What Mini Goal is motivating you right now!

Mini goals...coming back to mfp in autumn...not the first time...one of my best seasons to lose...weather's nice enough, stuff to get done before winter in the yard; so...basics: more water & moving, & logging food and checking in on groups, setting up a good base level of habits; also 90 in 90

For me it’s about lowering my triglycerides, my good cholesterol is high so my doctor tells me not to worry but that’s not the point, I still think it should be in the normal range. My goal is to stop eating bad carbs, like bread and rice.

leslie829 wrote: »

1 - Being at least 10lbs less than my husband
2 - Getting my lipids and sugar numbers down!

I feel your first one in my bones! I am on a weight loss journey and when I finally got to being one pound less than my husband, I shared that with him because I was so happy. Well that motivated him to also drop the extra weight he is carrying, which is great, but for a while we were battling it out on the scale. LOL. I won that battle, though, as I am now 8 pounds below him, but we are both winning the weight war together!

I'm pulling for you to reach both of your mini goals! Keep us posted!

shannshine1 wrote: »

Morning!
Great goals and inspiring me to my mini-goal, which is to fit into my jeans by Christmas, which is about 15 pounds away. I've got them wrapped in Christmas paper already and it will be my gift to myself--even if the jeans are old ones! They are my favourite jeans and I think that will be a good goal.
My days are fine, it's the nighttime eating which knocks everything out of whack so the goal is to get that under control and I think the weight will start to move.

Nighttime eating is my vice too! The evenings are my only "me time" after the kids and hubby go to bed, so I cherish it, but I also tend to snack...unhealthily... when I am up late. It stinks, but I had to train myself to go to bed earlier, even if it meant sacrificing my alone time, just to control it. I get up an hour earlier and go for a morning walk, and that helps wear me out by the end of the day so it's not too hard to go to bed earlier. Good luck! You've got this! And what a great idea to wrap those jeans as a gift to yourself! I may copy that idea.

@xbowhunter Hello and yes! I am mentally at this same point in my journey! Life is MUCH BETTER since I have stopped feeding myself poison. Two years ago.....even one year ago....I was still grocery shopping in the centre aisles. I have gradually moved away from them and find myself shopping at least 80% from the perimeter of the store now. I noticed today ironically which is why I feel compelled to comment. I just walked past so many aisles today without a second thought. Crackers, cereal, of course baking, candy, chips, canned foods. I did pick up some yoghurt from the dairy aisle.....but it was mostly fresh produce and a bag of bagels for my husband. It has taken me time to learn to read labels and for my system to actually reject processed food.....but the result is an easily maintained weight.....I need to walk up and weigh again actually.....and a MUCH healthier digestive system. Here's to a MUCH BETTER LIFE and treating our bodies with respect! 😍

I continue to make excellent progress. Walked up to weigh myself today.....I am HALF POUND away from a BMI of 24! 😲 This truly feels like a miracle to me. I still remember being "safely" out of Obese. Now I am SAFELY in Normal weight! My goal weight is only 6 pounds away.....and just as I am finally feeling comfortable being below 150 pounds...my next goal is being below 140 pounds and closer than I expected. 😍

I re-started my journey Sept 26 and have been doing pretty good, I have logged everything I ate every day for the last 26 days. I had one bad day when I fell into a large bag of M & Ms that have been in the house for two weeks. I should have known better because I was extremely tired and that is always the worst time for bingeing for me. I got right back on track, but it took a few days for my weight to catch that extra 2000 calorie day. I lost 8 pounds really quickly in the first 2 weeks, which is unusual for me, and I know it was probably mostly water weight because I wasn't starving myself- eating between 1300-1400 daily, today my weight bounced up a pound.
I am being patient and had set my first mini goal to be back below 200 by Halloween, so I have 1.7 pounds to go in the next two weeks. My blood sugar has been averaging 103 until I ate all those M & Ms when it bounced my average up to 150, but that has come back down also. Small sustainable steps!🌞
Once I am back under 200, my next goal is to steadily lose weight and not gain anything by the end of the year. Holidays are my worst time of year, since I so love to bake holiday goodies, so this is a real challenging time for me.

@Neon_hippie a couple decades ago, my doctor was about to put me on BP meds for hypertension when he said he would hold off for one month if I tried an experiment for him: instead of adding salt to my cooking WHILE it was cooking, I would wait until right before serving. Poof, instant improvement to my BP. Why? Because when I added the salt mid-cook it would get absorbed, so when I sat down at the dinner table the taste would be muted/absent and I automatically added MORE salt. But if I waited until right before serving, the salty taste remained on the surface of the food and I didn't need to add any more.

To work out 90% of the days planned.

I am really tired for good reason. And I still know that pushing myself will make my current routine seem easier.

The next 10 pounds! For the first time in 7 years, my number doesn't start with a 2. I was at almost 240lbs 2 years ago, and horseback riding alone took 26 pounds off. Now I'm at 197, after dieting for just a month. (DON'T BE ALARMED! Most of that weight came off in the first two weeks as I'd stopped eating solely fast food and started cooking healthy meals I think it was sodium/water weight. Now I'm losing about 2.5 lbs a week.)

Hello. My (sorta) mini goal is to finish the spare bedroom that became a catch all so that I have a dog free zone to work out. With my work schedule the gym is hard to get to during the week and the dogs think something is wrong when I'm doing floor work and then I don't get anything done. lol

Getting down into the 260s I haven't been there in years less than 4 pounds to go!! Whoot 20 down so far since my starting! 🙏🏻🎉😁

Mini goal? To actually start losing weight. I started walking to work two months ago, and have been meticulously counting calories, but somehow my weight has remained flat, or indeed, slightly increased over that time. Can't figure out what is going on here.