October 1
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Date: 10/1
Exercised ?: YES Walk Run couch 2k5 Week 3 and ran for 5 minutes during the cool down phase. Walked and stretched afterwards. 2.15 miles total. Used map my run/GymBoss app
Calories ? YES
Tracked? YES
Pass Days 0/3
As for October Goals:
Just focused on showing up everyday.
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October 1, 2021
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, strength training EPIC III.
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 (1 day -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).4 -
Congratulations to all our Winner’s Circle qualifiers!!! It’s not easy to achieve!
Well done!!4 -
This was a beautiful fall day in the country. The corn harvest is in full view all around where I live.
Exercise: 75+ measurable minutes of walking plus lots more outside activities
Tracking: good
Calories: under my limit4 -
3/3 today.4
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Well bummers, not off to the best start. Today was a Pass Day for me. I think I needed a one day break (i.e. pig out) after finishing up the September challenge and before starting the October challenge. 🤷♀️
Tracked - Pretty much, but did a lot of approximating.
Within calorie budget - NO, used up the 634 activity calories and then some!
Exercise - YES! Ran 7 miles 🏃♀️😄
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Exercise - yes - 1-1/2 hours constant walking through a corn maze with my neices amd nephew
Tracking - yes
Calories - yes5 -
Yes x3 today, 1.5 hours of walking and stayed well within my calories today.
My goal for this month is to lose a few pounds and geek more comfortable in my clothes.5 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, 71 minute walk
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? No I didn't
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes I did
Hate to start a new month with a pass day, but it is what it is! My husband and I took my mom for a nice high tea at the Banff Springs Hotel. It's was a case of getting myself into a food hole I couldn't dig out of with exercise! It happens... I still made my best effort to move as much as possible but I timed out as we are on holidays right now and have lots going on. Onwards!
Pass days used - 1/36 -
Forgot to share my goals this month:
-Drop from obese BMI weight category to overweight (this comes first)
-Enter the highly sought after Onderland (YAY!)
-Navigate the extra "life" stuff I'm expecting this month with travel and holidays using the good foundational habits I've developed already
-Continue aiming for 10K steps or exercise equivalent per day7 -
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? yes
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? yes
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? yes- HIIT Warm Up: 5 min
- Day 20: EPIC I - Dumbbell HIIT Workout (+ cool down): 36 mins
I went out of order with EPIC I doing the low impact HIIT workout today as I didn't want to do the Day 19 Full Body workout without a rest day. So I'll do that on Sunday. This HIIT wasn't too bad. There were a few things at the end that I had to modify but otherwise I rather liked it.
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It's later than I thought. I'll have to come back to read everything tomorrow.
Yes (~30 mins), Yes, No (101 over)5 -
Oct 1
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Goals: “keep on, keeping on”7 -
Yes x3
For October I'm going to try out 2x yoga a week, 2x running and 2x strength training with a misc day4 -
Date: October 1
Exercised?: Yes, 30 minutes of alternating walk/jog
Calories?: No
Tracked?: No
This will be my Pass day. Final day of beach living so I enjoyed it.5 -
Exercise: Yes!
Calories: Yes!
Tracking: Yes!
So excited to break my bad habits!5 -
So many post! I am going to catch up on reading them later, but just wanted to post my stuff while I have a minute before the kids get up.
Congratulations to all the winners! You all are so amazing.
Oct 1
Exercise: 15 minute MommaStrong and 30 minute bike ride
Tracking: Planned the day in advance except my Friday takeout, which I did my best to estimate and track before I called in the order. Then I adjusted after I ate it.
Calories: With my new plan of eating fewer calories during the week, much more on Friday, and a bit more on Sat and Sun, I was way under according to my estimations - which of course could have been way off.
Pass Days: 0
I feel a bit like this is gaming the system to have a larger calorie goal on Friday takeout day. But I also see that the math of it seems to be working. And that actually, tracking everything on takeout day is keeping me accountable and keeping the whole day from getting crazy. I think it will help me overall, which is I guess really the point of this challenge.5 -
Hi all!
I’m so glad to be back on UAC. Gotta say, I’ve been pretty lousy with keeping up good habits of tracking, exercising and staying within my calorie goal without it. So this month, my goal is to get back on track and try 🤞🏽to get in the Winners circle. Yesterday, however, was a bit of a bust… incredibly busy… no time to get to the gym, no thought about working out at home… and too lazy to track. Ugh. So my first pass is used 😥 But the good news is I have two more left and I’m going to do what I can to get back on track starting today! Wish me luck!!!7 -
OCT 1
Exercise ✅ [1:20 h walk]
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Oct. 1st
Tracked: Yes
Stayed in budget: Yes
Exercised: Yes
Passes used: 03 -
Revising my Oct. 1 post to a pass day. I can't explain the "why", but the "when" was last night, the "who" was me, the "where" was right there in front of the pantry, the "how" was a spoon, and the "what" was peanut butter.
I'm working to just move past it, no need to let that disrupt things. But dang...what the flip was that??? 🤯😱😖😖
ETA - Since I have never heard of a peanut butter hangover, I may have somehow kicked myself out of ketosis on that one. Just weird.7 -
WhatMeRunning wrote: »@bradkcrew - It never seems to fail that the next run after an amazing one just seems to suck. Some weird universal law or something. I wish I could say that the next run after a sucky one is awesome, but it doesn't work that way. Tends more in the direction of sucks, it seems. But the good runs are worth all of the sucky ones.
