Scumspawn Posted March 16, 2016 Report Share Posted March 16, 2016 This is my log of what I eat and what exercise I do, I'm starting it from a low point, I haven't slept properly for a couple of weeks and I want all the sugar and carbs.First step sort out sleep (waiting for hormones to kick in),second step cut out sugar and wheatWednesday 16th March 2016Very little sleep, hot and cold flushes kept me awake.Breakfast:croissant, butter, cream cheese and smoked salmon, cup of teaSnackcream coffee choix pasty and latte - oh that sugar is so good, got me home from townLunchleftover aubergine and goats cheese pieSnackcornettoDinnerkangaroo steak, courgette, mushrooms, sweet potatosBerries and yoghurt with honeyI'm going to have a rare sleeping pill tonight, today has been really harsh. Quote Scumspawn the level 5 Grumpy Druid ThingSTR 8 | DEX 4 | STA 7 | CON 6 | WIS 9.75 | CHA 10.5Current challenge | Accountable to chronologically blessedBattle Log Progress bars below!Feb 2016Quest 1 - Misfit to 800 4 days out of 7 0%0% Quest 2 - Mindfulness daily 0%0% Quest 3 - Veg with every meal, 2 pints of water a day 0%0% Life Goal - Self Care 0%0% First Challenge 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Link to comment
peelout Posted March 16, 2016 Report Share Posted March 16, 2016 Stopped by to be supportive. 1 Quote Current Challenge We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Diet is 80% of losing weight, exercise is 80% of motivation. The only thing I am 100% sure of is my ability to be wrong. Link to comment
SevenofSeven Posted March 16, 2016 Report Share Posted March 16, 2016 Here to offer encouragement and support. 1 Quote Wait! What............? Link to comment
Scumspawn Posted March 16, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2016 Stopped by to be supportive. Here to offer encouragement and support.Oh you lovely people, thank you! Quote Scumspawn the level 5 Grumpy Druid ThingSTR 8 | DEX 4 | STA 7 | CON 6 | WIS 9.75 | CHA 10.5Current challenge | Accountable to chronologically blessedBattle Log Progress bars below!Feb 2016Quest 1 - Misfit to 800 4 days out of 7 0%0% Quest 2 - Mindfulness daily 0%0% Quest 3 - Veg with every meal, 2 pints of water a day 0%0% Life Goal - Self Care 0%0% First Challenge 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Link to comment
Scumspawn Posted March 17, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 17th March 2016 Kale, apple, pear, linseed smoothieEggs and kale I WENT FOR A RUN! 1,13 miles in 17.27 mins - 15..29 mins a milesomething is better than nothingsnacks - apple and pnut butter, handful of dried fruit and nuts, grapes - triggers feeling cold and shiverylunch - chicken and spinachyoghurt, banana, berries and honey - trigger wanting something sweet, feeling sorry for myself, feeling tired dinner - fish risottocreme brulee 1 Quote Scumspawn the level 5 Grumpy Druid ThingSTR 8 | DEX 4 | STA 7 | CON 6 | WIS 9.75 | CHA 10.5Current challenge | Accountable to chronologically blessedBattle Log Progress bars below!Feb 2016Quest 1 - Misfit to 800 4 days out of 7 0%0% Quest 2 - Mindfulness daily 0%0% Quest 3 - Veg with every meal, 2 pints of water a day 0%0% Life Goal - Self Care 0%0% First Challenge 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Link to comment
peelout Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 I WENT FOR A RUN! 1,13 miles in 17.27 mins - 15..29 mins a milesomething is better than nothing Something is always better than nothing. Haven't seen enough background to know how often you workout yet, but I read your challenges and chronologically blessed threads. Heres a thought for making exercise a habit which has worked for me. The reason I suggest it is because of the sleep issues you are having which affects motivation. This method has allowed me to make daily exercise a habit that is as automated as brushing my teeth. Create several different exercise routines, some small, some big. For me, its:1) Wt lifting + flexibility2) Core + flexibility3) Participation in any type of physical activity like climbing or kayaking4 The placeholder (which I'll describe below) Something for you might be:1) Run - This would be used on days when high motivation, enough sleep, weather, and low body aches coincide (the stars align).2) Walk for 15min - For days of lower motivation and/or physical strengh. Less on the physical fitness, more on the mental fitness side.3) 5-10 body wt or resistance type exercises - It's raining outside but you still feel reasonably motivated.4) The Placeholder - This does nothing for fitness. It's only purpose is to build the habit. You do decide what you want the placeholder to be. It should be something that is easy enough to do that it can be done pretty much no matter how sick you are or how little sleep you got. For me, its 10 freebody squats. If I'm tired, a special occasion comes up, not motivated, or I'm sick, I use the placeholder. I use the placeholder about once every 9 days, but someone else might want to use it much more or much less. Decide that come what may, you'll exercise everyday. Focus not on how much you do, only that you did it. The placeholder is very important in creating the habit. Its a way of programming the mind to accept that daily exercise is a part of your life. It might not be a lot of exercise some days, but something will be done every day. The whole point of this is to turn exercise into a habit just like brushing your teeth everymorning. Make it an automated response to each new day. Just a suggestion that I make to a lot of people. 2 Quote Current Challenge We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Diet is 80% of losing weight, exercise is 80% of motivation. The only thing I am 100% sure of is my ability to be wrong. Link to comment
