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RangerRickL
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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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Portland, Oregon calls itself the City of Roses. Yesterday, We walked for more than 2 hours through the Ladd neighborhood enjoying residential architecture that hails from the 1920’s and beautiful flowers blooming all around us.
Have a great day!!16 -
June 4
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes?yes walking, strength training, gardening
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day?yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank?yes
@RangerRickL beautiful pics! looks like a nice trip
Finally today I lost 2#! I'm ecstatic I hadn't lost in 5 weeks. The only change I made this month was adding in weights, squats and planks so I hope it lasts
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Thanks @RangerRickL for the beautiful pictures!1
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June 3, 2019
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, Strength machines.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
Pass day 0/3 (this is for accountability to myself and my records)6 -
Exercise: 25 mins: 15 mins aerobics app. 10 mins yoga app.
Calories: in budget
Tracking: Yes. Trickier today as I ate at a colleagues house but I think I managed to work it all out.
Tomorrow begins 4 days of birthday celebrations so I'm not sure how I'll manage!!! Hopegully doing this will help keep me in check....even if I dont manage to stay completely inside the rules.
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June 3
68 mins wts & climbin stairs/walking
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Ate less for bf & lunch & ate moderately at the special dinner
Tracked all & was concerned, I’d be over but there was the deficit! Yay! Leaving food on my plate & stopping the moment I realize I’m not hungry is working!11 -
looks like we're all making a great job of June so far x my less obsessive less perfectionist behaviour this month feels better and I still find I have achieved as well by the end of the day x walking for exercise okay for now. tracked every bite of food and am under by 300 or so - which i need to watch as I.worked out last month that the desire to come under limit can get a bit addictive, left me feeling too hungry then the junk food consumption started which left me more hungry - vicious cycle i am not willing to repeat again x 3X yes for me today 4 in a row x keep.going y'all xxx8
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, recumbent bike, 21 minutes, 6.47 miles
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes7 -
Success 0 : 4 Pass
Overeating10 -
ForAmanda222 wrote: »tracked every bite of food and am under by 300 or so - which i need to watch as I.worked out last month that the desire to come under limit can get a bit addictive, left me feeling too hungry then the junk food consumption started which left me more hungry - vicious cycle i am not willing to repeat again[/b]
Very wise! This precisely what I struggled with early in maintenance. I found that once I made actually eating at my maintenance calories a priority, I quit running into that cycle where I would get overly hungry, then over-eart, then under-eat to make up for it. A very frustrating and ineffective strategy!4 -
May 4
Exercised?: Yes. (3km in 24 mins - hills)
Calories?: Yes
Tracked?: Yes
Early late walk after busy work day.
Not much else to report today.ForAmanda222 wrote: »..I.worked out last month that the desire to come under limit can get a bit addictive, left me feeling too hungry then the junk food consumption started which left me more hungry - vicious cycle i am not willing to repeat again...
@ForAmanda222. I can understand this entirely. I tended towards this "all or nothing" approach for myself (part of my personality). I am more willing to allow others slack, but judge myself by harsher standards so tend to obsess over achievement (and thereby exceed goals by a wide margin).
The downside is that when you fail, you fail hard.
Therefore I often say, you need to "forgive" yourself your failures and simply get back on plan (not overcompensate - or yo-yo).
Another saying that helps is "dare to be average". ie. stop chasing perfection and just do enough. Average allows you more time to to more things (and once you have been outstanding, what you deem average seldom is )
Last point is "feeling hungry". Some foods are more filling than others. Only foods that trigger satiety are: fibre, protein and fats (note: not carbohydrates). A lot of processed food, the processing is to strip fibre. This makes the food less filling (more calorie dense). If you eat less processed food, you tend to be satiated quicker and for longer.
(In nature, all carbohydrates are found with fibre. Consumption of fibre WITH carbohydrate slows the absorption of the sugars (glucose). Fibre is like the "antidote" to the fast absorption of sugar "poison". The only benefits in taking fibre on its own (zero nutritional content) is to trigger satiety and help flush the digestive system (if not enough fibre is eaten with normal diet)....Finally today I lost 2#! I'm ecstatic I hadn't lost in 5 weeks. The only change I made this month was adding in weights, squats and planks so I hope it lasts
@Ketch_22. Congratulations. Once you are already near goal it is so hard to make things move.
