Jord - tackles inertia

[Urgan]

Just now, Taddea Zhaan said:

 

luckily for the singapore tofu curry noodles I made last night... I sub half the noodles for cabbage. So I dunno what MFPs problem was but my gut still worked this morning. >_> 

 

Glad it showed up and decided to be a team player, unlike your back muscles.

[CourtnieMarie]

i liked your post for how you are dealing with such shit.

[Jord]

1 hour ago, Urgan said:

 

Glad it showed up and decided to be a team player, unlike your back muscles.

 

It's a rare day where my colon acts like it's a true team player, so I'll take it. 

 

1 hour ago, CourtnieMarie said:

i liked your post for how you are dealing with such shit.

 

Thanks!

 

I actually came by to post a link to relevant to my goals reading which also happens to relate to your comment: 

 

https://michaelhyatt.com/why-discomfort-is-good-for-you/ 

 

(obviously I'm not including back pain as the good  kind of discomfort - _ - )

[Jord]

On 1/2/2018 at 7:54 AM, Taddea Zhaan said:

January Goals: 

1) Continue with the getting comfortable with the uncomfortable tracking

2) No booze January body cleanse

3) Focus on eating protein and fiber rich foods

4) Limit spending on non-necessities to $10/week

 

 

19 hours ago, Taddea Zhaan said:

 

Wednesday Goals (for what is left of this day...): 

- spend 15-20 min at work looking up some work leadership blogs

- eat the rest of my food as written in my tracker

- message my coach and confess my body is a rebel 

- when I get home read for at least 30 min, don't be lazy and just watch tv/game (Currently reading The Hangman's Daughter)

 

Wednesday, in no particular order:

- no booze, which is impressive self control considering the day that I had

- but did eat a couple pieces of chocolate

- 95g of protein, 24g of fiber

- those numbers are good but would have been higher except I decided to eat a random packet of ramen floating around the house for dinner because I had an upset stomach. Why is total junk so satisfying? 10 cent ramen why are you so delicious? 

- found 4 leadership blogs I liked up front, one doesn't have as much content as I thought it would. This is after immediately eliminating any sites that were mainly numbered lists. (TEN WAYS YOU TOO CAN...)

- messaged my coach that I'm still injured. I really want to work out.  I'll probably try a treadmill walk Friday. 

- read two chapters of the book. I'm almost halfway done. I'm really liking it, but after reading more graphic stuff prior, my only disappointment is that it's not more intense, lol. 

 

 

 

Thursday Goals (always includes January Goals): 

- no chocolate

- go grocery shopping (get fiber cereal to eat with greek yogurt)

- read for 30 min

[CourtnieMarie]

good numbers are great when sick and injured - give yourself some credit! a walk or some restorative yoga sounds like a good substitute while you heal

[ixaera]

4 hours ago, Taddea Zhaan said:

10 cent ramen why are you so delicious? 

 

I have never ever cracked this code

My fave is the shrimp flavor, and you know just because there totally isn't ENOUGH sodium, I like to add lowry's seasoned salt

I am a human garbage disposal

[Urgan]

4 hours ago, Taddea Zhaan said:

- those numbers are good but would have been higher except I decided to eat a random packet of ramen floating around the house for dinner because I had an upset stomach. Why is total junk so satisfying? 10 cent ramen why are you so delicious? 

 

6 minutes ago, ixaera said:

 

I have never ever cracked this code

My fave is the shrimp flavor, and you know just because there totally isn't ENOUGH sodium, I like to add lowry's seasoned salt

I am a human garbage disposal

 

[Jord]

20 hours ago, CourtnieMarie said:

good numbers are great when sick and injured - give yourself some credit! a walk or some restorative yoga sounds like a good substitute while you heal

 

yoga is actually a good idea. I decided this morning I was going to wait to workout until Saturday morning because I like Saturday AM workouts. I have a couple of yoga DVDs and there is always the internet. 

 

19 hours ago, ixaera said:

 

I have never ever cracked this code

My fave is the shrimp flavor, and you know just because there totally isn't ENOUGH sodium, I like to add lowry's seasoned salt

I am a human garbage disposal

 

I like this about you. 

 

19 hours ago, Urgan said:

 

 

 

yummmmmmm

[Jord]

23 hours ago, Taddea Zhaan said:

Thursday Goals (always includes January Goals): 

- no chocolate

- go grocery shopping (get fiber cereal to eat with greek yogurt)

- read for 30 min

 

- No chocolate, but I did give in to a couple gingerbread cookies I found in the office >_>. I should have specified no treats! 

