September 22
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September 22, 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 (22 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).6 -
Happy Wednesday!
Studies show that who you surround yourself with influences your behavior.
Being part of the UAC Challenge is a great way
to have supportive health minded and positive people on your ‘team’!
I continue to be inspired daily when I read through the posts.
Knowing that others are going through the same struggles and persevering keeps me going
when I need that extra bit of push and support.
You are an amazing Team!
Have a great healthy fit Wednesday!!!
This is so true.4 -
Out of the Winner’s Circle:
Pass day #4.
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September 22
Hello! This is my first month with UAC and it has made such a difference for me. It has definitely given me the push and support that I needed. Everyone here is so great and inspiring, it just keeps me motivated and positive. I'm really enjoying this; I'm so glad I found this group.
Exercised?: Yes. Workout video.
Calories?: Yes
Tracked?: Yes
1 Pass day used.10 -
Wednesday, September 22
Tracking: Yes
Calories: I intentionally increased my calories today to make up for several days of not having an appetite and eating too few calories. I’m trying to stay at maintenance for a few weeks to a month.
Exercise: Yes - Full body warm up 10 min, core 10 min, lift full body 30 min, body weight strength 10 min, full body stretch 10 min, upper body stretch 10 min
Pass days to date - 4
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9/22
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? 👍🏻
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? 👍🏻
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? 👍🏻
2 Pass Days Remaining
Used #1 pass6 -
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Healthymumlife wrote: »Exercise : 1 hour beach walk
Tracked: X
Under calories: X
No excuses, just chose to take a needed day off from tracking/calories
3/3 pass days used
I just need to finish strong as I have no more pass days to use and would really like to be in the winners circles this month
You’ve got this @Healthymumlife 🌟🌟🌟2 -
I wanted to check-in and get up to date.
I have not posted since the 6th and I need to take pass days from the 7th to today 22nd - which is 16 pass days and disqualifies me. Now before someone says "Jen, what are you doing, you are such a goofball!", I have been active but I just have not been posting.
For the last 2 weeks, I needed to eat up all the "not so healthy" food in my kitchen from the recent grocery trip at the beginning of Sept. As a single Mom, I just can't go throw food out, and well I didn't want to post every day that I needed a pass day. That would make me feel like a goofball myself!
I also rearranged my cookbooks in my kitchen and pulled out the cooking for two, my healthy cookbooks, and cookbooks for Fall like my crockpot cookbook. I also rearranged my ramekins that I previously bought but didn't really use to make them more accessible in my cabinets to start cooking in individual single-serving dishes.
My goal for the next 2 weeks is to cook at home, divide food into the suggested serving sizes, and track accurately and no rough estimates aka 'ballpark figures', and track daily my calories and water intake. And start getting this under control better.
I have just recently went to the grocery store again, and this meal planning trip was much more "healthy". However, my son has already told me that he wants "normal food" when I told him we are going to start eating healthy again lol. But honestly, that is where I always struggle. I am a yo-yo dieter. I will cut calories down to 1200 a day and drop weight, then I will stop the calorie counting and exercise, and eventually, I have gained it all back. So this time I want to learn how to not diet, but just be healthy. I think learning proper serving sizes is a good start.
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Exercise: Yes, bare min today too much going on
Tracking: Yes!
Within calories: Yes!
I am seeing great results!😀7 -
Tracked - Yes 🙂
Within calorie budget - Yes 🙂
Exercised - Yes, 4 mile run 43:57 🏃♀️ 🙂
Pass Days Used - 3 🤷♀️7 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Oh yes. Started the day with 15 minutes Pilates and my husband and I went on a long bike ride today... 3.5 hours exploring in the mountains
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes6 -
9/22/2021
Exercise? Yep.Took Sienna for a walk this morning. 3.4 miles in 1 hour and 22 minutes. Of course, walking with Sienna, I can almost see the thought bubbles: "I'm out... I'm free... C'mon, gamma, why you so h*ckn slow? Walk faster... Wait... what was that scent back there? Turn around, gamma, we must go back... this is interesting... *engage super power* (gamma's note: her super power is having electromagnets in her feet that anchor her to the earth's core so that nothing will move her until she's ready) ... Okay, that was interesting... c'mon gamma... let's go." That's the first half of the walk. About half way she slows down some. Plus we made a short stop in the dog park so she could say hello and get some water. Then, as she realizes we're heading home, she slows down even more.
Tracking? Yes.