Scumspawn Posted March 17, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 Something is always better than nothing. Haven't seen enough background to know how often you workout yet, but I read your challenges and chronologically blessed threads. Heres a thought for making exercise a habit which has worked for me. The reason I suggest it is because of the sleep issues you are having which affects motivation. This method has allowed me to make daily exercise a habit that is as automated as brushing my teeth. Create several different exercise routines, some small, some big. Decide that come what may, you'll exercise everyday. Focus not on how much you do, only that you did it. The placeholder is very important in creating the habit. Its a way of programming the mind to accept that daily exercise is a part of your life. It might not be a lot of exercise some days, but something will be done every day. The whole point of this is to turn exercise into a habit just like brushing your teeth everymorning. Make it an automated response to each new day. Just a suggestion that I make to a lot of people.I totally love it! totally! I really need to think about it thank you!I generally squat every day, lift a little to rehab my shoulder and walk most days. But I hadn't thought of the placeholder idea, that is genius! Quote Scumspawn the level 5 Grumpy Druid ThingSTR 8 | DEX 4 | STA 7 | CON 6 | WIS 9.75 | CHA 10.5Current challenge | Accountable to chronologically blessedBattle Log Progress bars below!Feb 2016Quest 1 - Misfit to 800 4 days out of 7 0%0% Quest 2 - Mindfulness daily 0%0% Quest 3 - Veg with every meal, 2 pints of water a day 0%0% Life Goal - Self Care 0%0% First Challenge 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Link to comment
peelout Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 My battle log talks a lot about habit formation. I've been using a process by Charles Duhigg since the start of the year. It's given me the ability to develop habits that take the work out of being consistent. Link is below if you want to check it out some time. Quote Current Challenge We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Diet is 80% of losing weight, exercise is 80% of motivation. The only thing I am 100% sure of is my ability to be wrong. Link to comment
Scumspawn Posted March 17, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 My battle log talks a lot about habit formation. I've been using a process by Charles Duhigg since the start of the year. It's given me the ability to develop habits that take the work out of being consistent. Link is below if you want to check it out some time.found this http://charlesduhigg.com/the-power-of-habit/I'm a bit random with everything, some days I can eat as clean as you like, the next day every biscuit is in danger of their life.....it's such an unordered thing that triggers are hard to work out but I can certainly start writing down what has happened before I eat something not so good, see if there is a pattern - thank you! 1 Quote Scumspawn the level 5 Grumpy Druid ThingSTR 8 | DEX 4 | STA 7 | CON 6 | WIS 9.75 | CHA 10.5Current challenge | Accountable to chronologically blessedBattle Log Progress bars below!Feb 2016Quest 1 - Misfit to 800 4 days out of 7 0%0% Quest 2 - Mindfulness daily 0%0% Quest 3 - Veg with every meal, 2 pints of water a day 0%0% Life Goal - Self Care 0%0% First Challenge 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Link to comment
peelout Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 Thats the nice thing about how I'm using Duhiggs process. I ONLY focus on 1 small thing at a time and make it a habit. How long I focus on that one thing depends on the complexity of what I am trying to achieve. Once that 1 small thing is a habit, I add another. It would matter what you do outside of the habits. Success is only defined by whether you keep the habits. One of mine was to eat a salad 6 days a week. I could eat crap all day and still consider my day a success as long as I ate that salad. Now, I have a salad 6+ days/week, and I never even thing about it. After that, I added a new habit, the daily protein shake. Very small steps turned into habits that have now accumulated into major changes in my lifestyle. And they are so automated, they require no will power. Thats the beauty of Duhiggs process. Quote Current Challenge We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Diet is 80% of losing weight, exercise is 80% of motivation. The only thing I am 100% sure of is my ability to be wrong. Link to comment
