Healthy Living Weekly Check-In 1/3

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Starting weight on 12/3/15 = 173
Current weight on 1/3/15 = 166.6 (AF due tomorrow = bloat/water weight, yesterday I was 165.8)

1. What are your long-term health and/or fitness goals? - From where I am now, lose another 17-20 pounds. I have always felt healthiest in the 140's.

2. Are you using any programs or tools to help you achieve your goals? - I am in my last six days of a round of Game On Diet. Starting Diet Bet too. I also track calories on My Fitness Pal.

3. What are your specific goals for this week? - Get down to 164.1 (1% less than yesterdaay's weight. Workout every day.

4. How did you do on your progress with your goals last week (if applicable): I broke into the 165's so I am thrilled!

5. Any questions/AW/motivational needs? - Not this week.I'm super motivated after yesterday's weight.

GTKY: What is your favorite way to stay active? - In the warmer months I love walking and hiking. Winter is harder.

[pghtruelove]

1. What are your long-term health and/or fitness goals?
Lose 20 lbs and get in shape.

2. Are you using any programs or tools to help you achieve your goals?
T25, Weighh Watchers, Dietbet and A Local MOMs weightless challenge

3. What are your specific goals for this week?
Do something everyday and stick with my weight watchers points. I can never keep up.

4. How did you do on your progress with your goals last week (if applicable):

5. Any questions/AW/motivational needs?

GTKY: What is your favorite way to stay active?

[pghtruelove]

Jan 3, 2016 16:54:55 GMT -5 pghtruelove said:

1. What are your long-term health and/or fitness goals?
Lose 20 lbs and get in shape.

2. Are you using any programs or tools to help you achieve your goals?
T25, Weighh Watchers, Dietbet and A Local MOMs weightless challenge

3. What are your specific goals for this week?
Do something everyday and stick with my weight watchers points. I can never keep up.

4. How did you do on your progress with your goals last week (if applicable):

5. Any questions/AW/motivational needs?

GTKY: What is your favorite way to stay active?

Oops! Accidentally sent it in before I finished it.

5. Any questions/AW/motivational needs?
I'm terrible at staying motivated [e-mail] if anyone has any tips let me know!!!

GTKY: What is your favorite way to stay active?
Going to parks to play sports with SO. We like to go and play catch, hit baseballs, play soccer, throw a lax ball, throw a football, etc.

[wegrowsheep]

Jan 3, 2016 15:13:34 GMT -5 budders said:

I was going to start this tomorrow, but since I'll be going back to teaching after a week and a half off, I realized I probably would never have a chance to post it, so I'll start it today.

This will be a weekly check-in for progress/motivation toward our health and fitness goals. Feel free to jump in at any time! 

1. What are your long-term health and/or fitness goals?

2. Are you using any programs or tools to help you achieve your goals?

3. What are your specific goals for this week?

4. How did you do on your progress with your goals last week (if applicable):

5. Any questions/AW/motivational needs?

GTKY: What is your favorite way to stay active?

1. I want to run the Bloomsday 12k in May, and a 25k later this year. Also, dropping to 135 from my current 150 would be nice.
2. RunKeeper is my buddy, and eating less bread and sugar. And DietBet!
3. Laying out my fitness regime: Ballet Monday, Run Tuesday, Lift Wednesday, Run Thursday, Lift Friday, teach ballet Saturday +run, Rest Sunday.
4. I ran yesterday, and did some lifting 2x.
5. Not so much.

GTKY: I love running. It's alone time. Also, ballet makes me happy.

[billyhorrible]

budders, I'm pretty sure it's +500 calories

1. What are your long-term health and/or fitness goals? I want to get back to where I was pre-pregnancy in terms of strength, fitness, and speed. I've got another half marathon in May and I'd love to be closer to my pre-pregnancy halves than the one I just finished.

2. Are you using any programs or tools to help you achieve your goals? For strength/fitness I'm back to doing the blogilates calendar. I really want to try to fit that back in daily.

3. What are your specific goals for this week? I need to get back to running during the week. So right now that's my goal. I have a 5k on Saturday, and I'd like to finish in less than 32 minutes (finish time from the 5k I did in November)

4. How did you do on your progress with your goals last week (if applicable): So far in 2016 I have done blogilates every day. Which is easier when I'm not working!

GTKY: What is your favorite way to stay active? Usually running.

[Deleted]

budders , some days I hate the scale but over all doing one weigh in daily keeps me motivated, even though I hate where I started. Seeing it go down and hitting each baby step keeps me going. I always way first thing in the morning, after I use the bathroom, with no clothes.

