This September I Will...
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@TerriRichardson112, Great wording choice!
“For September, I am continuing to clear out an old filing cabinet
(Using ‘am’ as opposed to ‘I will … ‘ as it gives me less scope to cop out.)
You’re right. “I am (doing)” has more oomph than “I will”. And “I will” is a much better statement than “I hope to”.
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@MadisonMolly2017, I am so happy to read that you and your husband had a break and went hiking. I’m sure it was just what you needed!
@77tes, love your Fall Into Fitness reset. Fall is a great time to get active again.
@snowshoe072, hope your shoulder is 100% soon. Rowing is great exercise!
Welcome to our group, @helenw323! Outdoor walking is a great fall activity!2 -
This September: I have begun MFP again.
Pre track my day, tweak as needed. So, I have an outline of the day.
Two main goals this month
1. Reduce the amount of I blew it snack times - Last month it was all day, last two weeks once a day, trying to move to zero times a day.
2. Increase fitbit steps. last month did not wear my fitbit. 2 weeks ago barely made it to 3k a day. Now over 4k a day, moving to 5k a day.5 -
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1. My intention for September (This September I will...")
For September, I am continuing to clear out an old filing cabinet
(Using ‘am’ as opposed to ‘I will … ‘ as it gives me less scope to cop out.
2. The small actions I am taking to accomplish this goal
a) Sort and declutter papers > 10 minutes.
b) Store essential papers; shred/bin the rest
3. The trigger or cue to remember to do my habit.
Reminder on phone.
4. How often am I doing my new September habit (daily is best if possible)
Daily 🗑 or 🤦♀️
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5. What reward am I immediately giving myself for doing my habit?
I am doing a victory 💃🏼 and 🗑
6. What help do you need from us?
Click “Like” or any of the feedback responses so I know you are reading? Having this place to report in every few days and knowing someone else is reading is really helpful.
7. What does success look like to you at the end of September?
An empty filing cabinet.
Day by day, in every way, it’s getting better and better!
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This September: I have begun MFP again.
Pre track my day, tweak as needed. So, I have an outline of the day.
Two main goals this month
1. Reduce the amount of I blew it snack times - Last month it was all day, last two weeks once a day, trying to move to zero times a day.
2. Increase fitbit steps. last month did not wear my fitbit. 2 weeks ago barely made it to 3k a day. Now over 4k a day, moving to 5k a day.
Congratulations @Bellawow on your amazing progress!!
I have been doing something similar; we can get back on track together❣️
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TerriRichardson112 wrote: »🐬🐳🐬🐙🐬🐳🐬
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Daily Solid Habits:
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1. My intention for September (This September I will...")
For September, I am continuing to clear out an old filing cabinet
(Using ‘am’ as opposed to ‘I will … ‘ as it gives me less scope to cop out.
2. The small actions I am taking to accomplish this goal
a) Sort and declutter papers > 10 minutes.
b) Store essential papers; shred/bin the rest
3. The trigger or cue to remember to do my habit.
Reminder on phone.
4. How often am I doing my new September habit (daily is best if possible)
Daily 🗑 or 🤦♀️
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5. What reward am I immediately giving myself for doing my habit?
I am doing a victory 💃🏼 and 🗑
6. What help do you need from us?
Click “Like” or any of the feedback responses so I know you are reading? Having this place to report in every few days and knowing someone else is reading is really helpful.
7. What does success look like to you at the end of September?
An empty filing cabinet.
Day by day, in every way, it’s getting better and better!
Dear Terri,
I know you said you’d appreciate “likes” to your post, but I wanted to acknowledge you further.
Consistent, Wise, Inspired, Organized, and much more…
Your suggestion to focus on today was a supremely good reminder.
After almost 4 years of “no problem,” this rough patch was pretty terrifying. It’s what I’ve always said, I’m always so grateful
when I’m effortlessly “in the groove.”
What finally turned me around…acknowledging to myself that I feel better when I eat my “boring, moderate portioned, healthy meals.” My old habits want restaurant food, the free fall of eating, the salty/sweet/fatty foods BUT I was sluggish, had heartburn (which I never do), felt too full, walked more slowly etc.
