janelle

Hey, Im back again. Had a fantastically busy week and managed to stay on top of things. Better this week than last. I went swimming again and I have upgraded to the slow lane instead of social lane. So I have invested in some flippers with the hope that I can bust out some speedier laps, all be it at a slow pace. But Im feeling good about it. I got in some BBWW as well. Geez I was sore afterwards. This week I have been extra tired, from work outs and super busy, so my meditation has dropped off, however I will bring it back starting tonight. So score for week 2: 1.A - veggies 2.B - sugar 3.A- workouts 4. C-meditation. C ya next time

Bipitty bopity boo, Blaidd has used her magic wand an I have arrived in Adventurers. Many thanks to Blaidd. So week one started well ended not so good. Life decided to throw in some challenges of its own. I ended up getting into the chocolate and coke in the last couple of days. But Im working on fixing them too. Positives from week one. I got my walks in and I actually went swimming. I did 10 laps, on the way up used only arms on the way back only legs. Which was a massive achievement because I am a terrible swimmer. Also Im proud of myself for braving the pool in my swim suit, no tshirt or shorts. (WOOOT). I got some gardening done. I upped my water consumption. Over all score for week one: 1.B - veggies 2.B - no sugar 3.A - walks / workouts 4.A -meditation I have a crazy busy week ahead this week. Hopefully I will stay on top of things. bye for now

Hi Alice.X, Welcome back. Sounds like you are on the right track. I did the whole "but it's Easter" too. Tricky. At least its behind us now. Love your goals. Good luck and keep us posted that way we all can help keep you on track. Im looking forward to an update. J

Hi, sounds like day one was fantastic and not boring. Well done. Yeah one day done. Good luck on your epic quest. J

So day one has been great. I know its early days and I am guilty of lots of enthusiasm at the start and fading at the end. So Im pacing myself. Today was a non-work day. So on work days I will hopefully do a BBWW. Today however I did my walk and in total today Ive done 8523 steps. So it'll be interesting to see how that changes on a work day. Food has been good. No extra sugar. No chocolate (huge for me). Maintained food diary. Had 5 meals today. I have drunk 7 glasses of water. On to tomorrow.

Hi, My name is Janelle. Although I have been here a few times. I am aiming at completing this challenge from start to finish. I'm hoping I'm a little wiser than the last time. I am currently 78kg. I started my journey of change in 2012 at which point I was 98kg. Through a massive trauma in my life I lost 15kg due to stress. For the last 15 months I have hovered in the 72kg-78kg weight range. Change is required for the following reasons: 1) I have the arthritis of an 80 year old (my doctors words not mine) in my left big toe and its starting to manifest in my right. This is aggravated by my weight, lack of movement and excess sugar consumption. This causes me a lot of physical pain plus it stops me from wearing some of my favourite shoes! ( oh yeah Im a shoe-a-hollic!!) 2) I have a twitchy back (my words). Doctor says I have very little core strength added to that I carry my weight in my tummy. Improved core strength and weight loss will help. 3) My family has a poor heart health history, a cycle I want to break. 4) I love to horse ride and I love to go dancing (not at the same time). Neither of which I have done for nearly 10 years. I want to start going out with friends and feel confident and sexy again ( in a fabulous pair of shoes and outfit to match). I also want to get back into the saddle and go horse riding with my kids. That said here is my Main Quest: My main quest is to get down to a size 12 or 65kg by Christmas 2015. My current stats are : Weight is 78kg I'm in a 14-16 clothes. Height : 167cm Waist: 106cm Hips: 113cm Right thigh: 58cm Right calf: 39cm Right upper arm: 29.5 Left thigh: 57.5cm Left calf: 39.5 Left upper arm: 30.5cm BMI: 27.96 My SMART quests in the past have been DUMB (please note shouty capitals were needed here!) I have tried to achieve way too much to soon. So now I know what doesn't work. Hopefully this time I will get it right. So SMART QUESTS: 1) Increase veggie consumption. Minimum of 4 serves per day. Track this with food diary. Grading over the week : A=5-7days, B=3-4days, C=1-2days. 2) Cut out extra sugar and added sugars. Track this with food diary. Grading over the week: A=5-7days, B=3-4days, C=1-2days. 3) Complete 3 BBWW/walks per week. Track this by checking in here on my thread each time I complete one. (last time I was aiming for 5-7, didn't have much luck. That's why it's less this time. ) Grading over the week: A=3, B=2, C=1. 4) Meditate a minimum of 5 times a week. Track this at the end of week on here. Currently I am doing this for 20min-30min 5 days a week. I want to maintain this level. Grading over the week: A=5, B=4, C=3. One bonus point will be allocated if extra exercises are done ie: water aerobics or extra walks or BBWW. At the end of the 6 week challenge extra points will be added up, and go toward overall grading. LIFE QUEST: Spend one day a week working in my studio on my pottery. Post pics of my work good or bad. Go out dancing at new RNB club with friends. Go horse riding with kids. MOTIVATION: Keeping up with my kids, feeling good mind, body and spirit. Participate and present everyday in my life. No more wasting time. I'm sick and tired of feeling sick and tired. So Im off to bed and to meditate and focus on what I want to achieve. See ya. ..........

