Determined December Challenge 2019
Options
Replies
-
Forgot to report yesterday. But score for Days 2&3! Love the accountability, totally helped me control myself at dinner tonight3
-
Day 3
I am determined:
Staying under carbs-50g total-YES even with an Irish creme got chocolate 😋
Staying under calories-1500 per day-NO
Logging and measuring-YES
Getting in exercise/movement-2/3
Increasing water intake-YES doubled my water intake
Planning ahead meals-YES4 -
VR boxing and Beat Saber two days in a row for me.6
-
Dec 3rd
On-plan calories: Yep
On-plan carbs: Yep
Workouts: 2/6
Did not eat a donut! There are 6 of them sitting on the counter staring at me.
My whole rhythm of cal/carb cycling is just off this week thanks to the Black Hole, but I'm doing well with my revised plan. I need to do more NEAT. Thanks to @taylok23 for reminding me about that. I was a couple hundred steps away from 10K yesterday, for a cardio day, that's bad. The lack of sunlight, cold, and chilling of my schedule due to soccer season ending has really tanked the NEAT big time. Did a Leslie Sansone 4 Miles workout adding extra boosts (jogging and other uppity higher impact movements) to it the last half as is my custom. I don't know why I'm so dumb and hate running so much, (I would rather do anything than run, especially on a treadmill in the dark cold basement right now) but I'm ok if I'm following a video and will even kick it up several notches. Silly like that I guess. My inner motivator is such a brat sometimes... :grumble:
Have an awesome day and keep it up!
Today ends in last day of class prep and volunteer work at church for 3 hours. Busy busy.
Jess in Northeast TN
4 -
1. FOCUS ON MAINTAINING (or lose a pound or two)
2. PLAN ACTIVE HOLIDAY FUN (Going to AZ for winter break/Hiking is on my list)
3. SCHEDULE WORKOUTS (just booked 12 OTF classes)
4. GET EXCITED ABOUT LOOKING GOOD AT HOLIDAY PARTIES (because!!)
Doing okay so far.
I lost a bit of body fat.
I went to OTF 2x and did a walk/run 1x.
Made dinner from scratch yesterday and I brought the left overs for lunch!
So doing good at day3
3 -
Day 1-3
1.Under 75 carbs tops (I'm usually under 50 but leeway for holiday events) DONE
2. Work on adding at least 1 or 2 days of some sort of exercise each week. I know that sounds lame but I have literally done NO exercise, not even taking walks in many months due to a huge long lasting RA flare. NOT YET
3. Try a new low carb recipe each week to motivate me and my husband who is kind of sorting following the plan. NOT YET
Last night I had to pick up the gluten free cookie dough I ordered from a friend's kid before I went back low carb and I took it straight to my mom's. Now today I've been gifted a tin of homemade fudge for Christmas! I will probably have one or two pieces between now and the holiday but I fear my husband will completely derail. I might take a few pieces out for us and give the rest to my daughter and her family.3 -
Day 3 of determined December. You all are doing so good!
1. Lose 5 lbs before 12/31/19 [work in progress]
2. Stay under carb goal (> 35) and under calorie goal (>1,500) every day [success, 31 carbs & 1,079 calories]
3. Exercise every day at least 30 minutes, walking on treadmill or outside if weather permits [exercised 41 minutes for 2.3 miles on the treadmill]
4. Plan ahead every day which is challenging with so many potluck opportunities and I love to socialize. [success, easy day to plan ahead, no parties]
Tonight (for Dec 4) may be a challenge b/c my church group gets together for bible study and someone always brings a good treat.
Keep up the good work every one!
Vicki in Wisconsin
2 -
Happy wednesday everyone!
Our day is done, another good one here!
1) Stay under the carb goal -
2) eat enuf calories, but not too much -
3) log everything -
4) hit our activity goal every day -
5) workout at least 5x a week - 4 down 1 left
TBH we really try to do a workout every day, but I figured saying 5/week left some leeway incase we get a bad week or something. Sometimes weekends are tough.
ALSO - I forgot to mention right up front we do IF, like usualy 7:17 or something like that. Its just kinda our natural default, we just eat 2 meals a day. Sorta late breakfast/brunch, and then early dinner. And usually there's a snack, which just sorta happens whenever, depending when the other two meals are. Like our schedule is kinda flexible & sometimes a meal can move around by a few hours. But like overall, we do most of our eating inside a 6 to 8 hour window.
Hope everyone's had a good day today! 2 -
Today’s update: NEAT down but still ok, increase in water moving up AND I bypassed the donut truck at work today! Stayed LCHF all day, stopped when full at lunch but had a few nuts after dinner. Regretting those as I feel too full now but it’s a good reminder to stop when I’m ahead. Keep up the good work!
Kristin in OH2 -
This is a good challenge!
