March 10

Mrs_Hoffer
Mrs_Hoffer Posts: 5,194 Member
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?
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  • WhatMeRunning
    WhatMeRunning Posts: 3,538 Member
    edited March 2022
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    Enjoying A Healthy Lifestyle

    The last few topics have really reminded me how important it is to find the things you truly enjoy along your "healthy lifestyle journey".

    Speaking of that journey, and the image I chose, I can't help but have a little fun with it. I mean, what IS that journey? What is the destination? What does it look and feel like when you get there?

    I suppose from the picture it looks like ecstatic leaping high into the air and being carried by brightly colored balloons over fields of gold amid even cloudy skies! How dreamy it must be to get there! It must feel so amazing!

    Ok, enough of that.

    What I am trying to talk about is the long term nature of this "journey to health". Similar to how @biketheworld showed that despite ups and downs, you can trend downward by not giving up (at least not for long if you do give up). Also motivation, similar to yesterday's topic from @SummerSkier . As well as habits, be they regular or otherwise some preparatory thing you keep on your "tool belt" to use when appropriate.

    Ok, I can already hear the snoring so I'll get right to it (which for me probably means several more paragraphs, apologies in advance).

    Despite my own many ups and downs, by finding healthy foods and activities that I truly enjoy during "on track" cycles, I find myself able to maintain some of those healthy foods and activities to some degree even during the "off track" cycles. Some of these you can call habits, but not all of them are habits. They're just things I enjoy eating or doing in general.

    The best part is that when I get back "on track", I already have a number of foods and activities at the ready to implement into whatever plans I am starting up. And each cycle finds me learning/discovering even more things.

    While I understand it is not as simple as Googling "healthy things I will find enjoyable", it is something that I feel is very important to do for yourself. If you are only following some other plans, just to hit goals, and not truly, and I mean truly enjoying those things, then stop doing that, search for things you will enjoy. Maybe that means looking at things from a different angle.

    For example if you can't find a perfect lasagna replacement that is healthy, maybe you should stop looking for lasagna and instead find foods you find delicious that are also healthy. Perhaps after a while of eating truly enjoyable foods that are healthy you won't care as much for lasagna any more? Just a thought. 🙂

    It's harder to go "off track" if you are enjoying what you do. And even if you do go "off track", surely you will still do some of the enjoyable healthy things which will reduce the setback.

    So, now a question.

    On a scale of 1 to 10 (and be brutally honest) how much enjoyment do you get from your chosen exercises and foods? If it's not a high score, do you have any thoughts why it might be that way, and how you might be able to make your healthy journey more enjoyable?
  • LindaGB1975
    LindaGB1975 Posts: 10 Member
    edited March 2022
    Thursday, March 10

    Exercise: Yes - 40 minutes Body FX Figure 8 - Disco; 38 minutes DDP Yoga - Stand up
    Tracked all: Yes
    Calories under: No

    1 pass day used
  • snowshoe072
    snowshoe072 Posts: 5,175 Member
    All three done.

    My favorite exercise is spinning as I can slap on some headphones or crank up the tunes rattle the windows and ride away. Or I can chill with some nice classical girls a leisurely ride
  • jmu1965
    jmu1965 Posts: 1,040 Member
    March 10 - 2 pass days used
    Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes 30 minutes of recovery stretching this morning. Yesterday's leg workout was intense
    Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
    Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes

    I decided early in my weight loss journey that I would find workouts on YouTube. I started with Pahla B Fitness, it's moderate and was 20 to 25 minutes. I do it right away in the morning. I am going to rate this type of exercise a 10 because I consistently work out, I see results. I have recently added HASFit and Fabulous50s and Shine Dance Fitness. The weather varies where I live in Montana makes it very difficult to walk outside. For instance today it was 12 degrees and the wind was blowing 30 miles per hour. I will put walking a 7 because of the weather and safety.



  • GrandmaJackie
    GrandmaJackie Posts: 36,912 Member
    Date: 03/10/22

    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: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20-21-22-23-24-25-26-27-28-29-30-31

    March goals
    1 Miracle Morning ~ S.A.V.E.R.S
    2 Wake up EARLY for meditation
    3 Yoga (4 times weekly)
    4. Minimum sweets (work them in my calorie goal)
    5. 30 day squat challenge
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    6. No late night snacking
    7. Daily journal logging
  • loopydo2017
    loopydo2017 Posts: 790 Member
    Yes x3.
    I used to push hard with workouts. If it wasn’t a long sweat session, then does it even count? I can’t be bothered with that anymore. I stick with things I enjoy - walking is a 10 when I can get outside. Walking, kickboxing and low impact videos indoors is less enjoyable - 7. Weight lifting is a 9. Biking in the summer is a 9. Food is 10. I pretty well eat all the same stuff as I always have (my hubby cooks and I don’t complain!), just portions that fit into my calorie goal.
  • rashel1
    rashel1 Posts: 145 Member
    Exercise-30 minutes
    Tracking- all
    Calories- in range
    2 passes remain
  • Jan1936
    Jan1936 Posts: 597 Member
    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
  • ideas2
    ideas2 Posts: 1,261 Member
    ✅ Exercise: 55 minutes swimming, 45 minutes walking
    ✅ Calories
    ✅ Tracked

