Jumpstart January 2020 Challenge!
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Jan 20
on-plan cals: lower day
on-plan carbs: lower carbs
workout: 1/6, cardio
NEAT:
Just doing the stuff.
Today is supposed to be strength but my knees are being rude, particularly the right one. So I guess we'll see how it goes. My knees HATE lunges so bad.
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@baconslave how do you track your NEAT? I love this goal, especially in the winter!0
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Does anyone have any ideas on what I should do about waking up dreaming of eating lasagna at our local Italian restaurant? or this morning, I woke up thinking about Pizza Hut sausage pizza with extra cheese. I haven't had either one, not even a taste for over 3 months.
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Check in for Dec 20.
1. Lose 5 lbs before 1/31, going okay, don't think I'm going to make 5 pounds unless something drastic happens
2. Stay under carb goal, <35 day Eek!, didn't realize the food I made for supper last night had so many carbs
3. Stay under calorie goal, <1,500 day Good!, still under calories
4. Exercise every day YES! Still really hungry for some reason.
5. Plan ahead for meals and snacks. Didn't do so good planning ahead since I was surprised about amount of carbs in the smoked sausage last night for supper.2 -
@vkrenz - meat sauce or bolognese with lots of garlic and cheese is one of my go to meals. I use carrot noodles which are higher carb but zucchini noodles, spaghetti squash or baking inside bell peppers are all options. It's easy to make a big batch and freeze.2
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Update January 21, 2020
Hitting water goal daily
Hitting fiber goal almost every day. I think missed 3 days this month.
Hitting exercise goal. So much easier now, that we are actully getting some cooler temps here in Florida.
Staying under calorie/carbs daily. Staying good on fats and proteins easy, it is always the carbs that try to get sneaky.
Made a nice size batch of Chili today, added a bit of a twist I added 3 oz of chopped up fresh radishes to it. Came out tasty. Keeping half for this week, and the rest I batched up and into freezer in dinner/lunch portions.
Logging food, weighing food every morsel.
Snacks done up in baggies for week. Keeps me out of trouble
Down 3.6 lbs for January, goal is to lose 5 lbs. Just keep going!
Starting as of Wednesday 1/1/2020
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Yesterday and today I’ve felt more hungry and had strong urges to snack even though it hit when I wasn’t hungry. Yesterday I gave in to a few nuts but today have tried to distract myself. Today is the first day I didn’t fast for at least 16 hours but I won’t get too hung up there. Lost a smidge last week so at least weight is moving slowly down. The weather kept me inside all weekend so NEAT was much lower than normal but I’m back up for the last two days. Hang in there everyone!2
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We're still not able to get back here every day to check in. Yesterday was super-stressful with work stuff, and normally that kind of thing triggers us to want to eat. It didn't this time, and we wound up not eating at all till later than usual. Despite the other issues, we've managed ok for week 3.
Jan 20:
1) Carbs < 30g - ✅
2) 1000 < Calories < 1500 - ✅
3) Log Everything! - ✅
4) Hit our activity goal every day - ✅
5) At least 5 workouts/week - ◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◻️✅
Jan 21:
1) Carbs < 30g - ✅
2) 1000 < Calories < 1500 - ✅
3) Log Everything! - ✅
4) Hit our activity goal every day - ✅
5) At least 5 workouts/week - ◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️✅
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amckholmes wrote: »@baconslave how do you track your NEAT? I love this goal, especially in the winter!
Well I have a Fitbit that fusses at me every hour to remind me if I haven't gotten at least 250 steps. Then I try to pay attention otherwise to how much I'm moving. I add in extra pacing, fidgeting, and taking extra trips to put things away just to move around. I stay on my feet when I'm up as long as I can. That sort of thing.
