Just for Today ..... Daily Commitment Thread- Start of a new year!
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OConnell5483 wrote: »@Bex953172 I almost forgot. I was reading posts last night in bed but too tired to reply. I think it is a boy too! Not sure why. Just think it is.
I sure hope so
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A brief check in to keep me accountable!
Drink 9 cups of water.
Track everything.
Meditate/rest 20 mins this afternoon. Use Calm App.
Gardened for mom.
Big temptation-for lunch we had poutine, a Canadian treat. Logged it & moving on.
Walked dog in country, watched for bears!!
Supper tonight w/girlfriend & already planning on Greek salad.
Walk/cycle everyday while in Canada.
Can't wait to catch up on the posts.
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^ @Saragirl2 I had to look up poutine
Glad you got to enjoy it. Have fun in Canada! 2 -
azulvioleta6 wrote: »
Thursday:
1. walk at least 30 minutes
2. swim a mile
3. drink at least 10C water
4. track all food
5. under 100G carbs
6. 8+ freggies
Friday:
1. walk at least 30 minutes
2. weight workout/PT
3. drink at least 10C water
4. track all food
5. under 100G carbs
6. 8+ freggies
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Day 2 (Aug 25): Goals
- Keep carbs under 90g ✅ (63!!!)
- Finish the day with cals to spare✅ (300+)
- Drink at least 8 glasses of water❎
- No sugar❎
- Walk for at least 30 mins✅
Good: The walk upped my calories for the day so I was able to stay under. I am soooo proud of myself for being able to say "no" to eating after 7pm. (Friday nights are the WORST for munchies!!!)
Bad: I did not scatter my meals. (I usually eat 3 snacks... Today I had no snacks and therefore waited too long before eating). I hardly drank anything all day. I had a plain icecream sundae at McDonalds.
I have to say though... That sundae choice in itself is an accomplishment because the old me would have ordered a LARGE milk shake or McFlurry or at least a double-caramel sundae, but I was able to recognise that all I needed was a bit of cool sweet vanilla to chill me out and I still managed to stay within my limit!!!
Day 3 (Aug 26 Goals):
- Stay under cal count (I need to break my longtime record of 3 days! LOL. Weekends always kill my calorie goal. The only way I'll best my record is if I keep to my calories until Monday!!!)
- Stay under 90 Carbs
- Exercise
- Drink at least 8 glasses of water
- No eating after 7pm
They may sound boring... But I need to get into a rythm and knowing that people actually read this thread helps immensely!!! (Full disclosure... I nearly slipped up twice today and this thread kept me on the streight and narrow!) Thanks team!4 -
@Saragirl2 I am also Canadian and I LOVE Poutine. Seriously. It's heaven in a cardboard paper tray. Lol2
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Joan--Lovely quilt. Sorry about stitch removal!
I ate late at Ruby Tuesday and now I have horrific heartburn. Of course, can't find the TUMS! I think I am in a deep snit just in general but I did take my mood stuff.
Anyhoo, to review--stayed in calorie goal, played around in pool for 40 minutes, cleaned most of the downstair floors, laundry is going, some trash got taken out but there wasn't that much, and son did about 6 lessons online. He is ready to go on Monday. This thinking of JUST FOR TODAY in this thread is wonderful. It does seem doable and I just feel like this time I can make it the 50 pounds but maybe the other 25 too. Thanks to whoever started this thread.
Saturday-continue to 1. stay on target with calories and do 2. daily exercise, keep up with 3. laundry and dishes, 4. de-hair floors daily, and 5. work on son (he has swimming lessons, needs to do lessons on math, handwriting and literature). If it is a super day, time to push mow and possibly continue to weed-eat. I do not feel well enough to try either this evening.
The weather here is great! Lower 80s rather than stifling 90s! The mosquitoes seem a bit more plentiful than usual but they will respect bug repellant.
Suffolk, VA near but not really the ocean...3 -
Hello everyone! Had another great day! These seem to be happening more and more recently! It has definitely been very nice! My drawer at the other branch got audited today, so that's two audits in two days. Lol. But today's turned out perfect as well. I feel like I'm finally getting the operations part of my job down so now I have to work on the sales aspect of it. We are having what's called a call night where we are cold calling 25 people each, for an hour, to try and get appointments set for our investment rep. I'm gonna be on vacation the day that the Brick branch is doing it, so I'm gonna have to do it sometime when I get back the last week of September. I am not excited for this at all. I hate cold calling people! I used to have to do it when I worked for the local Boy Scout council. But I guess this is just something that I am going to have to deal with.
