Just for Today ..... Daily Commitment Thread- Start of a new year!
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BDS - Day 6
The task today is simple:
FInd a Diet Coach.
SO I am hoping all of you guys will be my diet coach
TO-DO list for today
read advantages response card four times
give yourself credit for any positives you do
eat slowly
eat only when sitting down
find a diet coach or support group
Haha as long as you're mine!!
What does it require to be a diet coach?
Is it just making sure you stick to your diet or provide recipes, and nutrition info?
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BDS - Day 6
The task today is simple:
FInd a Diet Coach.
SO I am hoping all of you guys will be my diet coach
TO-DO list for today
read advantages response card four times
give yourself credit for any positives you do
eat slowly
eat only when sitting down
find a diet coach or support group
Haha as long as you're mine!!
What does it require to be a diet coach?
Is it just making sure you stick to your diet or provide recipes, and nutrition info?
Its doing what all you guys do already -- encouraging each other along, supporting each other. Yes -- I'll be your coach, and you can be mine!1 -
BDS - Day 6
The task today is simple:
FInd a Diet Coach.
SO I am hoping all of you guys will be my diet coach
TO-DO list for today
read advantages response card four times
give yourself credit for any positives you do
eat slowly
eat only when sitting down
find a diet coach or support group
Haha as long as you're mine!!
What does it require to be a diet coach?
Is it just making sure you stick to your diet or provide recipes, and nutrition info?
Its doing what all you guys do already -- encouraging each other along, supporting each other. Yes -- I'll be your coach, and you can be mine!
I best stop slacking then
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OConnell5483 wrote: »Just for today:
1. Stay in the greenDone deal!
2. HydrateYup!
3. Teach my class this afternoon with a smile on my face and in my voice
My class went awesome today!
The doctors were really nice and seemed to enjoy the class. They told me they really were excited to start using the software, so I was really pleased!!!
4. Go with a new hair color tonight at my appointment....some funny and sassy new highlights and lowlights
Yup! Got done with teaching class just in time! Got highlights and some reddish lowlights added to my brunette hair and got my hair spiffied up for my girls' weekend in Chicago! So excited!
5. Get my steps inI did! I reached my new goal number 3 days in a row now. Pretty happy considering the orthopedic surgeon told me today he thinks I have a torn meniscus again. MRI next Tuesday and possible surgery. 
6. Read my Advantages response cards x4I did. I love this idea. I am rewriting mine because I like the way Bex's looks better. Mine are hard to read...too wordy. Imagine that! Hahaha!
7. Eat only when sitting down and eat slowlyI really suck at this one!
8. Start a list of what to pack for my tripStarted planning
9. Be grateful for all that I was blessed enough to wake up with today.I had a fantastic day yesterday!
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I need to get caught up on the steps for the Beck Diet Solution and get busy. I'm a little behind, but I did borrow the book from the library so I can read it too. Thanks Joan!
I just bought tickets to the Medieval Times Dinner Show in Chicago for Saturday. My daughter and I are going. I think it will be a blast! (She is 36 so we have a lot of fun together on our getaways!) Getting very excited. I need this time away soooo badly!
I think part of my depression lately has been because I really wanted to lose SO MUCH WEIGHT before this weekend because I only see these girls once a year and I wanted to look good and feel comfortable in a swim suit laying by the pool. When I realized it was not going to happen, I just didn't care anymore. But now I'm back at it and my attitude is good again. These women could care less what I weigh or look like!
So...Just for Tuesday:
1. Stay in the green
2. Hydrate
3. Meet my step goal
4. Finish my to-do list in preparation for the trip
5. Read my Advantages Response cards four times (Did I tell you my granddaughter wrote on the bottom of one of these I had in the kitchen? She wrote "Grandma, you are beautiful just the way you are". So sweet!)
5. Paint my nails tonight
6. Get bills paid tonight
7. Get to bed early so I can get up early, work early and be done early tomorrow to begin my vaca!!!!
Have a great day!
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Just a quick one for you all..
Do you ever just.. write off days?
I had the choice today. Pizza or salad
I bought the fecking pizza didn't I!
Ate the whole thing
I'm still within my calories ATM but won't be after tea but I don't think I'll be massively over as I'm having a small portion because I'm not that hungry anyway.
But I just feel like writing today off.
What I have learnt though. Is what a trigger of mine is.
