Hi Fitness Friends!
This week has FLOWN by! I hope you all have enjoyed some successes with your fitness plans. It's been my experience in the past that the first 2 weeks are the most difficult. Once a routine is established and you start feeling/seeing results it gets easier to be and stay more committed.
Mostly I came into some difficulties with finding time to workout this past week. Usually I have a routine set up with going to the gym 5 days a week, but my car was in the shop and my husband has started a new job downtown so I had to be a little more creative with what I did. I ended up calling a good friend the first day, and we took a hike/ran through some trails in Forest Park. It was so much fun and such a great workout that we have committed to making it a weekly date. The great thing about changing up my workouts was that I was incredibly sore having worked muscles that are not use to being worked. LOVE that.
I have been terribly sick with some sort of bug that my kindergartners contracted from school and brought home to share with the rest of us (so sweet). While everyone else in the family has healed, I have continued to suffer and plan on going to the Doctor tomorrow. I'm thinking it is infection of some kind. This has definitely inhibited my ability to perform in workouts BUT, on the plus side, it has curbed my desire to eat things I shouldn't. I think this has to do with the fact that my sense of smell is completely out of commission. I have not been tempted in the least. My Mommy came out this weekend with all of her yummy food and wanted to go to such places as Krispy Kreme and Sees Candies etc. for the kids and I was not swayed one bit.
I did create some yummy recipes this past week that I wanted to share with you all. I've found that when I cut out all of the processed/fatty foods that I have a closer relationship with my body and what it needs. Post workout I came up with this tasty wrap and made up this chocolate coconut no bake recipe that I had dreamed up earlier this summer when I was doing the 24 day challenge. The no bake is great to have around when other people around you are eating something sweet. It's delicious without the sugar (and guilt). My kids love it, and this weekend while my Dad was here visiting I had him try it and then had to hide it because he was working on the whole pan.
Happy Healthy Challenge Week One! Bring on week 2!!
Meg
This is a HIGHLY MOTIVATING, yet low key, group competition where you set your own rules (mostly) and goals, earn points, and report in here each week. The cost is $10, which ALL goes towards cash prizes for the winners at the end.
How To Earn Points
HOW TO EARN POINTS
5 points for paying $10 and posting your picture with an "intro post with diet plan" on this blog. (I can help if you if you don't know how to post. . .or you can scroll down to the How to Post instructions in RED) Deadline for paying $10 is Monday Sept 30th and deadline for posting intro is Friday Oct 4th.
2 points/day for following your own customized diet plan
2 points/day for keeping a food journal
1 point/day for each 1/2 hour of exercise, max of 10 points per week. (***Not counting extra pop challenge points. Note: you may lump all your weekly exercise points into one day but you risk the chance of loosing pop challenge points. . .see below right)
1 point/per day for drinking at least 48oz of water
1 point/day for taking a multi vitamin
1 point/day for flossing (hey, I'm a hygienist and I'm trying to rid the world of periodontal disease!)
3 points/week for: 1. weighing in (do not post your weight) 2. BRIEFLY recap your previous week in a post on this blog 3. updating your point total in your picture caption BEFORE midnight on Sunday of each week. Our weeks begin each Monday morning. ADD these 3 points in with the "just started week's points
At the end of the challenge you will also have a chance to win additional points for % of weight lost. You can win 1 point for each % of weight lost, IE: loosing 10% of your weight equals 10 extra points! These points will be taken once, at the end of the 12 week challenge.
This challenge will last 12 weeks, starting
5 points for paying $10 and posting your picture with an "intro post with diet plan" on this blog. (I can help if you if you don't know how to post. . .or you can scroll down to the How to Post instructions in RED) Deadline for paying $10 is Monday Sept 30th and deadline for posting intro is Friday Oct 4th.
2 points/day for following your own customized diet plan
2 points/day for keeping a food journal
1 point/day for each 1/2 hour of exercise, max of 10 points per week. (***Not counting extra pop challenge points. Note: you may lump all your weekly exercise points into one day but you risk the chance of loosing pop challenge points. . .see below right)
1 point/per day for drinking at least 48oz of water
1 point/day for taking a multi vitamin
1 point/day for flossing (hey, I'm a hygienist and I'm trying to rid the world of periodontal disease!)
3 points/week for: 1. weighing in (do not post your weight) 2. BRIEFLY recap your previous week in a post on this blog 3. updating your point total in your picture caption BEFORE midnight on Sunday of each week. Our weeks begin each Monday morning. ADD these 3 points in with the "just started week's points
At the end of the challenge you will also have a chance to win additional points for % of weight lost. You can win 1 point for each % of weight lost, IE: loosing 10% of your weight equals 10 extra points! These points will be taken once, at the end of the 12 week challenge.
This challenge will last 12 weeks, starting
TO POST: In the upper right hand corner you will see "New Post" click on it. If you are like me it may take you a second to find it but I promise it is there!!! You will be brought to a screen were you can enter a title for your post on the dash board at the top of the screen. Please put your name and the week the post is for. You can then add your entry for the week whether good or ill we want to hear it! That's how this works in a group competition. We are all here to cheer you on!!! When you are satisfied with the content go ahead and hit publish!
HOW TO POST YOUR PHOTO AND YOUR WEEKLY POINTS:
In the upper right hand corner, next to "new post" you will also see "DESIGN." If you click on that it will take you to "bones" of the blog. On the left hand side you will see a menu under "new post." click on "LAYOUT." It will take you to the actual layout of the blog. In the left hand column you will see a place to click on "add a Gadget" It will then pull up another menu. Scroll down to Image and click on the (+) sign. You can there down down load your photo. Your name will be the title and your weekly point total will be the caption. . . .as I go back and re read this it all sounds very confusing. If you need help just let me know and I will be more than happy to assist you!!!
*****Once your pic is up all you will need to do weekly to update your points is, click on the tool/wrench in the lower right hand corner of your pic. You can then put in your new point total for the week in the caption area.
This site will stay public until everyone who wants to join lets me know and gets me their email address and cell #. After that I will make this site private for our challenge group.
FIRST PLACE WINNER: Gets 60% of the cash
SECOND PLACE WINNER: Gets 30% of the cash
THIRD PLACE WINNER: Gets 10% of the cash
In the case of a tie the winner will be determined by % of weight lost over the 12 week period. So, don't forget to note your initial weight so we can figure it out at the end of the challenge in December
2 comments:
Congrats on a great week! Hope you get feeling better! Thanks for the recipes, I love trying new ideas.
I'm totally going to try that recipe! Sounds delicious! Thanks for sharing
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