Active April Challenge 2022
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4/4/22
15+ minutes of activity 5 days a week
1 of 5 days should be strength training
1 of 5 days should be core/flexibility.=
Barre Blend workout outside on the deck
Add veggies and some fruits to my day.=
Big salad with dinner, strawberries for snack.
Keep under 100 carbs= Yes. 34.
Be more active at home by doing one bigger cleaning or organizing project a week.=
No activity.
Still no weight loss. Also still having a lot of joint pain and fatigue.3 -
Dropped another lb. Finally!! The week of sticking to it is now paying off.
Yesterday 10,000 steps, carbs 89 net carbs 68. Was a good day yesterday. Now to keep it off.3 -
okie dokie.
Park was nice yesterday. Perfect weather.
Scale is behaving at my post-covid low of 173.2
Today is also another nice day and I hope to finally get to incorporate upper body again now that the fibro pain has eased off.
That's after I have to run the 17-year-old to his dual enrollment class this afternoon and sit in the car since gas prices are so bonkers.
Here we go, KCKO3 -
For 4/3-4/4
SW 164
CW 163.5
GW 161
Daily NEAT- neglected
Daily Plank- X, 45 sec
220 min a week activity to include 1 of each (bike, barre, elliptical
strength, outdoor walk) - 160 total, 30 strength yesterday
House stairs 10/day (for real this time) -5
Remain mindful of water and carb levels -water under, carbs on target.3 -
Glad to be back and Thank you @baconslave for this thread. Great support here!
Mary from Pennsylvania 64 Heaviest weight 255 lbs twice. :-(
UGW-122 lbs. I was there in 2009/10 and kept it off for 5 years then got lazy.
My goal is to continue with what seems to work for me. 1000-1200 calories, low carb 15 Net +/- 3(My body seems to not do well with carbs. It doesn't know how to burn them and hangs onto them way too much!), minimum 70 + oz of water, 2 meals/day on my days off(3) and 3 meals on my work days(which are long), exercise on my 3 days off. My weigh in day is Sunday.
9/14/20 SW-255 lbs
5/3/21-240.5 lbs Emergency Gallbladder surgery
5/14/21-232.2 lbs started MFP and Low Carb/1000-1200 calorie while recovering
6/1/21-228.8 lbs
7/1/21-222.2 lbs
8/1/21-212.0 lbs
9/1/21-200.0 lbs
10/1/21-191.4 lbs
11/1/21-181.8 lbs
12/1/21-176.2 lbs
1/1/22-168 lbs
2/1/22-157.4 lbs
3/1/22-155 lbs 100 lbs lost of 133 lb goal
Been MIA almost all of March. Been busy with late nights at work. Will catch you all up. Read all your texts.
4/1/22-156.4 lbs. As you can see, I didn't lose but gained in March. Even though my official weigh in day is Sunday, I need to share my next few days of April.
4/2/22-154 lbs NEW LOW!
4/3/22-152 lbs NEW LOW!
4/4/22-150 lbs NEW LOW!
4/5/22-148.6 lbs NEW LOW!6 -
4/5/22
15+ minutes of activity 5 days a week
1 of 5 days should be strength training
1 of 5 days should be core/flexibility.=
Walked outside on my break
Add veggies and some fruits to my day.=
Big salad with dinner. 1/2 clementine for snack.
Keep under 100 carbs= Yes. 50. Some of those carbs were from a drink with net carbs of 0.
Be more active at home by doing one bigger cleaning or organizing project a week.=
No activity.
Tried a new place for wings last night and they assured me they were not breaded and safe for gluten free people. They were dredged in flour.
So that was fun. I only ate a couple but I was bloated up like mad after (celiac disease). Anyhow surprisingly I was down a little in weight today but I'm still up from the lowest I've managed to hit since starting low carb the first of March. Stressful. 5 -
Tonight's line dancing night! It's what I look forward to each week. In a couple of weeks, the classes will end. They are going to attempt another class at a different location, but it means a farther commute for me. I will try going, but not sure if I will keep at it. I go to bed so early, and on Wednesdays, I stay up longer than normal and am so tired the next day. So the different location will have me pushing bedtime back even longer. But I will give it a chance because I do love the dances so much!
I've changed my calorie goals to maintenance calories. I will still eat at a deficit most days, as I do want to lose another 10-15 pounds, but I'm having a harder time now. I am so hungry most of the time. I'm hoping that seeing that I can eat more will help me stick with it. We will see.
I am still 3-4 pounds more than I was at the end of March. Not really sure why. I double checked my entries for the last week of March into April, and I was eating at a deficit each day. A couple of days I was closer to the maintenance calories, but still at least 100 cal less. I will just keep going and see what happens.4 -
Yesterday arm work out with weights and 2.5 mile run with the dog. Passed 3 people on the sidewalk standing around. The dog is such a lover of people and had to stop and say hi. Really messes up my time but she is so sweet.