So yesterday, my first really good day in awhile, THAT is what made me switch back!
Not the weight gain, not the BMI, not the health benefits…
It was really I Feel Better when I eat healthily at home.
Thank you for being so supportive & for leasing by example!
Warmly,
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Another great week. Having a simple goal helps me get more done.
Week 3 - My FALL IN LOVE WITH FITNESS reset Goal is 30 minutes each of cardio, strength, and yoga for the week
Sept 11 - 🏃♀️62, 🧘♀️15
Sept 12 - 🏃♀️33, 💪33, 🧘♀️58. Already hit my goal for the week! ✨
Sept 13 - 🏃♀️86, 🧘♀️60
Sept 14 - 🏃♀️100, 🧘♀️15
Sept 15 - 🏃♀️96, 💪38, 🧘♀️15
Sept 16 - 🏃♀️100, 🧘♀️15
Sept 17 - 🏃♀️86, 🧘♀️36
@themedalist , I shared your mental prep for zoom meetings when when my daughter was sharing a similar issue.4 -
For the rest of September I'm going to focus on my exercise. Prior to my vacation I had finally started getting into a regular schedule of doing the EPIC workouts and I want to return to that. Because of some shoulder problems I went from every third day to every fourth day but I prefer the every third day cycle so that will be the goal starting tomorrow (Tuesday).
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@themedalist
I’m glad you had a good conference!
I love your “I Will” … “we are all works in progress”
Welcome back!
Maddie 💞
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🐬🐳🐬🐙🐬🐳🐬
🐳🐬 SEPTEMBER 🐬🐳
🐬🐳🐬🐙🐬🐳🐬
Daily Solid Habits:
👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
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1. My intention for September (This September I will...")
For September, I am continuing to clear out an old filing cabinet
(Using ‘am’ as opposed to ‘I will … ‘ as it gives me less scope to cop out.
2. The small actions I am taking to accomplish this goal
a) Sort and declutter papers > 10 minutes.
b) Store essential papers; shred/bin the rest
3. The trigger or cue to remember to do my habit.
Reminder on phone.
4. How often am I doing my new September habit (daily is best if possible)
Daily 🗑 or 🤦♀️
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5. What reward am I immediately giving myself for doing my habit?
I am doing a victory 💃🏼 and 🗑
6. What help do you need from us?
Click “Like” or any of the feedback responses so I know you are reading? Having this place to report in every few days and knowing someone else is reading is really helpful.
7. What does success look like to you at the end of September?
An empty filing cabinet.
@MadisonMolly2017 You always inspired me, so it’s a privilege to know that it’s mutual.
Nothing feels
as good as
Fit and Healthy!!!
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Goals/ habits for September
* Track honestly including w/e💖
* Maintain weight 58 to 62 kg and build muscle 💖
*Take measurements every 2 weeks thumbs 👇
* Look for opportunities👇
* De clutter 💖
* In bed by 9pm! 💖
* Focus on an attitude for gratitude💖
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themedalist wrote: »Hello everyone! I am back from my conference in Charleston, SC. My first professional conference since the pandemic. A good trip as I met lots of people in person who I had only seen behind a screen. But I am glad to be back home and back to my habits and routines. The conference was held at a resort which was lovely, but the fitness center was several buildings away and I just couldn’t talk myself into an early morning walk when it was so hot and humid. Most days I still averaged 6000 to 8000 steps, but there was so much sitting and eating and eating and sitting. So glad to be back home and doing my morning cycling via BitGym (today I cycled around Panama), VR, and treadmill walking and reading. As much as I enjoyed the trip, I love my daily routines.
My focus this month is on being more patient with a certain person on my weekly Zoom call. So far so good! It’s amazing what a few minutes of deep breathing and mental preparation does for diffusing stress. It also helps to remember the many good qualities the person who dominates our conversations has. They have many wonderful attributes. This is just one of the things that’s a bit harder to take. I have annoying tendencies too. We are all works in progress.
