November Week 1 Group Challenge - Countdown to Close Out 2025
This week's challenge will start us down the path of the last 8 weeks of the year. You have two months to accomplish some things in your health and other areas of your life. I'm going to give you a list of categories and your task is to list ONE goal for each category. Report your list of goals at the first of the week and then post daily to share how you're getting started on making differences in these areas before we end out the year. In December, we will revisit this challenge and see what progress we've made and then set a few new goals for 2026! Please put some thought into this and make each option a realistic one, with changes you can comfortably make and give yourself some grace for making those small improvements.
- Health
- Fitness
- Nutrition
- Water Intake
- Strength & Endurance
- Walking/Running
- Organization
- Emotional Health
- Work/Life Balance
- Relationship Enrichment
Again, the idea is to make small changes which will eventually make great improvement. It won't happen overnight. For instance, for the Health Category, maybe it's time to schedule the doctor's visit you've been putting off. Maybe it's as simple as cutting back on something you know isn't moving you forward.
Really looking forward to seeing each of your plans for each category and seeing how we get things started for this two-month period. We will follow up and compare the end of week one, with the end of the month in December and celebrate milestones with each other.
Jessica ⏰
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This one is a hard one. There is several that I need to work on. Emotional health I've been worrying on all year. work/life i have been working on slowly for the past month. The other one is fitness and nutrition. I really need to work on both of them.
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- Health - find a new health insurance
- Fitness - add 10 minutes of HIIT cardio
- Nutrition - quit diet coke (again)
- Water Intake * all good
- Strength & Endurance - add 3 more exercises to ST workout
- Walking/Running * all good
- Organization - spend 15 minutes 3 days/week on decluttering
- Emotional Health - meditate 10 minutes morning, 10 minutes evening; write in journal
- Work/Life Balance * all good
- Relationship Enrichment - make a list of fun things to do over winter months
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- Health-improve overall health.💪
- Fitness-do a bit of exercise everyday. I have a desk job (mon to fri)so making sure I do at least 5k steps a day and weekends at least 30mins of exercise sat and Sunday 💪
- Nutrition- improve eating nutritious foods. Try and eat a rainbow.🌈
- Water Intake- keep record and drink at 1500🥛reduce or stop alchol intake 🫗
- Strength & Endurance- this will be includes in with my fitness-ill do some yoga.💪
- Walking/Running-if im not doing fitness at home at weekend, will go for a walk🏃♀️
- Organization- im pretty good at this, boarding OCD. Intact I think im TOO organised.
- Emotional Health- this links with me exercising/eating better . So if I conquer fitness/nutrition/and all above my emotional health is better.🫶🫶
- Work/Life Balance-got this covered. Took a long time but learnt not to switch on my laptop at weekends. That was hard to do. Use to "oh I'll just look" 4 hours laters id still be on it. Maybe I should take my work email off my phone as I still sometimes look just to see🧐🤦♀️
- Relationship Enrichment-i feel and think if i don't feel great about myself , I wonder what my husband thinks (he tells me he loves me as I am) but it's me, so self confident is the key.
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- Health- Max 2 alcoholic drinks per week. Not consumed on the same day
- Fitness- start prep for aquabike competition. Swim 1X per week; Bike 2X per week; strength training 3X week
- Nutrition- Protein 150g per day, Carbs <20g per day
- Water Intake- 64oz per day
- Strength & Endurance- see fitness goals
- Walking/Running- 10,000 steps per day minimum
- Organization- meal prep day prior
- Emotional Health- daily morning gratitude
- Work/Life Balance- I like where I am at with this right now. I don't see the need for improvement here
- Relationship Enrichment- attend at least one social event a month with my husband
Melanie
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Goals for the next 8 weeks:
Health: get blood pressure back below 130
Nutrition: track every day (good, bad, ugly)
Fitness: 7,000 steps daily
Running: 5k training 3 days/week
Stength: weights 3 days/week
Water: 8 cups per day
Sleep: don't get on phone in bed!!!!
