75 Hard/Medium/Easy Challenge: March 3 - May 17
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Need to hit the next level? Want some company to stick with your commitments for 75 days? Give this a try!
This is the hard version -
But we are going to be more creative!
Anyone from any team can join in here. Just report on your day from 1/75 to 75/75. Good luck!
This is the hard version -
But we are going to be more creative!
- Set your own diet
- Set your own amount of water, appropriate to your weight and activity level. Recommended 0.5 - 1.0 ounces of water per pound of body weight as a minimum.
- If 2 workouts is too much, go for 1. But a good one!!
- If you miss a day, a meal, or anything, you do not have to start over. But get right back on track as soon as possible.
- Selfies optional!
Anyone from any team can join in here. Just report on your day from 1/75 to 75/75. Good luck!
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I will be doing a more-or-less hard version:
My diet plan is pescatarian (no meat, but fish and dairy ok), no added sugar, no white flour or crazily processed foods. Whole foods.
No alcohol.
Exercise - aiming for the 2x per day, one outside. It might not be possible 100% of the time, but worth a big try!
Reading - I will also include work on a project I'm doing. Lots of reading and idea-hashing required to figure out what it is going to turn into.
Water for me is around 60 oz. per day (1.8 litres). I'm small, living in a cool climate!
Hard no on the daily selfies! I'm 70 years old. I took one on day 1. Might do one on day 75.5 -
I’m starting my version of the 75 Hard/Soft
✅ Activity - 90 Mins of Exercise & 10k+ steps a day (inside/outside/combo of both)
✅ Reading - 10 Pages of Reading - I’m going to continue with my Bible and commit to 10 minutes each day.
✅ Water - my goal will be 80 oz (includes coffee, herbal tea, unsweet tea, flavored or sparkling water)
✅ Diet - Low Carb, at or under my calorie goal 1350
✅ Pictures - I will do this daily plus will still do MeThreeSixty each week.
✅ Avoid - No Alcohol or Cheat Meals
✅ Personal Addition - No spending money outside of household/family needs. This means the cute shirt stays on the rack.4 -
I'm doing any easy version of this I think. My life's a little too overloaded to try harder.
Diet- Going to try and get produce back into my diet by adding at least two servings a day. I also am going to aim for keeping to or under my calorie, sodium, and sugar goals each day.
Water- I'm already drinking 8-12 cups of water and decaffeinated tea a day, so I'll try to bump that up. 16 might strand me in the bathroom too often though. I will also try to drop down from 3 cans of soda a day to 2.
Exercise- I will aim for two walks a week that are at least 15 minutes, and 2 chair yoga sessions for 15 minutes each week. I've sort of stopped moving around much, I need to ease back into it.
Alcohol- Conflicts with my medicines, so I'm not drinking it anyway.
Reading- I'm going to start (and finish!) at least one serious, non-fiction book. Time to educate my mind!
I will post a selfie to begin with (later today, after I make myself presentable), and one to end with. Daily frankly sounds excessive. I'll think it over.5 -
I'm going to try this one! I have always wanted to a 75 hard/soft challenge. I'll do it my way:
- Set my own diet - under my calorie goal everyday
- My water goal is 48 ounces per day of water, additional 16 ounces of coffee, or other liquids
- Workout - 17K Steps per day - 150 minutes of intentional exercise
- Read 5 pages of ANY book
- A before and after picture - not daily (maybe weekly)
- If I miss a day, just get right back at it
- Limited alcohol - 1 drink per week5 -
I am doing the 75 hard version. I started yesterday and am doing well so far today!6
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Day 1/75 (03/01)
03/01- 05/14 - My MFP WaistAways 75 Day (Medium/Soft) Commitment -
❤️ Activity - 90 Mins of Exercise & 10k+ steps a day - ✔️ - All Outside (13,015)
❤️Reading - 10 Pages of Reading - ✔️
❤️ Water - my goal will be 80 oz - ✔️
❤️Diet - Low Carb, at or under my calorie goal 1350 - ✔️
❤️ Pictures - I will do this daily plus will still do MeThreeSixty each week. - ✔️
❤️ Avoid - No Alcohol or Cheat Meals - ✔️
❤️Personal Addition - No spending money outside of household/family needs. - ✔️
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My 75 Medium Plan
• Follow my 10K training schedule every day. My race is April 20th. Then will continue with repeats of some of the later week’s schedule to continue to stay in shape for future 10K races.
• Read about my diet plan for 15 minutes per day to keep me motivated. I have a book on the Diet Center plan and there are motivational stories and info about the plan.
• Drink 8+ glasses of water per day.
• Will take a photo on Sunday March 3rd and then at the end on May 17th. Just want to do before and after.
