February 11
Mrs_Hoffer
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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?
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 recently learnt the hard way how important sleep is to our physical and mental health. I went from having a great deal of energy and being an upbeat person to the point that i was unable to function. Low mood, irritable, headaches, craving junk food, lack of resilience, and body aches were just a few of the many negative side effects I experienced all from a lack of sleep. My amazing friends here on UAC made me realise there was no magical solution to my problem and no amount of caffine or getting out for a walk was going to help unless i took steps to get more sleep. It's been only 4 days since I've been focusing on going to bed earlier and already I am starting to feel like my old energetic self. I am sharing this with you because if any of you like me, haven't taken sleep seriously enough in the past now might be the time to start!
I have attached a link below which lists the recommended amount of sleep based on age, it also includes tips for a healthy nights sleep. It was interesting to see that our fur babies interrupt our sleep. I personally won't be kicking my cat out of the bed anytime soon though. Lol! Its more his bed than mine! Ha ha!
https://www.healthline.com/health/healthy-sleep
What does a healthy night sleep look like for you?9 -
Fri Feb 11
@donna25trinity I am a big believer in sleep! They also say that poor sleep will work against attempts to lose weight. I have recently been going to sleep with sleep meditation music and it works really well.
Exercise: Yes - 30 minute dog walk and 30 minute Body Balance work out
Tracked all: Yes
Calories under: Yes
(0 pass days used)5 -
Exercise: Yes - DAY 5 of EPIC I - 46 min
Tracked: Yes
Calories: Yes
(0 pass days used )7 -
Friday
Exercise 60
Tracking complete
Calories under
Pass days left 36 -
Exercise: just over an hour fast walking
Tracking: yes
Calories: no
Not keeping track of pass days in February as I started partway through the month and am using this time to get back into good habits again6 -
✅ Exercise: 110+ mins
✅ Calories: under goal
✅ Tracked
Remaining pass days: 3️⃣
Sleep is definitely important for keeping healthy.5 -
Great opener @donna25trinity!
Sleep (!) may be the most important habit because:
1. Easier to cook & eat wisely & regulate food intake when tested.
2. More likely to em exercise or even for longer if rested.
3. Better ability to handle stressors effectively when tested.
I created a new sleep habit based on my doctors recommendation- (off devices & tv 2 hours before bedtime, read (non device) book the last hour before bedtime - it worked GREAT!
However my husband goes to sleep before me & sleeps longer in AM & I kissed having my phone. However, I’d noticed I woke up exactly 7’hours after I fell asleep, whenever that was, so I relaxed about the whole deal. I get enough sleep.
My late afternoon walks definitely help me fall asleep along with no caffeine.
Thanks!
Maddie6 -
2/11
Exersised yes
Caleries yes
Logged?-yes4 -
All three accomplished but too much chocolate in the house possibly Valentine’s? Anyway I am working on getting rid of it you guessed it by eating it 😂😂 not productive but it’s the “good” stuff. 0/3 pass days5
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1 pass days used
Great topic today. One of the foundations of a happy life. Sleep. ✅5 -
✅ Exercise
✅ Calories
✅ Tracked
Pass Days Used: 0
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February 11
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0 pass days used
A good night's sleep for me is generally between 7.5 and 9 hours. Any less and I'm tired and have the wrong mindset. Any more and I just seem to feel tired all day.
Prior to 2014 I did not sleep regularly at all. Since then I'm a real stickler about proper sleep after realizing the benefits. Of course some times it isn't possible but I try to limit that to one night very infrequently.3 -
February 11
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today was a bust all the way around. I worked both jobs yesterday and today, and I'm just exhausted. I'm also the bookkeeper for my little 1-woman massage business - and with today being payday, I just couldn't get my books to balance. I know I'm just tired and stressed out.....but I'm beyond frustrated! I'm tired, I have a headache, and didn't sleep well last night. Hopefully tomorrow will be better!11 -
February 11 0 pass days used
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes 30 minutes of HASFit. Tomorrow I am going to do a 20 minute ShineDance fitness workout I saw today
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
I average 7 hours of sleep per night according to my Fitbit. I am usually in bed by 8:30 and up at 4:30. I get up at least one time to go to the bathroom.
I put away my phone at 8. I then get on the floor and stretch.2 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, 50 minutes Peloton bike, 10 minutes stretching.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes4 -
Yes x3. Strength training and yoga.
Im asleep by 10:30 at the latest and up at 6:30. The last time I remember sleeping through the night was when I was pregnant with my first - 13 years ago. I do wish I could stay asleep once I fell asleep!6 -
✔︎ 20+ mins exercise (just one of those days where I felt like moving around and had the time: 54 min walk in the morning plus 6 mins squats and weights, 40 min midday walk, 47 min evening walk)
✔︎ Within calorie budget
✔︎ Log everything
Consistency Tracking (🔥=3 ✔︎'s, 🏴☠️=pass): 🔥-🔥-🔥-🔥-🏴☠️-🔥-🔥-🔥-🔥-🔥-🔥
Passes used = 1 / 3
Other habits I’m tracking this month:
✔︎ Morning meditation📿-📿-📿-✘-📿-✘-✘-📿-📿-📿-📿 (the more I make it a priority, the more I see the benefits, & the more I wake up wanting to start off with meditation)
✔︎ Drink >64oz water💧-💧-💧-💧-✘-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧 (84oz)
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Used Pass Day 3 today because I decided to not even bother trying to approximate how many spoonfuls of the "Sweet Potato Pecan Pie" almond-pecan nut butter that Ds2 and his fiancee sent us. So tasty, sweet, creamy and crunchy, I couldn't stop!
