Just for Today.... ONE DAY AT A TIME... Daily commitment for 2025

Starting over weight: 205.5

• April Goal:194
• April 27: 190.9

JFT Saturday

• Up with Food at 6:30 ❌
• Feed dogs✅
• Spin class✅
• Moms & Grocery✅
• Home for lunch ❌
• Mani/pedi ✅
• Lunch with hubby❌
• Log food✅
• Home✅
• Nap ✅
• Dinner in✅
• Stay green✅
• No alcohol❌
• Shower❌
• Bed by 10:00✅

Went to the movies yesterday afternoon. Ate waaaaay too much popcorn. Good thing I taught spin class.

This morning was church, in-laws, lunch and home. May try to get a bike ride in. Nice day, sunny and 60F.

JFT Sunday

• Up with pup 7:00 ✅
• Weigh in✅
• Church ✅
• In-laws✅
• Lunch out✅
• Home check on crock pot & dogs✅
• check in with MFP
• Log food
• Stay green
• Bike ride
• Nap
• Collect clothes for donation
• Dinner at home
• Walk dog
• Shower
• Bed by 11:00

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

Starting over weight: 205.5

• April Goal:194
• April 28: 190.2

JFT Sunday

• Up with pup 7:00 ✅
• Weigh in✅
• Church ✅
• In-laws✅
• Lunch out✅
• Home check on crock pot & dogs✅
• check in with MFP✔️
• Log food✔️
• Stay green✔️
• Bike ride✔️
• Nap✔️
• Collect clothes for donation❌
• Dinner at home✔️
• Walk dog✔️
• Shower❌
• Bed by 11:00✔️

Good day yesterday. Church, then in-laws, then lunch. Ordered a Caesar Salad with salmon for lunch, which was good, but ate more than one of the delicious rolls. Ate 3 at roughly 200 calories a piece that took a chunk of my calorie budget. Luckily I got a bike ride and a walk in. Also dinner kind of sucked, so my intake was low in the evening. Bike ride was ok, but I'm a little sore today. Walking the dog was good until my left glute started to cramp, lol. I made it home though.

Good day planned today. In to work early to approve time, then a group of us are using our company paid "Day of Giving" to volunteer at Kelly's Closet. It is a non-profit that allows kids who have been displaced from their homes to come shop for new/gently used clothes. Having known a couple of kids who were removed from their home with nothing except the dirty clothes they were wearing, I find this charity to be an excellent choice. I'll take the group of volunteers to lunch or order in, their call. Then we'll work until 3:00 or 4:00 and call it a day.

Plan is to get another ride in today before the weather turns bad. I'm a little sore so it may be a sad ride, lol.

JFT Monday

• Up with pups ✔️
• Weigh in✔️
• Work by 7:30✔️
• Approve time cards ✔️
• Check in with MFP ✔️
• Kelly's Closet by 9:00
• Lunch around noon
• Back to KC
• Mom's by 4:00
• Home by 4:30
• Let dogs out
• Go for bike ride or walk
• Dinner
• No alcohol
• Shower
• Bed

Hey there JFT peeps! Happy Monday! We have some potentially severe weather forecasted for today and tonight, so I guess Spring has finally arrived to Wisconsin. I guess I'm happy it's not a snow storm… he

@cschmitz110515 Love the pictures from the NFL Draft activities. Congrats on the 5k! That sounds fun. Do you know, I've still never been to the City Deck? I live a sheltered life. Ha! Hubby and I aren't very social these days I guess. It was busy in our neighborhood for those 3 days with parking and people walking, security patterns flown over the house all day, fireworks, and on the last day we could hear the Brad Paisley concern out on our deck so that part was kinda cool. I like Brad Paisley.

@Bex953172 Oh Bex, hon. I am so sorry to hear about Ash's mom! That had to be devastating for you guys. How is his dad holding up? He has to be heartbroken. I was rooting for her to rally and get better again. Effin' cancer… I'm not going to lie…it scares me that i am living with a stage 4 diagnosis and this is very possibly my future too. I wish I could give you a big hug…I'm sending you one from here and hope you can feel it, friend.

