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Today:
Calories: Unintentionally well below my limit
Tracking: easy
Exercise: enough walking but I need to add some strength too. I've been off balance by the chaos of home renovations and repairs.
But, a very good day4 -
How do you navigate celebrations and food? Do you use it as a pass day? Do you eat the traditional foods, but in smaller quantities? Or, do you opt for alternative ways of celebrating? How can we help each other approach food and celebrations?
I've always mixed food-focused celebrations with exercise (for example, taking a post-dinner family walk) so I don't think this is a problematic area for me. There have been some Christmas dinners, though, where my grandmother promised to make a fav dish so I'd fast all day to ensure I could enjoy Yummy Tummy Time 🤷🏾♀️
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? YES | Walk (72), Run (15) TOTAL: 87
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? YES | *Base + 132
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? YES
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*NOTE: Only counting running calories
Personal Bonus: Did I meet my protein macro for the day (40%)? NO | 33%
Pass Days Used:
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@JennyRebecca1978 great topic i recently had hubbys bday and used a pass. Im really enjoying reading everyone's comments regarding this as there os def room for improvement wen it comes to this. Xox4
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Jul 9:
✔️ EXERCISE: 40 mins walking and 150 mins giving massages.
✔️ CALORIES: 1187/1600
✔️ TRACK: Yes.
PASSES USED: 3/3 (3Jul)(4Jul)(Jul8)
✔️ Yoga/stretching (daily) 7/9 (Jul4)(Jul7)
✔️ Strength training (M,W,F) 😃 4/4
Personal Challenges Met: (7/9) (Jul4)(Jul7)
"Every new day is another chance to change your life." ~Unknown."
Wonderful topic @JennyRebecca1978
I usually "plan" to take a Pass Day on holidays. But I agree that I didn't become overweight by overeating on holidays - rather by overeating every OTHER day of the year!6 -
Yes x 3, barely on exercise. Not bad vacation day. My first time using phone, not easy. Some caps a guess, but pretty sure I am under6
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Yes x 34
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Not today. Just a hair over calories. But no exercise. We had dinner guests.5
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Thank you @JennyRebecca1978 for being our Friday Content Creator today! 👏👏Celebrations are a very important topic & one I’ve seen folks grapple with for awhile on here. I think it just disrupts our routines & we actually don’t get a lot of practice compared with weekdays & weekends!
Have a great weekend! 🌻
🌸Maddie & ⭐️Mrs_Hoffer5 -
Exercise - yes (2 hours golf, ~60 minutes walking, just over 20 minutes yoga)
Calories - yes
Tracked - yes5 -
7/9/2021
Did I exercise at least 20 minutes? Barely. Le sigh. Just a day after announcing that I'm going to make walking the dog after dinner a "habit," I don't do it. Had to go grocery shopping instead and I couldn't seriously count my snail pace around the store as exercise. Hahaha! I made some good food choices there though. And picked up an itty bit of exercise toting the groceries upstairs.
Did I stay within calories? I did not.
Did I log everything? That I did do.
Pass Days = 5/3 or is it 6 (I still need to go back and check).
Tomorrow will likely also be a pass day as my daughters and I are heading up to Phoenix to see my son. We're meeting for lunch at a brewery/pub. This brewery (Four Peaks) happens to make my favorite beer (Kiltlifter) and I can't swear I will forego a glass while I'm there. They also make a light version called Giltlifter that supposedly has half the calories, half the carbs, and half the alcohol. I've had it and it's not horrid but it's not the real thing. So... it's my plan to cut my calories for my other meals, if I eat anything else at all, and enjoy lunch out with my son. I haven't seen him since Christmas and I've missed him. Tomorrow night, I'll walk the dog and Sunday I ride. I know you can't out exercise a bad diet, but I can try to alleviate a bit of the damage.6 -
3️⃣ remaining pass days (conditionally ie weekly plan)
Working weekly calories down from anniversary the rest of this week.
I give it a 50/50 shot with the high temps, but I’m giving it my best shot.
Good news: feeling very strong & rapidly building up steps to increase my yearly average!
