Weekly Challenge - What's Your Goal?

 Happy Monday everyone! The wonderful day where we get to plan our week :)

I'm happy to report that last week's goal was accomplished, and I'm in a much better mood for this week. 

My goals for the week - 

1)  Complete week 6 of my 1/2 marathon training. I'm really ready to quit because my body hurts, but I'm going to push on. Im going to make sure I have no excuses not to get up and run - going to eat well, get enough sleep, and lots of stretching. 

2) As a continuation of last week's goal (which went very well) of learning to love myself - my goal is not to make any negative statements about my body. My friend totally called me out for being so hard on myself because i make a lot of statements about "how big I am" or how Im tired of being fat...etc. Since my thoughts aren't changing by themselves, I'm going to stop saying those things out loud and maybe my brain will have some time to catch up.  


So my lovely friends - inspire me. What is your goal, and how will you accompli**** I'm interested to see the plans you make to accomplish your goal - I see a lot of people throw great ideas out there but no real plan on how they are going to change their normal routine/habits. 

Have agreat week!

Great timing. I came on for this post.

Btw, it takes practice to not be mean to yourself.  The internal stuff is really important. Yes, start with what you say out loud and write.  But also, when you catch yourself thinking it, then make a conscious correction by saying (out loud if necessary):
-that's not true, I'm ____ instead
-that wasn't necessary, I didn't deserve that.

It is the thoughts that really affect mood. This is something I worked on before my surgery because I had already been in therapy.  If you wouldn't like hearing someone else say that about your friend, then don't say it about yourself.

Blah blah blah.  On to my goals...
I did great with the recording of my food on mfp, but I have another issue. I have been eating right before bedtime, which means it is not recorded on mfp.

So this week:
record food daily
no eating after 9pm
no eating after complete food diary on mfp

 I really want to add another day of exercise in my schedule. So far I have swimming on Mondays and walking on Tuesdsys and Thursdays but I want to start walking or something on Wednesdays. So I'm going to try it and see how it goes. Another 5 miles to the week.

I've been letting drama in my personal and work life over take me.  I've been letting everything that I can actually control (food, water, vitamins, and excercise) slip.  The scale is showing it, the way I feel is reflecting poor choices, and I just feel blah in general.

Goals this week:

1)800-1000 calories per day
2)85 grams of protein per day
4)8-10 glasses of water per day.
5)All of my vitamins

That's it.  This week Im going to just focus on food, water, and vitamins.  One day at a time.

The scale is showing the poor choices I have made over the past couple months, and I just feel blah blah and more blah.

Goals this week:

1) 600-800 calories per day
2)85 grams of protein per day
4)10-12 glasses of water per day
5) Get back to recording everything on MFP
6) Start back to exercising
7) get ALL of my vitamins
8) Keep up with OH for encouragement and inspiration

I am going to have a great week

I dont know if this is my goal for me personally but my older sister is pissed that I haven't done the "30 Day Shred" yet. She even bought me the DVD so I didnt have an excuse to not try it.  She's convinced I will love the results.  I kept telling myself I was going to but then got lazy ... well sort of because I would just walk instead but I really need to see if I can tighten anything up if possible, sooo...

My goal is to do this DVD at least 4 times this week so I can report to my sister that I did it for the both of us, yay!!!

Good Morning -- another beautiful day here -- bright sunshine, cool breeze, temps moderate.  Love the beginning of Autumn weather!

Goal 1:  Up my number of minutes on the recumbent bike from 20 to 25 (and possibly get in
               that fourth mile). 

               How:  Glue my butt to the seat?  LOL

Goal 2:  Try to be more patient about how slowly I'm losing.  I had great expectations that this
               early out (about 10 weeks), I'd still be losing quickly.  UNSO and I'm sad about that.

               How:  find the silver linings, celebrate a pound lost whenever it happens.  Not sure
                          what else I can do.  Become accepting of being a slow loser, I guess.

Goal 3:  Stop being so self-centered about this journey.  I have a friend who is suffering from
               stomach and colon cancer and he stays upbeat.  I want to be on his support team.

              How:  do what needs to be done to help someone else -- will take my  mind off my
                          problems and will provide much needed love and encouragement to another.

That last isn't exactly a VSG type goal, but it's important to me.  I know I will learn something by working on that goal.

Have a successful week everyone!

This week's goals are:

1. Get off my butt and start the Couch 2 5K program.
2. Do at least two days of some kind of dance/yoga/fitness video in addition to my regular activities.

desperately trying t break 18 months of being in maintennce mode when I still want to los 50# plus the 13 that has krept on during this time.




for this week that means losing 5#.

Having tried EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING...more food less food more dense protein more shakes,low carb and lower carb.,more veggiies less veggies. more exercise less exercise more water and more water....
today I am goig back t all shakes diet...5 a day with brpth/soup/jello and all the drink I can hold.

Also going to get all my vits every day. i almost always get at least tow doses plus my b12 but I need to get all three doses and the b12 every day. I plan to keep my prefilled vitamin box right on the kitchen table so I see it every time I walk by.

Goint to try hard to get some exercise every day. Including but not limited to cleaning out the chicken house= shoveling n raking; starting to dig a grave ffor one of my pups who is likely to cross the rainbow bridge any time now...then I will fill in around those with biking and hill walking and I do mean HILL walking around my home.

Good luck to all on your chaallenges this week.

DH is out of town till Thursday so prfect time for me to focus without other things to think about...

I would just recommend ditching the scale related goal - focus on only the things you can control - the scale sucks and really has no correlation to what we do.