Woot Woot, fantastic great job. Please tell me you have posted your epic awesome achievement in the Woot Room?!?! Im so proud of you

Hi. sorry for being MIA . I have been way off the grid due to ill health combined with major dental work. massive amounts of high doses of antibiotics and pain killers. to top it off my laptop won't connect to internet anymore. no idea why. wifi says its connected it just won't load any page! Grrr.so at this point Im trying to get this on my post from my phone no idea if it will work but here's hoping. So far on this challenge 3 has been awful. Im hoping to finish strong.

Hey sorry to chime in late about your shin splints, just remembered an aerobic instructor I had a long time ago (in a galaxy far away!) actually used to tape her shins before a work out. From memory it was in a horizontal fashion across each shin quite tight, maybe 3-4 pieces per shin. Don't know if that will help or if its the right thing to do. Maybe ask physio for some advice?

Ahh, sorry guys I haven't been much good for the team so far. I broke two teeth and have an abscess in one, so running isn't working for me at the moment, (I should have sorted it out sooner but Im a big scaredy cat when it comes to the dentist. However Im off to dentist next Thursday) I can manage my BBWW and about 5 min on elliptical walker that's about it. So far in 5min I managed 1.76km, don't know if that's any good but its a starting point.

Nah I cant sleep in my work out gear id miss the sports bra too! I have put alarm on the other side of my room, with work out gear next to it. So when alarm goes off, I strip off on my way to turn off alarm! So far it works. Im working up towards managing to get up at 5am comfortably. Hopefully I will get there.

Hey, just checking in, Im feeling good atm, used my new alarm tone "rise and shine" from the motivational clip below, got up at 6am , thanks to moving my phone to the other side of my room. I sat it next to my work out gear too which helped. Nearly threw up after work out, body went into "WTF" mode I guess. LOL! Feeling massively hungry though, gotta watch that. We shall see what the week brings!

Hey Im still having trouble with the quote button so hopefully you will get this anyway. This is how I recorded the above motivational clip for my alarm. I've got a Samsung Galexy2 phone. I used the following functions on my phone. Firstly I have a "voice recorder" function on my phone. I also have an alarm set up in "Clock" function. It has an option for "Alarm Tone", when I tap on it, it asks if I want to select one from "Sounds" or "Go To My Files." You will need "go to my files" for this. So you need to check if you can do this and have these functions. If you can then its a case of: 1. Turn on your pc, laptop ipad etc pull up the clip on you tube or on this thread at NF, with it ready to play. 2. Pull up your voice recorder app. Ready to go. 3. Press play on clip and record on phone holding it close to speaker. 4. Stop recording when your ready. Keeping in mind your alarm is normally 30-40sec 5. Play back your voice recording. Check its ok. 6. Then set up your alarm by going into "Go to my Files" 7. Choose the voice recording you need. 8. Wake up, with your new alarm tone. FYI - Don't freak out like I did the first time this went off, cos I thought there was some guy in my room saying "Rise and Shine", I got a big fright!! LOL! Funny now not so much at 6am I recorded the first 25sec and the last 10 sec of clip, that way I got the alarm tone in at the end. Good luck and I hope this has helped.

Hey there, Great to see you back here. *high fives* back at you. We have sooo got this. Checking in again soon.

AHHH I love that motivational clip. Its one of my favourites. I just recorded on my phone an edited version for my "wake up alarm" ring tone! 1+ WIS to me, got a buddy and a group. Woot! Feeling good, feeling pumped!