I have so many cute things that I can't wear anymore.
4. I'm using MyFitnessPal to track, so a goal is to keep up with that every day.
I'm at the point in weight loss where I'm tracking every single thing that I'm putting in my mouth and measuring every single thing I eat. I hate this part. But a big part of what got me here was mindless and emotional eating, and out of control portion sizes. Hopefully in a month or 2 I won't need to be so careful with the measuring - I'll just know.
What are your go-to meals right now? I don't have any yet. I grilled some turkey cutlets for DH and I to have over salads. I seasoned with salt, pepper, garlic powder, and onion powder. 120 calories for 4oz servings. Delicious and lower calorie. I'm sure I'll get sick of it soon, but we've had it a couple of times so far and we both like it.
DH lost over 100 lbs several years ago. He’s kept most of it off, mainly through insane amounts of exercise. But a few things that we do in terms of meals: 1) Lots of lean ground turkey. We don’t do ground beef anymore and we don’t miss it. So everything you make with ground beef, you can switch to turkey. We do turkey burgers, turkey tacos, turkey in spaghetti sauce. 2) We keep a lot of fruit in the house. We always have cuties, bananas, and both red and green apples. We also keep in-season fruits. 3) We use low fat alternatives quite a bit. Low fat sour cream, cottage cheese, milk, half and half. We like that better than going without.
I’m walking 5 days a week with my bff when the weather cooperates. It helps my mental health and my blood pressure.
Post by supertrooper1 on Jan 7, 2021 11:33:00 GMT -5
My overall goal is to lose 50 pounds. I am starting to eat healthier, smaller portions, and I need to start exercising again.
A few years ago I was at my ideal weight but then my dog died, my marriage started to crumble and I quit exercising. Once XH and I separated, I felt free to eat whatever I wanted, when I wanted. I was making cookie dough at 9pm because it sounded good. I was going to all my favorite restaurants. Beau and I were eating out almost every day we spent together. Beau took a video of me while I was wrapping Christmas gifts because he thought it was cute I was singing along to the music. All I saw was my double chin and my belly hanging over my yoga pants. Clothes don't fit and I don't want to buy a bigger size.
I'm already struggling with meal ideas. I've done stuffed peppers, stir fry, taco salads, and grilled chicken. I've switched my beverages to adding no calorie + caffeine drink mixes to water instead of my go-to Coke. I weighed myself last Saturday and plan on seeing what my progress is this coming Saturday. I'd be happy with 1-3 pounds lost.
sandandsea, k3am, I agree. I weigh myself first thing every morning, and that is it.
I need to lose about 30lbs to get to where I would like to be. I'll work on it for real once we finish having Covid and are out of isolation. I got to this weight right after DS was born, and then struggled with maintaining it (also had the undiagnosed celiac thing going on too). I didn't get back to it with DD. Now they are both bigger, and I am ready to actually like the pictures I see of myself again.
mae0111, I do way better with tracking everything as well. It makes me more aware of my portions, and helps me to not mindlessly eat.
I am okay weight wise. I need to work on sneaking in more activity throughout the day (I tend to workout in the morning and then turn into a sloth for the rest of the day), and cut back on soda (I have tried quitting soda several times, and much like my sister's attempts at quitting smoking, it's only resulted in me drinking more than I was before...)
I am just working on being more active and logging steps in my fit bit as well as cut back on my carb intake.
My goal is to get back into some clothes that are now 1 size too small because they are at an unflattering tightness as well as some are uncomfortable.
Eating wise: we are adding a lot more veggies and salads as side instead of bread an pastas.
To help with being more active. I joined a 50 miles by end of March challenge with my junior league chapter. So I will need to get on the bike or go for walks throughout the week. There are prizes for various things.
I do well on exercise - I run and do body weight/strength stuff most days and I hate if if I don't burn my 700 "move ring" calories everyday.
Where I struggle is food. I'm only 5 foot 3 inches tall on a good day, so I need to eat really light to maintain a healthy weight. And my vice is my one (or usually two these days) Mexican cokes per day. Plus chocolate.
I gained a lot of weight with baby #4 and lost most of it, but I'm 5-7 pounds above my reasonable/attainable happy weight. turn 40 at the end of May and definitely want to be 5 pounds lighter by then. But it feels too early to start trying in earnest
In terms of just nutritional eating, I recently signed up for Thistle, and get four interesting prepared salads delivered each week. I used to get salads from a salad bar near work, and I would buy stuff to make salads at home and rarely end up actually making one. So that has been really great from the perspective of just getting more veggies in my diet. I think they're just on the West coast.
