Dont let the biblical passage scare ya

grassh. in montana

Just in under the wire from Canada. My goals for the next month are pretty much all about consistency…

a) Consistently wake up at 5 AM every morning (I do this many mornings but I’d rather do it entirely for one month).
b) Consistently eat relatively healthy for the month of September, with a one day “break” (not a gorge, but a break) each week.
c) Consistently hit the gym to get proper exercise.
d) Consistently be the best person I can be to my wife, my family, and my friends.
e) Most importantly (for me) to give my thanks to God each day and spend some quality time with Him in study and prayer.

Thanks for doing this – everyone needs a kickstart now and then…this one will be mine.

My goal is to lose at least 6 pounds. I put on 15 pounds in the last few months. All of my clothes are ridiculously too tight… It seems I can’t stop eating AND can’t start exercising: Bad combination! I am recovering from depression and my energy level is not as high as it should be. Bad habits sure doesn’t help maintaining a good energy level – and I caught a lot of bad habits while being sick.

I am willing to make the necessary efforts to get my energy back by losing weight but without starving and exhausting myself. This time will be different because I am also beginning the ‘No-diet diet’ that also takes about 28 days to finish. I definitely intend to have fun achieving my goal!

My weight is now 178 and I would like to lose 1.5 pounds per week. I should weigh MAX 172 pounds at the end of this challenge.

Thank you for doing this, Craig.

For too long I have put myself last and I have turned into a ‘frump’ (hi Charmaine) and a dead weight in the famiy. Lately I have come to realise that I need to be equal with the other family members. Apart from helping me with my self esteem, energy etc, I think it will benefit the family to have a whole and healthy mum as part of it.

These 28 days are about developing and maintaining a new attitude and learning to live as I used to. Specifically, I will menu plan for the week and live by it, I will replace my holey shoes, I will buy some much needed new jeans and I will get that haircut. I will keep telling myself that I am entitled to do this and that no one else will be missing out because of it.

I have a rather large list of goals, but I think I will just stick with the main one and hopefully the others will more easily slip into line after that.(which translates to, I think I will struggle doing one, let alone more than that)

My goal is to get back into a good exercise routine and get unfat. It has been done before, but with the motivation of a dust bunny..I have struggled to get it back.

1. Drink more water
2. Ride my ugly new ladies bike 5 days a week, increasing in distance and not to cop out if its raining, use the treadmill instead.
3. A weights season at least 4 times a week.
The biggest one of all would be not to listen to myself..I speak shit..”Oh, it will be OK to skip today, I’ll do it tomorrow”..I am a liar!

Thanks Craig

Good Luck everyone else!

An American who understands km’s.
Cool.

Sounds like you’re on track man… keep it up and let me know how you go with the 8 in 90..

Peace.

“It will be about discarding the middle age frump that has lost her passion in the blur of marriage, kids, and working mostly nights.”

Frump… harsh!

I’ll be cheering you on.

No ice-cream… you must be serious!

Good luck and have some fun.

I’d written to you in July about the changes that I was starting to make in my life. I have been keeping up to those changes since then, and now is the time to take myself to that “next level.”

I’m currently walking an average of 4km a day now, and my goal is to ramp that up to 8km a day in the 4 weeks, 1km per week. A secondary goal to that is to improve the time that I take to make the walk. I’m currently doing the 4km in around an hour, and the goal is to make the full 8km in 90 minutes by the end of the challenge.

Also, I’m going to be more aware of what I am eating and changing my habits to eat healthier and to eat less in general, along with a goal of drinking 3-4L of water a day.

I look forward to making the most of this first challenge, and to keep it up as we go further into the fall and winter here in the Northern Hemisphere.

Thanks,
Sephyroth
USA