MINI GOAL ONE WEEK CHALLENGE

MAK_01

MINI GOAL ONE WEEK CHALLENGE~FOR SHORT TERM GOALS

Focusing on one week at a time, when the big picture seems to overwhelming. Small changes can bring on big results!!

FOR THE WEEK OF: September 4 to September 10, 2011

Choose one of more things you want to work on for just this week. Don't set it too high or unreachable!!

Please, make your week the week that works for you. Sun to Sat or Mon to Sun, whatever is YOUR week!

You can reach your main goal if you break it into small actionable steps. It’s could be as easy as 1-2-3!

1) Choose something you know you can do easily.
2) Add more difficult tasks to your plan.
3) These small steps will get you started, motivated & help build routine for long term success!!

Anyone interested in joining us for another week, or a first week, or a get back on track week? All are welcome!

sexyminxinthemaking

can i join ya im gonna call mine a gettin back on track week

kk0223

By no means am I new to dieting but actually setting small goals and sticking to a diet long term is new. Haha

I can start with week one drinking water, water and more water! I am not a water drinker but I'd like for that to be the only thing I drink.

So, starting today I will drink nothing but water. Honestly, this will be easy and hard. So, that's my step 1!

MAK_01

Goals for the week:
1. P90X week 12 - I have two weeks left and I'll be done with my 90 days, and I want to finish up this round strong.
2. Get in 3 non P90X workout's in.
3. Bring lunch and snacks to work everyday
4. No extra BLTS (bites, licks, tastes, sips) - I do this a little too often, and Iknow when I do I'm not logging these little extras.

I need a strong week so here's to a new week everyone!

kk0223

:laugh: I like the BLTS. LOL

Those do add up I suppose!

MAK_01

sexyminxinthemaki - Welcome to the thread, we are always happy to have newcomers join the thread! Feel free to post a goal to work on if you'd like. And check back in and little or as much as you like.

Welcome kk0223! Welcome to the mini goal thread! Great goal. It's nice to have one or two really small things to focus on and make them a habit that you don't even need to think about. You'd be suprised how the BLTS add up! It's something I've noticed has realy gotten away from me so it's time to focus on and work on.

Papillon22

This week,
1-I'll continue my exercise schedule;
2-I'll eat five fruits/vegetables a day.

Both goals have been met for monday, so score!

Have a great week, everyone! :happy:

Ittee

Papillon: great to see you again, and way to score so early on your Monday!!

KK- really love your water attitude/goal

My goals this week:
Excercise everyday and add two non-swim activities (in addition to what I've been doing)
1000 to 1400 calories consumed: this is a habit, but in two weeks I'm going to be challenged so keeping it
Wise choice to myself everyday: wish this was a habit, and keeping it as a goal until it is

danlyn

Thanks MAK for keeping this going. I need a get back on track week as well. Back to school tomorrow and I've already made a commitment to walk with a coworker before the students come in :happy:

So for this week beginning tomorrow 9/6:

1. Walk in the morning Tuesday - Friday.
2. Wii Fit for at least 30 minutes at least 4 times this week.

I think that's it for this week. Really want to get into the exercise habit. Welcome to our new friends on the thread and good luck to everyone for a successful week :flowerforyou:

aim2lose

First, let me apoligize for faltering last week. I got totally sidetracked, missed the majority of my goals and then failed to log as I was so embarrassed. But on the positive, I finally broke the plateau where I have been for 3 weeks! HOORAY!! I have not logged my weight yet as I want to make sure it stays in the new range a few days so it's not one day thing.

Goals for the week beginning Monday, September 5:

1. 10 -8oz. glasses of water each day
2. Walk each day a minimum of 1.5 miles (that I don't have class or it rains)
3. Eat more vegetables (other than salad)
4. One new healthy recipe this week
5. Some sort of exercise daily

Thank you so much MAK and LADYGLORIA for your kind words and support.

philosohoe

Great to see everyone jumping in for a new week!

