Share Your Day
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@NovusDies there are six other days of the week to choose from! 😃
Who knows? After I get through all this surgical nonsense next spring I might even drop my longstanding rule of never meeting another internet weirdo nice person again. I suspect it might take me a real long time to bike to wherever you are though. lol.2 -
@NovusDies I wouldn't suggest starting with a cross-country ride! maybe, like, a bike path? 🚲🚲🚲1
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So I have my cat on a diet too. The little witch must be getting food from the neighbors because she had put on 200g this morning. Now I'm going to have to watch where she goes and let them know not to feed her. Maybe she goes and steals it...I wouldn't be surprised... she's a sneaky wee witch. 🐈 🐅3
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How is the wee witch doing now?0
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This has been a good day....my husbands RA pain let up some today and my grandchildren had early dismissal from school...we picked them up and went to Olive Garden for lunch....I had a huge salad and the 510 calorie shrimp scampi....no bread sticks and no wine....I was comfortably full, no guilt, and we had a great time with the kids....brought dinner home for their parents and I have chicken salad prepared for my dinner....no muss, no fuss and nothing to clean up!1
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I had a realization yesterday afternoon while driving to the gym to hit the treadmill. The realization had to do with reasons behind my weight not lowering for weeks upon weeks. Thinking back on my exercise, I have really stepped up and tried to be active each and every day and for these last same "weeks upon weeks" my deliberate exercise has been hit or miss. Coincidence? I think not!
As I approached the treadmill it also occurred to me that I've made some really good progress this year. Looking back I remember telling myself, ok, you can do ten minutes, just ten minutes at a slow pace (2.0 with no incline). I kept the slow pace but increased my duration to 30 minutes (yeah!) over a period of two months. That weight loss plateau I've been whining about coincides with my exercise plateau. In May and June I began to up the pace and just kept it going in July. I can do better because I am fitter than when I started and when I coasted in July.
Yesterday was my intentional push to up my pace and it felt really good! I did my five minute warmup at 2.5 and each 1/8 of a mile I ramped up until I reached a pace of 3.3 (another five minutes). I walked that 3.3 pace for seven minutes and backed it down just as I had ramped it up, ending with my five minute cool down at 2.5 pace. Heart rate was good and in both my cardio zone and fat burn zone.
I am looking forward to going back to the gym tonight and see if I can accomplish this again
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I am undecided how I want today to play out. We will be having people over for Halloween with party food. There is also the candy but they appeal of that is minimal for me.
Because I was out running errands I ran through McD for 2 egg mcmuffins and a grilled chicken plain (I only ate the chicken) and with the rest of the food I have eaten today I have saved no extra calories for tonight.
I stopped caring a long time ago if I was the odd one out not eating with everyone else so that is not a factor.
This is kind of weird for me. I usually know what I am going to do but I am 50/50 on making this a maintenance day and just eating tonight. I believe I could flip a coin and be happy with either result.1 -
I'm having an empty day. I have felt very hungry all day. I'm craving all sorts of bad things...pizza, candy, ice cream. Really anything. I have kept my diet in check and I am going to have a good dinner but doesn't stop my head from saying "EAT"1
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I should have had a plan. I poked around and ended up eating more than I should because I had not thought it through. So I am over maintenance by over 800 calories. I am slightly irritated because I know better but what is done is done.3
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@NovusDies I think we all should have had a plan. I did the same thing! Today is a new day and it will be better!!! One slip day does not devalue all the hard work that has been put into all the good day!2
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@NovusDies I think we all should have had a plan. I did the same thing! Today is a new day and it will be better!!! One slip day does not devalue all the hard work that has been put into all the good day!
Agree. Learn what you need to learn and then try to forget it. I learned that the novelty of not caring what I did should not have been the "shiny" thing to keep my focus away from having a plan. If I had decided in advance that I was going to go over maintenance I would be fine with the outcome and I probably would have made a better effort to enjoy my food. Instead I picked at things at things and I was not mindful enough. I did have 3 pieces of candy and I did enjoy them but that was only about 250 calories. The rest was mindless grazing.
No big deal. I realized a long time ago that even mistakes had to be part of my plan because I will definitely make them. My plan requires that if I make a mistake I don't do something stupid and overreact to it. So time to let it go...
As you say today is a new day.5 -
It’s definitely not about perfection.1
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It has been one of those days! Busy and stressful at work. All day long I was whining about working out, but I went. On the way home I stopped at the drugstore to get batteries for my food scale, I passed the chip aisle, the candy aisle, and finally the pop aisle. I thought about it for a minute but left with only batteries. It was around 7 pm by this time soooo.... fast food seemed an easy choice BUT! I went home. I got home and the smoke detector was doing its final death beeps. Of course the batteries I just bought did not fit. Back out in the cold to the drugstore. I passed the candy aisle, passed the chip aisle, and passed the pop aisle. This time I stopped and though about it. Driving home I passed the same two fast food places but I made home with only batteries.
The fates tested me today my friends!
