Goals for Today & Did you accomplish them?

Hi everyone.  I thought it would be neat to start a topic on where we can post our goals for the day in the morning and then set a time for 9 pm to enter if we accomplished our goals or not.  This way we have a time limit to get those goals accomplished and we can see what everyone is doing?  I hope some of you will join me in this interesting topic. 

Thanks so much,
Tammy


1)  Post in the morning what your goals for the day are.

2)  Post in the evening or the next day, if you reached your goals for the day.

For yesterday, I made the exercise goals but went to out to dinner with a friend to a buffet and ate over 1600 cals! Today the scale showed a 4# increase so I paid for it.

Today, Saturday's goals: 30" stretches and squats; 30" walk.  Eat 1200-1300 cals. to compensate for yesterday.

Clean motorhome.

Completed exercise goals and only felt like eating 1066 cal.  Spent 3 hours on motorhome but have to complete the cleaning tomorrow along with the same exercise goals as today.

 

Goals for today:

1. Walk on the treadmill for 20 minutes

2. Ride bike up to the other house DID THIS, NO ONE WAS HOME :/

3. Take parcel to UPS OOPS THEY CLOSE AT 5:30, SO FIRST THING IN THE AM

4. Drink 50 oz. of water NO BOO HOO

5. change Athena's cage YES

6. Buy a new vacuum NOT YET

You're going in the right direction Ohio!!

I hear you on the 4# gain mischiefdm. I think I had the same from all the extra weekend eating :/

Accomplished Sunday's goals.

Monday's goals:

*Get to gym early for 20" stretches & crunches, 30" weights, 30" rowing machine, walk in swimming pool with 3# weights for 20", swim 3 laps and additional 15" water aerobics.

* Get to doc appt. on time

* shop, remember to get distilled water and return home

I was too lazy to make breakfast (oh god, if I could ONLY wash a bowl to eat cereal), so I went to the BK and had a croissanwich, which left me loagy and tired.  I should have a nap this afternoon.  No more bad food!

Let's see, I have a few left over from yesterday:

1. Walk on the treadmill DID 20 MIN BEFORE INTERRUPTION

2. Drop parcel at UPS Store YES, EASY PEASY

3. Drink more water or green tea!! DRINKING WATER RIGHT NOW!

4. Walk Penny for at least 30 min :) NO SORRY BUT I DID RIDE THE BIKE TO WORK

5. Make something for dinner NO ON THIS TOO

6. Put up those pesky shelves YES I DID IT FINALLY

Monday's goals: Accomplished

Tuesday's goals: 30" stretches and squats; 30" walk.  Eat 1300 cals [still balancing 2300 from Friday]

1 hr house cleaning

Mischief, it's actually healthy to have a high day every once in a while, it convinces your body you're not starving.

Scale is down to 150.2, close to before the triathlon.

Saturday
* weights - upper body and running - did this
* 200 cal deficit or maintenance - 300
* prep for community meeting - did this

Sunday
* light swim
* 200 cal deficit

Monday
* rest
* 300-400 cal deficit depending on restaurant thai food (eggplant and rice)

Tuesday
* should do swim practice, but I think I'll do weights +intervals
* 300-400 cal deficit

Thanks, Alevin, for encouragement. I've been looking at your deficits and decided to check mine. On gym days, it's 500-600 and on non-gym days around 200 so I could and should maybe eat more on gym days.

Just read an interesting article by Tom Venuto about Fat burning formula and another regarding Starvation Diet.

mischief, I kept a 500 cal deficit between mid-september and late may and lost about 30 pounds, from 183 to 150-not-too-much.  I never could tolerate more than about 500 cal deficit -- I get too hungry.

In June I did a short triathlon and then took a little break. Since then I've increased workout intensity and now I can tolerate only about 250-300 cal deficit on average.  If I have a higher deficit I don't have enough energy to work out properly.

My initial goal was 145 lbs, but I've learned more about body composition and now my goal is to decrease body fat to the mid to low 20s, I think that will be around 135. But it will take a very long time to get there!

Tuesday
* should do swim practice, but I think I'll do weights +intervals - did swim practice, yay me!
* 300-400 cal deficit - 350 cal

Wednesday
* weights and intervals
* 250 cal deficit - update: up to mainteance if hungry
* remember to drink water

You sound like me alevin as I started at 176 two and a half years ago and got down to ~150 with a 400-500 deficit.  Then I lowered my cals to 1200 get to 140 then to 1100 to get to 130 but when I started eating normally, my weight went back up to 140ish and I've been there for 9 months now.  Maybe I'm starting to lose again as I'm currently 138 but it will be a slow process to get to 130 and/or trim the thighs.

