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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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May is off to an enthusiastic start. Yesterday, there were questions about 'drinks'. To clarify, I just edited the UAC rules to state that you are to track everything that you eat or drink that has caloric content. You are welcome to track anything else that you wish to track, but that is your decision.
See edited text below:
1. EXERCISE EVERY DAY FOR AT LEAST 20 MINUTES.
Be active every day for the entire month. Even if it's just cleaning your house for 20 minutes, be active. Skip a cumulative 3 days of not meeting the activity, or calorie, or tracking or logging in requirements, and you are out of the winner's circle. If you are still committed to accountability...stay in the challenge.
2. CONSUME ONLY YOUR BUDGETED CALORIES.
Set a calorie goal for the day and don't exceed it. Eat ONLY your budgeted calories every day for the entire month. Skip a day and see #1 above.
3. TRACK EVERYTHING YOU EAT AND DRINK that Has Calories.
Keep track of ALL food and beverages consumed every day for the entire month.7 -
I just posted a "MFP Profile setting" question in What's On Your Mind?
I'd appreciate feedback on that, and answers would be useful to any MFP newcomers too.3 -
Day 3:
1) More than 20 minutes of daily exercise; - CHECK
2) Tracking the caloric intake of both food and beverage - CHECK
3) Consuming no more than your chosen limit of daily calories - CHECK
May 1 - 203.7 lbs
May 2 - 199.0 lbs
May 3 - 196.4 lbs
So with a total of 7.3 lbs loss since May 1, I am proud. I've been dragging myself to the gym. But I have to say TGIF; I plan to get a lot sleep, and hopefully it'll help flush any excess water out and excessive cortisol. I know my body has been stressed from the changes.9 -
May 3
Exercised?: Yes. (4km walk hills - 36 mins)
Calories?: Yes
Tracked?: Yes
Might have seemed like a slower than usual walk for me for 4km, but that was the hard route over chandlers hill (250m elevation change).
Less hectic today than yesterday, but REALLY looking forward to the weekend. Will be in bed before midnight and no early start required.
@MadisonMolly2017. Great post yesterday. If people missed it worth a read.
@tuffgirl19. Thank you. Yesterday was a tough (and long) day. Eventually finished round 2:30am. Today was better.mayosenorita wrote: »... Would love advice from all of the wonderfully successful people here in what you do to avoid eating when you’re tired. Also, how do you stop yourself from binging when you already know it’s going to be a pass day/you’re over your limit?
...
@mayosenorita. It's really training yourself out of habits of a lifetime (and it takes time and persistence to do it). "An amateur practices till the get it right, a professional practices till they never get it wrong". I want to be a professional with my health/weight management
But that take repeated effort, not just a week or a month or two.
The way I do it is:- Remind myself that over days limit is not a free pass to "pig out". No use throwing the baby out with the bathwater so to speak.
- I rely on the habits I fought hard to establish when losing weight. Make your habits and let your habits make you. (If you do what you used to do, you will be how you used to be).
- I remind myself of both how good I usually feel now and how much better I feel than when I started. Pictures, clothes and special memories help remind me how I am never going back to the way it was.
- My personal rule is not to eat between meals unless at a social event. No bargaining, no if's or but's, focus on having a good meal rather than snacks. I can have water or tea, but snacks are right out. I did this to lose weight. I maintain this to keep at ideal weight.
- My diet is largely gluten free (from personal experimentation seem to be gluten sensitive). This eliminates a lot of snack food and comfort food options.
- Have another form of comfort to relax and beat stress. I like to walk, listen to an audiobook, play computer games or fly FPV drones. I take time out to do something else instead of eat.
- Don't berate yourself for mistakes. They happen. We all make them. Try work out why it happened and plan an avoidance strategy for next time. By being harsh on yourself you give yourself two problems for the price of one (and you don't need that). Until you learn and practice a number of times, a different way; you will continue to do things the way you have always done. It is expected. No use giving yourself extra grief over it. Forgive yourself and move on.
