Posting this early! Spread the word and join us on January 1st, 2011 through the 31st! I hope both old and new Autumn Beauties can join us!:
Welcome back, Autumn Beauties! HAPPY NEW YEAR and welcome to the January 2011 Challenge! December was sort of a tough month for some of us, obviously, but now it’s Op for a fresh new start in this fresh new year! I know we are ALL SO READY FOR THIS! We are ready to get healthy, sexy and feel as beautiful on the outside as we are on the inside. Let’s do this! EVERYONE is welcome to join us at any time!
The January Challenge:
1. Set a goal of how many pounds you’d like to lose this month.
2. Set a goal of how many days you’d like to work out this month.
3. Any other goals you have for yourself that you’d like to track here for the month, please do. That’s what this thread is for! Have fun!
Bonus Challenges (Should You Choose To Accept Them):
4. Choose THE hardest OR one of the hardest work-outs you own on DVD (or it doesn’t have to be on DVD, it could just be one of those more difficult machines in the gym or any other kind of workout) and do it for AT LEAST 5 DAYS STRAIGHT! If you’re one of those people, like me, who sticks with the easier workouts as much as possible (LOL),…then this should be a great challenge for you. A GREAT thing about this is YOU ARE ALLOWED TO STOP THE DVD AND TAKE A BREAK! That is TOTALLY fine! The point is, we need to finish what we start and NOT GIVE UP just because the work out is a little tough. After your little break, you turn that DVD back on and finish your workout until the end. Do this for 5 DAYS STRAIGHT. Who knows? Maybe you‘ll eventually not even need a break? Maybe you could do it for more than 5 days? That would be awesome.
When you’ve completed this challenge, you can simply write the workout/s you did and the dates of the days you did them (just make sure those dates are five days in a row…..no cheating, haha.)
5. Many of us struggle with the diet part and that’s what inspired me to create this number 5 challenge. For at least 14 DAYS this month, I want you to PLAN YOUR MEALS AND SNACKS FOR THE DAY THE NIGHT BEFORE. I’m sure all of us have heard many, many times of how important and helpful it is to plan your meals out ahead of time. Well? Let’s do it! Choose ANY 14 days this month and just DO IT. You can plan out your meals RIGHT here if you wish or just do it in Microsoft Word or something and come back here and write down the date of each day you ate EXACTLY what you planned out. Everything you eat doesn’t have to be super healthy all the time either. It’s all about getting into the habit of planning it out and being aware of what is going in your mouth so you can stay on track.
To save space in the thread, just click “EDIT” on the lower right-hand side of your monthly goal post and go back and edit each day and add what you need to as far as what you’re tracking for the month. You can make new posts for random comments and thoughts of course J Below this post, there will be information about our Autumn Beauties group tracker!
Monique’s Goals:
1. I would like to lose 6 pounds. Emotion icon will be posted here for each pound lost(starting weight is 220):
2. I plan on working out EVERY DAY this month…..even if only for 5 minutes on certain days. I plan on jumping on my rebounder every day for at least 15 minutes. Numbers “1” through “31” will be written here for each completed workout day: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
3. I need to start taking my daily vitamins. Once I am able to get them, I will put an emotion icon for each day I remember to take them:
4. My tough workout of choice this month that I will be doing for at least 5 days straight is Hip Hop Abs: Total Body Burn Level 2! It’s 50 minutes long. Shaun T kicks your butt on that one. LOL. Days: 1-2-11, 1-3-11, 1-4-11, 1-5-11, 1-6-11 GOAL!!!
5. I definitely plan on planning out my meals for at least 14 days! I will post the dates of those days here:
1-1-11, 1-3-11, 1-4-11, 1-5-11, 1-6-11, 1-7-11 1-8-11 1/9/11 1/10/11 1/11/11 1/12/11 1/13/11 1/14/11 1/15/11 (goal!)
So, I guess that’s it! If anyone has any ideas or anything they’d like to add, please do because this is for ALL of us and we should have fun with it J I wish you all a HAPPY AND HEALTHY NEW YEAR!
Monique
for every day eating perfectly on plan
