Doesn't your success taste almost as sweet as your favorite dessert? I mean really, do we even need the sugary concoctions when we can get such gratification from rocking this 21 day challenge? No. The answer is surely no. :) Congratulations to all of my successful challengers and congratulations to those of you who have slipped and come back. It's good to make this a daily fight if for some reason temptation gets the best of you. I KNOW everyone is going to come out the other end of this feeling clean, mean and accomplished.
As you all know last night was Violet's birthday party. A few of my friends were discussing their "trigger times" or the times of day that they feel the most temptation to binge on sweets. Here were some of the most common times of day:
Anytime between the hours of 2-5 p.m.
This is because everyone experiences a natural slump in energy during this time of day. I think we crave sweets because we want a pick me up.
The evenings between 8-bedtime.
I think this is because we are three things, tired, thirsty and sitting down. Our hands aren't moving, our minds are moving slowly and (most of us) are finally kid free.
Anytime you are thirsty.
Have you ever woken up from a nap and wanted a giant bag of gummy bears? Or been driving home from the gym only to stop at a Circle K and buy a huge freakin' slurpy instead of a giant water bottle?
After a meal.
I don't know if there is a biological reason for this or if it's because us fat Americans like a sweet dessert after a salty dinner? Whatever the reason, it is a common pitfall for many of us.
Ask yourself when and why you crave sweets. Once you have it identified, take control. Help yourself know what you really need before you sugar yourself up. I know that not all of you are warding off sweets but this can be a helpful tidbit to anyone. Or at least I hope it's helpful. Do any of you have other trigger times? Lemme know.
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the latest and greatest challenge
100 PUSHUPS
Yesterday's Initial Test:
http://hundredpushups.com/test.html
16
Kinda pathetic but at least it's not less.
This means that tomorrow I'm supposed to start with column 3 but I'm not gonna. I'm going to eaaaaase into it and start with column 2.
Day 1 of Week 1
Today was easy, mostly because I've chosen to stick with the middle column even though I did enough to qualify for the most challenging column.
I was able to bang out all of the push-ups in about 3 minutes rather than spacing them out a bunch. I also did 14 push-ups for my max out at the end. Those felt good. :)
I still feel comfortable with my choice to go easier. I think this will give me a better chance at success by keeping me from burning out on the program too quickly. How'd you do? ;)
Day 2
My second day should have landed on Sunday but I don't like working out on Sunday and I was zonked on that day. I completed day 2 late last night and it was hard.
For my last set, the max out set, I only eeked out 10. I don't know if it was because it was late or what but boy, rough go last night.
Hopefully Wednesday will be better.
PERMANENT CLASS SCHEDULE
PERMANENT CLASSES:
Zumba
Tuesday 9:30 A.M. Gold's Gym, East Club
Zumba
Wednesday 9:30 A.M. Viva Zumba
Zumba
Thursday 9:30 A.M. Gold's Gym, East club
Zumba
Thursday 11:30 A.M. Viva Zumba
Mommy Good Body Herself
- Kat Clark
- A fitness instructor looking for balance between a baking obsession and a skinny obsession. All while tending to my two hip expanding children.
24 comments:
Day 7: Success! Thank you for this post. It's always good to be reminded that when craving sweets I need to stop and ask why. For me it's mostly from hunger, thirst or habit like you said. This challenge has really helped open my eyes to 1. how much sweets I eat/crave and 2. how I can easily go without sweets if I just focus on what I am eating and provide my body with what it needs. Thanks Kat!
My worst trigger times are definitely when im bored. If i keep busy, i dont think about how good a brownie would be. If i catch myself feeling bored, ill quickly do something productive (play outside with my kids, clean, organize, whatever)
Also, whenever i try to think of something fun to do with friends or my husband, i feel like eating is ALWAYS involved. Which is fine if i watch myself and make good/healthy choices. Its been interesting this week to see how many times i want to say: lets make a treat or go out for a treat and then realize its not the best choice. Sorry this is such a long comment.
P.S. Day 7: success! 1 week down, 2 to go! woo hoo!
F balls....I did not eat candy today...and I must be honest...I wasn't even paying attention when I stuck my hand in the bowl and had a couple bites of special K delight my mom had made and it was 7:36pm! Only reason I'm ticked is cuz I WANTED IN on the drawing for those dang work out clothes....but I thought I better be honest. Can't wait for tomorrow. I still feel successful. I am going to try and cut out all sweet treats this week except for one day a week. Let's see how that goes.
Day 7: Still hanging in there. Today was fast Sunday and when I got home and started cooking dinner I was dying. But everything that entered my mouth was diet-approved including the flourless chocolate torte I made from Dr. Weil's website (it used almond butter in place of reg. butter. Sooooo good). It feels good to have a reward Sunday night but still be within my Mediterranean diet! Hooray!
