JUST FOR TODAY ....... One day at a time ..... Daily Commitment Thread for 2018
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Question: I used to be really motivated to exercise, but I seem to have lost it. The cold here hasn’t helped. How have you exercised at home? Videos? Equipment? I need something new to try.
I use YouTube.
If you have a smart TV or even an Amazon fire stick or your set top box has it then that’s the best thing I’ve found!
I don’t have ANY equipment. Not even a mat or a weight or anything so I mainly do cardio, but dance cardio because i find it more fun. I like watching PopSugar videos.
And when I really didn’t want to do it because I had no motivation I would put it on the telly (as if I was just going to watch it) and when it was on I felt the urge to move lol.
@MLHC1 I forgot to tell you, I never managed to use that yoga thing you sent, I couldn’t get access it. When I went on the page to download the digital copy it said “page not found” so god knows what’s going on there. But I’ve only got 7 weeks left now so you can still use it as I haven’t activated the code! Thank you though!
yes on youtube. amazon prime has lots as well. Leslie Sansone is ALWAYS a good one to get you up and moving.4 -
Been insanely tired lately. Sleep schedule is all messed up. I’ve done pretty good this week logging everything. I missed a couple of things but not very much. Today my goals are to:
1. Drink 122oz of water
2. Stand at work for at least an hour or two
3. Research some cool workout videos
4. Clean up my apartment
So far I’ve lost 8 pounds but I’m almost positive it’s mostly water weight.
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Happy Wednesday everyone!
Quote from Pinterest: "Never let a stumble in the road be the end of the journey."
JFY (Tuesday, 1/9/18)
1. Drink 8 glasses of water
2. Log all my food
3. Be "in the green" with my calories for the day
4. Shovel some snow (Is it Spring yet?!?!)
5. Finish up 4 additional orders from my shop
6. Help my oldest clean out part of his bureau (Ongoing effort to clean his room!) (How does one newly "adult" kid collect so much stuff?!?! This is going to take FOREVER!)
JFT (Wednesday, 1/10/18)
1. Drink 8 glasses of water
2. Log all my food
3. Be "in the green" with my calories for the day
4. Go to the gym (30 minute circuit, 10 minutes elliptical, 15 minutes bike)
5. Finish 3 orders from my shop
6. Help my oldest clean out another drawer in his bureau
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Joining late but here is my info:
SW July 2014 - 180
Goal met March 2016 - 125
Gained a bit back since then:
1/1/18 - SW 142.2
1/8/18 - 139.4
Goal by 4/2/18 - 127 (goal is to stay within a 5 pound maintenance range)
January goals:
Log daily
Exercise daily
Be consistent with eating
Plan ahead for restaurants
JFT Wednesday 1/10:
1. Drink water all day (have a big cup at my desk that keeps it cold)
2. Log all food
3. Don't go over calorie goal for the day
4. Go to the gym after a busy day at work and a couple of errands on the way there
5. Eat something to keep from getting too hungry after gym time (brought banana to eat)
6. Eat a healthy dinner
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forgot my coffee AND my pretty water bottle at home!!
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Recap T 1/8
1) Still hit snooze button 3x but walked 3 miles on treadmill before work / 51:53
2) Move hourly / stairs breaks at work = Fitbit 13,010 steps, 250+ steps 14/14 (boom!) hours & 29 floors
3) Leftovers for lunch, maybe supper too? & net calories green = Net calories & sugar green (barely for both), sodium red but not horrible & 14c water
4) Evening: shop online for hubby's bday & 1-2 things on to-do list = Looked online, didn't buy, have time b/c bday is 28th / couple small to-do's done
5) Floss / retainers / bed & TV off 10:15 (plan treadmill in a.m. w/o snooze button
) = Done / Done / Nope...I didn't unplug as early as I should have 
JFT W 1/9
1) When alarm went off 5:30 a.m., hit snooze 2-3x & seriously considered skipping treadmill, but thought of #3 below and I got up! NSV right there. Walked 3 miles before work / 50:18
2) Move hourly / stairs breaks at work
3) More leftovers for lunch / happy hour with former colleagues after work...preview menu online for order, stick with selection. Better yet, skip eating at pub & eat when get home, but that may be hard to do if I'm hungry. Enjoy 1 adult beverage while catching up with friends.
4) 1 thing on to-do list when get home
5) Floss / retainers / bed & TV off 10:15
Happy Hump Day, everyone! That's especially for you, @Bex953172!
