Week 5 Daily Exercise, Weekly Exercise, Chat, and Discussion
burly_man308
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Afternoon fitness warriors. Hope your week has been great. Here is the week 5 discussion board. This weeks exercise goal is going back to cardio. Daily exercise goal is 35 minutes and weekly exercise cardio goal is 20 miles. Good luck, great job everyone, keep it going. The holidays are right around the corner... lets get in kick *kitten* shape and enjoy ourselves.
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Thanks coach!!1
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I can exercise 35 minutes a day easily! I WILL exercise 35 minutes a day! Can I do 20 miles in a week? Biking counts too, right?
I think I can, I think I can, I think I can!2 -
Looking forward to this one!1
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I'm up for this challenge!
Knee update: as of right now it's about 80% better than it was last night. It's almost like my body went "All right, okay, we've been through this a million times before, we know the drill by now, so just shut up and get to healing." It still hurts when I put too much stress on it in the wrong directions (which usually happens if I lose my balance - of all my fitness skills, my balance is by far the weakest) but it's a lot better. I should be able to return to low-impact regular workouts by tomorrow. Until then, I planned for today to be a day of crafting, cleaning, meal prep, and homework, and I am going to stick to that plan. So far I've cleaned for about 3 hours this morning.
I'm taking a break from logging today because it's my last day before the big restrictions go into effect. I'm anxious about entering this diet plan into MFP simply because of the amount I have to eat - it...seems like a lot of food. I mean a lot of food. But I'm supposed to lose weight on it too, so we'll see what that means.1 -
I honestly had been lazing around the house all day. I woke up somewhere around 8 but didn't actually get out of bed till 1pm. Was really glad to see I lost some weight this morning so the hard work is paying off.
I've been plowing through 3 sets of recipe ideas on Pinterest, doing one breakfast, lunch and dinner per week. It has helped me stay on track and the food is honestly delicious and not that difficult to make. Was supposed to have a savory oatmeal this morning but skipped it for lunch since it was coming up on 1:30pm. For lunch I had a veggie sandwich, featuring herbed cheese wedge, bean sprouts, avocado, tomato, roasted bell pepper and lettuce on whole wheat bread. Added a bit of avocado cilantro dressing and chowed down. Really easy to make and was really good. For dinner I made a roasted sweet potato and black bean taquito (baked instead of fried) with and an avocado and yogurt dipping sauce. Can you tell I'm obsessed with avocado?0 -
It was raining cats and dogs so didn't hace a chance to go outside today and I really hate doing my Fitbit Coach workouts inside so pulled up youtube on the tv and did 35 mins of zumba. No one was home to see me flailing about awkwardly so I figured what the hell. Converted steps to miles for the days I can't physically go anywhere.
Diary complete: 1/7
Days under calorie goal: 1/7
35 mins cardio complete: 1/7
Miles complete: 1.77/20
Steps taken: 7582
Calories burned: 305
Active minutes: 60
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explodingmango wrote: »I'm up for this challenge!
Knee update: as of right now it's about 80% better than it was last night. It's almost like my body went "All right, okay, we've been through this a million times before, we know the drill by now, so just shut up and get to healing." It still hurts when I put too much stress on it in the wrong directions (which usually happens if I lose my balance - of all my fitness skills, my balance is by far the weakest) but it's a lot better. I should be able to return to low-impact regular workouts by tomorrow. Until then, I planned for today to be a day of crafting, cleaning, meal prep, and homework, and I am going to stick to that plan. So far I've cleaned for about 3 hours this morning.
I'm taking a break from logging today because it's my last day before the big restrictions go into effect. I'm anxious about entering this diet plan into MFP simply because of the amount I have to eat - it...seems like a lot of food. I mean a lot of food. But I'm supposed to lose weight on it too, so we'll see what that means.
