March Goals

Tuesday, March 01, 2011

New month, new goals (sort of):

GOALS:

1. Beat my "no pop" record fo 42 days. Aiming to make it to 60 days. Due to the long nature of this goal I'm still working on it. I feel confident I'll break the record and be able to hit 60 days.

2. Lose 3.4 lbs during the month. That will get me to my "30 lbs lost" reward (which I'm DIEING to get). Face it, I've been dawdling on this and I need to really kick my ass into gear and get it done. 3.4 lbs is not a crazy amount of weight either. I think it's attainable.

3. Continue calorie cycling and tracking. But this month I will be using my new ranges (based on my starting weight of 184.4). So the "low" days are going to be even trickier. I also want to focus on tracking even when I've blown the day out of the calorie water (usually I give up then). I need better accountability.

CHALLENGE:

Push ups. By the end of the month I want to be able to do 10 (non-modified) push ups in a row. Right now I can do 5-7. So this isn't an overly lofty goal.

6-7 hours of exercise a week. Ideally this would be spread out over 6 week days (Sunday is always my total day off) but I want to ease up the "6 days a week" part of it (since some days I can do more which would free up other days for less).

Rewards:

30 lbs lost: necklace. Man oh man, I want that sucker BAD. Time to work a bit harder and finally get around to it.


I'm not not going to even focus on the other big reward (for when I lose the next 20 lbs--total loss of 40 lbs). I just want to really hyper focus on getting to the 30 lb loss reward for now.

Yeah, that sounds like a good plan.

  

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NEWMEPA 3/1/2011 12:28PM

I think it always helps if you set goals. I like to set huge goals and then get upset when I don't achieve them. I am going to cut it down quite a bit so I can get where I am going. Report Inappropriate Comment

February Goal Grading

Tuesday, March 01, 2011

It's that time again.

1. Beat my "no pop" record of 42 days. GRADE: B : It's only a B because I haven't had the time yet to beat the record (today marks day 37) but I don't want to give my self an 'A' because I haven't finished just yet. I'm doing very well with this goal, though.

2. Widdle away the next 20 lbs. GRADE: B : I only shed 1.6 pounds this month which is not impressive at all. And the only reason I didn't do better is because I didn't try hard enough. Hence the 'B' grade.

3. Continue calorie cycling and tracking: GRADE: B+ : I debated between an A- and a B+ for this one. But I just don't feel I did 'A' work. While I do a pretty solid job tracking there are definitely times when I deliberately stop tracking (like when I know I've blown it for the day). I really need to track even when its BAD.

CHALLENGE:

Exercise 6 days a week (trying to follow a schedule).

DID NOT PASS. Though I did fairly well. Most weeks I managed a minimum of 5 days for a total of 6 hours of exercise. But there was definitely one week where I crapped the bed and only exercised a few hours for the week.

REWARDS:

Since I met none of the my pre-set goals, I received none of the rewards I stil have planned. But I did get some little things during the month (some head bands, a new yoga mat) so I'm far from depriving myself.

NOW, time to set some March goals.

  

Junk food is losing its hold on me

Friday, February 25, 2011

It's taken a while but junk food is finally really losing its hold over me.

Last night was a little hectic so we stopped by the Long John Silver/A&W shop for a quick and lazy meal. It's been a good long time since I've had a total junk food meal and I was surprised to note how it just wasn't as great as I once remembered.

Don't get me wrong, I didn't hate it. In fact, the fries were spot on good. The cheeseburger wasn't bad either (just one of those small little cheap ones but it wasn't gross). But the chicken planks (which is what I thought I wanted the most) were quite salty and they left a definite greasy coating on my mouth. I think I can safely say that I don't think I'll really crave them again (the fries and burger? yes).

AND, I didn't drink one drop of pop with the meal. That was HUGE for me. A salty, greasy fast food meal used to be an excuse to have pop. But not this time. I didn't even compromise and have lemonade or tea. I had WATER. And after noting how salty the chicken was, I'm glad I did. I would have sucked down a TON of empty calories if I had gone for the pop.

Did I go over my daily calories a bit by taking the easy route and having the fast food meal? Yes. But once I crunched the numbers the damage was very minimal (I still ate very close to my maintenance number). But more importantly, I learned some great lessons from the overage.

  

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WATCH_HER_GO 2/25/2011 1:42PM

This is good to read. I've been on a fast food fast for the month of February. I still really crave it at times. I'm hoping it, too, will lose its grip on me. Thanks for sharing. Report Inappropriate Comment

ARAVAN 2/25/2011 10:07AM

I had the same experience at my once-beloved Taco Bell. It's nice when the stuff that's horrible for us doesn't taste all that good either. Report Inappropriate Comment

MIZZLE2105 2/25/2011 9:57AM

I used to be a junk food junkie too. I ate fast food every single day but now eating it makes me sick. Keep up the great work!!!! Report Inappropriate Comment

Little things that perk up your day

Friday, February 25, 2011

This morning, out of no where, a person in my department said,

"Hey skinny."

It was just a quick little thing, a variation on "good morning" but he'll never know what a great little perfectly timed pick me up it was.

  

30 Days Pop Free (again!)

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

YES.

I once again made it to the 30 day mark on my "no pop" challenge. Actually, today is day 31! So I only have 12 more days before I beat my previous record of 43 days.

Once I beat my old record, I'm aiming to keep going to 60 days. After that? Well, who knows.

(and really, I only miss it once in a great while--usually when I have some real stress come into my life)