Goals for Today (Always Open!)

mrs_yooper on this site started this thread but it has long died out, and I wanted to bring it back.

We should 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!


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.

3)  In your end-of-day post (OPTIONAL), include your Nutrition Report for the day.

For Example:

Goals 06/10/09

1. Eat 1300 - 1500 Calories
2. Walk to Class (2.1 miles)
3. Study for Thursday's Test
4. Stock up at grocery store

In a separate post...

Goals Reached 06/10/09

1. Ate 1369 Calories (very low fat day but had 1 oz alcohol in my homemade vinaigrette) ((Edit:  I ate roughly half the chicken that I wanted to eat, so decreased by the appropriate Calories)
2. Walked to class and still had energy when I got there.  Wanted to walk back but the urge for organic soup was too strong.  I got a ride from a friend.
3. Studied some, would like to do some more tonight.
4. On my way out after this post!

1. Fat - 13.7% (22 grams)
   Protein - 16.3% (59 grams)
   Carbohydrates - 67.3% (243 grams)
   Alcohol - 2.7% (6 grams)
   Other - 0.0%
   
   Daily Sodium Intake - 4,089 mg
   Daily Sugar Intake - 125 grams
   Daily Cholesterol Intake - 98 mg
   Daily Saturated Fat Intake - 3 grams
   Daily Fiber Intake - 30 grams

FTF:  how do you make your nachos?

A little sad I'm 2 oz from my weekend goal.  Silly, since it's close.  Maybe rain today, so don't know about exercise and if i don't get it on weekend I don't get it at all.

Goals Today:

1. Clean kitchen
2. vacuum
3. Clean bedroom
4. Limit calories to 1,000 to get that push over the edge to 180.
5. Drink water and don't count tea as water.  Tea is wet but not water.
6. Eat a veggie and stay away from salty turkey.
7. Clean off one more surface (3 to go).
8. get outdoor exercise if no rain.

DONE:

1. partly.  It's a galley, with no windows, so don't enjoy being in it.
2. done.
3. no
4. limited calories, didn't get to 180, maybe sodium or will take few days.
5. yes, drank water, 50 oz
6. had little turkey and salt on tomatoes
7. got another surface cleaned off.  One left.
8. no, it was misty out.

Hi everyone, sorry I haven't been on recently, but it's hard to get on the Internet when my boyfriend's in town.  i made an amazing chicken and veal parmesan dinners (cooked at the same time).  I'm still at 172.8 and I have amazing news for you all:  I had my first period since March 2008!  It's kinda weird to show up randomly, but I have been on iron supplements for about a month now and they must have had something to do with it.  Maybe before this, I didn't have enough iron to actually have a period.  I don't know.  I'm still sick after I eat for the most part, so that's nothing new.

I've been having uncomfortable deficits (like in the 1500's) because of work.  If I work a 4 hour shift, that's 800 extra Calories I must eat in a day.  I worked a 10 hour shift on Friday and I am in for a 9 hour shift today.  That means I have to raid the fridge, eh?

I read up on everybody's posts since the last time I posted.  You guys are all doing great.  I wonder if even some of you should be eating more to account for your deficits.  I see hours of workouts and I see skimpy 1200 - 1400 Calories.  You guys be careful!

1. 1000 or less deficit.
2. Work from 12:30 - 9:30
3. ASK FOR A BREAK TO EAT
4. Write out a list of what I need at the store.

New to this thread!I like the idea of it though

My goals for tommorrow

1: Go for a 30 minute walk

2: Only think about food when I need to eat

3: Design a poster for the a Fruit Festival Im organising

4: Try and be extra nice to people I see that I know

5: Do something fun tomorrow night-get a movie, go for a walk, have a shower and pamper myself (probably this last one) oh and watch BNTM

New to this thread!I like the idea of it though

My goals for tommorrow

1: Go for a 30 minute walk

2: Only think about food when I need to eat

3: Design a poster for the a Fruit Festival Im organising

4: Try and be extra nice to people I see that I know

5: Do something fun tomorrow night-get a movie, go for a walk, have a shower and pamper myself (probably this last one) oh and watch BNTM

New to this thread!I like the idea of it though

My goals for tommorrow

1: Go for a 30 minute walk

2: Only think about food when I need to eat

3: Design a poster for the a Fruit Festival Im organising

4: Try and be extra nice to people I see that I know

5: Do something fun tomorrow night-get a movie, go for a walk, have a shower and pamper myself (probably this last one) oh and watch BNTM

Hi Drivenlass - welcome in!  Careful how many posts you create.  You may have pressed submit too many times.

