Daily Habit Checkin
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August 6:
1. 500 cal deficit ❌ ... 1130 cal surplus 🤦🏻♀️ major binge day ☹️, 2/7 days
2. 30 mins exercise ❎ ... Rest day, 4/5 days
3. 60 oz water ✅ ... 60 oz water, 5/7 days
11/19 for the week.1 -
Laurie, how about a shared Google or OneDrive spreadsheet where each person can fill in their X's or ✓'s?1
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Aug 6
n/a - 6/week - take 15,000 steps. 10,066 Day Off! Don't know if I feel anybetter for it?
❎ - Daily - aim for a calorie deficit. 323 over. Was it worth it? I'm not sure. But I am tired this week, so maybe?
✅ - 6/week - Up early - walk first thing. Can't remember...lol...nope...had to work-I'll count this as my day off.
- Weekly - calorie deficit +7,000 (bumping this up for the month). 2914.
- Weekly - total steps +105,000. 81,060 so far.1 -
Will have to think about it a bit and see what, if anything, can be thrown to the group for improvement. Not a spreadsheet maven. And also how it could be done without people having to give out private emails. But then it would be fully unrestricted for editing...
We want different goals and a percent achieved per week?
Do any of the challenge groups implement anything like this (to steal ideas)
Any thoughts welcome1 -
Will have to think about it a bit and see what, if anything, can be thrown to the group for improvement. Not a spreadsheet maven. And also how it could be done without people having to give out private emails. But then it would be fully unrestricted for editing...
We want different goals and a percent achieved per week?
Do any of the challenge groups implement anything like this (to steal ideas)
Any thoughts welcome
The other group I'm a member of shared a Google spreadsheet - shall I see what I can steal?0 -
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Bella_Figura wrote: »
You move quick!
For me personally - I get much more out of the daily aspect of this. The weekly comparisons are not as meaningful, because I change things up regularly.
How does everyone else feel?2 -
Official weigh day: Saturday.
Next weigh-in: Saturday 14th August.
Updating on today's accountabilities
✅ - Accomplished
❌ - Not Accomplished
My August daily accountabilities are:
[1] Two walks of 30+ minutes per day ✅✅✅✅✅✅ - Yes, walk #1 was 48 minutes, walk #2 was 47 minutes (+ 30 minutes gravity yoga)
[2] Keep calories between 1500 (+/-5) & 1800; ✅✅✅✅✅✅ - 1,591 today
[3] Eat 4+ servings of fruit/veg; ✅✅✅✅✅✅Yes, I had salad with both lunch and dinner and a mixed fruit salad for dessert
[4] Drink at least 1.3 litres of water; ✅✅✅✅✅✅ Yes, 1.5 litres
[5] Complete at least one set of targeted stretches for a problem muscle area ✅✅✅✅✅✅ Yes, full set of long hold passive stretches
[6] Minimum 25g fibre ✅❌✅✅✅✅ Yes (just!) - 25g fibre today
My August monthly goals are:
To cycle a minimum of 200km - 46.53 km so far in August
To score 6/6 on my 6 daily accountabilities for the whole of August ❌ No, 6/7 days achieved because failed fibre goal on Tuesday.1 -
lauriekallis wrote: »Bella_Figura wrote: »
You move quick!
For me personally - I get much more out of the daily aspect of this. The weekly comparisons are not as meaningful, because I change things up regularly.
How does everyone else feel?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MfuM4crDxeyoLX8wdSstEZ361rlwe2CpaUPdGPcrFRg/edit?usp=sharing
Alternative version. Bit busier and less easy to input data than version 1, and depends on folks having the spreadsheeting skills to add rows if they increase their number of daily goals etc...but could possibly work.
Anyone have a better suggestion for how to account for changing daily goals?1 -
We could post our daily goals here and keep our total in our own heads and then post how many we achieved!….I think just posting them helps!3
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conniewilkins56 wrote: »We could post our daily goals here and keep our total in our own heads and then post how many we achieved!….I think just posting them helps!
Yeah I will be honest, the weekly table doesn't make much difference to me, although I much appreciate Laurie taking the time to put it together (running threads/groups takes a lot more time than most people would think) It's easy enough to keep a running total yourself and seems less competitive, which I don't think is the aim of this thread anyway, accountability is the aim of the game I think.5 -
This is an example sheet to tinker with, with everyone having their own tab at the bottom.
Each new day is at the top inserting and pushing the rest. First three or four rows would have to be protected so that they don't get pushed down... anyway... lots of editing.
But no way around having to select your tab, update it, capture it, and then post it.
