April 11
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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Treats... What's your take on treats?
Do you have them? If so what are your treats and how often do you have them?
No right or wrong answer more just an opportunity to see what each of us do with regards to treats and how we manage it.
Me personally I allow myself a healthy treat after lunch which usually is my high protien yougurt, I also allow myself a small treat or 2 at night. Tonight I had popcorn and a fibre one bar. I try to keep this night time treat under 20% to 30% of my daily calorie intake, sometimes I can stay under and sometimes I go over. On the weekend I splurge alot more and have cake or ice cream. I find that having a treat at the end of the day gives me something to look forward to.
In my dieting days I would be " good" for a few days and deprive my self of all treats only to rebel and binge copious amounts of treat foods. So these days i try to eat treats in moderation to avoid bingeing.7 -
Monday
yes x3
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@donna25trinity - Now you're talking my language! I love treats. Your question though, made me think about how do I define a treat - are they sweet, salty, processed, high fat, high carb, "bad for you"? I realized that I think about treats as something that isn't part of my main meal and generally thought of as "bad food" in diet culture. For example, last night I had 3 squares of bittersweet chocolate and 4 very delicious and sweet strawberries for dessert, but in my head I only think of the chocolate part as the treat. I always eat some sort of treat after dinner and once in a while after lunch.
I make a lot of homemade snacky foods, like the equivalent of Whole Foods Raincoast Crisp crackers, Cheez-Its, or biscotti with my sourdough starter discard. These things last a long time without going stale since they are all double baked. If I have any of those, I tend to think of them as snacks and not treats. Weird, I know.
Snack or treat - it all gets tracked!6 -
11/04/2022
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes?
• DAY 2 of EPIC II | BODYWEIGHT & DUMBBELL LOWER BODY 55 min
• Jogging 8.72 km in 1:00:30 (6:56 min/km); VO2max: 39
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes.
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes3 -
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3️⃣Pass Days left
Treats: I’ve always allowed myself small treats, but I tend to go for much healthier versions than I used to have, or measured amounts.
Egs:
🔹measured portions: 20g popcorn; 10g of nuts; 20g chocolate etc
🔹fruit or veggie sticks
🔹biscuits under 100 calories (I have a few favourites)
Occasionally I will have an indulgent dessert or ice cream. I have no forbidden foods, so seldom feel I’m depriving myself.
Mind you, I’m in maintenance, so it’s not so crucial any more to be really strict.
However, I do choose to eat healthy the majority of the time as I value maintaining the health and fitness of my body.4 -
Date: 11th April
Calories: Yes, within budget ✔️
Tracked: Yes ✔️
Exercise: Yes, a little over 2 miles walking ✔️4 -
April 11:
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Monthly report: ❌❌❌❌✅❌✅✅❌❌❌12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Yikes! Lots of Pass Days this month! I'm not getting off to a very good start!
Yum!! Treats! Lol. Great topic Donna! @donna25trinity I'm gluten/grain free, but I have a few "go to" treats. I love my l.reuteri yogurt as a treat (if I didn't have it for breakfast!), or I have a chocolate mug cake that I can make in a coffee cup. I can top it with handmade whipped cream with no extra sugar. It just depends if I have saved back enough calories for the day.
I also have a new iced coffee drink that is keto, only 80 calories, no added sugar, and only 2 net carbs. It's called Super Coffee, and the Mocha flavor tastes just like chocolate milk!! It's delicious when I'm wanting something chocolate! Lol. I just have to remember that it has 200mg of caffeine!!! Lol. I also have a keto chocolate chip cookie recipe that I've made in the past that I like.
Edited to add: I almost forgot my #icecreamwalks! I walk into town, get a pint of chocolate keto ice cream, and walk home. Approx 12 miles round trip!! It's been raining almost every day - but hopefully I'll be able to start walking outside soon!!
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Great job @Caramel_Apple @Winner_in_Life @TerriRichardson112 @kodakslim .
I'm looking forward to reading about everyone's "treats"! Lol.
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My treat as I post is ice cream Häagen-Dazs pistachio it’s been so long since I had ice cream and a good day today but I do try for something sweet each day that keeps me on track4 -
April 11, 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? No (8 days -free)
Within Sugar macro today? Yes (8 days)
Came back this morning! Thank God!
Pass day 3/3 (this is for accountability to myself and my records).4 -
@victorious55 I saw your note yesterday about an out of town emergency. Glad you are back and hoping all is well now for you and whatever the emergency was.
Mon Apr 11 (yay, I am on the right day today!) Three yeses finally. And good news for yesterday, I had the weight wrong on something I had estimated. Today I had leftovers and weighed them and realized that yesterday I was only 88 calories over. Pleased that I'm starting to get back with the program.
Hmm, treats, I'm trying to get off of the treat mentality. It has led to years of thinking I deserved it for some reason or another and led to gross excesses for me (remember I was a binger). There are things I do now to feel like I'm enjoying a sweet treat but lowering the calories. A favourite is a single serving low fat coconut yogurt with 1 tbsp. each of mini chocolate chips and nuts and then adding 4 tbsp of low fat whipped cream. Another treat when I was still feeling the need to binge was popcorn with one ounce of grated cheese on it and Nothing But the Bagel Seasoning. How I stopped the treat mentality and binge cycle was if I bought something and I binged on it, then I wouldn't allow myself to buy it again. It worked lol. Now I exercise some self control or that's the last time it enters the house. Tough love, even for myself! I'm like Terri though, I don't have forbidden foods; unless I can't control myself with it. Over time, I have gotten much better at controlling the portion size.5 -
Monday 4/11
Yes x 34 -
yes for 3
0/3 pass days used4 -
4/11
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
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 logging4 -
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0 pass days
Meant to say. What are treats? I fit things in to my cals which I like every day I don’t think of it as splurging or cheating or even as a treat.
