Holistic challenge reporting...July 1-7
Elizabeth_in_MN
Posts: 167 Member
Hello!
On Tuesday I will make a chart of the results you all post this week, highlighting both the weekly winner (woo!) and the current cumulative winner (woo woo! weight loss is long term, y'all) I will post the charts in this forum.
Remember to post on Monday so that I have your data to compete for the coveted weekly winner award.
Remember we are going through (American) Labor Day and no one gets dropped, so anyone should feel free to join in and begin recording for next week's check-in. Here is link to the rules and point information: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1023818-holistic-wellness-challenge
Please use the following as a template to report your week:
- Days I drank 8 cups of water:
- Days I ate 2 (1/2c) servings of fruit:
- Days I ate 3 (1/2c) servings of vegetables:
- Days I avoided refined sugary snacks:
- Days I logged all food consumed in my MFP food diary:
- Days I exercised for 30 minutes:
- Days I exercised for 45+ minutes:
- Days I practiced additional self-care:
- Number of pounds lost:
Or
- Indicate here if you maintained your weight:
Or
- Indicate here if you gained weight:
On Tuesday I will make a chart of the results you all post this week, highlighting both the weekly winner (woo!) and the current cumulative winner (woo woo! weight loss is long term, y'all) I will post the charts in this forum.
Remember to post on Monday so that I have your data to compete for the coveted weekly winner award.
Remember we are going through (American) Labor Day and no one gets dropped, so anyone should feel free to join in and begin recording for next week's check-in. Here is link to the rules and point information: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1023818-holistic-wellness-challenge
Please use the following as a template to report your week:
- Days I drank 8 cups of water:
- Days I ate 2 (1/2c) servings of fruit:
- Days I ate 3 (1/2c) servings of vegetables:
- Days I avoided refined sugary snacks:
- Days I logged all food consumed in my MFP food diary:
- Days I exercised for 30 minutes:
- Days I exercised for 45+ minutes:
- Days I practiced additional self-care:
- Number of pounds lost:
Or
- Indicate here if you maintained your weight:
Or
- Indicate here if you gained weight:
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Checking In:-
Days I drank 8 cups of water: .....................................................7
- Days I ate 2 (1/2c) servings of fruit: .........................................7
- Days I ate 3 (1/2c) servings of vegetables:...............................5
- Days I avoided refined sugary snacks:......................................3
- Days I logged all food consumed in my MFP food diary: .........7
- Days I exercised for 30 minutes: ..............................................4
- Days I exercised for 45+ minutes............................................1:
- Days I practiced additional self-care: ......................................7
- Number of pounds lost:
Or
- Indicate here if you maintained your weight: .........................Maintained..
Or
- Indicate here if you gained weight:
Self Care:
Monday Had a steroid injection into injury site - Ate lunch out on way home. Under orders not to walk for next 24 hours
Tuesday: Resting as per orders - Friends staying overnight
Wednes: Water aerobics/physiotherapy
Thursday: Appointment with Physiotherapist and ordinary exercises given - Girlfriend and her 2 children overnight stay.
Friday: Shopping (clothes on Sale.. yah - $$ saved and clothes that fit and a couple of items as incentive
Saturday: Nana Nap between night shifts
Sunday: Rest, read book and nana nap between night shifts..
Hope you can understand all of this.. Not as good as I hoped with the sugary snacks (which would account for the maintaining of weight this week)
Hope everyone did very well -0 -
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- Days I drank 8 cups of water: 7
- Days I ate 2 (1/2c) servings of fruit: 5
- Days I ate 3 (1/2c) servings of vegetables: 4
- Days I avoided refined sugary snacks: 2
- Days I logged all food consumed in my MFP food diary: 5
- Days I exercised for 30 minutes: 1
- Days I exercised for 45+ minutes: 4
- Days I practiced additional self-care: 7
- Number of pounds lost: 1lb0 -
- Days I drank 8 cups of water: 7
- Days I ate 2 (1/2c) servings of fruit: 7
- Days I ate 3 (1/2c) servings of vegetables: 7
- Days I avoided refined sugary snacks: 6
- Days I logged all food consumed in my MFP food diary: 7
- Days I exercised for 30 minutes: 4
- Days I exercised for 45+ minutes: 2
- Days I practiced additional self-care: 7
- Weight lost: 1.7
Weight last week: 196.4
Current weight: 194.7
Self care ( you don't need to include this, but I would love it if you did; we can share ideas!!):
Mon: woke up without alarm, took my sweet time in the shower to shave my legs.
