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.

NEW CHALLENGE THIS MONTH! inspired by Jacquie over at Sugar Boom

The February Freedom Challenge:

Take away a bad habit and add a good one

They say it takes about a month to start a new habit. Let February be that month for you!

Get creative! It can be any health related goal.

If you want to join:

1) Email me w/ your bad habit that you’re saying “bye-bye” to…

2) Let me know what good habit you will be replacing it with…

3) Email me/ comment on my blog to let me know how you’ve done (about once a week)

Last week’s Scale Reading: 154.2 oops typo 152.4

Today’s Scale Reading 150.0  Woo hoo!!! Down 2.4! Finally! Break through!!! I am feeling it too!  And it feels great….

To re-cap… I have been stuck at/ fluctuating between… 152.4 and 156 since THANKSGIVING! It’s been a long time!  I knew CORE was what I needed this week.  I could just feel it kicking in!

Today I got my 16 week key ring and my 10% key chain so that was cool too! A fun way to really feel the success! (I had technically hit my own personal 10% last month… but I’m 2 lbs lower than my WW book since I lost it on my own before starting).  Grand Total on WW: 18  lbs… Grand total total: 20 lbs!!! That’s a great feeling! 10 more lbs before I will allow myself to start trying to conceive! That is soooo close! (:

Me: Well… I honestly failed miserably in my own challenge. I have a lot to learn from it and that’s good. 1st of all.. I don’t do well when I tell myself I can have “NO” junk.. it tends to turn into an “all or nothing” battle. Once I eat one then I might as well just keep eating because I’ve def. blown the “nothing” part. That being said, it was so so so so so hard for me to not eat sweets. I would walk into WinCo and start drooling. At the dumbest stuff.. like a type of cookie I would never buy and would usually never interest me. My Junk Free Jan turned into a psycho sugar craving nightmare.

It’s amazing to me as I’ve spent the last 4 days on CORE.. that I’ve made contientious decisions to not eat junk,( besides my SF puddings (which I wouldn’t even allow myself during the JJFC)) because I don’t want to count the points for it, and NOT because I am depriving myself. I drink my sf hot cocoa and eat my sugar free puddings and for the most part, I’m content. And if I want to take a bite of a cookie, candy, etc… I can… and not go crazy afterward…. there’s no longer a need to eat the entire baggie! (:

Well that’s it… that’s my thoughts on all the reasons why I won’t be doing a Junk Free Challenge again… HOWEVER… that being said… there are other WW’s out there who found it very helpful to curb the crazy sugar fest they’ve been on. Either way… it’s def. a personal preference… each of you have to decide what works for you!

BigTickles says: that she has found the JJFC to be helpful… it helps her to choose fruits over sugary snacks… and when she starts on sugary snacks she just keeps going… so for her the JJFC was a good thing!

Jacquie says: Junk free January wasn’t junk free for me but still better than normal. I’ve began eating a yummy bowl of fruit in the mornings and yogurt for morning snack and I’m back at the gym again, this time with a personal trainer on Wednesdays. So it was good to go from lost to focused. Thats a big step for me so it wasn’t a waste of a month. I’m up for the next challenge.

Everyone else… didn’t offer an opinion in time to add it to this post! (: Happy February!

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!

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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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