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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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Yesterday The focus was on Rose and her birthday!
Surprisingly I had a 3 yes day.
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@RangerRickL Lovely picture of you two and a calorie bomb! Happy belated birthday to Rose!4
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It looks sooo delicious
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@MadisonMolly2017 I'm trying out your tip, so I will be better at tracking: Here's a picture of my scales, with little stickies and a pen, so I will have a note of the food I have weighed and eaten to put on record later! I mostly pre-plan, when I am in a good place, but this is for the days I am not.
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Good morning! I'm feeling very inspired this morning, and grateful to be a part of this group.
I hope everyone has a great and rewarding day. Keep up the good work!!! It's hard but it pays off
- Kay ☮️6 -
@MadisonMolly2017 I'm trying out your tip, so I will be better at tracking: Here's a picture of my scales, with little stickies and a pen, so I will have a note of the food I have weighed and eaten to put on record later! I mostly pre-plan, when I am in a good place, but this is for the days I am not,
hahaha.. When I go "off the rails" I would not be bothered to weigh items or write anything down. Normally I just leave the "trash" out so the next morning I can log it all based on the wrappers, dirty dishes etc... Sounds gruesome but in the middle of it logging or recording probably won't happen. So I just make sure the next day while it is still fairly fresh in my mind to make the notes. Let us know if this works out for your noy in a good place days!6 -
3xYES5
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A busy day and I didn’t log. Didn’t eat too badly though. Early morning training session with my friends and then evening Jiu Jitsu. A good day overall. Everyday that I’m on the mat is a good day.7
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20/04/2021
Exercise – yes bike 40? minutes, 2 walks total about 50? minutes, and some light cardio.
Tracking – yes
Calories – yes
I took my bike in for a service today. Took a little diversion on the way in to town, dropped it off, then walked home. Later I walked in to town then cycled home taking a long route round the town. I didn’t time the bike rides and they weren’t hard work so I count it as 40 minutes total.
Tomorrow I'm going to the seaside! Taking my motorhome and having a picnic by the beach.
I won’t be tracking/logging and I don’t care about the calories.12 -
✅❌❌. Oops. Pass day 16
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@MadisonMolly2017 I'm trying out your tip, so I will be better at tracking: Here's a picture of my scales, with little stickies and a pen, so I will have a note of the food I have weighed and eaten to put on record later! I mostly pre-plan, when I am in a good place, but this is for the days I am not.
@Chinkiri You make me so happy!
Here are the ones I currently have in my pocket The notes are for whole recipes & i know what I ate of them!
I don’t pre-plan - I’m a spontaneous, improv type of gal - enjoy freedom - but I do check as the end of the day arrives to be sure I don’t go over
Pre-planning is definitely a better way to insure your success, however!7 -
20th April
3 x Yes9 -
✅✅✅ No pass days left.
Happy birthday Rose! That’s really impressive that you had three ✅. Terrific planning!!7 -
Good day did all three6
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Beautiful day here. Went for a walk and did a light arms workout. ✅✅✅5
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April 20, 2021
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, HIIT
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
Kitchen Closed? Yes
Pass day 1/3 (this is for accountability to myself and my records)
@RangerRickL, Nice picture of you and your wife. Congrats on her behalf. Coming out with 3 Yes, great!
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April (20)
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, walking + stairs + stretching.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes, 1,397/1,400
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes, 2,280 ml of fluid.
Pass days: 3 /3
burned calories: 16,822 /33,000
Wall pushups done: 1,450 /3,000
@RangerRickL happy birthday to Rose , same day birth as Bubs? @donna25trinity4 -
@RangerRickL So glad you were able to enjoy a nice birthday celebration meal out with your lovely wife!
