Goals: Take care of my health ABOVE MY DESIRES!! They contradict each other greatly!! BODY FIRST in health. To lose 5 to 7 lbs (though to hit my 5% of 8.5 would be OKAY TOO!)

Routine:

Daily when I wake up I write down on a piece of paper (I was using my phone, but found this is more productive) ONE BIG THING I want to get done today (sometimes I list 2 or 3 if they are smaller things)

Exercise: What type of exercise I wish to do, the amount of time it'll take, when will I do it.
These vary from day to day. Many may not know I am dealing with a foot infection that has NO DESIRE to leave my body, though I WANT it evicted. SIGH it's that time in history where evictions are just not easy be it bad tenants or health issues.

I break down the exercise, in "general" it'll have on days of UGH maybe 10 mins total of walking, which can be a run to the trash chute which takes 4 mins, combined with 6 mins of ST/Stretches. Later on 10 to 20 mins of stretches. I WANT to add in ST more (TY TY TY TY @Eclipsedagain for your encouragement!) I am going to UP the game, with sit down chair exercises, I'll slowly build this up.
GOAL is at least 30 mins a day. I LOVE earning my badge!



Food?

WELL my "diet" isn't really a "die"t. It's a lifestyle, I always eat on the whim "What do I feel like?" BUT I always keep in mind, Calories In / Calories OUT (Which are very low right now). Today I did AMAZING!! I ALSO need to be Low sodium which means I've learned to COOK!! NO FIRES even!! LOLOLOL though the fire department knew me well at one time.

Mindset/Emotions: I EAT TO LIVE NOT LIVE TO EAT! "I can do this, it's not easy, but I can either make wise choices now, or later on I'll be so much sicker and be FORCED to do so." I also have CHF (Congestive Heart Failure). I WANT TO LIVE long enough that my face hurts from laughter and JOY. In life so many things can bring us down, but by being positive we can counteract those. It's NOT that I am not in pain (sometimes horrendous though stretching helps so much) It's that I won't focus on the pain (though I DO respect it), there are still things on a horrid day I can do to smile. Today a friend who's very witty and went back and forth when she was over. We were laughing so hard. Where the mind goes, makes it easier on the body.

Goals
Get brain away from junk food. Get scale in right direction.

My day
Hygiene/Breakfast/morning dishes/walk dog etc
Exercise
Laundry and Mfp time
Watch news for a few
Lunch
“Paperwork” and duolingo
Squats abs jumping jacks
Walk dog
Dinner
Figure out if more time in day

Goals - lose weight and be more fit. Lose 0.5 pound week. Daily 7,000 steps minimum a day and fitness classes (45 Min) 3-4 times a week. Walk for 30 min. 4 days a week. A fit on class 2 times a week. 7 hours sleep. Food Diary record.

Daily Routine

Get Up between 5- 5:30 AM weekdays/ by 7 weekends
Breakfast & coffee
Make lunch, fill water bottle
Plan dinner
Daily weigh in to monitor weight trend
Shower, hair, dress, sunscreen/makeup
Make bed, tidy bedroom, 5 min clean
Drive to work 7:30-8:30am
Work
Lunch time walk
8-10 glasses of water
Food Diary
3 Meals a Day, fruit/ veggie snacks
Drive to class/ home 5-5:30pm
Fitness class 6-7pm
Dinner 6-8:30pm
Time with family/friends on phone/visit
watch TV
Bedtime routine
Lights out 10:30-11 PM

Goals
• lose 5 pounds as I firm up the flab around my middle
• improve my lower and upper body strength

Routine
• I’m almost always up at 9 am
• I begin with a cup of herbal tea and some prayers.
• I have breakfast.
• Then i have a multivitamin with a glass of water.
• Reading for 20 minutes
• i go for a 30 minute walk.
• Lunch (biggest meal of the day)
• Short nap if needed
• then i do a strength training workout( 3 times a week)
• i go for another 30 minute walk
I take a break and drink more water.
• Then i dance for about 60 minutes.
• Bed and reading
• Sleep by 10 or 11 m.
Exercise
• strength training videos 3 times a week, walking every day, dancing every day. yoga once a week.
Food
• I feel better when i eat healthy, drink water and regularly exercise.
• I pretty much follow the Mediterranean diet.
Mindset/emotions
• At almost 55, I do whatever it takes to keep my brain and body strong and healthy.
• I am an introvert, so I make it a priority to meet with friends at least twice a week.
• When I begin to feel low or down, i find that writing or getting in touch with a friend helps me a lot.
• i keep in touch with my parents pretty much every day. my daughter and i keep in touch every day.

