JUST FOR TODAY... One day at a time .. Daily Commitment for 2024
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Hour commitment - I won't eat again until tomorrow.0
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Late to post today, but I didn't want to skip it.
5 lb challenge:
SW 3/19: 194.4
GW 4/30: 189.4
JFT Thursday, 3/21
Log -
Hydrate -
Healthy choices -
Exercise - Short walk
2 chores - Just 1
Visit Mom -
Relax - Just a bit
Sleep - Good, 6 h 34 min
JFT Friday, 3/22
Log
Hydrate
Healthy choices
Relax
Sleep2 -
The rain is coming down in buckets today, so no outdoor chores. I have a couple of errands and a dinner engagement, so I hope it lets up a bit.
I'd been struggling to get back on track, but the challenge is helping me pay more attention to food choices and portion sizes. I got off to a decent start this week, so I don't want to blow it over the weekend. I've found that weighing in less frequently, maybe once a week, works better for me. Because I'm really sensitive to sodium, my weight can fluctuate a lot day to day. Since I started on a Tuesday, I'll stick to that.
5 lb challenge:
SW 3/19: 194.4
GW 4/30: 189.4
Recap Friday, 3/22
Log -
Hydrate -
Healthy choices - Had lunch out, but I made good choices.
Relax - Watched a couple of episodes of Three Body Problem with my husband
Sleep - Fair 5h 20 min - stayed up too late again
JFT Saturday, 3/23
Log
Hydrate
Healthy choices
Errands
Chores
Dinner out - choose wisely!
Relax
Sleep3 -
littleblackskirt wrote: »
JFT Friday 22nd
THINK before I eat ✅️
Log everything ✅️
Stay in the green ❌️
No snacking ❌️ one
PF exercises ✅️
Back exercises ❌️
Continue clearing house ✅️
Big shop ✅️
JFT Saturday 23rd
THINK before I eat
Log everything
Stay in the green
No snacking
PF exercises
Back exercises
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more_freggies76 wrote: »JFT for 3/22/24 (today)✔️
1) No dessert today (last 3/21) unless I want sugarfree or no sugar added.✔️
2) None of DH's stash ok today (including candy, chocolate raisins, peeps, ice cream, Valentine candies).✔️
3) No peanut butter ok today, 2.5 to 3 T (last 3/15)✔️
4) I won't weigh again until Monday, Mar 25.✔️
5) Up to 2.0 oz hard cheese ok today (trying not to have cheese everyday) (last 3/18). Note: some grated parmigiana cheese has always been allowed and doesn't count towards hard cheese. Hard cheese at restaurant ok. Can have cheese with restaurant meals.✔️
6) No honey ok today(1-3 Tbsp.). (last1/25) (a little in honey mustard ok)(last)✔️
7) Nuts ok (22-30 g) or 12-14 in-the-shell nuts. (last 1/20) Additional nuts in a meal are ok. Like almonds already in green beans. No pistachios today.✔️
8) Chicken vienna sausage ok today (trying not to have higher sodium stuff everyday)(last 2/17)✔️Didn't eat
9) Sweet potato and/or pumpkin ok today. (last 3/18)✔️Didn't eat
10) Only 1 ice drink today.✔️
11) No bakers chocolate ok today.(last 3/21)✔️
12) A few tic-tacs as needed everyday. (No max for now, unless it's a problem)✔️
13) No Harvest Snaps(22-30 g) ok today. (last 3/21)✔️
14) No more than 600 calories for lunch.✔️
15) No real butter today, unless in cooking.. Can have at restaurants✔️
Hour commitment - I won't eat again until after 12 pm.
JFT for 3/23/24 (today)✔️
1) No dessert today (last 3/21) unless I want sugarfree or no sugar added.
2) None of DH's stash ok today (including candy, chocolate raisins, peeps, ice cream, Valentine candies).
3) Peanut butter ok today, 2.5 to 3 T (last 3/15)
4) I won't weigh again until Monday, Mar 25.
5) No hard cheese ok today (trying not to have cheese everyday) (last 3/22). Note: some grated parmigiana cheese has always been allowed and doesn't count towards hard cheese. Hard cheese at restaurant ok. Can have cheese with restaurant meals.
6) No honey ok today(1-3 Tbsp.). (last1/25) (a little in honey mustard ok)(last)
7) Nuts ok (22-30 g) or 12-14 in-the-shell nuts. (last 1/20) Additional nuts in a meal are ok. Like almonds already in green beans. No pistachios today.
8) Chicken vienna sausage ok today (trying not to have higher sodium stuff everyday)(last 2/17)
9) Sweet potato and/or pumpkin ok today. (last 3/18)
10) Only 1 ice drink today.
11) Bakers chocolate ok today.(last 3/21)
12) A few tic-tacs as needed everyday. (No max for now, unless it's a problem)
13) Harvest Snaps(22-30 g) ok today. (last 3/21)
14) No more than 600 calories for lunch.
15) No real butter today, unless in cooking.. Can have at restaurants
16) Can eat early if we take FIL.================== 4DW started =============
**Not doing most of this until my eye is better
4DWs (4 Day Wins) are here, in a shared file:
Sample
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hrtqbsOInIWeA9sl8FLnEv-ignY21p8m/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=108259155343870939869&rtpof=true&sd=true
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Recap 3/22 F
1) Choose soup recipe & make for supper ~ creamy chicken & rice soup yum / log all food / no evening snack / 64 oz. water
did ok for non-dog walk day
2) PT exercises felt slightly under the weather so skipped
3) Wash dishes / clean souvenirs & dust small hutch shelves / clean something else ~ organized & filed papers on downstairs desk yay / read ~ not enough but some / other? read nurse's notes on recent heart calcium scan & all good (YAY my score is 0, the ideal score, so no meds needed, just exercise & healthy diet); verified compound pharmacy refill; wrote up notes from financial advisor meetings so next time I review monthly stmts I remember what changes we're making; chopped up leftover baked chicken, froze 2 packets & made chicken salad for hubby; froze packet of leftover rice for future recipe; digital declutter TA-DA!
