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January 22 sign in
RangerRickL
Posts: 8,469 Member
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes?
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day?
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank?
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day?
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank?
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The incentive of the Winner's Circle is a very good thing.
It's a great way to create a success target for each of us.
On the other hand, some of you who don't qualify feel like a failure. I wish I could help you change that point of self-view.
I would like to encourage every one of the team members to focus on their incremental successes and not their failures.
Right now, I'm working hard to learn about my back and to learn new core exercises.
For the last 3 weeks, I have been trying to learn the "Week One' core exercises. Now, I'm in Week 4 and I still don't have Week 1 exercises perfect. That does not make me a failure. I'm getting better every session. Although, I don't feel like I'm ever going to be able to do a crunch without my neutral spine collapsing.
Within my attempts, I am finding incremental success.
Many of you report incremental successes. Focus on the success.
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Exercise: 2h gym cross training + 2k swim
Calories: yes
Tracked: yes
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Date: January 22
Exercised?: Yes - 20 minute walk in front of the telly.
Calories?: Yes - under target.
Tracked?: Yes - all tracked.6 -
Exciting day today ... we get a reprieve from the frigid weather (actually, a 3-day reprieve!). It will feel good to get back on Annie for a ride. I suspect it will feel good to her to get on good footing and move her legs again.4
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January 22, 2019
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day?Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes4 -
Thank you Rick, we must focus on our successes not failures. A child that is learning how to walk does not seat down and refuse to work again
Below was my posting on January 21 forumvictorious55 wrote: »Llamapants86 wrote: »Yes x 3
Even with 4 passes this month, I figured I'd keep posting. There's still more than a week left in January. No need to throw that away because I slipped up in the middle of the month.Date: Jan 21
Exercise Tracked In MFP: 2.14 miles treadmill 45 minutes
Calories and Water Tracked In MFP: yes
Within Daily Calorie Range: Yes
Extra:
Daily Water Goal:3 water bottles, but should be 7 water bottles
Disqualified but still posting to develop my healthy habits : )
That is the spirit of this group! The fact that we used more than 3 passes does not stop us from posting to maintain our good habits. We do not take out all our china plates and break them because we mistakenly broke one of them!
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I have missed more than 2 weeks but I will keep posting for the rest of the month!
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3 x Yes
We are all a success story in our own right x7 -
Definitely Rick. It all adds up.
I take the challenge as a way to learn new habits and live them 90% of the time. 3 pass days or less out of 30 should be doable over time as those habits become a way of life.
Yes x 3 today. Woke up extra early to be able to walk 4 miles before work.
Pass Days so Far: 37 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes .. Full body
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
I make it a point to remind myself every day to look at what I did right instead of wrong. Every morning I think about what I did right the day before and how I can improve upon that today. A twist of the mindset just a little makes a big difference for me!5 -
Yes x 3!
I haven't made the winner's circle yet but that is OK! This group has kept me mindful and I've had fewer days that I've messed up than I would have without the group. 6 -
Yes x 34
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Exercise: yes
Calories: yes
Tracking: yes5 -
@RangerRickL I'm always eager to see what you are going to post for us at the top of the page.
Every time we post here is a success, irrespective of what we post. It's the coming back, day after day, whether we are going to make the winners' circle or not, that should be celebrated.
So, Bravo, compadres! If you are reading this, you are a success!!! You Rock! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Exercise: Yes. Fitbit recorded 100 minutes activity, 65 of those were spent doing interval walking
Calories Under? Yes
Tracked? Yes7 -
Yes x 3. On lower calorie day and managed it with minimal hunger. Plus fasted from yesterday evening until this evening.
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1/22
Exercise? Yes, only 30 minutes of my Paris walk today. Head not feeling so great for the past couple of days..but feeling a bit better tonight.
Calories? Within allowance. Did eat back some exercise calories.
Tracked? Yes6 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, a 60 minute Hatha yoga class and 90 minutes strength training.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes5 -
January 22, 2019:
EXERCISE: Yes. Half mile jog to warm up before 34 minutes of weight lifting.
CALORIES: Over by 225. 2290 target; 2890 consumed - 375 burned = 2515 net. Under on carbs, 262 grams of protein, but it's the fats (in the form of nuts) that got away from me today.
TRACKED: Yes.3 -
1/22
Exersized-?yes walked,biking, curcuit training
Caleries?-yes
Logged?-yes3 -
Yes x 3 today. 20 min on rowing machine, 15 minutes of intervals after a 5 min warm-up. Then 60 min of weight training. 45 min ride on the horse this afternoon. .. good to be back on her. Should get 3 days in before the next Arctic chill hits.2
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Recumbent Bike - 30 minutes
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes.
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes.4 -
Yes x3. Hubby’s birthday today. He opted to cook a delicious chicken stir fry for supper rather than go out. That left room for a small slice of cheesecake this evening. Did one of Fitness Blenders Spartan 500 workouts. 10 exercises, 10 reps, 5 times through, no rest. Whew that sure got the heart pumping!6
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Exercise: Yes
Calories: Yes
Tracking: Yes4 -
2nd pass day
Exercise- Yes 1 hour of aerobics and 1 hour of yoga
Calories- Nope, I had a work event and I had the best of intentions, I even ate a solid healthy dinner before going. But I just couldn’t resist a cannoli and a cocktail. They were delicious and totally worth it. Put me over by 40 even if I used all of my exercise calories..
Tracked- yep the good and the bad5 -
Exercise yes
Calories yes
Tracking yes5 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? ✅
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? ✅
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? ✅5 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes - 7 minute HIIT before work plus 46 minutes on mini-trampoline (somewhere in Sweden)
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes - jog was late in evening so LOTS of calories left in the pot today
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
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January 22, 2019
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, 50 minute full body strength and abs this morning.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes and under by 14 calories! LOL I was hungry today!
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yep!
@RangerRickL, so very true! Even if you haven't had what you would consider a "big" success, when you add up all those incremental "small" success, you suddenly realize you've accomplished way more than you thought you had.5 -
Exercise: yes
Calories: yes
Tracked: yes5 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? YES (mall walking)
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? YES
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? YES
I agree...success is the sum of small steps day in and out. 5 -
Yes x3 today. Yoga 25 Min.
Happy to be part of a group like this, focusing on successes and being accepted regardless of pass days.4
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