Great idea for New Years (Not really a resolution)

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  • MissTomGettingThin
    MissTomGettingThin Posts: 776 Member

    Quality chocolate is best. Check out a chocolate factory near you. Or check out one near me. TAZA sells theirs online and it's Mexican stone ground chocolate. No added crap.

    Ooooh
  • amazinggrace395
    amazinggrace395 Posts: 5
    RevAbs is so much fun. Challenging though. It kinda starts you out on a hard level instead intermediate so your not over pushing your limits, but its great.
  • AmandaV11
    AmandaV11 Posts: 1 Member
    I spent half 2012, stressed and depressed about a job I use to like but started to hate (been there for 5 years). I think this played a big part that I only lost a few pounds. However I have had some success this year in fitness, lost body fat, run my second marathon and three half marathons and me and my husband started to go to a boot camp type of gym together three times a week. I am going to make sure I don't only hold my fitness success with the lbs I have lost. This year I pledge to do a triathlon and really track my food and think about what am eating.
  • Onesnap
    Onesnap Posts: 2,819 Member

    Quality chocolate is best. Check out a chocolate factory near you. Or check out one near me. TAZA sells theirs online and it's Mexican stone ground chocolate. No added crap.

    Ooooh

    I went to the factory recently and it was so amazing. Organic too. Good for people with allergies or sensitivity too since there's no soy.
  • Onesnap
    Onesnap Posts: 2,819 Member
    I spent half 2012, stressed and depressed about a job I use to like but started to hate (been there for 5 years). I think this played a big part that I only lost a few pounds. However I have had some success this year in fitness, lost body fat, run my second marathon and three half marathons and me and my husband started to go to a boot camp type of gym together three times a week. I am going to make sure I don't only hold my fitness success with the lbs I have lost. This year I pledge to do a triathlon and really track my food and think about what am eating.

    been there (had a horrible horrible boss once and my whole group quit). Good luck in 2013!
  • Onesnap
    Onesnap Posts: 2,819 Member
    RevAbs is so much fun. Challenging though. It kinda starts you out on a hard level instead intermediate so your not over pushing your limits, but its great.

    My gym has a new abs class. Maybe I should try it.
  • Pandorian
    Pandorian Posts: 2,055 Member
    Actually get started on my body-weight exercises. I just can't "take' the gym and the whole driving 20 minutes to get there, 20 minutes home, hour for the workout.... I can just go downstairs and get a workout in in just the travel and changing time buying back an hour a day for other important things, like the home-cooked meals allowing me to cut back on the soy and corn that's seemingly in everything processed.
    Treadmill and exercise bike are in the garage, where it's too darn cold to use them this time of year (unheated) so they need to come in. Making room in the basement... shelves allowing vertical storage where you don't need to take apart the stack every time you need something which is "always" in the bottom container of the stack makes a lot more usable room.
    Make use of Netflix to keep me motivated for workouts... oh you want to watch X Get on the treadmill or bike and watch during your workout, no commercials just get the workout in.. we'll see how it goes but that's "the plan" currently.
    Bump up the time walking with the dog and get this weight under control. It was in the past when I didn't do much more than walk / bicycle / canoe / swim and I've got 3 of those 4 available here year round.
  • jenstanley13
    jenstanley13 Posts: 193 Member
    I am going to get outside and enjoy it with my daughter more.
    I am going to focus on eating healthier at home and not eating out except for a special treat occassionally.
    I am going to get back on track with working out and focus on getting healthy and not necessarily pounds lost.
  • BuffyEat2Live
    BuffyEat2Live Posts: 327 Member
    I also am trying to not make it about the scale anymore. Though I must admit that I do have a goal to lose 40 pounds as soon as possible (gained 40 in grief-related emotional eating over two months in the summer and have yet to take it off)...

    My goal for 2013 is to RUN a half marathon in October. That means that I will need to spend 9 months learning how to run 13.1 miles straight (or with as few walking breaks as possible). I've already written out a training schedule.

    Right now I can run for 5 straight minutes at a pretty slow pace. So I have my work cut out for me.

    I think that giving yourself a fitness goal or some other healthy goal is better than a weight loss goal. I'm going with the theory that if I behave in a healthy way, my body will find its ideal weight all on its own.
  • verdancyhime
    verdancyhime Posts: 237 Member

    Clothes have always been a motivation for me. I HATE New Years resolutions. I hate the folks that join a gym and take parking spots only to keep paying and stop coming come March. They are annoying and many wear perfume to the gym (gak!) so it's clear they are there to pick up dates and not actually workout. (not all, but most).


    I don't wear perfume to the gym, but... I need to start going again, because I signed a two year contract a year ago only to find out that it seriously triggers my social anxiety, but that not going makes me depressed and thinking about the whole thing makes me feel like a failure at life.

    Just to be a devil's advocate, one of the ways I deal with my fears about being ridiculed or judged is my wardrobe. I am someone who's afraid to talk to new people I think are cool, but has no qualms about wearing some REALLY outlandish clothing. My makeup, clothes, hairdo, jewelry, etc. are like armor for me. I was broke for the past two years and one of the hardest parts was not being able to purchase or wear anything but the type of plain clothing I can wear to my job. So when I go to the gym, I may be wearing tinted chapstick, because I would only leave my house without lip product on if it was on FIRE because doing so is terrifying. I braid my hair into a cute style that keeps it out of my face and my gym clothes are fairly practical but cuteish. And I don't wear perfume, but I totally spray my face with spray anti-acne toner as I leave to help clean off the sweat. Because these things make me feel less afraid to walk the 15 minutes to and from the gym, and showering and changing in a public place is out of the question.

    Maybe if my entire Anytime Fitness location didn't have walls made out of mirror and picture windows, I wouldn't mind so much, but it's the only place within walking distance and I don't have a car.

    (I am getting help for my issues, I realize this post makes me sound insane.)
  • tcunbeliever
    tcunbeliever Posts: 8,219 Member
    Yesterday I signed up for a 4 week belly dance class starting 1/8/13, finally found one that will work around my daughter's ballet schedule!
  • kwatkin
    kwatkin Posts: 81 Member
    Become a certified Les Mills BODYCOMBAT instructor! This will in turn mean that I must exercise frequently to stay on top of the new choreography to teach others! :happy:
  • yoovie
    yoovie Posts: 17,121 Member
    good mental place you found there. :drinker:
  • immacookie
    immacookie Posts: 7,424 Member
    My overall goals are to find a new job/career that has a work/life balance and encourages me to grow personally and professionally (where I am now is the complete opposite).... and to start lifting weights!

    work life balance is important to me too, that's why I loved your response.

    I have a job that I get out at 4:30 every day, no questions asked. And 3:30 on Fridays in the summer. :) Not in my field but I've made a switch for the better.

    I'm definitely looking in fields I have never considered... and even willing to take a bit of a pay cut. Life is just too short and the 20lbs I've gained in the last year is to show for it.
  • PinkRhythm428
    PinkRhythm428 Posts: 30 Member
    My goals for 2013 are to spend more time with the kids, keep up my grades (all As six classes in!), and to feel stronger by the end of the year. I don't care if I lose weight or if I look a certain way. It's all in how I feel. I want the confidence and the strength, and that's what I am aiming for.

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