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Jul 13:
✔️ EXERCISE: 30 minutes walking.
✔️ CALORIES: 1226/1600
✔️ TRACK: Yes.
PASSES USED: 3/3 (3Jul)(4Jul)(Jul8)
Personal Challenges Met:
✔️ Yoga/stretching (daily) 9/13 (Jul4)(Jul7)(Jul11)(Jul12)
😃 Strength training (M,W,F) Rest Day 4/5 (Jul12)
"Push yourself. No one else is going to do it for you." ~Unknown."
I'm happy to report that I did VERY WELL at work today, and had NO desire to indulge in the freebies (sweets!) at work!
Thanks @MadisonMolly2017 for the "HOW" and "WHY" ideas!
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snowshoe072 wrote: »Made it again times 3.
My why… I want to be able to go to a store and buy cloths for work that look nice and fit well… I got tired of being overweight.
I ride a motorcycle fat people look odd on one I didn’t want to be one.
I want to control my knee pain from OA being overweight does not help the situation.
I want to live a long healthy life and I realized only I can do it no one can do it for me. I know these are very brutal statements but that’s some of my why reasons please don’t hold them against me I wanted to be honest.
You know us - no judgement here. Your reasons are your reasons and they are perfect. Honesty is always applauded.
@mshawski - I just want to hug you. There’s nothing wrong with your “why”. There are no right or wrong reasons. And….I hope you get some answers to your health issues.
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My why is so I can continue to do all the things I love doing for as long as possible.
Exercise/✅
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7/13
✅ Exercise
❌ Calories
✅ Tracking
I am over today one peanut butter cookies worth of calories from my fav coffee place. I stopped there on the way home from the doc after getting my CAT scan results on my throat…which were I need a MRI for more throat imaging and a referral to a pulmonologist because it picked up nodules on my lungs. 🤦🏻♀️ I’m getting really tired of one test leading to another leading to another and never leading to an answer. I’m not worried as much about the nodules on the lungs as they are common, I am not a smoker, and I know for a fact my mother has them and I have her DNA. That being said - off I go better safe than sorry. I did see in googling them they are common with RA, and my family is good at autoimmune diseases. I then was like huh, let me Google all the other stuff I’m seeing specialists for. All common with RA - trouble swallowing, chronic costochondritis, nodules on lungs, nodules in breasts I get regular mamos to monitor that just seem to be there and fine just annoying, sensitivity to light, dry eye, feeling like I got hit buy a bus 24/7, and being stuff as a board for the first few hours of the day. (You’ll notice I walk a mile before every run and that’s because my body needs that mile to loosen up or I’m too stiff to run).
So, while I’m not usually a fan of self diagnosing, I think I should probably at least ask them to look into this. One answer that explains everything would be much nicer than 7 specialists with no answers.
Anyhoo.
My Why… guys, don’t think less of me for this because I’m probably going to sound like a jerk here - I think my why is mostly vanity. Yes, I want to be healthy, and I had a diabetes scare. Yes, I want to be able to keep up with my kid. But if I’m being honest - if I’m trying not to eat a cookie the idea of diabetes doesn’t stop me, but seeing myself looking terrible in a mirror does. I just want to wear cute clothes and not feel judged while being out in public. People are mean. Maybe that’s my why - people really suck. Lol. 🤷🏻♀️
Honey, I LOVE your honesty thank you for that, I agree with you 100%4 -
@biketheworld - I like hugs! 🤗3
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Yes, yes, and yes
Walking, stretching and mini weight
Why... so many reasons. They pretty much all add up to that fact that I am a happier person overall even though I struggle with the process. I would rather struggle than not. And there is too much health related information out there now a days to ignore.5 -
My why is very succinct: I want to be fit for the activities in life that I really enjoy. Horseback riding; hiking; in the past and hopefully in the future, kayaking.
Today UAC check in:
Tracking: easy. I was significantly under my limit. (the last two days would have been nice to average together, but that is not the UAC way)
Calories: I should have eaten breakfast but the dropped ceiling in the basement was caving in from a water leak about that time. The hardwood floor refinisher had broken the water line to the refrigerator.
Tracking: good
Exercise: walking8 -
Yes x 36
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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? Yes5 -
Yes, yes and yes. Another good day.6
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Today was good. 3x yes. Had plenty of exercise deficit calories and didn't use a one.6
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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: 21 min / 1.23 mi
- Leg WO
Apple rings closed: 13/31
For some reason my right hip has been having pain recently. I'm pretty sure it's related to lunges and possibly squats since those aren't something I was doing much of until I started my recomp. I had to stop the treadmill early today due to pain and then I had a shortened leg workout of only two sets instead of my usual four. I did find doing lunges using my new stepper was pain free so perhaps that will help to alleviate the pain soon.
For me the why of losing weight and exercising is so I can enjoy my retirement years with minimal health problems. I absolutely love not working and it would suck to not be well. Also, having been a thin person for most of my life I was never very comfortable overweight. I at one point had lower back pain because of excess fat at the waist. It was unpleasant to say the least.
