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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes- 30 min dance and 40 minutes core and cardio.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
Sleep is a hard one. I LOVE sleep, but I stay up too late quite often. To try to help by setting a task on my daily to-do checklist for going to bed by 11:30. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.4 -
Well, here I am checking in at 12:30 am in my time zone and I see the topic is adequate sleep. Oops! I do struggle because I am a night person and can easily get solid work done at 11 pm; however I'm a teacher so am supposed to be ready to work at 8 am. I'm not meant for this schedule!
Today was yes x2. Over on calories but tracked them all and took a long walk.4 -
I took a me day and after morning Pilates class just caught up on series. I even skipped evening Jiu Jitsu because I just needed some alone time. Between training and boyfriend I haven’t had an evening to myself in over 6 weeks. I didn’t track and definitely snacked too much. This weekend we are off on a camping trip, just the two of us which will be lots of fun and will include hiking.
I generally sleep well, but I need about 8 hours and I’m an early riser so need to go to bed between 9 and 9:30. I’m good about this but when my man stays over it gets complicated because he only needs about 6 hours. He doesn’t like staying awake by himself but if I stay up with him I either fall asleep anyway or I suffer the next day. I’m trying to get him to find some way to work out a compromise that suits us both.5 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? yes, treadmill 30 mins / 1.68 mi + abs
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? yes
[Mon-Sat] Did I do treadmill AND weights or abs? yes, abs
Pass Days Used: 1/3
Sleep: I have no trouble sleeping once I fall asleep but in the last 15 years or so I've had recurring insomnia. When I retired six months ago it virtually disappeared but then returned a few weeks ago which seems to coincide with taking an online class. The things that keep me from falling asleep: can't get comfortable, can't shut my brain down, not actually tired and breathing issues due to allergies. I have no strategies. I've tried various things but nothing has actually ever worked. At this point I just live with it knowing that I will sleep well and long the following day.
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March 11
Exercise: Yes, 45 mins walk
Calories: Yes
Tracked: Yes
Pass days: 1/33 -
March 11
2,101 ❤️Perfect 6-day 2,100 each❣️
Tracked all ❤️
Ate over the day at 6 specified times/cals❤️
Walked 38mins 6K steps needed a partial regrouping day. All averages still exceeding goals with this
Protein❤️
Fiber ⬆️ Fruit & veg
Sodium⬇️❤️❤️❤️
Sat Fat⬇️❤️❤️❤️
I’ll stick with this plan for at least ONE more days.
1️⃣ Pass Day left
I plan to be in the Winner’s Circle ⭕️
3/4 157.7
3/5 157.7
Began NEW PLAN!
3/6 158.4 2,100
3/7 157.1. 2,100
3/8 156.9. 2,098
3/9 155.8. 2,099
3/10 155.8. 2,103
3/11 155.8 2,101
3/12
It’s working! Where before I was worried this would not be enough enough calories per day, they work as long as I spread them out!! Drink water, etc & eat veg/fruit at least at each meal. Might have overdone it today: tummy ache from a big apple & 4 carrots LOL but they tasted great. Will go easier on my fiber stats tomorrow...
I looked at my trend weights today & the numbers I hit on the way up are exactly the same (so far) as I’m moving back down. LoL
Have a great day whenever that begins for you!
Maddie6 -
Pass day #2. Tracked my food, was just under my calorie budget. But i got 0 exercise today. Maybe I’ll make up for it tomorrow. (Fewer work meetings on Friday. )3
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Calories: Y 1758/1800+290 exercise
Exercise: Y 20 minutes treadmill walk/run 1.55m
Tracked: Y5 -
March 11
Exercise: 50 min. Weight training, 45 minutes swimming, 45 minutes stretching
Tracking: yes
Calories: under
Pass days: 03 -
@Chinkiri : knowing you have to sleep and counting how many (little) hours you have until you have to wake up is a clear sleep killer!
I sleep too little again! When I put the kids to bed I only think of what's left undone... Last night it took me 1h for a regular 15 min job, because I was slow, got easily distracted (was listening to music on Youtube while working) and kept making silly mistakes. I also still work out late, though I am working on that. These are all no-doers.
