Day by Day Challenge

Friday Goals:
1. Cook an actual dinner
2. Gym - including 20min abs
3. 4 servings of veggies

1. DONE
2. DONE
3. DONE

Saturday Goals:
1. 60min cardio
2. Complete grad course readings
3. Deep clean kitchen, eating area, and bedroom

Everyone is doing such a great job of completing their daily goals. I'm proud of all of you. You are making a committment to yourself and its very inspirational.

Friday's goals:
1. Manage my calories. I know I am going to eat a great deal of them for breakfast since I am going out with my husband.
2. Start cleaning the basement. Section by section, it may take me all weekend to do.
3. Drink plenty of water. The last few days I've been slacking on water.
4. Shred. I'm a little sore from basketball and rowing yesterday, but I have to shred.

Recap:
1. I actually did very well with this. Burned some extra calories at the gym helped balance things out
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2. I didn't get as much as the basement done as I wanted to. It's one of those tasks that's going to get messier before it gets cleaner. We did take 4 big bags of clothes to the local church to give to the homeless. So I felt good about that.

3. I did drink more water. I have to have it cold. As soon as it starts to get warm, I'm not interested in drinking it anymore.

4. I shredded and felt good afterwards.


I'm a little late getting my Saturday's goals posted. I actually already accomplished most of them.
1. Hit the gym hard, since I'm taking the day off tomorrow.
2. Eat the rainbow...lots of colors of fruits and veggies.
3. Organize my closets and dressers.
4. I want to start doing 50 crunches as soon as I wake up and 50 crunches before bed. I have set this goal in my head before, but now that I'm actually typing it out, maybe I can remember to do it.

Sharon, I hope you're ok! We miss you.

Nicole, I hope you feel better soon.

inmyshoes, what did you cook for dinner? Whats your name so we can stop calling you by your screen name. Unless you prefer to use your screenname only.

Becky, how was your run?

beesareyellow, excellent walk! how old is your granddaughter? are you guys doing anything special. same question, do u go by your screen name only.

Ravyn, I love walking by the river with my husband! What show were you guys watching if you don't mind me asking.


Everyone have a great weekend. I will probably be on late tomorrow too, but I will definitely post.
Leela.

Bee, sry I miss read about your goddaughter. Let me know how your chicken curry turns out. Good luck on meeting your goals for today.

Nicole, glad you were able to meet 2 out of the 3 of your goals. My husband and daughter had mcdonald's yesterday and the fries smelled so good, but I didn't give in! Hope you're able to meet all your goals today.

Maroon, welcome aboard. What new workout dvd did you get? I'm always looking for new ones to switch things up. I get bored easily.

I'm a little late getting my Saturday's goals posted. I actually already accomplished most of them.
1. Hit the gym hard, since I'm taking the day off tomorrow.
2. Eat the rainbow...lots of colors of fruits and veggies.
3. Organize my closets and dressers.
4. I want to start doing 50 crunches as soon as I wake up and 50 crunches before bed. I have set this goal in my head before, but now that I'm actually typing it out, maybe I can remember to do it.

Saturday's recap:
1. I did get to the gym for 50 minutes of cardio. Would have liked to do more, but I got a late start and had to stay on my timetable.
2. I definitely ate plenty of fruits and veggies.
3. I got the bathroom closet and my daughter's closet organized.
4. I didn't do this one, but its going to be my daily goal until I get into the habit.

Sunday's goals:
1. finish up the laundry.
2. cook meals for the next two days.
3. drink plenty of water.
4. 50 crunches in the morning, 50 crunches at night.

Morning all! Hope the weekend treated you well. Didn't get time to post over the weekend but managed (just about) to stick to the goals I set myself - do as much exercise as possible, lots of water and keep within my calories. Had my weight in and lost just under 2lbs so I'm happy!

Goals for today:
1. Don't cancel training session at 6am - pleased to say I didn't so this is already completed)!
2. More water! Still not drinking enough.
3. Feel starving today so have to keep within my calories!

Have a good day!

Goals for tomorrow Sunday 9/12

1. 5 mile walk- no excuses
2.Find then make a chicken curry recipe from scratch
3.go to bed early for a change

So, 5 mile walk done in two sessions, 3.5 in the morning, 2 in the afternoon.
Chicken curry necessities assembled but husband wanted BBQ,:grumble: So making it today.
Went to bed early and feel great today. All in all Sunday was pretty good.

Goals for Monday:
1. Taking my Mp3 player on my walk, I want to see if this helps me to walk longer
2. Wii fit 30 minutes, whatever looks good
3. Make that curry, but, be careful of of my portion, the recipe is hardly low fat!

