Microscope May
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volgirl1322
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Please just use this thread to post your Microscope May posts. I highly recommend also copying your May post in your individual thread where comments can be made. To keep this thread as clean as possible please make comments, congratulations, and encouragements on the individual posters personal thread.
Microscope May will continue in the spirit of Microscope March and Analytical April and take a detailed look into our weight loss/maintenance/eating way of life plan. Even if you are not exclusively OMAD, you are welcome to participate. This threadl will allow you to focus on other things as well as food. Some of the things you may want to look at include sleep, exercise, water intake, heart rate, stress levels, etc.
Whatever plan you are on, this is the time to really dig deep and examine all the things that go into you successfully reaching your goals. Below is a sample outline that you can use for your Microscope May Posts. You can choose which items to include or add additional items in your post. This month is for YOU, so include as little or as much in your post as you would like to help you meet your goal.
Today’s Date:
Todays Plan: OMAD, 16:8, 20:4, 5:2, bear (whatever plan you are following and if you are in weight loss or maintenance) Plan may change depending on the day (ex. OMAD on weekdays/Fast Day/16:8 on weekends).
Weight Goal for the Month:
Today’s Weight:
Today’s Water Consumed:
Today’s Exercise completed (calories burned if desired):
Hours slept:
Description/Photo of Meals consumed along with times and calorie count (if desired, not necessary)
Your thoughts/comments on the day:
Other things to consider are various measurements if taken, and the day’s NSVs.
I recommend writing your post up in a separate document and add to it throughout the day as you have your meals and exercise, etc. so that you have accurate information and times and are not forced to have to remember at the end of the day. When you are ready, you can copy from your document into your daily Analytical April post.
Best Wishes for a successful May!
Microscope May will continue in the spirit of Microscope March and Analytical April and take a detailed look into our weight loss/maintenance/eating way of life plan. Even if you are not exclusively OMAD, you are welcome to participate. This threadl will allow you to focus on other things as well as food. Some of the things you may want to look at include sleep, exercise, water intake, heart rate, stress levels, etc.
Whatever plan you are on, this is the time to really dig deep and examine all the things that go into you successfully reaching your goals. Below is a sample outline that you can use for your Microscope May Posts. You can choose which items to include or add additional items in your post. This month is for YOU, so include as little or as much in your post as you would like to help you meet your goal.
Today’s Date:
Todays Plan: OMAD, 16:8, 20:4, 5:2, bear (whatever plan you are following and if you are in weight loss or maintenance) Plan may change depending on the day (ex. OMAD on weekdays/Fast Day/16:8 on weekends).
Weight Goal for the Month:
Today’s Weight:
Today’s Water Consumed:
Today’s Exercise completed (calories burned if desired):
Hours slept:
Description/Photo of Meals consumed along with times and calorie count (if desired, not necessary)
Your thoughts/comments on the day:
Other things to consider are various measurements if taken, and the day’s NSVs.
I recommend writing your post up in a separate document and add to it throughout the day as you have your meals and exercise, etc. so that you have accurate information and times and are not forced to have to remember at the end of the day. When you are ready, you can copy from your document into your daily Analytical April post.
Best Wishes for a successful May!
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Today’s Date: May 1, 2019
Todays Plan: OMAD
Weight Goal for the Month: 154
Today’s Weight: Last Friday 162
Today’s Water Consumed: Not enough Must do better
Today’s Exercise completed (calories burned if desired):Spinning/walking at work/baseball
Hours slept: 7 ish
Description/Photo of Meals consumed Food truck at the ball field, OMG ya'll know my
of all things food truck....
I had lettuce wraps with stir fried chicken, mandarin oranges, toasted coconut almonds, and carrots with a spicy soy siracha sauce.....
Also split some zucchini fries with my hubs....*will be making these at home* DELICIS.... it had a spicy yum yum sauce on the side....I could have eaten my weight in these little heavenly things
It was a good day overall....hoping for a loss tomorrow....
