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It’s Time for Goal Call Monday
By Cindy | May 5, 2008
What is your goal in health, diet or exercise this week?
Goal Call Monday is your opportunity to be focused, accountable, and motivated to make your goal a success.
This week’s winner is…Lynn of The Hungry Little Caterpillar. Congratulations! Your special reward is a a Victoria Secret Garden Romantic Wish Hand and Body Cream. Keep up the great work!
Ready to Share?
1. Enter your goal in the comments (anytime during the week).
2. You’ll be listed in the Goal Call section next Monday. Enter your results/progress to be entered in the drawing.
Why You Want to Participate:
Focus on your top one-week goal in health, diet or exercise.
Accountability is shared here in the comments and by coming back with the results.
Motivation will be provided through your desire to achieve your goal and return with good news or the challenges you faced. As an extra motivation, I’ll enter anyone who participates in a random drawing to receive a surprise reward (different prizes given each week).
Goal Call
How did you do? Did you accomplish your goal, get stuck, have a funny story to tell?
- Workout Mommy: Win against the snack attacks.
- Blaine: Achieve Goal Marathon time under 2:37.
- Brianna: Complete 3 runs.
- Lynn: Beat the cold and return to health with the knee!
- Carrie: Exercise 5 days.
- Susan: Stretching to relieve soreness in knee.
- CFO: 6 Cardio/1 Yoga.
- Rachel: 10K on Sunday! Avoid overtraining.
- JoLynn from The Fit Shack 5 cardio sessions at30 minutes/ 2 strength sessions. Way to workout while traveling.
I look forward to hearing how you did with your goals. Great job focusing on the small steps! A surprise reward will go to one of you for commenting on the results (good or bad)! Check in and report any time during the week before the next Goal Call Monday is posted! To see their original goals, click here and read the comments.
Are you ready? What is your goal in health, diet or exercise this week?
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May 5th, 2008 at 6:58 am
Oh, my goodness, what a horrible week it’s been.
Turns out the reason I was sick is that my half-finished root canal got infected, and that infection spread everywhere. I had infection in my lungs, in my sinuses, in my EYE for pity’s sake! I spent most of the week lounging around on the sofa, letting my entire house and diet and obligations go completely into the disposal.
My goal for this week is to get my eating back on track, clean the house (what is it about husbands that are perfectly happy to NOT DO DISHES for a week, when they desperately need to be done and I can’t do them???) and NOT stress too much about it. I’m finally mostly better, but I’m going to take it easy on working out this week and make sure I’m up to par before getting going again. This week, I’m just going to walk and do my weights.
May 5th, 2008 at 7:23 am
Hi, goals for the week will be to concentrate on yoga, pilates or runner-core each day in addition to the running I’m already doing. I need to core strength and stability to keep my body upright when running.
May 5th, 2008 at 8:03 am
@Lynn - Yikes! That sounds just awful! I hope you’re back to 100% soon!
As for me, I did all of my workouts but not as intensely as I would have liked (I had my period and felt very blah and uncomfortable). I’ll set the same goal for this week but I’m not sure I’ll be able to work out every day since hubby will gone for a couple of nights on business and he handles bedtime while I work out.
I want that eating trigger to kick in, so I am going to start the way I started with exercise: I will eat really healthfully one day this week. No junk food or desserts, lots of fruit & veggies, lean protein, etc. I will use the worksheet from the GWM workbook for this!
Thanks, Cindy!
May 5th, 2008 at 8:25 am
First time participating here. Looks like fun! My goal for the week is 5 days of exercise (in-home and gym mixed).
May 5th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
So . . . I made it! I got in my three runs last week (and even a yoga class, too!)and I’m already one run toward repeating the goal this week (I’ll be gone 4 nights this week, so I’ll really have to WORK to get all 3 runs!). I ran this morning figuring it would be the best way to start a busy week - feeling strong and accomplished.
Lynn - I hope you feel better!
May 6th, 2008 at 7:22 am
Bringing over for Cindi:
May 5th, 2008
I have been noticing that the top of my feet are slightly swollen! I have just had my well-woman and I am okay! My husband and I think I spend too much time on the computer and my feet dangle downwards!
I also tend to stand them up on my toes. I need to get up and move around more. This is my goal of the week. Thanks,Cindi
May 6th, 2008 at 7:26 am
Oh Lynn–Please get better! Lots of rest! I agree with the hubbies and dishes. Sound’s like ours are on the same wavelength.
Great mix of pilates, yoga and running Rachel. Keep up the great work.
CFO, Excellent approach to taking the eating and focusing on one day! You’re doing awesome.
Welcome Angie! What type of exercise do you enjoy doing most? Great goal.
Yea, Brianna. With the schedule you’re keeping, it’s fantastic to see how you’re prioritizing your runs. Keep it up.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:57 am
Get well soon, Lynn, that’s no good. Ack!
I did not make my 2:37 goal, but I’m perfectly okay with that. I ran over a four and a half minute personal best, and not only that but I won the marathon and set the course record. I’ll take it! (race recap)
This week is all about taking it easy and getting some rest. I went for an easy walk with my wife yesterday evening, I’ll probably go swimming tomorrow, and the only running that I plan on doing will be Thursday evening at my coaching group, since I’ll need to lead folks in the workout. Sunday is the Sea Dogs Mother’s Day 5k, and I’ll be working the registration table in the wee hours before the race and controlling traffic during the race. Volunteering is almost as much fun as running, is a great way to give back, is a lot cheaper, and it’s not like I’m going to breaking any records a week after a good hilly marathon anyway. Heheh.
May 6th, 2008 at 11:16 am
last week was not so hot - I did exercise 4 days of the week, but for 3 in a row, I did nothing. boo.
However, I’m back on track for this week - 2 days done, 3 more to go!
May 6th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Stretching and strengthening exercises for my knee/legs continue… and should continue if I want to heal!
This week my goal is back to 5 days of exercise, at least 30 minutes at a steady, moderate intensity. Monday I did the elliptical and then had a lovely walk through a nature park after dinner with my husband. I did double the stretching that evening after all was said and done!
Lynn - Ugh! How horrible! I hope you’re feeling better very soon!!
May 6th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Thanks for the welcome. I love a variety of exercises but I would say my favorites are Walk Away the Pounds in home workouts, Turbo Jam (in-home) & Turbo Kick (gym class) and the Elliptical.
May 7th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Hi Cindy, thanks for the kudos on working out while traveling! After I got back home, though, I didn’t work out as much (last week).
I ended up doing a detox because of what I learned about Splenda (posted on my blog last week) and didn’t get in all of my cardio. HOWEVER, my goal for this week is 5 cardio sessions, of 30 minutes each in my target heart rate zone.
I’ll also be doing 2 sessions minimum of strength training.
So far I’ve done one strength training and one cardio.