As far as motivation or determination goes, I agree with @HappyDonkey75 Motivation is hard to keep up. For myself, I have to get up every single morning and come up with my "Why's" to keep trying…of course, now that the cancer returned my #1 why is usually health. But there are so many others and I just look for what are my Why's today? Today they were health, strength to get up off floor myself, flexibility to get in and out of our fishing boat and my son's pool this summer, looser summer clothes around my middle, and I want to be able to wear my wedding ring again. It's been since 2012 since I have been able to wear it, and I'm soooo close right now! Every day, health and strength are at the top of my list, but I also want less knee pain, better defined cheekbones, etc. You get the idea. And what has been helping me keep the weight off that I have lost so far is making small lifestyle changes….I make sure i drink 64 oz of water; I've added more salads and vegs; I try to catch myself when I'm mindlessly grabbing a snack…am I really hungry or am I bored or stressed? I tend to stress eat a lot. When I'm eating dinner, am I still hungry or have I had enough? Am I eating because I'm hungry or does it just taste good and I don't want to throw it away?

I get a lot of stuff from listening to the No BS Women podcast and the Half Sized Me podcast. No BS Women is the old Phit N Phat (PNP)…just renamed it. Both of these have some really good insights.

Sorry for the novel. It was good for me to type that out to remind myself what I need to do and keep in mind I guess.

@pridesabtch Congrats on the weight loss! You're doing great! WOOT WOOT!!! 😎💥

Just For Monday:

1. 24H Plan & Assess ✔️
2. 64 oz water
3. Walk Maddie. If it storms, then do some form of exercise downstairs…Walking video, Yoga video, Wii Fit, maybe go to the Y? 60 minutes of intentional activity. Close rings on watch.
4. 5 Things Declutter: Upstairs, downstairs and digitally
5. Bills / Paperwork / Budget / Shred paper
6. Home Care: Bathroom today?
7. Self Care: 30 minutes. Pick something
8. Bedtime routine. Start 30 minutes prior to bed.

JFT, Monday

• Up by 5am ✔️ I shocked myself since I didn't go to bed until 11:45
• Devotions/Bible study at home ✔️
• Bus by 7:10am ❌ I had to wash my hair as I didn't last night.
• Hydrate! ❌
• Log food ✔️
• Eat well balance meals to stay within 50 calories of goal ❌
• Stay calm/stress free at work ✔️
• Gift purchase and post office on lunch break ✔️
• Run when I get home ❌
• Stay off all forms of social media, TV and news platforms ❌ I briefly went on Facebook and logged off at the first negative political post
• Work on JOY Club Craft for May 9 ❌ I was lazy
• Practice piano ❌ I was lazy
• In bed by 10pm ✔️

JFT, Tuesday

• Up by 5am
• Devotions/Bible study at home
• Bus by 7:10am
• Hydrate!
• Log food
• Eat well balanced meals to stay within 50 calories of my goal
• Stay calm/stress free at work
• Run on my lunch break
• Work on JOY Club craft for May 9
• Watch Quiet the Noisy Soul
• Practice, practice, practice piano
• In bed by 10pm

Starting over weight: 205.5

• April Goal:194
• April 29: 190.2

JFT Monday

• Up with pups ✔️
• Weigh in✔️
• Work by 7:30✔️
• Approve time cards ✔️
• Check in with MFP ✔️
• Kelly's Closet by 9:00✔️
• Lunch around noon✔️
• Back to KC❌ we finished up by lunch
• Mom's by 4:00✔️
• Home by 4:30✔️
• Let dogs out✔️
• Go for bike ride or walk✔️
• Dinner✔️
• No alcohol✔️
• Shower✔️
• Bed✔️

Yesterday was a good day emotionally, and an okay day health wise. Me and 9 of my employees volunteered at a local charity, then went out for lunch. I had pizza for lunch (3 slices) and leftover pizza for dinner (1 slice) and like 3 Rice Krispie treats followed by 2 handfuls of M&M's. Luckily I got an hour bike ride and a 20 minute dog walk in. Ride was only about 350 calories, didn't count walk because it was very low key. Though I was under calories yesterday, I was surprised (pleasantly) that my weight did not go up this morning.

Didn't sleep worth a darn last night. Restless Leg Syndrome was out of control. I slept from 1:30 - 3:00, then from 4:00-5:20 when the pooch woke up. Rocking a stellar headache due to that.

