January 21
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@biketheworld - High five on those loose jeans!!
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, 45 minutes Peloton bike.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes3 -
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Friday 1/21/22
Exercise 30 min Wii Tennis
Calories Budget 1200: under
Tracking: Complete
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@MadisonMolly2017
You are Awesome, thank you for that moment or your mind
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? MMMM, woirk more than anything
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? yes, but today is Friday I need indulgence, tomorrow I will go back to it
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? yes
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Exercise – yes
Tracked – yes
Calories – yes
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@MadisonMolly2017
You are Awesome, thank you for that moment or your mind
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? MMMM, woirk more than anything
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? yes, but today is Friday I need indulgence, tomorrow I will go back to it
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? yes
Thank you @Ginharbe !
So glad you joined our group.
Thank you all for your comments & additions.
I felt the best thing I could do is shine a bright light on my rare struggle. We empower ourselves & each other every time we overcome the stumble.
Day 1: Jan 21 Ex✅ Tracked to gram✅ Under calories ✅ Yes, by a lot, as I wasn’t very hungry after yesterday.
1 down & 10 Days to go on my Jan 21-31 personal challenge.6 -
✅ Exercise - 1 hour 40 min 5.72 mile walk
✅ Calories -
✅ Tracking -
Closed all my Apple watch rings today
0 Pass days used
Documenting consistency (if there is a P=instead of number its a Pass Day)
UAC: 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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Yes x3. Active day overall plus an upper body workout.2
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yes for 3
1/3 pass days used
113.5/2022 miles2 -
Tracked Yes but lots of approximating all the nibbles.....
Within Calories- according to what I tracked, Yes, but used almost all the exercise calories I earned
Exercised YES, a 4 mile run 😊🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️
Have used up all my Pass Days but still a Champ. 😁3 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, 68 minutes of walking in the sunshine over two walks which was very good for the soul
@Mrs_Hoffer I got a Garmin watch for Christmas so I don't track on Map My Walk anymore but I enjoy seeing yours! Your comment about Vitamin D was so spot on.. I felt replenished.
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 - 3/3
My husband and I are doing a fun event on the Peloton tomorrow called the PeloFondo. We are both going for new distance records... it'll be fun to see how we do!
I think my biggest January struggle if I have one right now is just feeling really busy with work and finding it takes more mental effort to look after myself outside of that. I have established the habits that are getting me through and there's been no impact to progress, but it's taking a bit more mental energy to get there.
I'm happy I've got my habits so I can kinda just work the plan.4 -
Friday January 21
Tracking - yes
Calories - under
Exercise - yes1 -
✅ Exercise: 40 minutes walking
✅ Calories
✅ Tracked
0 pass days used ( )
How is it going for you?
I am currently very enthusiastic about my changes in lifestyle, still probably in the ¨honeymoon phase¨ of retirement, seeking all the ways to enjoy my life and make these healthy changes fun. It has not been difficult, I haven´t struggled with emotional eating or cravings for several months. Personally, I suspect that it is the combination of not having chronic stressors in my life at the moment and because I am basically off of processed foods.
What strategies are you implementing to make the rest of January awesome?
I have taken up hobbies of healthy cooking, indoor gardening, growing sprouts, brewing kombucha, and now have ordered the supplies to begin making my own yogurt. (I found this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCG73IU94d8&ab_channel=TheIHMC very exciting. As much as a nerd that I am about the gut microbiome, I was not aware that homemade yogurt can have so much more beneficial bacteria than what you can buy in a store, nor the details of the benefits of l. reuteri.)2 -
1/21
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 #1 pass
2 passes remain
January goals
1 Miracle Morning ~ S.A.V.E.R.S
2 Wake up EARLY for meditation
3 Yoga (5/6 times weekly)
4. Minimum sweets (work them in my calorie goal)
5. 30 day squat challenge 6. No late night snacking
7. Daily journal logging2 -
Hullo hullo!
I'm 3 for 3 today, checkin those boxes!
2/3 pass days used.
I got my new cushy walk/run shoes today! I wore them around the house for awhile to start breaking them in. I have a walk date with a local group in the morning and look forward to taking the new hooves out for their first real spin.
I'm ready to start a very gentle couch-to-5k program next week. Tweaking my schedule to try some new stuff. phew and woo!
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Love the opener today. I've been losing weight for about 10 years. With patches of maintenance. Having kids definitely didn't help. It's only the last few years that I've really come to accept that I'm fighting against a lifetime of bad habits. It's ok that I'm not always perfect. Childhood obesity is very hard to work against. I spent about 20 years being obese and the fact that the last 10 years I've spent most of my time slightly overweight rather than obese is a huge victory and I should be really proud. This *kitten* is hard guys. I'd say it's even harder than quitting smoking or something. You have to eat every day so you're constantly battling your demons.
