March Mindfulness Challenge 2020
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Had a full week of hitting all my goals (carbs, protein and calories) and stayed very mindful of my planning, movement and eating. Then I got to last night and ate cookies and protein bars. Granted they were all low carb, so it wasn’t the food, just the amount. This morning I got up and felt horrible on all levels. Did some housework then forced myself back to the gym as scheduled. Somehow I had a great work out, followed by an extended walk to get groceries for dinner. No more cookies or protein bars in the house for me. Out of sight out of mind. Moving forward!3
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I did some research into overtraining and bone pain...then I actually went back to training yesterday, but at 25% of the volume I was doing (2x8 instead of 8x8) and I eliminated the weights on the squats - which to be fair was only 20 lbs, and since I weigh 160ish, the 20 lbs wasn't much of an increase, but no weights makes form easier and even though I don't think it was a form issue, there's just no reason to push that.
It was so hard and the muscles were not happy. Not sure how 25% can seem so hard after I was knocking out the full amount for 5 whole days, and only slightly less than that the whole month of Feb...BUT...I would rather take recovery slow than be delayed even more with additional pain.
This morning I feel good...somewhat sore, but more like a normal level of post-workout sore, and still some bone aches in a few spots, but not everywhere, so that's a massive improvement. I'm also going to add in a calcium supplement in case it's an issue with poor recovery due to lack of raw materials. I don't eat a terribly calcium rich diet, particularly when I cut back on calories, dairy is one of those luxury items that is easy to cut out.
Still digging those goals, just with some adjustments for reality and life!5 -
3/11 Did pretty good the last two days. Have decided that I am to be mindful of eating when not really hungry and when hungry, eating past satisfaction. If I can achieve mindfulness in those two areas, I believe the carb/cal thing will fall into place naturally. (At least that's my plan for now.
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@supergal3, that's a great plan for all of us, me especially to eat when hungry and not past being satisfied. #ruffles & # oreos.
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Check in for March 10
1. Mindful exercise daily. In addition to treadmill during my lunch, I went on a smaller walk/run after supper last night. I had not had the chance to do that yet d/t weather issues. Not the best plan when having just eaten 7 oz of hamburger. It felt like a heavy pit in my stomach. I'll have to rethink that for the future
2. Low carb, < 35 daily. Right at goal
3. Calorie deficit, <1,500 daily. Appropriately under
4. Get rid of 5 lbs by 3/31. The higher carbs of yesterday have not seemed to hurt me so far.
March is marching on quickly!2 -
Wow, I haven’t checked in in forever. I have 3 different sets of visitors this month, so it’s a bit hectic. Today and yesterday right on track. Good on carbs and calories and mindfulness on 8 and9, but exercise was down. Just some walking, no weights. Oh well. Onward!2
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Mar. 10-11 check in:
Mindfulness is slipping the last few days and my portions are not being managed. I need to follow @supergal3 lead and only eat if hungry and stop when full. Why does this sound so damn logical but is so hard in practice??
Being more present at home will soon become literal for me. My work schedule is about to change so I get more quality time with DH. The rest of the month will really need mindfulness to keep pounds from creeping back on.2 -
Check in for March 11
1. Mindful exercise daily. Treadmilling every day, hope weather is nice for the weekend so I can get outside
2. Low carb, < 35 daily. under goal
3. Calorie deficit, <1,500 daily. Appropriately under
4. Get rid of 5 lbs by 3/31. Looking good so far
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baconslave wrote: »-Mindful logging.
-NEAT: I've been just scraping by with "enough" but I know I could get more.
-Be present more while eating and slow down. No more multitask-eating!
-Overall increased mindfulness. When I'm tired or frustrated or overwhelmed I tend to hunker down in a foxhole. I need to keep aware.
I'm doing pretty well though still having to force NEAT. But getting it done. Def slowing down and tasting my food and feeling a little more satisfied as a result.
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3/10-11
Move with purpose 20 min/day - nope
More protein than fat - yep
NEAT - not bad but could be better
No alarm snooze - terrible I find myself not even realizing I'm hitting the snooze after the initial alarm. I think I need to set my coffee pot the night before so the smell will wake me.
