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Old Sep 19, 2018, 09:14 PM
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I am going about 100 over. Taking 128/mile for 4.5 miles paddling, which was based on a MET calculation, though my board is harder to paddle at much speed so I am hoping that's a little low. Anyway, with the 576, I still went 104 over, but again had 1500 as the base.

I don't think I need to pre-plan as much as limit snacking on impulse Meals and planned snacks are not the issue. I had a couple of treats I would normally not have on the same day.

Planning light breakfast, light lunch and limited snacking tomorrow, with a workout in the morning. Part of breakfast before, part after.
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Old Sep 20, 2018, 09:41 PM
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Coming in right around goal - 1500 + 250 (gym for an hour) = 1750. I am probably slightly over from estimating some fruit. OTOH, 30 minutes of my hour at the gym was cardio with target HR at 145 and the other half an hour I was bouncing between machines pretty quickly, so 250 might be a little short of actual burn.
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Old Sep 21, 2018, 01:27 AM
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I had no exercise today. My step count is 1480, so a very light day. Target is 2200 calories. I have consumed 2271 calories. I will exercize tomorrow. I hope it will not rain. The running track in the early evening, when it is cooler, is being used for football training. I am going to have to find another place.

I found maps of routes available that I can download to my watch. In the state park, they are dirt trails, sometimes loops of various lengths. I think dirt trails will be easier on my knees and back anyway. Unfortunately, entry into the park costs $5 a day. Maybe a season pass will be more cost effective.
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Old Sep 21, 2018, 05:14 AM
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158.6 this morning! Higher that I expected. About to hit the gym for a long cardio and then meet trainer to set up a regular workout routine.
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Old Sep 21, 2018, 12:00 PM
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I weigh 172 pounds. Exercise for today. I have allot to do, but whenever possible I exercise. This takes a priority. I am think of running a trail at the local state park. My watch app provides this information including way points. Once I select a path, it will be downloaded to my watch. It then will provide me direction to the next way point.

Now one of these day, I will try my watch out on other exercises lke lifting weights. Exercising with the elliptical machine is problematic with my watch except for heart rate. Distance ran will be accurate tread mills.
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Old Sep 21, 2018, 01:46 PM
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Trainer made me feel really good about myself. He said "You mean staying fit and trim, right?" when I said being fit and trim was my goal. Before my appointment with the trainer, I did 45 minutes of treadmill, fast walking at an incline to keep heart rate in 130s. Did other work with machines and what not for about a half hour more.
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Old Sep 21, 2018, 09:36 PM
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and then I have another one of those nights and go over about 700...

Taking my kayak and doing some serious fishing tomorrow, trolling for white perch. Quite likely to put this behind me pretty quickly.

I probably took over 100 less calories than I really burned this morning; that helps. I really need to start stepping it back down. DISCIPLINE!
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Old Sep 21, 2018, 11:47 PM
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5519 steps. I could not grt to exersize rodsy. So my target is 2200. Tomorrow I will. I ate 2231 calories. My resting heart rate is about 70, which is two points lower.
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Old Sep 22, 2018, 05:10 AM
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I have some really good news this morning. I lost about 6 pounds. I'm finally back in the 200's. I'm so happy. Also, I am 1 pound from my goal weight I set at the beginning of the year. It's time for me to set my next goal weight, pretty much.
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Old Sep 22, 2018, 10:14 AM
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172 pounds. I will exercise today. It has been two days since I have a couple days.

@Deilla: congratulatins! Goid going!
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Old Sep 22, 2018, 03:25 PM
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Kayaked 10.4 miles. Strava tried to give me 1884 calories; I edited it down to 1250 and that might be high. Brought home some fresh perch for dinner.

I am bad about hydrating properly, so take this with a grain of salt...