When I was eating 1700 cals trial, I had the energy to do heavy workouts and enjoyed them which have decreased now along with cals but if I just decreased the cals, I didn't have the energy to workout.

I passed my initial goal of 150 long ago and since learned that 138 is the "Happy Weight" for my 5'6.25" height but having been to 130, I think that is what it will take to get the flab off my thighs.

Tuesday's goals were achieved except for house cleaning - 1/2 hour; ate 1338.

Wednesday: 30" stretches and squats; 30" walk; eat 1350. Complete house cleaning.

Thursday: same as Wednesday

I haven't been posting much, because my goals are almost the same EVERYDAY.

But... Hey guess what, all!!! I dropped down below 160!  I am officially 159.2 as of this afternoon (I didn't weigh myself this morning or else i could have seen maybe 158).  But that means I'm only 1.2 lb away from my July goal.  While that seems like a lot to accomplish in a day in a half, I've got full intent on eating EXTREMELY healthy tomorrow (even better than usual!), as well as packing some more stuff and working on my feet (which always burns more Calories than I could eat in two days!).

I've not seen a dip below 160 since the end of 10 grade (2003).  I'm only 11.2 pounds away from my first MAJOR goal --> 148 = 50 pounds lost.

I am also proud of my food selection.  I had salad with ginger dressing, miso soup, and edamame, with water.  Even with that little bit of food (or so it seemed), I felt full about halfway through my edamame and now have about 3/4 to eat later as a snack or as a meal tomorrow.

My Calories are low for today, at 1149, but I'm going to wait until my 10-p.m. munchies before I eat again.

On munchies -->  They typically are something sweet an unhealthy.  Last night I had a butterfinger, a Baby Ruth, and then a packet of mixed nuts.  And I ended up with a surplus.  Oh well.  Today my munchies are going to be hummus and edamame (yay for ethnic-sounding leftovers!).


EDIT:
Mischief -->  I'm not so sure I like that "happy weight" calculator.  For me to be 123 would mean I would have had to lose 75 pounds from point A.  I'm halfway there, which is a nice thought, but my happy weight would be EXACTLY borderline healthy and overweight BMI.

Congrats on the new low weight leopard!!

I was too busy this a.m. to set goals. And it's been a long day. I'm not sure what I got accomplished but surely something... tomorrow is another day :)

Goals for today:
1. Walk Penny around the lake 2 times. WAITING TO DO THIS...
2. Drink 2 bottles of water while at work. KIND OF, A DIET COKE AND A SELTZER WATER :(
3. Print off forms, sign, scan and email back to Australia for address changes. DID IT !
4. Ride my bike 45 minutes. RODE FOR 35 MIN
I cleaned up my desk this a.m. For the last few months I've been piling stuff up in the big drawers underneath. I realised I never paid my utilities bills because they got stashed away! Also took time to organise and call various accounts with the new address... Still a bit to do but I think I've got most of them covered. I never quite trust the PO to forward my mail :/

Thank you figurethefat!

I hit my July Goal (YAY).  I am down to 158.  That means 10 more pounds until I've lost 50, and that'll be probably my "stopping" point, unless I decide I need a little bit more change.  Just everybody, if I get down to 123 (75 less lb), make me stop!

Goals for tomorrow:

1. Get up at 9:30.
2. Check out of my dorm around 10.
3. Marketplace --> Spend my last $1.03
4. Get David by 11:30
5. Salvation Army  --> Buy mom a gift?
6. Doctors appt at 5 p.m.
7. no more candy!

Hi everyone!  I've never posted on this thread before, but I see familiar names from the other forums.  Y'all are some motivational people.

I'm just so excited because for the first time in my CC+ life, I met ALL of my goals for today!  I got back on the exercise wagon after 2 weeks of laziness and sweated my way through my 35 minute exercise DVD.  I managed to drink over 100 oz of water throughout the course of the day.  I have successfully abstained from both sugary sweets and the moste beloved dark ale for 3 straight days.  AND today I kept my caloric intake at 1430 (burn meter with exercise is 2030) - a 600 calorie deficit!  Woot!