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28 Days to Better Habits - Fabulous February
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snowshoe072 wrote: »I journal but only “analog” and only with the beautiful Parker pen my children gave me. I don’t trust a on line journal call me paranoid how can you fully express yourself and feel confident no one will get to it?
Sometimes my entries are thoughts some bullet points. Depends on the day and time but they always have the weather the time and temp of course the date 😂.
Continuing my no or minimal occasional 1/2 and 1/2 in the coffee black with no sugar has allowed me to appreciate the flavors again so clear and pure.
Your comments on journaling really sparked some introspection, snowshoe (as did Tes', below, talking about her hubby reading over her shoulder 📖). I think this is why I've never taken the plunge, even tho I've been 'journal-curious' for a number of years now! Part of why I'm so excited about my Thrive in '25 plans, with my oars, and my Conqueror Virtual Challenges, and my journals, and my logs, and my classes (signed up for a few of those, too 😁), is because they're all tied (mostly) to measurable metrics and activities, and not feelings and thoughts. Tho, I have been toying with the notion of a gratitude journal. It's supposed to be so beneficial to your health and spirit to take up that kind of practice! But ... it's definitely more 'private' material than metrics and activity goals. At least for me. I'm much more reluctant to share my thoughts than my activities. It's just me and hubby in the house now tho. Not siblings and parents, like when I was young, or roommates, like when I was older, or children shortly thereafter ;-).
I can't close without noting your success with your coffee habit add-ins elimination habit. I love the evolution of taste journey your experiencing!hcoleman232 wrote: »Yay for the weekend! Work this week wasn’t the best with one of my coworkers being let go on Thursday. We were told it was an isolated incident and not the start of company wide layoffs.
Feb 6
Rings: 3/3
3 mile brisk walk
Feb 7
Rings: 3/3
Week in review:
3 strength workouts ✔️
Rings: 6/7
This week the focus will be on timing of my workouts; they really need to be done in the morning before work.
Have a great weekend! 🤗
Oh, wow, that work sitch must have been pretty stressful, H! wtg for getting those exercise sesh's in 💪. So inspiring!You ate all doing so great! Bravo ! 👏
@BodyTalking that sounds like an amazing way to learn a language. I need to find someone to help me learn French that way. Only I think they call it dinner in France. 🤣
@snowshoe072 , I basically make sure that anything I write in any journal is something that the husband can read over my shoulder because he does that. 🙄 So my journaling is mostly gratitude. I’m sure it’s good for me. Good job on the transition to black coffee. ☕️
@hcoleman232 , hooray for hitting those goals during a difficult week at work ! You are a warrior!*******
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February 1 - 41 grams of fiber! Celebration #100 - “I’m a Rock Star!” ⭐️
February 2 - 37 grams or fiber! I might get a bit more since there's still room for a snack in my day. Celebration #99 - Raising the roof My fiber hero this morning was oatmeal with flax and chia seeds.
February 3 - 38 grams of fiber! Celebration #1 Fist pump!
February 4 - 36 grams of fiber! To celebrate, I sang “Day by Day.” Fiber hero - sweet potato
February 5 - 34 grams of fiber! I had a cracker attack and so I had to shuffle my planned meals around in order to stay under calories. Crackers = zero fiber and lot of calories. If I had snacked on nuts, that would have been better. Celebration- huge sigh of relief that I managed it.
February 6- 35 grams of fiber! Celebration #48 - yay me!
One week done!
February 7 - 37 grams fiber! Celebration #14 I thought « that was awesome!
February 8 - 36 grams fiber! Celebration #50 - nailed it!
Great job on your first week of February, Tes! You continue to inspire me, and I just adore your positive energy (and oh man, I'm jealous of your yard! Your fruit trees!)BodyTalking wrote: »February Meal Planning
1st - 7th
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8th - 14th
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A review of the 'extras' I had in the first week of February.
1 chilli mango margarita,
Beer,
3 small homemade cakes from a student,
Cheese and wine,
More wine
Cream liqueur,
1 Cafe latte,
4 cafe au laits,
Popcorn,
Dried fruit & nuts.
Otherwise, it was just 2 or 3 meals per day and drinking tea and water.
The cocktail was after a Mexican meal at a restaurant and the cream liqueur was a gift from one of my husband's friends. I had the popcorn while my hubby was out one night. So, these are not regular things. I have a coffee machine that takes capsules and the cafe au lait ones are nearing the end. I'd normally just have one of these a week, preferring black coffee, but it's there, so I chose it when I was working from home.
