November 24
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24th Nov
* Woke up at 5.15am for a 36 min jog, weights, stretch and meditation!! Wow can't believe I am up to 36min!! It's a slow jog but I already feel stronger and fitter! Feels nice to sweat and get my heart rate up! Also feels good actually sticking to my goals.
* Cals under
* Tracked every BLT
* 2 passes used... this might be the 1st month I hvent used all my passes. Hmm let's see if I can pull it off!
Xo
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November 24
✅ Exercise - walking
✅ Calories
✅ Tracked
1 Pass Days Used4 -
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Track: yes
Calories: yes
Exercise: yes- Treadmill: 27 mins/ 1.68 mi
- Upper body dumbbell workout
I have an early morning flight tomorrow morning and will be returning Tuesday evening. For this vacation I'll be allowing the higher end of my maintenance calories plus active walking calories which is much higher than at home. Since I downloaded the app on my last trip I'm going to try to keep up with posting this time around. I still expect most of the days to be pass days even though I'll do my best to minimize restaurant calories. My partner has agreed to share a single appetizer and entree for most of our meals.
For Thanksgiving we have reservations at a brewpub with a fixed price meal of appetizer, entree (with the usual Thanksgiving accompaniments) and a dessert. We went to the same place back in 2018 and the portions were reasonable although I'll be going with prime rib rather than turkey as I don't particularly like the latter.
For those in the US I wish you an enjoyable Thanksgiving.
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Exercise:
lots of active-walking minutes in multiple stretches, for a total of ~ 9,500 at nearly-midnight.
Logged: everything
In Goal: all exercise calories (and there were LOTS) left untouched. Just the way the evening worked out.
Here I am, first month back after 7.5 months MIA .... only a week to go .... and still holding strong at only 2 pass days used. one was a mis-calculation on evening snack, and one was skipped exercise because of a cold coming on.
I am VERY pleasantly surprised at how well this month went (although .... admittedly being Canadian means that Turkey Day was in October, so didn't have any big Society or Family Events to work around. I wouldn't be surprised if December and the full force of Holly Daze requires more effort. Which means that Nov made a wonderfully strong base to face Dec from.6 -
✅ Exercise - 1 hour of Jazzercise
✅ Calories -
✅ Tracking -
Closed all my Apple watch rings today
4/3 Pass days used
These last few days have been a whirlwind of baking and cooking. Thankfully, I've been able to stay within calories, although it has been close a couple of times.6 -
3 Yesses, exercise was a 6 mile run. 🙂
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Have used over 3 pass days this month, tomorrow will be a planned pass day--too much effort for me to try tracking Thanksgiving meal, I won't be exercising, and most likely will be over calories. Hoping though to indulge in moderation. 😋5 -
24th November
3 x Yes5 -
Nov 24
It was a harder day to stay on track because my mom is visiting and we're getting ready for Thanksgiving. And I had not preplanned the night before, because I had felt sick and went to bed early without doing any of my usual prep. But, I pulled it off.
Exercise - 45 minute walk (with my mom), 15 minutes MommaStrong
Tracking - Managed to log everything right before I ate it or right after, which is not the way I like to do it but it worked.
Calories - Under (barely)
Today is a planned pass day, but I have planned out breakfast and lunch and no afternoon snack. I am up early and about to go do my MommaStrong exercises. So ready to not make 1 planned pass meal be a whole pass day, as inspired by yesterday's post.
No time to join December right now but I will do that after Thanksgiving. I am looking forward to my 4th UAC month!4 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? 35 minute walk, 30 minutes yoga, 10 minutes ab strength
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
Pass days used - 1 (Nov1)4 -
✅ Exercise: 45 minutes swimming
✅ Calories
✅ Tracked
1 pass day used (Nov 19)
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3/3, late comment again. This new design for the forum is *kitten* me up.3
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Exercise 😊. Calories. 😊tracking. 😊3
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Nov 242 -
Yes for 3!
