LadyPercy

Well, I've been super busy, but doing okay with the challenge. I've been out of town for about half the challenge so far, but have did lots of hiking and outdoors-y stuff on vacation. Week 1 and 2 I got 5 days of 10,000 steps each, so 1 short of my goal. I have succeeded so far with no soda. I have missed 1 workout so far. Hopefully being not travelling and past a deadline at work I'll have a bit more time and it will be able to hit the rest of my workouts/step goals.

I plan on drinking water instead of soda, or tea if I need the caffeine. For my avi picture, it's a whiteboard drawing one of my coworkers made inspired by me. Yeah! Good luck to you sticking through as well :-)

Well, I tried the 6 week challenge last time and kind of dropped off half way through because I was caught up in work deadlines and never got back on track. This time I will do better. Main Quest: Lose weight to fit into a size 10 pants (this is a longer than 6 weeks goal). I'm currently at a size 14/16. Do the Nerd Fitness Guide Level 1 Rookie Workout OR (when traveling) the 20 minute hotel workout 3x/weekCut out sodaHit 10,000 steps on my trusty fitbit 6x/weekLife Quest: Read for at least 1 hour a weekMotivation:I want to feel better about how I look and just feel more confident with myself. I think that becoming stronger and losing weight will help me do this.

Man, deadlines are crazy. Well, I've been busy at work the past several weeks. I've done alright at food (it helped that I took on ordering food for working late for me team, so we didn't get pizza every night), but I have not been doing well with exercise. I'm hoping to get back on track for exercise this week, and I have all my meals planned for this coming week, and I have my workouts scheduled.

Man, it's been a crazy week. Deadline coming up at work - so I've been not on the computer much in my free time. I have exercised 2 days this week, and food has been decent. On monday night I made paleo meat balls for dinner that were super delicious, and have been having leftovers a decent amount from those.

Food hasn't gone the greatest this week so far. I'm already at 4 off meals, and weekend is normally harder. Its been a long week at work this week, but next week really isn't going to be any better in that respect. On Sunday, I am going to prep food for my meals so I can make something quickly when I get home rather than being lazy and getting food out like I have been some days this week. I haven't stretched yet this week either. As soon as I get off the computer I'm going to do that today. My exercise and social goals I've already me though, so at least I'm making some progress. Edit - just did stretch. I think I'm going to change my stretching goal to increasing by 2 minutes/time each week, even though that's not too much. Then I'll be at 22 minutes each time by the end.

Hello! Also checking in with the mini challenge :-) I agree that it might be good to combine your 3 exercise goals into 1 - perhaps 5 days of exercising for at least x minutes (maybe 15 to start even?) and you can plan on doing a combination of walking and kettle balls in those days. For 7000 steps, you could maybe just increase your walking time for that and not have a specific goal. Good luck!

Ick. It sucks it's right next to a freeway, but at home sounds nice :-)

Checking in for the mini challenge. Your goals seem good! So much running - I'm impressed. It's good to have something to be working towards with that (your half marathon). Those sketches are also really cool!

Hello! Just checking in from TPS reports for the mini challenge! I like your goals - and it seems like you put a lot of thought into the measurement one that people have concerns about. I think as long as you're aware (which you seem to be) that it might not come off where you want (it sounded like you were tracking other things too, so thats cool). Good luck with continuing your challenge!

'Ello! I'm checking in from TPS Report :-) Your goals seem good - I love the swimming one. I should really start swimming again. Your apartment complex's pool sounds pretty awesome too. Glad you're feeling better today, and the weather is cooperating more.

Wow! Diamond push ups! Thats super cool. I'm also stopping by from mini-challenge 1. Your goals sound pretty cool. I like the magic trick one :-) It's cool your using this to try and motivate yourself into getting back into an old hobby. You might want to consider adding grading scale for some of the goals.

Hello! I'm a fellow member of TPS Report checking in for the mini challenge as wel! Cool goals. How are you going to be tracking your walking? Do you just go on set walks (inside or on a treadmill), or do you have a pedometer that you will be using? It sounds like you decided to cut goal 4 - you might want to update your first post to reflect that :-)

Hey! Checking in for the mini challenge :-) I think your goals seem good, and even though you're a bit short on a couple of your goals this week there's good progress. I think your grading scale is good - I like that you gave yourself an A+ grade option in the categories, that's pretty cool. I didn't even think of that.

The reason I did just 10 minutes is because then I'll actually do it rather than thinking about it. I'm hoping that if I start off with just 10 minutes, I'll have no excuse to *not* do it, and I can work up to longer. 10 minutes just sounds less intimidating. I took pictures as well, but kept those for me :-)