December 27
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? 21 minutes Peloton and 31 minutes yoga
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 - 3 (Dec 3, 24, 25)
2022 is staying the course - losing the last ~25 and reassessing from there. Focus on exercise and improving my strength and cardio fitness. Staying consistent and keeping a positive mental outlook. Being here with all of you!3 -
12/27
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 6 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
These are my morning meditation sessions, Pete and Parker enjoy meditation too, lol
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Monday 12/27
Exercise: no
Calories: over
Tracked: yes2 -
Thank you @donna25trinity !2
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Track: yes
Calories: yes
Exercise: yes
Treadmill: 31 min / 1.79 mi- Full body warm up 5 min
- Day 12 of EPIC II - Hamstring & Glute Isolation workout (+ cool down) 54 min
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Dec 27
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10,500 steps
Sat fat slightly higher than the last week- will trim it a bit going forwards
Four days!! We’ve got this!!2 -
12/27
Exercise: 55 minutes elliptical, 5 minutes treadmill, 90 minutes stretching and PT exercises
Tracking: yes
Calories: under
Pass days: 02 -
I am very much in "get back on track" mode as my wheels fell off in December. Over the last 2 days I have found time for more exercise (Body Step and Body Combat workouts, as well as the normal dog walks) and started making better diet decisions, although still not fully back there yet with tracking and tracking under the target. Things that I had stopped doing that keep me honest are a range of daily habits, of which keeping track was one. One of the most significant was meditation, which I had been doing every single day, but this dropped off a few weeks back and was my downfall.5
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Pass day. Again annoyingly it's the lack of activity. Was building Lego with my son for most of the day and trying to contain the baby so he didn't choke on Lego. Was hoping to go for a run once they were in bed but my husband was stressed and upset and needed some time.4
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Dec 27
Back on track!
Exercise -15 minutes MommaStrong, 40 minute walk with my friend
Tracking - Planned the Day
Calories - Followed the plan - under
It has been interesting to observe - from Dec 22 to Dec 26 I gained 2.6 pounds, which was very alarming to me and didn't feel great for my body either (lots of GI symptoms and fatigue). In the last 2 days I have lost those 2.6 pounds again! I remember feeling like after Thanksgiving it took a long time to lose the weight - probably because I spent a week after Thanksgiving at "maintenance" calories enjoying the extra pie ("maintenance" in quotes because I was estimating and maybe not so honestly). I think the lesson is maybe that I can take a break of a few days and bounce back from it in a few days, but if I take a break of a week, it'll take me a week or more to bounce back. That seems pretty intuitive when I put it that way, but it was discouraging at Thanksgiving and very inspiring now.
I am noticing how much better my body feels when I am back on track, and hoping that inspires me to keep going that way.
For 2022 I want to just keep up the habits that I have - I like my exercise routine of MommaStrong and walking, and I am feeling better when I can get in some of that on the weekends too though that is a challenge with the kids. And I think I am liking my current calorie balance of 1200 M-Th and 1350 F-Sun (plus exercise calories). With the caveat that I can increase to 2000 once a week if we do have some good seeming plans. But I don't think I'll do that every week, because some takeout plans can fit in OK within a 1350 day.
I have been agonizing for a while about when to feel like I am at maintenance. I have made a provisional decision to try hard, as I have been doing, at at weight loss until March and then evaluate at that point. March is my daughter's 10th birthday and since I am losing the "baby weight" from that pregnancy that seems like a milestone. Also just a good amount of time to put it off for.
Also in terms of maintenance, I am kind of feeling like the current size of clothing that I just bought is the size I would like to stay in for maintenance. Currently when I gain 2.6 pounds that clothing really doesn't fit. I'd like to get down to a range where that clothing fits all the way through the range, and then try to maintain that range. I am also currently at the very top of the "normal" BMI range - which is a fairly meaningless number, but maybe I would also have a range that keeps me in "normal." That may or may not happen in the by March timeline and I'll evaluate at that point.
@BMcC9 If you find a good program, let me know. After my mother visited and watched me exercise every morning, she told me she is inspired by it and would like to have a program of her own. I do MommaStrong, which is very targeted to mothers of young kids, which was not what she wants to do. She has a similar profile to you, though she never was a dancer. But she can walk for miles and miles, but balance and upper body strength are starting to diminish.
@enlightenme3 I also have trouble with all of those things! Let us know as you figure it out, and I'll keep trying too.