All week I've been eating all the breakfast/lunch/snacks I packed by 12:00 because I've been hungry. But after lunch I'm good for the rest of the workday. I'm learning not to care about when I eat and being happy that whatever I packed is satisfying me in the end.3 -
Wed was good - food good, workouts good, goal digging win!3
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Mar 12 check in:
Today was much more mindful for eating but I waited too long for dinner and now feel too full. Had stuff going on that prevented eating earlier so I’ll have to watch that in future. I haven’t felt very present at home tonight so will work on that for the next few hours and tomorrow. Hope everyone is having a good week!1 -
Thursday was good - food and workouts mostly on target...I did have a snickerdoodle thing going on...and I took a bath in the evening, it was so awesome!!!3
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3/13 So far so good with my current plan. Will not step on scale for awhile as it takes time for that machine to kick in. Mindful of being hungry vs just liking the taste of something seems to be helping. Time will tell in the long run. Went to library for Beck book but living in small town Virginia doesn't help. None of her books anywhere in my county! May look online for a used edition. 1
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60 yo 5'4"
Starting weight 145
Current weight 139.6
Goal weight 130
weight loss goal for March: 5 pounds (5 pounds down and the month is only half over)
Goals:
1) to work up to over 40 ounces of water on all days (almost all days)
2) to weigh and log all of my food (most day) Still mindful of what I am eating
3) to exercise in some fashion every day (6 out of 7 days, I danced)
4) to be more mindful in my eating and exercise (have been enjoying both much more)
5) weekly check ins (and here I am)
I knew I had a good week and couldn't wait to weigh in. It has been a good week.
Namaste, Kristine1 -
Friday through Monday is going to be a cheat weekend. I’ve Ben carnivore for 5 weeks with no cheats and really don’t have any urge to. However hubs brought home a peanut butter pie for my birthday for the two of us so I’ll work on it and be done! Otherwise I plan to stick with my normal meat routine and plenty of exercise.3
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Weekend check in:
I’ve made it through the weekend of pie and cauliflower crust pizza and am ready to be back on plan. My body reacted just as I expected- it totally didn’t want sugar and carbs. I’ll stay off the scale til my Friday check in but imagine I didn’t do too much damage. I took the week off from HIIT exercise so I’ll be starting that back today with short runs. Totally ready to finish the month off strong!2 -
What a crazy time for everyone with the pandemic. My husband and I are staying at our cabin, 250km away from the city. He is working remotely and I am being quiet
I tend to be an emotional eater and have been battling binge eating. I have none of the typical trigger foods in the house, but keep feeling drawn to Pinterest which badly wants me to cook all things binge inducing! The weather is keeping us inside for now. Thankfully I am well provisioned with healthy food. I have been working very hard to recognize how fortunate I am on so many levels and amidst all the true struggles around the globe right now, I am merely inconvenienced.
Stay safe and healthy everyone.3 -
I agree that we are going thru a wild time in this world. The COVID is causing such a added stress. My work is extremely busy. I am trying to keep positive and not allow stress to get the better of me.
Check in for March 12, 13, 14, and 15.
1. Mindful exercise daily. Good exercise both on treadmill and outside except for Sunday. Got together with family so lots of riding in car and sitting. When I got home, I was too tired.
2. Low carb, < 35 daily. pretty good except for Sunday, wow a mini blizzard has a lot of carbs!
3. Calorie deficit, <1,500 daily. not bad, still under
4. Get rid of 5 lbs by 3/31. doing well, actually I'm almost there.
Hope everyone has enough toilet paper. That was the first to sell out around here, even before food.2 -
3/12-3/16 check in
Move with purpose 20 min/day - 4/5
More protein than fat -pretty good
NEAT - 3/5 good days
No alarm snooze- I think I need to change the setting to a louder sound. The current one is not helping me change this habit.
With the COVID19 culture causing daily changes, we took the opportunity to have dinner out with 2 other couples on Sat for one last time for a while then I went outlet shopping with a friend Sunday. No crowds, no panic and I picked up some necessities. Got word last night to work from home for the week and that will likely get extended to end of the month.
Be well everyone.1 -
3/17
Yes, this virus is causing an abrupt change in our life style. Did go to coffee shop on Sunday with one friend. Stayed to ourselves in a corner. Shop fairly empty. Will visit with one friend today and just socialize with a decent distance between us. I need some minimum amount of socialization besides texting for my MENTAL health but will limit it to one or two people at a time. We have no known cases in our county but that can change at any time.
My plan of mindful eating (when hungry and in moderate portions) seems to be working. Of course, it is harder with all the media focusing on only one topic, but I feel it is a good test of my resolve.