1/3 pass days3 -
11/24/2021
Exercise? yep
Tracking? Yep
Calorie? Yep... but they were probably not the healthiest calories out there. Still, three yesses today. Crazy.3 -
11/24
Exercise: 79 minutes mountain biking, 55 minutes stretching and PT exercises
Tracking: yes
Calories: under
Pass days used: 12 -
Responses to Nov 23's opener have been extremely helpful and insightful. Unfortunately I've not dealt with "life" very well this week. And I have a couple of tubs of ice cream in the freezer too, one I bought and one my sister brought for me as a gift last night (Nov 26) as she too is in a bad period. Last night was good though, lot of laughs, lot of talking about what is going on for both of us. Mine isn't seriously bad, in fact I think in the long haul it will be good, but I'm not sleeping well & seem to be in a period of high angst (probably hormones out of whack), and this life event is just pushing me over the edge this week. I just can't seem to exercise some self-control over my eating. Here and there I've been going for walks or a bike ride this week after work, which is what I'm tyring to use as my replacement behaviour for bingeing but my eating throughout the day is out of control and apparently I do have the mentality that I should eat whatever I want now before I get back on track... I know, not good. I'm mentally exhausted dealing with people & their reactions to the change and the shift in the environment and my own emotions/anxiety and it's going to continue on for a couple of months I'm sure, so somehow I need to learn to deal with it in another manner. The reality is this is life and I can't keep reacting by bingeing/comfort eating. Sorry for my rant; it's not something I usually do, nor like to do, but I'm trying to interact more in the group and be accountable. So glass half full mentality: I came back and posted in the UAC regardless of whether I'm successful with the challenge. This was a goal I set for myself this Fall, so there's that at least.5
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Responses to Nov 23's opener have been extremely helpful and insightful. Unfortunately I've not dealt with "life" very well this week. And I have a couple of tubs of ice cream in the freezer too, one I bought and one my sister brought for me as a gift last night (Nov 26) as she too is in a bad period. Last night was good though, lot of laughs, lot of talking about what is going on for both of us. Mine isn't seriously bad, in fact I think in the long haul it will be good, but I'm not sleeping well & seem to be in a period of high angst (probably hormones out of whack), and this life event is just pushing me over the edge this week. I just can't seem to exercise some self-control over my eating. Here and there I've been going for walks or a bike ride this week after work, which is what I'm tyring to use as my replacement behaviour for bingeing but my eating throughout the day is out of control and apparently I do have the mentality that I should eat whatever I want now before I get back on track... I know, not good. I'm mentally exhausted dealing with people & their reactions to the change and the shift in the environment and my own emotions/anxiety and it's going to continue on for a couple of months I'm sure, so somehow I need to learn to deal with it in another manner. The reality is this is life and I can't keep reacting by bingeing/comfort eating. Sorry for my rant; it's not something I usually do, nor like to do, but I'm trying to interact more in the group and be accountable. So glass half full mentality: I came back and posted in the UAC regardless of whether I'm successful with the challenge. This was a goal I set for myself this Fall, so there's that at least.
@Jana_2020
Jana - thanks for sharing and kudos to you for your courage in the face of the changes that are happening in your life. Yes - courage 💛
You are still making progress, even if that progress is different than what you may have originally envisioned. You are committed to and practicing accountability (for the good, the “bad”, and the ugly) and that, to me, is truly what is at the heart of our learning in UAC and in wellness.
To me, you are successful at the challenge not when you get “three thumbs” up every day for the goals, but because you are showing up for yourself by first joining each month, sticking with it and being a champion (like you are right now), being committed to improving behaviours that we are ready to change, and keeping our wellness at front of mind with a fresh start every day.
I am so glad you have your sister and the support you can give each other. Be kind to yourself as you go through this 💩💩💩 period. Join me and commit to making improved sleep a focus? It’s absence heightens the angst, makes any self control challenge even more difficult, and robs us of capacity for healthier emotions.
Take good care of yourself friend.
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@Jana_2020 I think @jamcnewman said it very well. You are aware of it (first step), and taking mindful, positive measures to address it instead of boxing yourself into only an "all or nothing" mentality. That's huge, they're the hardest steps. Applying those steps is what gets you going in the direction you want to go. Keep going, we're all proud of how you are handling this adversity! Perfection is impossible but net sum positive is possible, and sometimes life can seem challenging to get there.
Keep going!3
