75 Hard/Medium/Easy Challenge: March 3 - May 17
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Day 12 Thursday March 14th
*Diet: On track to meet my calorie goal.
*Water: ✔️
*Reading: ✔️
*Exercise: Exercise 3/4 Outdoor walk 1/2
*Steps: 5,000 a day. ✔️
*Extra: Rings:✔️badge: 1/5
Missed my outdoor walk yesterday due to heavy rain and unable to go today. So I will be taking the mailman’s motto and go no matter what the weather brings.
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Yikes! I missed a day of reporting, so here is a double whammy.
March 14 - Day 12/75
❌ Food - Oh dear. I was away from home most the day, and it did not go well...
✅ No alcohol no problem
✅❌ Exercise - Two workouts: 1strength-1 aerobic. One good kettlebells workout. But no aerobic work - just a bit of walking.
✅ Reading - something helpful at least 10 minutes per day. Some really good stuff!
✅ Water - OK
✅ Thoughts - Being "on the road" and having to find things to eat often turns into good meals followed by terrible snacks. I have yet to find an infallible plan for that! Not sure there is one, but I'll keep trying!
March 15 - Day 13/75
✅ Food - Back on track. Skipped breakfast - after eating all the things until late last night, who needed it! Then 2 sane and reasonable meals.
✅ No alcohol no problem
✅ Exercise - Two workouts: 1strength-1 aerobic. Pilates and exercise bike.
✅ Reading - something helpful at least 10 minutes per day. Yep!
✅ Water - OK
✅ Thoughts - My exercise sessions are migrating more towards morning, and this is good! I have tried for a long time to get the intentional strength workouts done earlier in the day, and then I enjoy tacking on extra aerobic exercise in the evening while watching a video of some kind. 10 miles on the bike is the usual amount. I am feeling good getting the strength work done earlier, which leaves more time to cram the afternoon with all kinds of activities.
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Days 8-15/75 (Sun-Sat)
1. ☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️
45+ minute walk & 7k+ steps
2. ☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️
Read a motivational article
3. ☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️
Drink 1.5+ litres of water
4. ☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️
Take an outdoor pic while walking
5. ❎☑️❎❎☑️☑️
Stay in caloric deficit.
6. ❎☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️
10+ minute exercising: cardio, core, strength, tone, flex, balance
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Day 15/75
✅️ 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
Back on track today. I think the idea of perfection and getting everything made me more stressed than I realized. Plus I got extra sleep which helped 😄
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My Version 75 Hard Challenge: March 15 - 12/75
✅ Diet - Calorie counting. Staying at or under 1200 calories per day. 1,171 calories today.
❎ Water - 70 oz of water per day (no alcohol) 67 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) 60 minutes Aerobics, 30 minutes Calisthenics, 20 min yoga stretch, and 16,470 steps.
✅ Reading - 10 minutes each day of anything. I read for 1 hour today.
❎Sleep- Get 7 hours of sleep every night. I slept 6 hours and 51 minutes.💪F2F - Mission Slimpossible Strong!💪1 -
Day 1️⃣3️⃣ of 7️⃣5️⃣
❌ Exercise: 45 min recumbent bike
✅ Read: The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle Chapter 8 con’d
✅ Water: Gallon
✅ Food: within calories
✅ Added Sugar: finding myself eating more dried fruit. Need to stop buying and focus on fresh/frozen fruit1 -
March 15 ~ Day 13 of 75 medium
[ Naturewalk ]
82 minutes
[ 3+ liters water & tea ] 4 liters
[ Reading ] Read in bed before sleeping
[ Sleep 8+ hours ] 8h 42m & 85 sleepscore
[ Under 1450 cal ] 1376
[ Eat in 6 hour window ] Done! Bonus ~ gym rings workout
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
Met all goals 12 daysDay 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
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
Day 8:
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 56 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - 20,705 Steps
💪 - 120 minutes of intentional exercise - none outside, 100 min on treadmill and 20 min cardio. We were way all day yesterday - so jumped on the treadmill when I first got up to get it done!
📖 - Reading two books - Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Masked City - Read more than five pages of each
📷 - Taking periodically
🍸 - No alcohol
👏 - If I mess up just get back at it - Read double to make up for missing the day before!
