August 4, 2010 By thea
O.K. So I’m a little late to the game.
Again.
That’s par for the course, people.
Anyway. I have goals, oh yes I do! I love a good goal. Don’t you feel like you are kind of wandering aimlessly without a goal. It’s like shopping without a grocery list, and we all know that THAT never ends of well, right?
For the next 31 30 28 days, here are my goals…
- Miss no more than 4 training sessions over the next 30 days.
- Only snack on foods with 5 ingredients or less.
- Be in bed for 7 hours a night.
I am going out of town next week and then we have visitors the week after that so I am going to need some REAL motivation to keep going on my training.
I’m a sucker for a good snack. But I don’t snack enough on simple stuff. So I’m going to limit my snacks to fruits, vegetables, or minimally processed foods. The one exception to this will be the fig newtons I eat during long bike rides and bike/run workouts.
Pretty self-explanatory. The kids aren’t the only ones who need to start practicing getting up early for school. : )
As always, I my ongoing goal is to stay in my magic weight range of 153-157. My weight last week was 159, but I had a triathlon plus two birthdays so you’ll have that.
This morning I weighed in at 157. Back in range, woohoo!!
Wanna follow along? I have a goal tracking spreadsheet, dontcha know?
April 21, 2010 By thea
Oh my goodness, I almost missed it!!
Based on the changes that I made this week as far as water and candy, I was VERY happy to step on the scale this morning and see a 2.2 pound LOSS!! Yippee!!
After my little hiccup, today’s weight of 156.2 puts me at 14 weeks of keeping my weight between 153 and 157.
Let’s just pretend that I didn’t actually make any goals for this challenge, k? I didn’t do so well with tracking my goals this time around.
In fairly unrelated news, I’m going to buy a bike soon. I haven’t owned my own bike since I was in high school…5 years ago.
Ahem.
March 3, 2010 By thea
So I’m in this really strange place in my head (which ain’t saying much).
I’m down a 1/2 pound this week…but I totally don’t feel like I deserve to be. I have been eating like crap, CRAP for a while now, but I keep on staying within my weight range. It’s like I’ve given my body license to continue to eat like CRAP even though I’m within my range.
Not exactly the most healthy attitude in the world to have.
I should be eating like AWESOME and maintaining. That should be my goal. I shouldn’t be trying to see how much I can get away with.
Anyhoo, I’ve updated my goals for this challenge. They were pretty much the same as the last challenge, I just changed up my running goal a bit. Instead of running so many miles on specific days, I just need to meet my weekly mileage goal. I’ll be increasing the goal by 10% every week.
If I can keep up with that, I should have no problems with my 8k and 10k in a few months!
February 10, 2010 By thea
Oh my goodness, that challenge went fast! I can’t believe that we are at the end already.
I weighed in at 155 this morning, which is down a pound from last week. Woohoo!
The question is, how’d I do on my goals?
Goal 1: Maintain Weight Between 153 – 157 pounds — I did this one every week! 100% on this one, baby!
Goal 2: Run 3 days a week, at least 3 miles each time — I didn’t do nearly as well as I wanted to on this one. I kept coming up with reasons excuses not to run. I only did this 9 out of the 18 time. 50%…not that great.
Goal 3: No food after 9pm — I did pretty well with this one. I met this goal 38 out of 42 days. 90% ain’t bad on this one and I definitely think it’s a habit. I don’t even think about food at night anymore.
So, I’m thinking that means no yoga mat for me. But that’s O.K. I learned a lot this time around and I conquered 2 out of the 3 obstacles in front of me!
So how did you all do? I can’t wait to hear!
December 31, 2009 By thea
Here are my answers to the Thursday Three questions. No turning back now!
Rethink Your Shrink Goals
Goal 1: Maintain Weight Between 153 – 157 pounds
Goal 2: Run 3 days a week, at least 3 miles each time
Goal 3: No food after 9pm
Tracking: I’ve made a sticker chart and an online chart!
Reward: A new yoga mat