61 Day Challenge Week 1 - Thorns and Roses - JP Fitness Forums

James Newman · 05-31-2007, 07:28 PM

Well everyone, the day has arrive (in some parts of the world) our fellow 61DC'ers have begun their quest to reach their goals. In an effort to best support our friends in this Challenge, I will be starting a weekly thread where each day, week, whenever participants can summarize their Thorns (things that were not so positive that occured or things they need to work on need help with) and their Roses (what's going great in their lives and the Challenge). We will still use logs/journals for atta-boys and atta-girls but every now and then when you feel it is appropriate you can comment to someone else here. By now everyone should have their log in their sig (if you need help let me know). You will still need to post into your logs as many of us will be checking those too but less face it with nearly 50 participants, 1 weekly log with the "meat" is where we want to look. Checking in here and giving is a Cliff-Notes version of how things are going will link us to your log via your sig if we want to add anything.

Also, I will be starting a thread that is good or fun quotes from logs/posts during the challenge. Have fun with this. It will be fun to reflect on later. We are going to have some good times together.

Good luck with your goals.

1 Week Check in is here......in this thread....

Also, this thread will be open for the entire week. I quickly discovered that with the Globalization of the 61 Day Challenge with people all over the world, it would be hard to count up the start and end of the week, etc. I am not going to be a miser with your check-ins guys. I am confident that you'll be getting them done... and it is one less (but very important thing) that I need to look at....

Newman

Victoria · 05-31-2007, 07:35 PM

Newman, just for clarification, is this where the check-in window is from Monday to Tuesday 2359 hrs?

James Newman · 05-31-2007, 07:42 PM

Yes.. you'll check in here or a similarly named post. For instance Week 2, Week 3, etc as we go a long. Post how things are going and such...... but you'll want to keep updating your logs because that is where a lot of important information will be found. Consider Thorns and Roses and the Cliff Notes version of your log for the week or whenever you need to vent.

One thing I want to mention. Notice that I said Thorns AND Roses. The order is important for a reason. You should talk about things that were not as you wanted, etc and also about things that were good. Make sense?

Newman

Lost Dog · 06-01-2007, 05:41 AM

It has begun.

I've got no thorn at the moment, but I did wake up excited to start things off right. My FINAL quest for the abs is here. If I can't get to 6 in 61 days... Well, come on, there's only two missing. I can do this.

Hopefully, the motivation will do us all a world of good. It was a good feeling to wake up to the Challenge. That's my rose.

Ogedei · 06-01-2007, 05:54 AM

So it has.

At times it will be easy. At times it will be hard, it is these times that will make it a challenge. It is these times that make it worth doing. Overcome the challenges and look back on your accomplishments with pride. Even if you don't "win", reaching our own personal goals is a great victory in and of itself.

I hope we are all ready for the challenge. I know I am.

GG300 · 06-01-2007, 06:40 AM

It's On and my official starting weight as of this mornings weigh in was 216#. I also have my first scheduled resistence session and my girlfriend has already offered her support by telling me that I should relax my workout goals as I have more important things going on im my life right now. Well not everything can start on a positive note. She tolerates my workouts but does not really take the whole thing as serious as I do. Good Luck All

Victoria · 06-01-2007, 07:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ogedei

Even if you don't "win", reaching our own personal goals is a great victory in and of itself.

This is what it's all about for me! And, I'm counting on you all to help me stay on track!!! I'll be nudging everyone to meet your goals as well. Away we go!

SpacecityPaula · 06-01-2007, 08:08 AM

The thorn this morning - walking out of the house without my oatmeal. But that's my own fault for not sticking it with the rest of my food.
So I did buy oatmeal this morning at the place in the basement where I work.

Last night I decided to see how many girly pushups I could crank out in 2 minutes - 26 girly pushups. I died the first time after 17. Cranked out another 5 and then cranked out 4 more.

Weighed this morning since its the start of the challenge. Officially back down to 254.2 after climbing up to 257.2. Some of that might have been bloat but some of that was not cranking down on my diet hard enough and grabbing stuff on the run. Soooo no eating out is definitely in the plan for me.

vanessa40 · 06-01-2007, 08:24 AM

Hi Everyone,
I'm ready to roll....
Lets see...today's thorn...well first of all being blonde i still don't understand the whole points thing but i'll keep going anyway..please don't judge me to hard...math was not what i majored in...lol..and i'm up a half pound...but today's a new day so i'm ready to improve

joshuaseu · 06-01-2007, 09:07 AM

checking in, good day so far, started with what i thought was a good breakfast, got in a nice bike ride, and i have the day off work. bonus!

and i got my log in my sig now. and paula, i lived in iowa falls while in college, and my wife lived their her whole life, her family is still there. nice little town.

SpacecityPaula · 06-01-2007, 09:34 AM

AAAH Good old ECC

UConnJulie · 06-01-2007, 09:58 AM

Good morning (errr ... afternoon) all! Off to a good start ... slept 9 hours last night albeit interrupted (hubby was snoring to beat the band, so I got into bed with my 3 year old ... who sleeps like I don't even know what!! Got up after a few hours there and went back with hubby ... you know it's bad when you can hear him through the earplugs ... and he's already sleeping on his side!!

). But it's going to be a great day ... I just went grocery shopping so the 'fridge is full of great eats ... I am going to have something when I'm done on here then go workout (!

) since I didn't get up this morning due to the sleep issues. But my parents have the kids for a few more hours, so I have plenty of time to get it done ... got my siggie all updated and my tracker uploaded to Google (thanks again Og for the tutorial!) ...

Whooooo hoooooo!!!! Off and running ... oh yea, and speaking of running ... I am signed up for the Solstice Sprint 5K on June 20th ... I'll have the kids in the jogger so my times won't be great ... I might even walk a good part of it ... but I'll be there doing it!!

Bill2380 · 06-01-2007, 10:17 AM

I ignored the oatmeal-raisin cookies calling my name when I picked up my diet Dr Pepper this morning.

GG300 · 06-01-2007, 11:47 AM

Be careful of those cookies. I took a look at the nutrition label on a so called healthy vegan cookie they had at my coffee stand and for a 2 serving cookie it would have been 440 calories. That had more calories than my entire breakfast. Plus who ever heard of a two serving cookie.

BamaDave · 06-01-2007, 01:22 PM

Yeah, you have to watch that "healthy" vegan stuff. A lot of it is loaded with vegan versions of crap.

Aoife · 06-01-2007, 02:36 PM

You misunderstand... unless it read "healthy." There's nothing inherently healthy about vegan food. Vegan = no animal products... so instead of a 70 calorie egg it's 100 calories of applesauce ... instead of butter it's oil or (sometimes) shortening...

Organic, natural, vegan... nothing specificly about any of that is what we'd consider necesarily clean and healthy. It's just greener than the ones from the keebler elves.

One nice thing... rarely will you find HFCS... so if you DO want to indulge... it's a nice way to without anything worse than simple cane sugar.

Whole foods has some awesome whole wheat cookies....