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?? MOTIVATIONAL CHALLENGE TIME ??

Let's keep everything positive and productive with an easy self guided photo challenge for April. It combines fitness and life motivation to stay balanced. Set your own goals and smash them! Participate as much as you like. Lots of side conversation is welcome!

Start by posting your starting weight, goals, surgery type and where you are in the process (preop, post op losing, maintenance)

?? ENJOY THE MONTH OF APRIL ??

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Edited April 1, 20197 yr by GreenTealael

B-Side Question:

May Challenge? Yay or Nay?

(Also- I don't want to steal all the joy... so if someone else is interested in hosting as well let me know!!!!)

The past few days have been crazy so sorry for not posting. Keeping up with the challenge. Today was my weekly weigh in and I'm 10 pounds lighter from April 1st which was my goal for this month. I'll do another weigh in on the 30th just to see how I close the month out.

2 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

B-Side Question:

May Challenge? Yay or Nay?

(Also- I don't want to steal all the joy... so if someone else is interested in hosting as well let me know!!!!)

Yes please. I enjoy the checking in part.

5 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

B-Side Question:

May Challenge? Yay or Nay?

(Also- I don't want to steal all the joy... so if someone else is interested in hosting as well let me know!!!!)

Definitely! The challenges keep me on my toes and accountable. Also I like the different exercise challenges.

6 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

B-Side Question:

May Challenge? Yay or Nay?

(Also- I don't want to steal all the joy... so if someone else is interested in hosting as well let me know!!!!)

Yes to a May challenge! I've enjoyed participating and reading the great responses. Very inspiring! (And thank you for posting the April challenge!)

squats and crunches done. I did a stretching thing from an app and it was pretty nice to do it, I may stick with that. Skipped the gym today but went for a long walk. I need to mix it up or I get sick of it!

B side. I like checking in and also seeing how everyone is doing.

Edited April 26, 20197 yr by Cheeseburgh

B side: Yes to May challenge. I love these and they help keep me accountable.

6 hours ago, seaforest said:

Yes please. I enjoy the checking in part.

same ♥️

26. 5 things that make me happy

1. My cats (I'm a crazy cat lady, and they delight me)

2. Watching the sunrise

3. Game night with my friends

4. My hubby's terrible jokes

5. Traveling somewhere I've never been

On 04/25/2019 at 11:07, GreenTealael said:

B-Side Question:

May Challenge? Yay or Nay?

(Also- I don't want to steal all the joy... so if someone else is interested in hosting as well let me know!!!!)

I love them as well!! I REALLY appreciate you doing it! I know it can’t always be easy ?

19 hours ago, NYC_PAULA said:

The past few days have been crazy so sorry for not posting. Keeping up with the challenge. Today was my weekly weigh in and I'm 10 pounds lighter from April 1st which was my goal for this month. I'll do another weigh in on the 30th just to see how I close the month out.

Congratulations Paula!!! That’s fantastic ??????

My 5 happy things

1) my family

2) nature (especially being anywhere I can hear water whether it’s at a beach, a dock or even a babbling creek)

3) art

4) music

5) gardening (and flower arranging as a side note to that)

26. Plank and lunges completed.

5 Happy Things

1. My fur babies

2. The ocean

3. Watching things grow

4. My loved ones

5. Music and dancing

5 happy things:
1 My surgery and the attendant weight loss. I will never be ungrateful for the Tool-RNY- that is helping me achieve such a loss. Diets never did what this has!
2,) The love and support of Tomkitten , my son, he is my biggest cheerleader. I know I am not the easiest person to live with at times, especially when I went first into weight loss ketosis, as the fat started melting and all those hormones and other nasties got released I varied from crying like a broken pipe leaking, screaming and stomping around the house and complainIng there was nothing food-wise that appealed.
3 )Music- I like mostly all kinds, not hip- hop,that's more like disorganized screaming, I relax to Classical the best.
4) Bariatric Pal and the friends I have made here. It is nice to be accepted, even have my advice requested at times. When I came here I was scared,maybe I had but off more than I could chew, wanting Bariatric surgery at my age! But gradually I learned we are not jydgemental, I learned tricks and shortcuts that had worked for others and I grew more confident, when my surgery date came, I could face it with peace In. my ❤for I now knew things would be okay.
5) Nature in all its presentations. There is beauty all around us, waterfalls, flowers , sunlight, there is even beauty in urban settings, look at the buildings standing straight and tall, think of the people with plans that helped build each one. It is such a totally cool world we live in that I never could entertain thoughts of suicide, I want to hang around and see what happens next! Guess I am a curious beast, after all!