Hi comrades, welcome to the Improvement Megathread!
I plan to post a new weekly megathread here every Sunday. I think Sunday is a good day to review the previous week and make some plans for the following week. If somebody else wants to post a new megathread anytime, just let me know.
Here are some ideas for discussion:
- Do you want to share something you’ve done in the previous week?
Even if you did only 1 push-up, read 1 page, meditated for 1 minute, or touched 1 blade of grass, let us know about it. When it comes to making progress, everything counts. The most important thing is to make progress, no matter how small.
- What would you like to do next week?
- What aspect of life would you like to improve?
- Do you have any streaks? For example, “sober for one day.” Feel free to post your streak every day in this thread.
- If you don’t have a continuous streak, did you manage to abstain from something for a day or more?
- Did you come across some useful information or resource that might help others?
Of course, this is not a definitive list. And feel free to make a separate post in the comm for any of these topics. This is just a megathread for all the stuff that you want to share but don’t feel like making a new post.
Let me know if you have any suggestions.
And remember the Golden Rule of Hexbear:
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Hello comrades! I quit using snus (mouth tobacco-nicotine pouches) since 1st January. It’s hard, and I get extreme cravings during the days and have problems falling asleep in the night, but I’m not gonna start again!
I want to lose weight so this week I installed the Waistline app from f-droid for weight tracking & calorie counting and setup an indoor trainer with my bike so I can ride in the mornings. Good luck to everyone working on their goals!
I would also like to lose some weight this week.
My favourite calorie tracking website/app is Cronometer. I’m using the free option, which has all the features you’d want. You can track your weight and see all the macro and micro nutrients. I also recommend r/Volumeeating, which is a subreddit for high-volume, low-calorie meals.
Good luck with your goals comrade
I’ve been working on weightloss the past week. Been using Noom, but only as a calorie counter and weight tracking. I find the simple routine of weighing myself daily and tracking calories is mostly enough to eliminate poor eating habits. And reducing environmental triggers (like I can’t have a bag of chips sitting on the counter and be looking at it all day-- it has to go out of sight)
i have a txt file called diary on my desktop. Open it, on the first line i hit enter to shove old entries out of the way, put the date, and start writing. Whatever. Sometimes it’s a lot, sometimes it’s next to nothing. Whatever I feel like. Some days I forget to open it. That’s okay.
In the past week, I practiced meditation on 4 days in a row, went running on one day and cooked my healthy lentil & chickpea stew.
Next week I would like to touch grass with a friend and hopefully do some reading. It’s gonna be too cold for running so I would like to practice my bodyweight routine on at least one day.
I wanna share a subreddit called Fitness Material Heaven where people are pirating and sharing paid fitness programs and books. There is a lot of good stuff, check it out!
Good luck to everyone with their goals
My first goal of the year has been to cut back on sugar consumption. I’m still at the stage of becoming aware how much sugar is in the stuff I normally eat and figuring out what I can cut out or replace. The easiest target so far is obviously cutting back on snacks, but it’s also gonna be hard because I love my baked treats.
Thanks again @moonlake@hexbear.net for linking me that sugar free reddit!
I might try and tackle this too along with my attempting to finally stop drinking. I’ve been allowing myself sour skittles as a treat tho so idk how well I’ll keep up with it.