I think vanity is as valid a reason as any other. I never became hooked on smoking when I was young because I didn't want wrinkles. Lung cancer wasn't much of a concern back then.
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Did I exercise at least 20 minutes? Just barely. Didn't get my walk tonight as Ais wanted to buy me dinner so Meg came down and the three of us had dinner together.
Did I stay within calories? Surprisingly, I did. I used a side salad to curb the hunger so was able to say "no" to half of my pizza. (Mind you, I'm having that remaining half for lunch tomorrow. Hahahah! It is a cauliflower crust pizza with mostly healthy toppings on it and according the website for the company I saw the sign for where we were, the crust is keto friendly and I was able to get the nutritional information.)
Did I track everything I ate? Right down to the last bite.
Pass Days = 7/3
The whys and wherefores? Well, Health is big reason. And, frankly, vanity also plays a big part. Probably even bigger than health.I was diagnosed with Diabetes in April 2020. I was sent to Dr. Gann's Diet of Hope to get on this plan I'm on and mostly, well, kind of, following still. I lost a lot of weight in the between April and January. I got my A1C back to almost normal. I want to be around for awhile. None of my children have found their life partners, they may or they may not. But if any of them ever become a parent, I'd like to meet my grandchildren. I'm more active now, at the age of almost 63, then I've been since high school. I would like to stay that way. Plus, I have a dream. Well, a couple of them. But the one I'm thinking of right now is the one where I get to go to Ireland and go horseback riding and hawking and walking and biking and maybe even running. There is a weight limit at a lot of riding stables and I want to be well below it when I go. I can't imagine the humiliation of being told I can't ride because I weigh too much. Sigh.
Vanity? Yeah. I'm discovering I'm a lot more vain than I ever gave myself credit for. I'm tired of crying when I have to go clothes shopping. I was on a dating site once and had reluctantly posted photos of myself. Was emailing a guy that started talking sex in his second email. I asked him if he'd talk to women he met in person like that right after meeting them. He blew up. Told me I should consider myself lucky he was even talking to me at all because "you're FAT!" I told him I could change that, but he couldn't change being a hateful prick and blocked him. Once, at my first "real" job, I was asked when my child was due. I wasn't pregnant. The guy who asked was mortified. I was asked again, many years later, while at a wedding. I just shook my head and replied, "I'm not pregnant. I'm fat." That woman nearly choked. I've gone to every high school reunion my class has had. In fact, I've headed up the committee for the last three and am doing the same for the upcoming one. At every one of them, I look at the photos and I want to cry. This time? This time I want to smile. I want to dance again. I want to not feel like a fat toad if I put on a swim suit. I know I'm never going to be perfect, but I just want to be better.
My friends tell me I inspire them. I want to be worthy of that compliment. And I want to inspire my kids to take care of themselves as well.
TL:DR - Why? Because I want to be healthy and feel better about myself.
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes - a short walk but also did a 77 minute bike ride
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes5 -
JULY 13
Exercised: Yes - spin class
Calories: Yes
Tracked: Yes
0/3 Pass Days Used
My why? Definitely health...I honestly don't have much luck with my health. Osteoarthritis in both knees, hips, elbows and thumbs. It's still tolerable but I know it won't be forever. I also had breast cancer in 2014...and am still having problems with a low white cell count and I battle fatigue daily.
But otherwise I have so much to be grateful for...and that is my why!8 -
Giving myself the three yes again today - no formal exercise, but first time I sat longer than 5 minutes today was 8 PM. Barely had time to eat, but did track and calories are under.
Formal exercise is what we have to do in the modern world if we live a sedentary life. 😂 if we are on our feet all day we don't really need it.6 -
JUL 13 - Pass day
T ✅ | C ❎ | E ✅ [3:15 h walk]5 -
RangerRickL wrote: »My why is very succinct: I want to be fit for the activities in life that I really enjoy. Horseback riding; hiking; in the past and hopefully in the future, kayaking.
Today UAC check in:
Tracking: easy. I was significantly under my limit. (the last two days would have been nice to average together, but that is not the UAC way)
Calories: I should have eaten breakfast but the dropped ceiling in the basement was caving in from a water leak about that time. The hardwood floor refinisher had broken the water line to the refrigerator.
Tracking: good
Exercise: walking
@RangerRickL Yikes!!! That sounds like a real mess!!
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@seilidhe your friends are right ur so inspiring and dnt worry about that silly guy online. Online dating is ruthless my sister tells the horror stories about the comments men make to her and its just horrible! They are nothing but cowards and keyboard warriors. Your doing a fab job and i just loved ur whys!! Let us know how u go at ur next reunion!!! Xox4
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Today is my 4th pass day and 6/13 sugar days. Kind of not fully on the saddle. I'm having problems in the afternoon with snacking and it's throwing me way off. So today I am going to ask why I want to snack! It doesn't feel good...I'm so talented at picking up new bad habits.5
