75 Hard/Medium/Easy Challenge: March 3 - May 17
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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
📖 - 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 4/75
Day 5 - March 6: - Met all my goals 5/75
Day 6 - March 7: - Met all my goals 6/75Day 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 alcohol[/quote]
Day 5:
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 56 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - 19,405 Steps
💪 - 120 minutes intentional exercise, 60 minute outside walk before the rain drop, 40 minutes on treadmill, and 20 minute strength workout
📖 - Reading two books -Chicken Soup for the Soul, and The Masked City - read more than 5 pages of each.
📷 - Taking periodically
🍸 - No alcohol
Day 6:
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 56 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - 23,453
💪 - 140minutes intentional exercise, 60 minutes on treadmill, 60 minute outside walk after the rain stopped, 20 minute cardio workout
📖 - Reading two books -Chicken Soup for the Soul, and The Masked City - read more than 5 pages of each.
📷 - Took a picture on our walk - Just want to say that it is so important on your weight loss journey to take these. I NEVER took pictures of myself. In the beginning as I was losing, Those around me (and myself) didn't see much difference because I've been taking it off real slow and they see me every day. It wasn't until 50 pounds lost that I l did an after picture. Please take pictures of yourself as you go through this process (you only have to share them with yourself) - It was so nice to see the difference and to know that all this hard work was actually working and noticable.
🍸 - No alcohol
Today
The beginning of my Journey
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@iLive2Walk WOWZER! You are not kidding - that is a dramatic change, and you are rocking it! I bet your furry friend is happy with the change too
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@itladyee Yes, hun, I feel your pain about not starting this challenge BUT, please keep showing up. This is YOUR time! I’m rooting for you!
@jugar I love all the different formats too! Very inspiring and helpful to solidify my own.
@lauren_989 you are an inspiration! Go Hard, my friend 🙌🏾
@iLive2Walk appreciate your photos. What an inspiring journey. And you kinda inspired how I wanted to present my info. So thanks for being you!
Ok fam, I’m a lookie lurker 👀, Coming out from
The shadows! I didn’t know this thread was a thing until Monday, so I bookmarked it and you all Have been lightening it up everyday!
Over the past few days I’ve gotten a feel and learned so much.
I’ve been perfecting my approach from behind the scene since March 3rd and I’m really desiring some public accountability to help me seal the deal on what I believe I’ve come up with!
🍎 : “Conscious Eating” Diet, Eat when truly
hungry until satisfied AKA “0-5 eating” ,
Prioritize Whole Food, Plant Based
Eliminate/keep to a bare minimum
Processed carbs/foods and added sugar
⚖️: Track every BLT (Bite, Lick or Taste)
within calorie budget, make observation
and correction notes
💧: 64+ ounces of water
🏋🏾♀️: Exercise 45+ mins daily
📚 : Read/get exposed to a book or devotional
📸 : Take a picture once a month
🍷: No Alcohol
🫶🏾 : Miss the Mark? Keep showing up TODAY
So I’ll spoiler my “Key” for future post and report in for the day.
Thursday, March 7th: Day 4 of 75
🍎 : ✅
⚖️: ✅
💧: ✅ 128+
🏋🏾♀️: ✅ 98 mins, yoga, strength, HIIT, walk
📚 : ✅ Daily Devo, Listen/Read/Finished Kindlebook- Transitions Decisions
📸 : Feb 👍🏾 March 🫶🏾
🍷: ✅
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Day 6️⃣ of 7️⃣5️⃣
✅ Exercise: 90 minute walk
✅ Read: The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle Chapter 6-7
✅ Water: Gallon
✅ Food: within goal favorite food today roasted delicata squash😋
✅ Sugar: some added sugar in the store bought Asian sesame dressing.0 -
My Version 75 Hard Challenge: March 8 - 5/75
✅ Diet - Calorie counting. Staying at or under 1200 calories per day. 1,011 calories today
✅ Water - 70 oz of water per day (no alcohol) 103 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 HIIT, 35 minutes full body strength training, 20 min. Yoga, and 11,258 steps.
✅ Reading - 10 minutes each day of anything. I read for 30 min today.
✅ Sleep- Get 7 hours of sleep every night. I slept 6 hours. 59 minutes.
