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Hi all, Been sick and low energy with respiratory infection most of the month. Mindful of eating, usually met step goal but not always other PA GOAL. And that's ok. Self compassion. Doing multiple 10 min PA snacks and last 2 days met food and PA GOALS. 🎶 Using mindfulness for habits.. it's better than autopilot for me and…

Great to hear @MollyMadison2017 I'm being more consistent too. Walking indoors while I am tracking so I'm killing two birds at once L O L And the bed "yogalates" as the last resort. Hooray for us👏🏼🐾 one and all.

Congrats all on our progress and just for doing *something* I feel great about exercising. It's always been that way, but I need to get going earlier. I try to do a few minutes in the morning rather than just run out the door or get busy with tasks then I at least I've got something started. If I wait too late at night, I…

@77tes Wow, yoga in bed is an excellent option and definitely better than not doing yoga. Some positions may be more supported. I let the evening go by without finishing my exercise routine, although I got excellent steps in I should've just done some yoga in bed. If I stretch my arms over the sides, I'm actually getting a…

Today I'm taking three 10- minute exercise snacks and breaking up my routine to get 30 minutes in along with 10 k steps walking. 🧘🏼🙌

Happy new week Monday in the states and Tuesday and other parts of a globe. My friends and I always greet the new week with a collective text to say "new week new chances to live our best life".🤗☘️🌸 My students love the ADHD and time management adapted Pomodoro method of setting your phone or a timer for 25 minutes and…

Woke up and took some over-the-counter pain medication in the middle of the night also had a few whole-grain flax crackers with the medicine not much and did not use this as an excuse or opportunity to over eat at night. ➡️ My mental attitude was it won't be long until I can eat in the morning. I'll just eat these few…

Motivation Just wanted to share my personal view. I hope there’s a useful nugget here. And I’d also love to know how people do self talk etc to maintain their motivation. For me, the key to habit maintenance is the following borrowed from behavioral health science. It is a head game first and foremost. Responsibility means…

@MadisonMolly2017 and all I relate to what you said about weighing yourself --if not daily then more than once a week (for me). I have to get over my aversion to weighing myself . I know from my training that it's just one measure of fitness and doesn't reflect total health. But I agree with my doctors that I do need to…

Good morning y'all. I read my Cognitive -behavioral Food mantras/ Statements . Just took some key points from a classic book on managing food behavior. It gets my day started. If I have to rush out the door, I try to find a minute to read it, even sitting down in a store with a pharmacy or pausing somewhere without a lot…

Sorry all I had trouble seeing the end of my comment above. I'm trying to say urges are just thoughts and feelings about wanting food. I don't have to act on it. I have some tools and strategies to mitigate it. Now I have to strengthen those tools and strategies because they don't get strong or become internalized by…

Headed to bed soon, but I have five more minutes to get my exercise in then I'm done. Great walk in the last remaining sunlight over the mountains tonight. I love summer evenings. I'm not big on sweets, but I do love so-called healthy whole-grain carbs. I just like healthy food. And I want to eat too much but with my…

Hey, thanks for mentioning chair yoga. There's some great videos on it. I got an e-book. One of our senior centers has a killer chair yoga workout. Also, I think of taking an exercise snack before I have a food snack. It often changes the desire for a food snack Healthy food option

I find the principles of radical acceptance, help me with my own head obstacles. I also make a bargain with myself to do 10 minutes of exercise on my exercise app I can quit and do more or just keep doing it after 10 minutes It all adds up. Most importantly for me is to log food as soon as I eat it and to do a mindful…

Hi all, Continuing my 50+ years of yoga. I want to get to a strength yoga class, which is adapted for seniors. It's great I'm doing yoga and other practices on my own, but I would really benefit from a group class, Some days I just Don't feel like going to a class, but I do exercise at home. Mantra: I don't have to like…

I'm trying to push back to the on-demand plentiful food culture that most of us experience. It wasn't always this way and that is how we get in trouble. Especially with prompts to eat That we observe around us, including on screens. I hope everybody has a good and healthful weekend.

