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[quote=Anonymous]I've been trying to take two 30 min walks per day. Sometimes I can do it during a work conference call where I'm in listen-only mode. Other times I just enjoy a podcast or the sounds of birds chirping around the neighborhood. I don't get them in every day, but usually at least one and sometimes two.

I'm also being mindful about what I eat and give myself a score from 0-5 points per meal depending how healthy it was. The scores are just for my own personal tracking and accountability purposes, there's no app or target or anything. I HATE trying to literally calorie count, its too obsessive for me, and so much of it ends up being ballpark guesses anyway.

Same thing with weighing myself each morning, it's just for tracking and accountability. I don't worry about the daily fluctuations in the number, but 1/ it's a good reminder/start each day of "oh yeah, I'm being mindful about my health", and 2/ over the long run, I do see a downward trend.

I find it also helps to have some sort of event in mind, especially as part of a team/group... been signing up for periodic 5k walks and similar. It's not about trying to hit target times, just the act of doing the event. That's a good extra motivator for me in the weeks leading up to help turn a few of those "Ugh, I'm not in the mood / don't have time for a walk" days into a "I better keep my endurance up and at least get out there for 15 minutes of speed walking" days. I did a similar length "Mud Run" a few weeks ago (didn't run much, and many of the obstacles had long waits to catch your breath) with one of my kids.

I've been doing this ~6 months and am losing roughly a pound per week over the long run, but again there are fluctuations along the way. There was one month where I took a break from tracking/accountability and found I just "treaded water" on weight that month, didn't lose anything, but at least wasn't putting it back on. But basically this is just a lightweight plan to help keep me focused on doing the basics things of moving daily and eating generally healthy and knowing that these things are helping me get healthier in the long run.[/quote]

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