Just for Today.... ONE DAY AT A TIME... Daily commitment for 2025
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Starting over weight: March 205.5
- May Goal:185
- May 8: 192.6
JFT Wednesday
- Up with pup ✔️
- Weigh-in ✔️
- Take meds ✔️
- Work by 7:30 ❌ 8:00
- Fruit for breakfast ✔️ Pear tasted like cardboard
- Log food ✔️
- Stay within calories ✔️ Exactly "0" left
- Walk ~2 miles at lunch ✔️ more or less, forgot to start my watch
- Turkey sandwich for lunch ✔️
- Meetings, always meetings ✔️
- Leave work by 5:00 ✔️
- Pick up pup from doggy daycare ➖ Hubby got him
- Home by 6:00 ✔️
- Mom's ✔️
- Eat before trivia or get a salad there ✔️
- Trivia by 7:00 ✔️
- Limit 2 lite beers ❌ 3 but they fit in my day
- NO FRIED BAR FOOD ✔️
- Home by 9:30 ✔️
- Shower ❌
- Lay out gym clothes ✔️
- Bed by 11:00 ✔️
Pretty good day yesterday, and as I thought my weight is dropping back down from the high the other day. Yay!
Super proud of myself today. I got up at 4:45am and went to the gym before work. Did about 15min of cardio to warm up, arc trainer for 5min then treadmill for 10min (used to do 20 on the arc trainer, but couldn't muster the lung capacity for that) then lifted upper body. Got a little queasy, and my arms were very fatigued. It was hard to wash my hair and crazy hard to flat iron it. The fatigue has worn off a bit, but I guarantee I'll be sore tomorrow. With soreness often comes a scale bump up. As long as I understand why, that doesn't bother me. Funny story, let me preface this with the fact that I belong to 2 gyms, one I go to in the mornings the other I tend to go to in the evenings. SO I walk in at 5:10am and tell the lady "I haven't been here in like a year. What is the check in procedure?" She tells me "Actually you haven't been here in 836 days. Scan here". Wow, that was an eye opener… It's probably been that long since I've done a strength work out. I would be ashamed, but instead I'm proud I went today.
Work today will be a bit contentious. I'm introducing a new policy on accountability for the shift workers. Some are not going to like it, but it's needed. I'll have to work late today and tomorrow to make sure I hit all 4 shifts.
After work I have to take mom cigarettes, bread and milk. Boy, I hate buying smokes…
Once home I think I'll throw a load of laundry in and plan to go to the gym again tomorrow morning to do lower body.
JFT Thursday
- Up at 4:30am ❌ 4:45am close enough
- Weigh in ✔️
- Gym by 5:00am ❌ 5:10am close enough
- Leave gym by 6:15am ✔️
- Shower ✔️
- Work ✔️
- Meetings ✔️
- Check in with MFP ✔️
- Log food
- Stay Green
- Turkey sammy for lunch ✔️
- Meetings
- Snack - Halo or pear
- Grocery for mom
- Go to Mom's
- Start Laundry
- Walk dog
- Dinner in
- Lay out clothes for gym
- Bed by 10:30
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Hour commitment - I won't eat again until after 5 pm. None of the same foods at dinner as at lunch. Can still have my dose of metamusal.
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Recap W 5/7 ~ Temps back to normal, maybe reach 60 today, and a bit windy. But sun is shining!
- Leftovers for supper? yes / limit snacks & sweets ~ ack! too many peanut M&Ms (one of my faves) / 80 oz. water ~ only 64 / log all food / net calories zero 🙄 -250
- OT exercises 🙂 doing at least 2-3 per day most days, need to keep tendons working / walk dog 😀 3.8 mi & my hair blew all over but happy dog & happy me
- Record Jeopardy Masters 8:00 / Amazing Race 8:30 😀
- Scrub & refill both birdbaths / boil eggs /
wash dishes/ call Mom ❤️ she was a bit down, unusual for her, so glad I called / read / digital declutter / other? 😁 ta-da!
JFT R 5/8 ~ More wind, cool temps in 50s. Can't wait for warmer weather to be more often.
