I have taken a break from this. Just got tired of it. Didn't log for a few days. Then started logging again. Over goal calories but under TDEE every day except Thanksgiving. Way over TDEE that day. Then my kids took me out for steak for my birthday. Was up 3 pounds today. The grandkids wore me out, so I went to bed when they left about 9:30 last night, slept til 11:30 this morning. But it was worth every minute. They are lots of fun and I don't see them often enough.

4 grandkids. The 2 youngest were here. 11 and 12. We went shopping at 5 below for Xmas pajamas. Mama liked them, too, so I got her some,too.
No knee pain. I hope I haven't really gained 3, maybe some water, who knows, but the steak was good, and so was all the pie.

Well, its just about midnight on Monday for me folks, so I'd better put in a daily post Pretty huge workout day for me. I hit the gym early, got interrupted by a phone call and ended up doing a lot of heavy lifting and moving of steel items around instead. After that was done and I'd caught my breath, I hit the gym again later this arvo to finish what I started anyway. By the time I was done for the day, MFP was giving me a calorie target of 4,582... And the crazy thing is.. I don't feel hungry because the keto and IF has really kicked in lol.

Last week I did some reading about Intermittent fasting. The more I read, the more I realised that daily IF was my natural mode anyway.. For most of my life people have been telling me you need to eat more often.. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day etc.. etc.. Eat 5 small meals a day.. But my hunger has never been down with that plan.. I don't feel like eating anything all day until the evening. So I started reading about people doing daily fasts of 18hours with a 6 hour eating window and thought.. hey.. That sounds like a pattern I could easily fall into.

Turns out.... Breakfast makes me hungry!! Literally.. If I stimulate my metabolic processes in the morning.. I just want to eat all day.. I fang for food all the way up to lunch.. Eat a big lunch then want to eat dinner early, then cant get to sleep because I want to midnight snack.

So I'm doing 18:6 My eating window is 6pm to midnight. (I'm a late owl) And so far it's awesome. Outside of enjoying dinner, I'm just not hungry. I had to force myself to eat a low carb choc bar just now so MFP wouldn't complain about me not eating enough for the second day running. I know it's early days.. And I know I need to give my body enough nutrient.. But 2 weeks into the keto and I'm feeling pretty darn good.

Streak Days 1

Progress report including yesterday.

Steps taken: 22871/84000
Exercise minutes: 179/300
Diary complete: 1/7
Days under calorie goal: 0/7
Days under TDEE: 1/7

@Fyreside It would be awesome to get that spreadsheet up and running! I won't mind posting a weekly achievable fitness challege for everyone to try ( those daily dares were getting a little crazy )

Anjelik, where does someone from the Caribbean go on a cruise? You're already there! Lol.
I would love for you to do our weekly challenges. Even though I couldn't do some of the daily challenges, they got me trying, like planks instead of push-ups, working on crane yoga pose instead of gorilla jumps. Good tries anyway.

Fireside, I'd really like a spreadsheet, too. I really struggle with how much exercise really helps me, and at what point my body just rebels. I didn't exercise any at all over Thanksgiving. I slept about 14 hours Saturday night, and 10 hours Sunday night. At yoga class this morning my body was more relaxed and limber than it has been in years. Where is that happy medium?

Oregonrunner, Thanks for taking over.

Navarro, please let us know how you're doing. Been thinking about you. Are you doing ok?

@corinasue1143 Haha! We are doing a Caribbean cruise in fact! Great cheap way to island hop. Checking out the islands I've never been to before.

Will be glad to do the weekly challenges from Sunday.

As my daily check in, my car died on me again so have officially given up on it and will just save for a new one and take the bus. Unfortunately it now takes me 2 hours to get to work rather than 20 minutes however I do get a 40 min walk each morning and evening to and from the bus stop.

Still have to walk home in about 30 mins so will post my stats later tonight.

I'm a bit of a car guy.. And although its unlikely I will be able to help from the other side of the world. I am curious as to what sort of car it is and what it's doing wrong. Any detail you can share will help.

Also, I have to ask.. What is TDEE?

@fyreside It's just old. 1996 Saab 900s. Need to get new rods and rims so another 200 dollars just for parts that i'm not willing to spend. Already spent nearly 2000 dollars on the car in the past 6 months so will just suffer through the bus and save for a down payment on a new one.

TDEE is total daily energy expenditure. Basically the extra calories MFP will give you for exercising. I usually try to go for the base goal set by the program despite exercise.

@OregonRunner5 Prizes sound like an awesome idea.

I was in a challenge on MFP last summer that did an Amazing race style format. Group members were split into teams (there were about 100 people participating) and the goal was to get to get to a new 'destination' around the glove via exercise minutes. Every minute equals a mile so if you were going from Miami to Rio de Janiero and that was 2000 miles then each team needed to get at least 2000 minutes of exercise as a group. There were caos on how many minutes of exercise per person would count so no one person was holding the teams weight. We also did mini challenges for extra points based on the destination of the week and learned a little about the culture. That had to be my favorite challenge because it was so competitive with something new to look forward to each week but I don't even want to imagine how much work it was to put together and maintain. Hope they do it again sometime.

I was thinking along those lines we could set an exercise goal as a group and all contribute to reaching the goal at the end of the week. What do you think?

Doing a quick daily post before I fall down and catch some zzz.. Got what I'd call the bare minimum workout done today. But I'm going to count it because anything that gets me into the target heart rate for 20-30mins is good.

Streak day 4

Hey @plainanjelik I did read your post up there, but my eyes are all blurry and I'm not thinking straight.. will circle back tomorrow.

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Migraine today is developing so going to have to eat soon to take some pills for that, ack. But I did measure today and I've lost 2 inches off my waist, huzzah!. Be back tomorrow or whenever my head gets better *waves*

Big congrats on the missing inches. Hope your head calms down nice and quickly for you.

Went to my hardest yoga class tonight. My teacher quit; tonight was her last night. Now who's gonna push me to do more? This means I will only have 2 classes a week. Monday & Tuesday. I don't and won't lift. The machines at our gym suck. Hmmm.
Have been doing a little better on calories now that all the pie is gone.(mostly eaten, a little thrown away).
Goodnight all.