I signed myself up for this healthy January reset through Airbonne this month. I'm waiting on my box of goodies. It gives me meal plans for dinner and I'm supposed to sub breakfast and lunch with the shakes with the idea of detoxing your body to give you more energy. I'm interested in seeing how it works as this is the first time I've ever done something like this. My dress pants are snug and I would like to trim down so that they are comfy to wear again. As much as wearing leggings and tunics all tax season sounds wonderful I miss some of my cute tops that work best with my dress pants.
Post by mustardseed2007 on Jan 7, 2021 14:34:07 GMT -5
I unfortunately need to loose a lot of weight. I was teetering on becoming overweight before the pandemic started and since I stopped working out with my tri club or going to the gym and started eating my feelings I gained a lot a lot a lot of weight.
I'm working a new program now and I'm doing better actually so we'll see if I can keep it up.
I'd like to lose 10-15 pounds. I've had some back issues that forced me to cut out strength training and high impact workouts three months ago. Switched to Yoga every day and I'm currently in PT working on back strength. I'm starting to add elliptical workouts back in. Ideally, I'd like to do yoga and elliptical every day but I'm going to start with a goal of 30 minutes of activity per day.
I need to get back to healthier eating habits and get rid of all the chocolates and cookies from Christmas. I like craft beer so lots of calories there too.
I desperately need to figure out how to work exercise into my life. I just... don't. Not even a little. I sit at my desk all day and then just hang around the house. I've gained about 12 pounds since the pandemic started. I know a lot of it is my eating habits, but I also started anti-depressants and know weight gain is a major side effect. I think getting exercise into my routine would help a lot.
I've been playing around with the app "Lark" from my health insurance. So far, it's pretty cool. Very easy to track food, activity, etc. and it gives good tips. Pretty sure if I complete "missions" I get cash rewards back too.
DH loves local craft beer. LOVES. We cut out weeknight drinking to try and get on track so that should help him a ton.
For the first time ever, I have a gut. In the past it was kind of an all-over gain. Now it is concentrated in my belly and butt. I think 75% of my belly weight is booze. Wine, white claw, occasional beer, cosmos.
sdlaura, if it helps, and you want to make your own salads, I’m most successful making mason jar salads on Sunday for the whole week. They really keep well! I was dubious before I started making them but they are actually great and they stay crisp and fresh.
mommyatty, that's a good idea. Some of the Thistle salads come in jars, and they're great. Maybe if I get tired of paying for the delivery ones, I'll do that instead.
I go here now. I lost 5lbs at the beginning of the pandemic. Not sure how. Then gained them back plus an extra 10. Ugh.
I need to cut back on soda, which I didn’t drink for years before the pandemic. Cut back on treats and snacks. And get moving again. My general lump-ness in December probably contributed to all this.
I’m now back to taking DD for walks on her lunch break from school 3x per week. Hoping to add exercise video 3x per week and reduce snacking.
twinmomma, I'm trying to figure out how to get into a routine as well. If I don't wake up early, it doesn't happen and I am so tired these days! I think that's a good question to ask the group as we check in with each other.
We are all busy Moms so when, where and how do you fit it in each day?
I think I was the one doing these but my life got crazy and it fell off... I am sorry. Can I still play?
I have 15 more lbs to lose this year. These are purely vanity, but I think I can do them.
My goals for 2021 health wise
Eat out no more than once a week; (this week was a disaster due to floor remodeling and losing my kitchen for 2 days so) this includes all coffee snacks and meals. Discover ways to hang out with my friends that don't involve food. Thinking of hiking or house projects together, shopping, working out Want to do 1 unassisted pull up Maintain or lose weight this year. Continue my strength training program. It is a yearlong and I am done with the first phase. Do the couch to 10k, this year; last year I did the couch to 5 k and can do a 5k in 27 ish minutes. Continue my step streak, I have hit my goal steps every day since September 28th. Want to make it every day for 2021. eek, My goal is 13000k a day.
Eating wise; Continue my balanced breakfast I have established, stay within my caloric goal. For me it is about 1800 calories.
Go to meals Breakfast- egg white omelet with turkey, half a slice of cheese, and spinach. With a just a dap of horseradish sauce or hot sauce, 1/2 bagel thin with cream cheese or Jam and a side of fruit. This is approximately 400 calories. Today I added a slice of bacon with no regrets lol.
Snack-Premier protein chocolate shake, with a banana and a scoop of PB2 powder blend together- I do half of the shake, this is about 250 calories and it is so good. Lunch and Dinner are usually a protein source with veggies. Sometimes a potato or bread depending on the hunger level.
twinmomma , I'm trying to figure out how to get into a routine as well. If I don't wake up early, it doesn't happen and I am so tired these days! I think that's a good question to ask the group as we check in with each other.
We are all busy Moms so when, where and how do you fit it in each day?
