February 22
Mrs_Hoffer
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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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I returned from vacation Sunday night and am trying to get caught up on laundry etc, as well as posts. I haven’t made it through all 2 1/2 weeks but I’ll get there. I will NOT give up!
I stepped on the scale this morning and actually lost 3.5 pounds during vacation. How? I was by myself and only ate out 3 nights. The rest of the time I bought salads or microwave meals at the grocery. I kept breakfasts simple, packed along a collapsible cooler and filled it with fruit, etc during the day. I was unbelievably active….hiked 4 to 7 hours a day, biked over 100 miles in 2 days, ran a half marathon. I rarely felt hungry, which is kind of weird.
So my question for today, how do you handle vacations? Do you have a strategy or just let the chips fall where they may and deal with it later. Ironically, my next vacation will be in April with my husband and he is already talking about all the food he’s looking forward to eating! That vacation will be very sedentary so even maintaining will be a challenge. I’m almost dreading it.10 -
Tues Feb 22
@biketheworld Congratulations on returning from such a healthy and energetic holiday!
In contrast, today was "a day" - massive weather event level of rain and I let things slide a bit. My first pass day of this month. Upsides - it was a controlled slide. And involved no alcohol.7 -
22/02/2022
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes?
• DAY 22 of EPIC I | DUMBBELL SHOULDERS & CORE 43 min
• Jogging 6.3 km in 0:45:13 (7:11 min/km); VO2max: 38
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
Pass days: All used
@biketheworld I would say just relax and enjoy your vacation with your DH4 -
22/02/2022
Exercise – yes bike ride and cardio
Tracked – yes
Calories – yes
1 pass day used (Sat 12th)
I had two brisk outdoor walks today – I had to take my bike in for a service and some attention to the brakes. I took a roundabout route to the bike shop then walked home. Later I had to walk (briskly, as I had left it a bit late) back to the shop to collect the bike. The walk is about 3,000 steps each way, about as much as I can manage before my arthritis starts to really bother me. My cardio exercise is usually done in short bursts of 10/15 minutes.
Vacations/holidays – I do holiday quite a lot now that I’m retired. I like to go self-catering but we have started taking coach holidays since retirement and they are short (4 nights) but they are in hotels with breakfast and dinner provided every day – they can be difficult to negotiate. The saving grace is that they are short so the damage is easily repaired.
I’m looking forward to going abroad again this year – more than 2 years now since our last holiday abroad. We hope to be going to Kos in May!
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Tuesday
Exercise 63
Tracking complete
Calories under
3 pass days remaining
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Exercise: no
Tracking: yes
Calories: no5 -
2/22
Exersised-very little
Caleries -yes
Logged yes
A new exiting NSV is, I bought to size 18 zipper jeans, they fit. Last zipper pants were a 20 in 2019. I usually wear elastic waist. At time of surgery 20/22. It's been a long time since I wore an 18. Let alone zipper pants.5 -
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✅ Exercise: 82 mins
✅ Calories: under goal
✅ Tracked
Remaining pass days: 3️⃣
@biketheworld I have a strategy on holiday. When we go self-catering, I take my food scale with me, and weigh/measure where possible. When we eat out, I stick to healthy options and take a container to take home excess food. Which I will have for lunch next day. (Many restaurants provide home containers on request). Also I seldom order more than 2 courses.
If we go catered, I order the plainer items, as these are what I now prefer.
Also, I eat light at other meals, and do extra exercise to accommodate any indulgences.
Eg: Yesterday we had a special celebration lunch in the Members Room of our local Parliament building. I did some extra walking before and after lunch. For lunch, I had Gnocchi with mushroom sauce, followed by Key Lime Parfait on shortbread. I drank water. I had a light dinner at home in the evening. I ate over basic calories, but was well under maintenance.
