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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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Okay, I'm going to take a bit of a twist on the quote above. After sharing with UAC team members for a long time, it's obvious to me that many members do not feel happy with themselves. This is a great place to just be yourself. Some folks can climb mountains (@bocasdelgrandpabob) others are outstanding competitors (@trimi2017), and most of us are doing well when we have a nice walk or bike ride in the park. Don't compare yourself to anyone else. Just make a commitment to push yourself a bit out of your comfort zone every day.
Rick
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May 4
Exercised?: Yes. Yes. Walk 6km in 46 mins (hills).
Calories?: Yes
Tracked?: Yes
Late walk today (managed to find a gap in the showers).
Busy day. Looking forward to the weekend.
For all the Star Wars fans out there: "May the 4th be with you".
@RangerRickL. The post today is so true. Be happy with who you are. Just be you.
I am currently reading (listening) to a book on Cognitive Therapy. It discusses how a lot of people put themselves down and make themselves unhappy with self-critical thought.
Feelings are not fact.
Often self-critical thinking is fraught with errors. (discounting the positive, fortune-teller error, mind reading error, all or nothing thinking, labeling, etc..) The easiest way to expose these errors are to write down your thoughts. Then you have a chance to answer them. (This is grossly simplified from the book's content, but the essence of one of the self-help techniques to reduce the impact of self critical thoughts).
@w8goal4life. It is hard to track and keep active when travelling. A little planning goes a long way.
@lamlam2013. Hope your dad is much improved soon. Stress makes it hard to stick to plan.
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May 4th
Exercised?: Yes
Calories?: Yes
Tracked?: Yes
Another full day today, but it's been fun.
It's also warmer here today, so made the most of it when I could.
My usual run this morning, a walk into town, then a doggie later in the afternoon. An early evening bike ride after tea for a couple of hours as finished my day nicely.
31,733 steps over 13 miles - I do love the sunshine!
Calories burned:-1273
Calories consumed:-1446/1590
I hope everyone has had a good day today.
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May 4th
Exercised?: Yes, for 55 minutes
Calories?: Yes
Tracked?: Yes5 -
May the 4th be with you.....
Tracked-yes
Exercise-yep water aerobics class 1 he
Calories-ok6 -
Yes x 3 today6
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Yes x3! Tracked everything, under calories, and over 15,000 steps!
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Exercise? Yes- went for a 10 mile run this morning. It was my first weekend not traveling and I loved it!
Calories? Yes
Tracked? Yes5 -
May 4th
Much better day!
Exercised?: Yes
Calories?: Yes
Tracked?: Yes5 -
Yes x 3 in spite of having dessert for lunch and a milkshake for dinner! I don't usually eat much sweet stuff but today was really weird. I did a ton of work cleaning the barn and fooling around with the horses, took a long walk, and had to drive people around too much. Crazy thunder storms tonight!7
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May 4
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes?
yes. track and trx
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day?
yes. close but under
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank?
yes
good start to the weekend
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Exercise? Yes, 20 minutes low impact aerobics, 3 minutes mild stretch, 40 minute slow paced walk in Village;
Calories? Within Allowance. I continue to consume most exercise calories to continue weight maintenance;
Logged? Yes, even my planned evening snack is logged.3 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yep! I managed to find my way to the gym and hop on the stationary bike for 42 minutes.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes! Though it was hard to do. When I work from home, I find it hard to avoid the pantry of snacks, but I did.
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yep! I did.
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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?yes6 -
Exercise - yes, 40 mins Pilates and 20ish minutes of .... DANCING! First time since November I was able to do some dancing. Super exciting for me. Decided to test out my ankle with some dancing around the living room tonight while listening to my fave radio show - Land of the Lost.
Calories - under
Tracking - yes!7 -
Exercise. Yes got 10,000 steps
Stayed within calorie budget yes
Tracked yes5 -
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? ✅
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Did I exercise for 20 minutes today? Yes I went on a 30 minute walk
Did I stay under calorie goal? Yes
Did I log everything I ate and drank? Yes5 -
Friday,May 4th
Exercised: Yes, 5 hours of housework
Calories: Yes
Tracked: Yes5 -
Yes x 3
Heh, heh, heh,
It don't get any better than this.
Went climbing this morning.
I got some PRs. Personal Records or Personal Best some say.
I go to a hill that I do my hill repeats on. On this hill I do two repeats and call it a day. A repeat is 1000 foot of climb in a bit over two miles.
I got the ambition of doing three repeats.
It takes me a shade less than 40 minutes to do an iteration of it.
Not exactly speed work. There are runners that are faster than I am.
The more I do it the harder it gets to PR. But I PR'd it on first iteration today.
I put a picture of a scatter plot on here to show you how subtle it is to beat an established average.
I ran my heart kind of tight, between 90 and 98%.
That's 80 minutes and more or less 800 exercise calories. No way I can get that from walking around the block. Just saying.
I got this gps fitness tracker watch. It records all of this stuff and uploads it to a web called Strava.
I can look at that Strava and see what kind of times my city's best athletes get on my segments. So I can have kind of an imaginary virtual competition. I know who the guy is who is King of The Mountain. But hey I am the old man of the mountain.
It don't get any better than this.
I spend some time most days with a little guy I call my little Buddy. We have lunch together. That is mostly me teaching him to use a spoon. Afterwards is recess. We walk for a while then find a place to sit in the sand. It is utterly sublime. @rangerrickl knows what I am talking about.
School is out in like 2 and a half weeks and I don't want to part with the little guy.
I fear that he is going to regress or backslide on the progress that we have made.
Lately the progress has just plain been amazing.
The little guy stood up off the floor! That is massive!
Hesitate to get too detailed about bathroom stuff but there has been incredible progress there. The little guy knows how to tell me and he ain't got words.
Weird, I know, but these are some satisfying days for me.
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May 4
Exercised?: Yes—10 minutes walking on the treadmill and 10 minutes of cardio with the heavy ropes
Calories?: Yes
Tracked?: Yes4 -
May 4, 2018
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? Yes3 -
Yes x3!
Was under by 1 single calorie today and realized I hadn't exercised today on purpose. After I put my toddler to bed, I walked around the house for 30 minutes. I tracked everything!5 -
4-May
Exercise: 30 minutes of running and 35 minutes of circuit training
Calories: within my limit
Tracking: everything2 -
Yes 3x. 20 walk. Busy day. Unexpected family arrived and a farewell party for my manager.2
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Another 5 mile family walk at the Wetlands. It will soon be too hot to do this walk, so we’re trying to get them in where possible
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
This weekend is going to be a hot one. Up to 99F/39C, I think it’s safe to say, Spring has finally gone…but oh how I love a sunny blue sky…
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Yes, yes, and yes.3
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Exercised? Yes
Within Budget? No again...over by one small scoop of premium ice cream...but it was GOOD ice cream
Tracked it all? Yes2 -
All right....
Yes, yes, yes. I finally took back to my stationary bike for 20 minutes.3 -
May 4th
Exercise- yes morning class
within calories- no
tracked everything (including the reason i went over in calories) - yes2
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