I’ve been working my modified goals for about a month now, and it’s time to update them.
What I’ve monitored this session has included many more goals than just weight and portion control. Some things I’ve learned so far:
- My work focus is ok. I’m keeping a good handle on overtime and paying good attention to work while I’m at work. Probably don’t need to continue monitoring it.
- My hobbies are quite monotone. I come home in the evenings and spend a lot of time watching movies, even when I do it without the constant binging I used to do. I would prefer to engage my varied interests more.
- My chores have improved since I tracked them. I’ll continue to track chores.
- My water intake dropped rapidly since I stopped logging on Sparkpeople. SP just had too much overhead with food intake, etc.
- My exercise stayed steady, but I would still prefer to do more.
- I wasn’t giving myself enough encouragement for my walking while shopping. I do a lot of that, even though I don’t buy a lot of things.
- I finally adapted to weigh-ins about 2x per week, and it’s more satisfying than weigh ins every day. I’ll keep to that.
- I had many more successful experiences with stomach hunger and reducing portion size this month. Maybe I’ll track that next.
- I’m keeping up with core exercises ok, but I would prefer to be stronger
In summary, I think I’ll adapt my goal tracking to the following:
- Back to Sparkpeople, with the intent to really track food as well as water. Also get my shopping walking better tracked.
- Will track portion size and stomach hunger experiences in my spreadsheet
- Will continue to track chores, activities and self-care in my spreadsheet
I drank a ton of water yesterday. After two big meals on Tuesday and Wednesday, it felt good to rev up my bio-reactor by using water to help move that food through my system.
