Healthy habits for 2018 - join me?

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I need to stop with diets. They don't work for me long term. I'm trying to build up healthy habits. I feel dieting is leading to compulsive overeating when diets end or binges when I fail. I want to get off this track this year. I'm committing to being healthy, or at least healthier, every month this year. I'm going to log a new practice each week or so and monitor if I'm managing to make them stick. Anyone going to join me?

last you're doing better than me on the weight loss. Celebrate! (Not with chocolate ) Not a pound off for me so far. A fairly good week on the habits though.

Water 7/7 and I think this is actually becoming a habit because I'm wanting to drink it now and feeling thirsty.

Sugar 5/5 but the weekend was BAD because i spent Saturday at baking school learning to make macarons.

Exercise 3/
Veg 5/7 fell apart a bit at the weekend.

This week is going to have to be portion control and cutting back on cheese. The aim is to consciously serve myself a small portion each time and see how that goes.

Keep at it folks. I really wish you some scale success too. I'm so relieved it's working.
Good score liz

Gah I have already screwed up on sleep rule!

Veg going well.

Good to hear the successes.

Not screwed up yum, just your score going down. Means you can improve it next week. Moving away from all or nothing thinking would be another healthy habit.
I'm finding my scores really highlight improvements I find easy and the ones that are hard. For me daily physio exercises ia the hardest. I've always hated doing them but I'm exploring working out a time when I would do these that works for me.

That is very true lasttime! I think that is a large part of my problem actually, that is why I am resisting the temptation to start ALL the new habits now and have given up on them next week.

Good that it is helping you identify physio as something you need to work on. There are def some habits I am procrastinating on and one of them is using the pelvic floor weights I got a year ago

Ah snap - my pelvic floor weights are gathering dust somewhere.

No way! well hopefully we will both have dusted them off before the end of the year.

Well I found my itouch sure pelvic floor toner. Needed new batteries but lying in bed reading while it does its thing is no hardship. I think this will be next week's habit. Especially given how common pelvic organ prolapse gets after 50.
Hope you are all getting on ok

So this week...
It's been a bit lacklustre and I haven't been paying that much attention to my new habits so I'm a little unsure of my scores
But I know I get full marks for green juice znd exercise again.
For veg with meals I may have missed about 2 meals
So give that 6/7
Physio exercises are again the least good. I think I managed to do them 4 or 5 days out of 7.

New stuff I want to do 2 things really. Add in pelvic floor stuff snd start taking supplements regularly especially calcium.

So I'm adding pelvic floor as an either or with the physio exercises. And calcium as the habit I track instead of green juice. I will keep on drinking green juice but won't record it. It's become part of what I just do.

I don't know why I'm so blah this morning. I hope others have more spark

last so the green juice is just what you do now - the system works 😊

For me, water probably 6/7 but even on the bad days I drank some which is better then before doing this. I think I've trained myself to want it which feels a bit odd! Exercise 2/3, life got in the way but i did an unplanned long walk and I'll do 4 gym this week. Sugar 4/5 due to crazy cake baking on Friday for a party Saturday which meant I just had to taste! Veg making up my 5 a day probably 5/7, the weekend completely broke that. There's a weekend pattern showing here. I think the next habit must be not throwing it all out of the window on Friday night!

On the bright side I seem to have lost drum roll 1/4 of a lb. Hey ho, it's heading in the right direction. I get measured at the gym next week and I'm hoping to have lost cm even if not lbs.

This was a great plan, last , thank you for letting me come among too.

liz38 that's right it has worked! I should stop feeling despondent.

Your scores are great. Well done!! I know the weightloss seems underwhelming but focus on it being sustainable. And this is showing you your weak spots. Any idea how to tackle the weekends?
I'm trying to think through using food to celebrate and relax and work out what's needed and what I can do away with. I'm glad you're here with me btw

Well done on the water esp and Im curious to see what gym measure will say.

Well done liz and last. Brilliant that habits are becoming more ingrained.

I really need to do the PF thing soon but it sounds a plavar, you have to walk around with the one I have in for 20 minutes! Maybe in a week or two when I get sleep routine sorted I can make it a first thing in the morning task.

Veg 6/7 - doing pretty well think I have averaged 5 or more however there was one day, and although it wasn't the weekend it was basically the same sort of thing - lots going on family round etc and I think I may have been under 5, also yesterday it was probably less than 5. I am still at the phase where I need to log on MFP and make a conscious effort otherwise I tend to have only 2 portions.