Good luck with your new diet plan! Hope your knee feels better soon!0 -
Exercise and diary finished good night everyone hope everyone had a good weekend.0
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Woohoo, hooray for achievable daily goals
Sunday check in. Sun is my chill day of the week. But there is lots to be done around here so I still got my exercise in, calories are in check and the diary is done.0 -
Ah! I have been slacking ever since I finished up the Healthy Wage Challenges. Now it's time to get back on track. I gained a pound, and it's been four weeks since the last time I saw some real weight loss.
I can definitely do the cardio and the miles. No problem with this challenge. Now I just have to get at it.
Congrats to everyone who is doing so well and making strides.1 -
You've got this @MmamabearR good to see you remotivated.
Monday check in. Good workout session in the gym today. targets met, diary done. Now, can I get to sleep.
Its only 2am, not too late yet hahaha. 1 -
Exercise and diary finished 12093 in steps1
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Diary complete: 2/7
Days under calorie goal: 2/7
35 mins cardio complete: 2/7
Miles complete: 2.95/20
Steps taken: 14,459
Calories burned: 507
Active minutes: 1121 -
Diary finished, good. Exercise done. Cardio, did a combo of swimming laps/water walking for about 30 minutes. How much distance do you Think? Didn't count laps.0
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Didn’t feel well, recovery day for me. Hope to do some Halloween spooky Yoga and a spooky forest run tomorrow. 0
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Tuesday Check in. Good 1 hour in the gym today. Calories well under and diary done.
I've been absolutely on point again this week, yet my scales have gone up by nearly 2 lb per day. I've been at this long enough now to be able to notice a pattern of fortnightly weightloss that I can't really quite understand. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining and I know my trend is steadily downwards. But I am curious about it.
I was actually ready to sleep earlier tonight but I'm staying up late to bid on a set of withings wifi scales.
Hope you feel better today Oregon.2 -
You all are doing so awesome! My October has been horrible. I have lost nothing in a month and that is totally unacceptable. So...I am making a change starting tomorrow I told my husband I want to lose 20 lbs before the end of the year. I know I can do it. I just need to set my mind back on track.
I was out late yesterday running errands, so I didn't get a workout in. Tonight's Halloween, so we'll see how much time I have left at the end of the night. AND...I'm going out of town this weekend for some family time. It's gonna be a challenge to get my cardio done, but I'm up for it. I also told myself back in August that my Christmas present to myself will be the Jessica Smith "Walk STRONG: 6 Week Total Transformation System" I love her workouts. They are the only ones I have found that I've stuck to longer than a few weeks. If I can lose at least 10 lbs next month, I will feel as though I have earned the new vids.1 -
Fireside, is your loss usually the morning after a day off from exercising? You are working your body hard and retaining some water to help heal muscles.
I don't know what I did yesterday, but it was way too much for this old body. Yoga was hard today, and restorative yoga is NOT hard.
Oregon runner, sorry you don't feel well, but wasn't that run fun?!
Anjelica, I've been trying new recipes, too. Have found some new favorites.
Mama bear, so how did the healthy wages challenge turn out?
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Exercise and diary finished with steps of 12,221 with 61 squats1
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5pm on Halloween -- still haven't had any milk chocolate -- update tomorrow ;-P0
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Journal done, exercise done. Been a good day.0
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Tuesday check in
I was on trick or treat duty and only ate 1 fun size twix bar. Very proud of myself for that. Surprisingly we didn't have many kids this year. I ended up donating the extra candy to my martial arts school for when they have events with the kids.
Diary complete: 3/7
Days under calorie goal: 3/7
35 mins cardio complete: 3/7
Miles complete: 4.02/20
Steps taken: 12,114
Calories burned: 218
Active minutes: 50
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corinasue1143 wrote: »Fireside, is your loss usually the morning after a day off from exercising? You are working your body hard and retaining some water to help heal muscles.
