2/20-2/26/2017 Accountability Thread
 

Merry Monday Morning!

We're all in this together, so let's make some SMART Goals!

S. = Specific
M. = Measurable
A. = Attainable
R. = Realistic and
T. = Time Based



Daily Goals:
1. Drink 2L of water
2. Engage in purposeful exercise
3. Stretch twice
4. Log everything

New Year's Resolutions:
1. Complete half marathon
2. Learn how to prepare 14 meals
3. Identify and banish migraine triggers

w00t w00t! I might change up my goals. I'll be SMART with it. I'll be posting them shortly. I'm ready for a good week!

Have you ever completed a 1/2 marathon? Are you setting any sort of a time goal? If you haven't tried one before, the Rock n Roll (half) Marathon series is pretty fun!

My smart based goals are:

1) 12k steps per day
2) 100 oz of water daily
3) Log foods (haven't done that in ages)
4) 750 cal deficient per day
5) Weigh in on Friday
6)at least stay in zootnarf's shadow and not get left in her dust

I haven't completed one yet! I was training for my first all those years ago and now I'm finally going to do it! I'm not far enough into training to really have a good handle on what time I would be going for, but you know once I do that I'll be posting that baby up more than a newborn on facebook!

Goal Check in:
1. Drink 2L of water: 1.0
2. Engage in purposeful exercise: No
3. Stretch twice: Yes
4. Log everything: YES!

Bahahahaha! :D You are certainly off to a good start so far this week. Nice Monday!

This last weekend was non-stop socializing with friends, but I managed to do pretty ok with the food and fitness goals. I didn't hit every goal, but survived sitting in front of plates of cookies and candies for hours without too much damage. I'll take it.

Moving on to this week, same goals as last week.
Goals for the week:

1) Calories under 1,400 (6 days): M-No (1,731)
2) 10,000 steps (7 days): M-Yes (16,398)
3) Log all food (7 days): M-Yes
4) Stairs (3 days): M-No
5) Strength band exercises (3 days): M-No

1) 12k steps per day: m-yes (16062)
2) 100 oz of water daily: m-yes (118.3)
3) Log foods (haven't done that in ages): m-yes
4) 750 cal deficient per day: m-(-1990:eek:)
5) Weigh in on Friday
6)at least stay in zootnarf's shadow and not get left in her dust: m-yes

Good on logging and stretching! Like Nike says, just do it!

You have plenty of time to get in the stairs and band exercise in. You're killing it. Watching your numbers climbs forces me to get out my chair.:D

And seeing you nipping at my heels makes me find an excuse to walk down to other offices. My secretary even noticed and said I was all over the place! :D

Crazy thing with the Weekend Warrior Challenge, I saw the my cousin Nick had barely passed me up. About 1/2 hour before it ended (11:30 CST) I got up and walked around the house, I couldn't let him edge me out like that. I went to bed right before it ended, about a hundred or so steps ahead of him. Wake up and it says he beat me. I texted him to see if he got in some last minute walking, he said he didn't, he had been in bed since 9pm. I got scammed out of that one. No more close ones for him!:D

1) 12k steps per day: m-yes (16062), t-yes (15,658)
2) 100 oz of water daily: m-yes (118.3), t-yes(101.4)
3) Log foods (haven't done that in ages): m-yes, t-yes
4) 750 cal deficient per day: m-yes(-1990), t-yes(-1971)
5) Weigh in on Friday
6)at least stay in zootnarf's shadow and not get left in her dust: m-yes, t-yes

#6 is hard but nobody ever said this would be easy. I'm still nipping on heals.

How did yesterday go for you??

See now, seeing you on my heels or even passing me just makes me get up and get more steps in, which makes you get up and get more steps, which makes me.....yada, yada. I'm pretty stubborn and competitive, so it's not in me to let it go. We are going to do a LOT of walking this week!

1) Calories under 1,400 (6 days): M-No (1,731), T-No (1,517)
2) 10,000 steps (7 days): M-Yes (16,398), T-Yes (16,168)
3) Log all food (7 days): M-Yes, T-Yes
4) Stairs (3 days): M-No, T-No
5) Strength band exercises (3 days): M-No, T-No

I'm not quite meeting my calorie goals, but with all the extra steps Mike is making me do, I don't mind being a bit over. Really need to get my stairs routine going. Starting is the hardest part.

We're both competitive. I guess that's why I feel like I'm chasing my tail. I keep going but rarely catch it.:D

1) Calories under 1,400 (6 days): M-No (1,731), T-No (1,517), W-Yes (1,364)
2) 10,000 steps (7 days): M-Yes (16,398), T-Yes (16,168), W-Yes (16,847)
3) Log all food (7 days): M-Yes, T-Yes, W-Yes
4) Stairs (3 days): M-No, T-No, W-YES!
5) Strength band exercises (3 days): M-No, T-No, W-Yes

Wednesday was a homerun! Hope everyone has a great Thursday. Go eat some veggies! :D

1) 12k steps per day: m-yes (16,062), t-yes (15,658), w-yes (18,432)
2) 100 oz of water daily: m-yes (118.3), t-yes(101.4), w-yes (101.4)
3) Log foods (haven't done that in ages): m-yes, t-yes, w-yes
4) 750 cal deficient per day: m-yes(-1990), t-yes(-1971), w-yes(-2355)
5) Weigh in on Friday
6)at least stay in zootnarf's shadow and not get left in her dust: m-yes, t-yes, w-yes

#6 is hard but nobody ever said this would be easy. I'm still nipping on heals

I've been way deficient in calories. I haven't felt super hungry or like I was about to eat my arm off... yet. I should probably ramp it up some, so I don't eat the house down come this weekend. Like yesterday, I logged 1602 calories, my fitbit shows I burned 3957:eek:

Fitbit's calories burned equation is not very accurate. Don't count on it for weight loss, though I'm sure you are still at a large enough deficit to warrant eating some extra calories. But if you aren't hungry, don't eat! 1600 calories is plenty to get all the nutrients you need, and it's important to listen to your body. It's far from starving. Trust yourself! :)

True that, I'll listen to my body. How does it seem for you as far as calories? I know part of my issue is my heart rate. It beats fast, which it turn causes me to burn more calories. Nobody seems to know why it beats so fast, it just does I guess. I use to wear a real heart rate monitor and the calories it said I'd burn on a long walk was INSANE!