ETA:  I wish I liked running but I hate it.  When I played competitive soccer I did it because I had to keep up to speed but I can't do it just to do it.   I have considered starting taekwondo again but it always comes back to the fact that I'm at a level where I'm required to do sparring now and just no.  But I seriously miss the training workouts.   I wish I could forgo belt testing and just do that.

[holliberry28]

budders, I have the same problem (without actually having a thyroid problem to blame it on) when working out so hard and eating healthy and seeing the scale stay the same, so I plan to try the no weigh in approach to, and just keep at it.

1. What are your long-term health and/or fitness goals? Weight wise, I want to drop 30 lbs which seems so daunting. Fitness wise, I want to be able to run 2-3 miles without stopping, doing regular push ups again, and get stronger (especially my core since that its so weak that my whole body ends up feeling like its been crunched from soreness when I wake each morning). I did crossfit yoga before getting pregnant, but don't think going to classes will fit in my schedule.

2. Are you using any programs or tools to help you achieve your goals? I've used runkeeper and my fitness pal in the past but neither are too motivational for me. I'd be interested in recommendations, though.

3. What are your specific goals for this week? Run twice for 30 minutes, weight training 2 times. Stay under 1500 calories a day. Eat healthy.

4. How did you do on your progress with your goals last week (if applicable): I ate everything, and did not exercise at all. I did order a circuit training type exercise video by Jackie Warner who I really like.

5. Any questions/AW/motivational needs? I need a lot of motivation, and don't know where to pull it out from.

GTKY: What is your favorite way to stay active? I like running, but only outside..and I also really liked crossfit type group exercises, although it was always pretty intimidating.

[Bluedaisy]

1. What are your long-term health and/or fitness goals? My long term goal is to be under 200 pounds by September 1st, I'm 244 right now so it's a pretty big goal. I also want to get into healthier habits so I can be a good role model for my LO.

2. Are you using any programs or tools to help you achieve your goals? I'm just using an old school day planner.

3. What are your specific goals for this week? Cut sweetened drinks down to one a day, 20 minutes of exercise each day and three tumblers of water.

4. How did you do on your progress with your goals last week (if applicable): First week!

5. Any questions/AW/motivational needs? Nothing so far.

GTKY: What is your favorite way to stay active? Zumba or waterfit. I really want to try Aqua Zumba! I also like walking the dog and lifting weights.

[Bluedaisy]

holliberry28, when I was in a small town I LOVED fitness classes but since I've moved to the city I'm so intimidated. I find all of the women are stepford wives and have perfect hair, nails and makeup even when working out.

[musicfrk2002]

I'll play..

1. What are your long-term health and/or fitness goals? Long term goal is to get down to 170 lbs or less. Currently 219, so I've got a ways to go. I'm at prepregnancy weight right now since I gained some back after my cardiologist took me off lasix.

2. Are you using any programs or tools to help you achieve your goals? Not at the moment

3. What are your specific goals for this week? No more than 4 fast food meals. We've both been really bad about just stopping in a drive thru lately because it's so much easier/faster. Also, drinking 3 liters of water per day. That will be easier to accomplish once I'm released to full duty at work and can be running around and unloading trucks.

4. How did you do on your progress with your goals last week (if applicable): n/a

5. Any questions/AW/motivational needs? Always in need of motivation.

GTKY: What is your favorite way to stay active? Biking. I bought a new bike about 2 weeks before GKU last september, so I didn't use it as much as I had liked. My parents already told us they are getting us a bike trailer so I can tow J along, so obviously I will have to use it. We live right next to a bike path, but honestly, I prefer riding on our neighborhood streets.

[wegrowsheep]

FFSC: Another thing that's motivating me is a piece of lingerie that doesn't currently fit. School girl skirt, with chains. Love it. Can't zip it.

[carolyngrace]

1. What are your long-term health and/or fitness goals? I'd like to stay at my current weight or below. My mom was obese and had weight loss surgery after 4 kids. She still has issues with her joints and bones due to the extra weight. I just want to stay relatively healthy. Some days I want to get a hot body, but most days not really.

2. Are you using any programs or tools to help you achieve your goals? Not as of now. I struggled a bit with eating disorders when I was younger so I shy away from counting calories because I'll start to get obsessed. So I just want to meal plan and cook more, and try to cut back on sweets. Exercise would be good too, but I'm starting with food.

3. What are your specific goals for this week? Dessert only after dinner (not lunch). Buy some healthy snacks (nuts, fruit) and eat that in-between lunch and dinner instead. Also, cook most of our meals.

4. How did you do on your progress with your goals last week (if applicable): N/A

5. Any questions/AW/motivational needs? Not yet.

GTKY: What is your favorite way to stay active? I love swimming!

[mrsmonogrammed]

1. What are your long-term health and/or fitness goals?
Lose 20lbs (will put me at college weight) and generally have more muscle/tone to my body. Im ready to kick this "mom pooch" to the curb!