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cschmitz110515 wrote: »
JFT W 1/9
1) When alarm went off 5:30 a.m., hit snooze 2-3x & seriously considered skipping treadmill, but thought of #3 below and I got up! NSV right there. Walked 3 miles before work / 50:18
2) Move hourly / stairs breaks at work
3) More leftovers for lunch / happy hour with former colleagues after work...preview menu online for order, stick with selection. Better yet, skip eating at pub & eat when get home, but that may be hard to do if I'm hungry. Enjoy 1 adult beverage while catching up with friends.
4) 1 thing on to-do list when get home
5) Floss / retainers / bed & TV off 10:15
Happy Hump Day, everyone! That's especially for you, @Bex953172!
Way to persevere!! That is very encouraging!! Have an awesome day
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JFT Tuesday - keep it simple today
- Log all food & stay in the green Thanks to exercise I did stay green (with lots of room)
- 5 fruit/veggie :laugh: Had to eat a celery stalk at 10 to make this, but I did
- 64 oz water & log it - logging it still a problem
- NO Chocolate today so close. do two hershey's kisses really count? (It's an improvement.)
- 10K Steps - over 17K
- Vacuum & clean bathrooms - :grumble: No, because adult child stressors drove me to outdoor movement. Scooped a wheelbarrow of poop in the pasture and then walked a 5K
- bed by 11:30
getting close. 12:15
JFT Wednesday- Log all food and stay in green
- 5 fruit/veggie
- Do exercise/balance video
- 64 oz fluid (logged)
- No chocolate today
- 10K steps
- Stay late at work and box up personal clutter
- If a body shows up train them to do leave accrual. (This is out of my hands at this point.)
- Update insurance policy with lein holder on new car
- Turn in Birth & marriage certificates for retirement
- Call Mom & check in
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.
– Jim Rohn
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Had a growth scan again today!
Baby is completely fine but growth has dipped ever so slightly so getting checked again in 2 weeks to see if it continues to slow or picks up again.
I think she said it was around 4lb odd atm?
If people don’t mind I’ll post a bumpie later on and a pic of baby’s face that she managed to get.
33 weeks tomorrow!9 -
@Bex953172 I'm sorry to hear you had trouble accessing the yoga video
Thanks for informing me. I know you are soo close now and you must be getting excited 
Just stick with what works for you! You're doing a great job!1/9 Tuesday JFT:
✔▪Regular morning routine for kids
✔▪Run by bank
✔▪Pick up dog food at WM
✔▪Laundry
✔▪Prepare slow cooker meal for dinner
✔▪Order teen pics
✔▪Call OBGYN for parking permit doc.
✔▪Prenatal Yoga
✔▪Read ONE research article
✔▪Lunch
✔▪Rest and relax ~ 20 min.
✔▪Regular afternoon routine for kids
✔▪Dinner by 7 pm
❌▪Bedtime by 10 pm➡️I had trouble getting to sleep. I believe I fell asleep around midnight. Then I kept waking up throughout the night
Yesterday was successful!! [I even spent 90 min. tutoring my son in math bc public schools drop the ball with him frequently.] I'm proud of myself for pushing through the day and completing everything. I also felt like not doing my yoga yesterday but I just relucantly gathered everything and set up for it and eventually just did it!!
1/10 Wednesday JFT:
▪Regular morning routine for kids
▪Breakfast w/ hubby
▪Prepare another slow cooker meal for dinner
▪Elliptical
▪Stretch
▪Read ONE research article (4 more to go)
▪Lunch
▪Rest and relax ~ 20 min.
▪Regular afternoon routine for kids
▪Dinner by 7 pm
▪Bedtime by 10 pm
Everyone is doing a great job!! Remember it is one day at a time!! If one day has imperfections than start again the next day, eventually your habits will be set 6 -
I decided on this that I'm going to work on being consistent with the three swims and two yogas a week before I worry about adding anymore.This board has made such a difference for me already. Thank you.
JFT 1/8 check in
logged everything
stayed green and under carbs
swim 30 minutes: ok, i was in the pool for 30 minutes, however, i wasn't swimming as much as i should have been. Then I got cold.
drink 80 oz soooooo close!
crochet or color: no, but i journaled, so I'm counting it. And I played on my tablet.
JFT 1/9 I will: recap
Log everything
stay green in calories and carbs (under 50!)
drink 80 oz water (4 bottles, 1 down already.)
yoga class. I have inservice this afternoon, so I will try to talk myself out of it bc my brain hurts. however, i must go. inservice was terrible. but i still yogad.
crochet? maybe...nope.
So, I found a 20 minute yoga video i like on amazon prime and I'm wondering if I can get my butt out of bed and do it in the morning along with my 2x yoga class, is that too much yoga? can one have too much yoga? Not that I've made it to a class in like, a month...
