Daily post
Calories-yes
Water - yes
Exercise- went grocery shopping so a little
Steps 7522

Daily Post

Track: Yes
Calories: Yes, under
Exercise: Yes - 60 minutes yoga and 30 minutes walking
Goals/Day/Comments: I got some sort of yuck going around my office over the weekend, fever and congestion. I think I'm over the worst of it, but decided to go moderate on the exercise on Day 1 and do yoga. Hopefully I'll be up for higher cardio tomorrow night!

Daily Post Monday

Track Yes
Calories Yes - stayed within my calories and felt satisfied throughout day
Exercise Smashed step target of 10000 steps by doing 15961

Water Managed 2 litres over course of day

Feeling much more motivated and hope everyone else has a successful day!

Daily post for Monday:

Track: yes
Calories: yes, well under
Water: Yep - 100+ oz
Exercise: 10k+ steps and a 30-40 minute trainer session full of thrusters, retro rows, push-ups (modified), drunken mountain climbers and burpees (modified) (Some of the steps were, of course, during the training session.)

The workout was awesome yesterday - my modifications are becoming less and less (although some of these would have been modified regardless, because we were outside). It felt really good to get back on track with everything after the weekend. (I feel like I say something similar every week - I wonder when I'll learn to just stay on track on the weekends?!?)

Today's schedule is going to be a bit off for me. I'm only working for a few hours, then I have a hair appointment, then hopefully get some work done on my car. I doubt I'll make it to the gym, so just gotta make sure I get my steps in. Maybe a few push ups or something too!

Daily Post: Monday 7/1

Track: Yes
Calories: Under
Steps: 9,538
Squats: 50 (also doing the July Squat Challenge)

Exercise: A mile walk with Rita (canine). 1.5 mile run on treadmill, running with incline (rolling hills). Gardening in the backyard. With all the rain I have a jungle in my backyard! Worked in my pond, my fish so funny competing for attention. They love to be pet and talked to. Yes, they are very spoiled!

AB0215 wrote: »

@CindyJNC1963 Awesome day, great job with your steps!! And those milestones are awesome! You will be at them in no time. That's really amazing, you've accomplished so much in such a short amount of time really, it took me a lot longer than it's taken you to get where you are, super proud of you!

I didn't really pay attention to my BMI until like 3 weeks ago, and to be honest, for me, I'm still not since I have a significant amount of muscle over someone of my same size...it's a little bit skewed for me as it only measures weight to height to age and having said that I just hit 28 on that scale so that officially takes me out of the Obese category altogether, which I honestly don't think I've been since like the 5th grade...actually maybe no, I was still like 150 lbs in the 5th grade so, guess you have to go back earlier than that!

Thanks!! No, if I were you I wouldn't pay much attention to BMI either. I used to have a friend in the military who was a body builder and she had to get a body fat % test or something to pass her qualification test - her height to weight ratio was too high. That's awesome about getting out of the "obese" category but I'm sure you aren't even overweight now if you did a body fat % test.

I never had a weight problem at all until I graduated from college. My grandmother had some sort of eating disorder herself and I wasn't allowed to get fat. My food intake was strictly monitored. I can remember sneaking and eating a bologna sandwich when she wasn't near the kitchen....I would carefully sweep away all of the crumbs so she wouldn't notice. I found an old college tshirt the other day....it was a teeny tiny little medium. Maybe one day.....

Daily check in
July 1
Tracked yes
Calories under
Exercise yes
goals today 120 mins Aqua size Make Rails for deck, weight training and more walking

💥Daily Post: Tuesday, 2nd July 💥

✅Track: yes
✅Calories: under
☑️Exercise: none today

Comments: I honestly feel like I'm hitting my stride now...everything is feeling a little easier, and more normal. One big difference I'm finding at the moment is when I did Slimming World I was thinking about food all the time....not necessarily out of deprivation but out of necessity as so much of it, if you're going to do it properly, is cooked from scratch. I'm not a natural cook and I hate being stuck in the kitchen so this was always done with a bit of resentment. And because of my discomfort I very much relied on the same meals over and over again, which of course then opens you up to boredom. I felt like I was spending so much time preparing food, and as soon as I had eaten, I was thinking about what I had to prepare next. It's best described as a preoccupation. And when i faltered on it, it wasn't because I was hungry, but because I was fed up. Fed up entirely of having to go through the huge process of planning and executing meals (it was huge for me).

At the moment though, there's a liberation in not having to go all out if I don't want to. Granted I'm not yet concentrating on macros and I'm sure that will come later, but for the mo it's calorie tracking and trying not to go too far on saturated fat. And if I'm caught out somewhere it's easy to find something I can eat. And if I'm really craving something I can fit it in "like a normal person" instead of having to think how I can prepare and cook it in a way that won't knock me on syns (a Slimming World term for anything that basically has little to no nutritional value and can't be counted as a free food....where you're allowed up to 15 a day but somehow eating even somewhat into the allowance always made me feel like I was cheating and then failing!)

This is not to say everything is miraculously wonderful, but it IS very lovely and liberating to not be so preoccupied with food, and to know that I'm still doing something healthy for myself. In that preoccupation doesn't equal success. I also am starting to think this is important in lessoning the importance of food in my life as well, in the whole sense of deprivation and "bad" and "good" foods. I don't want to be focused on my weigh 100% of the time. I'll always have to keep tabs bc of my tendency to eat emotionally, but I don't want it to define me.

Anyway what a spew! 😂 kudos if you made it to the end. I just feel really good today and wanted to share where I was.😊

gjaholy33 wrote: »

Due to my latest scare seriously thinking about considering going through with the baraitric surgery without feeling like a failure to my goals.