Tues: 7th day in a row of doing all 30-45 min. of physical therapy for my knee.
Wed: spent two hours in genealogy and family genetics!
Thurs: went out on the spur of the moment driving to find fireworks even though we were not planning on going
Fri: went on lazy river multiple times at the water park (even though my nephew says it is "boooooring!")
Sat: climbed dragon at park, did bumper cars, went swinging...and lots of other stuff including putting together the coffee table that was my reward for loosing 20% of my body weight!)
Sunday: took a three hour nap (post 6.5 year old nephew's visit)0 -
- Days I drank 8 cups of water: 6
- Days I ate 2 (1/2c) servings of fruit: 7
- Days I ate 3 (1/2c) servings of vegetables: 7
- Days I avoided refined sugary snacks: 6
- Days I logged all food consumed in my MFP food diary: 6
- Days I exercised for 30 minutes:
- Days I exercised for 45+ minutes: golf 1
- Days I practiced additional self-care: 7
- Number of pounds lost: 1
Monday - spent 3 hours reading - in a row!
Tuesday - lunch and movie with a friend
Wednesday - golf in the morning and unexpected boat ride with friends
Thursday - unexpected guests and a fireworks watching party
Friday - dinner out and gallery walk
Saturday - 7 hour wedding shower for young couple on lake. i had about 1 square inch of cake!
Sunday - dinner and movies at home with a friend0 -
- Days I drank 8 cups of water: 7
- Days I ate 2 (1/2c) servings of fruit: 7
- Days I ate 3 (1/2c) servings of vegetables: 7
- Days I avoided refined sugary snacks: 6
- Days I logged all food consumed in my MFP food diary: 7
- Days I exercised for 30 minutes: 4
- Days I exercised for 45+ minutes: 2
- Days I practiced additional self-care: 7
- Number of pounds lost:
Or
- Indicate here if you maintained your weight: I maintained!
Or
- Indicate here if you gained weight:
Self Care
Monday- Long walk and extra long shower!
Tuesday- Husband's Birthday! Went out for dinner and had a great salad:)
Wednesday- After cleaning the house for company coming, I watched TV with my feet up:)
Thursday-Company- Sat outside for hours talking:) Went shopping and bought 2 books:)
Friday-Company- Enjoyed sitting outside;) Visited my dad for a few hours!
Saturday- My 28th wedding anniversary:) Walked for 3 hours at the Mall of America! Bought 2 more great books:) Had dinner at The Tavern! I ate another great new salad;) Yummy! Our Company was our best man at our wedding:) Lots of fun talking!0 -
- Days I drank 8 cups of water: 6
- Days I ate 2 (1/2c) servings of fruit: 7
- Days I ate 3 (1/2c) servings of vegetables: 4
- Days I avoided refined sugary snacks: 5
- Days I logged all food consumed in my MFP food diary: 7
- Days I exercised for 30 minutes: 1
- Days I exercised for 45+ minutes: 3
- Days I practiced additional self-care: 6
LW 135.6lbs
CW 135.2lbs. Maintained (Happy about that)0 -
8 cups of water - 7
2 servings of fruit - 3
3 servings of vegetables - 4
Avoided sugary snacks - 4
Logged all foods - 6
30 minutes of exercise - 3
45+ minutes of exercise - 2
Additional self-care - 7
Weight loss - 1.4 lbs0 -
- Days I drank 8 cups of water: 7
- Days I ate 2 (1/2c) servings of fruit: 7
- Days I ate 3 (1/2c) servings of vegetables: 5
- Days I avoided refined sugary snacks: 2
- Days I logged all food consumed in my MFP food diary: 7
- Days I exercised for 30 minutes: 1
- Days I exercised for 45+ minutes: 4
- Days I practiced additional self-care: 6
Weight GAIN: 1.4 pounds
[Note to Elizabeth: I am going by the weight gained from the day I got the new scale (July 3) to this morning (July 8).]