- Orange roughy, veg & ? for supper / limit snacks & sweets / 80 oz. water / log all food / net calories zero
- OT exercises / min. 5000 steps / PT exercises
- Not too many chores planned today: contact nephew re neighbor's son's gf needing internship guidance / read article on niece (finishing law school, legally blind with guide dog) / wash dishes / read / digital declutter / other?
Being cooler than average & windy again, I'm not in the mood to walk dog today. Happy the sun is shining, though. Asked hubby if he's up for stroll around Botanical Garden this afternoon, so that's probably what we'll do. I want to enjoy the last of the daffodils (such a sunny flower) and maybe see lots of tulips. Sure signs of spring around here. Yesterday, we had our first oriole visit the feeder. He also used the birdbath, and stayed in the crabapple tree for quite a while.
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!
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This week has been a challenge, and I haven't set goals. I went in for a root canal on Tuesday, but the endodontist wound up recommending extraction and referred me to an oral surgeon. However, scheduling that is complicated because I take a blood thinner and will need to stay on it for at least 6 weeks after my cardiac procedure. After a lot of back and forth call with a number of offices, the endodontist agreed to do a pulpectomy next week as a temporary fix until I can have oral surgery. So yesterday I focused on getting my pre-procedure tests done and picking up my new glasses. Since my vision has changed, it was great getting the right prescription.
Focusing on family and my students is helping me keep my anxiety under control. Today is my youngest grandson's birthday, so I'm heading up for a casual birthday celebration when the kids get out of school. It's also my last full week of classes, and students are wrapping up their last papers for the semester. Of course, there are the usual requests for eleventh hour extra help and desperate late submissions, but l'm almost at the finish line.
Thank you friends for your kind words and encouragement.
@HappyDonkey75 - I hope a second opinion helps clarify the best course of treatment for your dad. I know that emotional stress is as draining as physical stress, so take care 💕
@cschmitz110515 - Your rally sounds like it was a wonderful experience. It's so hard to just let go and fall back on faith when it seems like the challenges are non-stop, but finding that place of peace is so healing.
@PackerFaninGB - It's so encouraging to hear that your husband has been doing well after treatment for afib. I'm hopeful for a similar outcome. I'm also glad that you've been doing well after your cancer treatment. My sister was recently diagnosed with MBC and starts chemo on Monday, and between her health concerns and my own I've had trouble staying focused on healthy eating. I know it's hard to stick to the changes we need to make to be our strongest, especially when other stressors cause us to slide back into old habits, but this community really helps. Hang in there ❤️
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Hour commitment - I won't eat again until tomorrow.
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JFT Thursday
- Up by 5:30 ✔️
- Devotions/Bible Study at Home ✔️
- Bus by 7:10 ❌ I had a few little issues getting ready that delayed me
- Stay calm/stress free at work ✔️
- Hydrate ✔️
- Log food ✔️
- Stay within 50 calories of my goal ✔️
- RUN at lunch!!!! ✔️
- Laundry ✔️
- Practice piano and voice lessons ✔️
- Final JOY Club craft prep and lesson prep ✔️
- In bed by 10:30pm ❌ I just had so much to do when I got home from work that I wasn't able to get it done on time to make it to bed on time. But I got it all done.
- More ✔️ and a lot less ❌ today ✔️
JFT, Friday
- Up by 5:30
- Devotions/Bible Study at Home
- Bus by 7:10
- Stay calm/stress free at work
- Hydrate
- Log food
- Stay within 50 calories of my goal
- Walk on my lunch break
- Eat before JOY Club
- JOY Club
- Piano Lesson
- Relax when I get home
- In bed by 11pm.
- More ✔️ and a lot less ❌ today
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Starting over weight: March 205.5
- May Goal:185
- May 9: 191.6
JFT Thursday
- Up at 4:30am ❌ 4:45am close enough
- Weigh in ✔️
- Gym by 5:00am ❌ 5:10am close enough
- Leave gym by 6:15am ✔️
- Shower ✔️
- Work ✔️
- Meetings ✔️
- Check in with MFP ✔️
- Log food ✔️
- Stay Green ✔️
- Turkey sammy for lunch ✔️
- Meetings ✔️
- Snack - Halo or pear ✔️2 Halo
- Grocery for mom ✔️
- Go to Mom's ✔️
- Start Laundry ➖Hubby did it
- Walk dog ➖Raining
- Dinner in ✔️ Breakfast for dinner. Yum!
