Come one and all....to the Healthy holistic challenge
Elizabeth_in_MN
Posts: 167 Member
This challenge ends Wednesday November 28th (the week before American Thanksgiving...that's an accident) but YOU CAN JOIN AT ANY TIME! (Act now, but this offer WILL last, and thanks to MFP, it is only 10 easy payments of FREE!).
This challenge is fantastic, mainly because of the people who participate (we are a supportive bunch), but also it keeps getting tweaked by participants' suggestions to make it better.
For more information about this rocking challenge, check out the full (and delightful!) directions in this link: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1100231-healthy-holistic-health-2-week-1-results-check-in
For everyone who is already awesome and a part of this challenge, please use the template below for reporting (using the template makes data entry easier for this sad mathematically challenged soul):
- Number of days you drink 8 cups of water(3 pts):
- Number of days you have 2 (e.g. 1/2c) servings of fruit (3 pts):
- Number of days you have 3 (1/2c) servings of vegetables (5 pts):
- Number of days you avoid refined sugary snacks (5 pts):
- Number of days you log all food consumed in your MFP food diary (5 pts):
- Number of days you exercise for 30 minutes of exercise (5 pts):
- Number of days you exercised for 45+ minutes (7 pts a day):
- Additional self-care* (3 pts each day for self-care items reported):
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- Challenger's Choice** identified and completed (10 points)?: Y or N
-Number of pounds lost (10 points per pound):
- or if you maintained your weight (5 points):
- or if you gained weight (0 points):
-Identify Challenger Choice for next week here:
This challenge is fantastic, mainly because of the people who participate (we are a supportive bunch), but also it keeps getting tweaked by participants' suggestions to make it better.
For more information about this rocking challenge, check out the full (and delightful!) directions in this link: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1100231-healthy-holistic-health-2-week-1-results-check-in
For everyone who is already awesome and a part of this challenge, please use the template below for reporting (using the template makes data entry easier for this sad mathematically challenged soul):
- Number of days you drink 8 cups of water(3 pts):
- Number of days you have 2 (e.g. 1/2c) servings of fruit (3 pts):
- Number of days you have 3 (1/2c) servings of vegetables (5 pts):
- Number of days you avoid refined sugary snacks (5 pts):
- Number of days you log all food consumed in your MFP food diary (5 pts):
- Number of days you exercise for 30 minutes of exercise (5 pts):
- Number of days you exercised for 45+ minutes (7 pts a day):
- Additional self-care* (3 pts each day for self-care items reported):
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- Challenger's Choice** identified and completed (10 points)?: Y or N
-Number of pounds lost (10 points per pound):
- or if you maintained your weight (5 points):
- or if you gained weight (0 points):
-Identify Challenger Choice for next week here:
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Number of days you drink 8 cups of water(3 pts): 4
- Number of days you have 2 (e.g. 1/2c) servings of fruit (3 pts): 3
- Number of days you have 3 (1/2c) servings of vegetables (5 pts): 2
- Number of days you avoid refined sugary snacks (5 pts):
- Number of days you log all food consumed in your MFP food diary (5 pts):
- Number of days you exercise for 30 minutes of exercise (5 pts): 2
- Number of days you exercised for 45+ minutes (7 pts a day): 2
- Additional self-care* (3 pts each day for self-care items reported):
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- Challenger's Choice** identified and completed (10 points)?: Y or N= N
-Number of pounds lost (10 points per pound):
- or if you maintained your weight (5 points):
- or if you gained weight (0 points): gained. okay, i went from 148.0 to 150.2... gained
-Identify Challenger Choice for next week here: try to get the fruits & veggies more consistent & log for 7 days in a row.0 -
- Number of days you drink 8 cups of water(3 pts): 7
- Number of days you have 2 (e.g. 1/2c) servings of fruit (3 pts): 5
- Number of days you have 3 (1/2c) servings of vegetables (5 pts): 5
- Number of days you avoid refined sugary snacks (5 pts): 5
- Number of days you log all food consumed in your MFP food diary (5 pts): 7
- Number of days you exercise for 30 minutes of exercise (5 pts): 3
- Number of days you exercised for 45+ minutes (7 pts a day): 0
- Additional self-care* (3 pts each day for self-care items reported):
1. Bought a ton of perennials to plant in my new garden:)
2. went back to garden shop to buy more:)
3. spent Sunday digging up rocks etc. for new perennial garden!
