75 Hard/Medium/Easy Challenge: March 3 - May 17
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March 09 ~ Day 7 of 75 medium
[ Naturewalk ]
145 minutes with my mom
[ 3+ liters water & tea ] 3.5 liters
[ Reading ] Read in the morning
[ Sleep 8+ hours ] 8h 23m & 78 sleepscore
[ Under 1450 cal ] 1272
[ Eat in 6 hour window ] Done! Bonus ~ gym rings workout
Happy Sunday
Week one is done!
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Day 1-7/75 (Sun-Sat)
1. ☑️☑️❎☑️❎❎☑️
45+ minute walk & get 7k+ steps.
2. ☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️
Read a motivational article.
3. ☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️
Drink 1.5+ litres of water.
4. ☑️❎❎❎❎❎☑️
Take a pic while walking.
(Before pic of me still to be done)
5. ☑️❔❔❔❔❔☑️
Stay in caloric deficit.
6. ❎❎❎❎❎❎❎
10+ minute exercising: cardio, core, strength, tone, flex, balance.
Photos of nutria/coypu that I saw on my walk yesterday. A couple came to feed the swans and ducks and had some potato peelings for the nutria family.
Honestly, I forgot I was doing this challenge 🤦♀️
Anyway, there are some ticks and, of course, there are too many crosses. I'll make more of an effort and not let my lazy bones interfere with bettering myself. I've changed a couple of things from my original list to make each task more recordable.
Well done everyone else 👏3 -
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
Day 2 - March 3: - Met all my goals
Day 3 - March 4: - Met all my goals
Day 4 - March 5: - Met all my goals
Day 5 - March 6: - Met all my goals
Day 6 - March 7: - Met all my goals
Day 7 - March 8: - Met all goals EXCEPT Reading
Day 8 - March 9: - Met all my goals
Met all my goals 7 of 8 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 - When Parents Love Too Much 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!1 -
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
Needed better method of tracking - Week 3/3 to 3/9
Needs work!!!!
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@Pupowl - I love nature and enjoy all your pictures. Thank you for sharing.
My Version 75 Hard Challenge: March 9 - 6/75
❎ Diet - Calorie counting. Staying at or under 1200 calories per day. 1,466 calories today. I stayed under my calorie goal, only because I ate back my calories burned.
✅ Water - 70 oz of water per day (no alcohol) 76oz 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 minutes of aerobics , 15 minutes full body strength training, and steps.
✅ Reading - 10 minutes each day of anything. I read for 1 hour today.
✅ Sleep- Get 7 hours of sleep every night. I slept 7 hours. 10 minutes.
✅️ Take a progress picture
💪F2F - Mission Slimpossible!💪1 -
Day 10/75
✅️ 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
Went for a 7 mile hike today and now my feet feel like they will fall off lol.
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Day 8️⃣ of 7️⃣5️⃣
✅ Exercise: 60 min treadmill, 10 min elliptical, 20 min ST, 60 min recumbent bike, 5 min abs
✅ Read: Allen Carr’s Easy Way To Quit Emotional Eating
✅ Water: Gallon
✅ Food: the last few times I picked up kale I ended up having to freeze or sauté because I didn’t get around to making a fresh salad. Not today! Made a kale potato frittata for breakfast and a tasty kale salad for lunch. No kale for dinner but made stuffed peppers. Enough leftovers from today’s cooking to do some meal prep for the work week! Win!
✅ Sugar: still finishing up some store bought salad dressings but once they are done will start making homemade without added sugar.0 -
My 75 Medium Plan
Day 8/75 - Sunday March 10th
• Follow my 10K training schedule every day. My race is April 20th. Yes - 5 miles, but ended up doing 5.35 ✅
• Read about my diet plan for 15 minutes per day to keep me motivated. Did 15 minutes ✅
• 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. Very mild modification of diet plan today to cover extra calories burned ding my 5 miles. ✅
• No alcohol. don’t have an interest in drinking alcohol✅1 -
My Version 75 Hard Challenge: March 10 - 7/75
✅ Diet - Calorie counting. Staying at or under 1200 calories per day. 1,024 calories today.
❎ Water - 70 oz of water per day (no alcohol) 67oz of water today.
❎ Exercise - 30 minutes cardio workout, 30 min strength training and 20 min yoga/palates stretch. 10k+ steps per day (inside/outside) No intentional exercise today. Worked outside on the property and walked, 10,213 steps.
✅ Reading - 10 minutes each day of anything. I read for 10 min today.
✅ Sleep- Get 7 hours of sleep every night. I slept 7 hours. 14 minutes.💪F2F - Mission Slimpossible Strong!💪
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March 10 - Day 8/75
✅ Food - On plan, and stayed away from too many nuts.