I accept that I'll have some kind of homebaking from my student on Tuesdays, that I'll have a cafe latte and wine on Wednesdays with other students, sometimes with cheese, and that I'll have alcoholic drinks at the weekend with my husband.
Other than that, some dried fruit and nuts are my usual extras - just a couple of each.
BT, I felt inspired by your dispassionate, honest assessment of what is going right, and what needs keeping watch on.
02 - 0 9- 25 - No Tiny Celebration today. I thought about stretching my definition of 'journaling' to include food log journaling, but, tho it is journaling, and it does take intention, and introspection, it's not really what I am planning for the year. I don't know if I'll food journal the whole year, and the other kind, it is my intention to develop as an ongoing habit
. So ... I gave myself a 'beginner' badge 🔰 for the days I did food log journal, but didn't journal-journal (either digital, or analog) one of my 'focus oars' for the year .
Hey! I did finish my first Conqueror Virtual Challenge this week tho! (I've started five of them so far, each tied to one of my focus goals). I finished a shorter one, The Roman Empire: Caesars & Emperors. I had it keyed to my Daily Fitbit Steps, which had been going to a much longer The Silk Road, but I switched to try out a new one b/c the leaders of the Facebook Conqueror Community were doing a Group Community Chat / Challenge, and I wanted to join in. I thought I could learn more about the app that way.
I've been popping by here each night to read, and I'm inspired by you folks! I used up my energy on snow clearing, cooking, and Racing at Hogwarts, this week tho
. The Race is over (great fun!), but it's February in Maine, and snow clearing is not. We've got close ~20" of snow depth as of today (10" fell on Sunday night, and that ain't cleared yet! ), and another foot-and-a-half coming by next Sunday, in four traunches.
February 2025
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02 ⛔ - 03 ⛔ - 04 1️⃣ - 05 1️⃣ - 06 🔰 - 07 🔰 - 08 🔰
09 🔰 - 10 ❓ - 11 ❓ - 12 ❓ - 13 ❓ - 14 ❓ - 15 ❓
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Hello Tiny Habiters! I've been reading, but I haven't updated in a bit. Time to update. I'm still digital, even tho my plan is to move to analog, for most stuff. I was updatin my Goals and Unbreakable Vow Progress for the mid-term (first 4 weeks) of my Hogwarts 8-wk term challenge, and I thought it was past time I made an update. Me and my oars are still rowing along, but I don't really have them all in harmony yet. Def making progress tho! I felt good after going over my 4-wk goals progress in my Hogwarts tracker. I took some screenshots to share, tho I don't know how readable they'll be on phone screens ...
I gave myself beginner badges for my food log journaling, and tick marks for entries in my Word file digital journal (still digital, for now). Today's celebration was to sing "I am a champion" but it's late! I have the Karaoke YouTube and lyrics google tho, I will celebrate tmo ;-).
First 4wks Goals progress spreadsheet tracking. My 5 Main Goals are: Learn Turkish, Increase Greens and Freggies, Monthly Prolon 5-day FMD Fasts, Weight Loss, and Increasing Frequency and Variety of Exercise Workouts. This is my Summary/Assessment of my 1st 4 wks of Goals Progress:- Goals Progress Summary / Reflection
Thoughts? ~
• Goal #1 - Finish my DuoLingo Turkish Tree. ... Still have 6 units left in Level 3: Traveler; I spent all 4 weeks in Review Mode. Didn't break my streak tho! I kept up my practice, just didn't feel confident enough to push ahead. Sometimes I can't take on board any new verb tenses, and have to hold steady
• Goal #2 - Greens. ...Nailed it! But only barely. If I'd gone up to a Vow of 5 servings of green per week, I'd have missed. HOWEVER, I nailed 'Other Freggies', and did really well on 'Nuts, etc', too! Which might seem like no big deal, but before these challenges, I was as unlikely to eat any freg or nut as I was to eat a green freg ... except for beans. I always liked beans, and ate them whenever they were on offer
• Goal #3 - Fasting. ...Yup! Knocked that out Wk 1 💪. 5-day Prolon FMD.
