SMcFall0215 wrote: »

Happy June everyone!!! Today was a crazy hectic day in the banking world.. when it’s the 1st day of the month and it also falls on a Monday that makes for a super busy day!! I had a cliff bar for breakfast and I missed lunch. Pretty sure I had a ton of steps but I haven’t even had a chance to look! I still have to get 1 kids to dance comp and go to the store. Left overs for dinner tonight. Hope everyone has a great evening!

I'm panting just reading about your day. Holy moly! I hope you have a chance for a calm meal and a breather tonight. Left overs sounds perfect.

eponymoose wrote: »

Thanks for the advice @jugar , I think you are probably right about my goals - certainly the August one. I'll see how this week goes and have a think about something more achievable. Oh and my name is Lindsay. 🙂

In general, when I try to lose weight, there will be a few weeks of 3lb losses to start with so I think I may achieve 10lb in June before it slows down a bit.

My other goals for the month are:
1)Have reached week 6 of my couch to 5k programme without skipping any runs.
2) Achieve my step target daily. My garmin gives me a different target every day and currently I'm around 10000 steps but if I keep achieving them, it will go up.
3) Don't eat after 7pm. We all have our evening meal together at the moment so it's just snacking and never the right sort of food.
4) Have increased my water intake to 2l daily and complete a full week of 2l days by the end of June.

It's lovely to see so many people from all over the world. I'm in the West Highlands of Scotland so not terribly far from Inverness and Raasay. I forgot to mention my middle child (😱) in my first post. So I have an 11 yr old, an almost 8yr old and the baby who is 8 months.
@KellyBgetsfit I find the same about steps during the holidays! I was easily hitting 18000 a day at school before maternity leave but I find it hard to hit 6000 at the moment.

So impressed! The couch 2 5k program is a good one, and you are on week 6 with no skipping. WTG! And I am relieved to see your realistic take on starting with 3 lb losses, and calming down from there. The steps and STOPs (evening snacking) are going to be crucial in your plan. Next time I come to Scotland maybe I will visit! One of my flutes is made by an amazing flutemaker from Nairn. Is that near you? I have had some good pub meals there... OH - your middle kid forgives you. I'm a middle kid. It happens

unevano wrote: »

Unevano's Monday weigh in
PW 224
CW 220

2 number challenge (met my numbers for today)
GKI 5.25 (challenge number is less than 6)
exercise 1 hour (challenge # is 1 hour)

Looking good - I am glad you're doing the 2 magic numbers! It's silly but fun. And hopefully useful.

CanadianGiraffe wrote: »

I have 5 goals for each day in June:
#1 Log everything and stay within +/- 5o calories of my daily allotment
#2 Go for a walk everyday
#3 Make a daily To-Do List of 5-7 items and complete them
#4 Continue the 3 Mini-Habits from May and add a 4th
#5 Complete the 2 Magic Numbers challenge

I decided I needed to be more specific about exercise. Last month's goals were a little wide open. So I am specifying a daily walk and my 2 Magic Numbers are exercise related as well.

I got off to a rather inauspicious start yesterday. I ended up unwell after supper so didn't get through a couple of the things on my list on the first day out of the gate.
But today is going much better.

I'm glad today is going well - icky days happen. I like your list. I'm going to go revise mine - it isn't quite right somehow!

Good start to the week, team!

Last message for tonight -
For those of you who would like to count steps and/or exercise and receive beautiful virtual kudos each week, here is a bit about how it works for the combination of exercise and steps:

Today I did 20 minutes of Pilates and (so far) 12,414 steps. According to some wonderful charts I have found, we are giving Pilates 100 steps per minute. The Pilates = 2,000 steps, so the total for the day is 14,414.

Many forms of exercise are on these wonderful "translation" charts, so if you do circuit training, canoeing, whatever - we can find an equivalent in steps. It is a fun way to count more than just daily steps if you are into other forms of workout. Let us know! @micki48 and I both work on the tracking for and with you. One of these days we'll have it down pat!

