March 4
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✅ Exercise: 225 minutes of giving massages.
✅ Calories: under goal
✅ Tracked
Pass Days Used: 1/3 (3/3)
Great opener Julie! @jamcnewman
During the winter months, my focus has been on maintaining. Once the warmer weather gets here, I plan to try to lose 20 more lbs over the spring/summer. Like others have said, tracking is one of the habits that I know I'm going to have to do indefinitely if I don't want to gain my weight back again.
I try to pre-log as much as I can, including "snacks".
To me, tracking is an essential tool, and I do weigh and measure because if I don't, I have a tendency to be heavy handed. Lol.6 -
March 4, 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 (4 days -free)
Within Sugar macro today? Yes (3 day)
Pass day 0/3 (this is for accountability to myself and my records).4 -
biketheworld wrote: »... Three, it’s a habit to develop, just like brushing my teeth - I do it because it’s what I need to do as part of health and hygiene and therefore becomes a normal routine.
I like this..
Who wants a rotten teeth and smelly mouth??? 3 -
✅ Exercise: 60 minutes swimming
✅ Calories
✅ Tracked
0 pass days used ( )
I also find tracking is essential to me and pre-logging helps.
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So I signed up to be the Friday cheerleader. This is my first time. I am just finishing my day here in Montana. Great job everyone. @Winner_in_Life those pictures were amazing. Thank you for sharing.
Recently I have been logging my whole day. It has helped me keep consistent and not go over my calories.
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes 23 minute Paula B strength and cardio
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
Have a great weekend everyone.7 -
Fri 4
Exercise: Yes
Tracked: Yes
Calories: Yes
(0 pass days used)
Thank you Julie for the information about the importance of tracking or logging our food intake honestly.
I have learned over the years that the best way to stay on track and maintain weight loss is to track your meals that is Breakfast, Lunch, Snack and Dinner before you eat them. Not after eating.
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March 4
Exercised for 20 min: yes cleaned the entire house today
Stayed under calorie budget: yes
Tracked everything:yes
I find it helpful to come up with a couple goals I want to make habit each month and daily track whether I do them or not. For food tracking I either pre log my food if a have a meal plan that day or I track as I’m making my food so I don’t forget happy weekend! 5 -
✅ Exercise
✅ Calories
✅ Tracked
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Great opener @jamcnewmanStayFITTer wrote: »That really resonated with me. I’m going to try and embrace that perspective.
It makes me think of balancing a checkbook. It’s something you must do to stay in control of your finances, why would tracking food/being mindful of your food intake at least be any different?
Thanks @StayFITTer, you hit the nail on the head!
Tracking was one of these things that resonated with me very much. Because I needed to track my expenses to stay in control of my finances. I need to have a spending plan to be in control so as not to go into debts.
When you are trying to pay off your debts, the first thing you need to know is how you are spending your money (tracking your expenses). After, you finish paying off your debts, you need a spending plan not to go back into debts.
I see a lot of similarities between the habits to keep your finances in control and the habits to take care of your health.
I pre-track daily. It allows me to adjust for things I like to eat for that day. I have been in maintenance for over 10yrs, pre-tracking gives me freedom. It is now a habit. I know when I am over spending/overeating and the consequences.
I built recipes and meals in MFP. I have a weekly dinner menu (inputs from my husband and children). This really helps the pre-tracking.6 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes- Housework today, gym time is tomorrow.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day?Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
I really dislike tracking but…I find this digital version of tracking quick and easy. Plus, like other members do, I pre-plan tracking of foods sometimes, so I can see how many potential calories/fat/carbs I have room for in my caloric budget! I cheated and checked my weight this morning and so far I have lost a little 😁 oh, by the way…after my gallbladder surgery, I was not be able to tolerate fats. So ever since, I have to maintain a low fat diet. Here’s the truth… watching what you eat will keep the weight down, way more than just exercise. Exercise has huge benefits, but I’ve found much better weight-loss goals through watching my food intake!4 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? 48 minutes walking, 1 minute jumping jacks
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 - 1/3
Great topic @jamcnewman
I came into this with a negative view of tracking, but I've embraced it as part of my daily life.
My tracking tips:
-Frame it in a positive way. What does tracking give to you? For me, it gives me freedom to think about other things. I don't have to spend my day thinking about whether I can eat or not. Check the balance, work the plan. Emotion removed. I know if I leave myself to my own devices I'll make a choice for the wrong reasons. Now I can trust in the numbers, sit back, and relax. I am fiercely protective of keeping my food diary current for the mental freedom it gives me.
-Track, then eat. Not the other way around. Make choices based on the numbers you input.
-Be specific. Weigh every time you can. But don't let perfect be the enemy of the good. Trust in your ability to estimate when it's absolutely necessary, but don't sell yourself short. Round up. Know that if you're estimating often your room for error has gone way down.
-Validate MFP entries in any way you can. Check labels, look for online sources. Items scan incorrectly so often! Depending on the size of deficit you're taking, you may not have a lot of room to be off. Don't let bad data frustrate you.