There is a saying in racing that "Every foot you fly past an obstacle is an extra foot you need to fly back". How this translate to health management is that every extra thing you eat past your daily limit takes extra work to burn it off. Do you want to do the extra work for that piece of comfort? Could that comfort be obtained in a different way?
I missed my exercise yesterday. It happens. I just try put things in place to not have it happen repeatedly. Didn't eat less, didn't try do more today, didn't get upset over it. Forgave myself and tried to have a better/normal day today.
(Being honest with myself and others is a cornerstone of successful weight management. Too many white lie to themselves (and others), but these accumulate over time and sabotage your efforts. Only when you are honest with yourself (and others) can progress be made).13 -
Male 49, 5'11"
Weight Lifter
Current Weight (05/01): 256 lbs
Goal Weight End of Challenge (05/31): 247 lbs
Ultimate Goal Weight: 240 lbs
Diet/Exercise/Water: 2000cal, 240g protein, 115g carb, 64g fat, 16 cups water, exercise 60 minutes
05/01: 256 lbs
Calories: 2059 (over +59)
Exercise: HIIT cycling 45 minutes, weight lifting 60 minutes
05/02: 256 lbs
Calories: 2263 (over +263)
Exercise: HIIT cycling 30 minutes, weight lifting 60 minutes
05/03: 256 lbs
Calories: 1958 (under -42)
Exercise: HIIT cycling 45 minutes, weight lifting 60 minutes
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✅craigo3154 wrote: »May 3
Exercised?: Yes. (4km walk hills - 36 mins)
Calories?: Yes
Tracked?: Yes
Might have seemed like a slower than usual walk for me for 4km, but that was the hard route over chandlers hill (250m elevation change).
Less hectic today than yesterday, but REALLY looking forward to the weekend. Will be in bed before midnight and no early start required.
@MadisonMolly2017. Great post yesterday. If people missed it worth a read.
@tuffgirl19. Thank you. Yesterday was a tough (and long) day. Eventually finished round 2:30am. Today was better.mayosenorita wrote: »... Would love advice from all of the wonderfully successful people here in what you do to avoid eating when you’re tired. Also, how do you stop yourself from binging when you already know it’s going to be a pass day/you’re over your limit?
...
@mayosenorita. It's really training yourself out of habits of a lifetime (and it takes time and persistence to do it). "An amateur practices till the get it right, a professional practices till they never get it wrong". I want to be a professional with my health/weight management But that take repeated effort, not just a week or a month or two.✅
The way I do it is:- Remind myself that over days limit is not a free pass to "pig out". No use throwing the baby out with the bathwater so to speak.✅
- I rely on the habits I fought hard to establish when losing weight. Make your habits and let your habits make you. (If you do what you used to do, you will be how you used to be).✅
- I remind myself of both how good I usually feel now and how much better I feel than when I started. Pictures, clothes and special memories help remind me how I am never going back to the way it was.✅
- My personal rule is not to eat between meals unless at a social event. No bargaining, no if's or but's, focus on having a good meal rather than snacks. I can have water or tea, but snacks are right out. I did this to lose weight. I maintain this to keep at ideal weight.✅ Now that I’m in maintenance I don’t need the very small snack of nuts I ate at bedtime.
- My diet is largely gluten free (from personal experimentation seem to be gluten sensitive). This eliminates a lot of snack food and comfort food options.
Maddie: I’m ok with gluten, but I have to watch it. I am prepared to eliminate if I struggle in maintenance. I no longer call “comfort foods” comfort foods. They’re not. Food can’t give comfort. They often provide the opposite. If I need comfort, I figure out how to get that in other ways ... (which you cover brilliantly below.) - Have another form of comfort to relax and beat stress. I like to walk, listen to an audiobook, play computer games or fly FPV drones. I take time out to do something else instead of eat.✅
- Don't berate yourself for mistakes. They happen. We all make them. Try work out why it happened and plan an avoidance strategy for next time. By being harsh on yourself you give yourself two problems for the price of one (and you don't need that). Until you learn and practice a number of times, a different way; you will continue to do things the way you have always done. It is expected. No use giving yourself extra grief over it. Forgive yourself and move on.
