Week At A Time Challenge #10
 

Happy Monday!
 

Good morning friends! I cannot express how wonderful it was to see so many of our regulars and new members posting! Each and everyone of you have impacted me with your presence here :thanks:
JustPeachie :wave: a warm welcome from all of us :grouphug: we are so delighted to have you join us. Great goal BTW!
Bonnie - You Go Girl :cheer: how awesome to have so much fun and maintain your weight within limits. You have shown it's not about a diet plan anymore - you have established a healthy living lifestyle! Keep it up!

Sushi - cp: :cp: :cp: :cp: for days of consistency! Congratulations for hanging in here with us all week!

Allie - :cp: :cp: :cp: :cp: and :encore: for reaching your weekly goal - to exercise 4 times during the week!
Bev :cp: :cp: :cp: :cp: :cp: :cp: :cp: for 7 days of goals met! :bravo: and :woo: :woo: :woo: for 3 weeks - completing a 21-day challenge!
Debi :cp: :cp: :cp: :cp: :cp: :cp: :cp: for 7 days of goals met! :bravo: As everyone has said you count your goals and successes in whatever way works for you! Sounds great to me - I may try to get my head start for the week on Sundays!

carla :cp: :cp: :cp: :cp: :cp: :cp: :cp: for 7 days of goals met :bravo: (no chocolate and wine?) Your goals for this week are great. We often forget how important it is to our weight and health wellbeing to get up, be active and go to bed on time. Thanks for setting the example! I got a kick out of being in training for retirement :lol:

kurias, Casper - we are missing you!

mscat

Hi Friends! :)

Here are my challenges for this week:

1. Walk DOWN 24 flights of stairs + walk UP 1 flight of stairs
2. Drink 5 cups of water per day

And for today ... I've completed both of my challenges. :cb: :lol:

It really helped me to do my stairs last night and I'm so glad that nobody minds this!

How's everybody doing so far today? I good good. :)

Have I mentioned yet, how much I love this place?! :) :)

I hope you're all having a good day so far!

Love,

Debi

Oops - I forgot to mention that I weighed myself this morning and am at 240, hopefully next week it will be less than that. :tantrum: :lol:

Hi Bonnie,

Enjoy your time with your granddaughter and have a safe trip when you take her home. :)

(HUGS)

Love,

Debi

Debi, I thought you'd like to know that I started my week last night too. It doesn't seem to me to matter when the week starts, as long as it lasts 7 days... My goal is getting to bed before midnight, and being up and out by 10 am. I made it to bed on time and actually can't remember if I watched TV or not :redface:. So maybe it souldn't count. But this AM I was up and would have been out by 9 except I was waiting for a return call.

I've been watching the Katrina coverage: friends of my brother (who died two years ago) have businesses in the French Quarter, and I'm hoping everything is okay. During the last storm they held a hurricane party in their bar, but this time they may have had to evacuate (FQ people are notorious for NOT following orders, but...). The cleanup in all those old buildings is going to be quite a job. I'll call later to check on them.

More later. Gotta go.

Hello,

How's everyone doing??

Ok This week's goals are:
Exercise 4 times a week doing the WATP Dvds. This week it will be 9 cardio miles.
2nd goal is to drink 8 glasses water daily.

Since my week starts on Saturday, I did the 3mi WATP Dvd. Today, Monday, I did the 2mi. I am 5 miles in. 4 more to go!

Hi Carla!

Good for you with getting to bed on time last night [and of course it should count, after all ... you were in bed on time and also up at gone by 10:00. :cp:

I hope that your brothers friends are okay ... things sure do look like quite a mess down that way, don't they? :(

Allie, it looks like you're coming right along with your exercising. Great job, keep up the good work! :) :bravo:

Guess I'm gonna go for now - it's midnight and since I haven't been getting a whole lot of sleep lately, think I'll go 'n try to get some now. :)

Love,

Debi

Hello Bonnie, Mscat, Debi, and Carla! I'm Selina and I was invited by Bonnie (thanx, by the way :D). I like the idea you have here. Lord knows I need weekly support! LOL. I am choosing to make my first week's goals as follows: Keep calories under 1500 per day, drink at the very least 30 oz of water each day (I know that's not enough but better than what I've been getting in), and walk between 8,000 and 10,000 steps per day and log them on AOM (AmericaOnTheMove.org). Oh, and the article they interviewed me for should be out this Friday on the site. I am hoping this will motivate me further! And of course that it helps everyone who reads it to keep hope that this battle to get healthy and stay that way is something that can be won. I got several books at the library today and one was called Passing For Thin. It looks really good. Written by a woman who lost half her weight, it delves into how it feels to be in the Planet of the Thin, a totally different world with different rules and ideas. She was 338 lbs., I believe. I know what she is saying in this book. Being thin is scary when you haven't ever been there. A thin girl never knows what it's like to have to wear shorts under all her dresses to prevent chafing between her thighs. She doesn't know what it's like to not be able to fit on a ride at Astroworld, and watch her friends go on it without her, as they did in her book. I have had that happen. I have many stories like hers. I'd rather not remember them. I think I'm gonna like reading this book. She's been there too.