Work/life balance: read, puzzle, or crochet daily
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HEALTH-working on it everyday. 🍓
FITNESS-do my chair exercises at least 5 days a week. 💪
NUTRITION-eat more protein. 🐂
WATER INTAKE-continue with my 4 bottles a day. 🧊
STRENGTH & ENDURANCE-the same as fitness.💪
WALKING/RUNNING-get between 7000 & 8000 steps in each day.🚶♀️
ORGANIZATION-get my work room organized. 🤔
EMOTIONAL HEALTH-Continue with my meditation and breathing exercise everyday. 🧘♀️
WORK/LIFE BALANCE-continue to maintain my balance between the two.👍🏻
RELATIONSHIP ENRICHMENT-I'm single. My relationship with my son is good. My relationship with myself is a work in progress. 🧑🧒
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• Health - get blood work done
• Fitness - get daily active minutes up to 60/day
• Nutrition - eat at least 3 servings of veggies every day
• Water Intake - drink at least 64oz daily
• Strength & Endurance - add my chair exercises 3X a week
• Walking/Running - increase my step count to 6000 steps per day
• Organization - spend 20 minutes daily on organizing
• Emotional Health - journal daily
• Work/Life Balance - time block my time more so I don’t feel like I'm always working
Relationship Enrichment - put my phone down and spend more time with my hubby6 -
HEALTH
Keep to daily nutritional targetsFITNESS
5 workouts a weekNUTRITION
Log ALL meals in MFP / keep to Macro targets / just 2 snacks a weekWATER INTAKE
1.5 litres a daySTRENGTH & ENDURANCE
3 x strength workouts a weekWALKING/RUNNING
3 x mini walks a week (10 mins) / reach 8000 step target 3x a weekORGANISATION
De-clutter 2 rooms – Living room & KitchenEMOTIONAL HEALTH
Avoid overwhelm with meditation, yoga & self careWORK/LIFE BALANCE
Sleep routine / daily routine / journallingRELATIONSHIP ENRICHMENT
Maintain our 33 year relationship8 -
Wow love that everyone is putting time and thought into prioritizing themselves for meeting goals!!!
Here's mine:
- Health - Scheduled my annual physical for early December!
- Fitness - Set time aside JUST FOR walking, clearing my head at the end of each day. Increase pace when I can to do more fat burning, but pay attention to my knee and ankle issues so as not to overdue things in those areas.
- Nutrition - Push using my air fryer…I've stayed away from french fries at restaurants, but want to get back to making burgers at home and eating more chicken and fish in the air fryer. It really is a convenience issue, but with prices where they are now and wanting to keep my budget lower to pay a few bills off (car repairs recently and upcoming working on the house), I really want to work hard on this. Also, take time on Sundays to cook some veggies and put them in small containers for quick reheating during weeknight dinner meals. Do more meal prep.
- Water Intake - Minimum of 70 oz of water a day…higher whenever possible.
- Strength & Endurance - Continue my strength exercises for my arms, shoulders and core. Try to do at least 3-4 days per week for 15-20 minutes.
- Walking/Running - 10k steps a day
- Organization - Clean out my closet and donate things I no longer wear. Clean out dresser drawers.
- Emotional Health - Read daily. Turn off phone at 8pm. Pray daily and do some form of journaling outside of MFP.
- Work/Life Balance - Turn off work phone in the evenings. Leave on time from work whenever possible. Limit work conversations to work hours. Stop worrying about work events…it will be there the next day.
- Relationship Enrichment - I'm happily single by choice (divorced twice), but I want to do better at checking in on close neighbors and friends. A close neighbor had a fall this week and I didn't have a way outside of HER phone number to contact her family. I want to make sure people who live close to me have a way to reach out for help should they need it. Have more conversations with my brother and niece, since they're out of state. Go out to dinner or coffee/tea with a few friends and have meaningful conversation. Life is too short.
Question on journaling…do you use a journaling book that gives you a prompt or do you just write free-form? Do you do your journaling in some sort of online forum/file or do you prefer to write? I think working with a prompt would be easier, but don't know if there's any sort of online or book source for this. If you have any recommendations, I would appreciate it so much. Been trying to google for sources, but not finding much that's helpful.
Jessica
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- Health - Improve HBP
- Fitness - Move more to improve arthritis.
- Nutrition - Eat more vegetables.
- Water Intake - Continue to drink my water.
- Strength & Endurance - Add bands.
- Walking/Running - Add a few minutes daily.
- Organization - Pretty organized already.
- Emotional Health - Work on protecting my peace.
- Work/Life Balance - Retired/ Get out more.
- Relationship Enrichment - Reach out more.
