December 10
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❌ Exercise -
✅ Calories
✅ Tracked
1 - Pass Days Used
As much as I wanted to exercise today, self-care meant following doctor’s orders and knowing my limitations.6 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, first 60 minute Peloton ride and 31 minutes of walking
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
Pass days - 1/3 (Dec 3)5 -
I posted here yesterday and it disappeared 🤷🏻♀️
Pass day - this is my 4th.
I’ve been struggling since Thanksgiving. Despite the food slip ups I’m still exercising daily.
Self care - I make working out a priority. I feel so much better when I workout. I also give myself pedicures regularly so I’m not embarrassed at yoga classes 😂6 -
DEC 10
Exercise ✅ [40 min walk + 5 min stair climbing + 45 min strength training]5 -
MAMA530
EXERCISE: Yes - walked 25 min
CALORIES: Under
TRACKED: Yes3 -
Dec 10
Exercise - 30 minutes walk
Tracking - Planned the day, followed the plan
Calories - Under
Pass Days so Far: 4
Good questions, @MadisonMolly2017 . I don't think I usually have a problem with eating to make myself feel better or take care of myself. But I definitely have a problem with eating for "celebration." I posted in "What's on your mind" about that and am still mulling over all the answers I got, hoping they help me this holiday season.
What I do for self-care - these are things that I try to fit in every day, the things that my mom commented I was very "rigid" about and didn't use to be. Since the shut down in March 2020, I have been working from home with insufficient childcare and I am clinging to these things like a life raft. I only give them up when I am sick (like this week) and when that happens my mental health definitely suffers.
- Lots of decaf tea (some of it on a specific schedule)
- Checking in here and on my facebook exercise support group first thing in the morning
- Then my MommaStrong workout
- And stretching, including PT stretches for my tailbone pain that I've had since falling while cross country skiing in Feb 2021 but stretching definitely helps
- Then breakfast before I get my 5 year old up (and if I have to wait until after that is a bad day!)
- Eating my pre-planned meals on the right schedule
- Going for a 20-40 minute walk sometime during the day (or longer if I can, but usually that's all I can manage). Sometimes with my good friend who lives around the block, sometimes on the phone with someone, sometimes with just my thoughts. This is key to my sanity.
- A treat after kid bedtime (that is food, but preplanned and prelogged. I have tried going without it and that doesn't work out well). That is both the treat itself and the time to myself that I enjoy.
- Ideally more stretching before bed
- Reading before bed
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~🎄~ 12 / 10 /2021~~ Waving Hi ~~🤶🏼~~ Welcome to December ~BLESSings ALLways ~💖~
Exercise for at least 20 minutes .................................... ✅ ... 230+ min.
Stay within my calorie budget for the day ...................... ✅ ... I am
Keep track of everything I ate and drank ....................... ✅ .... I did
STEPS......... 29,530+.......... 200 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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Yes, no, and no
Fika Friday celebration at work. I limited what I sampled but I did not bother to record and I am sure I am slightly over maintenance.3 -
Friday was a fail. Second pass day. I need to count my calories BEFORE I eat.6
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✅ Exercise - 1.5 hour of Jazzercise
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✅ Tracking -
Closed all my Apple watch rings today
4 Pass days used
I waited until this morning to log my snacks and dinner and was absolutely positive that I was way over calories. Lots of snacking and Indian take-out for dinner. Dessert snacking as well. Well lo-and-behold I was in calories because I did an extra long intense workout! Then I remembered the coconut ice cream that we had out at the Amish farm. Doh!!!! So pass day #4 for me.
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Absolute disaster
1/3 passes
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@MadisonMolly2017 -thx for that important thought. Last night I had a short break that turned much longer. It was exactly what I needed-no binge eating and got the brain drain I needed.
Exercise, tracking, calories yes3 -
Yes x33
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✅ Exercise: 90 minute workout, mix of weights, rowing machine, walking, and swimming
✅ Calories
✅ Tracked
0 pass days used ( )
I wish I had saved a thing I saw about how self care includes things like unsubscribing from email lists, putting your phone on do not disturbe, saying no to requests for volunteer work that you don´t have a passion for, etc. I think we forget how much of self care is related to setting boundaries and limits, not just finding relaxing or pleasant things to do.
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I’m really loving everyone’s “self care” ideas.
@donna25trinity - would never have thought of house cleaning as self care but you’re right – I do feel better when I have made the effort. I hope you feel better now and managed that run!
@ideas2 mentioned setting boundaries and @Mrs_Hoffer mentioned saying “no” – I agree that it’s important to do this – it is a sort of respect for yourself.
Quite a few people included exercise/physical activity/ being outside as important – my bike rides are very important to me and I even go out in the rain (not for long!) to get that freedom.
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There are so many successful today with three yeses:
Congratulations go to:
@SummerSkier, @jjjcat, @donna25trinity,
@TerriRichardson112, @Slimpossible007, @WhatMeRunning,
@mshawski, - keeping my fingers crossed for you!
@biketheworld, @ForLangston, @victoriou55,
@jamcnewman – wow, you are busy, and that pic of your “lapdog” made me laugh!
@dsgoingtodoit, @BMcC9, @yrc_pr,
@GrandmaJackie, @Mrs_Hoffer – getting better at saying “no” is a challenge for me too.
@MadisonMolly2017, @slimtastesbetter, @LazyBlondeChef,
@ashleycarole86, @Mama530, @Caroline_slowandsteady
@DebyS137, @bookieNJ, @Geneveremfp,
@ideas2,
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@snowshoe072 – I used to have days like that, so happy to be retired
@Arc2Arc – sorry to hear you are under doctor’s orders.2 -
@taurie – we all struggle at times but you’re showing up and posting and exercising, you’ll soon be back on track.
@znaoiec, @enlightenme3 and @mmcram – tracking/logging can be a real challenge.
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I posted here yesterday and it disappeared 🤷🏻♀️
Pass day - this is my 4th.
I’ve been struggling since Thanksgiving. Despite the food slip ups I’m still exercising daily.
Self care - I make working out a priority. I feel so much better when I workout. I also give myself pedicures regularly so I’m not embarrassed at yoga classes 😂
@taurie
What seems to be at the heart of the slip-ups?
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@MadisonMolly2017 -thx for that important thought. Last night I had a short break that turned much longer. It was exactly what I needed-no binge eating and got the brain drain I needed.
Exercise, tracking, calories yes
@bookieNJ
Oh Wonderful!!!
I had always been someone who pushed & pushed & then ate out as a release, rest, reward etc.
It’s taken me a few years to turn that around.2 -
✅ Exercise: 90 minute workout, mix of weights, rowing machine, walking, and swimming
✅ Calories
✅ Tracked
0 pass days used ( )
I wish I had saved a thing I saw about how self care includes things like unsubscribing from email lists, putting your phone on do not disturbe, saying no to requests for volunteer work that you don´t have a passion for, etc. I think we forget how much of self care is related to setting boundaries and limits, not just finding relaxing or pleasant things to do.
@ideas2
YES!
I unsubscribe & block unwanted emails.
I leave my phone downstairs 2 hours before bedtime & enjoy time in the morning upstairs before picking it up again. This was Super Hard the first night back in July (?) & a super easy habit every other night!
Boundaries & thinking through how we want to spend our “one & precious life” will help us reach many goals, not just health!!1 -
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Dec. 10
Exercise: 35 minutes stationary bike, 30 minutes elliptical, 50 minutes weight training, 55 minutes stretching and PT exercises
Tracking: yes
Calories: under
Pass days used: 02 -
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? ✅1