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December 21
Mrs_Hoffer
Posts: 5,193 Member
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?
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day?
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank?
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I love the meme that says “Don’t say I can’t, say I’ll try”. But I also cringe when someone says “well, nothing else has worked, I guess I’ll give the UAC a try.” All of us still here have had days, weeks, months when we’ve struggled and been tempted to quit. But we stay because we made a commitment, because we know the 3 goals of the UAC are key to success. So let’s give ourselves a big pat on the back for that. Clearly, December is a struggle for many of us but let’s power through and never give up. I’m reading a book about food addictions and the author says “when you get married, does the religious figure or justice of the peace ask, “Do you swear to give this person a try?” Of course not. We make a commitment (obviously sometimes even with a commitment things go wrong, speaking as a divorced person myself.)
I’m coming up on one year here and joining this group was one of the best decisions I’ve made in a long time. I’ve been tempted to quit a few times. Sometimes I’m really active on this thread, sometimes not so much. But this group provides the encouragement, education, wisdom, and friendship that has provided what I need for success.
This is a journey, thanks for coming along.18 -
DEC 21
Exercise ✅ [20 min yoga]6 -
Yes x3
To everyone still here you are freaking rock stars. Even if you're on 10 pass days or whatever - you are turning up for yourselves and being a badass.
I'm not sure of the stats but I would bet December has three highest drop out rate. I've personally felt that internal pressure to just slink away rather than put my hands up and say - sorry I'm on 4 pass days now. However the only person who that would impact would be me. The winners circle is a great goal but the champions club is also fabulous.16 -
@biketheworld so well said along with @Genevermfp we all have been there but whatever our reasons we stick it out a big round of applause because 12/25 is close and I don’t know about you but it may require a pass day on my end but…I’ll be back said Arnold😂😂😂6
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2️⃣ pass days
‘Do or do not, there is no try!’ (Yoda, to Luke Skywalker, in Star Wars)
I’m a great believer in choices. It’s part of my self-determination ethos. I decide what I do, or do not do.9 -
December 21, 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? No (16 days -free)
Within Sugar macro today? Yes (17 days)
Pass day 1/3 (this is for accountability to myself and my records).9 -
snowshoe072 wrote: »@biketheworld so well said along with @Genevermfp we all have been there but whatever our reasons we stick it out a big round of applause because 12/25 is close and I don’t know about you but it may require a pass day on my end but…I’ll be back said Arnold😂😂😂
Being a champion in this group is the hardest. The temptation to give up is very real in December.
And the excuses...OMG!- "There is no time to workout"
- "I am stressed"
- "Too many things to do before company comes"
- "Need to finish shopping"
- "Need to wrap gifts"
- "I'm falling behind"
- "Don't have the time to check in UAC today"
- "I have 20 million pass days already
Why border?" - "Will join again in January"
- "I can't do this anymore"
I tell myself "you can come up with 20 million reasons why you should quit. But what will be the end result? What is the goal here? Are you working hard to undo all your gains? Who ever does that? What will you say to your future self? What will you tell your grand kids?"12 -
21 Dec
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
Pass days used: 0
I wonder how @RangerRickL is doing in his new abode. What a huge adjustment from being on a farm? I wonder if he fled to Az again for the winter.
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Exercise – yes, bike ride and cardio workouts
Tracked – yes
Calories – yes
3 pass days taken
It was bitter cold today, so I just had two very short bike rides - down to the shops twice - but got my cardio workouts done.
I know I will have at least two more pass days (25th and 26th) and probably the 30th and 31st as well.
Keeping going when you have clocked up several pass days can be hard but I'm determined not to give up.8 -
December 20
✅ Exercise - dance workout video
✅ Calories
✅ Tracked
3 Pass Days Used5 -
Tracked logged did some spin and a little flexibility work. Made time in my day late this afternoon before finishing dinner prep and got my spin in as so many others have said to many reasons to skip it this month but you have only yourself to be accountable to don’t give up.6
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@TerriRichardson112
@lesdarts180
Both well said nothing else to add except; we are the master of our own destiny what do you wish others to remember you for? Determination or giving up?7 -
🏋🏾♀️😃🥳5
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@Geneveremfp - you’re spot on when you said that if you quit, the only person impacted is yourself. Along with that, I remind myself that if I quit, I’ll get the same result every other time I’ve quit - which is to gain the weight back and maybe more. I DO NOT want to go down that road again!
@victorious55 - “What will you tell your grand kids?" - that one really hit home.
@SummerSkier - I was just thinking about @RangerRickL today, wondering what he’s up to.
@lesdarts180 - I thought about you today because you’re so consistent with your bike rides. It was 39 (Fahrenheit) here, but the wind was blowing and it felt so darn cold when I went for my walk. I intended to also get in a short bike ride but scrapped it.5 -
12/21
Exersize yes
Caleries yes
Logged yes
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December 21
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4 pass days used
Today's exercise was a mix of opportunities I took which I am pretty sure added up over 20 minutes. There was taking the 5 flights of stairs to a doctor appointment (also serves to test new treatment progress with my plantar fasciitis), and three separate periods of working with weights. My strength workout was interrupted right after the first set, and wound up being broken out into 3 separate sessions, first being banded rows, 2nd being dumbbell rows and third being dumbbell overhead press and dumbbell bicep curls, all spread out over about a 90 minute span.
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✔️✔️✔️
1/3'pass days used.
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Love todays GIF! I promise to try to try too!
Pass day. I did poorly on protein today so at 10pm I started craving all my usual protein sources and was like oh I should probably eat a beyond burger before tomorrow spirals. It’s also the time of the month I get all my weird cravings - esp for vitamin b and protein. I was like 600 calories over but that’s still under my maintenance number so while it’s a pass day I am not considering it a total loss esp given todays stress levels.
