February 4
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? 40min strength training video.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? 35 min cardio and ab workout
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes5 -
Feb 4
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Thanks @Mrs_Hoffer! 😉
I’ve tracked everything I’ve eaten since December 2017 (if not before).
Quite simply: I want the data!
I look at my Monthly & Yearly averages, and I find that is a tremendous guide & motivator.
Over the past 6 years 1 month 4 days LOL, I have used tracking to gradually improve my nutrition.
I reframed eating well as “true love & care for myself” … not the restaurant meals & the desserts I used to Eat.
I have successfully changed the last habit these past 15 days. I eat under the AHA’s saturated fat recommendation. This is the first time I’ve ever been able to do it.
I think it’s because I have learned and practiced improving my choices for a long, long time now. A nutritionist had said my sat fat level was fine, but my cholesterol (that I thought was good to great) needed some improvement.
I am so glad I was able to make this change easily!
Practice Makes Perfect!5 -
Yes xs three!
2/3 pass days so far. And more to come.
I just wanna pat myself on the back- it's taken a year, but I'm now almost completely consistent with some exercise every day. Cardio is a mainstay and I'm regularly doing strength training now too. Today I even got some good stretches in. My back and hips have been a bit sore.
I'm 58, fat, have chronic pain issues, fall short often and modify, modify, modify, and I am heading for the best health of my life so far. haha
I feel so rawr.
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✅ Exercise: 50 minutes walking
✅ Calories
✅ Tracked
0 pass days used ( )
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Exercise- 35min treadmill
Tracking- everything
Calories- under target but feeling a bit hungry still. Oh well.
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3 Yesses 🙂
Exercise was a 4.5 mile run
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February 4
Exercise: Y. 1 hour walk, 20 minutes strength
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? no. Using a pass
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
Passes remaining 2/3
passes used: 1/3
Pass day because we got Korean-Sushi fusion. My logging was the best I could do with very creative take out meals.4 -
Track: yes
Calories: yes
Exercise: yes- Treadmill: 1.46 mi / 26mins
- Upper Body Dumbbells (circuit style / no rest) / 15mins
I track the usual carb/fat/protein (@40/30/30) plus fiber and satfat. I don't care about fat (most of my fat is olive oil) but do try to keep saturated fat within recommended levels. In the past I've tracked sugar and sodium but my levels are so low that it's not a concern. I upgraded to pro MFP thinking I could see more than the five columns and was disappointed that I couldn't.
For me tracking is important to stay within my low calorie guidelines. These days I set it to 1300 per day plus active exercise calories but aim to stay around 1200 when I eat at home and a bit higher when I eat in restaurants. I'm relatively sedentary outside of my daily exercise. I rarely get 10,000+ steps. As much as I think I should try harder I'm not quite ambitious enough to actually do it consistently.
@SummerSkier Ice on bare trees looks so cool even though I know it's not so great for the poor tree.
@ashleycarole86 I also will most likely be tracking for life. I think that's the only way for many of us to stay successful.
Personally, I don't ever mention MFP to anyone outside of my partner as I don't welcome comments about my weight or eating habits from anyone.7 -
✅ Exercise - 85 min of walking around the neighborhood
✅ Calories -
✅ Tracking -
Closed all my Apple watch rings today
0 Pass days used
Documenting consistency (if there is a P=instead of number its a Pass Day)
UAC: 1-2-3-4
I think last month I answered the question about "what is the best thing about tracking" in a very flippant way - I replied "nothing." The funny thing is that I've tracked everything I eaten for the last 155 days, with maybe the exception of a quick calorie add one or two times when it was too complicated of a meal. Everyday I look at my macros to see how I'm doing with my protein vs carbs and fats. I pre-log some days and then change up what I'm eating to make sure I stay within calories. Does this take time? Honestly, not much. So why the flippant answer? It feels like I think about food, tracking food, balancing the nutrients in my food all the time. I sure do like the results of being conscious of what and how much I eat. I enjoy having a buffer of calories when I include my exercise calories. I just wish I didn't have to think about it so much.
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~💖~ 2 / 4 /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......... 27,120+.......... 180 = walking ......... 30 cleaning
Documenting My CONSISTANCY = For personal ACCOUNTABILITY & Celebration
(if there is a P=instead of number its a Pass Day)
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💖 Wishing EVERYONE all the BEST & Much Success 🏆 We Got This 🏆
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Feb 4
Exercise - 15 minutes MommaStrong and I'll give myself the extra 5 dancing with my kiddo for an online "Tot Shabbat" service. Did not leave the house for my usual walk in the freezing rain and ice falling from the sky.
Tracking - Planned the day. Adjusted the plan when we couldn't do our normal Fri takeout because of said ice.
Calories - Under
Lost almost 2 pounds overnight - I think that's a sign that my thyroid is getting itself back in shape. Phew!