I'm determined to start my journey by walking at least 2x a week.
I'm determined to stay under my carb goal (54g) for at least 6 out of 7 days of the week.
I'm determined to drink water water water!3 -
Day 4
I am determined:
Staying under carbs-50g total-YES
Staying under calories-1500 per day-NO- I’ve been so hungry the last few days
Logging and measuring-YES
Getting in exercise/movement-3/3
Increasing water intake-YES still working on increasing
Planning ahead meals-YES
My favorite part of today was walking around my neighborhood with the littles looking at all the lights and decorations ☃️❄️🎄⭐️2 -
Day 4 was a win for me, logged all my food. Better get logging if I want to win today 2
-
I am determined to stick with it even though the scale is being a brat!2
-
I am late in joining the thread but I’ve been sticking with my goals thusfar!
I was overweight many years ago and lost 70 pounds through online support. Now my goals are more about health, self-care/self-love, fitness and consistency. I’ve been bodybuilding to help with a medical condition and gaining muscle has helped reduce my symptoms so much! Not tracking for the past 9 months has been a nice break but now it’s time to lose some extra fluff as I keep working on strength gains and developing more muscle. I’m really proud of myself and happy with my body right now so this is a great starting point.
My goals for December are strict, but a little deprivation is good for a reset right now.
1) Stick to planned foods only, except on Christmas
2) Work out 5 days a week, aiming for 25 hours of exercise this month
3) Track every day
4) Hopefully get down to 150 again, starting weight was 156, but since I’m strength training I won’t worry about the number as much
5) Fit back into the clothes I recently hulked out of!
2 -
Dec 4, great to report success
1. Lose 5 lbs before 12/31/19 [work in progress]
2. Stay under carb goal (< 35) and under calorie goal (<1,500) every day [success, 19 carbs & 600 calories, I wasn't hungry]
3. Exercise every day at least 30 minutes, walking on treadmill or outside if weather permits [exercised 31 minutes for 1.9 miles on the treadmill]
4. Plan ahead every day which is challenging with so many potluck opportunities and I love to socialize. [success, easy day to plan ahead, no parties]
I am also glad that taylok23 mentioned NEAT. I hadn't fully considered how beneficial that could be through out my day at work. I have a sedentary job on the phone for the most part. So I have been trying to increase my steps through out the day with walking up 2 flights of stairs a couple times per day and going w a y down the hall to use the bathroom. So far so good.
Everyone is doing a great job,
Vicki in Wisconsin
1 -
Day 4
1.Under 75 carbs tops (I'm usually under 50 but leeway for holiday events) DONE
2. Work on adding at least 1 or 2 days of some sort of exercise each week. I know that sounds lame but I have literally done NO exercise, not even taking walks in many months due to a huge long lasting RA flare. NOT YET
3. Try a new low carb recipe each week to motivate me and my husband who is kind of sorting following the plan. YES....I made a low carb spinach alfredo "lasagna".
I did eat one piece of fudge last night but it fit into my carbs. Today I was going to get a tall Irish Cream cold brew at Starbucks because I'm dying to try it but it was sold out so Starbucks saved me those carbs....I just got a plain iced coffee with a splash of cream instead.3 -
Little later than usual today, we had one of those messed-up-schedule kinda days here.
1) Stay under the carb goal -
2) eat enuf calories, but not too much -
3) log everything -
4) hit our activity goal every day -
5) workout at least 5x a week -
So that 'log everything' thing... kinda funny, but today I had to look in the MFP food database for 'cat treats'
Kinda surprised TBH there were actually afew brands of kitty treats already in the database? Just, not the brand I was eating. 
But, the package listed some nutritional info so I figured out how to add it to the database, and so I got 'everything logged' today!
Hope everyone's had / having a great Thursday! 0 -
I'm going to with Friday as the end of the week since the weekend is where I am most challenged and therefore what I want to think of as "the start" to try and trick my brain into staying more focused and more on-track.
Week 1 was good...I had 1 too low calorie day, but to be fair I was sick and slept most of the day so I can't imagine my calorie needs were much anyway. I had a couple low protein days at the start of the month, but I managed to pull it up and the tail end of the week was better.
I missed 2 workouts instead of just the goal of 1, however, I was also sick so I'm going to cut myself some slack just for this week.
2 -
Day 4 was good for me as well. Got more water plus a Gatorade zero in, fasted 16:8, and buzzed all over the office to keep NEAT up. Overate a bit at dinner but stayed LCHF so that’s a win!1
-
The good news is that I stuck to my goal and logged everything for Day 5. The bad news is that I tasted the mini cinnamon buns I was baking 😬
I’ve been baking them in small batches since Tuesday and resisting beautifully, but somehow last night I ended up choosing to taste them. Oh well, logged it as best as I cld and movin on.4
