75 Hard/Medium/Easy Challenge: March 3 - May 17
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Day 4️⃣5️⃣ of 7️⃣5️⃣
❌ Exercise: 75 m walk no oomph to push 15 minutes more after working a 14 hour shift
✅ Read: Cooked A Natural History of Transformation By Michael Pollen
✅ Water: Gallon
❌ Food: wasn’t able to make it two days in a row blaming the pb filled pretzels🙃 I packed three servings for T/W/TH (off this Fri) and ate all three baggies 🫢 will not pack them anymore. Told hubs to hide them or bring to his work because they are evil 😈 Will not buy again especially not the Costco sized container.
✅<10g Added Sugar: 9g from pb filled pretzels, store bread and pimiento cheese spread yeah not the best choices today but surprisingly still within my added sugar goal.0 -
My Version 75 Hard Challenge: April 16 - 44/75
✅ Diet - Calorie counting. Staying at or under 1200 calories per day. 1,113 calories today.
❎️ Water - 70 oz of water per day (no alcohol) 65 oz of water today.
❎️ Exercise - 30 minutes cardio workout, 30 min strength training and 20 min yoga/palates stretch, 10k+ steps per day (inside/outside) I did 30 min. Barre and 16,539 steps today.
❎️ Reading - 10 minutes each day of anything. I did not read today.
✅ Sleep- Get 7 hours of sleep every night. I slept 7 hours 29 min.💪F2F - Mission Slimpossible Strong!💪0 -
April 16 ~ Day 45 of 75 medium
[ Naturewalk ]
No walk, lots of errands
[ 3+ liters water & tea ]
3.5 liters
[ Reading ] Read during the day
[ Sleep 8+ hours ] 8h 58m & 83 sleepscore
[ Under 1450 cal ] Done!
[ Eat in 6 hour window ] 5h 11m Bonus ~ gym rings workout
Happy Wednesday
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Day 4️⃣6️⃣ of 7️⃣5️⃣
❌Exercise: 60m walk another long shift so doing what I can
✅ Read: Cooked A Natural History of Transformation By Michael Pollen
✅ Water: Gallon
✅ Food: On track busy day means no time to snack
✅<10g Added Sugar: 0 added today
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April 17 - Day 46/75
✅ Food - Not perfect, but good enough. Getting past this period of weird eating finally.
✅ No alcohol no problem
✅ Exercise - Two workouts: 1strength-1 cardio. Pilates and exercise bike.
✅ Reading - something helpful at least 10 minutes per day. Some messages on the alcohol-free life that were helpful in keeping that commitment.
✅ Water - OK
✅ Thoughts - Long rehearsal today - concert coming up on Sunday! It is a big program, and I think we're going to have a happy audience.1 -
April 17 ~ Day 46 of 75 medium
[ Naturewalk ] 71 minutes
[ 3+ liters water & tea ] 3.5 liters
[ Reading ] Read during the day
[ Sleep 8+ hours ] 8h 56m & 82 sleepscore
[ Under 1450 cal ] Wraps, baklava, chocolate cake
[ Eat in 6 hour window ] 4h 45m
Happy Thursday
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Day 4️⃣7️⃣ of 7️⃣5️⃣
❌Exercise: first day absolutely ZERO exercise🙁 third day in a row working 14 hour shift so I’m exhausted
✅ Read: Cooked A Natural History of Transformation By Michael Pollen
❌ Water: 1/2 gallon
✅ Food: within calories but no time for real meals only snacks
✅<10g Added Sugar: 0g added all healthy snacks - fruit, nuts, cheese2 -
My Version 75 Hard Challenge: April 17 - 45/75
✅ Diet - Calorie counting. Staying at or under 1200 calories per day. 1,115 calories today.
✅ Water - 70 oz of water per day (no alcohol) 107 oz of water today.