Net carbs 44. Chicken and vegetables last night. I am tired at night, I'm sure like most of you, but when I go to the effort to cook it is way easier to eat healthy. Pork rinds, celery and homemade fat bombs for snacks. Never in my life did I think I would eat pork rinds, but I am actually enjoying them now. Wow how my taste buds have changed.5 -
4/4-4/5
Monday was a decent day but because I didn’t eat much early, I had some snacks later and didn’t have nearly the deficit I would like. Yesterday I went into the office and ate later than normal for dinner so I over ate, along with letting my saboteur talk me into a little bit of his pizza. I tried to pinpoint if I was eating to soothe something. Maybe stress from the day but I noticed I wanted sweets for some reason. I appeased that craving with a cookie at the office today. Boredom? Maybe? But more likely dealing with the bit of change in my routine.4 -
Had a rest day yesterday. Did a half hour lower body workout today. Lots of squats and lunges, hard work and repetitive but I loved it! So I’ve done four days out of my goal of five. Planning an upper body workout tomorrow.4
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4/4-4/6
IF is going well .....food is on point..Carbs are on point......walking 5 days a week is going well (except for today) I haven't started PiYo (i think I am going to start that next month) I am overwhelmed by doing to many things at once ...I hope everyone else is doing great
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Went to class last night and had a good workout! My legs were like jelly! After work, I was on the road. I went and looked at a couple of houses, then I had to go buy a care package for my son who contracted Covid. He lives about 40 minutes from me, so I wasn't sure I would make it back in time for class, but I did. We moms do what we can for our kids, even if they are in their 30s! Burned over 600 calories in class, which is good because I have no idea what my calorie count is for dinner. Because I was on the road, I stopped at a country store along the way to my son's, and bought beef stroganoff and an apple cinnamon scone. Ate about half of the stroganoff, but had a complete scone! It was too sweet but I still ate it all! So no way to know how many calories I had but I'm sure it was less than 600. Yet I wake up and weigh and gained 2.4 pounds! Shaking my head. We'll see what tomorrow brings! Have a good one!5
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For 4/5-4/6
SW 164
CW 162.5
GW 161
Daily NEAT- More loading gear into the camper in multiple trips
Daily Plank- 60 sec, 70 sec
220 min a week activity to include 1 of each (bike✔, barre✔, elliptical✔
strength✔, outdoor walk) - 190 total, 30 barre & strength yesterday
House stairs 10/day (for real this time) -4
Remain mindful of water and carb levels -water good, carbs on target.
Lots of rain today, outdoor walk will have to wait until tomorrow.4 -
Hit a 99F yesterday and today is expected to be hot again. 3 mile run w/dog yesterday. She managed to catch a little lizard on the last mile. That is how slow I am - lol. Made her drop it and it scurried into the bushes.6
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Did a 30 minute upper body workout today so reached my exercise goal for the week, yay!
I can feel my muscles getting stronger but it shows me just how weak I had become, when I was at my most fit and healthy I would have done today’s workout easily but I really had to push myself. Looking forward to seeing improvements in my strength by consistently doing these workouts.4 -
4/6/22
15+ minutes of activity 5 days a week
1 of 5 days should be strength training
1 of 5 days should be core/flexibility.=
No workout
Add veggies and some fruits to my day.=
Veggies with lunch. Salad at dinner. Raspberries for snack.
Keep under 100 carbs= Yes. 40.
Be more active at home by doing one bigger cleaning or organizing project a week.=
No activity.
Up almost two pounds today. We went to dinner and the movies yesterday and I avoided the chips and salsa, said no to a margarita, ate zero bites of popcorn or candy, and drank unsweet tea in the movie just to gain....sigh.
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4/5-4/6
I have been over on calories the last couple of days but not out of control. I need to do better on my protein to feel more satisfied. I’ve wanted to snack throughout today but busied myself with other things and got over it. Now to consistently distract and I’d be doing well. I have a happy hour tomorrow so I suspect my calories will be over again. The weekend will have to be a refocus on not eating all the food.5 -
Glad to be back and Thank you @baconslave for this thread. Great support here!
Mary from Pennsylvania 64 Heaviest weight 255 lbs twice. :-(
UGW-122 lbs. I was there in 2009/10 and kept it off for 5 years then got lazy.
My goal is to continue with what seems to work for me. 1000-1200 calories, low carb 15 Net +/- 3(My body seems to not do well with carbs. It doesn't know how to burn them and hangs onto them way too much!), minimum 70 + oz of water, 2 meals/day on my days off(3) and 3 meals on my work days(which are long), exercise on my 3 days off. My weigh in day is Sunday.
