Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, 15 minutes Pilates and 63 minutes walking
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes

@jamcnewman - that is awesome! Woot woot!

@mshawski - I love your dress! Everyone needs a dress that makes them smile!

Thursday, September 23

Tracking: Yes
Calories: under but it wasn’t that hard since the mere thought of food…
Exercise: No. stomach bug - neg COVID test, I forgot there were other things to catch.

Pass days to date - 5

@Caroline_slowandsteady I would recommend staying at the slow and steady rate of .5lbs per week. Look into more low calorie volume eating to stay sated. I can eat a huge veggie salad with protein and it fills me up and keeps me full for much longer than something like pasta w/mussels where I'm hungry in three hours.

I'm 5'3", small boned and have stayed at an unplanned maintenance level of 119-122lbs for six months now. While I'm not overweight anymore I still have excess waist and back fat which I'd like to get rid of. It's going very slowly. My elusive goal has been to get to 112lbs (with a maintenance range of 110-115) but I won't do it at the expense of being hungry all the time. To stay at this weight I eat at 1200 + active treadmill calories on rest days and 1300 + active treadmill calories on EPIC days. The treadmill calories are giving me an extra 120-130 most days. The only way I can lose now is if I stay near 1200 every day regardless of exercise and that is not sustainable.

WhatMeRunning wrote: »

You're doing great @donna25trinity you've got this whole "weekend" thing!

Love that quote @LeeH31 congrats on getting all three!

So sorry to hear about the tinnitus @MadisonMolly2017 but kudos on how you rationalized through it to keep on track! Congrats on being unrecognizable!

Fantastic progress this month @slimtastesbetter keep it up!

Awesome step count @jamcnewman

Congrats on the 3 Yes day @yrc_pr @fourathomej @Healthymumlife @LazyBlondeChef

Thanks for the encouragement. Xo

mshawski wrote: »

Mrs_Hoffer wrote: »

@mshawski I the dress!!! How adorable! And I'm sure your son thinks it's pretty cool too!

My kiddo was 1,000% befuddled why I could not wear that dress to the wake. 😂

Hilarious

23/09/2021
Exercise – walking
Tracking and calories – no
Drove home in the evening after dinner and was too tired to post here so catching up on Friday evening.

@Caroline_slowandsteady hi there we all go through this so dnt fret I am sure u will find a sweet spot that works for u., My weight was at a plateau for months and months. The following worked for me it may or may not work for u but either way u will work out wats best for u...

So I took a maintaince break for a month so I didnt try to eat for weight loss and just ate at maintaince calories of 1700. This was a great break and reset for me.


For quick weight loss I was suppose to eat 1200 calories but I found it was not sustainable so I allowed my self to eat between 1400 to 1700 calories on any given day. So I wld try to stick to 1400 but on the odd occasion like the w/e or if I went out I'd allow to myself to eat more every now and then. This strategy along with allowing myself a 20% treat at night made me feel less deprived.

I was also finding that I was going too crazy on my pass days wen I was only allowing myself to eat 1200 calories so on my pass days I wld just eat anything and everything and not track it. This stuffed up all my hard work so wat i did instead was track everything on my pass days and try not to go too overboard.

Where possible I'd try not to eat back my workout calories. Lastly protien at every meal and as @LazyBlondeChef mentioned high volume foods helped with feeling full. @biketheworld introduced me to a podcast called half size me and this was a game changer for me. Also lots of advice from UAC members around eating more calories for slow and steady results. All the best with it I am sure u will find wat works for u and u will smash it. Xo

September 23, 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).