❎️ Exercise - 30 minutes cardio workout, 30 min strength training and 20 min yoga/palates stretch, 10k+ steps per day (inside/outside) I did 1 hour kickboxing, 20 min. stretch and 12,086 steps today.
❎️ Reading - 10 minutes each day of anything. I did not read today.
❎️ Sleep- Get 7 hours of sleep every night. I slept 5 hours 7 min.💪F2F - Mission Slimpossible Strong!💪1 -
April 18 - Day 47/75
❌ Food - Another bad day. Time for more serious action.
✅ No alcohol no problem
✅ ❌Exercise - Two workouts: 1strength-1 cardio. Horse work, no strength workout.
✅ Reading - something helpful at least 10 minutes per day. On somatic therapy and other body-based methods of change.
✅ Water - OK
✅ Thoughts - Had a good horse session today, but feeling a bit frustrated with myself.1 -
April 18 ~ Day 47 of 75 medium
[ Naturewalk ] 122 minutes
[ 3+ liters water & tea ] 3.5 liters
[ Reading ] Read during the day
[ Sleep 8+ hours ] 7h 0m & 67 sleepscore ~ My brain was hyper and it took forever to fall asleep
[ Under 1450 cal ] The last of the wraps and more baklava
[ Eat in 6 hour window ] 4h 37m
Happy Friday
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I missed a day so the post below is actually yesterday, April 18 - 46/75 not April 17.Veta2018 Posts:
April 18
My Version 75 Hard Challenge: April 17 - 45/75
✅ Diet - Calorie counting. Staying at or under 1200 calories per day. 1,115 calories today.
✅ Water - 70 oz of water per day (no alcohol) 107 oz of water today.
❎️ Exercise - 30 minutes cardio workout, 30 min strength training and 20 min yoga/palates stretch, 10k+ steps per day (inside/outside) I did 1 hour kickboxing, 20 min. stretch and 12,086 steps today.
❎️ Reading - 10 minutes each day of anything.I did not read today.
❎️ Sleep- Get 7 hours of sleep every night. I slept 5 hours 8 min.
💪F2F - Mission Slimpossible!💪
This is Wednesday April 17 that I accidently skipped.
My Version 75 Hard Challenge: April 17 - 45/75
✅ Diet - Calorie counting. Staying at or under 1200 calories per day. 1,198 calories today.
✅ Water - 70 oz of water per day (no alcohol) 84 oz of water today.
✅ Exercise - 30 minutes cardio workout, 30 min strength training and 20 min yoga/palates stretch, 10k+ steps per day (inside/outside) I did 1 hour Tabata workout, 20 min. Core and abs, 20 min. Upper body, and 20 min. stretch and 14,486 steps today.
❎️ Reading - 10 minutes each day of anything. I did not read today.
❎️ Sleep- Get 7 hours of sleep every night. I slept 6 hours 52 min.
My Version 75 Hard Challenge: April 19 - 47/75
✅ Diet - Calorie counting. Staying at or under 1200 calories per day. 1,162 calories today.
✅ Water - 70 oz of water per day (no alcohol) 101 oz of water today
✅ Exercise - 30 minutes cardio workout, 30 min strength training and 20 min yoga/palates stretch, 10k+ steps per day (inside/outside) I did 1 hour Aerobics, 46 min. Strength training, 20 min deep stretch and 14,456 steps today.
✅ Reading - 10 minutes each day of anything. I read for 1/2 hour today.
❎️ Sleep- Get 7 hours of sleep every night. I slept 6 hours 23 min.💪F2F - Mission Slimpossible Strong!💪
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April 19 - Day 48/75
✅ Food - A good day, finally. No flour. Minimal sugar. Tons of veg.
✅ No alcohol no problem
✅ ❌Exercise - Two workouts: 1strength-1 cardio. exercise bike and a walk, but no strength workout.
✅ Reading - something helpful at least 10 minutes per day. Lots today!
✅ Water - OK
✅ Thoughts - Started off the day having lots of emotions - feeling much better this evening.
