March 19
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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B-U-S-Y!
A word that most of us are likely to say we know all too well.
While being busy can be a great thing, it can also lead to feeling overwhelmed or like you're being pulled in way too many directions.
Spring is around the corner, lots are in transition to return to office or have already, or you may find vacation prep is back in your life. Whatever it is, I bet most of us have a reason to feel like life might be picking up (or that is already has).
What is a strategy you employ to keep you on track with your goals and healthy lifestyle even when life gets busy?4 -
Saturday
Exercise: Yes - walking
Tracked all: Yes
Calories under: Yes
(2/3 pass days used)3 -
March 19, 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 (17 days -free)
Within Sugar macro today? Yes (18 day)
Pass day 1/3 (this is for accountability to myself and my records).3 -
ashleycarole86 wrote: »
B-U-S-Y!
A word that most of us are likely to say we know all too well.
While being busy can be a great thing, it can also lead to feeling overwhelmed or like you're being pulled in way too many directions.
Spring is around the corner, lots are in transition to return to office or have already, or you may find vacation prep is back in your life. Whatever it is, I bet most of us have a reason to feel like life might be picking up (or that is already has).
What is a strategy you employ to keep you on track with your goals and healthy lifestyle even when life gets busy?
I use the first 3 principles from
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
by Stephen Covey to plan each day.- Be Proactive
- Begin with the End in Mind
- Put First Things First
- Think Win-Win
- Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood
- Synergize
- Sharpen the Saw
"Be Proactive"
I plan my day starting with the most important things in my life.
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missed my fave part of the challenge, nSv day. mine include: fitting into this two piece and aiming for more of that life
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@victorious55
I remember reading a teen version of Stephen Covey's book when I was a kid - makes me think I'd like to read the adult refresher now. Thanks for the prompt - adding it to my book list!2 -
Planned pass day today, family wedding!
✔︎ 20+ mins exercise (43min walk this morning ahead of festivities)
Consistency Tracking (☘️=3 ✔︎'s, 🏴☠️=pass):
☘️-☘️-☘️-☘️-☘️-🏴☠️-☘️-☘️-☘️-☘️-☘️-☘️-🏴☠️-☘️-☘️-☘️-☘️-☘️-🏴☠️-20-21-22-23-24-25-26-27-28-29-30-31
Passes used = 3 / 3
Habits I'm continuing to track this month:
✔︎ Morning meditation
📿-📿-📿-✘-✘-📿-📿-📿-📿-📿-📿-📿-📿-📿-📿-📿-📿-📿-📿-20-21-22-23-24-25-26-27-28-29-30-31
✔︎ Drink >64oz water (staying ahead today)
💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-20-21-22-23-24-25-26-27-28-29-30-31
Love those ideas @victorious55 ! Adding that book to my list📚3 -
Saturday
Exercise: 30 min
Calories: under goal
Tracking complete
pass days used 1/34 -
Exercise ✅
Calories ✅
Tracking ✅
Pass days 2/34 -
✅ Exercise: 65 mins
✅ Calories: under goal
✅ Tracked
Remaining pass days: 3️⃣
My strategy is to be proactive and plan my day.
From 18 March ThemeThis is my identity based March Tiny Habit.For the next 14 days:
I am a person who values the health and fitness of body, mind, and spirit.
I will refrain from eating after 9pm to allow my body to concentrate on processing CI
LNS: 0 ~|~ Me: 19 (Streak = 23)
This has definitely worked for me. My CI have reduced this month.
I know some people believe that all calories are equal. However, I was checking my macros today and I realised that my Fat%age has been creeping up, which I do not think is healthy for my body.
I will prelog my CI first thing in the morning to ensure that I do not exceed my specified Fat%age goal.
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19/03/2022
Exercise – yes
Tracking – yes
Calories – yes
3 pass days taken
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Exercise: Yes
Tracked: Yes
Calories: Yes
(0 pass days used)5 -
Tracked logged and under. Actually did my rowing with a great breeze coming in from the porch so nice for a change. Still trying to get that mile in a little faster 🚣🏼5
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2 pass days used4 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes strength training Pahla B
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? No. I was over 150 and my protein was over by 42 😬
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
Today I was way over on my protein macros and my calories. I was hungry today and craving protein. I even drank my water.
It was nice outside today and spent a couple of hours cleaning my car, I got my laundry done today. A lot of activity minutes on my Fitbit. I also created an invite in the Canva app.
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After saying yesterday that I want to spend the next 14 days focusing on consistency, I totally blew it today. It started with my partner making a "nice light breakfast" that I reckon was 1000 calories. Now, I had planned to have additional calories today to prep for a long ride tomorrow. But that was a LOT. Then we went out for lunch and the salad I was planning to have was not available. So I had a very disappointing and not worth the calories veggie curry with probably bottled sauce. Then I totally spiraled at dinner. Its midnight. I finished eating 5 hours ago and I am still so uncomfortably full that I'm considering skipping tomorrow's ride and that is how this spiral propagates.
This is probably 11 of 3 pass days.7 -
✅ Exercise: 20 minutes walking, 30 minutes swimming
✅ Calories
✅ Tracked
1 passday used (Mar 13)
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@ForLangston Terrific picture! And an awesome NSV too!!
I love that you said you're "aiming for more of that life"! Yes ma'am!!!!! You GO gurl!! 5 -
Cowphilosopher wrote: »After saying yesterday that I want to spend the next 14 days focusing on consistency, I totally blew it today. It started with my partner making a "nice light breakfast" that I reckon was 1000 calories. Now, I had planned to have additional calories today to prep for a long ride tomorrow. But that was a LOT. Then we went out for lunch and the salad I was planning to have was not available. So I had a very disappointing and not worth the calories veggie curry with probably bottled sauce. Then I totally spiraled at dinner. Its midnight. I finished eating 5 hours ago and I am still so uncomfortably full that I'm considering skipping tomorrow's ride and that is how this spiral propagates.
This is probably 11 of 3 pass days.
@Cowphilosopher
I wonder what’s up?
Some random ideas:
Eat 1/2 or 2/3 of the light breakfast AND the curry. Take the rest home & have it for dinner.
Go for a light bike ride after eating lunch out. Consider a light bike ride tomorrow (chances are you’ll feel great & do the whole thing.)
Set up a reward if you make it 1, 2, or 3 days within your calorie goal.
Enlist your partner’s full support. “I love that you made me breakfast, but next time I’ll need to have lunch at home.”
OR “Could we split a meal since they don’t have salads I can eat.”
OR “I’m going to save half of your delicious breakfast so I can enjoy it tomorrow too!”
YOU are the boss of what goes in your mouth.
Just ideas (likely none of them
So good for you) but hopefully it will get you brainstorming things that WILL work for you & your partner…6 -
MadisonMolly2017 wrote: »Cowphilosopher wrote: »After saying yesterday that I want to spend the next 14 days focusing on consistency, I totally blew it today. It started with my partner making a "nice light breakfast" that I reckon was 1000 calories. Now, I had planned to have additional calories today to prep for a long ride tomorrow. But that was a LOT. Then we went out for lunch and the salad I was planning to have was not available. So I had a very disappointing and not worth the calories veggie curry with probably bottled sauce. Then I totally spiraled at dinner. Its midnight. I finished eating 5 hours ago and I am still so uncomfortably full that I'm considering skipping tomorrow's ride and that is how this spiral propagates.
This is probably 11 of 3 pass days.
@Cowphilosopher
I wonder what’s up?
Some random ideas:
Eat 1/2 or 2/3 of the light breakfast AND the curry. Take the rest home & have it for dinner.
Go for a light bike ride after eating lunch out. Consider a light bike ride tomorrow (chances are you’ll feel great & do the whole thing.)
Set up a reward if you make it 1, 2, or 3 days within your calorie goal.
