Archive for February, 2008

No Pop Challenge: Day Two

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Well day one went really smooth, today was not quite so pleasant.  I woke up with a nagging headache that has plagued me most of the day.  It’s not painful, just a gentle reminder to say “can we get some caffeine in here today?”  I never really thought about how much caffeine I was drinking but now that I think about it, I’m glad to be getting it out of my system.

I managed both goals one and two for the week, Simon and I both took all our measurements this weekend and today I made the appropriate doctors appointments that I needed to make.

I’ve got to say that not drinking the diet coke hasn’t really been that big of a challenge, I don’t think I was all that addicted to it, it was just more of a habit.   Replacing it with water seems to be working just fine.

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Challenge

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Well, so glad to see you back on Blogga.  I have accepted the Coke Challenge from my sister (bless her for her support) and it’s not as bad as I thought it would be.  Okay, their is no sugar or caffeine in the pop that I drink but it shows me that I can give up a habit – bad or good.   I haven’t lost weight, only ben 5 days but it has inspired me to try other challenges.  As I walk every day, as soon as the roads are clearer, I will push myself to go farther.  Once I did the Labor Day Classic in Prince George and manage to do it.  Okay I came in last but at least I finished.  My first challenge for spring will be to walk up to Save-on-foods (uphill all the way both ways – just kidding)  but that will be my next step.  I’m so encouraged by Michelle’s new way of life.  The changes she and Simon will be doing.  At first it may not seem a lot but at the end, the changes will show dramatically.  Her parents are behind her and Simon all the way.  Let’s leave the smoking issue for now.  So let’s keep blogging, as I know this is good for all of us who use it.  Looking forward to hearing from our new member – Sue

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Goals for the Week

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

I think it’s time to make some goals from now on, so here’s the first of many

  1. Take body measurements (do today)
  2. Make appointments with doc’s (dietitian, doctor and one other) (Monday)
  3. Sit down with myself and lay out an exercise plan that is going to work for me. (work on today)

Well Walka has been all upgraded in spiffed up (I know it looks exactly the same but a lot of background stuff was fixed) Time for get my collected shit together and really truly make an effort into changing my lifestyle.

Today is day one of the two week no pop challenge for me (Simon too). Although Simon and I don’t drink regular coke I still think that cutting out the aspartame and caffeine that goes along with Diet Coke could definitely be beneficial to us. Going good so far, don’t really have any desires to run out and buy diet coke, water is working fine so far.

We’re also adding another new walka bloggerer to the family, Aunt Suzanne, woohoo, cheers all around. Sue has been the one largely responsible for this latest push into healthy land (thank you, thank you) so we look forward to having her with us.

That’s all for today folks, must go find measuring tape, or something to take measurements with. How come that thing has been underfoot for years until I actually want to use the darned thing, then it’s nowhere to be found.

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