Scumspawn Posted March 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2016 Friday 18th March, not a great nights sleep, hot and cold flushes Scrambled eggs and salad Some chocolate Leftover risotto Cheese toasted sandwich on huge slabs of sourdough (ate out) Walked, lifted a little. pasta and veg for dinner 1 Quote Scumspawn the level 5 Grumpy Druid ThingSTR 8 | DEX 4 | STA 7 | CON 6 | WIS 9.75 | CHA 10.5Current challenge | Accountable to chronologically blessedBattle Log Progress bars below!Feb 2016Quest 1 - Misfit to 800 4 days out of 7 0%0% Quest 2 - Mindfulness daily 0%0% Quest 3 - Veg with every meal, 2 pints of water a day 0%0% Life Goal - Self Care 0%0% First Challenge 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Link to comment
peelout Posted March 18, 2016 Report Share Posted March 18, 2016 Walked, lifted a little.Exercise? Check! 2 Quote Current Challenge We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Diet is 80% of losing weight, exercise is 80% of motivation. The only thing I am 100% sure of is my ability to be wrong. Link to comment
Scumspawn Posted March 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2016 Saturday 19th March 2013 vegi sausage, mushrooms, tortilla wrap, cheese and egg juice poached egg on smoked haddock on sourdough bread one pint of beer baked potato, vegi chicken, leeks and goats cheese 4 biscuits walked a lot 1 Quote Scumspawn the level 5 Grumpy Druid ThingSTR 8 | DEX 4 | STA 7 | CON 6 | WIS 9.75 | CHA 10.5Current challenge | Accountable to chronologically blessedBattle Log Progress bars below!Feb 2016Quest 1 - Misfit to 800 4 days out of 7 0%0% Quest 2 - Mindfulness daily 0%0% Quest 3 - Veg with every meal, 2 pints of water a day 0%0% Life Goal - Self Care 0%0% First Challenge 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Link to comment
peelout Posted March 19, 2016 Report Share Posted March 19, 2016 Definitely walking. Now you can call your day a success and continue counting the number of days of continuous exercise. A source of real pride to go along with being able to say you are in control of 1 thing in your life - daily exercise. Something that only a small percentage of people can say. Keep track of your days of continuous exercise and definitely brag about it. Then build on it little by little. 1 Quote Current Challenge We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Diet is 80% of losing weight, exercise is 80% of motivation. The only thing I am 100% sure of is my ability to be wrong. Link to comment
Scumspawn Posted March 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2016 22 minutes ago, peelout said: Definitely walking. Now you can call your day a success and continue counting the number of days of continuous exercise. A source of real pride to go along with being able to say you are in control of 1 thing in your life - daily exercise. Something that only a small percentage of people can say. Keep track of your days of continuous exercise and definitely brag about it. Then build on it little by little. yep, I've never gone more than 6 days in a row on the misfit with my walking goal - tomorrow will be day 7, and I'm bribing myself with a takeaway curry at the end of the walk :-) 1 Quote Scumspawn the level 5 Grumpy Druid ThingSTR 8 | DEX 4 | STA 7 | CON 6 | WIS 9.75 | CHA 10.5Current challenge | Accountable to chronologically blessedBattle Log Progress bars below!Feb 2016Quest 1 - Misfit to 800 4 days out of 7 0%0% Quest 2 - Mindfulness daily 0%0% Quest 3 - Veg with every meal, 2 pints of water a day 0%0% Life Goal - Self Care 0%0% First Challenge 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Link to comment
peelout Posted March 19, 2016 Report Share Posted March 19, 2016 After a while of racking up days, it becomes an obsession. The best thing about it that even on day your depressed, eat bad, or anything else, if you can come back to this one thing and be in control of it. That gets me through some days knowing no matter how shitty the day was, I kept my keystone habits and therefore my day was a success. Once exercise is in control, add another small change. I'm on #6 now. 1 Quote Current Challenge We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Diet is 80% of losing weight, exercise is 80% of motivation. The only thing I am 100% sure of is my ability to be wrong. Link to comment
Scumspawn Posted March 20, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2016 Sunday 20th March, first day of spring Been gardening, had a small bonfire, turned the compost bin and started to sort out the wood pile. Bought loads of veg and fruit at the market. Boiled eggs and sourdough bread curry, rice, roti, pakora, samosa - basically a carb fest. 7 days of walking in a row! I've noticed that Sunday has been a sit in front of Netflix day for a long time now, I just need to get out EVERY day for a walk now. Quote Scumspawn the level 5 Grumpy Druid ThingSTR 8 | DEX 4 | STA 7 | CON 6 | WIS 9.75 | CHA 10.5Current challenge | Accountable to chronologically blessedBattle Log Progress bars below!Feb 2016Quest 1 - Misfit to 800 4 days out of 7 0%0% Quest 2 - Mindfulness daily 0%0% Quest 3 - Veg with every meal, 2 pints of water a day 0%0% Life Goal - Self Care 0%0% First Challenge 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Link to comment
