Happy Mother’s Day 💐

Having read the previous posts, these are my thoughts on my personal journey.

🔹 The lifestyle I chose to get to maintenance was a process of developing healthy habits which were permanently sustainable.
🔹 I am not ‘on a diet’, it’s my new way of life. If I go back to my old habits, I will lose all the progress I have made.
🔹 Thus, I make daily choices to continue to track, eat mostly healthy, and exercise.
🔹 I also accept that I am not perfect, and will make daft choices from time to time, but I won’t beat myself up about them.

@Mrs_Hoffer

I think I would find an eye issue like that to shoot my anxiety through the roof. I am praying for you.

@Mrs_Hoffer my thoughts are with you hope for a speedy recovery in my thoughts Kate

@Mrs_Hoffer - oh my goodness I hope your eye gets better soon. That must be so frustrating! Talk about terrible timing.

@lesdarts180 - “revenge travel” is the term I’ve used for the number of people booking trips and hitting the road right now. I inquired about a spring 2023 trip to the Netherlands and was told they are already almost completely full. I snagged one of the last spots, even though I really didn’t want to book for a couple months.

@Mrs_Hoffer Wow - what a problem to be dealing with. That's a new one for me, eye stuff just sounds rough though. Wishing you a speedy recovery as it's not easy to go through something like that when you have the other stuff to get done that's on your plate

@jamcnewman - I usually do two workouts a day that get recorded through my apple watch. First one is dance/jazzercise and second is a walk. I find that on my phone, I usually have to go to the apple activity app first and then bring up MFP to have it recorded. It usually shows up. However, it doesn't always show up on the web version of MFP. I have to then close the IOS MFP app, restart, reload the web page several times and then it will show up. Don't know if that helps you or not.

Thanks @SilverSage1 — It sure is a flaky app and doesn’t play well with others. 🤷🏼‍♀️

@enlightenme3 Tried all that (and more 😐). I sought out the “help” and followed the instructions. Uninstalled; restarted my phone; installed the app again. Had to, as always, reset all my goals and percentages for macros, etc.

Now it has double recorded all my activity on the Diary but still not updated the posting to the “wall” (which it would always do before the “improvements” were made last week). Not sure if I should even bother to submit a ticket as they just seem to close them after a week despite the effort you made to point out the issues. Sigh. 😞

@Mrs_Hoffer So sorry about your eye problem. I hope it clears up quickly.

Over the weekend, I was thinking about how I am trying to change from "old diet ways" to a "sustainable healthy lifestyle". The change of 1200 calories to determining my healthy goal weight BMR and using that number as my daily calorie allotment has made a tremendous impact! I am so glad and thankful to everyone that gave advice and helped me work that out.

That got me thinking about my treadmill goal I have set, which is my "old" goal of building back up to 3 miles a day on my treadmill. I usually need 45 minutes for 3 miles with stretching and warm-up and cool down, and my brain is already fighting that regarding planning daily treadmill time in my schedule. As I am job hunting, I am trying to figure out if I should do the treadmill first thing in the morning or wait until I get home and get on the treadmill at night. For some reason, my brain is ok with 30 minutes on the treadmill in the morning, but when I start to think of 45 minutes in the morning on the treadmill - my brain starts panicking and freaking out that I don't have enough time and I will have to get up at 4 am to get everything done.

So I started to entertain the idea of changing my treadmill goal. Instead of trying for the old way of 3 miles a day, I am going to set my new goal to 2 miles a day on the treadmill and aim for 30 minutes. Once I hit that goal then I can adjust maybe to build up to 3 miles a day. I need to adjust and adapt to the new way of things. I am no longer on the cycle of 1200-calorie diets with 3 miles on my treadmill a day, then stop once I reach my goals, which then over time I gain it all back and start all over. I need to do what works and what will be sustainable for me to do day-in and day-out as a healthy lifestyle. I am no longer doing what worked "then". I need to do what will work "now". This is now, not then - I need to adjust and adapt.

It helps me to share my thoughts. I am off to the treadmill now and then finish my interview prep book later in the day. I hope everyone has a great week and let's reach our weekly goals together!!

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Thanks @SilverSage1 — It sure is a flaky app and doesn’t play well with others. 🤷🏼‍♀️

@enlightenme3 Tried all that (and more 😐). I sought out the “help” and followed the instructions. Uninstalled; restarted my phone; installed the app again. Had to, as always, reset all my goals and percentages for macros, etc.

Now it has double recorded all my activity on the Diary but still not updated the posting to the “wall” (which it would always do before the “improvements” were made last week). Not sure if I should even bother to submit a ticket as they just seem to close them after a week despite the effort you made to point out the issues. Sigh. 😞

@jamcnewman - today I got the double recording of my Apple Health activity. I had to go in and manually delete one of the recordings both on my phone and on the web. Are you still having this problem?

@enlightenme3 Isn't it so annoying? It has settled down again and every time I delete the app to reinstall (like the troubleshooting recommends), I could kick myself. Everything has to be adjusted and reset (and it usually takes 2-3 tries before the changes “stick”. I am choosing to just ignore the past double entries as when I attempted any adjustment it did the same as for you. I can see the “true account” of my activity in the Apple Fitness app and will use that when I see my dietician this week. I use the free edition of MFP, but feel for those that pay for this (and have the same experience).

@KCJen
In his book ¨Atomic Habits¨ the author recommends that the habit you build to start out with be actually something too easy, that takes less than 2 minutes, that will really become virtually automatic and your body does it without thought as part of your routine. He gives the example of a woman whose ¨habit¨ is taking the taxi to the gym. She does that without hardly thinking about it because she does that everyday. Once she is there her usual routine generally ends up being at least partially a series of habits, each one signalling the next. Usually, after some years adding to her routine, her routine is a two hour workout that starts before 6 a.m., but the basic habit which is the lynchpin for it is ¨I take a taxi to the gym.¨

He talks about trying to make the simple signal habit an absolute habit-- for example you get on the treadmill, either at the same time/day or immediately after a different habit in your routine as the signal. You only ¨have¨to force yourself to do the two minutes every day (or at another frequent regular pattern like that). You absolutely do not pressure yourself to do more, but once you have done two minutes you will probably want to do more most days--- you probably are not going to want to stop 2 minutes in many days. You become a person that has a habit of walking on the treadmill everyday--- then you extend the time.

As I read your post it made me think that in this case ¨less would be better¨ --- just working on making walking on that treadmill every single morning a habit instead of walking for long enough that it requires true effort.