Check in Apr 11-20
kawookie
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Please check-in for Apr 11-20 here.
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April 11
Green:
Total/Goal:
Water (or Blue):
Total/Goal:
Tell us about your successes, victories, exercise or food choices. :drinker:
Suggested format:
April 11
Green:
Total/Goal:
Water (or Blue):
Total/Goal:
Tell us about your successes, victories, exercise or food choices. :drinker:
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I am pleased to announce the first medals of April:
Silver Medal winners:
Bruceapple
Fionauu
Ktaylormusic
Marjanet
MelissaPhippsFeagin
Scherzie
Silver Award winners:
Bruceapple
Fionauu
Iwanttobeasuccessstory
Jbharwood
Kawookie
Ktaylormusic
Marjanet
R_Queenie
Scherzie
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April 11
Green -yes
11/30
Feeling much better today than I have since mid-march. Not 100%, but antibiotics and prednisone are working their magic on my msinis infection and bronchitis. I can breathe and my head doesn't hurt. I will take it.0 -
April 11th
Green: Yes
Total: 11/28
Blue: Yes
Total: 11/30
Closest yet to not remaining green, had to come home from work and walk 1.5miles to stay in the green!!0 -
April 11
Green: Yes! Very green and it felt good!!!
Total 8/28
Blue; Yes
Total: 11/30
Walked the dogs today--did 2 "laps" and then took my high energy pup for a 3rd! After that we had a pretty peaceful evening!0 -
April 11
Green: No
Total: 9/28
Blue: Yes
Total: 11/31
Today it doesn't seem fair that I'm not green, but I won't exercise more to get out of the red. I have done 38 minutes of strength/core work and a 5K and I'm still not green. Flatbread pizza, cheesy fries and frozen yogurt have led to my downfall. :devil:
I am still proud of today. We managed the course walking more than 4 miles an hour and running when the kids were cheering. I also did a back/chest workout with 5 pound weights without dying. All and all good progress towards being healthy (and strong!) :bigsmile:0 -
April 11th
green: Yes 11/30
blue: Yes 11/30
went out for lunch AND dinner. i was sooooo close to being in the red. i was only 61 calories under my calorie allowance. Wish i had time for a quick workout before bed.0 -
April 11
Green: NO
Total 10/25
Blue: yes
Total: 11/30
just snacky today, I don't know what was with that. Well, probably TOM, come to think of it.
oh well.
@melissa: glad you're feeling better. that's been a long haul feeling crappy.
@kawookie wow, what a fit and active day. that's what it's all about
@all the silver medalists/award winners: YAY FOR US!
and thanks for keeping this group going0 -
April 11
Green: No
Total: 8/28
Blue: No
Total: 9/30
I feel like I'm spiraling down! I have to use this weekend to refocuse. There is still time to salvage this month! Congrats to the Silver Medal winners!!!!0 -
April 11
Green: NO
Total: 8/25
Blue: Yes
Total: 11/300 -
APRIL 12
Green: yes, 11/25
Blue: yes 12/30
13,362 steps, one of my highest days ever, with a 5k run/walk and just walking everywhere I could today instead driving. It takes forever of course. I started thinking about how our days and schedules are so car-dependent: there's no way to have time to walk to work, for example between dropping my daughter off at school and when I've got to be there. Anyway, today's Saturday and easy to fit it all in!
a question to other fitbit users: is there a reason, really, to do the thing where you tell fitbit you're going to do an actual workout by pressing the button to start the timer? I've just been letting it tally the steps all together, whether it's running or just regular walking around... and I don't log the workout as exercise in MFP, I just let fitbit send over the steps/fitbit adjustment. Am I missing some reason that doesn't make sense?0 -
4.12.14
Green: Yes
Total 9 /28
Blue: Yes
Total 12/30
@ktaylormusic--in answer to your fitbit question ....it depends. For some, they want to be able to log their "intentional activity"...like going for a long walk or run. If you log this as exercise (regardless of if you start the timer or not) then you will get "credit" on MFP for being active, as that is one of the goals that you identified in your settings (will work out 60 minutes 3 times a week). You can either use the timer OR you can just know you started Zumba class at 6:00 and see from your dashboard how many calories it reported. If you log the exercise, indicate the time so you don't get double credit. Hope that makes sense.
But the short answer is---you can totally keep doing it the way you have been and all will be good. :bigsmile:0 -
April 12
Green: Yes
Total: 10/28
Blue: Yes
Total: 12/31
I did all my meals out today and was even persuaded to eat pie, so even though I was already at 12K steps I did a 4 mile power walk. I am SURE I am green today
My fitbit actually gave me calories yesterday and so I ended up only being about 150 in the red rather than the 300+ I thought.
Spreadsheet updated0 -
April 12
Green: YES
Total: 9/25
Blue: Yes
Total: 12/300 -
April 12
green - yes
12/30
Nothing spectacular for yesteray. Love reading about all y'alls fantastic accomplishments. Today, I am going to try to start running again...I think my knees probably won't let me, but there is another charity 5k I want to do in three weeks. The course is totally flat and if I can run part of that, I'll be happy. Then in July, my daughter wants me to try to run an 8k with her. With her...right...she's run cross country for 8 years. Probably, I'll walk most of that too, but what the heck...0 -
April 13
Green - yes
13/30
I was able to run 8 one minute intervals on flat ground today with no knee pain during the run and not too much after. Will definitely need a rest day tomorrow, but that's okay. I started moving toward my goal. :bigsmile:
Working 4 10s this week because Friday is an optional work day. For me, it's a holy day of obligate fasting. It'sneasier to fast at work, but Stations of the Cross starts at two and it is easier to not go than to leave early.0 -
4.13.14
Green: Yes--Chevy style (pending my final fitbit sync...so I may land in "true green")
Total 10/28
Blue; Yes
Total 13/30
@MelissaPhipps---super work!!!