Alright so went to the in-laws for dinner tonight and they had strawberry short cake for dessert and fresh baked cookies too and I totally had some of both. I have to say though I am pretty dang proud that I did not have ANY sweet treats for 6 DAYS! (I started Sunday) which is a pretty big deal for me. My point in doing this was I wanted to get out of the habit of eating sweets after meals on a daily basis. I'm fine with it once in a while so if I have dessert once a week (maby twice) like I did this week I have accomplished my goal. I plan on doing the same thing again this week. I REALLY did want to do the 21 days and at the beginning of this I was WAY determined that I would but I can't lose sight of what I really wanted to accomplish and I feel like I made a big step in the right direction :) Thanks Kat
Day 7: Success and today was the definitely the hardest. Peter's mom makes the best apple pie and that's what she served after dinner. Hardest thing to say thanks, but no thanks, but feeling awesome that I did. Go will power!
Seventh day and no sugar. I was feeling so dead after church that anything sweet sounded soo good. Two more weeks to go. I will not give in!
I'm still on the wagon. Still sore every day in different places. LOST A POUND! That's a big deal, I haven't lost a pound for like, 6 months. Of course, I didn't have to work out today and it was so nice to have a break. Wish we could have been there for Violets party!
I've been bad about checking in! Here it goes:
Day 4: Except for the scarfing of skittles in the back of your step class, today was a good day! I ordered a happy meal for Lois on Thursday and I wanted a bite of her fries so badly, but I didn't! Woo Hoo! I'm so awesome, right?
Day 5: No fried foods, no sweets, but I did eat a 1/2 piece of ww bread with peanut butter at 2am when my blood sugar was low. And, I didn't snack! Man, that feels good.
Day 6: Total bust, man! I ate two pieces of bread, a roll and a cupcake (the latter two at the partay) but I still kept it in check. So, I'm proud of that. I could have eaten like FOUR of those delicious sandwiches and four of those divine cupcakes, but I didn't! And I didn't even eat a cake ball. I'm really proud of myself. Seriously.
Day 7: Sunday was good - I ate a salad and soup and passed on the bread that I made! Wait, WHY did I say I wouldn't eat bread?!?!? AHH! I did it though. I just ate a nice helping of a full-of-veggies salad and it worked! I drank lots of water today, which always makes me feel better.
I also exercised four times last week! I just need to work on drinking more water and keeping up the working out! Thanks for your inspiration, lady. I love you!!
Day 8: Success and even got my husband to join me in eating sugar free/no treats as well! Yay!
Day 8: No treats :)
Day 8 success. This is still really hard for me:( I hope in the end i can really break my habit!
Day 8: still going strong. I'm so glad we're back into the week. Weekends are so much harder!
Day 8: No candy and no eating after 7:30pm. Success.
Day 8: Fruit for breakfast, salad for lunch and salad for dinner! YAY! No bread, no sweets and no fried foods!
And I had a dream last night that I several things that were fried, but didn't realize that they were fried until AFTER I had eaten everything! And then I felt so badly about it. Ha - awesome that I'm dreaming about your 21 day challenge! :)
I couldn't get the comments to work (my computer was being weird) until now! So I posted day 8 on your facebook. Gist: threw my guts up all afternoon. Felt weak and sad. Ate a pity party popcicle and nothing else the rest of the day (and the breakfast that I did eat is now in the sewer). Day 8 = Fail. So sad.
Im not gonna lie; today all i wanted were cupcakes and i was pretty annoyed that i chose this challenge, but still no sugar for me. I cant wait for this challenge to be over cuz i miss my sweets:)
Day 8: success! No sweets no soda. I keep thinking I want sweets, but it is very easy to refuse them. I just wish the urge to eat them would go away! It's very easy however to resist diet coke/all soda now so I'm feeling pretty good about that!
Day 9: Success. I was around treats today at a aunts house and had to be extra vigilant not to just pop something in my mouth. Not necessarily because I wanted to but just out of habit. I don't crave the sweets like I used to, which is so nice to feel like I have control over my sugar/sweet treat intake!
Day 9: No candy. No eating after 7:30pm...and no weight lost...boo. Success I guess
Day 9: No candy. No eating after 7:30pm...and no weight lost...boo. Success I guess
Day 9: Success!
Day 9: I'm counting it as success. I'm still not over my stomach bug so I didn't eat too much today (i.e. didn't quite hit those 7-9 servings of fruits and veggies) but everything I did eat was diet-approved. No sugar, no sat. fat, and only whole grains. It kind of sucks being sick without ginger ale and saltines in my opinion!
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