"Every-Day" 21-Day Challenge -- Getting in the habit!!

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  •   #91  
    redballoon's Avatarredballoon , 01-13-2007 06:10 PM
    I need some good times.....
    Good morning, all. I must say, I am not very happy with myself. Yesterday, the thought of giving up all sorts of food suddenly made me eat it all and that after I hadn't been eating it for like two weeks! Ridiculous. I think it was just me acting like a spoiled child and throwing a tantrum...at myself! Until I get over my self-disgust, let me just give you where I stand. I'll try to write soon.


    Crunch challenge Day 1 completed/3 pauses left
    New No nuts, no deep-fried food, no dumplings, no rice crackers challenge! Day 1 starting/3 pauses left
    No sugar Day 20 completed/0 pauses left
    Fresh vegetable juice Day 13 completed/1 pause left
    No alcohol challenge Day 13 completed/1 pause left

    I'll start the no calorie-dense food challenge today and finish up sugar as well. I DID the crunches yesterday and would have made the juice if it weren't so late, but thought I'd be OK since I still had pauses left....I didn't have alcohol....hmmm, just trying to tell myself I haven't totally lost it. I guess I was going for perfection...no need to let a little (semi-big) bit of laxness send everything into the garbage can. I MUST, no I WANT TO hang in there!
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  •   #92  
    Ashley103's AvatarAshley103 , 01-13-2007 08:18 PM
    Day 5 – exercise, one pause taken
    Day 6 – calories, food log, fruit/vege, water

    I'm finally back in the gym taking classes starting this week. Went to kickboxing last night and got my butt kicked! Wow - am I every out of shape. I was huffing and puffing after just 20 minutes. On the plus side, my shoulder did very well. It was getting a little sore towards the end, but I was able to make it through the entire hour. Was still able to do an hour of therapy this morning, so I'm feeling pretty pumped about that.

    DJ – Brrrr is right! We were at 78 this afternoon, so I’m really happy not to be sharing in that gust of cold.

    Julie – Welcome to the 21-day challenge. You’ve got some great challenges there. I can never go without sugar for 21 days and am really in awe of those who can.

    Jolly – hope you have a great time on your trip.

    Apple – sounds like you’re really on the run again.

    Sweet pea – doing great! Good luck with going out tonight. That was a good idea to tell your friend about your alcohol challenge.

    Red – wow, you’ve got some significant challenges going on! It is really tough when we’re doing all the right things, and the weight just doesn’t want to budge. Just hang in there, keep on your program and it will happen. Keep the faith!!!

    Hpnotq – Down 6 pounds is very exciting and congratulations on the DP goal.

    S. Diane – Glad you decided to join us, and with your challenges already in place! This is a great place for support.

    Hope everyone else is doing well.
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  •   #93  
    LostBombera's AvatarLostBombera , 01-14-2007 12:27 AM
    Evening all,

    Just a quick post to say Hi to everyone.

    Ashley, thanks for the welcome, great job on the work out!!
    Sweetpea . . . hope you had luck with no alcohol tonight.
    Julz -
    Redballon - you have tough goals . . . OH MY, hang in there we have faith in you!!

    Everyone have a great Sunday. I'm still afraid to weigh myself, I am going to try for Monday AM, that will be my two week mark. Can I hope for 5 pounds ??????

    H2O - Day 13 DONE
    Eat healthy - Day 13 DONE
    Crunches - Day 13 DONE
    30 min exercise - Day 7 DONE, actually did 40 minutes today, yeah!!

    Same goals for tomorrow . . .
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  •   #94  
    LondonJulz's AvatarLondonJulz , 01-14-2007 12:44 AM
    MY RESULTS AS OF 1/14/07 (I not used any pauses, yet)... it's not quite 1/14/07, but I'm not eating anything else before I go to bed, I'll only drink, and probably will be water.

    1) Drink 8 glasses of water a day (Level 1) DAY 2 COMPLETE
    2) Do complete Pilates DVD (Level 3) DAY 0 COMPLETE
    3) Treadmill (Level 3) DAY 1 COMPLETE
    4) No Sugar (Level 3) DAY 1 COMPLETE

    This is a great idea and I commend all of you ladies for doing so great on all of your challenges.