Plan for tonight is to deliver smokes to mom, pick up Merlin from Day Care, and then go to music bingo this evening. Assuming the weather report is correct and it rains. If it doesn't rain, I may try and squeeze in a walk also. Tonight and tomorrow are the 2 nights a week I allow myself to have a few adult beverages, but I now limit it to 300 calories. I can modify my day to account for that. Only downer is that they changed the salad dressing at the restaurant where we play bingo. Now I don't care for their salad. Bummer really.

JFT Tuesday

• Weigh in✔️
• Work by 7:30✔️
• Global Safety Meeting✔️
• Check in with MFP✔️
• Transfer pictures from yesterday to computer so I can get them printed
• Pay kennel for boarding
• Contact YMCA to cancel classed for the next 3 Saturdays
• More meetings
• Lunch
• Mom's by 4:30
• Pick up Merlin by 5:00
• Feed dogs
• Bingo
• Limit 300cals of alcohol
• Home by 9:30
• Shower
• Bed by 11:00

@PackerFanInGB Glad I don't live closer to the stadium district but would've enjoyed the draft activity going on (I think). I could see the plane banners flying over from City Deck. Everyone was so friendly during the 5K and market, more than usual, I think just the whole atmosphere during the draft. When I drove past NWTC on the weekend, I noticed their parking lots were blocked except one section, and a dozen school buses were lined up. Saw a sign that parking was for NFL draft staff, which we weren't aware of at first.

I didn't log in yesterday because I'd forgotten about a lunch planned months ago with former Internal Audit mgmt team from my "career" job. Food log would've been a guess, then I ate more Easter candy (at least there is much less LOL) & salted peanuts, followed by pasta for supper. I need to get back under control eating wise. But tomorrow, I take out my friend TH for her bday, and not sure what that will entail (her choice, and she's vegetarian). I've not been walking dog lately, with weather & schedule. Plus I'm not doing any meal planning or decent cooking. I will try to get back to "normal" soon.

JFT 4/29 T ~ Strong winds this morning, hope they die down as forecast. Last night, hubby took doggo to basement during thunderstorms & gusty winds that frightened her.

• Supper? / limit snacks & candy / 80 oz. water / log all food / net calories zero
• OT exercises / walk dog (after hubby returns with her from driving SIL to meet her new someone)
• Refill both birdbaths / water houseplants / run final print (hopefully) after power cleaning of nozzle heads / renew prof org membership (retired status) online (need to maintain for life ins policy) / schedule HD cc pmt / balance bank accts / update budget s/s / update JFT 2025 goals (in Word) / read / digital declutter / other?

WOTY 2025:  Judicious ~ I just like the way the word sounds, and the meaning is right for me: having or showing reason and good judgement in making decisions. I can apply this word in so many ways!

A mid day ramble

Woke up to escaped horses. They had quite a time overnight. I am just glad they stuck around and didn't head into the state land nearby only to be maybe never seen again. We are backup to hundreds of acres of forest. Thankfully no one was injured and I am not sure how because one of them went over a 6 foot gate. Its completely bent and trashed. Not sure if something spooked them or what but it was out of character for sure.

One more day left in April

I started April 0.9 lbs away from my 165 goal that I have been chasing for some time now, and then I spiked to 169+. Its been a battle getting back down again. yesterday I was 169, today I am 167.8. And I have done this same thing all month with these big swings.. Its pretty hard to be focused on a goal only to feel like your slipping the wrong way or can't seem to nail down the reasons especially with those kind of ups and downs.

I tend to do better with more cardio mixed in , although all the guru's out there will tell you for women my age we are better to do strength training. I do both but was not doing challenging cardio more than 1x a week. The rest of the time it was 20 minutes or so just to warm up for weights. Yesterday I did a big cardio session and today I am down. Coincidence? probably not because I have seen this before. Sweating= water loss = loss of water weight.. atleast that is my theory.

So this week I have two days in of more strenuous cardio. We will see if it helps me push through this never ending stall (going on 3 months essentially)

Tonight I have my second of 3 private training sessions . We will hit lower body. I am a little nervous about it because my legs are my strong point but I hate the feeling of being sore in the quads and legs. I also don't want to flare up my knee.