Here's my completed list:

1. 1000 or less deficit.  I have no idea.  I had a lot of soda but I burned all those Calories off at work.  I also had 2 oz pasta and a small bit of leftover chicken parm.  That's all I had time to eat today until tonight when I grabbed a small bit of chocolate from the fridge and a glass of milk.  Will not be in bed till 2 or 3 a.m.
2. Work from 12:30 - 9:30:  Till 10.  THANKS TO WHOEVER STOLE $260 out of my drawer!  I had to recount the drawer twice and be present when the manager counted it and the safe twice.
3. ASK FOR A BREAK TO EAT:  Yeah, right.  Clocked in late, though.
4. Write out a list of what I need at the store.  Haven't done this yet.  Need to pick up a wedding gift for Kathy at work.

Well, for the week I don't think I did quite as well.  I think I did much better last week when my stress levels weren't through the roof.  Since it's Sunday, I have to mark my weight progress.

Sunday 04.21.09:  174.8
Sunday 04.28.09:  172.0

Weight lost for the week:  2.8 lb.

I hope everyone's having a success in their weight loss as well?

It's almost July!  Where did June go?  Half my summer's over.

Goals 06.29.09

1. Finish homework before class.
2. DR. APPOINTMENT 10 a.m. or something!
3. 750 deficit
4. Write out a list of what I need at the store - make it light - I have a lot of food in the apartment.
5. Dinner with Tara possibly.
6. Walk to the pool/swim if not raining.

I'm posting tonight for tomorrow..

Goals for 6/29:

1. Eat 1200-1300 calories

2. Go on a walk (1-1.5 miles)

3. Do 100-300 crunches

4. Watch sodium intake/ up protein intake

Since I'm always tired at night and don't do anything, I'm getting up at 6:30 and will do a few chores then!!!  Tired of cleaning on weekends.

I always forget how nice it looks in my apart. when I keep clutter put away. 

Goals Today:

Keep calories at 1,200.

1. hit a bucket of balls tonight.
2. make plans for Friday, day off.
3. get photos of sofa, to try to sell.
4. stop eating by 7 pm.
5. start drinking my water in morning, & take water to work.
6. start dusting bedroom.

Stop being sad I didn't make my weekend weight goal.  Still try for 179 by July 1st.

1. no time for driving range
2. still thinking about day off.  Very excited and want to do too many things.
3. don't feel like photographing sofa.
4. 8 pm
5. drank some, not enough
6. dusted part of bedroom. 

Nacho recipe:  handful of tortilla chips in a bowl, grate on some cheddar, microwave about 15 seconds or less (the more fat in the cheese, the faster it melts).  Remove from microwave, drizzle on a few tablespoons of salsa, eat, then repeat (just kidding but that was my method the other night)

Goals for today:

1)  Drink 2 flasks of water -- one, two

2)  Ride bike to work -- done

3)  Eat 3 fruit and 4 veg -- 2 serves apricot, broccoli, tomato, minestrone soup with veggies

4)  Buy planting mix for the rose bush -- they had the wrong one, I need one for containers and will go tomorrow to Armstrong 

Welcome, drivenlass! I definitely feel ya on #2... I don't think I even gave food a thought before I started watching what I eat.

oh155- I love the driving range! Good idea.

My goals for today:

• 64oz of water: halfway there!
• avoid the vending machines (this will be a tough one because I have class after work...)
• work out between work and class

June 29, 2009

Goal 1:  Eat 1450-1500 calories

Goal 2:  Walk dogs at least 30 minutes

Goal 3:  Get on treadmill at least 40 minutes

Goal 4:  Get in 10,000+ steps on my pedometer

The weekend was a bust, so much so that I'm not even going to address the individual items. Today is terribly hecktic so just a couple of goals:

1. drink 64 oz water
2. 50 sit-ups
3. wear my pedometer

My daughter is moving into the house (temporarily) today so insane amount of work to do!

Days not over but im online now so ill write now!

did my 30 minute walk

only thought about food when i needed to-except for coming up to tea time-i was very hungry, i need to eat a snack to keep my blood sugars up to prevent overthinking fo

was very nice to everyone today!-little cranky with mum for cancelling shopping trip, but i apologised

designed the poster

will do something nice tonight to break my routine of snack, walk, tv and bed!