    Julie
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  •   #95  
    sweet_pea's Avatarsweet_pea , 01-14-2007 04:41 AM
    30 minutes intentional exercise, level 3
    17 days completed, 2 pauses taken, 1 remains
    Start date 27 December

    15 each side of side stretches level 1
    12 days completed no pauses taken
    start date 3 January

    Alcohol free 2 days completed, no pauses taken, 2 pauses remain
    start date 13 January 07

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    The challenges are going well although I'm finding them exhausting. I had a late night last night catching up with a friend who is visiting. She's going back to Australia tmrw. Then during the night the dogs kept barking at hedgehogs so I didn't get much sleep

    I did a slightly longer walk today and my legs feel stiff but hopefully will be okay tmrw. The alcohol is the first of my calorie challenges. I was just eating and drinking way too much sugar and alcohol is expensive so out it goes.

    Tonight I wanted to make cookies but I decided it was probably just the butter I wanted so I had buttery toast with pesto. Was pretty yummy.

    Tmrw I am seeing the specialist and we will discuss my sleep and see what can be done. The blood tests haven't shown anything so I'm not sure if he will want me to do a sleep study or what happens next.
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    Julz - well done, you've made a great start

    Bombera you're already half way there!!!

    DJS - hope the weekend wasn't a problem for you and you're still on track

    Ashley - yep my friend stopped drinking alcohol nearly a year ago (she's a bit of a health nut) so that helped keep me in line. Had to get them to take the wine list away as I kept looking at them and thinking yummy! I've never done kickboxing. I'm sure it must be a really good workout

    Red - what;s left to eat LOL you're doing so many challenges !!! good luck and glad you talked yourself into keeping up with your goals

    hpnot - well done
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  •   #96  
    redballoon's Avatarredballoon , 01-14-2007 06:50 AM
    moving along....

    Hello all...trying to make some time here. I've decided to can that new challenge after all, not really because it was too difficult, but I don't think it's what I need right now. While I do need to focus on calories, I want to focus on eating super-healthy at the same time. The calorie-dense foods are going to have to go probably, at least most of them, but not like this. I find myself focusing on the wrong thing! Anyhow, let me have a bit more time to think this over and I'll come back to you with a challenge, maybe....For now, here's where I stand. Not bad considering...considering what?...that I'm a nut case?!? ......sigh
    Heh, you see?! I finished the sugar challenge!!!! Hurrah for me!
    Crunch challenge -- Day 2 completed/3 pauses left
    No sugar -- Day 21 completed/FINISHED!!!!
    Fresh vegetable juice -- Day 14 completed/1 pause left
    No alcohol challenge -- Day 14 completed/1 pause left

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    sweet pea -- You did it! No alcohol on that night out. Great going! You're coming along well on your other challenges too. Not too much left on the exercise one. Keep up the good work! Good point on the alcohol being expensive. I tend to forget that one... not that I can afford it or anything, not to say anything of the taxis spent driving across Tokyo to get home after I miss the last train at half past midnight! Of course, I hate taking the trains home drunk...so, it's really all for the better that I just cut the drinking big time! I hope you get some sleep and that it's nothing serious. Perhaps it's just hormonal upheaval.

    London -- Don't think I welcomed you yet..so welcome! I see you've got a no sugar challenge going too and one day in the bag! Keep it up...Wow, pilates every day?! Tough one! Good luck

    Lost -- Welcome to you too! Thank you so much for the encouragement! So, you were doing quite a few stealths, eh? Keep it up. Looks like you're doing a great job! And heh, if weighing is scary, just DON'T do it! Wait till you really know you're down, like when your clothes are hanging on you!

    Ashley -- I just was wondering...that second challenge...are those three or four all separate or all together? Looks tough! Yeah, I had some significant challenges going, but like I said, I'm canning the one big one. It's not quite fitting me. I am going to come up with something else. It may be harder in the long run, but I think I may start out with just aiming for the end result, in other words, at least putting thought into what I can be doing...hmmm...hard to explain, you'll see.

    dj -- How is the weekend going? I hope well. You have the one pause left and that will get you through till the next weekend and the momentum should help then. Best of luck! Yeah, I was super frustrated and depressed but I think I'm back in control again and feeling good about getting back in. It IS tough to lose weight, especially when we're talking like only 30 or so, while keeping quite a bit of muscle. But, I really want to do it. I bet it will feel good! Now, to keep telling myself that....

