July goals
Hoping we can keep sharing what we are focusing on. Changed the title from "challenges" to goals because I look at goals as more optimistic. So, here is what I'll be focusing on this month:
- Average 11,000 steps daily (for my annual 4 million group)
- Handful of Garmin challenges to support above goal
- Hike/walk outside 6 times weekly, weather permitting
- Be present. Going to be a super busy end of the summer. Want to make sure I am truly enjoying being with the people I care about and activities I love instead of worrying about the next thing, work or if my house is clean enough.
Good luck everyone on your goals for the month/quarter/year.
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I like the title change!
Here's what I will be focusing on this month:
- Stay in my calorie goal zone (I like to use a range) for the entire month. Use my calendar journal for tracking.
- Exercise moderately - aiming for five days a week about a half hour a day.
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Focusing on happy making, nourishing eating.
Also some targeted, daily range of motion, flexibility, strengthening movement.
Fresh berries with cinnamon dashes this morning, yum!
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I love sugarcane juice. My grandparents used to grow sugarcane in their backyards.
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Hello all!
Goals are to find some great ways to help my anxiety.
Keep moving everyday.
Tone and loose and stay on track with food tracking.2 -
Good goals @slstover35
@Catlady27787 i haven't tried cane. How do you juice it?
Practicing knife skills this week. Summer freggies rolling in!
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@yakkystuff I honestly don't know lol my grandma used to do it! She's gone now so I can't ask her. My mom might remember though, I'll ask her the next time I see her. Your food pictures look AMAZING!!!! I love a fresh salad
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I wouldn't know where to buy fresh cane, but your comment made me curious. I have mental images of children chewing on it out in the fields, for some reason.
Have 3 lunch sacks of baby cremini mushrooms - exploring ideas.
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@yakkystuff You can chew on sugarcane! My grandma used to peel off the skin and then you could chew on it. It was pretty good. You can't digest the fiber middle stuff though, so I liked it juiced better.
What are your ideas for your baby mushrooms? I like putting them in omelets or egg bites.
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Called and found out, they're shitake. Enjoyed them in a shrimp avocado omelette this morning and in a salad at lunch with some arugala micro-greens i wanted to try. (And more of the roast cabbage. Plan to roast a head of cauliflower tomorrow with a tomato sauce on top.)
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Great goals @Catlady27787 , @yakkystuff and @slstover35.
The food pics are great! Love all the freh veggies and the various ways you are using them. Inspiring!!
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This discussions format is a bit like catching up at a coffee shop & leaving notes for each other, lol
Still plucking away - trying to limit distressing 'news' - so much is heartbreaking!
A neighbor wants to make some sauce from the crabapples - will taste, lol
Salmon, saute veg & spiced rice is 'what's for dinner' and early morning outdoors before it gets hot as hades!
(Too cute, not my pup)
Funny people/animal vids are 1 of my fav 1-minute stress busters!
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Great analogy @yakkystuff and spot on!!
Hit a wall last week, think due to work pressures, major deadlines and sleep challenges that have been ongoing. Just tried to listen to my body and take care of it. Slipped a bit in my goals.
Feeling better now. So hoping to have a strong end of the month.
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@yakkystuff I also try to limit distressing news. I usually catch up on reading the news a few times a week but less if I'm having a tough week. The main thing I try to do is not be plugged into the news/internet/social media cycle 24/7.
@megd44 I am glad you're feeling better now. I def want to have a strong ending to this month also!!!
I am doing well. Today is my 3rd day back on track which is boosting my confidence! Love that!
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Meg, glad you listened and had some self-care time :)
Same CatLady - lots of the month left to kick it!
Hot Hot Hot, doing things early in day. Feel like sitting in waves at the beach, ha! It's a fav daydream - playing in the waves with pups weekends.
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Great job @Catlady27787! Still have plenty of summer left. And limiting the news cycle can be so important to mental health.
@yakkystuff sitting in waves is one of my favorite things too! Beaches here are too busy right now fir me to bring my pups. But come September! Can't wait.
Got in another easy workout this morning, so hopefully have turned the corner.
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Yes, super hot days - getting in morning walks!
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I've also been doing my walks early in the am!
I've been at my parents house today and yesterday because the new roof people are FINALLY doing our roof. The inside is almost done also since my uncle has been helping.
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Heat finally broke here. Supposed to be a beautiful weekend. Getting ready to head out for a nice morning walk!!
Great news on the roof and inside of the house @Catlady27787! That has got to feel amazing being so close.
Can't believe we only have 2 more weeks in the month. Going to have to push hard to hit my monthly goals.
