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RangerRickL
Posts: 8,469 Member
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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P.S. not only the fridge, and the pantry, the shelves and hidden in that secret place you think nobody else knows about.
Rick
I do feel better today.
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By the way, the June UAC listing is up. You can click on this link to join in http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/120881-ultimate-accountability-challenge-june-2017
Please say.."yes, I will!"
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yes, I will, I mean did...lol
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Can't believe the month has gone so fast. Yes I have, thanks for setting it up Rick.
Exercise today: cycled to work, run at lunchtime and a quick 10 minute upper body strength workout this evening.
Tracking and calories good.
Tomorrow I have a training/conference day with work so won't have much control over my food (particularly as I have to request special dietary requirements). I'll try my best and see how it goes.3 -
I got up and exercised.I did 2 miles instead of 3 but I got up and got moving. Yesterday I was making stupid mistakes I was like OMG my brain needs oxygen and real food not jelly beans. I asked the neighbor across the street if I could put a mattress in his trash . It's crazy I live on the village side he is the town side. Village only does big pick up twice a year. Town you can put out 2 large pieces every week. He's a nice guy he's like sure what are my rules?
He is so silly I wish he could meet someone nice. He has the worst luck.
Have a great day everyone!!4 -
I did so much better today. What we eat really does either make us ill or make us healthy.
Today was a cardio/strength interval day (high intensity followed by heart rate back to 70% of MHR). 45 minutes; 354 calories of burn; best pushup series in over a year (total of 156 pushups from 3 sets of different styles of pushups...just like my high school gym classes). 9 minutes of 30 seconds high intensity with jump rope followed by 30 seconds of rest. My cardio fitness is really improving since I added the rope.
Have a great day!4 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? yes, 45min zumba
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? YES
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? YESS5 -
Yes I did!
Still sick and had a medical procedure yesterday, but getting through it. Sorry not too active here,but I will be.3 -
Out of town for a week. Will check in in the weekend. Staying in track tho4
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May 24
Exercised?: Yes. Walked 3km in 27 minutes (hills).
Calories?: Yes.
Tracked?: Yes.
Was really tired last night (more than usual). Weight seems to be kind to me this week.
Opted in for a second month.5 -
So I guess the bank normally has 20 people participate in the 5 k which supports scholarships at our high school for college bound graduates. So far we had 2 Yes you guessed it I signed up that made 3 . Lol Now they say oh come on sue signed up. So the 2 young guys signed up can't have me show them up. I told them the first guy that teases me about my outfit had better be running and not walking.
I have to say it's nice working at a place where you can have such a we are team/ family mentality. 4 -
10,000 steps today. Feels good to be active again. On track. Good job @RangerRickL. You r really fit!! Glad @craigo3154 is joining us for another month. @aeshippers you rock. @phoebelayla hang in there. Being sick is no fun.4
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes...45 minute Cardio Drumming class, 60 minute Hatha Yoga class.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yep
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yep3 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes 40 minute walk
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes2 -
Hello to all!
I finished the day under on my calories by a significant margin and tracking was ok.3 -
Today is a "pass" day.
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Yes, yes, yes. Started my day with the bike4
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exercise yes 60 minutes aquafit, 30 minutes exercise bike, 45 minutes gardening
calories yes way under
tracking yes
Very good day overall3 -
Yes x3. Weights and walking.3
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tracking yes, budget yes, exercise yes.
I always want to elaborate on exercise because that is the fun part of my life.
Part of my brain is realizing and sympathizing that there are some vulnerable people in this group whose ability for that is kind of constrained.
But it is still a big deal for me to accurately represent my exercise calories in my budget because I eat them usually. Big deal, well yeah today's exercise according to Garmin 1600 calories. Two days of that adds up to a pound. If I got that right, yay, a pound.
But what is funny about it is that MFP only credits me with like 600 for that exercise. MFP sees it recorded as a leisurely bike riding less than 10 mph. Heh, shows my average speed being 5.8 mph for 2h17m. MFP sees that and says nice leisurely ride there grandpa. But MFP don't see that is a 2000 foot climb in there. There is youngsters that can climb that at 10 mph and I know who they are. Heh, 2000 feet is the vertical dimension of a ski area. So that is me climbing the ski area instead of taking the lift. @fitqueenbess knows what that entails.
But I don't know. It is back to accountability for me because of beer and recovery days. I really don't get 20 minutes on recovery days. So I have major metabolic differences like every other day. Over the past 4 months or so I have been up and down 5 pounds. Part of me says no big deal. Part of me says I should be able to control that a little better.