JFT 3/23 Sat.
1) Leftovers for supper / log all food / 64+ OZ. water
2) Walk dog
3) Any chore done is good / read / digital declutter / other?
5# Challenge (ends May 1):
Sat. w-i 3/23/24 = 182.5 most likely sodium/water drop plus keeping portions properSW 184 on 3/18/24
Challenge Goal 179
About me:I'm Carmela
This is my lifestyle. It's. Not. A. Diet.
Height 5'4"
66 yrs old
Reside in Green Bay, WI, USA
2024 Goals:1) Ultimate goal weight 150#... I'll be thrilled if I can get back down to 160# this year- Post weekly weigh-in on MFP for accountability. Saturday a.m. is my "official" weigh-in day, and I track daily on a separate app (for the visual). My digital scale only shows half pound increments & I'm too cheap to buy a fancier scale.
- Take measurements & log on MFP every month end
- Try new recipes Unfortunately, no wall oven until mid-Feb or later & sad me, but try slow cooker & stove recipes... wall oven installed 2/26 but no new recipes yet.
January: 5 days x2wks, 4x1, 3x1, 1x1 [1 wk lots of snow & 1 wk bitter cold so shoveling, treadmill & PT, 1 wk 4 day trips out of town]
February: 6 days x1wk, 5x1, 4x1, 2x1 [2 wks overnight trips to visit parents]- Walk dog 3-4 miles, treadmill when necessary in winter, weights/my home version of circuit & other x-training
- PT (physical therapy) exercises to strengthen arthritic knees & hip flexor
- In 2023 I logged 726.88 miles, or 1,169.8 km & completed yearly challenge 11.14.23
- In 2022 I logged 500.4 miles, or 805km (knee issues).
- I can earn $10 every month on my Medicare Advantage Plan with 10+ days of 7,500 steps:
Jan / Feb / Mar
- Registered 12.29.23 for Bellin 10K race on 6.8.24 & eligible to have race fee waived ~ rats, no waiver of fee
- Register for my other usual events, and add other possible events
- Always a good idea
- Visit parents 1-2 times each month, phone calls in between ~ they're in their late 80s and live 85 miles away
canceled visit 1.12-1.13 due to blizzard
canceled visit 1.21-1.22 due Mom's bad cold
Mom's bday visit 1.31 with all siblings, in-laws & aunt
overnight visit 2.12-2.13 / breakfast out with Mom/ladies & aunt, youngest brother stopped over
overnight visit 2.27-2.28 & eldest brother stopped over
overnight visit 3.14-3.15 & eldest brother visited - Monthly contact with former colleagues/others, now that I'm retired
1.7.24 HH came over & visited at my invitation
1.28.24 great-nephew's baptism affirmation in Oakfield, followed by luncheon
1.29.24 Greenville: BIL's 2nd cataract surgery (hubby was his driver) / lunch at IHOP
2.2.24 cousin's funeral & saw parents, 2 brothers, most aunts/uncles, few cousins
2.16.24 pub food from McGeorge's & wine at La Vie with P&B / The Dirty Martinis played
2.18.24 Greenville: visit w/ hubby's brother, SIL & niece / lunch at Olive Garden
3.8.24 Darboy: tax docs & long visit with MJSW
3.19.24 messaged H (his job recently downsized)
plans 4.6.24 with PZ canceled b/c she forgot they're going to OH to watch eclipse
- Not as much progress as I hoped last year, but not worse.
Keeping my Word for the Year: Tenacity ~ persistent determination; the mental strength to resist opposition, danger or hardship1 -
Hour commitment - I won't eat again until after 5 pm. None of the same foods at dinner as at lunch. Can still have my dose of metamusal.1
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JFT - Fri Mar 22
1.5L of water - 🙂🙂1.25L oh so close!
Log all Food - 🙂
Move 20 Minutes - 🙂
Weigh for 2-5lb challenge - 196.8
JFT - Sat Mar 23
1.5L of water
Log all Food
Move 20 Minutes
Weigh for 2-5lb challenge - 196.8 again
@cschmitz110515 - I was thinking of pancakes and bacon for tomorrow’s breakfast. Our grandson is here and he likes it.
@pridesabtch - have a great weekend away.
I spent 4.5 hours cleaning my spare/craft/school/junk room today. It seems that I do it once a month and it’s never clean. I got rid of some more stuff today though and Kaitlyn is coming Monday to help me create a gallery wall. That will help me get rid of a TON of frames. I’ll probably put them on our freebies site.
I have earned the potato chips I was going to have one way or another this evening but I won’t feel bad for doing it.
I’ll be putting more pictures in my album tonight. 🙄 I’m tired of it, but I refuse to put it away to do later because then it will sit for another year or more.2 -
Hour commitment - After my yogurt, I won't eat again until tomorrow.1
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beachwalker99 wrote: »The rain is coming down in buckets today, so no outdoor chores. I have a couple of errands and a dinner engagement, so I hope it lets up a bit.
I'd been struggling to get back on track, but the challenge is helping me pay more attention to food choices and portion sizes. I got off to a decent start this week, so I don't want to blow it over the weekend. I've found that weighing in less frequently, maybe once a week, works better for me. Because I'm really sensitive to sodium, my weight can fluctuate a lot day to day. Since I started on a Tuesday, I'll stick to that.
5 lb challenge:
SW 3/19: 194.4
GW 4/30: 189.4
Recap Friday, 3/22
Log -
Hydrate -
Healthy choices - Had lunch out, but I made good choices.
