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Greaterthanlife daily logging food for the day

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  • Greaterthanlife
    Greaterthanlife Posts: 128 Member
    edited December 2024
    Hello everyone:

    I hope all went well for Thanksgiving. I observed that many of you have your goals and either maintained or gave away weight during November. My food as follows:

    Steamed mixed vegetables
    Ground turkey
    Soy and sweet and sour sauce
    Cauliflower cheese pizza
    Cliff bar
    Sugar free yogurts
    Sugar free jello parfaits
    Candy cane

    Total calories 2160. Base calories 2140. Tomorrow I hope to meet base. See you then.
  • Greaterthanlife
    Greaterthanlife Posts: 128 Member
    edited December 2024
    Hello everyone:

    My food as follows:

    Steamed vegetables
    Tilapia
    Chicken tenderloins
    Lunchables
    Sugar free yogurts
    Biscotti
    Starbucks mocha drink
    Grain fruit bar

    Total calories 1750. Base calories 2140. I wish everyone a good night.
  • Greaterthanlife
    Greaterthanlife Posts: 128 Member
    edited December 2024
    Hello everyone:

    This is in reply to kicking me off this site.
    First and foremost I am not an intruder. I am doing this for my health. I happen to be logging in my calories. If that's not goal according to definition, it does show action in favor of progress. I strongly believe that favor opposes offense. In addition, this happens to be "post a comment". You can always overlook commentary should it not be offensive.

    My food as follows:

    Santa Fe salad
    Veggie trays with turkey and cheese
    Quiche Lorraine
    Biscotti
    Sugar free yogurts
    Essentia beverage


    Total calories 2120. Base calories 2140.
    All is well and good night.











  • Greaterthanlife
    Greaterthanlife Posts: 128 Member
    edited December 2024
    Hello everyone:

    My food as follows:

    Ground turkey
    Steamed vegetables
    Lunchables
    Light yoplait yogurts
    Gummies

    Total calories 2200. Base calories 2140. I went over 60 calories so I will do better tomorrow. My goal is to maintain my base calories and I get a lot of support from many of you. Self evaluation determines looking at the pros and cons of ones own life. If there is a problem then this site encourages change.
  • Greaterthanlife
    Greaterthanlife Posts: 128 Member
    edited December 2024
    Hello everyone:

    I hope all is well. About myself, I post my calories daily for maintenance and support. Lately I have been posting my calorie log at the forum "...mini goals for the day..." I have been getting nothing but support from Mikey and others from this forum. I will post my calories tomorrow since I already posted today's in the other forum. Good day to you all and Happy Holidays.
  • Greaterthanlife
    Greaterthanlife Posts: 128 Member
    edited December 2024
    Hello everyone:

    My food as follows:

    Veggie tray
    Ground turkey
    Steamed vegetables
    Protein bars

    Total calories 2130. Base calories 2140.
  • Greaterthanlife
    Greaterthanlife Posts: 128 Member
    edited December 2024
    Hello everyone:

    Thanks for all the wonderful support. My food as follows:

    Veggie tray with ranch dressing
    Steamed vegetables
    Jennie o ground turkey
    Vanilla protein bars

    Total calories 2130. Base calories 2140.

    It is true logging in calories is not the easiest thing; however, neither was the pandemic. This was not really a choice but I am pleased at the length of streak with this app. I hope this continues for myself and everyone that is going through this situation.
  • Greaterthanlife
    Greaterthanlife Posts: 128 Member
    edited December 2024
    Hello everyone:

    I am so glad to be in this room. All of you seem to connect so well. My food as follows:

    Pad Thai veggies
    Supreme pizza
    Key lime pie.

    Total calories 2440. Base calories 2140. I went over 300 calories from Base. Tomorrow let me do this again. By the way, I will be in this room for the holidays. On Thanksgiving I was in another room and I maintained. I get really good vibes in this room so let's make a go of it for December.
    Hasta manana.

  • Greaterthanlife
    Greaterthanlife Posts: 128 Member
    edited December 2024
    Hello everyone:

    Another day of maximum integrity.

    My food as follows:

    Asian salad
    Cheese pizza
    Salmon
    Mini Snicker bar

    Total calories 2300. Base 2140. I went over 160 calories from Base. No explanations, tomorrow again for base.

    Mikey, it's all in the wrist. See you tomorrow with improvement.
  • Greaterthanlife
    Greaterthanlife Posts: 128 Member
    edited December 2024
    Hello everyone:

    My food as follows:

    Mixed vegetables
    Supreme pizza
    Sugar free yogurt
    Jello

    Total calories 1850. Base calories 2140. I am glad I made base today. This was a forceful choice for me since I was off base for two days. Through my spirit I can only hope for similar results tomorrow. Be well all with insightful thoughts and actions.
  • Greaterthanlife
    Greaterthanlife Posts: 128 Member
    edited December 2024
    Hello everyone:

    My food as follows:

    Apple walnut salads with chicken
    Lunchables
    Sugar free yogurts
    Mini Snicker
    Holiday Oreos

    Total calories 1700. Base calories 2140. Today thank goodness more on track. I really wanted to make up for two days. @Mikey the jello is 60 calories. It is a mixture of lime, vanilla, and
    cherry. I will tell you the brand tomorrow in case you want to know.
  • trixsterjl31
    trixsterjl31 Posts: 210 Member
    Back from a 5 week vacation. Got married in the Philippines. Good times. Current 316 left at 312. I think that is outstanding if the scale stays close to that over the next few days.

