March 12
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Exercise: Yes
Tracked: Yes
Calories: Yes
(0 pass day used)4 -
✔︎ 20+ mins exercise (49min walk)
✔︎ Within calorie budget
✔︎ Log everything
Consistency Tracking (☘️=3 ✔︎'s, 🏴☠️=pass):
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Passes used = 1 / 3
Habits I'm continuing to track this month:
✔︎ Morning meditation
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✔︎ Drink >64oz water
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Being a friend to myself has made all the difference for me. Love this topic @StayFITTer , thanks for posting. This time around I've focused on loving my body where I am at NOW and instead of using guilt/shame and a timeline to get to goal, I'm working on changing habits rather than just losing weight. I'm talking to myself how I'd talk to a friend vs the "tough love" approach I'd relied on before (which worked short-term but never elicited lasting change).6 -
Pass day #24
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Saturday March 12
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Date: 03/12/22
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes 👍🏻
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day 👍🏻
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank?👍🏻
(Documenting consistency (if there is a P=instead of number its a Pass Day)
[UAC: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20-21-22-23-24-25-26-27-28-29-30-31
March goals
1 Miracle Morning ~ S.A.V.E.R.S
2 Wake up EARLY for meditation
3 Yoga (4 times weekly)
4. Minimum sweets (work them in my calorie goal)
5. 30 day squat challenge3 -
3/12/2022
Exercise? Yes
Tracking? Yes
Calories? No3 -
✅ Exercise - 1 hour of Jazzercise and a 5K walk to and from Trader Joe’s.
✅ Calories -
✅ Tracking -
Closed all my Apple watch rings today
2 Pass days used
Documenting consistency (if there is a P=instead of number its a Pass Day)
UAC: 1-2-3-4-P-6-7-8-9-P-11-12
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? 61 minutes Peloton, 41 minutes walking
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
Pass days used - 1/3
I can be a better friend to myself by accepting that my behavior, reactions and emotions can be flawed and uncontrolled at times and that everyone experiences that.4 -
UAC:
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15-16-17-18-19-20-21
22-23-24-25-26-27-28-
29-30-31
Sun nt sleep: 6.5
Mon nt sleep: 7 🌸 tired during day
Tues nt sleep ~6.5 wide awake at bedtime, disjointed sleeping pattern- lots of energy today!
Wed nt sleep: 7+!! 🌸Woke up early &told myself to go back to sleep & I did!
Thurs 5-6?
Fri 7+ hours. A great nights sleep
Such an odd alternating pattern.
I’m going to keep tracking this.
Began Tracking times of last bite starting (maybe if I stop eating earlier, I will fall asleep more easily(?)
Mar 12: 9:10 PM
“Be a friend to yourself” (great post) is essential. I call it “being kind to myself.”
My ah-ha was realizing eating out was not kind to myself.
Eating sweets is, in fact, not being kind to myself.
It’s a quantum shift when you get yourself into a “Choosing health/healthy” vs deprecation & limiting…5 -
Exercise-30min walk
Track-everything
Calories-in range
Pass days 2 remaining4 -
3/12
Exercise: 95 minutes
Tracking: yes
Calories: under
Pass days used: 03 -
Another great theme. Many of us are far to hard on ourselves. Be your own cheerleader!!!
🥳 Congrats 🥳 You made 3 x yes 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
🎉 celebrate 🎉 your success!!!
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🙌 Bravo 🙌 for posting consistently
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Give yourself a pat on the back.
And keep on keeping on!
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Sat March 12
Way over pass days in my learning month
I went through and raised my calories by 300 yesterday, upping each meal target as well and thinking about the targets for protein and fiber - took some time. I think that will help the cycle where I am planning so far less food than I need and then filling in the gaps by nibbling junk food. I think it will be more sustainable and healthier to plan to eat a decent quantity of good food. We'll see. Learning month is not over.
Of course, I planned and then ate a day that was far over the new, higher, target of calories - and up 1.2 pounds. It was "takeout Friday" which had been rescheduled to Saturday, and my wife and I shared a slice of pie in front of the TV and you know what, it was worth it.
Today is a better day planned.
Yesterday I did do 30 minutes of walking and 15 minutes of stretching - it was hard to fit that in and I did it, so proud of myself.
