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Goals as we head into the holidays...
lightinfl
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We are already in October- can you believe it? That means we are rapidly approaching Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas/Hannakah and New Years. Have you made plans to get thru the holidays without setting yourself back?
I gave good thought to that yesterday evening, and wondering how yesterday's pizza would affect the scale. I am up a pound as expected, but totally believe most of that is water weight which I will see fall off tomorrow or Monday. It did make me look at my personal goals though, to see if anything needed changing.
When I did my restart a month ago (yes, it's been 4 weeks now, which is hard to believe!), I set the following goals for myself:
1) log my food in daily.
2) weigh in with the group each week. No excuses. Late report is better than no report
3) get no less than 5000 steps each day. No excuses, just get it done
4) get more fruits/veggies on my daily plate. At least 3/day.
5) get 20-30 minutes of intentional exercise each day (divided weekly to 3 cardio, 3 strength, one free choice like mowing the yard or gardening, LOL)
I've been successful in meeting those goals but in looking back over the week, I see my fat % is too high so I am going to add 6) keep my fat % equal or less than mfp says it should be daily...and plan ahead so I can stay under. I have done well with the steps so want to increase my steps to 5500 steps/day.
There will be no Halloween candy bought/brought into my house. Since I live alone, I don't open my doors to strangers at night anyway so there is no need for me to personally have it. I should be able to handle Thanksgiving just fine since I'm cooking for just me but Christmas cookies and goodies are such a temptation. I will readdress that as the holiday gets closer. For now, I am going to concentrate on my 6 chosen goals... they've worked out fine so far.
I gave good thought to that yesterday evening, and wondering how yesterday's pizza would affect the scale. I am up a pound as expected, but totally believe most of that is water weight which I will see fall off tomorrow or Monday. It did make me look at my personal goals though, to see if anything needed changing.
When I did my restart a month ago (yes, it's been 4 weeks now, which is hard to believe!), I set the following goals for myself:
1) log my food in daily.
2) weigh in with the group each week. No excuses. Late report is better than no report
3) get no less than 5000 steps each day. No excuses, just get it done
4) get more fruits/veggies on my daily plate. At least 3/day.
5) get 20-30 minutes of intentional exercise each day (divided weekly to 3 cardio, 3 strength, one free choice like mowing the yard or gardening, LOL)
I've been successful in meeting those goals but in looking back over the week, I see my fat % is too high so I am going to add 6) keep my fat % equal or less than mfp says it should be daily...and plan ahead so I can stay under. I have done well with the steps so want to increase my steps to 5500 steps/day.
There will be no Halloween candy bought/brought into my house. Since I live alone, I don't open my doors to strangers at night anyway so there is no need for me to personally have it. I should be able to handle Thanksgiving just fine since I'm cooking for just me but Christmas cookies and goodies are such a temptation. I will readdress that as the holiday gets closer. For now, I am going to concentrate on my 6 chosen goals... they've worked out fine so far.
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Those are fantastic goals to have! Thanks for sharing.
My goal for now is to log my food daily. I seem to start off the morning good with logging my breakfast, but throughout the day I get busy and forget to log. By forgetting to log, my brain seems to think it's okay to eat crappy. Time to be accountable. I've also disconnected My Fitness Pal from my FitBit. I was having a hard time understanding what to log when and what the calorie adjustment really meant. I'll still post on MFP, but everything for me is logged through FitBit.0 -
I can totally understand that and it's okay where ever you want to log in, but it's really nice to have you back posting again
Logging at the end of the day for me is tough, as I forget some of the things I might have eaten. Logging during the day is totally impossible on work days so my answer to that is to log tomorrow's food before the end of today and stick to what I logged. No substitutions unless an emergency arises. I have finally figured out how I can log tomorrow on MFP LOL... took me a while 
I totally ignore the calorie adjustment for my exercise and just go by what the day's starting recommendations are. Never really understood the mentality of eating the calories back after I worked so hard to burn them. Maybe it works for some, but it sure doesn't do anything for me but make me tired from the exercise and leave my weight at a plateau. 0 -
How did I miss this thread!?!?!?! Great idea Light!!!
Somehow I've really slowed on the reduction and wanted to be at 170 by turkey day. 9 lbs in less than 4 weeks from now is not realistically achievable. I am changing to 175! I want to be successful. If I go below - super success!!
Weekends are my nemesis as I seem to not be as faithful at logging. I'm so regimented during the week. I need to find a way to incorporate that into my weekends. so Yep...logging seems to be the major success factor.
The knee is doing better again so hiking shall increase. I seem to do good on the food side when I hike as well.
Light - I just LOVE your list:
1) log my food in daily.
2) weigh in with the group each week. No excuses. Late report is better than no report
3) get no less than 5000 steps each day. No excuses, just get it done
4) get more fruits/veggies on my daily plate. At least 3/day.
5) get 20-30 minutes of intentional exercise each day (divided weekly to 3 cardio, 3 strength, one free choice like mowing the yard or gardening, LOL)
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