General Health & Fitness - Stay/Get Back in Shape

Took A LOT more time off around the holidays from working out than I normally do. Completely upended my routine

Getting back to it ASAP as well as cleaning up the diet. Ate enough sweets in December to last me several months
 
wmheel1287 said:
Most of us don't for sure. I found that setting macro goals...so many grams of protein, so many carbs, so many fats, etc was better for me than watching caloric intake. It really amounts to the same thing but it is easier for me to say I need 200 grams of protein and 60 grams of fat than it is for me to count 2100 calories.
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100%. Trying to track calories is just too tedious for me. Paying closer attention to macros—even if I’m not super precise—works wonders.
 
Successfully tracked all alcohol consumption in 2025

Total drinks and by day of week/month

Q1 and Q2 were great. Q3 and Q4 not so much
 
ChileG said:
Lift - 2 to 3 times per week; not real heavy, only for 30-45 minutes, but I don’t rest much).
Walk on treadmill with an incline - 2 or 3 times per week, alternating with lifting (so doing something M-F)

On days I lift and on the weekends I walk for 45 minutes around the neighborhood.

56 years old, fwiw
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Since writing this quoted post, I fell of the exercising wagon, which in turn leads me to not eating right. My weight ballooned up so I got a scale and started working out and eating right again 10 days ago.
Part of the impetus was also my son starting wrestling this year (freshman in high school) and I tried to stay hands off but he could use my coaching. So I bought a wrestling mat for Christmas so we can drill and spar at home.
In those 10 days I have dropped 6.5 pounds.
I have two goals at this point - another 3.5 pounds to get to goal #1 and maintain that weight. Then make a second push to drop another 5 pounds after that.
 
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Peppers49 said:
100%. Trying to track calories is just too tedious for me. Paying closer attention to macros—even if I’m not super precise—works wonders.
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Anybody else have experince with the MyFinessPal.com app? I used to use it when it was free (now a $7 or so a month subcription fee).

I've been toying with the idea of subscribing. The main benefit of it is an app to track your macos/calories, but the real benefit is the scanner that lets you use your phone to scan barcodes that makes tracking anything you eat (that has a barcode on the package) super simple. It also has a pretty comprehensive database of foods that you can pick from if you're eating prepared foods. Many resturant foods and al lot of prepared foods that are "good enough" for macro tracking.

You can also save recipes you make (including the ingrediants and how many portions the recipe makes) and use that to track whenever you eat any of that recipe.

All in all it works pretty well for macro/calorie tracking and meal planning.

I haven't decided if I'm going to pull the tirgger or not yet, mainly becuse I'd need to invoke my self imposed "You don't get to add a new subcription until you cancel an existing one" rule and I haven't decidede what I'm going to cancel.
 
Im down almost 20 lbs since January - went to the doctor's office yesterday and they are very happy with me

I do have a question for y'all - so as I've been getting healthier the last couple weeks my sex drive is through the roof - is that a common experience?
 
I'm trying to get active enough again to work in my garden .I've got about 10,000 square feet of native pollinators I've been trying to get started for the last two years. I just want to be able to bend and stoop so I can plant and weed. I've spent about 30 minutes day before yesterday and about 30 minutes today and can feel it. Gonna try to work into slow because I was doing a lot better into the fall. Gonna need to do better when spring come's. I figure I'll just work into it starting now and improve with the garden.
 
ChileG said:
Since writing this quoted post, I fell of the exercising wagon, which in turn leads me to not eating right. My weight ballooned up so I got a scale and started working out and eating right again 10 days ago.
Part of the impetus was also my son starting wrestling this year (freshman in high school) and I tried to stay hands off but he could use my coaching. So I bought a wrestling mat for Christmas so we can drill and spar at home.
In those 10 days I have dropped 6.5 pounds.
I have two goals at this point - another 3.5 pounds to get to goal #1 and maintain that weight. Then make a second push to drop another 5 pounds after that.
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Reached goal #1, and now have 3.5 pounds to go to get to my ultimate goal…but I’ve been stuck here for a couple of weeks.
 
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