August Day by Day Challenge (OPEN): 1 year anniversary!!!

brattyworm

Okay gonna try this again... got sidetracked with life.. lol
Today's goals

1. Finish charger's challenge of 75/150 leg raises/crunches - makeing 50 of them together.

2. 5 bottles of water

3. Pull weeds in my front yard (totally hate monsoon season - only time of the year when the desert gets weeds)

4. going for 1.8 miles on the elliptical today in the 30 min... almost made it last wed.

TeamLeela

yay! bratty so glad to see your message! Good job setting goals. I know you can do it!

Shanae! I'm so proud of you. I bet you feel great! I remember that moment. And it just drives you to keep working harder and harder to set new milestones for yourself

Ravyn1982

I was gone for the weekend camping and today was spent getting everything actually put away from camping and clothes washed. Had a good time camping with my in-laws. We got rained on but it wasn't that bad actually. :happy:

Goals for Tuesday
1. walk/something from my on-demand (maybe both)
2. eat way better than today(been a very bad day of eating for me)
3. water with mio:) I love this stuff!! lol

non-fitness
1. wash sheets
2. clean kitchen
3. clean living room

Hope you all have a good evening!

frubjious

Mondays goals:

1. Under on calories - Done
2. Water - Done
3. Run - Done
4. Work on bits for friends wedding - Yup
5. OCme back on here tomorrow post more goals - Ta-dah!

A few more days like that please Kim.

Congratulations Shanae, thats a great acheivement!

Rav - Glad to hear you had fun camping.

Tuesdays Goals, same again:
1. Under on calories
2. Water
3. Run or if it rains JM DVD
4. Carry on with wedding bits
5. Back here tomorrow.

Have a great day!
Kx

brattyworm

Okay gonna try this again... got sidetracked with life.. lol
Today's goals

1. Finish charger's challenge of 75/175 leg raises/crunches - making 50 of them together.

- did 125 together then did 50 crunches on their own

2. 5 bottles of water

- got in 7 bottles

3. Pull weeds in my front yard (totally hate monsoon season - only time of the year when the desert gets weeds)

- got all the ones in the big section of the yard pulled.... rocks should not grow weeds... sigh

4. going for 1.8 miles on the elliptical today in the 30 min... almost made it last wed.

- well the gym with that elliptical had that area closed off and for all week so instead we did treadmills at the other gym and I did 1.25 miles on random hills in 30 min... which i think was good.

Now for today's goals

1. Do at least 10 of the 200 tricep dips for real from charger's challenge...

2. Get in 5 bottles of water.

3. Stay with in 200 calories of my allowed. - Today is the first day of my classes I will be at school all day, healthy choices are not really an option ( i mean seriously have you seen college students - can't miss them here they're the ones without any clothes on cause its the desert - and hot)

Thank you Leela... I still think this is an awesome idea... and I hope to continue with it... but homework will determine how well i stick with any of this in about 3 weeks.

pmjsmom

Goals for Aug. 22:
1. Water.--Yes.
2. Exercise for 20 minutes.--Yes.
3. Stay on plan.--Close.

Well, after a couple of weeks of dry weather it is rainy again. supposed to clear up again by tomorrow, though.

Shanae--Congrats on being under 200! That's great!

Bratty--Try, try again, right? We only fail when we stop trying!

Goals for Aug. 23:
1. Water.
2. Exercise for 20 minutes.
3. Sta on plan.

TeamLeela

Monday's goals:
1. eat clean, including no soda. yes, its going on day 3 without soda. and I miss it a little, but not a lot.
2. workout early (this has been a struggle for me lately) it wasn't as early as I'd like, but still earlier than usual.
3. finish laundry that's lingering from the weekend. yes, finally done!

Tuesday's goals:
1. Do something nice for myself (not sure what that something is, but I deserve it!)
2. eat according to plan.
3. drink my weight in water! (including green tea and crystal light)

TeamLeela

Thank you Leela... I still think this is an awesome idea... and I hope to continue with it... but homework will determine how well i stick with any of this in about 3 weeks.

