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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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In the midst of so much loss of what was normal and comfortable, we can be defeated or we can play the hand that we are dealt with tenacity.
Even when we yearn to have the cards re-dealt.
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Yes x three. Feeling really great about about ending today with a protein shake. I was so hungry, nothing I ate for dinner was going to fill me except protein! I’ve also decided on days I have a big workout day I need to up the calories. I just don’t think it is healthy for me to maintain that 1200 on a day when I know I’m burning 600-700 just from exercise alone. I will go up 1400 on those days and see how it works out. If I stop loosing at the speed I am now or not at all I will go back to it. Hope everyone had a successful day!8
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Yes x three. Feeling really great about about ending today with a protein shake. I was so hungry, nothing I ate for dinner was going to fill me except protein! I’ve also decided on days I have a big workout day I need to up the calories. I just don’t think it is healthy for me to maintain that 1200 on a day when I know I’m burning 600-700 just from exercise alone. I will go up 1400 on those days and see how it works out. If I stop loosing at the speed I am now or not at all I will go back to it. Hope everyone had a successful day!
Don't underfeed your system if you are working out that hard! No WAY you should be only taking in 1200 calories and finding yourself at a Net Intake: only ~500-600 calories level
MFP presumes that you WILL eat back (at least a goodly portion of) your exercise calories. You should be eating back enough to stay close to the chosen "~ X per week" average rate of change (and there is a rule of thumb chart on the "Getting Started" board for safe weight-loss goal setting based on how much you still have to lose. The closer you are to goal, the smaller the weekly loss-goal should be.
A bit of trial and error will determine whether the MFP (or alternate other tracker) generated "exercise credit" is either over generous or under-estimated. From there, you can determine if you "aught to be eating back (let's say) ~50% of the over-generous exercise credit allowance"6 -
Pass day 3.
All food logged, but not the best choices and over my budget. It was a recover from 5 day work shift day, but I did go out for a run this morning. It was tough so I walked a bunch of it, but I think I have figured out why the last few days have been so tough. I wake up with blocked sinus and think it might be because I just put my winter (feather) duvet on the bed. I don't remember having a reaction to it before, but there is always the possibility I have developed a mild allergy to it. Put the other one back for tonight to test...
9 days left for the month. I can get 9 successful days and still make the circle!10 -
Hey guys,
This challenge is harder than I thought!
May 20 unintentional pass, logged partially
May 21 unintentional pass, forgot to log
Thanks for still being here!8 -
Thur 21: (posted in the wrong thread last night)
Exercise: Yes! 57 mins. Aerobics, walking, circuits, gardening
Calories: Yes!
Tracked: Yes!
Fri 22:
Exercise: Yes! 106 mins. walking, circuits, dancing
Calories: Yes!
Tracked: Yes
2️⃣ Pass Days left
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5/22
Exersized-?yes
Caleries?-yes
Logged?-yes6 -
Friday, 5/22
Tracking: Yes
Calories: under
Exercise: Yes, cycling - 60 minutes - not including pre and post ride
I would have done more yard work but the belt on the mower deck on the tractor was slipping. I should have stopped mowing when I became aware it seemed to be losing power but thought I could push through it. It wasn’t until I smelled rubber burning that it became apparent that I might not be that smart. That belt was not salvageable. Oh well. I’ll attach the brush cutter tomorrow and whack it all down some before I can get to John Deere.
Pass days to date - 36 -
Did all 3 2 pass days left6
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“Do. Or do not. There is no try.” - Yoda
Yes x3
2 passes left
I am getting things done with less effort.
Have a great weekend all!
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Yes, yes and yes. A 30 minute walk.5
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First pass day for May.
Little over on cheese and space for chocolate since my Blue Apron cooking meal was 910 calories. My Fitbit has had issues connecting to my device the past few hours so I just closed out my diary at where it was-- so my diary doesn't include my 30 min workout but also doesn't include the extra cheese or dessert 😂
Still feel proud that I'm not over by a ton and that my first pass day was on the 22nd!
