75 Hard/Medium/Easy Challenge: March 3 - May 17
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Day 2️⃣ of 7️⃣5️⃣
✅ Exercise: 90 minute treadmill 5 minutes abs
✅ Read: The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle Chapter 2
✅ Water: Gallon
✅ Food: Not sure if it’s the extra water but craving salty today… roasted seaweed, pretzels, salt and vinegar almonds🤦♀️way too many processed snacks but within calories.
✅ Sugar: For work I pack breakfast, lunch and snacks and didn’t make it to the store so too many packaged items today. Based on diary 13g added sugar (not including fruit or natural sugars in whole foods).1 -
Day 4/75 (03/04
03/01- 05/14 - My MFP WaistAways 75 Day (Medium/Soft) Commitment -
❤️ Activity - 90 Mins of Exercise & 10k+ steps a day - ✔️ 60 Mins in the Gym (Treadmill & Circuit); I knew the rain was coming in so went straight to the trail and got my 30 mins outside. 10k steps by 7am 🔥 **12,753 steps total
❤️Reading - 10 Pages of Reading - ✔️
❤️ Water - my goal will be 80+ oz - ✔️
❤️Diet - Low Carb, at or under my calorie goal 1500 - ✔️ my hubby asked me to increase my calorie goal since I was increasing my exercise. So changing my goal from 1350 to 1500
❤️ Pictures- MeThreeSixty each week. - ✔️
❤️ Avoid - No Alcohol or Cheat Meals - ✔️
❤️Personal Addition - No spending money outside of household/family needs. - ✔️
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Day 2/75 (+4 warm-up days)
✅Food - good today! Stuck with zero sugar or flour, all whole foods.
✅No alcohol.
✅Exercise - 15 Pilates + 30 bodyweight strength / 45 minute brisk walk out in the cool afternoon.
✅Reading - an article about the pros and cons of this sort of "hard" no compromises approach vs the more gentle self-kindness approach. Interesting stuff! I have always done better on stricter regimens because they become the "new normal" after a while, but also have no fear of an imperfect day, as long as there is a quick return to what really is healthy and is true self-kindness.
✅Water - floating in the stuff.
✅Thoughts - there were temptations today to eat more things. I was hungry a lot. Tomorrow I will try to up the amounts a bit, but still avoid the things I want to keep avoiding. I'll be on the road, and will stick with fruit and nuts for snacks. No compromise!1 -
March 04 ~ Day 2 of 75 medium
[ Naturewalk ]
118 minutes
[ 3+ liters water & tea ] 4 liters
[ Reading ] Read in bed before sleeping
[ Sleep 8+ hours ] 8h 11m & 84 sleepscore
[ Under 1450 cal ] 1312
[ Eat in 6 hour window ] Done!
Happy Tuesday
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My 75 Medium Plan
DAY 2 - March 4th
• Follow my 10K training schedule every day. My race is April 20th. Yes! It was a rest day on the schedule.
• Read about my diet plan for 15 minutes per day to keep me motivated. Yes! Reading the first chapter. Part way through it.
• Drink 8+ glasses of water per day. Yes!
• Doing the Diet Center plan I once used about 35 years ago. It worked then, and hopefully will work again. Followed the plan almost exactly. Tiny slip at work with a cookie temptation, but still stayed under 1200 calories.
• No alcohol Yes! Don’t drink anymore anyway, so this part’s easy.0 -
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
Day 2 - March 3: - Met all my goals 2/75
Day 3 - March 4: - Met all my goals 3 75Day 1:
🥗 - 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 (60 min outside)
📖 - 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
Day 2:
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 64 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - 24,035 Steps
💪 - 140 minutes intentional exercise, 60 minute outside walk, 40 minutes on treadmill, 40 minute cardio workout
📖 - Reading two books - Switched my non-fiction to Chicken Soup for the Soul. Read more than 5 pages; didn't read my fiction The Masked City
📷 - Took another selfie (bought a selfie stick) - will take one periodically
🍸 - No alcohol
Day 3:
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 56 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - 18,626 Steps
💪 - 140 minutes intentional exercise, 80 minute outside walk, 40 minutes on treadmill, 20 minute cardio workout
📖 - Reading two books -Chicken Soup for the Soul, and The Masked City - read more than 5 pages of each.
