Extreme Accountability - March 2015 edition
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FromHereOnOut
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Haha, okay, that intro sounds ominous, but everyone should know that failure is part of the process. I, for one, have come to the accountability thread to report my complete and utter failures plenty of times. But I didn't let it stop me. Just like food-logging, you have to be honest and consistent, because that's how you make improvements. And "improvement" is all any of us are really after anyway. So don't be afraid to post your goals, and don't be afraid to fail. It just means you found one way not to do it and can move on to the next, until you get it right! And who knows, maybe this will be your time to succeed beyond your wildest dreams! Only one way to find out.............0
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Last month went okay, so I'm rollin' 'em over!
1. Keep off the coffee.
2. Calories between ~1700 - 2000 five days per week; upto 2500 two days per week. Wiggle room on running days, so my deficit isn't too low.
3. Continue with heart rate/aerobic training; run as often as possible.
4. Weights/gym 2-3x/week.
5. Lose 3 pounds.
This month, I'm adding some rewards and incentives.
1. Reward: trip to Starbucks after end of month
2. No incentive necessary.
3. No incentive necessary.
4. Incentive: one favorite-food-free-for-all meal after each successful week (I.e., sushi throwdown, regardless of calories)
5. Idk, maybe I'll give myself a free day if I lose 5 lbs or more
There it is! Hoping DH's travel doesn't interfere too much the first two weeks. But lil girl has gotten older and I'm going to experiment with her this time, to see if I can get more done.
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My March Goals:
1. Lose at least 8 pounds
2. Increase my running to at least 40 minutes per week (just getting back to running after taking several months for a leg injury)
3. Log my food at least 4 days a week on MFP.
4. Exercise at least 5 days each week (and log my workouts here).0 -
March Goals:
1) Keep up with the therapy for my feet. I'm currently using the foot roller 1-2 days a week, plus icing my feet on my long run days, plus putting Vicks and/or tea tree oil on my toes daily (I got thick nails last year while running a lot and they're supposed to be natural remedies). I have a tendency to slack off on those types things, so my goal is to stick with it.
2) Be really conscious of my food choices. Realistically I'm not going to be perfect all the time, but before I eat anything I want to do a mental check to make sure it's helping me work toward my goal and/or seriously worth the calories if it's not. No binges. Only planned "cheats."
3) My trainer wants me to be at a certain weight by the end of the month (5 pounds down from where I was last Monday - so 5 pounds in 5 weeks, which should be realistic) so I should probably include that in my goals and not just his. ha ha
4) No diet coke.0 -
1. Get sleep every night! I need to be better about getting to bed on time so I don't continue an endless cycle of working hard then crashing hard! Especially on mornings like today where I get up REALLY early!
2. Stay in my calorie count at least 5 days a week every week!
3. Get strength training in 4 days a week.
I like the idea of adding incentives!
1. A free meal at the end of the week if I have gotten at least 7 hours of sleep for 6 nights that week.
2. none
3. A massage at the end of the month if I get all my training in.0 -
FromHereOnOut wrote: »Last month went okay, so I'm rollin' 'em over!
1. Keep off the coffee.
2. Calories between ~1700 - 2000 five days per week; upto 2500 two days per week. Wiggle room on running days, so my deficit isn't too low.
3. Continue with heart rate/aerobic training; run as often as possible.
4. Weights/gym 2-3x/week.
5. Lose 3 pounds.
1. Success! Except my reward trip to Starbucks from last month. I had a dream last night that I accidentally forgot and had coffee. Strange.
2. I think I did okay, but with Garmin and MFP connected again, it's harder to keep track because of the stupid exercise calories. Might have to disconnect again. Psychologically if I see those extra calories, I think I can eat them all, but shouldn't, so it's a problem.
3. I could do much better. Circumstances got in the way of running a bit this past week, but it was better than nothing, considering DH is traveling. I really just want to buckle down to 6-8 slow miles per weekday and whatever I can grab on weekends (which is zero this weekend, no babysitter) while DH is gone.
4. Fail again. I'd thought I might be able to get to the gym in the morning for half hour, with lil girl hanging out on the sofa of the gym, but I see now it's too much to ask of an already busy schedule while DH is gone.
5. So far, this is not looking good, but I believe I can turn it around!0 -
March Goals:
1) Keep up with the therapy for my feet. I'm currently using the foot roller 1-2 days a week, plus icing my feet on my long run days, plus putting Vicks and/or tea tree oil on my toes daily (I got thick nails last year while running a lot and they're supposed to be natural remedies). I have a tendency to slack off on those types things, so my goal is to stick with it.
