This Past Week's Results
The scale reads: 148 lbs. Goal: 127 lbs.
Reaching-for-the-Gold Goals
I thought I was maintaining a cool 146 lbs. Nope, I gained some weight. On a different, brighter note, the fitness highlights of this past week were:
- Clocking in at least 10 minutes of physical activity on 3 days of the week
- Reaching 15k steps on a single day
Habits
After all the glory of fulfilling the PALA challenge, I did not keep up with the walking. I was hoping the challenge instilled the habit of walking at least 8k steps for 5 days out of the week to help me maintain weight. Nope, once the gold star system was out of sight and out of mind, the weight was out of bounds once again. Although I was successful in reaching my goal of completing the program, I can officially file PALA under the "(Mis)Adventure" category in the developing healthy habits aspect of the endeavor.
Did you really make it a habit?
What I like about HabitForge is that it doesn't give up on you if you fail to establish the daily habit. If you miss a day, the clock resets itself to "Day 1" and makes you try the 21-day endeavor all over again to really drill this habit into your daily routine. If you decide to put this habit on hold, it won't go easy on you and let you resume where you left off. Your history will be deleted and you really have to invest the effort in doing it for 21 consecutive days.
It's time to be a big girl and make it count daily. There's no shame. My progress is shared publicly to hold myself accountable.
Hmm quite an interesting system. Yeah it's definitely tough to keep at something until it becomes a habit, but I'm confident you'll be able to do it!
ReplyDeleteThis does seem like a nifty way to keep track of yourself too.