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Personal Accountability

August 8, 2008 By 1 Comment

Happy Friday! It’s time for your fit and healthy Friday tip.

Today’s Tip: Personal Accountability

It’s very important that you stay accountable to others. “Why is accountability important?” you ask. I truly believe that you will feel the need to keep following your plan because your accountability partners will expect you to check in regularly.

Here are a few things you can do for personal accountability

  • Join online or local weight loss groups
  • Starting a blog is something many people are doing to keep track of their progress to help them selves be accountable
  • Find people who are willing to support you and be a positive influence. Encouragement from friends and family is necessary

Your family is an important piece of the puzzle. Be sure to inform family members about your weight loss goals.

My personal accountability partners are my hubby, parent’s and both online and off line friends.

Do you have accountability partners?

 
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Weekly Weigh In: August 6

August 6, 2008 By Leave a Comment

No change this week.

My current weight 192

Goal weight 135-140

Pounds left to go 50+

Feel free to weigh in and stay accountable too. Wishing you a successful week!

 
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Goal Call Monday: August 4

August 4, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Goals for this week:

I will go to Turbo Kick class 3 times this week
I will go to Spin class 2 times this week
I will sit on the stability ball for at least 15 min. a day
I will do 50 stability ball crunches a day

Above are the same as last week and I’m going to keep at it but I have added one more

Use the Ab Coaster every time I go to the gym (at least 50 reps)

This is a new piece of equipment they added and I absolutely love it. I think I now know what I want for Christmas.

Don’t forget to go over to Cindy’s Goal Call Monday post and leave a comment with your personal weight loss/fitness goals. Then come back here and let me know you posted so I can be sure to check out your goals over there.

Have a great week!

 
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My Workouts for the Week of 7/28-8/3 2008

August 3, 2008 By 1 Comment

Monday-

10 min. Elliptical
50 min. Turbo Kick class
50 stability ball crunches
15 min. sitting on stability ball

Tuesday-

10 min. Elliptical
50 min. Turbo Kick class
50 stability ball crunches
30 min. sitting on stability ball

Wednesday-

10 min. Elliptical
50 min. Turbo Kick class
50 stability ball crunches
20 min. sitting on stability ball

Thursday-

Day Off

30 min. sitting on stability ball

Friday-

25 stability ball crunches
27 min. sitting on stability ball

Saturday-

60 min. Spin class
Ab Coaster- 50 reps
Other (don’t know the name of this piece of equipment)-10 reps
50 stability ball crunches
30 min. sitting on stability ball

Sunday-

50 min. Spin class
Ab Coaster- 50 reps
Other- 10 reps
50 stability ball crunches
20 min. sitting on stability ball

Feeling much better this week as you can probably tell.  I did meet my goals for the this week so I’m pretty happy about that.

How did your week go?

 
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Stay Hydrated

August 1, 2008 By 2 Comments

Happy Friday! It’s time for your fit and healthy Friday tip.

Today’s Tip: Stay Hydrated

It’s very important to stay hydrated at all times especially during exercise. Drink water before, during and after any type of exercise. Water helps your body maintain a normal temperature and helps you to have a better workout.

I drink water throughout the day, every day but I make sure to focus on drinking a few cups of water about an hour before I workout and then more right before I workout and of course several more cups during and after my workouts. I keep a water bottle by my side all day long.

Some of you may be saying that you just can’t stand the taste of water, so I challenge you to keep trying. Add a squeeze of lemon or an orange slice to it and see if that makes a difference for you. It took me a while to drink water on a consistent basis (I was a heavy soda drinker for so many years) but once I made the commitment to do it, I found that I felt really good. I haven’t touched a soda in over 3 years.

Do you stay well hydrated? Will you challenge yourself to drink more water starting today?

 
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