January 6
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Thursday 1/6/22
Exercise: 90 min Wii Tennis
Calories Budget 1200: under
Tracking: Complete
Pass days 3/37 -
Dec 6
Exercise: ✨ core work - 12 mins; balance practice - 5 mins; fitbit says 102 "active minutes (includes 2 long exergame sessions plus long walk-to-do-errand plus miscellaneous chores around the house like putting all the Christmas decorations away etc
Logged: ✨ EVERYthing
In Range: ✨ 👍👍👍👍😆 I didn't MEAN to do over 19.000 steps today, and have 575 fitbit activity credits to work with! (just over 400 "stayed in the pot" (not eaten back)😸
(if there is a P=instead of a 🌟, its a Pass Day)
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@MadisonMolly2017 Thanks for sharing your story, interesting awareness you have about yourself (so many people don't) as a result of your exercising.
@snowshoe072 No big plans this weekend - still really cold here. If it warms up a bit we may get out for a winter hike, but we shall see. Not holding my breath. And football here too. Go Bills!
Exercise: 112 minutes indoor cycling, 10 minutes yoga, 5 minutes mild stretching
Calories: under
Tracking: every bite
Totally agree with the openers, the days are long, but the years are short! Sometimes the process feels like a slow one but I'm always amazed when I look back only 1-3 months and see how far I've come!
Even if progress is truly s-l-o-w or completely stalled out, it's great to remind yourself of where you could be (backsliding) if you weren't here. That in itself is an accomplishment!
Or, if the slide happened, and you're climbing back on the horse... well... at least you had that awareness NOW. Perspective is everything. I was so upset I had to lose over 100 pounds because of the "how could I let this happen" and "if only I had started sooner" and "if only I hadn't gained back x lbs" feeling... well that was all fine and dandy but it wasn't changing anything! I can use that as fuel now to not go back there but I think the first step has to be forgiveness of the past and a willingness to use that feeling to drive yourself to a better future.8 -
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? yes5 -
✅ Exercise: Gentle abbreviated lunges
✅ Calories: under goal
✅ Tracked
Remaining pass days: 3️⃣
I’m hoping this will be the last weekend I’ll be somewhat immobilized. At least the local elk herd is providing some entertainment.5 -
Yes x3
Pass days: 16 -
✅✅✅
Gym for exercise.6 -
1/06
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? 👍🏻
Happy New Year everyone! @ Mrs_Hoffer, Girlfriend you are such an inspiration! No matter what RL throws your way your here to cheer everyone on! Thank YOU AND ALL THE volunteers who are making our thread a success.
January goals
1 Miracle Morning ~ S.A.V.E.R.S
2 Wake up EARLY for meditation
3 Yoga (5/6 times weekly)
4. Minimum sweets (work them in my calorie goal)
5. 30 day squat challenge 6. No late night snacking
7. Daily journal logging4 -
✅ Exercise: 35 minute swim, 45 minute walk
✅ Calories
✅ Tracked
0 pass days used ( )
It has snowed here much of the day but I was ready to get out, so went to swim, indoors of course!
@MadisonMolly2017 Glad you got reassuring news! I was praying this morning for anyone who had to be in a hospital for any reason-- at least around here they are so understaffed and overwhelmed at the moment that just needing care would frighten me.
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Well put @ashleycarole86 🌟 I really identified with your post today. I need to remind myself regularly that slow is still progress.
@snowshoe072 no big plans for this weekend but to pray to the weather gods for a break in this extreme cold stretch. It is ridiculous and even more wacky to be complaining about weather (I know). Feels like we have cabin fever here. 🤪
Thanks for this thought provoking opener @WhatMeRunning. The graphic prompted me to look ahead three months to March 31. Spring will have started (and we’ll be on the way out of this winter)! 🌼🌷🌺🌸 And, I’ll be so glad I continued my journey: tracking and walking every day.
For today:
Tracking - 👍🏻
Calories - 👍🏻 On the button for my deficit amount (1,400) and left all 485 exercise surplus calories in the bank.
Exercise - 👍🏻 65 minutes on the treadmill today and like many on here, it isn’t my preference to “walk this way”. But I’d rather be walking than not and the options are so limited here right now with Omicron so rampant, and the cold so brutal.
Between the Apple “Workout” app, Fitness App, Apple Health, and MFP, it thinks I am walking the dog. 😂😂😂 Nope — as much as Beauregard would love to join me on the treadmill…. I know I am working harder than the 12 minute km pace it has me pegged at and am working at keeping my spirits up as this is SOOOO much slower than my outdoor fall pace.
Six for six on my 10,000+ steps each day in January. 12,500+ so far today.
