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Date: 1/3
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? ✅
PASS: 0/3 (for my own accountability)[/quote]
January goals1 Log everything!✅
2 Morning walks (except Sundays) ✅
3 Yoga (3 to 4 times weekly) ✅ (1 or 3 to 4)
4. Minimum sweets (work them in my calorie goal) 😈
5. Control boredom and emotional eating ✅
6. Keep negative thoughts at bay! ✅1 -
@dsgoingtodoit Welcome back! You are doing it and we did miss you!1
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These guys were all there to help me with the exercise on a snowy Sunday morning. Now I’ll just have to look after the calories and tracking
@BobWw2017 awww wat gorgeous dogs u hve!!1 -
RangerRickL wrote: »@MadisonMolly2017 What I did not add, to my own embarrassment, is that my horse riding ended when I hit the desert floor. The horse belonged to a friend and it was not used to dogs running freely alongside me. My dog is very used to running along with me at our home farm. Fortunately, the horse was not injured. I am sore and roughed up, but grateful to not be injured. Rose saw the whole thing happen, but once she saw me get back up from the ground, it was nothing to get excited about. She is a nurse so it takes a real injury to warrant an emotion.
Rick! Glad you have a skilled, calm nurse & thrilled you were not badly injured!
A little secret ... I’m
Scared of horses after a horrifying experience as a 10-11 year old with a “safe, slow horse” who decided to turn 90 degrees off trail from rest of group, charge down a steep hill & up the other side before the teens who were with me & my experienced horse riding friend could corral him. I’m a very mellow person, especially then but I adamantly refused to get back on & walked back to barn. I envy you, others, and @SummerSkier that you can enjoy the experience!!
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snowshoe072 wrote: »
Today’s quick xcski trip oh so quiet and peaceful got my 1/2 hour here
@snowshoe072 beautiful scenery!1 -
Firstly, Yay for Bandit!!!!!
I started with my daily yoga, abs and today was shoulder rehab which got me a nice 30 minutes. Then I had a lazy day, but my Apple Watch circles were not closed and I was nowhere near 10000 steps (which gives me points towards rewards through my insurance and bank) so I went for a 90 minute walk in the evening. (I didn’t plan it being quite that long but it was awesome). I’ll add a photo of one of the reasons why I love my city. This picture is taken just over 1 km from my house. I walked passed horses and donkeys and cows. It was so good.
Food choices were good and all logged and under budget. Still being good with the no treats for two weeks. Enjoying my healthy options instead including homemade oat milk ice cream.
Love where i live sooo pretty and homemade oat ice cream wow that sounds devine!!1 -
SummerSkier wrote: »@alligatorob I have also found maintaining more difficult than the losing, not that losing is easier. But with losing, there is a degree of excitement to it and goals to meet that feel rewarding. With maintenance, once is much less likely to be excited by seeing the same number each week. There is a different mindset needed to keep the focus, and this is something that I clearly need to develop. Even now, being within 3 lbs of my goal, I am starting to struggle with the mental component, and need to figure this out.
There are a few successful maintainers on these communities still hanging around. @MadisonMolly2017 has a lot of experience. Just to make maintenance more fun when you start, think of the extra CI and energy you will have. For me being a yo yo er but always a runner it seemed like I was constantly trying to run when in a deficit. But running in maintenance is SO much more fun with the extra energy. And remember maintenance is JUST the start. There are so many extraordinary things you can do and it's constantly changing so it's not boring. The # on the scale is just one very tiny part of the journey. Join the maintainers forum and read some of the stories there if you haven't already. I admit I hung out there pretty much full time my first year and it wasn't always easy but keeping my toe in the water was very important. (and my history is full of Yo and Yos and more Yos but the big difference to me so far this time is that I started focusing on the maintaining very early and KEEP focusing on it. Just because you hit goal weight does not mean you go back to all the old habits)
Thanks @SummerSkier Right back at you!!
@SModa61 I find a focus on Health seems to be the key. I think maintenance is difficult especially in the beginning - in my case I just wasn’t sure I could do it because I never had!
But never totally out of the woods! TODAY at the 2yr 4 month maintenance mark, I realized I was wanting to eat more sweets, restaurant foods (which is my Achilles heel & we haven’t since Feb 29 (COVID) & I was/am Uncharacteristically “down”...so I went for a hard, hilly 2 hr hike.
And at the end was kind of teary & confused why I was craving those foods& feeling down.
