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Progress

New Month’s Resolutions February

January 31, 2010

Tweet I’m still liking the monthly resolutions, and this month I will mostly be reinforcing the ones I have picked up but I do plan to add one or two new ones. I hope that these things that I add monthly will add up to lots of changes over the year, taken in smaller more […]

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The Weekly Round up 1/23-1/30

January 30, 2010

Tweet I got in 7 workouts this week, completed week four of couch to 5k (including running 10 minutes straight) and got in one strength training session.  I also got up and walked 5 minutes of every hour I was in front of the computer or watching TV, it really started to add up to […]

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Loose Jeans, January 29th Food and Exercise Journal

January 29, 2010

Tweet Ate 21.5 of 25 points. Earned 3 activity points. Breakfast(5) –overnight oats, thick cut oats (2.5), non fat greek yogurt (1), milk (1), 1/2 tbsp peanut butter, 1/2 banana (the dogs love when they get the other half of the banana) Lunch (5)–Cheese and Beer soup (5) Dinner (9)–Leftover Indian, aloo gobi (2), Brown […]

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The Weekly Round-up 1/16-1/22

January 23, 2010

Tweet I got in 7 workouts this week, completed week three of couch to 5k and got in two strength training sessions.  I also got up and walked 5 minutes of every hour I was in front of the computer or watching TV, it really started to add up to some serious time and I […]

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Registered for 3 5k events

January 20, 2010

Tweet So I did it, I registered for not one but THREE 5k events over the next few months. Fitness for Vitality is doing one 5k on the last Sunday of January, February and March and I registered for all three.  One of my goals for this year is to run (not walk portions) a […]

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The Weekly Round-up 1/9-1/15

January 16, 2010

Tweet I got in 7 workouts this week, completed week two of couch to 5k and got in two strength training sessions.  I also got up and walked 5 minutes of every hour I was in front of the computer or watching TV on Friday.  It added up to a decent chunk of time. Summary […]

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The Importance of Planning

January 11, 2010

Tweet Planning for me is critical for success.  The first few months of WeightWatchers I planned EVERY bite that went into my mouth in advance.  I did this in part because I wasn’t familiar with points values and feared that I would go over my daily points byjust by grabbing whatever when I was hungry.  […]

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Goal Setting

July 26, 2009

Tweet Setting Goals is hard, too big and you get discouraged, too small and it doesn’t feel like a victory. So I try to put a lot of time thinking about what my goals should be. WeightWatchers celebrates every 5 pounds, that’s great continual feed back but not a big enough goal for me (for […]

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Six Months

July 10, 2009

Tweet Six months ago today I started WeightWatcher’s (for the second time). I went to the 9:30 Woodinville meeting and got a great vibe from the group, lots of chatting and high energy, which boded well. The meeting was good, the leader, Heather, was great. She had the right balance of knowledge, engagement, humour and […]

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