Journal #1

So far today I have said my morning prayers (2 points), exercised for 45 min (20 points) ate 5 fruits/vegetables (10 points), had 7 hours of consecutive sleep last night (5 points) and had 5 glasses of water(1 point each) and now I am writing in my "journal"- which is 2 points. Tonight I will say my prayers (2 points) and read my scriptures for 5 points.

I am doing a "competition" thing with some girls at church. It's called "A New You" and is to help with establishing healthy and spiritual habits. For everything you do on the list you get a certain amount of points and we are divided up into teams. The team with the most points at the end of the 6 weeks wins. We are ending our 6 week program with a celebration and a 5k.

It has given me great motivation today to get out and exercise, to eat so many fruits/vegetables, and to drink so much water. Although after exercising it wasn't so hard to drink a bottle of water.
There is an option between tracking weight loss (1 pound lost= 10 points/week 1/2 pound lost= 5 points/week) or Journal writing. Since I am not trying to lose weight particularly, just trying to get fit I am doing the Journal writing. I am excited because one of my goals has been to do better at keeping this blog going and so this will be good motivation.

In doing all this today I have thought about goals that I want to accomplish- especially in the area of exercise:

• I want to be able to run a mile. I have NEVER been able to do this. I have always had a problem with breathing every time I run- no matter how short of distance. Even walking fast makes me short of breath so my goal is to be able to run a mile and not have my chest pound and feel like I am going to die.
• I want to be able to touch my toes without bending my legs. Again, I have NEVER been able to do this- maybe when I was two, but since I can remember I have always struggled with this. The "sit and reach test" in elementary P.E was always my nemesis. Ok, so not that I rocked at Pull-ups or running the mile but you would think "sit and reach" would be the easiest of the tests.
• I would like to build up my back, core, and arm muscles. I haven't figured out a measurable goal on this except for keeping track at how many inches in my arms I gain but hopefully by building up my core muscles it will help my back gain strength back from my many car accidents.
• This is not on the point system, but I would like to start taking multi-vitamins every day. I'm hoping that getting the vitamins that I need it will help with my breathing problems I have been having.

These are my goals so far. Also in the point system you chose a goal at the beginning of the program- something you want to accomplish each week- and then you receive 15 points for every week that you accomplish it. One of the examples is to organize a room each week in your home. Almost everything on my summer's ToDo list is organizing a room of the house- including the garage, so I though that my personal goal is to cross off one thing on my Summer ToDo List each week.

This week since it is only Friday-Sunday (we started this last night) I am choosing something off of my to do list that is easy- clean our bedroom. I figured organizing it isn't a priority right now because it's already pretty well organized and as the rest of the to do list (like organize closet, office, and turn office into closet) our bedroom will become reorganized.

So I just have to say that I am really excited for this program. Not only for the points and doing it as a team but for the habits I will establish in the next 6 weeks.




Extra note: I am done with school for the year! After my last final on Wednesday I had an appointment with my endocrinologist. I was really worried because I hadn't been logging my blood sugars and carb/insulin intakes in my book since my last appointment. I thought that I would be getting a scolding from my doctor because of my lack of records.... but it was the opposite! I passed my diabetes final for the quarter! He told me that he wanted me to leave the appointment feeling that I have my diabetes well controlled. He then told me that my A1c was 6.7! In the beginning when I first started my appointments in January my A1C was 8.0 and now it is 6.7! I was so excited I had to give a "WooHoo!" right there in the middle of my appointment. I then couldn't stops smiling. Yeah me!