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Short and sweet with no excuses.. Had a crap 2 weeks. Back in the game today with eating and biked to work and some of the way home (stupid flat tire). We have 3? more weeks of this challenge and I want to end strong even though I fell apart. It's all about getting back on and not quitting right? It's my summer hours now and I have NO EXCUSES to not work out each day, work in my sewing room each day and have access to healthy yummy food. No one has commented here or sent me any messages so I guess I haven't let anyone down but myself these past two weeks, lol. This is for ME and only ME and it's up to ME to get it done. SO, here, it goes.

Thanks for posting for us! Love having new ways to get better at push-ups and pull ups! Thanks! Looking forward to out next challenge and maybe getting together in the future for an in person workout! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yay negative pull-ups!!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Looks like a you've had a great first week! What are you teaching in Brazil?

I love your goal number 4 to avoid eating out! This is something I am working on too! I spend so much money on grocery shopping and then eat out, especially on weekends. SO silly! Looks like you are doing a great job staying on track this first week of the challenge. Playing with pets is a great way to get in activity without feeling like working out. The gratitude journal is a wonderful idea. I think I am going to add that into my daily journaling routine!

This sounds like a pretty successful first week to me! Especially the fasting.

It would've been cool! It's a small world.

Nope, not Plymouth. That would've been super weird though!

Week of June 3 - June 9 Strength workouts: 2 = C Cardio: 3 = B Steps: at least 10,000 6 out of 7 days = A Eat clean = A Had some ice cream cake on Sunday for my sister's birthday and some pretzel crisps Saturday night after not eating all day.. not too shabby for all week on plan without wheat and dairy.. Giving myself an A Sewing room: 3 afternoons: C This averages out to be about a B week over all. Had a super busy weekend and lost time in the sewing room, however, spent time with friends I haven't seen in forever (several years) so totally worth it. Was already to push myself at the gym yesterday but somehow slept on my neck all funny Sunday night and have a TERRIBLE pulled muscle in my neck running into my shoulder and my left arm... Have been heating it and it does feel much better today. One more day of tending to it should do the trick and I'll be back on track track tomorrow. Plan for week: Continue to eat clean and "paleo" minimize any alcohol to the weekend. Wednesday: am workout and "rowing" workout in the pm Thursday: bike to work Friday: suspension workout in am (hosting a retirement party in the pm so can't get to the gym after work) Saturday: bike ride Sunday: Squat workout This will get me my 3 strength workouts and 3 cardio workouts for the week Will get into the sewing room Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday Won't make it in there today since I filling in for someone in afternoon at the after school program till 6 and then heading to my brother in law's for Game of Tacos (watch Game of Thrones and eat tacos.. mine without the shell of course) We do this each week. Typically I can hit up the gym before hand but not today. (I need another day for this pulled muscle anyhow..)

That's super! Sprinting a mile would be a great way to mix things up too!

Grrrr I hate it when technology goes wonky!

Thanks! I like that it simply breaks into number of attribute points rather than a letter grade and then having to convert to points. I think I'd like to evaluate myself after each week too.. Did I: do 3 strength workouts this week? 3 = A 2 = C 1=F complete 4 cardio workouts this week? 4 = A 3=B 2= C 1 = D 0= F have at least 10,000 steps each day? 6/7 = A 5 =B 4= C 2/3 = D 0/1 =F eat clean each day? how many yeses out of 7 will give me a percent how many "cheats" did I consume out of the number times I ate? calculate a percent did I spend 5 20 minute periods in my sewing room? 5 = A 4 = B 3 =C 2=D 0/1 =F I wan to keep this as number of times spent rather than being able to complete 100 minutes in one afternoon because I want to make this a habit again.. A weekly grade rather than daily grade also alleviates the pressure to get on here each day to report. I did take a rest day yesterday as I watched the Bruin's game, with double OT, Wednesday night and was total junk yesterday. I want to make sure kill my overhead presses and deadlifts today (and pull up practice) so I rearranged my week for this. I did get up this am and did quick cardio routine for 20 minutes with a looong stretch at the end. Eating has been super this week. Sewing room = 3 days so far.

It's so so so hard to get the mojo back once it's been lost for awhile. Great idea to get the muscles to remember how to work before trying to go all out.. Are you going to follow a plan for running to get back into it? I have had a really hard time getting back into running after injuring myself because I keep going all out too fast because my brain still thinks I can do 9 miles no sweat (my body knows better..)

What's important is that you keep on coming back, therefore, you haven't given up. Your goals seem very manageable (I don't know how they compare to your previous goals). I used have the problem of setting too many goals too high and falling flat on my face. It's been a challenge to be more realistic and take the small steps that lead to major changes but really does work out so much better. Looking forward to following your progress!

I love that you broke your plan into two week chunks and your goals are doable. How far/long are you currently running now? Is there a reason you want to increase to 5 times a week as opposed to trying to increase your distance or decrease your time? If your knee is bugging you, maybe revising your goal to one of those measure will be more realistic and safer for you and your knee? It's great you want to incorporate yoga into your routine. This is something that I know my routine is lack in as well...