May 21
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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I hope you're all enjoying the weekend. Maybe some of you have to work? Many of you have family responsibilities.
I am on holiday in the Greek island of Kos. We have been coming to the Greek islands for many years, and this particular resort since 2012. But the last time we came was September 2019. The pandemic put an end to our overseas travel. The hoteliers, bar staff, restaurant staff are all so pleased to see us back! (Kos relies heavily on tourism).
It made me think - what have we (you) been glad to get back to? Or sorry to see the end of?
Working from home v office, home schooling v children back at school. Eating out more? Socialising more?
Have some things changed for ever?2 -
Good morning all you Saturday folks.
Small daily improvements are the key to long-term staggering results.
Interesting topic @lesdarts180
It requires a little thought.2 -
Life isn’t quite “normal” again, but it’s close, and really, I think this is normal going forward.
1. Having brunch with 2 other couples this morning, something we’ve done only twice in the last 2 years.
2. I booked a 2023 trip to the Netherlands this week - a goal for 2 years ago and only now feasible.
3. For 2 years, the majority of bike events were cancelled or severely scaled back, this year most events are 100% back.
4. Hug my grandkids all I want!
5. I’m glad zoom meetings and chats are over. They were a novelty at first, and we were glad there was a way to connect, play games and chat, but I got sick of it.
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May 21, 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 (19 days -free)
Within Sugar macro today? Yes (17 days)
Pass days 3/3 (this is for accountability to myself and my records).3 -
Saturday
yes x3
0/3 pass days used2 -
We are having a massive covid surge in our county right now, although not as bad as it was in January. So in terms of what we're glad to be back to or sorry to see the end of, life for me personally hasn't changed that much from a year ago. We still don't go out to dinner or even take-out, partially for covid reasons, but mainly because I can control my diet better when I'm the one preparing the food. It's more economical and I'm enjoying exploring new recipes. It's also been a way to connect with my daughters as we share recipes with each other.
When it comes to traveling, we're still not flying (or other mass transit) unless we have to be someplace for an event. We've focused most of our travel on the outdoors and doing things like hiking and backpacking. Once again, side benefit is the exercise and positive impact on fitness.
We have been socializing more in person, which is a change from the dark days of 2020. I would say that the most positive thing of this pandemic is the increased connection I feel to my friends and neighbors and the effort we put into connecting with each other. The weekly neighborhood "Drinks on the Driveway" is now 2 years in and I've gotten to know and become good friends with my neighbors up and down our little street. I see my friends from my old company socially more regularly than I would have when we were all working together. It has been wonderful to have conversations about their lives as opposed to kvetching about work issues. We've transitioned from work friends to friends.
In a very weird way, this pandemic has helped me focus on what brings me joy and is important in my life.5 -
@lesdarts180 thanks for the unique opener
I’ll have to say I miss having to homeschooling—it was a gift to spend time with the kids. Honestly I wish I can do it again —I just went to a homeschoolers high school graduation where one student was graduating with 30 college credit hours under his belt.
Both my kids are in public school now and my kindergarten is hearing some choice words there in the classroom. 🤦🏾♀️🥺😫
My oldest son also became an avid reader and I didn’t see that coming. I believe the pandemic and his teachers had something to do with it. Oh—low gas prices and barely any cars on the street when going for a walk/run are two other things I miss.4 -
Claiming my 3 yeses.
It’s gonna be an active day with washing clothes and going for a walk.
Tracking food—and doing better about water intake. Hope to keep it up.2 -
We are not in a “back to normal” state here. Our numbers (waste water testing, hospitalizations, and deaths due to Covid) are as high or higher than they have been over the past two years. Many of us are masked as soon as we enter an indoor space and avoid the times or the spaces where it won’t be possible to distance. I cannot even imagine getting on a plane or travelling again any time soon.
We got together in person with my longest close friend. We grew up together in Toronto and both live here in the prairies now. We try to do this once a month. We all rapid tested immediately prior to gathering and I expect that will continue for some time. I am immune compromised and her husband has cancer. She is a doctor; neither of us can imagine that life will really ever go “back to normal” for anyone with significant medical issues.
I spend much more time outdoors now and I love it. I would not have embraced this with the enthusiasm I have for it were it not for this change. I was always too “busy” (doing what, I really don’t know). I shop so much less. We rarely dine out and we used to do so all the time. I cook, but enjoy it l, and we feel healthier for it.