You did a great job on your goals yesterday. When school starts back, maybe you can set up your goals on Monday for say, Monday thru Thurs and then check in at the end of the week and set up your goals for Fri thru Sunday. Just a thought.

I think its an awesome idea too, Nicole really grew such a great concept into a MFP empire! She's a full time college student too and she just checks in when she can!

Also, when I cant log on to the board, I will still take a post it and write 3 goals on it and post it somewhere so I can see it. So you can still stay accountable, its just cool to share it with out people because they will always motivate you when you fall off the wagon!

Shanaedunn

[GREAT MORNING!!! Guess what guys! I am less than 200 pounds HOT DOG!!!!!! Now to keep it up!
I also pushed this weekend Leela and ran for 6 minutes (not all together but total) LOL Thanks for your ideas!!!

August 22 Goals:

1. Workout 5 miles of walking with 4 minutes of running thrown in] - YES and Did the running
2. WATER WATER WATER - YES 6 GLASSES
3. Be very watchful of calorie count and food today a few bad choices could take me backwards. - YES STAYED UNDER

Non Fitness

My babies will be home on Saturday!

Make sure everything is ready for first day of school which for mommy's is a giant task......

Have a great day!

Shanae`

August 23 Goals:

1. Workout today Walking 2 hours with running
2. WATER WATER WATER
3. Watch the late day Carb fit!

Have a blessed day!!!

Shanae`

brattyworm

Thank you Leela... I still think this is an awesome idea... and I hope to continue with it... but homework will determine how well i stick with any of this in about 3 weeks.

You did a great job on your goals yesterday. When school starts back, maybe you can set up your goals on Monday for say, Monday thru Thurs and then check in at the end of the week and set up your goals for Fri thru Sunday. Just a thought.

I think its an awesome idea too, Nicole really grew such a great concept into a MFP empire! She's a full time college student too and she just checks in when she can!

Also, when I cant log on to the board, I will still take a post it and write 3 goals on it and post it somewhere so I can see it. So you can still stay accountable, its just cool to share it with out people because they will always motivate you when you fall off the wagon!

thats a really good idea.. i will think about that... i'm so afraid of letting this fall off again.... and i dont want to but i can't make fitness my priority while in school.. so yes its great to have people help keep you accountable

and pmjsmom yep we only fail when we quit... thanks for that...

TeamLeela

Tuesday's goals:
1. Do something nice for myself (not sure what that something is, but I deserve it!) yes I ordered a new zumba shirt!
2. eat according to plan. yes I even stayed away from the peanut butter cookies
3. drink my weight in water! (including green tea and crystal light) yes and i'm regretting it now.

Wednesday's goal:
1. run, zumba, train.
2. stay hydrated all day.
3. eat healthy all day, including no soda!

frubjious

Tuesdays Goals, same again:
1. Under on calories - No
2. Water - Yes
3. Run or if it rains JM DVD - No
4. Carry on with wedding bits - Yes
5. Back here tomorrow. - Yes

Morning,

I was so tired yesterday, and I overslept by an hour and a half this morning! I think I'm just a bit rubbish in general at the moment but the only thing to do really is to just keep trying.

Wednesday's Goals:
1. Under on calories
2. Water
3. Run
4. Drop samples off
5. Early night
6. Back on here tomorrow.

Have a lovely day!
Kx

Ravyn1982

Goals for Tuesday
1. walk/something from my on-demand (maybe both)done
2. eat way better than today(been a very bad day of eating for me)-did better but not great
3. water with mio:) I love this stuff!! lol-had plenty of that:)

non-fitness
1. wash sheets-fail
2. clean kitchen-fail
3. clean living room-fail

No goals for today just try to make it through the day. Got bad news last night that a cousin of mine died in a car accident. Going to my parents house today to try to comfort my dad as this cousin was the same age as him and his best friend. Last night when my dad called me to tell me(after my mom already had so at least I alreadyu knew) and he broke down on the phone I can't bare the thought of him being in so much pain. He sounded almost as bad as when my grandmother passed away.. :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: :frown: :frown: :frown:

Hope you all havea good day...........