@wanderinglight and @OConnell5483 I deal with severe anxiety and a mood disorder. I am medicated(no, I'm not a zombie) but for a long time, I dealt with it all on my own. I was miserable. Sometimes, even now, when the anxiety gets really bad I have to take an immediate release medication. When I was working at my previous job and the first two or three months of this job I felt like I was taking it every day. But since I have become more comfortable with this job I haven't need it in a few months now. But I totally understand about anxiety, and I'm actually going to talk to my doctor in two weeks about weaning myself off my meds to see if I can figure out how to do it on my own. I have several people(DH, Mom, and LSCW) that are going to be keeping a close eye on me while I do this though. Lol. But I understand! Lol2 -
HGSmith0920 wrote: »JFT, 8/25/17
1. Log all food
2. Keep in green
Only over by a little bit though!
3. Gym or Walk...SOMETHING!!!!!!!!
Walked around a grocery...does that count?
4. Prep food for dinner when the DH gets home.10:30 is a little late to have a full blown dinner so we both had leftovers
5. Take out money before work
6. Finish grocery listKind of flew by the seat of my pants but I'm pretty sure I managed to get everything
7. Go food shopping
8. Have a good late dinner with the DHI ate when I got home and the DH ate when he got home.
9. Bed whenever!
So the DH totally surprised me today. I came home to an empty garbage can and a made bed! It was very nice. He doesn't do much around the house. Well, that's not true. He doesn't do much without my prompting. This he did all on his own. I was so happy when I figured it out. I had this giant grin on my face! I really do love him! Now I am off for three days! I'm so happy. But right now I am going to post my goals and get a good looooong nights sleep!
JFT, 8/26/17
1. Log all food
2. Keep in green
3. MOVE!!!!!
4. Dishes
5. Prep food for the week
6. Prep dinner
7. Laundry
8. Bed whenever!
Have a good night!3 -
Yesterday I had a surprisingly good day! It might not seem it on here but with my depression I've also developed some pretty annoying anger issues.
But yesterday I managed to get more stuff done than usual, I cleaned downstairs and cleaned the rabbit. The tea I made was nice and everyone ate it (when I feel like *kitten* it tastes like *kitten* lol) I managed to even not shout at anyone apart from one occasion at my eldest when she tried to whack me one! And even then it wasn't OTT.
I got in a grump with my partner later on, I couldn't tell if it was me being grumpy or him being annoying so I came upstairs for the night and got in bed.
He tried to come upstairs with out locking up or turning lights off but I was having non of that and sent him back down!
So I feel like I'm starting to get semi on track. Might start posting goals as of Monday (really need to get batteries for both scales still!)
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8/25 Friday JFT:
✔Don't get overwhelmed
Sorta ✔Get back to healthy calories
✔Email Dr. In charge of research project
✔Finish prepping for school
❌Take donations to donation center
✔Small grocery trip
❌Run on elliptical
❌Day 5 of 28-Day Plank Challenge
❌BB-Workout
✔Dinner by 7 pm
✔Bedtime by 11 pm
Failed another day. I find it challenging when my husband just wants to relax. For example, yesterday he came home for lunch and I switched from having a salad to having leftovers. Then he wanted to watch a show and relax for an extra long lunch, so we did. That is when I got extremely sleepy and ended up taking a nap for 2 hrs instead of exercising
I'm trying really hard not to stress over any of it bc school starts Monday and everything will have to change. 0 -
8/26 Saturday JFT:
Enjoy the day with my family
Run a few errands
Grocery Inventory & list
Budget meeting
Run on elliptical
Dinner by 7 pm
Bedtime by 11 pm
I'm going to keep things simple this weekend bc my entire schedule changes Monday morning. I haven't gained or lost any weight this week but I am hoping to continue to switch my eating habits and lose weight (even if it is slowly losing weight). My goal this semester is: do not gain weight and still get good grades!0 -
MLHC1-Monday will be a change here, too. Yesterday, we just went shopping--not for stuff we needed but just to see stuff. I am sure we can get into routine Monday but still I am not sure exactly how or what.
Met Friday's goals mostly-I am never done with the yard and trash taking out is iffy. Dog hair removal is unending-I fixed the vacuum which was clogged with hair but then this morning when I walked through there was hair in the middle of the floor. Got to have the dogs to protect the house but saw a roomba yesterday and wondered if that worked. Too much money of course.
This is Saturday-I am off to a rocky start with 350 calories in my breakfast omelet but I know I need to finish this week's onion soup and I have marinated chicken for dinner so can pull off the 1200 or less. Son has swimming lesson this am and I think we can just stay at Y until I exercise and he plays a bit. The yard has to be attacked today but whether mid-day or evening I can't decide. Son needs to do lessons so we can get ahead next week. And finally number 5 goal is to work 1 hour on upstairs bedroom to unpile it from whatever is hidden in that room. I went in son's room and it is a big mess so might do my hour there.4 -
Drink 9 cups of water.
Track everything.
Meditate/rest 20 mins this afternoon. Use Calm App.
Walk dog.
Walk/cycle everyday while in Canada.
