Seems like lately I've been a dollar short and late to everything. I am upping the date for me to April 10th to complete these assignments.
1. First, I will swim 90 minutes every weekday between now and then 2. I will get in 64 ounces of water each day 3. I will add five a day to my meal plans. 4. I will journal each day on my trip to April 10.
Posts: 3473 | Location: Central USA | Registered: March 11, 2004
I'm still feeling my ay around this new forum, so just printed the homework assignment. I'll get right on it. I find the blue background o this forum to be very encouraging. Anybody else feel that way?
Ok, I read the homework 2 days ago and have thought alot about it.Goals are as follows: Weight and Exercise: I have no idea what the scale says right now, but I would like to be at my goal which is approx. 15 pounds less by 7/1. I think this is possible. Then I want to maintain it. I have done cardio 5 days so far, thanks to the motivating budgetgal and her 21 day self challenge. I am really trying 3/15 was my day 1. Goal is 21 days straight of cardio and crunches (that I do everyday and hope to get a better tummy during each session)then at least 5 days of cardio until I reach my goal and then enough to maintain. Funny, I never thought I could fit the exercise in at night, but now I just make it non-negotiable if I didn't do it in the morning. Very proud so far of me actually sticking to it.
Food: Eating a veggie with every lunch and dinner. I have been doing this at lunch 100%, dinner about 80%. I keep my food journal and post on what are we eating which helps me alot.
Thinking: thinking about what I eat BEFORE I eat it instead of hating myself afterward.
I have been so way off track but am struggling to get back. I just did this earlier today in my palm pilot so that I can carry it around with me. My goals don't seem that ambitious but I have a lot of crazy stuff going on (explained on FN board) so am trying to be realistic. Don't need to miss my goals this time.
1. Weight want to have maintained my current weight or lost 2 pounds
2. Food I want to be drinking 8 glasses of water a day I want to be food journalling daily
3. Fitness I want to do situps every night before bed (36, will join on crunch team from FN site). I want to walk at least 3 miles during the week. I already put on my calendar for Tuesday and Thursday after work.
Pam
"Habits are like supervisors that you don't notice." -- Hannes Messemer
By April 1, I want to be at 129lbs. Right now I'm at 131-133lbs. depending on the day.
1. The first thing I must do is EXERCISE. I KNOW I have to do it. I actually even enjoy exercising, I just have a really hard time getting to it. Enough excuses, I'm sick and tired of my own excuses and I have to do this.
2. I'm not doing to badly food wise, I just really need to stick with it and keep eating the veggies, and drinking water. Dawn
"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire." anonymous
Posts: 4334 | Location: Indianapolis, IN | Registered: March 15, 2004
I just found this site this week. I've owned the Cooking Thin book since the week it came out and have enjoyed a lot of the recipes and ideas in it.
I set 4 goals for the next two weeks:
Eating Goals: 1. Write down everything I eat in a food journal for 2 weeks. My biggest problem is that I conveniently forget what I've eaten. I had to write down what I ate for 3 days for a health assessment and I was shocked to find I ate 7 cookies and 2 mochas in a single day. 2. Experiment with different foods for breakfast, snacks and dinner to figure out what will keep me from being starving from 1:30-until dinner. I've been struggling with being starving from about 1:30-6 (when I usually eat dinner) everyday and have been snacking through the whole time. I think I'm not eating enough fat/calories/protein early in the day. Yesterday was lots better when I had a scrambled egg with roasted peppers and leeks and a homeade bran muffin for breakfast and a snack of homeade pea soup at about 3 for a snack.
Fitness goals: 1. Develop a fitness plan with the help of a personal trainer based on the health assessment I have. 2. Add yoga or pilates 2 times a week because I know for sure that the health assessment showed my flexibility is in the "poor" category.
quote:Originally posted by ltd: I'm not really as concerned with the numbers on the scale right now as I am in getting into some better eating habits.
That is FANTASTIC! Good for you! That's the essence of baby steps...and being good to yourself!
Personal Healthy Habits Challenge - 10/1 to 12/31/08: 1. Exercise: Get back to consistently working out 3-5 X week. 2. Food: Get back to consistently preparing healthy lunches for the week with increased veg servings. 3. Behavior: Reduce intake of sweets.
Posts: 7356 | Location: Rehoboth Beach, DE | Registered: March 12, 2004
I'm not really sure where I am related to where I was with my weight loss. My scale is still packed. I don't think I'm much different size wise than I was before the holidays. But my big goal is for us not to eat out more than 2 x a week. I notice a huge difference in how I feel when we eat at home more. I also want to move more at least walking some every day. More fresh fruit and more whole grains would be nice too, but that may need to wait til we move again in two weeks.
Jen, I am not sure why I am so resistant about making sure I have great fruit. I might take some time to journal about this topic. The good news is that I needed to stop at the market to pick up milk this AM. I bought 1 pint of the juciest, fattest blackberries. I really enjoyed them. I am out for the day tomorrow and so I'll bring a strawberry smoothie with me. I am curious about the veggie egg rolls. Sandy
1. Eat three meals a day. I've been just eating junk all day and hardly ever have a real meal for lunch and often dinner.
2. No eating in front of the computer. Water only!
Fitness goals: Do a 2 mile W.A.T.P. tape 3 times a week.
