In an effort to inspire us to eat right, exercise, and have fun, I am proposing a new challenge - the First or Fourth of July Challenge. Challengers may choose to end their challenge on either the First of July (Canada Day) or the Fourth of July (Independence Day). Here are the rules - Beginning this week, and for every day until the end of the Challenge, challengers must post a message that includes 3 things.
1) their meal plan for the next day
2) their exercise plan for the next day
3) what they plan to do for fun during the next day
In the first post, please include whether you will end your challenge on the First of July or the Fourth of July. If we get several folks in each group, we might even end up with an inter-group challenge!
The challengers with the most posts will win a prize.
Just for the heck of it, I will end my challenge on the First of July.
For tomorrow -
Exercise - 30 min wts. & 30 min cardio
Fun - I'm scrapping tomorrow!
Food -
Breakfast:
Pancakes & berries (I make the pancakes by blending 1 Whole Wheat Eng Muffin, 1/4 cup egg substitute, a little skim milk, some vanilla & a couple of packets of Splenda)
Lunch:
Thai Turkey Slaw (diced turkey, cabbage shredded, lite slaw dressing, peanuts)
Snack: Lt. Yogurt
Dinner: Cabbage soup w turkey, grilled cheese sandwich
Snack: Lt Yogurt w peanut butter & Splenda
Include me in: I will be traveling a lot, but will do the best I can to post daily.
1) Meals for tomorrow:
Breakfast: Spiru-Tein Hight Protein Energy Meal (from health food store)
Lunch: More of the same
Dinner: 6 ounces baked lemon marinated fish & brocolli
Snack: Spiru-Tein again. (Sorry my meals are pretty boring right now).
2) Exercise: Walk 30 minutes & 30 minutes on Nu-Step machine
Lynn Thanks for starting this thread, Accountability. that’s what it is about.
My Meal Plan for Thursday
Breakfast: Cereal, ½ cup Egg beaters with cheddar cheese(2% Fat) snack: Carrots, 2 large whole sticks Lunch: Tuna salad on Tortilla with lettuce and bowl of homemade soup. Snack: tbd Dinner: Flounder, Cauliflower and a large salad with salsa on it. Snack: Yogert 0 %fat and strawberry’s Maybe my 1 pc choc. I allow myself.
My exercise plan for Thursday Curves 30 min. Walking 30 min. Elliptical As much as I can.
meal plan for the Wednesday:
B- Cheerios w/ banana & oj
S- pear
L- Asian salad
S- Grapes
Dinner- We're going to my MIL's
WW spaghetti, salad & fruit salad
exercise plan:
Walk 30 minutes
plan to do for fun during the next day;
watching my soaps
I didn't realize we started today....duh
so my plan for today is:
Exercise: Walk 1 mile (did 2 miles yesterday)
B. 1 diet bread, slice block cheese, peaches
L. Turkey, cheese,pickle on 1 slice lite bread/celery & carrots with lite dip
S. Rice cakes (carmel), small apple
D. Steak, ?, strawberries (eating at friends)
Fun: Pedicure and Manicure
OK, for tomorrow:
Exercise: 2 mile walk
B. lite bread, 1 egg, fruit
L. Progresso Soup, 5 low fat Ritz crackers
S. Rice Cakes, cheese stick
D. Tuna, no egg noodles, peas
Fun: Go to the hypnotist....
Phyllis
Last edited by floridarusty; 05-02-2007 at 09:06 AM.
I have a evil twin that loves competition and I want to join too but I have two problems. I'm pretty much at my goal weight and I don't plan my meals the day before. DH is retired and we don't have a scheduled life, can I just post my menu the day after?
I would like to join in this challenge too but like Bobbi I will need to post my meal plans the day after. And when we leave to go back East I don't know if I can get connected everyday BUT I have a spiral notebook with me that I will be keeping track of everything and can add it when I do have a connection. Will that work for the challenge? I don't want to mess things up but just thought that I would ask before starting.
Hi Golden Girls....I was afraid I had lost the thread But after giving up hope here you are!!
Good News.......FINALLY dropped another 2 pounds...(Seems like it took a year
Since I'm not proficient enough to do the wt tracter, I'll just enter the short note. 235/193/155
I love the recipes that are added. I'm still more on the medially supervised fast than off....so my menus at this time is pretty boring and much the same every day.
Tomorrow's menu:
5 program snacks
Dinner: 6 ounces broiled fish and 1/2 cup sugar snap peas
16 ounces green tea
24 ounces soda
40 ounces water
Exercise - Walking around NYC
Fun - I'm going to NYC to see the new Greco-Roman Galleries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Food -
Breakfast:
Pancakes & berries (I make the pancakes by blending 1 Whole Wheat Eng Muffin, 1/4 cup egg substitute, a little skim milk, some vanilla & a couple of packets of Splenda)
Lunch: Eating out - will have fish or chicken w vegetables or salad
Dinner: Cabbage soup w turkey, grilled cheese sandwich
Snack: Lt Yogurt w peanut butter & Splenda
Please feel free to make this challenge your own. The idea is for each of us to be inspired to eat healthy, have fun, and exercise. Whatever will work best for you is good.
Breakfast: Egg beaters/2% cheddar and Organic cereal
Snack: Carrots and Mozzarella stick
Lunch:
Chicken sandwich and large salad
Dinner: Flounder and Baked Yam With Cauliflower And maybe a bowl of
homemade veggie soup.
Snack: Apple and Yogurt
My exercise plan for Thursday.
Walk 30 min. And Elliptical
For fun, I plan too… go plant shopping. I just bought a new clematis today. It has 2 shades of Pink.
I will put it with my Purple clematis.
I am looking for a shrub that has lots of flowers. all summer. And one that can take the harsh sun. It can get big as it wants. Have any Ideas?
Oh! I am in Zone 5-6.
Golden Girls First or Fourth of July Challenge
But after giving up hope here you are!!
