JUST FOR TODAY ....... One day at a time ..... Daily Commitment Thread for 2018

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  • Saragirl2
    Saragirl2 Posts: 630 Member
    karadupree0906 wrote: »
    This is a great idea! Haven't read all of the posts but I love this one day at a time thought process. So for me today, I would like to accomplish the following:

    Drink a min. of 64 ounces of water
    Track everything that I eat
    Exercise for an hour


    It's a great thread @karadupree0906 . Very supportive, welcome!

  • missheidi
    missheidi Posts: 465 Member
    Bex953172 wrote: »
    Okay so Marley is a lot worse today!

    Getting the jet washer today so was hoping to do the garden but looks like Marley will need watching all day. She’s definitely got it worse than Saskia, it’s all over!. Think oat baths all day and cream will help.

    She’s just trying to pick at the spots and although she doesn’t throw an almighty tantrum, she keeps trying to do it over and over again where at least my eldest stopped when told to!

    Poor kid!
    So no goals today just looking after the poorly!

    poor Marley! poor Mommy! will she wear mittens?
  • missheidi
    missheidi Posts: 465 Member
    penko47 wrote: »
    JFY
    1. 15,000 Steps :)
    2. log everything on MFP :) I went way over my calories!!! but I logged it EVERYTHING
    3. Drink 6 bottles of water :)
    4. Do one thing on my long priority work to do list :(

    JFT
    1. 20,000 Steps
    2. log everything on MFP
    3. Stay in the green
    4. Drink 6 bottles of water
    5. Do one thing on my long priority work to do list

    that is a LOT of steps.
  • cschmitz110515
    cschmitz110515 Posts: 3,644 Member
    Recap Sunday 1/21
    1) Bible class & church = done :smiley:
    2) Wash sheets & towels = done + one load of clothes :smiley:
    3) Walk dog...with above normal temps, ice on neighborhood roads pretty much melted, until next winter weather tonight & tomorrow = high temp mid-40s, melting snow & messy out, walked dog 3.26 miles...happy/muddy/wet dog and happy me B) Fitbit 14,797 steps, 250+ steps 11/14 hours & 30 floors :smiley:
    4) Meal plan & start grocery list...plan for hubby's traditional bday dinner = 2x done :smiley::smiley:
    5) Lots of water to flush system / net calories w/i 100 green = Net calories, sodium & sugar red, fiber & protein low & 14c water :/
    6) Floss / retainers / bed & TV off 10:15 = 3x done! :smiley::smiley::smiley:

    JFT M 1/22 - still catching up sleep instead of treadmill before work :/
    1) Move hourly / stairs breaks at work
    2) Net calories green and >12c water
    3) Evening: since didn't walk treadmill this morning, and have DDS appt. at 7:50 a.m. tomorrow, do some sort of workout
    4) At least 3 things on to-do list
    5) Use Calm app for 5 minutes (have to start over)
    6) Floss / retainers / bed & TV off 10:15
  • missheidi
    missheidi Posts: 465 Member
    princessleia07 wrote: »
    Hi!! Just beginning my journey! Have a long way to go, but it’s day by day!!! Doing well so far!! Please add me so I can receive/give support!

    Welcome! this is an awesome group.
  • missheidi
    missheidi Posts: 465 Member
    Bex953172 wrote: »
    Saragirl2 wrote: »
    I wanted to share this as I'm hoping it will add to my motivation...

    My WHY

    My son took my photo while eating pancakes & bacon on Christmas morning with family. It's the worst photo I've seen of myself! Time to take control of this situation was what went through my head when I saw it. I may print a copy to keep on my fridge for motivation. Also, assorted aches, pains and low energy due to the extra weight. Need to shed about 50lbs. I'm also aware of how people who've known me for years will treat me differently now. It's rather sad. But I intend to make healthy changes.

    Ahhh my kids do this. Except because she’s 4 she takes about 300 (no joke she just repeatedly presses the button lol)
    So I get that feeling!

    missheidi wrote: »
    Bex953172 wrote: »
    Okay so Marley is a lot worse today!

    Getting the jet washer today so was hoping to do the garden but looks like Marley will need watching all day. She’s definitely got it worse than Saskia, it’s all over!. Think oat baths all day and cream will help.

