1) State your plan, i.e. Atkins
Atkins/ WW ~ Our Employee Health group is bringing WW to the office. I am signing up for it to use the meetings as a motivator and to weigh in with them so I am accountable to someone else, I just will not share my food journals with them!

2) State your weight loss goal
10 pounds a month, That would put me in prime shape come swimsuit season!

3) State your emotional goal, i.e. to be able to be angry without eating
I want to be the happy mom my boys deserve!

4) State your water intake goal
16 oz at the Y in the morning, 32 oz at my desk before lunch another 32 oz after lunch, a couple glasses after work. Somehow I need to continue this on the weekend, which is difficult to do with the lack of daily structure.

5) State your exercise goal
continue my 5:30a.m. Monday through Saturday exercise program at the Y. 30 minutes of eliptical training, and 30 minutes of weight training.

6) State your other goals, whatever they may be
Try to get other areas of my life in order, like my job and my home. I need to do some major cleaning and straightening in my basement. Visit my 3FC Friends in NJ in May!

Thanks Pooky for starting this very important, much needed thread.

Dottiejon, I promise to TRY not to kill anyone in the month of January either...
GinaMarie

That is going to be my new slogan for the year. My mantra so to speak.

Well here go
Here's how it works:

1) State your plan,After long deliberation, I've decided to follow the Performance Diet Plan. It is very close to Sugar Busters or the Zone, the basis being low GI foods
2) State your weight loss goal: I plan to loose 60 pounds-that sounds like a lot, but it's only 5 pounds a month. I CAN DO THAT

3) State your emotional goal,: to work on not letting depression get in my way, in other words to keep a positive attitude and stay MOTIVATED!! (that's where you guys come in)
4) State your water intake goal: at least 64 oz
5) State your exercise goal: To go to the health club at least 5 times a week
6) State your other goals, whatever they may beo get out of PLUS SIZE clothes!!! Non weight related goals, to keep the house "neater" It's clean, but I have a problem with clutter!!!

bringing this back up

Finally the end of the month and time to see how far we've come!

Oh! I should have let you know nelie and all newcomers that this thread was started at the beginning of January and it was for the January Challenge. I brought it back up so we can measure our successes/losses. I'll start a new thread right now for the February Challenge..

I moved Nelie's post to the February Challenge and have locked this thread.