9/14/20 SW-255 lbs
5/3/21-240.5 lbs Emergency Gallbladder surgery
5/14/21-232.2 lbs started MFP and Low Carb/1000-1200 calorie while recovering
6/1/21-228.8 lbs
7/1/21-222.2 lbs
8/1/21-212.0 lbs
9/1/21-200.0 lbs
10/1/21-191.4 lbs
11/1/21-181.8 lbs
12/1/21-176.2 lbs
1/1/22-168 lbs
2/1/22-157.4 lbs
3/1/22-155 lbs 100 lbs lost of 133 lb goal
Been MIA almost all of March. Been busy with late nights at work. Will catch you all up. Read all your texts.
4/1/22-156.4 lbs. As you can see, I didn't lose but gained in March. Even though my official weigh in day is Sunday, I need to share my next few days of April.
4/2/22-154 lbs NEW LOW!
4/3/22-152 lbs NEW LOW!
4/4/22-150 lbs NEW LOW!
4/5/22-148.6 lbs NEW LOW!
4/6/22-147.6 lbs ANOTHER NEW LOW! On Tuesday 4/5 I did my usually 3 hours on my Elliptical for 14 miles. Decided to do another session in the evening and stayed on longer than I originally planned of 45 minutes(1 show), then thought I'll do 90 minutes(2 shows) then I was so close to 11 miles that I decided to do 12.2 miles. So ended total for the 2 sessions of 335 minutes for 26.28 miles. A MARATHON DISTANCE! Noticed today the legs of my work scrubs are fairly loose now. They were snug when I started wearing the smalls in February.
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4/8 - I'm back down to 164.4 so under 165 again. So whew! Still not at my lowest which was 162 two weeks ago. But hopefully I won't go back up again. I will be away from my scale tomorrow morning. I won't have my trusty food scale or anything. I will do my best to eat sensibly and try to get some walking in.
I was going to stay over until Sunday, but I'm getting anxious already. I haven't been back home in ages. A lot of my friends and family have not seen me since before Covid. So they only know me when I was over 210 pounds and in size xxl and 22 jeans. Now I'm in large shirts and size 10 jeans. But that's not why I'm anxious. I basically don't do large crowds that are in small spaces. I have covidphobia. Especially since my son has it and he was vaccinated too. I haven't been in close contact with him since a week and a half before he was diagnosed. I brought him a care package but didn't go near him. He stayed in his bedroom and talked to me out the window. LOL!
I thought we were through this, but I know a couple of others that have gotten it within the past few weeks. I don't know their vaccination status. So it's still around and back home where I am going, they were hit hard. Harder than where I live which is way more populated. They still wear masks everywhere. The funeral is for family only. The funeral home where my aunt is laid out is fairly big, but we also have a pretty large family. And a huggy family. And that's where my anxiety stems from.
Well, I have to go and I will get thru it. Have a great weekend!5 -
4/7/22
15+ minutes of activity 5 days a week
1 of 5 days should be strength training
1 of 5 days should be core/flexibility=
Strength training workout video. Weekly recap 2 walks, 1 barre, and 1 strength so I'm one workout short of goal.
Add veggies and some fruits to my day.=
Cauliflower and greens with lunch. Salad and broccoli at dinner. Raspberries for snack. I've met this goal this week.
Keep under 100 carbs= Yes. 46. Met this goal this week
Be more active at home by doing one bigger cleaning or organizing project a week.=
Did a big fridge cleanout so I barely got this goal in before the week ended.
This morning the scale went back down a bit. Still about a pound over my lowest since I started back. I'm so anxious to feel like I'm making some progress. I have two doctor's appointments this month and my weight is quite a bit higher than last year and theoretically I should have been able to get it down in time but alas my body is not cooperating.4 -
I know I haven't posted. Been busy but I'm still doing the thing, eating keto at my calorie level and exercising as much as I can...waiting for the scale to stop being a moron. KCKO. Kids driving me crazy. And hubby too.
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Yesterday was 5 min warm up on trampoline and 35 min arm work out in the garage w/weights. Today is leg day.
I know weight loss is not linear but I have had a decent week of eating and exercise that I wish the scale would respond quicker. I know it will but to gain takes little effort, to lose takes forever. I need to keep that in the back of mind when I have the urge to reach for something not so healthy.6 -
4/8/22
15+ minutes of activity 5 days a week
1 of 5 days should be strength training
1 of 5 days should be core/flexibility.=
Walked on my break
Add veggies and some fruits to my day.=
Broccoli soup at lunch. Green beans and small salad at dinner.
