Track: yes
Calories: yes
Exercise: yes

• Light upper body dumbbell workout ~25 mins

Pass Days: 0/0

What is it that they say? You can't outrun your fork.

3 YESSES for me today. Exercise was a 3 mile run.

I finally was able to get outside for a run this morning! But just because the streets were pretty much clear didn't mean the trails were free of snow. I went to a nearby gravel trail and was surprised to see it still had a lot of snow on it and slush that had refreezed, making it quite slippery! But thankfully there was a strip along one side that was just bare gravel, so I was able to run on that without fear of slipping. However, after only running 0.25 miles, the nice little strip of bare gravel was no longer, it was the icy refrozen slush like the rest of the trail. So what I did in order to get in 3 miles was I ran that quarter mile bare gravel strip back and forth TWELVE TIMES in order to make it 3 miles.



If you see the hill in the distance, that's where I had to turn around because I no longer had my little path of bare gravel to run on.

Exercise: 91 minutes Peloton, 10 minutes light stretching
Tracking: every bite:
Calories: under budget

Pass days used - 2/3

I love exercise but more for the feeling of working towards something and improving my body. It's helped my weight loss but it wasn't the key! I do love seeing all the benefits it brings.

Exercise - yes 30 min walk
Calories - well under
Track - yes
0/3 pass days used

1/5

Exercise: 60 minutes elliptical, 55 minutes weight training, 50 minutes stretching and PT exercises

Tracking: yes
Calories: under
Pass days used: 0

Jan 5
Exercise - Lots of stretching, 40 minute walk
Tracking - Planned the day
Calories - Followed the plan - under
1 pass day so far (Jan 1)

I don't get a lot of exercise. I really like the 20 minute goal here on UAC, because that's about my level. I have a goal to do MommaStrong exercises or stretching most days, which is usually 15-20 minutes. And then I also have a goal to go out for a walk every day, which is more just to get out of my house and see the sun than for the exercise, but the exercise is a nice bonus.

I do think that the MommaStrong, which has a focus on core strength and posture, has really made a difference in how my body looks and feels, maybe as much as the weight loss (I've been doing them at the same time, so hard to parse out).

When I was maintaining a weight loss, back when I was 24-31 (I'm 41 now) I do think that the exercise I was doing for work helped me maintain. I have read that exercise really helps in maintenance.

I have found that with the low calories I am eating now for weight loss, the exercise calories really make a difference - I do use them to add treats but it's things like olives or cheese on my salad - just making all the healthy food more delicious.

I did learn from people here that if you'd doing a lot of exercise a few days a week, it's best to average that over the week or just adjust your activity level rather than try to eat what you burn on the day you burn it - because often you're actually hungry the next day. That makes sense and I am remembering that for if I ever get to exercise like that again (I actually am hoping to switch jobs to a job where I would get more exercise at work again).

But I think for the exercise I am doing - about 150 calories of exercise nearly every day - eating back my exercise calories helps to incentivize the exercise and it doesn't really make a difference mathematically.

I did have a long road of trying to lose the baby weight without tracking calories (from age 32-age 40). I did a variety of things with a variety of success. I definitely tried exercising more, and found, as I had found before, that if I am not tracking, exercise increases my appetite at exactly the right amount so that I maintain.

Thanks for the insights, everyone.

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~❄️~ 1 / 5 /2022~~ Waving Hi ~~ ☃️ ~~ BLESSings ALLways ~💖~

Exercise for at least 20 minutes .................................... ✅ ... 240+ min.
Stay within my calorie budget for the day ...................... ✅ ... I am
Keep track of everything I ate and drank ....................... ✅ .... I did

STEPS......... 27,680 +.......... 180 walking .........60 cleaning ....

back to Winter deep cleanup DeClutter Organizing ... Mon. Wed. Fri. If I fall behind
I will do Tues. / Thurs / Sat.

Documenting My CONSISTANCY = For personal ACCOUNTABILITY & Celebration
(if there is a P=instead of number its a Pass Day)

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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? ✅

yes x 3