JUST FOR TODAY -- Daily Commitment Thread for 2021

@pridesabtch and @cschmitz110515 Happy birthday! Wishing both of you a wonderful year!

more_freggies76 wrote: »

JFT for 10/10 (tomorrow): ✔️
1) No dessert, unless I want sugar free or no sugar added (last 10/8)
2) No peanut butter today (last 10/8)
3) Don't weigh again until Monday 10/11
4) Up to 1.5 oz cheese today (trying not to have cheese everyday)
6) No more of the tasty fruit leather we bought. Leave the rest for DH. (removed since DH finished this)
7) No more tootsie pops (bad for my teeth)
8) Lunch <= 600 calories

Hour commitment - After my metamusal, I won't eat again until dinner with DH and FIL.

Hi !
I'm 66 yo
I'm 5' 1'' ( lost 1'' from old age👵🏽 )
SW 119 + 20 ( added on in 2020) .
At the end of 2021, I want to lose 6 lbs.
Yesterday, I didn't snack on nuts✅ 🤗but I snacked on a low carb & protein bar. ❌😬
Today JFT ! I won't snack on nuts or protein bar. 🤜🏽🥜🍫
Today is my 39th wedding anniversary🥳 so I won't be strict with my calories but I will be eating low carb as usual.
This morning, I will have a hair cut.
Today, We will have a special meal , I might have an alcohol drink or 2. 🍸
Have a good day everyone !
'' Always look on the bright side of life !'' 😍

@Malimalai Have a great day! Happy anniversary!

Hour commitment - early dinner with FIL. Got full fast. No desserts, but my plate came with a very small sweet-ish corn cake. I did have that. Now I won’t eat again until tomorrow.

Hi everyone, long time no see!

The last couple of months have been pretty busy. We managed to get away on holiday twice - first to France to stay with the boyfriend's family, then to Greece for a couple of weeks. Time at home has also been pretty hectic as we've both had birthday celebrations and with being away such a lot all the regular stuff that needs doing (like laundry!!) needs to be packed into a short space of time. So I've been a bit too busy...

Had a lovely time on all these holidays. It was so lovely after 18 months of not really going anywhere. Had an awesome time in Greece hopping between different islands, seeing the Acropolis etc. And the boyfriend was so happy to see his family after barely seeing them since covid-19.

Weight is, perhaps unsurprisingly, up rather a lot after all that holidaying and birthday celebrating. I'm heavier at the moment than I have been for some time. Hopefully some of this will drop off naturally through going back to a more normal routine. But I definitely need to make some more effort.

So for the month of October (at least), I'm imposing a new rule on myself which is no alcohol at home on weeknights. I've been drinking too much throughout the pandemic as it's just to easy to do as a way to switch off and wind down from the workday. But my overall consumption is too high and I just need to find better, healthier ways of winding down. I feel like having this rule in place will force me to find alternative coping mechanisms rather than reaching for the easy option. Note the 'at home' caveat within the rule. It's ok if I have actively made the effort to go out - for example, this Thursday I have drinks planned with my colleagues - but for now, no just reaching for it just because it's there. I plan to do this for at least October and will review at the end of October whether I want to continue.

I think this will really help with weight loss as for a start alcohol itself has lots of (empty) calories, but also I'm more prone to snacking when I've had a bit to drink, so hopefully it will be a double win.

I can see that a few of you asked how I was doing while I was away which is lovely (thanks!). Generally I'm pretty good, not least because of the time away which has been really good for the soul. Today I am also starting a new secondment. I'm going down to part-time on my existing job and will be doing 50:50 between two jobs, for the next six months (with the provision to extend). The secondment is to work in Government on an exciting new policy, which is going to be super interesting and great experience. It's going to be tough working two jobs - whilst in theory they are both 50% roles I imagine it will be challenging to keep them at 50%. I'm going to have to be ruthless at prioritising and setting boundaries...

Our house buying situation is not going so well. As some of you know we placed an offer on a house at the start of June which was accepted. Well, that's as far as it's gone. The seller has still not found somewhere to move to herself so it's literally gone nowhere. Which is rather frustrating. It's a combination of the fact that she seems to have fairly specific requirements but also the market seems to have gone really really quiet since the end of the stamp duty holiday. There are basically very few homes on the market. So that means it's hard for her to find somewhere - but it also means there aren't many alternatives for us to switch to either. We've been patient throughout the summer because with being away so much we haven't really had the time to do much about it but now it's October we're keeping an active eye on the market again as we're starting to lose patience. But thus far, not much has come up that we fancy either. So for now it's a question of being patient. Thankfully, we have no deadline we need to move by. It's a pain continuing to rent, but we can do so. So I'm trying to be fairly accepting about the situation - it just is what it is really - and focus on what I can control.