If I forget to take my tablets (antidepressants and thyroxine) first thing in the morning.
Then I eat crap allllllll day!
I've got chocolate bars hidden in a teapot for crying out loud!
I need to rid myself of these triggers don't I?
I really want to do well on this BDS.
Not making a good start though!0 -
OConnell5483 wrote: »I need to get caught up on the steps for the Beck Diet Solution and get busy. I'm a little behind, but I did borrow the book from the library so I can read it too. Thanks Joan!
I think part of my depression lately has been because I really wanted to lose SO MUCH WEIGHT before this weekend because I only see these girls once a year and I wanted to look good and feel comfortable in a swim suit laying by the pool. When I realized it was not going to happen, I just didn't care anymore. But now I'm back at it and my attitude is good again. These women could care less what I weigh or look like!
Have a great day!
Tracie - I do this every year when my high school girlfriends come down - think I am going to lose 30 lbs. But ... its never happened. Your friends will not care one bit what you weigh or how you look in a swimsuit. So I hope you have a wonderful time, and don't worry about any of that.
I am now where I just want to be back in control of my life, and not let food rule me. If I can do that, maybe next summer when my friends come, or any other thing comes up in life, which for me is often, then I can look good ALL the time, not just for one occassion.
I'm glad you found the book. I find it so enlightening - its making me realize how I got the way I look!
Have a awesome time this weekend!2 -
Just a quick one for you all..
Do you ever just.. write off days?
I had the choice today. Pizza or salad
I bought the fecking pizza didn't I!
Ate the whole thing
I'm still within my calories ATM but won't be after tea but I don't think I'll be massively over as I'm having a small portion because I'm not that hungry anyway.
But I just feel like writing today off.
What I have learnt though. Is what a trigger of mine is.
If I forget to take my tablets (antidepressants and thyroxine) first thing in the morning.
Then I eat crap allllllll day!
I've got chocolate bars hidden in a teapot for crying out loud!
I need to rid myself of these triggers don't I?
I really want to do well on this BDS.
Not making a good start though!
Hey -don't feel bad. I have a pizza in the oven right now! We are so busy, I just don't have time to fix anything else. but .... that is life. But ..... stay away from those chocolate bars 1 -
@Bex953172 I take psychiatric meds too! For the longest time I always forgot to take them. I met the DH and he got me to start taking them regularly again. In the very beginning, I kept my meds with me in my bag so that if I did forget I could take them right away. And now, four years and a wedding later, I keep them next to my bed and take them before I go to sleep every night. It's so engrained in me now that I feel like I've missed something if I forget to take them, and it feels effin AMAZING to be stable, especially for the last 4 years. Once you figure out what works for you then it'll become a habit and then you'll be golden!
@joan6630 I'm pretty far behind in the Beck Solution days. Lol. I eat a lot in bed. We live in a two room house(a bedroom and a main room). I spend a lot of time in the bedroom on my laptop or tablet when DH is playing video games or when I'm winding down before bed and a lot of time there is food involved. So I'm always sitting but a lot of the time I'm propped up in bed. It drives the DH crazy. So I think I'll tweak that one to eating in the main room. I need to make new Response Cards too! I wrote one out on a flimsy piece of paper at work, so I will make a bunch more and put them all over the house/car/teller station. I have started to pay attention to eating slower over the last like two weeks or so. And that has been helping. DH looks at me kind of funny but it seems to be helping.2 -
So Mother's Day was wonderful! I, not being a mother yet, got to have a really good visit with my MIL. She is really ill, dying slowly is probably a better way to say it though heart-wrenching. But she was incredibly lucid and breathing mostly on her own. So DH was really happy that we got to see her on a good day. She wasnt as crazy as she normally is. So that was nice for me. And we took my Mom and Dad out for dinner at a favorite, nice Italian restaurant. I kind of blew the whole diet thing that day though. I had a nice tossed pasta dish with olive oil, shrimp, mussels, and tomatoes. It was really yummy. But I ate like a half a loaf of rosemary bread and probably a large handful of fried calamari. It was all delicious but I definitely overdid it.
So that, coupled with not posting/logging/exercising over the weekend and yesterday has just kind of killed my drive. Tomorrow is my weigh-in day and I'm a little worried to look at the scale. Yesterday, I didnt eat too badly. I probably stayed pretty close to my goals. I didnt eat too badly but I just had no drive to post or log or do anything. I got home about 6pm, made dinner(ate way too big of a portion) and plopped on the couch to watch the Penguins Hockey game. They won...Woohoo!
