Fall Challenge Week 1

This week the topic of the meeting has to do with the little things. How the little steps, the little victories can make a big difference.

That inspires me to start a Fall Challenge that will take us from now to January! Now that Lose for Good is all done, we need something else to tweak our motivation a little bit right? Here's what I'm thinking:

For this week: Find, each day, one way you can move a little more in your day to day activities and do it.

For example:

If Tuesday is grocery shopping day:

• Park further from the door,
• Bring your bags up the stairs one at the time instead of 2 or 3 (or 4) at a time,
• Add steps by your shopping by going from one end to the other in the store,
• Carry a 5 lbs of potatoes while shopping (watch your back on that one!),

If Wednesday is laundry day:

• Walk your clothes to the laundromat instead of taking the car,
• Fold and put away the clothes one piece at a time instead of stacking them up,
• Walk around while the machines are running instead of sitting around,

Any daily activity can burn additional calories if you think about it a little bit. You can turn up the music and dance while cleaning. You can take the dog on an extra long walk instead of just going around the block. There are so many possibilities!

So that's your challenge this week: Find ways to burn more calories in your little daily routine.

Please feel free to post suggestions in the comments!

On goes the music! I got some cleaning to do!!!!

Walk It challenge is coming!

The Walk it Challenge is coming in April!! It's time to take a good look at your walking shoes, look up your walking routes, find the perfect time to walk.

Spring is there (who would have known after this weekend rain?) and with the time change we have a little more time of daylight every night!

My plan is to go out and walk every night that it's not raining for at least 45 minutes.
What is YOUR plan?

Tools:

Pedometer: Did I ever mention that I love the pedometer? I forgot it every day last week, and was so bummed since I walked so much. So back on it goes!

Map my walk/run/ride:

http://www.mapmywalk.com/
You can map your walk/run and figure out how many miles/Km you are walking, even the terrain!

What do you do to stay active? What's your favorite activity. Weight loss/management isn't only about food!!

Step Challenge - Bay to Breakers!

Step challenge

Ok, this time we are ON!

The Rules:

Every day you want to track the total number of steps you have taken that day.

You want to add up every day and divided by 7 to know the average number of steps you've taken each day.

You can also follow the Step Challenge 2011 on Facebook!

When you come to your meeting, we want to hear all about it!!

Bay to Breakers

I'm also planning on walking Bay to Breakers. If you want to come and join the fun, we'll be meeting somewhere downtown (TBD), walking (and people watching!) together.

Costumes? That could be fun!

Pedometer Challenge!

How about a challenge?

Starting on your meeting day, keep track of your steps every day. When you come back to your meeting next week, we can report how many steps we did all week.

Who's in? I'm putting on my pedometer right now. HA!

Feel free to report in the comments (just below this post) during the week.