Relax - Watched a couple of episodes of Three Body Problem with my husband
Sleep - Fair 5h 20 min - stayed up too late again
JFT Saturday, 3/23
Log
Hydrate
Healthy choices
Errands
Chores
Dinner out - choose wisely!
Relax
Sleep
The weather was awful for us too. The kids wanted to go to the park. But it would be really sunny for about 10 mins then throw it down, then sunny, then rain/hail
I just gave up on the end and said we'd go today (Sunday) if the weather's good
We've just finished watching 3 Body Problem!2 -
littleblackskirt wrote: »
JFT Saturday 23rd
THINK before I eat ✅
Log everything ❌ didn't log the evening meal
Stay in the green ❌
No snacking ❌ one
PF exercises ✅
Back exercises ❌
Bombed out yesterday. I was doing okay until I had a bowl of ice cream and pineapple, with no calories left for it. No reason, apart from thinking I deserved a treat after a Saturday on my own. It might not look like it, but I am still thinking before I eat lol. I can't tell you how many times I think about eating something like some crisps, a biscuit, or a bit of chocolate, but then stop myself. So it works most of the time.
JFT Sunday 24th
THINK before I eat
Log everything
Stay in the green
No snacking
PF exercises
Back exercises
Collect dogs
Outside jobs (the sun is shining!)
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Hour commitment - After my coffee stuff, I won't eat again until after 12 pm.more_freggies76 wrote: »JFT for 3/23/24 (yesterday)✔️
1) No dessert today (last 3/21) unless I want sugarfree or no sugar added.✔️
2) None of DH's stash ok today (including candy, chocolate raisins, peeps, ice cream, Valentine candies).✔️
3) Peanut butter ok today, 2.5 to 3 T (last 3/15)✔️
4) I won't weigh again until Monday, Mar 25.✔️
5) No hard cheese ok today (trying not to have cheese everyday) (last 3/22). Note: some grated parmigiana cheese has always been allowed and doesn't count towards hard cheese. Hard cheese at restaurant ok. Can have cheese with restaurant meals.✔️
6) No honey ok today(1-3 Tbsp.). (last1/25) (a little in honey mustard ok)(last)✔️
7) Nuts ok (22-30 g) or 12-14 in-the-shell nuts. (last 1/20) Additional nuts in a meal are ok. Like almonds already in green beans. No pistachios today.✔️
8) Chicken vienna sausage ok today (trying not to have higher sodium stuff everyday)(last 2/17)✔️Didn't eat today.
9) Sweet potato and/or pumpkin ok today. (last 3/18)✔️Didn't eat today.
10) Only 1 ice drink today.✔️
11) Bakers chocolate ok today.(last 3/21)✔️
12) A few tic-tacs as needed everyday. (No max for now, unless it's a problem)✔️
13) Harvest Snaps(22-30 g) ok today. (last 3/21)✔️
14) No more than 600 calories for lunch.✔️
15) No real butter today, unless in cooking.. Can have at restaurants✔️
16) Can eat early if we take FIL.✔️
JFT for 3/24/24 (today)✔️
1) No dessert today (last 3/21) unless I want sugarfree or no sugar added. Can have dessert with friend if she wants.
2) None of DH's stash ok today (including candy, chocolate raisins, peeps, ice cream, Valentine candies).
3) No peanut butter ok today, 2.5 to 3 T (last 3/23)
4) I won't weigh again until Monday, Mar 25.
5) Up to 2.0 oz hard cheese ok today (trying not to have cheese everyday) (last 3/22). Note: some grated parmigiana cheese has always been allowed and doesn't count towards hard cheese. Hard cheese at restaurant ok. Can have cheese with restaurant meals.
6) No honey ok today(1-3 Tbsp.). (last1/25) (a little in honey mustard ok)(last)
7) Nuts ok (22-30 g) or 12-14 in-the-shell nuts. (last 1/20) Additional nuts in a meal are ok. Like almonds already in green beans. No pistachios today.
8) Chicken vienna sausage ok today (trying not to have higher sodium stuff everyday)(last 2/17)
9) Sweet potato and/or pumpkin ok today. (last 3/18)
10) Only 1 ice drink today.
11) Bakers chocolate ok today.(last 3/21)
12) A few tic-tacs as needed everyday. (No max for now, unless it's a problem)
13) No Harvest Snaps(22-30 g) ok today. (last 3/23)
14) No more than 600 calories for lunch.
15) No real butter today, unless in cooking.. Can have at restaurants
16) Can eat what I want, including dessert, when eat with girlfriend.================== 4DW started =============
**Not doing most of this until my eye is better
4DWs (4 Day Wins) are here, in a shared file:
Sample
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hrtqbsOInIWeA9sl8FLnEv-ignY21p8m/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=108259155343870939869&rtpof=true&sd=true2 -
Recap 3/23 Sat.
1) Leftovers for supper / log all food / 64+ OZ. water
Did great all day, then evening snack. Ack! Enough water though.
2) Walk dog
took advantage of sunny but cold weather 4.12 mi happy dog & happy me
3) Any chore done is good
oops so lazy / read / digital declutter / other? nope
JFT 3/24 Palm Sunday
1) 9:00 church service
2) Eat healthy supper / no evening snack / 64 oz. water
3) Walk dog
4) Dust downstairs / bring Easter decoration boxes up from basement & start / read / digital declutter? / other?
Ate traditional Palm Sunday brunch at church & I'm not going to attempt to log. It was yummy and no need for lunch. Also, very filling so won't eat until suppertime. Time to kick in gear for Easter dinner & family visit preparations.