Here is what 5 individual posts by Skylar, Bella, Laurie, PAV and Connie might look like:
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Pav - it all gets more exciting when you add add "no rodents"!
But, alas, I am happy with the daily check in - and would be happy posting my own weekly total's on Sunday night. I agree with @tinkerbellang83 - it actually makes it seem more competitive with myself - less competitive with each other. And its a whole lotta less work.3 -
Aug 7
✅ - 6/week - take 15,000 steps. 15,238
❎ - Daily - aim for a calorie deficit. 2,293 over. Yes. That is correct. Not a typo. Don't think I'm done yet
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✅ - 6/week - Up early - walk first thing.
- Weekly - calorie deficit +7,000 (bumping this up for the month). 621.
- Weekly - total steps +105,000. 96,298.2 -
Official weigh day: Saturday.
Next weigh-in: Saturday 14th August.
Updating on today's accountabilities
✅ - Accomplished
❌ - Not Accomplished
My August daily accountabilities are:
[1] Two walks of 30+ minutes per day ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅ - Yes, walk #1 was 48 minutes, walk #2 was 47 minutes (+ 30 minutes gravity yoga)
[2] Keep calories between 1500 (+/-5) & 1800; ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅ - 1,500 today
[3] Eat 4+ servings of fruit/veg; ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅ Yes, I had salad with lunch and loads of veggies with dinner
[4] Drink at least 1.3 litres of water; ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅ Yes, 1.5 litres
[5] Complete at least one set of targeted stretches for a problem muscle area ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅ Yes, full set of long hold passive stretches
[6] Minimum 25g fibre ✅❌✅✅✅✅✅ Yes, 30g fibre today
My August monthly goals are:
To cycle a minimum of 200km - 46.53 km so far in August
To score 6/6 on my 6 daily accountabilities for the whole of August ❌ No, 7/8 days achieved because failed fibre goal on Tuesday.2 -
Official weigh day: Saturday.
Next weigh-in: Saturday 14th August.
Updating on today's accountabilities
✅ - Accomplished
❌ - Not Accomplished
My August daily accountabilities are:
[1] Two walks of 30+ minutes per day ✅ - Yes, walk #1 was 47 minutes, walk #2 was 45 minutes
[2] Keep calories between 1500 (+/-5) & 1800; ✅ - 1,500 today
[3] Eat 4+ servings of fruit/veg; ✅ Yes, I had salad with lunch, roasted veggies for dinner and a fresh fruit salad for dessert
[4] Drink at least 1.3 litres of water; ✅ Yes, 1.4 litres
[5] Complete at least one set of targeted stretches for a problem muscle area ✅ Yes, full set of long hold passive stretches
[6] Minimum 25g fibre ✅ Yes, 36g fibre today
My August monthly goals are:
To cycle a minimum of 200km - 46.53 km so far in August
To score 6/6 on my 6 daily accountabilities for the whole of August ❌ No, 8/9 days achieved because failed fibre goal on 3rd.3 -
Official weigh day: Saturday.
Next weigh-in: Saturday 14th August.
Updating on today's accountabilities
✅ - Accomplished
❌ - Not Accomplished
My August daily accountabilities are:
[1] Two walks of 30+ minutes per day ✅✅ - Yes, walk #1 was 47 minutes, walk #2 was 45 minutes
[2] Keep calories between 1500 (+/-5) & 1800; ✅✅ - 1,500 today
[3] Eat 4+ servings of fruit/veg; ✅✅ Yes, I had homemade vegetable soup for lunch, salad with dinner, and fresh fruit salad for dessert
[4] Drink at least 1.3 litres of water; ✅✅ Yes, 1.3 litres
[5] Complete at least one set of targeted stretches for a problem muscle area ✅✅ Yes, full set of long hold passive stretches
[6] Minimum 25g fibre ✅✅ Yes, 25g fibre today
My August monthly goals are:
To cycle a minimum of 200km - 46.53 km so far in August
To score 6/6 on my 6 daily accountabilities for the whole of August ❌ No, 9/10 days achieved because failed fibre goal on 3rd.2 -
You're so green that my hamsters get jarred when they see the red!
How many grams of fiber have you averaged over the 10 days? Is the one "bad" day more than one standard deviation below the mean?
If it isn't, I vote (solely in the interest of a more environmentally friendly daily entry) that we wipe the red and turn it into a green "asterisk" ✳
(ok, the asterisk ✳ was green on my computer screen... but not in the post!)
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You're so green that my hamsters get jarred when they see the red!
How many grams of fiber have you averaged over the 10 days? Is the one "bad" day more than one standard deviation below the mean?
