Alcohol Free Is What We Want to Be! Tuesday, August 27

Labor of Love
NEW CHALLENGE
July 5 through September 2

The word labor implies a specific task or effort, many times painful or arduous. A labor of love is doing something because you really want to, not because of any monetary reward you might get for it even though it involves hard work.

This challenge is all about a labor of love, reminding yourself to love yourself so it becomes your norm.

How often do we do something for someone else because it makes them happy and in turn makes us happy. But as the saying goes “how can you love someone else if you can’t love yourself”.

There are many ways we don’t show ourselves love. We are harder on ourselves than on anyone else. We go over and over “why did I drink too much” and the ever popular "if I lost weight I would be so much happier”. We are not showing ourselves love by overeating and over drinking, we are doing the opposite. To start, give yourself grace and tell yourself yesterday is done, tomorrow isn’t here, so let’s deal with the present.

We worry about so many things, things we have no control over. Resilience, happiness and freedom comes from knowing what to care about and what to not let us get bogged down. Let go of things that do not work for you, help you, or encourage you. It is hard! You want to be a good person but be good to yourself first. Send out positivity but give yourself positivity.

We all have bad days, nothing goes right, nasty people out and about, stress levels are over the top and you have no control. This can be true in many ways but your control is to step away, love yourself.

Journal it, put it down on paper, and then let it go.

So each morning give yourself an affirmation. Here are some suggestions:

#1. I am worthy.
#2. I am enough.
#3. I am beautiful inside and out.
#4. Even my “flaws” have good and helpful aspects.
#5. I love and approve of myself.
#6. I am delighted with who I am.
#7. I fully approve of who I am, even as I better myself.
#8. I approve of myself and love myself completely.
#9. I am happy in my own skin and in my own circumstances.
#10. I am surrounded by love.
#11. I am treasured for who I really am.
#12. I am worthy of happiness and love.
#13. I enjoy my own company as I get in touch with my true self.
#14. I am at peace and happy when I’m alone.

It may sound like Stuart Smiley but go with it!

THE EIGHT GOOD HEALTH GUIDELINES
1. Eat at least five servings of vegetables and fruits each day.
2. Choose whole-grain foods, such as brown rice and oats, whenever possible.
3. Include two servings of milk products – low fat (1%) or fat-free – each day.
4. Have some healthy oil (olive oil, canola, sunflower, safflower or flaxseed each day.
5. Ensure that you are getting enough protein by choosing at least a serving or two of meat, poultry, fish, eggs or dried beans each day. Many dairy products are also good sources of protein.
6. Limit added sugar and alcohol.
7. Drink at least 6 8-ounce glasses of water a day.
8. Take a multiple vitamin-mineral supplement each day.

NUTRITION ACCOUNTABILITY
Drink more water: Improving!
One or more fruit daily: Yep!
One or more vegetable daily: Yep!
Dairy: Yep!
Healthy Oils:

AF: 31
AIM:
ANIM:
Exercise goal: Did my stepper and bar exercises.

HABIT ACCOUNTABILITY

Journal: Yes!
Move Accountability: Yep!
Sleep Accountability: Finally sleeping well again
Nutrition Accountability:
Happiness Accountability: Happy and grateful to be here
Habit Accountability:
Check in Daily Accountability: I'm here
Time Management Accountability: Very good
What did you do for yourself today? Gave myself a manicure

Please post a NSV (non-scale victory), LSP (little sign of progress), PA (positive affirmation) or motivational quote
Start weight July 5:
July 12:
July 19:
July 26:
August 5: 159.6
August 9: 160.2
August 16: 163 Yikes!
August 23: 163
August 30:
Yay we have done great! September 2

Celebrate! Final weigh in:

Great success!

Good morning all! I'm headed to stay with my brother today. DSIL has a dentist appointment and he didn't want to go with her. We had such a good time last week when I was there and I'm hoping that today is great too! I'll see if he wants to get out and go for a ride. I think that's good for both of us! Will try to check in from there.
Murphy

THE EIGHT GOOD HEALTH GUIDELINES
1. Eat at least five servings of vegetables and fruits each day.
2. Choose whole-grain foods, such as brown rice and oats, whenever possible.
3. Include two servings of milk products – low fat (1%) or fat-free – each day.
4. Have some healthy oil (olive oil, canola, sunflower, safflower or flaxseed each day.
5. Ensure that you are getting enough protein by choosing at least a serving or two of meat, poultry, fish, eggs or dried beans each day. Many dairy products are also good sources of protein.
6. Limit added sugar and alcohol.
7. Drink at least 6 8-ounce glasses of water a day.
8. Take a multiple vitamin-mineral supplement each day.