5# Challenge (ends May 1):SW 184 on 3/18/24
3/23/24 = 182.5 most likely sodium/water drop plus keeping portions proper
Challenge Goal 179
About me:I'm Carmela
This is my lifestyle. It's. Not. A. Diet.
Height 5'4"
66 yrs old
Reside in Green Bay, WI, USA
2024 Goals:1) Ultimate goal weight 150#... I'll be thrilled if I can get back down to 160# this year- Post weekly weigh-in on MFP for accountability. Saturday a.m. is my "official" weigh-in day, and I track daily on a separate app (for the visual). My digital scale only shows half pound increments & I'm too cheap to buy a fancier scale.
- Take measurements & log on MFP every month end
- Try new recipes Unfortunately, no wall oven until mid-Feb or later & sad me, but try slow cooker & stove recipes... wall oven installed 2/26 but no new recipes yet.
January: 5 days x2wks, 4x1, 3x1, 1x1 [1 wk lots of snow & 1 wk bitter cold so shoveling, treadmill & PT, 1 wk 4 day trips out of town]
February: 6 days x1wk, 5x1, 4x1, 2x1 [2 wks overnight trips to visit parents]- Walk dog 3-4 miles, treadmill when necessary in winter, weights/my home version of circuit & other x-training
- PT (physical therapy) exercises to strengthen arthritic knees & hip flexor
- In 2023 I logged 726.88 miles, or 1,169.8 km & completed yearly challenge 11.14.23
- In 2022 I logged 500.4 miles, or 805km (knee issues).
- I can earn $10 every month on my Medicare Advantage Plan with 10+ days of 7,500 steps:
Jan / Feb / Mar
- Registered 12.29.23 for Bellin 10K race on 6.8.24 & eligible to have race fee waived ~ rats, no waiver of fee
- Register for my other usual events, and add other possible events
- Always a good idea
- Visit parents 1-2 times each month, phone calls in between ~ they're in their late 80s and live 85 miles away
canceled visit 1.12-1.13 due to blizzard
canceled visit 1.21-1.22 due Mom's bad cold
Mom's bday visit 1.31 with all siblings, in-laws & aunt
overnight visit 2.12-2.13 / breakfast out with Mom/ladies & aunt, youngest brother stopped over
overnight visit 2.27-2.28 & eldest brother stopped over
overnight visit 3.14-3.15 & eldest brother visited - Monthly contact with former colleagues/others, now that I'm retired
1.7.24 HH came over & visited at my invitation
1.28.24 great-nephew's baptism affirmation in Oakfield, followed by luncheon
1.29.24 Greenville: BIL's 2nd cataract surgery (hubby was his driver) / lunch at IHOP
2.2.24 cousin's funeral & saw parents, 2 brothers, most aunts/uncles, few cousins
2.16.24 pub food from McGeorge's & wine at La Vie with P&B / The Dirty Martinis played
2.18.24 Greenville: visit w/ hubby's brother, SIL & niece / lunch at Olive Garden
3.8.24 Darboy: tax docs & long visit with MJSW
3.19.24 messaged H (his job recently downsized)
plans 4.6.24 with PZ canceled b/c she forgot they're going to OH to watch eclipse
- Not as much progress as I hoped last year, but not worse.
Keeping my Word for the Year: Tenacity ~ persistent determination; the mental strength to resist opposition, danger or hardship2 -
Super tired all day yesterday, so didn't post goals, and totally off track. Grazed all day on junk.
Today is a new day. I have to keep telling myself that it is OK, and normal, to get off track occasionally.. the trick is to get right back on track to achieve my goals.
I went to the gym this morning... that helped.
so JFT, Sunday, 3/24
1. log all food
2. keep calories 1400-1600
3. concentrate on water
4. clean house
5. laundry
6. weigh in day .. no matter what.
About meName is Joan. Age 73; 5'11". Been married 47+ years, 2 children, 2 grandkids ( + 3 step grandkids)Weekly Weigh-ins
Lives in Missouri. I love to garden, go for long walks, quilt, sew charity stuff. My goal is to stay as "young" as I possibly can... to not only look good, but to feel good, have energy, be able to continue to get up and down gardening, biking, and walking.
Goals for 2024:
Staring weight: Jan 7, 2024: 209.0
Goal weight at the end of 2024: 175-180, and learn to maintain
Goal to lose 25-30 lbs this year to be in healthy range
Weight Goals:
1st goal weight: 199 - reach this by March
2nd goal weight: 185 - reach this by July
Ultimate goal weight: 175- reach this by SeptemberJan 7: 209.05 pound challenge
Feb 1: 206.2 (goal was 205)
March 3: 206.2 (Goal was 199)
March 10: Did not weigh in
March 17: 207.2 -- not going anywhere!! Starting the 5 pound challenge
March 24: 205.8 -- did pretty good all week until yesterday. Hoping to get back on track today!!
March 31:
April 7:
April 14:
April 21:
April 28:5 pound challenge
SW: 207
GW for May 1st end of challenge: 202
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Hour commitment - Done with lunch. Now I won't eat again until dinner with girlfriend. Can be flexible at restaurant and even have dessert if she wants. Can still have my dose of metamusal.3
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JFT - Sat Mar 23
1.5L of water - 1L 🥴
Log all Food - 🙂
Move 20 Minutes - 🙂🙂 so much!
Weigh for 2-5lb challenge - 196.6
JFT - Sun Mar 24
1.5L of water
Log all Food
Move 20 Minutes
Weigh for 2-5lb challenge - 197.2 (I had chips)3 -
littleblackskirt wrote: »
JFT Sunday 24th
THINK before I eat ✅
Log everything ❌ didn't log evening meal
Stay in the green ❌ doubtful
No snacking ❌ one
PF exercises ✅
Back exercises ❌
Collect dogs ✅
Outside jobs (the sun is shining!) ✅
JFT Monday 25th March
THINK before I eat
Log everything
Stay in the green
No snacking
PF exercises
Back exercises
Indoor jobs (raining again!)
