Let's start here reddit -->myfitnesspal *add 2-3 goals, too?
ooofitness
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Hi all - I'll start. I'm not necessarily weight-loss minded but more fitness (food and exercise minded). I'm 52, kinda sorta peri menopausal, and have been battling stress and back pain/sciatica for about 3 years. I live in San Diego with my husband (no kids) and have always worked at home at a sedentary desk job.
I'm still relatively thin - but I haven't been feeling great the last few years and with COVID, I'm really off track. I also have a chronic pain issue that I would really like to make some headway with.
Basically, the train is running in the wrong direction and I need to get on top of it. Really NEED to build up my core and am really worried about my loss of functional fitness.
Here are my 3 goals:
1. I'd like to do more fun fitness activities - go to the beach, park, walk and hike new places, try to classes (someday.....), paddle board, etc.
THIS WEEK: go to the beach once, paddleboard once, try one new video at home.
2. Be consistent with my PT. Especially with being at home, I've been terrrrible with PT and my chiropractor has made it pretty clear, this is the only way I'm going to see pain relief.
THIS WEEK: PT 6 days
3. Track my food. I've been pretty easy on myself with being at home for the last 3 months, and I don't want to do anything radical, but I find tracking my food in my fitnesspal is a good way to keep a handle on my energy and eating more balanced meals.
THIS WEEK: Track every day
I'm still relatively thin - but I haven't been feeling great the last few years and with COVID, I'm really off track. I also have a chronic pain issue that I would really like to make some headway with.
Basically, the train is running in the wrong direction and I need to get on top of it. Really NEED to build up my core and am really worried about my loss of functional fitness.
Here are my 3 goals:
1. I'd like to do more fun fitness activities - go to the beach, park, walk and hike new places, try to classes (someday.....), paddle board, etc.
THIS WEEK: go to the beach once, paddleboard once, try one new video at home.
2. Be consistent with my PT. Especially with being at home, I've been terrrrible with PT and my chiropractor has made it pretty clear, this is the only way I'm going to see pain relief.
THIS WEEK: PT 6 days
3. Track my food. I've been pretty easy on myself with being at home for the last 3 months, and I don't want to do anything radical, but I find tracking my food in my fitnesspal is a good way to keep a handle on my energy and eating more balanced meals.
THIS WEEK: Track every day
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Thank you for getting this started, Dockie! I decided to take the dogs for a walk about an hour ago when it was closer to 100 then to 90 degrees (they were begging to go out and I stayed in the shady areas). We were out for 20 minutes max, on flat ground, and just one flight up stairs back to the apartment. I had to lay down to catch my breath and my HRM showed 141. That is my goal weight, not my goal heart rate from a simple walk!
I do not know where I am in this process, but I do know in early 2019 I weight from a lovely pear to a very round apple and put on about 40 pounds overnight. I am not more than double my high school weight, and even though I do not want to get back down to that size, it is not OK for me to be this unhealthy.
So, my three goals for this week are:
1. Try that darn lentil soup that has been in my cabinet for months.
2. Take a walk for exercise (no dogs - they are too distractable) at least every other day. (If it is just too hot, the mini trampoline is the alternate.)
3. Start on my strength with the exercise ball.
And as a bonus goal, I am going to learn more about MFP, and research how to set up a challenge for us.
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I need to do some things around the house, I have no expensive gym equipment, I could do push ups, tricep dips, squats and sit ups. I should walk every day. I’m going to try. I’m so lethargic. Basically I need to move more and eat less, simple right! Ugh!0
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Hello Ladies,
I just tried to put a message here on my cell. Pretty sure I deleted it.
So...one more time.
I'm 49 years old. I live with my husband (already fit) and my 11 year old daughter (athletic) in Dayton, Ohio.
I am about twice the weight I was in high school. I've never been skinny. But looking back, I wasn't nearly as hideously fat as I saw myself in my youth.