📷 - Took another selfie
🍸 - No alcohol
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Here is some interesting reading if you want some - it is from a newsletter for sobriety, but this edition deals with food. There are some different approaches and opinions, so dig in if you feel like more exploring:
https://open.substack.com/pub/danaleighlyons/p/sugar-addiction-early-sobriety
If it does not let you read it, you may need to get a free subscription, or maybe I can get permission to share it here. Let me know!0 -
Love this challenge. I’ve restarted 75 hard several times and recently made some adjustments to make it more suitable for me.
✅ 2 Workouts per day. No time restrictions
✅ Stretch daily
✅ Spend time outdoors each day
✅ Read something that motivates me even if it’s online or audio
✅ 100 oz of water per day
✅ No Sugar
✅ Diet. My diet doesn’t have a name. I try to avoid spikes in blood sugar, mostly whole foods, low carb, no sugar
✅ track
✅ Dinner and Done. No evening snacking or eating more than I planned at dinner.
✅ In bed by 11
I don’t like doing daily pics so I eliminated them. I prefer to see some progress so I take pics when there’s been some change.
I don’t like having a time minimum on workouts. I aim for 45 min but any amount of better than nothing.
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My version is more a medium one, as I work in a busy kitchen I don't sit much in my day even if I don't do intentional exercise
🧡exercise: 1 good workout on work day + add a walk on day off
💛Between 2.7 to 5.3 litres of water
💚Read 10 pages of a book
🩵Diet: stay within my calories and up my protein
🩷No alcohol -> limited chocolate intake
💜 Start / middle/ finish photo
3/75 🧡💛💚🩵🩷 34min run🏃♀️(4.3km before the rain came) + 20min yoga 🧘♀️ + started a new book 📖
2/75 ✖️💛💚🫥✖️ not great day, heavy rain so no chance of outside exercise, slightly over my calories but I got back to it
1/75 🧡💛💚🩵🩷 70min walk🚶♀️0 -
Day 3️⃣ of 7️⃣5️⃣
✅ Exercise: 90 minute treadmill 5 minutes abs
✅ Read: The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle Chapter 3
✅ Water: Gallon
✅ Food: Slightly better snack choices today fruit, nuts and okra crisps.
✅ Sugar: 3g added sugar (not including fruit or natural sugars in whole foods).1 -
My Version 75 Hard Challenge: March 5 - 2/75
❎ Diet - Calorie counting. Staying at or under 1200 calories per day. 1,230 calories today.
✅ Water - 70 oz of water per day (no alcohol) 75 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 40 minutes Barre, 40 minutes strength training, and 20 Palates, 8,963 steps.
✅ Reading - 10 minutes each day of anything. I read for 1 hour today.
❎ Sleep- Get 7 hours of sleep every night. I slept 5 hours. 56 minutes💪F2F - Mission Slimpossible!💪1 -
My 75 Medium Plan
• Follow my 10K training schedule every day. My race is April 20th. Yes! 3 miles was on today’s schedule. Had a 15:32 pace.
• Read about my diet plan for 15 minutes per day to keep me motivated. Yes!
• Drink 8+ glasses of water per day. Yes!
• Took beginning photo on March 3rd & took my measurements. Will do same on May 17th.
• Using a diet plan I once used 35 years ago. It worked then, and hopefully will work again. Followed the plan correctly.
• No alcohol. Yes1 -
Day 5/75
✅️ 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
5 days down! Tomorrow is calling for rain all day. With work, I only have certain times to exercise. Plus, with them needing to be at least 3 hours apart, that limits it to before work, lunch break, after work. I guess I will get wet tomorrow! ☔️1 -
Goals:
Food - pescatarian, tons of vegetables, zero sugar or flour, all whole foods.
No alcohol
Exercise - Two workouts per day, aiming for 45 minutes strength/Pilates, 45 aerobic, but time is not a deal breaker.
Reading - something helpful at least 10 minutes per day.
Water - around 60 oz. per day
Thoughts - post daily about what I am thinking about all this
Day 3/75
Food - I was on the road today, which is usually an excuse for eating all the terrible things. Today went well! I ate a bit more that I would have normally, but all good stuff.
No alcohol
Only one workout
Reading more in Who By Fire
Water good!
