Exercise: 25 mins: 15 mins aerobics app. 10 mins yoga app.
Calories: in budget
Tracking: Yes. Trickier today as I ate at a colleagues house but I think I managed to work it all out.

Tomorrow begins 4 days of birthday celebrations so I'm not sure how I'll manage!!! Hopegully doing this will help keep me in check....even if I dont manage to stay completely inside the rules.

looks like we're all making a great job of June so far x my less obsessive less perfectionist behaviour this month feels better and I still find I have achieved as well by the end of the day x walking for exercise okay for now. tracked every bite of food and am under by 300 or so - which i need to watch as I.worked out last month that the desire to come under limit can get a bit addictive, left me feeling too hungry then the junk food consumption started which left me more hungry - vicious cycle i am not willing to repeat again x 3X yes for me today 4 in a row x keep.going y'all xxx

Success 0 : 4 Pass

Overeating

May 4
Exercised?: Yes. (3km in 24 mins - hills)
Calories?: Yes
Tracked?: Yes

Early late walk after busy work day.

Not much else to report today.

ForAmanda222 wrote: »

..I.worked out last month that the desire to come under limit can get a bit addictive, left me feeling too hungry then the junk food consumption started which left me more hungry - vicious cycle i am not willing to repeat again...

@ForAmanda222. I can understand this entirely. I tended towards this "all or nothing" approach for myself (part of my personality). I am more willing to allow others slack, but judge myself by harsher standards so tend to obsess over achievement (and thereby exceed goals by a wide margin).

The downside is that when you fail, you fail hard.

Therefore I often say, you need to "forgive" yourself your failures and simply get back on plan (not overcompensate - or yo-yo).

Another saying that helps is "dare to be average". ie. stop chasing perfection and just do enough. Average allows you more time to to more things (and once you have been outstanding, what you deem average seldom is )

Last point is "feeling hungry". Some foods are more filling than others. Only foods that trigger satiety are: fibre, protein and fats (note: not carbohydrates). A lot of processed food, the processing is to strip fibre. This makes the food less filling (more calorie dense). If you eat less processed food, you tend to be satiated quicker and for longer.

(In nature, all carbohydrates are found with fibre. Consumption of fibre WITH carbohydrate slows the absorption of the sugars (glucose). Fibre is like the "antidote" to the fast absorption of sugar "poison". The only benefits in taking fibre on its own (zero nutritional content) is to trigger satiety and help flush the digestive system (if not enough fibre is eaten with normal diet).

Ketch_22 wrote: »

...Finally today I lost 2#! I'm ecstatic I hadn't lost in 5 weeks. The only change I made this month was adding in weights, squats and planks so I hope it lasts

@Ketch_22. Congratulations. Once you are already near goal it is so hard to make things move.

Weight training will accelerate losses initially, but this too will eventually plateau. However the end goal is to reach a size and a health level you are happy to maintain with an amount of effort you can comfortably sustain. Note: weight does not figure here, it's size and health.

If you cannot comfortably maintain the desired size and a health level, then you will slowly slip out of the habits formed. This will lead to slow increases in size and decreases in health. This is why practical goal setting is so important.


[soap box away now ]

Third really nice day in a row. Just as I am getting used to this ... rain in the forecast for tomorrow Rode Annie in the outdoor ring today which was lovely after MONTHS of being confined to the indoor ring. Also did an hour in the pool (although stayed in the indoor pool since the water temp in the outdoor pool at the health club is incredibly cold). Food on target as was logging. So, yes x 3.

June 4

Exercised: 45 minutes Jillian Michael's Hard Body L1 + 26K steps
Calories: Yes
Tracked: Yes

@RangerRickL, that sounds like such a lovely day. Those roses are beautiful! We are barely finishing tulips here and hope that we'll get to summer flowers at some point!

@Craigo3154, thanks for your words of wisdom! I'm taking all the maintenance advice under advisement as I get closer to goal (including the knowledge that imagined goal may not be actual goal, and body comp will definitely play a huge part in maintenance).

6/4
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? 50 minutes outside walk in the late afternoon plus playtime with Annie
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes, on target
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes

3x yes

1 pass
3 yes