JUST FOR TODAY -- One Day at a Time .... Daily commitment thread for 2019
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@johicks @clicketykeys
I came here with the exact same problem - not caring. I have been successfully losing weight in the past, I knew what I need to do, but I just couldn't make myself to care. Like, at the end of the day I felt it really doesn't solve my real life problems whether I am fat or not.
So, I identified 'not caring' as my main problem, not excess weight...I didn't know what to do regarding it, so I just started to showing up here, doing small efforts despite my lack of caring.
After a while, surprisingly, I started to care...it's like some kind of respect to the efforts I have put in so far.
I still feel fragile, and I still don't feel like I control it 100%, but I feel a big improvement.
What I want to say is that you are doing good, you are climbing that mountain by showing up and trying each day. Just keep going and your caring will return.
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ZizzyBumble wrote: »ZizzyBumble wrote: »Sunday 21 April
Log accurately
Stay in the green
5 fruit and veg
Fitbit excercise goals
January challenge
February challenge
March challenge
April challenge I have enjoyed the beautiful weather and a nice meal with my parents
I went for a walk in the village and the civil war reenactment group were putting on a mock battle.
WOW 😗 WHAT wonderful costumes! Thanks for sharing!! @ZizzyBumble2 -
@Snowflake1968 - I've got this class, then one more along with a project, which I'm kind of worried about, tbqh. I would really like to have had some more communication from the university about what's required. But zilch. :P There's general info on the website but I haven't been able to get any particulars. SUCK.
@Faebert - Do they have a smaller size so you can at least try it???
@johicks - Yup. It's SO hard. Right now I'm debating whether I have the mental fortitude to manage a blog post OR a discussion post, let alone both of them. *sigh* It's 6:30 and I'm ready to go to bed for the night! Although, at least that way, I wouldn't be eating...1 -
I’m still a little shaken with goals. It isn’t that I don’t want to try, but I’m just so afraid to fail again.
I haven’t been mysterious about my emotional highs and lows. The last low was not so good and positives were not easy to come by. Because of this thread, at least once a day I tried to thing of something positive. I was a danger to myself and talked to more docs than I cared to. I’m not saying this month’s challenge saved me, but it did bring me a connection to peace each day. My mood has turned and they changed so meds, but I wanted to thank y’all for being you.
Positive thought for today:
Easter memories with friends and family. Easter dinner with my great grandparents. Church with great grandma and playing tag with my great grandfather. Being baptized with my great grandmother there to give me a hug. Now my mother comes to church with me and my kids. Some memories are sweet, some are silly, but what I feel most is love.
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nlmackey98 wrote: »I’m still a little shaken with goals. It isn’t that I don’t want to try, but I’m just so afraid to fail again.
I haven’t been mysterious about my emotional highs and lows. The last low was not so good and positives were not easy to come by. Because of this thread, at least once a day I tried to thing of something positive. I was a danger to myself and talked to more docs than I cared to. I’m not saying this month’s challenge saved me, but it did bring me a connection to peace each day. My mood has turned and they changed so meds, but I wanted to thank y’all for being you.
Positive thought for today:
Easter memories with friends and family. Easter dinner with my great grandparents. Church with great grandma and playing tag with my great grandfather. Being baptized with my great grandmother there to give me a hug. Now my mother comes to church with me and my kids. Some memories are sweet, some are silly, but what I feel most is love.
Okay hear me out...
You WILL fail again! But not because youre incapable, or you "cant do it" but because LIFE happens!
Things change, things get in the way and sometimes poop does hit that fan!
Dont fear failure, fear giving up.
Im all about the fail. I fail, most days! But i haven't given up!
The only person criticizing yourself for your goal failure is you! We certainly arent judging you on it!
You can turn this around, as easy as you turned your positive thinking around!
Baby steps right?
We're all here for you!9 -
@nlmackey98 I think @Bex953172 put it perfectly. It is ok, and human, to fail. Just never give up! We are all here to support you.
@Snowflake1968 so glad to hear you were not hurt from your fall.
Today was a really fun day but omg I ate way too much that I'm actually in a slight surplus for the week. Trying not to beat myself up, I've still made quite a bit of progress but it does suck knowing the deficits I ran every day did not do anything. No use crying over spilled milk, and I really enjoyed the food, but bleh.