SevenofSeven Posted March 21, 2016 Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 Good job on the 7 days in a row for the walking. Are you tracking the number of steps per day? 1 Quote Wait! What............? Link to comment
Scumspawn Posted March 21, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 29 minutes ago, SevenofSeven said: Good job on the 7 days in a row for the walking. Are you tracking the number of steps per day? sort of, I've got a misfit tracker, you set goals but they are not directly steps - so my goal is 800 points. It's really hard to work out how they caculate points - yesterday Moderate activity gained me 203 points which it says is 1822 steps but the over all steps counts for 979 points is 9498 steps. I think you get more points for intense activity. 1 Quote Scumspawn the level 5 Grumpy Druid ThingSTR 8 | DEX 4 | STA 7 | CON 6 | WIS 9.75 | CHA 10.5Current challenge | Accountable to chronologically blessedBattle Log Progress bars below!Feb 2016Quest 1 - Misfit to 800 4 days out of 7 0%0% Quest 2 - Mindfulness daily 0%0% Quest 3 - Veg with every meal, 2 pints of water a day 0%0% Life Goal - Self Care 0%0% First Challenge 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Link to comment
Scumspawn Posted March 21, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 Monday 21st March 2016 kale, carrot apple juice bacon panini samosa and pakora cheese on toast tofu and rice home made cake and cream square of dark choc walked, but my tracker isn't showing it :-( Quote Scumspawn the level 5 Grumpy Druid ThingSTR 8 | DEX 4 | STA 7 | CON 6 | WIS 9.75 | CHA 10.5Current challenge | Accountable to chronologically blessedBattle Log Progress bars below!Feb 2016Quest 1 - Misfit to 800 4 days out of 7 0%0% Quest 2 - Mindfulness daily 0%0% Quest 3 - Veg with every meal, 2 pints of water a day 0%0% Life Goal - Self Care 0%0% First Challenge 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Link to comment
Silverwitch Posted March 21, 2016 Report Share Posted March 21, 2016 Hi there! Found ya… and I am very happy to see you're still here! Since I do not feel ready for another challenge ( I had a very bad February) , I'll hang around if I may, offering my support. :) A battle log seems easier to maintain than challenges, which are bound to sort of get scattered after a while. 1 Quote FLUCTUAT NEC MERGITUR FUELED BY PALEO Link to comment
Hyperion Posted March 24, 2016 Report Share Posted March 24, 2016 I don't know why but i've missed your log. Following this from now on! 1 Quote Link to comment
Scumspawn Posted March 25, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 urgh, didn't track! Deduct from that the fact I haven't been eating very good stuff at all. but! I'm on day 12 of my walking daily goal! and I have bought the Power of Habit..... 1 Quote Scumspawn the level 5 Grumpy Druid ThingSTR 8 | DEX 4 | STA 7 | CON 6 | WIS 9.75 | CHA 10.5Current challenge | Accountable to chronologically blessedBattle Log Progress bars below!Feb 2016Quest 1 - Misfit to 800 4 days out of 7 0%0% Quest 2 - Mindfulness daily 0%0% Quest 3 - Veg with every meal, 2 pints of water a day 0%0% Life Goal - Self Care 0%0% First Challenge 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Link to comment
Scumspawn Posted March 25, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 On 21/03/2016 at 7:01 PM, Silverwitch said: Hi there! Found ya… and I am very happy to see you're still here! Since I do not feel ready for another challenge ( I had a very bad February) , I'll hang around if I may, offering my support. A battle log seems easier to maintain than challenges, which are bound to sort of get scattered after a while. It's been a weird year - I hope you are ok x Quote Scumspawn the level 5 Grumpy Druid ThingSTR 8 | DEX 4 | STA 7 | CON 6 | WIS 9.75 | CHA 10.5Current challenge | Accountable to chronologically blessedBattle Log Progress bars below!Feb 2016Quest 1 - Misfit to 800 4 days out of 7 0%0% Quest 2 - Mindfulness daily 0%0% Quest 3 - Veg with every meal, 2 pints of water a day 0%0% Life Goal - Self Care 0%0% First Challenge 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Link to comment
peelout Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 23 minutes ago, Scumspawn said: urgh, didn't track! Deduct from that the fact I haven't been eating very good stuff at all. but! I'm on day 12 of my walking daily goal! and I have bought the Power of Habit..... Hope you like the Power of Habit. Probably responsible for the single biggest change in my life (outside wife and kids). Maybe you'll drink the koolaid like I did. Great job on day 12 of walking. Just keep that your only measure of success for a while. Then when you feel comfortable, make 1 small dietary change and turn that into a habit. These small changes eventually add up. Quote Current Challenge We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Diet is 80% of losing weight, exercise is 80% of motivation. The only thing I am 100% sure of is my ability to be wrong. Link to comment
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.