Hello

I haven't forgotten that I signed up for this. Let's just say my attention was diverted this week and I have some catch-up to do. I promise to join in very soon~!

Update

Well I haven't really done all that well this week....though I have been taking vitamins and I have drank more water than I usually do (but not the 20 oz that I was hoping for). I haven't excercised at all this week, but I have a *very* good excuse. Last Saturday I woke up with what I thought was allergies (allergy season is well upon us). Well I got worse as the day went on, and I finally thought..."hmm" So I took my tempature....yep, I was running a fever. Continued to run one on Sunday as well. And of course once I have a head cold it travels into my lungs.... When that happens, I don't dare try to exercise because I start coughing like crazy, and start feeling really sick. At least this time, it doesn't seem to have hit my lungs too hard....I still remember one time when I got really sick, was out of work for a week, and then tried to excersice about 3 weeks later and still got sick again! ACK! I think that time it took 2 months before I could truly excerise again....I think tomorrow morning I am going to try to do some stretching type excercises, so that I am doing something, but that its not too much for my body.

A Challenge within a Challenge

Something that I have been thinking is that we should try to have actual challenges. So this is my idea:

The Rules:
This week I will introduce a challenge. Those who are going to do it will post (either in a post or comment stating that they will participate)
The first person to post after 7pm CST on Monday the 29th, who has accomplished his/her goal for the week, gets to assign the next challenge.
The same person can't assign a challenge more than once a month.
When you make a challenge, it can be anything that is _sane_....such as everyone works out at least 5 times that week....or everyone drinks at least 64 oz of water a day that week....or everyone stays away from chocolate. I hope you get the idea.
You can offer a reward if you so wish, however each person that accomplishes his/her goal for the week will get a nifty icon next to his/her name (if I can figure out how to do it)
I reserve the right to deem a challenge as unhealthy or unreasonable :)
You do not have to participate in these challenges.


Make sense?

So this week, I say "goals" (Mine would be to drink at least 20 oz of water a day, and excerise 3 times in the next week).
Whatever your goal is, it should be attainable but one that you will still need to stretch yourself to accomplish--and not something that you are already doing on a regular basis.
My reward to you: Its not much, but for those who reach their goals for this week can have a character named after them (or choose a character's name-nothing crude!-)in one of my 3 universes. (Note: this is not a promise that the story(ies) will be written really quickly though! ;)

Welcome!

Welcome to Susi, soon to be our newest member! :)

Links

Hey guys, I am going to create a page that lists our goals and progress....make it a little bit more tangible, maybe? Anyway let me know if you don't want to be on the page.

Weekly Update...

Well i had a great week food wise, i'm really enjoying the food plan setup where i can just follow it, and for the first time in my life i'm really following it measuring everything etc but i didn't do any exercise at all this week, have had bad cramping and felt horrible so decided to just eat right this week and get into the exercise next week but i still had a pretty good week and i'm happy with myself.
Highs:
Highs for the week for me are that i lost 2.5kilos (5.50pounds) :) Yay!!!
Lows:
No exercise and Andrew came home with a chocolate for me (so sweet and obviously i couldn't hurt his feelings by not eating it *G*)
Aims:
Mum is coming down for a week on Thursday so my aim is to stick to the food plan while she is here and not eat out to much and also to still exercise.

Thats about it for me, have to decide what to do for Easter cos i want my eggs :) which is ok but when we drive home (8 hour drive) we always have junkfood to eat, and because i'm so bored i constantly eat in the car...have to find something a little more healthy but still yumm!

Hope everyone elses weeks have been good, i like the comment option now to Leslie by the way and hope your back is feeling better Aleta, more so for your trip :)