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April 19 ~ Day 48 of 75 medium
[ Naturewalk ] rain all day long
[ 3+ liters water & tea ] 5 liters
[ Reading ] Read during the day
[ Sleep 8+ hours ] 9h 4m & 77 sleepscore
[ Under 1450 cal ] I had an extremely crappy day
[ Eat in 6 hour window ] 5h 18m
Happy Saturday
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Day 4️⃣8️⃣ of 7️⃣5️⃣
✅ Exercise: 120m walk
✅ Read: Younger Next Year by Chris Crowley and Henry S Lodge, MD
✅ Water: gallon
✅ Food: dipped deep into exercise calories
❌<10g Added Sugar: over from peanut butter granola and dark chocolate coconut yogurt but oh boy was it tasty😋
Great job all for continuing to push and crush💪🏅🤩 Enjoy your weekend 🌸1 -
Day 4️⃣9️⃣ of 7️⃣5️⃣
✅ Exercise: 90m walk, 60m cycle
✅ Read: Younger Next Year by Chris Crowley and Henry S Lodge, MD
✅ Water: gallon
✅ Food: dipped into exercise
❌<10g Added Sugar: over again 21g added 😱 from sour cherry preserves, rice cakes and honey roasted peanuts. Need to curb the added sugar NOW!!!1 -
My Version 75 Hard Challenge: April 20 - 48/75
✅ Diet - Calorie counting. Staying at or under 1200 calories per day. 1,108 calories today.
✅ Water - 70 oz of water per day (no alcohol) 85 oz of water today.0
❎️ Exercise - 30 minutes cardio workout, 30 min strength training and 20 min yoga/palates stretch, 10k+ steps per day (inside/outside) I did 1 hour walk with a total 13, 868 steps today.
✅ Reading - 10 minutes each day of anything.I read 30 min. today.
✅ Sleep- Get 7 hours of sleep every night. I slept 8 hours 33 min.
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Day 5️⃣0️⃣ of 7️⃣5️⃣
✅ Exercise: 90m walk, 10m elliptical
✅ Read: Younger Next Year by Chris Crowley and Henry S Lodge, MD
✅ Water: gallon
✅ Food: dipped into exercise
✅<10g Added Sugar: 8g from honey roasted peanuts
We made it to day 50! Kudos all around🤗 personally did better the first 25 days! Wasn’t as focused the middle 25 due to other things winning my attention. Recommitting for the last 25 days! Hope to see some improvement especially with a focus on more strength training, eating within target calories without having to dip in to exercise and reducing the snacking that bumps up my added sugar. Keep on being awesome and crushing it🤩💪🎉1 -
My Version 75 Hard Challenge: April 21 - 49/75
✅ Diet - Calorie counting. Staying at or under 1200 calories per day. 1,053 calories today.
✅ Water - 70 oz of water per day (no alcohol) 85 oz of water today.
❎️ Exercise - 30 minutes cardio workout, 30 min strength training and 20 min yoga/palates stretch, 10k+ steps per day (inside/outside) I did yard work and got a total 10,364 steps today.
✅ Reading - 10 minutes each day of anything. I read 45 min. today.
❎️ Sleep- Get 7 hours of sleep every night. I slept 5 hours 53 min.
Awesome job to y'all for stickin with it! I'm also hope to see more improvements and focussing on my strength training. I feel like giving up on trying to get 7 hours of sleep, but I guess I can keep at it for another 25 days.
💪F2F - Mission Slimpossible!💪
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Yesterday got seriously endless, so here are both it and today:
April 20 - Day 49/75
✅ Food - Ok, but not perfect. I'll take it!
✅ No alcohol no problem
✅ ❌Exercise - Two workouts: 1strength-1 cardio. horse training session, exercise bike, but no strength workout.
