March 26
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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“…goals are good for planning your progress and systems are good for actually making progress.
Goals can provide direction and even push you forward in the short-term, but eventually a well-designed system will always win.”
Excerpt from:
https://jamesclear.com/goals-systems
Question: As we wrap up another UAC month, what is at least one refinement or implementation you’d like to make to your current system for a healthy lifestyle?1 -
Thanks for such a thoughtful opener today Bridget 🥰
I am going to make a change in my routine to ensure that I get in 5,000+ steps before 1pm. I am up earlier now with the change in morning light (and I really like that and this time of year for it). I have some flexibility with my time in early morning and I can take a walking break at lunch most days. Most of my current “free time” is after dinner time and that is when I have been trying to cram everything in. 🥵 Doing more of my exercise earlier would be a good change for me. So thanks @StayFITTer for the prompt! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻In winter the dark mornings coupled with slippery icy walks and roads mean I couldn’t do an outdoor walk for exercise because I can’t see the ice or treacherous passages.
My history with ice, falling on it, five orthopaedic surgeries, a total of 49 weeks non load-bearing on one leg over about four years, relearning to walk twice, and then falling and breaking the other leg is something I never want to repeat. I do everything I can to keep myself safe on ice, and reserving most walking time on it for time during daylight or where it is well lit is just non-negotiable for me now.
The ice is still there (at least in the morning, and all day on the shady side of the street), but I can manage it if I can see it coming.5 -
3xyes. 10km freestyle and 4.5 km walk2
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Saturday
Exercise: 45min
Calories: under goal
Tracking complete
pass days used 1/3
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✅ Exercise: 107 mins
✅ Calories: under goal
✅ Tracked
Remaining pass days: 3️⃣
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: 26 (Streak = 30)
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 am within 2% my daily specified goal for Fat%age
👌🏻-👌🏻-👌🏻-👌🏻-👌🏻-👌🏻-👌🏻
👌🏻-27-28-29-30-31-01
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Exercise – yes
Tracking – yes
Calories – yes
2/3 pass days used3 -
@jamcnewman I totally understand where you are coming from not so many surgeries but bad knees and radial head screws slow me down during the winter as well. I would like to either begin to get my workout in first thing in the morning or increase my work out time I am selfish and like to hit the snooze button.
I have not snacked in the evening for 4 nights now met my 4/7 goal tracked logged, my exercise was meditation and playing 2 of 4 acoustic guitars all in all a good day.5 -
Exercise ✅
Calories ✅
Tracking ✅
Pass days 3/33 -
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3 pass days3 -
March 26:
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Too many pass days4 -
✅ Exercise: 50 minutes swimming
✅ Calories
✅ Tracked
1 passday used (Mar 13)
It seems I am constantly tinkering with my system/habits, often influenced by my latest read. This latest system change is probably more of a temporary experiment, but I am currently tracking the diversity of plants in my diet with a mind to increase the variety of plants that I consume in order to improve my microbial diversity. This was inspired by having watched the interesting video below and currently reading his book, ¨Fiber Fueled.¨ So far, for these past two days, I have found I have consumed 27 different plants--- so I am finding the goal the expert gives of at least 30 different plants each week is not difficult.
I am continuing to work on being more conscious of my breathing and avoiding mouth breathing.
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Date: 03/26/22
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes 👍🏻
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day 👍🏻
(I had a second workout this afternoon since my husband decided to go play table tennis. Since I don’t count my exercise calories usually, I was over a bit in my budget. I did decide to not count this as a pass day. I hope it’s okay, if not no worries.Thanks for everything you do for our challenge)
Workout mins@Mrs_Hoffer
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 challenge2 -
✔︎ 20+ mins exercise (1hr13min walk)
✔︎ Within calorie budget
✔︎ Log everything
Consistency Tracking (☘️=3 ✔︎'s, 🏴☠️=pass):
☘️-☘️-☘️-☘️-☘️-🏴☠️-☘️-☘️-☘️-☘️-☘️-☘️-🏴☠️-☘️-☘️-☘️-☘️-☘️-🏴☠️-☘️-☘️-☘️-☘️-☘️-🏴☠️-☘️-27-28-29-30-31
Passes used = 4 / 3
Habits I'm continuing to track this month:
✔︎ Morning meditation
📿-📿-📿-✘-✘-📿-📿-📿-📿-📿-📿-📿-📿-📿-📿-📿-📿-📿-📿-📿-📿-📿-📿-📿-📿-📿-27-28-29-30-31
✔︎ Drink >64oz water
💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-💧-✘-💧-27-28-29-30-31
This was such a great opener @StayFITTer thank you! I bookmarked the article to read, too. I think I want to continue tying habits together into a system. For example, in the morning I now have a good routine of meditating before my first cup of coffee, then having a nice big drink of water, then having coffee. This helps me set up myself for success on two habits I'm building. I want to start doing a short 5-10 minute walk with some stretching after this, too. (I like your idea of 5k steps before 1pm @jamcnewman as sometimes I find myself doing an evening walk that sometimes turns too vigorous and wakes me up when I should be winding down...) Perhaps a habit to track in April!4 -
Saturday March 26
Tracked, met calorie goal, and 70 minutes of cardio.
