December 4
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December 4
✅ Exercise - walking
✅ Calories
✅ Tracked
0 Pass Days Used4 -
✅ exercise - barely managed 20 minutes of running on a treadmill before being called to pick up my very unhappy toddler.
✅ calories - maintenance week
✅ tracking - did the best I could as I ate out for lunch and dinner.
My husband and I went to see a movie; first time since our son was born, over 2 years ago! It was so nice 🙃
I thought the day was going to be a pass day as we had planned two meals out and cinema. Both meals were healthy (fish & veg) and we only took coffees into cinema avoiding all the snacks. It was the perfect date ❤️10 -
Saturday dec 4
Exercise- yes, worked in the house for 2 1/2 hours. Got kitchen counter tops rearranged, all my house plants fertilized and trimmed. Christmas tree put up, and some light cleaning done with couple things moved around.
Logged/tracked everything I ate- yes
Stayed within calories- yes
2/3 days used7 -
Pass day today eating out for my daughters 21st, (her birthday was on the 2nd) I'm not fully sure of the calories in the food so I done a best guess and logged what i thought it was, went over calories due to sticky toffee pudding and didn't have the chance to get any exercise in either
Dec 5th is my birthday, I will see if I can do any better
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@Healthymumlife i feel ya! I'm in the same boat. The first 2 days of dec turned out to be pass days (not feeling well) so right off the bat I lose 2 days. Not to mention now we've got all the Christmas "goodies" staring us in the face. I agree, it is going to be a rough month. I figure even if I do use up my pass days as long as I keep going it will seem like practice for next month lol. But tracking has really helped me to see where my empty calories are coming from (got to stop the late night snakin)
We've got this...we can do this!9 -
✅ Exercise - 1 hour of Jazzercise
✅ Calories -
✅ Tracking -
Closed all my Apple watch rings today
0 Pass days used.
Getting ready for travel and for social events over the next week. Keeping UAC principles top of mind.8 -
Exercise: Tracking: Calories: 7
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Dec 1 🥾⚖️💪🏻🫀🧂🕉😴
Dec 2 🥾⚖️💪🏻🫀🧂🕉😴
Dec 3 🥾⚖️💪🏻🫀⬆️🕉😴
Dec 4 🥾⚖️💪🏻🫀🧂🕉😴
I exercised, calories under, and tracked all Dec 1-4.
But things have been rough:
Dec 2 & 4 sodium was *just* okay & led to increased mouth hunger. Dec 3 sodium was high (processed foods) & led to more mouth hunger today. I thought for sure my calories would be over, but they weren’t.
I have to admit that eating one sugary-salty-fatty food Dec 1 that I usually don’t eat led to a salty-fatty-crunchy Dec 2 (and finishing it Dec 3.) And then to a third food Dec 3. Processed-pseudo-fried-Salty.
Today was all good, but I had to keep from making it a 4thday in a row.
I was *this close* to taking December “off” something I have not done since Jan 2016. Danger! But tonight I sat down with all my notes on what I’d eaten & much to my surprise, my calories were fine, low even. My steps are crazily high.
It’s shocking & humbling to see that after years of maintenance & carefully weighing to the gram, I might have given up over just 4 days. Very shocking.
I truly am like an alcohol w/ that first drink, I’m embarrassed to say, but better to announce it & remember this experience going forwards.
Of course with the extra sodium, the scale popped up, which didn’t help & made me think I’d eaten too much (I hadn’t.)
“My name’s Maddie, and I need to keep my sodium & refined sugar to low levels in order to be healthy & happy.”12 -
I just saw your brilliant opening post @BMcC9
All of what you wrote is essential. And when you hit the 3 year 3 month or 5 year maintenance point, keep doing it. Gather the data even though it feels tiresome after almost 6 years.
It’s essential that I do this. I now know unequivocally that I love being healthy & happy and I will not remain so unless I fully track every single day.
A small price to pay7 -
✅ Exercise - Skiing; Stairmaster
✅ Calories
✅ Tracked5 -
❌❌❌ not today. Tough month10
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, I walked for 90 minutes, rode my Peloton for 30, did yoga for 10, and upper body light weight strength training for 10
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 - 1/3 (Dec 3)
Today was ALMOST another unplanned pass day, but I pulled it out.
I have already made my plan for Dec - a combination of higher calorie maintenance days and lower calorie deficit days.
Today was a planned maintenance day as we woke up in Canmore and when we got back home we had a Christmas party. Today was truly a practice of restraint - I enjoyed myself thoroughly but in every part of the day I could have gone wild, and I held back.
I have been reflecting a lot on how many calories I would have eaten before. There were always SO many opportunities to over-indulge.
In any event, by the time I got through everything and got home I was in the negative and my only chance to save this day was to get my butt out for exercise. I rallied and got it done but as we all know that's not always possible - time is required and it takes way more effort to exercise yourself out of a hole.
In any case, I had the time and the drive tonight and I got it done 8 -
@mshawski sorry to hear about you possibly having an IT band injury, especially a week before your race. Hate when that happens! I too have a race next Saturday, a 5k, and have been noticing some off and on pain in my right hammy. Just mild, but I need to be cautious about speed training so that it doesn't get worse before or during the race. Hoping your leg is injury-free by race day, mine too!