Day 9:
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 56 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - ❌16,690 Steps - Didn't look at my tracker before I went to bed, silly me - short 310 steps.
💪 -120 minutes of intentional exercise - 20 minutes outside, 20 min strength, 60 min treadmill
📖 - Reading two books - Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Masked City - Read more than five pages of each
📷 - Taking periodically
🍸 - No alcohol
Day 10:
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 56 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - 22,212
💪 -145 minutes of intentional exercise - 0 minutes outside (yucky weather), 30 min aerobics, 115 min treadmill
📖 - Reading two books - Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Masked City - Read more than five pages of each
📷 - Taking periodically
🍸 - No alcohol
👏 - I made up for my previous day's step miss!
Day 11:
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 56 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - 17,416
💪 -150 minutes of intentional exercise - 60 minutes outside (yucky weather),40 Min Strengh, 50 min treadmill
📖 - Reading two books - Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Masked City - Read more than five pages of each
📷 - Taking periodically
🍸 - No alcohol
Day 12:
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 64 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - 19,155
💪 -100 minutes of intentional exercise - 50 minutes outside, 20 Minute treadmill , 30 min min cardio
📖 - Reading two books - Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Masked City - Read more than five pages of each
📷 - Taking periodically
🍸 - No alcohol
Day 13 - Met all my goals:
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 64 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - 22,439
💪 -160 minutes of intentional exercise - 60 minutes outside, 60 Minute treadmill , 40 min strength
📖 - Read the AARP Magazine that came in the mail today
📷 - Taking periodically
🍸 - No alcohol
Day 14 - Met all my goals:
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 64 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - 18,849
💪 -130 minutes of intentional exercise - 60 minutes outside, 50 Minute treadmill , 25 min cardio
📖 - Reading two books - Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Masked City - Read more than five pages of Chicken Soup for the Soul
📷 - Taking periodically
🍸 - No alcohol
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So, yesterday I completely went off the rails! The only part of my plan that I did correctly was walk 2.5 miles.
So, I’m starting all over again!
Today is Day 1 of 62 for me.
My 62 Day Medium Plan:
• Follow my 10K Training Plan - I’m switching to the lower training plan since the miles are getting a bit high for my body with the advanced plan I was following.
• Follow the Diet Plan I have chosen for myself.
• 8+ glasses of water.
• No alcohol.
• Read about my diet plan for at least 15 minutes per day to keep me motivated.
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On a good note: I took my measurements this morning and in the first two weeks of this challenge I’ve lost 6.25 inches 😀🎉2
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Day 13 Thursday March 15th
*Diet: On track to meet my calorie goal.
*Water: ✔️
*Reading: ✔️
*Exercise: Exercise 4/4 Outdoor walk 1/2
*Steps: 5,000 a day. ✔️
*Extra: Rings:✔️badge: 1/5
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Days 8-15/75 (Sun-Sat)
1. 45+ minute walk & 7k+ steps
☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️
2. Read a motivational article
☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️
3. Drink 1.5+ litres of water
☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️
4. Take an outdoor pic while walking
☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️
5. Stay in caloric deficit
❎☑️❎❎☑️❎☑️
6. 10+ minute exercising: cardio, core, strength, tone, flex, balance
❎☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️
Pics from today, including a feel-good selfie 😊
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Day 16/75
✅️ 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 busy day today. In addition to 2 workouts, I did a bunch of yard work. I will sleep well tonight!2 -
Day 1/62 Saturday March 16th
My 62 Day Medium Plan:
• Follow my 10K Training Plan - I’m switching to the lower training plan since the miles are getting a bit high for my body with the advanced plan I was following. Yes - was a rest day
• Follow the Diet Plan I have chosen for myself.yes
• 8+ glasses of water. Yes
• No alcohol. Yes
• Read about my diet plan for at least 15 minutes per day to keep me motivated. Yes1 -
March 16 - Day 14/75 TWO WEEKS!
✅ Food - Good today, but I am making an experiment. I have been on a "no sugar" regimen for a while, and there is one problem. A "healthy" no-sugar added diet includes nuts, seeds, and dried fruit (in moderation), but I cannot moderate that combination. Ever. So I am putting back a small amount of added sugar and cutting out that very high calorie snack altogether. I'll see how that goes.
