🌻 🎃 October Daily Weigh-in and Logging Challenge🌻🎃🍂

b]Oct 1[/b] 👣📝🥗🫀💦🧂- 18.5K 👣 Steps, 🚶‍♀️3 mile outside walk, 1 mile treadmill, 40 🫀Min HIIT workout, 🥗 579 Calorie Deficit

I love the start of a new month, the optimism that it brings, leaving those negative thoughts behind, reflecting on my prior months accomplishments, a fresh start, a clean slate. And fall is my favorite time of year - a slight chill in the air - the beautiful fall colors on the trees in Connecticut, no bugs. Happy Otober - a special welcome to all our new people - I hope you love this group as much as I do, and for all the returning members - so glad to see you back for another month.

Oct 2 139.9 😁👣📝🥗💪💦🧂21.4k 👣 Steps, 🚶‍♀️3 mile outside walk, 3.3 mile treadmill, 30 💪 Full Body Strength, 🥗 182 Calorie Deficit

I did it - made it to the normal BMI range! Six hundred and thirty-three days since I started my journey - averaging just shy of a pound a week. I am over the moon with happiness. Now to keep it this way for the rest of my life.

Oct 3 👣📝🥗🧘‍♀️💦🧂14.4k 👣 Steps, 🚶‍♀️3 mile outside walk, 1 mile treadmill, 30 🧘‍♀️Full Body Stretch, 🥗 81 Calorie Deficit

Oct 4 👣📝🥗💪🫀🧘‍♀️💦20K 👣 Steps, 🚶‍♀️2.5 mile outside walk, 3 mile treadmill, 30 Min 🫀Cardio, 🥗 135 Calorie Deficit, Over my sodium limit - hoping it doesn't affect my weigh in tomorrow.

Oct 5 - 140.3 👣 📝🥗💪🫀🧘‍♀️💦🧂⚖️ 20.4K 👣 Steps🚶‍♀️3.0 mile outside walk, 2.8 mile treadmill, 30 Min 💪 Strength, 🥗 96 Calorie Deficit

We have had company all week. Our best friends moved to Florida a few years back, but their family lives in Connecticut. When they visit, they use our house as their lodging. The husband of the couple came up to visit family and friends this week. It has basically been a "boys" week; but the influences I have been at the upper limit of my calorie and sodium levels (going over on the sodium one day) which affects everything. He leaves tomorrow and things will get back to normal - hoping I'll get back down under that 140 mark by my next weigh in (Wednesday).

Oct 6 👣 📝🫀💦🧂17.5K 👣 Steps🚶‍♀️2.5 mile outside walk, 1 mile treadmill, 30 Min 🫀 Cardio, 🥗 28 Calories over my limit

Oct 7 👣🚶‍♀️‍➡️📝🥗💪💦🧂 15K 👣 Steps🚶‍♀️2.5 mile outside walk, 1 mile treadmill, 30 Min 💪 Strength, 🥗 194 Calories over my limit

Week Two

Oct 8 👣 🚶‍♀️‍➡️📝🥗🫀💦🧂17.8K 👣 Steps 2.5 🚶‍♀️‍➡️ mile outside walk, 50 Min 🫀 Cardio, 🥗 48 calorie deficit

Oct 9 140.9 👣 🚶‍♀️‍➡️📝💪🫀💦🧂⚖️ 16.3K 👣 Steps 3.2 mile 🚶‍♀️‍➡️outside walk, 1 mile treadmill, 70 Min 🫀 🚣 Kayaking, 20 min 💪, 118 calories over my limit

I have been experimenting this week - first true week of only weighing bi-weekly and with company here - and wanting to see what it did to my weight I ate back all my exercise (ok a little more some days, a little less others) to see what would happen. I am up a pound this week. So here is what I'm going to do this week. Still bi-weekly weigh-in, but get back to the losing mentality for a couple weeks. Hoping to get back to my goal weight, and then try maybe 75%.

Oct 10 👣 🚶‍♀️‍➡️📝🥗🫀🧘‍♀️💦🧂21.2K 👣 Steps 2.5 mile 🚶‍♀️‍➡️outside walk, 2.3 mile treadmill, 20 Min 🫀, 15 min🧘‍♀️ Stretch, 435 Calorie Deficit

Oct 11 👣🚶‍♀️‍➡️📝🥗💪🫀🧘‍♀️💦🧂21.6 👣 Steps 2.5 mile 🚶‍♀️‍➡️outside walk, 2.6 mile treadmill, 30 Min 🫀, 45 Min 👩‍🌾 Heavy Yardwork 407 Calorie Deficit

Met my 2,024 miles in 2024 goal yesterday! Three and a half weeks quicker than last year's pace, even with the meniscus tear at the beginning of summer (counting all steps); now to work on the intentional fitness miles goal - I'll need to average a little over 100 minutes of intentional exercise daily to make it - might be a stretch - but doable!

Oct 12 👣 🚶‍♀️‍➡️📝🥗💪🫀🧘‍♀️💦🧂 17.4 👣 Steps 2.5 mile 🚶‍♀️‍➡️outside walk, 1.7 mile treadmill, 15 min 💪Strength - Over my calorie limit 102 Calories!

