JUST FOR TODAY... One day at a time .. Daily Commitment for 2023!

Hour commitment - After I finish my berries, I won't eat again until after 5 pm. None of the same foods at dinner as at lunch. Can still have my dose of metamusal.

My year starts tomorrow as per plan. I decided to wait until I headed back to work to really buckle down. I went for a 20 mile bike ride today and haven’t had much as far as intake goes, but we are having Olive Garden for dinner so…. Yeah, should have started today, but didn’t.

For those who don’t know me, I’m Nikki. I’ll be 50 this year and I’m only 5’1”. I lost 50lb last year, but put 10 back on. Planning to do better this go around.

We’ve got this!

more_freggies76 wrote: »

JFT for 1/2/2023 (today)✔️
1) Can have dessert today.✔️Didn't eat today.
2) None of DH's stash today, including the Mexican sweet breads.✔️
3) No peanut butter today, 2.5 to 3 T (last 12/28)✔️
4) Don't weigh again until Monday 1/2 (last 12/22)✔️
5) Up to 1.5 oz hard cheese today (trying not to have cheese everyday) (last 12/31). Note: some grated parmigiana cheese has always been allowed and doesn't count towards hard cheese. Hard cheese at restaurant ok. Can have cheese with restaurant meals.✔️
6) No honey today(1-3 Tbsp.). (a little in honey mustard ok)✔️
7) Nuts ok (22-26 g) or 12-14 in-the-shell nuts, but none of Gary's canned nuts.✔️
8) No beef jerky today.✔️
9) Chicken Vienna sausage ok today (last 10/19) (trying not to have higher sodium stuff everyday)✔️Didn't eat today.
10) Sweet potato and/or pumpkin ok today.✔️Didn't eat today.
11) Tamale ok today✔️Didn't eat today.

Hour commitment -I won't eat again until tomorrow.

JFT for 1/3/2023 (tomorrow)✔️
1) Can have dessert today.
2) None of DH's stash today, including the Mexican sweet breads.
3) No peanut butter today, 2.5 to 3 T (last 12/28)
4) Don't weigh again until Thursday 1/5 (last 1/2)
5) No hard cheese today (trying not to have cheese everyday) (last 12/31). Note: some grated parmigiana cheese has always been allowed and doesn't count towards hard cheese. Hard cheese at restaurant ok. Can have cheese with restaurant meals.
6) No honey today(1-3 Tbsp.). (a little in honey mustard ok)
7) Nuts ok (22-26 g) or 12-14 in-the-shell nuts, but none of Gary's canned nuts.
8) No beef jerky today.
9) Chicken Vienna sausage ok today (last 10/19) (trying not to have higher sodium stuff everyday)
10) Sweet potato and/or pumpkin ok today.
11) Tamale ok today
12) No croissants today

Goals for 1/2:
- Log all food and water ✅
- Yoga ✅
- Crochet ✅

Daily gratitude: Grateful for the gorgeous weather and my visit to the botanical gardens. Check out the view!


Goals for 1/3:
- Log all food and water
- Yoga
- Crochet
- Apply for one new job
- Change sheets

Snowflake1968 wrote: »

@Bex953172 - my daughter at age 33 was diagnosed with ADHD. Getting diagnosed and learning some skills and getting some meds have made a huge difference in her life. She self diagnosed on TikTok and our doctor then confirmed it.

I suppose that's similar to me! I was researching ADHD for Marley, and as I read page after page I thought it all felt oddly familiar so I started researching adult ADHD. It was only by chance that I downloaded tiktok not long after but I started to get ADHD content coming through on there aswell due to the algorithm thing.

I've found that tiktok really explains what it feels like to have it and has examples of what daily living can look like. Which really helped further explains the "symptoms" listed on medical webpages, for example when I read "executive dysfunction" I was like "what?" But tiktok explained what that was in detail and hundreds of different examples

Glad your daughter got sorted out. Imma bit scared of going to the Dr because I feel like they're gonna laugh me out the door like I've made it all up? I don't know why I feel like that because I know my research is right.
But over here it can be a 6 year wait to get an assessment x

Starting the 5lb Challenge for Jan if anyone wants to join?

