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RangerRickL
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes?
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day?
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank?
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day?
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank?
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The UAC is not like a 30-day Challenge!! It's not about squats; not about planks; and definitely not about the BIGGEST LOSER!!
What is the difference? The answer is that this challenge is about working together to create and maintain the little habits that will make us thoughtful about what we put into our bodies and what healthy exercise we do to be strong, fast, and fit.
You may have joined us to do a 30-day challenge, but the purpose of this challenge is to do something wonderful for your life.
You may be here because you want to lose weight; maintain weight; stop to yo-yo lose & gain back weight. Whatever you are here for...we are here too. I know that I need friends to be accountable too! I cannot keep myself accountable to do the small right things unless I can be accountable to a real friend.
This challenge is different!
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Morning Rick!! It's just one of those days yesterday was beautiful now here comes the rain and more like the typical Nov weather. I figure today is a day we may not be too busy granted this branch is never as busy compared to the main branch. I am looking forward to the time change I'm tired of it being so dark out in the morning. Till later
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Date: 3rd Nov
Exercise: yes. I'd love to say swimming (one of my favourites!) but it was a parent and baby swimming lesson so lots of walking up and down the pool lifting and carrying a heavy baby plus walking for about 45mins
Calories:yes
Tracking:yes2 -
Wed., 11/2/16
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes
100 minute walk + 7 minutes Rajio Taiso + 15 minutes 30 Day Abs + Legs + Glutes Challenge
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
Thurs., 11/3/16
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes
95 minute walk + 5 minutes Rajio Taiso + 20 minutes 30 Day Abs + Legs + Glutes Challenge + 3 minutes 60/140 Sumo Squats (60+80, complete) + 25 minutes 30 Day Shred + 10 minutes SworkIt stretching
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yep - 60 minute walk, and 90 minutes strength training.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yep
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yep2 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? yes
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? yes
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes. I've been feeling a little under the weather but managed to still get my house cleaned, run around with kiddos and do 30 minutes of yoga and stretching.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes.
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yup!2 -
Exercise? Yes, 42 minutes of Leslie Sansone 3 mile walking DVD
Calories? Yes
Tracked? Yes2 -
November 3
Second pass already!
Another tough day at work. My boss who gave me my walking papers on Monday "smiled" at me today and I just looked at her with dead angry eyes. Others have gotten their new positions in the Hosptital and ME they still have no clue what to offer me! I am still in limbo.
I eat when I am angry! I hope this phase passes soon.
What's the next step after anger? DUCT TAPE!!4 -
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3)yes
For exercise this morning I didn't feel like driving out to my usual climbing track. So instead I did an around the block thing near my house. The block is on a slope so it gives me a hill of approx 62 feet. But if I climb that 14.5 times I get roughly 900 feet of climbing. Then I rode my bike to my wife's school to do a little volunteering. That gave me 120 feet or so. So I got 1,000 by mostly just riding around the block. My wife has some handicapped kids to take care of and is short one EA (education assistant). So I goes there to see my little buddy. He is 8 and hasn't managed walking yet. I give him a couple hundred yards of walker walking and as much standing balance practice as he has strength and spirit for. Somehow all of that counts as exercise. Well, it ain't sitting on the couch and drinking beer. Then I feed the little guy. I try to get him to use a spoon. It is a long term project to be sure but that little guy's smile and laugh ... is a necessary part of my regimen.
My Garmin gave me a fair shake on carories today I think. I had the heart rate monitor disabled and I am curious if that had an effect on calorie computation. Tomorrow I might do the same routine with heart rate on. I think I run way higher heart rate on those hill repeats than I do on my regular climbing track. Probably goes without saying, if I do half the climbing I can run way hotter on heart rate. Tomorrow is supposed to be wind and rain so I will be better off on the round the block thing.
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Yes to all 3 today.
I did a 20 min walk before lunch, then an hour CrossFit class. I logged every bit and was well under my goal for the day.
Question to you all: Do you eat back your exercise calories? I usually try to leave them in case I underestimate my food. What do y'all do?2 -
@Shutterbuggg
I eat most of my exercise calories which is why I am kind of finicky about calculating them. Well, most, maybe I should say 2/3.
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Tracked my food and was under my calories.
For exercise I did Week 1 Day 2 of half marathon training. I also added in some sprints Total burn according to Garmin was 229 calories.