Julie5 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes 50 minute Pilates class
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes5 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, a 45 minute trail run, and 75 minutes on the Peloton.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
13 degrees here and snow.5 -
Yes x3. YouTube kickboxing video. And a brisk walk in the cold. Because when it’s -47, you gotta get out and experience that, right?? @jamcnewman I’m a regina gal too. Next weeks balmy forecast is hard to believe but it will be so nice to get outdoors again!6
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? 1:06:21, 12:39 /km pace
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? yes 1,166 cal
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? yes6 -
@MadisonMolly2017 -
Tracked yes
Under cals no
Exercise no
I’m starting to wonder if I have Covid after all. I feel like I have a cold, but apparently that’s exactly the Omicron symptoms. I woke up during the night feeling like I was going to cough up a lung. I actually feel fine, but have a cough and shnozzy nose. No fever, no fatigue, no aches and pains. So I’m going to stay home, continue to take it easy, and ride it out.
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loopydo2017 wrote: »Yes x3. YouTube kickboxing video. And a brisk walk in the cold. Because when it’s -47, you gotta get out and experience that, right?? @jamcnewman I’m a regina gal too. Next weeks balmy forecast is hard to believe but it will be so nice to get outdoors again!
@loopydo2017
We live in hope!1 -
Madisonmolly... such good news.. and great follow through on your part in so many ways...
Yes x's 3 today
Chopped and pan sauteed tons of veggies today. Did higher intensity workout...slow buildup... lost about 16 lbs in the past month... have a goal to keep pushing. My son opted to exercise during commercials with me yday, and did some workout on his own today. My Mom who is mid 70's just rejoined her gym... mourning my Dad has been very hard on her emotionally and physically... So, hoping my little pod of humans can keep encouraging each other to make healthy a family theme.6 -
MadisonMolly2017 wrote: »Inspiring post @WhatMeRunning!!
WHY WE DO THIS
So, I’ve been having some wonky symptoms. Breathing harder on a steep hill, some pressure in chest, not running up the stairs as usual. Elevated heart rate for simple walk.
I didn’t really notice because I walk hike every day. I have low bp, I lost 70 lbs I kept it off. I eat ridiculously healthily.
Then came
Concerning echo stress test results in the ER. My low bp went skyrocketing while I walked & jogged on their treadmill.
And yesterday a CT scan of my arteries at the ER again due to actual chest pain &
Jaw pain. (Good news at end of post)
Well, as I waited for the results on both days of tests, all I could think was: “You have done EVERYTHING you can.” Must be genetic. Forgave and let go myself for not having been healthier. I honestly did the best I could without tracking apps & UAC & new techniques re: habit changes (NOOM).
And then the results came in. The nicest sweetest resident Dylan looked 22 came in
“I have good news. No, GREAT news you have minimal occlusion.” We both teared up. “Really really good news. You have a lot (spreading his arms wide) more room for heart disease in future.” Haha He put his hands together & bowed. I thanked him profusely clasping my hands to my head, incredulous.
I had done a good job of keeping calm, but I’ve dodged a huge bullet here after ~ 25+ years of unhealthy eating out.
I have read exercise & healthier eating can reverse this somewhat…who knows?
But I am SO GRATEFUL
PS cardiologist is working on the serious runs of VT’s & the possible exercise-induced hypertension. Will take some time
And I still have heartburn like feeling in throat & chest - will explore lungs? GERD? I eat such bland foods…with my PCP tomorrow
Here’s the clincher: if I hadn’t walked up hills & every day, if I’d been my sedentary past self, I would never have known all this was happening.
Exercise may have saved my life. (The VT’s)
As Nike says: “Just DO it!”
My favorite mantra “It’s not if I’ll exercise today, it’s WHEN”
Total mindshift.
Pls learn from my Mistakes.
If you have any thoughts/experience what might be going on, I’d love to hear.
Must of been so scary for u. Health scares can really rattle you!!! Xxx2 -
snowshoe072 wrote: »Stayed under got my protein numbers again today hoping this habit sticks. 2.2 miles of spin a little flexibility. Tracked and stayed under.
Any special plans for anyone this weekend? I am hoping to finish Game of Thrones #2 then on to #3. Of course some 🏈 😊maybe a short winter walk in the woods before next weeks frigid cold hits. I guess I should proof read before hitting the post button or at least put my glasses on 😂
Game of thrones rocks. Lol. Hubby and I watched it 3 times over. Haha! Thunderstorms here all weekend and week so we might just go for drives xox.3 -
WhatMeRunning wrote: »@Winner_in_Life I am sure it's difficult to find happiness or satisfaction in many things right now. You are doing so well, keep on doing whatever you can. I think only a rare few have the inner strength and courage to do much at all just yet. You are on the correct path. I am sure your husband would be so proud of you. God bless!
Well said, just beautiful! Xo3 -
1/6
Exercise: 150 minutes stretching and PT exercises, 35 minutes elliptical
Tracking: yes
Calories: under
Pass days used: 06 -
Track: yes
Calories: yes
Exercise: yes- Treadmill: 1.47 mi / 25 mins
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06/01/2022
Exercise – yes
Tracked – yes
Calories – yes
1/3 pass days
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dsgoingtodoit wrote: »Madisonmolly... such good news.. and great follow through on your part in so many ways...