Goals for the week (some old, some new)
1) exercise everyday, including 2 additional non-swim workouts (Ittee & I made a pact)
2) calories in the green--close to habit, but it helps me to still be accountable for it
3) No meals over 1000mg sodium (except for 1 exemption for BF"s bd dinner on Saturday)
4) Start tracking Potassium in order to prepare for a future Sodium/Potassium balance goal
5) DO NOT WEIGH IN ON DAY OTHER THAN MONDAY! I did weigh in today, and had a really good loss. I feel that if I continue this goal, I will work on focusing on food and exercise choices overall without obsessing over the scale. The scale will come around to my side eventually if I give myself enough time to work on it. Everyday weigh in=OCD & depression.

aim2lose--this is such a warm, safe place. Don't feel embarrassed to check in when you have a rough couple of days or a rough week. We are all here for the same reason: support, motivation, and encouragement. So glad to see you back! (BTW, love your dog/cat profile pic) This week is already a better week because you're here :flowerforyou:

Will check in later with today's results. Have a great week everyone!

HeyGrlHey

Going to join in on this!

Mini Goal for the Week of 9/5 - 9/11: Cook Homemade meals the entire week!

For some of you this goal may be pretty easy, but for a college student this is a hard one! I tend to get VERY lazy when it comes to cooking AND doing dishes :]


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ladygloria

Woo hoo! Sorry mak for letting you down this week. I'll start the next two to give you some time off.

Way to be awesome everyone and nice goals.

Here are mine:

1. In bed no later than 10:30.
2. Return to healthy meal choices, this weekend reminded me how poor ones make you feel exhausted.
3. Get in week 3 of chalean and return to zumba. I missed the last three weeks of zumba and am having withdrawals.

KrisPage

Here again, new week 3 C25K workouts + another workout, > water intake 10+ cups of water. Hope everyone had a safe and wonderful holiday and are ready to get back at the grind of the work week.

10more

Checking in for Monday.. Looking forward to another mini goal week! Logged food, hoping to get a workout in tonight.

Goals for this week: continue logging food/exercise daily, increase water at least 2 glasses/day, complete 2-3 workouts this week :drinker:

MAK_01

Papillon22 – So glad to have you back. Great goals Way to start the week off strong and make both your goals.

Ittee – Great goals again. Good luck making wise choices, you did great last week, so keep it up this week.

Danlyn – Happy to keep the thread up, you know how much I love it! Good luck starting back to school this week, and way to make a walking buddy! Helps keep you accountable when you have a friend to walk with. Way to focus on exercise this week. You can do it!

aim2lose – No apologizing! We are so glad you are back, here’s to a new week and a new opportunity to work on those mini goals. WAY to bust up that plateau YAAAYYY!!!

Philosohoe – Love how you and Ittee work out together and keep each other motivated. Good luck with your goals this week I know you will do great!

Hzminda – Welcome to the mini goal thread! Good luck with the home cooking this week and your classes!

Ladygloria – You didn’t let me down… never ever! Don’t you worry. I got your back Good luck with your early bed time this week. That one can be tough! Have fun with Zumba and wk3 of Chalean!

KrisPage – Glad you are back! Good luck with week 3 of C25K! Had a great weekend… not ready to go back to work. LOL!! How about you?

10more – Glad you found the new thread. Way to get Monday off to a great start with the logging, hope you got the workout in.

Monday check in:
1. P90X week 12 – Day 1 DONE. 1 down 5 to go.
2. Get in 3 non P90X workout's in. Got in a bike ride today. 1 for 3 so far
3. Bring lunch and snacks to work everyday – no work today.
4. No extra BLTS (bites, licks, tastes, sips) – EPIC FAIL!!!! Way way way too many. This is going to be a work in progress for a while!

Have a great evening and a wonderful Tuesday.

Hearts_2015

back in the a.m to share my goals. :flowerforyou:

magllhn

I would like to join you all. Restarting with MFP after being gone over a year. Have a lot to lose...but even more to gain.