    She’s just trying to pick at the spots and although she doesn’t throw an almighty tantrum, she keeps trying to do it over and over again where at least my eldest stopped when told to!

    Poor kid!
    So no goals today just looking after the poorly!

    poor Marley! poor Mommy! will she wear mittens?

    I used socks in the end haha
    She actually found it rather funny because they were patterned like a bear so she was just waving around bear hands :lol:

    make sure she growls while she does it!
  • clicketykeys
    clicketykeys Posts: 6,577 Member
    penko47 wrote: »
    JFY
    1. 16,000 Steps :)
    2. log everything on MFP :) so happy!!!!
    3. Stay in the green :) so happy!!!!!
    4. Drink 6 bottles of water :)
    5. Plan Family trip :)
    6. Do one thing on my long priority work to do list :)

    JFT
    1. 17,000 Steps
    2. log everything on MFP
    3. Stay in the green
    4. Drink 6 bottles of water
    5. Only eat back 1/2 exercise calories (this will take discipline)
    6. Do one thing on my long priority work to do list

    How do you get all those steps in? Do you have a job at which you walk a lot? Retired?
  • hraasch12
    hraasch12 Posts: 10 Member
    JFY 1/21/18:

    1. Stay under calorie goal :smile:
    2. Eat 3 servings of veggiea :smile:
    3. Study for exam on Tuesday :neutral: I did do some studying, but I'm coming down with a cold and it was hard to focus, my brain was just not having it!

    JFT 1/22/18:
    1. Get 8,000 steps
    2. Daily Burn Strength and Cardio I
    3. Drink 80 oz water
    4. Stay under calorie goal
    5. 3 servings veggies
  • princessleia07
    princessleia07 Posts: 9 Member
    Does anyone have recipes to share
  • mytime6630
    mytime6630 Posts: 4,283 Member
    edited January 2018
    Bex953172 wrote: »
    @joan6630 and @OConnell5483

    I know you both asked me how my Bullet Journal was going (lol I nearly shortened that to BJ, but think that’s inappropriate:lol: )

    But it’s going okay, honestly I’ve been busy so not used it as much as I had liked! And some pages don’t really apply to me. But I’ve been filling it in with pencil and that makes it easy to edit. Realised by the end of the year I can rub it out and start again haha!

    I think I need to buy a blank bullet journal and copy my favourite pages into it like the daily planner page as there’s only like 1 page of t but I’d use that daily so would need more lol!

    I read mine this morning, thinking I better start using it!!! BUt ..... it is SO pretty, I hate to mark it up LOL. And, like you said, many of the pages I know I may not even use. I think I might do like @OConnell5483 does ... and use a pretty book with blank pages ... which I have here. But the Bullet Journal does give me lots of ideas of what to journal. (And ... maybe I'll just color it:)

    Hope your little ones are feeling better? And yes, I think when you are pregnant, wattling definitely has to burn tons of calories LOL!
  • mytime6630
    mytime6630 Posts: 4,283 Member
    clicketykeys wrote: »
    *SIGH* I'm tired of being hungry all the doggone time. And I'm very clearly NOT eating at a deficit. I mean, I get day-to-day fluctuations. But I'm NOT trending downward. It's intensely frustrating, because as far as I can tell, I'm getting plenty of protein, fiber, and fat, and I'm just HUNGRY. I'm tired of it. I'm not starving all the time, but if I eat until I'm content - not FULL, just like... not hungry again half an hour later - I don't lose.

    Right now I hate everything and I'm counting it a win that I made it to work and I'm doing my job rather than staying home and getting completely kitten-faced.

    I have been the same way!! I count calories, and even eating sometimes 1400 calories a day, I am always hungry - not losing, and that would lead to binging. I am tall, and people tell me I should lose weight on 1400 cal, but I wasn't.

    I was at the gym the other day, and got light-headed while exercising again. There is a gal there that weighs like 100 pounds, and it is such good shape (and she is a RN, specializing in nutrition), so she and I were talking. She told me that we should be eating 1 gm of protein for every pound of body weight! For me, that would be almost 190 gms of protein! She also told me you have to eat to lose, that if you don't, your body goes into starvation mode. Told me not to worry about calories ... just eat protein, veggies, and fruits.