Life is in a bit of a transition phase at the moment. Things are kind of open now and I'm starting to ease back into going to work. I'll probably be going into the office two days per week before too long. This means my schedule is a bit unpredictable at the moment and I haven't really got into a new routine yet. That probably means I won't get into the pattern of posting regularly for a little while until things have stabilised into a 'new normal' routine. But I'll try to post as much as I can until then. I think though I will keep my posting simple with just a few key goals rather than everything that's on my list to make it a bit less of a time commitment - it will be easier to fit in that way.

So on that note, here are a few goals for today:

- Log everything I eat
- Be in the green
- Hit my step goal
- No alcohol

Love to all and speak soon x

Happy birthday @cschmitz110515 💐

pridesabtch wrote: »

JFT Sunday
- Weigh😀
- Church😀
- Lunch Out with hubby😀
- Bike ride😀
- Nap😀
- Leftovers for dinner
- Log food
- Stay green
- Bed by 11:30

Hope y’all had a blessed day!

It's Monday... I forgot to do something last week at work, so I'm in early today to get it done before a 2:00pm meeting. Which means I came to work at 5:30am. To say my coworkers were surprised may be an understatement as I rarely make it by 8:00am.

Weighed myself this morning and I'm up a little bit after my birthday/wedding weekend. It's really quite annoying as I stayed within my calories each day and even exercised yesterday, but I suppose it takes some time to process through the increased sodium from the weekend. Hopefully, it will resolve itself. I know I'm doing the right things, but I'm easily discouraged.

Went for a bike ride yesterday, it was a beautiful day, but the path was rather slick with wet leaves. My bike is still in the car and since I came in early, I can leave early. Maybe I'll ride again today. Other than work and a possible ride my only other plans involve cleaning up around the house and getting ingredients to make brownies & pepperoni rolls (WV classic from the coal miners) for my daughter when she comes in Saturday to row. Can you tell I'm excited to see her again? I just wish she was staying, but she will ride back with the team Saturday afternoon.

JFT Monday
- Up early & weigh
- Don't let little weight gain bring me down, just work harder...
- Work by 5:30
- Get samples in the drying oven (2hr)
- Run Moisture on dried samples
- Test dried samples in 2 labs for comparison (blah, blah, blah - trouble shooting)
- Check in with MFP
- Log food
- Shake for brunch
- Stay green
- Maybe go for a ride/or walk
- Grocery store
- Shower!!!
- No Alcohol
- Bed by 11:30

Happy Birthday @Snowflake1968 & @cschmitz110515 (Don't remember if I wished you one already, but better 2 than none).

Hope y'all have a positive and empowering Monday! Love ya!

JFT - Sunday Oct 10
Get on JFT - 🙂
1.5L of water - 👿
Log all food - 🙂
Walk 15 minutes - 🙂
Arm something - 🙂 I’m saying yes because I was working with my arms all day.

JFT - Monday Oct 11
Get on JFT
1.5L of water
Log all food
Walk 15 minutes
Arm something

@bookmeister86 - nice to see you. I was wondering how your house was going. I have followed a couple people over there with house buying and your rules are so different than ours. Here a closing date would be agreed on in the offer and if the person selling has agreed to it, they still must move. It becomes their issue, not the new owners.

@littleblackskirt - I’ve been doing the same. From March to September I managed to lose 12 pounds, but now those last 3 pounds fluctuate back and forth from day to day. I know what I need to do, I just find it so hard to do it.

I have to finish some Christmas ornaments today. Then clean up my mess. It is officially Thanksgiving here, but we aren’t supposed to be celebrating and half of the family is working anyway.

I’ll just enjoy the extra day off work.

@Snowflake1968 - Enjoy your Thanksgiving anyway. I'm starting to think about whether we should have ours in November or not.

@pridesabtch - Little weight gains could just be saltier food than usual, too. Even desserts are more salty than we think. Hang in there!

Plumber here...main line backed up since yesterday afternoon. Will be glad when that's fixed.

Have to cook some eggplant, cauliflower and squash I have.

Hour commitment - done with lunch. Still need to have my dose of metamusal, then I won't eat again until after 5 pm. No more turkey patty today.

@malimalai - good work!!

