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i volunteer at my church to do various things, occasionally, well, can i set a goal to volunteer 3 hours a week for 6 of the 9 weeks of the 61 days?
It should be a more fitness related goal. If you're looking for more charitable one, something like the MS Walk or Walk for Life, maybe. Various walks or runs to raise money for good causes.
It doesn't have to be charity related, though. Many communities have fun runs, 5k, 10k, etc. around the holidays. Maybe something around Independence Day in your area.
question: Monday check-ins - will there be a separate thread for checkiing in so it is all centralized and easy to find in one place? I like tracking in my own log - but visiting all those logs to see tracking/progress/atta-boys seems onerous -
I personally think a thread like that would be awesome.
__________________ 2009: No races, No times. Slow year. So, now you're 96 cals short. You're now in starvation mode. Doomed. - LostDog
Blog entry: November 1, 2009, Pancakes LiveSTRONG daily plate log
__________________ It all starts with the mind, but the thoughts, the intention aren't enough. Action needs to come next. Dream it, believe it, plan it, execute it, celebrate it. - Wendy
It's on a Saturday so I hope that's not a big problem for you. I think just about all these events are on weekends.
__________________ The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same. -- Carlos Castaneda
It's on a Saturday so I hope that's not a big problem for you. I think just about all these events are on weekends.
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Maybe I could get a morning off. That's the weekend after Omaha, so if I bust my butt up there I could maybe have enough brownie points to get the day off.
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Hmmm... you shouldn't need the whole day off, maybe just an hour or two in the morning (I'm not sure what time you start). The one-mile walk shouldn't take more than 15-20 minutes, maybe a half hour if we're trapped in a pack of stroller moms.
Maybe we can put together a JPF substitute event that fits your schedule? I'm game for anything.
__________________ The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same. -- Carlos Castaneda
Hmmm... you shouldn't need the whole day off, maybe just an hour or two in the morning (I'm not sure what time you start). The one-mile walk shouldn't take more than 15-20 minutes, maybe a half hour if we're trapped in a pack of stroller moms.
Maybe we can put together a JPF substitute event that fits your schedule? I'm game for anything.
I'd be running! (but again... it wouldn't take that long.)
I start at 6:45ish. (supposed to be 6:30 but that's when I leave my house. I refuse to get up before 6.)
Of course, I'm done with work August 1, but that's when the challenge is over so that's not going to work. I need to browse for a couple other options.
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Quoth David Banner: "Like a pimp"
It's not a beer belly. It's a gas tank for a sax machine.
Is there a guideline/standard for how to count your half-days of nutrition as compliant or non-compliant?? For example, I've been compliant so far today with my diet, except that I had fried green tomatoes as part of my lunch (mmmmmm !!!! ). So that majority of my diet for the first half of Friday has been compliant, but it wasn't completely compliant. Truthfully, that's how my diet usually works. I'm probably 90% compliant as a rule, but in any given half-day period, I might have SOMETHING non-compliant. I don't have that many days where I go bezerko and eat crap for a whole day or even a half day.
So when I have something marginal or bad for me, do I count the whole half-day as a bust? Can we score ourselves with partial points during a half-day?? Just curious how others expect to handle this situation. I imagine it's pretty common.
If I eat something non-compliant, I'm down that point for that half day.
However, I do allow myself something like a kiss a day, just because it's easier than total restriction, and I don't ususally have it anyway, but one isn't "bad" because 25 calories of non-compliance or non-clean food isn't gonna hurt me. But, if I have 4-6 meals in a day, if one of them is non-compliant, I lose a point.
the cutoff is a personal thing, I think. Obviously people have different standards as what is "clean" or "acceptable" or whatever... so... *shrug*
Make your rules. If you don't comply with them, pay the consequence. Or don't... we'd never know.
Is there a guideline/standard for how to count your half-days of nutrition as compliant or non-compliant?? For example, I've been compliant so far today with my diet, except that I had fried green tomatoes as part of my lunch (mmmmmm !!!! ). So that majority of my diet for the first half of Friday has been compliant, but it wasn't completely compliant. Truthfully, that's how my diet usually works. I'm probably 90% compliant as a rule, but in any given half-day period, I might have SOMETHING non-compliant. I don't have that many days where I go bezerko and eat crap for a whole day or even a half day.
