✅ Exercise: Lots of yardwork. My fitbit says I got almost 18,000 steps in, but I believe it over counted all the arm movements from cutting up an enormous amount of boxes for composting. I still think my arms are going to sore tomorrow.
✅ Calories
✅ Tracked

0 passdays used ( )

My how---
1. I am consistently tracking what I eat and focusing my attention on the best possible nutrition I can do, trying to strike a balance between limiting carbs and still making sure I get enough slow carbs for all the anti-oxidents, fiber, and resistance starch I need from a wide diversity of plants.
2. I am planning and preparing from scratch, real, whole food, with lots of attention to the quality, avoiding ultraprocessed food.
3. I am trying to eat 9 cups of vegetables per day, at least 3 cups of which are leafy greens.
4. I am staying active, making sure I get more than 7000 steps per day and also going to the YMCA at least every other day.

Saturday May 7
Thanks for the opening post today @SummerSkier and to everyone for sharing their “how”.

Since last August, my “how” has been simple. Measure and track everything that passes my lips, keep my intake under 1400 calories a day, pay attention to keep my protein and fibre intake up, and get 30+ minutes of intentional exercise each day. I have allowed myself, at times, to eat some of my exercise calories, though I have recently started doing this less frequently.

Since August, I have worked to ensure this experience is more a lifestyle than a restrictive eating regime. I do quite a bit of food prep, minimize the amount of processed food we eat, and have greatly increased our intake of whole foods — especially over the past 4 months. I love to cook; we rarely dine out, nor do we eat a lot of take out (but there are some favourites we don’t deprive ourselves of having). I find it pretty easy to pre-track quite a bit and have most of my recipes in MFP.

There are no forbidden foods, and I continue to enjoy my wine and have had no trouble making room for that when I wish to have it. I do try to restrict evening eating, mainly because I seem to do it out of boredom, and more importantly, I don’t sleep well if I have food to digest.

✅✅✅ Indoor treadmill exercise today. The high pollen count is a big problem for me right now, but it will pass. Bring on the spring rains and some more warm weather to speed this up. 🌧🌧🌧🌱🍃🌿

May 7th
Exercise no
Tracked yes
Calories no, but was close
Passes used up.

May 2022-UAC goals: 0/7 days. Hopefully, I will start to post some successful days of reaching the goals.

Darn! How quickly I forgot my "Whys"!
I had a weak moment at the grocery store while buying my Mom's favorite candies to put in a cute container for Mother's Day tomorrow. There are so many things that I cannot take her, anymore, and she used to love Mounds Bars & Reeses Peanut Butter cups. I bought her a small amount of the mini Mounds Bars & small package of the PB cups thins... but my eye caught the Toffee M & M Peanuts and it was past dinner time... and well, I bought them. Then, I ate some on the way home while driving. I completely forgot what I was trying to do... Ghah!

(by the way, my Mom is 85 with advanced dementia and can no longer walk or stand... I had just visited her & she didn't know me and was hallucinating some, yet she was smiling and was able to answer my questions -- she felt fine, and was not in any pain. I stroked her hair and kissed & hugged her. She cannot follow along with TV anymore although she does watch it. She gets mixed up often and thinks the people on the big screen TV are real and in the room and doesn't understand what they are doing or saying. While the other residents of the Group Care Home are in their beds taking a nap, my Mom is awake but is planted in front of the TV. It is very hard to watch and even be with my sweet, beautiful, Mom. She was a competitive tennis player, was very active her entire life. Loved to do Cryptograms which I've never been able to do those. She's developed allergies to flowers now, so I can't give her those. Tried that for her birthday a couple weeks ago. She used to love milk shakes and ice cream, but I can't bring those to her, anymore... so thought maybe I can give her one piece of the candy tomorrow and hopefully the caregivers at the Group Care Home will give her one a day... that wouldn't be too bad.)

Any way, I am now going to put a copy of my Whys in the car with me & place or tape them where I can see them. I already printed another copy & have it ready for the next time I'm in my car...

Linda

These days, my ‘how’ is more about activity and exercise than diet. At 141-143, I am right in the middle of a healthy BMI for my height. I would like to trim down another 10 pounds, but I am comfortable where I am for now.

I concentrate a lot on my Apple Watch rings and a couple of app challenges to keep burning calories and building strength. It’s been 144 days since I missed closing all of my rings. I try to reach 60-90 minutes per day (even though I sometimes fall short, I keep trying). I am in a challenge with an old high school (that’s over 50 years ago) friend to walk 2022 miles in 2022. I am currently on target to meet that goal around Dec 1.

I still track what I eat and stay within my calories budget most days, but not as obsessively as I used to. I raised my calorie limit a little, and allow myself to enjoy social events in a more relaxed way than when I was working hard to get the bulk of weight off.

So that’s my How these days. It’s a lot different than it was last summer when I first started losing. I’m concentrating more on fitness that weight now.