    Goal. Get below 312 in the next few weeks and keep on trucking.
  • mkksemail
    mkksemail Posts: 2,509 Member
    Hey guys, what happened to the whole rest of this thread!?

    I was just making an update in another group, and I thought it would fit @mikeyrowlands thread, too, but wow, what was a 10-12 page thread is now only 4 pages! Hope it's just a glitch!

    Anyway .....
  • mkksemail
    mkksemail Posts: 2,509 Member
    Here's my update from another thread. I am working on my goals, even if I don't always post up accountability in here! :smiley:
    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!


    77tes wrote: »
    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.

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    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 :p. 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! :p), and another foot-and-a-half coming by next Sunday, in four traunches.

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    February 2025

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    02 ⛔ - 03 ⛔ - 04 1️⃣ - 05 1️⃣ - 06 🔰 - 07 🔰 - 08 🔰

    09 🔰 - 10 ❓ - 11 ❓ - 12 ❓ - 13 ❓ - 14 ❓ - 15 ❓

    16 ❓ - 17 ❓ - 18 ❓ - 19 ❓ - 20 ❓ - 21 ❓ - 22 ❓

    23 ❓ - 24 ❓ - 25 ❓ - 26 ❓ - 27 ❓ - 28 ❓ - •• ➖

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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:

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    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:

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    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 😊:

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    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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    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 ❓ - •• ➖

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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 :).

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    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 ❓ - •• ➖

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    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 😶😄🎤🎶



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    Tes' Tiny Celebrations Poster ~


    Tes's Tiny Celebrations Poster

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    My Plan ~
    77tes wrote: »
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    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.

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    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 :D ... 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 :).

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  • mkksemail
    mkksemail Posts: 2,509 Member
    mkksemail wrote: »
    Here's my update from another thread. I am working on my goals, even if I don't always post up accountability in here! :smiley:
    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!


    77tes wrote: »
    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.

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    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 :p. 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! :p), and another foot-and-a-half coming by next Sunday, in four traunches.

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    February 2025

    Sun - Mon - Tue - Wed - Thu - Fri - Sat

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    02 ⛔ - 03 ⛔ - 04 1️⃣ - 05 1️⃣ - 06 🔰 - 07 🔰 - 08 🔰

    09 🔰 - 10 ❓ - 11 ❓ - 12 ❓ - 13 ❓ - 14 ❓ - 15 ❓

    16 ❓ - 17 ❓ - 18 ❓ - 19 ❓ - 20 ❓ - 21 ❓ - 22 ❓

    23 ❓ - 24 ❓ - 25 ❓ - 26 ❓ - 27 ❓ - 28 ❓ - •• ➖

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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:

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    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:

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    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 😊:

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    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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    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 ❓ - •• ➖

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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 :).

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    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 ❓ - •• ➖

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    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 😶😄🎤🎶



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    Tes' Tiny Celebrations Poster ~


    Tes's Tiny Celebrations Poster

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    My Plan ~
    77tes wrote: »
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    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.

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    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 :D ... 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 :).

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    Weird. Is this an alternate universe thread? 🤣

    I just copy/pasted a quote from here, to the full 12-page thread - here it is:


    mkksemail wrote: »
    There was something wonky on the boards (with this thread, specifically) last night. I was coming to share more of an update than I usually do, since I was updating a goals tracker in another thread. There were only 4 pages of posts here!

    I made the post, but don't see it now. I came back a couple times, one time the thread was back to its current 12 pages, the next time it was back down to 4 pages. I hit 'quote' on my post, and saved it in an open thread, b/c I didn't know where the post would be if the thread once again restored to usual (as it is now :p ).

    Anyway! Here's the post, going to click on the arrow once it posts, and see where the link leads. heh.


    Copy/paste:
    mkksemail wrote: »
    Here's my update from another thread. I am working on my goals, even if I don't always post up accountability in here! :smiley:
    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!


    77tes wrote: »
    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
    👩‍🍳

    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.

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    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 :p. 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! :p), and another foot-and-a-half coming by next Sunday, in four traunches.

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    February 2025

    Sun - Mon - Tue - Wed - Thu - Fri - Sat

    •• ➖ - •• ➖ - •• ➖ - •• ➖ - •• ➖ - •• ➖ - 01 ⛔

    02 ⛔ - 03 ⛔ - 04 1️⃣ - 05 1️⃣ - 06 🔰 - 07 🔰 - 08 🔰

    09 🔰 - 10 ❓ - 11 ❓ - 12 ❓ - 13 ❓ - 14 ❓ - 15 ❓

    16 ❓ - 17 ❓ - 18 ❓ - 19 ❓ - 20 ❓ - 21 ❓ - 22 ❓

    23 ❓ - 24 ❓ - 25 ❓ - 26 ❓ - 27 ❓ - 28 ❓ - •• ➖

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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:

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    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:

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    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 😊:

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    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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    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 ❓ - •• ➖

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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 :).

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    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 ❓ - •• ➖

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    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 😶😄🎤🎶



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    Tes' Tiny Celebrations Poster ~


    Tes's Tiny Celebrations Poster

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    My Plan ~
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    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.

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    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 :D ... 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 :).

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