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My goals for the rest of 2025:
Healthy - schedule my mammogram and improve my overall health
Fitness - continue with strength training and cardio and start adding more time to each workout
Nutrition - less snacking, more healthy foods
Water intake - I'm pretty good there
Strength/Endurance - increase workout times and add more weights as I get stronger
Walking/Running - work on getting more treadmill walks into my week
Organization - declutter my office/craft room and continue paring down on my clothes
Emotional health - spend some time each day being mindful
Work/Life balance - this is pretty good.
Relationship enrichment - check in more frequently with my friends and family
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That's a lot of categories...
- Health, all about weight (big surprise I know) aim to lose 4.6kg (10 lbs)
- Fitness, HR sticking at 148 on Parkrun, get to under 145
- Nutrition, complete MFP diary daily
- Water Intake, min 2 litres per day
- Strength & Endurance, plank challenge, add swimming
- Walking/Running, Nov 55/54 miles, Dec 58/65 miles
- Organization, get will and pensions sorted
- Emotional Health, I manage my demons, not expecting more than that.
- Work/Life Balance, the business I worked for just closed so here's hoping I have something to balance
- Relationship Enrichment, I am the person who reaches out. I need to write off those that only take and devote more time to those that are worthy.
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Health: Get under 140 lbs (about 11 lbs)
Fitness: Run 10k in under 60 min
Nutrition: get back in the habit of tracking every day
Water Intake: A gallon a day
Strength & Endurance: Do a body weight workout 3x a week.
Walking/Running: Keep walking daily/ Run 20 miles a week
Organization: work on coming up with a realistic daily schedule for my family and me
Emotional Health: journal
Work/Life Balance: n/a, as I'm a SAHM.
Relationship Enrichment: squeeze in a date night/lunch with husband when we get the chance
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Some of my answers are dependant on the results of my spine procedure (inserting needles and burning off the nerves to stop my severe, chronic pain) and issues with my knee (need cortisone shot).
Health: Continue with eating the 1/4, 1/4, 1/2 method of plating (1/4 protein, 1/4 carbs/starch, 1/2 veggies/fruit 🍽️🐟️🥔🥦🥝
Fitness: Continue doing six days of water fitness for 2-3 hours and incorporate chair yoga 🏊♀️🧘
Nutrition: Don't go over my daily nutrient allowances, especially sodium 🍴
Water Intake: Drink at least 3 16.9oz bottles of water a day💧
Strength/Endurance: Increase sets and reps of my water exercises💪🏊️
Walking/Running: Start using apt treadmill at least 5 times a week-increase steps to 5,000🚶♀️
Organization: Deep clean each room in apartment and minimise all collections/clothes/books/dvds/cds by donating👗👜📀📖
Emotional Health: Read Bible daily, morning and night meditation, breathing exercises, journaling, using Finch app daily🙏⛪️✝️
Work/Life balance: don't work, on disability🤷♀️
Relationship enrichment: become more involved in church activities, deepen friendships with people at church⛪️✝️
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That's a lot of categories...
That's a reminder that there's a LOT involved in a health and wellness journey…we are complex creatures. Glad you took the time to put yourself first in this way. Good luck on your goals!
Jessica
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Nobody responded to my questions from earlier, so I did another search…
Found a great app for journaling which allows me to do it online OR on my phone…my entries are private and it gives prompts if needed. If you want to take a look, it's called DayOne. Has a basic membership that's free or if you want you can do a week's trial and then it's $49 for an annual Updated membership.
I'm just trying the Basic for now to see how I like it.
Jessica
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8 week goals
Health - lose 7 lbs.
Fitness - 30 minutes of cardio each day.
Nutrition - Stay within calorie allowance.
Water Intake - 64 oz. per day.
Strength & Endurance - twice a week. Tuesday and Thursday.
Walking/Running - 10,000 steps daily.
Organization - closets.
Emotional Health - pray and read.
Work/Life Balance - don't work.
Relationship Enrichment - set boundaries.
💪Mission Slimpossible Strong 💪
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I love everyone's goals 😍
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@jessicakrall8 I use an app called journey. I have used it now for over 5 years. I like it
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I am trying to get up and walk around more at work when I can. I was feeling fruity today…took small banana, no sugar added pineapple tidbits and a cup of watermelon, along with my turkey sandwich.