✅ No alcohol no problem
✅ Exercise - Two workouts: 1strength-1 aerobic. Kettlebells, horseback riding, and exercise bike.
✅ Reading - something helpful at least 10 minutes per day. Some very interesting stuff today, and I even responded to a substack article that gave me a lot to think about.
✅ Water - OK
✅ Thoughts - The article I read this morning talked about simply being, simply taking in the view without having to do anything, not feeling like that is doing nothing. But I find the best way to be in nature or any space is to move around in it. I'm a 3-D kind of observer, and live in the moment best when in movement. I enjoy that contradiction - both are good.1 -
My Version 75 Hard Challenge: March 16 - 13/75
✅ Diet - Calorie counting. Staying at or under 1200 calories per day. 1,129 calories today.
❎ Water - 70 oz of water per day (no alcohol) 67 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) 3 hours yard work,(brush removal, raking) and 9,125 steps.
✅ Reading - 10 minutes each day of anything. I read for 10minutes today.
✅ Sleep- Get 7 hours of sleep every night. I slept 7 hours and 48 minutes.
💪F2F - Mission Slimpossible Strong!💪1 -
March 16 ~ Day 14 of 75 medium
[ Naturewalk ] 95 minutes
[ 3+ liters water & tea ] 4.5 liters
[ Reading ] Read in bed before sleeping
[ Sleep 8+ hours ] 8h 32m & 86 sleepscore
[ Under 1450 cal ] 1370
[ Eat in 6 hour window ] Done!
Happy Sunday
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Day 1️⃣4️⃣ of 7️⃣5️⃣
✅ Exercise: 60 min walk, 30 min resistance training
✅ Read: The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle Chapter 9-10
✅ Water: Gallon
✅ Food: hubby wanted to eat out for lunch so skipped breakfast. Also made a lighter dinner. Managed to stay within calories. Eating out is always a challenge so I try to avoid it unless traveling.
✅ Added Sugar: Zero intentional but not sure if lunch had any surprises.2 -
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
Met all goals 13 of 15 DaysDay 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
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
Day 8:
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 56 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - 20,705 Steps
💪 - 120 minutes of intentional exercise - none outside, 100 min on treadmill and 20 min cardio. We were way all day yesterday - so jumped on the treadmill when I first got up to get it done!
📖 - Reading two books - Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Masked City - Read more than five pages of each
📷 - Taking periodically
🍸 - No alcohol
👏 - If I mess up just get back at it - Read double to make up for missing the day before!
Day 9:
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 56 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - ❌16,690 Steps - Didn't look at my tracker before I went to bed, silly me - short 310 steps.
💪 -120 minutes of intentional exercise - 20 minutes outside, 20 min strength, 60 min treadmill
📖 - Reading two books - Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Masked City - Read more than five pages of each
📷 - Taking periodically
🍸 - No alcohol
Day 10:
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 56 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - 22,212
💪 -145 minutes of intentional exercise - 0 minutes outside (yucky weather), 30 min aerobics, 115 min treadmill
📖 - Reading two books - Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Masked City - Read more than five pages of each
📷 - Taking periodically
🍸 - No alcohol
👏 - I made up for my previous day's step miss!
Day 11:
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 56 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - 17,416
💪 -150 minutes of intentional exercise - 60 minutes outside (yucky weather),40 Min Strengh, 50 min treadmill
📖 - Reading two books - Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Masked City - Read more than five pages of each
📷 - Taking periodically
🍸 - No alcohol
Day 12:
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 64 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - 19,155
💪 -100 minutes of intentional exercise - 50 minutes outside, 20 Minute treadmill , 30 min min cardio
📖 - Reading two books - Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Masked City - Read more than five pages of each
📷 - Taking periodically
🍸 - No alcohol
Day 13 - Met all my goals:
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 64 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - 22,439
💪 -160 minutes of intentional exercise - 60 minutes outside, 60 Minute treadmill , 40 min strength
📖 - Read the AARP Magazine that came in the mail today
📷 - Taking periodically
🍸 - No alcohol
Day 14 - Met all my goals:
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 64 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - 18,849
💪 -130 minutes of intentional exercise - 60 minutes outside, 50 Minute treadmill , 25 min cardio
📖 - Reading two books - Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Masked City - Read more than five pages of Chicken Soup for the Soul
📷 - Taking periodically
🍸 - No alcohol
Day 14 - Met all my goals:
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 64 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - 18,889
💪 -150 minutes of intentional exercise - 90 minutes outside, 30 Minute Strength 30 Minute Treadmill
📖 - Reading two books - Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Masked City - Read more than five pages of Chicken Soup for the Soul
📷 - Taking periodically
🍸 - No alcohol
My Selfie - We took a hike in a new place yesterday. We have done the lower part of this trail when I first started walking - but it get's real steep and climbs up a small mountain (ok a hill) so we turned around. Yesterday we decided to do it. According to my garmin we ascented 432 feet! Here's Monty and me at the covered bridge at the bottom of the trail - it crosses the Salmon River. I'm beat as this is as we completed the 3 miles.