Tomorrow we travel to my in-laws house for Christmas which is not my favorite thing. I like hosting Christmas and being in my own house. The whole thing is just really stressing me out for various reasons from my lack of control over food in that house, to the passive aggressive war zone we’re entering, to how certain a in-laws seem to suck the joy out of my favorite day of the year, to driving through New Jersey. I have my elf dress and green tights packed and ready to go. If I have to look ridiculous to make myself happy on Christmas, so be it.10 -
3 Yesses
5 pass days used
Exercise was a 3 mile run ☁️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️
I am really amazed at how well I'm doing this month keeping my eating in control and actually losing weight! Dec 1st I was 136.2. This morning I was 132.4! Have to attribute it to the UAC. If it wasn't for the rules and the accountability I doubt I'd be tracking as often as I have, and that would mean most likely overeating. I do plan on taking both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day as pass days, and imagine my weight will go up a pound or two. Hopefully not more than that.
Hope for my weight to still be under 135 on New Year's Eve, that's the goal. Keeping that as my focus will hopefully keep my Christmas splurging in moderation. And then back on track with the UAC rules after that!7 -
12/21
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 5 passes 😭😭😭
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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
My morning meditation sessions, Pete and Parker enjoy meditation too.
This month has definitely been a struggle for me, for everyone who is STILL tracking….. your ALLLL winners in my opinion!7 -
Daily Post
Tuesday 12/21
Exercise: walked
Calories: over
Tracked: yes3 -
Track: yes
Calories: yes
Exercise: yes- Full body warm up 5 min
- Day 8 of EPIC II - unilateral leg day dumbbell workout (+ cool down) 51 min
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I’m on a similar boat to @mshawski with stress/boredom eating around in-laws. They are all big eaters, huge portions and a lot of processed foods. Thinking about being there gives me anxiety. To give you an idea, we lived with them for a month and I put on 30lbs during this time; I had never been overweight in my life before meeting them 😂😭 I hope I’m able to find better coping mechanisms and prove myself proved wrong.
I manage to do a body pump class yesterday but I haven’t been doing great. I’m fighting another cold and I’m already stressed. I keep snapping and need a restful break not go to a house full of people who don’t create the most relaxing of environments.5 -
12/21
Exercise: 25 minutes stationary bike, 40 minutes elliptical, 50 minute weight training, 55 minutes stretching and PT exercises
Tracking: yes
Calories: under
Pass days: 03 -
@biketheworld , I'm lucky that I live on the outskirts of a small town, so I can access the countryside if I want a longer ride or just pop down to the shops for a short ride. I use my bike for almost all my local shopping and as the bike panniers don't hold a lot I go to the shops almost every day.
During the strict lockdown last year I had some shopping delivered but now I buy most of my groceries locally using the bike.
The shopping centre is just over a mile away - downhill getting there and uphill coming back - and I can add a short detour to make it a 15 to 20 minute round trip.
I hardly use the car these days - it sits in the garage for a couple of weeks at time.6 -
Exercise:
I haven't been doing much, but I did get outdoors for a 2 mile walk/run today
Tracking:
Calories: Kept it super low again. Morning weigh in put me back in my maintenance range and I am going to try to keep it up until Christmas Eve.
5 pass days used...my goal is to only have 3 more this month (year!) That would make it 9 pass days in 9 months!! How can I not be proud about that?4 -
Dec 21
Exercise - 20 minutes walking in the woods at my daughter's outdoor school event (and lots of standing in the cold)
Tracking - Planned the day
Calories - Followed the plan.
Pass days are at 10ish I think.
I dealt with my tendency to binge after standing in the cold in a really smart way this time - soup. We had turkey noodle soup for dinner and I also drank a lot of water because I was thirsty and I was so full after that! And warm.
It is oddly very inspiring to me to see how many of us are struggling this month, even some of you who have been astonishingly consistent before. It shows me how key continuing to show up on a hard month is to long-term success - that posting my 10 pass days before the 20th day of the month is not really a failure but a step towards success.
I find this morning routine of checking in here to be the perfect way to start the day - not something I have to "try" for but something I am excited to get to do. So being a Champion doesn't feel that hard, but having to reckon with reporting how my day was is not always easy and that does inspire me to try harder during the day. And that does sure feel like trying, and failing, and trying again...5 -
biketheworld wrote: »
I love the meme that says “Don’t say I can’t, say I’ll try”. But I also cringe when someone says “well, nothing else has worked, I guess I’ll give the UAC a try.” All of us still here have had days, weeks, months when we’ve struggled and been tempted to quit. But we stay because we made a commitment, because we know the 3 goals of the UAC are key to success. So let’s give ourselves a big pat on the back for that. Clearly, December is a struggle for many of us but let’s power through and never give up. I’m reading a book about food addictions and the author says “when you get married, does the religious figure or justice of the peace ask, “Do you swear to give this person a try?” Of course not. We make a commitment (obviously sometimes even with a commitment things go wrong, speaking as a divorced person myself.)
I’m coming up on one year here and joining this group was one of the best decisions I’ve made in a long time. I’ve been tempted to quit a few times. Sometimes I’m really active on this thread, sometimes not so much. But this group provides the encouragement, education, wisdom, and friendship that has provided what I need for success.
This is a journey, thanks for coming along.
Beautifully said! Xo1 -
21st
* 45 min jog & stretch.
*Meditation and journaling
* Under calories
* Tracked blt
* Monitored sugars but over
* xo
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~🎄~ 12 / 21 /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......... 26,810+.......... 180 walking ......... 30 min cleaning
Documenting My CONSISTANCY = For personal ACCOUNTABILITY
(if there is a P=instead of number its a Pass Day)
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20-21
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