75 Challenge for The New Year

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  • nikispence
    nikispence Posts: 3 Member
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    Great job @62blackdogs !!! I appreciate your tracker! It is encouraging to see your progress and commitment! I might just do the same! Stay tuned. And Stay strong!
  • 62blackdogs
    62blackdogs Posts: 63 Member
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    @nikispence Thank you, Good day today, I ate my base calories plus about 200 more. I ran/walked a 10K today so had extra calories to eat. Feels real good to be exercising 15lbs lighter, really looking forward to shedding the last 15lbs. Blessings to you and stay strong as well. I still have one glass of water to drink, yoga and reading left, about to finish those off now.
  • 62blackdogs
    62blackdogs Posts: 63 Member
    edited March 1
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    Good day, have my dinner calories recorded, about to go make it. Coming right in on my daily calories. I walked 10K steps, not in my calorie count. Still have yoga and 2 glasses of water to complete day. Feeling good, sore after that 10K run/walk from a few days back, but slow walk today really helped take away some stiffness.

    I think I'm doing well this week, expecting/hoping for/wanting a 2lbs weight loss after the real small loss last week.
  • 62blackdogs
    62blackdogs Posts: 63 Member
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    Goals: (Day 57)
    1A Meet daily myFitnesspal food intake goal.
    1B Eat in a 8 hour window. (Dropped from 10 hour window in first week. 10am-6pm)
    3. 8000 steps a day. (Raised this from 7500 in week 4)
    4. Drink 80 oz of water daily.
    5. No alcohol drinks or sugar drinks. (Added in first week)
    6. Read 20 minutes.
    7. Track my progress with pictures and weekly weigh-in.
    8. Centering time 15 min. (Doing well, this has been 20min yoga)

    January 1: 224.0
    January 8: 221.4 (-2.6)
    January 15: 218.8 (-2.6)
    January 22: 217.6 (-1.2)
    January 29: 216.2 (-1.4)
    February 5: 214.3 (-1.9)
    February 12: 211.8 (-2.5)
    February 19: 210.3 (-1.5)
    February 26: 209.9 (-0.4)
    March 4: 208.8 (-1.1)
    March 11: 207.6 (Goal)
    March 16: 206 (Goal) - 18lbs in 75 days!

    I was hoping for more weight loss this week. So a little disappointed. I'm going to adjust my perspective. 3lbs in the last 3 weeks in steady progress, I'm in this for life so no rush. I'm thinking I may need another 75 days to get to 194. I will work on those plans after the March 16th 5K run. I'm planning on taking that day off and celebrating the end of my first 75 days.
  • 62blackdogs
    62blackdogs Posts: 63 Member
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    Doing well, slowing down on my comments. It is starting to become a grind, getting harder to record calories. Today I have a large amount of calories still to eat and two glasses of water.
  • 62blackdogs
    62blackdogs Posts: 63 Member
    edited March 10
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    I ate Indian for lunch, no idea on calories. Putting down 1500. I'm still below calories, but most likely not a good way to consume my daily allotment. GRIN. Still have yoga, reading and a large amount of water to finish the day.
  • 62blackdogs
    62blackdogs Posts: 63 Member
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    I partially dislocated my knee on tuesday, so no walking and no 5K run this weekend. Bummer.. I'm going to continue with the rest of my goals, even after my 75 days ends. I need this structure right now to stay on track. When I can exercise again, I will create a formal program.
  • 62blackdogs
    62blackdogs Posts: 63 Member
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    Final check-in on the first 75 days.

    Goals: (Day 75)
    1A Meet daily myFitnesspal food intake goal. Success.
    1B Eat in a 8 hour window. Missed 3 days were I ate 15 to 20 min outside window.
    3. 8000 steps a day. Perfect except last 4 days with a dislocated knee. Averaged: 8336 step/day over the 75 days.
    4. Drink 80 oz of water daily. Success.
    5. No alcohol drinks or sugar drinks. (Added in first week) I had a Mocha one day without realize it was a sugar drink. {blush}
    6. Read 20 minutes. Success.
    7. Track my progress with pictures and weekly weigh-in. Success on weigh-ins, pictures no.
    8. Centering time 15 min. (Doing well, this has been 20min yoga) Success.

    January 1: 224.0
    March 18: 209.3 - 14.7lbs in 75 days.
    Overall very pleased with results.
  • 62blackdogs
    62blackdogs Posts: 63 Member
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    Let us begin anew!

    My knee is healing, I can put weight on it, no way I'm walking any distance. Under 250 steps these days.
    Hoping to be doing light exercise in 2 weeks.

    So here is the plan for the next 77 days:

    75 Hard goals with exercise modification.
    1 Meet daily myFitnesspal food intake goal.
    2. Average 7500 steps over 77 days.
    3. Drink 80 oz of water daily.
    4. No alcohol drinks
    5. Read 20 minutes.
    6. Track my progress with weekly weigh-in.
    7. Yoga 20 minutes.

    Expectation: Below 200 lbs at end of 77 days.

    I would have liked to have a goal of 7500 steps a day, but with knee issues the above goal is the best I can do. With two weeks until I can start light exercise I will be needing to average 10,000 steps a day which will be a challenge in itself.