💪F2F - Mission Slimpossible!💪
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Day 8/75
✅️ 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
Good day today! Although tomorrow is another rainy day and I'm feeling achy. My hubby is sick, I hope I'm not catching anything 🤧1 -
March 8 - Day 6/75
✅ Food - pescatarian, tons of vegetables, zero sugar or flour, all whole foods. A small amount of sugar, but within reason, and not leading to overeating. I did manage to cut down on nuts, which have been taking up more space than needed lately.
✅ No alcohol no problem!
✅ Exercise - Two workouts per day, aiming for 45 minutes strength/Pilates, 45 aerobic. 45 minutes training session with my horse (not counting warmup and cooldown), exercise bike 45 minutes.
✅ Reading - something helpful at least 10 minutes per day. more Who By Fire
✅ Water - around 60 oz. per day 64 today
✅ Thoughts - I think I should try some new recipes. I feel like I eat a good variety of food, but I basically make the same things over and over, just varying the vegetables. It works, and I'm not bored with it, but somehow it feels like a good time to try out some new things. I'll start looking.3 -
Day 6/75 Friday March 8th.
Totally kept to my program. 🎉🎉🎉
Looking for a big weight loss for this week. Weigh in day for me is Saturday! 😀4 -
March 08 ~ Day 6 of 75 medium
[ Naturewalk ]
105 minutes
[ 3+ liters water & tea ] 4 liters
[ Reading ] Read on the computer in between cleaning
[ Sleep 8+ hours ] 8h 43m & 83 sleepscore
[ Under 1450 cal ] 1322
[ Eat in 6 hour window ] Done!
Happy Saturday
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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
📖 - 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 4/75
Day 5 - March 6: - Met all my goals 5/75
Day 6 - March 7: - Met all my goals 6/75
Day 7 - March 8: - Met all goals EXCEPT ReadingDay 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 alcohol[/quote]
Day 5:
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 56 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - 19,405 Steps
💪 - 120 minutes intentional exercise, 60 minute outside walk before the rain drop, 40 minutes on treadmill, and 20 minute strength workout
📖 - Reading two books -Chicken Soup for the Soul, and The Masked City - read more than 5 pages of each.
📷 - Taking periodically
🍸 - No alcohol
Day 6:
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 56 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - 23,453
💪 - 140minutes intentional exercise, 60 minutes on treadmill, 60 minute outside walk after the rain stopped, 20 minute cardio workout
📖 - Reading two books -Chicken Soup for the Soul, and The Masked City - read more than 5 pages of each.
📷 - Took a picture on our walk - Just want to say that it is so important on your weight loss journey to take these. I NEVER took pictures of myself. In the beginning as I was losing, Those around me (and myself) didn't see much difference because I've been taking it off real slow and they see me every day. It wasn't until 50 pounds lost that I l did an after picture. Please take pictures of yourself as you go through this process (you only have to share them with yourself) - It was so nice to see the difference and to know that all this hard work was actually working and noticable.
🍸 - No alcohol
Today
The beginning of my Journey
Day 7:
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 56 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - 18,600 Steps
💪 - 120 minutes of intentional exercise - 60 minute outside walk, 40 min treadmill, 20 min Strength
📖 - ❌ - The day just got away with me and just didn't get it done.
📷 - Took my "before" picture
🍸 - No alcohol
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My version of the challenge, taking into account that I do a physical job on my feet all day
🧡1 good workout on work day + add walk on day off
💛Between 2.7 to 5.3 litres of water
💚Read 10 pages of a book
🩵Diet: stay within my calories + up my protein
🩷No alcohol, I don't drink so will try to limit my chocolate intake instead
💜 Start / middle/ finish photo
6/75 🧡💛💚🩵✖️ 1h taekwondo 🥋 , too much chocolate 🍫
5/75 🧡💛💚🩵🩷 2h walk🚶♀️(around the top of the ice rink when my daughter was training)
4/75 🧡💛💚🩵✖️ 1h taekwondo 🥋, too much chocolate 🍫
3/75 🧡💛💚🩵🩷34min run🏃♀️+ 20min yoga 🧘♀️
2/75 ✖️💛💚🫥✖️ not a great day ☔, no focus
1/75 🧡💛💚🩵🩷 70min walk🚶♀️
Chocolate is letting me down, I am a bit of a stress eater and if I am tired or stressed will go to the chocolate stash. So I will try to refocus, maybe prepare a daily small chocolate allowance and try my hardest to not take more for next week
@Pupowl I love the nature photo you take on your walks they are very inspiring3 -
@Emilienewme Thank you! I love nature walks and I am happy to share them.2
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Day 5
*Diet: On track to meet my calorie goal
*Water: ✔️
*Reading: ✔️
*Exercise: Exercise 3/4 Outdoor walk 2/2
*Steps: 5,000 a day. ✔️
*Extra: Rings:✔️ badge: 1/5
Day 6
*Diet: On track to meet my calorie goal
*Water: ✔️
*Reading: ✔️
*Exercise: Exercise 4/4 Outdoor walk 3/2
*Steps: 5,000 a day. ✔️ 6 days so far
*Extra: Rings:✔️ badge: 1/5
This walking is huge for me. I have slowly built my walking up over the last year. I see hour long walks in my future.