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💗 Terri 💗
Working on getting back to the middle of my weight range. I’m using weekly mini goal as weight fluctuations from day to day.
3 lbs challenge: (weigh less on 24th March than I did on 17th)
17/3: 137.8
18/3: 138.1
19/3: 138.0 (going in the right direction)
20/3: 137.9
22/3: 137.6
24/3: 137,6 (0.2 down 👌🏻)
25/3: 137.5 (Weigh less on 31st March than I did on the 24th)
💡Yay! It’s a small victory. Tortoise rather than hare 😝
💡Being more mindful on portions, and snacks, Eating just a small portion of my exercise calories.
💡Nice couple of bruises developed on knees, but nothing too bad.
NB: Sticking to my Solid Habits, and being mindful of over snacking.
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We had a great time in Pittsburgh. Getting packed up and ready to head home. Libations and food flowed freely, so weight will be up tomorrow, but that’s ok. Hopefully it will be below my SW for the 5# challenge.
JFT Mon
- Up by 10:00 😀
- Checkout by 11:00
- Breakfast
- Drive
- Nap/love on dog & V
- Spin at 6:00
- Dinner
- Bed2 -
Hour commitment - I won't eat again until after 12 pm.more_freggies76 wrote: »JFT for 3/24/24 (yesterday)✔️
1) No dessert today (last 3/21) unless I want sugarfree or no sugar added. Can have dessert with friend if she wants.✔️
2) None of DH's stash ok today (including candy, chocolate raisins, peeps, ice cream, Valentine candies).✔️
3) No peanut butter ok today, 2.5 to 3 T (last 3/23)✔️
4) I won't weigh again until Monday, Mar 25.✔️
5) Up to 2.0 oz hard cheese ok today (trying not to have cheese everyday) (last 3/22). Note: some grated parmigiana cheese has always been allowed and doesn't count towards hard cheese. Hard cheese at restaurant ok. Can have cheese with restaurant meals.✔️Didn't eat today.
6) No honey ok today(1-3 Tbsp.). (last1/25) (a little in honey mustard ok)(last)✔️
7) Nuts ok (22-30 g) or 12-14 in-the-shell nuts. (last 1/20) Additional nuts in a meal are ok. Like almonds already in green beans. No pistachios today.✔️
8) Chicken vienna sausage ok today (trying not to have higher sodium stuff everyday)(last 2/17)✔️Didn't eat today.
9) Sweet potato and/or pumpkin ok today. (last 3/18)✔️Didn't eat today.
10) Only 1 ice drink today.✔️
11) Bakers chocolate ok today.(last 3/21)✔️
12) A few tic-tacs as needed everyday. (No max for now, unless it's a problem)✔️
13) No Harvest Snaps(22-30 g) ok today. (last 3/23)✔️
14) No more than 600 calories for lunch.✔️
15) No real butter today, unless in cooking.. Can have at restaurants✔️
16) Can eat what I want, including dessert, when eat with girlfriend.✔️
JFT for 3/25/24 (today)✔️
1) No dessert today (last 3/21) unless I want sugarfree or no sugar added. Can have dessert with friend if she wants.
2) None of DH's stash ok today (including candy, chocolate raisins, peeps, ice cream, Valentine candies).
3) No peanut butter ok today, 2.5 to 3 T (last 3/23)
4) I won't weigh again until Monday, Mar 25.
5) Up to 2.0 oz hard cheese ok today (trying not to have cheese everyday) (last 3/22). Note: some grated parmigiana cheese has always been allowed and doesn't count towards hard cheese. Hard cheese at restaurant ok. Can have cheese with restaurant meals.
6) No honey ok today(1-3 Tbsp.). (last1/25) (a little in honey mustard ok)(last)
7) Nuts ok (22-30 g) or 12-14 in-the-shell nuts. (last 1/20) Additional nuts in a meal are ok. Like almonds already in green beans. No pistachios today.
8) Chicken vienna sausage ok today (trying not to have higher sodium stuff everyday)(last 2/17)
9) Sweet potato and/or pumpkin ok today. (last 3/18)
10) Only 1 ice drink today.
11) Bakers chocolate ok today.(last 3/21)
12) A few tic-tacs as needed everyday. (No max for now, unless it's a problem)
13) Harvest Snaps(22-30 g) ok today. (last 3/23)
14) No more than 600 calories for lunch.
15) No real butter today, unless in cooking.. Can have at restaurants================== 4DW started =============
**Not doing most of this until my eye is better
4DWs (4 Day Wins) are here, in a shared file:
Sample
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hrtqbsOInIWeA9sl8FLnEv-ignY21p8m/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=108259155343870939869&rtpof=true&sd=true
2 -
Hour commitment - I won't eat again until after 5 pm. None of the same foods at dinner as at lunch. Can still have my dose of metamusal.1
-
Recap 3/24 Palm Sunday
1) 9:00 church service followed by traditional brunch in fellowship hall
2) Eat healthy supper / no evening snack / 64 oz. water
3) Walk dog
not home until noon, gray and dreary, then snow started and I was busy/did not want to go out, so no dog walk
4) Dust downstairs / bring Easter decoration boxes up from basement & start / read / digital declutter / other? reviewed Easter dessert recipes online & printed several, reviewed my recipe box & prints & narrowed down my ideas, got out notes from past Easter dinners for reference, sorted through spring & holiday kitchen towels to use, watered herbs and cuttings TA-DA!