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I have been doing my walks later in the evening. It’s been super hot. I’ve had two lazy days so tomorrow. I definitely need to motivate myself. My goals are to concentrate on 10 pounds at a time. I’m at zero right now. 😂
I am hoping as I add more positive techniques to my life it will make a difference.
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@slstover35 - breaking up to smaller goals - brilliant.
For me, I spend a few mins on positive mental thinking/strengthening… it is too easy to just stop, so I find a bit of intentional focus helps.
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Time flies!
Summer freggies - more chopping, more chewing ahead, lol.
Box had collard greens, fresh & pickled beets, more cabbage, potatoes, a ginormous yellow summer squash, celery, romaine hearts. More chopping & chewing ahead indeed... batch prepping tomorrow.
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@slstover35 love breaking things into mini goals. And good job finding a better time. I go first thing in the morning and it does help. Our heat here broke Thursday.
@yakkystuff that box looks amazing. Can't wait to see what you do with it.
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The roof is done! Everything is done besides one hole on the outside of the house wall. Yay!
This upcoming week there will only be six weeks until the semester starts! Yikes! Time flies! I'm not ready! But maybe I am lol
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That is great news @Catlady27787!! So nice to have it all done before the semester starts.
We are having the perfect northern Michigan summer day, so hoping to spend most of my evening outside post work.
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Time flies indeed! Yay to new roofs!
We were pressed with free goodies/desserts from a weekend event. Took & gave away to the morning coffee crowd…
Continuing with myplate configured dinner, salmon, ricearoni, roasted vegs and some extra pretzel bites that were extra, but ok after a super active few days.
We are not obligated to eat free/unanticipated food just because it's there....
I do still find it hard to resist gracious hosts (food pushers) - have a variety of avoidance tactics.
It really is a bit of a mind shift from 'get my money's worth' and 'hey! Free food' and 'hey, won't get this seasonal food again until next time.'
Er, um, we can always make/buy more later, if we need/want more. I just don't have to eat it because someone pressed it on me, huh?
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That dinner looks amazing @yakkystuff!! You are so spot on about events/food pushers. Just because it is there doesn't mean you need to take it, but so hard to say no. Good idea sharing with the coffee group. Pre pandemic I would take it to me office, now there usually is only a few people there a few days a week, so that doesn't work.
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I haven't been around much because I joined a hiking group in the last week and they are pretty active. We chat online and meet in person. I am enjoying it so far!
Six weeks until classes start. I am happy the house is done. I am burnt out from losing weight even though I am not where I want to be. Am considering taking a break because I just feel so tired of it. I have been losing weight since May 2024 solidly - although numbers wise I've actually been maintaining all of this year. So really even though I've been trying to lose weight since May 2024, I lost weight from May 2024 through January 2025. Then Jan 2025 through now, I have been maintaining. Any thoughts appreciated. I do want to lose the rest of the weight but not really badly enough to do it it seems. Maybe I just need a break somehow?
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Maintenance breaks are always appropriate - to recover from diet fatigue, after illness to heal, that 1 week when appetite goes nuts. It's always an appropriate choice, so no guilt!
Hiking group sounds awesome fun!
On a personal note, I reached a point where I thought... i always yoyo - so whats the point if I just regain. Decided my approach would be just eat at maintenance, and when it was emotionally tolerable, eat a little less. It removed the pressure and is working well.
This goes along with putting the scale away, and focusing on eating to help my body with foods I enjoy.
I try to eat where those intersect for the most part... meal by meal, choice by choice.
If I eat extra for a meal out, holiday/special occasion, I just return to the approach next meal.
I share this just to say, you are what is important, to find balance all things considered - focus on what matters. Find non-food ways to self-soothe, and eat to nourish yourselr when it is time to eat.
I realized my yoyo pattern was part of family style of diets then feasts... it was not working, so am exploring different.. I really want to remove any guilt or angst, and embrace the positive with it....
Fwiw.... look forward to hearing about your ongoing adventures :)
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@yakkystuff thanks for sharing. I like your idea of eating at maintenance. I am going to do that for the rest of the summer also. I just don't have the mental energy it would take to drop more weight - plus now I'm super active and feel like I could use the extra energy.
We went for a hike on Monday and have two planned for this weekend. However I do not know if my husband and I will make the Sunday hike because my relatives are in town for the weekend and I do not know what time they are leaving Sunday night.
I have been going on a long walk everyday also. Either with friends, with my husband, or by myself.
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Do you by anychance live near ocean? Gr8 for walks!
We live in a flat, safe for walking area, but I try to get in some stairs and ramps, and hopefully next summer we will have time for some beach & trail walks.
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