February 9
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✅✅✅ Exercise today was 20 mins walking at work.
Great topic bON. I really haven't been working out hard enough to need a rest day! 😆 🤣6 -
✅ Exercise: 45 minutes swimming
✅ Calories
✅ Tracked
0 pass days used ( )
I do take rest days, ever since a physical therapist told me I should have at least one rest day a week. However, that was rest from the intense exercise I was doing. Now walking 10,000 steps might still be a rest day. I went through a long plateau and then heard a podcast on the importance of sleep and rest which convinced me to not go to the gym on my daily routine this past year but instead make a commitment to walk at home on the days I dont workout at the gym. On my rest days I try not to get my heartrate up into the cardo range and not to do heavy lifting. Those walking rest days really have re-ignited my weightloss. I am a believer. (I also have a history of being diagnosed with adrenal fatigue-- I believe when I overdo it makes my insulin resistance worse-- so I have come to believe that it is important for me not to over do it.)
@mshawski I had to laugh when you talked about ¨her majesty¨-- that is very much the same character as Shrink Yourself´s ¨Harriet¨--- that overly demanding lacking in compassion part of us that tries to convince us we have to always beat ourselves to do better-- that part that talks to us in a harsh, critical, rigid way. I have had to learn not to give ¨her majesty¨too much authority because although she insists (and believes) she is doing it for my good, actually she is a really immature, black/white thinking, part of me who does not have a mature parenting style, she parents the way an 8 year old would parent a younger child when they are in charge-- without realistic views on real limits.
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Wednesday February 9
My exercise is walking (for the most part) so no pass days are taken. When I can get back into the pool, I will schedule rest days from that as it is much a more intense activity level.
✅ Tracking - done
✅ Calories - under
✅ Exercise - indoor treadmill workout + outdoor walk with the pup: total time 77 minutes. 13,000+ steps
0️⃣ Pass days used
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Exercise: 70 minutes outdoor walking
Tracking: yes
Calories: under
This was a lighter day on exercise for me - not planned specifically but time restrictions meant I didn't have it in me to do more. I already chimed in earlier but I would call today a rest day of sorts but I did get my 10K steps. So really it's just rest from a certain kind of exercise but I feel amazing on walking alone and that was my sole source of exercise for a good portion of my journey... I love it!
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✅ Exercise
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Pass Days Used: 04 -
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Pass days used: 2/34 -
I've been running for 14 and a half years now, since the age of 47, and am now 61. These legs of mine need at least one day of rest a week--Sunday, and Thursday is usually a rest day as well. Although some Thursdays, if the weather is nice and my quads aren't feeling too achy I might go get a short run in on a nearby trail, just to take advantage of the nice day.
Because of the UAC rule I try to at least get a 20 minute walk in on rest days, but some Sundays I decide to not even do that, I want my legs to have a full rest. I would like to get back to going to the gym twice a week to get in strength training, the pandemic screwed that up. Maybe next month... In the meantime I should use my dumbbells here at home but I tend to forget.
Today I did a 4 mile run. The weather was a comfortable 49 degrees. 🌤🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️
Also successfully tracked and stayed within my calorie target today. 🙂
I've used 2 Pass Days so far.5 -
Feb 9
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19 day streak
In my maintenance range again - yay
24.2 BMI5 -
Exercise-walked 30min on treadmill
Tracking- everything
Calories- under
Passes remain: 26 -
2/9/2022
Exercise? Yes.
Tracking? Yes.
Calories? Yes. WhatWhat??!?!?!?!6 -
Taking a pass day due to no exercise. I did get far more steps than I typically would but not enough to count.
MFP is completely annoying me. I'm sorry I paid for pro. The logging out thing has become excessive on the web. The app still works but I dislike entering food because you can't do the checks for multiple items and since I often eat the same food for lunch that I ate for dinner the night before I have to add each item individually instead of doing checkmarks.
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@LazyBlondeChef, I have found that when the web page “Fitness starts with what you eat” is presented, I don’t actually need to log in. Simply click on FOOD in the blue bar, it takes me to the food database. From there you can click on Food Diary. It’s still very fiddly and you can’t get the proper “home page” with friends’ comments, so it’s very annoying.
Sorry, I can’t post pictures or screenshots, but give it a try.
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LazyBlondeChef wrote: »Taking a pass day due to no exercise. I did get far more steps than I typically would but not enough to count.
MFP is completely annoying me. I'm sorry I paid for pro. The logging out thing has become excessive on the web. The app still works but I dislike entering food because you can't do the checks for multiple items and since I often eat the same food for lunch that I ate for dinner the night before I have to add each item individually instead of doing checkmarks.
I also paid once for pro and will never do this again. Already for few days web interface changes from English to German every time I switch between home and food and so on. With German you have a complete different lay-out, community and groups. Every time I have to go to the bottom of the page to change the language
And the ticker doesn't work for ages now
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2/9
Exercise: 55 minutes weight training, 45 minutes elliptical, 50 minutes stretching and PT exercises
Tracking: yes
Calories: under
Pass days used: 04 -
Feb 9
Exercise -15 minutes MommaStrong
Tracking - Planned the day, but with a random database entry for "1 slice" of "chocolate cake with chocolate icing"
Calories - followed the plan
I'm going to call it a pass day because of the ridiculousness of that estimation and because I only did 15 minutes of intentional exercise. I meant to at least do some stretching in the evening but ran out of time.