I think I just need to force myself to get up earlier to do it. When I used to commute to an office, I'd get up at 5:30 every day with no real issues. Now that I just have to wander downstairs to my home office, I find myself pushing the limit and rolling out of bed at 6:45 or 7 to start work at 7:30. If I can make getting up and exercising a normal part of my morning routine, that would be a game changer, especially since I don't see returning to a commute/office anytime soon.
I am doing a 14 day free trial of the Beach Body on Demand videos. They have a bunch very specific programs, like 21 Day Fix or others, that have a calendar of videos to complete. I think that's the kind of structure I need to actually try this out. I'm not going to do the shakes or the food plans or anything. Just starting with following a "habit" of a video calendar.
I'm in! I have about 5-7 lbs left to lose if I want to be at my pre-pregnancy weight before DS2. However, I don't know if I'll get there since it looks like I have a lot of loose skin from 3 pregnancies and c-sections. So I think I'll focus on upping my workout game and getting back to better eating. The only good thing to come out of Covid is that I've been able to workout consistently since I don't have to commute 2 hours/day. I've been using fitnessblender and I really like their programs since it is a variety of HIIT, cardio, pilates, and strength. I want to focus on toning and building more muscle. I invested in some Powerblocks and I hope I can max out on them. I also want to get my food portions under control. I know I'm eating because I am bored and anxious.
I agree that getting up early is best. I got into a great routine of getting up at around 5:50 and getting my workout in. Then I fell and I didn’t work out at all for 2 weeks. Now DH is back working out and has taken my time slot. I really can’t bump him - I have much more flexibility and he really can’t do it any other time. But in a few weeks, my arc trainer will arrive and we will have 2 pieces of cardio equipment, so we can both work out at the same time. Which I’m not excited about TBH but I really am much more productive if I just wake up and get it done.
twinmomma, I'm always amused because pre-covid, I would get up by 4:30 in order to workout and be showered and ready to by 6, at which point I'd get the kids ready and we'd be out the door by 7. This week I set an alarm for 6:30 with the goal of being out of bed by 7 and it just seemed impossible.
At this point, I'm working out from 8-9, jumping online, and showering.. at some point in the day, then tacking on the extra work hour at some point during the evening/night. Which works okay for now, but won't work if the world ever returns to normal.
twinmomma, I am the opposite. I am terrible about waking up to work out. But really good at working out at night. Typically after I put the kids to bed, I would go and do a video or hop on the treadmill. The treadmill was nice, because then I would watch TV and feel like it was a destress time of my day.
Post by mustardseed2007 on Jan 8, 2021 11:59:09 GMT -5
k3am, I am the same way. Precovid I was up at 4am or 4:30 at the latest to be at the gym at 5am when it opened. Now I'm meeting with a virtual personal trainer and those days are sooooo hard to get up at 5am
I weighed myself this morning after 1 week on this new program and I lost 2.5 pounds so that's good. I know it's all water weight at first but I didn't need that water.
Overall my goal is to get my workout in by mid-morning. Often I'm doing part of it (20-25 minutes) during the morning when I should be working. But oh well, that's a perk of working from home and a trade-off for being available to work always. I know some people start early and have meetings straight through the day, but that's not usually the case for me, so I can squeeze in exercise.
Timing really varies for me because four kids and no idea when the baby will wake up each day. He sleeps through the night and usually wakes between 6:30 and 7:30. Plus everyday is different for us because of hybrid school, so some days the older kids can walk to school and other days I have to get everyone in the car for drop-offs.
I split my workout into two parts, cardio (usually jogging) and strength/body weight. Ideally I'd wake up and do both immediately, but that's tough to do with the four kids in the mornings. So I often split it up. Often right when I wake up I put a kid in a stroller and go for the run part, since that's harder to get out of the way. Then often I will drop the kids off and then listen in on a work meeting or call later while doing my 20-25 min of strength/body weight stuff. Or if I wake up too late to run before needing to help get the kids out of the house- sometimes I'll do the strength stuff first and then go for the jog after I drop off the kids.
The strength/body weight stuff I do is from Orange Theory. Even if you're not a member, you can find their 30-minute workouts online by googling. I feel like they're a good mix of exercises.
I actually work out during my lunch hour now. Start at about 1045 and come back around 1130 or so. I take 10 ish minutes walk ever two hours and then finish out my steps if needed after kids go to bed.
Over the summer I would walk after dropping off kids for 30 minutes before I started my work day or while on calls, but now its just so cold and H takes kids to school so no reason to be out of bed.
Post by sandandsea on Jan 10, 2021 20:19:22 GMT -5
I’ve been running at night (inside) after dinner and before bed. I am not a morning person and dealing with the kids in the morning and rushing to start work takes all I have.
I don’t know how I’d fit it in after we go back to the office but I think that about a lot of things now.