Prep lasagna & rest of supper.
Grateful to visit with a best friend & catch up. Looking forward to spending time with my SIL. Blessed to have her in my life.
Need to get to bed earlier.
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Yesterday:
1. Meditate (done)
2. Weigh and log EVERYTHING done
3. Work on my anxiety with breathing exercises and staying in the moment. Anxiety issues at an all-time high right now and I'm trying not to spiral. I think I did pretty well, especially since my husband was in the middle of Hurricane Harvey and a lot of my anxiety centers around his safety while he's working
JFT:
1. Meditate (did already this morning)
2. Weigh and log EVERYTHING
3. Enjoy the day and be outside more than I'm in.
4. Get in the pool for 20 minutes1 -
It's an awesome 77F here at the Jersey Shore! Definitely going to be a beer and back porch kind of evening! Especially since the DH is working until late tonight! I cant wait!3
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Oooookay guys.
My partner found some batteries in his "Man bag" (it seems to have everything in it lol!) and got both scales changed.
So the good news is I can start weighing my food again.
The bad news is that I've put on 4lb.:(
So back to 174.
But I'm glad I've found this out now rather than later.
I need to actually re-weigh in the morning when I've not eaten all day and see what it is properly.
I'm gonna commit again on Monday. I'm at my MILs tomorrow and she always feeds me up when I'm pregnant for some reason
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Saturday:azulvioleta6 wrote: »
Friday:
1. walk at least 30 minutes
2. weight workout/PT
3. drink at least 10C water
4. track all food
5. under 100G carbs
6. 8+ freggies
1. 2-hour fruit harvest (hiking...with blueberries!)
2. do a bit of careful salsa dancing (outdoor concert)
3. drink at least 10C water
4. take day off from food tracking
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So something incensed my DH so much that he's coming home from work 3 hours early. I dont really know much of what happened, except that someone was making comments that the DH didn't like. I dont know if he got sent home or decided to leave on his own or what...so I'm a tad bit worried. He definitely has a temper and he's not very good at controlling it, especially when it's his coworkers that are doing something stupid or are messing up his departments. So if you are a praying person and happen to look at this post tonight, please send up a prayer!3
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Didn't post goals today but I wanted to check in anyway!
Today, I...
1. Drank my goal of water
2. Called and talked to my mom for an hour
3. Went to hunting show with my DH at Lambeau field
4. Received my starter kit of Young Living essential oils and diffuser
5. Researched some of my essential oils
6. Weeded flower beds.
7. Relaxed. Back pain so wasn't too active
8. Watching Packers versus Broncos preseason game now with DH
9. Had a very nice relaxing day.
Joan: your quilt is beautiful!!!1 -
Day 3 (Aug 26) Goals:
- Stay under cal count✅
- Stay under 90 Carbs✅
- Exercise✅
- Drink at least 8 glasses of water❎
- No eating after 7pm✅ (technically I did eat a late dinner... But this rule was more about not snacking in the evenings and I was a good girl!)
Day 4 (Aug 27) Goals:
- Stay under cal count
- Stay under 90 Carbs
- Exercise
- Drink at least 8 glasses of water
- No eating after 7pm
- Grocery shop with a Meal plan in mind
- Cook/prepare for Monday so that I can keep up this healthy streak!3 -
HGSmith0920 wrote: »JFT, 8/26/17
1. Log all food
2. Keep in green
3. MOVE!!!!!Went for a walk finally!
4. Dishes
5. Prep food for the week
6. Prep dinner
7. Laundry
8. Bed whenever!
Have a good night!
Had a terrible day goal wise...well it was an okay day. Other than the fact that the DH is being harassed at work by a coworker trying to get him to him angry so he'll do something stupid and get fired. The DH ended up getting so angry he was crying at work today. He knew that if he didn't leave he would probably have done something incredibly violent that would not have only gotten him fired but probably jail time. The worst part is, that none of his managers seem to be moving their *kitten* to hurry up and do anything. They know it's happening because the guy isn't even hiding it. I just hope they do something before it's too late because if my DH loses his temper and gets fired then all hell is going to break loose. I will rip someone up one side and then down the other until I get this guy fired and my husband vindicated!
But other than that(LOL) it was a decent day. Slept until around 12, got in a nice walk and some rest time(I tried to nap but it didn't work) and went to get alcohol. Then I spent the rest of the night settling the restive stallion that is my husband. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who can calm him down when he gets like that.
Anyway, here they are!
JFT, 8/27/17
1. Log all food
2. Stay in green
3. Weigh-in
4. Church
5. Prep egg salad and chicken
6. Take a walk
7. Talk to dad about cabin floor
8. Dinner with the DH
9. Meditate and read bible
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So I tried to had a talk with my partner yesterday and it went all wrong. Not sure what to make of it. Not sure if I want to keep trying. I was hoping to get some, any, commitment to an "us". Any sign he is interested in me trying to join him because he wants his future to include me. Not quite. He seemed to be annoyed by my romantic thought that a relationship includes some plans we share.