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Day 20:
Eat at maintenance (1764 +/-200 per day)
Do the planned workouts every day
Get 10K steps a day
Had a lovely happy hour with the girls...so fun to catch up with everyone and there were a few new gals so I even got to make some new friends. Didn't workout, but I did some extra walking at the mall, so some activity level was achieved.2 -
Jan 21
on-plan cals: higher day
on-plan carbs: higher carbs
workout: 2/6, strength
NEAT:
I did a different workout yesterday. For some reason, normal lunges murder my supporting leg. My form is fine. But particularly on my right side, it must be my wonky hip (congenital weirdness passed down. Great-grams, Grams, Mom, me and my sis all have hip trouble on one side. But this vid did Bulgarian split squats instead. No anger with the knees. Why? I guess it's removing the dysfunction of my twisted joint or whatever is wrong with my stupid hip. So for now I'll sub those for lunges.
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@baconslave - bulgarian squats engage your glutes more and protect your knees (especially if you step forward a little further and push through your heels) so you aren't relying on other muscles and joints to compensate. Glute training has gotten rid of all of my chronic pain plus the lateral pelvic tilt I had on my right side due to sitting with my legs crossed. I am not sure if weak glute muscles are the cause of your issues, but strengthening them will probably help so if you like split squats I say keep doing them and adding weight and see what happens over the long term. They are a good exercise for balance and correcting problems on a specific side of your body.
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I had a rough start to my week and don't want to go into details but I had a good day yesterday and am getting along better today. The only things I've been able to do consistently are work out and get back on track right after I veer off. And my weight is staying the same outside of water fluctuations, it might even be going down slowly. So even though it's hard right now and I keep screwing up that's good overall! My new mantra is "mistakes are how I learn".3 -
chickencereal wrote: »@baconslave - bulgarian squats engage your glutes more and protect your knees (especially if you step forward a little further and push through your heels) so you aren't relying on other muscles and joints to compensate. Glute training has gotten rid of all of my chronic pain plus the lateral pelvic tilt I had on my right side due to sitting with my legs crossed. I am not sure if weak glute muscles are the cause of your issues, but strengthening them will probably help so if you like split squats I say keep doing them and adding weight and see what happens over the long term. They are a good exercise for balance and correcting problems on a specific side of your body.
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I had a rough start to my week and don't want to go into details but I had a good day yesterday and am getting along better today. The only things I've been able to do consistently are work out and get back on track right after I veer off. And my weight is staying the same outside of water fluctuations, it might even be going down slowly. So even though it's hard right now and I keep screwing up that's good overall! My new mantra is "mistakes are how I learn".
I probably will stick with them. I don't know whether the glutes are weak or not but I've been strength training in one form or another for years. Lunges have always been the devil, but I'm 41 now and my body is acting like it lately. Especially since The Plague.
No time for that. 
Mistakes are how I learn, too. It's the troubleshooting after the mistake in which I learn some lesson or another. Or develop a new brain-hack. Or confirm a particular experiment parameter just doesn't work.
You only lose if you quit. So it looks like you're doing good.
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Ha ha ha, I crack myself up. I guess I'm stuck in Dec.
Check in for Jan. 21
1. Lose 5 lbs before 1/3, I'm trying not to get frustrated, scale is not moving in right direction.
2. Stay under carb goal, <35 day Went over on carbs to 50. I've had the munchies and also truly hungry this week
3. Stay under calorie goal, <1,500 day Good!, still under calories
4. Exercise every day YES!
5. Plan ahead for meals and snacks. Did good planning ahead. Had to keep myself really busy so I could keep myself away from eating.1 -
Day 21:
Eat at maintenance (1764 +/-200 per day)
Do the planned workouts every day
Get 10K steps a day
I was actually like 500 cals under for the day, and that was with some wine...super yum...tonight is my birthday dinner, so I might need those extra cals!2 -
I'm ready!1
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Jan 22
on-plan cals: lower day
on-plan carbs: lower carbs
workout: 3/6, cardio
NEAT:
Been busy day so far. I have to sub for World Geography class today so I'm at the homeschool co-op. Hoping to get in strength training today. With my Bulgarian Split squats.
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baconslave wrote: »I'm putting a feeler out here about future challenges. I won't necessarily have a theme every time (I have a Mindfulness challenge I like to do in March usually) but is anyone interested in a regular running monthly challenge?