Didn't really want to look at the weight today - switching my weigh in day until tomorrow. Took the boat out for probably the last spin. Beautiful day, but not as colorful as I would have expected. Picnic on the water and a heavier dinner put me over the top.

Oct 13 141.2 👣 🚶‍♀️‍➡️📝🥗🫀💦🧂17K Steps 🚶‍♀️‍➡️50 Min 2.5 Mile outside walk, 25 Min 1.2 Mile Treadmill, 35 Min 🫀 Cardio, 281 Calorie deficit.

Oct 14 141 🚶‍♀️‍➡️📝🥗💪🫀💦🧂⚖️ 13.5K Steps 🚶‍♀️‍➡️50 Min 2.5 Mile outside walk, 40 Min 💪 strength, 50 Min 🫀(boxing), 240 Calorie deficit

Funny thing - worked out a lot yesterday (it was a workout relay race weekend for the Hogwarts Challenge) and for the first time in a LONG time - didn't meet my step goal. A lot of strength workouts, and boxing where I didn't move my feet. LOL! Today is going to be a rest day to recouperate - but I will get in my walks! Then Bingo night with mom - celebrating my sister's 66 birthday tonight.

Week Three:
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Oct 15 140.9 👣 🚶‍♀️‍➡️📝🥗🫀💦🧂⚖️ 20.5K Steps 🚶‍♀️‍➡️60 Min 3.0 Mile outside walk, 40 Min 2 Mile Treadmill, 35 Min 🫀cardio Tabata, 286 Calorie deficit

Nice night at Bingo for Mom - she won twice. Always puts her in a good mood. I saved room in my food intake for dessert last night and had a piece of cake. Don't know if it is because I haven't had it in a long time, or it was just great - one of the best pieces of cake I have had in a long time - just a vanilla cake - but the raspberry mousse filling was to die for.

Oct 16 140.9 👣 🚶‍♀️‍➡️📝🥗💪🫀💦🧂⚖️19.8K Steps, 🚶‍♀️‍➡️60 Min 3.0 Mile outside walk, 20 Min 1 Mile Treadmill, 35 Min 🫀 Cardio HIIT, 40 Min 💪 Strength, 643 Calorie Deficit

Made a beautiful chicken and delicata squash soup for dinner last night, and Greg made homemade bread to go with it. Delicious, but on the upper range of my sodium limit.

Oct 17 140.6 👣 🚶‍♀️‍➡️📝🥗🧘‍♀️💦🧂⚖️ 21.2K Steps, 🚶‍♀️‍➡️50 Min 2.8 Mile outside walk, 75 Min 4.2 Mile Treadmill, 45 Min 🧘‍♀️Full Body Stretch, 303 Calorie Deficit

Oct 18 142👣 🚶‍♀️‍➡️📝🥗🫀⚖️21.6K Steps, 🚶‍♀️‍➡️50 Min 2.5 Mile outside walk, 30 Min 1.4 Mile Treadmill, 60 Min 🫀 Cardio HIIT, 373 Calorie Deficit

Although I was in a calorie deficit, I had an off day - didn't reach my 8 glasses of water goal and ate a whole bag of popcorn putting me over my sodium limit. Just goes to show you that exercise cannot make up for a bad diet. Will be extra careful today - hoping to reverse the situation tomorrow.

Oct 19 141 👣 🚶‍♀️‍➡️📝🥗💪🫀💦🧂⚖️18.9K Steps, 🚶‍♀️‍➡️50 Min 2.5 Mile outside walk, 25 Min 1.2Mile Treadmill, 40 Min 🫀 Cardio HIIT, 45 Min💪 Strength, 456 Calorie Deficit

Washed the salt away, had to add another cardio workout at the end of the day to make up for calories - so still ended in deficit. Today we are going for our monthly visit to check on Greg's cousin - so away from the house for 10 hours, will get in a workout when we get home - but no outside walk today.

Oct 20 140.3 👣 🚶‍♀️‍➡️📝🥗🫀💦🧂⚖️15.8K Steps, 🚶‍♀️‍➡️35 Min 1.7 Mile Treadmill, 65 Min 🫀 Cardio HIIT, 126 Calorie Deficit

Nice day yesterday visiting Greg's cousin. She is doing well, made her Citron Fromage (a danish lemon mousse dessert) for dessert - gobbled up two huge servings. Listened to her stories from the old days (heard them 1000's of times - but that's ok). Talked about getting someone in a couple days a week just while she is showering - but she's not ready. She is actually getting out twice a week now. So happy that she is getting out - her husband died during the pandemic and she has been reluctant to go out except for doctor's appointments ever since. The elderly man who lives next door (he is also 90+) goes to Stew Leonards once a week - he has been getting a few things for her while he is there - but always asks if she would like to join him -she finally said yes - and she was glad to get out and get her own stuff (quote "he doesn't know how to pick out bananas"). We convinced her she should go every week. The young man who cuts her grass (he is the nephew of one of her close friends), keeps his sports car in her garage. He brings her for a ride once a week, she sees the "old" sites and then during they go for a an ice cream cone. Hoping it continues through the winter - maybe get a hot chocolate or coffee from dunkin.

I was careful what I ate - brought my own breakfast, portion controlled lunch, and then light dinner. Got in a cardio workout and a treadmill walk when I got home - happy to see the decrease today!