Daily Commitment Thread for 2020 -- JUST FOR TODAY

TerriRichardson112

Just a quick post tonight. I'm pretty bushed. 😂
Another New day! Another opportunity to achieve great things, one step at a time.
I am straight into all my group meetings again. Determined to manage my time better.
The only failure is giving up!

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2019 DISCARD 5 LBS CHALLENGES:
01 Aug 2019: 170.1
31 Dec 2019: 151.2
Total weight loss: 19.9lbs
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2020 - Jan Discard 5lb Challenge
Name: Terri
SW: 152.1 (02 Jan)
GW: 147.1
03 Jan: 151.8
04 Jan: 151.4
05 Jan: 151.2 This is mostly water weight.
06 Jan: 151.2 - 1.1
08 Jan: 150.9 - 1.4
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WFTY: DEPTH
Depth Year - Updates

I definitely have way too much stuff. I need to streamline my existence, resist adding more stuff, and start using what I have already got. I have been working towards doing this for several years with my decluttering. I need to stop the march of consumerism, and putting money into the pockets of other people by buying things I want rather than actually need.
03 Jan: This is going to be way harder than I thought. Need to,work,out strategies and guidelines for what I can and cannot purchase.

1. I have a stack of books which I haven't read. I will read one of those book a month, and not buy any more books this year. I will source any other books I want to read at the library.
2. 04 Jan: The Illusionists - Rosie Thomas > 5 chapters per week
3. I have closets full of clothes that no longer fit. I will work my way through them over the next two months, and either alter them to fit, or donate them to charity.
4. 07 Jan:One bag already full and ready to go,to the charity shop
5. I have a lot of Craft supplies. I will optimise what I have before I buy any new supplies. Sticking to this one will be difficult.
6. 07 Jan: Depth Year: I have Parchment Craft this morning. I will pick out one of my ongoing projects and work on it to completion. No new projects until I have finished at least 3 ongoing ones.

Daily Goals

• Food: log All food and drink; stay under goal; balance macros/micros; Hydrate adequately; NLNS!!!
• Exercise: Knee Physio; 7,500+ Steps daily; 30 + minutes intentional exercise
• Other: Daily Mindfulness Practice/Meditation; Practice Self-care; Positively reframe thoughts; Live! Love! Learn!; 15 mins Daily Declutter session; keep up to date with chores

JFT Wed 08 Jan
Daily Goals:🌟
Activities:

• 10.15am: Hosting Garden Group Quiz🌟
• Grocery Shopping🌟
• 7pm: Crochet Group 🌟
• The Illusionists - Rosie Thomas: Ch 6🌟
• Chores🌟 Cleared up after our entertaining

JFT Thu 09 Jan
Daily Goals:
Activities:

• Prep for flower arranging after lunch
• 2pm: Flower arranging
• The Illusionists - Rosie Thomas: Ch 7
• fold/store laundry

maryrobinson40

BEING A BETTER ME
HAPPY WEDNESDAY ALL. I TOOK IT EASY TODAY. Think my blood pressure medicine is working against me. I'll be making a doctor's appointment in the morning. Anyway... I stuck to not overeating and eating my veggies. No Soda... Green Tea and water.
Will be better tomorrow. Love you beautiful people. Have a good night.

teigansdad

Well today was day 1
Can’t claim total success
-fail #1: Friend had brought back a 4 pk of a new release IPA from Burial brewery in NC. Had been waiting on it since before Christmas so opened a can.. so fail being I drank some beer. BUT.. Although it was amazing I only had about 1/3 of a glass and dumped the rest knowing it was wasting calories and also I’d have to admit this to you guys (:
So I guess at least I didn’t go excessive
Fail #2: really could have done better with my snacks before dinner

On the win side: I did come in under my calorie goal, went shopping and got a bunch of healthier snacks plus fresh fruits and I did my workout as planned

Tomorrow’s goal for 1/9
-drink two more glasses of water than I did today
-group ride on Zwift
-skip the beer (gonna try this again)
-snack with fruits
-come in under calorie goal (but not so much it hurts Training)

teigansdad

pridesabtch wrote: »

teigansdad wrote: »

pridesabtch wrote: »

teigansdad wrote: »

New here.. love this idea so here it goes..
1/8/20
-log food
-no mindless calories when I get home from work (fruit or vege snack instead of Milky Way dark minis)
-no beer
-more water
-complete my planned sufferfest workout

You a biker? Sufferfest?