5LB CHALLENGE

DEC 2022
SW: 178
28th Nov: 178
9th Dec: 179
30th Dec: 179
Loss/gain: +1lbs

JAN 2023
SW: 177
1st Jan: 177


Don't know how I lost the 2lb from Dec 30th to Jan 1st, but I'll take it haha. Must have just been one of them fluctuations.

Also forgot to mention I've put my goals on my sticky notes in the house so I can't forget. Along with medication reminder cause I always forget 😂

more_freggies76 wrote: »

JFT for 1/3/2023 (today)✔️
1) Can have dessert today.
2) None of DH's stash today, including the Mexican sweet breads.
3) No peanut butter today, 2.5 to 3 T (last 12/28)
4) Don't weigh again until Thursday 1/5 (last 1/2)
5) No hard cheese today (trying not to have cheese everyday) (last 12/31). Note: some grated parmigiana cheese has always been allowed and doesn't count towards hard cheese. Hard cheese at restaurant ok. Can have cheese with restaurant meals.
6) No honey today(1-3 Tbsp.). (a little in honey mustard ok)
7) Nuts ok (22-26 g) or 12-14 in-the-shell nuts, but none of Gary's canned nuts.
8) No beef jerky today.
9) Chicken Vienna sausage ok today (last 10/19) (trying not to have higher sodium stuff everyday)
10) Sweet potato and/or pumpkin ok today.
11) Tamale ok today
12) No croissants today

Hour commitment - After my coffee stuff, I won't eat again until after 12 pm.

Yesterday was a bit rough because i blew through my points really quickly.
A Starbucks coffee cake is 16! And i only have something like 23 a day.
I didnt even want the coffee cake that bad; i only had it cause my bfast was light and i was out doing errands and running low on energy.
I blew most of the rest on chocolate confectionaries.
But i got through! I'm so glad this plan has free foods.
My house is full of them now!
Mandarins, chicken, turkey, yogurt, pea soup, seafood gumbo.
They kept me going.
I probably also took too many stims.
So i had trouble sleeping and resting, thus making me hungrier.

Today will be much easier!
I will value preparation.
I will avoid Starbucks food entirely.
I will make cocao brew and matcha instead of eating chocolates and keep my all stim consumption before noon.
This morning i started with some raisin bran (4 points) and i feel great.
Today i will actually get some studying done! And shopping, cause i'm almost out of mandarins and i'm definitely out of yogurt.

mytime6630 wrote: »

Did you get in on the 10 months for $10? I kinda wish I got in on that sale .. mine is $10 for just 6 months. So I have to work hard to lose at least 20 pounds in those 6 months .. I just don't want to pay $23 a month.

Sounds like great motivation. I wish they were still offering lifetime for new people. No, i originally was gonna get the 15$ for three, but ended up upgrading last second to premium (dont remember the cost).

mytime6630 wrote: »

I didn't do so well last nite... and not off to a good start today either. But I will get back on track tomorrow (eating up leftover crab rangoon and egg rolls, and hubby wants pizza tonite!).

I believe in you! Its great you get weekly points as well as daily... They know its not about hitting it the same everyday, but keeping a trend. And its so easy to log. At first i was just logging and not trying to hit a goal point total because i just wanted to see what my average week was like.... but its just so easy to make small changes here and there that keep your points low. That said, my first week (which was only three days) was "too many points", so i feel ya! But i'm not sweatin'. It takes time to get into the swing of things, and we're always improving, no matter what. Slow and steady wins the race.... My hubby is interested now, but i told him to not make a decision until my three months are up and he see the results!

mytime6630 wrote: »

It does work if you follow the plan, but you are right .. you have to still be careful with the zero point foods. They still have calories.

I'm not gonna care if they have calories and neither should you. The whole point of the point system and using their database is so you dont have to worry about calories, just points. If a food is free then its free! And imma eat as much zero points as i want! Theres probably a very smart reason some foods are zero point. So i think its safe to say they want you to eat them! Better than starving! And better than foods with points! There even being zero point foods is such a draw for me. I imagine it'll be much easier to be consistent with WW than with calorie counting, which is largely my problem with the latter. Calorie counting makes me feel awful, and it sucks when you start stalling. Its hard not to worry about whether you're eating the right macros or going low enough or maybe going too low! And then activity level messes with everything, and its so hard to measure calorie burn.... Its a very scientific and reliable way of losing weight but i'll do almost anything to not do it.

Bex953172 wrote: »

I don't know how to not snack at night. Like I always get peckish in bed. Not sure how to stop that. Or how to be full enough before bed so I don't want to get peckish.

I do! I'm very prone to getting into that habit. When i was in therapy for insomnia, they talked a little about Night Eating Syndrome, which is what youve been describing. Its not fun to treat, but its possible to fix. I'm sure you can find a lot of tips online or talk to a doc about it, so i'll only share what works for me.

Basically how i look at it is you can get in the habit of eating at night, and therefore the habit of being hungry at night. Being hungry is arousing, which makes it hard to ignore the hunger. So you eat so you can sleep, and reinforce the cycle. (Sleepiness, particularly melatonin secretion, suppresses hunger, and hunger can suppress sleepiness, especially hunger tied to your circadian rhythm, which is governed by habits including eating.)

You can either go cold turkey, and just suffer hungry at night for about a week. Or you can wean yourself off. Eat less calories/food a night, prioritizing high fiber foods, vegetables and protein. Soup is a good nighttime snack, or bran flakes. I like nibbling on sandwich meat as well. Then in the morning, make sure you get up regularly and pronto! Make some coffee if you need it, and eat soon. Reinforce eating earlier in the day. Get your three (or four!) square meals a day in. It'll still take about a week to shift, but its less frustrating. I usually see huge changes after three days. After three days, the momentum is high!

Good luck! If you're still struggling after a week, id recc seeing a sleep doc. Helped me a lot!

Forgot that I had Bible Study tonight at 6:30, which means no 6:00 spin class. Lucky I have the Peleton to fall back on, but those of you who know me know I hate riding the Peleton. Can't really figure out what makes it different than a spin class other than I tend to give up easier when folks aren't watching. Oh well, new year, new attitude. It's my life and I want to thrive, so I'll do my best in all I do (90% of the time). All or nothing hits me hard, so 90% sounds pretty good. Not perfect, just progress...

more_freggies76 wrote: »

JFT for 1/3/2023 (today)✔️
1) Can have dessert today.✔️
2) None of DH's stash today, including the Mexican sweet breads.✔️
3) No peanut butter today, 2.5 to 3 T (last 12/28)✔️
4) Don't weigh again until Thursday 1/5 (last 1/2)✔️
5) No hard cheese today (trying not to have cheese everyday) (last 12/31). Note: some grated parmigiana cheese has always been allowed and doesn't count towards hard cheese. Hard cheese at restaurant ok. Can have cheese with restaurant meals.✔️
6) No honey today(1-3 Tbsp.). (a little in honey mustard ok)✔️
7) Nuts ok (22-26 g) or 12-14 in-the-shell nuts, but none of Gary's canned nuts.✔️
8) No beef jerky today.✔️
9) Chicken Vienna sausage ok today (last 10/19) (trying not to have higher sodium stuff everyday)✔️
10) Sweet potato and/or pumpkin ok today.✔️Didn't eat today.
11) Tamale ok today✔️Didn't eat today.
12) No croissants today✔️

Hour commitment - After I finish my hot cocoa, I won't eat again until tomorrow.

JFT for 1/4/2023 (tomorrow)✔️
1) No dessert today unless I want sugarfree or no sugar added. (last 1/3)
2) None of DH's stash today, including the Mexican sweet breads.
3) No peanut butter today, 2.5 to 3 T (last 12/28)
4) Don't weigh again until Thursday 1/5 (last 1/2)
5) Up to 1.5 oz hard cheese today (trying not to have cheese everyday) (last 12/31). Note: some grated parmigiana cheese has always been allowed and doesn't count towards hard cheese. Hard cheese at restaurant ok. Can have cheese with restaurant meals.
6) No honey today(1-3 Tbsp.). (a little in honey mustard ok)
7) Nuts ok (22-26 g) or 12-14 in-the-shell nuts, but none of Gary's canned nuts.
8) No beef jerky today.
9) No chicken Vienna sausage today (last 1/3) (trying not to have higher sodium stuff everyday)
10) Sweet potato and/or pumpkin ok today.
11) Tamale ok today
12) No croissants today