2. Are you using any programs or tools to help you achieve your goals?
No apps or anything fancy yet. I'll consider WW and/or C25K in a few weeks depending on my success until then.

3. What are your specific goals for this week?
Use the treadmill T, W, Th, & F for running at least a mile. Anything over is a bonus:) Gotta start somewhere!

4. How did you do on your progress with your goals last week (if applicable):
I ran 2x's over the weekend? But that's about it.....we also started no spend January so we haven't been eating out (for a whole 3 days, lol) but that's also a step in the right direction for us!

5. Any questions/AW/motivational needs?
Nothing yet.

GTKY: What is your favorite way to stay active?

[mrsdee1982]

Can I play? I am so glad this got started.

1. What are your long-term health and/or fitness goals?

I really would like to lose at least another 30 pounds before TTC for #2.

2. Are you using any programs or tools to help you achieve your goals?

I belong to Weight Watchers. I've done it before and was super successful, so I'm doing it again and hoping for the same results!

3. What are your specific goals for this week?

I need to be more mindful of what I am eating. The holidays are over. No more excuses.

4. How did you do on your progress with your goals last week (if applicable):

5. Any questions/AW/motivational needs?

Right now I say in my WW profile that I am a breast feeding mother that supplements. This gives me extra food each day. Well, I need to switch over to not breast feeding, since I'm pretty much dried up now. But I am reluctant to pull that trigger, because I like food and I like being able to eat more of it.

GTKY: What is your favorite way to stay active?

I used to love doing zumba and step aerobics at my gym. But I can no longer make it to the gym, so I need to find ways to workout at home.

[mrsdee1982]

carrots - I will lose 6 points if I pull that trigger. I don't want to lose 6 points!!!!

[dmoney]

1. What are your long-term health and/or fitness goals?
Long-term goal is to be able to run a 5k. In general i would like to just be healthy and to feel better in my clothing. I currently hate how I look and getting daily pictures from 3 years ago via timehop/ facebook i miss how small i once was!

2. Are you using any programs or tools to help you achieve your goals?
Dh got me a fitbit fo our anniversary, so i use that to make sure i hit my step goal and to make sure i am active for at least 30 minutes a day.

3. What are your specific goals for this week?
This week, I would like to go to the gym 3 times. I ran before DD's swim lessons yesterday and my plan is to go tomorrow and Thursday.

4. How did you do on your progress with your goals last week (if applicable):
N/A

5. Any questions/AW/motivational needs?
Help me not to snack. Im fine with healthy snacks but its when people bring sweets in that it kills me.

GTKY: What is your favorite way to stay active?
I love swimming and I would swim more often but since it is currently swim team season the pool is closed when I would be able to go so no swimming for me until March.

[eshap90]

I want to do this!!

1. What are your long-term health and/or fitness goals?
I want to lose about 40 lbs now. Which seems almost crazy to me now but I'd like my clothes to fit better, to lose my muffin top, and to be able to do a fcking sit up! I was on course to be in the best shape of my adult life theeeeen I got pregnant which probably would've been fine if I had just ate better and not drank my weight in root beer everyday. I gained 85 lbs during pregnancy. Blows my mind every time I think about it

2. Are you using any programs or tools to help you achieve your goals?
Myfitnesspal but where we live we don't have cell phone service or internet sooo not regularly but when I'm out I plan on using it. I also have a water drinking app with reminders

3. What are your specific goals for this week?
NO SODA! It's probably my biggest problem. I need to drink a lot more water. I'm still breastfeeding and my son still will not take a bottle. I started pumping again(stopped because it seemed like a waste of time just pouring it all down the sink after every attempt) to mix it with rice cereal and it took me half an hour to get 2 ounces. I know it probably just takes sometime for my body to adjust to "another feeding" aka pump session. But I'm starting to feel some serious guilt about what I've been putting in my body(6 months late) I just want my baby to be as healthy and happy as possible...and I'm hoping if the quality of my milk improves the quality of sleep may improve

4. How did you do on your progress with your goals last week (if applicable):
Last week was my LAST naughty week...which is what I say almost every week

5. Any questions/AW/motivational needs?
I need some indoor/front porch work out ideas. We live on the side of a rural highway which recently got hit by a huge storm and there's still down trees all over the sides of the road. Plus I feel like I can't really bundle up baby and take him on below freezing strolls down the middle of the highway. I keep telling myself I'll get out of bed while baby sleeps with his daddy and I'll go for a walk/jog before the sunrise. It hasn't happened yet.

GTKY: What is your favorite way to stay active?
Hiking. We live in the woods so it's almost the only option

[holliberry28]

For those of you that to WW, do you register for the online app only? 4+dollars a week for a min of 3 month subscription seems like a lot...but is it worth it?

