Work week coming what steps have you taken to Stay On Track?

Hey Everyone

Happy Sunday  We have all been taking small steps to Get Back On Track this weekend.  I am so thrilled to see all of you here.    We are all getting ready for the coming week.  Let's help each other with sharing our game plan for the challenges ahead   What are you doing this week to Stay On Track?

My game plan 

Hitting the gym first thing in the morning or at least my treadmill at home.  Working out in the morning seems to motivate me to stay on track.  If not, I need to do so right after work.

Drink at least 500ml of water first thing in the morning

Eat my oatmeal with protein supp for breakfast - I find this stays with me and I am not hungry

Drink all my water, before I drink anything else

Put my favorite picture of myself on the fridge - loving my size 1 jeans

Chart my food intake and exercise

Take all my vitamins

Journal about what I am doing and feeling

Come here at BOTT and be accountable with all of you.

If we stumble, we all will be here to pick each other up and set us Back On Track

Stop the negative imagine of yourself, you are human and taking positive steps to feeling good about yourself. 

Don't look back unless you are headed there

Take care,
Kathy

Hi Kathy - 

Looking at this week's calendar, I can see that my biggest struggle is going to get to the gym.  I have 3 after-work meetings this week, which leaves me with only 2 days to make it to the gym.  So I'm going to break out the yoga mat and finally get around to trying out those FitTV DVR'd Yoga shows.  We'll see if I can tie myself up in knots or not.  LOL!

There's also an at-work yoga class starting next week, but they have a free trial day this Thursday that I'm going to try out.  I think it'll be fun to do yoga with my co-workers at lunchtime for the next few months.  

Here's my plan for the week:

1 - Cook something today that'll serve as lunches all week.  Need to hit Eggface's website or break out a cookbook.  I'm thinking something in the crockpot would be nice.  

2 - Plan my meals each day using the "What are you doing/eating today?" post on the RNY forum.  This helps me stay on track and helps me get up to the calories I need to be eating.  If I don't plan my meals, I find that I don't eat enough. 

3 - Focus on sodium.  My doc wants me to increase my sodium intake but I'm finding this is really really really hard.  So this week I'm going to do a better job of making it a focus.  

4 - Be more faithful with drinking my water in the evenings.  I do good during the day when I'm at work and at my desk, but when I leave the office I tend to forget to drink water again until I take my evening vitamins.  

5 - Now that I've set my 9 Goals for 2009, I need to come up with a game plan for achieving those goals.  So I'm going to sit down and figure it out this week ... even if I only take the first couple goals and develop plans, at least I'll get started. 

6 - Hit the gym on the 2 days that are available for me this week and fill in the other 3 days with something at home.  Yoga, Dance Dance Revolution or something else.  Maybe I need to get my Gazelle back from my mom....

~Pam

Hi Pam,

Do you  have stairs where you work?  If you do, push comes to shove, use some of your lunch hour walking up and down the stairs  Great cardio workout

Be sure and let us know what worked for you and if anything didn't so we can learn from  you and you are a great example to this group

Take care,
Kathy

Hi Kath,

You're so right.  Our normal routine starts on Monday so the focus needs to be to stay committed to what is being on track is for each of us.

I can't really commit to any activity because I feel like I'm going to be sick forever (sense the frustration there?? LOL).  When I feel better, I've already been told by my doctor to take it easy for a little bit and ease into my normal routine of activity.

I started using the pill container for my vitamins.  They are sitting right here by my computer staring at me so I know I'll take them.

I am going to continue being accountable for my food here with all of us in BOTT.  That has helped me a lot. 

I am planning my food for the day and logging it into my computer Fitday version on my laptop. 

I am focusing on protein first and the appropriate amounts of healthy carbs and fats. 

I've tossed the holiday junk and sending the remainder with my husband to work tomorrow.  Despite feeling lousy and disappointed that I've been sick throughout the holidays, I haven't eaten to feel better.  Isn't that a weird mindset.....eating to feel better when all it does it make us worse?  Duh, but I've done it.

I've also refocused on how I felt when I first had my surgery and those exciting post-ops months to stay motivated. 

This group is so much fun!!

Cathy

Kathy,

It was so nice to find this Back on Track thread yesterday.  I have been thinking for two weeks about how am I really going to get back on track.  I'm so far off, that the smallest of steps will be an improvement.  So my game plan for this week is going to be some baby steps.

1.  Have already downloaded my pod casts for the week for the gym.  So hitting that first thing in the morning.

2.  Dusting off the protein drinks that I bought two months ago and haven't even opened!  I must get my protein up.

3.  My hardest thing for the week is I have to again kick this nasty Mountain Dew Habit.  
I could start a support group for this I believe! So I'm preparing for the week of headaches that I'm going to have....I just have to deal with it.

So those are three for the week.  I'll also need to figure out my vitamins again.  I have an appt. with doctor to go over my 3 year post op blood work.  I know I must be low on something....I'm so tired all the time. 

Well I'm very excited for the week and nice to see other people on here that are going to refocus! 

Missy

Hi Missy,

I had such a headache for 3 days and today is the first time it's almost gone.  May I suggest you not go cold turkey on your Mountain Dew...  Just drink less each day.  For example if you are drinking 6 bottles a day, for this week try 4 bottles, then the next week 3 and then the next week 2 and so on.

But, try this....tell  yourself you can have a mountain dew but you have to drink all your water first.  So get at leasst 64 ozs in and then have your mountain dew.  I bet you will be so full you will not be able to drink all you have been drinking....

I find with eating my protein first and often with my water it's made BIG difference in the amount of bad foods I am taking in.  Gee, I should know that, but forgot...

You are going to do great, we are here for you!!!

Take care,
Kathy

Yes...thanks for all of the posts that led me to this forum!! This will be the daily support/acountability that I sooooo need.
Yes...I will continue to get up at 4am rather than4:30am...that will give me 30 mins. of bike/elliptical time

~Do some exercise in the early evening also.

~Today I actually logged my day's plan on dailyplate early this morning. I think this might be a good gameplan for me.

PLAN IT; LOG IT; STICK TO IT!!!!!!!

You go girl

So here's my plan after spending much of my holiday break on the couch.....

Tomorrow it's back to work, which means I'll:

1.  leave my office as much as possible and walk the halls to see students and teachers. 

2.  take the stairs to the 3rd floor instead of the elevator....I rarely use the elevator anyway!

3.  drink as much water as possible before I have lunch....at least 3 bottles

4.  pass on any leftover cookies, candy or holiday treats that the secretaries will surely bring in (afterall, they don't want that stuff in their house!!!)

5.  pack a nutritious lunch of crockpot chicken and brocoli and fage with fruit 

6.  don't let the stress of being a principal drive me to eat like it does sometimes

7.  do my leslie sansone walk away the pounds workout when I get home

I think that about covers it.....I feel great about getting back on track!!!!!

Thanks for the support and a kick in the ass, however so slight! 
Erin

Hi Erin,

Sounds like a great plan of action...be sure and have something  you really enjoy to eat when everyone is sucking down all those left over goodies. You want to be chewing on something when they are.  Otherwise the temptation may be to great

Take care,
Kathy