JUST FOR TODAY -- One Day at a Time .... Daily commitment thread for 2019

1/24 Day 17 Way too cold to do anything outdoors stayed in cocooning. Again prelogged but then needed to change some as we didn't have everything that I had logged. Next week I will be out of town from Thur-Sun so will need to plan a strategy to stay within my limits. Usually not good at that as the food is sooooo good at the quilt retreat. Will also need to make sure I drink enough water. Weekend coming up tomorrow. Another challenge.

@slittlemeister hi! Good to see you back. I’m so reliant on my phone for everything I think I would have anxiety without it! Sounds like you’ve found some positives though! X

11:00 p.m. Thursday night.
MAN/WOMAN! WHAT A DAY .
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Well... I'm not getting on here to bring anyone down,
I am here to bring the love, joy, hope, kindness, and encouragement to the greatest
women, I have in my now life. And please feel free to let me know if I'm not helping.
Each one of us are a valuable piece to this grand puzzle called life and each adds their
own accent, spice, and power to it.
I walked a lot again because of a visit to the hospital to see my daughter again.
I walked the children to the bus stop.
Tomorrow I will wing it because I have an appointment for myself, and errands that I put
off.
My daughter is under a 302 form...???😟 That along with that HIPPA LAW...which I have
a problem with, because there are some unique circumstances that are an exceptioon to
the rules. I left my phone number for the doctor to call me. Whether they give it to the doctor
I don't know.
Like I said, I am not going to be down, or negative. I don't have time, or energy to waste
on those things. I have to be on top of things for my daughter's sake.
Right now though, it's I LOVE YOU ALL...
GOOD NIGHT🙏💝

@slittlemeister is it you who does the excel sheet of your calories but over a week?
Is that just food calories or do you add the exercise to?
I cant figure out how to do it lol!

@mytime6630 and @maryrobinson40 Both of you have gone thru & are going thru so much, and yet you still come here & are so encouraging & inspiring to us. I so appreciate your support & wish that I could give back to y'all. I send positive vibes & virtual hugs to you.

@mytime6630 thanks for your response regarding Beck Diet.

I'm not doing so well. A couple good days, but too many of the others. I'm not giving up though!

I wish that I could respond to everyone's posts. I'm not caught up with reading them all, but something keeps drawing me to this thread. I think it's because many have been successful, here, & reading your posts helps me in that I'm finding others are like me & y'all are all so genuine & supportive. I share in the struggles & am not made to feel that I need to leave cause I'm not doing as well as other posters. Thanks so much for this daily work along thread. It is a challenge & yet we share with each other. Thank you!!!

JFT 1/25/19 Fri A lot of what I post will be the same tame, every day...
Weigh:
Red cup challenge- but 4 cups will be acceptable for me. That is how poor I am at drinking water. Just 4 cups daily is HUGE for me.
Stay in the Green
Stay focused!!!
Have small servings tonight & no seconds at dinner at friends house with their family & my husband, son & his wife. Keep my goals in sight. This will be a big challenge. One I've failed at every time. This night, I will succeed! (Turning negativity into positivity. Thanks to someone's wonderful post, here).
Bedtime: midnight -- I'm still determined to do this.

Bex953172 wrote: »

@slittlemeister is it you who does the excel sheet of your calories but over a week?
Is that just food calories or do you add the exercise to?
I cant figure out how to do it lol!

I don't actually have a spread sheet, I just use the calculator on my phone to add up the balance of each day across the week.

So for example if I had Monday (500 green), Tuesday (200 red), Wednesday (100 red), I'd do 500 - 200 - 100 = 200 in the green.

A spread sheet would probably be simpler actually now I think about it because whilst it's quite simple at the start of the week it gets more faffy on day 6 and 7! Particularly as I have to flick back across all the pages to find the balances from earlier in the week...

You know, I'm going to start a spread sheet. I think this might be helpful anyway as I can identify trends and patterns! (e.g. burger Thursdays which is becoming a bad habit...)

slittlemeister wrote: »

Bex953172 wrote: »

@slittlemeister is it you who does the excel sheet of your calories but over a week?
Is that just food calories or do you add the exercise to?
I cant figure out how to do it lol!

I don't actually have a spread sheet, I just use the calculator on my phone to add up the balance of each day across the week.

So for example if I had Monday (500 green), Tuesday (200 red), Wednesday (100 red), I'd do 500 - 200 - 100 = 200 in the green.

A spread sheet would probably be simpler actually now I think about it because whilst it's quite simple at the start of the week it gets more faffy on day 6 and 7! Particularly as I have to flick back across all the pages to find the balances from earlier in the week...

You know, I'm going to start a spread sheet. I think this might be helpful anyway as I can identify trends and patterns! (e.g. burger Thursdays which is becoming a bad habit...)

Haha well someone on here has a spreadsheet for something LOL

Ive done mine as Day, Daily calories, Calories eaten, exercise calories, Total (so like the mfp one)

But then ive totalled the sum of the calories column, and the sum of the Total column and then minused thaf from the other!
Ive not used excel in years i was suprised i could remenber what functions to use!

I saw this on website Uncommon Goods, and thought of those on JFT that struggle drinking water. An inspirational water bottle!

Bex953172 - you had a really active day yesterday. I wouldn’t have turned down the biscuit I don’t think.

AJB1014 - so sorry to hear about your employment. The economy sure isn’t what it could be. This must be so hard on your Stepdad.

Littleblackskirt - speaking as someone that has lived away from her parents for over 20 years I have to say yes, visit as often as possible. My Dad passed in 2012 at age 70and my Mom, now 72 has been in a nursing home for a year now. I can’t change the past but sure wish I could have and could visit more.