Enlist your partner’s full support. “I love that you made me breakfast, but next time I’ll need to have lunch at home.”
OR “Could we split a meal since they don’t have salads I can eat.”
OR “I’m going to save half of your delicious breakfast so I can enjoy it tomorrow too!”
YOU are the boss of what goes in your mouth.
Just ideas (likely none of them
So good for you) but hopefully it will get you brainstorming things that WILL work for you & your partner…
Last thing to ignore or not:
You didn’t totally blow today. It never helps to think of it that way for me.
In fact, you ate some extra calories. A quantifiable amount. Ok, you can fix that with your biking, eating a few calories less each day for a month, etc. Fixable. All is not lost.
Does counting your pass days past 4 help you? For some, it does. For some, it doesn’t.
What has your scale done since Jan 1? 6 months ago? A year ago?
Why do you want to lose weight?5 -
✅ Exercise
✅ Calories
✅ Tracked
3 Pass Days Used3 -
March 19:
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.
Did I do my Yoga/stretching today? Yes. 😊 🧘🏼♀️
Pass Days Used: 4
Exercise today was 2.5 hours of giving massage. My deep back muscles are killing me today... from that bicycle ride a couple of days ago. Boy, talk about using muscles that I'm not used to using! Slept on a heating pad again last night - and probably tonight too.
What is a strategy you employ to keep you on track with your goals and healthy lifestyle even when life gets busy?
Awesome opener @ashleycarole86 Ashley!! I hope you're feeling better.
For food: I generally eat the same couple of things for breakfast, and a lot of the same 10 different veggies or so for lunch (or leftovers, which can be copies/pasted from the night before) - and the same with snacks - all of which can be copied easily to "today" in the food diary. So I usually only have to take extra time to log my dinner - whatever hubby might be making. Luckily for me, he does 90% of the cooking (since he's retired). He's very accepting of my eating gluten/grain free, and he does a good job of leaving certain ingredients off/out of whatever he's cooking (for my portion).
As far as exercise, I have to make an effort to get 'er done early in the day..... or often no, usually, it won't get done! If I wait until evening, I'm usually just too tired.
20 years ago I worked in a salon with a woman that had lost 100 lbs and kept it off for over 10 years. It made an impression on me that she had KEPT IT OFF, because at that point in my life, I didn't know anyone who had kept their weight off (including me!) I asked her how she kept it off, and she told me that she weighed herself every day and gave herself a 5lb leeway.... (to account for the ups and downs of an occasional "splurge" meal with family/friends, or hormones, water weight, her monthly, etc). But as soon as she started inching up on that 10lb mark - she would get right back at it again - the treadmill every day, watching her portions, CI/CO, until she got back down to her goal weight again. I've spent this winter successfully working this tactic....4 -
When things get busy (they already have), I run to the local nature walk. No sunscreen needed as it’s covered with trees, and it’s fun to navigate the path while meeting friendly faces also enjoying it!
Made good choices today…put back the chocolate at the store…been adding more protein to my food intake…sticking to my low-fat homemade oatmeal cookies when I have a sweet tooth! Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, walking plus housework
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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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? yes2 -
Great opener Ashley (and so glad you are feeling better). @ashleycarole86
What is a strategy you employ to keep you on track with your goals and healthy lifestyle even when life gets busy?
I “pre-prep” a lot and try to always have good options on hand that, should I choose to use them, will keep me in a healthy eating zone.At almost all times, I have the following ready in the fridge: pre-boiled eggs, cut veggies that can be used for stir fries, washed and prepped lettuce, etc. In my freezer: homemade granola, breakfast protein cookies, banana bran muffins, other favourite less healthy sweet treats that are homemade and pre-measured and labelled for easy tracking, soups, stews, turkey chili, cooked pulled chicken, cooked ground chicken to use to make tacos, etc. It honestly doesn’t take me that long to do it all as I do it in bigger batches, and I use my instant pot a lot. When I am making soups, I make at least two at the same time and it saves time on chopping and dishes. I use my (new upright — game changer) freezer heavily to store everything in clearly labelled serving size (or meal size) containers. I make almost everything from scratch and everything is entered into MFP, so I can easily track, and there are no forgotten ingredients.