Had a pretty bad day today at work. We werent even that busy, but the times that we were, we were REALLY busy. The three times we were super busy, I was the only teller on the line and the only one in the bank with a money box so no one could help me because most of them were in a meeting downstairs. So I had lines of people and several complicated transactions and everyone talking to me or near me all at the same time. I've only been in the branch for about a month. But I did two pretty major boo boo's. They were fixed and my till was only off by a penny. But it still made me feel really terrible about myself. I wanted to bum a smoke from one of my co workers so badly just so I could step outside and take a deep breathe for a few minutes, but I havent lit up since April of last year and I wasnt going to let something like this steal that accomplishment from me! Nothing can make me smoke again! Definitely stupid work things! It ended up working out okay in the end so it wasnt TOO terrible.
But it's 5pm here at the Jersey Shore so I'm gonna do goals for tonight/tomorrow:
1. Rewrite Response Cards and leave them everywhere!
2. Eat all of my meals and snacks in the main room when home
3. Lights out by 11pm(I'm off tomorrow so no need to get up super early)
4. Log all food
5. Stay in the green
6. Go for a walk/bike ride/gym
7. Do laundry
8. Clean up a bit
9. Spend time with the DH watching hockey
Seems like a lot, but mostly doable, I think.1 -
My last meal of the day will be dinner!2
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tristramtrent wrote: »Only did a few of my goals yesterday, not sure why but felt a bit stubborn! Maybe the list was too long and strict. Still the scale was going in the right direction this morning.
So jft tues....
Guitar lesson
Stay under calories
Bike walk or YouTube class, whichever
At least 20 mins woodwork
Check back in!
Hey I can tick these all off today! Result.
Jftomorrow weds then
Stay under calories
Walk bike or YouTube class whatever
At least 40 mins woodwork
More analog than digital reading
Check back in
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I've been reading the book "the Beck Diet Solution". It is about Cognitive Behavior Therapy, to think like a thin person. Everyday you get a assignment for 6 weeks. Today's assignment is to write all the reasons I want to lose weight. Write these on a index card, and 4x a day, go and read the list. It says to take this list with you in your purse, even post it on the refrig, etc. to remind myself daily why I want to lose weight.
Finally catching up with this. I had actually written a list of reasons around the time I joined MFP in Nov. 2015. The list has been stuck in my desk drawer for a while, so I dug around to find it, and tweaked it a little. Here's my list of reasons:- Wear my wedding ring again (haven't worn it in nearly 5 years & I will not have it resized)
- Get rid of my double chin
- Continue to walk in 10Ks / 5Ks and have good finish times
- Wear some cute dresses in my closet this summer
- Long term, be healthy & physically active into my 70s & 80s
- Walk in the Packers 5K every year (I walked in the inaugural event, and all six years after)
- To cross my legs comfortably (even if I'm not supposed to)
- My shoes / leather gloves won't feel tight
- Improve my annual Health Risk Assessment score for employer health insurance, specifically weight & BMI
- Sing with good breath control
- Sleeves will be looser (I hate tight shirts)
- Remove the extenders on my bras
- Don't like being the biggest person in photos
- Go clothes shopping and enjoy myself
I'm using MFP and calorie counting as my way of life (not diet). Reminder to self: practice mindful eating / put down my fork. Give myself credit for my efforts...after all, I've lost 16# since joining MFP. During that time, I dealt with MIL with dementia living with us. I use this thread and other MFP boards for inspiration, accountability and support. I may be slow, but I'm still in the race.2 -
HGSmith0920 wrote: »@Bex953172 I take psychiatric meds too! For the longest time I always forgot to take them. I met the DH and he got me to start taking them regularly again. In the very beginning, I kept my meds with me in my bag so that if I did forget I could take them right away. And now, four years and a wedding later, I keep them next to my bed and take them before I go to sleep every night. It's so engrained in me now that I feel like I've missed something if I forget to take them, and it feels effin AMAZING to be stable, especially for the last 4 years. Once you figure out what works for you then it'll become a habit and then you'll be golden!
