December 5
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December 5, 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
Habits to maintain this month:
Kitchen Closed? Yes
Did you go "nuts" with nuts today? Yes (4 day -free)
Within Sugar macro today? Yes (4 days)
Pass day 0/3 (this is for accountability to myself and my records).4 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, 50 minutes on the Peloton
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
The effects of a bad food choice take so long to unravel with exercise that the food discipline is what it all comes down to for me. I do exercise to feel good and I love what my body can do now (and all the other benefits) but I also exercise to have more food. I don't NEED to and I eat to what I do (so I can do less on a certain day and feel fine to scale back accordingly) but I am definitely motivated by the fact that extra exercise means extra calories to fuel me.4 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? yes 30 min walk & 25 min yoga
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? yes5 -
Mama530
Exercise: yes, weights
Calories: yes
Tracked: yes5 -
yes x's 3 - barelyyyyy stayed within calorie today...but I did it...and I'm going to do another 20 min workout here before bed - so happy about that...5
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Track: yes
Calories: yes
Exercise: yes- Treadmill: 49 mins / 2.68 mi
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✅ Exercise - 1 hour of Jazzercise
X Calories -
✅ Tracking -
Closed all my Apple watch rings today
1 Pass days used
Neighborhood cookie exchange did me in. I did try to track it though...
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5th December
3 x Yes5 -
Pass Day 1 used today.
Walked 20 minutes but didn't finish tracking and most likely went over my calorie budget. Tomorrow is another day! 😉
So true, you can't lose weight with exercise alone!5 -
Dec 1 🥾⚖️💪🏻🫀🧂🕉😴
Dec 2 🥾⚖️💪🏻🫀🧂🕉😴
Dec 3 🥾⚖️💪🏻🫀⬆️🕉😴
Dec 4 🥾⚖️💪🏻🫀🧂🕉😴
Dec 5 🥾⚖️💪🏻🫀🧂🕉😴
I thought I’d be over calories again, but everything’s perfect.
((Hugs to you, too)) @TerriRichardson112
Glad things went well for you.🎉
@Mrs_Hoffer I’m so sorry you have had bronchitis. I hope you will be all better ASAP!! Hugs. 🌸4 -
12/5
Exercise: 84 minutes mountain biking, 55 minutes stretching and PT exercises
Tracking: yes
Calories: under
Pass days used: 05 -
DEC 5
Exercise ✅ [1:50 h walk + 5 min stair climbing + 1:50 h strength training3 -
Right joining in a bit late - although before the cut off.
My older boy is turning 5 in a week and a half so we had a birthday party for him on Saturday. It's been a bit bonkers planning for that and getting everything sorted and then tidied up.
So far I've been mostly 3x yes with one pass day.
On the 4th I didn't track. I suspect I went over aswell. I did do 18000 steps though so very active and busy. Lots of party food and Costco sheet cake.
I suspect December is going to be a hard month but I just hope I'll stay here and make it to the end. If I could lose a couple of pounds that would be a great extra.7 -
Yes, yes and yes
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~🎄~ 12 / 5 /2021~~ Waving Hi ~~🤶🏼~~ Welcome to December ~BLESSings ALLways ~💖~
Exercise for at least 20 minutes .................................... ✅ ... 210+ min.
Stay within my calorie budget for the day ...................... ✅ ... I am
Keep track of everything I ate and drank ....................... ✅ .... I did
STEPS......... 27,540+.......... 180 walking ........ 30 min. house cleaning....
Documenting My CONSISTANCY = For personal ACCOUNTABILITY
(if there is a P=instead of number its a Pass Day)
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I’d like to add to the article that summerskier shared I to have been active and went up and down with weight more up and then stayed steady, the past 5 years I have exercised and watched calorie intake with the re learning process of incorporating healthy foods in my diet. All is true one will work but not efficiently without the others. I do find myself trying not to eat back my exercise calories but I am not always successful.
My December goals are to stay focused and keep up with exercise but still enjoy the holiday season.5 -
December 5
Yes to all 3
2 pass days used4 -
dec 5th 2nd pass day
my own birthday ... I tried to talk myself into exercising all day long and could not get moving ... tracked cals but was over due to birthday beer5 -
Dec 5
Exercise - 15 minute MommaStrong video, 40 minute walk
Tracking - Planned the day and followed the plan - even sticking to the right number of latkes!
Calories - Under!
Pass days - 2 total
Absolutely true that exercise alone has never been enough for me. Actually, if I am not careful, exercise makes me more hungry and I eat more. What's worst is exercise in the cold - just realizing that my accidental pass day on Saturday was probably due to that - a morning in the cold at the Christmas Tree Farm (doing very little exercise) making me extra hungry and harder to resist the takeout.
I do eat back my exercise calories - but they are pretty minimal, usually about 150 per day. Also, I try to exercise the same amount every day, so there is no need to do averaging. I find that eating my exercise calories motivates me to fit my minimal exercise into my day, knowing that if I don't then I'll have to take the cheese off my salad or something sad like that.
But I have often wondered when I see exercise totaling 1000 calories or so, how people do that, especially if you only exercise like that a few times a week. Averaging that kind of thing would definitely make more sense to me. Maybe one day I'll have time for that kind of exercise! And if I do I will keep that tip in mind.