Yes
Play around racing mountain bikes (I’d say serious weekend warrior level, race for a shop... fairly competitive at my age group but love of beer likely a big obstacle to finding the top step of podium).
This time of year do most of my cycling on my wahoo kickr.
Usually switch between swift for virtual group rides or sufferfest for interval workouts. Sufferfest has really upped their game since being bought out by wahoo
I’d say I like that training platform better than trainer road but the videos get kinda boring. I often let sufferfest run the trainer intervals but have my litttle avatar on Zwift wheeling through the virtual worlds to break up the 1 to 3 hrs on trainer

5 years ago I did time trials, now I'm fat and slow. Working on fixing that. I probably won't race anymore, but I will get my rump up the hills around here in a less embarrassing way.

pridesabtch wrote: »

teigansdad wrote: »

pridesabtch wrote: »

teigansdad wrote: »

New here.. love this idea so here it goes..
1/8/20
-log food
-no mindless calories when I get home from work (fruit or vege snack instead of Milky Way dark minis)
-no beer
-more water
-complete my planned sufferfest workout

You a biker? Sufferfest?

Yes
Play around racing mountain bikes (I’d say serious weekend warrior level, race for a shop... fairly competitive at my age group but love of beer likely a big obstacle to finding the top step of podium).
This time of year do most of my cycling on my wahoo kickr.
Usually switch between swift for virtual group rides or sufferfest for interval workouts. Sufferfest has really upped their game since being bought out by wahoo
I’d say I like that training platform better than trainer road but the videos get kinda boring. I often let sufferfest run the trainer intervals but have my litttle avatar on Zwift wheeling through the virtual worlds to break up the 1 to 3 hrs on trainer

5 years ago I did time trials, now I'm fat and slow. Working on fixing that. I probably won't race anymore, but I will get my rump up the hills around here in a less embarrassing way.

Wow! Time trials... that’s legit work.
Talk about red zone work.. that’s like doing A FTP test.
Look forward to reading about your progress

Kuhl50

Kuhl50 wrote: »

Wednesday 1/8
1. Up at 6:00, 30 min on bike, 2 reps yoga stretches 👿. None of the above. Woke up tired, sore, took a rest day.
2. Healthy breakfast, NOT looking at phone or reading kindle 😁
3. Pack and bring lunch 😁 to eat as dinner [didnt, but ate a within calorie day even so]
4. Choose healthy for lunch provided at meeting 😁
5. Log all food and stay green😁
6. Pre-plan treat—chocolate seahorse 😁
7. Evening: Haircut, set out breakfast for Thursday, set out workout clothes 😁
7. Enter JFT for Thursday 😁
8. Given the late hair appointment, realistic (yet aggressive) is upstairs by 9:30, journal, lights out 10:15. Another late night, gotta work on this.

Ok, missed my first goal of the day but on track after that. Didn’t help that I woke up to a slight gain. Telling myself it is muscle repair after all the workouts...(🤞)

Thursday!
1. Up at 6:00, run/walk per app, 2 reps yoga stretches
2. Healthy breakfast, NOT looking at phone or reading kindle
3. Pack and bring lunch to eat
4. Leave work by 6pm
5. Log all food and stay green
6. Pre-plan treat—chocolate seahorse
7. Evening: Make tenderloin with sweet potatoes. Set out breakfast for Friday, set out workout clothes
7. Enter JFT for Friday
8. Upstairs by 9, journal, lights out 9:30

bookmeister86

Yesterday I think my willpower started to decrease a bit and I ate Christmas cake that I hadn't intended to. I had been planning to run a c. 200 deficit to bank some calories for today (when we are going for cocktails). However in the evening a combination of emotions (some good some bad) plus feeling fed up of not being full meant I gave in and ate the cake. This suggests that perhaps I need to be realistic about how often I can run deficits/ bank calories. I get hungry with deficits, for obvious reasons! I'm going to go for an extra run today to bank calories for the cocktails instead

As envisaged I did NOT manage to give blood, I got turned away for low iron for the second time in a row. Grr. It's not really surprising. When I was turned away the first time she said poor diet might be behind it. I haven't exactly improved my diet since then (with the exception of the last week perhaps) so it isn't really that odd that the iron hasn't improved! I will work on my diet for the next few months and then try again...