4. Made chili for dinner! (it was a cold and rainy day)
5. made plans for a mini get away this weekend!
6. bought squash and green beans! YUMMY!
7. shopped online for school items and bought 2 new fun things for my classroom!
- Challenger's Choice** identified and completed (10 points)?: Yes
-Number of pounds lost (10 points per pound): 0
- or if you maintained your weight (5 points): yes
- or if you gained weight (0 points):
-Identify Challenger Choice for next week here: to get to the gym 5 times!0 -
- Number of days you drink 8 cups of water(3 pts): 7
- Number of days you have 2 (e.g. 1/2c) servings of fruit (3 pts): 6
- Number of days you have 3 (1/2c) servings of vegetables (5 pts): 7
- Number of days you avoid refined sugary snacks (5 pts): 4
- Number of days you log all food consumed in your MFP food diary (5 pts): 7
- Number of days you exercise for 30 minutes of exercise (5 pts): 3
- Number of days you exercised for 45+ minutes (7 pts a day): 1
- Additional self-care* (3 pts each day for self-care items reported): 7
1. Watched TV (really...this was a self care method for me this day. I don't watch it much, but when I do? It's medicine.)
2. Professionally took a risk and looked like a rock star doing it
3. Flu shot...and bought 3 (size 12!) dresses
4. Arboretum and manuscript review
5.saw cirque de soleil (!!!)
6. Dentist (they found a cavity!! My second cavity....EVER!)
7. Pap smear (yuck!! Fairly certain I should get double points for this)
- Challenger's Choice** identified and completed (10 points)?: y (I checked out flights to Spain and contacted my work to see if I can make it happen)
- Pounds lost: .4
-Challenger Choice for next week: be in bed my midnight or earlier every night of the conference.
Note: having my dad here, then my in laws/in loves and going to a conference tomorrow. This is not boding well for my eating habits. Also? I am super stressed at work. It has been a long time since I have been this overwhelmed. I'm thinking it was actually almost two years ago. Also? I apparently spent a lot of time in medical facilities this last week!
Pounds lost: .4 in the past week, 6.5 in the month, 15.7 in three months, and 67.4 total.0 -
Number of days you drink 8 cups of water(3 pts): 7
- Number of days you have 2 (e.g. 1/2c) servings of fruit (3 pts): 6
- Number of days you have 3 (1/2c) servings of vegetables (5 pts): 6
- Number of days you avoid refined sugary snacks (5 pts): 2
- Number of days you log all food consumed in your MFP food diary (5 pts): 5
- Number of days you exercise for 30 minutes of exercise (5 pts): 3
- Number of days you exercised for 45+ minutes (7 pts a day):3
- Additional self-care* (3 pts each day for self-care items reported):
1. went to a speaker on the culture of birth control in china. interesting!
2. Lunch with my clinical group
3. Drove to Chicago
4. 1 year old bday party!
5. went on a run while traveling
6. stayed in bed all day
7. nice evening walk with my family
- Challenger's Choice** identified and completed (10 points)?: Y
-Number of pounds lost (10 points per pound): 2.1
- or if you maintained your weight (5 points):
- or if you gained weight (0 points):
-Identify Challenger Choice for next week here: Finish my half marathon!0 -
- Number of days you drink 8 cups of water(3 pts): 7
- Number of days you have 2 (e.g. 1/2c) servings of fruit (3 pts): 7
- Number of days you have 3 (1/2c) servings of vegetables (5 pts): 7
- Number of days you avoid refined sugary snacks (5 pts): 5
- Number of days you log all food consumed in your MFP food diary (5 pts): 5
- Number of days you exercise for 30 minutes of exercise (5 pts): 0
- Number of days you exercised for 45+ minutes (7 pts a day): 7
- Additional self-care* (3 pts each day for self-care items reported):
1. Dyed my hair (grey free once again)
2. Thanksgiving Dinner with my daughter
3. Story reading with my grand daughter
4. Cuddling with my granddaughter and honey and watching movies
5. Cuddling with honey and catching up on some TV shows we enjoy together
6. Extra long holiday weekend
7. Visit with my daughter and grand daughter
- Challenger's Choice** identified and completed (10 points)?: N
-Number of pounds lost (10 points per pound):
- or if you maintained your weight (5 points):
- or if you gained weight (0 points): Gained 4.5 lbs (The Results of Thanksgiving..:( To my American friends..you are lucky you won't be weighing in for this challenge after your Thanksgiving meal(s)..completely blown away when I stepped on the scales..and I didn't even overdo it!! wow!!)
