MISSDEEHERE'S ONE WEEK CHALLENGE~FOR SHORT TERM GOALS

Hi guys, sorry I've failed to check in. Starting to come out of the sick fog. Hope to be well enough tomorrow to exercise as I've missed it this week. Who knew?

Mrogers, good luck next week. I'm an elementary school counselor don't technically go back until the 18th (although I am doing several different extended employment things these next few weeks) but I feel like the summer just began. Oh well, I do love what I do.

Wandering light, an hour walk sounds so daunting, especially if you live near me with this heat. Maybe shooting for 30 isn't as bad as you think. Any exercise is better than none. And congrats on the 8pm rule, not sure I could follow that one.

Philosohoe, love the name and completely agree that this group is just awesome for support. Good job your goals. Sodium is evil.

Hearts desire, good job listening to your body and resting. I could never get rid of my rest day. My body would drag without it.

Dee, are you an educator too? Sorry you're not getting any rest. Hope you do get some you time on the days you don't have to drive him. Remember to take care f yourself.

Everyone, awesome job. I can't remember now who else said what, so I apologize and just want to say, go you! Keep up the good work!

Sorry for not checking in for a few days. My daily goals update:

1. Drink 64 ounces of water every day -- have not met yet for any day this week!
2. Log every day -- yes, every day
3. Stay under cals 5/7 days -- over on 2 days so far so I have to be especially good the last 2 days!
4. Exercise for 375 minutes this week -- 318 so far!

Kelly

My name is Stephanie, and I live in NJ. I am new to the site. I facilitate a TOPS meeting at work.

My goals are:
1. Write down what I eat every day, (and not several days at once).
2. Exercise at least 3 times a week at the gym.
3. Drink at least 48 oz of water a day.

:yawn: so very tired :yawn: I sick & tired of being tired :yawn:

I will be going back to work in a few weeks, totally unrested.

Traveling to Pittsburgh wasa nightmare today! TRAFFIC, TRAFFIC & MORE TRAFFIC!!:sad:


DID OK TODAY........UNTIL TONIGHT!! TOO TIRED TO EXERCISE & TOO STRESSED FROM THE TRAFFIC THAT I NEEDED A SWEET TREAT!! :-( :explode:


My THURSDAY Strive for Five

1. Keep 5/6 Food Diary # ✔✔NOPE!!
2. No Nighttime Nuts ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔✔No Getting Nuts AGAIN!!
3. 30 min walking/exercise) ✔✔✔✔ NOPE!!
4. 25 Crunches on ball or bed (my way) ✔✔✔✔On my Bed!
5. Daily Check-in ✔✔ ✔✔HELLLLLLO!!



I hope everyone had a better day then I did........... goodnight:yawn:

Sorry you're having a bad time of it Dee. Traveling is very hard, especially when it is for something like medical appointments. I hope the effort you and your husband are putting in pays off and his pain is controlled soon What do you do for work? I have the summers off too, thank goodness! I work with special education students in a public elementary school. Enjoy the rest of your time before you return to work. Do the best you can with this healthy lifestyle one day at a time and as you always tell us - you WILL see success :flowerforyou:

No reading tonight/just checking in--too tired!

1) logged everything & mfp yelled at me for eating too few calories
2) super quick check in to say "Have a great weekend everyone!!"
3) did not buy the cherry icee for lunch that I really really wanted

Day 5 was tough because I didn't get enough sleep & woke up with an ear ache. Thank goodness for no-alarm-Saturdays!!

Goodnight & Good Luck!
Jenn

I've upped the water by 1-2 cups a day - I don't like water much but trying very hard to replace the pepsi
I've netted 1200 calories 4 days out of 5
Not sure about the protein

Thursday will be my day 1, since that is my weigh-in day for our weight-loss group at work. I worked out for about an hour and or so, part of it with a trainer. I did pretty good with my water, and I kept track of what I ate. Pretty good day.

Friday, I treated myself to lunch out, which was not as healthy, but I still did pretty well. My water consumption wasn't quite at goal. My next workout won't be till Sunday.

Saturday - today, isn't going as well as I would like. Boyfriend brought home pizza for a late lunch. But at least I slept late, so I don't have to eat as many meals. Dinner will have to be light to stay on track. I am doing well with my water though.

Checking in on this Saturday evening!

Enjoyed reading everyone's posts:flowerforyou:

Logged in every day

Drank 8- 10 cups of water each day

Exercised 6 days this week

Thinking about goals for next week. I might keep the same ones!

Epic failur this week. Seriously epic failur. Hardly checked in with you guys ... Missed you all!! Slacked off with th p90x this weekend. Slacked off on my extra workouts during the week. Not so great with snacking, not so great with water. And no surprise gained back a pound back. So I'm back at 49 pounds lost and 1 pound under my half way point. Little sad about that. Was so excited when I hit 50 lost.

But I'm back (ok I'm back for next week). And I'm pulling my noggin back into this. So all you Miss Dee weekly challengers I'm reaching out for help. Need go get back in this week.

THANK YOU! Couldn't do this without you all.

Good morning everyone!

Late Saturday check-in:
1) Logged everything--tricky because of an unexpected/unplanned "2nd dinner" but done & honestly
2) check in once a day--not quite! but I'll be back tonight before bedtime
3) make 1 better choice--tacos with ground turkey for dinner; only 1 tortilla/the rest was as taco salad

So yesterday was the first day in 6 that I really just ate too much, but my 2nd dinner consisted of vegetarian appetizers from a Persian restaurant while I watched my niece & her boyfriend play dinner music. Totally worth it. Best violin/piano Beatles cover band ever. And I had Persian rosewater pistachio ice cream for the first time, which was weird and tasted like rose flavored soap but in a strangely good way.

danlyn::laugh: I cracked up reading your story about bouncing down Route 90 with your FitBit! I used to be a truck driver, and I totally know what you mean about bumpy/terrible roads. When I was in truck driving school, the male instructors very delicately suggested that the female drivers should wear sports bras to minimize bouncing problems. It helps if you have a good one.

