Hi everyone! Welcome back! I know it’s been a whole week since I wrote about the challenge, but life happened and launched a bunch of stuff at me. I’m trying to take my own advice and go easy on myself. I was able to keep up this most of the challenges, here is the past week’s challenges:
- Day 13 – Set your goals for the week
- Day 14 – No snacking after dinner
- Day 15 – 10 Walking Lunges/10 Squats/10 Push-ups – 5 times through!
- Day 16 – Keep a food journal
- Day 17 – Find your BMR and know your daily calorie goals
- Day 18 – Eat 3 veggies and 2 fruits
- Day 19 – Walk 2 Miles
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| Are you writing down your goals? |
Instead of focusing on the different challenges day by day I just want to talk about a couple of the most important ones that I thought I have thrown your way. Probably the single most important challenge I asked of you was day 13 – set your goals for the week. The second most impactful challenge (in my view) was day 16 – keep a food journal.
You’ll often hear from me that most people have a pretty good idea of what they need to do, (eat better, move more, reduce stress, get good sleep), but there is something about the power of a pen or pencil against paper. When we write things down, our goals become more concrete.
Recording what you’ve eaten in a food journal holds us just a little more accountable to ourselves…do we really want to write down that we’ve had 12 homemade cookies? Writing things down, good or bad, allows us to reflect what we’ve put (or didn’t put) in our bodies.. We also can get a better idea of portions, snacking and habits that we may need to tweak.
I’m looking forward to pushing through the next few days to wrap up all of the “stuff” that needs to be done so I can enjoy a well deserved wonderful holiday with my family. I’ll try and keep up better with posting about the challenge if you promise to do your best keeping up with me!
Be healthy, be well,
Meredith