    Hp -- How's it going? You can do it!!! No DP! No DP!

    Apple -- How's it going there? I'm worried about the quiet....look, we have three people doing no alcohol...keep it going!

    jolly -- Quiet from you..what's up? Oh, right, you're on vacation...Vegas, was it? Hope you're enjoying yourself!

    Shad -- Where are you!?
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  •   #97  
    djstorey's Avatardjstorey , 01-14-2007 09:46 AM
    day 16 - Counting calories - good - 2 pause left

    day 15 - Exercise everyday - good - 1 pauses left

    Made it through one day of the weekend, just one more to go. Yesterday my son talked my into watching a movie with him, so I did an ab workout and lifted some weights while we watched it. I'll try to come up with something today as well.

    Red - I'm glad to hear you're dropping that one challenge for now. You've got so much on your plate already! And, on that sugar challenge. I don't know that I'll ever get to that one! That's so good!

    Sweet Pea - Sounds like you're making some very good choices when things are tough. Hope you can get your sleep back on track soon! Things are much tougher when tired.

    Lost - Glad to have you here. Looks like you're doing great with your challenges!

    Ashley - Good job on making it through that entire hour and doing the therapy! Is your shoulder completely recovered now?

    Julz - Good, you've got things going now. You can do this!

    Have a great day all!
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  •   #98  
    LondonJulz's AvatarLondonJulz , 01-14-2007 10:50 AM
    You all are doing SO well with your challenges

    Redballoon: since you've successfully finished a challenge, I have to ask - has it become a habit????
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  •   #99  
    happy2bme's Avatarhappy2bme , 01-14-2007 01:36 PM
    Hi all

    Hey Red - thanks for popping in (the other thread) and saying hello!

    Remember girl - keep it simple - don't get yourself wrapped up in too many things - little changes. Keep doing one little change until it becomes an unconcious habit.

    Good luck to all of you on your challenges and a happy (successful) new year to all!
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  •   #100  
    redballoon's Avatarredballoon , 01-14-2007 05:32 PM
    getting an early start...
    OK, it's still early in the morning. I wanted to get to the gym but it's closed this morning...I really did want to go. Anyhow, I just did the crunches so the day is notched early and I already changed the number. Don't let me accidentally tag on another day tonight. AND, I just made and drank the vegetable juice. I AM getting things out of the way early today. The other two, sugar and booze, will have to wait til the day's over to see if, no! WHEN, I can call them done!

    Fresh vegetable juice -- Day 15 completed/1 pause of 3 left
    No alcohol challenge -- Day 14 completed/1 pause of 3 left
    Crunch challenge -- Day 3 completed/3 pauses of 3 left
    No sugar -- Day 1 starting/3 pauses of 3 left

    I didn't weigh myself this morning. Well, I kind of did, with clothes on...then I see if stripping down will likely give me a number I would be happy with....I saw it wouldn't and then I thought, ah, heck, I ate a ton yesterday, so why should I see progress?! I have to remember, my efforts may have been great and good but if they weren't directed at losing fat then I shouldn't expect to have lost any, right!??! I mean, it's kind of like saying I need to make money, then go to the gym all day and work out like a maniac, then the next day check my bank account and act shocked, angry, surprised that there's no money in it!!! I laugh, but unfortunately and sadly, this is pretty close to what I'm doing (with the eating/losing fat thing). I've got to wake up. Get your act together, bozo!!

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    happy -- Hi there! Hope you enjoy your stay in Japan! Yeah, little changes...I don't know. I need bigger changes, like getting all the little things together at once. Still, that's part of the no sugar challenge. It doesn't mean I lose any weight, because I can easily eat too much of good things. It will make it easier later on when I do consciously reduce the food I put in my mouth and it certainly is making me healthier and upping my energy levels and that has an effect on so many things. I am really pushing myself these days because I simply have to if I want to continue doing the things that mean a lot to me and that perserve my health, physical and mental. And I have come to the realization that I can't do them all unless I really give myself the needed fuel. Anyhow, here's wishing you a great 2007 as well!

