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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