Oh well, tomorrow starts a new day and a new week.1 -
So today is my routine day off (from walking) And on top of that it's Easter Sunday which meant a huge, lovely, all too yummy meal! So, I blew my calorie count, but not so much so that I can't do something about it tomorrow. So...
that being said, my goals for tomorrow are Walking (60 minutes or more.) IF keep on track and tackle all my laundry which is by now a huge mountain of clothes (we have seven people in our family!)2 -
nlmackey98 wrote: »I’m still a little shaken with goals. It isn’t that I don’t want to try, but I’m just so afraid to fail again.
I haven’t been mysterious about my emotional highs and lows. The last low was not so good and positives were not easy to come by. Because of this thread, at least once a day I tried to thing of something positive. I was a danger to myself and talked to more docs than I cared to. I’m not saying this month’s challenge saved me, but it did bring me a connection to peace each day. My mood has turned and they changed so meds, but I wanted to thank y’all for being you.
Positive thought for today:
Easter memories with friends and family. Easter dinner with my great grandparents. Church with great grandma and playing tag with my great grandfather. Being baptized with my great grandmother there to give me a hug. Now my mother comes to church with me and my kids. Some memories are sweet, some are silly, but what I feel most is love.
We are so happy to have you part of this thread. This thread is more than just numbers on a scale, or meeting goals of healthy eating. It is about changing habits that affect our entire life... and our emotions are one of those. I am so proud of you.. and so glad that the positive challenge goal is helping you. So whats this about not meeting your goals ... that goal is a huge one to meet! So please, do not put so much focus on just meeting goals relating to weight and diet. You are getting on here ... you are taking this one day at a time ... you are not giving up... you are changing so many aspects of your life for the better. SO you should never be afraid you will fail ... because failure is not something we do. We just keep trying, and keep trying. I am proud of you.
And I love your positive thought for today .... and so happy that you are feeling love. I hope you feel the love from all of us as well.0 -
My day did not go anything like I had planned. We could not reach our son... we left a message, but he has not returned our calls. So the mother instinct is worried that something is wrong, and that is why he is distancing himself from us again. That he and the new girlfriend broke up. That he lost his job. That he is hurt. .. you know how many bad things your mind can tell you happened! I wrote him a email 2 weeks ago also ... with no response.
Then I had hoped that we could take our daughter, and go for a nice long drive to a beautiful park. Dinner was going to be at 1:30. at 2pm our daughter still is not out, and after numerous phone calls, hubby says lets just eat. She finally called at 2:30 (we had waited to eat), but she would not be out until 3, so we ate. She came out, and just sat in the chair and cried. I could tell she had been crying when she got here, as her makeup was all smeared.
She did not want to go with us to the park, and we did not want to leave her here alone. We could not get her to come outside and sit on the patio with us ... she said she just wanted to read.
I could have been down all day. I was so worried, depressed. But, it was beautiful out, and what makes me happy is digging in the dirt. So the entire day, I worked in the yard. Cleaning up flower beds, moving plants around, sitting on the patio. Hubby joined me. And our daughter was happy just to quietly being in her room reading. She left with a smile on her face at the end of the day.
So my positive thought is very much like @nlmackey98 -- I am grateful for what I have. Yes, it is not what I wanted or expected. It is not the big family gathering that I grew up always having at Eastertime. But it was us just being together. the family I have. I am trying to think the positive of my son ... and maybe he was doing yardwork himself, or he is traveling for his job overseas. I have to work hard to not let my mind go into the negatives. We left him a message wishing him a happy easter, that is all I can do.
But food wise, I just did not care today. Ham, chocolate pie, candy. I did not even record what I ate. but, tomorrow is a new day. Tomorrow I will get back at it.
So my goals for tomorrow, Monday, 4/22
1. log all my food
2. protein with every meal and snack
3. veggie and fruit with every meal and snack
4. concentrate on 8+ c water
5. feb challenge - go outsie for 15 minute walk
6. march challenge - stick to just 1 nite time snack
7. april challenge - something positive.
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aubyshortcake wrote: »
Today was a really fun day but omg I ate way too much that I'm actually in a slight surplus for the week. Trying not to beat myself up, I've still made quite a bit of progress but it does suck knowing the deficits I ran every day did not do anything. No use crying over spilled milk, and I really enjoyed the food, but bleh.
Oh well, tomorrow starts a new day and a new week.