✅ Reading - something helpful at least 10 minutes per day. yes! finished my program notes for tomorrow's concert. At 10:30 pm... procrastination lives!
✅ Water - OK
✅ Thoughts - Had a huge tech panic about the slides I'm projecting during the concert, but calmed down and got it done.
April 21 - Day 50/75
✅ Food - Really good for a change!
✅ No alcohol no problem
✅ Exercise - Two workouts: 1strength-1 cardio. A full concert on flute is a big workout. I'll use it for both cardio and strength!
✅ Reading - something helpful at least 10 minutes per day. some beautiful stuff by Jeannine Ouelette on writing from the body, censoring the body, and general visceral awareness
✅ Water - OK
✅ Thoughts - It felt great to perform for a live audience in a beautiful small church that has recently been restored. The sound was great, the people loved it, and we got through it with no disasters!
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I have been struggling a bit again. I really can't do cheat days because it throws me off plan for several more days after and I don't want that. What also didn't help is that we had two really bad rainy days and I couldn't walk. Not walking for one day is alright, but two in a row negatively affects my mood a lot. Anyway, I have pulled myself together again. Yesterday wasn't perfect, but I got a walk and some nice pictures and today will be a good day.
April 20 ~ Day 49 of 75 medium
[ Naturewalk ] rain all day
[ 3+ liters water & tea ] 4.5 liters
[ Reading ] Read during the day
[ Sleep 8+ hours ] 8h 0m & 76 sleepscore
[ Under 1450 cal ] Not even close
[ Eat in 6 hour window ] Nope
April 21 ~ Day 50 of 75 medium
[ Naturewalk ] 110 minutes
[ 3+ liters water & tea ] 3.5 liters
[ Reading ] Read during the day
[ Sleep 8+ hours ] 8h 24m & 83 sleepscore
[ Under 1450 cal ] A little too high
[ Eat in 6 hour window ] 5h 43m
Happy Monday
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Day 5️⃣1️⃣ of 7️⃣5️⃣
✅ Exercise: 90m Walk, 30m Resistance Training
✅ Read: Younger Next Year by Chris Crowley and Henry S Lodge, MD
✅ Water: gallon
✅ Food: dipped into exercise
✅<10g Added Sugar: 8g from honey roasted peanuts again. Thankfully this was the last serving. Picked up some raw hazelnuts, walnuts and almonds so that should help. Easier to stick to a portion of raw versus roasted/flavored nuts.2 -
April 22 - Day 51/75
✅ Food - On plan - a good day!
✅ No alcohol - no problem
✅ Exercise - Two workouts: 1strength-1 cardio. Pilates and upper body, lots of walking, exercise bike.
✅ Reading - something helpful at least 10 minutes per day. Yes!
✅ Water - OK
✅ Thoughts - I had a long walk with a friend I have not seen in a while - it felt great! We are starting to discuss a project to work on together, and the ideas were flying even faster than our feet on this cold windy (but beautifully sunny!) day.1 -
April 22 ~ Day 51 of 75 medium
[ Naturewalk ] 81 minutes
[ 3+ liters water & tea ] 3.5 liters
[ Reading ] Read during the day
[ Sleep 8+ hours ] 8h 14m & 81 sleepscore
[ Under 1450 cal ] Done!
[ Eat in 6 hour window ] Done!
Happy Tuesday
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My Version 75 Hard Challenge: April 22 - 50/75
✅ Diet - Calorie counting. Staying at or under 1200 calories per day. 1,197 calories today.
✅ Water - 70 oz of water per day (no alcohol) 85 oz of water today.
✅ Exercise - 30 minutes cardio workout, 30 min strength training and 20 min yoga/palates stretch, 10k+ steps per day (inside/outside) I had a hour and half cardio dance party.💃 Then, I did 20 minutes Abs and core strength training, 20 minutes Arms and shoulder strength training, 20 minutes stretch with a total of 13,544 steps today.
✅ Reading - 10 minutes each day of anything. I read for 15 min. today.