Occasionally I choose not to track, but still choose to keep roughly to my chosen healthy eating.3 -
Feb 22
Exercise: Yes (Tabata 45mins)
Tracked: Yes
Calories: Yes
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✅ Exercise: 40 minutes swimming
✅ Calories
✅ Tracked
0 pass days used ( )
I haven´t traveled since I started losing weight in August. I expect I will do it different this time around, because both my husband and I are doing intermittent fasting and I am eager to see how that works on vacations. I am told that it actually makes travelling easier-- In years past when I was losing weight I was so concerned about having snacks I could eat with me to keep me from being too hungry. Now my relationship with hunger is really different and I no longer take ¨emergency food¨ every where I go. I did buy myself a blendjet 2 and have figured I will take meal replacement shakes to use occasionally if I don´t want to eat out and we will probably also have some nuts in our suitcase.
On my past vacations, meals at restaurants was one of the things we enjoyed most, so I expect I will greatly ease up on my standards and just try not to eat an excessive amount when we eat two meals a day. At home, I am avoiding the use of any oils except butter, olive oil, coconut oil or avocado, avoidng all gluten and dairy, and eating low carb. Don´t think there are many restaurants that my husband would want to go to that would serve meals meeting all of those criteria, so I will probably just try to stick to the two meal eating window and just not go ¨hog wild¨ when we dine out.
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When we do vacation away from home I try to eat a well balanced meal, I have often been accused of paying to much attention to the nutrition labels if the restaurant provides them. If they have no nutrition info I try to make the best possible choice I can.
All three done today, our 13 year old Shepard mix seems to be a little more active, we made a dog friendly carrot cake for her, toast but discovered she preferred the pizza crust guess she’s not calorie watching! She has done this before but something seems more off this time, I think it’s age settling in, will see keep you all posted it’s hard to wrap your head around them getting old and not being there all the time but I guess that’s life tough at times.3 -
@stella7x7 Awesome news it’s such a wonderful feeling keep up the great work🙂2
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✔︎ 20+ mins exercise (nice long walk, 1hr30min - so nice to be back to my routine after the weekend away!)
✔︎ Within calorie budget
✔︎ Log everything
Consistency Tracking (🔥=3 ✔︎'s, 🏴☠️=pass):
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Passes used = 2 / 3
Other habits I’m tracking this month:
✔︎ Morning meditation
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✘ Drink >64oz water (I really need to get back on this! I left my water bottle in a packed bag today so I missed out on 1/2 the day of "regular" water intake just by not having it at hand... it's out and ready for tomorrow!)
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Thanks to many in this group, I took a new approach while on a mini-vacation with extended family this past weekend (Fri-Mon). I took my bodyweight scale with me and weighed each morning as usual; it kept me accountable. I brought my meditation beads (really helps me focus on my mantras while meditating) and meditated every morning, even when I the only place I could was in a closet sitting on a cooler.😂 I logged/tracked each day and except for a planned pass day on my birthday, on which I still was very mindful of each food/drink decision and didn't go overboard at all. I upped my calorie target by a couple hundred calories (not all the way up to maintenance) and stayed in a deficit. Overall, the main difference was being mindful of my habits and choices and thoughts rather than just having a "treat yo self" attitude for 4 days. I enjoyed all the foods I love in appropriate portions, stayed active, and enjoyed time with family. Food seemed much less important to me on this weekend away than I can remember in many years. It was wonderful! My shifting mindset really made all the difference.6 -
February 22, 2 pass days used
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? 30 minutes HASFit
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes.
Most of my vacations are in my RV. So I pack as I normally eat at home. In the past I wouldn’t track because I didn’t have internet service in the mountains.
Since I am fairly new to MFP how did you handle no internet. Does it work out?2 -
2/22
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? 👍🏻
[Documenting consistency (if there is a P=instead of number its a Pass Day)
UAC: 1-2-3-4-5-8-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-P-18-19-20-21-22
February 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 logging
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, 30 minutes Peloton bike and 15 minutes stretching.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yep
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes3 -
Yes x3. A 30 minute walking video. My upper body is so sore from all the punches in yesterdays kickboxing.