• Doing the Diet Center plan I once used about 35 years ago. It worked then, and hopefully will work again.
• No alcohol - it’s part of the Diet Center diet anyway.
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Day 2/75
Another successful day in the books! Water was definitely easier today, that seems to be the most challenging part for me.2 -
THE PLAN intense music 2 workouts of 1 - 45 minutes each. Probably some chair exercise, stationary bike, yoga and gentle movement work. I'll try to do the full 90 minutes, but really if I get any exercise it's a win. 
Diet, I'm allergic and sensitive to a lot of foods and my digestion is really poor. So I'm going to go for: calorie counting 1,700 calories or less and at least one or two plant based protein shakes per day.
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I'll try 😀
1. 45 minute walk + 10 minute exercising or meditation + get 7k steps
2. Read a motivational article
3. Drink 1.5 litres of water
4. Before & after pics + an outdoor pic a day
5. Stay in caloric deficit
6. Reduce alcohol at weekends + reduce sweet treats2 -
I would love ve to join this challenge
1- I will do 1 good workout/day including different type of exercise (I feel like my job would qualify as a second workout)
2- read 10 pages of any book
3- drink 2.5 litres of water
4- diet: my goal is to stay within my calorie allowance and try to eat more protein
5- I don't drink but I will try to reduce the chocolate I eat
6- photos: maybe 1 at the start and 1 at the end1 -
Hello everyone! I saw all the 75 hard talk in the WaistAways group and I am glad it got its own topic so everyone can join in. I will also be doing this with a few modifications so here are my daily goals!
- Naturewalk ~ I often go for a walk first thing in the morning and I love being in nature with my camera. I usually only skip if it is raining or if I don't feel well. The weather is looking pretty good for the future, so I don't have that excuse now. I will do my best to go outside every day. Most of my walks are 70+ minutes long, but I am not going to put a minimum on this.
- Drink 3 liters of water & tea ~ I already do this. If I don't drink a lot, my headaches are worse so most days I hit 3.5 to 4.5 liters a day.
- Reading ~ I love to read and this is also something I already do daily. I am not a big fan of self helpy type books, but I do have some other non fiction books/magazines to read.
- Sleep 8+ hours ~ The 75 hard doesn't touch on sleep which I think is an oversight. For me sleep is really important and something I need to keep paying attention to so I am adding it as a daily goal.
- Under 1450 calories ~ This is a good number for me to continue losing weight while having room for the occasional treat. I already know I won't be able to do this for the full 75 days because my birthday is soon which includes a dinner. So as an extra goal, I plan to limit my cheat days to 7 for the entire challenge duration.
- Eat between 10:00/16:00 ~ Important for me to make sure I don't run out of food before the day is over. A small eating window helps me a lot with not overeating. Added benefit is walking on an empty stomach in the mornings.
- Bonus: Gym rings every other day ~ I started adding a gym rings workout a couple of weeks ago mainly for my upper body. I really enjoy the workout, but I don't want to do this daily so I will keep doing this every other day.
If you don't know who I am because we are in different groups, I will put a short about me under the spoiler:My name is Laura, I am 35 and I live with my cat Tinus in a small village in the Netherlands. I got really lucky with the house I rent and I live very close to a national park with a second one 30 minutes biking away. I enjoy walking, taking photographs of nature (birds are my favorite), reading fantasy books, drinking obscene amounts of tea, singing, postcrossing, video games and jigsaw puzzles. I am a pretty visual person and I like sharing pictures. I suffer from chronic fatigue, chronic headaches and persistent depressive disorder. It makes weight loss and life in general a little challenging, but I try my best!4 -
I would like to try this. I'm currently battling a cold so it may be a bit later joining. Then again I may try battling with the cold.4
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Day 2/75 (03/02)
03/01- 05/14 - My MFP WaistAways 75 Day (Medium/Soft) Commitment -
❤️ Activity - 90 Mins of Exercise & 10k+ steps a day - ✔️ - Treadmill, Circuit, Hike (16,529)
❤️Reading - 10 Pages of Reading - ✔️
❤️ Water - my goal will be 80 oz - ✔️ 💯 oz
❤️Diet - Low Carb, at or under my calorie goal 1350 - ✔️
❤️ Pictures - I will do this daily plus will still do MeThreeSixty each week. - ✔️
❤️ Avoid - No Alcohol or Cheat Meals - ✔️
❤️Personal Addition - No spending money outside of household/family needs. - 👎
Today will be hard to stay under calorie goal. We have LifeGroup (Church) Dinner tonight and I have no control over the food being provided. 🤞
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I would like to try this. I'm currently battling a cold so it may be a bit later joining. Then again I may try battling with the cold.
@19shmoo69 - Join and do what you can. Every little bit helps. Feel better!!
