hungryraccoon
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I've bought my Mum a fitbit for her birthday. She was very interested in mine 
January Health Challenge (2016)
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Scorpius, you rock! So glad to hear you are doing better!!
All this fitbit talk has me wanting to go out and get one today, lol, but I will try to wait until it's a little closer to my birthday so that I can justify spending the money, hehehe.
I've had a really good workout week (four days so far of cardio and two of toning) and halfway decent sleep (6 to 7 hours). Water intake has been up to par as well. I'm still working on the carbs, haha, but I've done well with limiting sweets a bit. I really do feel better when I consume less refined sugar.
I plan on doing a Leslie Sansone video tomorrow just to mix things up a bit, along with some toning work.
I hope everyone has a great weekend.
All this fitbit talk has me wanting to go out and get one today, lol, but I will try to wait until it's a little closer to my birthday so that I can justify spending the money, hehehe.
I've had a really good workout week (four days so far of cardio and two of toning) and halfway decent sleep (6 to 7 hours). Water intake has been up to par as well. I'm still working on the carbs, haha, but I've done well with limiting sweets a bit. I really do feel better when I consume less refined sugar.
I plan on doing a Leslie Sansone video tomorrow just to mix things up a bit, along with some toning work.
I hope everyone has a great weekend.
beancounter
The Fire That Burns Within
I got a Fitbit for Xmas. I think it's great, but it's way too easy to accumulate 5,000 or more steps per day. The default setting was counting 14 steps for every 11 I took, so I manually adjusted the stride..but it still seems too easy***. I get $25 credited toward my medical costs (via medical insurance plan at work) for every 100K steps, which I'm able to reach 3x per month.
*** I went for a 2.5 mile run this morning, but otherwise have been at my desk all day, except to get up for lunch and occasion bathroom breaks, and I'm already at 9,932 steps.
*** I went for a 2.5 mile run this morning, but otherwise have been at my desk all day, except to get up for lunch and occasion bathroom breaks, and I'm already at 9,932 steps.
I have been reading up on how to calibrate your stride so that it paints as accurate a picture as possible. Another drawback is that it won't count my steps on the treadmill because I hang on to the hand bars for stability (I'm a total klutz most of the time, so I don't want to risk falling) because it measures arm movements related to walking. There is a way to manually add the steps in the app, but I don't think I could be bothered. I think it's a good motivational tool for perhaps parking farther away from a store entrance, taking the stairs rather than the elevator, maybe taking a little walk around the neighborhood even if I've already worked out. I tend to get kind of lazy post-work when I get home, and making these little changes might help with that. Plus, it's just fun to track these sorts of things.
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17 LAPS!! Personal best Also, they moved me up to the intermediate group - no longer a beginner! Generally very excited.
Here's a photo of yesterday's newbie night. I'm in there somewhere:
Also, they moved me up to the intermediate group - no longer a beginner! Generally very excited.Here's a photo of yesterday's newbie night. I'm in there somewhere:
Way to go, AF! That is so cool!
I've had a very good stretch of exercising, though I took yesterday off. Today I did a 45-minute treadmill session, and I'm increasing the incline a bit more each week. Also, my friend I work out with decided to do the treadmill as well, and we chatted away, which made the time fly by. I might do a video tomorrow. I'm in the mood for a Leslie Sansone power walk.
Oh, and I finally got 8 hours of sleep (last night). Now, if I could just get that amount every night, I'd be golden, lol.
I've had a very good stretch of exercising, though I took yesterday off. Today I did a 45-minute treadmill session, and I'm increasing the incline a bit more each week. Also, my friend I work out with decided to do the treadmill as well, and we chatted away, which made the time fly by. I might do a video tomorrow. I'm in the mood for a Leslie Sansone power walk.
Oh, and I finally got 8 hours of sleep (last night). Now, if I could just get that amount every night, I'd be golden, lol.
This past week was sort of a lost week for exercise. I started out well, but then between work (lots of extra hours, ugh!) and trying to get my place in order (2016 goals), I just sort of lost steam. I got in only two days of cardio and one of toning. I hope to take a nice walk in the snow tomorrow, though, before I go into work. I've done well with sleeping, water intake and watching the white carbs, so it wasn't a totally lost week. (And I lost a pound, yay. Only two more to go to get back to my desired weight.)
I am back in exercise mode. I did 40 intense minutes on the treadmill. My sea legs are back, I think.
So January was mostly positive, goals-wise: I lost 3 pounds, have limited the white carbs fairly well, have consistently consumed adequate water daily, and have exercised regularly, save for a lost week when work was just nuts. I'm still working on the sleep. Some nights I did very well, getting 7 to 8 hours, but others, like last night, were not so successful. On to February!
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