❎️ Sleep- Get 7 hours of sleep every night. I slept 6 hours 41 min.
@Pupowl - I can't do cheat days either. I'm afraid if I cheat, I won't be able to stop.
I try to just fit that special treat into my calorie goal. If I have a mistake, I try to fit in an extra workout.💪F2F - Mission Slimpossible!💪1 -
@Veta2018 I totally get that! I think I only feel the need to cheat when my diet is too strict and not balanced enough. I know when I eat properly and include stuff I really enjoy, I rarely feel the urge to binge. It is much better to plan in something extra every now and then.2
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@Veta2018 I totally get that! I think I only feel the need to cheat when my diet is too strict and not balanced enough. I know when I eat properly and include stuff I really enjoy, I rarely feel the urge to binge. It is much better to plan in something extra every now and then.
When I was in the active weight-loss phase, especially at first, and then later when cravings would creep back in, I found the weekly free day really helpful. I did not think of it as cheating. It was a free day, and as long as the other 6 days had been as perfect as possible, it was the time I could just relax and not worry about it. When I started, those free days were pretty crazy, but as I got used to the new ways of eating, it was more like a normal day but with some extras, and a relaxed feel. Sometimes a "trigger" food would cause overeating, but as long as I got right back on plan the next day, it worked pretty well for me.
Since I have been maintaining (11 years!), I go through phases of more or less strictness, but my eating has really migrated for the most part to a healthy plan that works well for me. Adjustments get made from time to time as I age. And little periods of loss of control happen but they don't usually last long. I generally avoid all grains, keep added sugar to a minimum, and eat whole foods.
So yeah - free days can come and go as needed, but they can be a useful tool if kept well controlled.1 -
April 23 - Day 52/75
✅ Food - On plan - a good day! The cravings I was having are subsiding.
✅ No alcohol - no problem
✅ Exercise - Two workouts: 1strength-1 cardio. Strength workout, horseback riding, exercise bike.
✅ Reading - something helpful at least 10 minutes per day. Yes!
✅ Water - OK
✅ Thoughts - Today was fun! Started off nice and easy, got my workout done, then had mad running around to do on a very tight schedule - I was really on my timing game, and made it! And I had a great ride with my dear silly Jasper. He was brave for walking through muddy patches today. He even survived it!
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Day 5️⃣2️⃣ of 7️⃣5️⃣
✅ Exercise: 90m walk
✅ Read: Younger Next Year by Chris Crowley and Henry S Lodge, MD
✅ Water: gallon
✅ Food: dipped into exercise
✅<10g Added Sugar: 4g from store bought spicy Asian dumplings 🥟1 -
My Version 75 Hard Challenge: April 23 - 51/75
✅ Diet - Calorie counting. Staying at or under 1200 calories per day. 1,161 calories today.
✅ Water - 70 oz of water per day (no alcohol) 85 oz of water today.
✅ Exercise - 30 minutes cardio workout, 30 min strength training and 20 min yoga/palates stretch, 10k+ steps per day (inside/outside) I did an hour Barre, 30 min. strength training, 20 minute stretch with a total of 11,461 steps today.
✅ Reading - 10 minutes each day of anything. I read for 2 hours today.
❎️ Sleep- Get 7 hours of sleep every night. I slept 6 hours 33 min.
@jugar - That's fantastic! I think maintaining for 11 years is inspiring. I'm close to reaching my goal weight. I'm still planning my transition into maintenance.💪F2F - Mission Slimpossible!💪1 -
April 23 ~ Day 52 of 75 medium
[ Naturewalk ] 122 minutes
[ 3+ liters water & tea ] 3.5 liters
[ Reading ] Read in bed before zzz
[ Sleep 8+ hours ] 8h 44m & 81 sleepscore
[ Under 1450 cal ] Done!
[ Eat in 6 hour window ] Done!
Happy Wednesday
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