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Goals:
🥗 - Diet - Stay under my Weeky Calorie Goal, track everything
💦 - Water - 48 ounces of clear water, 64+ ounces of liquid
👣 - Average 17k Steps Daily (one day of rest)
💪 - 100 minutes of intentional exercise (I miscalculated in my orignal post)
📖 - Read 5 pages daily of any book
📷 - Take a before and after picture
🍸 - Limit alcohol to one drink weekly
👏 - If I mess up just get back at it
Day 1 - March 2: - Met all my goals 1/75
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 64 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - 19,331 Steps
💪 - 140 minutes of intentional exercise
📖 - Reading two books - When Parents Love Too Much and The Masked City - Read more than five pages of each
📷 - Took my "before" picture
🍸 - No alcohol
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75 DAY CHALLENGE
TEAM WNM
March 3 to May 17
Diet:
Calorie counting on MFP: Max per day 1200 cal
Water:
10 x 8oz per day
Workout:
FitCoach App Mon. Tue. Thu. Fri.
Walk 8000 steps per day
No Selfies
Progress: Day 1- 💝
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Day 1! I am reducing the amount of water I will be drinking back down to 8-12 cups though. I was living in the bathroom with 16.3 -
75 Hard-ish
Actually thought about doing this on Jan 1 but hubby was not interested and I felt I needed extra support. Also was nervous about being discouraged because I’m not a competitive beast. This version is more my style. Hard is all relative. Everyone has their hard. This will be my modified and personalized version with some stretch to make me stronger and better than yesterday.
✅ 90 minutes intentional exercise could be cardio, strength training, yoga, stretching, walking etc it can be spread throughout the day in 10 minutes bursts as time permits or all in one session. It can also be either inside or outside as long as it gets done!
✅ Read 10 minutes of a nonfiction book. Currently have 3 nonfiction books ready to read in my library queue. I tend to read in burst but lately not daily. For this challenge I will read 10 minutes a day.
✅ Drink a gallon of water. I usually drink 3 quarts a day but will strive for 4 especially with the increased exercise.
✅ So not a selfie queen but will take a stomach photo on days 1/25/50/75. My stomach area is my biggest problem area. Complete and total apple🍎 just check out my profile pic😉
✅ Not a fan of the word diet but that’s my own personal issues. Will aim for whole minimally processed foods. Nothing is off limits but if I want a cookie it will need to be homemade with “clean” ingredients. If I do have something packaged the label must be all ingredients I can pronounce and understand. There are still some foods in the house that do not meet this requirement so aiming for minimally processed 90% of the time. All new groceries will meet this requirement.
✅ No added sugar. I rarely drink alcohol so personalizing to sugar because that’s my hard.
Good Luck All💪4 -
75 Medium - March 3rd to May 17th
My goals are all things I know I am capable of and at the start of my journey in September 2023 I was taking all of these more seriously. I have gotten loosey goosey with it since I have gotten comfortable in my weight loss so I would like to challenge myself to stick to them once again.
Diet: Stick to my calorie tracking and allowance total of 1500 per day and an IF eating window of at least 12/12. Aiming for closer to 14/10 though. I’m a 3rd shifter so I eat at night and typically that would look like allowing myself to eat between 8pm-6am.
Water: Drink at least 100oz of unflavored water.
Exercise: Do 1 - 45 minute of boot camp workouts, whether in person at class or at home on demand.
A. Do 1 - 30 minute walk a day. Outside weather permitting, but at least 30 minutes if even indoors.
B. I am still in the middle of training for a 5k that will happen at the beginning of April so I am not including the runs I do for the training in my exercises. Although, I will likely continue the 5k training plan after the 5k because the running is good for me and my friends might want to do another Mid-May.
Pictures: I will take one at the beginning and one on the last day.
Alcohol: My alcohol intake is already almost non existent since starting this journey 6 months ago. But I will continue to limit my intake of alcohol to the few occasional drinks if alcohol comes up over the course of the 75 days.
Good luck to everyone, we got this! 💪🏻🙌🏻
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I will be trying this at my own pace. I may have to stop if my surgery takes place before it is over.
*Diet: Stay under weekly calorie goal. Include fresh fruit daily and clean up weekend eating. It’s a bit vague I know.
*Water: minimum of 75 ounces a day
*Reading: Read 5 pages a day. I have been slacking on my reading so this will hopefully get me back into it.
*Exercise: Exercise 4 times a week. Get 2 short walks a week outside in addition to the exercise. I will am to increase this once a month until I am up to 6 exercise days per week.
*Alcohol: I rarely drink so I will change this to a step goal. Steps: 5,000 a day. This is an increase so it will be a period to get up to that many. I will do this 6 out of 7 days.
