Challenges and Goals

If you’ve read my blog for any certain amount of time you know how much I love Crystal Paine, a.k.a. The Money Saving Mom. She is doing a year-long challenge, 12 Months to a Healthier You. It is just like Crystal to break things down into one goal a month instead of going whole hog and doing everything at once. This is one reason why I love her. The goal for the first month is to focus on the habit of exercising more. This is perfect since I am trying to lose weight this year. Keep reading to find out how I’m establishing good exercise habits.

I’m sure that you have seen one or two of those fitness challenges floating around Pinterest, Twitter, or Facebook by now. I follow a number of fitness sites so I see them all of the time. To go along with my goal of losing weight (still avoiding the term “Resolution”) I decided to do two. One dedicated to arms and the other is a boot camp type. This basically means lots and lots of push ups. And squats. Have I ever mentioned how much I hate squats?

Here is the arms challenge from Fat to Fit Chick.

Here is the boot camp challenge from Shrinking Jeans.

I’m also doing the Shrinking Jeans 6 week boot camp. Today is Week 1 Day 2 and I’m not looking forward to it. It kicked my but two days ago on day one (rest day between each day). I am trying to not leave the house to work out so I’ve been running in the yard for the sprints. My drive way is on an incline… Yeah. I just like to think I’m kicking it up a notch!

What I’m excited about is that I’m actually sticking to these challenges and the boot camp. (I know it’s only been a week. Give me a break here!)

I’m also trying to work on my eating habits. It’s so amazing to me how fast and easy it is to get of track. “Oh, this one piece of pizza won’t hurt me.” Probably not, unless I’ve already had two. I see my husband eat whatever he wants and I get a little jealous. Then I remember that he works his weight off two weeks at a time, while I’m at home. Mostly stationary. Which is changing this month!

I will be updating weekly with my progress and any links I find helpful. For the time being, check out my Pinterest boards for tons of recipes and other info. I’ve been quite the pinning fool lately. After a month of working on this habit, it will be easier to continue these healthy habits for the rest of the year.

Have a great week, y’all!