2) Be really conscious of my food choices. Realistically I'm not going to be perfect all the time, but before I eat anything I want to do a mental check to make sure it's helping me work toward my goal and/or seriously worth the calories if it's not. No binges. Only planned "cheats."
3) My trainer wants me to be at a certain weight by the end of the month (5 pounds down from where I was last Monday - so 5 pounds in 5 weeks, which should be realistic) so I should probably include that in my goals and not just his. ha ha
4) No diet coke.
1) So far so good.
2) Friday was bad, but otherwise I've done really well with this. And I know what I did wrong on Friday so hopefully I can avoid making the same mistakes.
3) I'm up 0.3 pounds this week (my trainer weighs me Monday evenings so I weigh myself at home Monday mornings too) but I bounced up nearly a pound from yesterday and had a calorie deficit for the week so I'm considering that a fluke.
4) It's been tough but so far I've held off.0 -
FromHereOnOut wrote: »Last month went okay, so I'm rollin' 'em over!
1. Keep off the coffee.
2. Calories between ~1700 - 2000 five days per week; upto 2500 two days per week. Wiggle room on running days, so my deficit isn't too low.
3. Continue with heart rate/aerobic training; run as often as possible.
4. Weights/gym 2-3x/week.
5. Lose 3 pounds.
1. Success!
2. I think I've been fairly successful with my eating. My over days were more over than that, but most days looked good. I'm still concerned that linking Garmin has screwed up my math, so if I don't lose any weight I might disconnect again. I just wish mfp had an option to turn OFF that feature where exercise calories get added to your calorie allowance. I want to track my steps and exercise here, and I want to allow wiggle room when I run, but I want my daily allowance to remain fairly consistent. Oh well, we'll see.
3. I think success, given the circumstances. Rain Friday and no babysitter for the weekend, but I got a pretty good mile tally otherwise.
4. Ugh! Might be best to revisit this in April, when I move from a goal of 100% aerobic, to more of a 80/20.
5. Fingers crossed. I saw a one pound loss at one point, but won't count my chickens before they hatch. By taking such a low weigh-in (fully depleted), I've set the bar high.
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March Goals:
1) Keep up with the therapy for my feet. I'm currently using the foot roller 1-2 days a week, plus icing my feet on my long run days, plus putting Vicks and/or tea tree oil on my toes daily (I got thick nails last year while running a lot and they're supposed to be natural remedies). I have a tendency to slack off on those types things, so my goal is to stick with it.
2) Be really conscious of my food choices. Realistically I'm not going to be perfect all the time, but before I eat anything I want to do a mental check to make sure it's helping me work toward my goal and/or seriously worth the calories if it's not. No binges. Only planned "cheats."
3) My trainer wants me to be at a certain weight by the end of the month (5 pounds down from where I was last Monday - so 5 pounds in 5 weeks, which should be realistic) so I should probably include that in my goals and not just his. ha ha
4) No diet coke.
1) Doing it!
2) This continues to get easier. Tuesday night I went a little over but that was planned (my nephew's birthday party). I only went 135 calories over my normal daily goal. We had KFC & ice cream cake at the party, and I ate both, but just was smart about it.
3) I hit that weight at home this morning. My weigh-ins with Jason are after work so it may take a little longer to see that in the evening, but it's only mid-month so I have time.
4) One day this week tested this greatly, but still haven't had any.
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Sherry several of my friends will log their workouts but then will adjust the calorie goal to show they burned 1 calorie so the data is there but it doesn't screw up their total. If it's a longer run and you wanted to give yourself a little extra wiggle room you could change that to 100 calories or 200 calories or whatever allowance you wanted to give yourself.0
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Unfortunately, when the accounts are linked, that manual change will screw everything up, so I have to mentally keep track. Most of my problem is with how I do things. I don't want a deep calorie cut daily and "getting to eat well" only if I exercise. I'd rather eat a verrrrry modest deficit daily (even to the point that if I have a very inactive day, I just am not in deficit at all) and get bonus deficit thru running vs. making a plan of not eating enough unless I exercise (which is just too hard for me). It sucks because if things are such that I can't walk much or run, I just don't lose weight, BUT I don't feel deprived and therefore don't binge. Anyway, it's okay for now... Until it's not. ;-)0
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I will not drink a diet coke. I will not drink a diet coke. I will not drink a diet coke.0
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FromHereOnOut wrote: »Last month went okay, so I'm rollin' 'em over!