Thanks for the advice! My thyroid makes me forget haha
I've just put them next to the kettle. Because I'm bound to make a brew or baby bottle at multiple times in the day!0 -
@HGSmith0920
I'm glad you had a good Mother's Day, even though your mil is so poorly. But it's nice you got to see her on a good day!
That meal sounds absolutely delicious!! Could eat one of them right now!
I don't work anymore but when I used to I had days like that.
I used to work in a cafe at a gym and I always took the early shift if I could (7am-3pm) the next person would be in a 8 but all I was doing was opening up, food prep etc.
Manager comes in at half 7, X isn't coming in today, and we've got no cover. You're on your own until 10.
I don't know how but I managed to serve customers coffee, make protein smoothies, clear tables AND cook. I was frazzled!
Hope you have a better day!1 -
Thanks @Bex953172 I'm hoping tomorrow is better too! I'm about to turn in for the night. I'll see everyone in the morning!0
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A few goals I have for today:
1. Stay under 200 cal. in snacks.
2. Eat slower.
3. Drink at least 4 bottles of water.
Did this for today as well. I succeeded in eating slower and drinking more water! Oddly enough, I still feel dehydrated although I drank a lot. As for those snacks, that could've been better. Went over by 50ish. Will do better tomorrow!
Hope everyone is having a great day!
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Pretracked meals/snacks.
walk dog at favorite park plus extra walk with DH & dog early in am
Going to listen to Half Size Me webinar.
Weight lifting-be careful with added weights. Bad knee-cautious.
Research some abdominal exercises, HIIT & metabolic reset.
Aiming for 150g of protein.
Have a protein shake this afternoon if hungry.
20 min nap/meditative breathing.
Drink 8 cups of water.
To keep myself distracted this evening, I will try hemming my curtains. Try again-Boy Scout meeting ran late.
10 pm bedtime. Still struggling!
Preplan meals for weekend.
Have a great Hump Day everyone!
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05-16-2017 11,000 steps
Water - 64 oz or more I think so, but I'm not sure if I drank all my last glass or if my husband dumped some. Stay under 50 calories to help make up for Sunday Try to do a real pushup, if can't do, do girly pushups - I wasn't able to do real pushup, but my girly ones are better. New goal! Contact the resume writer
05-17-2017- 10,000 steps
- Water - 64 oz or more
- Stay under 50 calories to help make up for Sunday
- Try to do a real pushup
- Next step with resume writer - initial contact made.
- Thunderbird - Cardio routine
Trying so hard to decide what job I want. Stay functional or go technical. At my age this is probably my last big job change. Hmmmm2 -
Recap T 5/16
1) Keep net calories in the green...going for two days in a row = fail
Perhaps I have zeroed in on why I lose weight so slowly, if I bounce days between calories in the red or green. Saw improvement in sugar counts - most came from yogurt and a small banana, not processed stuff. Reminder to self: it's a lifestyle, not a race.
2) During webinar at noon, pace in office = 4,546 steps
3) Floss = Day 4 - I have to admit, when I want to skip flossing (which is every day), I think of this thread and just do it. Whatever works, I guess.
4) Bedtime by 10:15 & TV off...want to walk dog W a.m. before work = not at all, too much time wasted on computer. At least I registered for the next Packers 5K on July 22.
Just for today W 5/17
1) Walk dog before work = already done, walked 2.66 miles...had to do shorter route since I hit the snooze alarm 3X (see #4 from T)
2) Keep net calories w/i 100 of green
3) Floss
4) Bedtime by 10:15 & TV off1 -
OConnell5483 wrote: »So...Just for Tuesday:
1. Stay in the green
2. Hydrate
3. Meet my step goal
4. Finish my to-do list in preparation for the trip
5. Read my Advantages Response cards four times (Did I tell you my granddaughter wrote on the bottom of one of these I had in the kitchen? She wrote "Grandma, you are beautiful just the way you are". So sweet!)
5. Paint my nails tonight
6. Get bills paid tonight
7. Get to bed early so I can get up early, work early and be done early tomorrow to begin my vaca!!!!
Just for Wednesday
1. Stay in the green
2. Hydrate
3. Get work caught up so I am not too far behind next Tuesday when I come back from vaca
4. Pay Bills
5. Get nails done
6. Pack for trip tomorrow
7. Read my Reasons cards at least 4 times
8. Bed early so not tired tomorrow!
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Tuesday, May 16
1. log all food
2. concentrate on water
3. only 1 diet soda
4. lay out gym clothes for tomorrow morning
5. go to the gym or walk
6. read the advantages response card at least 4 times
7. sit down everytime I eat - concentrate on looking at what I am eating
8. EAT SLOWLY. Put down the fork between bites
9. sip on water in the evenings
10. give myself credit for any positives I do today
Not the best day ..... but .... today is a new day
JFT, Wed, May 17
1. log all food
2. 8+ glasses of water
3. tea instead of diet soda - no soda today.