Anyway, for today I'm at 1410 cals, 20.5 gms total fat, 28 oz water (I will bring a glass to my room and drink some b4 bed too, so I'm good there), and I'm at 8405 so far on steps. Yay me!!!

Hope you all have a great week! I hope to check in every day or as much as possible. Thanks!! :wave:

Time for a reality check here. I've realized that my bedtime goal is just not realistic for me. So I'm pooping out on that. But I will be up and at 'em by 10 in the mornings, as I was this morning. Is this the fastest anyone has ever abandoned half their challenge? Of course I'm continuing my 21-day challenge of no wine/no chocolate, which is becoming almost routine.

Allie, aren't you afraid you'll run out of miles at this rate? Only Monday and you're half done? Keep up the good work!

Bonnie, good to hear from you, and we'll be looking forward to having you back on the challenge next week. It sounds like you're having a wonderful time.

Debi, have you done tomorrow night's stairs yet? :lol:

Mscat, I don't think I'm showing as good an example this time. Oh well, baby steps. How are you doing with the dreaded water? I'm actually trying to replace a bit of the diet soda with water and extra-diluted Crystal Light. I trick myself into drinking it by putting it into empty 500 ml water bottles and keeping them in the fridge. For some reason I like fluids better when they aren't in a glass. Very mature, no?

Apart from the challenge, I've been having a bit of a tough time not overdoing the goodies. There was a special on Nature Valley bars. I had never tried their new sweet and salty bars, and i never will again. At least not for now - there are none left. :o At least I haven't eaten all the crunchy bars as well. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. It's like getting close to Onederland unleashes a sudden urge to nosh. It's really not that I'm afraid to be thin, just that I get all cocky and want to celebrate :woo:, and of course I'm a charter member of the celebrate with food club. Maybe tomorrow I'll behave - especially if the scale is creeping back up. This is going to be a long process no matter how I attack it. And there'll be plenty of opportunity to celebrate - or drown my sorrows in carbs.

Soon I will go to bed. But I realized today that one of the good things about retirement rehearsal is afternoon naps!

:goodvibes: to all.

Welcome, Selina, you're looking terrific and should be very proud of how far you've come. Maybe we need YOUR support and weight-loss secrets!

Monday Night Sign Off
 

Goodnight ladies -

Welcome Soon2BFitChick! :wave: We are excited to have you join us. Great goals and challenging. We are here for you every "step" of the way. Looking forward to reading the article!

Debi :cheer: :cheer: for accomplishing both goals today!

Bonnie - looking forward to working with you again after your much deserved rest!

Monday Night Sign off #2!
 

I must be tired - hit the wrong button and sent previous message before I was done!

Selina - wanted to add to your welcome that your picture is absolutely gorgeous!

carla - I totally support you changing your goal - it is frustrating to continously run up against a brick wall especially when it comes to making a life long change. Take "baby steps" as you have said until it becomes realistically manageable. I am still struggling with the water but at least the goal is making certain I am getting something in! I hope your friends continue to be safe.

Bonnie - thanks for inviting Selina - you both are contributions to this group.

Now I am ready to really turn in - especially since I have to get up at 6 to help get DD ready for first day of school!

mscat
All that we have is right now.
Yesterday is gone, Tomorrow is not promised, and Someday is not a day of the week!

Good Tuesday Morning!
 

Allie - :cheer: for meeting your goal on Monday! I missed you last night when I was having problems with my computer!
Bonnie - :cb: for pounds down! Congratulations!

Here is a wonderful inspiration from The Daily Motivator -

"The things you know without a doubt are the things you discover and experience for yourself. Though others can guide you, lecture you, persuade you, scold you or encourage you, what becomes a part of you is what you experience for yourself.

Your belief may indeed be strong and unwavering. Yet there is a difference between belief and certainty. Certainty comes when you actually live your beliefs and put them into practice on an ongoing basis. For that is when you will discover and experience for yourself the essence of their truth.

It is interesting to speculate about what might and might not be true, what might and might not happen, what may or may not work. It is powerful indeed to know for sure. What you've been told is a good starting point. Take it further, put it into practice and discover for yourself.

Honor your faith, your trust, your belief by bringing it all to life through your efforts. Truth will rise to a whole new level when you discover and experience it for yourself."

-- Ralph Marston
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Let us all do more than talk the talk about the things we will do to lose weight and live healthy lifestyles - Let's walk the walk. There is power in the doing every minute, every day, every week...

mscat-
All that we have is right now.
Yesterday is gone, Tomorrow is not promised, and Someday is not a day of the week!