- Made a point to chat with the new co-workers when the were around

- Went grocery shopping and then made "stuffed cabbage" soup and beer cheese bread (which came out way underdone, it was my first time making it, we had to bake slices in the toaster oven.)

- I totally forgot about reading, but in my sort of defense, I went right to bed after dinner. 

- NO BOOZIN' 

- 109g protein, 32g fiber

- my weight this morning (Friday) was up a little so I didn't want to record it, but I did. (big win)

 

 

Friday Goals: 
- No treats!

- After the luncheon seminar hang around and get to know some of this semester's students

- Read for 45 min, I don't have to make dinner so no excuses!

 

In case I don't check-in tomorrow morning first thing, Weekend goals be like:

- 30 min of stretching/yoga

- reorganize the sewing room 

- 45 min of reading

[Vibrantella]

On ‎02‎/‎01‎/‎2018 at 3:09 PM, Taddea Zhaan said:

I just tend to avoid it when I'm eating like an asshole. So if I keep doing it even when I'm not eating well, it will help me stay focused. I do the same thing with weight tracking, when the number gets ugly for sodium or food reasons I tend to not want to track it even though it's my choice if only I see the number.

I do this as well, especially with my weight.  I only record it if it's gone down!  I used to get terribly frustrated with fluctuations and then comfort binge eat...  By now I may have outgrown this response, though.  Maybe it's time for me to be more honest, too!

 

Hope you're feeling better.

[CourtnieMarie]

still some lovely macros with gingerbread! sleep is more important than reading

[ixaera]

2 hours ago, Taddea Zhaan said:

No chocolate, but I did give in to a couple gingerbread cookies I found in the office >_>. I should have specified no treats! 

 

Ha, I do this too. Make a rule, then remember all the goodies I like that aren't technically breaking it XD

[Jord]

I thought I replied to the latest comments but clearly not... my bad!

 

On 1/5/2018 at 8:06 AM, Vibrantella said:

I do this as well, especially with my weight.  I only record it if it's gone down!  I used to get terribly frustrated with fluctuations and then comfort binge eat...  By now I may have outgrown this response, though.  Maybe it's time for me to be more honest, too!

 

 

I think it will definitely be helpful for me to stay on my goals if I'm honest about my weight and my tracking. It's when I ignore reality that I tend to go off the rails... 

 

On 1/5/2018 at 9:22 AM, CourtnieMarie said:

still some lovely macros with gingerbread! sleep is more important than reading

 

even so, new guideline this week is gonna be no free work snacks! there are so many! I already had to ignore cookies in the kitchen getting my coffee this morning. #somanysnacks

 

On 1/5/2018 at 9:42 AM, ixaera said:

 

Ha, I do this too. Make a rule, then remember all the goodies I like that aren't technically breaking it XD

 

I might need to make better rules, lol.

[Jord]

Weekend report:

- I didn't do any fitness.  But I made a decision yesterday that my back is ready to ease back into activity. That combined with it being over 15 degrees this morning, I resumed my walk from the commuter parking lot into the office (12 minute walk). With my old job it was miles from the lot, now I work where it's a short walk and I've been using it to get in extra physical activity. I'll go back to barbell club on Wednesday and do some light work. 

- Dragged myself out of the house to go with Mr T to take plants to my new office on Sunday and then take him on a tour of the bus stops/system. He's starting work at the same university I am at today.

- Major wins are tracking all the foods and not drinking any booze. The no alcohol thing was harder than I thought it was going to be. Thanks to some encouragement from @Grumble I'm going to continue the no drinking until my meet in late April. @Laghail also spoke some words of you go girl.

- Sat: 93g protein, 22g fiber. Sun: 99g protein, 17g fiber (oops) but I had salad with dinner and made mashed cauliflower/potato, so I feel like my colon health was still good? 

 

(no idea where this is from)

 

Self Reminder:

On 1/4/2018 at 7:05 AM, Taddea Zhaan said:

January Goals: 

1) Continue with the getting comfortable with the uncomfortable tracking

2) No booze January body cleanse

3) Focus on eating protein and fiber rich foods

4) Limit spending on non-necessities to $10/week

 

Goal for this week: No work snacks. Track and report here daily. 

[Jord]

Work leadership article for this week: https://leadershipfreak.blog/2018/01/05/two-simple-systems-for-generating-positive-energy-in-others/ 

 

The article is nothing new, just gives me some buzz words to write on post-its to think about at the start of each day. 

