Daily Commitment Thread for 2020 -- JUST FOR TODAY
mytime6630
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Happy New Year to all the friends I have met on here!
Here is a new thread for us ... a fresh start for the year 2020!!
I originally started this thread in 2017 .. when I was at my all time highest weight, and so down and discouraged with myself. This is the 4th year now that I am again starting this thread. Losing weight is not easy, and it takes daily commitment. Losing weight also means changing years of bad habits into good habits, and that also does not come easy. It takes daily commitment. If we fail one day, we can always start fresh the next day. This is why this thread is called "JUST FOR TODAY". Because that is all we need to do ... try and do something to improve our habits and lifestyle for just one day.
In this thread, we set daily goals each day. Then the next day, be accountable, and say how you did with those goals, and set new goals. Some of us are very busy, actually most of us are!. So the goals can be very simple, or they can be like a " to do" list. But it is about not giving up and being accountable, and having a group of posters to encourage you to hang in there, and keep going.
So I invite anyone who would like to join us. This is not a group .. anyone can join. And the more you post, the more you get to know other posters, and have that great support and encouragement. This is a thread where we can vent if we need to, ask for help when we have had a bad day, get motivation when we are struggling, and have us as a cheerleader when you have had a good day. It is a thread where each day starts fresh ... one day at a time. Because that is how we can change unhealthy habits to good, healthy habits, one day at a time.
Here is a new thread for us ... a fresh start for the year 2020!!
I originally started this thread in 2017 .. when I was at my all time highest weight, and so down and discouraged with myself. This is the 4th year now that I am again starting this thread. Losing weight is not easy, and it takes daily commitment. Losing weight also means changing years of bad habits into good habits, and that also does not come easy. It takes daily commitment. If we fail one day, we can always start fresh the next day. This is why this thread is called "JUST FOR TODAY". Because that is all we need to do ... try and do something to improve our habits and lifestyle for just one day.
In this thread, we set daily goals each day. Then the next day, be accountable, and say how you did with those goals, and set new goals. Some of us are very busy, actually most of us are!. So the goals can be very simple, or they can be like a " to do" list. But it is about not giving up and being accountable, and having a group of posters to encourage you to hang in there, and keep going.
So I invite anyone who would like to join us. This is not a group .. anyone can join. And the more you post, the more you get to know other posters, and have that great support and encouragement. This is a thread where we can vent if we need to, ask for help when we have had a bad day, get motivation when we are struggling, and have us as a cheerleader when you have had a good day. It is a thread where each day starts fresh ... one day at a time. Because that is how we can change unhealthy habits to good, healthy habits, one day at a time.
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My weight history:
SW Year 2017: 217
SW Year 2018: 195.5
SW Year 2019 : 206
SW Year 2020: 182,6
Goals I accomplished in 2019:
1. I now consistently exercise 4-5x a week.. I went from hating exercise to going to the gym regularly and I miss it when I don't go.
2. Was successful in losing almost 25 pounds this year ... and am only 5 pounds from being out of the "overweight" section on the weight scale.
3. Still a work in progress ... but I am slowly learning how to stop the emotional eating, and replace it with different habits. But .. this is still a work in progress for me. Years of this as a habit cannot be changed overnite, but it is progress, not perfection, that I am striving for.
Goals for 2020:
These are the healthy habits I would like to do in 2020:
1. Lose 15 pounds to get to my ultimate goal of 165, and then learn how to maintain it.
2. To be better with planning my meals each week
3. to get up in the morning, and have a rough idea of what I plan to eat the rest of the day.
4. To stop mindless eating. To learn how to eat to live, not live to eat.
5. To make drinking water a regular habit.. and drink 8+ glasses of water a day
SW January 1, 2020: 182.6
Goal weight by the end of the year: 165-170
So my goals JFT, January 1st:
1. log all my food
2. mindful eating .. think before I eat
3. get out my gratitude journal, and write something in it before I go to bed tonite
4. in the evening when I want to eat... brush my teeth and drink water. Distract myself with sewing, a walk, or calling or texting a friend.
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@mytime6630 Those all, daily and yearly goals, sound awesome and definitely doable! Thank you for starting a new thread this year!
I know everyone says it the first day of a new year, but NEW YEAR, NEW ME!
I have fallen out of pretty much every single healthy habit I've created in the past over this last year. So much went on, both good and bad, but this year it's time to build those up again and get back to being the healthy, much slimmer me. So here's to a new and much different year!
2020 goals
1. Take back my life!
2. Finish my WIP by March 1st
3. Weigh 155lbs by July 1st
4. GET PREGNANT! Or at least figure out why I can't.
5. Rebuild my water/gym/low sugar habits
6. Make MFP/JFT a priority
So to start some of those today!
JFT 1/1/20
1. Get back on the water horse! 64 oz of water!
Already done! And it's only just after 12!
2. Fold laundry!
3. Go to the gym and walk for at least a half an hour
4. Write at least one chapter of WIP
5. Put away dishes when the washer is done running
6. Figure out lunch/dinner and log appropriately
7. Bed before 11(School starts again on Monday so no more midnight bedtimes!)
Okay I think that is it for now!
Have an awesome day my fellow JFTers!14 -
2020 Goals
- 240 out of 365 days on the Peolton
- Finish the Old Testament
- Climb the back side of Huck Hill
- weekly cooking lessons for my girls and a couple friends
- Drop 40 pounds. Mini goal 10 pounds by April Folks Day.
- Weigh daily
- Pictures & measurements monthly
- Sub 30 min 5k
- Choose happiness!9 -
Tim made a huge breakfast this morning: Bacon, eggs, biscuits and gravy. I really, really wanted some biscuits and gravy, but chose to forgo it and have bacon & eggs only. Yikes its like I made a good decision.
Happy New Year to all and I hope it's fabulous just like you!
JFT NY Day Wednesday
- Peloton 30 min
Hell Yeah!
- Breakfast with the family
- Log everything
- Drink at least as much water as soda.
- Stay green today.
- Read a couple of chapters in Deuteronmy
- Start de-Christmasing the house
- 0 - 1 alcoholic beverage depending on calories available
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I love fresh new threads! Thank you @mytime6630!! I just went back to see what my weights were since I first joined MFP and I have not done well...gained rather than lost. But, as I look at each year and the weight, I know what my triggers were, for which I allowed myself to emotionally eat. So, looking back was really good for me.
I'm going to make a written record below of what is going through my mind today so I can refer back. My biggest takeaway for this year is that I need to keep things in perspective (what are the facts vs my version or 'story'), change what I can, learn to accept and how to deal with what I cannot, find joys & rewards in life that are not food, and work at it one tiny habit change at a time. Always moving forward...
MFP HISTORY:4/2012: 166.4
1/2/2013: 161.8
1/6/2014: 163.4
1/1/2015: 160
1/2/2016: 164.2 (Found @mytime6630's original thread)
1/2/2017: 153 (Work was beginning to get extremely stressful, as well as life situations at home.)
1/1/2018: 175.4 (Trigger: Gained 22.4 lbs from emotional eating, as well as having a torn hip labrum.)
1/1/2019: 184 (Trigger: Dad cancer x3, Stepdad passed away sepsis and cancer, Mom extremely anxious/depressed, stepdaughter's emotional issues/suicidal ideation.)
1/1/2020: 184.6 Maintained at least... Look out 2020, I'm coming for you!
2020 GOALS- Choose one small "bad" habit to change every month (12 new healthy lifestyle changes will be result)
- Make travel a priority. Stop waiting for "someday".
- Get Mom moved up near us
- Pay off all credit card debt
- Minimalism: declutter and downsize "wants" vs "needs"
- Weigh less on 1/1/2021 than today
- Decrease in measurements on 1/1/2021. Move in the right direction!
- Self-Care. Discover healthy hobbies or interests and schedule time to do them.
- Work on positivity vs negativity.
- Read the Bible all the way through.
Just for Today:
1. Eat Mindfully & journal every single bite
3. Drink 80+ oz of water
4. 30 minutes activity
5. Take measurements and update on MFP
Done. All are up from last year.
6. Calm app - one meditation
7. Gratitude Journal before bed
8. Daily reading in my new revised Simple Abundance book
9. Prepare lunch for tomorrow, set out clothing for work, set up coffeemaker and alarm for early morning.
10. Read "Breaking the Diet Cycle" downloaded from Half-Size Me
11. Listen to Half Size Me podcast
12. Begin 2020's Bullet Journal
January's Habit: Log every single bite. Stop "tasting" and not journaling.
Word of the Year|2020: Succeed / Success
In 2020, I shall succeed in turning 12 old habits into 12 new healthy lifestyle changes.8 -
Hey! Happy New Year.
Just For Today. I woke up late, I didn't exercise, I started my new plan from my doctor that includes fasting and low carbs. Had my breakfast drinks for breakfast and lunch. Will eat my veggies for dinner and have my night drink.
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My BEFORE9 -
maryrobinson40 wrote: »Hey! Happy New Year.