• Goal #4 - Weight Loss. Nope! Didn't meet my goal of 1 lb per wk on average. Too many cookies! I did clock an avg loss of 0.55 lbs per week, but did not meet the 1 lb per week goal. The avg loss of 0.55 lbs/wk, tho, did beat my old goal of a half pound/wk weigh loss (from before I backslid after Mom sickness & knee injury, and gained it all back ... )
• Goal #5 - Exercise. ...I for sure made big strides of progress in this area, I just haven't updated the individual goals here yet, or started my individual focus exercise journals, or checked in on / updated my Conqueror Virtual Challenges yet (other than the leader-led Roman Empire: Caesars & Emperors, 51mi, which I used my Fitbit Daily Steps for, and finished). Some of my Fitbit workouts and activity gets automatically logged to some of my Conqueror Virtual Challenges, but not all of them. I have to update several of them, just haven't sorted it yet.
• Summary/Overall - Some progress, but not really rowing all oars in harmony yet. Working on it!
Here are some screenshots of my tracking:
First 4wks 'Unbreakable Vow' spreadsheet tracking. The 'Unbreakable Vow' comes from the Harry Potter books, and is one of the challenges in the Hogwarts Terms. They are 4-wk vows, one for the first 4 wks, and one for the 2nd four weeks. I've used my Unbreakable Vow Challenges to re-inforce my Goal #2 (Increase Greens and Freggies intake) for the last few terms. This is a serious problem area for me, b/c I would happily never eat another damn freggie ever again, if I wasn't intentional about it 😆.
These are screenshots from my spreadsheet tracker. I was successful in my 'Unbreakable Vow' for the first half of Term 53/Hogwarts:
And here is a screenshot from my Freggies spreadsheet tracker. I was successful in my 'Unbreakable Vow' for the first half of Term 53/Hogwarts (focusing on the Green Freggies). I also did Extremely Well in 'Other Freggies', and Very Well in 'Nuts, Etc', which, once again, may be misleading in giving the impression these are not an issue for me - they are ;-). I'm just apparently far more resistant to adding any Green Freggies into my diet, than I am to adding any other color Freggies, or Nuts, etc, into my diet 😊:
M: 02 - 10 - 25 - Celebration #3 *clap your hands 👏
T: 02 - 11 - 25 - 🔰, 'Beginner' badge - food log journaled!
W: 02 - 12 - 25 - 🔰, 'Beginner' badge - food log journaled!
R: 02 - 13 - 25 - 🔰, 'Beginner' badge - food log journaled!
F: 02 - 14 - 25 - 🔰, 'Beginner' badge - food log journaled!
S: 02 - 15 - 25 - 🔰, 'Beginner' badge - food log journaled!
S: 02 - 16 - 25 - 🔰, 'Beginner' badge - food log journaled!
M: 02 - 17 - 25 - 🔰, 'Beginner' badge - food log journaled!
T: 02 - 18 - 25 - Celebration #4 Sing "I am the champion" - okay, saving this for tomorrow, b/c it's midnight now 😶😄🎤🎶
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Sun - Mon - Tue - Wed - Thu - Fri - Sat
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02 ⛔ - 03 ⛔ - 04 1️⃣ - 05 1️⃣ - 06 🔰 - 07 🔰 - 08 🔰
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02 - 09 - 25 - 🔰, No Tiny Celebration today. I thought about stretching my definition of 'journaling' to include food log journaling, but, tho it is journaling, and it does take intention, and introspection, it's not really what I am planning for the year. I don't know if I'll food journal the whole year, and the other kind, it is my intention to develop as an ongoing habit. So ... I gave myself a 'beginner' badge 🔰 for the days I did food log journal, but didn't journal-journal (either digital, or analog) one of my 'focus oars' for the year .
February 2025
Sun - Mon - Tue - Wed - Thu - Fri - Sat
•• ➖ - •• ➖ - •• ➖ - •• ➖ - •• ➖ - •• ➖ - 01 ⛔
02 ⛔ - 03 ⛔ - 04 1️⃣ - 05 1️⃣ - 06 🔰 - 07 🔰 - 08 🔰
09 🔰 - 10 1️⃣ - 11 🔰 - 12 🔰 - 13 🔰 - 14 🔰 - 15 🔰
16 🔰 - 17 🔰 - 18 1️⃣ - 19 ❓ - 20 ❓ - 21 ❓ - 22 ❓
23 ❓ - 24 ❓ - 25 ❓ - 26 ❓ - 27 ❓ - 28 ❓ - •• ➖
My Celebrations ~
T: 02 - 04 - 25 - Celebration #1 *fist bump!* 👊
W: 02 - 05 - 25 - Celebration #2 *say yipee!* 🙌
R: 02 - 06 - 25 - 🔰, 'Beginner' badge - food log journaled!