Love this @themedalist!!! Ppl really can be annoying can't they lol but I like ur kind, evolved and empathic take on it!!! Xo1 -
donna25trinity wrote: »Goals/ habits for September
* Track honestly including w/e💖
* Maintain weight 58 to 62 kg and build muscle 💖
*Take measurements every 2 weeks thumbs 👇
* Look for opportunities👇
* De clutter 💖
* In bed by 9pm! 💖
* Focus on an attitude for gratitude💖
Great job @donna25trinity !!
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Maddie - so glad you are back in control and figuring out what makes you happy. 🥰 Keep going — the urge will go away. What are you doing as a new habit at night to keep the munchies at bay? I had to start a new habit to help end the old one. @MadisonMolly20171
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Thank you @jamcnewmanjamcnewman wrote: »Maddie - so glad you are back in control and figuring out what makes you happy. 🥰 Keep going — the urge will go away. What are you doing as a new habit at night to keep the munchies at bay? I had to start a new habit to help end the old one. @MadisonMolly2017
Not sure yet…what did you do? xx
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1st week - sept 13-19 💞
2nd week
Sept 20 ♥️
Sept 21 ♥️
Sept 22 🆗/♥️
Sept 23 ♥️♥️
Sept 24 🆗/♥️
7K steps ❌car trip
Beat Saber 20min skip-letting muscles heals bit more❌
Food: ♥️
Reminding myself of health reasons to curtail food ♥️ works well.
“I am placing my health first.”
Sleep ♥️ 7 hrs
Mood- very Happy. ♥️
I’m figuring out what makes me happy.
Researched painting the feathers on bird’s heads.
Spent 2 hours doing kantha stitched piece
80 mins doing an “ugh” but necessary email
Spent an hour chatting with a dear friend
AND an unexpected and awesome car trip with hubby - redwood trees & my favorite yarn shopNature is endlessly fascinating!!
Nature, Discovery, Art, The World
Friends & Family
Teaching & Learning
Steady at 167.2 (yay)
BMI: 25.4
-0.5to go 😍
Incredibly grateful that I somehow got back into “remission.” When it’s easy, and I’m
In the groove, it’s a joy. When it’s difficult & elusive, it’s terrifying.
Sept 24: I will be thinking about Julie’s question of what I could replace it with. This morning, after not snacking at night, I was not hungry, so it really doesn’t seem to be necessary intake…
Best to you all,
Maddie💞
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Hi Maddie — It took me a couple of tries to find what worked to help me. First was the “eat prepped veggies only” because if I truly was hungry, they would satisfy that need. I rarely wanted them when that was all that was on offer. But I didn’t stop thinking about wanting to graze on other things.MadisonMolly2017 wrote: »
Thank you @jamcnewmanjamcnewman wrote: »Maddie - so glad you are back in control and figuring out what makes you happy. 🥰 Keep going — the urge will go away. What are you doing as a new habit at night to keep the munchies at bay? I had to start a new habit to help end the old one. @MadisonMolly2017
Not sure yet…what did you do? xx
Next I re-established my nightly knitting. I find it meditative and peaceful to pick it up at night — no complicated patterns, mostly dishcloths, hats knit in the round, and things that could be done fairly mindlessly (and where my 🤬 knitting frustrated rage couldn’t arise 😂). It worked. Kept me off my phone too (another evening habit I needed to stop). My hands were busy and the foods I sometimes crave at nighttime aren’t a good match for busy hands that you want to keep clean.
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Well fast approaching October I do hope to have a more productive month maybe I just need to look at what I accomplished not what I didn’t get accomplished. Let’s see my meditation still happens each morning, I still log and track my food and I have a new day to try again I guess I can’t ask for more than that but will be thinking about next month where do I need some improvement?5
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Another week of success. This is such a huge improvement to what I was doing in August!
