Slump Buster Challenge

First of all, weighing in at 162.something this morning, I can only say, OMFG MY JANUARY POST IS DEPRESSING THE SHIT OUT OF ME.

Now on to the challenge…

I am pledging for three days, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY:

1.  No eating out, no junk food, no purchasing food that is already cooked… home cooking. Taking advantage of the fact that I am working from home those three days.

2. Two out of those three days will have meaningful exercise.

3.  Controlled snacking only between meals. This means a granola bar or a handful of nuts, vs a family sized bag of Doritos.

PENALTY: transgressions will be dealt with sternly. If I fall off the wagon, NO ALCOHOL FRIDAY, SATURDAY OR SUNDAY. And we? Have party plans this weekend. So that would SUCK.

Anyone else in? What’s your challenge this week?

Filed under: Uncategorized on March 23rd, 2010 | 2 Comments »

After weeks of weighing in in the low 160s, I have been consistently in the 159 range for a few days now (with the exception of a 160.2 spike brought on by the three-day weekend). I want to use this as my JUMPING OFF (or jumping in?) point of NEVER GOING BACK TO 160 AGAIN.

So I need a challenge. And I need some sister chicks to get in on the action and let’s all kick each others’ asses. I mean motivate each other.

MY CHALLENGE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK (Weds/Thurs/Fri)

**NO FAST FOOD. AT ALL. ZERO TOLERANCE. Not even a drive thru salad. For real.

**NO ALCOHOL. AT ALL. ZERO TOLERANCE. For three days, because I am planning on going on a bender on Saturday. Ha! Just joking. Mostly.

**MOVE MY ASS. WITH PURPOSE. If all else fails, if I am a total bust on the exercise front, I swear, I will stand in my living room and march in place for 15 minutes before bed. SOMETHING, ANYTHING, BUT I NEED TO EXERCISE.

THE PENALTY: Because, seriously, what is the point of a challenge if I can wimp out without consequence? So the penalty will be a posted SWIMSUIT PHOTO. Brand new, not a cute one that I might be able to find from 2 years ago. A photo in my (horrible) bathing suit, which will be taken on Saturday if I miss the challenge goal.

What about you? What do you need to do with the rest of this week in order to kick your plan into high gear?

Filed under: Uncategorized on January 20th, 2010 | 5 Comments »

Busting my own slump. Sounds kind of dirty, doesn’t it?

Where did everyone go? How do we get our momentum back?

My challenge to myself this week: NO FAST FOOD. AT ALL. ZERO. I’m not worrying about my exercise because I get enough of that with my training plan for running club.

The fast food is my biggest issue and I need to deal with it.

What’s holding you back?

Filed under: Uncategorized on May 11th, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I’m going for a perfect day today? Any joiners?

No ifs, ands or buts. No doing it tomorrow if I fuck it up today. PERFECT DAY. TODAY.

What constitutes a perfect day for you?

Mine = meals on plan, healthy sacks, NO FAST FOOD and some form of exercise (though not running for me today because it is a running rest day).

I have dinner and a movie scheduled with girlfriends tomorrow night, here at my house. I’m attaching my reward/penalty to that.

My reward: if I have a perfect day today, I am drinking red wine and eating dessert after dinner with my girlfriends tomorrow night.

My penalty: if I louse up my perfect day, no wine AND no dessert tomorrow night.

COME ON CHICKS, WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER!

Filed under: Uncategorized on May 7th, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Angelina? Where are you? Come on, sister, and bust our slumps.

Oooh, that sounded kind of dirty, didn’t it? hee hee.

I did not make my perfect day last week on Thursday or Friday. But I SWEAR I AM NOT LYING, my camera? isn’t working. I let DD10 take it on a field trip last week (I know, what was I thinking?) and now, SURPRISE, it doesn’t work.

So the internet will be spared my back fat… for now.

Filed under: Uncategorized on May 5th, 2009 | No Comments »

Perfect day, anyone? Not yet for me, but I am totally doing it today. TOTALLY DOING IT TODAY.

Who wants to plan the next challenge? Come on, step up.

Filed under: Uncategorized on May 1st, 2009 | 2 Comments »

It’s Wednesday, so how about a lil’ mid-week challenge?

It doesn’t matter how you’ve done so far this week. Have you had a crappy week? Fuh-get about it. Have you had an awesome week? Well, yay for you! Shut up. Leave the rest of us alone, will ya’? Just kidding, jeez.

So here’s the challenge: THE PERFECT DAY! Whatever that means for you food wise and activity wise. ONE PERFECT DAY, tomorrow, Thursday. PERFECT. Are you up for it?

For me, the perfect day means no fast food, breakfast/lunch/dinner and snacks that are “on plan” (total of about 1200 calories), having fresh veggies with at least one meal and at least 45 minutes of exercise. Since Thursday is a rest day for me from my marathon training schedule, I’m going to shoot for yoga.

If you blow it Thursday, shoot for it Friday. Come on, you’ve got TWO CHANCES here.

And here’s a little challenge to make it interesting: exercise a neglected part of your body sometime in the next two days. For me, it’s going to be upper body. I have totally given up on any kind of arm/shoulder/back exercises in the last few months. For you it might be abs or your booty or your calves. Whatever that part is that you haven’t been working? Go to google and find a couple of good toning exercises and do them.

The penalty? Well, if you don’t have a perfect day, the penalty will be the guilt and sadness you will feel when you see all of us chicks bragging about ours. And as far as the exercise goes, how about we post some pics? Because, seriously? You guys DO NOT want to see my bat wings. And don’t EVEN get me started on the back fat. Eeek.

And of course there will be a bitchin’ blog award for you to post. I’ll work on it tonight when I’m on my cool Mac laptop in bed, because I can’t do squat on this antique PC.

WHO’S IN?

Filed under: Uncategorized on April 29th, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Anyone up for it?  If so, let me know your email address so I can add you as an author and you can get our challenge ready for next week!

Filed under: Uncategorized on April 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Welcome ladies!  Welcome to the new Slump Buster Challenge blog.   For those of you following the Slump Buster challenge, this is where you will find the new slump busters for the week.  We decided to make one page so it is easy to find each challenge instead of having to link your way through 3FC-blogland.   If you want to come up with the slump buster for the week, email me at batsell_grl@hotmail.com and I will add you as an author.  Feel free to leave comments and such on this page!

For anyone new wanting to know what a slump buster challenge is, boy are you in for a treat.  Each week someone comes up with a diet/exercise challenge.  There are awards for making it throught the week successfully, and some sort of penalty if not.  Join in if you want!!

So here is your challenge for this week ladies:

Diet:  6 Days of Clean Eating however you define it AND you must eat one new fruit or veggie this week

Exercise: 12 miles OR 250 minutes of exercise this week

Water:  80oz a day

Challenge: do something for YOURSELF!  Whether it is going for a massage or getting some time for yourself, do it!! 

Your award if you choose to accept: 

Penalty for the week: if you mess up your eating, add 2 miles or 20 minutes of exercise per day!!
 

Filed under: Uncategorized on April 18th, 2009 | 8 Comments »