I believe the pattern is along the lines of, I work my butt off for a week.. Lose bugger all and get all stroppy about it. Then I have a totally half-a$$ed week. Loose 6.4lb and get a pile of enthusiasm that I pour into the next week in the gym etc.. and so on.. So yes, the pattern fits the profile for sure.
Wednesday check in. Busy day, allowed myself to get too busy to eat or workout. Then I ate 1400cal of utterly scrumptious butter chicken from my favorite Indian restaurant. Take that blood sugars.... Kapow!!! Diary is done, calories under. No daily challenge.
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Wednesday check-in... have been awol for awhile... quit logging, quit exercising, worked a lot and spent time as possible with family... just a real 2 steps forward, 3 steps back kinda week.
I am back to logging this week, managed to make it thru Halloween w/o touching any of the candy (did have some homemade cookies last night, but no candy). Figured that I had completely trashed everything with pigging out yesterday, got on the scale this morning and I was down 1.5 lbs from yesterday morning... go figure that one out...
Anyway, I completed my diary Monday and Tuesday, but have not done any specific exercising outside of the normal daily routine.
Fyreside - thanks for the nudge, I needed it.
Everybody else looks to be kicking *kitten*, so keep up the good work!!1 -
I'm proud to report that I didn't have any Halloween chocolate yesterday!
This new plan I'm on is kicking my butt. It's not that hard, really, and hey, I was able to take a workout class without worsening my knee injury (which is pretty much 90% better by now, just like I'd thought - it doesn't even really hurt at this point, for the most part, just feels kinda funny), but I have to eat so frequently that it's hard to keep up, and I have a VERY hard time drinking all the water I'm supposed to drink. The point of all this is to keep me too full to go for junk food - it works, but it's hard. Which makes it pretty enjoyable.
I'm trying to change my sleep schedule so I can get up earlier, though, and...that's having some side effects. I fell out of bed when I tried to get up this morning...whoops. Decided to take the day off school because...that does not qualify as being okay to drive two hours to get home from this campus.
There's nothing all that interesting going on with me right now though. I'm mostly just waiting for the weekend after this one, because that's when I've got two races coming up. Should be a lot of fun.2 -
Been battling the fatigue again this week - really has me bummed out. I needed to go to the store today and ended up taking a caffeine pill to get by. I bought a bunch of probiotic stuff including — Goat Milk Kefir — yeah it sounds hideous! But who knows, maybe my GI will love it and give me the boost I need. My exercise today was walking around the grocery store, but it’s actually more than I thought I would be able to manage. I’ve been too weak to Yoga or get much done, the housework is backed up, everything is waiting on me just trying to meet the priorities for now.
I made it through Halloween without and trick-or-treat candy. Huzzah! We had over 100 kids come by last night. My daughter and her boyfriend were here in costume having some games setup and stuff for the kids. It was a great lively night. It has been a really nice fall here, had a lot of fun this year.
My health has been doing seriously so much better since starting this challenge, so I am trying to get back on track and carefully going through my food logs to figure out where I went wrong. At least I know now that I can feel better and have energy, so that’s huge. I’m up 4lbs this week already and am a bit gobsmacked by that, but maybe I can turn it around and get back to doing good again.
Now to resist eating leftover candy — gotta pack off those mini chocolate bars with the kids and to the husbands work. They’re not safe around me.0 -
Diary and exercise completed 10,388 with 80 squats 64 oz of water2
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Diary done, all good. Exercise done. Beautiful day here.
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Diary done for yesterday. No exercise besides normal daily routines.0
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Update for Wednesday. I had a huge amount of homework to do yesterday and was chained to my desk for the most part yesterday which meant working out wasn't happening. Also went over my calorie goal by a bit. Trying to stay under my calorie goal today but have 3 hours of classes I need to prep for so exercise may nit happen today either. Will check in later.
Diary complete: 4/7
Days under calorie goal: 3/7
35 mins cardio complete: 3/7
Miles complete: 4.02/20
Steps taken: 8601
Calories burned: 0
Active minutes: 01
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