*Food porn below*
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An April 2019
Today’s Date: 5/1/19
Today’s Plan: Mini Fast
Weight Goal for the Month: 158
Today’s Weight: 160
Height: 5’7”
Today’s Water Consumed: Still not enough – not even a gallon
Today’s Exercise completed (calories burned if desired): normal work walking
Hours slept: 7.25
Description/Photo of Meals: Had some slim jims and celery at work…very stressful evening meant I didn’t cook but munched on a few things after I calmed down and logged em…still near my cal goal
Total cals – 531
Total deficit - 1729
Your thoughts/comments on the day: Welp mama is still having neurological symptoms and we don’t know what’s up so keep her in your prayers please…left work and came out to a flat tire…not only that BUT it was literally worn through the WHOLE WALL OF THE TIRE…I have no idea how I didn’t DIE the last few weeks driving on it! It was shaking really bad but I thought it was because I was in need of an oil change *sigh* - a really nice underwriter took pity on me and helped me put on the spare in the parking lot, and I have an appt at lunch today to get a new tire…but geez louise, when it rains LOL ON TOP of that I had a really stressful day with Ced that continued when I finally got home so my appetite was non-existent…
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Back To It Stats-It began on 23 March, 2019
May Start Weight: 210.2
Current Weight: 207.1
End of May Goal: 199
Overall Goal Weight: 130 lb
Today’s Date: 05/02/2019
Today’s Plan: Clean fast... water, black coffee, green tea, black tea, herbal tea if desired
Height: 5’5”
Today’s Water Consumed: Plenty
Sleep: 6 hours using advil PM and valerian root based pill with melatonin and other stuff in it
Description/Photo of Meals:description below
Total cals – I don't count calories
Clean fasting FTW as I lost 3.1 pounds overnight! At least in my case. Seriously, I didn't even have that kind of result when I did a 70 hour fast last month where I allowed myself some bullet proof coffee and heavy whipping cream in regular cups, I maybe had 3 cups in total between all of them.
I'm off trazodone now since I couldn't take the swelling anymore, yesterday was the worst. I do not get swollen feet unless I've hurt myself, so for them to swell like they did led to me to believe there was only one culprit. I also felt really sad the past several days, and that's not my normal personality, even though I suffer from chronic insomnia. My doctor called in a prescription for another non-addictive sleep aid called doxepin, which I already am dreading since it's another anti-depressant/anti anxiety med and she prescribed the full dose; I read earlier for insomnia they usually only prescribe 3-6mg, not 10mg. I won't wait if any weird symptoms pop up.
I'm doing another clean fast today and I know any weight loss is mostly water weight, but when I eat again it will be predominantly be, if not solely, healthy foods.0 -
Today’s Date: 3 May 2019
Todays Plan: Un-Planned Cheat Day
Height: 160cm ( 5 feet 2)
Weight Goal for the Month of May: 56.6kg (125lbs)
Today’s Weight: Did not weigh-in
Today’s Water Consumed: So far, 2 glasses. Hope to reach at least 7 by tonight
Today’s Exercise completed (calories burned if desired): Nil
Hours slept: 6 hours
Description/Photo of Meals: Lay's Chips, Meaty Stuffed French Loaf & Grapes.
Thoughts : Don't want to think about this unexpected cheat day
Hope my kinder buddy will be A-OK 0 -
Today’s Date: May 2, 2019
Todays Plan: Start of hubs BDAY WEEKEND OMAD + lots of sodium
Weight Goal for the Month: 154
Today’s Weight: Last Friday 162 *not weighing until next Friday*
Today’s Water Consumed: Not enough Must do better
Today’s Exercise completed (calories burned if desired):Spinning/walking at work
Hours slept: 7 ish
Description/Photo of Meals Last night was supposed to be a baseball night followed by subway and I was super excited about such a light min fast....then baseball got cancelled because of rain/storms and since TODAY is hubs bday and we were all home last night he said oh let's go to the Japanese hibachi place.....so soy sauce/sodium/sushi/steak/rice hibachi veggies happened...…..But ---he only has a BDAY once a year and I knew this weekend would be cra cra too with more celebrations so one more didn't hurt.