  • 62blackdogs
    62blackdogs Posts: 63 Member
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    Day 1

    Starting weight: 209.3
    Need to drink one more glass of water plus the one in front of me.
    Steps: I got in 2888 steps (two trips to the end of the street) Felt good, but I need to take it easy.
    I have 700+ calories to eat with a hour to go. I will get a snack in.
    Back into the adventure.

  • 62blackdogs
    62blackdogs Posts: 63 Member
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    Day 5
    Doing well on all goals. Done eating for the day, just two glasses of water to drink to close it out.
    I got 5000 steps in today, I'm still walking with the crutch, but using them for minimal support and safety at this point. I have a goal of 25,000 steps this week, then 35,000 next week. Also on wednesday I got a weigh-in of 208.3 so all is good.
  • 62blackdogs
    62blackdogs Posts: 63 Member
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    Day 7
    Walking better, thinking about using walking sticks today.. Maybe 6000 steps? Time will tell.
  • 62blackdogs
    62blackdogs Posts: 63 Member
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    Close to End of Day 7
    Well walking with sticks didn't work that well, not enough support.. Bummer..
    Currently need two more glasses of water, yoga and reading to complete the day.
    Also I'm at 5531 steps, not sure if I will get in the last 400, icing knee as I read and we will see.
    Done eating for the day and expecting a excellent weight-in tomorrow morning,
  • 62blackdogs
    62blackdogs Posts: 63 Member
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    Day 8 check-in
    75 Hard goals with exercise modification. (on-track)
    1 Meet daily myFitnesspal food intake goal.
    2. Average 7500 steps over 77 days. (27,608 steps this week)
    3. Drink 80 oz of water daily.
    4. No alcohol drinks
    5. Read 20 minutes.
    6. Track my progress with weekly weigh-in.
    7. Yoga 20 minutes.

    Weigh-In
    January 1: 224.0
    March 18: 209.3 (-14.7) first 77 days.
    March 25: 207.5 (-1.8) much better than I expected; ahead of 1lbs/week pace.
    June 3: 198 (Goal) - 26 lbs in 154 days!

    Walking Plan
    35,000 steps this week which would mean I would need to average 8200 steps a day for the rest of program which is very do-able.

    Relieved that I could get in as many steps in as I did. Walking with a crutch is hard on the back. I'm wanting to not push it this week.

    Excited and upbeat in the moment.

  • 62blackdogs
    62blackdogs Posts: 63 Member
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    Day 12: Grinding along with my tasks. Have bumped my walking up to 5,000 steps. The knee is slowly improving. I was thinking I had made huge strides and tried to walk with a walking stick, but could not put in the steps. I'm still using a crutch. Good weigh-in today 206.5, I'm focusing on getting thru Easter without to much damage to my Monday weigh-in. Real hard to eat out, I tend to get a 1-2lbs bump up that goes away in a few days. Not sure what this is? Salt? It's not excess calories.
  • 62blackdogs
    62blackdogs Posts: 63 Member
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    Day 13: Walk the local mall, flat is a lot easier than mild hills, managed to walk some without crutch and put in 7489 steps so far. Goals going well today, I have two more glasses of water and yoga left. I have about 300 calories with another 2hours and 30 min of eating time. I may have a snack in about 90 min. All good.
  • 62blackdogs
    62blackdogs Posts: 63 Member
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    Day 14: 205.8 weigh-in today, going to do my best to be close to that tomorrow morning for the official weigh-in. Morning walk today was strong, did minor hills with minimal crutch. All is good.
  • 62blackdogs
    62blackdogs Posts: 63 Member
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    Day 15 check-in
    75 Hard goals with exercise modification. (on-track)
    1 Meet daily myFitnesspal food intake goal.
    2. Average 7500 steps over 77 days. (45,606 steps this week)
    3. Drink 80 oz of water daily.
    4. No alcohol drinks
    5. Read 20 minutes.
    6. Track my progress with weekly weigh-in.
    7. Yoga 20 minutes.

    Weigh-In
    January 1: 224.0
    March 18: 209.3 (-14.7) first 77 days.
    March 25: 207.5 (-1.8) much better than I expected; ahead of 1lbs/week pace.
    April 1: 206.2 (-1.3) I survived Easter!
    June 3: 198 (Goal) - 26 lbs in 154 days!

    Walking Plan
    I need to average 8005 steps a day for the rest of program to meet my goal.
    Shooting for 50,000 steps this week, most likely will be higher, I want to focus on walking without the crutch and being kind to the knee.

    Overall feel like I doing very well.
  • 62blackdogs
    62blackdogs Posts: 63 Member
    edited April 5
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    Day 19: Knee is doing great, walking 7500-8000 steps the last 5 days without crutch or brace, Doing well on the rest of the program, all is well. Expecting another good number on the scale next Monday, all is good.
  • 62blackdogs
    62blackdogs Posts: 63 Member
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    Day 20: Just as I say the knee is doing great, I hurt it just a little, of all places sitting on the couch. I walked with a brace today just to be safe. Done with calories for the day, one more glass of water and yoga left.

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