    London -- How's it going with you on your challenges? Don't worry about those 5 lbs! If you ARE truly reducing your food intake and upping your exercise, then you will see a difference..eventually...emphasis on the eventually. It's probably just water weight and if you hang in there you will lose it. I notice I gain quite a bit before I lose. But, be sure you don't deceive yourself that you are doing a whole lot of exercise if you aren't or don't compensate by eating more afterward. Make sure you are really burning the calories! (I read your blog.) If your room is hot, even a little exercise will get you sweating. But I bet you are doing well there, I just know how easy it is to think because the effort is great, that the calories expended are as well. This I am saying to myself, big time! Part of my problem is that I have such difficult challenges as far as not eating this or not eating that or making something that takes a lot of preparation, cleanup etc. that the effort IS great and I think I have to see results. But it ain't necessarily so! Especially something like not drinking pints after work. The effort to me is HUGE, but really, the effects won't show for a while and some of them will be in other areas, more money, more energy, all things it's easy to not really register unless you have written done what was and then compare. Anyhow, I'm blabbering here and you asked about habits. Well, there too, it depends on the challenge. It's hard to say if things have become a habit. I'd have to say no, that 21 days of anything, especially if there are three pauses in there, can undo decades of the opposite. I would say that my consciousness concerning a certain thing is definitely raised, but that doesn't mean I'll do it! Even the making the vegetable juice. Because of my insane schedule, I can't/don't want to do this at the same time every day so it's harder to make a habit. This is why I constantly redo challenges, over and over and over again untill it does become kind of second nature. I don't think it ever will be though. Habits are simpler things and usually involve some sort of immediate response, like brushing your teeth -- feel yucky, brush, feel better. Other things just aren't so simple. More than habits, I'd say some of the things have become a practice. I am much more likely to do them now because I have done them for three weeks. But habit, nah, I suppose that's not quite the right word. But saying practice sounds like you're trying over and over and it's not really that, is it? I AM doing it. It's just not unconscious. Then again, not all habits are....hmmm....somebody shut me up!

    dj -- Good going on getting through the first half of the weekend! I forget that you're a day behind me. I like that you worked out while watching the movie. Excellent stuff! Thanks on the sugar challenge wrapup. This isn't my first time to do one, in fact, I've done many of them, but getting started again is never easy. I think the rest may have been, then again I had three days there where I just threw all effort out the window and that was NOT good. If I hadn't wanted to wrap up the challenge, I probably would still be pigging on the stuff. Anyhow, that's why I'm not allowing myself any break, but am jumping right back in with a rerun.
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  •   #101  
    Shad's AvatarShad , 01-14-2007 05:40 PM
    Morning all,
    I'm here, I'm here and still challenging (I've been challenging since birth) but I don't always have access to the computer on weekends so I tend to disappear sometimes.

    Day 3 and 4 were completed on all challenges
    Day 5 I have taken a food pause so there is only 2 left on that one

    As it stands, today is day 6 for:
    Exercise,
    Water
    and day 5 for food

    Gotta run, but I'll be back to update on others challenging themselves later.
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  •   #102  
    redballoon's Avatarredballoon , 01-14-2007 05:47 PM
    the difficult English language...
    Good to see you Shad! I was worried. So, you're still "challenging" and have been since birth! This is quite amazing. Does this make you a challenging person? or perhaps a challenged person....hmm...uh-oh, I am asking for it again, aren't I?

    I can't help it...Shad does this to me...sure wish carla was with us too.
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  •   #103  
    Shad's AvatarShad , 01-14-2007 06:00 PM
    Tut tut Red, I am a challenge in itself. Good to see you on the other thread. If you want Carla back, start prodding her about her absence. The cattle prod works well on Carla
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  •   #104  
    redballoon's Avatarredballoon , 01-14-2007 06:03 PM
    with Shad...who needs challenges?
    Shad! And, I hear you on carla....she just needs to feel needed, missed and sought after, doesn't she? Then again, I just may bring out the Taser!
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  •   #105  
    Shad's AvatarShad , 01-14-2007 06:14 PM
    Atta girl Red. A Taser - well what would one expect from a modern up to date girl in modern up to date Tokyo?

    Hey Carla, the taser is worse than the prod. Think about what it will do to the legs and butt (bruises on which are just starting to fade from the prod!)
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