✅ No alcohol no problem!
✅ Exercise - Two workouts per day: 1strength-1 aerobic. 45 minutes combination of kettlebells and Pilates, hike in the snowy woods 45 minutes.
✅ Reading - something helpful at least 10 minutes per day. A good piece on journaling with interesting prompts. Did some writing too!
✅ Water - 64 today
✅ Thoughts - I was feeling discouraged this morning, but sat down and thought it through, rather than just trying to banish the feeling. Figured out some helpful tings, and then stuck with the exercise and eating plan and felt much better by the end of the day.
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March 10 ~ Day 8 of 75 medium
[ Naturewalk ] 123 minutes with my mom
[ 3+ liters water & tea ] 4 liters
[ Reading ] Read in bed before sleeping
[ Sleep 8+ hours ] 8h 31m & 80 sleepscore
[ Under 1450 cal ]
A lot more, pizza birthday dinner!
[ Eat in 6 hour window ] Not possible with the dinner at 17:30
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
Day 1 - March 2: - Met all my goals
Day 2 - March 3: - Met all my goals
Day 3 - March 4: - Met all my goals
Day 4 - March 5: - Met all my goals
Day 5 - March 6: - Met all my goals
Day 6 - March 7: - Met all my goals
Day 7 - March 8: - Met all goals EXCEPT Reading
Day 8 - March 9: - Met all my goals
Day 9 - March 10: - Met all my goals EXCEPT my Step Goal, just shy of 17K
Met all my goals 7 of 9 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
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Hi all,
@jugar - can I still join this challenge? I belonged to the WaistAways long ago, but after taking some time away to focus on some health issues, I'd like to get back to things. I missed joining for WA for March, so I thought I would join this challenge instead.
Thanks!
Jen1 -
Day 8/75 (Sun 10/03)
1. ☑️ 45+ minute walk & 7k+ steps.
2. ☑️ Read a motivational article.
3. ☑️ Drink 1.5+ litres of water.
4. ☑️ Take a pic while walking
& Selfie before pics (below).
5. ❎ Stay in caloric deficit.
6. ❎ 10+ minute exercising: cardio, core, strength, tone, flex, balance.
Pic from out walking
The bits I'll be hoping to see improved
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Day 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
Selfie before pics
5. ❎☑️
Stay in caloric deficit.
6. ❎☑️
10+ minute exercising: cardio, core, strength, tone, flex, balance1 -
Day 9️⃣ of 7️⃣5️⃣
✅ Exercise: 60 min walk, 15 min punching bag, 15 min recumbent bike, 5 min abs
✅ Read: Allen Carr’s Easy Way To Quit Emotional Eating
✅ Water: Gallon
✅ Food: within calories
✅ Sugar: vending machine was calling me but gritted my teeth to fight the afternoon sugar monster 👿 I had packed one peanut butter stuffed date for snack and that had me wanting more sweet. Need to find better afternoon snack ideas.2 -
Day 11/75
✅️ 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
Rough day motivation wise, but got it all done!2 -
My Version 75 Hard Challenge: March 11 - 8/75
✅ Diet - Calorie counting. Staying at or under 1200 calories per day. 1,166 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) 60 minutes Aerobics, 30 minutes full body dumbbell workout, 15 min yoga stretch, and 10,184 steps.
✅ Reading - 10 minutes each day of anything. I read for 4 hours today.
❎ Sleep- Get 7 hours of sleep every night. I slept 6 hours 11 minutes.💪F2F - Mission Slimpossible Strong!💪2 -
March 11 - Day 9/75
✅ Food - On plan, and stayed away from too many nuts.
✅ No alcohol no problem!
✅ Exercise - Two workouts: 1strength-1 aerobic. 45 minutes combination of kettlebells and Pilates, lunged my horse and rode the exercise bike.
✅ Reading - something helpful at least 10 minutes per day. Made good progress in Who By Fire
✅ Water - at least 64 today
✅ Thoughts - It was a high energy day. I pushed through resistance and procrastination! Got the things done, and I am feeling that leaning towards hard works well right now.
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Hi all,
@jugar - can I still join this challenge? I belonged to the WaistAways long ago, but after taking some time away to focus on some health issues, I'd like to get back to things. I missed joining for WA for March, so I thought I would join this challenge instead.
Thanks!
Jen
YES!! Please just dive right in! You can start your day one from right now, or if you have logged and know what you did, you can include however many days already done. Welcome! It is good to see you here. And you can come back to WaistAways any time. Let me know if you'd like to start right away
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