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~❄️~ 12 / 27 /2021~~ Waving Hi ~~🙋🏼~~ 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......... 26,830 +.......... 180 walking ......... 50 shoveling snow
Documenting My CONSISTANCY = For personal ACCOUNTABILITY
(if there is a P=instead of number its a Pass Day)
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20-21-22-23-24-25
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✅ Exercise: 55 minutes walking
✅ Calories
✅ Tracked
1 pass days used (Dec 25)
I am going to try the ¨reboot¨ this month suggested in ¨Gut Balance Revolution¨ by trying to do a FODMAP diet for a month in addition to the low carb. I am suspecting I might have the SIBO he describes in his book since the weightloss is so difficult, so I am temporarily going off my Muniq resistant starch shakes and going off some of what would normally be healthy fermentable foods to see if it makes a difference, and then add those things back in later. Also I am learning more about Kombucha brewing with the plan of making a batch ready in a month to help in phase 2 of his plna. Going to emphasize even more REAL food instead of processed. Also I am going to retest for food sensitivities.
I also plan to try HIIT training, on a cycle at the Y, 10 six second segments full out with at least a minute rest in between. I also want to get back to using Dance, Dance Revolution for cardio at home. My sons and I reorganized and decluttered a room in the basement and got me all set up with my Wii fitness, my Playstation with the DDR game, and a set up for casting YouTube and other apps from my phone to the TV for exercise videos. My oldest even simplified and labelled the set up of everything for me to help me not get confused by all the cords and connections. My physical therapist son also reviewed with me the videos I had bought and told me which exercised to avoid.
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✅ Exercise - 1 hour of Jazzercise
✅ Calories -
✅ Tracking -
Closed all my Apple watch rings today
13 Pass days used
Thank you to all you wonderful people of UAC for being great examples and dispensing encouragement and great advice. I love this group!5 -
have used 4 pass days - so no winner's circle -
12/27th -
yes x's 3
Happy last Monday of this year that I hope to remember blessings from...but will burn the rest of it to the ground and stomp on it. Yep. I'm a "glass is always 3/4 full person"...but this has been a tough one. So- onward we charge...continuing to praise God for the blessings(Mom survived her heart attack, I survived by the grace of God breast cancer, my cousin survived covid, we lost my Dad, my cousin's husband and my Aunt, lots of other lessons and even the challenges. To your question of what we are planning to do in 2022...planning to embrace more exercise diversification. My plan in my mind is to do something different every month...and do it at least 6 times. I can do things I haven't done in years and count those too. Everything from VR exercise programs...to kayaking...biking...kickboxing...etc... Best to all...5 -
Dec 27
Short and sweet:
Exercise:
Logged:
In Goal:
3 / 3 passes used.
(posted Dec 28 - now to get those doodle sessions caught up!)4 -
yes for 3
2/3 pass days used2 -
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? ✅2 -
I am very much in "get back on track" mode as my wheels fell off in December. Over the last 2 days I have found time for more exercise (Body Step and Body Combat workouts, as well as the normal dog walks) and started making better diet decisions, although still not fully back there yet with tracking and tracking under the target. Things that I had stopped doing that keep me honest are a range of daily habits, of which keeping track was one. One of the most significant was meditation, which I had been doing every single day, but this dropped off a few weeks back and was my downfall.
@jjjcat but you are still here and checking in! These things are always much easier to get back under control when we can catch them early on and reign them back in!!! Yup. You sound like a Champion to me!
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Yesterday wasn’t great food wise. I ate too much. We left the house we were staying at and travelled back home. We had a takeaway and ate really late so in between lunch and dinner I was eating stupid things like chips & biscuits. However, apart from 2 hours in the car I never stopped moving.
I clímed 29 flights of stairs
Walked 11,000 steps
Walked 4.7 miles
Plans & health goals for 2022:
Run a 10k in April and continue to run.
Lose 20lbs by May by keeping carbs in check and calories in déficit to support this.
Meditate every day.
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December 27
Thanks for the opening post and the links Jana - I will have the chance to look at everything tomorrow.
Pass day1 -
LazyBlondeChef wrote: »Track: yes
Calories: yes
Exercise: yes
Treadmill: 31 min / 1.79 mi- Full body warm up 5 min
- Day 12 of EPIC II - Hamstring & Glute Isolation workout (+ cool down) 54 min
The perils of copy/paste ... I didn't do treadmill on the 27th. I only did EPIC.1 -
12/27
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 6 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
These are my morning meditation sessions, Pete and Parker enjoy meditation too, lol2