I have to say I love this challenge. I didn't feel like doing anything today but thought dang, I have to get in my 20 minutes. Once I got started I was so happy I got up and moving.4 -
Exercise? Yes; 30 minutes of strength training, 25 minutes of running
Calories? Yes
Tracked? Yes2 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? YUP, today was rest day but i got in 30 minutes between a yoga quickie, and light walking.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? bARRLY!
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? YES!
i almost didn't work out today but remembered i had to do at least 20 minutes!!!2 -
NOVEMBER 3
Exercise: Yes - I swam 1600 meters at noon, and a Y yoga after work.
Calories: Yes
Tracking: Yes
To Shutterbuggg - Good question. I was wondering, too:
For this challenge I set my calories just under my TDEE by 125 and plan to add back half of my (reasonable) cardio calories. I figure that will give me a slow and steady deficit of around 250 calories a day if I get my exercise.
To bocasdelbob - I think your day's activities did your heart a whole lot of good, more than any heart monitor can ever measure.2 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? YES -- 54-minute outdoor walk. It's been unseasonably warm here, so I've been taking advantage of walking outdoors instead of going to the gym.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? YES
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? YES
@RangerRickL what you said in your beginning post is so true. I need motivation like this to be accountable, and I agree that it does become a habit to try to get that exercise in every day and log everything.2 -
You are all wonderful. For me this was one of my giant days of work. My first client meeting began at 8 am. CDT and I got home after an evening presentation at 10:30 pm. I'll sleep a little later tomorrow. I take the day off after a long Thursday.
Calories: ok
Tracking: ok
Exercise: ok4 -
@Shutterbuggg I don't eat exercise calories back. I've tried it a few times and never lost weight when I have. But everyone's different!0
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@Shutterbuggg I don't eat exercise calories back. I've tried it a few times and never lost weight when I have. But everyone's different!
I start off my day with a negative in my exercise calories !! Haven't even moved yet. Even when I do move and do weights I am still at a negative calorie (meaning if my calorie in take is 1400 i can only eat 1200 bc it calculates the difference somehow??) not sure how this works
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@am_change & @fitqueenbess Thanks for the responses. I never know if I should eat back or not. I am going to try to consistently leave them for a few weeks and see how it goes. I have been logging for 4 weeks now and exercising at least 4 times a week but I haven't dropped at all on the scale. I have been telling myself bc its all that muscle I am building
@jtkatch What do you mean that you start with a negative in exercise calories? I'm not sure I understand.0 -
Exercise- Yes, lifted weights and did day one of 21 day core challenge
Track- yes
Cals- yes
@Shutterbuggg I don't eat back my exercise cals if I am trying to lose weight. The exception would be if I had a major workout (i.e. ran 12 miles) or if I planned and built up calories to spend for a special event that night. For me, I just don't lose weight if I eat them back.0 -
@Shutterbuggg I don't eat exercise calories back. I've tried it a few times and never lost weight when I have. But everyone's different!
I start off my day with a negative in my exercise calories !! Haven't even moved yet. Even when I do move and do weights I am still at a negative calorie (meaning if my calorie in take is 1400 i can only eat 1200 bc it calculates the difference somehow??) not sure how this works
Anyone?
Do you have your account linked to your fibit (or other device) and have negative adjustments enabled? If so, it's deducting calories based on the activity level you have it set. I have my set at lightly active so if I have a little bit of a sedentary morning it will seemingly "take away" calories until my activity matches what it thinks I should haveby this point in the day, but it just takes an average so it doesn't know that you plan to move more later on . It usually evens out over the course of the day. I find it motivating to have negative adjustments enabled because I hate "losing" calories.0 -
Nov. 3
Exercise-yes, doubles tennis for over 2 hours
Calories-yes
Tracking-yes
Nov. 2
Exercise-yes, active rest day, but I did about 6 hours of housework so I figure that's at least 20 minutes of exercise!
Calories-yes
Tracking-yes
It's interesting, but for me tracking and sticking with my calories are very closely linked. If I know I'm going to write it down, it really changes my behavior. I know some people long for the day when they don't track, but I just don't understand those people. Without tracking, I am 100% sure I would be back where I was when I started two years ago.0 -
Exercise-yes, 60 min Morning spin class with strength intervals
Calories-yes
Tracking-yes
Feeling good about this challenge so far. Hoping I can stick with it this weekend and avoid the couch!1 -
Pass day #2. Overshot calories again even tthough gave myself a bigger total.0
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