Fitness Goals

I started back at the gym today. Big step! I'd made my playlist and it was approaching lunchtime, if we had lunch we'd have to wait a little bit of time before going. So, I said let's go now before I change my mind.

It's so quiet on weekends, even for the beginning of January. And the football was on, so it wasn't a bad visit. A good start, back again on Tuesday.

I've got lots of fitness goals on my 101 list that I really want to start cracking through those this year as last year wasn't that successful.


I wonder if I can achieve all three of these in one month, starting from now?

040. Stop drinking fizzy drinks for a month
041. Go a month without chocolate
043. Keep a food diary for a month

We don't generally have fizzy drinks at home, it's only when we're out for dinner or at work that I have drinks like Diet Coke. But, it'll be easy to cut this one out, I'm sure.

I usually have some kind of chocolate snack, usually a cereal bar with chocolate, during the work day. But, as long as I replace that with something else that's not chocolate then this can be achievable in a month.

I'm going record what I eat and count calories using My Fitness Pal - I've done this before and it's worked well in the past, so it can work again.

WAGES

I love this idea of recording weekly WAGES (workouts, accomplishments, goals and ETC). Maria at Chasing the Now records her WAGES weekly.

Definitely going to consider doing something similar.

046. Go for a walk 3 times a week for 12 weeks (1/12)

Week One

Sunday - I was feeling ill, so needed some fresh air before bed. James and I walk down the road and back again. Distance covered: unknown.

Monday - I found the fresh air and exercise was starting to help me get over my cold, so we went out again after dinner. Distance covered: 1.77km.

Tuesday - Our aim was to cover more distance tonight. Distance covered: 2.03km.

James is away for a few weeks now, so I've got to walk alone. Wish me luck.

044. Lose 50lbs, 10lbs at a time

I completely adore the show 'The Biggest Loser' - the American version - so really wanted to use it as inspiration to start losing weight.

I bought the Wii game called 'The Biggest Loser Challenge' at a bargain price of £8.85 from Zavvi and started the challenge on Thursday night. The intensity is high and I can see that they use a lot of the same workout techniques from the show. I let the game choose my workout plan so that it tells me which days I'm doing a certain routine and which days I rest and weigh-in.

Today was my second day using the game, Friday was a rest day. I'm determined to keep with it and complete the 12 week program set out for me. I'm also going to try really, really hard to eat less and not dip into the biscuit stash at work - there's always biscuits!

043. Keep a food diary for a month

Last year, during September and October, I started using an App on my phone called My Fitness Pal to record a food diary and to count calories. I was doing really well and lost about 11lbs, then the winter came and Christmas came and I'm just starting to pick it back up.

Today was the first time in months that I've completed a full day of my food diary! And I was below my calorie allowance! The very first time I counted my calories I was over by a lot! I'm online everyday and I have the App on my phone, so I'm going to try really hard to stick to it. When I'm at work I have no excuse not to know the calorie content of the food I eat, it's our company that gather the back-of-pack information for retailers shopping websites - all I have to do is look up the product in our image library and all the info is there! It's handy for random things that are hard to find, I can just add them myself.

I last weighed myself during January and I hadn't done so previous to that since the beginning of November. I'd only gained 3lbs over the Christmas break - which I thought wasn't too bad at all, considering all the food and sweets we had!

Current Weight: 202.6lbs