September 18
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September 18, 2021
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? Yes
Kitchen Closed? Yes
Did you go "nuts" with nuts today? No (18 days-free )
(I go "nuts" with nuts most times, trying to continue a good habit this month. Counting the number of "nuts" free days.) I am still learning a lot about myself in this area!
Pass day 0/3 (this is for accountability to myself and my records).7 -
16/17/18 Sept - all good.
✅ - Exercise 20+ Minutes
✅ - Calories within budget
✅ - Tracked everything
3️⃣ Pass Days Remaining
Health hacks:- keep CI < CO; prelog; weigh/measure portions
- Hydration - I put a large jug of water on the table at lunch/dinner, and often drink a glass while waiting for the kettle to boil mid morning/afternoon
- Eat a variety of whole fruit/veg daily.
- NO smoothies!!! Let your stomach burn calories processing the food, not the blender.
- regular exercise
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I tracked and logged my exercise was helping to finish re surfacing the house foundation we are now done with the renovations project
My hacks are to have a variety of music for various moods I maybe in such as hard spinning or just relaxing. I have begun to play acoustic guitar again I may not be a rock star but it is satisfying.
A fruit smoothie for breakfast with protein, frozen fruits I control and wheat germ or chai seeds.
Minimal eating out as I can’t control what is in the food, cooking at home I can.
Sleep, get a good nights rest and do not neurosis if you mess up today as there is tomorrow.7 -
SEPT 18
Exercised: Yes - long walk
Calories: Yes
Tracked: Yes
1/3 Pass Days Used5 -
I cook up a large batch of chicken soup with veggies and then freeze it into individual servings. That way if I get home late, or something else interferes, instead of just eating whatever I can put my hands on, I simply defrost a portion. I usually get about 10 servings out of a large chicken. When I get down to 3 servings, I cook up another batch. I have it down to a science now and have shaved some serious time off the process.
Saturday, September 18
Tracking: Yes
Calories: under
Exercise: Yes, walk and stretch
Pass days to date - 49 -
Exercise:
Weight circuit sans legs. My knee has been a lot more "distracting" lately and I'm nervous, so I've decided to let the leg weights go for awhile just in case. Also 45 aggressive minutes on the elliptical
Tracking:
Calories: I decided to go up 100 calories a day and really try to hit the mark (which I often didn't do with the lower goal), so tonight I ended up needing to eat a ton of calories after 8pm. Ugh. On the other hand I worry about getting too many calories early in the day and running out...fine line. 7 -
Yes, yes and yes
Walking and weights
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Tracking: Yes
Calories: yes
Exercise: Yes7 -
September 18
Hello! Day completed.
Exercised?: Yes. Workout video.
Calories?: Yes
Tracked?: Yes
1 Pass day used.5 -
Before I forget to post later today and say this: I ran almost 3 miles today while TALKING. Like, I could talk without dying. My SIL wanted to stop and start walking just short of 3 miles but guys… this is like a landmark for me. I ran without music to drown out my sounds, I wasn’t horrified by the sounds I was making while running, and I could TALK. It was a smidge slower than normal becuase of talking but still… victory and progress! 🙌🏻🎉🥳
Oh my gosh!!!! I LOVE
this!!!! You are killing it Maryann!!!!
CONGRATS!!! 🎉🎈🏃🏻♀️💨4 -
Sep 18:
✅❌✅ Exercise today was 30 mins of jogging and walking on the treadmill.
Pass Days: 2/3 (10Sep)(18 Sep)
I went to Cinci today to surprise my sister and visit her for the day. I colored her hair, and then we painted (watercolors!) and visited for awhile. Afterward, we decided to go to IHOP for dinner. I had scrambled eggs, bacon and 2 gluten free pancakes! The pancakes and syrup easily put me over for the day by - but it was a wonderful day spent with my sister! It was such a nice surprise to knock on her door and see the surprise on her face when she saw it was me!6 -
snowshoe072 wrote: »I tracked and logged my exercise was helping to finish re surfacing the house foundation we are now done with the renovations project
My hacks are to have a variety of music for various moods I maybe in such as hard spinning or just relaxing. I have begun to play acoustic guitar again I may not be a rock star but it is satisfying.
A fruit smoothie for breakfast with protein, frozen fruits I control and wheat germ or chai seeds.
Minimal eating out as I can’t control what is in the food, cooking at home I can.
Sleep, get a good nights rest and do not neurosis if you mess up today as there is tomorrow.
Your work on your home is beautiful! I love the lighting, plantings, and the pumpkins.1 -
Mrs_Hoffer wrote: »Sep 18:
✅❌✅ Exercise today was 30 mins of jogging and walking on the treadmill.