Pam46185 - I think being honest when you “mess up” is just as important as everything else. It was a bad day, today is a new one to try to do better. That’s what I love about this group!

Slittlemeister- I think sometimes it would be nice not to have a phone I carry with me. I like not being able to be reached at times and I always feel guilty if I don’t answer right away.

Clicketykeys- I think your students are so very fortunate to have you as a teacher, you’re caring and put so much effort into it. I bet I would have enjoyed you as a teacher, I don’t think I ever had a teacher that felt I was important enough to have a conference with.

Skbtumbleweed - welcome! I give this group so much credit for helping me lose 25 pounds. Currently only 23 as I gained some over Christmas. Keep coming back and you’ll do it!

Namelesshere - a quilt retreat sounds like fun. I have never gone to a “crafting” retreat of any kind but would really love to. Have fun!

Michiwano - you’re killing it!

Faebert - so nice to read that you’ve had a great week. You are braver than me for running outside in the winter. I won’t even do my walks. Our sidewalks are not well maintained and like you, I don’t have proper clothing.

Maryrobinson40- you couldn’t bring me down. You are a friend and I’m here for the ups and downs. I’m not familiar with the 302 form and Hippa Law. We have a firm here that allows people to be admitted under the Mental Health Act and they legally can’t leave the hospital. Is that what you mean? If so, maybe your daughter really needs it right now and it will help her in the future. I hope the doctor calls you, it’s so hard not knowing as a parent.

Mytime6630 - this must be such a huge adjustment having your daughter with you. I know it would throw me off for sure. She is where she needs to be and it must give you some peace of mind having her up and about rather than in the bedroom alone at least. I admire your strength, it’s a tough situation. You mentioned scraps. I am currently going through paper scraps from my scrapbooking supplies. I am giving my little pieces to a friend of my daughters who teaches Grade 2. He said he will share them with other teachers in the school for arts and crafts if he can’t use them all. It’s better than recycling. Some of those pieces will end up as treasured artwork on a fridge.

Elbee1 - keep coming back! I found this past September I wasn’t successful on my goals day after day, but I kept posting them and thought more than once why am I bothering. Seeing others struggle and keep coming back kept me doing it too. It finally bothered me enough that one day I thought, “I am going to make my goals today, I’m not coming back to say I didn’t”. I truly believe this group has helped me keep going even when I wanted to give up.

Bex953172 - I use excel to track miles walked,average of my weight over 7 days, 10 days and monthly and I track my measurements on there. I added new worksheets and separated 2018 and 2019 now.

JFT Jan 24
Before work:

• up right after alarm
• weigh in / HIIT on bike BF's to right after I get home from work/ breakfast cooked then taken to work and eaten there
  
• weigh / pack / pre-log for the day
• recycling to the curb / pull out of driveway by 7:45! close - gone by 7:47 ... because I brought breakfast to work and skipped HIIT

After work / evening:

• First HIIT session of the day (BF'd from this morning) skipped completely today ... because ....
• Set up AND START an exergame tour themed to Valentine's Day (target completion date) 1h13 and over10,700 steps on mini-trampoline "jogging around Paris and spending points earned in the exergame before supper
• adjust supper and snack logging & choices based on calories burned (will be lots!) over 100 "left in the pot"
• Buy and assemble new mini-trampoline after supper (current one broke a spring) DONE! Considering the old one was a free found-at-the-curb rescue that lasted more than a year for me, and a brand new one was only $CAN 50 .... a great deal and "only $25 each if you amortized the cost over both"
• Read while savouring my evening snack ... nearing the end of this mystery novel finished the book AND watched a wonderful Netfix Original movie "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" (set just post WW2 and refers back to the recently-ended German occupation of the Channel Islands. (the 5 yr old in the story was born during the war). I HIGHLY recommend it. I'll probably order the book it is based on.

2019 Big Picture MFP-type Targets:


2019 Big Picture Rest-of-Life Goals:

skbtumbleweed wrote: »

I hope I am doing this right.

Hello. I rejoined MFP a few weeks ago. I was looking for a group to join to help with the motivation and coping with daily living. I have read some entries and believe this would be a great place to be. I am needing to lose weight to keep me off of diabetic medication. What a great motivator, right? You would think anyway. So my goal for today was to eat what I am supposed to and not eat what I am not supposed to. Of course, I love, love, love everything I am not supposed to eat. I am determined I will learn to "like" more of the things I am supposed to. Yes, non starchy vegetables, protein and water. LOL! I shouldn't like myself less than I like food.

So far today, I have reached my goal. My goal for the rest of the evening will be to stick with today's goal.

I am happy to be here, and have enjoyed reading your stories of strength and perseverance.

See you all tomorrow.

Welcome!! This group is a great place to start! Lots of motivation and even more support...I think we treat this journey as a whole...physical and mental. You will be surprised how many of us think and feel and struggle with the same things as you! :flowerforyou:

@Elbee1 I'm glad you pop on when you can! I just wanted to tell you, I have been on this thread for 3 years. I have actually gained weight, instead of lost, during that time. But what I HAVE been able to do during that time is work through the mental and everyday life stress that was bringing me down, listing those issues as some of my goals. I changed careers after 25 years in the same place, which was scary as heck, but I got rid of so much stress that I felt like I lost 3 tons of weight off my shoulders! I have also made many other positive changes in my life while on this thread. I may actually be the person who sets the goal of turning negativity into positive, which you referred to. I set that goal for myself a lot and have a lot more peace in my heart and mind since I started paying attention to that as part of my well-being. Come back as often as you like....we are happy to see you! Many great ideas and you never know when one of them is going to be just the one you needed to hear! :flowerforyou: