Mern

Quinn, my apologies. I did misread and thought your husband got snarked. Crud, I confessed for NOTHING! Truly, I DO need to be less snarky with MY husband. Nice thing is that he can't chew gum and listen at the same time, so he misses a lot of my griping.

I just want to say to everyone here that my hat is off to all of you who work outside the home, work at home, or spend the better part of your day taking care of loved ones. My husband and I are retired except for taking care of grandkids when they're off school due to sickness, holidays, and vacations from school. If I worked outside the home and had to come home, clean the house, exercise, cook, track my nutrition and exercise, I'd probably be rotten at it.

jhowar16

Okay, I didn't think a whole lot about my goals so I will either have way too much or too little =P

1. Drink more water - at least 3 Bottles of water from the Gatorade bottle (32 fl oz) = Total of 96 oz total. Day 1.YES/
2. Stick to 1,300 Calories or less. (This is easier to do at work, 10 hours of my day) Day 1. YES, not sure about day 2./
3. Don't go overboard with Calories at home- use portion control. Kinda..It doesn't help when my boyfriend cooks awesome meals =(/
4. NO CAFFEINE - Mostly Mt. Dew YEP/
5. Do more walking around the house in my Shape Ups. YEP! Went to the mall today for a bit/
6. Go easy on Chocolates - mostly Reese's. YES. None so far! =)/
7. Eat my daily servings of Fruits and Veggies. Meh, could have done better/

Work, Home, Life:
1. Clean the house, or bathroom at least. Not yet/
Living with room mates, this is the hardest to accomplish because most of the mess is theirs, but it has been bugging me for forever!
2. Plan a good Valentine's with the Boyfriend on a limited budget- under $20. Working on it/
3. Fold and properly put laundry away. Nope/
4. Keep track of Calories on the Weekends
5. Go to College office and transfer/ put hold on loans. Oh yea../

Okay so not too bad, Hopefully my boyfriend can help me accomplish all of this.

lastri

Monday report
1. cals limit 1600 1571
2. Work out 4-5 times a week 0
3. finish the week with at least 1 pound lighter. not yet
4. Walk/ run 6 miles 0
5. Log everything I eat. Y

Bubbs21

So my mini-goals are:

• 1000 calorie deficit each day YES (Sun and Mon)
• elliptical 3-4 times per week (work up to 20 minutes) YES - 20 min.(Sun and Mon)
• balance ball workout 30 min - 4-5 times per week YES 40 min (Sun)
• eat breakfast YES (Sun & Mon)
• limit grain products to one high fibre portion per day YES (Sun & Mon)

Just couldn't get up to do balance ball today without being late for work...but managed to do elliptical tonight. It took alot but stuck it out to complete 20 min.

Suffering from gas and weight is holding.

Have a great night everyone.

mtlgirl

Okay, I was super busy at work all day and didn't get home until almost 8pm. I made some veggie burgers and brussels sprouts for dinner and they were delicious.

I can't believe how many posts are already on this thread and it's only Monday! Way to go, Everyone! Thanks for the laughs, Cassie. Those pictures are outrageous!

Mike I will go and read that thread of yours now....

Here are my goals for the week:

For my health and well being I will:
1. Work out every morning. YES
2. Eat between 1300-1550 calories per day. YES (1399)
3. No more than 40% carbs. YES 36%
4. Drink 10 large glasses of water per day. YES
5. Try Bikram yoga on Saturday.
6. Stay off the scale until next Tuesday!!!!

For my mental and spiritual well being I will:
1. Work on my proposal. Not today
2. Read before going to sleep.
3. Put up my solar blinds in the kitchen.
4. Be positive.
5. Knit. YES

Have an amazing week, Everyone! Thanks for all the motivation!

almeeker

Monday Report Card

1. Stick to calorie budget 1,350-1,500, Ugh NO had part of a happy meal from McD's 1,898
2. Drink 96 oz water NO
3. Workout 6 hours. YES 80min
4. Reach 12 minute sustained run. NO
5. Get back on elliptical routine. NO
6. Sign up for race. NO
7. Calorie deficit of 500 minimum. NO -390

This week's non-fitness goals:

8. Clean out one area in basement. NO
9. Clean out candy making totes. NO
10. Average 6 items/day from list. NO
11. Get car cleaned out. NO
12. One load to Goodwill. NO
13. Finish 2 pieces of DD's bloomer dress. NO

I know today looks like an abysmal failure goal-wise, but it wasn't really. There was a death at our church on Friday and the funeral was today. The gentleman was in his late 80's and not someone I knew very well, so that put me squarely on church-lady duty. So I whipped up the required casseroles dropped them off at the church kitchen and reported for duty in the choir loft. Nobody would ever ask me to sing a solo, but they are forever beckoning me to the choir loft to sing the harmony part.

I should have thought more carefully about my goals for the week. Tomorrow probably won't be a lot better. I'm teaching a chocolate making class in the morning. Now I can make chocolate with a piece of duct tape over my mouth, but there is no way I can actually teach a class with my pie hole sealed up like that....

cjohnson728

1. Calorie deficit of 250-300, because I keep slipping and can't get back to my pre-holiday weight/body fat % Yes
2. Balance the pie chart. Yes
3. Do something different for exercise at least one day. No
4. Sleep at least seven hours a night. Yes
5. Get in three of my water bottles daily (I'm pretty regular about 2) Yes

6. One organizational office task per day (at least a small one) Yes
7. Paint trim in another room Worked on stairs & spindles
8. Try a new healthy recipe or make over an old one. No, looking like Thursday

Took the day off from exercise today, which doesn't leave me many calories to play with, in light of that 250 deficit, but I did it. After the past few weeks, I'll take it.

Hope you all had a great day, and an even better one tomorrow.

01gt4.6

health and fitness related:
Do's
1) walk 15 miles 0
2) floss 7 times 1
3) drink 1 gallon of water a day 135.2oz
4) 1800 cals deficient for the week -492
5) play tennis for 1 hr. no
6) workout 3 times. no

don'ts
1) no cereal for the week none
2) no butterfingers none

non health related:
1) finish taxes to see who much I'll owe Uncle Sam no
2) ship a King Cake to Cali. no

01gt4.6

cool, did you get a chance to check it out?

RunbikeSki

Monday was a rest day so nothing much on the exercise front.

OK for this week (much like the last):

1.) Crossfit workout 2X
2.) Yoga 2X
3.) 6+ mile run - at least 1
4.) Keep calories between 1200 and 1400, 1067
5.) No beer or wine with dinner (or before dinner...PAM)yes
6.) Protein @ 90g, 82g
7.) Carbs @ 40%, 41%

Work, Home and Life:
8.) Negotiate return of medicine cabinet that was not what I ordered, will see the folks at special orders Tues
9.) Finish interview project for the Forest Service, On the way
10.) Be kind to the hubby when he prattles on about work politics Trying!
11.) Find 2 new recipes that fit into the current diet (my turn to cook this week)found an old tried and true turkey stroganoff.
12.) Start a new creative project (obviously not feeling very creative at the moment as I can't even identify which catagory of project. But I need to plan something... idle hands are the devil's workshop ), hmmm... nothing yet