There is a saying in racing that "Every foot you fly past an obstacle is an extra foot you need to fly back". How this translate to health management is that every extra thing you eat past your daily limit takes extra work to burn it off. ✅Do you want to do the extra work for that piece of comfort? ✅Could that comfort be obtained in a different way?✅
I missed my exercise yesterday. It happens. I just try put things in place to not have it happen repeatedly. Didn't eat less, didn't try do more today, didn't get upset over it. Forgave myself and tried to have a better/normal day today.✅
(Being honest with myself and others is a cornerstone of successful weight management. Too many white lie to themselves (and others), but these accumulate over time and sabotage your efforts. Only when you are honest with yourself (and others) can progress be made).
@craigo3154
Thank you!
And this post is Brilliant.
Copying & saving for those days when things are not as effortlessly flowing
I have learned so much from you! The ✅ means I have practiced & do those things too. 😃😃😃😃😃7 -
May 2
Exercise: 58 mins walking & stairs
Calories 58 deficit 😀
Tracked everything.
Went to sleep early!
Beginning my 15th month❣️
# of days when I didn’t plan, take the time, and accomplish these 3 reasonable & healthy activities: 0
# of days when I did: 2/2
Completed my 8th day of Official Maintenance
Lost -75lbs over about 3 years.
Unofficially maintained the past 4 months.
Slow habit changes work well❣️
I’m happy to be a sounding board as you determine A) something that went well for you this week &
one small habit tweak you want to do this week.
What I’m working on:
Eating three meals of 600-650 calories, so I don’t drift back to large restaurant meals...7 -
Exercise: walk (4 ½ mph!!), and later a leisurely walk, also personal training (hard hitting supersets)
Calories - yes
Tracked - yes
It was raining so I was leaning on staying home but said “screw it”, hopped out of the car and walked for an hour in the rain. It was glorious!! 🏃🏻♀️🌧8 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, walked 40 minutes
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes7 -
May 3
Exercised?: Yes weights and walking
Calories?: Yes
Tracked?: Yes
Im on day 93 of this venture and I actually never considered gaining so much nutrition and exercise knowledge when choosing to lose some weight. As reported I have stalled in my program and so went online to get some intel. It seems I need to kick my game up with a stalled metabolism and so added weights into a daily program. Today my quivering arms are not happy. Reducing cals wasn't an option since I'm at 1300. I am 5'7 and 155 with a goal of 145. In hs I was 130 but I'm over 50 now and at that weight I'd look pickled. Have a good weekend all!6 -
Boy, am I beat!! Moving day and got everything in my son's new place. I love it and think he's going to have a great time living here. Longer drive to work but he'll be able to do so much more of the things he loves living in Greenville now. What a beautiful city. My Fitbit battery died but I got in 752 active calories burned before it went to sleep. Busy day, but feeling so happy that's he's settled in. I'm spending the night and will head back home in the morning. Six-seven hour drive and I'll stop to walk at a couple of rest areas. I doubt I'll want to ride my bike tomorrow night!
@Craigo3154, loved your post! I'm saving it too, @MadisonMolly2017!!
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, more cleaning David's apartment, vacuuming living room, bedroom, clean tub and counter, clean kitchen and fridge, approx 2-3 hours total
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes, way under because my breakfast lasted until 3 p.m. and now we won't eat dinner.