Hope everyone had a great Monday (if that's possible)…it's MONDAY, right?! Got a lot done today and was out the door right at 5. That's a win!
Jessica
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Ooh I like this idea!
Health - continue wearing my CGM
Fitness - meet my step goal 5 days/week
Nutrition - prioritize protein more especially breakfast
Water Intake - keep doing what I'm doing
Strength & Endurance - make time for ST at least once a week
Walking/Running - go for a walk 3x a week
Organization - get my newly renovated bathroom situated
Emotional Health - I'm scheduled to start therapy in a couple weeks!
Work/Life Balance - I need to get my notes done in office so I don't have to work from home as much.
Relationship Enrichment - have one-on one-time with my husband and each kid at least once a month3 -
Monday:
Nutrition: track every day (good, bad, ugly) ✅️
Fitness: 7,000 steps daily ✅️
Running: 5k training 3 days/week
Stength: weights 3 days/week
Water: 8 cups per day ✅️
Sleep: don't get on phone in bed!!!! ❌️
Work/life balance: read, puzzle, or crochet daily ❌️
My plan this week for exercise is Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday. I walked on lunch today to help reach my step goal. We are selling some big furniture pieces at another house and then got dinner, so I didn't have time for reading or puzzle today.
@jessicakrall8 I don't routinely journal. I track my food if you count a food journal, but nothing else specific except for what I post on mfp.
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@jessicakrall8 to answer your question. I free form write most of the time. Sometime I will use journal prompt to help out. I find my journal prompt on Pinterest.
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Monday
HEALTH-working on it. Keeping up on my doctor appointments
FITNESS-didn't do today. worked both jobs. didn't have time
Nutrition-I ate protein at all three meals
WATER INTAKE-keeping up
STRENGTH AND ENDURANCE-same as fitness
WALKING/RUNNING-i got my steps in
ORGANIZATION-work in progress
EMOTIONAL HEALTH-took my meds and did my breathing exercise
WORK/LIFE BALANCE-cut my hours back to 5 days for my night job and 4 days for my day job
RELATIONSHIPS ENRICHMENT-still going strong
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@jessicakrall8 For the last 5 years, I used a pre-printed planner to do my journalling. However, I have been doing my journalling "freestyle" since September. Essentially it's bullet journalling. All you need is a decent notebook (empty, lined or dotted) and a pen. You can look on YouTube for different methods of bullet journalling, but I have found it to be a revelation. Good luck with One Day!
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@jessicakrall8 -love the 'I felt fruity '. Brilliant 👏
Have a great Tuesday everyone
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Monday
Health - get blood work done - found the form
Fitness - get daily active minutes up to 60/day - 21 minutes,
Nutrition - eat at least 3 servings of veggies every day, no even close
Water Intake - drink at least 64oz daily - did not make it
Strength & Endurance - add my chair exercises 3X a week - not done
Walking/Running - increase my step count to 6000 steps per day - getting closer
Organization - spend 20 minutes daily on organizing - went over and did 45 minutes
Emotional Health - journal daily - yes
Work/Life Balance - time block my time more so I don’t feel like I'm always working - working on it
Relationship Enrichment - put my phone down and spend more time with my hubby - hubby was not in the house last night so I'm giving myself a pass on this one2 -
- Health - find a new health insurance✅️
- Fitness - add 10 minutes of HIIT cardio
- Nutrition - quit diet coke (again)
- Water Intake * all good
- Strength & Endurance - add 3 more exercises to ST workout
- Walking/Running * all good
- Organization - spend 15 minutes 3 days/week on decluttering
- Emotional Health - meditate 10 minutes morning, 10 minutes evening; write in journal
- Work/Life Balance * all good
- Relationship Enrichment - make a list of fun things to do over winter months✅️
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@jessicakrall8 - I keep a paper/pencil journal. Mine is a 5 x 8 inch book with one page per day made by At-A-Glance.
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Hope everyone had a great day today! Mine was long, but productive. Ate a small dinner last night and attempted to hold off til lunch…had to have something…just some crackers and a bag of pretzels, but oh well…best of good intentions.
Thanks to everyone for your comments on journaling…all great selections…am still exploring that app I downloaded, but just the Basic version…not willing to pay anything for it. So far, it's working and the prompts it gives are helpful.
Gotta go finish my exercises for the day and clean up the kitchen. Tomorrow we're halfway through the week! YAY!
Jessica
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