As I hiked & drove home I actually talked outloud to myself ROFL. “Well you gained last Jan & Feb (looking at patterns), and you are down (not like you - curious), you want restaurant foods ( always a red flag - remembered my mantra “my body’s my ally, my friend for life” & relaxed some) Hmmm wonder if I’m craving salt & sugar because I had more in December (hahaha duh) Actually I’m not even hungry )@(hahaha) Oh OK I remember this is what I did when fat...I wasn’t hungry but I’d eat out because it was “tastier “” yeah yeah saltier greasier sugary... yeah ...And remembered how I feel awful if I eat that way...”
So, My amounts of salt & sugar grew from reasonable to too high. You are already cutting back successfully. Likely the down feeling is connected to getting off those foods But Why? Blood sugar? Habits of a lifetime? IDK & I don’t care. I DO care that I am healthy & that I don’t have to diet ever again...so how about we Don’t Gain in Jan/Feb??!!! So we don’t have to be nervous about losing it all in 2021 as we were in 2020!!!!
How about we get off the sugar/salt like normal - keep doing hikes like today’s? AND Chillax.
You know gaining weight will make you feel more down- let’s avoid that.
And you know what? Having figured all this out AND realizing I Was Not Hungry ....
I’m happy now!
This is as bad as it gets for me...it’s about sleuthing, being completely honest with ourselves, remembering what it used to be like, and SELF-CARING.
It was painful, to be tearing up on a hike that is usually a highlight of my day....and white knuckling it past all the restaurants I used to go to A LOT (laughing saying but that one makes me sick, that one is so greasy my clothes would smell, that one has so much salt...Reminding myself of HEALTH!) It was painful as I moaned to myself why do I go from one cookie to two to 7. One hot chocolate to a grande to a Venti WITH 410 cals of pumpkin bread!!!! “Obesity is a Chronic Relapsing Disease” popped into
My head (Harvard.) I said it out loud. I nodded. I forgave myself.
“It’s never too late to do the right thing.”
I nodded.
Yup.
Crisis averted.
This to me is the Crux of Maintenance. Doing what it takes until you have enough insight & data to maintain more easily.6 -
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Thank you so much for your insights Molly. I have certainly "done" maintaining for periods in the past, and actually did pretty well around 2015-2017. There is often I moment I can identify that sets me off, and I need to learn to get past those. I need to define a new normal so that when I get set off, I seek out a healthy response.
I'll have to look up your Harvard reference. I am still irritated with a professor there from when my daughter was studying Neuroscience. It was a course on addiction and DD was assigned to write a paper. DD proposed "sugar" as the subject matter and it was denied because "sugar and/or food cannot be addictive". Personally, I disagree.1 -
BittersweetVita wrote: »Hello there! It's my first day in the group and my first accountability post!
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes?
Yes. I wlked the three flights of stairs in my house in several intervals to toal 20 minutes. Hoping to build up to that 20 minutes at once.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day?
No. I went over 80 calories by nibbling on the mini shortbread cookies while playing a family game tonight. I found this group after searching the "accountability" pages and after reading through all the intros and FAQs, I felt that this is the group I need to help fight those little nibbles here and there that get me in trouble.
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank?
Yes. Weighed and measured all food and hit my water quota.
Pass Days Left: 2/3
WELCOME!! You'll LOVE this group. Everyone is so encouraging and helpful! I find that the people in this group are very motivating and full of terrific ideas and quips! You can tell by this post that I come back to previous days (after I've personally posted) just to read everyone's posts that posted AFTER me!2 -
alligatorob wrote: »Yes, yes and yes, but exercise was just shoveling snow. Actually I spent several hours doing snow removal, but most of it was plowing with my tractor or ATV, I only counted the ~30 minutes of actual shoveling. Guess that will have to be good enough.
That is impressive Rick, I am also in maintenance and staying in a 10 lb range can be hard, my weight just bounces a lot. The UAC has been a great help to me, and I guess the range doesn't matter so much as long term stability. In some ways I find this harder than losing weight, thanks for the UAC, it makes it a bit easier.RangerRickL wrote: »The accountability has helped me to maintain my weight within a 5 lb range.
I just want to say KUDOS to @RangerRickL @alligatorob as well as @SummerSkier @MadisonMolly2017 and @SModa61 for you all KEEPING YOUR WEIGHT OFF!
I've been successful (several times) in the past at LOSING the weight (even up to 60lbs!) but I've NEVER been able to KEEP IT OFF. I'm trying to figure out ways to STAY SUCCESSFUL in maintenance mode once I reach my goal weight (hopefully this summer!). I'll be watching both of y'alls posts!
and THANKS to all of you for your advice to those of us coming up on maintenance. 2 -
Mrs_Hoffer wrote: »alligatorob wrote: »Yes, yes and yes, but exercise was just shoveling snow. Actually I spent several hours doing snow removal, but most of it was plowing with my tractor or ATV, I only counted the ~30 minutes of actual shoveling. Guess that will have to be good enough.
