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What worked for me yesterday was half accident, and half deliberate. I didn't MEAN to skip lunch (just One Of THOSE days at work). We decided to have home-assembled pizza for supper (so i looked up the crust-kit stats for the crust and sauce - made a note of total-package=onhand grams beforehand for cheese; mushrooms;…

What worked for me yesterday was half accident, and half deliberate. I didn't MEAN to skip lunch (just One Of THOSE days at work). We decided to have home-assembled pizza for supper (so i looked up the crust-kit stats for the crust and sauce - made a note of total-package beforehand for cheese; mushrooms; pepperoni - told…

Exercise: o:) 35 mins on the stationary bike plus total of 4645 steps. Logged: o:) every thing in (some how didn't get around to eating lunch, so heavier-cal home-assembled pizza is now saved as a "meal" and I still had calorie room for a later evening snack of air-popped popcorn (no oil, butter or any other topping)…

@bradkcrew I probably just didn't have nearly enough ice in it. Next time I will put in much more.

Exercise: o:) 20 minutes on the exercise bike plus 5010 steps total on the day (so done and dusted but a bit lighter than the 1st 3 days of the month) Logged: o:) everything, including some last minute Doritos In Limits: o:) yes but only barely (yay because I had already chosen the "more calories burned per minute" biking…

Exercise: o:) 40 mins on exercise bike plus outdoor walking Logged: o:) EVEN with Aunty's Steamed Pud (see yesterday) AND after-supper snack of air-popped popcorn, I didn't touch the exercise calories. (I would usually have no issue doing so, and plan snacks around leaving SOME in the bank, but not usually ALL In Limits:…

@Mrs_Hoffer , I <3 <3 it too!

@Mrs_Hoffer what brand / where did you buy the DARK cocoa powder?

While I was waiting for Nov to start, I poked around in the counterpart Oct thread, and found a recipe for a Faux Wendy's Frosty. Tried it today at lunch (very nice ... for a snack (as it was intended to me) I have decided to call the original recipe "the Skinny Version" and also try out a Greek Yoghurt-added version that…

Be my guest! (it dates back to even before UAC started a secondary "Champions List" - and you could add "Keep aiming for one-or-more-fewer passes than the month before until the Winners Circle actually happens" (like the one who included previous-month pass totals, as visual self encouragement that progress in habit…

I intend to see my name there too, on the Nov Champs list (I always thought of it as "aim for Winners' Circle - but if Life Happens (even in the first week of the month) - the rest of the month is "pre-season practice for the NEXT month's Winners' Circle. " Habit building is habit building. If you are going to build…

Yay, YOU!!!!!

Nov 2 Exercise: o:) two long walks outside and a grand total of 8743 steps overall Tracking: o:) ab-so-lute-ly EVERYthing. In Limits: >:) not-so-good (but no judgements; I promised myself that the first week is merely data-collection. Need a decent sized sample before I can say "this is the baseline that I will change…

November UAC members in "morph mode" :D A raft of sea otters. They also sometimes wrap seaweed around themselves to help stay together too (like we throw each other verbal "lifelines")

IGM (Immediate Gratification Monkey) gets bored with "grown-up have-to-do" stuff and just likes to "play". It will very much depend on your own personality, but I do find for myself that redirection and "turn it into a game if you can" works well too. Like dealing with a young child. I even started inventing an internal…

There is a fair bit of chatter in Nov. 1 about "monkey brains" and "getting a new sheriff in town" that has resonated with many many others. It put me in mind of a TedTalk that I was originally introduced to here several years ago Tim Urban - Inside the mind of a master procrastinator There are two version on YouTube -…

Three different walks (in the sunshine at noon; on my mini-trampoline before supper; to the grocery store and back after supper) Those plus general moving around the house added up to 11,769 steps today.

Exercise: 3 on-purpose walks - outside at noon, my walking-game on my mini-trampoline before supper, and a walk (in the dark) to the grocery store after supper. a total of 11,768 steps so far. Logged everything: yes Under target: just under even BEFORE fitbit exercise credits. so we are good today! (even if fitbit claws…

What worked for me on Oct 31 was getting everything logged, and coming out OK (thanks to fitbit equalization - gotta get those steps in!)

my min-goal is getting back into the habit of logging (I have been mia from MFP since ~ mid March 2021, so ~ 7.5 months out of practice) No judgements on "good / not so good choices". Just get it in there. ALLLL of it. After a week or so, start whatever fine-tuning (that didn't re-assert itself unconsciously) will be…

with colder, darker days starting to close in (in the Northern Hemisphere) ... These active strategies need to be seen and added to. So Bumpity Bump Bump = > go forth and inspire!

This needs to be seen! (so I can read back for NEAT action advice) So .... Bumpity Bump Bump again.

when I was in the zone, I would pre-log for the day every day as soon as I had weighed my toast for the day, and then refine as I went along. I am hoping that it is kinda like riding a bike ... tending to come back quickly once you actually climb aboard.

I noticed that several of you are either very close to retirement, or newly retired (and "waves to all other members too!" and every age / career stage out there - not ignoring you-all!) I am two years away from retirement, and almost 18 months into "work 100% from home". My position is probably going to stay being "work…

Hello, all. I dropped off the face of UAC (and MFP itself) back in March of this year. But I am back. Today (Oct 30) I put in the walking that was earned while my fitbit was recharging. Tomorrow (or maybe tonight's supper, but not brunch as it wasn't weighed" I start weighing and logging food again. My goal for this month…

Yes on all 3. Included lots of incidental exercise as well (more standing than sitting throughout the workday) Official intentional exercise was 40 minutes for my walking game before work and 603 cals burned on my "(stationary) bike commute home" between getting off work and suppertime.

Yes on all 3. Included lots of incidental exercise as well (more standing than sitting throughout the workday) Official intentional exercise was 20 minutes for my walking game before work and more than 620 cals burned on my "(stationary) bike commute home" between getting off work and suppertime.