New Kid on the Block

Hi all you readers out there! It's Trisha, the new kid on the block, and I'm excited to be here! I won't take away any more time from your blog reading by introducing myself...but if you have any questions, feel free to ask away!

One of my family's traditions is to sit together the first Monday of the year and write our goals for the year. My dad is an business consultant/coach that works with companies around the world in enhancing their business and their productivity. Therefore, he's pretty good at the whole goal setting thing. So he always goes through a short lesson on goal setting before we are let loose to dream big for the year! Last night we had our goal setting night and I thought I would share a few things we talked about.
1. Goals need to be SMART - specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely
2. There must be at least a little bit of an intrinsic drive to attain this goal - if you do it for other people, it won't work out
3. Too many goals just gets overwhelming and you end up quitting all, so keep it simple to just a couple
4. Always remember what you have accomplished in the past, and use that drive to accomplish new things
5. Sometimes an ultimate goal might be to fit into a certain pair of jeans or run a marathon. But an easier way to reach that is to break it down into smaller goals, such as cutting down on sugar, eating more fruits and vegetables, increasing mileage of your runs each week, etc. Catch my drift?

Well, I thought these were pretty helpful tips. So if you haven't made goals yet, or if your goals need some revisiting, then don't hesitate! It definitely isn't too late. One of my goals for January (I'm doing some by month. You can read about that on my other blog here) is to do yoga once a month. I feel way too impatient for yoga, which clearly means I need more of it in my life!

So blogging friends, good luck! I'm excited to be blogging with all you great people!

New Posters

I love that I have some readers/ friends with enough initiative to post here.  I'm excited to hear what they have to say.  I hope they inspire me!  You can see their bio posts on the right.

Trisha does this for real.  She's a trainer and really works hard to stay in shape and healthy.  I'm excited to get the perspective of someone who ACTUALLY knows what they're doing. :)  She also has another blog at http://www.trainingtidbits.blogspot.com/ -- it's pretty cool, check it out!

Heidi is one of my dearest high school friends.  I rarely am with someone who is as funny as I am.  Heidi has always been one of those people.  She also had a baby about the same time I had P and she's almost back to her goal weight.  I'm excited to get the perspective of someone who's at the "end."  And who is also amazing and funny. :)

Anyway, I'm open to whoever wants to post, but these two will make great additions.  I await their first posts with baited breathe. :)

Hi! I'm new. I knew Hilary in high school where we dominated as amazing musical geniuses in orchestra. In other words, we were orchestra nerds.

Losing weight: I feel like I've had that goal my entire life and have spent a lot of time and effort at it. Result? Most of the time I just maintain my weight and it's a weight that is more than it should be.

Last April, I joined my husband in going to a CrossFit gym. If you don't know what that is, here's a link to some info on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossfit. He, of course, lost 30 pounds doing it and gained a ton of muscle. I, however, gained a few total pounds. Arg and grrrr!

I know I've gotten fitter, there's no question, but I really wanted to lose weight too. I wanted to lose the final stubborn 6 (or so) pounds of baby weight. But when I reached +9 pre-pregnancy weight last month, I knew I needed to make some changes.

So, having read that keeping a food journal helps you lose twice the weight, I signed up with http://www.blogger.com/www.fitday.com. It's actually amazing. You can enter how much you'd like to weigh by what date and it will tell you how many calories you need a day to reach your goal. You enter the foods you eat and it automatically tallies your calories. It was through that journal that I suddenly realized that I was eating 700 calories in trail mix a day! Um, that's not a prescription for weight loss.

I made a goal to lose 10 pounds by January 10. You'll notice we're a week away from that. I'm down 6 pounds right now. Can I lose 4 pounds in a week? I'm certainly going to try because I'm going to weigh in front of my husband on the 10th. Too bad that wasn't motivation enough to avoid those 3 raspberry muffins this morning. Weight loss is a toughy, y'all.

So, root me on and I'll root you on in your goals!

Back to YOU

Hey people, I did a review on eshakti on my review blog.  They do sizing from size 0-26, so it's great for women who have some weight to lose.  They also do custom sizing so while my body is a little less proportional, it's a great option.  Check it out. :)

A Tiny Dose of Reality

I'll freely admit today has been hard.
Kids all home, trying to get back on the wagon.  Sometimes that's just no fun.
Ok, it's mostly never any fun.  But the results are.
No, I'm not Wonderwoman -- but I write my blog like I am. :)

Resolutions 2011

I haven't including weight loss in my actual resolutions this year... kind of weird, I know. :)

BUT, I think this is currently a life change.  It was obviously a big deal last year but now it's kind of second nature.  When I get off track I naturally head back towards the track.  At least that's what I'm hoping this week.

Christmas break was no good.  I was pretty sick and I worked a ton with tons of candy and goodies to keep us happy... I think I stayed under 170... so that's good.  My habits were awful though, and I'm happy to be getting back on track.

• So, my current plan is to go to weight watchers this Saturday.  I can't decide if I'm going to do a month of etools with it, or if I just go to the meeting.  I must admit it's pretty nice to have the etools when you're figuring out the new system -- have it calculate it all for you, plus I'm pretty sure I can access the site on my phone, so that would surely be handy.  Anyone want to go with me?  Heavens knows you need a buddy when you're headed to the meeting.  I'm going to the early one and I plan to go pretty early.
• I hope to continue with my 1 pound/week of weight loss, that I was hoping for last year. 
• My current workout plan stays the same.  3 "workouts"/week hopefully one with the wii (we have some good new workouts that I plan to talk about soon), one of my regular DVD ones and one via netflix, and one of those workouts being a yoga one.  Gotta keep this ol' body flexible. :)

Anyway, that's the plan for the year.  It's more of a plan then resolutions.

So, what are your plans?  I was watching on the Today show some of the people from People Magazine's people who'd lost 1/2 their body . They all emphasized how having a support system is so important.  I know that's what did it for me.  Drew has been great, along with all of you.  Now, who wants to contribute and lose some weight. :)

It's All Fresh And Clean

Does anyone remember in Anne of Green Gables where the aunt teaches Anne that each day is fresh and clean with no mistakes in it.

I think a new year feels that way, but with weight loss you have to realize that each day is that way too.  You might feel motivated and invigorated now, but that may fade.  There are days when that motivation wasn't there at all for me, but it's about realizing that each day is fresh and clean just waiting for you to make it great, to try and attain that goal.

Weight loss is one day at a time, one choice at a time.

I am hoping to add some contributors to this blog, I am going to be starting my contributor list fresh and clean so if you want to continue as a contributor let me know.

I got some requests via comments last time, and I don't want to pressure anyone so if you want to contribute email me at calltheshots at byu.net (done in email format).

We can do this, but we need support to keep the momentum up.  Let's be there for each other.