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Post by ruthinnj on Feb 17, 2017 12:20:39 GMT
Good morning. Went to the treadmill this morning and really never like it any more, just a way to get some walking in right now. Tomorrow going for a walk along the DNR canal path with some friends. Not a lot of walking, a couple of them have trouble with too far but it should be fun. So much nicer to walk outside, it is like you are doing and activity instead of an exercise.
Kelly: WOOHOO that is a GREAT NSV!!!!
Cait: I love the app but have a little trouble doing the activity thing with the raisin. It took me 2 days to listen to it and just imagine the exercise, now I will try to actually do it after work.
Nancy and Amy: Where are you?? Miss your check ins.
185.2/250 miles as of Feb 16
I hope I get enough miles in ~ only 12 more days.
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Post by Cait on Feb 17, 2017 16:10:31 GMT
Good Morning Walkers!
Yesterday was a good day. Green zone of pts, marched in place 1 hour = 3 miles in evening while watching TV, JGTB & got a little office work done.
Today is day 9 of "Eat Right Now." Last night I actually used the tool/exercise when I had an urge to eat and it worked. Feeling good about that. It's like I can get over the bogeyman.
I stayed up after DH went to bed to watch one of my shows, but didn't eat, did the mindfulness exercise, turned TV off about 10:45 so I could JGTB. NSV for me. Told myself I can finish the show another day. Wow! What a concept. Usually I am compulsive about trying to finish the show and then another and so on.
For strength training I do have free weights 5 lbs & 10 lbs. I haven't used them in a while. But this am I did "push-ups" against the stove while waiting for my oatmeal & tea kettle to boil. It felt good. Baby steps.
RUTH - Enjoy the canal walk. DH & I have walked on one of those years ago. Re the app - no worries - do what you can at your pace.
Waving at everyone! Have a great day!
Cait
Focus For Feb - "no compulsive eating; no mindless eating"
250/169.6/145 160.7 is my first 10% goal since my high weight 178.6 in July 2016
WW lifetime 11/4/2003 (In range - Lifetime goal 169)
Overeaters Anonymous since 3/5/2008
- An urge is not a requirement. It will pass if I let it - The goal is to eat healthy balanced meals in moderate amounts one day at a time - No compulsive eating; no mindless eating
My Healthy Habits: - Stick to my Plan of Eating. Aim for green zone of pts 37 or fewer; only occasionally go into higher zones, & never over 67; avoid sugar and salted snack foods - Pray & meditate, read, share (12 step work) - Exercise - Work during work hours - No snacking after planned evening snack of about 4 pts - JGTB around 10 pm but not later than around 11 pm
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Post by sweetadeline on Feb 18, 2017 0:26:11 GMT
Good evening,
Kelly GFY on not having the snack goodies at work and your WATP.
Ruth I hope you enjoyed your walk. I used to walk outside all the time with a friend, she moved, so now I mostly walk the TM.
Cait glad you are enjoying yourEat Right Now program. And getting in your miles.
I walked three miles Wednesday and none yesterday, I had to go to Odessa for some roofing supplies for my kennel building and when I got back was just give out. I walked two miles this morning. And have been on the move all day. I weed eated around the outside of my fence and outbuildings.so I got lots of steps. Nancy
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Post by ruthinnj on Feb 18, 2017 12:16:00 GMT
Good morning.
Last night was so bad for me ~ I don't know why I do that sometimes. Just mindlessly eat until I have horrible chest pain. It is of course all part of an eating disorder and I need to just move on. It is hard for me to not 'punish' myself by not allowing myself to eat today. I guess what I dread, going out to eat after the canal path walk, is really the best for me today. UGH!!
Cait, needless to say I still have not actually done the mindfulness thing with the raisin. I too should have used the app yesterday!! Good job on turning to that.
Nancy, good job on the Wed and Friday walking and the weed eating.
I am doing this challenge with some friends, everyday there is pushups (I do them using the kitchen counter, my shoulders are not good), crunches, squats and lunges YUK I hate lunges. Today is a rest day for squats. It is not a lot, for instance today is 7 pushups, 23 lunges and 25 crunches. Day 30 however is 40 pushups, 135 squats, 100 crunches and 50 lunges. You work up to it so its not so bad, theoretically anyway.
