The Importance of a PLAN and Today’s Personal Challenge
Yesterday I set out to have my first 100% day since Thanksgiving and I failed miserably.
It’s a good thing that I am shooting for at least ONE day this month and I still have 16 more opportunities left! Speaking of opportunities, we have 46 weeks left to meet our goals for 2009. I pulled my handy-dandy calculator and for me, it means losing 1.6 lbs. per week for the next 46 weeks to reach goal, so I have to start getting those 100% days in…the more of them I have, the better chances I have at reaching my goal(s).
Good news before I continue—I lost ONE pound this week. I will take it, thank-you-very-much!!
So yesterday I set out to have my first 100% day and I had everything going for me: I had the umph, the motivation I need to carry me through the day. I had all the fruits and veggies in the house, the stars were lined up…the only thing I didn’t have, was a PLAN. I figured I would device a plan as the day went on, except you know, LIFE HAPPENS and without a plan, LIFE HAPPENS too quickly to react appropriately!
I drove one of my son’s schoolmate’s home for the first time yesterday. Obviously his mom wanted to meet me and so I went to this boy’s house. Lovely family, a lot of fun—so much fun in fact, that I spent close to 3 hours “meeting” them. Long story short, by the time I left their home, I was starving! I didn’t want to drive home because I was afraid that if I did, the comfort of being at home would keep me from going to the gym, so I did the next best thing, I grabbed some fast food. Of course, I have been craving Church’s chicken for awhile and since we’re trying NOT to eat out, I figured this was my only opportunity—and now you know what happened. I didn’t go crazy overboard…only had one piece of chicken, but I did wash it down with Pepsi, which I normally don’t drink. Ahhhhhhhh, it doesn’t end there…you see, I went to the gym immediately after having this greasy, yet delicious meal.
I had ABSOLUTELY no energy, so I did my scheduled workout at a lower intensity. Normally, I burn 950 calories per hour on the Arc Trainer, but yesterday’s number was 830. I knew I had to undo at least SOME of the damage I did at lunch, so I did an additional 20 minutes, burning a total of 1,050 calories in 80 minutes. Don’t clap and don’t pat me on the back, I didn’t do my scheduled abs workout—which is ok because I will do it today.
Here’s the moral of the story—PLAN, PLAN, PLAN!!
We can’t leave anything to chance. Looking back, I can think of a million and one ways in which my day could’ve turned out better, but sadly, my 100% day was not to be. I still have 16 more opportunities!
My personal challenge for the day is to eat all my servings of fruits and veggies!
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Well catch me if you can but Im giving you a pat on the back anyways. Yeah you ate of the FORBIDDEN fruit lol BUT you still worked out AND you don’t let it get you down enough to throw in the towel. That is the challenge every single day for a lot of us so you won. Now get going on your abs!! *g*
You are doing a good job getting back up again after falling off the wagon. You will get there!
Great job. I agree, the only way to succeed at this is to plan.
I need to plan my food too, or it just doesn’t work!
JO JO JO
You know you GOTTA have a plan
Lesson learned RIGHT?
I had to learn it the hard way too.
Congrats on losing a pound and it sounds like you had fun meeting your sons friend’s family.
Cooool
16 more opportunities and having a plan is going to help you to reach that goal.
YOU CAN DO IT
and I’m here to cheer you on
SO GET WORKING ON THAT PLAN!!!!!
Good lesson to learn. I know I have to plan out everything if I am going to be successful. Keep it up . . . I bet you’ll hit that 100% day in no time.
You are right. A plan is very important. What is your plan for the fruits & veggies tomorrow?
Good luck getting in those fruits and veggies. I can always seem to eat an endless amount of Oreos, but when it comes to veggies even one servig seems like a lot!
You are definitely right. If we don’t plan then that leads to improvisions and that leads to provisions for us to do what we did not PLAN to do. I need some help in that area.
Congrats on the 1lb weight loss! Keep it up every week and you will finish off with your goal for 2009. It’s really good to have a plan going because then you have a direction that you’re working towards. Wow you burned lots of calories today. That’s amazing! Love fruits & veggies…YEAH!!
1 lb down? That’s one less pound you are lugging around with you!!!!! I’m not a big planner by nature, but I have learned that having a plan saves my butt, keeps me from stressing, and makes things go sooooo much smoother. So what’s your plan for tomorrow? You do have one, right? LOL!!
Hola Jo!!! Okay….I may get e-slapped for this but I see a lot of great things here…..(1) you went to the gym; (2) you burned over 1,000 calories; (3) you only had ONE piece of chicken….so, I think I will pat you on the back!!! Great job, Jo!!!