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Yes x 3
Treats: dark chocolate chips… when I need a little lift or just something sweet.4 -
3 yes 👍🏾3
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? No formal exercise today. Did my nightly stretching.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? No (see note below ☺️)
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? No. I ate some chocolate that was at work and didn’t record the calories.
So today that chocolate was a treat. When I was at work last Thursday I didn’t want the chocolate because I didn’t want to eat it because I am trying to avoid refined sugar to heal. Hmm. I wonder what changed??4 -
✔︎ 20+ mins exercise (lots of activity today, 21 min walk in evening)
✘ Within calorie budget
✔︎ Log everything
Consistency Tracking (🌱=3 ✔︎'s, 🏴☠️=pass):
🌱-🌱-🌱-🌱-🌱–🌱-🌱-🌱-🏴☠️-🌱-🏴☠️-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20-21-22-23-24-25-26-27-28-29-30
Passes used = 2 / 3
Habit tracking this month:
✘ read/listen/take notes with intention on subjects towards desired identity 5+ days/week
📚-📚-📚-📚-📚–📚-📚-📚-📚-📚-✘-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20-21-22-23-24-25-26-27-28-29-30
✘ more whole foods/less processed food, this month: no flour 5+ days/week
🫐-🫐-🫐-🫐-🫐–🫐-🫐-🫐-🫐-🫐-✘-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20-21-22-23-24-25-26-27-28-29-30
Just had an off-routine day today, but in a productive way. The sun has finally come out and the snow is melting so I tackled some other projects immediately this morning instead of sticking to my routine. I can see how changing temps/indoor vs outdoor options will require some planning and adjustment. Something to be mindful about!2 -
✅ Exercise: 60+ minutes walking. Enjoyed going to a botanical garden to see their 60,000 tulips, although the season is a bit late this year so only about half of them were fully blooming.
✅ Calories
✅ Tracked
0 passdays used ( )
Thinking about how I define treats. I am pretty much avoiding sugar and processed foods, so the treats that I do have are things like kiwis, berries, or apples, and I generally have them at the end of a meal. Occasionally I will buy dark chocolate, but only that has more than 90% cocoa so it is not sweet enough to make me crave it and I can limit myself to a very small amount at a time. I rarely snack, although I may have some nuts if I am really hungry at a time I had not planned to eat.
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✅ Exercise - 1 hour Jazzercise
✅ Calories -
✅ Tracking -
Closed all my Apple watch rings today
5 Pass days used
Documenting consistency (if there is a P=instead of number its a Pass Day)
UAC: P-2-P-P-P-5-6-P-8-9-10-11
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? 21 minutes waking, 62 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 - 6
I allow myself what many would consider treats. I don't have off-limits foods or follow any particular diet so I just eat what suits me. Staying out of the mentality of trying to avoid certain things helps me stay away from binge eating. I am okay to eat small amounts of things and do well just to stick with my calorie target. I find having some calories left at the end of the day for something really fun is helpful for me mentally, but if they're not there, I don't eat. I also find at times I choose a healthier option because that's what I feel like. All depends.5 -
Yes x3. I like sweets and fit them in when I can.4
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Monday April 11
Yes x 3 Woke to snow this morning 😢😢😭
Apple Watch prompted me to raise my “goals” again. Allowed the changes (with some trepidation 🥸). Closed all the rings today so that’s good.
9+ km; 13,000+ steps; 68 minutes exercise.
Treats. Hmmmm. 🧐 I have no “forbidden” or restricted foods (including wine🍷) and make “space” for whatever I’d like to have. I sometimes need to wait until the next day so I can make the plan in advance, but I do have it if it is something I’d like to have. Sometimes by the next day I no longer really want it (or my darling husband has already eaten it). And no, he will never live down the having eaten the last Halloween full size Twix bar despite the fact I had tracked it for the following day. 😑3 -
4/11
Exercise: 118 minutes
Tracking: yes
Calories: under
Pass days used: 13 -
Exercise: yes, light yardwork
On Plan: no, 2 points over
Tracked: yes.3 -
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~💐~ 4 /11 /2022~~ Waving Hi ~~ 🙋🏼 ~~ April 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......... 27,440 +.......... 180= walking ......... 30 Yard cleaning...
Documenting My CONSISTANCY = For personal ACCOUNTABILITY & Celebration
(if there is a P=instead of number its a Pass Day)
Pass Days = 1
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-P-10-11
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April 8-11 report: no details, just catching up on the monthly report .... may have mis-logged food a bit high on the 8th, but most likely still over, and was an ❌ for exercise anyway 9 - 11 was ❌❌❌ start to finish
Monthly report: ❌❌✅✅❌✅✅❌❌❌❌
I'm not doing so well / consistently either!Mrs_Hoffer wrote: »April 11:
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Monthly report: ❌❌❌❌✅❌✅✅❌❌❌12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Yikes! Lots of Pass Days this month! I'm not getting off to a very good start!
And it is showing ... I actually flirted with the 24.98 BMI reading one day this month, but on the rise again.
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sometimes when I can't seem to get going again I raise my calorie allowance. It seems strange but a binge will cost me 1000's of calories most likely and raising my cal allowance to avoid it by a couple hundred seems to satiate me better. Hang in there. Glad you are still here. 4
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