1 pass day used March 18.2 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? 41 minutes walking, 46 minutes Peloton, 5 minutes of stretching
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 - 6
Thanks for a great opener @StayFITTer .. agree it is key to have strong systems in place
My whole system has been built around this unique scenario where I work from home 5 days a week, and as someone who has a relatively long commute from a suburb community into Calgary, things are about to change in terms of my available time when I return to office next month. I think my system implementation is just around adapting to the new (old) lifestyle and making sure my non-negotiable habits stay intact.4 -
Yes x 3.3
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Pass day #2. Calories were ok but no intentional exercise.3
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I adapt (tinker) with my system as needed.
Currently, working on sleep & limiting portion sizes of a few foods to certain naxikum numbers of grams.
Both are going well.
March 26
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3️⃣ pass days3 -
✅ Exercise - 1 hour of Jazzercise and a walk to and from the hockey game
✅ Calories -
✅ Tracking -
Closed all my Apple watch rings today
3 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-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20-21-22-23-P-25-26
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Pass day2
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3x Yes
No pass days but for the record I'm eating at maintenance and still haven't lost the couple of pounds I gained last month.3 -
Exercise: yes-30 minutes dancing.
Trackiing: yes
Calories under: yes
Pass days - all used.3 -
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Sat March 27
Way over Pass Days in my learning month
Exercise: Equivalent of a 20 minute walk at the park, following my 6 year old as he learned to ride a pedal bike (and he did it! So exciting!). And 25 minutes of stretching.
Tracking: Tracked everything
Calories: Under
And yet my weight went up ... which I am paying extra attention to in my learning month. Not sure if I estimated something wrong or if it's just a blip.
What systems do I want to put in place? I think my systems are pretty good, I just need to do them. The one thing I am struggling with - I think my calorie goal right now is good in terms of keeping satisfied and slowly losing weight. But whether I can lose with it long-term if I keep cheating is the question. And so whether I should accept that I will have days off the plan and make my calorie goal lower to compensate, or whether that in fact fuels the cheat days... not sure.
But I think for this week my goal is just to keep up with all my current systems:
- Check in here for a long time ~4x a week. Other days check in on my phone so don't write much.
- MommaStrong D15 ~4x a week
- Walk almost every day
- Stretch ~5x a week
- Preplan the next day's calories in the evening
- Track any changes from that plan, exactly2 -
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~🌷~ 3 / 26 /2022~~ Waving Hi ~~ 🙋🏼 ~~ BLESSings Everyone ~💖~
Exercise for at least 20 minutes .................................... ✅ ... 200+ min.
Stay within my calorie budget for the day ...................... ✅ ... I am
Keep track of everything I ate and drank ....................... ✅ .... I did
STEPS......... 23,820+.......... 150 = walking ......... 50 cleaning
Documenting My CONSISTANCY = For personal ACCOUNTABILITY & Celebration
(if there is a P=instead of number its a Pass Day)
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20-21-22-23-24
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💖 Wishing EVERYONE all the BEST & Much Success In March 🏆 We Got This 🏆
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Yes x 33
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26/03/2022
Exercise – yes, walking.
Tracking – yes
Calories – yes
3 pass days used
We were out yesterday, so no bike ride but we were walking around Bath for over two hours, stopping to eat lunch on a bench in the park by the river. We were there to go to the theatre to see “Beautiful”, the Carol King story. It was very good.
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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? yes
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3/26
Exercise: 120 minutes
Tracking; yes
Calories: over - pass day
Pass days used: 23 -
I like the systems vs. goals classifications. Will need to reconsider how I frame things.
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