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.

Is it time for this thread to die a natural death? I notice it's been 1 year to the day that yooper started it. Of course she hasn't been on for months and months.
Anyway I'll set my goals for today, but it could be the last time, he he:
1. Walk on the treadmill. DID IT FOR 45 MIN.
2. Take back that overhead light and get the thing that directs water from the downspout outside....DID THIS :)
3. Drink water!! NOT ENOUGH!
4. Eat a grapefruit. NO, BOO HOO.
5. Take off this ancient nail polish (could require a trip to the drug store to get the polish remover) WILL GET THIS TONIGHT
I have some free time today as in nothing that has to be done. In more recent times I would have gone shopping but since buying the condo I feel like I should be spending less. Probably because I owe so much... Bah!

Hi Figure, I hope the thread doesn't die and happy anniversary everyone FWIW!

I accomplished my Tues, Wed, Thursday goals and am shooting for

Friday: Get to gym early for 5" on bicycle for warmup, 25" stretches & crunches, 30" weights, 30" rowing machine, walk in swimming pool with 3# weights for 25", swim 3 laps and additional 15" water aerobics.

Get to doc on time.

Will be pushing to get todays goals done as I'm late leaving already.

Well, I'll keep setting goals if others do mischiefdm!

Today I used my free time to do some things I've been meaning to do for a long time. I bought a memory foam for my bed, not a hugely expensive one, but I think it will work.

Hope everyone has some wonderful weekend plans, I don't...

We'll keep trying even if it's repeat, repeat but that's what weight loss is all about anyway.

Memory foam?? I'll have to look that up, might help my back.

Friday: only completed 5" on bicycle for warmup, 5" stretches & crunches, 30" weights, 20" rowing machine, and swim 3 laps due to time constraint to get to doc on time. Ate 1492 cal.

I lost 1.4# this week! WooHoo, but that may hang as loss for the month, next Tues, too due to 4# gain from splurge a few weeks ago. Hope I keep it off and keep losing as it will be a first in 8 months.

Saturday:

*Get laborer for hard yard work; monitor progress. half done.

*30" stretches and squats; 30" walk; eat 1350.

*Get motor home outside with For Sale sign up.

*Get neighbors dog out in am/ in at pm. half done.

Have a good weekend everyone.

I love the memory foam, and I think Big Lots! is definitely the cheapest! And I finally got that nail polish off this morning. Goals for today:

1. Walk at least 5 km to finish off my weekly challenge of 25...

2. Drink water before ever meal.

3. Eat 5 meals a day.

4. Don't log, but put food in my journal.

Saturday:

*Get laborer for hard yard work; monitor progress. half done. Continuing

*30" stretches and squats; 30" walk; eat 1350. Done and ate 1251

*Get motor home outside with For Sale sign up. In progress

*Get neighbors dog out in am/ in at pm. half done. Done

Sunday: repeat of Saturday.

If it weren't for my back, I would be doing the yard work but too much bending and can't hold the weed eater anymore.  It should have been completed yesterday but my laborer is a bit challenged to using a broom and I may end up finishing his job but it's the loading into bags that gets to me which calls for bending.

I did manage to meet yesterday's goals, although I overate. Today I'm going to drink more water, and go for a ride on the bike. So for today:
1. Ride my bike for 60 minutes. WENT FOR 90
2. Walk on the treadmill. YES FOR 45 MIN
3. Drink water before each meal, and also between meals... DID THIS
4. Don't snack! ANOTHER GOAL ACCOMPLISHED :)
mischief, hope your yard work goes smoothly and the back holds up :)

For today:

1. Drink water before every meal and also in between meals. YES!

2. Ride my bike to work. YES!

3. Stick to the 5 meal snack with no snacking. YES JUST HAVE TO FOLLOW THROUGH WITH THIS PLAN THIS EVENING.

4. Water the plants. YES

5. Take the kid's bike back. YES

Hello all -

I haven't been by in awhile! Sorry!  Vacation is fun, and I haven't gained anything (even after a giant binge yesterday at lunch).

I did some swimming and walking though, and it was good.  today is a dog-walk day, for my godmother.  maybe I'll have her join me, because she's trying to lose weight too. She has lost 10 since she retired last year, which is a good start.

Mmm... i'm sleepy. Long weekend, wine included.

Thanks figure.  Good to see you check in leopard.

Sunday:

*Get laborer for hard yard work; monitor progress. almost done. Continuing

*30" stretches and squats; 30" walk; eat 1350. Done and ate 1010

*Get motor home outside with For Sale sign up. Done finally

*Get neighbors dog out in am/ in at pm. Done

I went below 1200 cal but was too tired to eat anymore and just not hungry. Already had peanut butter snack and the eggplant dinner was very filling. The body can stand it once in awhile.

Good thing that I forgot that I bought a bottle of power steering fluid as I would have put it into the transmission filling hole but found out from a friend exactly where the power steering tank is to fill it today. The MH is on a corner where everyone in town can see it.

Yard work amounts to weed eating if laborer gets around to it.

Monday:

*Get neighbors dog out in am/ in at pm. half done.

*Get laborer for hard yard work; monitor progress.

* wash day

*30" stretches and squats; 30" walk; eat 1350.

* I usually drink 80oz of water and have 49% hydration at end of day but probably should monitor water intake per se.