No coffee after 2 or 3 p.m., no working out for at least 2h before bedtime, no mobile Devices 2hrs before bed are all good strategies.4 -
Worked out with my older kid today (my 🏋♀️, for him a lighter variant) and walked 🚶♀️ once with the kids, later on with hubs. I had about 300 cal left. Enough for the 🍷 left in the fridge. Except there was only a sip left. 😭 I don't really drink, but for days now I thought it's time hubs and I finish it and now I finally had the calories for it 🥂. Hillarious 😂4
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Yes on all 3.
Included lots of incidental exercise as well (more standing than sitting throughout the workday)
Official intentional exercise was 40 minutes for my walking game before work and 603 cals burned on my "(stationary) bike commute home" between getting off work and suppertime.4 -
Yes, yes, and yes.
Sleep is a problem I rarely had until lately. I am sitting here typing this at 4:45 in the morning because I can no longer seem to sleep in... For most of my life I could easily get 7, 8 hours or more, but now 6 to 7 seems as good as I can do. Hopefully this passes, but I do not seem to feel the worse for it. Maybe my new lower weight body doesn't need as much?? Who knows.6 -
Yes on everything. No pass days.
I've checked in for my vaccination online so it will hopefully be a little faster.
When the pandemic started last year, I started working on my sleep habits just because of stress. Tax time is bad for stress at work and when they extended the deadlines last year it was the same as the stress being extended. Essentially, we never got a break. I set bedtimes and wake up times, exercise time, relaxation time. I use melatonin in a time release version now. In that year, I've only blown up twice. These days it is not unusual for me to get a full 8 hours of sleep.
Everyone in our office is looking forward to a "normal" tax year that lets us get those breaks.3 -
Well, that was a timely post. For the last month I'd say, I have been sleeping much better than usual. Normally, I fall asleep very quickly but have difficulty staying asleep. I used to wake up at 3am all the time and be unable to fall back asleep, but this last year with COVID I'd started waking up at midnight. I credit my Whoop Band with the improvement. It has a sleep coach and it tells me how short I am on sleep (normally an hour these days) and tells me when I should go to bed. I've realized also I can't do weights at night as it makes me too energized, strangely spin is fine. I also completely agree with everyone about the lights. I got rid of my alarm clock because of the glowing light and got blackout shades because of the streetlights.
Exercise: Yoga (30)
Tracked: Yes
Calories: Yes2 -
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? Yes3 -
All of my adult life I've been one who was able to fall asleep just minutes after my head hit the pillow. But in the last year I'm occasionally getting some insomnia. I go to bed early (9pm with "lights out" at 9:30) and get up at 5:45am. I've started taking some melatonin, but find that it makes me have dreams! (Last night I dreamt about being chased by BigFoot!) I've tried meditating and some deep breathing exercises, but usually just have to lie there and wait it out. Thankfully, it doesn't happen very often.
Mar 11:
✔️ EXERCISE: Yes. 204 minutes.
✔️ CALORIES: Yes. 1627/2210
✔️ TRACK: Yes.
PASSES USED: 0/3
15,105 steps
60/55/50 planks (seconds)
"I can't manage what I don't measure and I can't improve upon something that I don't properly manage."
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Hopping on a day late to report a PASS DAY yesterday.... just decided to take a break.
Will report in full for March 12 under the March 13 thread.
@Mrs_Hoffer - I have developed sleep issues over the past few years as well.... it sucks! I am chalking it up to peri-menopause. I have found that the extended release melatonin and magnesium helps me, especially coupled with exercise. I don’t tend to remember my dreams so not sure if the melatonin gives me wild dreams or not! My meditation app has “sleep rescue” exercises that I sometimes use if I wake up and can’t get back to sleep... It sounds silly but the exercise that has worked best for me is counting backwards steadily from 1000... I have also learned to try not to stress about it (as hard as that is) - know that your body is still getting rest as you “lie there and wait it out”....6 -
Yes yes yes3