190.8/250 miles as of Feb 17
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Post by Cait on Feb 18, 2017 23:12:00 GMT
Good Afternoon Walkers! Yesterday no exercise and not good with eating. I was in my red zone of pts but GFM not above it, not OOC and avoided the worst snack foods - ate DHs Skinny Pop popcorn instead of pretzels or clif bars and stopped instead of moving on to more and different snack foods. So a "better than" choice. Yes the popcorn has some added olive oil & salt, but it's whole grain so the fiber is filling and I eat fewer calories/pts. The large sourdough pretzels have 100 kcal, 3 pts & 240 mg salt per pretzel, and 0 whole grain so the white flour is metabolized similarly to sugar. Those clif bars are 250 kcal, 9 pts & have 23 g of sugar - almost 6 tsp! And I can never eat just one of either. Aiming today for my green zone of pts, exercise & JGTB. I didn't do my "goals" for doing 3 Eat Right Now mindfulness exercises yesterday. They don't take that long. I'll do them today. Yesterday's lesson on Eat Right Now app was "Screwing Up." LOL! It says aim for L&L instead of R&R. Looking & Learning instead of Reviewing and Regretting. Not beating ourselves up. We're human. It happens to all of us. Getting up dusting ourselves off and moving forward. Today I watched this 2013 CBC News (Canadian) documentary "The Secrets of Sugar" topdocumentaryfilms.com/secrets-sugar/Pretty motivating. A lot of times I read, watch or listen to info I've heard before, but the way it's presented is just more clear and compelling. We're not in the massive rain area right now but we got quite a bit. We asked a friend to go in and check our house that is in that SoCal danger area but the roof repairs held! Interesting article on a Runners' website about increasing variety and percentage of plant foods to improve performance www.runtothefinish.com/plant-based-recipes-anti-inflammatory-foods/I want to try the lentil taco meat! RUTH - I do it too - the mindless eating, compulsive eating. But I have reduced the FIT - Frequency, Intensity, Time/Duration since starting my 12 step program. It's a process. Takes time. Prayer + Practice + Patience + Perseverance = Progress. One day at a time. NANCY - you really have a pretty active lifestyle! GFY! Waving at everyone! Have a great day! Cait Focus For Feb - "no compulsive eating; no mindless eating" 250/169.6/145 160.7 is my first 10% goal since my high weight 178.6 in July 2016 WW lifetime 11/4/2003 (In range - Lifetime goal 169) Overeaters Anonymous since 3/5/2008 - An urge is not a requirement. It will pass if I let it - The goal is to eat healthy balanced meals in moderate amounts one day at a time - No compulsive eating; no mindless eating My Healthy Habits: - Stick to my Plan of Eating. Aim for green zone of pts 37 or fewer; only occasionally go into higher zones, & never over 67; avoid sugar and salted snack foods - Pray & meditate, read, share (12 step work) - Exercise - Work during work hours - No snacking after planned evening snack of about 4 pts - JGTB around 10 pm but not later than around 11 pm
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Post by ruthinnj on Feb 19, 2017 11:26:47 GMT
Good morning. So yesterday was better and I did HAVE to eat 3 meals cuz I was with other people for mealtime. The walk was really nice, plus I got almost 20,000 steps in. Going on another hike today, need to take advantage while I can. I also am making my meal plan for the week, well as much as I can anyway. That keeps me in better control.
Cait, still having a problem doing the work in the app ... don't know why that is hard for me. I love the videos. Going to look at the sugar thing now. Thanks
Have a great day everyone.