Just For Today. I woke up late, I didn't exercise, I started my new plan from my doctor that includes fasting and low carbs. Had my breakfast drinks for breakfast and lunch. Will eat my veggies for dinner and have my night drink.
This is one of my nieces and me8 -
My goals for 2020:
1. Log every day on MFP
2. Begin an exercise routine...and stick with it
3. Lose 100 pounds
Starting weight: 271
Current weight: 265.2
Goal Weight: 165
JFT:
Recover from yesterday and drink only water today9 -
My 2020 goals:
1. Lose 50 pounds
2. Walk 30 minutes per day, 5x per week
Starting weight: 197
Goal weight: 145
My word for the year is Confidence.8 -
JFT 2020 goals
1. Keto lifestyle
2. Walk 10000 steps 5x week
3. Lose 15 lbs starting weight 153.8lbs
4. Read 1 book each month
5. Bible in one year 2020 with Nicky Gumbel on the Bible App
6. Rekindle my marriage
7. Son into a D1-D2 college
Jan 1
JFT
1. Read 1 chapter in new book
2. Day 1 bible in one year
3. Yoga 30 min
4. Meditation 8 min3 -
WEDNESDAY
1. Weigh in
2. Pre-track exercise for the rest of the week
3. Prep Thursday and Friday meals
4. 10C liquids
5. One self-care activity
6. Figure out why FitBit is not working correctly
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Back to life! Back to reality! 😂 😂 😂
The only failure is giving up!============================================================
DISCARD 5 LBS CHALLENGES:
#1: - 5; #2: - 5.2; #3: -1.4; #4: -4.8; #4: -2
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2020 Goal: < 150lbs
NAME: Terri
01/01: CW: 151.4 👀
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Daily Goals- Food: log All food and drink; stay under goal; balance macros/micros; Hydrate adequately; NLNS!!!
- Exercise: Knee Physio; 7,500+ Steps daily; 30 + minutes intentional exercise
- Other: Daily Mindfulness Practice/Meditation; Practice Self-care; Positively reframe thoughts; Live! Love! Learn!; 15 mins Daily Declutter session; keep up to date with chores
JFT Wed 1 Jan
Daily Goals:⛄️
Activities:- Chores⛄️
- Laundry⛄️
- Chillax ⛄️
Daily Goals:
Activities:- 10.15am: Dance group
- 2pm: Shakespeare Study
- Laundry
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PackerFanInGB wrote: »I love fresh new threads! Thank you @mytime6630!! I just went back to see what my weights were since I first joined MFP and I have not done well...gained rather than lost. But, as I look at each year and the weight, I know what my triggers were, for which I allowed myself to emotionally eat. So, looking back was really good for me.
Word of the Year|2020: Succeed / Success
In 2020, I shall succeed in turning 12 old habits into 12 new healthy lifestyle changes.
You have been through so much in the past few years Tracie .. yet .. you have not given up! And ... you have been with me on these thread since the beginning! I went back and looked, and it was actually Dec of 2015 that I first started the JFT threads! I can't believe it has been that long. But look at all that we have all learned in that time. Its not just about the number on the scale! I am so proud of you .... and so happy that you have been a part of these threads for so long. You are one of the best online friends I have made ... among so many I have made! Happy New Year to you!7 -
HEGoddard0928 wrote: »2020 goals
1. Take back my life!
2. Finish my WIP by March 1st
3. Weigh 155lbs by July 1st
4. GET PREGNANT! Or at least figure out why I can't.
5. Rebuild my water/gym/low sugar habits
6. Make MFP/JFT a priority
So to start some of those today!
Love your 2020 goals!2 -
So happy to see so many faces still joining me! The best support group there is!4
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Hi all! I fell way off during the holidays but I'm back.
My goals for 2020:
1. Prioritize health and wellness, both physically and mentally
2. Exercise regularly
3. Maintain the house instead of letting it go and doing major cleaning
4. Get pregnant (I'm with you on this @HEGoddard0928 !!)
5. Cook more frequently
I actually cooked today for the first time in a while and made a nice healthy dinner! I also stayed within my calories for the first time in idk how long.
I'll be back to post goals in the morning, happy New Year everyone!!4 -
@HEGoddard0928 and @aubyshortcake ... hoping for pregnancies for both of us in 2020. You'll have lots of us who want to be "aunties" again!3
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Happy to see a new post for 2020.
I haven’t made any goals yet for the year or even had a chance to think a lot about it.
