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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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What aspect of your health/fitness/weight journey do you wish you had learned sooner?
Happy Hump Day all!
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I always forget to answer the daily questions when I check in, so today I thought I’d share the biggie for me now - and I’ll check in with my daily yeses later 😊
It took me way, way, way to long to learn that prioritizing time for me to workout and prioritizing how I wanted to eat wasn’t me being selfish - it was basic self care and I wasn’t doing my family any favors by always putting my health last.10 -
I wish I discovered a joy of running earlier.. and not when I was 48 already.
There was an article recently about a 91 years "old" lady who is still running- She is going now to crack a record in 1500m run of some Canadian. She says that then she will "leave elite sport" and continue running only for her pleasure AND she started running also at 48. I LOVE IT.
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes?
• Freestyle 9.2 km in 1:14:25 (7.42 km/h)
• Fitness Age/VO2max: 20/41
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes Fasting Day
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
Pass days used: 0 of 3
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This she
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I wish i had learned the weight and calorie distrinution of each food, this tracking thing is extremely eye opening, cuz my stomach doesnt really care about the extras i was having as much as my eyes.
So be careful of those eyes, they tricky 😑😑😑😑14 -
I woke up sore and tired so decided to skip gym but then it was such a beautiful day that I went for a sunrise beachfront run. Then a crazy morning at work and off to coach kids. I made the decision that I just didn’t have enough energy for Jiu Jitsu so went home to relax a bit and eat (I hadn’t been able to eat during the busy work morning so didn’t get enough fuel by the time I had to leave, which contributed to my tiredness) before community group. Definitely meet the exercise goal even without Jiu Jitsu.
Good food choices by sticking with my plan and even with the meal I nearly skipped to train I’m still way under budget.
The scale is being weird and bouncing up and down from one day to the next so I’m just waiting for it to stabilise a bit.
A cute picture of my puppy for everyone!
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Why does it always turn my pictures 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️5
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Exercise yes, bike ride, about 50 minutes but very leisurely. Also walking around the town we visited today, very interesting.
Tracking yes
Calories yes
I agree with @mshawski , learning to make time for yourself, is so important and so difficult, especially when you have a young family.
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June 9
✅ - Exercise 20+ Minutes
✅ - Calories within budget
✅ - Tracked every detail I consumed
0/3 Pass Days Used
Personal Challenges Met: 8/9 days (4th)
✅ - Net Carbs 30g or less (22g)
✅ - Protein 180g or more (187g)
✅ - Intermittent Fasted (19 hrs)
✅ - All Scheduled Workouts Completed? (4/3)- 5 mins Yoga
- 45 min Run
- 46 mins Strength (DB Squats, Banded Hip Abductors, Banded Leg Adductors, Weighted Calf Raises)
- (bonus) 51 min Walk
My lesson I wish I had learned is basically what @mshawski said. In my case I'm not sure I avoided taking care of myself because I thought it would be selfish so much as I seemed I could better use that time and energy on all of the others in my life. That only changed when I reached the point that my health was so rapidly deteriorating that I had to choose if I wanted to be around for those people for much longer into the future. The choice was easy then. It's a shame it had to take that long.
ETA - I guess that's the same as thinking taking care of myself was selfish. Not sure. I guess I was trying to justify it as being selfless. Sounds better than selfish. But the same either way I suppose.
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8th/9th June
✅ - Exercise 20+ Minutes
✅ - Calories within budget
✅ - Tracked everything
3️⃣ Pass Days Remaining
I wish I had learnt the habit of balancing macros, and proper portion control. Eyeballing portions was my Achilles heel. I always ate fairly healthy food, just too much of it.9 -
Exercise YES - walk 3.5 miles/yoga class
Calories NO - over 1,300 - not even close
Logged all YES
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Mine really has more to do with maintenance. I wish I had realized I'd need to keep weighing and logging food.
Exercise: 20 arms
Calories: Yes
Tracked: Yes10 -
10th June
Yes yes and yes. We still continue to eat out for dinner this was our 5th day but something we never usually do so im not feeling guilty about it. (Ill get back to cooking today) A steak sandwich and cake isnt the healthiest choice but hubby is off from work atm and being a stay at home mum the thought of not cooking dinner is just bliss. Ha ha. Also i hve been using this experince to get Comfortable with eating out and actually ordering wat a want instead of a salad. This has def made those fun foods seem less special so i hvent felt the need to overeat at home. I hve not had an overeating day since the 28th of May. Yayyyy!!!!I went from daily over eating to weekly and only once did i do fortnightly so hoping to make it to fortnightly then even monthly! Fingers crossed!
So for me i wish i knew not to deprive myself, not to cut out food groups for weight loss, not to turn to food wen feeling emotions and the importance of tracking calories Xo9 -
6/9
Exersized-?yes
Caleries?-yes
Logged?-yes7 -
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Pass days remaining: 2
My run didn’t happen today as there was a massive thunderstorm and running in lighting and hail seemed unappealing so I decided to actually do yoga for once. I didn’t manage my calories for the beginning part of the day with such a small calorie burn in mind, so I think I’m going to bed hungry tonight, but overall I think it was a good move. I will just drink green tea until I’m not hungry anymore. I am interested to see if adding yoga in as a rest day, and bringing a rest day back into my routine, helps the scale start moving again. Really at this point I just want something to help it start moving again. Lol. You all must be so tired of my complaining about this plateau thing by now, I’m sorry. Lol. ☹️10 -
I wish I had learned that creating too large a calorie deficit might help you lose more weight the first week or so, but it’s not sustainable and ultimately leads to giving up.
Exercise:✅
Tracked:✅
Under:✅8 -
Yes x 3.
I gained 50 lbs in a year when prescribed a medication. My sister finally said she knew other people that were on it and gained a lot of weight also. I wish I had known that and asked for a different medication.10 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, a 70 minute trail walk in the morning, and a 50 minute trail walk in the afternoon.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
Day #21 75 Hard Challenge completed.7 -
To answer today’s question I wish I had read food labels sooner than I did, I wish I had been more focused on me and not so much on others but I can say that my life has been kind to me I have whatever exercise equipment I may like within reason! A supportive family and friends who encourage me even on not so great days. I wish at times for a redo do you? Perhaps the most important thing I learned was is it did not go on overnight so be patient and persistent.
I tracked logged did core exercises and finished the day with my guitar.11 -
@mshawski I upped my daily calorie intake for a few days then dropped it back the scale moved!! I now do this every few weeks to keep my body guessing good luck with the yoga4