199.4/250 miles as of Feb 18
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Post by amyrs on Feb 19, 2017 22:04:10 GMT
I am not formally exercising but have 3.24 miles and 8500 steps so far
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Post by amyrs on Feb 19, 2017 22:08:18 GMT
i plan to stick to 35 smart points the current point system. using all my weeklies 5 ba day
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Post by Cait on Feb 19, 2017 22:15:38 GMT
Good Morning Walkers! Yesterday was a good day, green zone of pts, marched in place 1 hour last night while watching TV, JGTB, other HHs. Day 11 of Eat Right Now app. Yesterday's lesson was "Inner Child Tantrum," perfect! The craving & urge to overeat or eat unhealthy foods or when not hungry is like the "I want I want" of a child's tantrum. If we "feed it," we are reinforcing the habit loop, strengthening the inner child's habit that the tantrum gets her what she wants. If we don't, then the inner child learns that the tantrum doesn't get him anything. Today's lesson and practice is "Mindful Eating." When we pay attention to the why what and how of our eating, lots of benefits, rewards. Especially that we taste it more and eat less. I liked how he described beating ourselves up for having overeaten as just another bad habit loop that we can step out of by paying attention to what we get from it. Nothing helpful that's for sure. DH got the bright idea of watching Planet Earth on BBC America - awesome! - and we're recording Planet Earth II as well. Also watched "The Incredible Dr Pol" & "The Adventures of Dr Buckeye Bottoms" - both veterinarian shows on Nat Geo Wild. How fascinating and such a nice break from crime shows. Woke up this am to surprise snow! We are at 1700' and it wasn't supposed to snow below 3500'. It is wet & heavy. One neighbor had to drive to work early but gave up when he was sliding all over the road. It has melted now. RUTH - re difficulty doing exercises - maybe that's the point 😊. It's hard for me to stop multitasking and chasing every impulse, even for a minute, so the exercises are really helpful. No worries. You'll get there. PS - we won't do them perfectly! It's a process. Are you doing the checkins with the little exercises that only take a few seconds? AMY - what happened to your plan to do simply filling? Glad you're exercising. Waving at everyone! Have a great day! Cait Focus For Feb - "no compulsive eating; no mindless eating" 250/169.6/145 160.7 is my first 10% goal since my high weight 178.6 in July 2016 WW lifetime 11/4/2003 (In range - Lifetime goal 169) Overeaters Anonymous since 3/5/2008 - An urge is not a requirement. It will pass if I let it - The goal is to eat healthy balanced meals in moderate amounts one day at a time - No compulsive eating; no mindless eating My Healthy Habits: - Stick to my Plan of Eating. Aim for green zone of pts 37 or fewer; only occasionally go into higher zones, & never over 67; avoid sugar and salted snack foods - Pray & meditate, read, share (12 step work) - Exercise - Work during work hours - No snacking after planned evening snack of about 4 pts - JGTB around 10 pm but not later than around 11 pm
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Post by amyrs on Feb 20, 2017 1:28:21 GMT
Cait all my food is simply filling except for 3 points of a tablespoon of Peanut butter. I just put it in points to see and I saw it was good for points and that I am not overeating in simply filling.
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Post by Cait on Feb 20, 2017 2:08:25 GMT
AMY - Oh I see. GFY double checking that
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Post by sweetadeline on Feb 20, 2017 2:20:18 GMT
Good evening,
Ruth glad you enjoyed your walk yesterday. You did get a lot of steps. Bet you walked off the meals you ate,lol.
Cait your picture is just gorgeous. Looks so peaceful. GFY staying in your zone and going your HH. Interesting about the tantrum eating. I think that is right, I know when I start giving into wants it gets so much easier each time.
Amy WTG on the steps. Sounds like you have a good plan for you meals.
I walked two miles yesterday and three today. For the challenge I have 226. So I plan on getting 250. I don't know how many of you attend WW meetings but this week the topic was "CleanSweep", decluttering, mind change ,so today I started with my refrigerator,took the shelves and drawers out really cleaned. Then to the outside of it, GD draws pictures and writes me sweet letters and put on the frig,so I made her a folder for her things and under some of hers I found this that I had cut out of a WW weekly,"The likelihood of hitting the target goes up dramatically WHEN YOU AIM AT IT." I thought I definitely need to aim more and better.
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Post by ruthinnj on Feb 20, 2017 10:20:30 GMT
Good morning, just time for a quick check in this morning, have to get to spin/weights class
204.5/250 miles as of Feb 19
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Post by tickyboo on Feb 20, 2017 10:33:48 GMT
Follow to Monday
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