Hubby and I just had an argument our first in quite a while but my first thought was why do I want to be here. I want to be happy and I want to have a husband that I wants to please me as much as I want to please him. I don’t think he does and I don’t think the small things I do are appreciated. Maybe I’m wrong but right now it sure doesn’t feel like it. Maybe I need to focus on that this year getting and keeping a happy marriage or being alone.
I’ll come up with some goals soon.
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Snowflake1968 wrote: »Happy to see a new post for 2020.
I haven’t made any goals yet for the year or even had a chance to think a lot about it.
Hubby and I just had an argument our first in quite a while but my first thought was why do I want to be here. I want to be happy and I want to have a husband that I wants to please me as much as I want to please him. I don’t think he does and I don’t think the small things I do are appreciated. Maybe I’m wrong but right now it sure doesn’t feel like it. Maybe I need to focus on that this year getting and keeping a happy marriage or being alone.
I’ll come up with some goals soon.
So sorry to hear that your new year is starting out this way. You guys have both been under a lot of stresses lately .. praying that things can get better for you, or that you can have some peace, whatever that would mean. Hugs dear friend.3 -
Thursday January 2nd
Thank you @mytime6630 I find the daily accountability really helpful and it’s nice to be a part of a supportive group.
After the holiday excesses it’s time for me to set and stick to some goals. I’m 5kg (about 11lbs) heavier than I was this time last year. I’m expecting to loose some of that very quickly as the scales have jumped up in the last few days and it can’t all be true weight gain. The good news is there’s no left over sherry trifle to tempt me - the bad news is that I finished it last night!
Log accurately
Stay in the green
Water
5 fruit and veg
Fitbit goals
Loose some of that 5kg!7 -
JFT Thursday
1. Log all food
2. Gym or workout at home
3. Drink 150oz water
4. Journal7 -
2020 goals...
Get down to 19% bmi
Put on more muscle
Finally have a six pack
Drink less
Build a home gym!8 -
Good morning all! Today is my first day back at work since before Christmas. It was really great to have the time off and we painted most of the house, I'm not ready to go back! 😭😭
@mytime6630 thank you so much!
@snowflake1968 I'm sorry you're going through this right now. I hope you are able to work everything out, we are here for you 💖💖💖💖
JFT:
1. Stay within calorie goal
2. Finish work at 5:20
3. Do workout5 -
pridesabtch wrote: »
JFT NY Day Wednesday
- Peloton 30 min Hell Yeah!
- Breakfast with the family
- Log everything
- Drink at least as much water as soda. I only had 1 soda
- Stay green today.
- Read a couple of chapters in Deuteronmy
- Start de-Christmasing the house
- 0 - 1 alcoholic beverage depending on calories available New chosen drink is raspberry lemonade with pineapple vodka.
Happy 2nd of January Y'all! Woke up not feeling well so I went back to bed and took a Peloton rest day, but plan to walk at lunch so I don't lose momentum. Currently trying to choke down one of these new protein bars I decided to try. I don't like them, so I won't buy them again, but I will try to finish them.
JFT Thursday
- Work 8 hours
- Protein bar for breakfast
- Pack lunch and snack Leftover soup beans & cornbread, celery & peanut butter
- Get out of my office and work in the lab today.
- Drink at least as much water as soda
- Send girls a grocery list for our first cooking lesson
- Cooking lesson
- Family Dinner
- More Deuteronomy
- Log all and end up green
- Bed by 11:00
- Choose to be happy
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clicketykeys wrote: »Happy New Year, everyone!
Today I have done some balance practice. I'm going to do some core work, portion out some of the soup my husband made, meal prep for next week, go for a run, and then we're visiting friends this evening. And I'm going to try to log on and check in tomorrow morning.
Good morning! Husband soup is pretty tasty. I'm a little achey after my core work yesterday, but I did it! I'm going to try to do that and the yoga for balance today. We're going to visit my parents for a late lunch. I might see if I can manage an inside run after lunch. And I want to clean off my desk, and make a necklace for a friend. Also I have my gloves sitting out and I don't really have a place for them. I need to find one. ETA: And I'm going to try to put the laundry away. There's not a lot, but hopefully if I put it away when there isn't a lot, it won't be as much of a chore! (Hopefully.)
My run yesterday was my longest one so far since I started running again - 5.2 miles!
I don't yet have any goals for this year. I've been sorta-kinda thinking about it, but for the moment, I'm content just to do what needs to be done.
@snowflake1968 - Sorry to hear about your argument. I hope you're able to get things sorted.