F: 02 - 07 - 25 - 🔰, 'Beginner' badge - food log journaled!
S: 02 - 08 - 25 - 🔰, 'Beginner' badge - food log journaled!
S: 02 - 09 - 25 - 🔰, No Tiny Celebration today. I thought about stretching my definition of 'journaling' to include food log journaling, but, tho it is journaling, and it does take intention, and introspection, it's not really what I am planning for the year. I don't know if I'll food journal the whole year, and the other kind, it is my intention to develop as an ongoing habit. So ... I gave myself a 'beginner' badge 🔰 for the days I did food log journal, but didn't journal-journal (either digital, or analog) one of my 'focus oars' for the year .
M: 02 - 10 - 25 - Celebration #3 *clap your hands 👏
T: 02 - 11 - 25 - 🔰, 'Beginner' badge - food log journaled!
W: 02 - 12 - 25 - 🔰, 'Beginner' badge - food log journaled!
R: 02 - 13 - 25 - 🔰, 'Beginner' badge - food log journaled!
F: 02 - 14 - 25 - 🔰, 'Beginner' badge - food log journaled!
S: 02 - 15 - 25 - 🔰, 'Beginner' badge - food log journaled!
S: 02 - 16 - 25 - 🔰, 'Beginner' badge - food log journaled!
M: 02 - 17 - 25 - 🔰, 'Beginner' badge - food log journaled!
T: 02 - 18 - 25 - Celebration #4 Sing "I am the champion" - okay, saving this for tomorrow, b/c it's midnight now 😶😄🎤🎶
Tes' Tiny Celebrations Poster ~
Tes's Tiny Celebrations Poster
My Plan ~
Hello February! It’s a new month to keep the momentum of the new year going. Maybe your momentum needs a push to get it going - that’s okay, here’s that restart button. Let’s start an avalanche of amazing achievements this month!
If you're new here, welcome to our group! Share with us your goals for February and how we can help you achieve them. Pro tip: set regular reminders to check in with us – be it daily, weekly, or whatever suits your schedule. We’re here to cheer you on every step of the way!
For those who have just joined, there's no better time to start than now. Why wait? Jump in now and you'll be well on your way to meeting your health goals when spring finally gets here. Need some inspiration? Our list of past challenges might spark some ideas.
So, what are your priorities for February? Try framing your goals along these lines:
1. My goal for this month (This February I will...)
2. The small, actionable steps I plan to take towards this goal
3. My reminder or cue to keep up with my habit
5. My reward for maintaining the habit (anything from a self-compliment to a mark on the calendar)
6. How can we support you?
7. What will success look like at the end of February?
Let's make February a month of fabulous, fierce personal growth!
New to Habit Building?
Please review our Newcomer’s Guide and our Nuts and Bolts of Habit Building as it will help you get started.
I have been mulling this over each day, when I come in here. I've put a lot of oars in the water (continuing my oars metaphor, heh), and I've ordered a bunch of journals, each of my new journals to focus on each one of my oars, to keep all my oars all moving together towards our goals (me and the oars, we're a pack, lol), so ... which 'tiny habit' to focus on?! *think ponder mull*
I have decided - my tiny habit will be journaling. In any one of them. They're all undated, I didn't want to (have a bunch of blank pages !), so filling them up will only be traveling on each of their paths. I don't intend to journal everybody every day. So ... everybody has arrived, last team member trickled in last night
... but I haven't written in anybody yet. Only have used an electronic journal that I started with a copy/paste from a Terri Richardson post , and I haven't used that since before our mini spa getaway Jan 6 - Jan 28. Journaling it is! My tiny habit for February (and probably several mos after) will be journaling. I've been 'journal-curious' for several years now, but haven't started.- 1. My goal for this month (This February I will...) ... journal.
- 2. The small, actionable steps I plan to take towards this goal ... will be to open one of my focus journals each day.
- 3. My reminder or cue to keep up with my habit ... will be this group!
- 5. My reward for maintaining the habit (anything from a self-compliment to a mark on the calendar) ... following Tes's Tiny Celebrations list 🥳 .
