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LazyBlondeChef
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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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Exercise – what’s it for? What does it do for you?
The official title for today is “Cannot Achieve Goals with Exercise Alone”
But that begs the question – What is your goal?
Whatever your goal – weight loss/gain/maintenance, fat loss/muscle gain, increased fitness, dealing with medical issues, dealing with mental health issues – exercise can be very useful in assisting you towards these goals.
There are many different ways to exercise – from simple walking, to weightlifting and all sorts of classes, including online. Finding something you enjoy will make it much easier to incorporate it into your day/week.
And don’t forget, its amazing what exercise will do for your mental health, particularly if you can get outside – green and/or blue environments work especially well.
You don’t have to run or jog, just walking is a good place to start. And it doesn’t have to be hours or even 20 minutes all in one go. Split it up into 5 or 10 minute sessions if that’s easier for you. If you have mobility issues look for seated exercises – Utube is the place to find them.
Go for it!
To demonstrate that weight loss is achieved by restricting calories and that exercise is only a minor help to this process I have looked at my own calorie burn with different exercise.
When you read these bear in mind that I am a little old lady: 153cm, 50kg and nearly 72 years old. Your stats will be different.
200 calories = 60 minutes bike riding, or = 40 minutes aerobics or = 75 minutes walking moderate pace.
On the other side of the CI v CO equation we have:
Fox’s Fabulous Triple chocolate cookie = 115 calories
Sainsbury’s scone = 304 calories
Morrison’s Victoria sponge cake – 1 slice = 236 calories.
Subway chocolate cookie = 210 calories
So, a 60 minute bike ride is totally negated by one slice of quite a plain cake, one large cookie or two biscuits.
Treat your exercise calories with caution. The MFP recommendation is to eat those extra calories but be aware that all these are only estimates. Don’t treat yourself to all the goodies in one day.
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Yes x33
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Date: 4/5
Exercised?: Y, 50 minutes low impact aerobics and 22 minutes strength exercises with weights
Calories?: Y
Tracked?: Y
Pass Days Used - 1/3
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Excercise - Yes
Calories - Yes
Tracked - Yes
3 pass days remaining
I read somewhere that excercise is only 20% of weight loss. You will have a better chance of losing weight with diet alone vs excercise alone. I used to watch the biggest loser when it was on, and it always frustrated me that they didn't focus more on what the contestants ate. A healthy diet is key to weight loss success. I try to keep to only using half of my earned excercise calories.5 -
yes x 33
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Apr 5 ✅️ ✅️ ✅️
Sadly I was finding it hard to work 20 minutes of stationary bike riding into my day. But today wasn't too bad. Along the lines of what was suggested in today's opener, I was trying to get 5 minutes done before work in the morning to make it easier at night when I'm tired. When I was working from home I used to do several intervals of a few minutes throughout the day (was usually stair climbing).4 -
Pass Day!
✅ Exercise
❌ calories
❌ tracked
2️⃣ Pass Days left3 -
DATE: April 5
EXERCISED: Yes - 4,637 Exercise Steps
CALORIES: Yes
TRACKED: Yes
(0 Pass Days used)3 -
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0/3 pass days used
Walk with the daughter and the dog.3 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Cardio with Fabulous 50’s
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes3 -
April 5
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- Yes
- Yes
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Exercise ✅
Calories ✅
Tracked ✅3 -
Track: yes
Calories: yes
Exercise: yes- 20 minute treadmill walk
- 12 minute Yoga for Beginners
Pass Days: 0
I don't know about the rest of you but I'm pretty irritated with this site and their lack of fixing the problem as this is the third day of super slow response.
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✅ Exercise - 1 hour of Jazzercise and neighborhood walk
✅ Calories -
✅ Tracking -
Closed all of my Apple Watch rings (move, exercise, stand)
2 Pass days used
Documenting consistency (if there is a P=instead of number its a Pass Day)
UAC: P-P-3-4-5
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LazyBlondeChef wrote: »Track: yes
Calories: yes
Exercise: yes- 20 minute treadmill walk
- 12 minute Yoga for Beginners
Pass Days: 0
I don't know about the rest of you but I'm pretty irritated with this site and their lack of fixing the problem as this is the third day of super slow response.
