OCB Week 1 Recap
May 29, 2005 by Renee @ 08:55 AMCategory: Challenge Check In, Challenges, Operation Crease Begone
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Notes:
The 2 days I hit snooze, I ended up getting up and working out anyway. The days I didn't hit snooze, I didn't exactly bound out of bed, just laid there for about 5 mins trying to focus.
The 3 days I ate past 6, I ended up snacking on something sweet around 7.
Didn't do daily affirmation yesterday since I made my miles & minutes goal and took Saturday off. I really took it off b/c I woke up @ 3 am and could not go back to sleep so when the alarm really went off I was exhausted.
The two days of 1600+ calories are not accurate. I was too lazy to log the nutritional value of my squash in Fitday and used their default amount which is higher than my brand. I'm fairly certain I went over calorie goal on Saturday. I was out and ate out for most of the day and also explains why I ate past 6. Pretty sure I didn't make the fiber gms goal either.
I'm working on doing full body pushups so each upper body day I try to do 1 w/perfect form. I had two upper body sessions and did 2 full body pushups. After the 1st attempy my armpits were mighty sore. I don't exactly do one up/down in one shot. Who knew my entire body would feel so heavy, when I picture doing it in my head it seems easy. When I plant myself on the floor, it's all I can do not to flop flat on my face.
By the skin of my teeth I met the last workout goal, 15 mins stretch. Resisted doing it w/all my might but I needed 12 more minutes to reach my weekly goal. I felt so blissed out when I was done, you'd think I'd leap @ a chance to do this every day. Um. NOT!
Week 2 Goals
After yesterday I'm now leaning to giving myself 1 day a week to relax on eating to compensate for the day I end up being outdoors. I'll still try my best to eat w/my overall goal in mind, but rather than say every single day I'll aim for 25gms of fiber, I'll just leave it @ 6 out of 7 days. I've also made one weekend days water goal to be 50oz, likely the same day I'm running the streets and access to restrooms are scant.
This week minutes, miles & water increase. Here's what I'm aiming for:
436 minutes broken down by:
60 mins cardio - 5 days
20 mins weights - 5 days
7 mins back & abs - 3 days
15 mins stretch - 1 day
18 miles:
3 miles - 5 days
650 oz water:
100 oz - 6 days @ least 50 oz one weekend day
I got 9 
's last week, let's see if I can get 8 or less this week. 
Comments: 14
05.29.05 | La commented: Fantastic work, girlie!
I updated the challenges section on my site too... the "at work" and the "personal" - go take a peek and let me know what you think?
I want to thank you for inspiring me to break down my weight loss efforts into challenges like that... it's fantastic to have goals for every day, rather than to just sit there and say "I want to lose 8 pounds this month". You're a terrific inspiration, and I only hope that once you reach your target, you don't stop posting and keeping up with the challenges. We could all use a little help from someone who "made it" and continues to work hard to "maintain it"! 
what a great week! very inspiring... 
05.30.05 | Cat commented: i think you can get 8 or les x's this week. im already impressed with your effort though 
those fullbody pushups are crazy hard, ive given up on trying to do a full body until im well under 200lb seems my arms arent as strong as i like to think 
it'll be an exciting day when you can drop and do 30 without thinking about it 
05.31.05 | Renee commented: Nicole, Mel, Moody, Dee & Nikki Thanx I hear the cheers coming thru my computer
krista - if you find a way to get paid for sleeping...hook me up
La - Thanx so much for the kind words girlie.
I LOVE seeing challenges and plans, I'll be sure to check out your page today. I think it's my love of charts and graphs and tracking things that I'm using to my advantage. I'm always happy to spread my OCD ways around the globe
My goals and outlook always change so I'm pretty sure when I reach goal weight I'll still be challenging myself, especially in physical things like running.
Cat - yah yah drop and give me 30 is EXACTLY what I want to do. Right now I'll be happy if I can drop and do 1/3rd of a pushup
05.31.05 | KEISHA commented: I am kinda late on this one but have you tried doing them on your knees first to bulid up your shoulders then move on to the full body ones.
05.31.05 | Renee commented: Better late than never Keisha. Yea I've been doing the knees (girlie) pushups for almost a year now. Each DVD has some form of pushup routine so I've gone from doing it against the wall to the knee one to now trying to toughen up and do the full body ones.
I had planned to do one each week and add one more, but I've learned my body has it's own ideas so for now I'll keep trying to get one done in perfect form for as long as it takes. 
06.01.05 | Renee commented: Nikki - I still haven't quite worked out a daily affirmation as I know them to be, ie repeating or writing something. Until I do, I've been trying to stop telling myself I'll be in the 170's forever so when I catch myself doing it I stop.
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You showed a GREAT week!! Looka all those check marks!
If I had the same chart, I'd have crosses for "snooze" everyday. 
Sleeping is definitely my thang (now, if I can only figure out a way to get paid for it! 