-Consistency matters so much. Build your tracking muscle. Find ways to make it work for you. Enjoy the benefits of the data it gives you.6 -
Yes x3. So much shovelling. Such heavy snow. Eyes are too tired to read so I’ll catch up on the thread tomorrow!4
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Date: 03/04/22
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?👍🏻
(Documenting consistency (if there is a P=instead of number its a Pass Day)
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March goals
1 Miracle Morning ~ S.A.V.E.R.S
2 Wake up EARLY for meditation
3 Yoga (4 times weekly)
4. Minimum sweets (work them in my calorie goal)
5. 30 day squat challenge 6. No late night snacking
7. Daily journal logging3 -
Y, Y, and Y. Went for an eight mile walk along the ocean. Despite eating out both brunch and dinner AND grabbing an ice cream, I just barely made it under calories. I really thought I might have to use a pass day, but glad all that walking gave me some extra calorie room.
I think that my aversion to tracking is that I spend so much time trying to find the best entry that I can for whatever food I’m eating. Doing that takes time. Tonight I decided that close enough was good enough and it did seem to make things easier.4 -
Track: yes
Calories: yes
Exercise: yes
Pass Days: zero
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Exercise-24 minutes
Tracking everything
Calories-within goal
3 passes remain3 -
Exercise: 22 mins yoga + 15 mins walk
Tracking: yes
Calories: no
Pass days used to date: 2
I am generally very fond of planning and record keeping so tracking is inherently appealing to me, but when I go off the rails with eating I tend to also fall off the tracking. I sometimes pre-track but usually not. I think one of the things that has been most helpful for me is to look at the weekly average for calorie intake rather than obsessing about each day , so even if I go over on occasion I don't count it as long as the average is under. It means that I don't get that "I've exceeded by 100 Cals, i may as well go all out" that leads me to binge 2000 calories worth of food in one sitting - or at least not as often.
Another thing I've found helpful that isn't directly about tracking but still worth mentioning is that I adjusted my daily calorie limit from the suggested 1200 to a more manageable (for me) 1450. Interestingly I've found that as long as I stick to this I lose the same amount of weight, at the same speed, as I did with 1200 🤷🏻♀️4 -
March 4
Another pass day in my learning month
Exercise: 15 minutes stretching, 30 minutes walk
Tracking: Pre-planned the day, adjusted the plan mid-day when I realized my dinner plan was not realistic and got on board with "takeout friday" with the rest of the family, and put in every extra bite I took. Estimates for the takeout food are pretty shaky
Calories: 619 over!
Weight: Up 2 pounds
I am tracking the weight for my own learning, to see how this is all working. I am guessing the large increase is mostly the sodium in the takeout food. Though my estimate may have been under, too - as I was eating my lentil soup I was thinking that there was probably more oil in it than any lentil soup ought to have.
In terms of hunger, I was hungry in the morning but then felt satisfied the rest of the day, and uncomfortably full after the takeout - I could have eaten less and been satisfied. My strategy is often to fill up with a bowl of soup but like I said I think that particular bowl of soup was maybe a mistake.
Today's tracking topic is very on-point for me.
I have made it a routine to pre-log the next day's food. It only takes 5 minutes usually. And it helps me so much - not having to face a full fridge when I am hungry is key to weight loss while working from home. And also I take things out to defrost or whatever, which helps too. That's been working well for me.
What has not been working well for me is then I either follow that plan or I don't, and take a pass day. Which has led to - on "not pass days" - having a few bites here and there - what is left on my kids' plates is the worst temptation for me, as well as what I see in the snack shelf when I get some tea - and not counting it because I don't want to take a pass day and because it's "too little to count." I've been realizing over the past few days how much I have been lying to myself in that regard. That if I have 4 nibbles that are "just" 50 calories, that adds up to 200 calories, for example! So for the past few days I have been tracking things like "1/8 of a piece of cinnamon bread" (crust from kid's plate) and 1/8 of a cup of cereal - it adds up.
The other problem is on "pass days" when I accept that I have gone over enough to have it not be within calories, I was still not tracking - so then I have no data from that.
The result is I don't really know how many calories I can eat to maintain my weight. Which is what I NEED to know!
So this month I am still pre-planning my days, but tracking EVERYTHING I eat, and accepting that often that will not be within my target calories. Then seeing what that does to my weight, and also to my feelings of hunger. Hoping that by the end of the month I can find the balance that works.2 -
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~🌱~ 3 / 4 /2022~~ Waving Hi ~~ 🙋🏼 ~~ BLESSings Everyone ~💖~
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......... 28,640+.......... 200 = walking ......... 30 cleaning
Documenting My CONSISTANCY = For personal ACCOUNTABILITY & Celebration
(if there is a P=instead of number its a Pass Day)
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💖 Wishing EVERYONE all the BEST & Much Success In March 🏆 We Got This 🏆
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