4. go to the gym already did this, but was a short workout. so try to go for a walk tonite
5. plan tomorrows meals
6. eat slowly
7. sit while eating - no eating and standing
8. read my advantage response card 4 x today
9. sip on water
10. get back on here tomorrow - be accountable
Day 7
The BDS task for today is to arrange your environment. Hide trigger foods out of the way - or get them out of the house. I haven't had time to read the whole chapter, but this is basically what is the task today.2 -
Good morning/afternoon everyone! It's been a pretty awesome day so far! Slept in until 10am and didnt have to wake DH up this morning because he closes tonight. So I woke up on my own, with the DH wrapped around me snoring away. It was pretty nice! Got up and did some bible reading and devotionals over coffee and then woke up the DH and had some calorie burning fun
. Lol. So now we are awake and kicking and it's almost 1pm. So DH is getting ready for work and I have to get up and going to the laundromat and then probably hit the gym. It's supposed to be 90F out today so I dont think I am going to be doing much outside. Though, maybe later this afternoon when it cools down a little bit, I might take one of my new lite beers and spend some time on my back deck. My back deck is about five feet off a creek that runs through my backyard. I live in the middle of a pretty dense forest. It's absolutely gorgeous every season of the year!
I hope all is well today! Have a great day!2 -
Hi all!! Okay so my goals for today are to drink 6 glasses of water and not eat after 9pm.
Today is day 1 of my reset and I'm not quitting this time!
Goal weight 145... 33 lbs to go!!2 -
05-17-2017 10,000 steps Water - 64 oz or more Stay under 50 calories to help make up for Sunday
Try to do a real pushup - I did a pushup! Next step with resume writer - Looking at the resume - looking at their rates ... hmmm 
Thunderbird - Cardio routine - nope. Went home and took an unintentional nap
05-18-2017- 10,000 steps
- Do another pushup! Then do more than one.
- Be nice at work
- Train people on retro worksheets & terminal pay
- Do a workout video
- Bed by 11:00
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steph81881 wrote: »Hi all!! Okay so my goals for today are to drink 6 glasses of water and not eat after 9pm.
Today is day 1 of my reset and I'm not quitting this time!
Goal weight 145... 33 lbs to go!!
It is great that you are back at it! That's not quitting.3 -
Pretracked meals/snacks.
walk dog with DH
Going to listen to Half Size Me webinar.
Weight lifting-be careful with added weights. Bad knee-cautious.
Research some abdominal exercises, HIIT & metabolic reset.
Aiming for 150g of protein.
20 min nap/meditative breathing.
Drink 8 cups of water.
Evening snacking is becoming a habit again. Need to work on this!
10 pm bedtime. Still struggling!
Preplan meals for weekend.
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Pretracked meals/snacks.
walk dog with DH
Going to listen to Half Size Me webinar.
Weight lifting-be careful with added weights. Bad knee-cautious.
Research some abdominal exercises, HIIT & metabolic reset.
Aiming for 150g of protein.
20 min nap/meditative breathing.
Drink 8 cups of water.
Evening snacking is becoming a habit again. Need to work on this!
10 pm bedtime. Still struggling!
Preplan meals for weekend.
Would you recommend the Half Size podcasts me for help with motivation?1 -
Recap W 5/17
1) Walk dog before work = already done, walked 2.66 miles...had to do shorter route since I hit the snooze alarm 3X (see #4 from Tues)
2) Keep net calories w/i 100 of green = 102 in the red and -4 sugar grams, I'll take it!
3) Floss = Day 5
4) Bedtime by 10:15 & TV off = 10:20 close enough...I was watching weather reports for severe storms approaching
Just for today R 5/19
1) Keep net calories in the green
2) This evening, start strength training, just start!
3) Floss
4) Bedtime by 10:15 & TV off...I'm starting to wake up easier, which will be great for walking dog before work during the summer2
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