Sleep - not so good 2/7. In bed after 11 but before 12 most nights. I am going to aim for 10.45 I think, to encourage me to be in bed by 11 rather than slipping over by 10 mins or so and then creeping up.

This week I am trying to eat 3 square meals a day.

Im in and place marking. I find mumsnet hugely helpful for motivation

Well. I've had most awful week. I have no scores to report. Done next to none of my habits. Didn't see that coming.
Anyway going to get back in the zone this week.
I hope others are doing well. Welcome rady and nice scores yum. In terms of the sleep have you tried doing it the other way round - setting a get up time and then calculating the sleep from there. As long as you stick to the get up time your bed time will sort itself- eventually!

Welcome Rady.

Last did something happen or was it just one of those weeks? I didn't do too great either, maybe it was the freezing weather to blame! That is a really good idea re getting up, as trying to go to be earlier is just not working! basically worse than 0 out of 7 for sleep.

Ok so I am going to aim for getting up 6.30 weekdays, 7.15 weekends. I have les mills on demand (exercise workouts) so will try and do something from that even if its just the 15 minute mindfulness every morning. Also going to try and have veg at all 3 meals rather than just 5 veg a day (think I am averaging 5 consistently but that is through eating most of them in a last ditch attempt at dinner) .

Looking back I also got 0 out of 7 for '3 meals a day' so def not a good week.

It was anniversary of some thing upsetting that set me off. Then bad and stressful work stuff on top. Anyway I think the key is to get back on the horse.

Was there a reason you did less well last week?

last

No nothing significant happened for me last week but I prob have low level stress ongoing and just really like the time when everyone is in bed and I can watch crap tv by myself.

Checking in late this week. last I hope you're feeling better and more on top of it now?

I'm a bit peeved frankly. Last week exercise was 5/3, 4 gym and a junior park run with DD. Which may not be far but after 4 gym sessions it really hurt! Water was probably 6/7, veg 6/7 and I need to check back to see what the others were which suggests either they're embedded or they're abandoned. 1.5 lbs off consistently all week. Grumbling because the visible change is my rings swinging around so clearly all the weight is off my fingers not my large waist, fat arms or flabby back and chest. Back to original weight on Monday so the weekend clearly broke it again.

Thinking it through, I think the problem is DH. he's reduced sugar Monday to Friday too although he's doing it differently and just offering way too many weekend treats which i can't say no to. Which is obviously his fault not mine.

This week hasn't started well, it's only Wednesday morning and I'm trying to decide whether to go for damage limitation or broke. I'll get measured at the gym this morning and hope a good result on that provides some motivation.

On the bright side, I didn't drink enough water on Monday and had a cracking dehydration headache by the evening. I may not have trained myself to drink it but apparently I've trained myself to expect it. Small steps.

Update. According to the nice lady at the gym I've lost 1lb (in 4 weeks). Also measurements varying between 0.5" and 1.5", the biggest from my abdomen which is where I most want to lose it. So feeling a bit less peeved and a bit more motivated.

Hi liz. It's all a bit frustrating isn't it. This week I just want to click my fingers and be both thin and healthy. I dlso tend to lose from the outside edges in. But the 1.5" off the belly is excellent!!!!
Maybe talk to your husband and ask him to stop with the sabotage - but nicely

Well this week has mainly been about coaxing myself back into the saddle.
Food wise I've done fine
Green juice 7/7
Veg with meals 7/7

Exercise is lagging behind
Running 1/3
Physio 0/7

Bigger news I was a bit conflicted about is that I've gone on to eating a ketogenic diet. It seems to be the only way I lose any weight at all and I'm still overweight. I know I said no more dieting but I notice ive maintained for almost 18 months since last time I did keto. I've tried to lose bug not much happened. Then 6 months of just letting it be. Thing is I'm just not happy like this. I don't fell healthy either. Focus is still on organised non compulsive eating rather than calorie restriction so maybe that's not a diet???... just ditching carbs because the blood sugar thing has me thinking about food all day

Rather late report in this week. I'm still trying to get back on track. Eating is ok, juice snd veg. Exercise has taken a slump. Being cooped up with the weather for days on end hasn't helped.
For February weight has stayed the same. It's discouraging isn't it?
I think next month I need to tackle overeating.... without lapsing into a punitive mentality...no idea how that rill be achieved.
Hope anyone else still pushing thus is seeing some success

I haven't done great tbh but well done on keeping going last, don't be discouraged, you are doing really well.