-Identify Challenger Choice for next week here: Same as last week get back to logging every single day0 -
- Number of days you drink 8 cups of water(3 pts): 7
- Number of days you have 2 (e.g. 1/2c) servings of fruit (3 pts): 7
- Number of days you have 3 (1/2c) servings of vegetables (5 pts): 5
- Number of days you avoid refined sugary snacks (5 pts): 4
- Number of days you log all food consumed in your MFP food diary (5 pts): 7
- Number of days you exercise for 30 minutes of exercise (5 pts):
- Number of days you exercised for 45+ minutes (7 pts a day): 3
- Additional self-care* (3 pts each day for self-care items reported):
1. spent a couple of hours in front of fire with my dog
2. lunch with a friend
3. evening with a friend
4. healthy breakfast and day with friend
5. movies!
6. football game
7. watched hilarious high heel video montage, 3X!
- Challenger's Choice** identified and completed (10 points)?: N
-Number of pounds lost (10 points per pound):
- or if you maintained your weight (5 points): maintained
- or if you gained weight (0 points):
-Identify Challenger Choice for next week here: going to try last week's again - in bed with a book by 10 on work night.
Didn't have a great week - lost focus a bit. Nutrition/weight loss consultant advised me to switch from running back to walking to favour weight loss. I had just gotten my running back to where I could run continuously without walking, after taking an entire year off of running, so I was disappointed and frankly, confused. I did one last long run this past weekend - 10k without walking and only stopping to take a few photos of the beautiful fall foliage (so I could cross off a couple more goals off my list!) and I'm going to stick to walking until I reach my goal weight...I trust my consultant, so I know it's the right thing to do, but I'm a little sad about it. Running makes me feel so amazing...oh well...it will feel even better when I'm 35lbs lighter.
Here's to a better week this week!!0 -
- Number of days you drink 8 cups of water(3 pts): 7
- Number of days you have 2 (e.g. 1/2c) servings of fruit (3 pts): 7
- Number of days you have 3 (1/2c) servings of vegetables (5 pts): 5
- Number of days you avoid refined sugary snacks (5 pts): 6
- Number of days you log all food consumed in your MFP food diary (5 pts): 7
- Number of days you exercise for 30 minutes of exercise (5 pts):
- Number of days you exercised for 45+ minutes (7 pts a day): 1
- Additional self-care* (3 pts each day for self-care items reported):
1. day 2 of golf tournament (came in second) and got my nails done too
2. finally downloaded pics from trip
3. State Fair with Rene - the scene of our first date in 1976
4. shopping for new clothes - 2 really cute dresses for work
5. shorter haircut and color
6. shopping (and scoring) at my favorite shop
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- Challenger's Choice** identified and completed (10 points)?: Y or N
-Number of pounds lost (10 points per pound):
- or if you maintained your weight (5 points):
- or if you gained weight (0 points): I am up 2 pounds from last weigh-in on 9-18. Not bad for 12 days in Prague and 2 long flights,
-Identify Challenger Choice for next week here:0 -
- Number of days you drink 8 cups of water(3 pts): 7
- Number of days you have 2 (e.g. 1/2c) servings of fruit (3 pts): 5
- Number of days you have 3 (1/2c) servings of vegetables (5 pts): 4
- Number of days you avoid refined sugary snacks (5 pts): 5
- Number of days you log all food consumed in your MFP food diary (5 pts): 7
- Number of days you exercise for 30 minutes of exercise (5 pts): 0
- Number of days you exercised for 45+ minutes (7 pts a day): 54
- Additional self-care* (3 pts each day for self-care items reported):
1. Exchanged e-mails with high school friend
2. Upgraded to IOS7 (this was a big deal for me, I'm not tech savvy)
3. Eye Exam
4. Volunteer work on HOA Newsletter
5. Watched Football
6. Housecleaning (it was therapeutic)
7. Yard work
- Challenger's Choice** identified and completed (10 points)?: Y(Stayed within calorie range 6/7 days)
- Maintained weight - I lost 3 of the 5 lbs I gained while visiting Family. I'm giving myself one more week to get back to "pre-visit weight" I'm happy that I got back on track this past week.