Calories? No.So, Ais had her endoscopy today. It took five people half an hour and 7 tries to get the damned IV in her arm for the anesthesia. Once, they thought they had it, and attached the drip, but it blew and her arm swelled up. A lot of this happened in the arm she had the ultrasound in yesterday, but the IV ended up in her other arm, still badly bruised.. They finally had to call someone in from another department and that person was able to get it. I guess the doctor found some gastritis during the procedure, which he biopsied. Nobody could say if the gastritis is causing the gagging or if the gagging caused the gastritis. The nurse's words were "it's a chicken/egg kind of thing." Yay. At any rate, since she hadn't eaten since dinner last night and it was now about 3:30, she wanted food when we left. Her choice was Cheddars and I was perfectly aware I chose poorly. So... way over on calories today.
The local chorus I'd been singing with pre-shut down had its first in-person meeting in 18 months tonight. 50 people showed up, presented their vaccine cards, wore masks, had their temps checked, just to meet the new director, nosh, schmooze, and, oh yeah, sing. It was wonderful. We practice at a local church, usually in the Fellowship Hall, but because so many people showed up, the people on the board plan to ask the church if we can use the sanctuary next week.
Today's topic - I think that having UAC as a support group is what I need. I appreciate the fact that everybody encourages instead of judges, even when people (*cough*me*cough*) have to take pass days nearly every day. Seeing everybody's successes on the scale, NSVs, and reading their hacks and hints, is what I need, even if it I haven't put many of them into practice. I appreciate all of you, more than I can say. Thank you.
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September 22
1. Tracked it all ✅
2. Kept within calorie limit? ✅ Under
3. Moved for 20 minutes or more? ✅
40 minute walk WITHOUT my puppy Beauregard. I honestly needed a break from “on land waterskiing” with him. It was a beautiful night and I walked up the road to the grocery store and liquor store and then home, carrying groceries on my back.
I got a new strength and stretch routine after the visit to the doctor’s office and my meeting with the exercise physiologist.
I am starting a new online Zoom class tomorrow morning with the kinesiology student intern and other clients of the community clinic. It will run two mornings a week and will be uploaded to the private youtube channel if a different time works better for me, which will mostly be the case for me. I juggled tomorrow’s schedule to give this a try.
Will report on the weight loss learnings tomorrow (all is well). So tired - heading to sleep. 🥱🛏😴💤💤💤
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I’d sadly missed quite a few now. I have a horrific sinus infection and trying to rest as much as possible while my husband had some time off.
I’ll definitely join next month and will continue to read this thread as I’m finding it very inspiring.
Keep up the good work everyone!9 -
I wanted to check-in and get up to date.
I have not posted since the 6th and I need to take pass days from the 7th to today 22nd - which is 16 pass days and disqualifies me. Now before someone says "Jen, what are you doing, you are such a goofball!", I have been active but I just have not been posting.
For the last 2 weeks, I needed to eat up all the "not so healthy" food in my kitchen from the recent grocery trip at the beginning of Sept. As a single Mom, I just can't go throw food out, and well I didn't want to post every day that I needed a pass day. That would make me feel like a goofball myself!
I also rearranged my cookbooks in my kitchen and pulled out the cooking for two, my healthy cookbooks, and cookbooks for Fall like my crockpot cookbook. I also rearranged my ramekins that I previously bought but didn't really use to make them more accessible in my cabinets to start cooking in individual single-serving dishes.
My goal for the next 2 weeks is to cook at home, divide food into the suggested serving sizes, and track accurately and no rough estimates aka 'ballpark figures', and track daily my calories and water intake. And start getting this under control better.
I have just recently went to the grocery store again, and this meal planning trip was much more "healthy". However, my son has already told me that he wants "normal food" when I told him we are going to start eating healthy again lol. But honestly, that is where I always struggle. I am a yo-yo dieter. I will cut calories down to 1200 a day and drop weight, then I will stop the calorie counting and exercise, and eventually, I have gained it all back. So this time I want to learn how to not diet, but just be healthy. I think learning proper serving sizes is a good start.
I just wanted to wish you good luck and also talk about the 1200 calories. I also have done this and it's a viscous circle of undereating, depriving yourself etc. only to go the other way.
At the moment I am following a guy called Jordan Syatt's (Syatt Fitness) method. He is on FB and instagram and is really down to earth but I love his advice and approach to things. He says to work out your goal weight in lbs and then x that by 12 and that is the amount of calories per day you should be eating. Now you will look at this end figure and may be freak out (I did) but it makes it sustainable. I'm finding this approach really helpful and just wanted to share.5 -
You can do it @KCJen !!!
I don’t know how tall you are, but I got really upset when I realized the 1200 cal everyone put me in from WW on was at least 150 cals lower than I needed if I lay in bed all day.
Criminal!
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