My Destination for 2009
Food Goal:
- Food as Fuel! I eat to fuel my body in the healthiest, most efficient way possible. The food I eat is healthy and clean, and carefully chosen to improve my health and minimize the effects of stress, fatigue and aging.
Fitness Goals:
- Run a 5K
- Complete the 100 Push-Up Challenge and be able to complete 100 push-ups in a session
- Complete the 200 Sit-Up Challenge and be able to complete 200 situps (crunches) in a session
- To be committed to working out regularly for the rest of my life
Life Goals:
- Balance, peace, organization and control
Road Map – How to Get There
Milestone No. 1 (Weeks 1-2, January 5 through 18)
- Food: Back to eating 5-6 small meals a day; eliminate diet soda
- Fitness: To be working out no less than 30 minutes daily, five times a week
- Life: Daily meditation; leave work by 5 every day;
Milestone No.2 (Weeks 3-4, January 19 – Feb. 1)
- Food: 1300-1500 cal; daily Omega-3 supplements; no refined sugar or flour
- Fitness: Jillian Michaels circuits 4x weekly, one cardio day including run time at 4.0 mph or higher, 2 rest days
- Life: Daily meditation; leave work by 5; blog daily; write at least 15 minutes a day
Milestone No. 3 (weeks 5-6, Feb. 2 through 15)
- Food: Reduce artificial sweeteners and caffeine – switch to green tea in mornings, no coffee at work
- Fitness: Move up to Level 2 circuits; run-time at 5 consecutive minutes each treadmill session
- All previous plus daily yoga, writing 30 minutes at least 3 times a week, leave office every day at lunch for at least 15 minutes
Milestone No. 4 (Weeks 7-8, Feb 16 through Mar. 1)
- Food: At least 10 servings of fruit/veggies daily, 80 g. protein; eliminate artificial sweeteners and caffeine as close to completely as possible
- Fitness: All previous plus run-time at 6 minutes
- Life: All previous plus all work completed daily, at least 8 hours of sleep nightly
Milestone No. 5 (Weeks 9-10, Mar. 2 through 15)
- All previous plus 2+ servings of fish weekly and one vegetarian day weekly
- Fitness: All previous plus running time increased to 7 minutes consecutively
- Life: All previous plus writing time increased to 45 minutes, plus time for no fewer than three long visits with friends weekly
Challenge Milestone (Early April)
- Food: Eating Clean!
- Fitness: Level 3 circuits plus all above, plus run-time at 8 minutes
- Life: All above plus writing time set at 1 hour, at least 3 times a week
[I plan to start the Push-Up Challenge and Sit-Up Challenge this summer. By then, I will probably be ready for a break from the circuits and will be doing more outdoors cardio again, so these will be a great way to keep some core work and upper-body work in my routine. That will give me six months to complete them in order to meet my end-of-year goal.]