Shanaedunn

Shanae`

August 23 Goals:

1. Workout today Walking 2 hours with running - YES
2. WATER WATER WATER - Somewhat only 3 cups
3. Watch the late day Carb fit! - YES

Have a blessed day!!!

Shanae`

August 24 Goals

1. WATER WATER WATER
2. Must reamin in Numbers due to no workout
3. Make sure to track food as accurately as possible!

brattyworm

Now for today's goals

1. Do at least 10 of the 200 tricep dips for real from charger's challenge...

- I cant do the tricep dips as my chairs slide so until i get a workout bench... I used 10 lb weights to work the triceps, only got in 30.

2. Get in 5 bottles of water.

- Got in exactly 5.

3. Stay with in 200 calories of my allowed. - Today is the first day of my classes I will be at school all day, healthy choices are not really an option ( i mean seriously have you seen college students - can't miss them here they're the ones without any clothes on cause its the desert - and hot)

- Failed this one miserably. Ate Panda for lunch, even though I knew it was loaded with cals. But wasn't feeling the pizza or BK... and panda at least has some veggies in the chow mein. Tried to compensate at dinner and just couldn't, my body was like nope you need a few extras. So went over by 600 cals

Todays

1) Finish looking at senior design projects (there are about 50 to weed through for a EE)

2) Pull the weeds in the larger small patch.

3) Stay with in cals - to counter yesterday.

4) 6 bottles of water.

5) Almost forgot charger's challenge which is 150 mountain climbers. I'm going to go for getting the proper form on these and doing half of them

brattyworm

No goals for today just try to make it through the day. Got bad news last night that a cousin of mine died in a car accident. Going to my parents house today to try to comfort my dad as this cousin was the same age as him and his best friend. Last night when my dad called me to tell me(after my mom already had so at least I alreadyu knew) and he broke down on the phone I can't bare the thought of him being in so much pain. He sounded almost as bad as when my grandmother passed away.. :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: :frown: :frown: :frown:

Hope you all havea good day...........

aww lots of hugs and prayers for you and your family during this time.

pmjsmom

Goals for Aug. 23:
1. Water.--Yes.
2. Exercise for 20 minutes.--No.
3. Stay on plan.--No.:grumble:

Sometimes I think something is the matter with me. Why can't I seem to stay on plan for more than a day or two? I eat regular food so it's not a weird fad diet but I just don't seem to be able to stick to it! VERY frustrating. :frown: Starting over ONCE AGAIN!!!
Everybody here keeps me going--I was ready to give up this morning but I read this thread and I am ready to DO THIS!!! I WILL conquer my bad-carb habit (that's my downfall so I am going to try lower carb--I need to break this vicious cycle!)

Ravyn--Prayers for you and your family. I am SO sorry this happened!

Bratty--Here's the nutritional info for Panda Express:

http://www.pandaexpress.com/menu/nutrition.aspx (you'll have to copy and paste)

I love that place and there are some not-so-bad choices there!

Goals for Aug. 24:
1. Water.
2. Exercise for 30 mintes.
3. HEALTHY CHOICES and LOG EVERYTHING!!!

brattyworm

thanks for the panda info.. I do actually have that at home... sigh.. but i just loooovveee the orange chicken lol... i dont concern myself so much with the sodium (as I sweat too much and tend to be low on that area).... but the carbs and fat put me over every time..

but maybe if i continue to eat there .... hmm...i could do oc as a treat once every few weeks and the mixed veggies or something else the other part... i just wish there was some kind of lunch i could bring that was small and didnt need to be refrigerated..


they do have papa jons pizza in the food court that i wouldnt go over with, but the amount of grease.. yuk.. and burgers and fries just dont do it..... which leaves bagels...geat except i eat that for breakfast.