This did prevent me from weighing today it would be up a lot because I can just feel like I am swimming in sodium.....Already consumed 64 oz of water and will try to get as much in today as I can.....
Busy weekend with more baseball and car shopping and more bday dinners....So I have chosen to weigh next Friday once these parties are over
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An April 2019
Today’s Date: 5/2/19
Today’s Plan: Water fast
Weight Goal for the Month: 148
Today’s Weight: 158.2
Height: 5’7”
Today’s Water Consumed: Nowhere near enough
Today’s Exercise completed (calories burned if desired): normal work walking
Hours slept: 6/75
Description/Photo of Meals: 2 sf jelly beans LMAO
Total cals – 10
Total deficit - 2351
Your thoughts/comments on the day: No improvement with Mama and she’s so far away so it’s really hard to visit her – especially with the car issues this week. Taking it in for an alignment tomorrow before my best friend’s sister’s grad party. Will probably go after work Monday to see her (I hope she’s not still there but at this point I think she will be). Trying not to stress out about it but also be present and help my dad out too *sigh* Kinda not feelin’ like I lost much in this fast…probs a combination of stress, bloating, and lack of water (I was spotting a tiny bit, not sure why but that usually hinders my scale loss) – guess we’ll find out in a few mins LOL
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Back To It Stats-It began on 23 March, 2019
May Start Weight: 210.2
Current Weight: 204.7
End of May Goal: 199
Overall Goal Weight: 130 lb
Today’s Date: 05/03/2019
Today’s Plan: Clean fast... water, black coffee, green tea, black tea, herbal tea if desired
Height: 5’5”
Today’s Water Consumed: Plenty
Sleep: ZERO
Description/Photo of Meals:description below
Total cals – I don't count calories
Another clean fast day led to me being down another 2.4 pounds overnight for a total of -5.5 so far and I'm at the 60 hour mark, and an awesome NSV... lost 2 inches around my waist within the timeframe as well.
I think I got too worked up last night worrying about possible side effects so I didn't sleep at all--which means I also didn't have sleep sex with random strangers! Haha :-) HOWEVER, I have a butt ton of energy this morning. I finally got out of bed around 3:30 and relaxed with some black coffee before cleaning the bathroom and kitchen, and starting some laundry. I still have a lot of "ya-yas" to get out, so I will probably clean some more and fold clothes and maybe watch some Killing Eve since I already re-watched S8 E3 of Game of Thrones with my screen brightened to full so I could actually see what happened. I know I will crash and burn later due to no sleep, but that's okay, I'm not panicky anymore. I'll still probably put up some barricades just to be safe. lol
Still carrying on with my clean fast since it's helping counteract the no sleep affects and making me feel great!0 -
Friday/Saturday/Sunday Hubs BDAY weekend
Weight Goal for the Month: 154
Today’s Weight: Last Friday 162 will be weighing this week!
Friday: OMAD
Grilled burgers, salad, baked sweet potato fries, yasso frozen yogurt popsicle (YUMMY)
Saturday: 2MAD
Kind bar in the am before baseball
Dinner: Olive garden ---mushroom ravioli, salad, 1.5 breaksticks (OMG yum), a few bites of the chocolate lasagna cake (HEAVEN)
Sunday: 2Mad
Greek yogurt, almonds, granola, blueberries
Dinner: Red Lobster ---salad, one biscuit, dragon shrimp
A busy bday weekend but meals were not crazy splurge so I am back on track and serious today for the Friday weigh in. I did spin Friday/Saturday and did a bunch of walking on Sunday since we were purchasing a new car ….