At least I got in a 5 mile run this morning. 🌫🌬🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️
Sleep. I'm usually in bed by 10 and get up just after 6. I tend to wake up every 2 hours and get up and use the bathroom. Most of the time I'm able to go back to sleep right away, unless I start thinking about something! It probably isn't a good thing, but I like to fall asleep with my mp3 and earbuds on. I set it so that it automatically shuts off after 30 minutes but actually I usually fall asleep in less than 10 minutes. My mp3 has an fm radio so I listen to a talk radio station and it puts me to sleep. When I can't get back to sleep in the middle of the night at least I have something to listen to rather than just laying there, and if I'm lucky it will lull me back to sleep...
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February 11, 2022
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 (9 days -free)
Within Sugar macro today? Yes (10 days)
Pass day 1/3 (this is for accountability to myself and my records).5 -
Tracking- everything
Calories- in goal range
Exercise-12000 steps / 5 miles
2 pass days left
Today was hard. I felt like I was starving! I have been eating pretty well and more lightly than usual. For some reason I was just hungry all day! At one point I felt like I wanted to cry because dinner was going to take 45min and I just needed something in my stomach. Little Dramatic Ha ha
I think its probably more stress related then hunger.6 -
✅ Exercise: 30 minutes swimming, 45 minutes walking
✅ Calories
✅ Tracked
0 pass days used ( )
Sleep can be a real problem for me. My sleep problems and afternoon or evening exhaustion was largely what made me believe I needed to retire from my job and focus on my health-- even though I really did not have any kind of diagnosis that supported my belief that something was seriously wrong with my health, just such a struggle with fatigue. It is better now that I have retired, but in several months, my Fitbit sleep score has only once been an ¨excellent¨ and twice been ¨good¨, generally the best I get are ¨fair¨ and occasionally ¨poor.¨
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✅ Exercise - 2 hr walk
✅ Calories -
✅ Tracking -
Closed all my Apple watch rings today
2 Pass days used
Documenting consistency (if there is a P=instead of number its a Pass Day)
UAC: 1-2-3-4-5-P-7-P-9-10-11
I have bad sleep habits, even though I know better. I usually shower right before bed, which does relax me. However, then I'm on my iPad in bed (NYT crossword, kindle, MFP) until I'm ready to go to sleep. I usually don't keep my phone in the bedroom, so even if I go to be late, I'll usually be able to sleep anywhere between 6-7.5 hours/night.
While my husband was out of town this past week, i kept my phone with me in case of emergency. The issue was alerts and texts were going off starting at 6am. :-(5 -
Friday February 11
Husband’s birthday supper today and made the decision to enjoy. The delicious supper took me over calories. No regrets!
✅ tracking
❌ calories
✅ exercise
Pass day #15 -
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21 days💕
Scale dropped further
24.14 BMI
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? 61 minutes bicycling, 36 minutes walking
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 - 0/36 -
Pass day 2/3. No exercise over calories, but tracked3
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11/02/2022
Exercise – yes bike ride, gym and cardio
Tracked – yes
Calories – yes
No pass days yet.
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2/11
Exercise: 45 minutes elliptical, 55 minutes weight training, 50 minutes stretching and PT exercises
Tracking: yes
Calories: over, pass day
Pass days used: 15 -
Feb 11
Exercise: 15 minutes MommaStrong, 20 minute walk
Tracking: Planned the day
Calories: Followed the plan, but with too many extra nibbles
So, Pass Day 3
For my own processing, I think the problem was not being prepared for dinner. Also eating oatmeal for snack rather than a protein snack. That set me up for being extra hungry at dinner time. But I was trying to get just one thing done before dinner and then suddenly the chinese takeout for the rest of the family was here and I hadn't made my own dinner yet. That triggered my old panic about not getting to eat (from pregnancy when if I didn't eat I would throw up and early motherhood when I was nursing and always so hungry and often didn't have time to eat enough), and so while I was cooking I couldn't resist nibbling at their food, which was not the plan. I made myself a delicious dinner and had plenty of time to eat it, showing that the anxiety was unwarranted.
Lesson: Next time don't try to do "one last thing" - just start prepping your dinner at 5.
Re: sleep. At this point in my life I am able to prioritize getting enough sleep, which is fantastic! I had many years there where I just couldn't, because of a dog and kids and a long commute. I had years where I just fantasized about sleep constantly. Now I get 7.5 hours a night generally which is enough.
When I am in a thyroid flare I need much more - like 9 or 10. For the past week or so I have been coming out of that and trying to figure out how much I need. If I try to get more sleep than I need then I deal with insomnia, which is just annoying.
As I reset my routine after the thyroid flare I am realizing that my whole morning routine does not fit in the time allotted for it in the morning, and realizing I am going to have to make some decisions about that...4
