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RangerRickL
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?
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  • jlbtnc
    jlbtnc Posts: 725 Member
    Date: March 15th
    Exercised?: yes
    Calories?: yes
    Tracked?: yes - Hubby went to work early so pushed self to get up and exercised – Richards Simmons Project Hope – 1st month cardio and toning (with weights), later went for a 49 minute walk and to get grandson from bus stop.
  • slupt2002
    slupt2002 Posts: 31 Member
    Pass day (1 of 3)
  • BonnieHosk85
    BonnieHosk85 Posts: 2,552 Member
    edited March 2019
    Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Recumbent bike, 20 minutes, 6.12 miles
    Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
    Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes

    Safe travels and see you in April, @w8goal4life!

    I am able to go to social functions now and not even be in the food area. No temptations, no draw, nothing. My birthday was yesterday and a good friend in my small group brought an angel cake with sliced strawberries and whipped cream (very sweet since they know I'm eating healthier). They brought me a piece and sang "Happy birthday" and I was able to save that for today. Not even tempted to get into it at the gathering or at home. That is huge for me, a former food addict.

    I'm going to try on a pair of pants one size smaller tomorrow. I haven't worn them since '14 or '15. I'll let you know what happens. B)
  • lisadianehays55
    lisadianehays55 Posts: 106 Member
    Exercised:yes
    Calories: yes
    Tracked: yes
  • BMcC9
    BMcC9 Posts: 4,451 Member
    Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes 64 minutes on the mini-trampoline
    Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
    Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes

    Safe travels and see you in April, @w8goal4life!
  • Lilutz
    Lilutz Posts: 389 Member
    yes to all three. Exercise was 40 minutes of HIIT circuits and 34 minutes of running.
  • MadisonMolly2017
    MadisonMolly2017 Posts: 11,152 Member
    BMcC9 wrote: »
    My favorite day, too!
    NSV’s:

    ... Making art fearlessly/enthusiastically daily!

    (sighs wistfully and ever so slightly jealously .... )

    that's a NSV I hope to be able to report SOME day .... but won't even start working on it until (maybe) Jan or Spring 2020.

    By next month I WILL be reporting "making progress on Second Language Test practice fearlessly (for sure) / enthusiastically (kinda?) daily (needs to be part of new daily evening routine to make it stick)!"

    One emotionally high-stress target goal at a time. And the SLE test has a work-related time-deadline that breaking creativity mental-blocks does not.

    ===============
    THIS month's NSV report ....

    I bought BRAND NEW CLOTHES THREE TIMES (so far) this month! Not "new to me" from thrift store.

    Including a "deck-party casual" stretchy-material dress in a Medium. (snugger-fitting line than the size Small tops I bought earlier). I don't usually wear skirts ....

    And after having three bags of clothes and dresser-drawer-stuff picked up for the donation drive last Monday, I have already started a new donation pile of "no point in mending / trying to alter" clothes from the overflowing mending basket. (The thrift store also accepts "unsellable" clothes so that the cloth is still re-purposed by their warehouse and kept out of landfills)

    @BMcC9
    I hear you.
    When I was insanely busy like you, I thought “how can I use a couple of minutes each day to make art?”
    My answer: I moved a small table next to my bedside with
    One inch squares I cut from a small pad of watercolor paper
    A set of watercolor pencils. A water cup, and a small brush
    Small bottle glue
    A few pages from magazines
    Some markers
    A black stamp pad
    And a set of teensy stamps.
    Micron (waterproof pen)

    Before going to work, I’d create a background on one “Inchie” - sometimes a square of magazine glued down
    - sometimes a watercolor wash
    - Sometimes marks with a micron pen or with teensy stamps

    When I got gone from teaching, I’d add more to the one I began. Marks, collage, color, etc.

    At bedtime, I’d look at the tiny piece of earth, and add a last finishing touch...

    I kept them in a small box and loved laying them out & admiring them.

    Later I got a coin collector’s or slide plastic pages to store them.

    I even did some with fabric straps and sewing!

