January 2012
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I am not having a good day with the food, I want to eat everything in sight and my will power seems to be on vacation today.
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4 things I did well today:
1. I ran 9.1K on the treadmill, which is a long treadmill run for me. I get so bored!
2. I did a lower body weights workout and felt strong!
3. I did some graphic design work for my boyfriend to help him get his site redesign launched today
4. I drank 64 oz of water, at least!
4 Things I did well today
1. We went trampolining which is a great workout.
2. I put aside my insecurities to try something new.
3. I finished reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
4. I emailed both of my buddies
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Doing Things Well Today
1. I went to the gym and had a great workout.
2. I called my mom.
3. I made good choices eating out for lunch today.
4. I tracked all of my food.
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4 things I did well today
1. I did 10 mf pushups!
2. I tracked all of my food, which included no lactose, and an awesome salad at lunch.
3. I ran 3K and had ringette practice today
4. I went to weigh in and was down 1 lb
Bonus: I sent off an important email today that I had worked for hours on. I can’t say what it was, but I’m hopeful for a positive response!
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Do Life Challenge - Week 4
This week, Ben asked us to partner up with a random online stranger. I’m not going to lie, I was apprehensive to say the least. I’m not generally overly outgoing and I have a hard time meeting new people and making making small talk is hard enough, forget actually opening up and getting to know someone!
But, I quickly stopped my destructive self talk, and told myself I’m...
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Well down another pound since last weigh in, which is great and all, but I am so darn close to the 50 lb goal, I thought it might finally happen this week. Sadly, I’m 0.9 away still. Oh well, next week.
Total lost: 49.1 lbs.
10 pushups!
Part of the Do Life Challenge has been to check in on how many pushups you can do. when we started on Jan 1, I did 1 (real pushup), today, I did 10!
I honestly can’t remember when I have ever been able to do 10 real pushups.
4 things I did well today
1. I ran 5.6k and went to the gym for weights and fitWall today!
2. I finally found a buddy for the Do Life Challenge, and sent our first official email!
3. No lactose, day 5
4. Came in 2 points under daily target
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4 things I did well today
1. Got up this morning and ran 10K. First real LSD in a while!
2. Ate lactose free today, even switched my smoothie to use soy milk.
3. Finalized a photography contract for a gig later this year.
4. Took a couple more photos for the Do Life Challenge to wrap up the week!
Goodnight everybody, here’s to a new week!
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Do Life Challenge - Week 3 Review
This week’s challenge was to do a photo scavenger hunt. I must admit, when I first read through the list of photo ops, my thoughts were along the lines of, well I won’t be doing this, no way. But as the week started, I saw a few I could do. And each day, through creative thinking, and slightly stepping out of my comfort zone, I found a few more I could do.
Participating in the...
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I predicted 18:36. I ran 18:23. 13 seconds off. Not bad, but I should have went with my original thought of 18:20. There were 3 hills that I thought would slow me down, but I guess there’s also the adrenaline of the race factor. Anyways, prediction run was fun, I’ll do it again!
Tomorrow morning I’m doing a 3K prediction run. I’m sitting here trying to figure out my strategy, but can’t make a decision. Do I go hard and try to reach my fastest time, go steady and hope for consistency, or take it slow and easy? I really can’t decide.
I have until 10:15 tomorrow to decide!
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4 things I did well today
1. I had my annual physical today and went with a list of questions. Being healthy is about taking interest in all aspects of your health.
2. I had a productive work from home day today.
3. I went to ringette practice then followed up with a quick 2 mile run on the treadmill.
4. I tracked all my food today.
Bonus: I went to the chiropractor, my body really needed it.
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Today's 4 Things
1. Ran 4.2 K in the cold rain
2. Busted ass to get to FitWall class after my run, even though my shoes/feet were wet, and going home was much more appealing.
3. Showed someone at the gym how to use the TRX.
4. I took 3 photos for this week’s challenge. Which is 3 more than 0.
It was another tough day to think of 4 things I did well. Sigh.
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4 things I did well today
Today was particularly hard to come up with these. I honestly feel like I did a lot of things wrong today, or didn’t do a lot of things I should have. However, here it is.
1. I checked in on my pushups. I did 5 from my toes. Could only do 1 two weeks ago.
2. We accidentally bought white rice yesterday, so today actually took the time to return it for brown.
3. I ate about 7 servings of...
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Today's 4 Things I did well
1. I went to ringette practice and got a good workout even though all I could think about was how much I didn’t want to go.
2. I finally put away the Christmas decorations
3. I did my second pay it forward and donated to a fellow Do Life Challengee’s fundraising efforts.
4. I blogged (on my other blog) some photos I’ve been meaning to get to for a while.
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Do Life Challenge -Week 2 Recap
It was a decent week, although I must admit I just finished my 2nd random act of paying it forward. It counts though! I had a bit of a hard time with the first part of the challenge (doing 2 random acts of kindness by helping others). Not because I’m not kind or don’t do things to help others, but lately I’ve been really pouring my energy into doing things for myself. Doing the...