My mini goals for this week:
1. Track food daily.
2. Plan to move my body and then move daily.
3. Stay off of the scale accept for once weekly weigh in.

asm0118

Did pretty well last week! Hoping to improve this week!

1) Keep my calories within 200 cals of 1200 either direction!
2) Burn a minimum of 300 calories/day
3) Finish Week 4 of C25K, and improve each time
4) Take my Rx meds everyday like I'm supposed to!

For today, I failed miserably! LOL
1) Ate 1429 cals (almost made it!)
2) Burned 266 cals (again, almost!)
3) Did W4D1 and was so proud of myself! Did not break once! Run pace was only 12:24, but I'm happy with that for now!
4) Took first dose, but did forget my night dose before work. Oh well!

Ittee

My check in:
Excercised twice today (amazing how that can be addictive)
went 12 calories over my goal (I blame my poor math skills, but am not overly bummed) WHITMAN: you shouldn't be either, you came close to two girly!!
Wise choice: decided I can't be on the computer all day like my husband can and called it an early night with him so I could get in another swim at night. Feel so much better from just stretching.

Mag: like your goals. Wonderful steps to get going!

MAK: love your BLTS

philosohoe

Monday night check in:
1) Exercise everyday--check 1/7 (day 18 in a row) still need 2 non-swims for the week
2) Calories in the green--check I'm getting a little spoiled by all the extra exercise points, but I think I'm listening to my body more: feed it when hungry; stop when full. Actually for all 3 meals that I ate today, I realized that I was getting full while I still had food left on my plate. I think that's a good sign that I can cut back my portion sizes a little.
3) No meals over 1000mg sodium--check (a little bit over 2200 but staying in a reasonable zone)
4) Monitor potassium--check. Adjusted my nutrients so I can see sodium & potassium side by side. Ultimately I want to get my sodium/potassium to an equal ratio, but for now it's just a monitoring goal.*Research note: I did find out that potassium is not one of the nutrients that is required by law to be on nutritional labels, so a lot of foods that actually have a fair amount of potassium (like artichokes) are showing up as "0". This will be part of my challenge...
5) DO NOT WEIGH IN ON ANY DAY OTHER THAN MONDAY! Monday with a loss--BooYAH!

Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend. Happy Tuesday to you! :smokin:

Papillon22

Tuesday check-in:

1-I'll continue my exercise schedule--> tuesday is a rest day, so no exercise for today.
2-I'll eat five fruits/vegetables a day.--> DONE!

aim2lose

Checking in for Monday:

Goals for the week beginning Monday, September 5:

YES! 1. 10 -8oz. glasses of water each day
CLASS 2. Walk each day a minimum of 1.5 miles (that I don't have class or it rains)
no 3. Eat more vegetables (other than salad)
not yet 4. One new healthy recipe this week
not any more than i get in class 5. Some sort of exercise daily

Well, here I am again not sticking with my goals like I should. I need to get some motivation to get out and MOVE. In class I'm on my feet alot but not exercising for weight loss/toning. I need to get with it....NOW!

Good Luck everyone! Don't be like me and fizzle....

mrogers52

Good to see new people as well as returning ones!

Goals for week of September 5-11

1. Drink 8-10 glasses of water
2. Continue to reduce sodium consumption by 5% (total of 15%)
:happy:

ladygloria

Aim2lose, glad you’re back. Don’t be embarrassed, we all have those days. Heck, I just had a weekend full of it. My in-laws had zero veggies (except for one night with corn) all weekend and no real fruit either. Needless to say, it made it harder to avoid the candy and carb festival that was laid out to nibble on each day. :-) Thankfully, we’re both getting back on track.

Kris, glad to see you here and so impressed with the continuation of C25K. Is it a scheduled program??? Oh, and are we ever really ready to go back to work?

10more, great goals as always! So glad to see you back for another week of fun.