Goals for tommorow

im trying to occupy my time with things i enjoy doing, to reconnect with myself again,things that are not things I need to do and that are not related to food and exercise, just things that i like to do

buy a paper and sit in my local coffee shop and read it for an hour

study for my driving test

eat 3 good meals

think about food and be around food when I need to be

stop listening to everyone else telling me what I should be doing and listen to myself

For today:

Calories -- 1720

Fat - 18.0% (35 grams)
Protein - 12.4% (55 grams)
Carbohydrates - 69.5% (307 grams)
Alcohol - 0.0% 
Other - 0.0%

Daily Sodium Intake - 3,118 mg
Daily Sugar Intake - 100 grams
Daily Cholesterol Intake - 2 mg
Daily Saturated Fat Intake - 14 grams
Daily Fiber Intake - 27 grams

We bot some dark chocolate honey comb at the produce market.  It wasn't that good, but I'm sure I ate nearly 100 grams which was heavy in fat and calories.  I miss the honey comb we used to get in Albany.  The stuff today was really 2nd rate :/  but maybe it will put me off sweets for a few weeks. 

Nearly did all my goals, plus took Penny for a walk this evening for 40 minutes.  She's resting up now.

Original Post by amykins1283:

June 29, 2009

Goal 1:  Eat 1450-1500 calories

Goal 2:  Walk dogs at least 30 minutes

Goal 3:  Get on treadmill at least 40 minutes

Goal 4:  Get in 10,000+ steps on my pedometer

 Let's see...

Goal 1:  I'm under on calories for today but this is a very rare occurence so I'm not going to worry about it.

Goal 2:  I walked the dogs for 35 minutes.

Goal 3:  I walked/ran on the treadmill for 40 minutes.

Goal 4:  I got over 12,000 steps on my pedometer!

...aaaaaaand I'm spent.  Too tired to post my calorie intake and such.  Perhaps tomorrow.

171.8 this morning.

Ending my day with a sodium headache.  Everyone - sometimes this site neglects how much sodium is in certain things that we eat everyday.  Take sauce, for example.  Typically a serving of sauce can contain up to 700 mg sodium.  But CC didn't account for it.  And I had quite a few servings of sauce.  Nor did I account for the sh.....load of sodium in ALL GOLDEN CORRAL PRODUCTS.

Finished Goals:

1. About that homework thing... got away with it because I had the doctor's appointment and wasn't there for 3/4 of the class period.
2. Went to the doctors' appointment.  Dr. Hung found a developing hemorrhoid that he accidentally popped when he was "searching around".  He left me with a small sample of ointment - witch hazel.
3. No deficit - I believe it was a perfect maintenance day.  Sad that my maintenance day was so early in the week.
4. Still haven't written a list but ran to the store when I realized I was out of bread crumbs.  Also picked up strawberries and pizza dough.
5. Did this! Homemade chicken parm.  She brought her BF and we had plenty of leftovers even though I only had two (humungous) chicken breasts to cook.
6. Didn't do this.  Took a nap instead.  MUST walk tomorrow.

Yesterday:

1. drink 64 oz water 1/2 done
2. 50 sit-ups 1/2 done
3. wear my pedometer done. lol that was a biggie!

Today

1. sort through purchasing card receipts
2. finish chemical inventory
3. water aerobics
4. 50 sit-ups
5. project a cheery disposition
6. get an anniversary card for DH

Happy Anniversary Chris.  

Goals for today:

1)  2 flasks water -- Done

2)  3 fruit and 3 veg -- Pear, rocket, tomato, cucumber, avocado, apricots, cherries

3)  Buy rose soil and pot up the rose -- bought the soil...

4)  Wash the car inside and out -- done

5)  Take Penny for a walk -- no, took a bike ride instead, sorry Penny :/

Hm, last night, after I posted my stats I had a banana and 1/4 cup of Coffee Heath Bar Crunch ice cream.  This added about 250 calories and effectively wiped out my deficit :/

Okay 5 minutes to write a quick post before class!

Let me know, everyone, how your June progress was - even if it was 1/2 a month, and your goals are for July.

Goals 06.30.09

1. 1000 Deficit
2. Eat 4 meals
3. Work from 12:30 - 4:00 p.m.
4. Do not eat at work
5. Clean apartment (Ohio - my kitchen's the same way.)
6. Drink at least 3 glasses of WATER (not soda/tea) at work
7. Optional:  Walk to/from pool and swim

Progress for June:  1 pants size/7.0 pounds

Goals for July:  1 - 2 pants sizes and 10 pounds.