April 26
Exercised? Yes 30 mins upper body circuit
Calories? Yes
Tracked? Yes

Apr 27:

✔️ EXERCISE: Yes. 35 minutes walking.
✔️ CALORIES: Yes. 1663/1900
✔️ TRACK: Yes.

PASSES USED: 3/3 (10Apr)(15Apr)(16Apr)

Target your biggest “threat to success”... work on it until you land on a solution that works. Then pick the next “threat to success” Repeat. -MadisonMolly

I spent some time today reflecting on April and thinking about my weight loss goals for May. I had hoped to be closer to my goal weight by my birthday (Sunday), but am not going to dwell on that or get discouraged or distracted over it. I'm learning how to SLOW DOWN and "enjoy" this journey as well as learning how to maintain and not gain back 10 lbs when I falter or stop exercising as much! After a knee injury at the end of March, I decided to spend April in "maintenance" mode and I'm happy that I've done ok with that - I've bounced around in the 160s all month, but never hit 170, so I'm very pleased. And my knee is MUCH better -- I'm glad I took the time "off" from killing myself with exercise. (When I look back my my numbers, it appears that 've averaged about 56 mins of exercise/day in April (if I dont include massages). I'm going to try to double that (or more) in May.

In April I also started the month trying to FAST one or two days per week. I did really well the first week - but then had some family issues arise this month and have not been able to keep my head in that space very well. Again, I'm determined NOT to beat myself up about that - and just keep walking this journey and will try again in May. April has also been a VERY busy, hectic month for me - and I don't see May being too much better. But I'm happy that I've been mostly able to stick with my cal goal and keep myself reigned in!

For MAY, I think that I'm going to lower my daily cal goal to 1800 (it's currently at 1900) and attempt to get MORE walking in everyday (as well as working in my flowerbeds most days) and see if that's enough to begin to lose a little bit again.

@lesdarts180 I'm glad you're taking a few days for yourself and taking a mini vaca. Hopefully you can get some much needed R&R! {{HUGS}} my friend.

@thabit11 I took a "maintenance break" this month (April) and am glad that I did. I say all the time that I've been on so many diets over the years that I've gotten good a "losing the weight" but am TERRIBLE at KEEPING it off! I'm about 20 lbs away from my goal weight so I'm trying to learn all that I can. I think that a maintenance break can be a good option when we have an injury or when "life" gets to be too much for us and we are overwhelmed.

@Bovaryoo beautiful pics!! Thanks for sharing!

@alligatorob I'm glad your doc is checking things out for you. {{HUGS}} to you as well my friend. "Even tho you ain't where you wanna be, you can be glad that you ain't where you used to be!!" (quote is very similar to something my mama used to say all the time!)

April 26, 2021

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? Yes

Kitchen Closed? Yes
Pass day 1/3 (this is for accountability to myself and my records)

April 26:

Exercise: yes! 30 min walking workout
Track: yes!
Under calorie goal: yes!

Passes used: 2

February 10/3
March 12/3

3 yes

9/3