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My version of 75 Hard/Medium
- 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
- 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
Finding the good...
Better with water and better with step count.
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Day 2/62 Sunday March 17th
My 62 Day Medium Plan:
• Follow my 10K Training Plan - I’m switching to the lower training plan since the miles are getting a bit high for my body with the advanced plan I was following. Yes - 4.5 mikes on the schedule and I did 4.83 miles
• Follow the Diet Plan I have chosen for myself. Didn’t feel like having any salad today, so skipped that, but rest of food was good.
• 8+ glasses of water. Yes
• No alcohol. Yes
• Read about my diet plan for at least 15 minutes per day to keep me motivated. Yes0 -
Day 17/75
✅️ 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
Another nice day out. I am tired, so will be going to bed early. 😴0 -
My Version 75 Hard Challenge: March 17 - 14/75
✅ Diet - Calorie counting. Staying at or under 1200 calories per day. 1,129 calories today.
✅ Water - 70 oz of water per day (no alcohol) 83 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) 1 hours yard work, and 5,101 steps.
✅ Reading - 10 minutes each day of anything. I read for 3 hours today.
❎ Sleep- Get 7 hours of sleep every night. I slept 6 hours and 24 minutes.💪F2F - Mission Slimpossible Strong!💪0 -
March 17 - Day 15/75
✅ Food - Good today. Getting to the end of my "window salad" supply - all winter I keep 3 trays of salad greens growing, but now it is time to take over the plant window to start seeds for the big garden. Eggplants and tomatoes. Maybe peppers. But only a couple more days of the delicious small greens.
✅ No alcohol no problem
✅ Exercise - Two workouts: 1strength-1 aerobic. Lots of stretching, a bit of kettlebell, and exercise bike.
✅ Reading - something helpful at least 10 minutes per day. General interest reading today
✅ Water - OK
✅ Thoughts - I was glad to see all the teams improving on the level of "green" weigh-ins - all of the teams were higher % losing than the 2 lowest from last week. I find this measurement to be more indicative of success than high numbers of pounds or percentage lost. The trick is sustaining it!
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March 17 - Day 15/75
✅ Food - Good today. Getting to the end of my "window salad" supply - all winter I keep 3 trays of salad greens growing, but now it is time to take over the plant window to start seeds for the big garden. Eggplants and tomatoes. Maybe peppers. But only a couple more days of the delicious small greens.
Need to hear more about your window salad? Do you use a grow light or just window light? How big are your trays? Do you grow in dirt or another substrate? Are you able to post a pic? Know this is off topic for this chat but I’m so interested. I grow microgreens in a tray and herbs in the aerogarden during winter. Then in spring/summer usually tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and zucchini in the backyard raised bed. Last year also tried white mini eggplant and okra that pretty much took over one of the squares. If only the backyard was bigger🙃
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Day 1️⃣5️⃣ of 7️⃣5️⃣
✅ Exercise: 90 min walk, 10 min elliptical
✅ Read: In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
✅ Water: Gallon
✅ Food: On plan but did use some premade Beyond Meatballs that had been in the freezer. I’m trying to limit all things processed especially the fake meats since I was relying on them heavily last year but most have so many unrecognizable ingredients. I’m not vegan but was trying to make that shift and thought the fake meats were somehow better. Now just trying to focus on eating more whole natural foods.