NUTRITION ACCOUNTABILITY
Drink more water: 75/75 oz goal
One or more fruit daily: Y
One or more vegetable daily: Y
Dairy: Y
Healthy Oils: Y

AF: (mostly alcohol free since August 16, 2006): 6585
AIM: 0
ANIM: 1 (021221)
Fitbit Goal/burned: 2170/1952

HABIT ACCOUNTABILITY

Journal: Y
Move Accountability: 4, 13,000+ steps, 250 steps 8/8 hours, water aerobics, walked the nature trail, hospital, Walmart, counter PU, wall stretches
Sleep Accountability: 2, slept OK, weird dreams, 6.5+ hours, Fitbit score 84, stress management 81
Nutrition Accountability: 3, eggs, protein bar, protein shake, protein chips, squash casserole, grilled chicken, mac and cheese, ice cream cone
MacrosFirst: Protein: 130/137 (36%), Carbs: 118/100 (33%), Fiber: 19gm, Net Carbs: 99, Fat: 51/45 (32%), Calories: 1409/1353, 56 over, gold star, good macros
Happiness Accountability: 3, enjoyed the day, watched Emily in Paris, stitched, read before bed
Habit Accountability: 3, more water than Diet Coke
Check in Daily Accountability: 3, I'm here!
Time Management Accountability: 3, water aerobics, walked, mammo/bone density, Walmart, stitched, couch time
What did you do for yourself today? reading, time outside, stitching

Please post a NSV (non-scale victory), LSP (little sign of progress), PA (positive affirmation) or motivational quote: “When someone says you can’t do it, do it twice and take pictures.” —Unknown

Start weight July 5: 160.4? Mom's scale
July 12: 158.6
July 19: 158
July 26: 157.6
August 2: 156.4
August 9: 155.8
August 16: 155.2
August 23: 155.8 Too much birthday celebrating
August 30:
Yay we have done great! September 2
Celebrate! Final weigh in:

Great success!

2024 Goals:
11,000 steps each day: 224/245
At least 7 hours sleep: 112/245
Lift weights twice/week: Wk 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13:only once, 14, 15, 16, 17:only once, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33
Starting weight: 179.8
Get to the 160's: March 10, 2024
150s: June 24, 2024
140s:

Water aerobics was good yesterday, the water was pretty cold though. Next week is the last week for it. I finally signed up for the yoga and low impact aerobics classes which start next week, but it says I am waitlisted. I'll have to ask what that means tomorrow. When I got home DH & I took the golf cart to the nature trail to walk and enjoyed the shade. I didn't have much time between walking and going for my mammogram for anything but lunch and some computer time. The route I take to the hospital involves a lot of winding roads and I generally have no sense of what direction I am heading. Traffic was stopped on one of the roads (Bobo Road) and people were turning around so I did the same but had no idea how I was actually going to get to the hospital. Waze kept trying to navigate me back to Bobo Road, so I finally got the idea to navigate to Hobby Lobby which is a couple of miles east of the hospital. That worked to get me around the closed road and I managed to get to the hospital on time. The mammo didn't hurt except for the last view, maybe my weight loss has made my boobs less dense. They measured my height for the bone density and said I was 5 feet and 1/2 inch. I guess I can't say I'm 5'2" anymore. After the testing I went to Walmart for a few things, didn't even look at the garden center. When I got home I had some couch time, DH was out and about. We had grilled chicken for dinner with mac and cheese, broccoli, and cucumber salad. After dinner I watched Emily in Paris and stitched on the NY Jets ornament. I was in bed a little after 11, was able to fall asleep fairly easily but had weird dreams.

It's another sunny day. The HVAC people are here. My bone density results are posted, it's normal with increased density in the spine, and decreased in the femur. My PCP has already commented on it. I'll probably do a walking video in the basement, although I could probably go walk without DH.


Jan- WTG steps, stretches, tracking, feeling inspired by the back to school season. Sorry about the yarn mess. The turquoise water in your pics was amazing. That was indeed Bill and Sookie in the pic yesterday. My new tomato plants are 2-3 feet tall, one came with a tomato and blossoms on it. I think my winter squash are going to be a bust. I had 2 delicata, but something has eaten them. I've had a lot of male blooms, but no other fruit.

Murphy- Glad you had a good day yesterday. Thanks for getting us started. WTG for 30+ days AF!!! Have a lovely visit with DB today, hope he likes the Kindle. Silver Sneakers sounds fun. I do have some more small ears on the corn, hopefully they are big enough to eat.

Vicki- Yay for your back not hurting. Hope all goes smoothly with DD's moving, yay for fun with Rylee.

M-W Word of the Day

propinquity 
noun | pruh-PING-kwuh-tee

What It Means
Propinquity is a formal word that typically refers to nearness in place or time, making it a synonym of proximity. It can also be used as a synonym of kinship to refer to the state of being related to others by blood.

// The geographical propinquity of these ancient cultures explains many of the architectural similarities.