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? yes, almost the bare minimum, walked 30 minutes. This was a peaceful rest day for me.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? yes, a couple hundred under
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? yes6 -
May pass day 2, I did not do the exercise. My eating was good, and I logged everything. To be honest I just got lazy.6
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Yes x 3
I made it through a graduation party tonight. I have a Memorial Day picnic and then my own son's graduation party next week. We shall see if my one last pass day will be enough for the rest of May. Lol5 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? 36 minutes barre strength + 2 mile walk this morning
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes and under
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yep!5 -
RangerRickL wrote: »
In the midst of so much loss of what was normal and comfortable, we can be defeated or we can play the hand that we are dealt with tenacity.
Even when we yearn to have the cards re-dealt.
Thank you for this! Pulls one out of victim mode & back into strength!
I will add it to, “Life is tough, my Darling, but so are You!”
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May 22
Yes x 3
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Was going to skip walk, but did’t. As the day cooled down & smile cleared, out we went! Felt great!
Today is my 900 day streak logging in MFP Dec 4 2017 191.8 lb (I had lost 37lbs in other ways since 1/1/16)
Today: 157.4
This is possible with all the tools at our disposal & UAC❣️❣️❣️4 -
22nd May
Exercise: Yes. Went for an amazing 2-hour walk in a recently re-opened area by the river. Kicked myself I hadn't brought my camera.
Calories: Yes, stayed way under with all those exercise calories
Tracking: Yes, logged everything.
Keeping it easy today but bike ride to the beach planned for tomorrow with a friend.5 -
Happy 900th Day, Miss Madison! Wow, I'm impressed. That's a lot of faithful logging, and a great loss as well! Thanks for the inspo to finish the month strong- I've only got one pass day left. I'm watching my hubby inhale an entire bag of gummy bears next to me, and I have 3 calories left for the day. Such cruelty I have to endure...but I WILL WIN (today anyway)!
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? yes: 30-minutes aerobics
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? yes4 -
@gberin It is much harder than it would seem to be. Don't get discouraged. The goal is to develop long term healthy habits not to feel guilty.
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Well done, @SheilaCali4
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Big hike in the mini-mountains of Phoenix mountains preserve
Calories: under my limit
Tracking: good4 -
Exercise: yes
Logged food/drinks: yes
=< Calories: yes3 -
exercise yes
tracking yes
budget- yes
(ate all of my exercise calories)Got up early went to my usual climb.
A bit on the brisk side.
Back down into the 40s for a couple of days.
Made what felt like a concerted effort to get close to my time from back a couple of years ago.
10 minutes back from it was as close as I could get.
I have done that climb hundreds of times now.
Strava ain't going to show me my segment history of it now though.
They made that into a subscription feature couple days ago.
Ack. 50 bucks a year to see my leaderboard compilation.
I might do it.
Trail runner girls were there parked where I park.
So they were up the road ahead of me somewhere.
That somehow motivates me to a stronger effort.
See if I can catch them before they get to the top and turn around.
Nope.
I seen them when they were on the way back down.
My time looked good at that point so I said a brief hi and pressed on to the top.
They said yeah, ok, we'll see you when you come back down.
I descended at a pretty good clip but didn't intercept them till about half mile from the cars.
One of them is a hospital worker so pretty conscientious about social distance.
So we are walking and yakking spread out across the width of the road.
Talking about the summer's races that are cancelled.
Iron Horse Bicycle Classic tomorrow is cancelled.
I used to always like cranking in that.
We talked about weird new social phenomena.
I mentioned having gone to the liquor store the other day wearing my mask.
The guys that worked there were wearing guns.
Weird.
I ain't been to the bank yet.
Pic of the camp where I would normally stage for Memorial Saturday bicycle "race"
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Exercise yes 10 min quigong, 180 min cleaning, 60 min gardening
Tracking yes calories yes5 -
May 22
Exercise: Yes, 20 mins walk, I couldn't walk more because of a heavy rain.
Calories: Yes
Tracked: Yes4 -
@Hollis100 Thanks for the pic!
A big part of my journey was dealing with bad habits and Yoda shows me the 'weigh of the Jedi.
Here's one right back at 'ya.
Unlearn the bad habits we must if successful we need to become.
(And replace them with good ones).
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