- 6. How can we support you? ... by being here (love that this group exists!) 💜.
- 7. What will success look like at the end of February? ... movement in my journals .
1 - Goals Progress Summary / Reflection
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@mkksemail , good to see you. I hope you’ve been able to open one of those journals.
@BodyTalking , hooray for 9 days of meal planning/prep! And only 4 days of winging it.
@takinitalloff , I’m so glad the breathing exercises are helping in a stressful month! That’s wonderful! When I do a breathing session, I notice a real difference. I’ll try it at bedtime.
@TerriRichardson112 inspired by your yoga goal, I’ve tried yoga in the morning while my daughter takes the puppy out for a walk - wow, it makes me feel so much better!
@Interbeing , I’m hoping all this fiber and the plant-based foods it represents will improve my LDL numbers, but I won’t have another check until November, so I’ll have to really keep it up long term.*******
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February 1 - 41 grams of fiber! Celebration #100 - “I’m a Rock Star!” ⭐️
February 2 - 37 grams or fiber! I might get a bit more since there's still room for a snack in my day. Celebration #99 - Raising the roof My fiber hero this morning was oatmeal with flax and chia seeds.
February 3 - 38 grams of fiber! Celebration #1 Fist pump!
February 4 - 36 grams of fiber! To celebrate, I sang “Day by Day.” Fiber hero - sweet potato
February 5 - 34 grams of fiber! I had a cracker attack and so I had to shuffle my planned meals around in order to stay under calories. Crackers = zero fiber and lot of calories. If I had snacked on nuts, that would have been better. Celebration- huge sigh of relief that I managed it.
February 6- 35 grams of fiber! Celebration #48 - yay me!
One week done!
February 7 - 37 grams fiber! Celebration #14 I thought « that was awesome!
February 8 - 36 grams fiber! Celebration #50 - nailed it!
February 9 - 41 grams fiber! Celebration.#68 Arms up in a V for victory!
February 10 - 44 grams fiber ! Celebration #8 Woohoo! Fiber hero 🦸 today was Stir Fry Chicken Bok Choy. 🥬
February 11 - 42 grams fiber! Celebration # 90 - Hugged myself! 🤗
February 12 - 41 grams fiber! Celebration #83 - blew a kiss to myself. 😘
February 13 - 42 grams fiber! I actually chamomile menu plan to get more fiber. Celebration #64 - I snapped my fingers 🫰
Two Weeks Done
February 14 - 42 grams fiber! I found chia seeds are really good in yogurt! 😋. Celebration #53 felt happy and kissed my husband. 💋
February 15 - Whoo Hoo! 47 grams fiber!! Celebration # 46 - you better believe I did a Victory Dance!
February 16 - 45 grams fiber! Celebration #55 - fist 🤛 pump and awesome!
February 17 - 52 grams fiber! Celebration #46 - Victory dance! 💃
February 18 - 49 grams fiber! It was a very hectic day, so I blew out a big sigh in celebration. I tried a new recipe: Chicken corn chowder made with almond milk instead of cream. More fiber, less fat.
https://healthyfitnessmeals.com/chicken-corn-chowder/
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@mkksemail you have been doing so great!
On all fronts! I love your spreadsheets - very impressive! I’m singing “you are the champion of the world! “
And you’re learning Turkish! Wow! I love Duolingo.2 -
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February 1 - 41 grams of fiber! Celebration #100 - “I’m a Rock Star!” ⭐️
February 2 - 37 grams or fiber! I might get a bit more since there's still room for a snack in my day. Celebration #99 - Raising the roof My fiber hero this morning was oatmeal with flax and chia seeds.
February 3 - 38 grams of fiber! Celebration #1 Fist pump!
February 4 - 36 grams of fiber! To celebrate, I sang “Day by Day.” Fiber hero - sweet potato
February 5 - 34 grams of fiber! I had a cracker attack and so I had to shuffle my planned meals around in order to stay under calories. Crackers = zero fiber and lot of calories. If I had snacked on nuts, that would have been better. Celebration- huge sigh of relief that I managed it.
February 6- 35 grams of fiber! Celebration #48 - yay me!
One week done!
February 7 - 37 grams fiber! Celebration #14 I thought « that was awesome!
February 8 - 36 grams fiber! Celebration #50 - nailed it!
February 9 - 41 grams fiber! Celebration.#68 Arms up in a V for victory!
