Today's Goals - What are yours?
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tinkerbellang83 wrote: »Today's Goals - Thurs 15th Aug
> 6000 steps (bit lower as I am cycling both ways today and not sure if I will get out at lunchtime).
> Strength Training
> Accurate Logging
> Earlier Night with a bit of reading (Asleep before 11pm).
The weather was miserable and I wanted to clear out some of my clutter, so ended up around 5100 instead of 6000 steps and skipped the strength training as I can do that this evening instead.
So today's goals (Fri 16th Aug) are:
> 5000 Steps
> Strength Training
> Accurate Logging
> De-clutter bathroom this evening (not really weight/fitness related but affects my wellbeing)
Weekend Goals (Sat 17th & Sun 18th) are:
> 8000 Steps
> De-cluttering Basement Storage (Landlord coming over to collect old tenants stuff).
> Nursing my tomatoes back to full health (I neglected them a bit lately).
> Setting up a green area at the back of my parking space.
> Try out Nerd Fitness Stretching Video a friend here recommended.
> Deep Clean Kitchen
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Today's goals:
Eat within my calorie budget
Hit the pool and do some swimming ( so good for my mental and physical health)
Get a much needed haircut ( always feel great after a trim😁)
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jim_pipkin wrote: »Tuesdays and Thursdays are fasting days for me - so today's goal is to build, in my mind, the PERFECT 600-calorie salad to end my 24-hour fast with tonight.
@jim_pipkin
I hope you are eating those 2 days of calories during the week. If not you are not eating 1800 calories per day which I thought was your new goal. Instead you are eating 1286 calories per day and eating below the minimum nutrition line for a male which is 1500.
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I'm on leave until the 27th (staying at home) so my goal every day for the next 10 days is to stay on track with my calories and keep active.
I find it difficult when I don't have the structure of the working day, I either forget to eat or just graze all day. Also eating out or takeaways usually happen.
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Jackie9003 wrote: »I'm on leave until the 27th (staying at home) so my goal every day for the next 10 days is to stay on track with my calories and keep active.
I find it difficult when I don't have the structure of the working day, I either forget to eat or just graze all day. Also eating out or takeaways usually happen.
Make something special you normally wouldnt have or try a new recipe you havent made before. That will usually keep me out of the restaurants for a little bit.2 -
@jjlewey that's a good idea actually, I do get on better when I plan, and I have a slow cooker and breadmaker so I can get those going on a morning.2
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today I'm going to aim for a 15+ mile ride. it's supposed to rain tomorrow, so that'll be a good rest day.
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Today I'm going to:
Prep individual salad servings Done
Half hour walk on the treadmill (crummy weather outside)
Healthy snacks
No mindless eating after supper.
Schedule myself workouts in my new daily journal.. to make myself a priority 😊3 -
I did write this out last night but on the app I have a terrible habit of pressing Done instead of Post so I lost it all
tinkerbellang83 wrote: »So today's goals (Fri 16th Aug) are:
> 5000 Steps
> Strength Training
> Accurate Logging
> De-clutter bathroom this evening (not really weight/fitness related but affects my wellbeing)
Got 7690 steps in, did some lighter lower body strength training, all food logged even if it wasn't the most nutritious day (hello cream cake for breakfast
and got the bathroom de-cluttering done.tinkerbellang83 wrote: »Weekend Goals (Sat 17th & Sun 18th) are:
> 8000 Steps
> De-cluttering Basement Storage (Landlord coming over to collect old tenants stuff).
> Nursing my tomatoes back to full health (I neglected them a bit lately).
> Setting up a green area at the back of my parking space.
> Try out Nerd Fitness Stretching Video a friend here recommended.
> Deep Clean Kitchen
Saturday steps as at 10pm 11371.
Basement Storage cleared out and re-organised.
Pruned and fed my little toms so hopefully they'll rally a bit.
Gave the Kitchen a good clean and clear out.
Then helped the OH clear out some stuff at his place so had a pretty productive day all round.
Planning to do my food prep for the week ahead tomorrow, which I've pre-logged already, followed by the Nerd Fitness Video. Hope everyone is having a good weekend!1 -
I will chalk up today as a much needed celebration of good progress. We went shopping for the cruise, ended up at the casino, which led to the casino buffet for dinner. I am daunted by trying to figure out the calories. I will make the best guesstimate I can and get back on the train tomorrow.3
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I will chalk up today as a much needed celebration of good progress. We went shopping for the cruise, ended up at the casino, which led to the casino buffet for dinner. I am daunted by trying to figure out the calories. I will make the best guesstimate I can and get back on the train tomorrow.
Well I came up with 3000 calories, probably an overestimate but better over then under I guess. As long as it is an overestimate O was still below my maintenance today, so no damage done.2 -
I will chalk up today as a much needed celebration of good progress. We went shopping for the cruise, ended up at the casino, which led to the casino buffet for dinner. I am daunted by trying to figure out the calories. I will make the best guesstimate I can and get back on the train tomorrow.
Try not to think of it as getting on or off anything. Just call it a maintenance day (unless you have a better term) and consider it part of your plan.
Anyway it sounds like you had fun and hopefully you got some good food.
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tinkerbellang83 wrote: »tinkerbellang83 wrote: »Weekend Goals (Sat 17th & Sun 18th) are:
> 8000 Steps
> De-cluttering Basement Storage (Landlord coming over to collect old tenants stuff).
> Nursing my tomatoes back to full health (I neglected them a bit lately).
> Setting up a green area at the back of my parking space.
> Try out Nerd Fitness Stretching Video a friend here recommended.