Keep under 100 carbs= Yes 46
Weekly home project= No activity3 -
ugg - the scale was mean today. I am glad I use a app that shows trends. So I am still in a downward (slow but downward) trend. Going to take the dog running before it gets to hot. Have a good Saturday everyone!6
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My scale is stuck. Which I'm not complaining about today since TOM is in full force this morning. So no bounce = happy Baconslave. Just focusing on staying out of the kitchen after adult beverages so I don't get munchy5
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4/9/22
15+ minutes of activity 5 days a week
1 of 5 days should be strength training
1 of 5 days should be core/flexibility.=
Walked 3 miles at the chocolate festival.
Add veggies and some fruits to my day.=
Salad for lunch.
Keep under 100 carbs= Yes 76. Could be more. I tried to track my chocolate festival treats as best I could.
Weekly home project= No activity
I got the worst blisters on the balls of my feet walking today. I’m honestly not sure how I’m going to walk around the next few days. I will have to get creative to get my activity in this week!!!4 -
Start of a new week. Did a 30 minute full body workout yesterday and. 20 minute walk today. Not feeling good due to an experiment with my diet that hasn’t gone well but at least I’ve got two days of exercise in even if today was shorter than planned.3
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Glad to be back and Thank you @baconslave for this thread. Great support here!
Mary from Pennsylvania 64 Heaviest weight 255 lbs twice. :-(
UGW-122 lbs. I was there in 2009/10 and kept it off for 5 years then got lazy.
My goal is to continue with what seems to work for me. 1000-1200 calories, low carb 15 Net +/- 3(My body seems to not do well with carbs. It doesn't know how to burn them and hangs onto them way too much!), minimum 70 + oz of water, 2 meals/day on my days off(3) and 3 meals on my work days(which are long), exercise on my 3 days off. My weigh in day is Sunday.
9/14/20 SW-255 lbs
5/3/21-240.5 lbs Emergency Gallbladder surgery
5/14/21-232.2 lbs started MFP and Low Carb/1000-1200 calorie while recovering
6/1/21-228.8 lbs
7/1/21-222.2 lbs
8/1/21-212.0 lbs
9/1/21-200.0 lbs
10/1/21-191.4 lbs
11/1/21-181.8 lbs
12/1/21-176.2 lbs
1/1/22-168 lbs
2/1/22-157.4 lbs
3/1/22-155 lbs 100 lbs lost of 133 lb goal
Been MIA almost all of March. Been busy with late nights at work. Will catch you all up. Read all your texts.
4/1/22-156.4 lbs. As you can see, I didn't lose but gained in March. Even though my official weigh in day is Sunday, I need to share my next few days of April.
4/2/22-154 lbs NEW LOW!
4/3/22-152 lbs NEW LOW!
4/4/22-150 lbs NEW LOW!
4/5/22-148.6 lbs NEW LOW!
4/6/22-147.6 lbs ANOTHER NEW LOW! On Tuesday 4/5 I did my usually 3 hours on my Elliptical for 14 miles. Decided to do another session in the evening and stayed on longer than I originally planned of 45 minutes(1 show), then thought I'll do 90 minutes(2 shows) then I was so close to 11 miles that I decided to do 12.2 miles. So ended total for the 2 sessions of 335 minutes for 26.28 miles. A MARATHON DISTANCE! Noticed today the legs of my work scrubs are fairly loose now. They were snug when I started wearing the smalls in February.
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Back to the grind! I didn't do too bad being away. I came in at 164.6. So just a tiny increase. I had forgotten the after funeral meal! Carbs as far as the eye can see! A lot of my favorites...pasta salad, macaroni salad, stuffing, potatoes, gravy, rolls...
I did take a little bit of everything including a roll. They had turkey & ham as well, so I took extra of those. I was full way before I finished my plate. I had forgotten another little tradition...you have to clean your plate. You can't leave any food. It was hard, but I did it.
I did get in some walking this weekend, but not as much as I had wanted. Weather was very uncooperative.
So today will be a very low carb day. As close to zero carbs as I can get. Happy Monday!4 -
For 4/7-4/10
SW 164
CW 164.5
GW 161
Daily NEAT- none except Sunday, did some spring cleaning
Daily Plank- 60 sec, 60 sec, X, X
220 min a week activity to include 1 of each (bike✔, barre✔, elliptical✔
strength✔, outdoor walk✔) - 235 total, 45 min walk
House stairs 10/day (for real this time) -4, 3, 2, 1 May as well drop this goal, I can't seem to make it happen
Remain mindful of water and carb levels -water good, carbs on target for Thur/Fri
Took the weekend off of logging, counting, planning, working out etc. The break was needed and now I'm back to business.
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