I just had an extra minute so I decided to drop by to see what's going on.

Nicole, I haven't had a soda since Friday. I can't believe I went all weekend without even. Even on Friday, it was just a sip of my hubs. Congrats on making it to the gym on the weekend. It's great that you're finding a balance between your social life (incl. football), your classes and homework and your health. I really hope you get some rest. So I was just wondering are you still going to be apart of THON even if its not as captain? Did you attend the memorial of your friend?

Hi Adrienne, thx for stopping by. your goals sound realistic, good luck achieving them today. We look forward to you coming on
tomorrow to see if you met them.

Bees, great job getting some extra rest. Sometimes, it makes all the difference. Amazing walk, that'll motivate me to get my walk in today. Carrying your mp3 player is a great idea to keep you pumped up during the walk.

Mom, thanks for joining the challenge. most days, I find it hard not to eat atleast half of my workout calories. I know that's always a big debate around here, to eat or not to eat them. I just say whatever works for you. Everybody is different. What type of cardio do you do? I am already trying the 100 crunch challenge, planks are killer. Luckily there's some plank moves in level 2 of shred, that's more than I can handle right now. How old is your daughter? My daughter is almost 7 and she loves making beaded necklaces and braclets too.

i will not eat fast food today or at a restaurant.
i will drink all my water

Hi everyone,

Sorry I haven't posted on here for a while but I read everyone's posts every day! I hope that everyone is doing well and enjoyed the weekend.

I would like to post 3 goals for the next few days if that's ok......

1. Stay within my calories every day
2. Don't give into tempting foods at work or at home
3. Keep my water intake up

I try and do these in everyday life anyway but I am getting very stressed at work and at home at the moment and it is very easy to lose my way and forget what is important for me and my weight loss.

Hope everyone is having a great Monday !

So moving on Monday's goals:
1.crunches in the morning and evening.
2. Shred and walk atleast 30 minutes.
3. Sweep the floors.
4. Keep my calories at bay.

1. double check.
2. I didn't do the shred, but I walked for 45 minutes. I haven't been eating enough calories or protein to do the circuit training..
3. check. just finished, that's what made me think to post.
4. Calories at bay. I'm eating more fiber, so I'm staying full longer.

Tuesday's: (you're right Simone, they pretty much stay the same each day).
1. try to shred, maybe just complete the circuit without holding weights.
2. walk further than I did Monday.
3. mop the floors (now that the sweeping is done)
4. crunches, crunches and more crunches. 60 in morning, 60 at night, and any inbetween the day that I feel motivated to do.

Goals for Monday:
1. Taking my Mp3 player on my walk, I want to see if this helps me to walk longer
2. Wii fit 30 minutes, whatever looks good
3. Make that curry, but, be careful of of my portion, the recipe is hardly low fat!

My hubby loaded some old Anthony Robbins CDs onto my Mp3, I listened to them while walking, lost track of time and ended up walking over 6 miles (two walks total) today!!!!
My curry turned out amazing, I entered the recipe into MFP, and was able to judge my portion using this great tool.
I seem to have some sort of blockage as far as wii fit goes, so new plan- I ordered 30 Day Shred for less than 10 bucks on Amazon.
I see so many people doing it on these boards, so I will give it a try. I should be in by Thursday, I'll let you guys know how it goes.

Goals for Tomorrow, Tuesday 9/14

1. Walk 5 miles, using music, add in some jogging
2.Find recipe and make a low calorie pasta meal for supper( kids request)
3. Laundry -Where does it all come from???:grumble:

Leela, I have 3 daughters ages 9, 8, and almost 3 and a son that is 1 1/2. I do a routine that a friend put together. I do ten sets of ten different exercises. Each round the sets decrease by 1. So I start with 10 jumping jacks, 10 speed skaters... then the next round I do 9 jumping jacks, 9 speed skaters...and so on until I finish with 1 of each. It sounded easy when she gave me the plan but it kicks my butt every time!

Nicole, Thanks for the concern, I usually do eat at least some of my exercise calories and don't really stress about staying at 1200 calories. I had a family reunion yesterday though and ate way more than I should have so the plan was to make up for the extra this week by being careful for about what I eat this week. I agree with you though in general.

1.Get another 30 min cardio (already have a 30 min walk in)
2. Stay in my calorie range
3. Get the laundry completely done

Hope everyone is having a fab Tuesday.

As for today's goals.....

1. Stay within my calories every day - bf and I had pizza for dinner so I went over.
2. Don't give into tempting foods at work or at home - Well, I had pizza.........
3. Keep my water intake up - finally, one that I can do!

I will try and stick to these same goals tomorrow. It should be easier as my bf will be at work at dinner time.