✅ Added Sugar: some added sugar in the homemade sweet and sour sauce but not nearly as much as store bought. Left the sugar from the recipe out completely but did use half the ketchup. Still have 2 unopened bottles of ketchup in the pantry. Costco 🤷♀️ once gone plan on going back to homemade. Did this in 2020 and even got the cute glass bottles. May even volunteer to bring condiments to the next bbq just to get a step closer to a minimally processed food kitchen sooner.0 -
March 17 ~ Day 15 of 75 medium
[ Naturewalk ] 93 minutes
[ 3+ liters water & tea ] 4.5 liters
[ Reading ] Read in bed before sleeping
[ Sleep 8+ hours ] 8h 33m & 88 sleepscore
[ Under 1450 cal ] 1418
[ Eat in 6 hour window ] Done! Bonus ~ gym rings workout
Happy Monday
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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
Met all goals 14 of 16 DaysDay 1:Day 15 - Met all my goals:
🥗 - 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
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
Day 8:
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 56 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - 20,705 Steps
💪 - 120 minutes of intentional exercise - none outside, 100 min on treadmill and 20 min cardio. We were way all day yesterday - so jumped on the treadmill when I first got up to get it done!
📖 - Reading two books - Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Masked City - Read more than five pages of each
📷 - Taking periodically
🍸 - No alcohol
👏 - If I mess up just get back at it - Read double to make up for missing the day before!
Day 9:
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 56 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - ❌16,690 Steps - Didn't look at my tracker before I went to bed, silly me - short 310 steps.
💪 -120 minutes of intentional exercise - 20 minutes outside, 20 min strength, 60 min treadmill
📖 - Reading two books - Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Masked City - Read more than five pages of each
📷 - Taking periodically
🍸 - No alcohol
Day 10:
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 56 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - 22,212
💪 -145 minutes of intentional exercise - 0 minutes outside (yucky weather), 30 min aerobics, 115 min treadmill
📖 - Reading two books - Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Masked City - Read more than five pages of each
📷 - Taking periodically
🍸 - No alcohol
👏 - I made up for my previous day's step miss!
Day 11:
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 56 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - 17,416
💪 -150 minutes of intentional exercise - 60 minutes outside (yucky weather),40 Min Strengh, 50 min treadmill
📖 - Reading two books - Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Masked City - Read more than five pages of each
📷 - Taking periodically
🍸 - No alcohol
Day 12:
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 64 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - 19,155
💪 -100 minutes of intentional exercise - 50 minutes outside, 20 Minute treadmill , 30 min min cardio
📖 - Reading two books - Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Masked City - Read more than five pages of each
📷 - Taking periodically
🍸 - No alcohol
Day 13 - Met all my goals:
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 64 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - 22,439
💪 -160 minutes of intentional exercise - 60 minutes outside, 60 Minute treadmill , 40 min strength
📖 - Read the AARP Magazine that came in the mail today
📷 - Taking periodically
🍸 - No alcohol
Day 14 - Met all my goals:
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 64 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - 18,849
💪 -130 minutes of intentional exercise - 60 minutes outside, 50 Minute treadmill , 25 min cardio
📖 - Reading two books - Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Masked City - Read more than five pages of Chicken Soup for the Soul
📷 - Taking periodically
🍸 - No alcohol
Day 14 - Met all my goals:
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 64 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - 18,889
💪 -150 minutes of intentional exercise - 90 minutes outside, 30 Minute Strength 30 Minute Treadmill
📖 - Reading two books - Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Masked City - Read more than five pages of Chicken Soup for the Soul
📷 - Taking periodically
🍸 - No alcohol
My Selfie - We took a hike in a new place yesterday. We have done the lower part of this trail when I first started walking - but it get's real steep and climbs up a small mountain (ok a hill) so we turned around. Yesterday we decided to do it. According to my garmin we ascented 432 feet! Here's Monty and me at the covered bridge at the bottom of the trail - it crosses the Salmon River. I'm beat as this is as we completed the 3 miles.
🥗 - Tracked everything, weekly calorie limit on track
💦 - 64 ounces clear water, plus a few cups of coffee
👣 - 19,204
💪 -150 minutes of intentional exercise - 70 minutes outside, 10 Minute Yoga (yuck), 10 Min Cardio, 60 Minute Treadmill
📖 - Reading two books - Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Masked City - Read more than five pages of The Masked City
📷 - Taking periodically
🍸 - No alcohol0 -
@daria0919 Thank you! Not much sun here lately sadly.0
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