JFT 3/25 M ~ rainy day so yesterday's snow already melted
1) Leftovers for supper / no evening snack / log all food / 64 oz. water
2) PT exercises
3) 1:00 tax returns meeting (leave 12:15)
We didn't know how things would pan out our first full year of retirement, but not so bad: we owe some to IRS and get a bit back from the state. Side note: I left my jacket on the chair in her office (35 min. drive) and realized when we got back home. Texted her, fortunately she'll be in town later this week and can get jacket back to me without an extra trip. Yay.
3) Make Zelle pmt to MJSW / update budget s/s for taxes / wash dishes / print recipes I emailed to self / start list for last pre-dinner grocery store run, need list for Sam's too / water rest of plants / vacuum 1 room / read / Easter decorations out / other?
5# Challenge (ends May 1):SW 184 on 3/18/24
3/23/24 = 182.5 most likely sodium/water drop plus keeping portions proper
Challenge Goal 179
About me:I'm Carmela
This is my lifestyle. It's. Not. A. Diet.
Height 5'4"
66 yrs old
Reside in Green Bay, WI, USA
2024 Goals:1) Ultimate goal weight 150#... I'll be thrilled if I can get back down to 160# this year- Post weekly weigh-in on MFP for accountability. Saturday a.m. is my "official" weigh-in day, and I track daily on a separate app (for the visual). My digital scale only shows half pound increments & I'm too cheap to buy a fancier scale.
- Take measurements & log on MFP every month end
- Try new recipes Unfortunately, no wall oven until mid-Feb or later & sad me, but try slow cooker & stove recipes... wall oven installed 2/26 but no new recipes yet.
January: 5 days x2wks, 4x1, 3x1, 1x1 [1 wk lots of snow & 1 wk bitter cold so shoveling, treadmill & PT, 1 wk 4 day trips out of town]
February: 6 days x1wk, 5x1, 4x1, 2x1 [2 wks overnight trips to visit parents]- Walk dog 3-4 miles, treadmill when necessary in winter, weights/my home version of circuit & other x-training
- PT (physical therapy) exercises to strengthen arthritic knees & hip flexor
- In 2023 I logged 726.88 miles, or 1,169.8 km & completed yearly challenge 11.14.23
- In 2022 I logged 500.4 miles, or 805km (knee issues).
- I can earn $10 every month on my Medicare Advantage Plan with 10+ days of 7,500 steps:
Jan / Feb / Mar
- Registered 12.29.23 for Bellin 10K race on 6.8.24 & eligible to have race fee waived ~ rats, no waiver of fee
- Register for my other usual events, and add other possible events
- Always a good idea
- Visit parents 1-2 times each month, phone calls in between ~ they're in their late 80s and live 85 miles away
canceled visit 1.12-1.13 due to blizzard
canceled visit 1.21-1.22 due Mom's bad cold
Mom's bday visit 1.31 with all siblings, in-laws & aunt
overnight visit 2.12-2.13 / breakfast out with Mom/ladies & aunt, youngest brother stopped over
overnight visit 2.27-2.28 & eldest brother stopped over
overnight visit 3.14-3.15 & eldest brother visited - Monthly contact with former colleagues/others, now that I'm retired
1.7.24 HH came over & visited at my invitation
1.28.24 great-nephew's baptism affirmation in Oakfield, followed by luncheon
1.29.24 Greenville: BIL's 2nd cataract surgery (hubby was his driver) / lunch at IHOP
2.2.24 cousin's funeral & saw parents, 2 brothers, most aunts/uncles, few cousins
2.16.24 pub food from McGeorge's & wine at La Vie with P&B / The Dirty Martinis played
2.18.24 Greenville: visit w/ hubby's brother, SIL & niece / lunch at Olive Garden
3.8.24 Darboy: tax docs & long visit with MJSW
3.19.24 messaged H (his job recently downsized)
3.25.24 Darboy: tax returns with hubby & MJSW, shorter visit this time
plans 4.6.24 with PZ canceled b/c she forgot they're going to OH to watch eclipse
- Not as much progress as I hoped last year, but not worse.
Keeping my Word for the Year: Tenacity ~ persistent determination; the mental strength to resist opposition, danger or hardship2 -
Hour commitment - I won't eat again until tomorrow.1
-
5 lb challenge:
SW 3/19: 194.4
GW 4/30: 189.4
Recap Saturday, 3/23
Log -
Hydrate -
Healthy choices -
Errands - No
Chores - No
Dinner out - choose wisely! -
Relax -
Sleep - 4h 11 min - Stayed up until 3 AM reading
Recap Sunday, 3/24
Log -
Hydrate -
Healthy choices -
Errands -
Relax -
Sleep - 5h 9 min
JFT Monday, 3/25
Log
Hydrate
Healthy choices
Make dessert
Errands with grandson
Dinner at daughter's
Relax
Sleep4 -
JFT - Sun Mar 24
1.5L of water - 👿
Log all Food - 👿
Move 20 Minutes - 🙂
Weigh for 2-5lb challenge - 197.2 (I had chips)
JFT - Mon Mar 25
1.5L of water
Log all Food
Move 20 Minutes
Weigh for 2-5lb challenge - 197.04 -
littleblackskirt wrote: »
JFT Monday 25th March
THINK before I eat ✅
Log everything ❌ missed logging evening meal again
Stay in the green uncertain
No snacking ❌ one, 91 cals
PF exercises ✅
Back exercises ❌
Indoor jobs (raining again!) ✅
JFT Tuesday 26th March
THINK before I eat
Log everything
Stay in the green
No snacking
PF exercises
Back exercises
Walk with friend
5lb challenge
19/3 182
26/3 182
That is frustrating, my weight had dropped by a pound but it's back up again. I'd forgotten just how strict I need to be to lose pounds. The good point is that I've really reined in the mindless snacking, so my weight shouldn't go up.