Thanks for getting us started again @mytime6630! Those sound like some great goals
@PackerFanInGB - Like you, I gained rather than lost (although everyone seems to think I've lost? so I must have done something right!) but it's a process. I only gained a little, slowing my rate, so hopefully this year I can turn that around and send the scale back the other way.
Good luck with the pregnancies @HEGoddard0928 and @aubyshortcake! Hoping everything goes smoothly and healthily 4 -
azulvioleta6 wrote: »WEDNESDAY
1. Weigh in
2. Pre-track exercise for the rest of the week
3. Prep Thursday and Friday meals
4. 10C liquids 6
5. One self-care activity
6. Figure out why FitBit is not working correctly
eh, working on it!
THURSDAY
1. Weigh in
2. 10,000 steps
3. Swim a mile after work
4. Buy swim punch card
5. 5 freggies
6. 10C liquids5 -
Jan 1
JFT
1. Read 1 chapter in new book ✅
2. Day 1 bible in one year ✅
3. Yoga 30 min ✅
4. Meditation 8 min ✅
Jan 2
JFT
1. Read chapter 2
2. Day 2 Bible
3. Yoga 30 min
4. Walk 10000+ steps
5. Meditation 8 min5 -
HEGoddard0928 wrote: »
JFT 1/1/20
1. Get back on the water horse! 64 oz of water!Already done! And it's only just after 12!
2. Fold laundry!And I put it away!
3. Go to the gym and walk for at least a half an hour 36 minutes! Had a nice sweat going!
4. Write at least one chapter of WIPA nice easy chapter that didn't take too long to write but had some funny parts to it.
5. Put away dishes when the washer is done running
6. Figure out lunch/dinner and log appropriatelyI'm still trying to figure out the right amount of time to bake chicken breasts in the oven. Also realized that we are out of vegetables. 
So I'll have to run to the store and grab some later
7. Bed before 11(School starts again on Monday so no more midnight bedtimes!)We ended up going to bed at like 10:10. We were both just so tired. I think I fell asleep pretty easily which was nice.
I had a really awesome day yesterday. I didn't really do much of anything outside of the house. I ran to Walmart to get a calendar and went to the gym. I think that was it. Lol. It was a nice lazy day. Today I expect the same other than the fact that I have to drive my mom like an hour up North so she can get my Dad's truck. He has the stomach flu and left it up there for some reason. I'm not exactly sure why. I don't have the full story yet. That's in like an hour and a half. And I need to run to the library to return a book and pick up the next one in the series I'm reading. Generally, I just read the ebook through the library but they don't have this one on that platform and I've really been into the feel of an actual book in my hands recently. I'm also going to try and go to the gym today as well. It's a perfect excuse to read my book. I usually read while I walk because it distracts me from always looking at the clock on the machine. So I guess I will actually be doing a lot. Thank goodness the library and the gym are about a 1/4 of a mile apart. Lol
Okay, enough chatter. Here are my goals for the day!
JFT, 1/2/20
1. Hit my water goal for the day
2. Actually eat lunch
3. Figure out dinner
4. Run to the store for veggies
5. Drive Mom to Union Beach
6. Library
7. Write Chapter 17
8. Gym
9. Bed before 11
Have a great day everyone!6 -
Happy new year JFT! Thank you so much @mytime6630 for starting a new thread for 2020. I like fresh starts. This group is so supportive and inspiring, and helps keep me accountable.
2020 Goals:
1) Get weight below 160# (last time was 4/20/19)
2) Plan meals most days & prelog whenever possible on MFP
3) Post weekly weigh-in on JFT for accountability
4) Take measurements & log on MFP monthly (I stopped as weight plateaued & went up)
5) Exercise 5-6x per week (minimum 4x) ~ mostly walking but include weights/circuit & other x-training
6) Participate in race events ~ have planned 7 5Ks and 2 10Ks at minimum
7) Be considerate and loving to hubby and have fun together
8) Make efforts to keep in touch with parents, siblings and friends (most live in other towns or states)
9) Declutter home office, bedroom and basement
Word for 2020 = Persist
JFT 1/2 Th ~ Back to work after 12 days off and boy, was it hard to get out of bed this morning!
1) Move hourly / stairs breaks / 5 somethings
2) Change clothes & leave early for workplace mindfulness hike (bah ~ not enough snow for showshoes)
3) Prelog meals & snacks / not sure of supper plans since hubby not at work tonight / 14c water
4) Wish niece/goddaughter happy bday / schedule annual physical & shingles vaccine / catch up work inbox since absence
5) Spend evening w/ hubby
/ unplug 9:00 / FLOSS (let this go on vacation 
) / retainers / bed & tv off 10:20 4
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