> Deep Clean Kitchen
Saturday steps as at 10pm 11371.
Basement Storage cleared out and re-organised.
Pruned and fed my little toms so hopefully they'll rally a bit.
Gave the Kitchen a good clean and clear out.
Then helped the OH clear out some stuff at his place so had a pretty productive day all round.
Planning to do my food prep for the week ahead tomorrow, which I've pre-logged already, followed by the Nerd Fitness Video. Hope everyone is having a good weekend!
Shark week had me pretty fatigued so chose to nap over doing the stretching video so that's on my list for sometime this week, maybe Tuesday night. Spent Saturday night at OH's place so didn't get the green area sorted, it's for some Pine trees he's growing and he hasn't sorted them out yet so no harm. Blitzed the kitchen which helped me achieve my steps. A pretty good weekend all round.
Today's Goals (Mon 19th August)
> 5000 Steps (it's rest day today).
> Accurate Logging.
> Clearing out old electrical goods and cables.1 -
Almost done with a 12 hour fast, gotta get some blood work done before my checkup tomorrow. I hate fasting!
- get blood work done and eat something
- 12k steps
- log food accurately
- Did I say eat something?2 -
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Easing back into work this week after nearly three months off. I have a fellowship proposal due at the beginning of October and I need to move forward with it this week. My plan for today:
-spend 1 hour on my proposal draft
-first real work meeting
-email advisors (most dreaded thing on this list!)
-eat within the lower range of my daily calories
-walk (even if it’s only 5 min). I may practice asking family or friends to go on a walk with me.
One big change I’m working on is telling people what I need (like a walk). I used to bottle everything up (and I mean every single thing) and deal with it by binge eating in private. My surgery has forced me to talk about my needs (you have to be demanding and inconvenience people when you start bleeding uncontrollably), and besides the long term physical benefits, may be the best thing I’ve learned from this experience. Funny thing, no one seems to be burning with resentment to find out that I need things just like they do. 😂4 -
real_change wrote: ».
One big change I’m working on is telling people what I need (like a walk). I used to bottle everything up (and I mean every single thing) and deal with it by binge eating in private. 😂
That pretty much describes my binge eating and that opening up and asking people for help or just talking to them isn't as scary as I thought. Maybe for me it's because I am now around the right sort of people, who look at life more positively whereas before I was surrounded by negativity.
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My goals today:
Stay within my calories
Get an hour of pool time
Clean out my closet.. so many clothes in there I will never wear again.
Start on my CBT workbook
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Going to take some inspiration from @kosseychick
For Today:- Stay within budget, don't eat after 8pm.
- Couch to 5k Week 2 Day 3 (done!)
- 8,000+ steps
- Retire the majority of my 4x shirts / larger pants in closet, box them up and bring them up to the attic.
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Going to take some inspiration from @kosseychick
For Today:- Stay within budget, don't eat after 8pm.
- Couch to 5k Week 2 Day 3 (done!)
- 8,000+ steps
- Retire the majority of my 4x shirts / larger pants in closet, box them up and bring them up to the attic.
Why not send the clothes to charity? After all you're not going to need them again are you....?2 -
That's exactly what I did last time and it was pretty costly to replace. I'm going to give it a little time so I feel more confident, then do that.3
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That's exactly what I did last time and it was pretty costly to replace. I'm going to give it a little time so I feel more confident, then do that.
I ebayed all mine and spent the proceeds in the sales. I try not to pay full price for anything at the moment as I'm hoping not to fit them for very long.1 -
@Jackie9003 I'm actually going to donate my gently used clothes.. last time I went through my closets I donated several bags of clothes and 1 bag of shoes to the Salvation Army.. 1
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kosseychick wrote: »@Jackie9003 I'm actually going to donate my gently used clothes.. last time I went through my closets I donated several bags of clothes and 1 bag of shoes to the Salvation Army..
That's great!
I did give some of my first batch to charity, bigger clothes always seem in short supply.
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- Stay within budget, don't eat after 8pm.
- Couch to 5k Week 2 Day 3 (done!)
- 8,000+ steps
- Retire the majority of my 4x shirts / larger pants in closet, box them up and bring them up to the attic.
Done all around.
For today:- Under 2000 calories, no food after 8pm.
- 6,000+ steps (trying to rest my sore leg, so not pushing myself too much here)
- Make appointment for checkup
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Yesterday I did go to the pool, kept under my calorie goals and went through my closet.. got a garbage bags worth to give away👍. It was like Christmas in there, loads of clothes I forgot I had! Lol
Worked in my CBT Workbook
Today's goals:
1/2 hr walk and some weights
Stay within my calories
Work in my yard
Finish off the painting on my deck😊1 -
@NovusDies --- not 1800 now. With regular fasting I am now at 2000 cal/day, sometimes more. Now entering third week of this, down 3.5lbs and lost an inch off my waist last week. So, more calories, better weight loss. Whodathunkit?0
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@jim_pipkin
Not really that surprising. I believe you were putting your body under a fair amount of stress which increases your cortisol and that increases your water retention. Reducing that stress would release that water.
I wish I could talk you out of fasting 2 days a week and taking it even easier on yourself. The weight will come off you just by your calorie deficit. In 4 days I will have been meticulously tracking my results for a full year in my soon-to-be-infamous spreadsheet. At the time I started it I had already lost over 80 pounds but since Aug 24 of last year I have lost another 126 pounds which I have watched disappear 3500 calories at a time. Very often I had to wait for 3 weeks to see the new low weight but it always showed up and continues to show up.6