I once took a few weeks and wrote down EVERYTHING that effected your pace or enjoyment of a run. The list ran off the page.... It was incredible to me just how many variables there were. If we could figure out how to make all runs the gazelle type we could be rich tho... let's put our heads together to do this. LOL
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Oct 1
✅ Exercise: weight lifting, 40 minutes of swimming
✅ Calories
✅ Tracked
Passes used this month: 0
Goals: Do the above and continue to learn about MyFitnessPal and what sources of support here work best for me. If you are in another group that is helpful, I would appreciate knowing about it. Also would appreciate knowing more about how to be a good friend here. I keep getting friend requests from people who don´t share anything about themselves, have nothing in their profile, don´t share thier logs, don´t comment on my progress or logs, and may be new to the forums but definitely aren´t new to MyFitnessPal. Is there some underlying reasion I am not aware of for friend requests?
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@ideas2 - IGNORE those spam friend requests. We all get them regularly. Some are immediately obvious due to nudity or otherwise ridiculous profile pic. Others are not so obvious except that they come with no message, their profile and status history is empty, and zero to few friends, none of them being anyone you have ever heard of. I save the request for a day or two to see if that name shows up in any threads or groups I participate in just in case. The only "real" friend requests have always been immediately recognizable.3
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SummerSkier wrote: »[
I once took a few weeks and wrote down EVERYTHING that effected your pace or enjoyment of a run. The list ran off the page.... It was incredible to me just how many variables there were. If we could figure out how to make all runs the gazelle type we could be rich tho... let's put our heads together to do this. LOL
I can't believe you used the word "gazelle," because that is the same analogy I was thinking during my 10k! There were killer hills, which I tackled fearlessly, and when I hit the flat parts and the downhills it felt so good. I even remarked to my son when I finished, "I felt like a gazelle!"
I try to do the same kind of systems check to figure out what my problems are. Are my clothes and shoes comfortable, does anything hurt, how is my knee, how's the temperature, did I eat correctly, am I hydrated, is my playlist good, etc., but for the most part all is good, it just comes down to lack of energy and my legs just not wanting to cooperate. I can't figure it out because it isn't like it starts miles in, it starts with the first step. I can only believe that it lack of muscle or lack of calories...I just don't know.2 -
Exercise: 20 minute dog walk, one hour kickboxing class.
Calories within goals.
Everything tracked.
Feeling good.4 -
WhatMeRunning wrote: »Revising my Oct. 1 post to a pass day. I can't explain the "why", but the "when" was last night, the "who" was me, the "where" was right there in front of the pantry, the "how" was a spoon, and the "what" was peanut butter.
I'm working to just move past it, no need to let that disrupt things. But dang...what the flip was that??? 🤯😱😖😖
ETA - Since I have never heard of a peanut butter hangover, I may have somehow kicked myself out of ketosis on that one. Just weird.
Oh I’ve been here. Far too regularly. 😂 I’ve actually made it a rule in my house that people can’t leave the PB anywhere visible to me after using it. It is a dangerous delicious calorie bomb. However - It is actually a good source of several vitamins I often find myself low on though - so maybe something for you to consider if it was a compulsive thing? (A couple of the B’s, Magnesium, etc)3 -
Thanks! I'll have to look into magnesium. I had blood labs last week, curious if that was on there and what it was. I take a daily multi vitamin regimen that includes B's. I don't know where it is in magnesium though so going to check some things.WhatMeRunning wrote: »Revising my Oct. 1 post to a pass day. I can't explain the "why", but the "when" was last night, the "who" was me, the "where" was right there in front of the pantry, the "how" was a spoon, and the "what" was peanut butter.
I'm working to just move past it, no need to let that disrupt things. But dang...what the flip was that??? 🤯😱😖😖
ETA - Since I have never heard of a peanut butter hangover, I may have somehow kicked myself out of ketosis on that one. Just weird.
Oh I’ve been here. Far too regularly. 😂 I’ve actually made it a rule in my house that people can’t leave the PB anywhere visible to me after using it. It is a dangerous delicious calorie bomb. However - It is actually a good source of several vitamins I often find myself low on though - so maybe something for you to consider if it was a compulsive thing? (A couple of the B’s, Magnesium, etc)2 -
@bradkcrew have you ever used a massage stick for your legs? I have the Original "The Stick" pictured below. It really helps when I use it on my quads on a regular basis before and after runs. Makes my legs less achy during runs. You start rolling it with light pressure and then go deeper, really feeling the knots. I use it mainly on my quads but also my hamstrings and calves (not supposed to use on shins). A little pricey but I think worth it!
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ashleycarole86 wrote: »Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, 71 minute walk
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? No I didn't
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes I did
Hate to start a new month with a pass day, but it is what it is! My husband and I took my mom for a nice high tea at the Banff Springs Hotel. It's was a case of getting myself into a food hole I couldn't dig out of with exercise! It happens... I still made my best effort to move as much as possible but I timed out as we are on holidays right now and have lots going on. Onwards!
Pass days used - 1/3
@ashleycarole86
We lived in Banff for 7 years (before having our daughter). I am so glad you took in that high tea and your mom would have loved that special time with you! It is a wonderful fancy treat in a perfect setting. Enjoy your holiday! 🏔
Julie
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