Mak, thank you for being so sweet and awesome! Thanks for having my back. Yes, the early bedtime will be a challenge, particularly with my 3-year-old believing that it’s okay to keep mommy up until 11pm. Fortunately, I have my ways…LOL! Can’t wait to kick it out of the park like you’re doing with your exercise program. So very proud of you for making it this far and can’t believe you’re almost through a full 90 days. You’ve inspired me to count down so I’m in week 3/12 of Chalean. One more week after this and I’ll be moving to the next set of videos. Woo!

Magllhn, what great goals and welcome back to MFP! You’ll love this group. It helps keep the big goals in perspective.

Whitman, I think you did a great job on your goals. Rounding is an EXCELLENT tool for motivation and reality as you know everything is an estimate on here anyway. I wish I could run!

Lttee, 12 calories…really? LOL, thank you for not making a big deal about it. I have a goal to be within 100 calories of my BMR give or take 100. If it’s over, fine. If it’s not, great as long as it’s not too late. It keeps me real on days when I go over and helps me not to go over too much (as long as you don’t count this past weekend with the in-laws, oy).

Philosohoe, congrats on your loss and for keeping your weigh in to once a week! You can do this and are off to an amazing start! Potassium is something that is rarely entered into the MFP so I’m glad you realize this. Many people think they are getting less than they really are if they are making healthy choices in their day to day living. Congrats on the exercise!

Papillion, way to go on keeping up with your goals. Where are you on the CX schedule? You’re inspiring me to keep it up. And wow on the 5 servings of fruits/veggies. I need to make that a goal sometime very soon.

Mrogers, great goals! Are you doing 5% decrease each day from the previous or each day from your average? Either way, that’s a great way to focus on the sodium! That little nutrient is a killer on the water weight, isn’t it?

Checking in for Monday and Tuesday:
1. In bed no later than 10:30.-went to bed at 9:00 last night because I missed so much sleep this weekend. Plan to be in bed by 10 tonight. I really enjoyed the sleep and waking up feeling rested for a change.
2. Return to healthy meal choices, this weekend reminded me how poor ones make you feel exhausted.—bought TONS of fruits and veggies when I went grocery shopping on the way home. Had a delicious and healthy dinner and decent breakfast and lunch, so I’m off to a good start.
3. Get in week 3 of chalean and return to zumba. I missed the last three weeks of zumba and am having withdrawals.-Did Burn 1, week 3 yesterday. Today is a schedule rest day. I was going to add some extra cardio, but forgot before I showered. No big deal, got a big week of workouts planned so I enjoyed the rest while I could.

KrisPage

WOW W4D1 Sucked but I did it no breaks but it kicked myA$$. 5 min runs this week!!!! 12 cups of water.

Ladygloria c25k is a 9 week program to build you up to run a 5k each week you increase the run time it is about a 30 min work out with 5 mins of warm up and 5 mins cool down and then interval walk runs through the middle.

Mak is that your tattoo of a paw print. it is cute!

MAK_01

Hearts♥Desire – glad your back for another week :happy:

Magllhn - Welcome back to MFP, and welcome to the mini goal thread. Feel free to log on and post as much or as little as you would like. Looks like you picked some great goals. Good luck your first week back to MFP

Whitman1002 – You did do awesome last week, and I’m sure you’ll do great again this week. Look like you did pretty good Monday. Awesome job with W4D1, no break, that is fantastic!

Ittee – Glad you like the BLTS (I have to admit I did steal it from another MFP’er, so a shout out goes out to cyberspace to whoever I picked that one up). Way to get 2 workouts in, it really can get addictive can’t it! 12 calories isn’t bad at all, I’d call that a win for today.

Philosohoe – 18 days is great! Keep that streak going! WAY to go with your NSV of stopping when you are full, that’s GREAT!! Keep listening to your body.

Papillon22 – Hope you enjoyed your rest day and ready to start up again tomorrow. Great job with the fruits and veggies, keep it up!

Aim2lose – The last week and a half I was in the same boat, no motivate to get myself moving. Good luck tomorrow I know you can do it. Great job with the water today!

mrogers52 - Good luck to you this week I know you can do it. You are doing so great with your sodium reduction!

ladygloria - HUGGS to you my friend Good luck with your next week of videos, so exciting, you will have to keep us posted! Glad to see you are back in the swing of things after your weekend with your in-laws, it is amazing how even slipping into old habits for a day or two makes you feel so tired and over all-off.