    I also was going to the gym before I ate anything, and she told me that when I do that, my body burns muscle, not fat. Which is NOT what I want to do!! So since last thrusday, I've been really concentrating on eating more protein --- protein with every meal, and with every snack. So when we have popcorn at nite, I eat a yogurt, or egg to go with it. While its only been 3 days of me doing this, I find I am doing much better with not being so hungry. And if I am hungry, I just go eat a yogurt or a hard boiled egg or cheese stick (and the scale seems to be moving, ever so slowly, but at least moving downward).

    But ... we'll see how it goes for me, and hope I can continue not binging. But it may be that even though, like me, you think you are getting enough protein, you really are not. (I am now up to around 80 gms of protein - before I was lucky if I got to 50.
  • missheidi
    missheidi Posts: 465 Member
    Bex953172 wrote: »
    Thought of the day..

    I wonder if waddling burns more calories than walking! :lol:

    absolutely
  • missheidi
    missheidi Posts: 465 Member
    Waaiiittt a minute. sweet bell peppers have 10 carbs per cup? Are those ones I have to count, or not?
  • cschmitz110515
    cschmitz110515 Posts: 3,644 Member
    clicketykeys wrote: »
    Scale goals
    *SIGH* I'm tired of being hungry all the doggone time. And I'm very clearly NOT eating at a deficit. I mean, I get day-to-day fluctuations. But I'm NOT trending downward. It's intensely frustrating, because as far as I can tell, I'm getting plenty of protein, fiber, and fat, and I'm just HUNGRY. I'm tired of it. I'm not starving all the time, but if I eat until I'm content - not FULL, just like... not hungry again half an hour later - I don't lose.

    Maybe review your Diet Profile on MFP (under Settings) and tweak some of your goals.

    Probably way more than you want to know, but here goes...For example, my goals are not aggressive, since I want to lose weight in a livable way and I always eat back exercise calories. Otherwise I'd be starving every day. Since I have a desk job, I set my profile for Sedentary, with my estimated # of workouts per week and the est. minutes. I deliberately set exercise low, and for losing 1# per week. I'm fine with losing 0.5# per week too, it's not set in stone. That's why I allow myself to have red net calories, just not too many. The trend is the important thing for me.

    I do not sync up my Fitbit or MapMyWalk, since I've read about varying results regarding how many calories are burned. Instead, I log all my "exercise" manually into MFP...the database is amazing if you review the entire thing. "Cooking" can be logged and, yes, I have logged that at times. If I'm more active than usual (not exercise, just active) I usually don't enter that into MFP.

    BTW, I weigh myself daily and post to http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10633269/just-give-me-10-days-round-29#latest. Hope something in all this is useful. :smile:
  • Bex953172
    Bex953172 Posts: 4,158 Member
    joan6630 wrote: »
    Bex953172 wrote: »
    @joan6630 and @OConnell5483

    I know you both asked me how my Bullet Journal was going (lol I nearly shortened that to BJ, but think that’s inappropriate:lol: )

    But it’s going okay, honestly I’ve been busy so not used it as much as I had liked! And some pages don’t really apply to me. But I’ve been filling it in with pencil and that makes it easy to edit. Realised by the end of the year I can rub it out and start again haha!

    I think I need to buy a blank bullet journal and copy my favourite pages into it like the daily planner page as there’s only like 1 page of t but I’d use that daily so would need more lol!

    I read mine this morning, thinking I better start using it!!! BUt ..... it is SO pretty, I hate to mark it up LOL. And, like you said, many of the pages I know I may not even use. I think I might do like @OConnell5483 does ... and use a pretty book with blank pages ... which I have here. But the Bullet Journal does give me lots of ideas of what to journal. (And ... maybe I'll just color it:)

    Hope your little ones are feeling better? And yes, I think when you are pregnant, wattling definitely has to burn tons of calories LOL!

    Yeah I know what you mean lol! It’s very unlike me to write in a printed book. Feels like I’m ruining the book!!

    I think it’s beSt to get the blank one because the book is almost like a guide, to find out what you use, what you don’t use, what works well for you and doesn’t and then you can adapt that and create your own which will actually be beneficial!