I hope you will, even though I don’t post daily, I certainly read it daily and am staying very motivated by everyone else staying motivated! I do a weekly check in on the maintenance page, but any mention of macros or low carb sets people off and things turn into an attack, which is certainly not helpful! Thank you for creating this forum
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I will certainly participate with another month and beyond of checking in. I feel motivated by reading others success stories
check in for Jan 22
1. Lose 5 lbs before 1/3, I'm trying not to get frustrated, scale is not moving at all.
2. Stay under carb goal, <35 day Good day
3. Stay under calorie goal, <1,500 day Good!, still under calories
4. Exercise every day YES!
5. Plan ahead for meals and snacks. Did well.
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Today was a good day for eating well, no snacking after dinner and okay water consumption and NEAT. Not sure why we all seem to have the munchies but I’m still trying to fight it. I had such a good day yesterday then broke down for sugar. I swear, carbs begets more carbs. Weather forecast tomorrow looks yuck so I may be cooped up. I hope to find things to occupy my brain. Hanging blinds and washing curtains may be the saving grace! Have a good weekend everyone!1
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Happy Birthday @tcunbeliever 🎉1
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Day 22:
Eat at maintenance (1764 +/-200 per day)
Do the planned workouts every day
Get 10K steps a day
I don't even know how I managed to have an amazing evening out and NOT go over on calories, but I'll take it!!! I even wore makeup and jewelry and a dress like a real grown-up!!!2 -
Today was a good day for eating well, no snacking after dinner and okay water consumption and NEAT. Not sure why we all seem to have the munchies but I’m still trying to fight it. I had such a good day yesterday then broke down for sugar. I swear, carbs begets more carbs. Weather forecast tomorrow looks yuck so I may be cooped up. I hope to find things to occupy my brain. Hanging blinds and washing curtains may be the saving grace! Have a good weekend everyone!
That is great!
I was "starving" yesterday, too. I have to take vit D because I tend to get SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) pretty badly over winter. And part of that is wanting to make like a bear and get real fat and hibernate b/c it's cold or dreary or both.
Jan 23
on-plan cals: higher day
on-plan carbs: higher carbs
workout: 4/6, strength
NEAT:
I will likely not get to workout today. My oldest son is having a Gaming Night and 10 guys are going to be over here so we need to clean. So NEAT will happen so I'll try to get that missing workout in tomorrow.
I have high hopes to one day before I die to get that 6th workout I want... but this week isn't going to be the week.
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tcunbeliever wrote: »Day 22:
Eat at maintenance (1764 +/-200 per day)
Do the planned workouts every day
Get 10K steps a day
I don't even know how I managed to have an amazing evening out and NOT go over on calories, but I'll take it!!! I even wore makeup and jewelry and a dress like a real grown-up!!!
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Congratulations on everyone's successes!
Check in Jan 23
1. Lose 5 lbs before 1/3, scale is starting to move in the right direction
2. Stay under carb goal, <35 day well under
3. Stay under calorie goal, <1,500 day well under also
4. Exercise every day YES! going 4.0 incline and 3.5 speed for 2 miles every day this week
5. Plan ahead for meals and snacks. Did well.
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I did get that workout in yesterday. My teens are reading Till We Have Faces in Lit and Composition so I got the audiobook for my 15 who is both ADHD and dyslexic (he listens and reads along to help him better focus on the text.) I got to listening to it myself while I cleaned and got lucky, finishing early so I got to Dredmill for an hour. It's a retelling of a Greek Myth, and it's actually interesting. I always adored Ancient History. But the hormones hit when I had the cookies out for their Gaming Night last night. Oh well. Maybe I can squeeze in that 6th workout today? We shall see.4
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I’m writing off yesterday due to my dear saboteur talking me into food I’m better off without. I did salvage the day by fasting for about 20 hours and have done well today with portions and NEAT. Lots of cleaning, blind hanging and some P90x to work off some of the carb extravaganza. I suspect I’ll have regained what I’ve lost over the last two weeks. Being a marathon rather than a sprint, tomorrow is another day!1
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