Week 4 - My FALL IN LOVE WITH FITNESS reset Goal is 30 minutes each of cardio, strength, and yoga for the week
Sept 18 - 🏃♀️30, 🧘♀️16
Sept 19 - 🏃♀️50, 💪38,🧘♀️34 Hit my goal early ✨
Sept 20 - 🏃♀️104, 🧘♀️ 33
Sept 21 - 🏃♀️78, 💪45, 🧘♀️15
Sept 22 - 🏃♀️62, 🧘♀️15
Sept 23 - 🏃♀️70, 💃90
Sept 24 - 🏃♀️52, 🧘♀️152 -
I think the main things I actually accomplished this month. Started Tracking my food, Started tracking my walking.3
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1st week - sept 13-19 💞 2,040avg 8,100st
2nd week- sept 20-26 💞 1,940avg 7,690st
Avg daily distance 3.7 miles both weeks
Workouts 1:29 daily avg 1st week &
1:41 2nd week
I timed two consecutive one mile walks this week. One was 19+ mins & the other was 18* mins!
(I had just read a study about stepping up effort of walks for huge health gains - suggesting 20-22 min miles was great.) I’m so happy!
It used to take me 35 mins to walk 1.2 miles when I weighed 228 & had barely any kidney function.
GRATEFUL.
Reminding myself of health reasons to curtail food ♥️ works well.
“I am placing my health first.”
Sleep ♥️ 7 hrs
Mood- very Happy. ♥️
Nature is endlessly fascinating!!
Nature, Discovery, Art, The World
Friends & Family
Teaching & Learning
Steady at 167.2 (yay)
BMI: 25.4
-0.5to go 😍
Incredibly grateful that I somehow got back into “remission.” When it’s easy, and I’m
in the groove, it’s a joy. When it’s difficult & elusive, it’s terrifying.
@jamcnewman
I have been stitching each day & evening - very relaxing!!
But when hubby & I go up to watch our show, I get food - not hungry. It’s a habit, I now realize.
I had forgotten the need for rewards for changing habits.
I’ve been trying to think of one… OK
Each evening that I will stop eating for the evening at the end of dinner, I will earn $2 towards the dress form I plan to purchase after I’ve gotten back to my earlier weight so I can design, fit, and sew clothes for myself... About 8-10 lbs. I will also repeat the mantra: “It’s just a habit. You changed the habit earlier & now you can change it back!”
Also: “I am a person who does not eat after dinner”
Also “I sleep better when I stop eating for the night at dinner.”
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@MadisonMolly2017 I always set the treadmill to a 20min walk. This generally keeps my heart rate at just over 100. From what I read this is an ok range for someone of my age (63). My doctor said all of my numbers are good and that I'm quite fit (though I think she meant for my age even though she didn't say it).
Sometimes if I'm feeling energetic I'll add some incline or speed up temporarily but for the most part I'm happy with it and trying to walk longer distances would be as beneficial as speeding up. My partner walks extremely fast so when we walk outside I end up walking faster to keep up with him.
This months post vacation goals are lacking. I'm struggling to keep up with the upper body weights (using EPIC) because my left shoulder is still causing problems. My last workout I had to quit at 75% and I haven't done anything since though I plan to tomorrow. I'd like to just get in a minimum of two EPICs per week. I read something recently about older people should lift weights for 20mins 3x per week. It may be that I can split the EPIC workouts into two sessions to get that since they usually end up being around 40mins.4 -
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🐳🐬 SEPTEMBER 🐬🐳
🐬🐳🐬🐙🐬🐳🐬
Daily Solid Habits:
👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
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1. My intention for September (This September I will...")
For September, I am continuing to clear out an old filing cabinet
(Using ‘am’ as opposed to ‘I will … ‘ as it gives me less scope to cop out.
2. The small actions I am taking to accomplish this goal
a) Sort and declutter papers > 10 minutes.
b) Store essential papers; shred/bin the rest
3. The trigger or cue to remember to do my habit.
Reminder on phone.
4. How often am I doing my new September habit (daily is best if possible)
Daily 🗑 or 🤦♀️
🗑🗑🗑🗑🗑🗑🗑
🗑🗑🗑🗑🗑🤦♀️🗑
🗑🤦♀️🗑🗑🗑🗑🗑
🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🗑🗑
Away for a long weekend
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5. What reward am I immediately giving myself for doing my habit?
