2018 - The Year of " I AM "

Snooozie

this is kinda the idea i'm thinking

suzyqholland

I like the “I choose...” idea because it is all about choices. I choose what I’m going to buy at the grocery store, when/what to eat, to go to the gym or walk/hike. I’ve made bad choices this year and I fully own up to that. 2019 is about choosing my long term health over the instant gratification of some food or being lazy. I have to keep my long term goals more in the forefront of my mind to block out the fleeting desire of sweets...use it to motivate me to move more.



I choose to not give up on me!

Snooozie

i love the "i CHOOSE not to give up on me" line Suzy.... and i agree - its more of a positive motivation (for me anyway) in that i'm not being forced to give up something, or being denied it... i'm choosing to make changes.. choosing to make those small changes every day that will get me what I want for myself...

Snooozie

Snooozie

actually Suzy - i'd like to use that pic you posted as our title page for the group if that's ok?

hmm ok I couldnt figure out how to replace the 7 dwarves of menopause picture so I made your pic our 2019 "group announcement" instead!

milove1029

Thank you for the warm welcome back.

I decided a few days ago to reset my ticker and its up there but still 20lbs less than my original weight but I have gain 30lbs over the three years I guess 10lbs a year hmm.

Anyway, I decided to weigh in once a week. I was going to give up my cup of coffee in the morning and my glass of wine before bed, but I have choosen not too because I enjoy it. However, I do choose to eat a lot more vegetables, like you Snoozie cut down on the carbs, and Suzy, like your sign, I choose not to give up.

suzyqholland

I’m resetting my beginning weight. I’m starting completely fresh. 2019 will be a whole new start for me. I just want to put the past behind me and go forward with a renewed determination to get (and stay) healthy!

Vailara

You brave resetters! I still haven't found the courage! I'm still clinging to my 60lb loss from about five years ago! Nobody can make me do it! Lol!

I love "I want to see what happens if I don't give up", Suzy!

Milove, I understand not giving up the coffee and the wine - I have managed to diet successfully while still drinking wine in small amounts. I think it makes it harder to lose because of the calories, etc,. BUT I think what I have difficulty with is sticking to things and anything that helps you stick to it is good.

I need to find my own way of sticking with it. I've downloaded a habit tracker app, and have put in a couple of simple achievable things - one to do with eating and the other to do with exercise. I'm still getting to grips with the app, but I thought it might be a simple way to get some motivation. (The one I am trying is called Habitbull. It's not a recommendation as it's the only one I've tried!). I know I wrote just yesterday about logging everything I ate and so on, but as it's almost a guarantee that I'll forget to do that, maybe the simple "yes/no" habit tracker will work better? Of course, I could use the habit tracker to track whether I log food and so on, but I'll maybe keep things simple, at least for a day or two!

Yesterday was quite successful. I experimented with a new vegetable, and had two small balanced meals with protein and snacking. I'm back to my old trick of drinking herbal tea in the evening when I get hunger pangs. I went to bed hungry last night and realised that it's first time I've done so in a long time!

Snooozie

Vail - i TOTALLY understand not wanting to reset - to be able to SEE that loss you already achieved, believe me... and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that!! and you SO don't have to do anything you dont want to LOL.. none of us do...!! WOO HOO!! my response to many people these days is "i'm all grown up.. you can't make me (insert whatever here.. in my case its often "you can't make me eat kale") haaaaaaaaaaaa..


I loved reading your paragraph about trying the habit tracker - and about changing your mind about hte logging because it means you're thinking about moving forward and figuring out what you want to do, and taking the steps that help you do it. I'm been using the few days to try to figure out what my own plan - as i mentioned i dont want to log for the rest of my life but i know i need some "rules" of my own and i have been exploring too.. i think the app is a great idea; it fits with what you want and dont want to do; i'll definitely be looking forward to hearing how it's going..

And congrats on yesterday...well done!! when i read that you felt hunger for the time time in a long time i realized how true that is for me as well... since mid December i've been trying to just eat .. less i guess.. going back to things like eating 1/2 my sandiwch at work then waiting until i was hungry to eat the other half... eating an orange instead of grabbing toast and pb etc.. part of my challenge wil be finding that fine line between waiting too long and then pigging out... but not eating just because it's "time" or i'm bored or whatever..

As for the coffee and wine... i love my mornign coffee... with cream and sugar and i cannot honestly ever see giving up that joy, or wanting to.. BUT.. i have cut back on the actual number of coffees i have a day.. when i'm working i often have 5 or 6, some of which are just habit, some of which are necessary (like at 3am on midnights lol).. so for me i am not messing with my perfect morning coffee lol... its a small joy but like you said above, i'm keeping it and nobody can make me give it up hahahaha... so I'm with you there Milove!! But we each have our own "coffee" thing we CHOOSE not to give up because it brings us pleasure and there's nothing wrong with that either IMO... there's a whole lot of other things i can give up instead ha!

