Sister Challenge III (or, Deux Re-Deux)

Sister Challenge III began on 11/1/08 and runs until the end of the year. New, simplified goals for the holiday season:

1 - daily journaling
2 - Exercise 4x/week
3 - weekly weigh-in

Sister Challenge, Part Deux

Labor Day to Halloween - my goals:

- journal daily
- eat consciously
- make an attempt to eat dinner at the table
- exercise 3x/week
- more yoga

The first week I was -2, which made up for the short-term post-vacation flop/back to work gain. I ended up with 4/6 total points. Onward to more progress and crossing the double digit barrier!

Sister Challenge, Week 5

Journal daily - Y +1
Exercise 3/week -Y +1
No alcohol - Y +1
More yoga - Y +1
Eat consciously - N (had a couple of bad days)
Weight - surprise -1.5 +1
Total: +5
Running total +24

Tropical Fruit Salsa

Slightly modified from SMCHESLOCK's recipe:

1/4 vidalia onion
1/2 mango
1 kiwi
1/2 orange
juice of 1/2 fresh lime
handful chopped cilantro
sprinkle of cumin
pinch of ginger
pinch of salt

I served it over a grilled chicken breast that I sliced into strips. YUM!

Oh, sister challenge week four was terrific--I got ALL SIX points and lost another pound. I worked out every day for nine days in a row, and I have to say I crashed the next weekend. But I'm back on track and having a pretty good week five.

Taped!

I finally say my chiro and my painful achilles (did I mention I hurt my achilles being stupid 12 days ago) is still in the "acute inflammation" stage. No running for an indefinite period of time. Not even wogging or walking. And I'm taped, for extra support (and it really helps) just like a real jock. Somehow that makes it all worthwhile (sad, I know).

Meanwhile, Week 3 of the Sister Challenge went well. I made 5 of 6 possible points and lost 2 pounds.

On to Week 4!

Sister Challenge Week 2 Results

Journal daily - N - I missed 1.5 days - 0
Exercise 3x/week - Y - 1
Eat consciously - N - see point1, above - 0
Do more yoga - Y -1
No alcohol - Y - 1
Weight (+0.5 = hold) - 0

3/6 points. I can do better.

Finished the 1st week of Sister Challenge!

5/6 for points, which is perfectly fine.

Journaled daily
Ate consciously
Exercised 3x/week (did 5)
No sugar -- had a sno-cone and 1/2 a bran muffin. Thinking about switching this one out for Do more yoga. As long as I stay within my points and keep sugar limited, I'll be fine.
Drank no alcohol. I'm enjoying my diet tonic and tonic w/ lime instead. Sunday at the ball game I may try and find no-alcohol beer. I'm sure they sell it, and a game isn't a game without some yeasty, malty beverage!
Weight loss, down 2.0.

Overall I'm down 2.5 for the summer. Of course I wish it was more, but I've got 2+ more months before fall, and the scale and my motivation are heading in the right direction!

Happy Fourth of July!

Coming next to a blog near you --the Sister Challenge! That would be me and mine. We're each tracking some healthy goals between now and Labor Day, plus committing to weighing-in once a week. Each week we report to the other our "points" for the week (1 point per goal, plus 1 if weight lost, -1 if weight gained, 0 points for maintenance (+/- 0.5 lbs). Whoever has the higher point total on the Friday before Labor Day buys the other a massage. My goals for this first phase:

- eat consciously

- journal daily

- exercise 3x/week

- no alcohol

- no sugar (definition in progress, but no additional sugars, no sugary foods. Fruit is fine, muffins are not).

I'm still working towards fitting back into those Long & Leans, and hope to be fit enough to do my 3rd (or is it 4th) Tufts 10K in October -- either walk or run. I just want to be able to finish comfortably, and ahead of my Hyannis February time.

Friday is reconciliation day, and I did well over the weekend.