🐧🐧🐧 Penguin huddle get fit & healthy thread

[AliceinBunnyland]

This is for the ladies of the Penguin Huddle TTC after loss thread, and anyone else who wants to join us, whether your goal is getting fit, losing weight or just trying to live a healthier lifestyle and break some bad habits...

Or simply a place to chat!

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Been for a walk / run so already done 11K steps. I think if I stay active I will lose some weight and actually I always feel better for doing something productive even if it's cleaning the bathroom or whatever.

Well done @AliceinBunnyland. Have been busy with my cooking and cleaning today.

I somehow did 21K steps yesterday

The walk/run helped me get the first 10K and the rest was from cleaning so that really does count @Happyhappy37

My scales did the weird thing again today. They came up with a weight I knew was about 3lb lower than I am and then I got on them again and it went back up. I don't know why but it's weird it's happened twice.

I'm planning an easy day today exercise wise but will try not to snack on unhealthy foods.

Maybe just a short walk at lunchtime if the sun is still out ☀️

@AliceinBunnyland that's very good. I didn't do any exercise yesterday. Sunday's are usually chill day for me. Planning to go out later, but will see how it goes, if not then I will jump on my stationery bike. Currently still fasting
I haven't weighed in a few weeks, scales can be so discouraging sometimes.

@Happyhappy37 I think the scales are a just bit of a novelty as I haven't had any for a while and I like the breakdown it gives on the app but I probably shouldn't weigh myself more than once a week and you're right it can be demotivating when the number isn't going down!

Tbh if you are fasting that will have a bigger impact than exercise anyway

I went for a walk with DH last night as he wanted to go. I wouldn't have bothered if he hadn't said he'd make dinner if I went with him (it was my turn to cook!)

Aching a bit today as I've done 3 days of walking so think I'll have an easy day... Weather isn't great anyway ☁️

How are you @Happyhappy37 @Thewhalewhisperer @VenusStarr?

@AliceinBunnyland you're doing great. Keep it up. Rest day is also important as well. I am still doing my fasting. Haven't done anything exercise for a few days now. Hopefully I can do some walking tomorrow.

@Happyhappy37 Are you finding the fasting difficult or do you think it will become habit?

@AliceinBunnyland actually I don't seem to be struggling too much. I am doing well so far. The longest I have done is 18.5hours. all the other times have been between 14 and 16hrs.

Sounds like you're doing great @Happyhappy37

Well it's actually quite hard to lose weight, isn't it?

@AliceinBunnyland good morning. It definitely is hard. I haven't looked at my scales in ages. Don't feel like I've lost anything 😔

Good morning @Happyhappy37 It is frustrating because ad the start of lockdown I definitely felt I'd lost weight. I wasn't dieting (possibly snacking slightly less but not sure) but was doing Les Mills Body Combat workouts on YouTube about 2-3 times a weeks so need to do that again as it might work for me. I suppose it's a slow process and we might have lost a small amount of weight already for all we know.

My weight has fluctuated daily but I might have lost a lb since 5 July. It's hard to say as the higher weight was the only time I weighed myself in an evening.

I think the biggest challenge of trying to lose weight, is staying motivated once we start exercise or dieting. I know I can be committed for a good month or two and then it goes downhill

@Happyhappy37 Yes I think you're right. I can make a big effort with eating well if I know it's temporary. Sometimes I would have a day or a few days in the week when I wouldn't eat sugary foods and I could manage that because it was short bursts. Exercise is more about habit for me but it is so easy to miss a workout and then just not get back into it.

We can help motivate one another hopefully.

DH and I went for a walk up a mountain. It rained and I don't have waterproofs do I was soaked. Really annoyingly my fitness watch battery went and it didn't fully track how far we went. I did some exercise I suppose... think we did about 5 miles or a bit less but half of it was up hill obviously.

Does anyone else use My Fitness Pal?

@AliceinBunnyland morning. At least you know that you have done a lot yesterday. Don't worry about the fitness watch. These things happen 🙂

I use my fitness Pal

@Happyhappy37 Yeah it's not a big deal but it was annoying because we were curious how far we had walked up the mountain!

I have never tracked calories before but I find MFP quite useful. I don't know what to put in if I've got food from the farm shop or butcher that doesn't have nutritional info, though I haven't tried scanning the barcodes on those

Anyway it's nearly the weekend so I expect I'll be a bit more even more relaxed with what I eat

@AliceinBunnyland I use it for for some foods. I scan the barcodes as well.

@AliceinBunnyland how are you doing

Hiya @Happyhappy37 I'm ok thanks. It rained all day but brightened up about 7:30 so I went for a walk and haven't snacked as much as usual so pleased with that. No exercise yesterday but I'm trying to do something every other day.

MFP is good just to give a real idea of what I eat in a day. I usually have a list of snacks

How are you?

@AliceinBunnyland I am doing great thanks. Still sticking with my fasting, also. Went out for walk today. Did 7000steps 😁

How are you doing?

Well done @Happyhappy37 especially sticking to the fasting

I'm ok. AF is ok her way and I'm supposed to have the afternoon off but too busy working!

I did body combat twice yesterday so that was good. I did a half hour session then later decided to do another 20 mins as I'd eaten a lot of sugar and I felt like I had some energy. My car is in the garage so I'm waiting to hear that it's ready and then I'll walk to pick it up and that will be my walk for the day. It's quite sunny at the moment actually ☀️

I think I have lost a couple of ponds since the start of the month and with AF being here I might have actually lost more and just he a bit bloated - at least that's what I'm telling myself

Hello. It's so positive to see you guys getting on so well and keeping to your plans
I've been vaguely sticking to mine (with a bit of rule bending at times) delighted to be 2kg down compared to this point in my last cycle so I'm pretty chuffed.
It means that if I stick with it, and if I get a bfn this month (not that I'm hoping for that...) well if I do then I should be 'healthy weight'. That would be such a huge achievement for me.

Still doing naff all exercise though so I really should start to up that some more- I did great at it in lockdown when we were only allowed out for an hour a day!

@Thewhalewhisperer Sounds like you're doing well if you've lost 2kg. I think it's good to bend the rules sometimes as none of us can be perfect forever and all that happens is you end up giving up if you're too hard on yourself.

I get what you mean about thinking about getting a BFN as I think it'll take me a another couple of months to reach my goal weight but of course that goes out the window if I get a BFP. I'd love that of course but I think it's good to have something else to focus on

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