February 2020 Monthly Challenge
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Day 6:
1. Eat within cal/carb limits
2. Do scheduled strength training
3. Do 20 min cardio
4. Find some daily inspiration and share it
The day was mostly good...another day filled with social events, and things were a bit derailed because I forgot that a small beer at the german place is still half a liter and they were out of the dinner I planned for...however all in all it was good...I did all of Wed strength training, plus half of Thursday before my form started to break down, but with any luck I can finish the other half tonight before the concert...no cardio, but time was limited, so I did what I could.
Today's inspiration:
For me, every day that I stay on plan is another win. Eating healthy isn't deprivation, it's conquering food temptations. Exercise isn't torture, it's putting my body to good use and challenging my limits. Seize it, make it yours, own it!!!
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weatherking2019 wrote: »weatherking2019 wrote: »February goals
#1:Stick to light dinner diet 👍👍👎👍
#2:Drinks on weekends only 👍👍👎👍
#3: OTF 4x week👍👍👎
#4:10 min morning Kettlebell workout👍👍👎👎/quote]
Had work dinner on Wed. I ate light but had a drink and later suffered from food poisoning...
I had to cancel OTF yesterday and didn't kettlebell either.
I'm going to take it easy this weekend and hope to bounce back next week!4 -
weatherking2019 wrote: »weatherking2019 wrote: »February goals
#1:Stick to light dinner diet 👍👍👎👍
#2:Drinks on weekends only 👍👍👎👍
#3: OTF 4x week👍👍👎
#4:10 min morning Kettlebell workout👍👍👎👎/quote]
Had work dinner on Wed. I ate light but had a drink and later suffered from food poisoning...
I had to cancel OTF yesterday and didn't kettlebell either.
I'm going to take it easy this weekend and hope to bounce back next week!
Oh no! So sorry. I hope you're feeling better.3 -
Feb 6
on-plan cals:
lower day.
on-plan carbs: lower day
workout: 4/6 strength
NEAT:
Yesterday was supposed to be a higher day, but today is my youngest's b-day and I know there will be a calorie bomb. So I did strength training and it was a little hard but I powered through it! NEAT was forced to be alright considering I had to go up and down the long driveway (Appalachia ftw)multiple times to check the progress of the FRICKIN FLOOD!
Pretty sure I burned a bunch of calories worrying. Hubby had to take off work to go get my teens in town with the truck in case the bridge flooded before they could get home (they had a Taurus. That thing barely avoids not scraping the ground on sunny days. 
) We have to go pick up the car later this weekend from town. But now its SNOWING. This is ridiculous!
Weigh in tomorrow. And I'm sure even though I've been good, it's going to give me nonsense probably. Gotta love the Close-to-Goal Blues.
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Oh no! @weatherking, food poisoning is no joke. Increase fluids if you can so you don't get dehydrated.
Check in for February 6.
1. get rid of 5 lbs by 2/29. Scale is doing well
2. stay < 35 net carbs daily. Whoops, a friend of mine gave me Amish Friendship bread starter so it was time to make it and bake it. One muffin put me over carbs at 53 for the day. I am giving away the rest of them or my husband will eat them.
3. stay < 1,500 calories daily. Good, well under.
4. intermittent fasting 16:8 every day. Stayed inside the window
5. Plan ahead every day. I sorta planned but did not anticipate so many carbs for a muffin when I looked up the recipe.
Good luck with your weigh in tomorrow @baconslave and you see close-to-goal success!6 -
T-W-Th check in
1. Eat more veggies and fruit.
2. Do a light workout 3 times this week.
3. Take apple cider vinegar daily.
4. Cut back on portion sizes.
Doing pretty well except those pesky workouts. My workout room is in disarray and we've had rain all week which led to flooding and now it's turned to snow. Excuses, excuses!7 -
2/7
Had a blip yesterday evening, was supposed to do IF but broke down outside of my eating window. Tonight I am determined to do better. Weigh-in for me will be tomorrow morning before breakfast. Hoping for a slight downward change, but who knows.5 -
haha. Up 3lb.
Aggravated? Yep. Surprised? Nope. My body is such a turd. 
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Lost one pound today at weigh-in, probably water weight but I'll try to keep positive. This week I plan to take a harder stand and watch BOTH carbs and calories. (I hate to do this, but I have to get rid of 5lbs of holiday weight.) In the past I would let 5lbs stay and eventually it always grew to 25!!!6
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Can 173- no change this week
End of month GW 169
Cardio twice a week- only got one in
Strength once a week - worked on lower body with trainer Monday
Log daily- 6 out of 7 days and one backed dated
Meal prep so I can grab and go into the morning. Very successful and started prepping today for next week!5 -
Bad day on the 6, house Reno’s, dinner out, wine through me for a loop so CHO and caps were ruinous. Back on track since. Weigh in tomorrow- we will see! Still having trouble determining how much carb, how much fat, how much protein.
I think I am paranoid about increasing fat- it’s so ingrained in our brains😺4 -
Gluten free eating- 👎🏻
Sugar free lifestyle (no sugar added)- 👎🏻 damn emotional eating...