Yes x's 3 today
Chopped and pan sauteed tons of veggies today. Did higher intensity workout...slow buildup... lost about 16 lbs in the past month... have a goal to keep pushing. My son opted to exercise during commercials with me yday, and did some workout on his own today. My Mom who is mid 70's just rejoined her gym... mourning my Dad has been very hard on her emotionally and physically... So, hoping my little pod of humans can keep encouraging each other to make healthy a family theme.
@dsgoingtodoit Awesome work losing 16 lbs in the last month - over the holidays no less!! CONGRATS to you! And the news about your son exercising during commercials with you made me smile..... and your mom, I know she's had such a rough time.. I'm glad you're such an encouragement for healthy change to your family! Very well done!2 -
Jan 6
Exercise - 15 minutes MommaStrong, 30 minutes walk
Tracking - Planned the day
Calories - Followed the plan - under
I almost thought I was going to have to take a pass day for being 50 calories over, then remembered that I had only put 2 slices of ham on my sandwich even though I pre-planned 3 - and got to adjust the calories down. Phew!
We are going to get Indian food today and I looked up calories so that I can enjoy it without having to plan a 2000 calorie day - just within my normal slightly high Friday calories - and then the leftovers over the weekend. I got tandoori chicken and dal, and I plan to eat a few ounces of each of those with a big plate of steamed frozen cauliflower. All preplanned. That took a while because we haven't gotten Indian since I started tracking calories so I was going down a rabbit hole trying to read about calories in different Indian menu items. MFP has 30 entries for each of them but so many of them are "1 piece" or "1 serving." But I eventually with the aid of other sources found entries that I think make sense. We'll see what it does to my weight!
@MadisonMolly2017 Make sure they test thyroid - ideally not just TSH but other things too. I am linking to an article about Hashimotos, which is what I have : https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hashimotos-disease/symptoms-causes/syc-20351855
But thyroid issues are very common and underdiagnosed, and can definitely lead to some weird heart things. Low resting heart rate but high when you exercise goes along with it for sure. I have Hashimoto's is why I think of that. It probably isn't that, but it's a cheap and easy test and really everyone ought to get it after a certain age anyway. Good luck in figuring it out!4 -
Jan 6:
✅✅✅ exercise today was walking around work (inside the building, and parking in the farthest parking lot on the other side of the building from where I sit!) Lol. Also, only 1 hour doing massage, as the rest of my massage clients cancelled for tonight due to the snowstorm (<1 inch??) hitting us.
Pass Days Used: 1/3 (4Jan)
@MadisonMolly2017 what a scare! I'm so glad you've been able to get to a place where you know your body so well, and that you 'knew' something was wrong so quickly! And such good news in the end! I know you'll stay on top of it and hopefully they'll get it all figured out.
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~❄️~ 1 / 7 /2022~~ Waving Hi ~~ ☃️ ~~ BLESSings ALLways ~💖~
Exercise for at least 20 minutes .................................... ✅ ... 240+ min.
Stay within my calorie budget for the day ...................... ✅ ... I am
Keep track of everything I ate and drank ....................... ✅ .... I did
STEPS......... 27,840+.......... 180 walking .........60 cleaning ....
back to Winter deep cleanup DeClutter Organizing ... Mon. Wed. Fri. If I fall behind
I will do Tues. / Thurs / Sat. as needed to finish up my weekly goal
Documenting My CONSISTANCY = For personal ACCOUNTABILITY & Celebration
(if there is a P=instead of number its a Pass Day)
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Yes to exercise and tracking. No to calories. Worked (and finished) a major project and was not focused much about food. I was not over by a lot but over.
Hugs to those that need it!
I love the Covid/Shoe comment... 5 -
Awesome day @BMcC9 very impressive steps!
Stellar exercise today as always @ashleycarole86 and great insights too!
Hope you are mobile again today @Arc2Arc congrats on getting all 3 ✔️
Way to "get out there" @ideas2 swimming is great, especially indoors when it's cold out!
Amazing efforts again @jamcnewman once things open back up you will be nearly unstoppable!
Holy smokes @loopydo2017 that's incredibly cold, kudos for being able to get out there safely! I can't even imagine! Congrats on the ✅✅✅ day!
Congrats on getting all 3 @biketheworld hope you start feeling better and that you don't actually have the omigawd
Excellent planning and execution @dsgoingtodoit and keep on inspiring those at home and even here! You're doing so well!
Congrats on all 3 @Caroline_slowandsteady I know Indian dishes can vary quite a bit depending on what you get based on what they add to the dish, but any number beats not even trying to estimate, and you're already planning to track the scale afterwards. Hope you have an enjoyable dining experience!
Great day @Mrs_Hoffer I love how you always find ways to still get your exercise in despite obstacles! You're an excellent role model!
Congrats @Caramel_Apple @jmu1965 @Sunshinfit @mshawski @GrandmaJackie @susancolombo @Bill70sStrong @Ginharbe @calvin20874 @LazyBlondeChef @lesdarts180 @DebyS137 @znaoiec4 -
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