And now I woke up sick. Had fever and shivers all night, the nose is clogging up and lungs hurt. I am at my parent's house. I want to go home, to cope both with my sickness and my mental state, but they will want me to stay here to take care of me. My partner will also want me to stay there so someone takes care. I just want to stay in bed and be left alone, preferably at my own flat. No questions, no thinking. I am probably not that sick at all, just feeling horrible because I am sad.
No plans for today other than survive. And get home.0 -
13wk bumpie!5 -
Uh... sorry for being terrible miserable and negative this morning. I have slept most of the day so far, parents and partner are really caring and I have gotten back the feeling that I at least mean something to him. Still feeling sick and weak, but I expect tomorrow to be better.
@Bex953172 Awesome baby bump! (And super cute bunny, too.)2 -
@skymningen I'm so sorry to hear that things are shaky right now. Have you been with your partner long?
In my experience communication is key, so you are on the right track! He will have no way of knowing how you feel or what you want/need if you don't tell him. And don't worry about the first reaction...sometimes I find men need to really think things through before they know how to react to it (especially if they've been taken off guard!). I'm no specialist but Maybe you should give him a little bit of time and try again?
As for the illness, I hope you are much better soon! I know that I'm capable of making myself I'll with worry. No matter what is causing this, take care of yourself! I'm happy to hear that you have such wonderful parents who want to dote on you and help you feel better.3 -
8/26 Saturday JFT:
✔✔Enjoy the day with my family
❌Run a few errands
❌Grocery Inventory & list
❌Budget meeting
❌Run on elliptical
❌Dinner by 7 pm
❌Bedtime by 11 pm
As you can see, my entire day yesterday went a different direction. My husband and I decided to spend the entire day having fun. We went bowling, played putt-putt golf, played pool, etc. We spent all day doing this stuff with our kiddos then came home and watched the Mayweather vs McGregor fight, so it was a late night and we enjoyed some margaritas
Moving forward......today has to be productive!
✔Woke up early
✔Took dog to groomer
✔Breakfast & coffee w/ hubby
Organize / prep for the week (school starts)
Grocery Inventory / List / shopping
Pick up dog from groomer then head to campus
Dinner by 7 pm
Run on elliptical
Bedtime by 11 pm
I need to be productive today
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Good morning all! @skymningen I'm so sorry you're having man problems! I remember before I met the DH that I would get sick like that too. Take care of yourself and try talking to him again in a little while. At least he is kind enough to be worried about you being sick.
The DH and I got to sleep in this morning and he has a short day today! And he's off tomorrow as well. So we get a whole day off together too! I feel like I talk about my DH a lot, but he is the most important person in my life.
@Bex953172 Loving the baby bump and the bunny!
Gonna be a nice day I think. Supposed to be nice and cool so I'm gonna actually sit out on the back deck today! I didn't get a chance to yesterday because of the DH coming home early. So I'm gonna enjoy it!4 -
PrincesseAly23 wrote: »@skymningen I'm so sorry to hear that things are shaky right now. Have you been with your partner long?
In my experience communication is key, so you are on the right track! He will have no way of knowing how you feel or what you want/need if you don't tell him. And don't worry about the first reaction...sometimes I find men need to really think things through before they know how to react to it (especially if they've been taken off guard!). I'm no specialist but Maybe you should give him a little bit of time and try again?
As for the illness, I hope you are much better soon! I know that I'm capable of making myself I'll with worry. No matter what is causing this, take care of yourself! I'm happy to hear that you have such wonderful parents who want to dote on you and help you feel better.
It's been 1 year and 8 months now. But 10 months of long distance and before that a weekend relationship. Sometimes I feel he has changed so much since I met him, but other days he is just the sweet guy I love so. I want him to be the most important person of my life and I will give him time. He is so sweet today, he's probably trying to make up already. Which makes me feel better instantly. 3 -
@skymningen. I know what it's like to do the long distance thing. My husband and I were together for 8 months then long distance for 11 months and married exactly 2 years from the day we began dating.
Long distance helps you get to know someone because all you can do is talk. Lol. But it sometimes takes a while for the body language and subtleties of day to day feelings to figure themselves out. It sounds like you have a sweet guy who might not be as expressive as you would like. (Mine was like that. 4 years later he finally talks to me about his true feelings. Lol.) Give him a bit of time and patience. Just keep being open and honest on your end so that he has no doubts how you feel. Things will either fall into place or won't, but only kindness and true honestly will help you sort it out.
People do change. The key is to understand that and evolve with him. Try to understand how/why he is changing.
Thank you for sharing. I hope some of this helps. All I can do is share my own story and hope some of it will work for others.4
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