If you decide to have the surgery you shouldn't consider it a failure at all. The surgery is just a tool that is available to use to reach your goals.

AB0215 wrote: »

CindyJNC1963 wrote: »

AB0215 wrote: »

@CindyJNC1963 Awesome day, great job with your steps!! And those milestones are awesome! You will be at them in no time. That's really amazing, you've accomplished so much in such a short amount of time really, it took me a lot longer than it's taken you to get where you are, super proud of you!

I didn't really pay attention to my BMI until like 3 weeks ago, and to be honest, for me, I'm still not since I have a significant amount of muscle over someone of my same size...it's a little bit skewed for me as it only measures weight to height to age and having said that I just hit 28 on that scale so that officially takes me out of the Obese category altogether, which I honestly don't think I've been since like the 5th grade...actually maybe no, I was still like 150 lbs in the 5th grade so, guess you have to go back earlier than that!

Thanks!! No, if I were you I wouldn't pay much attention to BMI either. I used to have a friend in the military who was a body builder and she had to get a body fat % test or something to pass her qualification test - her height to weight ratio was too high. That's awesome about getting out of the "obese" category but I'm sure you aren't even overweight now if you did a body fat % test.

I never had a weight problem at all until I graduated from college. My grandmother had some sort of eating disorder herself and I wasn't allowed to get fat. My food intake was strictly monitored. I can remember sneaking and eating a bologna sandwich when she wasn't near the kitchen....I would carefully sweep away all of the crumbs so she wouldn't notice. I found an old college tshirt the other day....it was a teeny tiny little medium. Maybe one day.....

So I went looking because I thought about what you said about not being overweight if I tested my body fat. I'm sitting at 32% body fat, I test that once a month. What that means is I now fall into the healthy/acceptable category (just barely 32% is the cutoff). I was surprised to find that out. Now I still have some work to do because I want to get to 21 to 24% which is where you'd be considered "fit". So that means I still have some weight to lose, and I think my overall aim might be 120 lbs, but I'm not really sure, and currently I'm working towards 130 and I will see what that looks like when I get there. It's sort of unreal for me at this point, what started as a pipe dream of being 140 has come and past. And I'm currently wearing smalls and mediums and when I started I was wearing a 3x, which never occurred to me that could be a reality for me.

I'm working towards a more intuitive eating approach myself these days. I have an idea of what I eat but I don't track it like I used to, down to the scale amount and before I eat it and so on, but I still track it, just after I eat. I am trying to see if I eat until I feel full and stay inside my eating window, can I actually eat what I should, and so far, the results are really positive. I am getting to a point in my journey where I'm sort of gearing up for what maintenance might look like for me. I think that ideally I'd like to eat intuitively and I'm trying to train myself to be able to do that and so far....it's looking positive. We shall see how that works out long term.

That is awesome about getting into the healthy/acceptable category.

CindyJNC1963 wrote: »

Ha ha. I know what you mean. I'm not a cook either. Ashley told me about the Instant Pot though and I LOVE it. It makes cooking so much easier. I will probably always rely a good deal on my protein bars and such as a staple of my diet.

I have an instant pot, but admit I use it mostly to steam veg and cook rice 😂😂 again, stuck in a rut! my natural abilities don't help me here and if I look at a recipe and it has too many ingredients or steps I completely switch off 😂 i really should start utilising it more! Can you point me to some good recipes/resources youve found? Or even some of your favourites?

o0kody0o wrote: »

🌟Daily Post: Tuesday, 2 July

✅Track: Yes
✅Calories: Under
✅Exercise: Yes. 3x15 with dumbbells (4kg each), 50 squats and 50 mins of walking.
💬Comments: Well, I can’t remember the last time I done squats but I had a burst of energy this morning and went for it 😆My thighs have felt like jelly all day though 🙈 I’ll try and make it a daily thing. It’s not much but it’ll get me moving and that’s what’s important!

@lsjhudson I’m not a “cook from scratch” kinda person either. Yep, calorie tracking is so important...I was probably eating upwards of 2000 a day before joining MFP. I wouldn’t think twice about having a Chinese or Indian takeaway twice a week, then maybe going to China Buffet King at the weekend and loading my plate! If my OH left any food on his plate at home, I’d have that too 🙈

I’m so happy you’re feeling really good today, that’s nice to see! You’re doing fantastic and I can tell from your posts that you’re feeling much more positive about things now, which is great 💕

Same, sister. Even on SW I'm sure I was over calories loads 😬

And thanks as ever for all your support! ❤️

lsjhudson wrote: »

CindyJNC1963 wrote: »

Ha ha. I know what you mean. I'm not a cook either. Ashley told me about the Instant Pot though and I LOVE it. It makes cooking so much easier. I will probably always rely a good deal on my protein bars and such as a staple of my diet.

I have an instant pot, but admit I use it mostly to steam veg and cook rice 😂😂 again, stuck in a rut! my natural abilities don't help me here and if I look at a recipe and it has too many ingredients or steps I completely switch off 😂 i really should start utilising it more! Can you point me to some good recipes/resources youve found? Or even some of your favourites?

@AB0215 posted a great beef brisket recipe for the instant pot, but it does have a lot of ingredients. My other favorites are really simple. I just sprinkle a little Morton's Nature's Seasoning on both sides of whatever meat I am cooking. Pork chops and chicken breasts are soooooo tender. The time just depends on what you are cooking ......but usually only about 7 - 8 minutes.