I had breakfast; a couple of bananas, grapes and a small protein bar with coffee. A diet drink on the way to the lake. While paddling, I had an orange as a snack and for lunch, I had a couple of cheese sticks and a small protein bar. I drank a can of diet soda and part of a bottle of water. When I got back, I weighed before hopping in the shower. I was under 156. After I got out of the shower, I ate 350g of watermelon and 67g of frozen yogurt and had another can of diet soda; that probably put me up to 157. By tonight I will probably be back up near 160 and probably only back to ~158 in the morning. So I am not kidding myself; I am not truly down below 156, but it still felt good to see it on the scale.
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Old Sep 22, 2018, 08:38 PM
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Today my exercise was ~1250 calories, paddling my 10' no-keel kayak 10.4 miles. It's really hard to know for sure with the variables of kayak size and design. Going 10 miles in a 17' sea kayak would probably burn not much more than half that.

I consumed 1840 calories for a deficit of 910 calories because of the exercise.

All the number are always rough, so it may be offsetting yesterday's 700 over more evenly than it may sound. I estimated a couple of things yesterday that I am pretty sure were more than I guessed. So I am calling it a wash over the course of the last couple of days. With my base set to 1500, I feel it is extremely likely that I have burned more than I have consumed
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Old Sep 23, 2018, 12:42 AM
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10813 steps. Walked and ran a bit more than four miles. I have burned 460 calories. So this makes for a target of 2660 calories. I have consumed 2565 calories. I am 100 calories short. I am really full. The I will make it up tomorrow, a day that I do not exercise.

I twisted my ankle, so I will see how it is in a couple days. Recently I have not been able to push myself hard. My depression is getting in the way. I will see this through. I have been making 13 minite miles. I usually do better when I push myself during the walking part of the exercise. At least I am running faster. My goal is 12:00 minute miles.
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Old Sep 23, 2018, 10:43 AM
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I weigh 173. I will not exercise today. My ankle hurts when I bend it. I may purchase something for this.

I am trying out some of these meal services. This is where everything comes in its individual packet and instructions on how to make the specific meal. I have been thinking of ordering two a week. I already spend money on more pricey bags of dinner like PF Chang foods. have been purchasing two different meals a week locally of these meals anyway. Here is what is imptessive. MFP has entries that cover each meal of these food services. Amazing.
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Old Sep 23, 2018, 04:47 PM
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I find some really obscure stuff here on mfp that surprises me sometimes.

Today is tough. No exercise, limiting myself to 1500 until I see a couple of weigh ins under 155. I had some snack hunger; some stress going on today. Still under and have a low calorie dinner mapped out that will keep me under if I can stay disciplined tonight. Tomorrow morning I have a 7-7:30 gym training session and will get in 6ish and do cardio before it. Weekday paddling will get tougher as days shorten and temps drop, but this week should be okay. 70s tomorrow but 80s rest of the week and still light past 7.

EDIT - over but not badly right now; under 100
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Old Sep 23, 2018, 09:53 PM
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and then another huge serving of stress tonight and I bumped my overage up to more than 300. Not yje worst and thre was some major stress tonight.
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Old Sep 24, 2018, 12:30 AM
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No exercise, so my target is 2200 calories. I have consumed 2290, so good enough. Once again I am having problems eating enough to meet my target. The meal that I cooked was filling. I could not eat it all until later in the day. It was honey glazed chicken with frying pan cooked beans and rice. I have to ontinue to get some snacks to munch on. I am thinking of an early breakfast, and one of thise meals. The rest can be snacking like Almond Joy fun sized treats. Every now and then a healthy snack.
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Old Sep 24, 2018, 11:46 PM
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I weigh 173 pounds. I made 8491 steps. Walked and ran 4.21 miles. I have burned 494 calories. This makes for a target of 2694 calories. I have consumed 2690 calories. So I met my goal.