All in all I feel like it was a good weekend.....
Got to get the sodium out though --more water please
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Monday: OMAD 5.6.19
Dinner: Firehouse salad, 1/2 bag of baked lays, some frozen yogurt with walnuts from Yogurt Mountain
Exercise: A lot of walking at work
It was a Monday....super busy at work, and then a late baseball game....not enough sleep ---need more caffeine right now.....
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Hi guys! I won't go through the whole weekend it's just too much but here's yesterday
An April 2019
Today’s Date: 5/6/19
Today’s Plan: TBD
Weight Goal for the Month: 148
Today’s Weight: 161.2
Height: 5’7”
Today’s Water Consumed: WAY TOO LITTLE - like maybe 64 oz? ICK I feel awful for it today
Today’s Exercise completed (calories burned if desired): normal work walking
Hours slept: About 5
Description/Photo of Meals: Ended up OMADing random stuff - some lil' quesadillas, half a fried bologna sandwich, a nutty bar, a few SF gummies, and some chips.
Total cals – 1756
Total deficit - 668
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Microscope May 2019
Today’s Date: 5/7/19
Today’s Plan: Mini Fast
Weight Goal for the Month: 148
Today’s Weight: 161
Height: 5’7”
Today’s Water Consumed: WAY TOO LITTLE – I HAVE to push this today because it’s getting silly
Today’s Exercise completed (calories burned if desired): normal work walking
Hours slept: About 6 – 3 days running on short sleep and I’m sufferin’ for it
Description/Photo of Meals: Chicken salad on Romaine and half a pint of Halo Top
Total cals – 590
Total deficit - 1618
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I'm going to start just posting in my thread - it's the same thing anyway LOL0
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Today’s Date: 10 May 2019
Todays Plan: OMAD
Height: 158cm ( 5 feet 2)
Weight Goal for the Month of May: 56.6kg (125lbs)
Today’s Weight: 58.2kg (128lbs)
Today’s Water Consumed: So far, 1 glass. Hope to reach at least 7 by tonight
Today’s Exercise completed (calories burned if desired): Zumba this evening
Hours slept: 5 hours
Description/Photo of Meals: Rice noodles, fried egg, mixed vegetable salad and curry chicken. For drinks, black tea with a little sugar.
Thoughts : Am back up onto the wagon. Hope that I can see 57 region soon! Work hard and don't give up!0 -
Back To It Stats-It began on 23 March, 2019
May Start Weight: 210.2
Current Weight: 204.2
End of May Goal: 199
Overall Goal Weight: 130 lb
Today’s Plan: OMAD
Height: 5’5”
Today’s Water Consumed: Plenty
Sleep: 7 full hours! Woohoo
Exercise: 20 minutes on Rebounder
Description/Photo of Meals: Haven’t eaten yet
Total cals – I don't count calories
Before sharing my day, I want to thank all of you for being so sweet and encouraging and hoping for me to get better sleep! You all are so awesome and I appreciate each and everyone of you! Such amazing women!
Got a beautiful 7 hours of sleep last night, that’s twice in one week, now if I could that amount in a row, I’d feel great all the time, which is currently how I feel. And, no pain today so I got on the rebounder I bought for a full 20 minutes! Oh my goodness, I felt like a little kid. They’re so much fun! I didn’t do anything fancy as far as what I did on it, just things I felt would keep me balanced and not falling off. I did it HIIT style.