Like Marisa, I see a lot more of our neighbours and have gotten to know many more of them, and that is wonderful. We have taken over the boulevard green spaces in our area and planted a variety of different themed gardens (teas, a children’s pizza garden, edible flowers, massive vine plants). This is our third year doing this. We started when the pandemic arose in 2020. @enlightenme3
We have a Facebook group for our small neighbourhood group and share recipes, tips about local businesses, updates on how families are doing, and post to share excess of whatever we have. We are having a driveway “excess” plant exchange next Sunday morning to ensure everything gets in the ground — regardless of whose yard.
So, I am glad for some of the changes this has brought, and acknowledge that I don’t miss some of the aspects of life prior to the pandemic. But I do miss travelling and being able to see all of my family in person. Most of them live in eastern Canada or in Scotland. We had thought that a really big road trip could be possible this summer and even replaced one of our vehicles in anticipation of it, but the Covid numbers, gas prices, and the surge of bookings by those who can travel have us postponing this potential trip.
Like @biketheworld I hated the Zoom visits and am glad that stopped.3 -
Bike ride and swimming again today. I just had dinner but I'm not tracking it.
@StayFITTer I also miss the quiet roads - cycling was a joy!
I'm happy to be going on holiday, but actually we managed holidays in 2020 and 2021.
I don't work or have children at home so working from home or homeschooling was not an issue.
It's interesting to hear that some places still have restrictions in place. Here in the UK we're pretty well back to normal, although I understand the worries of those who have immunity problems.3 -
✅✅ 2️⃣ pass days left
The Pandemic had a drastic change on my social life. I was very busy with duties for a lifelong learning charity for which I volunteer. Most of our members are seniors, so face to face meetings stopped, and are only now beginning to restart.
However, I actually enjoyed the freedom from responsibility immensely, and the way people stepped up to help each other. I’m not particularly keen to return to my previous hectic schedule of activities.
Although restriction have been mostly lifted in UK, the numbers of Covid cases are again on the rise, so we aren’t out of the woods yet. I don’t feel comfortable flying again, although we are travelling to the mainland by ferry with our elder daughter and grandsons at the end of July for our granddaughter’s graduation in Oxford.
We still mask when we go into shops etc, and avoid crowded venues, but far too many people are insensitive to the plight of the many vulnerable people who are still at risk from Covid.4 -
5/21
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
May 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 logging3 -
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6 pass days used.
I live in SC and we have been open and normalized for a long while. I am finding it irritating that people are flooding in here because we didn't shut down and kept a decent economy throughout the pandemic. I wish it wasn't getting so crowded.4 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes. Lots of grandkid activity. 😁
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? No
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? No. Lost track.
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✅ Exercise: lots of walking and housework, 11,000+ steps
✅ Calories
✅ Tracked
0 passdays used ( )
In Kansas, the social distancing has pretty much come to an end. For several months a friend and I have gone out for lunch. Yesterday was the first time neither of us used a mask at all in our outing. I also did not see anyone, including the restaurant staff, using them. It did feel nice to feel safe enough to do that, although I do not expect that we are really done with COVID yet. I am most glad to be able to go to the YMCA and attend classes.
In terms of the pandemic, the blessing for me was that I was able to work entirely from home using videoconferencing. But that also was very bad for my health as my job was too sedentary and I also was not able to keep the distance between my career and my homelife---- so it ended up being the impetus behind me retiring, which turned out to be a very good thing. Today is the first day of my official complete retirement! The phone number is off-- and for the first night in more than 20 years there is no possibility that I will be interrupted by an urgent need of client in crisis. What a relief!
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I am back, used to be a regular here, but not in a while. Just joined for May, and I know it's way to late to make the Winner's Circle but I think I need to post here.
Exercise today was yardwork, but I did a lot more than 20 minutes.
I stayed in my calorie budget, no problem.
I did keep track.5 -
✅ Exercise - 1 hour of Jazzercise
✅ Calories -
✅ Tracking -
Closed all my Apple watch rings today
2 Pass days used
Documenting consistency (if there is a P=instead of number its a Pass Day)
UAC: P-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9–P-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20-21
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3x yes2
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes. 77 minutes walking, 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- 1
Things I notice:
-when the pandemic first started, time seemed so plentiful. I have not felt that way before and I don't think it'll feel that way again
-how creative businesses got to offer alternate ways to bundle their products and get them out for home delivery
-how much better my lifestyle is when I work from home (but that I don't hate being in the office)
-I'm introverted and always have been but now more than ever it feels like effort to be with people
-I don't want the culture at the office of staying home when you're sick to slip away, but this depends on what people demand2 -
Another pass day - still feeling sick - but better today! I did go for a walk yesterday and I think calories were good, but did not track.
I think today is maybe not the day to ask me about "after" covid. We are in a big surge here, as is much of the US. My family had 3 covid exposures last week, and I have been feeling sick and doing a lot of tests but looks like it wasn't covid? We're still not out of the woods, though.
