February Freedom Challenge! *Come Join Us* UPDATED

Well we are kicking off the second month of the new year with a new challenge/goal for all who want to participate! Click here to read the February Freedom Challenge (freedom from an old, unwanted habit)!

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February Freedom Challenge! *Come Join Us* UPDATED

Well we are kicking off the second month of the new year with a new challenge/goal for all who want to participate! Click here to read the February Freedom Challenge (freedom from an old, unwanted habit)!

DID I MISS ANYONE????

Here’s the goals so far:

Jacquie: bad habit: fast food good new habit: yogurt every day

Me: bad habit: falling off plan on weekends good new habit: workout once/weekend (cardio preferably) 1) Eat all my fruits and veggies on Saturdays and Sundays 2) Don’t fall prey to bad eating habits just because DH is home 3) Drink all my water

Tania (big tickles): bad habit: mindless snacking good new habit: set a menu of what she will eat

Lacey Q: bad habit: convenience foods: frozen dinners, canned soups, prepacked foods etc. good new habit: cook more using whole grains, fresh veggies, and lean protein.

Laura (Fit & Healthy Mom) - bad habit: snacking when not hungry good new habit: eating yogurt instead of chocolate

Jacki (Not Just Any Girl) - bad habit: skipping exercise good new habit: exercising 3 days/week

Kim (Kim’s Journey…) - Kim is giving up red meat and sweets for Lent

Allison (To Goal I Go) - bad habit: skipping exercise good new habit: : exercising 3 days/week

Gotta Have Faith - bad habit: eating free junk food at lectures and meetings. new good habit: Packing a healthy lunch every single day.

2BoysMom (Day by Day) - bad habit: late night eating new good habit: No eating past 8 pm

The Engine that Could - bad habit: too much soda (even diet!) new good habit: one soda per day

Christi (HavtaDropDaPounds) - old habit: internet at lunch new good habit: walking at lunch

Bonita - old habit: having dessert with lunch and/or dinner New good habit: not having a sweet dessert with the meals all the time. Most of the time substitute with a mint, tea, or fruit.

Wedding Body Boot Camp (Jenna)  - bad habit: falling off plan on weekends  new good habit: working out and staying on plan on weekends!

Well we are kicking off the second month of the new year with a new challenge/goal for all who want to participate! Click here to read the February Freedom Challenge (freedom from an old, unwanted habit)!

DID I MISS ANYONE????

Here’s the goals so far:

Jacquie: bad habit: fast food good new habit: yogurt every day

Me: bad habit: falling off plan on weekends good new habit: workout once/weekend (cardio preferably) 1) Eat all my fruits and veggies on Saturdays and Sundays 2) Don’t fall prey to bad eating habits just because DH is home 3) Drink all my water

Tania (big tickles): bad habit: mindless snacking good new habit: set a menu of what she will eat

Lacey Q: bad habit: convenience foods: frozen dinners, canned soups, prepacked foods etc. good new habit:  cook more using whole grains, fresh veggies, and lean protein.

Laura (Fit & Healthy Mom) - bad habit: snacking when not hungry good new habit: eating yogurt instead of chocolate

Jacki (Not Just Any Girl) - bad habit: skipping exercise good new habit: exercising 3 days/week

Kim (Kim’s Journey…) - Kim is giving up red meat and sweets for Lent

Allison (To Goal I Go) - bad habit: skipping exercise good new habit: : exercising 3 days/week

Gotta Have Faith - bad habit: eating free junk food at lectures and meetings. new good habit: Packing a healthy lunch every single day.

2BoysMom (Day by Day) - bad habit - late night eating new good habit: No eating past 8 pm

Well we are kicking off the second month of the new year with a new challenge/goal for all who want to participate! Click here to read the February Freedom Challenge (freedom from an old, unwanted habit)!

DID I MISS ANYONE????

Here’s the goals so far:

Jacquie: bad habit: fast food good new habit: yogurt every day

Me: bad habit: falling off plan on weekends good new habit: workout once/weekend (cardio preferably)  1) Eat all my fruits and veggies on Saturdays and Sundays  2) Don’t fall prey to bad eating habits just because DH is home 3) Drink all my water

Tania (big tickles): bad habit: mindless snacking good new habit: set a menu of what she will eat

Lacey Q: coming soon!