On one segement of my running, I became exhausted right before when I stopped for water. I have not felt this in a while. This turned out to be an excellent cardio workout. So I am starting to push myself like I have in the past. Still the depression is there making my running difficult at times.
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Old Sep 25, 2018, 06:09 AM
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157 this morning. No exercise today unless there is a pickup paddle. Yesterday I did fairly intense treadmill, even running a short while at 6 mph, for a half hour, then a PF 360 class that was pretty intense but less calories as it was strength training with short breaks, then a half hour TRX class that wasn't very intense at all as there were more people than stations so we rotated out and the exercise done while off the TRX was sidestepping and stretches. I ordered a TRX knock off for home use. It's more strength training than cardio but will be fairly intense with no swapping out.
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I was at 166 this morning. I had voiced my concern to my doctor about my weight gain. I had been stressing about it. He suggested I try topamax. I had tried it once before and I had lost 50 pounds. I’m hoping this time I can lose the last 26 pounds I want to lose. This time though I’m on 50 in the morning and 50 at night instead of just 50 once a day. I took my first dose this morning. So far it’s been fine. I had a TV dinner and a strawberry lemonade. I plan on sticking to 1,200 calories.
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Old Sep 25, 2018, 12:58 PM
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My weight is 172. No exercise today, so I need to stay with the target of 2200 calories.

There was a mistake with my meal service. They shipped three orders. One was an order that was double shipped. Before I suspended my account, it was too late for the next shipment . So I am ending up with 24 meals. Most of this I need to eat within a week. They are well balanced meals, so this is their favor.

FWIW Their game is for you to select a meal plan. Then they select the meals for you, which you can make changes. But once the cutoff date has arrived, they will ship all the meals that have been selected at that time by you and their meal plan. There is no “checkout” feature. Silly me, I was not done with my selection. I may not have wanted to order anything at all. So if you do not want any meals shipped for the week, you have to deselect all that which was selected. Then the next week arrives for the same thing to happen all over again. It is all there to increase their income.
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I am ~300 over, but again I think I shorted the exercise. It was unplanned but after I was headed toward going over I decided to hit the gym on the way home and maybe work off some stress that way instead of stress eating. My goal is still set to 1500, which is a decent deficit as I still would like to lose to 153. Tomorrow I have a gym training class on the 30 minute circuit from 1:30 until 2:00. I hope that works out well. It is highly regimented in terms of order of machines/exercises and duration. It's in a separate area and you have to start at the beginning and switch when the light goes red and start the next one when the light goes green. You modify the exercise if there is something you can't do because of joint problems or whatever. Anyway, I like the idea of it instead of wandering around randomly or trying to do a routine when machines you want next might be in use.

Then cardio after, probably treadmill. I have started running a little on the treadmill. It seems to be easier on my knees than road/trail running. I can keep HR around 150 and get it up to 170 much easier on the treadmill than the elliptical or Nordic ski machines.

EDIT - Now more like 500 over! Serious time on the treadmill tomorrow. I suspect I will still weigh ~157 on Thursday. Between being conservative on exercise burn and having goal set for a deficit, most of my overages have not done much except get me to about even.
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I have conumed 2,437 calories which is over by 237 calories. Exercise should take care of this. I may go for endurance this time by pacing myself for a straight two mile run before resting at a restaurant.

What is interesting is that today a dog escaped from its yard. The faster I walked after it, the faster it walked. So I broke into a run for the rest of the block. I caught up to the little fart. If this happened in the past, I would not have been able to do this. Also I would have been breathing heavily for several minutes. So the exercising has been paying off. Nice!
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Tucson - Good for you and good for the dog and the owner.

I did notice I really went a little overboard on estimating yesterdays's lunch when I copied it to today as I brought more of the same. One of my kids made a *lot* of vegetarian "beef" (burger like crumbles) stew a few days ago and I am using up leftovers. It's really good. But I may have gone under on last night's vegetarian spaghetti. He and I were the only ones home for dinner so I was happy to eat what he cooked again. The spaghetti was also really good.

I am going to do cardio before and after the 30 minute circuit class this afternoon, probably with a long after session unless I can get some others interested in a SUP paddle.
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