    Massive improvement on Marley, she got off the sofa and played a little bit today at least!
    She’s definitely been more cheery and in less pain!
    She came and sat on my foot to have a pony ride so I guess that means her lady bits aren’t as sore!
    Most the blisters have popped now so she’s in the scabbing/healing process now.
    She’s picked one on her eyebrow so hoping it doesn’t scar. Funnily enough I have a CP scar on my eyebrow lol!


    Omg on 1% battery lol need to post now before I lose it!!!
  • MLHC1
    MLHC1 Posts: 678 Member
    edited January 2018
    Thank you all so much for the support!! I wish my weekend was restful but instead I spent all weekend being nurse to my kiddos. Both the younger ones caught something from school. Luckily, I was able to care for them and get their fevers to break within 24 hrs. However, that meant the "every 3 hr medicine routine." (All you Moms know what I mean.) Needless to say, now today I'm not feeling well.

    Regardless of all of this, I did accomplish some important items:
    ✔Research Abstract is complete
    ✔All laundry is clean
    ✔Complete building design project w/ hubby
    [This took most of my time! He does all the calculating and planning, then I become his computer assistant bc I'm better with computers.]
    ✔Kiddos are fever and sickness free :joy:
    ✔House has been cleaned
    ✔Budget done

    So today, I'm resting. I'll get back to everything again tomorrow.

    Everyone hang in there and keep up the good work!
  • clairelouisey
    clairelouisey Posts: 68 Member
    JFT MONDAY RECORD
    1. Stick to calorie goal :)
    2. Do yoga class :(
    3. Do fitness class :(

    Not quite ready to return to exercise post flu but kept to calorie goal. And tomorrow is another day...

    JFT TUESDAY GOALS
    1. Stick to calorie goal
    2. Do yoga class

  • toaljasa
    toaljasa Posts: 955 Member
    MLHC1 wrote: »
    ✔Budget done

    So today, I'm resting. I'll get back to everything again tomorrow.

    Everyone hang in there and keep up the good work!

    Your time was certainly well spent! And today you have nothing hanging over your head so your mind can rest as well as your body.

    Thanks for keeping us updated---so glad your kids are well now.

    Peace and joy as you rest and recharge.
  • toaljasa
    toaljasa Posts: 955 Member
    karadupree0906 wrote: »
    This is a great idea! Haven't read all of the posts but I love this one day at a time thought process. So for me today, I would like to accomplish the following:

    Drink a min. of 64 ounces of water
    Track everything that I eat
    Exercise for an hour

    Welcome to JFT! I have been on for around three weeks. It has helped me stay on track and to be overall encouraged everyday!
  • toaljasa
    toaljasa Posts: 955 Member
    clicketykeys wrote: »
    Scale goals
    Dec 1 weigh-in: 176.6
    End of 2017: 174.6
    Jan 31 goal - PREVIOUS: 169. That's a 1.5 lb/week drop from a start of 175, which makes the math a little easier!
    Jan 31 goal - REVISED: 172. *sigh*
    Goal for 1/22: 175. Today: 178. *SIGH* I'm tired of being hungry all the doggone time. And I'm very clearly NOT eating at a deficit. I mean, I get day-to-day fluctuations. But I'm NOT trending downward. It's intensely frustrating, because as far as I can tell, I'm getting plenty of protein, fiber, and fat, and I'm just HUNGRY. I'm tired of it. I'm not starving all the time, but if I eat until I'm content - not FULL, just like... not hungry again half an hour later - I don't lose.

    Right now I hate everything and I'm counting it a win that I made it to work and I'm doing my job rather than staying home and getting completely kitten-faced.

    UGH! I share your frustration! Are you logging everything you eat? And are you actively working towards getting your 8 cups of water/day in? (I didn't see them on your JFT) I have found both to be very important. BUT, what unstuck me was the water...once I became determined to drink at least 6 glasses a day my weight has continued to slowly work downward. I feel more full and I'm sure it is flushing out sodium, etc. Anyway, just thought I'd share an idea for you to consider.

    The important thing is that you are not giving up! Keep logging on here so that you are not alone during this argh! time.

  • toaljasa
    toaljasa Posts: 955 Member
    princessleia07 wrote: »
    Hi!! Just beginning my journey! Have a long way to go, but it’s day by day!!! Doing well so far!! Please add me so I can receive/give support!

    Welcome! This is an excellent source for support.

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