Exercise:✅
Tracked:✅
Under:✅
I won’t be in the Winners Circle this month but knowing I need to check in each day with my check marks keeps me from spiraling out of control.8 -
19th April
✅ I exercised for at least 20 minutes
✅ I stayed within my calorie budget for the day
✅ I kept track of everything I ate and drank
20th April - Planned Pass Day (75th Birthday)
2️⃣ Pass Days left
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4/20
Exersized-?yes
Caleries?-yes
Logged?-yes3 -
Exercise- Pilates this morning
Tracking- yes
Under - yes3 -
@rangerrickL fabulous picture! Looks like a very happy birthday. My son turned 34 yesterday. Great day for a birthday. In the northeast, April 19 is a patriots day holiday. 2
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Start weight, April 1, 2021: 124.6April 1, 2021 – 124.6 (+1.4)Thoughts and Goals for April:
March 1, 2021 – 123.2 (-3.0)
February 1, 2021 - 126.2 (-5.8); Tanita BF scale at 6 am 126.5 and 26%BF
January 1, 2021 – 132 (-3.6)
December 1, 2020 – 135.6 (-5.2)
November 6, 2020 – 140.8 (-7.0)
October 2, 2020 – 147.8 (-5.2)
September 14, 2020 – 153.0April has arrived and I am sitting here reflecting back on this month. It is the first month since September that I have closed the month with an “up”. That said, an up had to come at some point since at some point one is no longer trying/needing to lose weight, and I had passed my original goal back in January, I believe. The up on its own would be fine, but the habits, or lack thereof, that crept into my March are the concern. So, for the month of April, I will be focusing on returning to preplanning/pre-tracking as much as is possible and to not just thrown in the day it does not go as planned. I know that I know how to re-group and I need to make sure I find the time and energy for that. I want to up my cardio. Yes, I am “group walking” every day which burns calories, but honestly, I could walk at that pace for hours and hours without effort. I need to push myself, here and there, again. I will also be trying to maintain the social aspect of the group walks as well, so juggling all those time commitments will take a little focus. Lastly, I need to return to adding back exercises. I have not planked in a month, and rarely done exercises other than walking, running, or biking. So I need to figure out how to include bodyweight or dumbbell workouts. Here’s to April.April History
Wishing everyone a great month!Date: 4/1Date: 4/20
Weight: 124.6
Exercised?: Yes, 0:54:43 group walk at 17’10” pace for 3.18 miles
Calories?: No
Tracked?: No
Rings Closed?: Yes, 1 of 30
Apple Watch TDEE: 2184
*** so not the way to start a new month. Did not respond well to another curve ball thrown at me. Going to pre-track tomorrow. It will be a belated 60th birthday dinner for my husband since his mother will have arrived and be able to join us for the dinner.
Date: 4/2
Weight: 125.6
Exercised?: Yes, 0:21:02 Apple Fitness Spinning; 0:32:29 Indoor cycling to Youtube CV19 news
Calories?: Yes, 1411/1590 + 314 exercise (net 493)
Tracked?: Yes
Rings Closed?: Yes, 2 of 30
Apple Watch TDEE: 2340
*** This is the way I like to handle my day! And this included dining out.
Date: 4/3
Weight: 123.2
Exercised?: Yes, 1:22:53 group walk at 16’30” pace for 4.92 miles, 10 min Apple Fitness core
Calories?: Yes, 1855/1590 + 312 exercise (net 47 )
Tracked?: Yes
Rings Closed?: Yes, 3 of 30
Apple Watch TDEE: 2079
Date: 4/4
Weight: 122.2
Exercised?: Yes, 0:31:10 Apple Fitness Spinning
Calories?: Yes, 1746/1590 + 197 exercise (net 41 )
Tracked?: Yes
Rings Closed?: Yes, 4 of 30
Apple Watch TDEE: 2052
*** Sitting here as I write this, I have to wonder if posting my thoughts here this morning helped me to frame and get through the day. This morning, I did actually expect today to be a pass day, despite the slight optimism I expressed in my post. Ten minutes later, I decided to track a tentative day – carrot cake, stuffed shells and all. When I got done, I saw that even with every food included I could meet my calorie goals for the day. Portion control was the key. The plan was 90% accurate and the other 10% was adjusted on the fly. When I added something, I took something else away (sorry salad :P ). I enjoyed Easter with no pass today. The success feels good!
Date: 4/5
Weight: 122.4
Exercised?: Yes, 0:39:22 walk with MIL at 22’53” pace for 1.72 miles; 0:20:03 indoor cycle
Calories?: No
Tracked?: No
Rings Closed?: No, 4 of 30
Apple Watch TDEE: 1679
*** Finished yesterday with “success feels good” and had a total crash day after my entertaining was over. Ate badly and slept a ton.