Probably because Mercury is in retrograde.4 -
You did good!...you should be pleased!1
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so this happened......my 20W suit pants are swimming on me, I have to hike them up under my bra. I dug around this morning and found an 18W suit pant and it fits (little large in the butt/leg but I can get them over my belly. Great. I put on my suit jacket and off I went. Then I get to work and see that the pants are navy.....not black like I thought (suit jacket is black, blouse is black and white, boots are black..it is noticeable...now....).
sigh.....I have 7 meetings today so I cannot just stay hidden in my office! I would laugh if it was someone else so I have to share to let others get a giggle in at me.5 -
Sneak out at lunch and get a new pair? 2
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Lol. Good problem and bad problem. Can you just take off the jacket? OR and my personal choice...act like you did it on purpose and walk around like the Queen/King of fashion. (Sorry, as I wrote this I realized I'm not sure your gender- not that it matters)2
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FitByFifty1970 wrote: »so this happened......my 20W suit pants are swimming on me, I have to hike them up under my bra. I dug around this morning and found an 18W suit pant and it fits (little large in the butt/leg but I can get them over my belly. Great. I put on my suit jacket and off I went. Then I get to work and see that the pants are navy.....not black like I thought (suit jacket is black, blouse is black and white, boots are black..it is noticeable...now....).
sigh.....I have 7 meetings today so I cannot just stay hidden in my office! I would laugh if it was someone else so I have to share to let others get a giggle in at me.
Great NSV’s.
What’s wrong with black and blue. I’m sure it could be worse. I wouldn’t give it a second thought. We worry way to much about what others think. You rock it!2 -
I made it through! I don't have a lot of shopping options near work, much less to find suits in Womens sizes (I am female). Plus I don't spend money on clothes unless I'm in dire need. I can afford to and I'm grateful for that, I always hated it even when smaller and wished I was someone that did care about fashion/clothing but I don't have that gene). Even taking the jacket off wouldn't help. I will have to go through the closet and pull things out into a better lit room and rearrange it all. It was funny, glad to share silly stuff instead the heavy stuff I have been. :-)2
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Today is day three of no exercise. My knee is slightly better but not good enough to chance exercise. I have been maintaining a calorie deficit so I am not gaining weight but I do very much want to exercise. (super crazy coming from me!!) I am also on day 5 of no smoking.
6 months ago this injury would have been enough to derail me. To add on I would never have dreamed of quitting smoking. But I am sticking with it! baby steps!5 -
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I feel like I've got my mojo back, at last!
This week has been good for deficits, and although I haven't seen the low on the scale that I had in August I'm down 2lbs since the 1st of the month so with a steady loss another 1.5lb will pass that low number as part of the process rather than it being a fluctuation.
I haven't been hungry or had any cravings on an evening this week too and looking back I think the struggles over the past 2 months have all been stress related. I'm still a bit frazzled but it's calmed down considerably now.2 -
Today (or the last few weeks of "todays") have been... alright...
Last week I took my deload week (I do one every 8 weeks) and took the full week off lifting/exercise. Sometimes I will continue to workout but do less weight, less sets, less reps, but last week I just wasn't feeling it so I didn't.
From 10/25-11/1 I purposefully overate my TDEE (part of my deload/biet break strategy) I was eating roughly 3500-4000 calories daily. It was honestly fun at first, and then it just got tedious and tiring. So I'm glad I'm back to my normal amounts of food.
I haven't weighed since then, my scale batteries decided to die and I haven't been to the store to get more, but everything is fitting the same, if not looser. I feel like I had a giant water weight drop from the decreased exercise and increased food and less overall stress.
I'm not worried either way.
Workouts were great this week. More energy, less DOMS after the fact.
Non-fitness: I LOVE to travel. But also really have so much anxiety around travelling. It's mostly things like worrying I'll miss my flight or not be able to find my gate or forget something I needed or something ridiculous which has never happened to me and yet I somehow still always worry about.
I leave in 2 weeks and will be gone for a full month. The amount of worry I have about forgetting things or forgetting to bring my mom things she will need for my fur babies, it's just ludicrous. I always give my mom one of my credit cards when they stay with her in case something happens and they need the vet or need food or need whatever so I know realistically even if I forget something they'll be fine. And the same goes for me. If I forget something there's really nothing stopping me from going to get it... it's just... idk. dumb. I know it's dumb lol.
I've written out lists... so many lists. Lists for packing my stuff, my dogs stuff, lists of things I'm having shipped to my friends house for while I stay with her, lists of things I need to get together around the house before leaving, lists for the people watching my house while I'm gone, lists for my co-worker who will be covering my job while I'm gone, lists for my boss who will also be covering parts of my job while I'm gone... ugh... so many lists.
I just need to keep picturing palm trees and beaches.1 -
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I have yet to go there! It looks lovely. I went to California for the first time last year, mostly Napa Valley and San Francisco and did love it, but no beaches.0 -
oh my gosh, y'all. I have a bar of chocolate in the house. It's been here for for almost 6 hours and hasn't been touched. It's not my favorite but it's my first step in bringing sweets in the house and having them in moderation.3
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@papayahed well done! Smart move to not have your favourite in the house first time. 😁😁1
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Yesterday was a bad day. Got into an disagreement/argument with my better half that ended up with me in the Wendy's drive thru window. Then I got to work and it was our catered christmas dinner night. Nothing like a 5000 calorie day to make you feel good about yourself. I will be better today, when will I ever get over binge eating? I consider it a small victory I "only" ate about 5000 calories but still.5