I'm really trying to start out slowly with things that I know I can do. I'm not really as concerned with the numbers on the scale right now as I am in getting into some better eating habits. Hopefully, just eating three real meals a day and starting to exercise will help with the weight. I'll focus on that after some of these healthy habits are in place!
After reading your post about the blackberries and raspberries, I got some myself and they were delicious. My husband was excited -- these are some of his favorites too. So what made you pass them by when you were at the store? You deserve them!
I have still been struggling with food. I am doing well with my exercise, though. I ran 13 miles yesterday as part of my training for my half marathon on April 3. Boy, am I sore today! I am taking today as a rest day.
I did play in the kitchen. I doctored up a recipe this weekend and will post it in the Recipe swap folder. Veggie egg rolls! I'm not a good measurer, though, so it will all be approximate.
----------- Jen
Posts: 2868 | Location: Ohio | Registered: March 11, 2004
April 1st I want to be 260 lbs. As of this morning I'm still at 265. While that makes it a little close to call, I'm remaining optimistic.
My two food habits I want to change are :
1. to have one meatless dinner a week. This week will be a veggie lasagna tonight and black bean nachos tuesday night (will be a morph of the black bean dip I made for tonight and I'll load them up with veggies)
2. Eat dinner , even if I'm alone. I have a meal planned for each night this week. No excuses.
My two fitness goals were:
1. try a WATP dvd this week. I tried our usual video store, and they don't rent exercise videos. Wednesday I will try Blockbuster.
2. I want to learn how to swim. I am striking out here. It seems nobody offers adult swim lessons around here. So I think I'll just start practicing with some noodles during The second half of my MWF water aerobic class. Usually I do the first half and skip out to head up to do nautilus while the class plays volleyball.
So far not to bad of a start. Just wish I could get that scale to move.
Laurie
There is no luckexcept where there is dicipline.
Posts: 1512 | Location: Adams, MA | Registered: March 10, 2004
Just reviewed my goals and so far I am doing quite well with not eating from Sophia's plate. I am at about 90% of where I want to be.
Here is my problem: I am not buying myself the great fruit that I love as a reward. Today I stopped at the market and passed my the blackberries even though I have eaten grapes the past couple days. Now I do not have them for tomorrow. I am having trouble turing this fruit thing around. I always make sure that my daughter and husband have the fruit they want, but don't so that for myself.
April 1st I want to be eating the right amount of food. Right now, my portions are too big so I am working on that.
I really want to learn how to have healthy portions without feeling like I'm going to pass out from hunger. Writing this down really makes me think I have come a long way.
Just looked at the homework. Sone of it was what I had started for myself a couple of days ago, but this acccountability facet will be great. Right now just eating clean and staying out of DH's junk food (he does keep it out of my way, and I have to go out of my way to find it) and walking. So far I'm just doing my walking tapes getting started. Not sure what else I can or should be doing yet so will keep walking until I find out
You are all so motivating. My goal is to prepare dinner at home every night. My husband works late so its just me a lot and I use it as a cop out to eat out and eat too much.
After two months of plateauing, I don't even know where to start in identifying a weight loss goal for April 1st. Back on January 1st, I'd set a goal to be at 135 pounds by the date of my May 9th cruise (I was at 154 on January 1st and am 155 1/2 now)...but after 2 months of small gains/plateauing, there is no way I can meet that goal now (well, not healthily at least!).
I guess that, for now, I will need to concentrate on some food or exercise goals. I'll have to give this more thought, but one of my food goals will probably be either ejecting my favorite "crunchy corn" snack from my menu or restricting it to a once-per-week treat. I've found that I have become rather addicted to it and, even though it is not a high fat snack and I always ALWAYS portion control it, I just tend to eat it too often because it's SO satisfying and crunchy, and I get a craving for it.
Personal Healthy Habits Challenge - 10/1 to 12/31/08: 1. Exercise: Get back to consistently working out 3-5 X week. 2. Food: Get back to consistently preparing healthy lunches for the week with increased veg servings. 3. Behavior: Reduce intake of sweets.
Posts: 7356 | Location: Rehoboth Beach, DE | Registered: March 12, 2004
I wrote my homework out in a little notebook I carry in my purse and signed the page as a contract to myself.
By April first I would like to be down to 140 lbs., which is 5 pounds away. I've been stuck right around 145 lbs. for at least a month now--though I have gone down a pants size!
Food: My first goal is to eat lunch at home at least 5 times a week, allowing myself one weekday lunch out and Saturday. My second goal is to plan a 100-130 calorie dessert for each night--because I wind up eating it whether it's planned or not.
Fitness: I plan to do 36 ab crunches (3 sets of 12) and 15 pushups every night, with at least one being a "real" push up (on my toes,not my knees). My second fitness goal is to try to doing something active with my children for 15 minutes every afternoon.
alli
Fall goals: 1. Bike 40-50 miles a week 2. Prepare new garden bed for next season 3. Heal my back
Posts: 735 | Location: Jersey Shore, USA | Registered: March 11, 2004
)then at least 5 days of cardio until I reach my goal and then enough to maintain. Funny, I never thought I could fit the exercise in at night, but now I just make it non-negotiable if I didn't do it in the morning. Very proud so far of me actually sticking to it.
