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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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In my opinion, tracking what we consume is the most important aspect of the UAC and reaching or maintaining our goals. On the other hand, which is the second most important? Is it eating or exercising? Occasionally, the answer may vary if you are doing multiple hours of exercise per day, but for most of us, controlling our consumption is more important than exercise.
I love being able to exercise, but one high calorie indulgence can take me way off track.
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes 220 minutes walk
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? - yes and first Christmas party done. I even had allowance for a glass of fizz
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
Tracking and eating are the most important parts of keeping my weight down. Exercise is a nice bonus. If I don't fit all my meals within my calorie allowance and try to eat back my exercise calories, I always overshoot and eat too much.3 -
I stumbled across this website when I was just converting kilos into lbs, it was livestrong or something at the time. I need to lose weight off my knee, important, urgent. I was in a car crash now almost 20 years ago and my knee and ankle do not like the extra weight I put on doing stressful jobs, leading a stressful life, making excuses... Tracking is brilliant, so is exercice. I usually fall off the wagon ... This challenge helps ...6
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December 10
Exercised?: Yes (5 km in 40 mins - hills)
Calories?: Yes
Tracked?: Yes
Not as tired today and made the sub 40min for the 5km easily. Cooler temperatures helped too. Walked after dinner.
Mentally was another bad day for me. Hard to keep focus on what I was doing. Really struggling with starting things to get my motivation going. (activity comes before motivation, then followed by more activity). Maybe I need to start walking in the morning instead of the evening.
@RangerRickL . For me 20 mins activity is probably the most important of the 3 UAC principles. Tracking and budget are so ingrained in my habits that I do these almost automagically.
If I miss a day, it's usually the activity side. High protein, largely gluten free diet makes it difficult to over-eat. Combine this with preference for no-calorie beverages (water. black tea), and increasing weight REQUIRES a loss of focus on activity (coupled with huge amount of stress and lack of good sleep).5 -
Today was good choices. We have loadshedding (where they turn our power out for portions of the day) which is actually helping at the moment. We leave work early if the power goes off within 2 hours of closing and evenings at home without power force easy meal choices like salad.
Today exercise was walking to work from dropping my car off (oil leak which turned out to be a faulty filter that was installed a couple of months ago so no charge) and running around like crazy when our little stranded seal pup started seizing. Held her all the way to the vet but sadly she didn't make it. Jiu Jitsu class in the evening so I did my rehab warm up and then watched the whole class because I couldn't do the stuff they did (and they even skipped drills).
Coach got back from Japan with our champ so looking forward to making time to do with him which will boost my confidence (and he will push me to roll with people as he sees fit which is what I need. I know I can trust him)
For me exercise is the key to my healthy lifestyle. When I'm training regularly, I find it easy to eat good food and I actually eat less and sometimes have to remind myself to eat because I lose the hungry trigger I have when I'm being lazy. I definitely see this journey being different for everyone but am grateful that I have found what works for me. Now to just get my body working fully again so I can train as I want to.5 -
Sorry to read your sad news @Dory_42
Yes x 3. For me, all 3 are important. I used to put too much emphasis on exercise but as @craigo3154 always says, you can't out train a bad diet.4 -
December 10
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes. Decided to walk today.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
I can do the food and tracking easily but during the winter months, exercise become a challenge. UAC has help me a lot in that area as I do not want to write "No" for exercise.2 -
12/10 Pass Day #1
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, 50 minute outside walk with DH and Annie & 20 indoor warmup exercises and stretches
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? No
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes1 -
12/10
Exersized-?yes
Caleries?-yes
Logged?-yes2 -
12/10
Exercise: Yes. Did chest and abs plus hip PT and Stationary Bike, total of 100 minutes
Calories: Yes. Easily under today by 400. Still saving all my pass days but will probably use one this weekend
Logged: Yes. Logged everything2 -
Dec 10:
Exercise >20 minutes: Yes. 60 minutes elliptical. 50 mins weights.
Within kcal (<1800): Yes. 1324 kcal
Track everything: Yes
@RangerRickL love this question
For me, out of the 3, exercise is most important. If I don’t exercise, I tend to snowball - eat too much and/or poorly, and then don’t want to log it. It’s been about 3 months for me, and a few days when I didn’t exercise in the morning, I found the accountability of the UAC motivating to do at least the 20 mins and made time at night.2 -
Exercise: Yes. 35 minutes on the elliptical.
Calories:Yes, under
Tracked:Yes1 -
Exercise: Y 11K steps including 47 min on the treadmill at the Y. 3 mi @ 5.5% & 4 mph
Calories: Y 1146/1800 (+552 exercise)
Tracked: Y
Decided to tighten up on the calories for the week and try and average 1600/day vs. my normal limit of 1800. Going pretty well thus far as I have totaled around 2000 for Monday & Tuesday. Today I also hopped on the scale and was down 1.6 from 11/30. That makes an even 45 lost since 9/7.
I agree with @RangerRickL about the tracking....too many times ( not tracking) I have thought I was doing well for the day only to remember all the snacks here and there that added up to a bunch of calories. Like many have said it doesn’t take long to out eat your exercise. It is far easier to not eat it in the first place than the time and effort spent trying to burn it off.4 -
Over 20 mins exercise? ✅ walking + Physio
Under Calorie Gaol? ✅
Tracked? ✅
Remaining Pass Days? 2️⃣ our of 3️⃣
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Cleaning and organizing for 60 minutes
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes2 -
Exercise? Yes. 30 minutes treadmill, plus running chores and cleaning.
Within my calorie goal? Definitely, even though Fitbit and MFP are refusing to sync!
Tracked everything? Yessir.
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, 45 minute walk.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes2 -
Yes x3. Lower body strength.2
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Dec 10
Exercised: yes, 60 min Step Class
Calories: yes, went out for lunch today (unplanned) but searched nutritional info and still made today’s target by skipping snacks and having a lighter supper (850 calorie lunch... yikes)
Tracked: yes
For me it’s calories 100%. I spent the last 9 months gaining 11 lbs while exercising 5+ hours per week, high impact group fitness classes. Finishing the kids food, snacking and portion sizes are my biggest areas I needed to cut out.
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Exercise: 1 mile run this morning (plus half mile of warm up/cool down).... walking break at work.... evening workout of warmup then run 2 min followed by 1.5 min upper body exercises x3 then 8 minutes lower body floor exercises
Calories: good
logged: yes
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December 10
Exercised? YES - Crossfit Class
Tracked? YES
Calories? YES
Passes Used:0/3
First, if you can run for 32 minutes (at 6 mph) after drinking 4 Miller Lites, you're a better drinker than me. Tracking is much more important than excercise. You can't outrun your fork.2 -
Yes, x3
2 passes left.
Exhausted.
This was one of the days when I could have easily flopped on the couch and skipped exercise but I wanted that x3.
Back on the horse! Giddy up.
Have a successful day tomorrow all!3 -
Yes to all 32
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? YES (35 min on stationary bike at gym)
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? YES
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? YES2 -
Luckily, I no longer hardly even think of eating those food choices in that poster! But it's always good to remember you can't outrun a donut. Nevertheless, I think the required exercise is the thing that makes me feel good about myself and leads to other good choices. The second most important thing, for me, is what I'm eating. I really try to only eat food with nutritional value. This seems to cut out the desire to overeat.
Yes x 3 - I love walking when it's chilly.3 -
Upon further thought, the exercise of tracking, stating the facts, is the thing that pulls this all together when you are trying to lose or maintain. It keeps me mindful and honest with myself about what I eat.2
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yes x3
Well under due to a ton of steps plus 2 hours of exercise class.
Despite that, I agree that our eating habits are more important than exercise. It takes a lot of exercise to burn off a handful of chips or cookies! I like exercise because then I can eat a bit more, and I love the feeling of working up an appetite, but I am careful about it because calories can add up quickly if you're not tracking.3 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, 115 minutes of walking (several walks)
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes, about 300 under
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes, tracked it all
Meditation: yes, walking meditation3 -
Yes x 33
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Yes x3 today, 40 mins in gym and a 90 minute walk 3
