Monday Jan 10

Exercise: Yes 25 minute dog walk and 30 minute Body Combat workout
Tracked all: Yes (including the macadamia nuts I shouldn't have snacked on)
Calories under: Yes

I think that setting NY resolutions of some kind can help set your intentions for the year. Even if the specific goal changes due to circumstances or a change of heart.

Thanks @Jana_2020 for a great prompt today and excellent article. 💡

I have my big “Why?” and this helps me with the longer view. I use that to anchor all the other intentions I set, whether for the year, month, or week.

I actively set intentions (and then habits to cause their success) each month. I don’t do “year long resolutions” any more, as I have found that period of time to be unwieldy and unmanageable for me to sustain motivation and engagement.

My January monthly intentions are Move, Sleep, and De-stress. The habits for success are in the those themes (and I use a tracker to help me see my progress):

1. Move your butt even though it is an ungodly and inhuman temperature outside. Every day: 10,000+ steps; 30+ minutes of walking purposefully and for fitness. My habits are things like: get up at the same time every day; 16 ounces of water upon rising; socks and shoes on soon as possible after getting up, so I am ready for 👟👟👟👟 etc.

2. Get sleep (7+ hours) Keep that iPhone out of the bedroom until I have self control to stop looking at it in the night. Plug it in down the hall and in addition set apps to “screen time limits”, etc.

3. Manage the stress by doing the things that are in my control Finish knitting the “self-designed” sweater for our daughter that has literally been haunting me for two (yes, 2) years now (e.g., 15 minutes a day must be spent on this — and progress is now being made 😍); organizing and decluttering our very large home that will become an episode of Hoarders if my husband is left to his own devices; Mindfulness exercise 2 times a day (minimum) using my iPhone app and it’s prompts).

Interested to see how others manage this. Thanks again Jana!

Julie

Thanks @Jana_2020 good topic for discussion. I’m happy with the weight I’ve lost but more satisfied with new habits I’m creating. A very wise friend I’ve nicknamed The Medicine Woman gave me advice on creating new habits that’s been very helpful to me. When it comes to giving something up, it helps if you can replace it with something you’d like to add. The void can be filled that way, the focus can be shifted and the sum of the two gets you closer to your goals. Simple examples are replacing food with exercise or one food with another. Correspondingly, creating a new habit opens the door to giving something up.

In many ways, MFP/UAC and other challenges on MFP are habits that I've built over the last several months and I don't feel the need to explicitly call out for myself during the new year, other than to stick with them and hopefully get the rewards (losing weight, fitness, building good habits).

I did add one habit explicitly to do with fitness and mental health and that was to do an outdoor walk everyday. Whether it be walking the cat around the block or a slightly longer neighborhood walk, just being outside gets the blood flowing a bit more. Since my deliberate exercise (Jazzercise) is virtual, I can sometimes go a day or two without setting foot outside. If my husband wants to go with me, then we have a nice conversation. Otherwise, I'll pick a podcast that I'd like to listen to and learn something from.

I've added two other habits that are more for peace of mind and sanity and that is to make my bed every morning and have a clean kitchen by the end of the day. These ones are not quite sticking as much yet, but I'm trying. I love the feel of a clean house, but don't yet have a routine habit. My mother always kept a neat, tidy, clean house - even up until she passed away at age 89. I did not inherit that gene.

✅ Exercise: 110+ mins
✅ Calories: under goal
✅ Tracked

Remaining pass days: 3️⃣

@Jana_2020 Another great topic.

I stopped making NY Resolutions when I started developing new habits at the beginning of my MFP journey in Jan 2015. At that time I started changing one thing at a time, starting with tracking my CICO. I track my habits, and constantly review them, adapting them to my current situation, where I am in maintenance.

Small changes, one at a time are built into my current practices. Discovering James Clear and BJ Fogg last May gave me a welcome boost to further develop/refine even more advantageous habits.

I fully embrace both of their teachings. .

January 10
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3 pass days used

First time checking in with UAC since Friday.

I let myself work very late Friday night, something I haven't allowed for almost a year except when critically necessary. But this was for something of great interest to me so I did it with the intent of recuperating over the weekend (I'm too old to work late like that and still perform at what I consider a respectable cognitive level to successfully do the work the next day or even two).

I was way out of whack on Saturday and just took it easy the rest of the weekend, didn't log or worry about anything. I decided to take a full break from EVERYTHING. I ate respectably, but no exercise and no tracking equals NO x 2 for 2! 😎

Everything was back on track today though. Might take a while to catch up on all of the threads though.

Dec 10
Exercise: ✨ core work - 12 mins; balance practice - 5 mins; fitbit says 23 "active minutes" (mostly exergame) / 9,614 steps at 7:30 (not many more before bed)
Logged: ✨ EVERYthing
In Range: ✨ earned 208 fitbit activity credits / left 158 in the pot

(if there is a P=instead of a 🌟, its a Pass Day)
🌟-🌟-🌟-🌟-🌟-🌟-🌟-🌟-🌟-🌟

@SummerSkier - Your resolutions comment gave me a big laugh!!

Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, 50 minutes on the Peloton bike and 10 minutes stretching
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes

✔️✔️✔️
1/3 pass days used
51/2022 miles.

I don't make resolutions. I continue to make small sustainable changes.

🏋🏾‍♀️💪🏿👏🏿

✅ Exercise: 20 minutes rowing machine, 45 minutes swimming
✅ Calories
✅ Tracked

0 pass days used ( )

I dont do New Year´s resolutions. For me, that feels like doing things on someone else´s timetable and I can´t get my inner rebel on board. My goals are set during moments when they are important to me and I feel I can whole heartedly work toward them. I also always allow myself the option of changing my mind if the goal no longer seems to be the priority. (Although that could explain why weight loss has not been a problem but maintenance has been such an issue for me!)

Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? 35 minutes on the Peloton, 36 minute walk, 5 minutes of stretching
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes

I don't really set New Years Resolutions. I am working on a bunch of things and I love the excitement of a fresh start but I'm at the point where I'm reviewing habits and goals on a daily, weekly and monthly basis so there isn't much that's new that I need to examine yearly.

Pass days used - 2

Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes an hour swim and an hour walk
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes

No resolutions for me! I am too scatterbrained to adhere to anything for a long term goal. I come back to everything in good time — it doesn’t do well for the maintenance type things. I have managed to floss daily and that’s something.

Hi everyone!

I'm a yes to the third power. lol

still at 1/3 pass days.

❌ Exercise: Couldn’t do it
✅ Calories: Under goal
✅ Tracked

Remaining pass days: 2