1. Keep off the coffee.
2. Calories between ~1700 - 2000 five days per week; upto 2500 two days per week. Wiggle room on running days, so my deficit isn't too low.
3. Continue with heart rate/aerobic training; run as often as possible.
4. Weights/gym 2-3x/week.
5. Lose 3 pounds.
1. Success!
2. Epic fail!
3. Not so good, due to catching cold.
4. Utter fail.
5. Outlook poor. :-(
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March Goals:
1) Keep up with the therapy for my feet. I'm currently using the foot roller 1-2 days a week, plus icing my feet on my long run days, plus putting Vicks and/or tea tree oil on my toes daily (I got thick nails last year while running a lot and they're supposed to be natural remedies). I have a tendency to slack off on those types things, so my goal is to stick with it.
2) Be really conscious of my food choices. Realistically I'm not going to be perfect all the time, but before I eat anything I want to do a mental check to make sure it's helping me work toward my goal and/or seriously worth the calories if it's not. No binges. Only planned "cheats."
3) My trainer wants me to be at a certain weight by the end of the month (5 pounds down from where I was last Monday - so 5 pounds in 5 weeks, which should be realistic) so I should probably include that in my goals and not just his. ha ha
4) No diet coke.
1) Staying on it.
2) It was a bad week for food. I paid for it on my run tonight though which hopefully gets me back in line. Every bad choice over the past few days felt like a rock in the pit of my stomach the final few miles.
3) I had hit it last Monday. Will not likely be there this Monday. Still should get back there by the end of the month if I can get #2 back in line.
4) Still no diet coke. But dang.
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1. (*) Success!FromHereOnOut wrote: »Last month went okay, so I'm rollin' 'em over!
1. Keep off the coffee.
2. Calories between ~1700 - 2000 five days per week; upto 2500 two days per week. Wiggle room on running days, so my deficit isn't too low.
3. Continue with heart rate/aerobic training; run as often as possible.
4. Weights/gym 2-3x/week.
5. Lose 3 pounds.
2. Hahahahahahahahahahahaha! If only! Actually, this is a very good guideline that I need to get back to asap!
3. "As often as possible"? Yes, but with the cold, it wasn't often, but I'm back at it 100% now.
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<--- is this the SHAME emoti? This *must* be my #1 priority next month!
5. Gonna wait til end of month to see. Before I caught cold, I'd managed to lose 1lb, then the inactivity of being sick messed me up, but I'm hoping that 1lb loss will show up again before EOM. But even so, I had set out to lose 3lbs last month, but actually lost 7lbs and kept it off, so it averages out, and if I do get that 1lb, that'd average to 4 per month, so...there's that. Gonna raise the bar next month.
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1. Get sleep every night! I need to be better about getting to bed on time so I don't continue an endless cycle of working hard then crashing hard! Especially on mornings like today where I get up REALLY early!
2. Stay in my calorie count at least 5 days a week every week!
3. Get strength training in 4 days a week.
I like the idea of adding incentives!
1. A free meal at the end of the week if I have gotten at least 7 hours of sleep for 6 nights that week.
2. none
3. A massage at the end of the month if I get all my training in.
1. finally did this the last week of March! Hopefully I can keep it up during April!
2. again...last week of March and I finally get on track!
3. was pretty consistent with this, but for the middle two weeks of March missed a couple.
I think I like the incentive for weight lifting. But the free meal thing I need to rethink. Mainly because I've taken to giving myself a splurge day every week where I don't count calories. Wednesday's because we do a group meal for our bible study and its next to impossible to count the calories of home cooked meals from others. Must rethink some for next month.
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March Goals:
1) Keep up with the therapy for my feet. I'm currently using the foot roller 1-2 days a week, plus icing my feet on my long run days, plus putting Vicks and/or tea tree oil on my toes daily (I got thick nails last year while running a lot and they're supposed to be natural remedies). I have a tendency to slack off on those types things, so my goal is to stick with it.
2) Be really conscious of my food choices. Realistically I'm not going to be perfect all the time, but before I eat anything I want to do a mental check to make sure it's helping me work toward my goal and/or seriously worth the calories if it's not. No binges. Only planned "cheats."
3) My trainer wants me to be at a certain weight by the end of the month (5 pounds down from where I was last Monday - so 5 pounds in 5 weeks, which should be realistic) so I should probably include that in my goals and not just his. ha ha
4) No diet coke.
1) Success!
2) Did not do well.
3) I was there, and then I popped back up again.
4) I had 2 cans.
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