February 10 - 44 grams fiber ! Celebration #8 Woohoo! Fiber hero 🦸 today was Stir Fry Chicken Bok Choy. 🥬
February 11 - 42 grams fiber! Celebration # 90 - Hugged myself! 🤗
February 12 - 41 grams fiber! Celebration #83 - blew a kiss to myself. 😘
February 13 - 42 grams fiber! I actually chamomile menu plan to get more fiber. Celebration #64 - I snapped my fingers 🫰
Two Weeks Done
February 14 - 42 grams fiber! I found chia seeds are really good in yogurt! 😋. Celebration #53 felt happy and kissed my husband. 💋
February 15 - Whoo Hoo! 47 grams fiber!! Celebration # 46 - you better believe I did a Victory Dance!
February 16 - 45 grams fiber! Celebration #55 - fist 🤛 pump and awesome!
February 17 - 52 grams fiber! Celebration #46 - Victory dance! 💃
February 18 - 49 grams fiber! It was a very hectic day, so I blew out a big sigh in celebration. I tried a new recipe: Chicken corn chowder made with almond milk instead of cream. More fiber, less fat.
https://healthyfitnessmeals.com/chicken-corn-chowder/
February 19 - 54 grams fiber! Whoopee!! It’s getting easier! Celebration #34 “That’s the way I like it!
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(I have your corn chowder w/ almond milk recipe on my bucket list
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@mkksemail Well, yes. ☺️🤣That’s one of my goals, but didn’t include it fearing it might be TMI.TY, @77tes! You guys inspire me every day, as I read along Xx
And, wowwww - 54 grams of fiber! You ARE a rock star! Are you bathroom habits changing?
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🏃♀️💃 February 2025💃🏃♀️
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Weight StatsSW: 227 lbs
UGW: 140 lbs
Aug 2017: Started maintaining < 155 lbs
Continued to drop slowly
Nov 2019: Final maintenance range 130 < 140
🔹2025 Focus:
My aim is to maintain health and fitness by developing/consolidating supportive Solid Habits. Trying to keep joints as flexible as possible as wear and tear takes its toll.
🔹Consolidation of habits Focus:
I am doing > 10 minutes Yoga > 3 times per week
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🔹Maintenance 130 < 140
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👌👌👌👌👌👌- Terri, in Northern Ireland: age 78
- 5’2”
- Working on strength/stamina/flexibility
- All my stats are in the normal range for my age/height.
- Weight < 140
- Fat% < 22%
- Muscle% > 27%
- CI < CO
- Steps > 5,500
- Intentional exercise > 50 mins daily
- Active hours > 6 daily
Daily Solid Habits I like to frame my aims in positive terms.Food
🔹log All food and drink; stay under goal; balance macros/micros; Hydrate adequately; limit ‘empty’ snacks
Exercise:
🔹5,500+ Steps daily
🔹50 + minutes intentional exercise
Mind/Body/Soul/Spirit
🔹Daily Mindfulness Practice/Meditation
🔹Practice Self-care
🔹Positively reframe thoughts
🔹Learn something new
🔹Communicate
🔹Create/adapt positive habits
🔹Puzzles/Art/Craft/Write/Read
🔹15 mins Daily Declutter session
THERE ARE NO QUICK FIXES OR SHORTCUTS to achieving permanent change.
REMINDERS One or two thoughts which might give heart to some of you.Stick with the process. It DOES work! But it does take time, effort, and most of all, patience!- Daily weight fluctuations are normal, and can be more than
2 lbs a day for no apparent reason. - A general downward trend is what we are looking for.
- Eating out can cause apparent weight gain because of high sodium levels, but usually goes quickly. Drinking extra water helps with this.
- The human body does not react instantly to what we do to it. Sometimes it can take several days to see results.
- Plateaus are a normal part of the process. The body is consolidating and adapting to your new way of eating/exercising.
- The closer you get to your goal weight, the more difficult it becomes to lose weight, as your body becomes more efficient at using what you feed it.
- When you exercise you build muscle, which takes up less space than fat, so use measurements as well as weight to assess your progress.
- Getting/Staying fit and healthy requires a lifestyle change for most people.