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@Pupowl where are you from? Those pictures are beautiful with the deer and the bird!
@lindamtuck2018 great job increasing your walking! It always feels great after even if not during.
@jugar if you find any new good recipes, please share!
@Emilienewme I hear your with the chocolate! I can't eat it or I will keep wanting more. It's like chips for some people, once I start I can't stop. I have found sugar free chocolate jello which helps with wanting chocolate, and there are some protein one bars, chocolate fudge that are 90 calories. I can eat these once in a while and be fine. But if I'm coming off choclate/sweet binges, I avoid any chocolate for a week or 2, then slowly add it back in.1 -
@lauren_989 Thanks! I live in the Netherlands. The area I most often go for my walks is the national park called Dwingelderveld.1
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lindamtuck2018 wrote: »Day 5
*Diet: On track to meet my calorie goal
*Water: ✔️
*Reading: ✔️
*Exercise: Exercise 3/4 Outdoor walk 2/2
*Steps: 5,000 a day. ✔️
*Extra: Rings:✔️ badge: 1/5
Day 6
*Diet: On track to meet my calorie goal
*Water: ✔️
*Reading: ✔️
*Exercise: Exercise 4/4 Outdoor walk 3/2
*Steps: 5,000 a day. ✔️ 6 days so far
*Extra: Rings:✔️ badge: 1/5
This walking is huge for me. I have slowly built my walking up over the last year. I see hour long walks in my future.
Fantastic job Linda! 😁0 -
Day 7️⃣ of 7️⃣5️⃣
✅ Exercise: 75 min walk, 15 min punching bag, 60 min recumbent bike, 5 min abs
✅ Read: Allen Carr’s Easy Way To Quit Emotional Eating
✅ Water: Gallon
✅ Food: within goal favorite food today fresh strawberries and dark cocoa dusted almonds😋
✅ Sugar: went grocery shopping and was more mindful of labels which meant putting most things back. I prefer fresh veggies but stocked up on a few bags of frozen for quick weeknight dinners when I get off late.
1 week in the books! Great job F2F🤗 Have to admit I was a bit bummed I was up a tad during my weekly weigh in. I know it takes time for our bodies to adjust so trying to focus on all the other benefits. Bring on week 2! Good Luck All💪1 -
My 75 Medium Plan
Day 7/75 - Saturday March 8th
• Follow my 10K training schedule every day. My race is April 20th. Yes - rest day.
• Read about my diet plan for 15 minutes per day to keep me motivated. Still need to read, but will.
• 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. Ate a little more ahi tuna and wild rice than suggested in the plan, but need the extra calories for my 5-miler tomorrow morning. Still stayed under total calories.
• No alcohol. don’t have an interest in drinking alcohol1 -
One week down - we're doing great!
March 9 - Day 7/75
✅ Food - On plan, and especially good on variety today.
✅ No alcohol no problem!
✅ Exercise - Two workouts per day: 1strength-1 aerobic. 45 minutes combination of kettlebells and carrying heavy things up my long hill from car to house, exercise bike 45 minutes.
✅ Reading - something helpful at least 10 minutes per day. more Who By Fire, and an annoying article of the "what I wish I had known" ilk.
✅ Water - 60 today
✅ Thoughts - Looked up some recipes! I'm making a tuna ceviche tomorrow. I am also going to be a bit more strict about strength workouts. Just saying 2 workouts per day sometimes turns into 2 mostly aerobic activities. Even though working with my horse involves a lot of muscle work, it does not have the same range of movement under stress and is less effective at keeping muscle mass. At my age it is easy to lose! Kettlebell workout today felt great.
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Day 9/75
✅️ 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 had a wonderful (not) 45 minute walk in the rain today.
Tomorrow I have a 7 mile hike scheduled with a hiking group. The sun should be back out, but it will be windy. Then my second workout will most likely be yoga to help stretch a bit after the long hike.1