2 Pass Days total
@loopydo2017 it was my son's birthday too! 6 years old.
@LazyBlondeChef the app doesn't have check marks, but you can copy everything you eat from one meal to another meal by clicking the 3 dots at the bottom of the meal and then selecting "Quick Add" and then selecting what meal you want to copy that meal into. I agree MFP is fiddly and annoying, though!
Re: Pass days
I am so inspired by all of your exercising here! As you can see, I struggle to even find the time for 20 minutes of anything a day. But I certainly am not exercising at a level that I need rest days because my exercise is so intense. When I was having my autoimmune thyroid flare for the last few weeks I sometimes needed to rest for that - like I just couldn't handle any movement.
I have 3 kinds of exercise I try to do daily
1. MommaStrong workouts. Those are usually 15 minutes and they are mostly HIT type workouts and mostly full body. When I am doing them regularly I could do one every day without trouble. But sometimes, like now, when I am easing back into them after a break (in this case because of the autoimmune stuff) I do find that I get sore and if I do it again when I am very sore I can get headaches or other pain that disrupts my life. So, if I am feeling that way I don't do it that day and do stretching instead (they do have stretching programs too so sometimes I do those or sometimes my own routine). I almost always do these in the morning before breakfast. 1 or 2 days a week I plan to sleep in and don't leave time for these. When I was in the autoimmune flare I had to sleep in and that's why I didn't' do these, even more than not having the energy.
2. Walking. I try to walk at least 30 minutes a day, at least around the neighborhood. If I have time I go for a hike in the woods or at least walk somewhere else. I schedule that into my workday and try to schedule it into my weekends too. That's more for my mental health than real exercise, but it is usually how I get to the required 20 minutes for UAC. I definitely don't need a "rest day" from that, but sometimes I just can't fit it in. Like yesterday, when I had a lot to do for work but then stopped early so that I could celebrate my son's birthday.
3. Stretching. I have assigned PT exercises that I should be doing ideally multiple times a day. I find it really helps my pain level when I do them at least daily. I was doing well with doing those some mornings (when too sore for MommaStrong) and some evenings and then during meetings if it's more a listening sort of meeting. But since the autoimmune flare it seems none of those times is available and I've been struggling and having pain because of it. I am going to stretch this morning. I need to give more thinking on how to fit that in. I usually don't count the stretching towards UAC goals, though I will sometimes.
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~💖~ 2 / 9 /2022~~ Waving Hi ~~ 🙋🏼 ~~ BLESSings Everyone ~💖~
Exercise for at least 20 minutes .................................... ✅ ... 200+ min.
Stay within my calorie budget for the day ...................... ✅ ... I am
Keep track of everything I ate and drank ....................... ✅ .... I did
STEPS......... 24,340+.......... 170 = walking ......... 30 cleaning
My foot is hurting... (the one that was broke last year) having to slow my pace
(wearing my boot helps with pain)
Documenting My CONSISTANCY = For personal ACCOUNTABILITY & Celebration
(if there is a P=instead of number its a Pass Day)
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9
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💖 Wishing EVERYONE all the BEST & Much Success 🏆 We Got This 🏆
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Wound up busy last night so posting the next morning...
February 9
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0 pass days used
Exercise was a 21 minute walk.
My corrected count is 3 full and 8 half within 365 (much lower).2 -
LazyBlondeChef wrote: »Taking a pass day due to no exercise. I did get far more steps than I typically would but not enough to count.
MFP is completely annoying me. I'm sorry I paid for pro. The logging out thing has become excessive on the web. The app still works but I dislike entering food because you can't do the checks for multiple items and since I often eat the same food for lunch that I ate for dinner the night before I have to add each item individually instead of doing checkmarks.
It is really annoying… On the app you can multi add food or copy meals over from previous days (same meal only tho) Just click the multi add to do more than one at a time after you go inside the meal. On the iPhone its a blue bar at the bottom,1 -
Feb 9 - no exercise (not a rest day, Lol, forgot to even try due to stress & just not planning well?
Yes to tracking.
No to being under.
At least I am tracking now. After discussion of binging yesterday, I binged last night. Too late of dinner & guess I need to write some notes to myself since I went out of my head with eating. Didn’t try to resist—went a little out of my head with work & Mom stress combined. Craziness!
I so appreciate that I can be here for accountability only.
I just didn’t even think today & tonight. I do WANT to do this. So, I’m going to do it!
February 10 is a new day & im looking forward to it.6 -
Feb 9
Exercise – small hike with a wonderful view. Beautiful winter day - blue sky, bright sun and temps in the high thirties. Who wants to go into the basement to workout on a day like this? The hike raised both my spirit and my heart rate! And my little poodle pup had a blast tracking the deer tracks.
Tracked – yes
Calories – no, but not too far off the target
First pass day.5