- Lay out clothes for gym ✔️
- Bed by 10:30 ✔️
Wow! What a good day. Lots of ✔️, and the only ❌ were for sleeping an extra 15 minutes. Yay me!.
Started this morning with the dog at 4:15. Laid back down for 15 minutes before getting up for the day. Dragged myself to the bathroom to get weigh in and ready for the gym. Hit the gym by 5:05am warmed up on the dread-mill for 17 minutes (1 slow mile), then did a lower body workout. Midway through I was already a bit shaky. By the end, a bit nauseated. All in all I survived. My glutes and hamstrings are screaming at me, but in a good way. That combined with the DOMS from yesterday's upper body work out gives me a nice feeling, like I can tell I didn't half way do things. I didn't over do things either. Just a nice level of soreness.
Surprisingly weight was down a bit today. Almost back to where I began the month. I knew the spike wasn't real, but it still messed with my head.
Today will be a slow day at work, and nothing really planned for after work either. Maybe return some things I ordered that I don't like. I ordered 4 dresses in hopes that I would have 2 I liked for Sierras pinning and graduation ceremonies next weekend. It was successful.
Tomorrow we move V back home for the summer.
JFT Friday
- Up by 4:30am ✔️
- Gym around 5:00 ✔️ 5:05
- Home by 6:30 ✔️
- Shower ❌ Ended up with dog duty. Letting out, feeding, medicating and didn't have time to shower. Just toweled off and threw on a hat.
- Work by 8:00 ✔️
- Fruit for breakfast ✔️Another cardboard pear
- Meeting with operators
- Update bulletin boards in the hallways
- Log food
- Stay green
- Sandwich for lunch
- Work until shift change
- Home by 5:30
- LAUNDRY
- Walk dog if it's nice
- Dinner
- More Laundry
- Bed by 10:30
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Hour commitment - I won't eat again until after 5 pm. None of the same foods at dinner as at lunch. Can still have my dose of metamusal.
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Hour commitment - I won't eat again until tomorrow.
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JFT, Friday- Up by 5:30 ❌
- Devotions/Bible Study at Home ✔️
- Bus by 7:10 ❌
- Stay calm/stress free at work ✔️
- Hydrate ✔️
- Log food ✔️
- Stay within 50 calories of my goal ❌ Only 17 left
- Walk on my lunch break ✔️
- Eat before JOY Club ✔️
- JOY Club ✔️
- Piano Lesson ✔️
- Relax when I get home ✔️
- In bed by 11pm. ❌ The Blue Jays are in Seattle which means a 10:30pm start time game and my favourite pitcher is pitching.
- More ✔️ and a lot less ❌ today - Not sure how to mark this one.
I was going to just rush out the door to get my 7:10 bus to work and just buy lunch. I made the decision not to do that but to make time to make my healthier salad for lunch and caught the 7:20 bus. I still made it to work on time. Not only did I make the healthier choice, but I saved money. A double win!
- Up by 7:30am
- Devotions/Bible Study
- Run
- Hydrate
- Log food
- Stay within 50 calories of my goal
- Groceries
- Donation to Spay Day
- Laundry
- Cleaning
- Start Wedding Gift
- Practice piano and voice
- In bed by 11pm.
- More ✔️ and a lot less ❌ today
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Yesterday was another day without posting JFT, but logged food & activity. Again, lots of activity. Walked dog 3.94 mi & happy dog. As she approaches 13yo, she still loves her walks. But we definitely see her resting more after, instead of the zoomies.
While hubby was on a 2-hr webinar, I took advantage of the gorgeous spring day & took summer stuff out of shed, like charcoal grill, patio set & yard doo-dads. I also disposed of a calcified mouse that had gotten trapped inside the ceramic birdbath base. Got everything in its place except struggled with tightening the screws on patio table legs with crappy Allen wrench, due to my hand injury, so had hubby do the last bits. Otherwise I got all done without him & I was proud of that.
Still have to plant all my pots, but I hold off on that until late May, with possible threat of overnight frost yet. Ceramic birdbath not yet filled either, same reason. Just remembered, rain barrels (stored outside of shed) not set up either. Oh well. Doggo enjoyed watching from her spot on the lawn, even chased a chipmunk several times when I was taking a break.