5,000 steps daily-👎🏻 somehow I didn’t reach my step goal, but I did stand 12/12, climb 10 flights of stairs, get small bursts of “exercise”,
Increase water intake-👎🏻 Drink more water!!!!!
Exercise 3x per week-0/3
Daily planning/tracking-👍🏻
Intermittent Fasting-did a full 16 hrs fast last night. I had a ton of energy today 👍🏻😁
I stayed under calorie limit today even though I ate junk, go figure..3 -
2/10
1. Workout-> cardio OR weights:
Thursday:
Friday: 
Saturday: Sunday:
This weekend was packed with last minute/day altering events... ... but I was active one way or another
2. Weigh/log food daily:
Thursday: Friday: Saturday: Sunday:
Did not weigh everything as I was not home until evening most of those days.
Over estimated my entries, had one meal each day.
If any snacks- low carb/sugar, etc.
3. Keep carbs to a minimum/daily <50:
Thursday:
Friday: Saturday: 
Sunday:
4. Tan: at least 3 times a week--
(could not squeeze it in)
5. Try 10 new recipes: 1 down, 9 more --> still in progress
Thursday:
Friday: Saturday: Sunday:
6. Clean out garage by end of month: Repacked the Christmas trees nice & neatly, take up less space now
My February is turning out to be really busy with plenty of abrupt transitions. In the past it has always been a slow, quiet month. Keep on keeping on...
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Day 7-9:
1. Eat within cal/carb limits
2. Do scheduled strength training
3. Do 20 min cardio
4. Find some daily inspiration and share it
The weekend was hectic...KISS was epic and amazing...totally worth it...Saturday was dad's birthday...Sunday was kind of a lazy day. I made up most of my strength training workouts, but didn't bother with cardio...food was mostly ok, should probably lay off the drinks for the rest of the month if I really want to hit my goals.2 -
Today's inspiration:
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Friday-Sunday check in
1. Eat more veggies and fruit.:/:)
2. Do a light workout 3 times this week.
3. Take apple cider vinegar daily.
4. Cut back on portion sizes. 3 -
Check in for Feb 7, 8, and 9.
1. get rid of 5 lbs by 2/29. I'm happy with the scale
2. stay < 35 net carbs daily. Did good with carbs every day
3. stay < 1,500 calories daily. Good, well under.
4. intermittent fasting 16:8 every day. Did good with window of eating both 2/7 and 2/8 but 2/9 started my eating window too soon and then evening meal fell outside time parameter. All in all did good.
5. Plan ahead every day.
Hope everyone is doing well. My area had a much larger snowfall then what was predicted so I got lots of exercise shoveling. Good for me, right?
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2/10
Met most of my goals, got in a gym workout, kept calories and carbs in control, back to IF. Since today was so rainy, I decided to spend some time on meal prepping. Always seem to run out of something I need, but all in all wasn't too bad. Have a few social engagements this week (my downfall) but hopefully I'll find something on the menu low in carbs. I find that even if they are low carb, they are just too large a portion and I just seem to want to finish the entire amount anyway.
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Man, what was with the weekend?? On the bright side my water consumption was awesome. But calories not so good. I was mindful that I wanted more and more food so the scale hopped up those same three pounds as @baconslave. Today I buckled down and nailed my goals and feel good because of it. One day does not make a trend so we’ll see how the week plays out. I’m reading The Carnivore Diet so hubs and I may start slow and try it over the next few weeks. Wish us luck!4
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Day 10:
1. Eat within cal/carb limits
2. Do scheduled strength training
3. Do 20 min cardio - not on the schedule today
4. Find some daily inspiration and share it
The day was nearly perfect, I even managed to be 200 cal under goal, so if I can keep that up all week then I can dig back some of the progress I lost this weekend eating like a lunatic. I noticed in yoga class (because of all the mirrors) that I am a much bigger girl than most of them there...like bigger muscular, and I'm ok with that...also this morning woke up to DOMS in a back muscle like at the bottom of my shoulder blade - weird, I guess it's from Sunday's back workout, so that's good, just not a place I usually get sore muscles.
Today's inspiration:
I like the idea of not fretting over the scale...I got on my scale this morning and it lied to me...said I was 151, but my rings barely fit, so I'm at least 5-10 lbs over that because it's PMS week and I'm definitely retaining a lot of water...I need to replace the batteries...however, what difference does it make what the scale says, really, in the end I'm aiming to look good in my cosplay and how I look will not be altered by a number on a piece of equipment.
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Feb 10
on-plan cals: lower day
on-plan carbs: lower day
workout: 1/6 cardio
NEAT:
Weekend came and went. I got lots of activity doing the floors here in the house on Saturday.
Sunday I was a slug. But it was cold and I hadn't slept well. So that's fine.
Did 2 HIITish workouts yesterday (ok we all know they aren't true HIIT, just intense interval training.) Sweat indeed. An hour all told including brief warm-ups and cool-down.