A moment for reflection: Do I feel bad about my "weight gain"? Not a shred! I am retaining water as I approach the start of my period and I ate like a little hog this week thanks to the holiday. What do I feel GREAT about? I am sleeping better, my skin is beautifully clear, and I exercised regularly this week. My favorite self-care activity this week, apart from running 4 miles with minimal walking, is that I took a sewing class last Tuesday and LOVED it. It was a blast!
My "additional self-care" this week included painting my toe nails, taking a beginning sewing class, finished reading a book, selected and started reading another book, and took a well-earned nap after Fourth of July indulgence.
Go team, go!0 -
- Days I drank 8 cups of water: 0
- Days I ate 2 (1/2c) servings of fruit: 0
- Days I ate 3 (1/2c) servings of vegetables: 0
- Days I avoided refined sugary snacks: 3
- Days I logged all food consumed in my MFP food diary: 5
- Days I exercised for 30 minutes: 0
- Days I exercised for 45+ minutes: 0
- Days I practiced additional self-care: 3
- Number of pounds lost:
Or
- Indicate here if you maintained your weight:
Or
- Indicate here if you gained weight: .4 lb.
My self care was dying my hair, getting a manicure (which I haven't done in forever), and raiding with my guild (yes, I play World of Warcraft).
I am not doing so well with this challenge yet, or in real life to be honest, but I'm going to keep checking in until I get it together.0 -
- Days I drank 8 cups of water: 7 days
- Days I ate 2 (1/2c) servings of fruit: 7 days
- Days I ate 3 (1/2c) servings of vegetables: 7 days
- Days I avoided refined sugary snacks: 2 days
- Days I logged all food consumed in my MFP food diary: 7 days
- Days I exercised for 30 minutes: -
- Days I exercised for 45+ minutes: 7 days
- Days I practiced additional self-care: 7 (Everyday I take time do something special for myself)
- Number of pounds lost: 0.8 lbs0 -
- Days I drank 8 cups of water: 5
- Days I ate 2 (1/2c) servings of fruit: 1
- Days I ate 3 (1/2c) servings of vegetables: 7
- Days I avoided refined sugary snacks: 7
- Days I logged all food consumed in my MFP food diary: 0
- Days I exercised for 30 minutes: 5
- Days I exercised for 45+ minutes: 1
- Days I practiced additional self-care: 7
My self care is sitting on the veranda in the morning with my coffee. Marvelous! I also Had dinner on the lawn with a friend and lunch in the gazebo with my son and his girlfriend. A welcome break from work work work. 0 -
YAY! We have a weekly winner (WOOOO!). CONGRATULATIONS, MOTHEROFBRIDE!
If you have not yet logged in, it is not too late to do so for the running total. Just shoot me a message alerting me that you posted the information. And speaking of the running total....
As promised, here is the running total (again - mad props to The Luv for making this all add without my doing a thing!).
I'm really enjoying the self-care ideas that are being posted. It gives me great ideas for myself too! I am seeing themes of being outside, books (buying and reading!), nail painting, and talking with friends. Some self-care ideas that stood out to me are WoW (hey-oooo, Jcramer!), sewing classes (subcontinent!), and long showers (motherofbride...it is still pretty funny to me that you and I were BOTH at the Mall of America on the same day this weekend AND we both practiced self-care of a long shower on the same day too!). Keep at it, Dreamermoth and you will need to go clothes shopping again VERY soon!
I'm also enjoying the reflections (Subcontinent and jcramer, I'm looking at you) and I'm jealous of SandraJN's veranda and gazebo action as well as Karengolf's unexpected boat ride!
Job well done, ladies! (I think we are all ladies....internet can confuse gender identity for me sometimes..especially with gener neutral usernames...please correct me if we have gentlemen in the challenge).
Finally...we welcome any new members! Check out the top for more information if you want to join (and we DO want you to join us!).0