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Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? yes
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? yes
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? yes- Treadmill: 32 min / 1.95 mi
Apple rings closed: 9/315 -
@Chinkiri an early happy birthday to you 💗💗💗. Was this year more productive, health wise, than last year? Not having a sweet tooth can be verybeneficial, it's my biggest weakness 🤭.
@Winner_in_Life the cycle of doom is so true!! We should love our exercises more 💪💜
@donna25trinity our month progress is kinda similar, I also have 2/3 pass days, lets keep this one day to the last day of the month 💪💜💛💪4 -
@ashleycarole86 you made a great point there! Every single day was a food celebration!! I'm happy I'm no longer in that stage 😁 I wish none of us here will go back , or turn to, those days🙏
@Winner_in_Life according to the picture, you're really close to reaching your goal!! Good luck 🤞🤞
@Chinkiri CHEERS 👏👏👏🎉🎉 to almost an hour of walking, it's been so long since my last cheers ☺️3 -
@SummerSkier 😂 I know 😂😂 not even a minor celebration doesn't have at least a cake!! It's hard to even imagine.
@lesdarts180 you're probably on spot with calories, or a little under. That's what I believe after reading your posts before 🤗.
@WhatMeRunning great efforts so far this month 💪💪💪 and may you have an even better days for the rest of the month. In some days, I completely understand the so "no interest" in food, I would set with my family and they would pass around chips, chocolate, cake and ice cream, yeah all of that, and not to mention dinner, but I won't care even with their continues invitations to eat. On the other hands, some other days, I just feel huge temptations to eat, and most of the times I lose to such temptations. I'm still figuring out what best for me and how to conquer my craving.4 -
@stella7x7 that's a good idea, I will keep that in mind when I start my maintenance. Thanks for sharing 😊
@mshawski I'm also curious to know the results please share it if possible!! I use Excel too, I have many records on Excel and on writing, because I want to know me more 😊
@clutterqueen I'm with you on this. I used to think that one day will destroy everything! That's so far from the truth. What I'll say is actually more related to losing weight than maintenance, that's a foreign land to me still, as long as we have double or triple more good days than bad, or pass, days then we are good.
@GrandmaJackie awesome determination you have there 👏👏. When I could, I do something similar, I keep most of my calories when I'm planning to have a feast, this way I could control myself better. But I read some posts on UAC, moths before, that some eats beforehand or bring food they could eat and only eat it, I guess that depends on the type of celebration we are encountering.2 -
@snowshoe072 I hope you get better soon 😟, and good idea on exercising more. This way we will track the bad days in order to burned it off, I'll keep that in mind, thanks for sharing.
@TerriRichardson112 saving up calories! I'm going to write down all the gread ideas I have learned todays, this one too for sure. Thanks for sharing.
@RangerRickL I'm learning so much on Friday's posts. Thanks @JennyRebecca1978 for the great topic 💜💜2 -
@RangerRickL I hope the renovation and repairs are finally done, we are doing some too, I think we have around 2 weeks more of repairs. Good luck with the strength training 💪😊.
@MaltedTea I do the same thing when I knew beforehand, I only dring one cup of coffee and that's it.
@alligatorob hope you have a wonderful vacation. It's so inspiring that you keeping up in vacation 🤩.2 -
@JTreasures great work, so far, almost third of the month is over, days goes fast, let's make most of them good days 💪💪
@_JeffreyD_ I hope you had a great night, we alway have the next day 💜💜
@MadisonMolly2017 I loved your tracker, thanks for replying before, I'm planning to draw one for August, I really liked the idea.
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@ashleycarole86 you had a sport day 🤩🤩 you did great 💛💛
@seilidhe being here and sharing with us, is great too. I know how heavy it feels when you've already passed the third day, but continuing on will help in pushing you back to track. Also, it help in controlling your appetite much more than doing it alone. So thank you for sticking with us and I hope to see you posting every day on july despite is it a good day or a pass day. 🤗🤗
@LazyBlondeChef you're on fire 🔥🔥 streak day number 9, I hope you've a perfect month 🤩2