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We're not too disrupted. We homeschool and DH already works remotely 90%. But church, soccer, and high school classes at our homeschool co-op are out. My high school senior is very involved in volunteer work. She functions best mentally when she's busy and she is completely cut-off now. She can also be a bit of a nightmare when she's bored.
I personally am sticking with my efforts to be mindful, which includes me trying not to lose all my marbles.2 -
Check in for March 16
Yes, everyone be safe out there. Hand washing, sanitizer, and appropriate social distancing. Our church is not cancelled yet but I'm anticipating it will be. There have been no positive cases in our tri-county area yet in southern Wisconsin.
1. Mindful exercise daily. I mustarded up the motivation to go out after work for a 3 mile walk/jog. Did great once I got out there. Too busy at work to walk on the treadmill.
2. Low carb, < 35 daily. Very good, back at it after going way over on Sunday.
3. Calorie deficit, <1,500 daily. Very under
4. Get rid of 5 lbs by 3/31. Doing well.
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My con that I was using as my primary motivation to trim up some fluff is now officially delayed indefinitely.
Very sad...
I'm digging for some more motivation, and having trouble finding any...at least I'm still going to work every day, though most of the office is working remotely so it's quiet. I can do this...if only because I'm stubborn and the month is almost over anyway.
Typically I do a big irish meal for st patty's day, but since beef prices were double normal and there was no lamb I didn't both this year...if people want to stock up for coronapocalypse they are welcome to do so, but I'm not paying the extra if I can wait, and I'm good at waiting for a better deal...so, tonight I will be hunting for chicken, since that was also all gone over the weekend and at this point I'm totally out...<sigh>...we might just be eating more pork if I don't find any.2 -
Still sane.
Energy wasn't great so my workout was just okay and my NEAT as garbage. Pandemic plus all-day rain plus hormones. Not a good combo. Also, I managed to tweak something in my back on Friday and so I had to do bodyweight only strength. It managed not to strain the back though. It's not raining today, so I should get to walk circuits in my yard.
FTR I'm not afraid for myself getting sick or my kids. I'm certainly concerned for my older family who have NOT taken care of themselves and are in poor health. And it's all just surreal and disconcerting right now.
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March 16-17 check in:
I am being more present at home but could still improve. We’ll get plenty of time to work on that, it appears. I have been more mindful at lunch the last two days but not as much during dinner. I have been pretty active so hopefully that will balance things out.1 -
It was odd having a st patty's day dinner of pork chops, but it was still delicious...no tea cakes or hot cross buns either...I did get pretzel rolls, but no one at them...
I did my workouts, but they were boring...as expected...I even did some extra cardio rather than sit around while watching TV, so that was good...rewrote the April-June workout plan in light of all the even cancellations...I hope the beach stays open, because at this point it's the only vacation I'm going to have!1 -
Check in for March 17
1. Mindful exercise daily. Took the afternoon off and went on a 3 mile walk/jog
2. Low carb, < 35 daily. not so good, planned to eat out for my husband's birthday but they closed the restaurant before we got there, had to go to another restaurant drive thru that I hadn't planned for so ended up going over, ended up with 64 carbs
3. Calorie deficit, <1,500 daily. still well under
4. Get rid of 5 lbs by 3/31. Doing well. so far.
All this COVID is causing quite a stress level and accompanied struggle to not stress eat. I am trying to re-direct myself to exercise BUT "they" closed our employee fitness center because every other fitness center in the world is closed. WTHeck!
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3/17-18 check in
Move with purpose 20 min/day - 1/2, had a great home strength work out at lunch yesterday.
More protein than fat -still pretty good but I haven't been logging
NEAT - ok but I need to pay more attention to monitoring it
No alarm snooze-Working at home for the next 2 weeks my be the key to correcting this.
No stress eating here because I didn't buy anything snack food worthy on purpose
Also I'm a calm person in general.1 -
Check in March 18
1. Mindful exercise daily. Walking around in circles at work since our fitness center was closed and also went outside after work for a 2 mile walk/jog.
2. Low carb, < 35 daily. Did good, back on track for awhile anyway.
3. Calorie deficit, <1,500 daily. still well under
4. Get rid of 5 lbs by 3/31. Almost there!
How's everyone doing under the conditions of this new world we're living in? It's almost surreal. Our facility is talking about taking everyone's temperature coming in the door. I do work in healthcare so it makes sense. We haven't had any positive COVID cases in the 3 county area where I work, yet anyway.1
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