JFT 1/10
Just for Today, I will:
Log everything
Stay green for calories and carbs
swim 30 minutes
drink 80 oz of water
church tonight with crochet group
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cschmitz110515 wrote: »
JFT W 1/9
1) When alarm went off 5:30 a.m., hit snooze 2-3x & seriously considered skipping treadmill, but thought of #3 below and I got up! NSV right there. Walked 3 miles before work / 50:18
2) Move hourly / stairs breaks at work
3) More leftovers for lunch / happy hour with former colleagues after work...preview menu online for order, stick with selection. Better yet, skip eating at pub & eat when get home, but that may be hard to do if I'm hungry. Enjoy 1 adult beverage while catching up with friends.
4) 1 thing on to-do list when get home
5) Floss / retainers / bed & TV off 10:15
Happy Hump Day, everyone! That's especially for you, @Bex953172!
Way to persevere!! That is very encouraging!! Have an awesome day
2-3x is better than 5 times, @cschmitz1105154 -
Monday 1/8
* Log all food and stay under goal
* Grocery shopping for the week
* CVS
* Buy dog food
* Send card
* Meeting
Having an extremely stressful and upsetting week. I'm trying to take it easy for the sake of my sanity so I'm putting my goals for today-Thursday all together so I can just work on them little bits at a time over the week and not feel too pressured by "needing" to get things done right away. It doesn't help that I can't drive right now and my husband is traveling for work so I pretty much can't leave the house.
Tuesday-Thursday
* Log all food and stay under goal
* Laundry
* Dishes
* Tidy the house
* Meal prep
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Day 5:I rode the stationary bike but no stretch time. I did meet my water goal and all other goals.
Personal success: I have gone three days without weight loss. That's not much of a success, haha, BUT, I have not been discouraged or felt like throwing in the towel, which is a yea for me. I have stayed well within my calorie and nutritional intake. Several days MFP has said I'm not eating enough. But I am not hungry so it's difficult for me to force myself to eat. However, I did an evaluation and decided to eat a high protein breakfast this morning to get more calories in (I usually don't eat breakfast) and I am going to up my water intake to 5.5 cups and see if that will spur things on! I'm also going to measure myself---I've not done that.
Something I learned: I mentioned yesterday the need to "focus on the process and not the outcome." This has been key, I believe, to not getting discouraged by no weight loss. Knowing that I am being diligent gives me peace and confidence that eventually I will make my goal. Usually, I would become dismayed and head for the chocolate stash
Wednesday, 1/10
JFT:
I will drink 5.5 cups of water
I will take some measurements
I will do 15 minutes of stretching
I will do ride bike for 30 minutes
I will finish writing this year's vision for myself upon reaching my goal
I will record my food on mfp
I will "focus on the process and not the outcome."6 -
Thank you for this. Just for today. This is all I can do. Two weeks ago I dismantled and threw away the large scale I have been carting around with me all my life, weighing myself 2-10 times a day for 40 years. I don't know exactly what I weigh. but I know how awful I feel.
I would like to free myself from this torturous phenomenon and feel more self-love regardless of appearance.
I overeat so often. Just for today I pretty much didn't.
and I made myself lunch for work tomorrow for maybe the third time in my whole life
I wish everyone a happy and healthy 2018.
One day at a time is a good mantra.7 -
Had a growth scan again today!
Baby is completely fine but growth has dipped ever so slightly so getting checked again in 2 weeks to see if it continues to slow or picks up again.
I think she said it was around 4lb odd atm?
If people don’t mind I’ll post a bumpie later on and a pic of baby’s face that she managed to get.
33 weeks tomorrow!
We will mind if you do not post the picture!6 -
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Day by day; you got this. Yesterday I stepped on my friend the scale (she is just a piece of machinery that gives me numbers so I cannot hate her) and was up two freaking pounds to a number I hadn't seen in months. I knew it was a blip, but I think that it made me behave better yesterday. Today back to a real number down 2.5 #.clicketykeys wrote: »Goal for 1/8: 173.5. Today: 178. Bleugh! Please, God, let this just be TOM. I was SO STINKING HUNGRY last night. And I stuck to things that were as low-calorie and supposedly satiating as possible, but I was just hungry, hungry, hungry.
That might have been the kick in the pants I needed.
@clairelouisey - Did you make that delicious french onion soup yourself? Ultimately I want to know if you have a good recipe. Expeciaally if it is slow or pressure cooker.
@Bex953172 - Good job pampering yourself!
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Today I will not give up
JFT
Drink 80oz water
track and stay in the green esp on the sugar
Take a walking break
youtube 20 min workout5 -
Take it! Even if it is water! The rest will come if you keep up the work.alyssaj1020 wrote: »So far I’ve lost 8 pounds but I’m almost positive it’s mostly water weight. 5
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