Hi all, Nice encouraging posts I did not gain weight on my California trip. Had healthy snacks in my hotel room with the mini fridge and made a Trader Joe's run lol. I only had one minimum dessert at my niece's gourmet restaurant in wine country where she is pastry chef. . I can over eat on healthy carbs because I just…

Greetings MFP Healthy habit friends After a Community group membership hiatus and four major surgeries over 15 months where I did not gain any weight and kept up my exercise regimen, only adapted for postop lol- I am Fortunate To greet you again This month I'm using the MFP intermittent fasting tools from 7 AM to 7 PM Yes,…

Hi all, This is my last post here for awhie anyway. I am using a yoga journaling group and probably can’t work with more than one fabulous group right now. Thank you for amazing passion and support that you show each other. BTW- I rewrote my BIG identity statement, which has 3 brief sentences for my aspirational self. I…

Hi all and @TerriRichardson112 Terri I really love how you have your health identity statement first. “ I am a person who…” I developed a wake up routine of looking at my Apple notes in my “morning folder” right off the bat while I’m in that groggy state of mind, making coffee and tending to the cat, I remember to; -Say my…

Hi all and @PackerFanInGB: *Staying calm and centered, while working on actions for better health* Some years ago, I made a dedicated effort to have more inner peace and less negative emotional reactivity to the world around me. I learned about toxic stress and its affect on my organs, my ability to think clearly, and my…

Hi all and @kerrid777, My Yoga Lifestyle. I have been doing yoga for 50 years and it has really helped to mitigate the worst consequences of aging bone and joint health issues. My physicians and physical therapists are thrilled that I’m keeping this up and it’s really help me with postsurgical recovery. Even though I have…

Hi all, I appreciated @PackerFanInGBs detail for maintaining a particular habit. I personally try to bookend preventive health actions with -appraisal of health threat versus benefit of doing the action, -And intention for the action - -visualization of doing the action and completing it -And gratitude and self compassion,…

@donna25trinity I really like that you start out with intentions and it’s very helpful for the mindset and I find that I also need to do this in the early evening. I use a visualization with my intentions, so that I can keep in mind what I’m aiming for. In my experience ( & for many) intentions and goal visualization are…

I love your approach Terry and I agree with you that for myself and for many people focusing on a more holistic approach to health and fitness is sustainable. I also have physical activity and healthier eating goals but underneath those I have specific intermediate goals and activities to get there. I also have my self…

“In calendar” Tracker .. work in progress. To simplify fitness and life management, I give myself an emoji gold star each day I meet minimal PA and healthy eating target. I make an “all day” appointment so it stays at the top of my calendar and I can see my progress. In Google calendar I can simply use duplicate function…

Getting myself organized one day at a time. Just sharing, not advising. 😽☘️💕 Hi all, Like many folks, I have learned that I need to have halfway decent, personal organization: including self-care, self-management, and household/ family stuff. This is necessary before I can Focus effectively on fitness and healthier eating…

MANAGING TRACKING WHEN AWAY FROM HOME Hi everyone, I have to admit that I lost the structure of my day on the JULY 4th holiday and did not track after eating so I ate more than I had planned and it was unnecessary because my body didn’t need it. I had “food appeal hunger” or food desire, rather than true physiologic hunger…

@mkksemail I appreciated your post about personal organization I find it’s absolutely necessary so that I can be successful with my personal care and fitness goals. What a lot of the folks I coach find useful is first of all simplicity, because we don’t want to be a worker for the app —we want the app to serve us I…

Hi support team (everyone) This July I will use my cognitive behavioral science knowledge and skills with my faith towards a more holistic wellbeing; which is my definition of mind- body- spirit fitness. 😽☘️💕 - begin and end each day with gratitude reflection - record my food before or as soon as I eat it - jumpstart PA…