Goals
Lose 5%
Become stronger, reduce back pain via yoga and core strengthening
Plan/log food daily (especially on weekends), with no more than 3 alcohol days weekly
Work out 6-7 days weekly

Weekday Routine
6 AM - Up and weigh in (do not hit snooze)
6-8 AM - Breakfast, tidy house, play with Sport (the cat), MFP and log/plan meals for the day
8 AM - Yoga 20-30 minutes
8:30 AM - Log into work (taking a decent lunch break and staying focused and efficient so not working extra hours)
5:30 PM - Daily workout (stop work on time and start workout no later than 5:30 PM)
8 PM - Dinner (if cooking, start prep by 7, with dinner ready no later than 8 PM)
10 PM - Bedtime (no later than 10:30 PM)

Goals:
Lose 5%
Set up my meal plans in the MFP food diary ahead of time. I find that I stick to my eating plan better if it's planned out ahead of time instead of just tracking as I go along.
Cardio 6 days a week
ST 3 days a week
Work on my Pull-Up Challenge
STOP PLAYING CANDY CRUSH SODA SAGA (I can literally spend a couple of hours a day total playing this and it's a serious time-suck and a huge waste of precious hours of my life).

Daily Routine (if I set this up in an hour-by-hour format as I've done for myself in the past, I'll inevitably miss a few things and then feel like I've failed myself, so I'm going to be a little more general here than others have been):
- Get up between 5 and 6am
- 20 minutes AM yoga routine
- eat breakfast, read news (this is when I would normally start my Soda Saga binge)
- 1/2 hour to hour after breakfast, do cardio workout, shower
- Since I'm retired my days are pretty open, but these next few weeks I want to focus on finishing up some inside work on the new house (curtains mostly) and then moving outside to the garden areas. Also cook new meals when needed
- lunch
- write for two to three hours after lunch
- ST 3x wk in the afternoon; on non ST days do some additional yoga routines
- Prep dinner, new or reheat
- Set up next day's meals in MFP (if not already done)
- Do some decluttering or organizing
- 5 minutes or more of meditation to relax before bed
- To bed to read or watch some tv
- sleep

Goals: To lose 6 lbs in this challenge. To get my health back--I got the Montana crud when I moved here and the cough is just now going.

Routine:
Up at 0600 and out with the small dogs. Out with the big dogs and feed everyone
0620 big dogs out after eating and me in the shower and get ready for work
0645 feed other animals
0650 coffee and nutrisystem breakfast
0715 dogs all in their places and head for work
0730 at work
This will change when my home office is done and I will be working from home on Monday and Friday

Every day I do write a list of what I can do here to get this fixer fixed. Sometimes I actually get the day's goal done

1600 off work and home.
1630 Big dogs out of paddock and littles out of house. Feed everyone including the foul.
1700 feed me
do yard work and fencing if the rain is absent. Otherwise see below

Relax for a short sit.

1900 paint or do flooring or

Goals: To end this Challenge lighter than when I began. The goal is to feel better than I do right now and to have my clothes look/feel better on me. I've been really 'loosey-goosey' lately and not 'paying attention' to things the way I should and I really need to get back to making 'me' a priority.

My Weekday Routine:
Alarm rings at 515am, out of bed by 530am (even that I have been slacking on and need to get back into that habit once again).
Coffee; check on computer and do some 5% Challenge-related items/reading/posting, etc.
Get ready for work
Work-day ... My typical work day changes depending on if I'm working in the office or working from home. Since the pandemic began, I have the flexibility to work from home, but recently we have been asked to go into the office 3 days/week (sometimes 2 days/week).

After work, I usually go home and eat (DH is retired so he usually cooks & has something ready for me), or I go to my parent's house to visit them or I get home, eat & head to rehearsal. I try to exercise by walking outside when the weather allows or inside, in front of the TV with a YouTube or Leslie Sansone video. If I do go to rehearsal, I usually do that and get home and, at the very least, make sure to get my minimum amount of daily steps in (even if I rack up those steps by walking in front of the TV).

Before bed - back on the computer to check things for the 5% Challenge or catch up on some misc. e-mails and such, check in on FB.

Bed - I try to get into bed somewhere between 10pm-11pm.

My Weekend Routine:
Kind of depends on the time of year - summertime ... weekends are relatively quiet unless I have to catch up with things at home (cleaning/bills/groceries, etc). I don't have A/C at home so when it gets really hot - I like to just sit and do nothing in the summer. Weekends during the other seasons are many times taken up by rehearsals for any show that I may be involved in and I typically clean the house and do chores as time allows and when I can fit those things in.