I'd been contemplating a diet/exercise/food type change for awhile now. Since I'm finally feeling settled in my new place and work is busy but manageable, I thought this was a good time to really buckle down and get back into a routine of working out and eating right. I have so many resources for both at my finger tips now, I really don't have an excuse. Which is why I was ecstatic to find
this Fitness Challenge over on
Vespa Tales. It's a balance of both exercise and diet (which was lacking from the juice fast I was considering) but also isn't extreme in what it eliminates (like the no-dairy, no-sugar diet that was also on the list of possibilities). This I feel is completely do-able and the eight week length requires commitment but almost completely ensures results.
Eight Week Fitness Challenge
No
desserts (6 points + 1 bonus
point = 7 points)
No soda (6 points + 1 bonus point = 7 points)
No
eating after 8pm (6 points + 1 bonus
point = 7 points)
Cross one
thing off my To Do list (6 points + 1 bonus
point = 7 points)
Exercise
5 times a week for 30 minutes at a time (5
points + 1 bonus point = 6 points)
Weekly
Challenge (6 points + 1 bonus
point = 7 points)
You will receive one free
day a week. So everything is based on 6 days, except for exercise which
is only 5.
(*I will definitely be using this free day, as it is October and I LOVE candy corn)
Total
points possible per week: 41
Weekly
Challenges
Week 1: Keep a food journal every day
Week 2: Get 7 hours a sleep every night
Week 3: Drink 64 fluid ounces of water every day
Week 4: 5 servings of veggies every day
Week 5: Do 100 sit ups and 50
push ups every day. Does not have to be one sitting
Week 6: Eat 4 servings of fruit every day
Week 7: Eat 5 small meals every day
Week 8: Run/walk at least a half marathon (on top of the 5 days
of exercise). Does not have to be completed in one day, but needs to
total 13.1 miles)
I modified it a little bit, replacing the Scripture ready with "Cross One Thing Off My To Do List". While I like the Scripture reading aspect, the devotional I ordered won't be here for a few days and I didn't want to just give myself zeros, I wouldn't be able to stand it. So I think I'll incorporate that later, maybe as a Weekly Challenge for the 9th week. I also had to switch up some of the Weekly Challenges to fit with my upcoming travel schedule; it would've been way too hard to eat 5 servings of veggies daily while traveling/staying at a hotel.
But so far, after Day 1, I have five points out of a total of six (I didn't get anything crossed off my To Do list today, but I still have a little time...). I know it's not particularly exciting to read about my exercise and diet habits, but I definitely need the blog to keep me accountable/motivated.
I promise to try to blog about more fun/interesting things along the way!!
Wish me luck!
