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  • Fyreside
    Fyreside Posts: 444 Member
    Running a bit late with my Thursday check in.. But it's super handy living in the future because it's still Thursday for you folks :D

    Diary done with calories under, had a bit of fun in the kitchen and cooked up my favorite all purpose savory beef mince dish. And made some rosemary croccantini crackers for snacks (Danger-Snack Alert) Exercise done.

    Glad you're back on track dragon.
  • meat513
    meat513 Posts: 258 Member
    Exercise and diary finished with 14,074 steps and 40 squats 5 min arm workout
  • corinasue1143
    corinasue1143 Posts: 7,460 Member
    Diary done, calories good, 60 minutes yoga, good day!
  • ccrdragon
    ccrdragon Posts: 3,374 Member
    Diary done, calories way under - lousy food choices for the day, but kept it in check on calories.

    Will be doing squats and push-ups every hour today for my exercise.
  • meat513
    meat513 Posts: 258 Member
    Exercise and diary finished
    14,448 steps
    Cardio-1.5 miles
    Weights-triceps, back, legs
    Sit-ups-crunches, sit-ups, clam shells
    All totaling 125 reps
  • corinasue1143
    corinasue1143 Posts: 7,460 Member
    Diary done, no formal exercise, drizzly day in Oklahoma
  • OregonRunner5
    OregonRunner5 Posts: 404 Member
    On the road today, toured a college for my son. They went over everything but what they had to offer in the way of education. Everything was about ‘making the student comfortable’ at all times. It’s a different world than the one I grew up in for sure.

    I think I’m going to try IF again with a low-ish carb approach. I just can’t seem to shift any actual fat. I can lower the scale a bit, then it goes back up a bit, then down a bit - but the spare tire remains totally untouched and looking no worse for the wear. I felt awful on low carb last time, but I think I had too much protein and needed a little fruit, veggies and more fat.

    Had a flare up with my IBD this week, so weigh in will be skewed anyway from inflammation. I really felt like giving up this week. I’m pretty tired of logging, “I don’t feel well - or feeling sick” - I think I just bring everyone down with such negativity. I keep trying new things but it difficult sometimes to have the energy. I was very dissapointed Friday because I was supposed to be out at the fort (National Park) volunteering and woke up and couldn’t hardly walk and was quite terrified I couldn’t get to the restroom in time because I was in so much pain. I had promised them I would be there, made a commitment, had my uniform ready, and to say ‘oh I don’t feel well’ — sounds like an excuse and copout, like I don’t care and don’t take commitments seriously. I had promised myself that this time no matter what I wouldn’t miss it, no matter how bad I felt, but I couldn’t walk and had difficulty just making it to the medicines I take for a flare up. I had to admit I’m getting worse not better - but over all, yeah I guess that’s just how it is.

    I am going to try to be there tomorrow, to make up the time. I used to run the trails and patrol them but now have a walking stick and have reconciled not being able to do that just now, but I can walk (gosh I hope so anyway). It could be worse though, gotta keep the chin up.
  • MmamabearR
    MmamabearR Posts: 234 Member
    edited November 2017
    I didn't start this week very well but I feel as though I have ended strong. I came in 82 minutes under the cardio goal, and I'm 492 steps under my weekly goal but my best days were at the end. As for the miles, I'm really not sure how we are tracking that. During my workouts I got 13.75 miles, but all my steps put me at 72.56. That being the case, I assume we're only counting workout miles. So I came in under my goals but I also came in under my calorie goals, so not bad.

    I'm going back to upper and lower body toning instead of just cardio. I think it'll help me burn off more fat and inches. We'll see. One thing I want to prove is that it is possible to lose weight over the holidays :)
  • corinasue1143
    corinasue1143 Posts: 7,460 Member
    Diary done, couldn't find any exercise classes on Saturday and Sunday, walked into gym thinking surely I'd find something to do.
    Lots of good looking guys lifting weights, so I found an exercise bike where I had a perfect view and enjoyed my bike ride!
  • plainanjelik
    plainanjelik Posts: 232 Member
    Ah! Made some terrible food choices Friday and yesterday. Can already tell I gained overall. Definitely failed the weekly challenge as well unfortunately. Oh well getting back into the swing of things from this morning.
  • explodingmango
    explodingmango Posts: 171 Member
    It's been a bad week for checking in/logging/all that, but a good week for staying on track. Somehow. I'm not really using my own scale at home as anything but a general reference; I'm using the scale at the new program's gym for my weigh-ins...partially because it makes me feel better; it apparently says I'm 2-3 pounds lighter than the one at home does. Despite that, my home scale now says I'm consistently under what the gym scale said last week, so I'm feeling pretty okay about things.

    Knee injury is much better - to the point where I mostly no longer need low-impact modifications for any of my workouts - though I may have just had a minor setback while cleaning a few minutes ago. I'll see how it feels once the shock wears off.

    And, that's about it. It's been a pretty unremarkable past few days...somehow. Looking forward to next week though!
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