A new plan
My food goal is out the window. Somehow, since I set it, I have been having more trouble w/eating than ever before. I don’t know if the goal was the reason but the point is it isn’t working. I don’t do well w/o a goal, though, so I have thought for a few days how I could change it and I think I have a plan that keeps me accountable yet isn’t an all-or-nothing situation. If you couldn’t figure it out last night wasn’t good for food 
My new plan is that I can earn 10 points every day for food. Don’t have a heart attack, Eileen, I still only earn 1 on your site 
Anyway, if I stay on plan 100% I earn all 10 points. For everything I eat that’s off-plan I lose one point. This is the key to this new plan. For instance, last night I ate a cupcake. Then I thought “I already lost my star for the day and can’t add a day toward my food goal so I might as well eat another one.” So I did. And then we got Subway for supper (which isn’t bad) but the chips and dip that went along w/it were. Then the 2 mini-chocolate pies I ate afterward added to the damage and I’m sure I ate a few more things for good measure. With this new plan, if I ate the cupcake I would lose my star on Eileen’s site, but if I stop there I can still earn 9 points for the day. I think this plan will also help me w/Sundays when I’m at the peak of my calorie cycle. I need to add about 400 calories to my regular eating but I generally exceed that amount four or five times over.
To begin, my goal will be to earn 90% of my points for the rest of the month. Since I’m starting RIGHT NOW, there are 13 days left in May that’s a chance to earn 130 points. Ninety percent of that is 117 so that’s my goal.
Dear God I hope this works. This weekend we will be working like crazy on the house and my parents are taking the boys so it could be a food disaster. I’m sure we’ll go out to dinner since we’ll be childless but it will allow me to have one or two treats and not go completely crazy.
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This morning was the 2nd workout in the 2nd phase of Chalean Extreme and once again I love it. I also added 10 minutes of abs afterward and then hit the gym for 45 minutes after school for a grand total of 90 minutes. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I wish you could control weight purely by exercise.
I’m still going to keep track of my workout goal, just b/c I like to keep track of things. Plus, it’s good for my ego to see those numbers increase every day.
Progress toward workout goal: 10/300
I agree that exercise alone would be pretty easy! I can almost see how some people think exercise is as good as good sex!
I’m glad you’ve figured out something that will hopefully work for you. I’ve said that this is a learning experience, a trial and error experience until we find what works best for us.
The problem I had with calorie cycling was when I had lots leftover, I filled it up with junk. I don’t know how to avoid that other than just doing it. But it’s probably what I’m going to go back to because I’m off my rocker with the way I’ve been eating and not weighing myself this week.
LOL I busted out laughing when I read, “Don’t have a heart attack, Eileen, I still only earn 1 on your site” ROFL!!
What if you changed your food goal on my site to be something like “earn 8 out of 10 personal points per day” so that way if you meet that goal you still get a w8c star for the day? Remember, on the w8c site YOU set what your daily food goals are, and they can be whatever you want them to be.
Just a suggestion. =D
Good for you, though, on recognizing when something isn’t working and moving fast to change it up!!
oops I meant 9 out of 10.
I was just thinking about it - and since your goal is 90% for the rest of the month, then a daily goal of 9 out of 10 would mean that you could never dip below 90% on any given day and then catch up on another day - which maybe sets you up for another all or nothing scenario? So maybe your w8c goal could read something like “Don’t dip below 85% of total personal points for the month” so you could bank a couple of perfect days and then have that wiggle room.
Sounds like a lotta math. LOL. Just trying to help ya find a way that the Challenge can still work for you (and not be a part of your difficulty!).
is the Chalean Extreme a forum challenge?