Re: tracking. I did Weight Watchers years ago to lose 25 pounds and then kept it off without tracking regularly. I weighed myself every day and if I got up a few pounds I would track calories for a few days or a week (because weight watchers system had changed already and I couldn't learn the new one). I think the lack of tracking worked because I was basically eating the same things 80% of the time, that I already knew were low calorie. And because I was in my 20s!
With my current weight loss, which began almost 3 years ago, I was very opposed to tracking - just didn't see how I could manage it. I actually did most of this weight loss without tracking. What I did was figure out a good menu (by adding up calories) and then just follow that template, again 80% of the time.
I've been tracking every day (mostly) for a year now, with the desire to nail down that last bit of weight loss. I think it helps for 2 reasons. 1. Is that for further weight loss I need to be at such a low calorie level that there's really no wiggle room of being 80% or eating "mostly" the same - I need to keep more careful track of each little thing or I quickly am eating too much. 2. This has coincided with my new work-from-home life, and pre-planning the day is essential when I work in the same place as my fridge! That was achieved in my past life by packing my lunch and snacks and being out of the house all day (a few days a week packing dinner too). Now I have to plan. If I am facing a full fridge with an empty belly and no plan, that is a disaster!
I haven't yet committed to tracking forever. I have been weighing daily for about half my life now. I may try without tracking, but if I am gaining I will go back to tracking. That's dreaming about "when" I get to maintenance - that may be more of an if. I may continue this slow and steady weight loss for a few more years before I get to where I want to be.6 -
Yes, yes and yes
Walking, stretching and mini wt workout
Since eating is not as intuitive as I would prefer, tracking is with me for a long time to come. It is also educational. I learn so much about different foods when I track them.
As in... "I won't be eating that again!"
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February 4th:
Exercise : 40 minutes Sydney Cummings Upper Body Pump
Tracked : Yes: I have decided to WEIGH as much as possible, rather than measure and weigh
Calories : Yes
(0 pass days used to date)4 -
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Rest day = Yoga.
I was put on a muscle relaxer before bed and I had dreams that it would loosen up my hamstrings. This yoga session taught me I need to keep dreaming 😂.
@mshawski doing just 10-15 mins of yoga every morning has truly helped my tight calves. The last couple of summers I had noticed that my calves just stayed tight ALL.THE.TIME. I figured it was from all the walking I was doing (especially my LONG walks!). Doing the "downward dog" and flexing those calves (I go up on tip toes and then back down; and then alternating feet doing the same) REALLLLY helped my calves eventually to loosen up. It didn't help immediately, it probably took a few weeks before I began to notice a difference. Perhaps look for a couple poses that specifically target those hamstrings and be sure to incorporate those into your routine! Don't give up!
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ashleycarole86 wrote: »@Bill70sStrong My Peloton inspiration
You sure know how to get it done!!
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? 48 minute walk, 31 minutes on the Peloton, 10 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 used - 0/3
I've talked about this before, but I'm surprised at times how defensive or questioning certain people get about tracking.
I had this conversation with my Mom just the other day....
"I'm sure when you get to your goal weight you won't want to track so obsessively as you do now... that you'll just get on the scale and see that you're up and diet down."
My goodness this type of "advice" frustrates me!! To suggest that tracking when I hit maintenance is obsessive and somehow not good for me when I came from a place of morbid obesity and know without controls that binge eating my way right back up there could easily be in the cards....
All that to say = tracking is life for me! Obsessive? Sure, because I don't feel like suffering from obesity related issues... and I really have made the dream finally come true here shedding over 100 pounds. I'm not willing to turn my back on that.
One thing overall I will say is that I've felt proud of how even keeled and non-obsessive I've stayed during my journey, how I weigh daily and don't get frustrated with the upticks, etc. I understand the value tracking brings to me and I am not willing to make excuses for it.
THIS!!!!@ashleycarole86 very well said Ashley! I've said it before, but you are such an inspiration! Your consistency, enthusiasm, and determination are admirable, and such an inspiration to others! And HUGE congrats on losing over 100 lbs!! Last, I agree 💯 with you about continuing to track after I'm in maintenance. I've lost and re-gained 40-60 lbs over and over and over again through the years, and I have NO DESIRE to ever have to do that again! So tracking is an everyday "habit" that I plan to continue doing as well. 5 -
Yes xs three!
2/3 pass days so far. And more to come.
I just wanna pat myself on the back- it's taken a year, but I'm now almost completely consistent with some exercise every day. Cardio is a mainstay and I'm regularly doing strength training now too. Today I even got some good stretches in. My back and hips have been a bit sore.
I'm 58, fat, have chronic pain issues, fall short often and modify, modify, modify, and I am heading for the best health of my life so far. haha
I feel so rawr.
Yes!! You should pat yourself on the back!! High Five!!