This is so true ... today was a day to just enjoy the food. Tomorrow is a fresh, new day!2 -
Thank you for starting this thread. I think it's really important to remember that this is one day at a time. It's so easy to get overwhelmed. I'm at probably 250 right now and want to get down to 145, which is what I was in my early 20s.5
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Well I can join the party of people on here who went over goal yesterday!! Significantly - whoops! But it was actually a conscious decision and not emotionally- led so I guess I can make that my positive thought. Back to it today, and I’m going to go back to no added sugar mon-fri. Not because sugar is evil, but it’s just much easier to stay within goal and get a good balance of nutrients without it. So treats (tracked and logged) for weekends only. Hopefully this will help me with my WFTY - balance...
Sunday goals recap:
- morning run? ✅
- Breakfast with bf ✅
- Pick up kids and head to parents place for lunch ✅
- Water! ✅
- Stay within calorie goal ❎ oops no!
- Do kids laundry on arrival home ✅
- Bed by 10 ❎
Monday goals:
- morning workout
- Finish laundry and vacuum downstairs
- Kids to finish homework
- P playdate
- Buy present for O bday party
- Book exercise classes for the week
- pick up ceramics
- Pack schoolbags etc
- Check after-school club booking arrangements
- Bed by 9:30
Have a lovely Monday everyone - hope we can all get back on track and start the week right! X4 -
4/21/19 sun
Weight:152.4 lbs.
Stay in green
At least 4 8 oz. glasses of water
Bedtime: 12am
jft 4/22/19 mon.
Weight:
Stay in green
At least 4 8 oz. glasses of water
Bedtime: 12am
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@mytime6630. I am sorry your day did not turn out as well as you'd hoped, I am glad your love of gardening helped you.
@nimackey98. I am sorry things have been hard for you recently and hope your changed medication will help. You are not a failure, enjoy your family time and continue making happy memories to carry you through the rough patches.
Hugs to you both.
Thank you to all who make this post so interesting and supportive.2 -
Have been on vacation and after eating out for a week, feel like garbage. In desperate need of getting back on track.
1. Log all food
2. Drink 150oz water
3. Workout at home
4. Meditate
5. No more Easter candy2 -
@Faebert, wow at the calories in that coffee! My main meal is often less than that lol.
@Snowflake1968 , glad you didn't hurt yourself falling. I had to clear out an aunts pretty hoarded upstairs flat a couple of years ago. After that I cleared my own house, I'm now mega aware that someone else will have to go through my things after I'm gone. Unfortunately I will have my parents house to do in the future, it's pretty full too!
JFT 21st April
Log everything yes
Stay under maintenance just over
Back exercises did a few
Don't let other people affect my mood yes, I did my own thing and enjoyed it. Made a nice chicken dinner
Tidy up bedroom yes, put nice summer bedding on
Garden pottered a little bit
Clear out shed yes, looks much better. Only have the shelves with the gardening bits to sort now
Visited parents, though Dad was asleep most of the time
Positive thought - enjoyed another day in the garden, potted on scented geraniums and they look lovely.
JFT 22nd April
Log everything
Stay under maintenance
Back exercises
Stay positive
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@nimackey98
Your positive thought about your family really has warmed my heart. Very often we take our elderly for granted, but our time with them is limited and moment like those are really precious.
@mytime6630
I think you have done an awesome thing yesterday! You have adapted to the day, took the lemons and made lemonade. I think you have given a great example to your daughter!4 -
I haven't posted my goals over the weekend because of Easter. I just wasn't sure how much I'll be able to do.
I have written a long rant about Easter customs in my country (Croatia), but then I decided to just let it go and focus on today and the new week.
- eat berries for an afternoon snack
- eat light dinner (some greens) and nothing after
- take a walk
- bedroom & closet cleanup
- check that question regarding technology (job-related)
- french reading exercise
Week goals- finish the transport app
- bedroom and closet cleanup
- clean upstairs including windows
- buy flower pots for the balcony
- depilation
- buy new underwear
- find a gynecologist
Long term goals- less animal protein, more plant protein -> learn to prepare some veggie based meals
- increase folate-rich foods (chickpeas, lentils, leafy greens) to at least one meal a day
- minimize dairy to 1 cup of white coffee and a cup of kefir in the morning
- daily walks
- bodyweight exercises
- incorporate again dance moments during the day
- running5 -
Haven't posted my goals over the Easter weekend, but now i want to get back to it. My goals for today: drink at least 2L water, reach step count, do some work, dont eat after 6 pm to start IMF again.2
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