Yesterday's goals:

- Track all food and drink
- Be in the green with a deficit I ate up my deficit with Christmas cake. I think I was getting tired of being ever so slightly hungry and just wanted to feel full
- Not have unplanned snacks/ binge outside the home

- 45 min lunch break Just 30. I'm going to struggle to get my hours in this week due to various appointments so decided just to crack on
- Read 1+ career development article
- Take regular ‘breathe/ reframe’ breaks at work to manage emotions Possibly once. Was difficult to remember though particularly as it was a meeting heavy day with few gaps
- Stay positive

- Finish work at 5.30pm
- Talk to boyfriend in French
- Do finances Couldn't be bothered, will have to defer till weekend
- Gratitude journal
- Lights off by 10.45


Today's goals:

- Track all food and drink
- Be in the green
- Not have unplanned snacks/ binge outside the home

- 45 min lunch break
- Read 1+ career development article
- Take regular ‘breathe/ reframe’ breaks at work to manage emotions
- Stay positive

- Finish work by 6.15
- Talk to boyfriend in French
- Create 'terms of reference' of couple night
- Gratitude journal
- Lights off by 11

ZizzyBumble

Thursday9 January

Log accurately
Stay in the green
5 fruit and veg
Water
Fitbit exercise goals
Loose that 5kg was at -1.1 but gained .2 back and nothing lost in the past 2 days. Patience is required!

Loose 5lb challenge

SW 122
CW 122.4 (+.2) . No progress

littleblackskirt

I am really late to this thread this year, page 11 already!
I bought a large diary to write all my plans in, and I haven't even opened it yet! I'm pleased that, given what a difficult year 2019 was, that I ended the year a little lighter than I started it. Now I need to make more effort this year.

I was saying to a friend that I was enthused about 2020 and felt it would be a good year (really just from the usual new year enthusiasm and the fact it's a nice number lol) and she told me that I was talking nonsense and there was no reason it would be any better than last year, and in fact given my parents failing health this coming year would be worse for me. Talk about a downer! I know things will get worse with my parents, but I can't change that, and don't see why I should put my whole life on hold until they're gone. I need to compartmentalize, and have my life helping parents and my working/home life running alongside each other. Take every day as it comes.

My first aim for the year - lose 8lbs before I move house in the March.

JFT Thursday 9th January

Log all food (haven't logged for months, this will help me focus again)
Do back exercises (having a "back episode" right now due to doing all parents errands, will need to rethink how I do everything)
Go for blood tests
Start packing (this will go slowly as I'm clearing out 25 years of stuff as I go!)

clicketykeys

JFT Thursday
1. Therapy exercises: lunges, push-ups, ankle lifts, box jumps, plank. Balance work. Feed cats. Meds. Tea! Review plans.
2. Before school: Check class websites. Update first directions. Get cart.
3. Class A: Homework Chart. Syllabus notes - homework, late work. Update Portfolio. Accounts: Classroom (Summer/Reg). Goodreads. Grammarly. CommonLit. NoRedInk. NRI diagnostic. CL diagnostic. Homework: Classroom. Return work and conference.
4. Class B: Syllabus notes - late work. Update Portfolio. Accounts: Classroom. Grammarly. CommonLit. NoRedInk. NRI diagnostic. CL diagnostic. Return work and conference.
5. Planning: CALL PARENTS. Read 20 pages of Frankenstein. Update Goodreads. Update unit plans. Duolingo. Toe stretches / balance.
6. Drink more water. No, more. Keep the pitcher in the fridge full. You're not actually hungry. Make some tea. Drink more water!
7. Run. Dinner backup: Shepherd's pie leftovers. Yoga with core/balance work. Check on B. Email student. Message Z. Read 20 pages of Why School.
8. Log all food. Prep parfait. Set up JFT for tomorrow. Pack lunch.
9. Gratitude journal. Therapy exercises: lunges, push-ups, ankle lifts, box jumps, plank. Meds. Floss, rinse, brush teeth. Alarm set for 5:50.
10. Practice hair braiding with D. Check on appts for drs. Remind D to ask his dad about the table and check with home repair contractors. START BLOGGING AGAIN. 3 posts/week? Create test for MLA format. Create test for infographics and visual information. Therapy exercises: lunges, push-ups, ankle lifts, box jumps, plank. Remember that M does not like surprises! Check dates of classes and update semester plan. She Should Run vision statement.

Scale goals

End of 2017: 174.6
End of 2018: 189.2
End of 2019: 196.4
Today: 197.6

Ongoing plans/ideas behind the cut

1. Purchases: Look for an "ugly Christmas sweater" and a long-haired doll at thrift stores. Practice French braiding. Go to used bookstore and look for On Writing (Stephen King), Dying for a Paycheck (Robin Hardman), The Prince (tr. Tim Parks, Russell Price, or Robert Adams), The Secret Adversary (Christie).
2. E2: What should the controlling ideas be in a study of world literature? Review world lit options. Create vocabulary lists for each unit that come from the texts used: Animal Farm, Julius Caesar, Wes Moore, I Am Malala. Find a way to incorporate changing words from one part of speech to another. Students need to know how to review multiple sources and synthesize information in order to draw a conclusion. Need practice with the difference between transitions and overlapping (at end of paragraph - "another issue is Y" vs "there are other issues besides X"). Quit using "in conclusion" and "I believe" and other writing-about-my-writing phrases. Confusion between direct/indirect objects and prepositional phrases. Use the UDHR and the Declaration of Independence to study paraphrasing; use that to front-load Machiavelli and how to deal with challenging texts. Confusion between everyday / every day and similar constructions.
3. E1: Need practice with quoting & paraphrasing sources, identifying claims that would need support, use of last names for reference, and capitalization practice (common/proper nouns, titles). Difficulty using possessive nouns in their own writing. Honors: practice subject/object pronouns (my friend and I / my friend and me). Poetry: Revise "Songs are Poetry" handouts.
4. Curriculum Development: Writing mini-unit. Review scholarly research on 5PE. (I think I can have this as an intro to the research unit so that they also get exposure to how quotes are integrated and cited.) Parallel structure; use of emotional language, specific detail. Use "Write About a Pebble" lesson from Atwell. How long should each unit take? Do research on characteristics: curiosity, persistence, resilience, creativity, responsibility, optimism, courage, integrity, authenticity, leadership, self-awareness, humility, compassion - others? Include grammarly check on essays! Review assessments. What is the purpose for each unit? What should the controlling ideas be in a study of world literature? Review world lit options. Schedule assessments for Fall 2019; plan out return times. Write 1 reflection weekly; type one in Classroom by Weds. Copy-paste to discussion board for comments due Friday. PB usernames 6 digits, no 19 or 20s, no birthdates. Homework: Online journal Mon due Tue; Reflection Tue due Wed; C&P journal in class Wed; Comments Thu due Fri. Bonus if you are the first response; further bonus if you respond to comments on your post. Grammar practice Mon & Wed; quiz Fri.
5. Professional Development: Write blog post weekly. Comment on 3 posts each week -Tu Th Sun? Check with PSC. Talk with Z about articles and/or conference proposals. NOTE: ATTENDED PRE FLEX DAY.
6. Medical: Dentist Apr 30 8 AM but check on meetings and RS. Onco Apr ???. PCP Schedule for July. ObG schedule for October. PCP - allergy shots?
7. Theater: Christie auditions 19-20 7 PM.
8. House: Crawl space repairs. After that - siding? Or perhaps bathroom floor.
9. Fun: Open beading on Thursdays. Coloring at library on Tuesday. Put jewelry away. Edney Hack Nights alt Weds. ASL? Spanish/Portuguese practice? Practice piano. ROL Secret Adversary. Buy new bikes and bike rack for car.
10. Volunteering ideas: Theater. Library. Animal shelter. Community Kitchen. Emerge Georgia training.
11. Family: Find cousin photos.

WFTY: Progress. I didn't go on my long run yesterday. I don't know why I was suddenly exhausted when I got home from school.

And then just before bedtime I got an email from a parent asking about grades from last term. I think -- I hope -- it wasn't meant as an attack. But it felt like one. Like they were saying "you aren't doing your job right." So it took another two hours for me to wind down from that.

I wish I knew how to avoid letting it affect me so much.

awhit4842

JFT Thursday
1. Log all food
2. Gym-barre class
3. Drink 150oz water
4. Write in WW journal

aubyshortcake

Hi all, I hope you're all having a good week. I feel like it's been going by really fast. Have a happy Thursday!

Yesterday 1/8:

1. Stay within calorie goal😁
2. Finish work at 5:20😁
3. Cook dinner😁

JFT 1/9:

1. Stay within calorie goal
2. Finish work at 5:20
3. Do workout
4. Wash a load of laundry

maryrobinson40

@aubyshortcake GOOOOOOOD MORNING! Thank you! Have a great Thursday. Love ya

maryrobinson40

@awhit4842 Good Morning! Have a great day!

maryrobinson40

@clicketykeys Good Morning Beautiful! Have a Great Day! Love ya!

maryrobinson40

@littleblackskirt GOOD MORNING!! HAVE A GREAT DAY!! 🤗💝

maryrobinson40

@ZizzyBumble Good Morning! Have A Great Day! Love ya!

Faebert

Hi all, bit late on here today. Hope all is well. Busy today with various house repairs and admin jobs - trying to make the most of my time off work!

Wednesday goals recap:
- Up early, wound check, shave legs/pamper time ✅
- Get kids up and ready ✅
- Pack snacks and schoolbags ✅
- Walk kids to school ✅
- Take out cash on way home ✅
- Health food store ✅
- Research new doorbell/intercom ✅
- pick up 3:45 ✅
- Kids hair wash ✅
- Stay within calorie goal ✅
- hydrate! ✅
- Bed by 10 ❎

Thursday goals:
- up and wash hair, bath and wound check ✅
- Get kids up and ready ✅
- Pack snacks and schoolbags ✅
- Take kids to school ✅
- Coffee with S ✅
- Gutter cleaning ✅
- Boiler service
- Sort doorbell
- Pick up 3:45
- Stay within calorie goal
- Hydrate
- Bed by 10:30

Have a happy Thursday all x

raspeary

First time today doing this.
I am hoping this will keep me motivated and feel like I am making progress towards my weight goals.


JFT Thursday:
1. Get a 3 mile fitness walk in
2. Close all my apple watch rings
3. Drink more water
4. Get caught up on my reports and paperwork for work before going to work
5. Continue to keep logging my food
6. Keep trying to be more careful about portions when eating

pridesabtch

raspeary wrote: »

First time today doing this.
I am hoping this will keep me motivated and feel like I am making progress towards my weight goals.


JFT Thursday:
1. Get a 3 mile fitness walk in
2. Close all my apple watch rings
3. Drink more water
4. Get caught up on my reports and paperwork for work before going to work
5. Continue to keep logging my food
6. Keep trying to be more careful about portions when eating

Welcome to the gang! You've got this, just keep up the good work!

beachwalker99

Goals for Wednesday, January 8, 2020
• Up with the alarm – Nope
• Complete food log and maintain a calorie deficit - √
• Bank and returns to sports store - √√
• College Readiness class – CANCELLED (Emergency school closing due to possible gas leak!)
• Work on reorganizing kitchen storage – Punted on this one
• Print and fill out forms for gym - √ - Took advantage of the class cancellation to go over to campus and tour the fitness center. Walked a bit while I was there.
• Start Henry VI, Part 1 - √

JFT Goals for Thursday, January 9, 2020
• Up with alarm -√
• Physical with new Primary Care Physician
• Clean out the fridge
• Work on syllabus
• Complete food log and maintain a calorie deficit