My pantry is well-stocked with cans of different beans and legumes and I use these in salads to boost my protein. I’ll open a can, rinse and drain, and store it in the fridge so it is already prepped to be used and there are fewer excuses. Tinned fish (salmon, tuna, etc) are kept in the fridge so they can become a delicious salad quickly (I hate warm tuna salad). I also rely heavily on frozen or canned (water packed) fruits. The fruit bowl is always packed with apples, oranges, and bananas.
I have to do my exercise early in the day or it just won’t get done. Something “more important” will always crop up to absorb any “free” time, and the busy factor is a significant issue. It has been harder this winter as I can’t just head to the pool or indoor track.2 -
@Mrs_Hoffer @jamcnewman Thanks for the check-in. Still sick - ironic I'm asking for strategies when life gets busy when sickness has brought everything to a screeching halt here However I know as soon as I'm better I'm going to be working double time to get things done.
Your suggestions are great. Some of the best ways to prep for tracking or eating that you ladies suggested are not things I do. I think there are definitely ways I could set my tracking up to be more efficient.
In terms of food prep, I too am in a household where most of the cooking is done for me. However, I know when I go hunting for snacks it's all about convenience, so I think some prep work in that area for myself could lead to some different choices.
Strategies for when I get busy:
-Know what my non-negotiables are. No matter how busy, I always want to track all my food and engage with the MFP community. I believe these two items keep me firmly rooted in success, so I won't let them go no matter what.
-Give myself slack. I can fixate on things not getting done when life is busy (laundry, cleaning, checking in with extended loved ones, etc.) but unfortunately these types of negative mindsets and worry only cause me to want food for comfort. The less I get in my own way mentally, the better.
-Realize that doing anything is better than nothing. In my perfectionist tendencies I've avoided doing something if I can't do it perfectly or all the way. When life is busy, that could stop me from doing anything at all. So even if I'm feeling that way.. I just do the thing (pop down for a quick set of push-ups, a stretch break) It all adds up.2 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Another day of rest.
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- 3/33 -
✅ Exercise - 1 hour of Jazzercise
✅ 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-P-6-7-8-9-P-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19
I really didn't realize how much my shingles shot on Wednesday took out of me until today. Even though I woke up later than normal, I had so much more energy all day. Could have been the extra sleep too.
What is a strategy you employ to keep you on track with your goals and healthy lifestyle even when life gets busy?
I generally try to do a 16:8 intermittent fasting, which means that I don't eat breakfast and my first meal is usually around 12:30 or 1:00 pm. That helps immensely with the calories in side of the equation. I also try to get my workout in first thing in the morning so that I have the rest of the day to burn off the rest of my calories that I need to close my move ring on my Apple watch. If I can't get my workout in, then I figure out when I can get a long walk in to make up for it. Now to be fair, I'm rarely "busy" since I"m retired. I think in many ways that has helped me tremendously in my journey to a healthier lifestyle. I didn't have the will or energy to do a 1 hour workout and a 1 hour walk every day along with work, taking care of the family, etc.4 -
yes for 3
0/3 pass days used3 -
Saturday March 19
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Feeling so much better tonight. Such a bad gastro situation yesterday and the first half of today.
Long walk with the pup in the brilliant sunshine this afternoon and the melting is truly underway now! Sounds of water running and all the neighborhood out either unclogging street drains or having toothpick races. Got on the Zoom with my sister-in-law and we had an impromptu dance party. So much fun and more activity/exercise minutes counted. 💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼
Tomorrow is Spring Equinox and I am meeting a friend in the morning to have our #WalkingTowardsSpring final walk together (we’ve each been walking alone and sharing photos and observations from our solo walks until now). We will then pause to watch the sunrise.
The end of this winter cannot come a moment too soon. 💛2