So post about those minutes of exercise, and we'll make you look great (as if you didn't already)

Steps: 4,500
What an odd day. The weather in VT wasn’t much better than in Canada. Chilly, gusty, cloudy, some sunshine, then rain, then...well, you get the idea. I felt slightly hung over from a sneak-attack last night from a migraine. It came out of the blue after my shower.
Well, things got better after most of the day was done. Time for a good sleep.
I’m really glad that you’re in my life. Take good care of yourselves! See you tomorrow.

Update on my Goals:
last weeks goals from 5am on 5/25/2020 to 5am on 6/1/2020 score is done 1-7
**7** 1) Keep my GKI number in the range of 1-5
**7** 2) My weight goals: 220
** 7** 3) Eating Goal - Track my calories, fats, total carbs, protein, fiber, trans-fats. Figure net carbs per day.
**1** 4) My water intake to be 64 fl. oz. or more.
**7** 5) Exercise goals: work hard in the yard to where I am breathing hard, sweating and having to take a rest periodically to catch my breath so to speak. Do this at least 3 times this week for a duration of about 2 hours or longer.
**7** 6) Directed Meditation for 15 minutes 2 times per day or longer.
**6** 7) Celebrate my wins with activities that I love doing rather than food.
**1** 8) Learn how to make fat bombs and make at least 1 batch this week.
**1** 9) Learn to make keto crackers and make at least 1 batch this week.
Commentary on how I did: Avg score is **4.9** which I am happy with. On the goals I scored a 1 on are the goals I basically didn’t focus on or I could have done them. That tells me that to me, they should not be a goal as I just don’t care about them so I will be dropping those goals for this coming week.

Goals.
This weeks goals from 5am on 6/1/2020 to 5am on 6/8/2020
1) Keep my GKI number in the range of 1-5
2) My weight goals: 218
3) Eating Goal - Track my calories, fats, total carbs, protein, fiber, trans-fats. Figure net carbs per day.
4) Exercise goals: work hard in the yard to where I am breathing hard, sweating and having to take a rest periodically to catch my breath so to speak. Do this at least 3 times this week for a duration of about 2 hours or longer.
5) Directed Meditation for 15 minutes 2 times per day or longer.
6) Celebrate my wins with activities that I love doing rather than food.
7) go to bed by before 4 am every day this week.

Below are my long range goals, most of which are coming due in a few weeks. Yikes! I haven’t made any progress on my sleeping goal so I have set an achievable goal this week for sleep to me. The other 3 long range goals on track to being met as of right now.

Long term goals:
1) Weight goal for Monday, January 18, 2021 is to weigh 154 pounds.
2) Sleeping goal - By June 18, 2020 I wake up each day at 5 am after getting at least 4 hours of sleep feeling refreshed, excited to experience the coming day, and with a definite purpose to fulfill.
3) By June 18th, 2020 I get 30 minutes of strenuous activity average per day as defined in #4 of this weeks goal.
4) By June 18th, 2020 I do directed meditation at least 2 times per day for 15 minutes or longer.

Okay so I am so sunburned it is not even funny... So I am taking this week off official exercise, my body just hurts.. If it feels better I will exercise, but right now, I am moving as little as possible... LOL

Anyway, camping was fun aside from the sunburn, we did not make it the 5 miles around the lake, my poor old puppers couldn't do it. He is only 3 years old, but he has hip dysplasia (was diagnosed when he was 1) - anyway, he swam for a while before the hike, then about a 1/4 of a way through you could see him walking funny, so we took a break, I rubbed his hip, then limped our way back to the beach, where the kayaks were, so we took turns kayaking /hanging out with the pups.. The weather was perfect.. It was nice to be away..

Anyway, I didn't eat horrible, but I didn't eat great, so I mighta undone some of my nice loss last week, so I've got to work extra hard the rest of the week.

My Steps are
5/29 = 13051
5/30 = 14039
5/31= 9168
6/1 = 3956

deniners2 wrote: »

jugar wrote: »

Still 2 Sunday weigh-ins due:
@deniners2

@jugar I thought I'm supposed to be Fridays.

Dang. The turnover from month to month caught me. I'll fix it now!!!

deniners2 wrote: »

I suppose if I set a goal with this group, I might feel accountable...
** I will plan to be 145 by the end of June. Then we'll see if I can maintain. **

Whew! That was a lot of words for me!

Thanks for sharing your story.
You can do this!!