I only lost 1/2 pound this week. I didn’t splurge yesterday, but I did end up grazing and had too much salt which is why I probably didn’t lose more. Next time, I’ll just do OMAD. I was lacking too much energy from crappy sleep and I was hungry. It’s one thing to push hours or the first couple of days when doing an EF, but not when you’re not feeling well. I also realize I tried to push to have a great weigh in—which, for me, is NOT healthy to do. So, that’s that. Lol
Will be making full skinned baked chicken today. I was going to use pork rinds for oven fried, but I want mashed cauliflower and creamy Brussels sprouts with bacon. I don’t want to over due the salt again, so no rinds. I’ll get plenty of salt between my cauliflower and the bacon and cheese for the Brussels sprouts. I’ll post a phot later.0 -
Today’s Date: 15 May 2019
Todays Plan: OMAD
Height: 158cm ( 5 feet 2)
Weight Goal for the Month of May: 56.6kg (125lbs)
Today’s Weight: 58.2kg ( 128 lbs)
Today’s Water Consumed: So far, drank 3 cups.
Today’s Exercise completed (calories burned if desired): 30 mins Zumba Aerobics
Hours slept: 5.5 hours
Description/Photo of Meals: 1 Fish Fillet Curry with Cauliflowers, Okra, Cabbage and Wongbok, 1/2 bowl rice, grapes and 4 Arnott's mint slice. Hubby and I each had 1 piece of fish fillet. Total calories - 1108.
Thoughts : Have to get down to at least 56.9 - 57kg before this month is over! Got to work a little harder
Here is how my OMAD looks like for today. Its not as exciting as your food, guys Hubby loves curries 
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That meal looks mighty good to me.0
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I LOVE CURRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYY - I had some gang gai (thai red curry) last night NOM NOM NOM0
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Thank you @LadyBlanks & @mistymeadows2005 We love curry too
Today’s Date: 16 May 2019
Todays Plan: OMAD
Height: 158cm ( 5 feet 2)
Weight Goal for the Month of May: 56.6kg (125lbs)
Today’s Weight: 58.2kg ( 128 lbs) No weight loss today
Today’s Water Consumed: So far, drank 2 cups.
Today’s Exercise completed (calories burned if desired): Hope to do 30 mins of Zumba this evening
Hours slept: 6 hours
Description/Photo of Meals: Finish up the Fish Fillet Curry with Cauliflowers, Okra, Cabbage and Wongbok, 1/2 bowl rice and 4 Arnott's mint slice. Total calories - 961.
Thoughts : Didn't loose any weight this morning I did 45 mins of Zumba aerobics yesterday evening and that should burn at least 160 calories and managed to clocked in 26,170 steps. 0 -
This is so detailed...I both love it and am a little intimidated by it...I'll try though...
Today’s Date: 5/16/2019
Todays Plan: 16:8 - achieved!
Weight Goal for the Month: 17% body fat
Today’s Weight: didn’t weigh
Today’s Water Consumed: 48 oz water, about 20 oz unsweet tea with a little lemonade, about 40 oz diet pepsi, 2 pints green apple cider, 12 oz grapefruit seltzer water
Today’s Exercise completed (calories burned if desired): walking – 12K steps
Hours slept: I should start tracking this
Description/Photo of Meals:
Morning – coffee
Lunch – chicken/veg/rice bowl, 5 guys cheeseburger
Dinner – happy hour ciders plus ½ a corned beef sandwich/fries
Your thoughts/comments on the day: Today was good except for not doing my planned workouts.
NSV – I got a free cider and a free glass at happy hour, so I must have been looking cute.
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Today’s Date: 17 May 2019
Todays Plan: OMAD
Height: 158cm ( 5 feet 2)
Weight Goal for the Month of May: 56.6kg (125lbs)
Today’s Weight: 58kg ( 127.6 lbs)
Today’s Water Consumed: So far, drank 3 cups.
Today’s Exercise completed (calories burned if desired): Hope to do 30 mins of Zumba this evening
Hours slept: 5.5 hours
Description/Photo of Meals: 1/2 cup coconut rice with stir-fry sambal long beans, hard boil egg and chicken rendang. Total calories 739.
Thoughts : I might be doing something right as I loss 0.2kg. For steps, I clocked in 23,725 for yesterday (16 May)0