This week I am back to my "usual" calorie plan. We have eaten all the leftovers from Thanksgiving and from our takeout Hanukkah feast. So I think I'm ready to get back on track. I hope so! For a few weeks until Christmas at least.5 -
Exercise-yes
Tracking/calories yes5 -
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? ✅4 -
Coming back here to thank @SummerSkier for this daily post. It really hit home for me. I've been kind of feeling in a rut and getting annoyed with how hungry and prone to binging I am on non-run days. I played with the TDEE calculator and I am much under what it says I should be netting daily, and I've decided that instead of shooting for a net of 1500 a day and eating back my exercise calories I'm raising my daily goal to 1975 (what the TDEE calculator says I should eat a day to lose 1lb a week) and not eating back my exercise calories. My exercise average per day since July 6, 2021 is 575 calories so that evens out. I'm excited about this plan, and I'm hoping it keeps me from running into as many PB standoffs I can't get out of on non-run days when I'd only burn like 200 calories instead of 700.
Also, what's the worst than can happen? I plateau for 6 months? LOL. Oh wait, I already did that. LOL.
Excited about continuing this venture for the first time in a while... 9 -
OK ... I am SURE (cause I scrolled right from the top of pg 1!) that I haven't reported yet ...
Dec 5
Exercise
(finished up my exergame "tour" *aka opened up / developed everything there was to do* so starting a brand new "Right from the beginning with new character & name" tour.
Logged yup
In goal left all the minimal-earned exercise calories from a less active-than-lately day uneaten, but was right up near the brim of where I SHOULD be for calorie intake. 2 -
@Caroline_slowandsteady I don't know how people can burn 1000 calories of exercise either unless they're serious runners.
I also wonder about the burning of calories as reported by various fitness devices. I believe most people already realize that MFP has excessively high calorie burn rates. I find it odd that Apple shows way more burned calories on 20-30 min treadmill walk than an hour EPIC workout especially when my heart rate is sometimes higher with EPIC than the treadmill. It could be the program I'm using which is Functional Strength Training and how they calculate the active calories. I assume the non-active are just based on current weight listed in the Health app. Maybe I need to choose a different workout program to see how it compares. I'll experiment over the next couple of weeks.
Regardless, I'd much rather underreport than overreport.2 -
Pretty much that. Strength and Yoga routines have fairly low calories burns. You need a lot of cardio. It doesn't have to be running though, I was burning well over 1000/day over the summer with walking, but that was quite exceptional. I couldn't do that now as several routines have changed and I no longer have a 90 minute window in the morning plus another 90 minute window in the afternoon to spend walking.LazyBlondeChef wrote: »@Caroline_slowandsteady I don't know how people can burn 1000 calories of exercise either unless they're serious runners.
As for accuracy of calorie burns, I can say that my weight loss was roughly as expected for my caloric deficits over that time. But I also only trust calorie burn estimates from cardio, and not so much from strength routines. I see some wild differences reported sometimes between one session and the next even if they were all the same weights/movements. For cardio I can expect a certain burn per mile.1 -
Sunday December 5
Just realized now that this post is sitting in my “drafts”…. Oops — but thank goodness for the drafts function!
🌟 Tracking
🌟 Calories
🌟 Exercise - so much shoveling snow ❄️❄️❄️❄️ 45 minutes total over two sessions plus two shorter dog walk (total time 25 minutes).
Husband’s back is a disaster after the last blizzard (the issues didn’t show up until a week later) and is on day four of daily chiropractor appointments. He playing the first of three performances of The Messiah tonight, so we are trying to preserve his ability to work. He plays trumpet and the big showstopper (for us, anyway) is The Trumpet Shall Sound. The holiday season really starts for us when we hear it live. Thank goodness we can return to “safe” concert experiences this year. Tonight is the youth choir’s performance; tomorrow night is mine (the symphony’s Philharmonic Chorus).
https://youtu.be/_rQYv8EsGSQ
Julie2 -
Thank you for the really thought provoking opening post @SummerSkier and for all the insights shared by the group. Still thinking all this through.
@Caroline_slowandsteady I have exactly the same experience with exercise in the really cold weather (-34 C with the windchill right now; -29 F)… I honesty don’t think it is just cravings or boredom — It takes so much energy just to keep warm. The effect is felt that day and if I deny feeding that hunger (filling instead herbal tea, warm water, etc.) I am in a days long feeling really chilled and cold (am experimenting with increasing healthy fats during these experiences) and very hungry.
Happy birthday to you @Slimpossible007 🥳
Hope you feel better soon @mrs_hoffer. Bronchitis is exhausting and it is really taking it out of you. 💛2 -
12/05
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? 👍🏻
Used 0 passes
3 passes left
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December goals
- Miracle Morning daily.
- yoga and strength training at least 3x weekly (Strength training WILL happen this month)
- TRY having ZERO pass days
- No LNS daily, ONLY fruits
- Daily journaling
These are my morning meditation sessions, Pete and Parker enjoy meditation too, lol
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✅ Exercise - Skiing; Stairmaster
✅ Calories
✅ Tracked3 -
12/5/2021
Exercise? No
Tracking? Yes
Calories? Yes2