Tuesday:

* Get to gym by 9:30am for Body Fat measurement

* Do 5" on bicycle for warmup, 25" stretches & crunches, 30" weights, 30" rowing machine, walk in swimming pool for 25", swim 3 laps and additional 15" water aerobics. [not using 5#weights in pool as my back has been hurting]

* Get lab results

*drive carefully home. ;-)

Yay!  Glad to have you back leopard.

Good luck with the body fat mischief :)

I'm pretty much on track with my new water drinking plan and I've been kicking up the exercise.  It's all working.  I hope I can stick with it tonight which is the hardest time for me...

Goals for today:

1. Ride bike up to the other house. DID THIS, 75 MIN TOTAL

2. Eat 3 fruit and 5 veg APPLE LETTUCE TOMATO

3. Eat 5 meals with water in between. YES

4. No snacking (this is my total downfall) SO FAR SO GOOD

5. Walk/run on treadmill for 50 minutes. WALKED PENNY FOR 30 INSTEAD

6. Update letter and mail. DID THIS :)

Hi, folk,

I was really discouraged to learn that the heart rate monitor won't tell me how many calories I'm burning on long bike rides without calibrating it against a watt meter. (you can do this with an indoor bike with a watt meter), but I don't want to go cycling indoors while the weather is perfect.  I'd been trying to keep about 1500 deficit per week, and the margin of error for a long bike ride is more than 1000 calories!  So basically I have no clue how many calories I am burning. And I often felt crummy when exercising due to not enough food.

So I've stopped counting for a bit. Over the weekend I didn't go on the group ride because my car didn't start. So I rode to San Francisco. I got a little lost when I was almost there, rode steeper hills than planned. So I stopped at Daly City, one town south of SF, and took the train back.

Yesterday I learned more weight exercises at the gym - barbell versions of things I'd been doing with dumb bells, like overhead press, deadlift, and rows. Today I'm going running.  And I really should be drinking more water. I just don't remember at work, any good tips?

Figure, have you tried healthy snacks in pre-set portions, like some nuts or sunflower seeds in a baggy (with the package far away to avoid temptation).

Welcome back alevin.  Sorry about the heart rate monitor dissappointment.  It really is difficult not to know how much you're burning!  Glad you were able to catch the train back after those hills.  We are lucky there aren't many down here :)

I have had success with the baggy method.  It really all comes down to willpower doesn't it?  I'm doing well again today so I'll just have to stick with it this evening!

Hi Everyone,

Accomplished my Monday and Tuesday goals. Monthly weigh in showed 2.6# loss with decrease of 2% in Body Fat which made me feel better.

Today's goals: 25" stretches, 5" squats; maybe 15-20" walk; eat 1350. My back/rt leg is really hurting so am not up to much walking. I'm wondering if the increased walking up/down on unlevel ground has caused my back situation to recur. Exercise at the gym has always helped my back; this pain has only been since I decreased going to gym and increased walking at home.

I'm scheduled for a cervical epidural injection on the 22nd and asked to have a lumbar one too but I'm only allowed a certain amount of steroids so may have to decide on one or the other for duration of this year.

Hello all!

I have much to do today!  Yesterday was a good day too.

Goals:

1. Farmer's Market --> Buy zucchini, squash, broccoli, cauliflower, green/red pepper, and carrots.
2. 1300 - 1500 Calories.
3. Treadmill!  Anything else in the gym.
4. Go swimming.  Yesterday's swim was refreshing.

Hi there!,

Thursday was a repeat of completed Wednesday.

Today: Do 5" on bicycle for warmup, 25" stretches & crunches, 30" weights, 30" rowing machine, walk in swimming pool for 25", swim 3 laps and additional 15" water aerobics.

Eat 1400-1500 cal.

I did a great job yesterday with food, and I'm glad I did it, because today was not the day.  I moved my sister into her dorm today, and then had probably 1000 Calories in JUST DESSERTS.  Another 1000 Calories was everything else, and OF COURSE I didn't write them down.  Pizza, salad, about an ounce of chicken... Oh god, I don't remember much else.  Mashed potatoes.  Yeah.  And pasta with marinara.  And more, I just doin't remember.  Lots of food.  No more food tonight, at least.  I'm not hungry.  I'm getting a little bit of drink, though.  Some 'punch' that my mother left in the fridge.  Yay, 7 calories per gram of alcohol.  I call it my end-of-day respite.

No treadmill yesterday, but did some swimming.  I guess that's not too bad.  Today no exercise except moving in my sister, which felt pretty sedentary on its own, because I only made two trips, and I used the elevator.

Mischief --> I should really try your workout, and see what happens.  What kind of water aerobics do you use?

159 today.  Almost down to pre-vacation weight.

Friday's goals were accomplished and then some. I thought I did 4 laps last Tuesday but lost count so kept track of time/laps yesterday; it takes me 5" per lap and by the clock, that's what happened Tues. Ate 1628

Today: Just walking to/from neighbor's to let the dog out/in and to the post office for ~15" and attempting to be on flat ground.

25" stretches and 5"squats. Programmed to eat 1306 including plums, squash soufflé, pulled pork and broccoli.

Tomorrow will be a repeat of today.

Leopard, my water aerobics include stretching sideways, toe to hand kick ups, jogging, bicycling, scissors and one where you go from being on your back to on your stomach exercising abs, with a tube or buoys. Mostly things that I learned from taking the classes earlier.

goals for sunday:

stay under 1400 calories

walk 60+ minutes

go to bed before 11.30 pm