Friday, September 17

Tracking: Yes
Calories: under
Exercise: Yes, walk 60 min, full body stretch warm up 10 min, core 10 min, cycle 45 min, cool down ride, post ride stretch, focus flow yoga - 10 min

Pass days to date - 4

September 17

I love soups and make lots of different varieties in my instant pot or on the stove top. I use many vegetables in the soups and rarely throw any veggies away any more! I include quite a few that my family doesn’t normally prefer, but they love when included in a soup: leeks, kale, turnip, mushrooms, parsnips, etc. I also love to sauté veggies in my wok basket on the barbeque, and got an air fryer earlier in the summer that has been a godsend for roasting vegetables with minimal oil while keeping the house cool.

1. Tracked it all ✅
2. Kept within calorie limit? ✅
3. Moved for 20 minutes or more? ✅ Walking (shin splints are better!) and lots of stretching.

My immune system is going a wee bit wild in response to the third vaccine, but I have had two amazing nights of sleep in a row (plus a long nap this afternoon as I was wiped).

Fingers crossed tomorrow will be kinder.

1️⃣ pass day used on September 4

Exercise: Yes 2 hours in the yard!
Tracked: Yes sir!
Ate within budget; Yes easily with all that sweaty yardwork🤗

3xyes
For exercise I count packing, car loading, unloading, unpacking, 6 hours driving. Sometimes 60 km/h, mostly 130-150. It is pretty stressful. I believe it is fair to count all those activities as an exercise 😉

Another pass day, for 6/4. Wednesday's pass day just rolled over into Thursday, as I got home late on Wednesday and didn't plan my meals for Thursday, and then decided to eat restaurant leftovers and takeout. But I actually did make reasonable choices with those things, though I didn't track them, and I did exercise, so heading towards back on track. And I did plan for today.

I love veggies! And I love all your veggie inspiration. We have somewhat a rhythm of it with the seasons. We try to eat locally in the summer- we have a small garden and a Community Supported Agriculture Share and frequent farm stands and farmers markets. We're having the last gasp of that now and savoring it. In the winter we do more frozen fruits and veggies (much more convenient) and also tropical things (bananas, mangoes) that we try to skip in the summer when local food is abundant. My wife does most of the real cooking. In the summer she grills once a week and in the winter she roasts once a week. In each case making up a big batch of veggies that I eat on all week. My usual is one salad a day and one meal of (usually leftover from the big batch) cooked veg or soup, both along with a protein. I try to have some small amount of carby veg too, or quinoa or bread. Last winter I was also doing daily harvest frozen veggie meals (caution - if you search that, the ads will follow you forever), which I liked pretty well but got sick of by the spring.

September 17

A change in routine today due our range going out. So I took an extra long morning walk assuming my afternoon could be busy. It was. While it was nice to get it all sorted out in one day (including shopping for a new range and hood), we have to wait 4 weeks until it can all be installed (part of that is due to needing a new electric receptacle installed). I was unable to do a strength workout amid all that so I am missing one of my additional goals today, but that's OK.

UAC goals
✅ Exercise 20+ minutes
✅ Calories within budget
✅ Tracked every detail I consumed
Pass days used: 0/3

Additional challenges
❌ 3+ strength sessions in last 7 days (9/15, 9/13)
✅ 17k+ steps (23,379 steps)
✅ 7 day avg. 7.5+ walking miles (9.0 miles)
Additional challenges met: 16/17 days

Today's Activities
🚶‍♂️ 168 min Morning Walk (9.39 miles)