Does anyone Bullet Journal?
MelanieCN77
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In spite of enjoying technology for its own sake and appreciating the ease of accessing data from apps and the like, I have found a lot of value in a paper "journal." I've been carrying a notebook for a while now but also discovered "bullet journals" last year and have found that mapping out a week or a day and being creative and neat about the way it looks is a positive influence for me. Mine is a lot of food lists, meal plans, workout goals and the like, but also daily tasks and jotted down reminders that mean something in keeping me on track. I've found that making it pretty with a couple of coloured pens or pencils, spending like 5 minutes on it once or twice a day, really solidifies plans and goals for me and takes some of the free-styling out of my day, which is where I'll end up getting over hungry and making ill advised food choices or just not getting to that workout at an optimal time.
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I bullet journal and it includes my training plans and my planned menu for the week. I still use MFP for tracking my actual intake, but I find the bullet journal technique incredibly useful to balancing everything that is going on in my life.2
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Yeah I track my food here and have some fit tech but I really enjoy the paper journal for bigger picture.0
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I do! I use a composition notebook, and I use it to track my sleep, exercise, drinking, meditating, reading, and productivity habits. Mostly to look at streaks/correlations; for more precision tracking MFP is great. I am not as intense a bullet journaler as some; but I like that I can write daily AND monthly logs.1
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Ah yes the "intense" journalers
- one of the reasons I'm hesitant to call it a Bullet Journal is you go search for examples and there is a lot of evidence that it is a certified fetish! 0 -
I did it for almost 3 years but have left it this year. It became too much with all the other tracking I do.
I have my apps on my phone and the book was getting heavy and cluttering up my spaces so I am slowly getting away from it.
I like you used colored pens/pencils funky paper stickers etc. I have so much washi tape it's silly but it was nice but like I said I have enough going on and didn't need that "extra".
Cause lets be honest it's not 5mins 1x a day it takes a lot of time to do it.1 -
I've never heard of this term before, but I'm looking for a different way to track stuff-I'll need to look into this more 0
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I did it for almost 3 years but have left it this year. It became too much with all the other tracking I do.
I have my apps on my phone and the book was getting heavy and cluttering up my spaces so I am slowly getting away from it.
I like you used colored pens/pencils funky paper stickers etc. I have so much washi tape it's silly but it was nice but like I said I have enough going on and didn't need that "extra".
Cause lets be honest it's not 5mins 1x a day it takes a lot of time to do it.
It's all about choice. I'm not drawing grids and colouring in bars for glasses of water or anything like that. There's such a thing as too much planning/tracking which can disguise/be avoidance behaviour. There's no right pr wrong way to do it, but there is definitely something to it being neat and kinda formal as opposed to scribbles on paper that makes it mean something for me.1 -
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writing down your goals has been proven to help you reach them, love this method
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im allergic to paper, Sooo no not how you describe it. I do use google sheets though xD I have some crazy detailed pages lol1
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mrsnattybulking wrote: »
So do you use a regular planner just for diet/fitness data? I've never thought to do that but wow, that's kind of brilliant! I have scrap paper notes/mini-notebooks all over the place for my current woe experiment and it's driving me nuts!0 -
JaydedMiss wrote: »im allergic to paper, Sooo no not how you describe it. I do use google sheets though xD I have some crazy detailed pages lol
Wow, I've never heard of a paper allergy! Unless you're being sarcastic and it's too early for me to notice
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I do! But mines more of a TN.1
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OliveGirl128 wrote: »mrsnattybulking wrote: »
So do you use a regular planner just for diet/fitness data? I've never thought to do that but wow, that's kind of brilliant! I have scrap paper notes/mini-notebooks all over the place for my current woe experiment and it's driving me nuts!
Yup! Just like a regular student planner from Staples and I only use it for fitness stuff. In the daily part I write myself little notes that are quite comical and cute haha. I keep track of my lifts, my bad days, my period/ovulation cycle. It's redundant with mfp but I really find value in putting pen to paper when it comes to goals and measuring my progress. I can't recommend writing things down enough!3 -
MelanieCN77 wrote: »JaydedMiss wrote: »im allergic to paper, Sooo no not how you describe it. I do use google sheets though xD I have some crazy detailed pages lol
Wow, I've never heard of a paper allergy! Unless you're being sarcastic and it's too early for me to notice
Nah sadly im serious im allergic to wood in all forms XD Its an interesting allergy i know, Epi-pen and all xD0 -
mrsnattybulking wrote: »OliveGirl128 wrote: »mrsnattybulking wrote: »
So do you use a regular planner just for diet/fitness data? I've never thought to do that but wow, that's kind of brilliant! I have scrap paper notes/mini-notebooks all over the place for my current woe experiment and it's driving me nuts!