    0 pass days used ( )

    Being brutally honest, some of what I am eating is a 7-9 on the pleasure scale, which is where I like to be. (For me a 10 is not usually a good thing---that is the ¨bliss point¨ of hyperpalatable food that makes me desire to have more than what is good for me... I prefer 9s which are things that give me a lot of pleasure to eat but that I can be satisfied with a serving or less.) But I am also in the process of trying to develop extreme healthy habits from a ¨food as medicine¨ perspective. I read recently that it is a fallacy that we eat what we like. In reality, it says, we come to like what we eat a lot. In the hope that there is truth in that, I am currently trying to eat 1 cup cooked or three cups raw green leafy vegetables at every single meal or snack. Some of which (like kale, collard greens, mustard greens, turnip greens, and beet greens) I really currently don´t find a lot of physical pleasure in, only the pleasure of feeling good about my food choices. I make sure I eat those first when my hunger is highes to get the most pleasure out of them, but being generous I can probably only give them a 5. We will see if this is sustainable or not--- it is probably only sustainable if what I read is really true and these eventually moved up to at least a 7 for me.

    On good days, swimming and walking are 10s. And there are other days when maybe they are only 7 or 8 and I am relying on that ¨feeling good about making healthy choices¨ more than just the innate pleasure of the activity.
  • ashleycarole86
    ashleycarole86 Posts: 6,307 Member
    Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? 25 minute walk, 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 used - 1/3

    Exercise:
    Walking - in nice weather, 10/10. In winter, 5/10 but I still do it to a lesser extent
    Biking (outdoors) - 7/10. Hoping to build this up this year but the stress of pedestrians on shared pathways and motorist rage is stressful to me.
    Peloton (indoor cycling) -10/10.. feel like an athlete again
    Everything else - ebbs and flows, I only really do other things as I feel like it

    Food for me is a 10.. is it perfectly healthy? No...but I am in a mentally pleasant place with my control over it and that's all I can manage for now. I love food, I eat what I like, and my struggle is not eating way too much of it.
  • ForLangston
    ForLangston Posts: 919 Member
    yyy
  • jamcnewman
    jamcnewman Posts: 4,420 Member
    edited March 2022
    Thanks for your opening post today @WhatMeRunning and helping to cause me to think through some things today. I keep pining for what isn’t and can’t be (winter and Covid) and have been in such a funk.

    On a scale of 1 to 10 (and be brutally honest) how much enjoyment do you get from your chosen exercises and foods?

    Food: 10. I love to cook and bake and really enjoy creating healthy options. I am very fortunate to have the means to buy and prepare high quality healthy food for my family. I can and do manage my calories to include a glass of wine when I feel like it. I don’t feel deprived. I promised myself that I wouldn’t do anything that I wouldn’t or couldn’t sustain. ✅

    Outdoor walking: 10 in every season except winter, when the score is 4
    Indoor Treadmill walking 6
    Dance workouts (Apple+ and Zumba Gold): 8
    Stretching and core: 8

    If it's not a high score, do you have any thoughts why it might be that way, and how you might be able to make your healthy journey more enjoyable?
    Winter walking outdoors: I hate the icy sidewalks, the mealy snow with deadly ice underneath, and the really, really cold wind and weather. I am terrified of falling and can’t really get a great heart rate elevation at the rate I can travel on ice. Spring will come and I need to stop trying to make this work for now. Outdoors for fresh air and sunshine. Stop trying to get my exercise this way. Wow - why didn’t I decide this sooner? 🤦🏼‍♀️

    Walking indoors: I liked it a lot more when I did it earlier in the day and walked (via YouTube) in Hawaii, Greece, Italy, and on the coastal walks of Britain. I can re-arrange my schedule and have just done so to allow this to happen.

    And keep on with the exercise I am enjoying. When warmer weather comes, I will be back in the outdoor pools and the water jogging and swimming lengths will be so wonderful.

    💡 Thanks for my “wake up” Chris!
  • enlightenme3
    enlightenme3 Posts: 2,618 Member
    ✅ Exercise - 1 hour of Jazzercise and a neighborhood walk.
    ❌ Calories -
    ✅ Tracking -
    Closed all my Apple watch rings today
    1 Pass days used

    Documenting consistency (if there is a P=instead of number its a Pass Day)
    UAC: 1-2-3-4-P-6-7-8-9-P

    Tonight was my social event. I did everything that I had planned: did my workouts, got 600+ move points on my Apple watch and ate fairly low cal prior to the event (<400 cal for the day). Once at the event, did fairly well, but still quite hungry so indulged when we got home. The wine and cheese definitely put me over calories.
  • jamcnewman
    jamcnewman Posts: 4,420 Member
    Thursday March 10
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    46 minutes of exercise (combination)
    10,000+ steps

    No pass days used to date in March