Both summer of 2020 and summer of 2021 I felt like it was an opportunity for outdoor socialization - summer is pretty short where we live. But it seemed like not everyone agreed, as we are in a more covid cautious area. I think that this year everyone recognizes that summer is a time to get together and enjoy while we can do it safely outside. The result is a party every weekend for May, I think - I'm ok with that.2 -
May 21
Exercise: no
Tracking yes
Calories yes
All pass days used
3/21 days this month - done successfully. Better than none!
re: Covid
I've had lots of trouble with this... especially with my parents who were in Assisted Living. My Dad basically died of Covid -- well he got it the end of December 2020 & died in October 2021. He was a fighter. My Mom suffered from reaction to the Phizer Booster Oct 2021, and has been unable to stand on her own since then. Hospitalized for quite a while & now only wheelchair/bed. She had Covid the end of Dec. 2021, too, and barely made it. She got much better until the Booster.
Discovered that I really like working from home although always rejected it in the past when my boss offered. Now, he wants me in the office & I miss working from home.
My husband and I are not masking as frequently as we were. Covid is re-surging here, though, so am still very cautious. Still zooming rather than attend in person. Not socializing yet, really. Mainly my husband and I have been overly careful because of not wanting to expose elderly communities and because we have 2 Grandbabies who are too young for vaccines.
I feel like I've lost a couple years of my life -- just seemed like nothing happened... or like my life was put on hold. Really weird to me. I miss my Dad and visiting the ALF my parents were in. I also had a social network there with others in similar situations as me. Most the others family members at the ALF died and also not being able to meet up with these friends has just has taken something from me, too. I'm a lonelier person, now. My Mom is in a Group Care Home, now, with no activities going on. Very sad... but she is healthier, now, and would not have made it if she had returned to the ALF. Physically she is being taken care of better at the Group Home. But, it is just not as nice as the ALF and I miss the social interactions & I know she does, too. The other 4 residents are hardly ever even seen...
So, not a lot has changed for me, yet... my husband and I were just starting back to socializing when this Covid resurgence began.
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Here in our area of NY state near the Canadian border our numbers are rising once again. The border is now open again which was closed except for essential reasons, travelers/visitors have returned to the area unfortunately not soon enough for some businesses. As far as me? I keep my mask with me and have begun to wear it again especially in busy locations. I work from home most days and have really adapted well to it I find myself less productive in the office. There are too many distractions but I think this is the “new” normal.
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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? yes2 -
✅ Exercise
✅ I tracked everything
❌ 150 calories over
3️⃣/3️⃣
Normal life in UK like nothing is happening. No masks anywhere and people make fun of the ones wearing them. I still have mine in my pocket and I use it if I feel a place is unsafe. We don't know about real numbers because free tests have stopped and the news about coronavirus aren't on the front page for anymore.
I suppose it's time to live with it.2 -
Saturday May 21
✅ Lots of walking and gardening and cleaning; 14,000+ steps; 9.2 km
✅ Tracked it all
✅ Calories were close, but under.
2 pass days used in May (4 & 20)1 -
Yes x 3. 4 pass days used for the month.
Covid in NJ-well the new surge hasn’t hit here yet that I know of. We are in a really rural area (northwest NJ) so it will hit just not yet.
I am very grateful life is almost back to normal. My 8th grader is supposed to go to DC for 2 days with school, still has graduation and class picnic and awards assembly. My 11th grader got to attend prom.
Hoping If covid comes back, it just requires masks and not shutting down schools/end of year activities. My older one really struggled with virtual school-my older one thrived became a homebody-only left the house for dance class-we used to ask her to leave2 -
Sorry, this comment was for day 22. How to you delete comments?0
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This is a very tough subject for me but I’ll just say that I’ve had three jabs & in one booster and developed zero immunity because of the immunosuppressants that keep my transplanted kidney in my body
Honestly I think it’s beginning to take a bit of a toll on myself because this is now 4 1/2 years of my being basically very very careful/quarantined except for two months which were January 2020 and 1/2 of February 2020 ironically just as I was able to start doing more the world shut down
I am extremely grateful for the Internet and Zoom and other meeting-type facilities they’ve been a lifesaver for me and many other people I’ve learned a lot I’ve made wonderful friends and I am actually very happy 99% of the time it’s just when I think about what I thought I would be doing I can get kind of sad but generally I just keep my mind off it
Pass day5 -
5/21
Exercise: 150 minutes
Tracking: yes
Calories: under
Pass days used: 13 -
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It’s interesting to read the opinions of people on Covid. I feel for those who have compromised immune systems. They are suffering because of the selfishness of many people who think only of themselves.4
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