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Feb 4
Exercise: 🐱🏍 ( core 12 mins / posture 5 mins / balance 5 mins / total steps 10,239)
Logged all: 🐱🏍
In Range: 🐱🏍
(🐱👤 = 3yes day; 🙈 = pass day
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Able to do one last outdoor after supper. 4rd evening outdoor walk in a row ... but now back in the deep-freeze temps as of Saturday morning - so ALLL stepping will be back indoors. We didn't get much snow, but BiL ~ 45 minutes south by highway got LOTS.2 -
Pass day....Worked out as normal but some grazing at night time.... I was prob under calories but cos u didn't weigh and track those calories I can't know 4 sure. Xo3
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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? ✅2 -
04/02/2022
Oops, nearly forgot to post. Catching up on Saturday evening.
Exercise – yes bike ride, gym and cardio
Tracked – yes
Calories – yesI too was in WW many years ago (more than 20 years ago!) but I did know about calories even then and I have followed other diet and fitness groups along the way before joining MFP. I suppose I have tracked calories on and off for about 40 years now. I know that when I stop keeping an eye on the calories my weight creeps up. The weight gain is quite slow – a couple of pounds every time I go on holiday, not reversed, adds up over time. So, I probably will have to continue tracking “for ever” but I’m not obsessive about it. I have a break when I’m away, or eating out. The key for me is to get straight back to it and catch those extra pounds/kg quickly. I gained a lot of weight after I retired but rejoined MFP in 2018 and lost the weight (22.5 kg) again by April 2019
I have adjusted the laptop display of macros so that I can track fibre and calcium as well as protein. I find that if I keep the calories within range the fat and sugar is taken care of so I don’t track them.
I was diagnosed with osteopenia a few years ago so need to track calcium. However, calcium is not mandatory on food labels so it can be tricky. Last week I bought a new yogurt without looking carefully at the label and it didn’t have the calcium listed. I had to assume an average of 15% per 100g but it’s annoying. Even cheese often doesn’t have calcium listed.
Sorry, this has turned into a long story – I’ll put it in a spoiler.
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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? yes4 -
All 3 - Nope.
Accountability...
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Exercise: 55 minutes weight training, 45 minutes elliptical, 50 minutes stretching and PT exercises
Tracking: yes
Calories: under
Pass days used: 03 -
Friday/Saturday
Exercise yes
Tracking/calories no
3 pass days used3 -
2/4
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? 👍🏻
Used 0
3 passes remain
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 an hour pool swim and a short walk
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
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2/4/2022
Exercise? Yes
Tracking? Yes
Calories? Nope. (I'm killing myself here... and while I care, I just don't seem to care enough.... so many other things on my mind right now.)4 -
February 4, 2022
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? Yes
Habits to maintain this month:
Kitchen Closed? Yes
Did you go "nuts" with nuts today? Yes (3 days -free)
Within Sugar macro today? Yes (4 days)
Pass day 1/3 (this is for accountability to myself and my records).3 -
Mrs_Hoffer wrote: »
THE IMPORTANCE OF TRACKING:
I know that some of us hate to think that we might have to track our food for the rest of our lives, but tracking is one of the things that's so critical to our long term SUCCESS! It's NOT hard, it's NOT difficult, and as Maddie said last month, we should think of it as a "safety line", especially once we get to maintenance.
Tracking seriously takes only minutes to do, (don't wait until the end of the day and then try to remember everything that you ate that day!!) And tracking helps us to spot issues or trends and (more importantly) to STOP them and turn them around QUICKLY!!
Maddie @MadisonMolly2017 said that after 5 years of tracking every single bite, a little voice began to creep up in her head and say “I’m sick & tired of tracking.” But just hearing that little voice in her head made alarm bells go off.... Danger!! Danger!! 💀💀💀
Tracking can help us to look at saturated fat or even sodium consumption, and keep those numbers where they should be. Tracking may very well be one of the most important techniques for us to master!
We've all heard of folks that lose weight & can maintain without tracking. But experienced people - in this group - who have kept their weight off for several years without yo-yo'ing - all say that they still track!!
For me personally, I've spent almost a year and a half losing 60 lbs.... and I have NO desire to have to go through that again! If tracking my intake every single day will help me to catch a "slow creep" and turn it around quickly and painlessly, then tracking (for the rest of my life) is what I'll do!!
Please share your perspective & experience with tracking.
What are you working on at the moment regarding "tracking"?
**(I've used much of what Maddie @MadisonMolly2017 posted last month regarding tracking.) Maddie, you're such an inspiration to this group, and it's also very impressive that you've just recently turned around what I like to call a "slow creep" of weight gain. High five!! We appreciate you!
Ty, I needed to hear this today.
Pass day for me.4 -
Pass day 1.
Went out for the first time in years. Was good fun5
https://youtu.be/g83v1m2P4_g