frubjious

Wednesday's Goals:
1. Under on calories -Yes
2. Water - Yes
3. Run - Yes
4. Drop samples off - Yes
5. Early night - Fairly
6. Back on here tomorrow. - Yes

Thursdays Goals
1. Under on calories
2. Water
3. Run
4. Early night
5. Back on here tomorrow

Have a great day!
Kx

TeamLeela

Wednesday's goal:
1. run, zumba, train. no, yes, no
2. stay hydrated all day. yes
3. eat healthy all day, including no soda! yes, yes

So I didn't run as much as I would have liked to yesterday. just a few blocks. I didn't train because I worked on some new choreo with my zumba instructor for her party tomorrow night.
Staying hydrated has really helped me lately. I've kept a water bottle literally strapped to my hip!
I did give in to a peanut butter cookie and later thought, why did I do that? But I didn't consider it a failure because it was just one and done and I recovered well. still haven't had soda, just green tea and crystal light.

Thursday's goals:
1. restock on some key ingredients that I need to make it through the week.
2. clean the kitchen top to bottom.
3. follow meal plan.
4. run after taking my daughter to the bus.
5. cont. the search for a job.

Shanaedunn

August 24 Goals

1. WATER WATER WATER - Somewhat
2. Must reamin in Numbers due to no workout - YES but I still picked up HOW IS THAT
3. Make sure to track food as accurately as possible!- YES

August 25

1. Okay its offical I am begining the Walk/Run Program so I need you all to support me! Starting tomorrow.....
2. WATER WATER WATER
3. Pilates workout today during my luch hour for one hour
4. Accurately Log food

Bratty II am praying for your family and your fathers piece of mind. As well as the ability for food options to open up in your favor!

Leela looking good on your goals honey!

PJ'S mom Everyday is a brand new day to start so lets look at it that way! If you start each day with the Enthusiasm that you had the first day each day is you are pumped. That is actually a GREAT IDEA! Let each day be like the first day! You can do this... You quit smoking and I know because I did it how hard that was!!!!!!

Have a blessed day guys! I hope you reach your goals!

Shanae`

brattyworm

Todays

1) Finish looking at senior design projects (there are about 50 to weed through for a EE)

- Did this and picked the 5 I wanted to vote for only to discover due to an admin oversight I'm not yet allowed to vote.

2) Pull the weeds in the larger small patch.

- There were a lot more weeds in this little area then in the entire big area. I got 3/4 of this done and will try to finish tonight or tomorrow.

3) Stay with in cals - to counter yesterday.

- This did not happen... I will have to continue to work at this. This is my biggest downfall

4) 6 bottles of water.

- Got in 6.5 bottles

5) Almost forgot charger's challenge which is 150 mountain climbers. I'm going to go for getting the proper form on these and doing half of them

- I was able to get the form down and get in 80 of them.

For today:

1) charger's challenge is 300 pushups... - goal is to do all 300 with 25 being girly ones and the rest can be wall ones

2) 5 bottles of water

3) finish reading chapter 2 for school

4) look at assignment for writing program

5) try to make a better lunch choice at school

pmjsmom

Goals for Aug. 24:
1. Water.--Yes.
2. Exercise for 30 mintes.--Yes+.
3. HEALTHY CHOICES and LOG EVERYTHING!!!--Yes and yes.

A good day. I plan on this being another. (I seem to say that a lot, don't I? Well, as someone has said:"If you fail to plan, you plan to fail!" So, I PLAN on this being a good day!

Thanks for the encouragement, Shanae! I appreciate it.

Time to get moving! Have a great day, everyone!

Goals for Aug. 25:
1. Water.
2. Exercise for 20 minutes.
3. Healthy choices and log everything!

Ravyn1982

As I figured it would be, yesterday was a bad day. Still greiving and not motivated to do anything but I know that I must do something! So I'm going to give myself one goal today and just work from there.

