halfsie challenge, better late than never

[ceethegreat]

Soooo I'm starting about halfway point late, but no time like the present to get started. 

 

D/F Goal 1: Replace the flavored creamers in my daily coffees with organic milk when at work.

I currently drink 2-3 cups of coffee a day at work, each cup uses 2 creamers. Already drink milk w/ coffee at home on the weekends. If I splurge on Starbucks, it's usually on a weekend/once a week. 

 

D/F Goal 2: Eat an actual breakfast every day. And the coffee/milk doesn't count!

 

D/F Goal 3: Exercise 6 days a week.

Current exercise includes, but is not exclusively, 1 hour yoga class or Jillians Shred levels 2 and/or 3. I'll throw in other exercises (will try the body weight one), but building the habit of working out regularly is the goal.

 

Life Goal 1: Spend the commercial times during 1 1-hr tv show a day decluttering/cleaning/organizing mail/etc. (I watch a lot of TV)

 

Yay? Yay!

[ceethegreat]

Day 1... No artificial creamer in my coffee or starbucks today, so goal one is good to go! Goal 2 -- I had a hard boiled egg, which was all I needed first thing because we had lunch pretty soon after I woke up. Goal 3 ... Well, got talked into doing all 3 levels of shred today. Kicked my tail! But glad to get it done since I'll just be going to yoga tomorrow. As for decluttering... well, I was having a really crappy night and my friend came over to keep me company. She helped me fold all my laundry over the course of an hour or two, so that's the cleaning for the day!

[honeysuckle]

Good start- the decluttering goal is a great one- according to the book "The Power of Habit", it's one of those changes that can bleed over into other changes because it gives you a feeling of satisfaction and control; your goals seem well thought out and just the right size

[Laureleye]

I think dropping those artificial creamers is a great idea - what is in them?  Don't worry about starting late, starting is the important thing. 

Just FYI for the next challenge, please put your name in the challenge thread title (so everyone can find you). 

[ceethegreat]

Thanks guys! Will add my name to the challenge thread for the next challenge for sure. 

 

The clutter thing has gotten out of control more than usual I think because my personal life is a cluster and I can't focus. I hope the little changes to clean will start to help bring everything in my life back in line.

[ceethegreat]

Mmkay... 2 days later and ate breakfast when i got up each day. I didn't go into work, so breakfast was a bit later than usual, but I ate. Hardly had any energy so did half a shred yesterday, and a full lvl 3 shred today. I can def see definition starting in my arms after almost 3 weeks of it. I did fail on the coffee creamer thing this morning back at work because I forgot to bring my new milk. 

[ceethegreat]

Checking in! Gotta say, the working out 6 days a week has been going strong. Went to yoga today, and been doing shred as planned. Also, while I'm not necessarily cleaning during commercials, I have cleaned every day. I am reorganizing my dresser and closet... currently 4 of my drawers are completely reorganized and actually neat, yay! 

 

Not so successful: creamers in my morning coffees still for actual flavor. Maybe I need to switch to vanilla soymilk. Or start bringing in K cups because our coffee is turrible. Not a good excuse, I recognize that. But something must be done!

[Laureleye]

How about some real vanilla flavoring in a dropper of some sort?  You could add a couple of drops to your coffee & perk it up - that's what I do at home. 

[ceethegreat]

Haha sorry been a while! But I did successfully transition off of the creamer, yeehaw!

I did really well working out 6 days a week at first, but the last 2 weeks I only got in 3 or 4 days.

Ate breakfast probably 90% of the time, so yay.

As for cleaning... well thank god for that last mini challenge because otherwise I'd totally not done anything.

 

Ready for my first full challenge!