Thoughts - I was much too hungry yesterday, and intentionally ate more today. I did not slip over into "reward" foods, and was pleasantly surprised not to be tempted by flour and sugar. I planned my travel food, and stuck to it. It felt good to eat more - getting my quantities right is a little tricky right now.
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March 05 ~ Day 3 of 75 medium
[ Naturewalk ] 76 minutes
[ 3+ liters water & tea ] 4.5 liters
[ Reading ] Read in bed before sleeping
[ Sleep 8+ hours ] 8h 44m & 87 sleepscore
[ Under 1450 cal ] 1252
[ Eat in 6 hour window ] Done! Bonus ~ gym rings workout
Happy Wednesday
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Nothing like exercising outside at 5:30 am in the rain!
@Pupowl I love all your pictures!
@daria0919 what 10k training plan are you following?
@jugar great job planning your travel foods...and sticking to it!1 -
@lauren_989 Thank you They are just taken with my phone lately because the weather hasn't been great. I hope to go with my camera soon. Good job going out in the rain and getting it done.
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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
Day 2 - March 3: - Met all my goals 2/75
Day 3 - March 4: - Met all my goals 3/75
Day 4 - March 5: - Met all my goals 4/75Day 1:
🥗 - 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 (60 min outside)
📖 - 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
Day 2:
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 64 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - 24,035 Steps
💪 - 140 minutes intentional exercise, 60 minute outside walk, 40 minutes on treadmill, 40 minute cardio workout
📖 - Reading two books - Switched my non-fiction to Chicken Soup for the Soul. Read more than 5 pages; didn't read my fiction The Masked City
📷 - Took another selfie (bought a selfie stick) - will take one periodically
🍸 - No alcohol
Day 3:
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 56 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - 18,626 Steps
💪 - 140 minutes intentional exercise, 80 minute outside walk, 40 minutes on treadmill, 20 minute cardio workout
📖 - Reading two books -Chicken Soup for the Soul, and The Masked City - read more than 5 pages of each.
📷 - Took another selfie
🍸 - No alcohol
Day 4:
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 56 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - 15,898 (under my 17k goal, but average is over (19,473)
💪 - 125 minutes intentional exercise, none outside (rain day) 75 minute treadmill, 35 Minute cardio, 15 minute yoga
📖 - Reading two books -Chicken Soup for the Soul, and The Masked City - read more than 5 pages of each.
📷 - Taking periodically. Bought myself a selfie stick - LOL!
🍸 - No alcohol1 -
Day 2
*Diet: My eating was terrible as I was away. It was restaurant eating plus a couple of drinks. I did take fruit and had that as my snack that night. Should meet my weekly calorie goal
*Water: Does a pina colda count as water? 😂 Not much water on Monday
*Reading: ❌. Should have brought my book with me.
*Exercise: Exercise 1/4 outdoor walk 1/2 no intentional exercise but we were dancing at the Chubby Checker concert.
*Steps: 5,000 a day. 2/5
*Extra: Rings ✔️ March badge: 0/?
*Picture: still haven’t taken one
Day 3
*Diet: Back to normal eating
*Water: Drank more the my minimum of 75oz
*Reading: ❌. Back to reading today so I will get a ✔️ tomorrow
*Exercise: Exercise 1/4 outdoor walk 1/2
*Steps: 5,000 a day. 3/5
*Extra: Rings ✔️ March badge: 0/?
*Picture: will do tonight. I just got to remember.
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My version of 75 Hard/Medium: March 4 - 2/75 - Perfect Days = 0
✅ Diet – Within 100 calorie of goal (1650). Hit Protein macros ~
❌Water – 64 ounces minimum
〰️ 2 days above 10k per week, 4 days above 8,500 (10k, 8,500✔️✔️)
✅ 60 minutes of intentional exercise (excluding Sunday)
❌Read 5 pages daily of any book
✅ Take a before and after picture (monthly) ~ adding back at month end
❌Limit alcohol 1 weekend day
My version of 75 Hard/Medium: March 5 - 3/75 - Perfect Days = 0
✅ Diet – Within 100 calorie of goal (1650). Hit Protein macros ~
❌Water – 64 ounces minimum
✅ 2 days above 10k per week, 4 days above 8,500 (10k, 8,500✔️✔️❌)
✅ 60 minutes of intentional exercise (excluding Sunday)
❌Read 5 pages daily of any book
❌Limit alcohol 1 weekend day0