Most interesting thing though is looking at the difference in TDEE.
Date: 4/6
Weight: 123.6
Exercised?: Yes, 1:52:51 group walk at 17’22” pace for 6.49 miles; 0:33:31 late night 5K run at 10’22” pace for 3.23 miles
Calories?: Yes, 1732/1590 + 724 exercise ( net 582 )
Tracked?: Yes
Rings Closed?: Yes, 5 of 30
Apple Watch TDEE: 2657
*** Interesting how 4/5 was sandwiched between two strong days. Glad I “test drove” running a 5K again. Good to see I can do it.
Date: 4/7
Weight: 123.0
Exercised?: Yes, 1:22:26 group walk at 17’01” pace for 4.84 miles
Calories?: Yes, 1738/1590 + 302 exercise ( net 154 )
Tracked?: Yes
Rings Closed?: Yes, 6 of 30
Apple Watch TDEE: 2019
*** kitchen close and posting is timely.
Date: 4/8
Weight: 123.0
Exercised?: Yes, 1:23:34 group walk at 17’03” pace for 5.06 miles
Calories?: Yes, 1954/1590 + 416 exercise ( net 52 )
Tracked?: Yes
Rings Closed?: Yes, 7 of 30
Apple Watch TDEE: 2207
*** basic day, nothing special
Date: 4/9
Weight: 122.6
Exercised?: Yes, 0:28:33 solo walk at 14’40” pace for 1.94 miles; 1:11:41 group walk at 15’44” pace for 4.55 miles
Calories?: Yes, 1940/1590 + 409 exercise ( net 59 )
Tracked?: Yes
Rings Closed?: Yes, 8 of 30
Apple Watch TDEE: updated the following day – see spoiler
*** Had an interesting moment today that I hope will help me to understand the benefit of what was accomplished these 6 months. Today, I got home from a short grocery shopping including two bottles of wine to bring to friends on Sunday. I hate using the elevator at the building so I take the two flights to our condo. I carried all the groceries at once, from the car, through the parking and up the two flights. Not hard, but I could feel the difference. As an experiment, I walked directly to the scale when I got in our unit to see how high a combined weight I now was. I was still almost 9 lbs less that what I weighed in September, and almost 24 lbs less than my high in 2001. Hopefully experiments like this will help me keep focus, and keep my maintenance going. Yo-yo-ing has been my tendancy.
Date: 4/10
Weight: 124.0
Exercised?: Yes, 0:30:07 run at 98’42” pace for 3.10 miles
Calories?: No
Tracked?: No
Rings Closed?: Yes, 9 of 30
Apple Watch TDEE: 2054
*** what a difference a day makes. So interesting seeing yesterday’s comment in light of how today went. Day started well by entering another 5K race and did well. Then guests failed to show on time and failed to communicate and threw off the days good intensions. Had been pre-tracked but that all got thrown away as the day evolved and I could not rapidly re-group.
Date: 4/11
Weight: 124.4
Exercised?: Yes, 1:47:12 group walk at 16’28” pace for 6.51 miles
Calories?: No
Tracked?: No
Rings Closed?: Yes, 10 of 30
Apple Watch TDEE: 2077
*** today, I faced dinner at a friend’s house and since cooking is not her strength, there was no way I could impose on her by asking what she was preparing. So I decided (wrongly) to just forfeit the day. Spent the day working on sealing 500 square feet of tile grout.
Date: 4/12
Weight: 126.4
Exercised?: No
Calories?: No
Tracked?: No
Rings Closed?: No, 10 of 30
Apple Watch TDEE: 1699
*** Woke up to torrential rain. First rain here in months. Of course, this is the day after we spent the day applying grout sealant that could not get wet for 72 hours. So not only is the sealant wet, but apparently rain plus brand new screens creates some sort of black mud which is covering my no longer sealed grout. The day went to heck. No daily walk and, while spending the day re-cleaning tile and grout, made no others efforts that day.