So my plan is still to weigh in tomororw morning and change all my check in numbers etc.. so i can start Jan 1 on a clean slate.. i have lost a bit of weight since my last check in Dec 13th, when i started trying to make some changes.. not much but over the past few days i've been moving ahead with the lower carb plan.. i still take a sandwich to work and i took a very small brownie for dessert last nite... it was the last one of my one baking attempt over xmas lol.. i'm not cutting out any food group just trying to get most of my carbs from veg and fruit... i know the first 2 weeks of january are going to be tuff cause i'm on days off then midnite shift where i usually exist on toast and peanut butter for 7 days!! so i'm going to have to come up with a better plan for that way ahead of time.. i have been kinda repeating that mantra in my head tho a lot.. the "i choose healthier" and it seems to be helping .. i dont feel deprived most times but its early days so i'm not getting cocky.. but i really like the idea for 2019 of making it about choosing to be healthy.. not having to .. but making the deliberate choice to do whats best for me

Gail - i'm getting a little worried we havent' heard from you in a while .. I hope all is okay in your world and hope to hear from you soon my friend!

ok... we actually had our first snow last nite apparently lol.. i looked out the window this morning and thot what the hell?? i didnt catch that in the weather report!!! but its really just a dusting so i wont complain - i know there will be worse to come ha!! and I need to go get a few groceries before work.. i've had stew every nite for 3 nites in a row (i will definitely be freezing down another batch on days off tho its been a god send for grabbing lunch to go) but i defnitely need a change today .. haaaaaaaaaa.


I'm proud of all of us for getting ourselves in gear and making plans to get what we want for ourselves in 2019...

suzyqholland

Vail, that’s so funny...I went to bed last night and was lying there trying to go to sleep and wondering what that strange feeling was... I was actually hungry! Not starving, just a little empty feeling. I thought to myself, “huh...that’s okay..that’s good.”

I wiped my starting weight clean in 2016, thinking that I had rested on my weight loss laurels for too long, considering that I had gained back about 20 pounds of the 45 I had lost on MFP. I admit that there have been times that I wished everyone could see that I had really lost more than the measly 8 that was showing. Lol!! I just want a fresh start...a new beginning to get it right this time.

I’m going back to basics...measuring, weighing food, logging everything. I started just saying, “close enough” instead of weighing my food and I think my serving sizes were way out of whack. A handful of nuts here, a spoonful of peanut butter there, my serving of wine was nowhere near 4 ounces! Ha! I’m going to record my weight every Friday morning. I’m also going to make sure I’m drinking my water every day.

milove1029

Yes, Suzy I have to increase my water intake, I had a urinary tract infection about a month ago the first time in my life.
Suzy that is the best way, but it is difficult for me to measure everything seem like I don't have any extra time. I am going to try. Wednesday is my weigh in day, so it is perfect for the New Year.

Thanks, Snoozie for the confirmation for the coffee, I so enjoy it but I only will do one cup now daily. And Vail thanks for the confirmation for the wine, I so love it but I am limiting it to 5 ml daily, At least most of the time

Snooozie

Good morning Hatters!

Wow.. its kinda hard to believe today is the last day of 2018.. in some ways the whole year seems to have flown by so quickly and in others.. not so much lol..


So i picked today for my weigh in and re set of everything from my ticker to my current weight to "end" the year... and in planning my move forward, i did enter "A" goal weight on my ticker, but only to use as a guideline, it isn't set in stone because I have decided i will know when I reach a comfortable weight I want to be at, and it may not be the specific number I put in, but it's one of those "guidelines" or rules that I need to have in place as a target..

But this time I have decided that "goal weight" number will NOT be a stressor for me.

I am going to be focusing on getting rid of all the excess weight I carry this year - but I'm not projecting how much per week to lose, or how much per month etc.. I'm just going to commit every single day to making the choice to take care of myself, and the weight WILL come off as I do the work to make it happen.

My choice for 2019 is to lose the excess weight I'm carrying, which is approx 23-25 lbs, and to choose to take better care of myself.




Suzy - i loved reading your post and well done you on having thought out what you want to do, and for having chosen an "action plan" for getting what you want for yourself! Woo to the hoo!

Milove - as our 2019 focus will be on choices, i think we need to remember that enjoying things like our morning coffee or evening glass of wine or anything really...shouldn't be considered "bad" choices (at least IMO).. they are simply "a" choice we make. As you know my morning coffee made the way i like it, is truly a small joy to me, and a choice every day I am absolutely comfortable with. I love that you have figured out what you don't want to do, and what you do want to do, to move forward in the new year!

Vail - I applaud your decision to try the habitbull tracker and implement some things that have worked for you before like the herbal tea at night, etc. You reminded me that both trying new things and sticking with those tried and true tools are both important!!

Snooozie

Ok I was too late to edit my post above lol.... but i've been thinking for the start of our new 2019 thread ... about combining both ideas from Vail and Suzy - maybe something along the lines of "2019: I want to see what happens if I don't give up - here we go!!"

Any yeas or nays ?

suzyqholland

Sounds good to me! Happy (and healthy) New Year Hatters!!!

Snooozie

Happy new year to all as well and vail as u r about 5 hours ahead of the rest of us I think it's just about New Year's where you are so I'm going to try to start a new thread for 2019 now but I'm at work and I'm not sure I can login from here; ok I did it here's the link to the 2019 thread - HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10715062/2019-i-want-to-see-what-happens-if-i-dont-give-up-here-we-go/p1?new=1