 

listen, care, challenge, admire, appreciate, apply strengths

 

Which will be good as I'm working on meeting with all of this semester's students over the next couple of weeks.

 

It's to easy to just mindlessly read things and never do anything with that info, so if I just find one article and focus on that for a whole week, that will probably be more productive than reading a bunch of stuff each day/week and doing the in one ear, out the other. Maybe I need a separate log somewhere for these thoughts... 

[CourtnieMarie]

3 hours ago, Taddea Zhaan said:

 

(no idea where this is from)

i'd guess Girls

 

nice job on the weekend even if you didn't do any physical activity. you let your body rest, didn't drink alchy, and ate some protein & fiber. well done!

 

[Laghail]

You're tough and intelligent and you got this.

 

 

 

[Jord]

4 hours ago, CourtnieMarie said:

 

nice job on the weekend even if you didn't do any physical activity. you let your body rest, didn't drink alchy, and ate some protein & fiber. well done!

 

 

thanks! sometimes it's hard to see the success through the weeds. which is what ya'll are so great at. 

 

3 hours ago, Laghail said:

You're tough and intelligent and you got this.

 

thank you for the reminder!

 

3 hours ago, Laghail said:

 

 

 

 

GRRRR! Gonna tackle this week like a bear on cocaine. 

 

Work snacks have been so tough today, so many cookies in the kitchen, but staying strong! 

[CourtnieMarie]

you're doing amazing! keep pretending you're on cocaine!

[Jord]

On 1/8/2018 at 7:10 AM, Taddea Zhaan said:

On 1/4/2018 at 7:05 AM, Taddea Zhaan said:

January Goals: 

1) Continue with the getting comfortable with the uncomfortable tracking

2) No booze January body cleanse

3) Focus on eating protein and fiber rich foods

4) Limit spending on non-necessities to $10/week

 

Goal for this week: No work snacks. Track and report here daily. 

 

Monday on point. 

- no work snacks

- I did have some pieces of chocolate at home but I was still 100+ under calories when I went to bed. 

- 99g protein, 37g fiber  

 

Let's get uncomfortable:

- spoke up for myself on needing to rearrange some things on my calendar for today

- resumed walking to work and messaged my coach to figure out a plan to get back on track with my program

 

boring adulting checklist for today:

- mail rent check (she still hasn't cashed the Dec one but that's no excuse to be over a week late on January...)

- pay the neighbor for our joint trash bill

- purchase furnace air filter

 

 

Today's food will be harder because I was short on time for making lunch, so I'm only at 65g protein after lunch and I forgot to grab the protein bar for my snack. But I did grab all the rest of the leftover salad, so I'm hoping I won't need any extra food until I get home.

 

Need to figure out a booze/non-necessity spending tracking... maybe like this?

Days successful this week with no:

Booze: [ x ] [   ] [   ] [   ] [   ] [   ] [   ]  

Extra spending: [ x ] [   ] [   ] [   ] [   ] [   ] [   ]  

 

14 hours ago, CourtnieMarie said:

you're doing amazing! keep pretending you're on cocaine!

 

well, I'm going to need it with no booze and no shopping therapy!  

[Urgan]

3 hours ago, Taddea Zhaan said:

well, I'm going to need it with no booze and no shopping therapy!

 

Is cheese allowed??

[Jord]

41 minutes ago, Urgan said:

 

Is cheese allowed??

 

there will ALWAYS be cheese, you can pry cheese from my cold dead hands

[Grumble]

1 minute ago, Taddea Zhaan said:

 

there will ALWAYS be brie cheese, you can pry cheese from my cold dead hands

 

FIFY

[Urgan]

2 minutes ago, Taddea Zhaan said:

 

there will ALWAYS be cheese, you can pry cheese from my cold dead hands

 

Well then, as long as you have that and the occasional incident involving bacon, you'll be just fine.

[Echoceanic]

9 hours ago, Taddea Zhaan said:

Need to figure out a booze/non-necessity spending tracking... maybe like this?

Days successful this week with no:

Booze: [ x ] [   ] [   ] [   ] [   ] [   ] [   ]  

Extra spending: [ x ] [   ] [   ] [   ] [   ] [   ] [   ]  

 

I write down the dates of the month and then cross over the ones that were a success. It gives you an' I did it' boost every day and you keep it in mind. If you need a simple app, there is always Loop Habit Tracker it doesn't require internet and is pretty cool.

 

5 hours ago, Taddea Zhaan said:

there will ALWAYS be cheese, you can pry cheese from my cold dead hands

 

You would fit here well. We are lactose enthusiasts.