About the question - being kinder to myself is good, but I find myself getting in a cycle where I have kind of a dialogue like this:
Caroline, why did you do that? That was really dumb.
Caroline, you need to be kinder to yourself.
Why can't I be kinder to myself? Is that so hard? I must be really dumb.
I need to be kinder to myself about being kinder to myself.
But I can't be kinder to myself even about being kinder to myself! I must be really really dumb!
And on and on!
Here's what I am trying to do in parenting (I spend a lot more time and though relating to my kids than to friends at this point in my life) and I am trying to do it for myself too. When my kids are having a hard time meeting an expectation, I let go and forgive their inability to do it and I also try to let go and forgive my own frustration that they can't do it. And then I try, with them (not in the moment but sometime when we are calm), to reflect and make a plan for how things could go better in the future. (This is Collaborative and Proactive Solutions by Dr. Ross Green). I am trying to do the same thing for myself. So that is a lot of just noting when things are hard and then when I have time circling back and trying to make things less hard for myself - either by giving up on some expectations or by adjusting routines or the environment to make them easier. So then I don't have to fight with myself about fighting with myself.3 -
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~🍀~ 3 / 12 /2022~~ Waving Hi ~~ 🙋🏼 ~~ BLESSings Everyone ~💖~
Exercise for at least 20 minutes .................................... ✅ ... 210+ min.
Stay within my calorie budget for the day ...................... ✅ ... I am
Keep track of everything I ate and drank ....................... ✅ .... I did
STEPS......... 25,140 +.......... 180 = walking ......... 30 cleaning
Documenting My CONSISTANCY = For personal ACCOUNTABILITY & Celebration
(if there is a P=instead of number its a Pass Day)
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💖 Wishing EVERYONE all the BEST & Much Success In March 🏆 We Got This 🏆
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makattack220 wrote: »
Being a friend to myself has made all the difference for me. Love this topic @StayFITTer , thanks for posting. This time around I've focused on loving my body where I am at NOW and instead of using guilt/shame and a timeline to get to goal, I'm working on changing habits rather than just losing weight. I'm talking to myself how I'd talk to a friend vs the "tough love" approach I'd relied on before (which worked short-term but never elicited lasting change).
@mshawski - glad you’re still here! Sometimes a little hiatus is just what happens. The return is what’s important. I can’t wait to see the ring you’ll buy yourself when you hit maintenance!
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Mar 12
Exercise: Yes, 35 minutes. 5 minutes dancing, 30 minutes- Did back exercises including crunches & planks, push-ups, and triceps dips.
Tracked all: Yes
Calories under: no, Dang it! I did so well, and even had completed my food diary & was under... then, right before I went to sleep did something shtupid and I don't even know why... ate 3 cups of popcorn. That definitely put me over. Angies Chicka Pop Sweet & Salty Kettle corn. After having exercised, even. Hadn't done that in a while. So -- blew it. But, Tomorrow is a NEW DAY!
(all 3 pass days used)
So, the question posed basically was: what one thing can you do or that you already do to be a a better friend to yourself? I admit that I haven't been a good friend to myself. I have not been in a good mental place for about 6 months, now, due to something that happened in my life 6 months ago that has changed just about everything that I lived for & thought I'd done right in my past 30 years. Completely knocked me off kilter and I'm sorry for being vague ... but that's all I can say right now. I am having trouble getting back on the horse that I fell off of (so to speak). Any way, weight has been an issue for over 6 months, though, and has nothing at all to do with what happened. Weght/exercise etc. has been an issue for many years, However; the healthy, kind self-talk disappeared 6 months ago & hasn't been back.
Now, that this thread has brought the topic up, I will start treating myself as a good friend or a good parent would.
So, regarding that popcorn -- I am throwing the rest in the trash. That would have been a gentle suggestion that I would have made to a friend or loved one.
And, other than that... I'm really not sure what a friend would say or a loving parent. Other than, today is a new, beautful day. Make it a great day! You can do it!
So, in answer to the question -- I'm going to try to have a mantra. I've done this in the past & it was very helpful. So, this is my new mantra. (Actuallyl I used to tell my friends to "Make it a great day!" as opposed to "Have a great day!".)
"Today is a new, beautiful day! Make it a great day! I can do it!"
@StayFITTer Thank you for posing this excellent question.
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day?yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank?yes2 -
Today I was kind to myself and did essential housework then sat and knitted4