Track: yes
Calories: yes
Exercise: yes

• Treadmill: 1.46 mi / 30 mins (Speed interval + warmup/cool down)

Pass Days: 0/0

Jan 9
Exercise - 15 minutes MommaStrong and I'm going to give myself the other 5 minutes for general activity around the house. I did not go walking because it was freezing rain all day. I tried to do yoga with the kids but they refused. I wound up doing other kinds of active play with them that was less "exercisey" but I think still counts.
Tracking - I actually forgot to preplan the day, but I caught up at lunch time and then preplanned dinner after lunch
Calories - Under
Pass days so far - 1 (Jan 1)

I did 3 days at 1350 plus exercise calories, which I think is my maintenance level. After those 3 days I am about the same as I was before. I think that sets me up well to continue losing this week. This is a lesson to me that I can enjoy some takeout and fit it into the maintenance calories.

@mshwaki I've tried a few different things to play with exercise calories. I think you have to decide what your base calories are to set your exercise calories. I've found it works psychologically better for me to set my base calories lower and eat my exercise calories - just because I like the flexibility and reward of earning/spending. But if you are going to set your base calories higher to account for your regular exercise, you should not also eat your exercise calories - I think if I were going to do it that way, I wouldn't even track my exercise calories in MFP so that I wouldn't be tempted to think I could eat them. Separately from that, though, I have been playing around with allowing myself an up to once a week very high calorie day that is preplanned, and not counting that as a pass day. I like the flexibility of the UAC rules to do something like that.

Hunger
I think before getting pregnant my hunger systems worked pretty well, though I definitely had that if I ate a carby meal/snack I would be hungry right away afterwards and then get a headache if I didn't eat. I learned pretty early in my adulthood that I always needed to have protein with a snack or meal, and that starting the day with eggs helped the day go better than starting with cereal.

When I was pregnant with my first I had terrible "morning sickness" and I had to eat pretty much constantly because if my stomach got empty I would begin vomiting and be unable to stop until I either managed to eat something and keep it down (that often took a few tries of eating and throwing up before it worked) or took zofran, which would knock me out for several hours, at which point I would usually wake up and begin vomiting again. So I learned to keep eating. During my pregnancy with my son I was better medicated with diclegis, but still I had to eat every 2 hours to keep things on an even keel.

Because of that one of my big struggles with weight loss has been learning that being hungry is not an emergency! I think now, 9 and 5 years past that experience, I am beginning to learn that. Still I try to eat every 4 hours or so so that I don't have to be too hungry.

I have since I reduced my calories down to 1200 been experiencing a new kind of hunger, where my belly is full (because I always make sure to eat a high volume of veggies) but I am just feeling unsatisfied and still hungry. I just want more calories of all kinds. But I have learned that if I take a cup of tea and walk away from the kitchen I usually forget that feeling within 5 minutes.

It is interesting to reflect on all of this. Thanks for the prompt.

Interesting article. Thanks for the link.

Yes, yes and yes

Pass day 1/3
Family came in, but did stick to tracking and fasting
Did not exercise

dsgoingtodoit wrote: »

Pass day 1/3
Family came in, but did stick to tracking and fasting
Did not exercise

Glad you got some time with your family. Have been thinking about you and how you are doing. Take good care.

Cheering your three yes successes:

@LazyBlondeChef @BMcC9 @znaoiec @DebyS137 @Caroline_slowandsteady

Cheering you champions for reporting:
@seilidhe @bookieNJ @dsgoingtodoit

Wishing everyone a great week ahead. Stay safe. 🥰

Julie

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

Planned pas day #1

@Ginharbe I really want to know more about the Poke Bowl and the shocker!
Super job on your tracking, exercise, and calories today!


@jamcnewman,,So I went gocery shopping, and I saw the PoKe Bowls on display, and I said:
OHH, that lookd healthy, sure why not? never looked at the lable of NutriTional Value , until I was done
so including the little dressing cup it was over 600 cal.
A Shocker