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes8 -
Date: May 3
Exercised?: Yes, scrubbed walls, ceilings, cupboards and floors for 7 hours (I work as a cleaner for when people move out and want the house cleaned before selling it)
Calories?: Not sure I could even EAT all the calories burned today, so yeah, I'm under
Tracked?: everything
Pass Days: 0/3
Early to bed for this momma. I'm exhausted!!8 -
0 success: 3 pass
Exercise? Yes - 55 mins zumba and 60 mins yoga
Tracked? No
Calories? No
Yesterday it was 1 Welsh cake....today it was 5 bags of mini biscuits, 3 Cadbury's brunch bars and a viscount mint choc biscuit ....oh and lots of rice for diner
Tomorrow will be a success day! 🤩
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Day: May 3
Exercise-yes - walking hills 4.4 miles (1:16min) plus weight exercises 15 lb dumbells & 20 pushups
Calories-yes- 1320 under 1400 limit
Tracked-yes
Made it thanks to planned decision not to go out to a restaurant tonight.6 -
Date: May 3
Exercised?: yes Richard Simmon’s cardio 20 minute and 15 minute toning, and a total of 1 hour and 39 minutes walking
Calories?: yes
Tracked?: yes
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes. 25 minutes in short 5 minute bursts + 5 mins gentle remedial exercises. Also did some cleaning.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
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Great read so far today! Loved @craigo3154’s post. Loved the exercise in the rain, the moving story (great mom), the weightlifting and HIIT, the cleaning, @krea4’s positive spirit, and everyone else’s (read all of them).
Great day for me:
Exercise-yes, did Day 1 of C25K. Wish I could commit to continuing but I’ve got a stubborn foot injury that will probably prevent me from progressing. It’s almost cycling season though so I’ve got something to look forward to.
Tracked-yes
Under goal-yes
I’m not sure I’m going to keep up the inspirational sayings but I want to share my favourite one, the one I put on my daily to-do list to remind myself, “I can do hard things”.5 -
Exercised no... not well
Tracked yes
Under yes5 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? YES! I walked 2.15 miles round-trip to the park near our house and saw three deer. They seem to have plenty greens in their home, so wish they'd stop eating my hosta!
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? YES!
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? YES!!
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@ShareASmile, what an awesome nature trail! I have a coworker who had every single one of her tulip buds eaten by deer last year. There's a whole forest around her, too!
Great posts with awesome tips and wonderful successes, everyone!
May 3
Exercised: 30K steps + 20 minutes dancing
Calories: Yes
Tracked: Yes6 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes. I had a 30 minute walk to and from the gym, then about an hour of strength training.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes. Barely.
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank - Yes.
This is Derby weekend here in Louisville, KY. I'm giving myself permission today and tomorrow to eat at maintenance, per my fitbit. I may take a pass day tomorrow, simply because I may not be able to weigh or measure everything I eat, though I will log it. I'm going to see how it goes. I do plan to get my workout in and log as best I can, but I'm also going to enjoy our festivities.5 -
May 3
Exercise: yes..50 min walking (and it was raining ☔ )
Calories: yes..407 deficit..woohoo
Tracked: yes + 8 c water3 -
Today I did 15 flights of steps in my office building. Up and down the same set of stairs. 15 times - Indoor exercise! I was limited on time tonight. So no treadmill. So I planned ahead during the day
I tracked my food and water
I was under budget by 38
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Yes x 3 for today and yesterday.
Quickly read through posts and will definitely be going back to soak in some of the more inspirational ones!5 -
5/3:
Exercise: Yes, one hour power walk
Calories: Yes, under
Tracked: Yes
Love reading all the inspiration from old timers and newcomers too! What a great group of folks, all dedicated to being the best we can be! 😊 Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!4 -
May 3
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
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5/3
Exercise? Yes, 1 hour walk in the village between raindrops with DH and Annie
Calories? On target
Tracked? Yes
@ShareASmile Can empathize about the deer and the hosta. They seem to think they have unlimited leaf lettuce to munch on!. We, regularly, have 10-12 deer in our back yard...so we gave up on tulips years ago.6 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, lots of walking and chasing kids.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes, was under goal!
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes, even a cookie I ate at a work party (notice it was A cookie, not 3 )
Pass days 0/35 -
Easy day exercise for me: 23 minutes walking
Calories: just under my limit
Tracking; okay4 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Treadmill HIIT 30 min 15 bike
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
May 1 166.2
May 2 166.4
May 3 165.94
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