There’s not been much for vacations the last few years! And even longer since I’ve travelled while counting calories. We will see how an upcoming April getaway goes. Probably a mix of indulgence and healthy choices.3 -
February 22, 2022
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes (no?)
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
Habits to maintain this month:
Kitchen Closed? Yes
Did you go "nuts" with nuts today? No(17 days -free)
Within Sugar macro today? Yes (17 days)
Calling this a pass day... could not guesstimate some food items.
Pass day 4/3 (this is for accountability to myself and my records).5 -
pass day as expected
i probably was within calories but no real exercise was possible.
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? 46 minutes Peloton, 5 minutes stretching
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
Pass days - 3/3
Haven't done any big trips since I started losing weight. However, my habits are so different that I feel good about it. I have gone on mini trips to visit family or a night away here or there and u am just thoughtful about my choices with a focus on exercise.
Great job @makattack220 !!5 -
2/22
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? 👍🏻
[Documenting consistency (if there is a P=instead of number its a Pass Day)
UAC: 1-2-3-4-5-8-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-P-18-19-20-21-22
February 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 logging
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Tuesday February 22
Tracked ✅
Calories ✅
Exercise ✅ - treadmill and started my 3 month Apple Fitness+ trial today.
Haven’t been on any form of holiday since I started on this journey this past August. We’ve started looking at options for a trip next summer. It will be an AirBnB style rental and I’ll be hoping to keep at it.3 -
2/22
Exersised-very little
Caleries -yes
Logged yes
A new exiting NSV is, I bought to size 18 zipper jeans, they fit. Last zipper pants were a 20 in 2019. I usually wear elastic waist. At time of surgery 20/22. It's been a long time since I wore an 18. Let alone zipper pants.
This must be a wonderful feeling. Well done!2 -
2/22
Exercise: 55 minutes weight training. 45 minutes elliptical, 45 minutes stretching and PT exercises
Tracking: yes
Calories: under
Pass days used: 23 -
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Half Size Me Podcast has a great episode on traveling. Not sure of the number.
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Yes x3
I was thinking of u today and wondering where u were glad to hve u back and yay on weight loss @biketheworld xo2 -
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~💖~ 2 / 22 /2022~~ Waving Hi ~~ 🙋🏼 ~~ BLESSings Everyone ~💖~
Exercise for at least 20 minutes .................................... ✅ ... 210+ min.
Stay within my calorie budget for the day ...................... ✅ ... I am
Keep track of everything I ate and drank ....................... ✅ .... I did
STEPS......... 26,210 +.......... 180 = walking ......... 30 cleaning
foot feeling much better... so gonna try getting back to my normal walking
routine of 180 min. a daily during the week & 150 min on weekend
Still using a slower pace tho...
Documenting My CONSISTANCY = For personal ACCOUNTABILITY & Celebration
(if there is a P=instead of number its a Pass Day)
1 = ( P )
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-( P )-20-21-22
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💖 Wishing EVERYONE all the BEST & Much Success 🏆 We Got This 🏆
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Feb 22 (I WILL make Champion List! 🏆) Pass days used: 4+
Exercise: 🐱👤 5th decent exergame day in a row
Logged all: 🐱👤 7th day in a row
In Range: 🙈 reset .... I didn't want air-popped popcorn (my default evening snack ) ... not-the-best-alternate chosen (looked it up, and SEEMED to have room last night ... then Fitbit changed its mind about available activity credits ... so it didn't fit .... even before I had a "know this is over" mouth-hunger-only second piece ...
(🐱👤 = 3yes day; 🙈 = pass day )
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🐱👤🙈🐱👤🙈🐱👤🐱👤🐱👤
🙈🙈🐱👤🐱👤🐱👤🐱👤🐱👤
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