That is impressive Rick, I am also in maintenance and staying in a 10 lb range can be hard, my weight just bounces a lot. The UAC has been a great help to me, and I guess the range doesn't matter so much as long term stability. In some ways I find this harder than losing weight, thanks for the UAC, it makes it a bit easier.RangerRickL wrote: »The accountability has helped me to maintain my weight within a 5 lb range.
I just want to say KUDOS to @RangerRickL @alligatorob as well as @SummerSkier @MadisonMolly2017 and @SModa61 for you all KEEPING YOUR WEIGHT OFF!
I've been successful (several times) in the past at LOSING the weight (even up to 60lbs!) but I've NEVER been able to KEEP IT OFF. I'm trying to figure out ways to STAY SUCCESSFUL in maintenance mode once I reach my goal weight (hopefully this summer!). I'll be watching both of y'alls posts! and THANKS to all of you for your advice to those of us coming up on maintenance.
@Mrs_Hoffer
How thoughtful & kind of you!
I began dieting in 8th grade - age 13 & finally was able to maintain at age 63. The previous attempts, research now shows, help us glean techniques we mobilize in each successive attempt. I use many of the things I learned in early WW, work with a dietician in high school (who created a plan based upon the foods I loved), etc.
What was different this time? Motivation of someone giving me her kidney AND technology. SO easy to track our food, our exercise, our blood pressure, resting pulse, etc and SEE how we are healthier. By having trend calculations done Defoe us we see we are losing or gaining or maintaining & are no longer fooled by little ups & downs of scale...
Bug hugs
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I'm posting late because I had done everything right and was sitting there at night trying to remember what it was I forgot to do. The challenge is new to me and after having that nagging feeling I went to bed. So I guess that's a pass day but I did want to clarify, so here it is:
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? And, yes.
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Mrs_Hoffer wrote: »alligatorob wrote: »Yes, yes and yes, but exercise was just shoveling snow. Actually I spent several hours doing snow removal, but most of it was plowing with my tractor or ATV, I only counted the ~30 minutes of actual shoveling. Guess that will have to be good enough.
That is impressive Rick, I am also in maintenance and staying in a 10 lb range can be hard, my weight just bounces a lot. The UAC has been a great help to me, and I guess the range doesn't matter so much as long term stability. In some ways I find this harder than losing weight, thanks for the UAC, it makes it a bit easier.RangerRickL wrote: »The accountability has helped me to maintain my weight within a 5 lb range.
I just want to say KUDOS to @RangerRickL @alligatorob as well as @SummerSkier @MadisonMolly2017 and @SModa61 for you all KEEPING YOUR WEIGHT OFF!
I've been successful (several times) in the past at LOSING the weight (even up to 60lbs!) but I've NEVER been able to KEEP IT OFF. I'm trying to figure out ways to STAY SUCCESSFUL in maintenance mode once I reach my goal weight (hopefully this summer!). I'll be watching both of y'alls posts! and THANKS to all of you for your advice to those of us coming up on maintenance.
@Mrs_Hoffer I think I got mentioned early. But I hoping that will be a good omen.
In the past, I have managed to maintain for some period of time and then some moment happens that sets me off and returns me to my old bad habits. This is truly what I have to learn to handle going forward - handling those stumbles. One of my key motivators in recent years has been my parents. Shortly, they will be 86 and 84. My father can barely get out of a chair and can shuffle and stand for about 3 minutes. My mother can no longer stand long enough to cook a simple dinner without pain. And my father is always talking about how he "can start" to exercise, but then also does nothing. He is still referring to his muscles from when he played high school football. He is under the impression that they are all still there. Anyhow, I plan to live a long time, and I want to be able to enjoy that life and also not be a burden to my kids. I need to establish consistent good habits now. I will be 60 in 2021 and maintaining and/or building muscles now, will be helpful in 25 years. 3 -
@MadisonMolly2017 I'm always sad to hear so many stories like yours. Like many sports, horseback riding is inherently dangerous. Although I love horses, things can happen fast. It is so important to begin riding within a very controlled environment.
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@Mrs_Hoffer Recently, there was a discussion post about 'using our own measure' of success. A number of years ago, I reached the highest weight of my life. I decided to follow the Weight Watcher program and increase my exercise. I lost 30 lbs and decided that I was okay with that weight. I am not at ideal weight, but I am fit for the life that I enjoy.
It is of great help to me to have a accountability partners. Thanks for being one of those partners. The UAC has a wonderful group of people!2 -
@GreyGirl915 You do not get a Pass Day when you post late!
We would like you to post regularly, but the big goal is building healthy habits.
Please see UAC FAQ on Pass Days.
Give yourself a break. Thanks for being on the UAC team.3
