Your fitness challenge(s) for the week: week five on the squat challenge and week three situp challenge and week three on c25k.
Your food challenge for the week: eating out.
How well did it go: I ate out once, Will offered to take me our for lunch and shopping for new running shoes. Who would turn that down? I ate Vegetarian Soba. I packed my lunch for work. I need to drink more water! I took my free day on thursday instead of today but I got in all 6 workouts. I had to run on the treadmill all week due to rain. (It didn't rain on tuesday so I went for a 15 mile bike ride.) Today I also ran outside. It seems so much harder than running on the treadmill but I feel so much better when I'm done. I accidentally slipped to the harder level of the crunch challenge but I did it. I am going to try to maintain the harder level this week as I progress to week 4.
That's right I completed my 200 squats with 5 pound weights!
That's right I completed my 200 squats with 5 pound weights!
Failures and slip-ups: I had a good week...feeling much better though I"m still trying to clear up the end of my cold.
Weekly challenge wisdom: I am working on menu planning. It is so much easier to bypass eating out if you have a plan. I struggle planning because we only eat a few meals as a family each week. The kids eat lunch at school and Will works evenings so I struggle planning for just the kids and I.
Advice to fellow GET FIT members: I like this article on 31 days to a Healthier diet http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/motivation_articles.asp?id=780 I'm not dieting, I'm not trying to lose weight but I am trying to eat healthier and I like this resource.
Goals this week:
C25K: Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then:
- Jog 1/4 mile (or 3 minutes)
- Walk 1/8 mile (or 90 seconds)
- Jog 1/2 mile (or 5 minutes)
- Walk 1/4 mile (or 2-1/2 minutes)
- Jog 1/4 mile (or 3 minutes)
- Walk 1/8 mile (or 90 seconds)
- Jog 1/2 mile (or 5 minutes)
http://www.twohundredsitups.com/week4.html
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| I love my new "trail" running shoes! |
congrats on the 200 squats!!!!!! That's total booty and thigh right therrrreeeee! You're gonna look so bomb!!! Keep up the GREAT work!
ReplyDeleteYou are so awesome, Erin! You are really kicking butt on this challenege and keep me motivated :) Your new shoes are super cute! Menu planning really is so great, what about making up the meals and then protioning them out into tupperware? That is what I do for Matt's lunches, and you could do that for any meals you guys won't be together. Make sure to share any great new healthy recipes you find! ;-)
ReplyDeletep.s. printed that healthy eating calendar to hang on the fridge ;-)
ReplyDeleteYou know it's really a great goal to stop going out! It's tough cooking meal at home, but it's so worth it! I don't do meal planning, but just usually open the fridge as make something up out of the ingridients I have. Works too!
ReplyDeleteOh and I loved the link to the article! I agreed with pretty much every point. Great resource!