@Kawookie---love a green day with PIE!!!!0 -
April 12
Green: Yes 12/30
Blue: Yes 12/30
April 13
Green: Yes 13/30
Blue: Yes 13/30
I woke up so late today and barely ate. actually burned more calories than i consumed .0 -
April 13
Green: yes
Total: 11/28
Blue: Yes
Total: 13/31
So today I did lots and lots of work sitting down. So then we walked to my brother's house. It ends up that it was a 10K when we plotted it out online. So lots and lots of exercise for our evening walk!0 -
I've been in a self-sabotaging downward spiral since Thursday.
I was -600 calories after an unplanned lunch out, followed by fro-yo. That evening the weather was nice and luckily wasn't hungry so I walked and walked outside until I got to -86. Had some tea and went to bed.
Friday was another sad day at work. I ended up -27 that day.
Saturday I knew I wouldn't be able to go to my usual workout classes due to plans with my family, so I got up early and walked/jogged 4.7 miles. It wasn't enough, I had a very RED unlogged day. I was probably 2000 over.
Today I am closing the day with 2 green calories left.
Maybe this week I'll have a better handle on things.
I'm at 11/24 green days
and 13/30 blue days.
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April 12th
Green: Yes, barely
Total: 12/28
Blue: Completely, hydrating for 1/2 marathon
Total: 12/30
April 13th
Green: Yes
Total: 13/28
Blue: Yes
Total: 13/30
IronGirl Clearwater Half Marathon today, beat my PR on a flat course by 6minutes and had 2 bridges to cross and come back over!!0 -
April 13
Green: Yes. 12/25
Blue: Yes, 13/30
@melissa: congrats on starting up the running. I'm on week 2 of a Couchto 5k program. Seems super easy, but I'm sticking to it to to avoid knee problems I've had in the past. Hope yours stay okay too!
@jbhardwood: I remember someone on MFP saying how she realized that if she was in the red one day, it just meant she wasn't losing weight that one day and that really, that wasn't really a problem. It's obvious, but strangely freeing. Her goal was that she had to be under or at least not over maintenance every day. I thought that was an interesting approach. Nice and relaxed.0 -
April 13
Green: YES
Total: 10/25
Blue: Yes
Total: 13/300 -
April 13
Green: yes
12/20
Blue: yes
13/30
I just got back from Statesboro and it was so nice to be around people who say excuse me, please, and don't have that chip on their shoulder. The walks were gorgeous down there!0 -
April 11
Green: yes
Total/Goal: 11/30
Water (or Blue): yes
Total/Goal: 11/30
April 12
Green: yes
total 12/30
Water: yes
total 12/30
April 13
Green: yes
total 13/30
water: yes
total 13/30
April 14
Green: yes
total 14/30
water: yes
total 14/30
Have to confess, it's getting easier to drink water! YAY!0 -
10th
Green: Yes
Blue: Yes
11th
Green: Yes
Blue: Yes
12th
Green: No :sad: I didn´t survive a family feast so I can´t be striving for supernova anymore
Blue: Yes
13th
Green: Yes
Blue: Yes
14th
Green: Yes
Total: 13/29 (changing it due to impossibility of 30)
Blue: Yes
Total: 14/30
Started my new (second) job today, it gonna be exhausting to handle it, but it´s only until the end of June, so I´ll manage somehow and than I´ll se which one I´ll choose as full-time.
congrats to the medallists :flowerforyou:0 -
Congratulations to the Medalists!
April 12th
Green - Yes - 9/12
Water - Yes 12/12
April 13th
Green - No 9/13 - But planned - took the kids to their favorite pizza and ice cream place - We had a riot! :drinker:
Water - Yes 13/13/
April 14th
Green - Yes - Strong 10/14
Water 14/14
I am "Green" for the entire month of April and that is what really counts for me.
Good luck everyone! :drinker:0 -
April 14th
Green: Yes
Total: 14/28
Blue: Yes
Total: 14/300 -
4/14
Green- Yes
Blue- Yes
Had a good day with healthy food choices and activity. Feels good to be back in the saddle :flowerforyou:
@Scherzie- Great job on your PR!!!! 6 minutes is CRAZY!!!!
@ktaylormusic- thanks for the advice. You're right it's only a couple day set back in the great scheme of things.
@miridai- I know what you mean about seeing family, it's a real trigger for me to EAT ALL THE FOODS!!! I'm sure it was worth it for you! I changed your goal to 29 days.
I'm so impressed by how consistent everyone is :bigsmile:
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April 14
Green: yes, 13/25
Blue: yes, 14/30
rainy, rainy day here today... the air smells amazing... what I smelled of it anyway, since I didn't get out of work 'til 7 and right home to my pajamas, hoping to shake off this cold.0 -
4/14
green : YEs 14/30
blue: Yes 14/30
hate consistently going to bed hungry....but love being able to write y-e-s in the group0
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