OFFICIAL WOMEN'S CHALLENGE: Weekly Whatever Thread ... week 13/26 - JP Fitness Forums

UConnJulie · 03-25-2008, 08:11 AM

Halfway there ladies ... can you believe it?!

REMINDER: Pictures are due in one week, on Monday, April 7th. Please PM me if you have an issue and can't meet the deadline.

This week's question: How do you reward yourself ... for staying on target, for completing workouts, for whatever? Has this changed at all since starting NROL4W? (ie maybe it used to be a food-reward and now it's a mani/pedi)

This is a repost of a doubled thread from last week ... since Paula beat me to it!!

missjane · 03-25-2008, 08:48 AM

Hey, Julie, next monday is March 31st! Please don't make us go early!

My reward lately has been clothes because a lot of my stuff is getting too big, so that's a good thing!

UConnJulie · 03-25-2008, 09:26 AM

Thanks Jane! My calendar is all goofy this month with the way the extra two days are crammed in at the bottom ... and I'm not up to snuff (obviously) mentally since I'm a bit fuzzy .... sigh. Thanks for the catch!!

UConnJulie · 03-30-2008, 07:19 PM

BumPity BUMP!

This is now THIS week's thread ...

missjane · 03-31-2008, 04:02 AM

Can you believe this is our 13th week, Julie!! Over halfway thru. Wonder if we'll still have at least half of us with 3-month pics..I hope so!

Natalia · 03-31-2008, 08:38 AM

I'll be ready with the pix.

Reward?...hmmm. One of the main reasons I train and diet the way I do so that I can enjoy my time and meals with friends and family at the end of the week. I am a pain to 'social butterfies' the rest of the time.

I find that I don't really need any 'rewards' to stay focused. Even all my 'cheat meals' and stuff are planned ahead. My reward is what I accomplish at the end of a set goal. I figure it's part of my upbringing. Some of my friends in middle school got paid by their parents for doing their dishes....I was taught to view it as my responsibility. Now, keeping myself fit and in shape is my responsibility for my family's sake.

Everything else is an icing on the cake.

dillytl · 03-31-2008, 09:10 AM

I'm still working on getting over the food rewards (the "I've worked my butt off all week and I've earned it" mentality) and am really focusing on other things like a hot stone spa pedicure, a massage, some new workout gear - stuff like that.

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I find that I don't really need any 'rewards' to stay focused. Even all my 'cheat meals' and stuff are planned ahead. My reward is what I accomplish at the end of a set goal.

THIS is the attitude I need to adopt !!! I wanna be like Natalia!

LadyNoir · 03-31-2008, 11:06 AM

I used to reward myself with cheat meal all time..too much in fact. I knew it was a problem when my rewards were every day.

I gave up looking at cheat meals as rewards. I try to just eat well now and plan for eating out/ social meals. Somehow that got me less focused on food and that works for me.

ToniL · 03-31-2008, 12:34 PM

Ha, this month it is new underwear! Sexy new underwear! (okay okay no thongs) I splurged on a silk Felini set. Whoo hoooo. Next month I have my eye on some summer nightgowns. Like the rest of you I am trying to not see food as a reward -- that's how I got fat in the first place. My mom taking me to the day old bakery and letting me buy bags of donuts and pastries . . . when I got good grades. Sheesh, I will never make that mistake with my boy. He just gets a swift kick in the arse for everything :-0

Toni

Bluefever · 03-31-2008, 01:07 PM

This month it was ordering chinese, renting a movie and drinking a bottle of wine with my husband.

The end reward will be a hot pair of jeans and a new bikini _so I can get rid of my mommy tankini!

Once I have the body I want I will be jetting off to Mexico in November and then getting pregnant again...so I can start this journay all over again next year! LOL

Natalia · 03-31-2008, 03:06 PM

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and then getting pregnant again...so I can start this journay all over again next year! LOL

yeah, but this time around you won't believe those ppl who say 'Honey, you are eating for two. Go ahead!'

Bluefever · 03-31-2008, 08:48 PM

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yeah, but this time around you won't believe those ppl who say 'Honey, you are eating for two. Go ahead!'

I hear ya! The next pregnancy is gonna be sooo different!

orangechic · 04-01-2008, 09:32 AM

My rewards is going to a be a really nice pair of jeans that fit me perfectly at the the end of this- I am really looking forward to that.

My small rewards have been buying new music on itunes, buying new workout clothes and just the feeling of how great I feel after I workout. I always have so much energy and am in a much better mood that day.

LoriAnne · 04-01-2008, 01:24 PM

Wow, great question! I can agree with everyone who has posted thus far, especially Lady Noir's comment about how not focusing on a cheat meal has lessened the pressures of eating.
For me, rewards are new music from itunes, killer workout gear, and shoes! I'm trying to be a good girl and not go too crazy with clothing purchases, but shoes are still my weakness. Now I can finally wear the skinny heels and not look like I'm drilling for oil.

SpacecityPaula · 04-01-2008, 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by missjane

Can you believe this is our 13th week, Julie!! Over halfway thru. Wonder if we'll still have at least half of us with 3-month pics..I hope so!

I think at this point, I'm going to gracefully bow out of the challenge.... I've spent more time feeling like crap than I have feeling good and it's to the point that when I get back from Colorado Springs, I'm going to the doctor and getting everything checked.

LisaS · 04-01-2008, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by UConnJulie

This week's question: How do you reward yourself ... for staying on target, for completing workouts, for whatever? Has this changed at all since starting NROL4W? (ie maybe it used to be a food-reward and now it's a mani/pedi)

I've been thinking about this for awhile.

I don't operate on a system of external rewards. Never have. Never did as a kid either. If we needed something, we got it. Otherwise, it was a gift at birthday or whatever. If we had our own money, we generally just saved it because there wasn't anything actually needed that wasn't provided. Same as an adult. I never grew up mentally with a "complete this and you'll receive that" incentivised system.

Does that make me weird? Probably. I sure don't relate to a system of external carrots to stay to a plan or complete a set of tasks.