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Exercised?: Yes. 3 mile run this morning, then a walk with the woofies.
Calories?: Yes - 1227/1240
Tracked?: Yes
Craig - it seems odd that you tell everyone that a pass day is not a failure, yet you seem to be kicking yourself that you had to take one yourself - even though I have never known you to have a pass day in all the time I have been here myself - and heaven knows when the last one was!
Not all days can be planned in advance and there is no shame in taking a pass day - just be honest with yourself and to the group and tomorrow is a another day - you taught me that one!
@trixsey1. Mine was a failure to plan. For this A type personality, that is the "out of character bit". My normal response would be to find a way around it, but instead my personal victory was to accept it and be honest with all about it.
It was actually my first pass day since joining UAC (9 months ago - May 2017).
In the past I would push past the fatigue and do a 20+minute bodyweight set and claim that for the day's activity. However, sleep is important too. I chose sleep over bodyweight this time.
UAC allows 3 pass days per month for a reason. And yes it is OK to have them (even for me
). In the past when I have expected a day to be a pass (I ALWAYS track - so easy with phone), I have ended up within budget and with enough activity to not need a pass.
(A low gluten diet makes it hard to go over on calories in a day).
The main goals of UAC are honesty and consistency. Only really with honesty can true consistency be attained.
I am still between 64.5kg and 66.5kg (and have been for the last 3 months - it's my ideal weight for height and build). This is a victory in itself. I turn 50 in June and I am stronger, healthier and fitter than I have been at any time in the last 25 years (including when I was training and competing nationals level ice figure skating).7 -
@Anya_000. Part of the my INTJ personality type. I demand perfection from myself, but accept that it is impractical to hold others to my internal level of self expectation.
I accept other for who they are, but often cannot accept my own mistakes.
Most only get to see the "highlight reel" where as I live with my own "behind the scenes" footage. I make many, many mistakes, but few are ever exposed to the outside world.
I think this quote sums it up:
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer"
--Albert Einstein
I'm not faultless, I just keep working on the faults till they happen so subtly, or infrequently, that they are easily missed.5 -
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Exercise - ooh boy, yes and I'm tired tonight!
Calories - yes
Track - yes
I've got the same NSV as @GardenMama129 and @jugar - just having a week that I consistently watched and tracked what I ate and was active every day is a huge win for me!6 -
Yes x3. Bits of cardio all day and a good workout to end the day4
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Exercise? Yes; 55 minutes of strength training and 3.5 miles on the elliptical
Calories? Yes
Tracking? Yes5 -
Monday, Feb 5
Exercise: Yes (some strength training & 30 minutes walking)
Calories: Yes
Tracking: Yes4 -
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
5 mile family hike at The Wetlands today. It’s our new Monday ritual and I love it. Dogs are knackered and we went to the Apple Store at Caesar’s Palace. Not because we wanted to, because it’s one of the nearest Apple stores and I need a new phone battery. Nothing is easy, six week lead time, grrr!4 -
Exercise: yes
Calories: yes
Tracking: yes4 -
Yes X 3 for today!4
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Yes X 3 for today!2
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Here is my NSV: Rose wanted me to hike the #1 most popular hike in Phoenix. It’s the 2176 foot Piestawa Peak. It’s rated extremely difficult with a 1,200 foot elevation gain from trailhead to summit. I told her that we would do it together at whatever pace she was comfortable. We were slow but steady. Here we are at the summit.
Exercise: over the top
Calories: under the limit
Tracking: good
@craigo3154 thanks for posting about the NSV and your commitment to transparency9 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? ✅ Treadmill/YouTube/yoga
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? ✅
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? ✅3 -
Feb 5. Late again.
Yes to 3x. Walked 3 mi.4 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, strength training for 30 min.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
NSV: Doing the strength training. My first time to pick up anything other than a 1 lb weight in a couple years! 3 lbs was a lot for me!!!!!!! Before I did it, I told myself that if I can't then drop down to 1 lb or no lbs.... and I could actually just decide to stop & try it, again, another time. This workout also included squats, lunges and abs. I haven't done a bunch of legwork in years... much less with weight added. This is huge for me!!! LOL.
Linda5 -
~Tracked = yes
~Exercise = yes
~Calories = no
will do better
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February 5
Exercise-yes, weights class
Calories-yes
Tracked-yes
NSV-I found the tricep dips in my weights/muscle class finally feel better. Yay! Will get stronger from here!5 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes some walking and push ups
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes3 -
Yes to all!3
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NSV was that I did not gi ve up or quit when the ever ready bunny passed me on the track over and over and over.....LOL
Exercise? yesterday on bike 35 minutes doing spin ups
Tracked? yes I did
Ate what I planned? Yes. to the T.6