JFT Sat. 5/10 ~ Be kind to hubby… it's the 24th anniversary of his dad's passing, and hubby tends to dwell.
- Pizza for supper / limit sweets & snacks / 80 oz. water / log all food / net calories zero
- OT exercises / walk dog? / min. 5000 steps
- Grocery mini-run / make glazed lemon cookies to take tomorrow / prep youngest brother's bday card & Mother's Day card for tomorrow / call Mom / read / digital declutter / shower before bed / 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!
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@angf0679 Congrats on your double win! Healthy food at cheaper price = yay!
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Hour commitments - After my turkey patty, I won't eat again until with FIL. Can still have my dose of metamusal.
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Hour commitment - I won’t eat again until tomorrow.
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JFT, Saturday
- Up by 7:30am ❌ I didn't get up until 9:40.
- Devotions/Bible Study ✔️
- Run ✔️ 7km when I planned at least 5km. Puddle running is fun!
- Hydrate ✔️
- Log food ✔️
- Stay within 50 calories of my goal ✔️
- Groceries ✔️
- Donation to Spay Day ❌. Delayed due to weather
- Laundry ✔️
- Cleaning. ✔️
- Start Wedding Gift ❌ The day wasn't long enough
- Practice piano and voice ❌ I'm to tired
- In bed by 11pm. ✔️
- More ✔️ and a lot less ❌ today ✔️
I had 561 calories left. I ate 1130 calories today and didn't eat back any calories burned on my run. I was oddly not very hungry
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JFT, Sunday- Up by 7am
- Devotions/Bible Study
- Breakfast at home
- Walk to church
- Sunday School and Church
- Maybe walk home
- Log food
- Stick to my meal plan for the day
- Eat more veggies and fruit
- Hydrate
- Stay withing 50 calories of my goal
- Build Lego set
- Voice and Piano practice
- Start wedding gift
- Church
- Second voice practice
- In bed between 9:30pm and 10pm
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Whaaaaat? Why was your root canal so complicated? How does it work over there?
For me, I had a filling that was really close to the nerve. Turns out it was too close because a hot drink would have me in throbbing pain for hours because of it being a metal filling it was sensitive to hot/cold.
So I asked the dentist, he said he could change filling to non- metal or root canal. I said root canal because I didn't want to have to go back and forth if it didn't work and still pressed on the nerve.
But all I had was 2 injections, waited til half my face was numb and then he drilled, then stuck something down it and just pulled out the root.
Zero pain and he was done in like 10 mins from when he started drilling, I was amazed by myself for how well I actually handled it seeing as I had 2 panic attacks when I had my one filling done 😂
So how come you have to see and endodontist and then oral surgeon and others, I literally know mine as just 'the dentist'. 😂
Just one dude that does it all 😂
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Hour commitment - I won't eat again until after 5 pm. None of the same foods at dinner as at lunch. Can still have my dose of metamusal.
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Hour commitment - I won't eat again until tomorrow.
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JFT, Sunday- Up by 7am ❌ Almost. I was up by 7:30. Earlier then last Sunday
- Devotions/Bible Study ✔️
- Breakfast at home ✔️
- Walk to church ✔️
- Sunday School and Church ✔️
- Maybe walk home ✔️
- Log food ✔️
- Stick to my meal plan for the day ✔️
- Eat more veggies and fruit ❌ No veggies or fruit today
- Hydrate ✔️
- Stay withing 50 calories of my goal ✔️
- Build Lego set ✔️
- Voice and Piano practice ✔️
- Start wedding gift ✔️
- Church ✔️
- Second voice practice ✔️
- In bed between 9:30pm and 10pm ❌ I won't make it by 10pm. Hope to by 10:30
JFT, Tuesday
- Up by 5:15am
- Devotions/Bible Study at home
- Bus by 7:10am
- Hydrate
- Log food
- Stick to my meal plan for the day
- Eat more fruits and veggies
- Stay within 50 calories of my goal
- Stay calm/stress free at lunch
- Run on my lunch break
- Voice lesson at 7pm
- Watch Quiet the Noisy Soul
- No Youtube videos
- Limit Facebook to less then 5 minutes
- Work on wedding gift if time
- In bed between 9:30-10:00pm
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@Bex953172 - I'm really glad to hear your dental work went smoothly. To be honest, I was surprised when my dentist referred me to an endodontist because my previous dentist would have done the root canal himself. I don't know why, but a lot of medical professionals here tend to specialize. My dentist does fillings, crowns, and cosmetic stuff, but apparently not root canals.