Me too @LazyBlondeChef
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4/5
Exercise: 136 minutes
Tracking: yes
Calories: under
Pass days used: 03 -
Pass day - we were out for the day.
We went to the theatre to see "Buddy" the musical. Second time we've seen it - great!
Lunch in a cafe (with no calorie info) and dinner in a Chinese buffet restaurant - so no tracking possible.
On the plus side I did get over 11,000 steps.6 -
DATE: April 5
EXERCISED: Yes (30 min stationary bike)
CALORIES: Yes (under)
TRACKED: Yes
Pass Days used: 13 -
Yes, yes and yes
Walking, yoga and stretching1 -
April 5
Exercise: 20 minutes stretching (my son didn't cooperate with the plan to walk in the afternoon)
Tracking: Planned the day, tracked the changes
Calories: It was all good except that I bought my son a cookie when we went out to do errands (and not walk, like I said before) and it was a big cookie so he only ate half of it. So I ate the other half. It was good, but put me over.
Pass day number 3, I think.
Exercise:
I find that when I get a lot of exercise, I get very hungry, so it is counter productive to losing weight.
However, a small amount of exercise helps with weight loss in that I have more calories available to eat so I don't get as bored with food. It also helps with generally feeling good. My three kinds of exercise are:
- MommaStrong - a great program for functional fitness, especially focused on people who have been pregnant and bringing the body back from that. They make a daily 15 minute workout that I try to do most days. I do find it to be a headache trigger sometimes, and I've been struggling with a headache for the last little bit of time, so I haven't done it for 10 days or so. I do that in the morning.
- Walking - I try to go for a walk outside every day. Just 20 minutes or so at minimum - around the block. I work from home mostly and I find it's really important for my mental health to get out of the house. I fit that into my work schedule during the workday.
- Stretching - I have a 20 minute stretching routine that incorporates some MommaStrong stretches and some PT stretches and really helps keep my body feeling OK. My new thing is that I do in the morning while my son is getting dressed. I also sometimes do it in the evening. I've been doing a lot of stretching the last few days while dealing with the headache and it has been helping.
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the next 2 days will be challenging as it is rainy and cold out (well uppr 40s!) which makes me want to go back to hibernating in front of a heater. LOL.
Exercise calories for me are never going to help me lose weight. I have always done a lot of exercise and activity. But what it does do is depress my appetite I think. Which is interesting that some of you say it makes you a lot more hungry. For me after a run or walk outside I tend to NOT want as much to eat. Now if it is an excessive workout I think the next day or so I might get the "starvies" but for some reason exercise helps to keep me on track when I need to reduce cals. It's not the "burn" but the endorphins or my brain. 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️ either way we do know it's move it or lose it as we get older and sometimes we lose it anyway due to injury or chronic issues so we have to find an alternative. And there is ALWAYS an alternative we just have to be creative.4 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? No
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes3rd pass day already, but I'm ok with decision to spend some time on the couch watching hockey game with husband instead of working out alone in our room.3 -
Yes x 3. 1 pass day used1
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Pass Day used 1 of 32
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thought I posted - can't find it
yes to all three (by the skin of my teeth) LOL
and no pass days used0 -
I'm short on time today, so let's just give a big round of applause
to everyone who checked in on Wednesday!!! ✅✅✅ or ✅✅, it's all good!!!2 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? yes
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? no
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? yes
Passed Days Used 14/5/2023 just one of "those" days1 -
Exercised?: ✅ Yes
Calories?: ✅ Yes
Tracked?: ✅ Yes
Pass days used: 1/31 -
Pass day used.2
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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 👍🏻
(Documenting consistency (if there is a P=instead of number its a Pass Day)
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Pass Day - 0
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