-Identify Challenger Choice for next week here: Stay within calorie range for a least 5 days (goal is to get back to "pre-family visit" weight by next report)
Hope everyone has a great week!0 -
- Number of days you drink 8 cups of water(3 pts): 5
- Number of days you have 2 (e.g. 1/2c) servings of fruit (3 pts): 4
- Number of days you have 3 (1/2c) servings of vegetables (5 pts): 5
- Number of days you avoid refined sugary snacks (5 pts): 0
- Number of days you log all food consumed in your MFP food diary (5 pts): 6
- Number of days you exercise for 30 minutes of exercise (5 pts): 1
- Number of days you exercised for 45+ minutes (7 pts a day): 2
- Additional self-care* (3 pts each day for self-care items reported):
1.Thursday: Journaled
2. Friday: Journaled
3. Saturday: Bought a nice notebook to take to dr's appointments
4. Sunday: Developed list of questions for the doctor
5. Monday: Doctor's appointment
6. Tuesday: Napped like a champ
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- Challenger's Choice** identified and completed (10 points)?: No
-Number of pounds lost (10 points per pound):
- or if you maintained your weight (5 points): MAINTAINED
- or if you gained weight (0 points):
-Identify Challenger Choice for next week here:
3 days of 100 minutes of dissertation-related reading and writing
Reflection: Must balance!0 -
This challenge ends Wednesday November 28th (the week before American Thanksgiving...that's an accident) but YOU CAN JOIN AT ANY TIME! (Act now, but this offer WILL last, and thanks to MFP, it is only 10 easy payments of FREE!).
This challenge is fantastic, mainly because of the people who participate (we are a supportive bunch), but also it keeps getting tweaked by participants' suggestions to make it better.
For more information about this rocking challenge, check out the full (and delightful!) directions in this link: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1100231-healthy-holistic-health-2-week-1-results-check-in
For everyone who is already awesome and a part of this challenge, please use the template below for reporting (using the template makes data entry easier for this sad mathematically challenged soul):
- Number of days you drink 8 cups of water(3 pts): 7
- Number of days you have 2 (e.g. 1/2c) servings of fruit (3 pts): 5
- Number of days you have 3 (1/2c) servings of vegetables (5 pts): 7
- Number of days you avoid refined sugary snacks (5 pts): 4
- Number of days you log all food consumed in your MFP food diary (5 pts): 7
- Number of days you exercise for 30 minutes of exercise (5 pts): 6
- Number of days you exercised for 45+ minutes (7 pts a day): 1
- Additional self-care* (3 pts each day for self-care items reported): 7
1. Write letter to a friend
2. Tai Chi
3. Visit with my parents
4. Go to the arboretum
5. Cirque du Soleil!
6. Reading
7. Reading
- Challenger's Choice** identified and completed (10 points)?: Y
-Number of pounds lost (10 points per pound):
- or if you maintained your weight (5 points):
- or if you gained weight (0 points): Gained
-Identify Challenger Choice for next week here: Find out the scoop on the indoor track0 -
We have a NEW weekly winner
And a NEW Cumulative Winner!!
Congrats!!! (but don't get too comfortable...LuckBeWithU didn't post this week. She may come and cream us all!0
