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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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Arrrgh! I was doing so well this month, running 3x a week, etc. Then it fell apart. I recently lost my insurance, so I reduced my asthma medications. My inhalers are $360 a month, with the discount
. This lead to an exacerbation, I couldn't breathe, couldn't move etc. Then fires hit and the smoke was hellish. A rough few days in other words. So no exercising, logging or anything. Just hunkered down in a small room with HEPA air filters.
Thank God I found a generic inhaler, so I'm back on track. No chance of the Winner's Circle, but that's ok. The UAC and it's members are so encouraging and getting back to good habits is the real benefit of UAC.15 -
1) 4hrs hiking, including 45min of 🧗♂️
2) ✔
3) Deficit: 250 cal (probably underestimated the hike again). Last meal: roughly 8:30 pm
5) Sleep: about 6(:30).
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Well, this feels like a beginning to something that could challenge me in staying on my diet... we have had a death in the family. I am not close to this person...and the situation is out of town... but I know I will need to be supportive of the family. i think I will pack my normal go to snacks and just put those in my purse. I will just have to be as careful as possible. I am going to say that this is a yes to tracking, yes to calories and possibly no to exercise day... but that could change. We shall see. Best wishes to all!15
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes. 23 minute walk. I did the minimum today as I was so busy. I expect to tomorrow to be the same.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
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Yes, yes & yes today! Revved up my exercise a bit last week and looks like it helped to break my month-long plateau. It's a good feeling; pleased with myself that I didn't get too discouraged by it. I just kept telling myself that eventually my body has to give it up and that a slow climb down on the scale is still better than going up!9
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Exercise:✅
Tracked:✅
Under: ✅7 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, 40 minute easy walk.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes6 -
Yes x 36
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Exercised and logged5
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Yes x3
Very busy with work training and was up to 2 am last night but I stayed under (eating most but not all exercise calories) and exercised with walks and bodyweight.6 -
Yes x 35
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Yesx3 day. Under calorie budget. Did 15 mins of 30 min Zumba class and about 30 mins walking outside pushing a stroller. The lockdown has been emotionally draining...and stressful...but I like that I get time to workout and spend time outside with my little one thanks to saving time on commute. Now with reopening plans in full swing wondering what you all are planning to keep going on the exercise front...6
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? 23 minutes indoor rowing
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
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@Anya_000 I am an asthmatic too. I know that insurance companies waffle out of paying for inhalers.
I'm glad you are ok!
Rick6 -
@dewit Great photos! Where in the world were you hiking?
Rick3 -
My daily report:
Exercise: Active stretching 22 minutes, followed by one hour of walking in meadows and forest. My hips hurt from having to lift my feet on each stride.
Calories: under my limit
Tracking: good8 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes6 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes I did 45 min exercise routine.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes!
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes!6 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? 3 mile treadmill run + 38 minutes barre strength
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 -
8/20
Exersized-?yes
Caleries?-yes
Logged?-yes5 -
@Anya_000 I'm so very sorry you went through that ordeal, but I'm glad things are a bit better now. You're definitely a winner for your tenacity.
Exercise: yes, at work, once again disinfecting the public areas because of the pandemic, plus walking for several hours.
Calorie budget: yes, under
Tracking: yes, logged everything
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@dewit Gorgeous area, thanks for sharing the photos. Where were you hiking?
@dsgoingtodoit My condolences to you and your family3 -
30 min home exercises
Under calorie count
Tracked it all!5 -
Yes - with 168 calories remaining
Yes - 16.76 miles
Yes5 -
20th August
3 x Yes.
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Aug 20 Another Pass day - didn't log --- but stress-walked lots and didn't eat much and was probably actuallyunder on the intake.
Days goals met: 17
Pass days used: 3 (all unplanned)I am in an extremely stressed out work situation but almost feel like "I shouldn't really complain ... look at what some of you others here are going through .... look at what others in my Branch at work have been having to deal with even from BEFORE Canada reached the start of lock-down back in March .... "
It is a kind of public-wanting-information-demands (as is their right!) work that is coming in at an unprecedented level for our department. And this is on-top of the mandated work the operational units have to deliver re covid-response public health policy and stakeholder relations work
I am SUPPOSED to be 60% or more IM/Disposition, with some other "corner of the desk or cyclical" duties. I am NOT the kind of personality-type that should be spending 100% of my time doing solo SIngle-window coordinating of rolling case-file management. I know some of you could probably do this kind of thing at this level of intensity no problem ... and still do some other stuff on the side ....
I used to handle maybe one request in eight months (extra-low even for my Department).
And I don't have / didn't inherit ANY kind of tracking system .... send a desperate email to the drop-box of the corporate-level clearing house for this, asking to be put in direct conversation with some more experienced Community of Practice counter-part. Waiting to see how that works out.
I don't even know enough about "how to keep track of everything (and still actually DO the consolidation for approval-up / turn in responses to corporate clearing house) in a way that if I am ever off for a week (for some garden-variety reason like a common cold or vacation) and my back-up has a migrane or her back locks up for the same days in a row ... how is the back-up back-up going to have a CLUE about the state of everything that is active?!?!! As the one-and-only IM specialist in the branch, I have nightmares about that!
And given what our Department is mandated to do, and what people want to know .... this isn't going to change any time soon Far more likely to get worse first. OR become "something like the new normal level"
This is SOOOO NOOOOOT how I want to spend my last 3.5 years until retirement!
And come September, I am supposed to lose 3 hours of processing-time per week, to spend in French-Second-Language classes .... which I would WANT to do, and are NECESSARY for my post as I will have to renew my ranking once the retesting program finally opens up again .... but now am conflicted about whether I will just feel even MORE behind ..... which isn't precisely the most conducive mindset to absorbing a second language where's the hair pulling / banging head against wall emoji when you need it??5 -
@Jana_2020, @RangerRickL, and @Hollis100. Thanks for your support.
Yes x 3 today. Just a nice walk with the dog along beach cliffs. We'll try a run tomorrow, then back to our regular schedule next week . . . assuming no fires, or God knows what else, lol.
Have a good night everyone.5 -
August 20
Exercise: Yes, 45 mins walk
Calories: Yes
Tracked: Yes4 -
Aug 20
Tracked all YES✔️
Calories under YES 420 ✔️
Exercised YES 1:44 long, hills & one very steep hill. OUTSIDE for the first time since the fires 🔥 ERUPTED
💚 = in my maintenance range
I cried last night & this morning over the loss of some places I’ve gone to with family members neatly my whole life. The odd thing is the park had been calling me to go visit, but my husband found some new places so we went there. So, on one hand I’m
Bummed out we didn’t get to see it before it was basically - at least temporarily- destroyed. On the other, we now have at least 4 other places we love for hiking.
It’s all about our thoughts. Same facts. I am choosing the positive interpretations AND I had a great day. Sometimes, I guess, tears are just what is needed to release the sadness & then Embrace the current positives!
Wishing you all peace & comfort at this time,
Maddie5
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