Hour commitment - Just finished dinner, now I won't eat again until tomorrow.

more_freggies76 wrote: »

JFT for 10/11 (today): ✔️
1) No dessert, unless I want sugar free or no sugar added (last 10/8) ✔️
2) No peanut butter today (last 10/8) ✔️
3) Don't weigh again until Monday 10/11 ✔️
4) No hard cheese today (trying not to have cheese everyday) ✔️
5) No more tootsie pops (bad for my teeth) ✔️
6) Lunch <= 600 calories ✔️

JFT for 10/12 (tomorrow): ✔️
1) No dessert, unless I want sugar free or no sugar added (last 10/8)
2) No peanut butter today (last 10/8)
3) Don't weigh again until Thursday 10/14
4) Up to 1.5 oz hard cheese today (trying not to have cheese everyday)
5) No more tootsie pops (bad for my teeth)
6) Lunch <= 600 calories

Yesterday was a slightly trying day. I supposedly started my secondment but I didn't have my laptop so I couldn't access any of the drives or emails or chat function so felt a bit out of it at home. The boyfriend was at work also so I felt a bit isolated. Also I couldn't go out for a walk either because I was waiting in for the laptop to be delivered and didn't want to miss it. So I got a bit of cabin fever as well.

However managed to stay pretty much on plan and also to avoid alcohol in the evening despite the trying day. Instead of alcohol, I had a nice long walk after work - which was lovely due to early autumn leaves - had a bath and also distracted myself with a decluttering/ fixing project. Oh and I watched two episodes of Downton Abbey, that was a nice treat

My laptop is now here and I'm getting set up on it at 10, so hopefully today will be a better day. Hope it's a good day for everyone else!

So yesterday's goals:

bookmeister86 wrote: »

- Log everything I eat
- Be in the green Just about, was 80 over due to an unplanned snack waiting for boyfriend to get home. We now have no snacks left in the house (pretty much) so shouldn't do that again today...
- Hit my step goal
- No alcohol

Today's goals:
- Log everything I eat
- Be in the green
- Drink 5 big mugs of water
- Hit my step goal
- No alcohol

@Snowflake1968 Yes the way house selling/ buying works here is, frankly, just stupid. I'm not sure they have this stupid 'chain' situation in any, or many, other countries. It makes house buying one of the most stressful things you can do! I'm trying not to get too stressed though and just be pragmatic about the whole thing - it helps that I want to move and don't need to move.

pridesabtch wrote: »

JFT Monday
- Up early & weigh
- Don't let little weight gain bring me down, just work harder...
- Work by 5:30
- Get samples in the drying oven (2hr) but needed another 3 hours
- Run Moisture on dried samples
- Test dried samples in 2 labs for comparison (blah, blah, blah - trouble shooting)
- Check in with MFP
- Log food
- Shake for brunch
- Stay green
- Maybe go for a ride/or walk Got home after working 12 hours (actually 11.5) and was tanked
- Grocery store
- Shower!!!
- No Alcohol
- Bed by 11:30

Tuesday... Still like Monday junior, but I'm in a better mood. Probably because the scale moved in the right direction today. YAY! It's only a pound, but I'll take it. Today, I'm hoping to get out of work early enough to catch the club ride this evening. With shorter days they moved the start time to 5:00pm which cuts it close for me. Luckily I have flex time and so with the extra hours I worked yesterday I can go early as long as my meetings don't run long or there isn't some crisis... Hubby is planning on a run, the gym & a late yoga class, but offered to come ride with me. Honestly I think I'd rather go without him for this, like I used to.

JFT Tuesday

- Weigh in Down a pound
- Up early to work by 7:00
- Data crunching
- Put together a summary presentation for meeting later in the day
- Protein shake for brunch
- Leave work by 3:15pm
- Meet bike club folks at 4:45 ready to roll at 5:00
- Leftover steak salad for dinner
- Log food
- Stay green
- No alcohol
- Bed by 11:30

Have an awesome day! Much love y'all!

Weekly Weigh-In = When I'm active I eat back calories. My weaknesses: I love food... my sweet tooth, especially chocolate... portion control... FOMO (Fear of Missing Out). Saturday a.m. is my "official" weigh-in day, and I peek occasionally other days. My digital scale only shows half pound increments & I'm too cheap to buy a fancier scale. No goal dates set ~ this is not a diet but my lifestyle.