3 -
First week of the 5 pound challenge is in the bag. I didn't do too badly despite some restaurant meals. It's really been helping me pay more attention to what I eat. Now if I can find a way to work in some exercise and get more sleep.
Busy day today, so I'll post some quick goals and catch up reading later. Hope everyone has a wonderful day!
5 lb challenge:
SW 3/19: 194.4
GW 4/30: 189.4
CW 3/26: 192.6
Recap Monday, 3/25
Log -
Hydrate -
Healthy choices - No My daughter made lobster mac & cheese - certainly an indulgence!
Make dessert - Chocolate cream pie for my grandsons. (I had a tiny slice of that too.)
Errands with grandson - Secret shopping for his mom 
Dinner at daughter's -
Relax -
Sleep - Fair 5 h 56 min
JFT Tuesday 3/26
Log
Hydrate
Healthy choices
Relax
Sleep3 -
pridesabtch wrote: »We had a great time in Pittsburgh. Getting packed up and ready to head home. Libations and food flowed freely, so weight will be up tomorrow, but that’s ok. Hopefully it will be below my SW for the 5# challenge.
JFT Mon
- Up by 10:00 😀
- Checkout by 11:00
- Breakfast
- Drive
- Nap/love on dog & V
no nap
- Spin at 6:00
- Dinner Tim cooked
- Bed
The weekend away was good. Got to see old friends and see a couple of really great basketball games. Sunday was a bit of a bust. I've been struggling with exhaustion quite a bit lately, and after 2 busy days, I just couldn't hang on Sunday. We did stay out late Friday and Saturday, but we also slept in. Sunday we took a nap in the afternoon and I hoped that would help, but at dinner I was like a zombie. We went back to the hotel and I went to bed around 8:00. Tim was bored and went to a bourbon bar down the street to watch the games. He was very disappointed in the evening, as was I. They have been working to get my thyroid back in line for 6 months now and it still isn't there. Boy am I tired of being tired.
Drove home yesterday, and taught spin class. That is almost always a struggle right now, partially the exhaustion, partially the weight. Considering the activities of the weekend, I don't think I did too badly calorie wise, but I forgot to weigh in this morning so I won't know until tomorrow. Even if it's up a bit, I'm still working toward the 5# challenge, just a set back.
Today is work and spin. Hoping Tim makes dinner again. I really like eating at home after 2 months of eating out. I really need to clean the house before Tim's surgery Thursday. Well, if he has the surgery. He is having second thoughts. Not necessarily about the need for the surgery, but whether or not he should consult legal counsel prior to having it. His first surgery was Oct. 2022, the defect was detected Nov 2023, and confirmed by bone scan Dec 2023. There are 2 possibilities for the defect. One is surgeon error, and one is a faulty part. Either way I don't think we should have to pay for this second surgery. He is anxious and afraid the surgery will fail then he will be in pain the rest of his life with limited function of his right (dominant) arm. I get that, but wish he would have consulted legal sooner.
JFT Tuesday
- 7:00 meeting (Canceled)
- 7:30 meeting
- Weigh in
- Work by 8:00
- Talk to insurance
- Talk to lawyer
- Check in with MFP
- Log food
- Stay green
- Spin class
- Dinner
- Clean floors / bathroom
- Shower
- Bed by 10:302 -
JFT for 3/26/24 (today)✔️more_freggies76 wrote: »JFT for 3/25/24 (today)✔️
1) No dessert today (last 3/21) unless I want sugarfree or no sugar added. Can have dessert with friend if she wants.✔️
2) None of DH's stash ok today (including candy, chocolate raisins, peeps, ice cream, Valentine candies).✔️
3) No peanut butter ok today, 2.5 to 3 T (last 3/23)✔️
4) I won't weigh again until Monday, Mar 25.✔️
5) Up to 2.0 oz hard cheese ok today (trying not to have cheese everyday) (last 3/22). Note: some grated parmigiana cheese has always been allowed and doesn't count towards hard cheese. Hard cheese at restaurant ok. Can have cheese with restaurant meals.✔️
6) No honey ok today(1-3 Tbsp.). (last1/25) (a little in honey mustard ok)(last)✔️
7) Nuts ok (22-30 g) or 12-14 in-the-shell nuts. (last 1/20) Additional nuts in a meal are ok. Like almonds already in green beans. No pistachios today.✔️
8) Chicken vienna sausage ok today (trying not to have higher sodium stuff everyday)(last 2/17)✔️Didn't eat today.
9) Sweet potato and/or pumpkin ok today. (last 3/18)✔️Didn't eat today.
10) Only 1 ice drink today.✔️
11) Bakers chocolate ok today.(last 3/21)✔️
12) A few tic-tacs as needed everyday. (No max for now, unless it's a problem)✔️
13) Harvest Snaps(22-30 g) ok today. (last 3/23)✔️
14) No more than 600 calories for lunch.✔️
15) No real butter today, unless in cooking.. Can have at restaurants✔️
1) No dessert today (last 3/21) unless I want sugarfree or no sugar added. Can have dessert with friend if she wants.
2) None of DH's stash ok today (including candy, chocolate raisins, peeps, ice cream, Valentine candies).
3) No peanut butter ok today, 2.5 to 3 T (last 3/23)
4) I won't weigh again until Friday, Mar 29.
5) No hard cheese ok today (trying not to have cheese everyday) (last 3/25). Note: some grated parmigiana cheese has always been allowed and doesn't count towards hard cheese. Hard cheese at restaurant ok. Can have cheese with restaurant meals.
6) No honey ok today(1-3 Tbsp.). (last1/25) (a little in honey mustard ok)(last)
7) Nuts ok (22-30 g) or 12-14 in-the-shell nuts. (last 1/20) Additional nuts in a meal are ok. Like almonds already in green beans. No pistachios today.