MAK_01: 1 pound from your half way?!? That's incredible! I tip my hat to you lady. One week of "not so great" in months of obviously doing really great? You're awesome, and I want to be like you when I grow down (you know when I hit almost halfway to my goal) :happy:

MissDeeHere: Thank you so much for creating this beautiful group of AWESOMENESS for people to come together for short term goals and long term happy! This is the end of my first official week at mfp, and you guys made is so much better than I thought it would be. I'm still in my honeymoon phase of counting/tracking/paying attention, but I feel like I found a new home!

:flowerforyou: Thank you again to everyone. Keep up the good fight! HUGS all around!:flowerforyou:

I'm with you!! I'm on vacation and haven't been tracking online. Trying to keep a handle on it in my head and have made some good choices (talked myself out of candy almost every day)! I found this quote today and took it to heart. I think I made a decision to get rid of this weight, but my actions haven't shown it. Time to REALLY decide! I'll try to help motivate you and hope you can help me stick with my decision to get some weight off :flowerforyou:


"Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided."
- Tony Robbins

Thanks for sharing the quote and for your support!

Dosn't look like we have a new board for the week. So I though I'd post my new goals for this week here:
1. Daily check in. Stop in an see how everyone is doing.
2. Week 8 of P90x - Do it all no skipping
3. 3 non-p90x work outs

Have a great week everyone!

Sunday night check in:

1) Log everything--check
2) Check in to the group--second time today because I missed yesterday
3) Make a better choice--popped out the food scale, put in new batteries, and ACTUALLY USED IT for lunch & dinner!

New Goals for the new week: I'm going to keep my goals from last week because I felt really successful with them and add in one more--4) Monitor Sodium and try to stay close to goal without going more than 300 over. This is one of the areas that I had no idea I was so overboard until I started tracking. We'll see how this week goes.

Congratulations to everyone for surviving a challenging week. See you tomorrow!

Goal for 8/1 - 8/7

Lower sugar and sodium intake

CW - 213 8/1/2011
GW - 211 8/8/2011
Ultimate GW - 175

Le' Go!!!!!!!

My name is Stephanie, and I live in NJ. I am new to the site. I facilitate a TOPS meeting at work.

My goals are:
1. Write down what I eat every day, (and not several days at once).
2. Exercise at least 3 times a week at the gym.
3. Drink at least 48 oz of water a day.

Welcome Stephanie - Great goals!! Happy to have you on board with us! :happy:

Wow..my first challenge..I'm IN!!!
1. Stay within calorie range all week.
2. Eat fish 4 days this week.
3. No "vacation" day til Saturday.
4. No eating after 6pm.

Welcome to our happy group. Love to have new faces join us! Feel free to post as little or as much as you would like, or just stop in and read up on how we are doing.

Sunday night check in:

1) Log everything--check
2) Check in to the group--second time today because I missed yesterday
3) Make a better choice--popped out the food scale, put in new batteries, and ACTUALLY USED IT for lunch & dinner!

New Goals for the new week: I'm going to keep my goals from last week because I felt really successful with them and add in one more--4) Monitor Sodium and try to stay close to goal without going more than 300 over. This is one of the areas that I had no idea I was so overboard until I started tracking. We'll see how this week goes.

Congratulations to everyone for surviving a challenging week. See you tomorrow!

Congrats to you on your week!! Way to get that food scale up and running. Keep it up. Excellent goals for next week!

Day 7!

Yesterday was my cheat day and I'm not very happy with myself. it was the same thing last week -- I basically just overate but didn't really enjoy it nor did I plan for it. So my MAIN goal this week is to go all 7 days without cheating, knowing that I can have a cheat meal on Day 8. And I broke my own rule by cheating in the house! Ugh. I did get back on track today.

So here is the final day, and tonight I'll think of my goals for next week.

1. WALK FOR AN HOUR EVERY OTHER DAY -- i did not manage to even get one day in on this, it's just too hard when getting home at 8 or 9pm. Will need to modify this. Maybe just 45 minutes? That means 2 20-minute walks with the dog.
2. LOG EVERYTHING -- logged today!
3. DRINK GREEN TEA WITH MEALS -- did great on this one!
4. NO EATING PAST 8PM -- even managed to cook granola bars for tomorrow without testing the batter!

Can't wait to start strong again on Monday!

I have a similar issue with the weekends, and they aren't even treat days! That's always a tough one for me, I try to make it a mini goal (even if I don't post it) every week to try and reign my weekends in. Looks like you did really well with the rest of your goals. Good idea with goal #1 and shortening the time since you are getting home late. Set your self up for success. Try for 20 minutes, or 30. And if you can get an hour in one day there's a happy little bonus :happy:

Goal for 8/1 - 8/7

Lower sugar and sodium intake

CW - 213 8/1/2011
GW - 211 8/8/2011
Ultimate GW - 175

Le' Go!!!!!!!

Great goals for the week! Those two are sure tough one's to reign in. We are rooting for you!

Just checking in. Sunday I did my diary and I drank my water. My schedule changed yesterday, so I didn't go to the gym as planned. But I am going to day and Wed, so I will still get at least 3 days in.

Way to go with your logging and your water! Way to move your gym plans around to get your three days in.


Keep rockin and rolling everyone! I'm all for keeping this weeks board open and use it for 8/1 through 8/6. Have a great day and keep reaching for those mini goals. We CAN do this, one mini goal at a time :flowerforyou: