OFFICIAL WOMEN'S CHALLENGE: Weekly Whatever Thread ... week 13/26
Halfway there ladies ... can you believe it?!
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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!!
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Last edited by UConnJulie : 03-30-2008 at 08:18 PM.
Reason: Cuz I can't read my calendar!
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!!
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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.
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!
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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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.
Hi gals! Just dropped in to say good job! I can't wait to see your progress pics! You girls are doing so well. Keep it up and heads will be turning soon!
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I definitely like to buy myself new workout clothes, it's a weakness. I don't really set it up as "when I reach such and such, I can buy a new outfit". I just chalk up any new clothes to the fact that I am working really hard in the gym and comfort is important when doing so.
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"The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start." ~ John Bingham
I buy what I want when I want because I can, not because I did something to deserve it. (Unless you call climbing the corporate ladder something I did to deserve my lifestyle.) Over the years coming from fairly extreme poverty to my current status I have learned well that things do not really make me happy at all. My lifestyle is quite simple compared to my peers and my wants are very small.
Experiences are what make me happy. Spending quality time with loved ones, spending quality time learning something new (like guitar or lifting) and spending quality time making this world a better place.
Taking care of my body is its own reward. The health that I feel and the confidence cannot be beat. Yesterday I did a major presentation in a room full of people and I know that I looked HOT. My jeans fit well and my pecs and shoulders (showing nicely from the top I wore) showed a very strong and confident woman on the outside and that transferred to my inside.
My reward is presented to me in the hotel rooms when I look in the mirror. In the gym I look in the mirror and I almost do not recognize the woman looking back. She is strong and amazing to my eyes. Lately I have been allowing myself to pause and take time and reflect on the work that I am doing. It is awesome.
Experiences are what make me happy. Spending quality time with loved ones, spending quality time learning something new (like guitar or lifting) and spending quality time making this world a better place.
Taking care of my body is its own reward. The health that I feel and the confidence cannot be beat. Yesterday I did a major presentation in a room full of people and I know that I looked HOT. My jeans fit well and my pecs and shoulders (showing nicely from the top I wore) showed a very strong and confident woman on the outside and that transferred to my inside.
My reward is presented to me in the hotel rooms when I look in the mirror. In the gym I look in the mirror and I almost do not recognize the woman looking back. She is strong and amazing to my eyes. Lately I have been allowing myself to pause and take time and reflect on the work that I am doing. It is awesome.
LOL!! Funny you should mention that. The other weekend I went to my first body building show. It happened to be on a Sat morning just before my guitar lesson. So I went into the event with a guitar. One of the camera people asked me what I had on my back so I told him it was a guitar and then told him I had conflicting hobbies. Everything happening at the same time. I then came up with lifting guitars and did a few curls with it.
K - I love your confidence and happiness with your "new" body! It's really inspiring! I have a blue dress I used to adore that's too small for me now - when I can fit into it again I'm going to buy some fabulous Christian Louboutin heels to go with it and go to a ballet at the Royal Opera House, where I shall pose at the bar with a glass of champagne and admire myself in the mirrors! LOL!
My reward will be my next western fire trip Last one I went on just cardio for prep and boy was my ass a draggin'. I'm still crazy enough to have enjoyed it though, but this time I'll have more fun and less physical struggle with the 16 hour days and the elevation and the mountain climbing. It was great to go on a crew of twenty people and be a noob at 41. Now I'll be the non-noob at 42 and not gasping for breath swinging that pulaski all day. Woot!
I buy what I want when I want because I can, not because I did something to deserve it. (Unless you call climbing the corporate ladder something I did to deserve my lifestyle.) Over the years coming from fairly extreme poverty to my current status I have learned well that things do not really make me happy at all. My lifestyle is quite simple compared to my peers and my wants are very small.
Experiences are what make me happy. Spending quality time with loved ones, spending quality time learning something new (like guitar or lifting) and spending quality time making this world a better place.
Taking care of my body is its own reward. The health that I feel and the confidence cannot be beat. Yesterday I did a major presentation in a room full of people and I know that I looked HOT. My jeans fit well and my pecs and shoulders (showing nicely from the top I wore) showed a very strong and confident woman on the outside and that transferred to my inside.
My reward is presented to me in the hotel rooms when I look in the mirror. In the gym I look in the mirror and I almost do not recognize the woman looking back. She is strong and amazing to my eyes. Lately I have been allowing myself to pause and take time and reflect on the work that I am doing. It is awesome.
Hey all, I have to officially step out of this challenge. My chiropractor sent me for an MRI, and I have pretty bad degenerative disc disease, protrusions.stenosis, a swollen thyroid and more crap in my neck (C3-6 all messed up.) Next week I go see a spine specialist and start all of whatever I have to do. In the last 2 weeks the pain has become extreme, my body doesn't work. No lifting (who knows when, if ever) and no exercise or nothing for now, just lots of ice and rest.
AnnetteW--I am so sorry about everything you are dealing with and I wish you the very best. I have enjoyed reading your posts and your perspectives. Best of luck with your healing. Take care of yourself!
Jen
OFFICIAL WOMEN'S CHALLENGE: Weekly Whatever Thread ... week 13/26
"I'm growing older but not up. My metabolic rate is pleasantly stuck. So let the winds of change blow over my head. I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead."
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