@MadisonMolly2017 good job not throwing in the towel. I know from experience how easy it is to do that in December and then to "start anew" come January.
3 Yesses for today.
Exercise was on the treadmill this morning, didn't feel like running in the rain.
1 mile walk and then a 2 mile run (alternating every quarter mile between 5mph and 6.2 mph)
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12/4/2021
Exercise? Yes. Just over an hour on my bike today.
Tracking? Yes.
Calories? I went into exercise calories, but yes.
Wait... I think that might be two 3 yes days??? Maybe. I'll have to check.6 -
Mama530
Exercise: yes, yoga
Calories: yes
Tracked: yes4 -
3 x Yes4
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Track: yes
Calories: yes
Exercise: yes- Day 49 EPIC I - Full body Strength and Stretch Workout 45 min
Day 49 of EPIC was 45 mins of strength using only body weight and 20 mins of stretch. I did the first part and a few minutes of the stretch which started off as yoga moves. I don't particularly enjoy yoga so I stopped after a few minutes even knowing things could change.
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4th Dec
* Walk
* Had burger and chips so had to say no to my evening treat. I cldnt measure my chips but guesstimate I was under calories.
* tracked except for chips as we ate then while driving.
For me tracking every blt has been a huge struggle as sometimes I graze mindless while prepping or cooking food and dnt even realise till after the fact. In those instances I over estimate to almost use it almost as a punishment for not tracking accurately and I must say this strategy seems to be working as grazing is getting less.
I am also going into my 4th week of jogging 5 days a week and hve enjoyed how samsung health app tracks my progress.. I recently discovered that for my age group i am actually jogging faster than I realised and exceeding wat I should be for my age. This is very motivating for me and the data now makes me want to go faster!! Xo6 -
MadisonMolly2017 wrote: »Dec 1 🥾⚖️💪🏻🫀🧂🕉😴
Dec 2 🥾⚖️💪🏻🫀🧂🕉😴
Dec 3 🥾⚖️💪🏻🫀⬆️🕉😴
Dec 4 🥾⚖️💪🏻🫀🧂🕉😴
I exercised, calories under, and tracked all Dec 1-4.
But things have been rough:
Dec 2 & 4 sodium was *just* okay & led to increased mouth hunger. Dec 3 sodium was high (processed foods) & led to more mouth hunger today. I thought for sure my calories would be over, but they weren’t.
I have to admit that eating one sugary-salty-fatty food Dec 1 that I usually don’t eat led to a salty-fatty-crunchy Dec 2 (and finishing it Dec 3.) And then to a third food Dec 3. Processed-pseudo-fried-Salty.
Today was all good, but I had to keep from making it a 4thday in a row.
I was *this close* to taking December “off” something I have not done since Jan 2016. Danger! But tonight I sat down with all my notes on what I’d eaten & much to my surprise, my calories were fine, low even. My steps are crazily high.
It’s shocking & humbling to see that after years of maintenance & carefully weighing to the gram, I might have given up over just 4 days. Very shocking.
I truly am like an alcohol w/ that first drink, I’m embarrassed to say, but better to announce it & remember this experience going forwards.
Of course with the extra sodium, the scale popped up, which didn’t help & made me think I’d eaten too much (I hadn’t.)
“My name’s Maddie, and I need to keep my sodium & refined sugar to low levels in order to be healthy & happy.”
This is awesome... I feel u with the alcoholic analogy! Xo3 -
Dec 4th
A second pass day - unplanned and unnecessary
Exercise - 30 minutes stretching, probably at least 20 minutes of walking around at the Christmas Tree Farm
Tracking - I planned the day, but just did not have the willpower as my kids indulged in delicious treats all day long (because of Christmas Tree Farm, Thanksgiving dessert leftovers, and post-second COVID shot treats and takeout). I grazed on their leftovers all day long. I will say I did not eat as much as I could have eaten - but much more than I wanted to. I am feeling hungry and cranky about trying to get back on the wagon with eating right after the week of Thanksgiving indulgences. I am not sure which part of the plan was wrong - taking a week at maintenance after Thanksgiving, or trying to go back to weight loss calories while my house is still full of delicious junk food.
Calories - Over. But really not as much as they could be, is the only consolation. I still followed the plan for my main eating, just had a bite and a sip here and there, which probably added up to quite a bit, but not as much as if I'd just abandoned the plan entirely.
Pass Days So Far: 2
Today is planned but with more temptation. We're having our family Hanukkah celebration tonight, with latkes. My plan is to eat 2 and that should fit in the calorie budget. We'll see how I do.
@BMcC9 Thanks for the opening post. I really like the idea of continuing to gather data to learn from it and continually get better at this as I learn. This is my second time losing weight in my life, and I came to UAC after working on it for a year and a half and losing almost 25 pounds. Yet I am still feeling very much like a beginner at this stage of things. I mean, not just for weight loss but kind of for everything in my life right now, actually. So I really like the idea of tracking, reflecting, adjusting, It's basically using the scientific method on myself.
And also inspired by your post, I am going to post a question for advice in What's on Your Mind.
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