Weight training will accelerate losses initially, but this too will eventually plateau. However the end goal is to reach a size and a health level you are happy to maintain with an amount of effort you can comfortably sustain. Note: weight does not figure here, it's size and health.
If you cannot comfortably maintain the desired size and a health level, then you will slowly slip out of the habits formed. This will lead to slow increases in size and decreases in health. This is why practical goal setting is so important.
[soap box away now ]
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? YES!
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? YES, even a little under.
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? YES!
@RangerRickL Thank you for the beautiful pictures. It was a lovely way to start the day!
@craigo3154 Thank you for the great information and opinions! I always appreciate your soap box! 😉6 -
Third really nice day in a row. Just as I am getting used to this ... rain in the forecast for tomorrow
Rode Annie in the outdoor ring today which was lovely after MONTHS of being confined to the indoor ring. Also did an hour in the pool (although stayed in the indoor pool since the water temp in the outdoor pool at the health club is incredibly cold). Food on target as was logging. So, yes x 3. 7 -
June 4
Exercise: Yes, just a 30min power walk to the convenience store & back home. had other plans but it ended up being a lazy, tired day. Feeling irritated by it but rest days are necessary and I'll do some light yoga before bed
Calories: Yes
Tracked: Yes
feeling a lil tired and bummed out this week. i forgot working out makes me stressed, it's strange. but the walk to the store was a nice low impact exercise and i could've done more but my body felt like it was weighed down by bricks. i ate well and i'll go to bed early.
the convenience store i go to has so many snacks i want but they're so calorie heavy that i dont know what would be worth splurging on. but they have these Special K protein bars that are just 170cal and 12g protein and taste sorta like a candy bar (i love the strawberry flavor) and i feel satisfied after eating one and it's waaay better for me than a candy bar. But for my birthday this month, i kinda want lemon creme cookies & a honey bun (and a banana moonpie, a childhood fave) lol.
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June 4
Exercised: 45 minutes Jillian Michael's Hard Body L1 + 26K steps
Calories: Yes
Tracked: Yes
@RangerRickL, that sounds like such a lovely day. Those roses are beautiful! We are barely finishing tulips here and hope that we'll get to summer flowers at some point!
@Craigo3154, thanks for your words of wisdom! I'm taking all the maintenance advice under advisement as I get closer to goal (including the knowledge that imagined goal may not be actual goal, and body comp will definitely play a huge part in maintenance).6 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes. 14 strength, 25 walking after dinner.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes0/3 pass days used.6 -
6/4
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? 50 minutes outside walk in the late afternoon plus playtime with Annie
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes, on target
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes7 -
4th June
Tracked yes
Under yes
Exercise yes salsacise7 -
3x yes
1 pass
3 yes1. May 9 pass, 22 yass6 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? 120 aqua size and cutting grass
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes8 -
6/4
Pass day
On bed rest due to my knee.8 -
Calories - Y
Tracked - Y
Exercise - Y, a two-day streak of sunshine and 70s (before the hot thunderstorms return tomorrow) so three, 1-mile dog walks throughout the day. Also did a 20-minute peloton ride7 -
Exercise: Yes. Stationary bike for 25 minutes
Tracked: Yes
Calories: Yes4 -
June 4th
Exercised - Yes Zumba class, elliptical machine
Tracked - Yes
Calories - MFP didn’t sync with Fitbit and cannot get them to talk but think I was slightly over hence this can be pass day 16 -
Yes x 3: walking6
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6/4 Update
This turned into a night of nibbles
, so back to re-categorize this as Pass Day #1 for June. 7 -
Exercise? Yes - 1.75 mi run followed by 10 minute cool down walk
Calories? Yes - under 350. A bit too much under today, but it is what it is.
Tracked everything? Yes8 -
6/4
Exercise? Yes, core exercises
Calories? Yes
Tracking? Yes7 -
June 4
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, went for a 30 minute bike ride
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
@RangerRickL - Beautiful flowers! Glad you had a nice day!9
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