I am doing a victory 💃🏼 and 🗑
6. What help do you need from us?
Click “Like” or any of the feedback responses so I know you are reading? Having this place to report in every few days and knowing someone else is reading is really helpful.
7. What does success look like to you at the end of September?
An empty filing cabinet.
Nothing feels
as good as
Fit and Healthy!!!
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Hi all I haven't been as active on this group this month but have been doing really well with my habits... I think in previous months I tried to take on too many habits at once and I was able to stick to most of them but it was alot of pressure. I am in another group called UAC and I have made the Winner's Circle in that group for the first time in months and I think it's cause I'm in a good place, have settled in to working mum life and also hve not taken on too many goals and habits! Hope you are all doing well with your habits and I am all ready to go for the Building healthy habits October challenge!!! Xo4
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Weekly report...
Goals/ habits for September
* Track honestly including w/e💖
* Maintain weight 58 to 62 kg and build muscle 💖
*Take measurements every 2 weeks thumbs 👇
* Look for opportunities👇
* De clutter 💖
* In bed by 9pm! 💖
* Focus on an attitude for gratitude💖
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@donna25trinity , on the decluttering, I found Dana K White’s book Decluttering at the Speed of Life as a great help on where to start. I borrowed the audiobook from the library.
Thank so much for the reccomendation @77tes and apologise that I hvent responded sooner!!! I will def read it as need all the help I can get! I did a fair bit of decluttering this month but have a big house and I do get sentimental about certain things so altho I hve done great I know I need to continue to make it an area of focus. I hve a bit if a bad habit of reshuffling and tidying areas instead of getting rid of stuff! Lol! Xo3 -
donna25trinity wrote: »Weekly report...
Goals/ habits for September
* Track honestly including w/e💖
* Maintain weight 58 to 62 kg and build muscle 💖
*Take measurements every 2 weeks thumbs 👇
* Look for opportunities👇
* De clutter 💖
* In bed by 9pm! 💖
* Focus on an attitude for gratitude💖
Hi @donna25trinity
Congratulations on your month & transitioning successfully to working mum❣️1 -
LazyBlondeChef wrote: »@MadisonMolly2017 I always set the treadmill to a 20min walk. This generally keeps my heart rate at just over 100. From what I read this is an ok range for someone of my age (63). My doctor said all of my numbers are good and that I'm quite fit (though I think she meant for my age even though she didn't say it).
Sometimes if I'm feeling energetic I'll add some incline or speed up temporarily but for the most part I'm happy with it and trying to walk longer distances would be as beneficial as speeding up. My partner walks extremely fast so when we walk outside I end up walking faster to keep up with him.
This months post vacation goals are lacking. I'm struggling to keep up with the upper body weights (using EPIC) because my left shoulder is still causing problems. My last workout I had to quit at 75% and I haven't done anything since though I plan to tomorrow. I'd like to just get in a minimum of two EPICs per week. I read something recently about older people should lift weights for 20mins 3x per week. It may be that I can split the EPIC workouts into two sessions to get that since they usually end
up being around 40mins.
Hi @biketheworld
That’s great regarding your fitness.
I decided to walk 7K minimum (helps my heart, bones, stamina, reduces appetite, elevates mood & I ♥️ Nature.) And do the other 3K around the house. Supernatural May be over counting my steps I realized because I’m waving my arms like crazy lol
Will have to figure that out.
With 4-5 weeks of beat saber & now Supernatural (MUCH better workout) I can feel the improvement in muscles & better posture. I
Think I just need to add something for abdominals & I’ll have a good all over plan
So glad to be on this journey with you. My (previously broken & repaired) shoulder was acting up prior to Beat Saber - and I noticed I was carrying fewer heavy things. Decided I was too young for that 66 LOL this the shift from walking/hiking to more “cross training”
If my shoulder is still sore, I give it an extra day to recover & lengthen my walk.
xx
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