My problem tooth also had a filling it it, but the tooth developed a crack under the old filling and the damage is pretty extensive. It's also impacting a partially erupted wisdom tooth. My regular dentist thought they could save the tooth and put a crown on it, but the endodontist said it's not stable enough and should probably come out and be replaced with an implant.
In theory, I'm okay with that. It's just really bad timing because I have to stay on a blood thinner for my cardiac procedures (one next week and the other in July). So the endodontist said he'd do a pulpotomy (also called a baby root canal) as a temporary measure until I can have the tooth extracted. Basically, he'll remove the infected root and give me a temporary filling. Hopefully that will be a fairly easy procedure like yours. When I can safely come off the blood thinner, I can have the tooth extracted.
Not exactly how I'd hoped to spend the summer, but it is what it is.
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I am cutting myself off from posting myself anymore on this thread. I am trying to cut down on my social media usage and have replaced it with this as I keep checking for new posts on here way to much.
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Weekend was a mess. Moving V out went well, but when we got home Tim had to take his dad to the hospital. At first we thought it was just congestive heart failure which could be treated medically. Then we found out his heart is severely damaged and is only functioning at 22%. He is getting at cath procedure today and we'll know more. This in and of itself is not good, but he is the primary caretaker for Tim's mom who has advanced dementia. She cannot be left alone and will not accept in home care. I took a turn sitting with her yesterday while Tim's sister went to work to prepare things for today since she would be out. Tim is taking today and tomorrow off to be with his dad at the hospital and his older sister is coming up today or tomorrow, but even with the 4 of us we can't juggle this schedule long term. Hopes are that FIL will not need surgery, but I feel that it is unlikely that he will not. Then there is my mom… Tim and I are supposed to go out of town for Sierra's graduation Friday - Monday. Definitely can't miss Friday's pinning ceremony, but the rest is up in the air.
Got up late this morning, and was 10 minutes late for my doctor's appointment. They made me reschedule. It was my fault, but we all know if I'd been on time I would have still been sitting in the waiting room at 7:40am. Oh and my weight was up, no surprise with the way I ate yesterday. I had a bag of Dots for lunch and a big lobster roll for dinner with chips. Yeah… I just about broke down when they told me I had to reschedule this morning. Not because I really wanted my yearly girl exam, but because so many things are just up in the air or messed up. Just realized I didn't take my meds this morning. Thyroid, mood stabilizer and anxiety. Great time to miss that stuff. The mood stabilizer is no big deal as it stays in your system a while. The other 2 mess with me.
I can seriously control none of this, so I'm going to try and focus on what I can control. So here is my JFT Monday…
- Up at 4:30 ❌
- Gym by 5:00 ❌
- Home by 6:15 ❌
- Shower ❌
- Weigh in ✔️ should have skipped this also
- Doctor by 7:30 ❌
- Work by 9:00 ✔️
- Check in with MFP ✔️
- Log food
- Stay green
- Meetings 9:00 - 12:00
- Lunch
- Meetings 1:00 - 4:00
- Home by 5:00
- YMCA by 6:00 is don't need to sit with MIL
- Home by 8:00
- Dinner
- Laundry
- Bed
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Just a quick check in as we had a full weekend at the horse event we attended. Got home late last night and needing to work today.
JFT
REST- I am exhausted from the weekend and my feet took a beating being on them for 12 hrs a day)
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Craving greens and veggies since food was limited to mostly meat/cheese /yogurt /chips/ and then pizza one night3 -
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LOL! I don't miss my then boyfriend either! :) I rented an apartment near there also-that was back when I first moved to town. Zeppelin's had really good gyros too! 😁
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Hour commitment - I won't eat again until after 5 pm. None of the same foods at dinner as at lunch. Can still have my dose of metamusal.
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