Pass Days: 2/3 (10Sep)(18 Sep)
I went to Cinci today to surprise my sister and visit her for the day. I colored her hair, and then we painted (watercolors!) and visited for awhile. Afterward, we decided to go to IHOP for dinner. I had scrambled eggs, bacon and 2 gluten free pancakes! The pancakes and syrup easily put me over for the day by - but it was a wonderful day spent with my sister! It was such a nice surprise to knock on her door and see the surprise on her face when she saw it was me!
She would have been thrilled to see you (and have you colour her hair!) sounds like a lovely day for both of you.1 -
@donna25trinity Thanks for sharing your Health Hacks.
For me the most important health hack is investing enough time and thoughtfulness to create a habit of exercise and tracking.
Today, I chose to go over my calorie limit. I still tracked my intake and output.7 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, 108 minutes walking.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? You bet
Pass days used - 05 -
September 18
1. Tracked it all ✅
2. Kept within calorie limit? ✅
3. Moved for 20 minutes or more? ✅ 1 hour and 45 minute walk with the pup. Upper body weights and resistance bands and lots of stretching.
Feeling so much better today!
1️⃣ pass day used on September 4
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9/18/2021
Exercise? Yeppers - 6.78 walk/run in 2:04 and change. Looking back at other walk/run 10ks I've done, I'm relatively consistent. My best time is 1:43:24 (Phoenix Rock & Roll in January 2017). Then, about a year ago, I did it in about 1:46 and change. Today, 6.2 miles was 1:48:57. Yes, it's getting slower each time, but that's a reflection of how much I was running the first time vs how much I run now.
Tracking? Yes, quite a bit of estimating since one of my friends took me for a belated birthday lunch and one of Aislinn's friends took us out to dinner before we went to the Hallowe'en store.
Calories? Of course it depends on whether my estimates were close, but yes. I did have to use exercise calories to do that though.
My primary MH hack, besides my solo bike rides, is that I go to work extra early. It gives me time to eat some breakfast, check my email, and, unless I have paperwork I need to get done, I can read and listen to music without being interrupted. Don't get me wrong, I love my daughter and I'd do anything for her, but that alone time is so necessary sometimes.9 -
Sept 18
new Plan: from this point until I weigh 156.8 with BMI 23.8
Pass Day 4
1. Track & LOOK at protein & sodium & calories BEFORE eating. added fiber, too.✅✅✅✅
2. #HealthFirst✅
3. I know I can do this.✅
Calories under: no, but did so consciously
Weekly & monthly calories still elevated but are coming down
Over 10K steps no - very tired
Averages for week, month, and year > 10K no, no, no
Tracked all. Yep✅
4️⃣ Pass Days Used
1️⃣2️⃣Days to go!
Days on Track 3/5
Just not feeling my best since my pneumonia vaccine. I think the best word would be a rare “doldrums.” A new ringing in one ear has my worried & bummed out.
I can probably count the number of days I haven’t walked in the last 3.5 years on one hand. But I did declutter & clean A LOT today & deleted 1,000’s of old emails.
🌸Maddie8 -
3 x ✅
Beach walk in the rain
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Sept 18
Exercise - yes, counting my 20 minutes of stretching the am and pm, which I think barely counts. It's hard to fit in exercise on the weekends, with the kids. I got lots of outside time, supervising a playdate and a trip to the beach, but it was sedentary outside time. I thought I might swim but then it was too cold for me!
Tracking - Yes, planned the day
Calories - Yes, followed the plan and was under
Pass days 6/4
Today is going to be a pass day because I am going to a music festival and plan to eat from food trucks. I'm going to bring fruit and veg for the family to supplement food truck offerings, but plan to enjoy myself and go over.
Reading your hacks, I do a lot of those things. When I did weight watchers 20 years ago at age 22, I learned a lot of things that I still think about daily. One is "garbage in, garbage out" - meaning that if you are feeling full, eating more food (your own food on your plate or- my constant temptation now - food leftover on the kids' plates) is treating your body like a garbage can. It's not "saving" anything to eat it - if you're not hungry, the food is garbage. Don't eat it. No that I always listen to myself, but I do say that to myself regularly.
I really like Eatingwell magazine and recipes. Their website has a lot of ads now, which is annoying, but we have some recipes of theirs that we have been cooking for a dozen years now and are still favorites. The kids mostly won't eat them though!
And the one thing I do that seems to be different than some of you is pre-planning my day. At dinner each night we discuss what is for dinner the next night. Then after I get the kids to bed, before my bedtime snack, I stand in front of the fridge and plan the next day's food. Mostly when I do plan I stick to the plan. Sometimes (like today) I plan to go off track. If I don't have a plan and I am trying to pick food when I am hungry, all is lost. We have way too much junk in the house for the kids, and I will eat it all if I don't have a plan!6