    Gradually, over the years, they got bigger: backs of old business cards are awesome!

    I Began to cut 2” squares

    Then Zentangle...larger squares

    To a 5x7” notebook

    Fast forward : now I’m workin 12x17 or 15 x 22” I NEVER thought I’d do that!

    I can.tell you are an artist! Find one tiny thing you can do to fan that flame 🔥
    EVEN when busy as heck!

    Some possibilities:
    Make 5 marks on the newspaper
    Doodle for a minute in margins of your class notes
    Draw on shower walls with water solvable markers

    😀
  • astroamy
    astroamy Posts: 1,129 Member
    Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? 16k steps.
    Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes.
    Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes.

    As for NSV, one of my favorites is love noticed a spring in my step that means I am feeling fit. The second is a month ago I set s mini-goal of not eating any candy from the many candy dishes at work (one of which is in the office next to mine so I walk by it often), and over the last month I've only slipped once.
  • BMcC9
    BMcC9 Posts: 4,451 Member
    BMcC9 wrote: »
    My favorite day, too!
    NSV’s:

    ... Making art fearlessly/enthusiastically daily!

    (sighs wistfully and ever so slightly jealously .... )

    that's a NSV I hope to be able to report SOME day .... but won't even start working on it until (maybe) Jan or Spring 2020.

    By next month I WILL be reporting "making progress on Second Language Test practice fearlessly (for sure) / enthusiastically (kinda?) daily (needs to be part of new daily evening routine to make it stick)!"

    One emotionally high-stress target goal at a time. And the SLE test has a work-related time-deadline that breaking creativity mental-blocks does not.

    ===============
    THIS month's NSV report ....

    I bought BRAND NEW CLOTHES THREE TIMES (so far) this month! Not "new to me" from thrift store.

    Including a "deck-party casual" stretchy-material dress in a Medium. (snugger-fitting line than the size Small tops I bought earlier). I don't usually wear skirts ....

    And after having three bags of clothes and dresser-drawer-stuff picked up for the donation drive last Monday, I have already started a new donation pile of "no point in mending / trying to alter" clothes from the overflowing mending basket. (The thrift store also accepts "unsellable" clothes so that the cloth is still re-purposed by their warehouse and kept out of landfills)

    @BMcC9
    I hear you.
    When I was insanely busy like you, I thought “how can I use a couple of minutes each day to make art?”
    My answer: I moved a small table next to my bedside with
    One inch squares I cut from a small pad of watercolor paper
    A set of watercolor pencils. A water cup, and a small brush
    Small bottle glue
    A few pages from magazines
    Some markers
    A black stamp pad
    And a set of teensy stamps.
    Micron (waterproof pen)

    Before going to work, I’d create a background on one “Inchie” - sometimes a square of magazine glued down
    - sometimes a watercolor wash
    - Sometimes marks with a micron pen or with teensy stamps

    When I got gone from teaching, I’d add more to the one I began. Marks, collage, color, etc.

    At bedtime, I’d look at the tiny piece of earth, and add a last finishing touch...

    I kept them in a small box and loved laying them out & admiring them.

    Later I got a coin collector’s or slide plastic pages to store them.

    I even did some with fabric straps and sewing!

    Gradually, over the years, they got bigger: backs of old business cards are awesome!

    I Began to cut 2” squares

    Then Zentangle...larger squares

    To a 5x7” notebook

    Fast forward : now I’m workin 12x17 or 15 x 22” I NEVER thought I’d do that!

    I can.tell you are an artist! Find one tiny thing you can do to fan that flame 🔥
    EVEN when busy as heck!

    Some possibilities:
    Make 5 marks on the newspaper
    Doodle for a minute in margins of your class notes
    Draw on shower walls with water solvable markers

    😀

    Thank you SOOOOO much for the "start with 1-inch squares' ideas! Maybe I WON'T have to wait till after the fall after all!!

    I'll work out how to work that kinda-thing into the daily-routine schedule that has to be re-tooled to fit an hour of French Review "games" most days by end of March anyway .......