Thursday 2nd September
Exercise: 30 minute walk✅
Tracked calories: ✅
Under calories:✅
0/3 pass days

Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? I exercised for hour moving in the garden, doing heavy digging and moving. 75 min of cardio on fit bit

Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? I believe i Did
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? slacked on tracker, Once I get loss in the gardens I loose all track of time and fall asleep early

Excellent job keeping the stress eating under control @jamcnewman The added protein goal takes time, strange how hard that one is to do when adding more carbs seems so simple.

Nice triple play day @doubleplay_643

Inspirational consistency @MadisonMolly2017

Way to hit the weights and hit all 3 goals @slimtastesbetter

Great day @Chinkiri - One thing in the USA is the character of "carnival food". Basically an evolution of making portable snacks of a sweet and/or savory variety (typically fried for vending convenience). Just about anything you can imagine has been fried and put on a stick. Fried Oreos and Fried Twinkies took the world by storm about 20 years ago in that scene. For those daring enough to try, they may find something crazy tasty (but perhaps not the healthiest).

Nice walking and a great day @ashleycarole86

Congrats on the 3 yes day @JillyBT

I definitely feel you on the aftermath of new kinds of planks or other isometrics @LazyBlondeChef Keep at it!

Fantastic workout @Geneveremfp and great day!

@Caroline_slowandsteady Holidays can be quite the challenge! I find pre-planning and pre-logging helpful during times like that.

Perfect day @Healthymumlife

Sounds like a busy, active, hard working day @cherie8525 Way to get it done!

Excellent choices today @_JeffreyD_ congrats!

Yes to all 3

Pass days: 0/3

Freggie report:

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~~~9 /2/2021~~~ Waving Hi ~~ 🧚🏼 ~~ BLESSings ALLways ~~ 💖 ~~

Exercise for at least 20 minutes .................................... ✅ ... 210 + min.
Stay within my calorie budget for the day ...................... ✅ ... I am
Keep track of everything I ate and drank ....................... ✅ .... I did

STEPS.......... 28,800+ ........180 m Walking .... 30 m house cleaning .....

(going to try upping my walking during week.... At least until I reach 165 lbs. goal)


Documenting My CONSISTANCY = For personal ACCOUNTABILITY
(if there is a P=instead of number its a Pass Day)

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bradkcrew wrote: »

...it just doesn't seem like it should continue to be so, so hard...

That is surprisingly normal, and the vast, vast majority of people usually stop their new running hobby at some point due to the difficulty, or pains...

That said, there really is a zone called "easy running" (Zone 2 effort) wherein it does not always feel so terrible, and in fact it is when running in that zone regularly that people first experience that "runners high" during a long(ish) run (as opposed to the post-run endorphin rush most people call a "runners high").

The problem is, the human body and mind can not seem to come to a negotiable settlement on what pace achieves that particular zone, because no matter how hard people TRY to regulate their pace, they always wind up running too fast, even when trying so hard to make sure they stay in the "conversational pace". They simply wind up always running in Zone 3 (aka the "gray zone" because it provides barely minimal to no cardio/muscular benefit over zone 2).

Maintaining Zone 2 is hard and for almost everyone requires a mix of walking and running to maintain, as running will simply push them into Zone 3 after a bit, and then walking quickly drops them back down to Zone 1 or lower.

If you are interested in making running a lifelong habit, you should do all you can to make sure you make that life as comfortable and enjoyable as possible. Baby your feet by going to a honest-to-goodness running store, getting a free gait analysis done, and getting sized for new running shoes based on that analysis and sizing. Your feet are going to take the brunt of your new hobby, therefore treat them as such. You should also look into some sort of fitness tracking device, particularly one that measures your heart rate as you run. Use that with your training plan to ensure you keep the easy runs easy, and the hard runs hard. Running by feel does not work accurately, ask anyone who has regularly run by feel and then analyzed their HR using such a device. If it was even remotely easy to run by feel, regular runners would spend that money on shoes instead of pricey running watches (and even chest strap HRM's and foot pods).

Hope this info is helpful in some way. Feel free to ask me questions at any time. Likewise in the Challenges forum here on MFP there is a recurring monthly Running Challenge which you might check out as has long been the most solid bedrock of advice and help for all runners, from absolute beginner to ultramarathon here on MFP. You will find tons of advice there. I only know what I have learned and experienced. Having others available with such knowledge and experience as found in that group helped me more than I can properly explain when I started running in 2014.