KrisPage – AWESOME job with C25K you and Whitman1002 are doing so great with that! Thank you so much! Yep that’s my new tattoo, I got it for my birthday day, it’s my puppy’s paw (kind of) it's hard to get a good stamp of a wiggly dog's paw. But I think it really turned out great.

Tuesday check in:
1. P90X week 12 – Day 2 is done. I need to change my rest day to Tuesday’s I think. I bowl on Tuesday nights and getting through P90X before bowling is exhausting, and this week it effected my bowling.
2. Get in 3 non P90X workout's in – still at 1/3 this week. I decided I’m not going to count my bowling as an extra exercise.
3. Bring lunch and snacks to work every day – I worked from home today, so this one was kind of easy today. LOL!!
4. No extra BLTS (bites, licks, tastes, sips) – Did pretty good on this today. Had a few extra almonds but other than that I did pretty good.

Hope everyone had a great Tuesday keep on reaching for those mini goals as we hit the middle of the week.

Ittee

MAK - great job on your goals. I agree, it sounds as though your rest day should be Tuesdays. I can't imagine being that active and it not effecting other areas. And great job on your BLTS!

My check in:
Excercised today, didn't swim but walked instead (disappointing how few calories that burns)
Stayed within my calorie range: odd but even though I wasn't hungry, I ate all day
Wise decision: insisted on my son going to the doctor's after running a fever again. While this may not seem to benefit me, I also insisted that his dad take him. It's odd and wonderful that I felt like I didn't have to be the one to do so, someone else is capable (even if grudgingly willing)

10more

Checking in for Tuesday: logged food & exercise, completed a workout. The scale isn't budging :grumble: ; I changed my goal weight to possibly make it more do-able since I'm becoming frustrated. I think next week's goal will be to cut down on goodies.

philosohoe

Tuesday night check in:

1) exercise everyday, including 2 additional non-swim workouts--yes, walk instead of swim today, so that makes 2/7 and day 19 in a row
2) calories in the green--yes, just barely! I made a food/exercise plan this morning, but the walk did earn less points than the swim, so it was a close one, but still a win for the day.
3) No meals over 1000mg sodium (except for 1 exemption for BF"s bd dinner on Saturday)--yes! BF made some awesome turkey chili over the weekend, and I've been enjoying it's lower-sodium awesomeness for a couple of days.
4) Start tracking Potassium in order to prepare for a future Sodium/Potassium balance goal--yep. Today potassium was a little lower than I planned. I never quite got around to eating my cucumbers and grapes at lunch, and they had a good bit of potassium in them. I should have eaten those over the chips, but now I know.
5) DO NOT WEIGH IN ON DAY OTHER THAN MONDAY!--Fail. Here is my confession...last night (while it was still Monday) I did the absolutely dumbest thing and weighed in before I went to bed. Dumb, dumb, dumb. Of course, since it was the end of the day and after dinner, I weighed about 5 lbs heavier than I did in the morning (not an exaggeration). Rationally, I knew that I had not gained 5 lbs in the course of one day, but to appease my worried mind, I actually did weigh in this morning to make sure that yesterday's loss had "stuck". I actually showed another 1/2 pound loss, but as a reminder to myself as to why I have this goal in the first place, I didn't log it because I felt like I would be rewarding myself for a poor choice. How teacher-y of me, right?

Anyway, glad to see that everyone is hanging in there and working hard. Keep up the great efforts & see you tomorrow!

Papillon22

Papillion, way to go on keeping up with your goals. Where are you on the CX schedule? You’re inspiring me to keep it up. And wow on the 5 servings of fruits/veggies. I need to make that a goal sometime very soon.

I'm on my last week of the push phase. I really liked it, and I've already moved up one resistance band 'cause the green one isn't challenging anymore. I loooooove feeling strong!

Good luck with your goals!