So when I have something marginal or bad for me, do I count the whole half-day as a bust? Can we score ourselves with partial points during a half-day?? Just curious how others expect to handle this situation. I imagine it's pretty common.
If your nutrition plan is to keep 90% compliant, than 1 meal with that sort of foods is actually part of your plan, right? So you done good.
If you tossed in a banana split there at the end, you lost a point.
On Sunday, I have a day with plenty of carbs planned. Part of the overall plan. It's every Sunday. So I'll be good for both points. Unless I have a banana split, which isn't in my plan.
If I was doing the 7 Habits and eating 42 meals a week, I could go off plan 4 times in the week and still have all my 61 Day Challenge points for the week. A fifth time or a banana split, and I lose points.
Since it's not someting I eat...what about fried green tomatoes is bad?
__________________ 2009: No races, No times. Slow year. So, now you're 96 cals short. You're now in starvation mode. Doomed. - LostDog
Blog entry: November 1, 2009, Pancakes LiveSTRONG daily plate log
__________________ It all starts with the mind, but the thoughts, the intention aren't enough. Action needs to come next. Dream it, believe it, plan it, execute it, celebrate it. - Wendy
"A housewife who is unhappy with her life befriends an old lady in a nursing home and is enthralled by the tales she tells of people she used to know."
"A housewife who is unhappy with her life befriends an old lady in a nursing home and is enthralled by the tales she tells of people she used to know."
Maybe fried in a little butter? In the end we all have to decide what fits into our own plans.
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__________________ 2009: No races, No times. Slow year. So, now you're 96 cals short. You're now in starvation mode. Doomed. - LostDog
Blog entry: November 1, 2009, Pancakes LiveSTRONG daily plate log
"A housewife who is unhappy with her life befriends an old lady in a nursing home and is enthralled by the tales she tells of people she used to know."
Maybe fried in a little butter? In the end we all have to decide what fits into our own plans.
Og.
They are coated in either milk or eggs plus seasoned corn meal and then fried in SOMETHIN'... The somethin' is the unknown part that is probably bad. But I can assure you that they are not sauteed in olive oil or butter. They are fried in some liquid vegetable oil at best and possibly vegetable shortening. The guy who runs the restaurant is an avid cyclist, but that doesn't mean he's not clogging everyone else's arteries around here!
Community event -- can I count volunteering to be a team manager for my kids' tennis league? 3x a week I'll be doing warm ups with them and helping the coaches with drills, games, scorekeeping, matches, etc. I mean, I'd take the entire season (8weeks?) as 1 event. Just wondering since I'm committed to doing it anyway. (and I will have a tshirt to show for it!)
If your nutrition plan is to keep 90% compliant, than 1 meal with that sort of foods is actually part of your plan, right? So you done good.
Ah, okay. I thought 90% compliancy meant that 90% of my blocks were compliant... but each block itself can be 90% compliant. Kewl. Bring on the small servings of cookies!
Just to clarify; My plan calls for two cheat meals a week so if I do not exceed those, every day would be compliant or would the 1/2 days including the cheat meal be noncompliant?
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I would say if you eat 2 cheat meals a week then you would have a count of 12 cleans to 2 bad.
If you eat clean for a 1/2 day count it as such. if you eat poorly, don't count it.
__________________ 2009: No races, No times. Slow year. So, now you're 96 cals short. You're now in starvation mode. Doomed. - LostDog
Blog entry: November 1, 2009, Pancakes LiveSTRONG daily plate log
Is it in poor taste for us to try to derail the competition in this challenge??
I personally don't think it helps anyone involved to try and derail each other. Makes more sense to help each other. Unless you are scared we will do better than you otherwise....
__________________ 2009: No races, No times. Slow year. So, now you're 96 cals short. You're now in starvation mode. Doomed. - LostDog
Blog entry: November 1, 2009, Pancakes LiveSTRONG daily plate log
). So that majority of my diet for the first half of Friday has been compliant, but it wasn't completely compliant. Truthfully, that's how my diet usually works. I'm probably 90% compliant as a rule, but in any given half-day period, I might have SOMETHING non-compliant. I don't have that many days where I go bezerko and eat crap for a whole day or even a half day.
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