Anyone want to chat about goals and resolutions? I’m weird in that these generally work for me, but I don’t think l implement them the same as most people. I teach, so my goals tend to track with the school year and need to be accomplished by the end of the next semester or to the next break, etc.
I’m not sure yet what my focus will be yet since I’m at my goal weight, but I think I will set it to go to the end of February.
To get more sleep, and to stop deprioritizing my workouts for work. Been doing it for years now. I’ll have the fear of running out of time, guilt of getting home late, so I’ll blow off the AM workout, pretend like I’ll have time to do it after work, which I won’t, and it’s missed. Got a DEXA a few months back, last one to that was right around 1.5yrs, lost 16lbs of muscle! Not cool!
Pushed it a lot the last week, and noticed the daytime drowsy hitting me, being a tractor trailer driver… not exactly the best thing! Something about being tired when driving an 80,000lb battering ram doesn’t work out well.
Resolutions usually don’t work for me, but I’m trying it this round! I’m usually the first to ask somebody else in my boat if they know what the definition of insanity is…
Have not made a New Year’s Resolution or anything even similar in years. If I wanna make a goal to do something, I don’t need a particular date to start it.
That’s why I went to morning workouts decades ago. I THINK I’ll workout after work, but won’t. Morning is best for me.
I’m going to go back to fasting 4.5 days at least every 2 months. Not sure about more fasting, though. It’s a 2-edge sword: too much, and it causes me to get cold.
Last year’s resolution was to use less plastic. It didn’t go very well, so I am trying for that resolution again this year.
I do have a vanity resolution for the month of January. I am going on a cruise with my girlfriends of 40 some years and I would like to get 5 pounds off before the cruise.
Two resolutions for me. First, to drop from my current weight (192.8) to 185. Second, to swim 180 miles on the year. I’m at 154 this year and my goal was 150.
This is another unexciting post, but I think my New Year’s resolution is that I’ve about had it with supplementation. It feels like more Big, more advice on how to do and what to do and how much and why you should whether you can tell if it’s working or not and what tests to take in order to tweak the numbers and take more or less of whatever, with a never-ending price tag and not much to show for it, at least personally.
So I think my New Year’s resolution may be to cut out absolutely everything but food. Healthy, nourishing, hydrating, keto friendly food. At least get myself a baseline that’s real, before I start hallucinating about what might or might not be wrong with me! 
@kib1 That’s a valid point, not knowing if a suppliment is improving anything for us without tests.
I don’t mind getting tests that my insurance covers. Getting the doctors to order them is the biggest hurdle lol
I’m in the process of going through my staple foods and getting an idea of what nutrient.needs are covered without supplementation.
It really is best to get them from food.
My resolutions are these I reckon,
Two of them actually start tomorrow.
Quit the tobacco-free nicotine pouches I used to stop smoking. Cold turkey starting tomorrow.
Sorting / tossing what’s left of the 26 year marriage accumulation. I started after my wife passed away in 2014 and even after I got 2/3 of it taken care of, there is still so much left that if anyone were were to visit right now they would think I’ve never tossed anything in my life lol… I’m starting that tomorrow and not stopping until I’m finished. If I stay busy and don’t stop save for meals, sleep, gym, errands, and showers, it will make it so much easier to stop the nicotine pouches. If I get tired and stop for a break I’ll take a nap. That way I won’t wind up sitting down with my phone and risk thinking about the pouches.
Another motivation to get it done and over with is I called one of my managers from a former job. (As some of you know I had to quit my other job due to stress and chain smoking coworkers.Two things I have to avoid with my newly diagnosed cardiovascular bump in the road.)
She said yes, she’ll definitely give me a job. It’ll be a couple of weeks before I start so that’s great motivation to get this mess dealt with beforehand. I hate cold weather so if I’m going to be stuck in the house I might as well get to it.
I’m also resolved to eliminate as much visceral fat as I can by March that I plan to go in for my second DEXA scan. I’ve only got to lose about 1.2 lb per the clinic recommendation. I’m sure I’m well on the way. Pants fitting loser and visibly less belly fat. Especially the love handle area. ( Keto and fasting is awesome !)
Also going to start writing songs again. Back in the early 2000s I was very prolific at it. Three or four per week. I write folly/Americana stuff.
That’s about it.
I’m with you, KM (@kib1). I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve had some sort of health-related question and found reference to taking some supplement, and I think one has made a difference. Maybe two. The fact that we can overdose on some vitamins complicates things.
If we read someone healed some problem by taking some supplement, maybe that just means they were deficient in it or they have a metabolic problem that we don’t necessarily have.
Assuming people are honest and not just selling snake oil, truthfully I’ve started to wonder if most people are just more subject to the placebo effect than I am. Either that, or there’s nothing wrong with me and I’m just a hypochondriac, lol. One way or the other, I never seem to get the amazing results I hear about.
Yup! If I don’t do it first thing, most likely isn’t happening, was in there at 0430 this morning!
The getting cold is a pretty direct message your thyroid is slowing down. If you want to see that in action, get a Free T3 when you’re normal, then when you’ve done that and are cold.
All my fasting demolished my thyroid numbers. Never went back to normal, which is fine by me because now T3 keeps me at my mid 20’s metabolic rate!
I think that’s mainly true. For me, the only things I can recommend are collagen peptides (has made skin way clearer) and glutathione (seems to help with sinus congestion).
I THINK that methylated B vitamins could help me, but I have no data to prove this. And I don’t notice anything miraculous when I take them.
I’m assuming vitamin D helps, but I have no way of knowing.
Everyone seems to be crazy about creatine now, so I’m taking 10 g/day. When this bottle runs out, I’m going to stop for a while and see if I feel any different.
That seems like the most realistic test we can do. If you have a body composition scale, maybe track %BF, lean body mass changes, water weight?
I grow broccoli sprouts and its very easy to do. It’s a cheap and fun minor hobby.
Broccoli sprouts have sulforaphane which signals your body to make glutathione. Our bodies can make a lot of it, if they are told to. Glutathione taken orally gets broken down in the digestive system and not too much ends up getting absorbed.
Little by little, broccoli sprouts are taking hold in the alternative health world, and unlike so many other things, broccoli sprouts aren’t just a fad.
I dropped all my supplements earlier this year, and all that came back is K2/D3 and buffered vitamin C. I recently added folate to support my one low-dose RA med. Topical magnesium when I remember.
I had vitamin numbers run in October with my employee health screen. All good.
K2/D3 does seem to help me. I had a calcification in my shoulder that has been there for decades. It doesn’t bother me anymore. My mom had a hard nodule on her hand that has softened and shrunk.
Resolutions? Hmm.
Stick to the food list and supplements that work. No new intros until February, then only one at a time with the list I’ve created. No dairy or eggs this year. (No gluten is a given).
Finish my two current self study courses by Memorial Day.
Finish my two workout apps by Memorial Day.
The last two require I be on point with the first one, because I cannot do those things if I’m flared. My hands don’t work.
I have done this in the past and found Cronometer has some errors. I’m not sure what tool you are using. When I cross reference with the Intolerances app using the (inexpensive) nutrition side to sort for the ones I was getting zeros for in Cronometer, I was consuming more than I thought. In my case, copper and manganese.