Goal for today Aug 25, I will clean. not fitness related but if I'm going to be going to PA I'm going to have to get this house in order for my hubby and daughter. They will need clothes and things while I'm gone. I'm hoping I can do this but its just so hard. I can only imagine what my cousins are going thru right now. I just can't even think of how it would feel if it had been my dad (who is the same age as the cousin I lost). Maybe I can get the energy to go for a walk. Might help me clear my head. Even a really slow one around my neighborhood would probably help. 52 is just too young to die......:frown:

TeamLeela

Leela looking good on your goals honey!

Thanks Shanae, I just try to keep pushing one day at a time!

Bratty- that seems like a lot of push ups. how's the challenge coming for you?

TeamLeela

Just came back on for a little mid day check in to see where I'm at!

Thursday's goals:
1. restock on some key ingredients that I need to make it through the week. not yet
2. clean the kitchen top to bottom. yes, with a little help from hubby.
3. follow meal plan. so far, so good.
4. run after taking my daughter to the bus. yes, a little slower than usual, but I feel great.
5. cont. the search for a job. about to get on it now!

frubjious

Thursdays Goals
1. Under on calories - No
2. Water - No
3. Run - No
4. Early night - Yes
5. Back on here tomorrow -Yes

Just keep trying. Its my mom's birthday today and we're going to have a chinese takaway for dinner so its going to be tough. Can't wait to see everyone though.

Goals for Friday:

1. Take the healthier options tonight at dinner
2. Drink plenty of water. All that sodium!
3. Have fun

Have great Friday!
Kx

TeamLeela

Happy Friday everyone!
Goals are simple for today:
1. do an official workout after my daughter goes to school.
2. run errands early!
3. have a fun workout in the afternoon.
4. Party Hard!!!

pmjsmom

Goals for Aug. 25:
1. Water.--Yes.
2. Exercise for 20 minutes.--Yes.
3. Healthy choices and log everything!--Yes and yes.

Had another pretty good day. I kept to whole grains and vegetables and fruit when it came to carbs yesterday--no processed, simpe ones (ie: no pop tarts!). I do feel better and more i control. I plan to do the same today!

Ravyn--Take care of yourself, too. Sending you some hugs! (And I agree, 52 is WAY too young to die!)

Goals for Aug. 26:
1. Water.
2. Exercise for 20 minutes.
3. Healthy choices and log everything.

brattyworm

For today:

1) charger's challenge is 300 pushups... - goal is to do all 300 with 25 being girly ones and the rest can be wall ones

- I did 25 girly 105 wall push ups - yes Leela this is a lot, which is why I do them on the wall. I'm working on doing larger set numbers and converting to girly then hopefully full pushups. But its a challenge and a way for improvement

2) 5 bottles of water

- Got in 5

3) finish reading chapter 2 for school

- I did not do this. got to distracted by the senior project stuff and the lightning - which hit the palm tree at the house behind mine last night.

4) look at assignment for writing program

- did not do this either. loss inet after the lightning hit the palm... i believe the thunder scared my modem into hiding

5) try to make a better lunch choice at school

- i did - i went home to change for the sr. project interviews and ate a healthy lunch. This wont be normal as i live on the other side of town and is a waste of gas... not to mention almost dying cause an suv decided to cross lanes and stop in front of me while he was still perpendicular to the lane. If i hadn't been about to switch lanes already I would have tboned him and i was in my little car. - stupid people

For today

1) charger challenge is 50 planks. and since i can't watch the you tube video to ensure proper form, due to loss of inet and blocking of youtube at work. i am doing the ones I know which is on the side. I will shoot for 25 each side... with a goal of 50 each side.

2) No other goals for today.


Weekend goals - I will not be back to the forums till Monday

1) Read Ch.2 for one class

2) Read Ch. 1 & 2 for the other class

3) Finish weeds in the front yard.

4) Perform charger's weekend challenges

5) Eat within 500 to 600 calories of my goal.


Good luck to all of you.

Way to go pmsjsmom on your control...

Ravyn more hugs.. and prayers.