*Extra: Close my Apple Watch rings daily. Also, get both the March and April badges.
*Picture: day one and day 75
If I mess up, look past it and get right back at it.
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Greetings Friends,
I will be joining my versiob of #75 Medium tomorrow and here is my version:
● [Diet] Log all my food and stay below my calories.
● 45min workout
● No alcohol / cheat meals
● [Water] 2 litres
● Read 5 pages
● [Progress picture] Selfie at the start and end of the challenge.
It's our 25th wedding anniversary on the 15th May, and I am scheduled to finish this challenge a few days after that.
Good luck to us all 🙂4 -
My version of 75 Hard/Medium
- Diet – Within 100 calorie of goal (1650). Hit Protein macros
- Water – 64 ounces minimum
- Weekly Average of 10k Steps Daily
- 60 minutes of intentional exercise (excluding Sunday)
- Read 5 pages daily of any book
- Take a before and after picture (monthly)
- Limit alcohol 1 weekend day
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Day 1️⃣ of 7️⃣5️⃣
✅ Exercise: 105 minutes (60 treadmill, 10 elliptical, 30 recumbent bike, 5-ish mins squats & abs 3 sets 15 - not a fan of strength training so adding 1-2 exercises helps me get some in otherwise I don’t do any. Hope to shift to a little more ST before the end of this challenge because I know it’s important.
✅ Read: The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle Chapter 1
✅ Water: Gallon
✅ Selfie: Stomach Pic - not posting 🫣 may post day 75 if visible progress made.
✅ Food: Unsure how to accurately calculate 90% whole minimally processed foods. Felt I did okay but just got back from a work trip and haven’t gone grocery shopping yet so making use of what’s available.
✅ Sugar: Canned soup had added sugar. Will do better reading labels in the store and not when it’s already in the house 🤦♀️ but also not going to be wasteful and throw everything out especially with the cost of food these days.
Overall felt it was a good day. It helped that I had the day off and had time to focus. We’ll see how the work week goes. Way to crush day 1 F2F💪3 -
@NouveauRee I really love what you said. I think it makes this version of 75 the best!
"Everyone has their hard. This will be my modified and personalized version with some stretch to make me stronger and better than yesterday."
Let's build on yesterday. Every day.3 -
Day 1/75 (I did 4 days already, but I'll call that a warm-up!)
✅Food - good today! Stuck with zero sugar or flour, all whole foods. Tasty stuff.
✅No alcohol.
✅Exercise - 2 good long walks. Second one much more hilly and faster. I would have done strength workout, but the sun was shining. It felt great.
✅Reading - a chapter of Who By Fire (by Matti Friedman). The project I'm working on started as an obsession with that Leonard Cohen song.
✅Water
✅Thoughts - stopping sugar and flour is proving to be as much of a game-changer as stopping alcohol. I did both in January, but then sugar and general disordered eating was happening a lot in February. Getting rid of sugar and flour always helps, but this time the differences are clearer. Sleep! I am sleeping so well. No headaches. Great energy.2 -
Day 1/75
✅ 1. 45 minute walk + 10 minute exercising or meditation + get 7k steps: did 53 mins and 28 mins walks, got 13k steps, meditated
✅ 2. Read a motivational article: read about the importance of having a restful weekend to recharge.
✅ 3. Drink 1.5 litres of water
✅ 4. Before & after pics + an outdoor pic a day: forgot to take a selfie but did take outdoor pics.
✅ 5. Stay in caloric deficit: ate more than goal but was more active and stayed in deficit.
❎ 6. Reduce alcohol at weekends + reduce sweet treats: had beer with a friend and a lemon tartlet with my husband.
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Day 3/75
✅️ Two 45 minute workouts (one outside)
✅️ Drink 1 gallon of water
✅️ Follow a diet
✅️ Read 10 pages non-fiction/self help
✅️ Take a daily progress picture
✅️ No alcohol
✅️ No phone in bed
I keep track of my water intake of water on an app. However I could've sworn I drank 48 ounces, but only had 32 documented. I still don't remember, but may have gotten an extra 16 ounces of water today. I just went with what I documented. 😝
About to get into another week at work. Temptations around every corner there!4 -
My 75 Medium Plan
Day 1/75 Complete
• Follow my 10K training schedule every day.
Ran 3.65 miles - training plan said to do 3.5 today, so ✅
• Read about my diet plan for 15 minutes per day to keep me motivated. ✅
• Drink 8+ glasses of water per day.✅
• Will take a photo on Sunday March 3rd and then at the end on May 17th.
Took photo today. Also decided to take measurements.✅
• Stuck to my diet plan. ✅
• No alcohol ✅ Not going to mention this one, anymore since I’ve not been drinking anyway.1
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