Howdy to all the wonderful new members of this group. So good to have you all here.

I see many excellent goals for the month. I wish us all luck in achieving them! It CAN be DONE!!

My goal is to really get back to logging my food each day and not forgetting. I have a habit of keeping track in my head and forget to log here. I am working on losing 10 pounds I had gained back over a few months time when I had to stop exercising and started eating just junk, junk and more junk! No more. I have lost 4 of them so far.

So, goal for Jolly June will be to be "jolly" haha and to exercise at least 4 days a week. I feel once I was released to go back to it, I sort of over did it. Plus I would like to lose 3 pounds this month, or at least 2.

Here's to a wonderful June with all of us wonderful peeps meeting our goals and then some.

Over 11,000 steps today so all good...including a mile and a half run.....gardening and then sat enjoying the lovely warmth of the sunshine...... so looking forward to a sunny summer....I know it is going to rain all day tomorrow...lol :sad: :bigsmile:

Lovely to see everyone so positive at the start of a new month........ :flowerforyou:

Jean

opps, wrong one.

Alex and Jean you are so right - new insight for me - thanks so much. Just getting off my butt the last couple of days and enjoying the walking has me in a whole different mind set. This morning rushing to get laundry on the line and clean up the kitchen so I can get out for my walk - yep that's what I said. Forces from this group have gotten me under their spell and enjoying walking in the great outdoors. :devil:

Have a great week everyone.

Holly

Good morning all of you "Jolly Juners"!

Yesterday:
1) steps = 5296 ( I really think I made 6000 b/c there were times I walked w/o my fitbit on)

2) eating = 1294 calories - until 12:00 midnight then I went crazy :devil: that is right, the devil made me do it

3) I am checking in with you but will not be able to talk till this evening as my Schnauzer, Barkley, gets a hair cut this morning.

So I will see you all this evening.
Let's keep this our Jolly June by meeting all of our goals!!

Hello,
I'm new to this challenge thing....so my goal for June is (don't laugh) just for me to track my foods each day and make it to the end of the month. I'm like a yo yo when it comes to staying on track....do I or don't i? In addition, I'm going to continue to walk outdoors at least 30 minutes a day. Summer in Indiana is here....finally! Thanks for letting me be a part of the group.....and if ya want to be my friend...that's awesome...I need motivation, and support and I love to give it in return.
Have a healthy day.
Beth

Beth, logging is the most important thing you can do whether you are under or over your goal, so no one is going to laugh at that. Your fitness goal is a good one, too. Keep us informed on how you are doing!

Jean and Charlie, I will be here for the July challenge. I make goals to myself as well. I love this group because everyone is so honest, and upbeat and I'm glad I joined. I need a group like this to keep me motivated.

Good morning!
I am reporting on yesterday's challenges

1) 9013 steps - did two cardio walks outside and my leg is not hurting today :smooched:

2) I was under the MFP calories but over where I want to be. I can thank my binge to that :grumble:
but did great the rest of the day.

3) I did post on message boards last night :flowerforyou:

I am going to wait till this evening to do my outside walking as I will be walking a lot in the house today to catch up from being in town for 3 days.

We did have a thunderstorm go through early this morning with thunder and lighting but gave us just a few sprinkles. I love a good thunderstorm but I would prefer rain with it.

This weekend I have my 50th class reunion. I really debated about going since I am so heavy, but decided I would. I think back, Larry and I were married when I was 20 and weighed 117# at 5'8". So you can see why I was debating. Oh, well, it is what it is!

Off to get caught up!
We are onward and downward! Let's make today count

Jolly June

Hi Reba, Alex is so correct. Go to your reunion and enjoy yourself. Your friends will always like you for who you are, not what size you are. You are still the friend they remember :-)

I'm added to my personal challenge for June.

I listened to a local pbs radio talk program yesterday where they had the Dean of Nursing from OSU. She said something that was important. To improve the quality and quantity of your life, you need to only do 4 things!

1. Don't smoke.
2. Get 30 minutes of exercise 5 days a week.
3. Eat 5 servings of fruits and vegetables every day.
4. (My personal favorite) If you drink alcohol, women should have one glass a day!

I quit smoking about 14 years ago. The exercise is no longer a problem for me. Most days I eat close to 5 servings, but I will now improve that! And I have been trying not to drink, but think I will leave room for a drink a day!

Claudine, will you join me in #4? :drinker:

Reba: Have fun at your reunion. You are beautiful. You have no reason to stay home.

GOOD MORNING!!

Time to report on my Jolly June Goals:

1. walked 6664 steps yesterday. I did my cardio walk last evening. But morning is so much better for me as I walk faster and further. By evening I am becoming too tired.

2. Calories - under MFP goal but over my goal :ohwell: Larry brought me a Heath ice cream bar after my diary was completed. He knows I love them. He is so very supportive of me with the weight loss as he has been concerned for sometime. So he wasn't trying to sabotage me. Just being a wonderful thoughtful hubby

3. I am enjoying being on the message boards and keeping up with all of you. You certainly keep me going onward and downward :bigsmile:

I MUST add one more goal for June: no eating after 9:00 period! Again, NO EATING AFTER 9:00!!

We are having a cool morning but very high humidity. Hopefully, that means we will get the rain forecasted for us.

Hey Charlie, I would like to join you and Claudine with the 4 items.

I quit smoking when we planned to have our first child. I was not a heavy smoker - only smoked when we went out to dance, drink beer and have fun. Of course I started in college!! Didn't most of us 1960's kids do that!!

I also try to do the 5 fruits and veggies / day as I was doing that with Weight Watchers.

I am working up to the 30 min of cardio per day - almost there

B/c of meds I am not suppose to consume alcohol, but I do cheat on occasion but really cannot have 1 per day.

It is time for my walk. Barkley is sitting by the door waiting on me! :bigsmile:

Let's keep June Jolly by working the MFP program to our advantage :happy:

I am day 3 on the program and leaving for a short vacation tomorrow. Reading all your posts gives me the tape I need to keep playing in my head...committment! My goal is to diary everything, do my best to make good choices and most of all, don't lose faith if everythig does not go perfect! :flowerforyou:
Happy Weekend Everyone!!

Reba and Claudine, you guys were novices! I was a chain smoker! Finally was working at a place where I couldn't smoke where I worked. I smoked up to 3 packs a day at times. I actually started as a little girl. My mom might say if she was in the basement doing laundry, "Go light me a cigarette." By the time I was 15, I smoked.

But, it wasn't health that got me to quit. It was price. I would go to visit a friend in KY because they were $5 a carton cheaper so I would buy enough for 6 weeks and then go visit her again. That was actually illegal! That is when they got to $3 a pack in Ohio. I can't figure out how anyone can smoke now.

The nice by-product of not smoking was that I could travel more! Before, I wouldn't travel without a stop-over so I could smoke. After I quit, I could fly to Europe and afford it!

However, after 14 years, I still want one sometimes and it even seems like I forget I don't smoke. I'll think about how I'll have a cigarette after lunch or later with a glass of wine. Have to remind myself that I don't. I know if I ever have one, I'll be back to smoking by the end of the day.