Yup! Just like a regular student planner from Staples and I only use it for fitness stuff. In the daily part I write myself little notes that are quite comical and cute haha. I keep track of my lifts, my bad days, my period/ovulation cycle. It's redundant with mfp but I really find value in putting pen to paper when it comes to goals and measuring my progress. I can't recommend writing things down enough!
Seriously, you just saved me from losing my mind lol! I'm not tracking on MFP-I really, really try but I just can't stick with it (I'm maintaining fine without it, but I still wanted to track food stuff because I'm experimenting with a specific woe right now). I'm going to pick up a planner today-you should see all the stickies I have scattered around right now with my green smoothies 'greens' rotations, oiy
This should really help me get everything in one place and then give me an idea of where I'm at with my food! 1 -
Nah. aint nobody got time for that.3
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Nah. aint nobody got time for that.
I did some quick googling and it looks like the official method of bullet journaling could be pretty time intensive, but I'm loving pps idea of a pre-done planner for me to keep diet/exercise info, since I don't track anywhere else except for messy piles of notes around my house lol.1 -
I have a digital journal, a digital bullet journal, a physical journal, a paper planner, and about a million small notebooks.1
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OliveGirl128 wrote: »Nah. aint nobody got time for that.
I did some quick googling and it looks like the official method of bullet journaling could be pretty time intensive, but I'm loving pps idea of a pre-done planner for me to keep diet/exercise info, since I don't track anywhere else except for messy piles of notes around my house lol.
The fancy ones that you see online can take a lot of time (people tend to do them because they enjoy the art of it), but the actual system doesn't involve any of the decoration. I spend just minutes a day on mine and then about ten minutes at the start of the month to get a new month set up.
http://bulletjournal.com/1 -
I use this site to track what I have eaten. I can look back and see what I ate but not why I ate it.
Tracking things like my mood, sleep, medications, symptoms of things I've been diagnosed with, period, what I've done during the day; that enables me to see why I eat / want to eat certain things. If my asthma is bad I have to take oral steroids and the higher the dose, the more hungry I am. When I'm on my period, I always end up having curry.
Until I started my bullet journal I didn't really see the reasons for cravings. Knowing what the triggers are means I can prepare for them. I can't avoid taking the asthma medication but I can avoid buying the high calorie snacks when I feel it getting bad which makes it easier to stick to my goals.0 -
It's nothing quite so fancy as @mrsnattybulking 's picture but I have noted the dates and weights and lifts done of my lifting in a paper notebook.1
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I use Passion Planner, I love keeping lists and journaling. I used to write myself notes on random scraps of paper, now whenever I want to track something or remember something etc it all goes in one place. I guess it all depends on how your brain works. I looked into Bullet Journal and it looked a little too involved for me, like that was a rabbit hole I could get lost in lol, but I do find writing stuff down on paper makes more sense to my brain than all the apps you can use instead. MFP is the only online log I use. 1
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I track on my iPhone using the MFP app; however, I have a Franklin Covey planner where I am documenting my daily weight and other info just to keep me on track. I get on the "Community" section of the website daily, and this is my accountability check-in. I love that I don't have to go to meetings in a physical location, but I can use my time smarter.1
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Mine is a mix of bullet journal and just regular journaling. I am not artistic so it doesn't have all the pretty pictures drawn in and it does just take a couple minutes a day. Mapping out the month takes me some time but that's only once a month.0
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This is something I have been looking into starting. I am a perpetual list maker and I think this would be a great way to keep my on-going lists (like house projects, daily habits, seasonal bucket lists, etc.) organized. The thing that has held me back is that I am super creative, but not very artistic, so I am afraid the journal won't be "pretty".
I think I should just go for it, I can already think of so many ideas for pages.3 -
I don't have the time to make mine as detailed and artistic as I'd like, but I love it. I have a weight tracker where I color a box each time I lose a pound... and I have a page of motivational quotes that I go back to every once in a while. I set mine up within 10 minutes every Sunday for the coming week... it's a nice way of grounding myself for the week to come. 1
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I'm the kind of stationary fan that *should* be into bullet journaling, but I love my excel spreadsheets!1
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Mine is a homemade calendar that goes by weeks. It starts off pretty basic, the week I'm in with my diet, the day of the month, & my schedule working days. Then I write on it everyday, if I worked out, what I did for my workout, if I lost weight, if I ate bad, if I gained, whatever. Mine is tapped to my mirror in my room. I'm on my 2nd calendar and I truly think it has helped me out so much. I look at it everyday and if 2-3 days goes by and I haven't worked out, I see it, my husband sees it, It motivates me to get up and workout so I can mark that calendar.1
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