Age 64, 5'4" (have permanently lost half inch ~ bummer)
GW #1: 150 in a livable way = It's. Not. A. Diet.
GW #2: 145 normal BMI
UG (need to be realistic): maintain 150

11/5/15 = 195.0 joined MFP with no real plan except It's. Not. A. Diet.
1/10/17 = 185.5 clearly not a regular on MFP / joined JFT, best group ever!
5/31/17 = 180.5 two end of month celebrations / committed to posting weekly weigh-in 09/02/17 = 170.0 Woohoo! Officially overweight, not obese 09/16/17 = 169.5 yay, the middle number is a six! 12/09/17 = 158.5 first time in 10 years my weight is 1-5-anything! 06/16/18 = 152.0 lowest weight all year 12/28/19 = 168.5 spent 75% of 2019 in 160s... not the plan 3/2/20 Dr. B recommended getting my weight back down for relief of mild arthritis in both my knees. Another incentive. 01/23/21 = 162.0 lack of meal planning
01/30/21 = 164.5 high stress (BIL died), comfort eating & high sodium
02/06/21 = 163.5
02/13/21 = 164.0 F-it wk #1
02/20/21 = 164.5 F-it wk #2
02/28/21 = 167.0 F-it wk #3 ack!
03/06/21 = 166.0 slowly getting back on track
03/13/21 = 167.5 cataract & refractive surgeries on 3/8 & 3/11, very sedentary & several restaurant take outs
03/20/21 = 166.5
03/27/21 = 166.0
04/03/21 = 167.5 net calories way too red & high sodium ~ need to quit comfort eating & evening snacking
04/10/21 = 168.0 week of eating leftover Easter ham & chocolate
04/17/21 = 169.0
04/24/21 = 168.5 baby steps
05/01/21 = 170.5
05/08/21 = 170.0
05/15/21 = 171.5
05/22/21 = 169.0
05/29/21 = 171.5 May was not a good month for me; 10-day hiatus from MFP. Restarted logging 6.1.21.
06/05/21 = 171.0
06/12/21 = 172.5 this is ridiculous... June is worse than May
06/19/21 = 171.5 needed to do something so reset weekly goal on MFP
06/26/21 = 173.0 stressful week (mom's knee surgery Mon.) & only 2 workouts
07/03/21 = 173.5
07/10/21 = 173.0 workouts not consistent (somewhat weather related)
07/17/21 = 174.0 have been bumping along on the struggle bus, hopefully getting that out of my system
07/24/21 = 174.5 Packers 5K in person 48.36 ave. pace 15.39
07/31/21 = 173.5 remembered to take & log monthly measurements ~ now to improve
08/07/21 = 174.5 two restaurant dinners, two evenings w/ beer, excess snacking ~ could've been worse
08/14/21 = 174.5 at least no gain
08/21/21 = 173.5 17th wedding anniversary & start of vacation
08/28/21 = 176.5 lots of eating out & adult beverages & no regrets
09/04/21 = 176.0 first family picnic in two years
09/11/21 = 176.0
09/18/21 = 176.0 not loving this trend since vacation but better than gaining
09/25/21 = 175.5 any downward trend is good, no matter how small
10/02/21 = 175.0 Pink Pumpkin 5K in person 47:34 ave. pace 15:19 & 2nd half 14:48 ave. pace
10/09/21 = 175.0 carb loaded before race / Run for Hill of It (trail) 5K in person 52:10.2 ave. pace 16:48 & hill climb 1:44

“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid. Do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go." Joshua 1:9

Today: Smile ~ Laugh ~ Be Kind ~ ~ Eat Well ~ Be Active

JFT Tuesday
1. Tea! Check in on MFP. Short run. Shower.
2. Morning: Check email. Driving test for M.
3. Reading: Finish Fifth Season. 25 crunches, leg lifts, squats. Shoot Disney video.
4. Writing: Clois. 25 crunches, leg lifts, squats.
5. Massage! 25 crunches, leg lifts, squats.
6. Evening: Respond to Twitter & FB groups. Dinner: Soup. Drink more water. No, more. Keep the pitcher in the fridge full. You're not actually hungry. Make some tea. Drink more water! Chop celery. Update JFT. Coloring.
7. Gratitude journal. Therapy exercises: crunches, push-ups, squats, ankle lifts, box jumps, plank. Meds. Floss, rinse, brush teeth. Set out journal. Read: 1 hr (5th Season) while playing sleepy music.
8. Upcoming: Wed/Fri livestreams. MH Monday check-in; Tough Question Tuesday; Whatever Wednesday AMA; Thankful Thursday. Indochino suit fitting - Atlanta or Nashville? Donations to thrift store. S&F script work. Clois. Saturday volunteering at library NEXT WEEK. Prep for county council meeting about low income housing (Thursday). Tea lunch Thursday. Massage Tuesday. FINISH CLOIS THIS WEEK?

Scale goals
Ongoing plans/ideas behind the cut
WFTY: Persistence. Whoops! Forgot to post this. But I'm on track! Hurray!