300+ Wellness Goals-august 2011

[goodnuff]

Here's how it works: Everyone of us has wellness goals. Break those goals up into small, achievable steps and challenge yourself to meet your goals by the end of the month. They can be a number of pounds lost; please keep it reasonable and safe, dietary goals, goals to change your mindset, etc. Let's all support and encourage each other on this life long journey. Don't get discouraged if you don't meet your goal, just keep on challenging yourself.

You can join at any time.

This website might help you WITH GOAL SETTING: http://www.goal-setting-guide.com/go...-of-your-goals

Remember goals should be...
■S = Specific
■M = Measurable
■A = Attainable
■R = Realistic
■T = Timely
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[goodnuff]

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!

OUR THREAD IS 1 TODAY!!!

[lynnie923]

Happy Anniversary!!!

My goals for the month

1. Lose 5 lbs
2. Walk every other day
3. No bread
4 Increase water intake by a glass
5. Try to limit pasta intake to once or twice a week at one cup per serving

[SoDetermined]

Hi Everyone!! Good luck to all with your goals!! I know I am gonna need a lot of luck and determination to meet mine!!!

1) drink AT LEAST 40 OZ of water a day
2) NO more Dr. Pepper
3) 20 min (or more) walk (or other activity) AT LEAST every other day

Okay, I think 3 goals is reasonable for my "first" month. I know I can do this. I am a Dr. Pepper-a-holic, but I have almost cut them out already. I have only been having a small can every other day for the last week, and that was to help with the caffine headaches it was giving me to stop drinking them.

[goodnuff]

August Goals:
-walk 31 miles
-track at least 21 full days
-eat one meal per day at the table, without distractions
-blog at least 3 times/week

[KingBee]

August Goals:

1. lose ~8 lbs
2. drink at least 2 L water/day
3. log all my food - I do this with a log, & take a picture of all food
4. Write about results on blog 1/week, and write about a challenge 1/week

[ilbnej]

Woo hoo on one year for this thread - it is my FAVORITE! You guys are the best - now if I could just do a better job on meeting my goals.....

1. Stay below 200 g carbs at least 3x a week.
2. At least 4 hours in the pool each week for the month.
3. Average at least 80g protein/day each week (in other words, when still hungry at night, choose protein snack over carbs)
4. Not more than 3 weekend/vacation days over 2500 calories for the month.

These are last month's goals, which I didn't come close to meeting (except for #2-exercise, so I'm upping that one). I am going to master them this month. No vacation or other big social stuff going on, so there are no excuses!

[ilbnej]

Originally Posted by goodnuff

-eat one meal per day at the table, without distractions

LOVE this one, goodnuff!
(love the others too, but especially this one - I may have to steal it for next month....)

[ilbnej]

I've decided to try something a little different this month to try to keep on track with these - daily accountability checkins:

Week 1 - August 1-August 7:

1. Stay below 200 g carbs at least 3x a week. CLOSE BUT FAIL - 2 days below
8/1: 169g; 8/2: 210g; 8/3: 359g; 8/4: 323g; 8/5: 168g; 8/6: 238g; 8/7: 226g

2. At least 4 hours in the pool each week for the month. FAIL - 2 hours
8/1: 1hr; 8/2: 0; 8/3: 0; 8/4: 0; 8/5: 0; 8/6: 0; 8/7: 1

3. Average at least 80g protein/day each week (in other words, when still hungry at night, choose protein snack over carbs) Ave=77g - very close on this one
8/1: 95g; 8/2: 62g; 8/3: 101g; 8/4: 88g; 8/5: 67g; 8/6: 70g; 8/7: 54g

4. Not more than 3 weekend/vacation days over 2500 calories for the month. So far so good on this one - none of my 3 days used yet!
8/7: 2447 8/8: 2068

[goodnuff]

Welcome to anyone new and everone returning. As always I hope this is an activ board.
I'm doing ok so far! I walked, tracked, blogged and ate undistracted on the 1st and tracked and ate with very little distraction yesterday. I worked so had less control of the noise etc during my meal.
How is everyone else doing?

[ilbnej]

Woo hoo, Goodnuff - 2 days down for us, 29 to go! Can you tell I'm very serious about meeting these goals this month?

[lynnie923]

Well my walking every other day has not happened yet due to the weather so I hope it happens soon. All the others are managing pretty well.

[goodnuff]

so far so great. tracking 100%, walked over 5 miles, several "undistracted" meals and some blog entries. It's going to be a great month for us ilbnej and still early enough to be great for everyone else. I hear you on the weather thing lynnie, i just walked with my friend and have a sweat ring going halfway down my back and over my entire chest and still came to the public library to use their computers. It's more than a little embarrassing to have sweat trickling down my face with all these young people who don't know a thing about physical activity! Oh well!
Hoping to get an update from you kingbee and sodetermined!
)))))))tw(((((((( are you back in town yet?
Libraries sure are different then when I was a kid, these people are noisy! There's a kid across from me with head phones on singing off key, loudly. lol!

[lynnie923]

well i accomplished my first goal already this month and in one shot... I am so surprised. Now i got to get on the walking one for the rest of the month.

Lynn

[goodnuff]

Wow lynnie, way to rock the weight loss! Awesome!!!