Laura (Fit & Healthy Mom) - bad habit: snacking when not hungry good new habit: eating yogurt instead of chocolate

Jacki (Not Just Any Girl) - bad habit: skipping exercise good new habit: exercising 3 days/week

Kim (Kim’s Journey…) - Kim is giving up red meat and sweets for Lent

Allison (To Goal I Go) - bad habit: skipping exercise good new habit: : exercising 3 days/week

Gotta Have Faith - bad habit: eating free junk food at lectures and meetings.   new good habit: Packing  a healthy lunch every single day.

Well today is Jan 31 (I can hardly believe it!).

My Jan Junk Free… wasn’t entirely junk free…

but I have a lot of thoughts and conclusions that have come from the experience attempt and I’m hoping some of the other ladies who participated do as well…

tomorrow I will post a reflective journal and include anyone else’s thoughts… Hurray for February!

I’m frustrated with the road block I seem to have reached.  I am not eating great… and my mind-set is just blah.  I seem to try each day… but obviously not hard enough.  I have been hovering around 153 for close to 2 months.  I know with Thanksgiving and then Christmas, it truly was about just getting by… maintaining.  But now?? Now I just don’t know what the deal is.  I wouldn’t say I’ve lost my motivation.  I’m still here.  Blogging almost daily.  I work out 5/7 days per week… It’s just that I seem to have lost some of my discipline. I think I may have burnt out slightly.  Today I ate big salad for the first time in (what seems like) a long time… it was torture.  I had to force myself to get out the lettuce, put it together, and eat it… all the while my brain was telling me I didn’t want it.. even when I was eating it I didn’t really enjoy it… it just tasted ug. to me.  I was on a roll in the past months of getting my fruit in by doing a apple, banana, manderine, splenda fruit salad.. and ever since manderines have kinda gone out of season, I haven’t been doing that either

What’s the deal???

Here’s my food today.  Not really proud of it.  I seem to start well… just not ending the greatest…

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Goal (Week Jan19  - 26  )				Sat	Sun	Mon	Tues	Wed	Thurs	Fri
Cardio totaling 3 hours each week					60 min		60 min
50 crunches (daily)					x		x
50 obliques (daily)					x		x
other exercise:
Group Power 1+ time/week
if daily goals accomplished							:-)

Yep life’s been crazy!!

January-Junk-Free Challenge update…

• Mom2three (Julie) had joined us! Ya for her! She needs a good jump start back on the wagon of weight loss! Stop by and encourage her if you can!
• Laura D: Ya for good choices! She managed to stay strong at her FIL’s house… something I have yet to manage!
• Kims_Journey (Kim): looks like Kim is doing great! Made it through homemade ch. chip cookies??!! woo hoo!
• Me!  Going strong! (: Accidentally put some ch. covered pretzels in my mouth yesterday while I was babysitting for a friend… totally not thinking about the challenge, just about how many points it would be.  Suddenly I gasped, stopped, put the lid on and didn’t look back! Woo hoo for that! It was funny because I “caught” myself - I didn’t purposefully eat them (unlike Sunday  night)
• Boiler Chick: She by-passed the Choc chip cookies too! You ladies are on a roll!
• Bonita (still thinkin about it???)

Well… yesterday felt like I totally blew it work-out-wise, because I didn’t work out… it makes me feel like I have totally messed up.. just missing one day! Weird huh?  So I’m not quite sure how I could possibly squeeze a real workout in today as I spent the morning getting a mini-van checked out (we might buy it so I took it to a shop to get looked-at); and the afternoon I’m babysitting until 5:30; then church is at 7 (prayer at 6)….  I’d LOVE to go run right after church, but DH has school and probably won’t be home till 11 - so there’s no one to watch baby…   Maybe I can do a dvd.. (NOT THE SAME… not even half as good of a workout!) I hate feeling like I’ve missed soo much!

Here’s my food for today!

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Come join us! (; 1st boiler chick, then me, now Laura! WE QUIT SWEETS for the month of January! Anyone else on board? (O and Bonita is thinking about it…)We can keep each other accountable. Swizzlepop has her “Exercise Challenge”, we can have our Junk-Free-January!

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I updated my goals page with some new expedited weight loss goals. I’m trying to push through and achieve my overall goal sooner. You can see my old goal (date to be accomplished) first, and then my new goal in italics. I also am participating in Swizzlepop’s Exercise Challenge for the month of January and I’m excited for some accountability! Should be good!

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Goal (Week Jan 1 - Jan 7, 2008)				Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat	Sun	Mon
Cardio totaling 3 hours each week				65 min
50 crunches					x
50 obliques					x
2 sets of 20 push-ups					x
Group Power 1+ time/week					x
if daily goal accomplished