I've been a bit terrible at posting.
I'll assume it's been 3 days
19th: 3x yes
20th: pass day 4... Too much chocolate
21st: 3x yes5 -
Jan 21
Exercise - 15 minutes MommaStrong, 30 minutes super slow walk with my 5 year old
Tracking - Planned the day
Calories - followed the plan - under
Way over 3 pass days
I was pretty proud of how I made takeout Fri fit within the usual weekend calories (I do a bit lower M-Th and higher F-Sun). I have decided I am allowed to preplan an extra high calorie "takeout Friday" up to once a week, but lately I have been not wanting to and have been trying to fit takeout into the regular calories. This week's experiment was Mexican food. As my wife went to get the takeout, I made myself a base of salad with lettuce, cabbage, cucumber, lime juice, chicken. Then from the takeout I added black beans, pico de gallo, and guacamole. Measured/weighed it all. I actually left some calories for tortilla chips too, but they forgot to include that in our order, which was for the best. I am going to have that salad again today for lunch. It was delicious and satisfying.
@MadisonMolly2017 thank you for your opener. There are a few people in this group who since I started have pretty much always posted success every day, and I start to wonder why they still see the need to be in the group. You have been one of those people. And I don't wish a slip on anyone, but it is inspiring to me, who struggles more constantly, to see you also struggle but to see you struggle so gracefully that it really is beautiful.
I add to all your thoughts about the relapsing disease that the world is just built for weight gain - and we're kind of swimming upstream here. That's why this support is so key.
Thank you all.3 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes swim hour!
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
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Caroline_slowandsteady wrote: »Jan 21
Exercise - 15 minutes MommaStrong, 30 minutes super slow walk with my 5 year old
Tracking - Planned the day
Calories - followed the plan - under
Way over 3 pass days
I was pretty proud of how I made takeout Fri fit within the usual weekend calories (I do a bit lower M-Th and higher F-Sun). I have decided I am allowed to preplan an extra high calorie "takeout Friday" up to once a week, but lately I have been not wanting to and have been trying to fit takeout into the regular calories. This week's experiment was Mexican food. As my wife went to get the takeout, I made myself a base of salad with lettuce, cabbage, cucumber, lime juice, chicken. Then from the takeout I added black beans, pico de gallo, and guacamole. Measured/weighed it all. I actually left some calories for tortilla chips too, but they forgot to include that in our order, which was for the best. I am going to have that salad again today for lunch. It was delicious and satisfying.
@MadisonMolly2017 thank you for your opener. There are a few people in this group who since I started have pretty much always posted success every day, and I start to wonder why they still see the need to be in the group. You have been one of those people. And I don't wish a slip on anyone, but it is inspiring to me, who struggles more constantly, to see you also struggle but to see you struggle so gracefully that it really is beautiful.
I add to all your thoughts about the relapsing disease that the world is just built for weight gain - and we're kind of swimming upstream here. That's why this support is so key.
Thank you all.
Thank you @Caroline_slowandsteady for your compassionate thoughts.
I’ve seen so many on here & on Noom who were doing great & then gained it all back. Sobering to say the least.
Plus, I’ve regained it all back (usually immediately) every time I lost my weight over 40-45 years.
I have kept posting here & on NOOM for years …. just for times like these!!!!!! I have to keep it in my mind.
I’m Focusing right now on getting back to weighing & tracking all my food to the gram.
I had that yesterday…until I fell asleep (a very late nap) and when I woke up went down to the kitchen (mistake #1), got out the unsalted nuts (mistake #2) and a small piece dark chocolate (mistake #3), and ate them - unweighed (mistake #4).
SO. Yes I’m up against a a lifetime of my parents bad habits & then mine.
And I have basically been in lockdown since my transplant 50 months ago. It’s getting increasingly difficult to be so isolated.
SO, today, I am measuring out a bunch of nuts & a piece of chocolate for tonight. Logging it now. I am placing that AND two washed tangerines in a container & when I go upstairs tonight I will take it with me. (My plan yesterday- which I completely forgot- was to eat only fruit after dinner.) Even thought of taking a tangerine upstairs last night, but I wasn’t hungry.
I know that the after dinner eating is NOT hunger. But it needs to be tracked. By pre-logging it, I’ll at least get my calories under control & then can work on the timing of my food to support maintenance & weight loss.
Thank you again. Your message - and those of so many of the rest of you - really helped.
This is the 2nd time in 3y5m I’ve had to really work at turning the scale around. I need to reframe that in my mind as Success, not Failure.
Thank you
🌸Maddie5 -
Jan 21
Exercise: ✨ ( 12 min core / 5 mins balance / ~35 mins exergame - 7,871 steps by 10:05 )
Logged: ✨ EVERYthing
In Range: ✨ left 25 in the pot
(If a ❌ instead of a 🌟, it was a Pass Day)
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