Short term/Long term goals...
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Short term goal. 2 trips to the gym this week. No carbs after 4 p.m. Drink about a gallon of water a day. Log all meals.
Long term goal. 3 to 5 days at the gym each week. Losing close to 70 lbs. 7 down so far.
Completed goals: swapped out soda for black coffee and tea. Learned i love bitter drinks that arent alcoholic which inturn had me try brussel sprouts for the first time since childhood. They are delicious so i have a new favorite vegetable.
Today is day 21.1 -
Short Term Goals - By 10/1/16:
- In bed before 10pm - so hard for this night owl.
- Up at 5am for a run or workout, about 3 days a week to start.
- Lose 20 lbs by 10/1.
- Stop letting my diet go to heck in a hand basket every weekend.
Long Term Goals - By 1/1/17:
- Still going to bed on a regular schedule.
- Complete the 10k in Oct I signed up for with out dying.
- Still up at 5am, working out 3 days a week. NO EXCUSES!
- Maintained 20 lbs loss, and maybe some more.
- Let my diet go to heck every now and then.0 -
Short term - I'd like to start exercising regularly again. I did my first workout in awhile yesterday, and planning on another tonight.
I'd like to lose 5lbs, which should be entirely doable.
Long term - I'd like to resume martial arts practise. I love it, but lessons are expensive, and I have pretty low energy after work. I'd like to lose about 30-40lbs, a weight which I haven't seen in about 7 years, but where I'm pretty comfortable.1 -
I'm having a little trouble defining short term goals as I need to have surgery in a little over a week and that's kind of throwing a wrench into things. I'm ok and will be just fine, but there's going to be a recovery period where I just won't be able to be very active, and in these weeks leading up to the surgery I've been ordered to refrain from engaging in exercise other than gentle walking. So I guess for now my short term goals are:
- eat well and watch those calories
- drink plenty of water
- get to bed at a reasonable hour and get an appropriate amount of sleep
Longer term:
- Up at 6am on weekdays for yoga
- less back pain as a result of a stronger core through regular exercise
- Lose 30 pounds by end of 20161 -
Short term goal for me is learn how to swim. Long term goal is to complete a sprint triathlon and not gain a bunch of weight during the school year. I know this has been going for awhile but I just listened to the podcast where Chuck mentioned it. This is great!0
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Short Term Goals - By 10/1/16:
- In bed before 10pm - so hard for this night owl.
- Up at 5am for a run or workout, about 3 days a week to start.
- Lose 20 lbs by 10/1.
- Stop letting my diet go to heck in a hand basket every weekend.
Long Term Goals - By 1/1/17:
- Still going to bed on a regular schedule.
- Complete the 10k in Oct I signed up for with out dying.
- Still up at 5am, working out 3 days a week. NO EXCUSES!
- Maintained 20 lbs loss, and maybe some more.
- Let my diet go to heck every now and then.
How is this going? I hope that you are still on the right path!0 -
KlickittyK wrote: »I'm having a little trouble defining short term goals as I need to have surgery in a little over a week and that's kind of throwing a wrench into things. I'm ok and will be just fine, but there's going to be a recovery period where I just won't be able to be very active, and in these weeks leading up to the surgery I've been ordered to refrain from engaging in exercise other than gentle walking. So I guess for now my short term goals are:
- eat well and watch those calories
- drink plenty of water
- get to bed at a reasonable hour and get an appropriate amount of sleep
Longer term:
- Up at 6am on weekdays for yoga
- less back pain as a result of a stronger core through regular exercise
- Lose 30 pounds by end of 2016
I hope the surgery went well and you are on your way to recovery.0 -
Goal advice: Use the SMART criteria to define good goals:
Specific – target a specific area for improvement.
Measurable – quantify or at least suggest an indicator of progress.
Achievable – make it doable
Relevant – it should be relevant to what you want to achieve
Time-bound - specify when the result(s) can be achieved.
Sometimes this means altering goals. For instance I might measure body-fat percentage instead of 'looking better'. Because body fat % is measurable and specific. Even though what I really want is to look better.
I've noticed that when I do this, sometimes I feel uncomfortable with the work that will be required to make it happen. This is a sign that I don't really want the results, or I've planned something too enthusiastically but when it comes time to start I have to scale back.
There's more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria and all around the web.
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Short Term Goals:
- Recovering from knee injuries and stress fracture in my foot, so building my muscles back up from the insane amount of atrophy that has occurred from my lack of activity
- Slowly build my endurance back up
- Lose 10lbs over the next couple months
- Fix my running form
- Dramatically reduce my soda intake (since I hate coffee and am not a fan of hot drinks, I rely on stuff like Pepsi Max for caffeine...and recently I have been averaging 3 x 12oz cans/day)
Long Term Goals:- Current Age: 34...for point of reference for next 2 items
- Qualify for and go to Boston Marathon by age 40
- Qualify for and go to Kona Ironman World Championship by age 40
- Lose 30-35lbs
- Find a healthy lifestyle that is maintainable
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Resurrecting a somewhat dead post here, but my short term goal is to get back to running, going to start with once a week (gym 5 days a week doing short cardio and weight training) and go from there, my medium-term goal is to run a 5k in August, with my long term goal to do a half marathon this time next year. Not looking for a good time, I just want to be able to run the whole thing and finish (hopefully not last). This should all help me to lose the 20 lbs or so that I really need to. I would also like to eventually compete in a triathlon, but I need to get the biking thing down so that might be a couple year out goal (adding equipment to the mix just makes it hard for me, swimming and running are easy, you just go do them).0
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