Sunday, March 25, 2012

Summer Challenge Week 1 Goals

10 week goals
Weight Loss Goal:  8 lbs in 10 weeks
Non Scale Victory:  consistent size 6 (not waivering between 6-8)
Nutrition Goal: Limit Sugar, Clean Eating majority of meals
Fitness Goals: 20 push ups on my toes (not knees),  six 45 min workouts per week (or equivalent) to include at least 2 Insanity workouts.  Find a way to accurately calculate calories burned for my regular workout DVDs/tapes.

And here are my Week 1 mini-goals:
Weight Loss:  .8 lbs 
Nutrition goal: pre-plan b'fast and lunch each day to make sure I stay on track/clean.  Switch from WW points tracking to calorie/carb/protein/fat tracking (using MyFitnessPal.com and iPhone app).
Fitness goal:  BUY HEART RATE MONITOR!  Start each set of push ups on my toes in whatever workout I'm doing- continue as long as possible before switching to knees.  Get # I can complete today, and compare with # for next Sunday.





17 comments:

  1. Wow you look great! Good luck on your goals! I'll be joining you on this journey! :)

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  2. I second this opinion, your before pics - amazing!

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    1. Wow, thank you. That's just not at all how I want my waist to look though.

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  3. great goals... I like the concept of breaking our big goals down to a smaller goal for the week. They seem much more attainable this way.

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  4. That's what gets me every time, lack of planning. I'm loving your small goals!

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  5. Good luck and well done for recognising that you need to plan, that's a huge step in the right direction. I'm a challenge member too my goals should go up tomorrow :)

    Just to mention it but you could win a heart rate monitor on my blog right now, worth a go! I'm on My Fitness Pal too, if you want to add me it's WeightWars. Good to meet you.

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  6. I love the push-up goals... best way to increase the amount you can do. And yay to no "girl" push-ups... I HATE that term!

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  7. Isn't it a crazy feeling to not be eating ENOUGH for once? I feel like that happens to the "Biggest Losers" all the time, but I never understood it until I got there myself.

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  8. i am looking for a HRM too!!! i want one that has the option for constant monitoring and one touch monitoring. let us know when you find one and what you got!!

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  9. I really need to buy a HRM as well. Otherwise I really have no clue how many calories I am burning during my exercise videos. Good luck!

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  10. Great push up goal!! Im at one!! But someday!!!! someday!!! Good luck this week!!

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    1. I'm at FOUR! Blah!! However, I do continue the sets on my knees, and when another set of reps comes up in the workout, I start again on my toes. So over the course of the hour long workout, I did 7 real push ups. And a half! :)

      It's the only discouraging thing going on in my fitness endeavor lately. When I see other women on the exercise DVD's doing a dozen sets of push ups of all kinds of power variations, I am dumbfounded by just how weak I am compared to them. That sucks.

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  11. I'm looking to buy a HRM, let me know what you think once you get one. Thanks for the comment on my blog about the WW points - I eat a lot of produce (aka 0 PPs) and more when I work out, so I'm really careful about eating enough to lose weight. I'll definitely check though with a WW leader though, so thanks!!

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  12. Love your goals! We are wanting to lose about the same amount of weight-I want to lose 12 pounds. Looking forward to following you and getting inspiration from you on this challenge. :)

    Shannon
    http://www.everystepcounts365.wordpress.com

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  13. I've approached push ups with the same attitude - just gotta keep trying it until it comes naturally (I hope that day comes!). I recently bought a Polar HRM and hope to set it up and start using it in a day or two.

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  14. I'd love to HRM, gotta start saving my egg money again! :)
    And I so agree, planning is such an important step in weight loss!
    Looking forward to seeing you drop that weight!

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  15. I absolutely need my HTM to get my exercise done, and done well!

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