Hello everyone~
In my last post I talked about my challenge for 2012- and here are my goals, as promised!
1. My exercise goals- I am starting Meta fresh with the new year. I would PREFER to do it with an hour of dance cardio but as long as I get at least 30 minutes in a day, that's good too.
2. Journal- I have a wire bound journal dated all the way up to May 31, 2012.
3. Dieting goals- eat 3 times a day (I have been eating maybe 1-2 times a day which is just as counterproductive as eating too much food) and keep it grain free.
I hope more of you join in on the challenge! Regardless, I will be blogging my way through it.
Very excited to start!!!
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Showing posts with label new year resolutions. Show all posts
Friday, December 30, 2011
Thursday, December 29, 2011
2012 Challenge!!!!!
Hello everyone!
As 2011 is coming to an end, I have been thinking about the new year, resolutions, and all that. So, I decided that I would come up with a challenge for 2012 and you are all invited to join in!
The challenge is pretty simple. Here's what it involves.
1. Set exercise goals. They do NOT have to be TAM workouts. Pick a workout you like and make a plan. Example, work out 4 days a week for 40 minutes a day, etc. You can always change them later if your start goal isn't working out as planned, but the point is to have some kind of plan in mind.
2. Keep a journal. Ideally write down what you ate and what workout you did. I have a paper wire bound journal but making a journal even in Microsoft word or something is good enough. As long as it's recorded somewhere. Studies say that keeping diet/food journals help a lot with losing weight by making us more aware of what we eat and how the calories and such add up.
3. Set dieting goals (if you need to lose weight). Again, this is based on the individual.
4. I made a secret Facebook group for anyone who wants to be in on this to keep accountable with each other. Your friends won't see it, outside people cannot even search for it so you will be able to keep this to yourself. If you want in, please let me know. This is, of course, optional.
5. (again optional!) Join MyFitnessPal.com if you haven't already. I am on it, and I love it. It's free to join and it has an Android and Iphone/Ipod/Ipad app which is also FREE. If you join, add asagi722 as a friend. (That's me!)
I will be posting my goals soon. I already do have them figured out, only working on the diet part now.
As 2011 is coming to an end, I have been thinking about the new year, resolutions, and all that. So, I decided that I would come up with a challenge for 2012 and you are all invited to join in!
The challenge is pretty simple. Here's what it involves.
1. Set exercise goals. They do NOT have to be TAM workouts. Pick a workout you like and make a plan. Example, work out 4 days a week for 40 minutes a day, etc. You can always change them later if your start goal isn't working out as planned, but the point is to have some kind of plan in mind.
2. Keep a journal. Ideally write down what you ate and what workout you did. I have a paper wire bound journal but making a journal even in Microsoft word or something is good enough. As long as it's recorded somewhere. Studies say that keeping diet/food journals help a lot with losing weight by making us more aware of what we eat and how the calories and such add up.
3. Set dieting goals (if you need to lose weight). Again, this is based on the individual.
4. I made a secret Facebook group for anyone who wants to be in on this to keep accountable with each other. Your friends won't see it, outside people cannot even search for it so you will be able to keep this to yourself. If you want in, please let me know. This is, of course, optional.
5. (again optional!) Join MyFitnessPal.com if you haven't already. I am on it, and I love it. It's free to join and it has an Android and Iphone/Ipod/Ipad app which is also FREE. If you join, add asagi722 as a friend. (That's me!)
I will be posting my goals soon. I already do have them figured out, only working on the diet part now.
Friday, December 31, 2010
Out with the old, in with the new!
Happy New Year's Eve everyone! (It's already New Year's Day in some parts of the world at the time of this entry!)
Today, even though I am not exercising, that does not mean TAM has been out of my mind. I am spending some time today to plan out groceries and calendars for my workouts.
My diet- I am not going to stick to the book recipes exactly. I may make a few of the recipes and repeat them, also I am going to exercise strict portion control, more vegetables, more lean meats and more green tea. In the book Tracy does say changing your diet all depends on where you're starting from and to improve based on that.
I will also be incorporating into my diet more Asian based food, mainly Korean and Japanese style, as well as their general rules for eating- they are some of the thinnest countries for a reason!
Some of these rules-
1. Eat slowly and enjoy your food!
2. Eat until you are 80 percent full
3. Red meat portions very small, since I cannot have fish, I will eat chicken more.
4. Lots of vegetables and rice (which is NOT fattening if eaten in proper portions)
5. Little to no sugar or desserts- Fun fact- Japanese people almost never take dessert and if they do, it's usually fruit.
6. More unplanned exercise (Outside of TAM) such as walking to the store, walking to work, etc.
7. More green tea drinking! I got a huge box of really nice green tea bags at Costco.
As for my calendars- I have all the way up until April 2011 planned- Boot camp for January (No rest days), then beginning the 10 day rotations between other workouts I have with Sunday rest days. I like planning like this, I like to see in the long run how things will go.
As for tonight, since I am not going out or partying, I decided to splurge a little on myself and went to the butcher and got myself a prime grade filet mignon, which I will broil and have with mashed potatoes, asparagus, and a glass of merlot. Then when it's time, champagne to celebrate the New Year and the future new me!
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