April 9- Health/Wellness Check-In

[ncjulia12]

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1. How was your week? Wins/fails?

2. What's the plan for next week?

3. I know we've talked about this multiple times before, but needs change as the kids get older and this is the age-old question: When do you workout?

[rach]

1. Never in my life have I lost weight due to stress. Until now. Not sure yet if that's a win or a fail. Regardless, I need new pants!

2. Stick to eating well at home. Not stress about likely poor eating on the road. Try not to eat ALL the Easter candy.

3. I suck at this. I'm having to aim for family friendly workouts. That's lately been after dinner - a walk, basketball with my older girls, yoga with AB.

[mnj05]

1. I'm in a 6 month DietBet through the app. Tomorrow is a monthly weigh in. A week ago today I was 3.4 pounds up from where I have to be in order to win this round. Tonight, I am exactly where I have to be so tomorrow morning I should be good! I worked hard this week with my eating, super disciplined, and if we didn't go walk, I did workouts at home. I'm craving everything though so I have to continue to be disciplined but allow myself a few cheats.

2. Not eat Easter candy, well not all at once anyway. I want to stay on track, walk more this week and at a quicker pace, and keep upping my water intake.

3. Actual workouts don't generally happen. Friday afternoon, DH took DS1 to tball practice so I took advantage of that, turned on music, and did my own thing with squats, ab work, leg work, and jump kicks in prep for my workout with my cheer girls this week.

ETA - my workout was while DS2 stared at me and cried off and on. It was fun times.

[ncjulia12]

1. Not super great eating/workout-wise, but I had a really good and productive week that served my mental health well.

It's been two weeks since I had the fluid drained off my knee and the cortisone shot so I was really curious if my knee would still swell up "on schedule" this weekend. It did swell for 3 days, and I had some stiffness and a limp for one day, BUT no where near the limping and pain it has been. We ended up walking 8.5 miles Saturday and it was quite swollen but didn't bother me at all. Hoping that trend will continue!

2. The next two days are crazy but should be able to get back to running/working out Wednesday. Then it's spring break!!!!! Main goal is to keep calories down and lose a pound or two. On track to lose my dietbet and would LOVE to hit my pre-J weight by end of month because I have an event to dress up for, but will have to work hard to get there.

3. I have been going to these group classes after work two days a week at 5, but that doesn't always work if I have to stay late and puts me picking up my kids at 6...which means they are some of the last, if not the last, kids at daycare, which works my mom guilt. I'm trying to make peace with it though because it's just twice a week and these workouts seem to really help. After spring break, I'm going to see about getting together with some friends to run a couple mornings a week before work. I have dabbled in morning workouts before, but I think it would make a huge difference if I could get into a routine- especially with other people for accountability.

[ncjulia12]

rach, moderate to bad stress makes me gain weight, but there have been two times in my life of extreme stress and during those two times, I lost weight. It's like a tiny silver lining to a crappy time. : ) Hope your stress improves but your weight loss continues!

[rach]

Apr 10, 2017 5:48:05 GMT -5 ncjulia12 said:

rach, moderate to bad stress makes me gain weight, but there have been two times in my life of extreme stress and during those two times, I lost weight. It's like a tiny silver lining to a crappy time. : ) Hope your stress improves but your weight loss continues!

Sympathy LT. Travel should slow down after this week so at least I can start chipping away at....everything else. Oh my.

[cincymama]

1. How was your week? Wins/fails?
Pretty good week of staying active and eating well.
Win: Lost the weight I've gained since the WLC ended in March.
Fail: Meal planning

2. What's the plan for next week?
Be more mindful of carbs/bread consumption. Run 4 days, walk the rest.

3. I know we've talked about this multiple times before, but needs change as the kids get older and this is the age-old question: When do you workout?
During the week: I try to workout at lunch. I work from home Tues & Thurs so that makes it easy on those days. Friday: I do a DVD (usually Biggest Loser) before dinner with the kids in their playroom. Weekends: Run on treadmill when LO naps.