JFT

Cardio
Hydrate
protein 130 g

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

Starting over weight: March 205.5

• April Goal:194
• April 30: 190.2

Met my goal for April total loss 15.3#

JFT Tuesday

• Weigh in✔️
• Work by 7:30✔️
• Global Safety Meeting✔️
• Check in with MFP✔️
• Transfer pictures from yesterday to computer so I can get them printed✔️
• Pay kennel for boarding❌
• Contact YMCA to cancel classed for the next 3 Saturdays✔️
• More meetings✔️
• Lunch✔️
• Mom's by 4:30➖5:00
• Pick up Merlin by 5:00 ➖5:30
• Feed dogs✔️
• Bingo✔️
• Limit 300cals of alcohol✔️
• Home by 9:30✔️
• Shower❌
• Bed by 11:00➖Went to be didn't sleep…

Yesterday was ok. Felt really productive at work, and the early evening was very busy. Got everything done, just a little later than planned in some cases. Weight held steady after a night out. Goal is for the same this evening. Tuesday and Wednesday are my evenings out. I'm not willing to give those up, but I can control my intake. Trying a new challenge thing on MFP stating next month. The Biggest Loser Challenge. I'm not sure if I'll like it. It is a 12 week commitment, which is fine as long as I don't get too caught up in the numbers. It's easy for me to get overly competitive and lose track of my balance.

Today I have a meeting from 9:00 am to 6:00pm. I think I'm going to call into it instead of going in person. If I go in person, I'll have to step out occasionally to take other meetings. Really not excited for this. After work, I was going to meet friends for a drink before trivia, but alas the 9hr meeting will prevent that.

Trivia night goal is max 3 adult drinks or 300 cals of drink, and eat half portion for dinner.

JFT Wednesday

• Weigh in ✔️
• Work by 7:30 ❌
• Check in with MFP✔️
• Choose a team for BLC✔️
• Long *kitten* meeting with little meetings in between
• Lunch in office, PB&J
• Carrot/celery snack ~2:00
• Leave work by 6:30
• Trivia
• Limit alcohol to 300 calories
• Home by 9:30
• Shower
• Bed

Recap 4/29 T ~ Strong winds this morning, hope they die down as forecast. Last night, hubby took doggo to basement during thunderstorms & gusty winds that frightened her.

• Supper? hubby wanted to go out (rare for him) & I was all in… I took him to a pizza place in operation 1 year younger than me, that he'd never been to but I had & we really enjoyed it ~ logged my best guess / limit snacks & candy ~ some Easter candy but less than lately / 80 oz. water ~ only 48? / log all food / net calories zero ~ nope 😫
• OT exercises 😀 3x / walk dog (after hubby returns with her from driving SIL to meet her new someone) 😣 I was just so lazy, even took a nap!
• Refill both birdbaths ~ even unplugged heated one since overnight s/b above freezing now / water houseplants / run final print (hopefully) after power cleaning of nozzle heads ~ yay printer back to normal / renew prof org membership (retired status) online (need to maintain for life ins policy) / schedule HD cc pmt / balance bank accts / update budget s/s / update JFT 2025 goals (in Word) / read / digital declutter / other? 😁 ta-da!

JFT 4/30 W ~ Wind no longer horrible, sun trying to shine through thin clouds

• Took TH out to lunch for her bday ~ had poke bowl with wild rice, broccoli, tomatoes, avocado & sauteed shrimp with sesame ginger sauce, very yummy / supper? / limit sweets & snacks / 80 oz. water / log all food (best guess) / net calories zero
• OT exercises / walk dog
• Put away all Easter dishes on dining room table into hutch / wash comforter & blanket (Kitty threw up hairball this a.m. & moved when hubby tried to grab her) / check public works update & status of yard waste pick-up schedule / meal plan & grocery list / read / digital declutter / other?
• Record Jeopardy Masters 8:00 / watch Amazing Race 8:30

WOTY 2025:  Judicious ~ I just like the way the word sounds, and the meaning is right for me: having or showing reason and good judgement in making decisions. I can apply this word in so many ways!

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

May 1st. Another attempt at a restart during a really difficult time.

JFT Thursday, May 1

• Log
• Hydrate
• Walk
• Calls
• Oil change
• Errands
• Clean fridge
• Grading