I really don't like to exercise. I find it so boring. I can't really do the things my husband and daughter do (biking for hours for example) I don't have the strength or the stamina. But that is where I want to be. I want to bike with my family and not feel like I'm having a heart attack.
I'm ashamed to admit it but we have a small gym in our house and I never use it. Treadmill, elliptical, weights and a bike.
I work all day at a desk. Get home at 6 pm. Make dinner, clean up and I am done. By 8:30 pm I am looking at the clock to see when I can go to bed.
I know I need to get up in the morning and workout but I don't.
So my goals for this week have been to:
1. Learn the app
2. Eat breakfast everyday. I tend to skip food until late in the afternoon and then make bad choices.
3. Move for 30 minutes every day. Walking, exercise video... something.
I am delighted to be in this group. Thank you all for being willing to share your journey to health with me.
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LondonLass - do you ever try YouTube videos? I have a hard time motivating myself to work out at home even with the minimal equipment I have. I really like the Fitnessista videos (she has barre, yoga, pilates, full body, etc), Yoga with Adrienne is the best best best best yoga series (she has a few 30 day programs that are for beginners), sparkpeople and popsugar have good videos for those of us just getting back to it. Sometimes I'll just search for "no equipment workouts" on youtube and try something new. I think I'd like to try zumba, since I like it at the gym.
I would reallllly like to go to the gym but I'm just not there yet - I feel like we're going to be stuck at home for awhile, the way the numbers are going. I've been cooking like crazy since March but trying to buckle down and not eat all day every day all the time.0 -
Lightenup2021 - in my dreams, i'm a morning exerciser. I work at a desk, too - its soooo tiring for me. Do you try to fit more activity during the day? - e.g., walk at lunch, maybe 15 mins in the morning, etc. I'm such a procrastinator but I find if I consider a certain number of steps a baseline - and then if I do MORE exercises it's extra - I'm more likely to at least get my walking in. - Rebecca0
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ooofitness - I am really bad at getting away from my desk and walking. I walk in the production plant a lot. (I am HR in a manufacturing facility). But, I have to admit, I don't count steps. I have a Fitbit but never use it. I dislike wearing things on my wrist. But that is likely just an excuse. What is your baseline number for steps? - Amanda0
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i shoot for 10k a day - no reason, really, except that seems to be what someone somewhere decided was a good amount! I use my phone or a wrist tracker... i feel better when I routinely get 10k a day (works out to a little over 5 miles I think) which is motivational. I have little tricks - i try to be halfway there by noon - either early in the morning, at lunch, or even smaller round the block trips every hour or so. If I don't make it, I'll finish after dinner - I have a flashlight and try to dodge the skunks! I have a baseline route in the neighborhood that I know if I do twice, I'll get there. On the weekends, we usually do a longer walk away from home that knocks out the whole 10k at once - this is more common now, since I'm less active, at home, and out and about less, so I have to be more conscious of getting it done. I hurt my back, so this and PT are about it for me right now. Hopefully can get back to doing more when my back is stronger and I can back to gym and out into the world! Jealous you're at work!
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Don't be jealous I'm at work. I spend my whole day running around telling grown men to get their masks back on and stop whining about it.
But, I do understand. If I were home working, it would drive me mad.
A question: do you walking alone? I tend to avoid walking with my husband because I like the "alone time". But I am wondering if I am just making that an excuse not to have someone pushing me on the walks.
Ugh, back pain is the worst. My husband has disc issues and it causes him a lot of pain. PT really helped and I found him a great chiropractor. But his favorite therapy is the inversion table right now.
Anyway, this week was tough. I started strong and struggled at the end. And it is so hot outside. Our office is closed today so I plan to work in the garden in the afternoon and do my Jane Fonda workout tonight. Yes, I am a child of the 80s and I still have the cassette tape of the workout.
I hope all of you are doing well and thank you for the information. Thinking about next week's goals - Amanda0
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