Hell sitting at my desk right now, typing this I'm at 93bmp, which has me in the "fat burning zone". I guess I need to eat my some girl scout cookies if I type too much. ;)

BTW, the highest I've ever clocked my heart rate was 236bpm. My cardiologists has no idea why I didn't feel like I was going to die.

Yesterday was a bad day for food. We went out last night for pizza with neighbors. I ate me weight in pizza. :(

1) 12k steps per day: m-yes (16,062), t-yes (15,658), w-yes (18,432), th-yes (14,352)
2) 100 oz of water daily: m-yes (118.3), t-yes(101.4), w-yes (101.4), th-yes (101.4)
3) Log foods (haven't done that in ages): m-yes, t-yes, w-yes, th-yes
4) 750 cal deficient per day: m-yes(-1990), t-yes(-1971), w-yes(-2355), th-yes (-1383)
5) Weigh in on Friday: yes (206.6)
6)at least stay in zootnarf's shadow and not get left in her dust: m-yes, t-yes, w-yes, th-yes (so far so good)

Fitbit way over estimates the calories I burn. If I ate what it told me to eat, I would gain weight. In their defense, there is no one formula that can be correct for all people, and it does give people a place to start from and adjust as necessary.

WTF is up with your weird heart?? :eek:

This Week's Goals:
1) Calories under 1,400 (6 days): M-No (1,731), T-No (1,517), W-Yes (1,364), Th-Yes (1,286)
2) 10,000 steps (7 days): M-Yes (16,398), T-Yes (16,168), W-Yes (16,847), Th-Yes (15,650)
3) Log all food (7 days): M-Yes, T-Yes, W-Yes, Th-Yes
4) Stairs (3 days): M-No, T-No, W-YES!, Th-No
5) Strength band exercises (3 days): M-No, T-No, W-Yes, Th-No

Ready to finish out the week strong!

No clue about my heart. I noticed it when I was doing P90x. My dad got me a heart rate monitor for Christmas and when I was doing the program, I checked my heart rate and it wouldn't register. I thought the HRM was defective so I went to bring it back. They didn't take returns on them so I kept it and called the manufacturer. They said it only reads up to a certain rate, after that it won't register. So I started checking it the old fashioned way. I had joined a gym and was on a recumbent bike and it registered 236 bmp. My friend that was next to me thought there was no way, it had to have been defective... so we switched bikes. The bike I was on was reading like 140 for him, his old bike that I was on was still reading over 200 for me.

I went to a cardiologist, he did a battery of tests. EKG, ECG and stress test. He said my heart was fine but something in my endocrine system (I think he said my blood work showed a hyper thyroid and iron was low, or maybe high, I can't remember). He said my endocrine system was causing my heart to beat fast. So he referred me to an endocrinologist. I saw him and give him my lab results. He said everything looked fine. He ordered more labs and a follow up. I went back, he confirmed my endocrine system was fine. So, once again I go back to my cardiologist, he said my heart was fine.

So with my cardiologist saying my heart was fine and my endocrinologist saying my endocrine system was fine. I did what every normal person would do. I wrote myself more life insurance. :D

I have quit doing 1/2 marathons and P90X. I don't do anything overly physical that would cause it to go crazy. I have noticed now that I wear my Fitbit all day, that it hasn't been super crazy. I just went for a walk and it got up to 136bpm. Although that's probably what most people get when they run, I'm not too alarmed with it. Like now, I stopped walking probably 20mins ago, been sitting here typing this and it's 101 bpm. I'd imagine by now, most people would be back down in the 80's.

So with a fast heart rate, bad back (L5&S1) and a chip of bone floating around in my foot, I could sit back and chill. But that's what got my fat ass back up to my before weight. I'm motivated now, my back feels fine, my foot could be worse and my heart rate hasn't killed me. So I'm not going to let my bad cholesterol and bad heath do what nothing else could, right?

Hey, I'm actually making a weekend update! I finished the workweek strong and just need to stick to it all weekend.

This Week's Goals:
1) Calories under 1,400 (6 days): M-No (1,731), T-No (1,517), W-Yes (1,364), Th-Yes (1,286), F-Yes (1,372)
2) 10,000 steps (7 days): M-Yes (16,398), T-Yes (16,168), W-Yes (16,847), Th-Yes (15,650), F-Yes (19,673)
3) Log all food (7 days): M-Yes, T-Yes, W-Yes, Th-Yes, F-Yes
4) Stairs (3 days): M-No, T-No, W-YES!, Th-No, F-No
5) Strength band exercises (3 days): M-No, T-No, W-Yes, Th-No, F-No

So, for most (normal) people, the more they work out, the lower their resting heart rate gets (over time). Do you still find that to be true for you? I can only imagine that healthy behaviors can only improve your whole body situation, even one as weird as yours! :p

Spot, congrats on the strong finish!! I've went so long without workout by out, so I don't know if that would be true for me.