8) Chicken vienna sausage ok today (trying not to have higher sodium stuff everyday)(last 2/17)
9) Sweet potato and/or pumpkin ok today. (last 3/18)
10) Only 1 ice drink today.
11) No bakers chocolate ok today.(last 3/25)
12) A few tic-tacs as needed everyday. (No max for now, unless it's a problem)
13) No Harvest Snaps(22-30 g) ok today. (last 3/25)
14) No more than 600 calories for lunch.
15) No real butter today, unless in cooking.. Can have at restaurants================== 4DW started =============
**Not doing most of this until my eye is better
4DWs (4 Day Wins) are here, in a shared file:
Sample
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hrtqbsOInIWeA9sl8FLnEv-ignY21p8m/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=108259155343870939869&rtpof=true&sd=true
1 -
Recap 3/25 M ~ rainy day so yesterday's snow already melted
1) Leftovers for supper / no evening snack / log all food / 64 oz. water
2) PT exercises too lazy / busy
3) 1:00 tax returns meeting (leave 12:15) We didn't know how things would pan out our first full year of retirement, but not so bad: we owe some to IRS and get a bit back from the state. Side note: I left my jacket on the chair in her office (35 min. drive) and realized when we got back home. Texted her, fortunately she'll be in town later this week and can get jacket back to me without an extra trip. Yay.
3) Make Zelle pmt to MJSW / update budget s/s for taxes / wash dishes / print recipes I emailed to self / start list for last pre-dinner grocery store run, need list for Sam's too / water rest of plants / vacuum 1 room / read / Easter decorations out / other? texted middle brother re Easter dinner & yay they'll be here, all decorations boxes back in basement, some digital decluttering TA-DA!
JFT 3/26 T ~ scattered showers today, but sun peaking through at times
1) Homemade pizza with Greek olive ciabatta for supper / soup for lunch / no evening snack / 64+ oz. water
2) If time/weather permits, walk dog
3) Choir rehearsal 7:30
4) Bread shop for today's special / vacuum downstairs rooms (3) / get out Easter bowls/dishes (won't fill baskets/bowls with candy/nuts yet so I'm not tempted) / water plants in living room / text sister & SIL re preferred soda & add to shopping list / dust upstairs / read / other?
5# Challenge (ends May 1):SW 184 on 3/18/24
3/23/24 = 182.5 most likely sodium/water drop plus keeping portions proper
Challenge Goal 179
About me:I'm Carmela
This is my lifestyle. It's. Not. A. Diet.
Height 5'4"
66 yrs old
Reside in Green Bay, WI, USA
2024 Goals:1) Ultimate goal weight 150#... I'll be thrilled if I can get back down to 160# this year- Post weekly weigh-in on MFP for accountability. Saturday a.m. is my "official" weigh-in day, and I track daily on a separate app (for the visual). My digital scale only shows half pound increments & I'm too cheap to buy a fancier scale.
- Take measurements & log on MFP every month end
- Try new recipes Unfortunately, no wall oven until mid-Feb or later & sad me, but try slow cooker & stove recipes... wall oven installed 2/26 but no new recipes yet.
January: 5 days x2wks, 4x1, 3x1, 1x1 [1 wk lots of snow & 1 wk bitter cold so shoveling, treadmill & PT, 1 wk 4 day trips out of town]
February: 6 days x1wk, 5x1, 4x1, 2x1 [2 wks overnight trips to visit parents]- Walk dog 3-4 miles, treadmill when necessary in winter, weights/my home version of circuit & other x-training
- PT (physical therapy) exercises to strengthen arthritic knees & hip flexor
- In 2023 I logged 726.88 miles, or 1,169.8 km & completed yearly challenge 11.14.23
- In 2022 I logged 500.4 miles, or 805km (knee issues).
- I can earn $10 every month on my Medicare Advantage Plan with 10+ days of 7,500 steps:
Jan / Feb / Mar
- Registered 12.29.23 for Bellin 10K race on 6.8.24 & eligible to have race fee waived ~ rats, no waiver of fee
- Register for my other usual events, and add other possible events
- Always a good idea
- Visit parents 1-2 times each month, phone calls in between ~ they're in their late 80s and live 85 miles away
canceled visit 1.12-1.13 due to blizzard
canceled visit 1.21-1.22 due Mom's bad cold
Mom's bday visit 1.31 with all siblings, in-laws & aunt
overnight visit 2.12-2.13 / breakfast out with Mom/ladies & aunt, youngest brother stopped over
overnight visit 2.27-2.28 & eldest brother stopped over
overnight visit 3.14-3.15 & eldest brother visited - Monthly contact with former colleagues/others, now that I'm retired
1.7.24 HH came over & visited at my invitation
1.28.24 great-nephew's baptism affirmation in Oakfield, followed by luncheon
1.29.24 Greenville: BIL's 2nd cataract surgery (hubby was his driver) / lunch at IHOP
2.2.24 cousin's funeral & saw parents, 2 brothers, most aunts/uncles, few cousins
2.16.24 pub food from McGeorge's & wine at La Vie with P&B / The Dirty Martinis played
2.18.24 Greenville: visit w/ hubby's brother, SIL & niece / lunch at Olive Garden
3.8.24 Darboy: tax docs & long visit with MJSW
3.19.24 messaged H (his job recently downsized)
3.25.24 Darboy: tax returns with hubby & MJSW, shorter visit this time
plans 4.6.24 with PZ canceled b/c she forgot they're going to OH to watch eclipse
- Not as much progress as I hoped last year, but not worse.
Keeping my Word for the Year: Tenacity ~ persistent determination; the mental strength to resist opposition, danger or hardship1
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