Last day of school today. Got to go say good bye to Buddy. I might not have him next year.2 -
Exercise? Yes m; 52 minutes of strength training and a 30 minute run
Tracking? Yes
Calories? Yes3 -
@bocasdelbobdog Have you tried using MapMyRide (it's a companion to MFP). It also maps altitude and will report work to MFP just by syncing workout. It should be MUCH closer to calorie count that manual add of exercise.bocasdelbobdog wrote: »I always want to elaborate on exercise because that is the fun part of my life.
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MFP sees it recorded as a leisurely bike riding less than 10 mph. Heh, shows my average speed being 5.8 mph for 2h17m. MFP sees that and says nice leisurely ride there grandpa. But MFP don't see that is a 2000 foot climb in there. There is youngsters that can climb that at 10 mph and I know who they are. Heh, 2000 feet is the vertical dimension of a ski area. So that is me climbing the ski area instead of taking the lift. @fitqueenbess knows what that entails.
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2000ft climb is impressive. I know what a 1000ft climb by foot is like through my walking (I live next to some reasonable hills). I struggle to imagine doing it twice in a row.
(the graph is a direct output from MapMyWalk)
Look forward to seeing you here in UAC more often.
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@bocasdelbobdog You can set up your own custom exercises in MFP. Since you have your own tracking system, you can create "Climbing High and Fast' and put in your own exercise per minute for that hypothetical exercise. I created two custom exercises for my own activities: "Horseback riding casual' and "Horseback riding active". I give only 4 calorie/minute to casual but based on my heart monitor, I should allocate 10 calorie/minute active.
BTW: it looks like you and @craigo3154 from Australia will enjoy each other's statistics. Craig, Bob lives in New Mexico and is a mountain biking wonder. His ability to maintain a 90% MHR for long periods of time makes his a superman.
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@rangerrickl, @craigo3154.
I get a bit of disparity between heart rate monitors. I liked my old Sportline the best for the calories it would pay me. It would give me like 13 per minute when I would run my heart upwards of 90%. So that is kind of my heavy effort baseline approximation. When I climb for 90 minutes I don't really run that hot. After 90 min of climb I descend for 30. I earn some points for descent but really it just lowers the whole average.
Garmin Connect (Vivoactive) apparently has different algorithm for calorie computation just by virtue of elevation change vs. wearing the heart strap. Wearing the strap I get way less so I can't drink that Foster's beer.
But when I go to Orange Theory gym and wear their strap I get paid a lot of calories, more than I ever got from Sportline for running averages above 90% for an hour.
And that Orange Theory is kind of a crossfit so it ain't pure cardio like an hour of hard spin.
According to them I get between 800 and 900 for an hour of crossfit. I usually manage to fold 30 or so minutes of hard spin into that.
But the more I look at it the more permuted it gets.
I think I might just go by 10 cal minutes and figure that for climb at 80 or 85% and descent that isn't really even cardio averaged in.
All that wrangling Just to have numbers because I am obsessive that way. If I gain weight I will adjust it or examine my intake honesty.0 -
@bocasdelbobdog I find heart rate monitors and exercise machine equipment ridiculously inaccurate at estimating calories used.
To do it properly you need to know your VO2max and monitor all atmosphere entering and exiting the lungs. This way you can determine the amount of calories converted to energy by the O2 in vs the CO2 out ratios. Everything else is almost pure guesswork (as there is no practical no way to measure the "efficiency" of the work performed).
Even MapMyWalk, MapMyRun, MapMyRide are not ideal. Even though they measure distance and altitude, they cannot measure efficiency. (I don't keep my profile weight, waistline and resting heart rate up to date on MapMyWalk).
This is my today's walk.
(min altitude 250m - max altitude 407m) - only half an Eiffel Tower
If you obsess on the numbers in the weight management game you wind up going in circles and getting nowhere.
I do not eat back exercise calories simply because they are too inaccurate. Unless you train excessively hard (think professional athlete), the TDEE base calculations are usually close enough and factor in a certain level of activity.
If you want to eat back exercise calories, calculate your base as "Sedentary lifestyle" or "Light Exercise" if your work has you on your feet a lot (waiter, serving staff, concierge, foot/bike courier, ect...). This way the calculated base does not include your exercise activity.
Calculated base TDEE is only a guide. Personal history data vs weight data over a couple of months is by far the best guide.
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