[mrsdee1982]

Jan 4, 2016 14:02:22 GMT -5 holliberry28 said:

For those of you that to WW, do you register for the online app only? 4+dollars a week for a min of 3 month subscription seems like a lot...but is it worth it?

I go to meetings.  I tried Online only and it did not work for me at all.  I need to be accountable to someone else.  If I could be accountable to myself, I wouldn't be in this position.  

[dmoney]

Jan 4, 2016 14:02:22 GMT -5 holliberry28 said:

For those of you that to WW, do you register for the online app only? 4+dollars a week for a min of 3 month subscription seems like a lot...but is it worth it?

A few years ago i did WW online. I didnt do to well on the online version because i didnt really have anyone there to hold me accountable.  Ive been thinking about either doing WW( work will subsidize it) or Medifast because there are people who will actually hold me accountable and what not.  Just need DH to get a job so i can afford to do either one! 

[holliberry28]

Jan 4, 2016 16:03:38 GMT -5 budders said:

Jan 4, 2016 14:02:22 GMT -5 holliberry28 said:

For those of you that to WW, do you register for the online app only? 4+dollars a week for a min of 3 month subscription seems like a lot...but is it worth it?

It depends on if it works for you. I don't really need the accountability piece of seeing people, I need a framework to track what I'm eating and to give me a budget, per se. I personally have found that using my fitness pal works better for me, because I'm a little bit more aware about what I'm eating, and I don't have to worry about converting points and keeping track of that (which I realize the program does for you, but I prefer to just deal with actual calories. Plus, it's free.

On a sidenote, you can do weight watchers for free if you do it yourself. There are online calculators to determine how many points per day you should have, and to determine the point values of foods. It's a lot more work to figure all that out yourself, but if it's worth saving 20 bucks a month it might be a consideration

Yea, I'm used to counting calories.  I don't know if the points makes sense as I can usually eyeball the calorie count of pretty much everything.  I'm just scraping the bottom of the barrel at this point figuring out what'll motivate me, haha.  Hopefully this weekly check in will.  

[ashbash]

1. What are your long-term health and/or fitness goals?
Please dont be mad at me...... Gain weight I feel so weak and unhealthy I hate it. I am about 5-10 lbs under where I would like to be, I want to gain muscle weight.

2. Are you using programs or tools to help achieve your goals?
Not really, I started writing down what I have eaten on a little whiteboard so I can make sure that I have eaten enough and its balanced

3. What are your specific goals for this week? Establish my gym time routine, I am hoping for yoga 2x a week right now.

4. How did you do on your progress with your goals last week? N/A

5. Any questions/AW/motivational needs? I think if I do well for a month I will treat myself to some cute LuLu Lemon shorts or yoga pants

ETA last question - swimming and yoga. Oh and we got a wii u for christmas and i love the dance game and i always break a sweat playing

[wegrowsheep]

I had to skip ballet because T has his first man cold. So I did a workout when DH got home (I had dinner prepped). Took me 10 minutes less than last time I did it (2 yrs ago). There were burpees and pushups involved, so now my arms are useless.

Does anyone else keep a workout journal?

[billyhorrible]

I picked a terrible week to make my goal "run during work." It has been pouring here. Not "oh I can run through this" sprinkling. POURING

[holliberry28]

I'm gonna try to go for a jog today, sat and sun, because totally couldn't find the time/energy to go to the gym after M went to sleep. Have been good in my diet though, 4th day without sugar in my coffee, eating less than 1200 calories a day, and only one carb serving. Had to stop myself from weighing myself this morning.

Wish I had space for a treadmill in our teeny apt!

[beersandweirs]

holliberry28 are you eating fewer than 1200 calories and working out? That seems like way too low a calorie goal. Have you tried calculating your TDEE (lots of online calculators)? You may be surprised at how many calories you should be eating.

[holliberry28]

Jan 7, 2016 12:17:16 GMT -5 beersandweirs said:

holliberry28 are you eating fewer than 1200 calories and working out? That seems like way too low a calorie goal. Have you tried calculating your TDEE (lots of online calculators)? You may be surprised at how many calories you should be eating.

Well I haven't been exercising yet but if I did I'd let myself have an extra 100 -200 healthy snack. I calculated that based on mfp. Also never lost weight eating more than 1400 Cals a day- my body hates me.

Eta: does walking to the liquor store count??

[beersandweirs]

I know that MFP is notorious for giving people too few calories.

[wegrowsheep]

Worked out every day this week! today was only 5ish minutes, but I did 3 sets 7-7-7 of jumping pull ups, bench dips, and girl push ups. My arms are so out of shape.

[musicfrk2002]

I just ate a blizzard.