Terri 🏃🏼♀️
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Today I got my workout done before work, but only because I worked from home. 😂
❄️ Snow day! ❄️
Feb 17
Rings: 3/3
Upper body/Abs - 30 min
Feb 18
Rings: 1/3
Feb 19
Rings: 1/3
Feb 20
Rings: 3/3
Full body circuit - 60 min
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@mkksemail You definitely have a lot of oars in the water. Great job!
@77tes Wow! Those are some impressive fiber #s! 👏🏻👏🏻
@TerriRichardson112 You’re on a roll! Namaste. The last time I did yoga I didn’t wait long enough after I ate. 🤢
@Interbeing Congratulations! Very inspiring!
@takinitalloff Excellent job focusing on your breathing exercises, especially during stressful times.
@BodyTalking Meal planning can be daunting. I bought a whole chicken on Wednesday (it was on sale) so my meal plan for the rest of the week is chicken and whatever I find in the pantry and fridge, then I’ll make soup with the leftovers. You’re doing well, keep it up.
It’s been a Fabulous February so far!
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@TerriRichardson112 - good job getting in the yoga. Kudos on maintenance. You are inspiring me!
@hcoleman232 , good job getting in those workouts! I can imagine that a snow day might inspire a lackadaisical attitude. So extra points! 🙌👏*******
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February 1 - 41 grams of fiber! Celebration #100 - “I’m a Rock Star!” ⭐️
February 2 - 37 grams or fiber! I might get a bit more since there's still room for a snack in my day. Celebration #99 - Raising the roof My fiber hero this morning was oatmeal with flax and chia seeds.
February 3 - 38 grams of fiber! Celebration #1 Fist pump!
February 4 - 36 grams of fiber! To celebrate, I sang “Day by Day.” Fiber hero - sweet potato
February 5 - 34 grams of fiber! I had a cracker attack and so I had to shuffle my planned meals around in order to stay under calories. Crackers = zero fiber and lot of calories. If I had snacked on nuts, that would have been better. Celebration- huge sigh of relief that I managed it.
February 6- 35 grams of fiber! Celebration #48 - yay me!
One week done!
February 7 - 37 grams fiber! Celebration #14 I thought « that was awesome!
February 8 - 36 grams fiber! Celebration #50 - nailed it!
February 9 - 41 grams fiber! Celebration.#68 Arms up in a V for victory!
February 10 - 44 grams fiber ! Celebration #8 Woohoo! Fiber hero 🦸 today was Stir Fry Chicken Bok Choy. 🥬
February 11 - 42 grams fiber! Celebration # 90 - Hugged myself! 🤗
February 12 - 41 grams fiber! Celebration #83 - blew a kiss to myself. 😘
February 13 - 42 grams fiber! I actually chamomile menu plan to get more fiber. Celebration #64 - I snapped my fingers 🫰
Two Weeks Done
February 14 - 42 grams fiber! I found chia seeds are really good in yogurt! 😋. Celebration #53 felt happy and kissed my husband. 💋
February 15 - Whoo Hoo! 47 grams fiber!! Celebration # 46 - you better believe I did a Victory Dance!
February 16 - 45 grams fiber! Celebration #55 - fist 🤛 pump and awesome!
February 17 - 52 grams fiber! Celebration #46 - Victory dance! 💃
February 18 - 49 grams fiber! It was a very hectic day, so I blew out a big sigh in celebration. I tried a new recipe: Chicken corn chowder made with almond milk instead of cream. More fiber, less fat.
https://healthyfitnessmeals.com/chicken-corn-chowder/
February 19 - 54 grams fiber! Whoopee!! It’s getting easier! Celebration #34 “That’s the way I like it!
February 20 - 50 grams fiber! Celebration #48 - Yay Me!
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Wow, time flies. *poof* 3 weeks already!
This past week I was lazy closing my rings. With the snow and colder temps I didn’t walk after work. I did increase my water, but only slightly. Back to focusing on closing all 3 rings!!
Feb 21
Rings: 1/3
Week in review
3 strength training workouts
3 Rings: 4/7
Challenge winner 🏆 🎉 💪🏻
This week I noticed a few old habits surface. Nothing major, but I’m mindful to them. Perhaps the focus needs to shift to why.0 -
I have had a good week spent a lot of time outside in the snow. Even managed a short lunch time walk this week maybe more next week as weather to warm up.
Need to add up my mileage for the annual 100 mile winter challenge that’s is done in our area anything you can count miles on counts will let you know if I make it it ends 3/20 the first day of spring 🌷0