Today is strength. It rains and rains here. I have to go down and check the creek to see if it's flooding our driveway entrances again yet. This is messed up. Anyway. Off to look around MFP and then get my kids to do some schooling. It's after 9 and the teens are still in bed. Hopefully they'll start stirring soon. They'll get their work done, but the Youngers (4th grade and 6th grade) are the ones who mess around the most.
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Check in for Feb 10
1. get rid of 5 lbs by 2/29. almost a success
2. stay < 35 net carbs daily. great with carbs
3. stay < 1,500 calories daily. good, very low, wasn't hungry and kept very busy all day
4. intermittent fasting 16:8 every day. Did good, likely b/c I wasn't hungry
5. Plan ahead every day. Yep, trying. Week days are easy.
We are supposed to get another 2-4 inches of snow tomorrow evening and then more the next day. On the bright side, I'll get to shovel and that burns a lot of calories, but it usually makes me very hungry.
Keep up the good work everyone. Lovin' the inspiration, isn't it so true that the number on the scale is just a number but it causes such disappointment sometimes.4 -
Follow up. Doing well with the CHo and calories. Under my limits . Exercising all days. Sunny and warm up here in Victoria BC,. Good luck everyone, you inspire me.3
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Day 10:
1. Eat within cal/carb limits
2. Do scheduled strength training
3. Do 20 min cardio
4. Find some daily inspiration and share it
Day was mostly good...I had chiro appt, which was nice, but which cost me time on the schedule so I was barely able to cram in my weights before cooking dinner so cardio was sacrificed...food was on-target but not under today...plus, my protein is still a struggle, so I'm going to start trying to get more protein with breakfast.
Today's inspiration made me giggle...it's not christmas coming, but maybe for valentine's day?
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Feb 11
on-plan cals: higher day
on-plan carbs: higher day
workout: 2/6 strength
NEAT:
Slow on the NEAT but made it up before the day was over. That's the problem with deficit for me. It makes me want to hibernate even more. Strength was def not good yesterday, but I powered through. Another PITA re: deficit is that my sleep is even worse. I woke for 1.5 hours in the middle of the night. Finally fell back asleep, but between hubby keeping me up and me waking 236 times and then being awake awhile. Well, today's energy is going to suck too. But it is as it is and I won't let that stop me from getting good cardio in today.
Busy busy frickin' busy today.
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Yesterday was another good day for me. All carnivore, mindful eating for lunch and dinner and just under calories by my estimation. Water consumption was just okay because I had more coffee than normal. All in all, a win.
This getting used to less calories is a challenge. Gotta change the mindset from living to eat back to eating to live 🤨4 -
I like that idea of changing the mindset from living to eat to eating to live.
When I was at my highest weight I was definitely living to eat, thinking food was going to help me feel better. Now, it's like the weight is lifted from food controlling me to me controlling it.
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Check in for Feb 11.
1. get rid of 5 lbs by 2/29. getting closer to success
2. stay < 35 net carbs daily. well under
3. stay < 1,500 calories daily. again well under
4. intermittent fasting 16:8 every day. Another successful day
5. Plan ahead every day. success4 -
Days: 2/10 - 2/12
1. Workout-> cardio OR weights:
Monday: Tuesday: Wednesday:
Working extra hours lately. Tuesday- I was exhausted.
2. Weigh/log food daily:
Monday: Tuesday: Wednesday:
Did not weigh anything as I only grabbed foods I know well & have logged many times. Came across a BMR calculator while reading an article. While playing with numbers, seems my calorie deficit is a little too low based on my info entered.
Will adjust diary settings this weekend and see what happens.
3. Keep carbs to a minimum/daily <50:
Monday: Tuesday: Wednesday: borderline
4. Tan: at least 3 times a week-- Monday: Tuesday: Wednesday:
I am ready to go tan this morning. Will do the "fancy" tanning tomorrow night. Apparently, I have been tanning all wrong all these years.
Friday will be a 'cocktail tan'- newbie. (I miss good ol' beach tanning/relaxation)
8. Try 10 new recipes: 1 down, 9 more --> still in progress
Monday: Tuesday: Wednesday:
Yeah- working late is not helping this goal. I am hoping I can break the trend tonight
6. Clean out garage by end of month: ...in progress.
Looks like I will have some time to organize on Saturday.
Definitely been a weird week so far. Seems all plans made at home AND work get completely tossed aside. Adjusting & readjusting. Wonder what will roll out for today?
I am good & kinda prepared 
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Day 12:
1. Eat within cal/carb limits
2. Do scheduled strength training
3. Do 20 min cardio
4. Find some daily inspiration and share it
Such a struggle. Senior night after work, and the usual apathy at work, plus super hormone surges and like "verge of tears for absolutely no fraking reason" off and on all day.
Food was over, on the plus side I did pretty good at mostly focusing on getting extra protein.
Exercise wasn't done because it was a whirlwind from work to the event and not getting home until after 9pm.
Going forward:
I will take my vitamins, which might help the hormone surges.
Today will be super protein focused.
I looked at the schedule and I can combine yesterdays workout with today's and still be good with recovery times for specific muscle groups.
Today's inspiration:
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