If it isn't, I vote (solely in the interest of a more environmentally friendly daily entry) that we wipe the red and turn it into a green "asterisk" ✳
(ok, the asterisk ✳ was green on my computer screen... but not in the post!)
I agree! That one pesky ❌ that corrupts the beautiful field of green is due to 23g of fibre that day - rather than the required 25g.
Now perhaps Bella should have been shot at dawn for that. But the oasis of green should not suffer. Nor should the hamsters.2 -
My hamsters don't aspire to perfection, so they can live just fine with the pesky red cross - it provides variety in the otherwise dull and uninteresting sea of green. Tell your hamsters to chill!
Official weigh day: Saturday.
Next weigh-in: Saturday 14th August.
Updating on today's accountabilities
✅ - Accomplished
❌ - Not Accomplished
My August daily accountabilities are:
[1] Two walks of 30+ minutes per day ✅✅✅ - Yes, walk #1 was 55 minutes, walk #2 was 50 minutes (+ 40 mins on the turbo trainer)
[2] Keep calories between 1500 (+/-5) & 1800; ✅✅✅ - 1,501 today
[3] Eat 4+ servings of fruit/veg; ✅✅✅ Yes, I had a banana with breakfast, homemade vegetable soup for lunch, a huge salad with dinner
[4] Drink at least 1.3 litres of water; ✅✅✅ Yes, 2 litres
[5] Complete at least one set of targeted stretches for a problem muscle area ✅✅✅ Yes, full set of long hold passive stretches
[6] Minimum 25g fibre ✅✅✅ Yes, 36g fibre today
My August monthly goals are:
To cycle a minimum of 200km - 61.16 km so far in August
To score 6/6 on my 6 daily accountabilities for the whole of August ❌ No, 10/11 days achieved because failed fibre goal on 3rd.
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I'm being blinded by the turbo walking red crusader hamster!2
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I'll be back.2
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Sedate your hamsters, the red cross of doom is still in evidence!
Official weigh day: Saturday.
Next weigh-in: Saturday 14th August.
Updating on today's accountabilities
✅ - Accomplished
❌ - Not Accomplished
My August daily accountabilities are:
[1] Two walks of 30+ minutes per day ✅✅✅✅ - Yes, lots of exercise today!
[2] Keep calories between 1500 (+/-5) & 1800; ✅✅✅✅ - 1,527 today
[3] Eat 4+ servings of fruit/veg; ✅✅✅✅ Yes,lot of fruit and veg today
[4] Drink at least 1.3 litres of water; ✅✅✅✅ Yes, 1.8 litres
[5] Complete at least one set of targeted stretches for a problem muscle area ✅✅✅✅ Yes, full set of long hold passive stretches
[6] Minimum 25g fibre ✅✅✅✅ Yes, 26g fibre today
My August monthly goals are:
To cycle a minimum of 200km - 73.96 km so far in August
To score 6/6 on my 6 daily accountabilities for the whole of August ❌ No, 11/12 days achieved because failed fibre goal on 3rd.3 -
The scarlet 🐹 will be apprehended 😲2
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Aug 12
Made it! Re-starting small.
✅ - take 15,000 steps. 16,784
✅ - Daily - aim for a calorie deficit. 927
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Aug 13
❌ - take 15,000 steps. 6,020
✅ - aim for a calorie deficit. 3132 -
Your twitchy hamsters will be glad to see I'm simplifying my goals. The daily goals were now firmly embedded - I'll start tracking them again if I start slipping back into the bad old habits.
So, unless I say otherwise, you can safely assume I'm weighing daily, measuring and logging my food, drinking my water, eating my fruits and veggies and doing my stretches.
So that leaves the two biggies, input and output. So the goals are:
1) Keep my daily calories between 1.495 and 1,800 (aiming ideally for the 'sweet spot' of 1,500 - 1.575)
2) Walk 60+ minutes a day and cycle 50+ kilometers a week
Pleased to report I'm on track for both those goals today.3 -
Good for you, Bella!
I'm starting to find my groove again - but am going to add a sleep component to my daily goals. Input, output, and timeout
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Aug 14
❌ - take 15,000 steps. 10,332 the shortening day caught me by surprise-was busy working, wrapped up to take the evening walk with the pretty one then realized it was getting dark. No way I was going out for an hour into the wilds of lowercity Hamilton in the dark (the pretty one is a bit too cocky - she'll take on anything. Some days I feel cocky too - not this day )
✅ - aim for a calorie deficit. 791
✅ - get 8 hours sleep. 8 hours 18 minutes WOOHOO!2
