Exercise:✅
Tracked:✅
Under:✅

Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, 30 minutes on a stair climber.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes

Pass days used: 1/3

Yes, yes, and barely yes on exercise.

I am going on vacation next week, leave Wednesday morning for 8 days. Do not expect to be able to exercise and/or log in consistently, so probably will not make the winner's circle this month. However I will do my best when I can.

Yes x 3

JUNE!!!
5
Pass Days remaining:1

THANK YOU for your hugs & words of support!

For those of you wondering about maintenance, this is how it is for me. Long stretches where everything goes smoothly, then a hiccup, I take notice, I reaffirm my desire to be healthy, I make a specific plan, and I do it & then have a long stretch again of pretty easy maintenance.

Maintenance, for me, is facing the behavior that needs improvement head on as fast as I can.

✅Exercise: lovely uphill/downhill sunset hike with son & husband! 1:12 hr 10,200 steps (would have been 90 minutes but our parking was going to expire!)

✅Calories: under - just

Keep salt 🧂 down until dinner.
⬆️ For the day. Had my first restaurant or takeout meal in 477 days. Takeout from our son’s favorite Mexican restaurant on his last night of his stay. I had skipped it the other two times

(We might hike later in month with him, but this was a special night.)

I stopped mid-bite 🎉 & packed up the rest.🎉
I put back nuts & chocolate after dinner (to meet my goal from yesterday.)🎉

I figure I can eat out once every ~ 500 days! 😁

I’m very happy to have been moderate. I can see how much I’ve changed these past 5-1/2 years!
🎉


✅Tracked: all, I always do. Self-honesty is key & I want my data to be accurate.

Other goals:
1. Sodium:
June 2 - 8 goal: 2,300mg avg
6/2 2,419 mg
6/3 2,678 mg 2-day avg 2,548 mg
6/4 1,926 mg 3-day avg 2,341
6/5 est. 3,021 (Mexican food*)
4-day average 2,510
* not sure as it was all estimates
6/6
6/7
6/8


Spoiler

2. PLAY with
Drawing & painting,
✅Textile Arts,
✅ Collage
Book Arts,
Digital Image Apps, and/or
Decorative Embellishments daily 😁

3. ✅Phone my dad at least twice a week. (I’ve realized he’s a bit lonely.) 🤗

Tomorrow will be the last not quite normal day. I will eat my normal breakfast. I will pack my lunch. I will prep & cut apples & carrots to munch. (I should have shopped today.) I’ll have a decaf nonfat latte in afternoon, possibly with a baked good. And a small dinner at home.
Goals:
Nuts + chocolate under 70g.
Sodium under 2,300mg
Use apples & carrots for munchies (along with water) for munchies.

Exercise: Yes, 2.2 miles out of town
Calories: Yes, 186 under
Tracked every taste nibble and sip: Yes, 90 oz water

Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? yes
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? yes ... by using nearly all of my exercise calories
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? yes

Treadmill: 30 min / 1.75 mi
Pool (jumping, dog paddling, lunges, etc)

Passes used: 0/3

The bad diet topic is perfect for me today. We were out most of the day. I ate my leftover steak for breakfast, had a glass of wine and fries as a snack and then a dinner of wedge salad, ahi tuna sashimi and a lot of wine. Exercise was a bit low today but I did spend about an hour and half in the pool when we got home. I was moving the entire time to stay warm. I feel quite relaxed now so I think I'll sleep well tonight. Tomorrow I'll be back to healthy eating.

Today will have to be my first pass day 😭😭😭

Exercise: well I spent a good while on my feet decorating for my son's bday party and we played volleyball for about 30-40 minutes

Calories: I don't know exactly by how much, but today I know I definitely went over my calorie budget..

Tracking: nope. It was just too difficult to try and track everyday throughout the day during the party

Pass days used: 1/3

@SModa61 - I love today’s reflection and the article. I wish I’d understood this years ago. It drives me batty when I see articles like “so and so started running and lost 100 pounds, you can too.” So misleading!!!

@WhatMeRunning - I can relate to this, although your mileage far exceeds anything I’ve done. I wish I’d tracked my food when I trained for the Chicago marathon. While I did lose some weight, i would have benefitted from fueling my body better.

@Chinkiri - “A lovely day! Lots of gratitude for all today's nice things, including the opportunity to wear my swanky, letterbox-red dress to the concert - it fitted, a close fit, but that works OK with this dress.”

You brought a smile to my face with this.

@donna25trinity - we should start a Heather Fan Club. It was only recently when she was talking about binge eating that I finally put together that deprivation only guarantees a binge sooner or later. It was a moment I wanted to slap my forehead wondering why I didn’t realize that before. Good for you for enjoying yourself and managing the calories.