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March 30 Exercise: 30 min walking in the woods, 20 min stretching Tracking: Tracked everything Calories: 50 over Weight up. I think it's just because it's that time of the month though. Not winner's circle. A champion. Well, wrapping up my learning month. I have learned how to track for real. I have upped my fiber to the…

3 yeses! Not a winner but a learner and a champion

Mon March 28 Exercise: Did all 3 of my movement goals - 15 minutes MommaStrong, 1 hour walking in the woods, 30 minutes stretching Tracking: Preplanned the day except for brunch with friends which I couldn't preplan - then also did a lot of untracked nibbling after the brunch, I guess because I felt like since I wasn't…

Here are my thoughts: I currently - for the past 3 weeks or so - have my level set to 1650 calories a day. If I honestly track and eat that I have a nice slow loss, which I like. I decided not to count in exercise calories because I pretty consistently get 100-300 exercise calories a day which is really not much so doesn't…

Thanks everyone for your comments on my starting question. Real food for thought. @jamcnewman Working with a dietician sounds like it’s been really helpful for you. Maybe that’s something I should do. I also like that you don’t feel you’re denying yourself – I would like that feeling too! @TerriRichardson112 I am glad that…

Hi everyone! I signed up to do the opener today. It's my first time. I was thinking about how we are all trying to eat a certain number of calories. But how did you arrive at that number? Do you try for the same number every day, or do you have different goals for different days of the week? Has your calorie number changed…

Sunday March 27 Exercise: Did all 3 I try to do - 15 minutes MommaStrong, 20 minutes stretching, 20 minutes walk Tracking: Tracked everything! Calories: In goal Way over pass days in my learning month And had a good weight loss for the day - I think that my trend line is going down again, which is so exciting! I do have a…

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…

Fri March 25 Exercise: 20 minutes stretching, 1.5 hours walking in the woods for work Tracking: Tracked everything, though didn't weigh my food for dinner so that was estimated. Calories: About 200 over I think that was a case where maybe I should have counted some exercise calories, though, because the hike was 3x a long…

3 yeses!

Thurs March 23 Way over pass days in my learning month Exercise: 45 minutes walking, 20 minutes stretching Tracking: Tracked everything, but lunch was takeout leftovers and then dinner I did a lazy estimation rather than take the time to put the recipe into MFP. So, not great. Calories: With that I was about 50 calories…

Tues March 23 Way over pass days in my learning month Exercise: 20 minutes walk, 30 minutes stretch Tracking: Tracked everything, but lots of estimates Calories: Over by 100, but down 0.8 pounds, so I think that maybe I was overestimating I really like the idea of focusing on 1 thing at a time. That is somewhat what I have…

3 yeses yesterday!

@LazyBlondeChef I am sorry you're so stressed! Here are things that have helped for me - with the caveat of depending on what is causing the stress, sometimes those things make it impossible to do some of these coping methods - so the fundamental one is just self-forgiveness and knowing you will get through it and rebuild…

March 20 Way over pass days in my learning month Yesterday was a full pass day in that I did not follow what I planned to eat the day before, did not track changes from the plan, and definitely ate far over my goal. It was my daughter's 10th birthday party and I enjoyed it. I did manage the exercise trifecta, though - 15…

Sat March 19 Exercise: None! Too busy :smile: Tracking: Tracked ALMOST everything - some nibbles snuck in there I think. Calories: About right if estimates were correct and the nibbles weren't too bad (I KNOW that's not how to do it!) Lost 0.5 pounds. Today's another day of bad estimates as we have my daughter's 10th…

@MadisonMolly2017 thanks to your help I think I have it set at a very slow weight loss level - but the next step of the learning, which I have not yet done, is to actually try eating at it for an extended period of time and see what happens!

Fri March 18 Another pass day in my way above pass days learning month Exercise: 40 minute walk in beautiful, suddenly spring weather Tracking: Tracked EVERYthing Calories: Only a little over But no weight loss I am suspecting it's the irish soda bread estimate that is wrong and putting me over. Today will be the last day…

Thurs March 17 I did not post yesterday, though I did read. Wednesday was a pass day. Way over pass days in my learning month Yesterday was not a pass day for the first time in a long time Exercise - 20 minutes walk (no stretching or MommaStrong) Tracking - tracked EVERYthing Calories - Exactly on my revised higher target…

@snowshoe072 earlier this week I noticed that the food log on the app on my iphone is just a little different in an annoying way - is that what you mean? It's subtle but I think there are a few more clicks needed for every entry and that's annoying. I also noticed a few months or so ago that the food log on the computer…

@Cowphilosopher Here's what I do about evening cravings. Once I put my son to bed and feel "free" for the night, I really really want to sit and eat a sweet snack. I have tried giving it up several times over the years, but trying to resist always results in eating ALL the sweet snacks. So instead I preplan the snack -…

Tues March 15 Exercise - I achieved the trifecta - 15 minutes MommaStrong, 15 minutes walk, 40 minutes stretching Tracking - Sort of tracked, but gave up with birthday takeout and birthday cake Calories - definitely over even my modified goal Minor NSV for yesterday is that I was faced with a long day out of the house for…

Pass day

March 13 Way over pass days in my learning month Well, I went off the rails in a way I haven't for a while. I did get exercise - 15 minutes MommaStrong and then supervised the kids in a cold playdate at the park and walked in circles around the swings when I could. That added up to at least 5 minutes, so I got the 20. Did…

Sat March 12 Way over pass days in my learning month I went through and raised my calories by 300 yesterday, upping each meal target as well and thinking about the targets for protein and fiber - took some time. I think that will help the cycle where I am planning so far less food than I need and then filling in the gaps…

I have been reading everyone's entries but have not been writing. Three days of not having my normal morning routine and I'm all kerfuffled. Let's catch up. This is my learning month. Weds March 9 Exercise: MommaStrong (15 min), Walked (20 min), Stretched Tracking: Tracked EVERYthing Calories: 288 over Weight: Lost 0.5…

March 8 Well over pass days in my learning month Exercise: Trifecta again! 15 minutes MommaStrong, about 1 hour of walking (first I did my usual half hour walk, then joined my friend who I usually walk with, who had hurt her back, and we walked for half an hour VERY slowly), 20 minutes stretching Tracking: Planned the day,…

I also wanted to write somewhere that tracking has gotten easier at the 1 year mark, because there are many recipes that we only cook once a year. Now all of those are already in MFP and so I hardly ever need to input a recipe!

@makattack220 I listened to some more episodes of the podcast and then because of that read a bit of the obesity code. It has me really thinking about how much of my hunger is just the experience of dipping from "storage mode" into "fat burning mode" which is maybe a bit unpleasant but actually good for me? That feeling…

March 7 Pass days over in my learning month Exercise - I did the trifecta - 15 minutes MommaStrong, 1 hour (slow) walk, 15 minutes stretching Tracking - Planned the day, followed the plan with a few nibbly additions, which I tracked. Calories - 243 over Weight - Down 1 pound I think that's probably a sodium difference? I…