Date: 4/13
Weight: 127.2
Exercised?: yes, 1:21:30 group walk at 16’44” pace for 4.87 miles
Calories?: No
Tracked?: No
Rings Closed?: Yes, 11 of 30
Apple Watch TDEE: 2163
*** Should have pulled this day together but the spiral was forming
Date: 4/14
Weight: DNW
Exercised?: No
Calories?: No
Tracked?: No
Rings Closed?: No, 11 of 30
Apple Watch TDEE: 1644
*** Did not weigh. This has been very very rare since September and is a red flag of issues coming. Started the day driving to Key West for a “fun” half day sail and ended up motion sick. We then got out second COVID vaccine, and by this time my stomach is just rotting itself. Did an early dinner (poorly selected), drove the hour+ home and headed straight to bed. It was not even 6 PM.
Date: 4/15
Weight: DNW
Exercised?: No
Calories?: No
Tracked?: No
Rings Closed?: No, 11 of 30
Apple Watch TDEE: 1487
*** Yesterday, as another day fell apart, I realized the 15th is the halfway point and I can re-group for my last half month. Nope, day after COVID vaccine struck. Only time out of bed was to walk the cats which I never count as exercise. Ate lots of pretzels, soup and other miscellany. BUT, I felt better than my husband did…… really interesting seeing a true Base TDEE!
Date: 4/16
Weight: DNW
Exercised?: Yes, 0:24:14 Solo walk at 14’38” pace for 1.65 miles; 1:22:34 group walk at 16” 02” pace for 5.15 miles
Calories?: No
Tracked?: No
Rings Closed?: Yes, 12 of 30
Apple Watch TDEE: 2084
*** No excuse today, just did not happen.
Date: 4/17
Weight: 126.6
Exercised?: Yes, 1:43:21 mixed solo/group walk at 15’18” pace for 6.75 miles
Calories?: Yes, 1553/1590 + 481 exercise (net 518)
Tracked?: Yes
Rings Closed?: Yes, 13 of 30
Apple Watch TDEE: 2360
*** A good day! And even posted on the actual day!
Date: 4/18
Weight: 125.0
Exercised?: Yes, 1:27:02 group walk at 16’39” pace for 5.22 miles; 0:19:20 solo walk at 14’36” pace for 1.32 miles
Calories?: Yes, 1886/1590 + 418 exercise (net 122)
Tracked?: Yes
Rings Closed?: Yes, 14 of 30
Apple Watch TDEE: 2127
*** Good day #2. Posted on the proper day again, and have pre-tracked much of tomorrow.
Date: 4/19
Weight: 124.4
Exercised?: Yes, 1:43:01 group walk at 15’16” pace for 6.70 miles
Calories?: Yes, 2051/1590 + 481 exercise (net 20)
Tracked?: Yes
Rings Closed?: Yes, 15 of 30
Apple Watch TDEE: 2137
*** less good but good enough
Weight: 125.6
Exercised?: Yes, 1:18:28 group walk at 16’07” pace for 4.86 miles; 31 min Apple Fitness spin class
Calories?: Yes, 1968/1590 + 567 exercise (net 189)
Tracked?: Yes
Rings Closed?: Yes, 16 of 30
Apple Watch TDEE: updated the following day – see spoiler
*** Interesting to see the temporary impact of pasta on the scale
Kummerspeck: +3.6
Passes remaining: -64 -
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3 x yes. I thought today would end up being a no-exercise day, but then I managed to get in a walk after dinner with our dog.3
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4/20/21
Exercise: ✅ Walk 10 min, Run 10 min (treadmill), 45 min circuit training class
Calories: ✅
Tracking: ✅
I added some coffee back today and hey I didn’t have the munchies that ruined my day today. Perhaps cutting 40oz out right away wasn’t a good choice. I’ll start by going with the cutting down 20oz for a while and then work my way down slowly.
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Happy Bday Rose! Hope you had a great day!
Exercise? Yes.
Under Cals? Yes.
Logged? Yes.
Passes? All used up.
Gnight fams 🖤3 -
Yes X 33
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Yesterday evening, after posting here, I binged. It was a senseless binge, m&ms and jelly beans........ Today was better, back on track with calories, but no exercise. Things a better today.6
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4/20 - Did much better today!
Tracked: Yes
Calories: Under
Exercised: Yes5
