Do or Do Not Challenge #9

This week Kris @ Eclipsed has challenged us to Do or Do Not:

1.  Make sure you get at least 7-8 hours of sleep every night this week. You owe it to yourself!

A couple of years ago I would have laughed at this suggestion - I was the queen of getting my NINE (or more) hours sleep a night.

I am like a bear with a sore head if I don't get my sleep and yet since I've gotten married, I've let sleep lose priority (I'm usually not in bed until midnight or later - my hubby's bedtime) and with my new morning job starting so early - I've been averaging about six hours - and it shows.

I don't have bags under my eyes - I have a set of luggage - my normally very fresh skin has been dry and flaky and I am just TIRED! Worn out. Exhausted.

Time to get serious about going to bed at a sensible hour - which since I need to be up at half six - gulp - will have to be in bed by ten, half ten with lights out by eleven at the latest. I am going to have to get my hubby involved in this. I may not want him to be my diet police but I could sure do with a sleep(ing) policeman. LOL

No more screen time until midnight and then getting ready for the next day - no more screen time after ten would I think be a sensible route - bah I hate being sensible but my body has been crying out for this - thank you for this challenge Kris - I really needed that boot up the backside.

2.  Eat at least one serving of fruits and/or veggies with each meal every day this week.
Yay - finally a challenge I'll be good at - I eat dried fruit for brekky (most mornings) and already include vegetables with nearly every meal - I love my veg. This will make me more conscientious about making sure it really is every meal (and snack) though - looking forward to this one!
Last week Kris challenged us to think about how to deal with cravings and to add in strength training. I did neither of them but I'll be trying to catch-up this week by adding in thirty reps (biceps and triceps) after my sit-ups in the morning (see below for my solution to my chocolate cravings).

Last week I set out my aims to:
1. Walk everyday
Monday to Thursday at my morning job, Friday before my afternoon job, Saturday during commercials and Sunday with my hubby
Hurrah! I walked and walked and walked and can really see my fitness level improving! So can my hubby who had to ask me to slow down when we shared a walk (and a naughty chip) at a seaside town on Saturday. Walked at the floodgates near our home on Sunday - yay!
2. Air walk/glide Monday - Saturday
Use my Mum's airwalker thingy for five solid minutes, Mon-Thurs when I get home from my morning job, Friday and Saturday before 10am
Okay so I did this about every other day and didn't keep to the times for when to do it, and hated it and it made my knees hurt but I'm going to stick with it for at least another week.
3. Do 25 sit-ups every morning
First thing every day!
First day I did the harder version so really felt it, skipped the second day, did double the third day, skipped the fourth day, did double the fifth day, skipped the sixth day and did double on Sunday - not exactly consistent but I'll keep working at it. I'll up it to fifty sit-ups a day since I'm clearly capable of that having done it every other day this week
4. Log my food intake
Not being consistent in this has led to VERY bad eating - NEED to do this
Was NOT consistent with this again and really overdid the eating AGAIN and AAAHHH am so frustrated with myself!!! Will do better this week! Have make up my calorie-counted snack boxes, will stick to my planned meals and will make myself drink a glass of water every time I fancy some chocolate (in the hope my body will be hydrated enough and the craving will subside).

Last week I said I'd love to:
Hit 10,000 steps Mon-Thurs,7,000 Fri. and 5,000 Sat and Sun
Went over Weds and Thurs and hit 10,000 on average (M-Th), hit goal Fri, and broke way through it Sat and Sun thanks to walks with hubs!
Hit 35minutes of moderate activity Mon-Thurs, 30 Fri and 20 Sat and Sun
Hit all my goals for activity - in fact I blew right through them - yay!
Hit a burn of 2600 Mon-Thurs, 2400 Fri and 2200 Sat and Sun
Hit all my burns and again blew right through them!
Not exceed a calorie intake of 1500 Mon-Fri and 1700 Sat and Sun
Busticated all my calories and estimated (high) a couple of days - gutted with myself!

I've decided to add up all my minutes of exercise (as calculated by my Ki Fit) from Monday past right through to my 30th birthday (end of May 2012) and I set up a tickerfactory.com counter on my sidebar.

My aim is to do 35mins of exercise daily (Monday to Friday) with twenty minutes daily (Saturday and Sunday) totalling 14,365 minutes. I'm already 376 minutes in.

So this week I want to:

1. Track my food intake on ki fit EVERYDAY
2. Upload my ki fit data EVERYDAY
3. Keep to a calorie budget of 2000kcals daily
Yes that is the most we're supposed to eat, ever, but I've been blowing this budget consistently over the last few weeks and have really been struggling, so I'm going to aim low this week so I will actually succeed. Ideally my budget would be 1500 (M-F) and 1700 (Sa-Su).
4. Walk everyday
At work (M-Th), before work (F), during ad breaks and before lunch (Sa), with my hubs (Su).
5. Air Glide
Five solid minutes (M-Sa)
6. Fifty sit-ups everyday
7. Strength Training
Thirty bicep reps and thirty tricep reps on each arm (M-Sa)
8. Steps
10,000 (M-Th) 7,000 (F) 5,000 (Sa-Su)
9. Calorie Burn
2700 (M-Th) 2600 (F) 2400 (Sa-Su)
10. Post encouraging messages in prominent places
I was a little embarrassed to do this - after all we regularly have people over to our house but I figured I can keep them in prominent (private) places so I'll finally be doing this challenge from Week 7.

Here's to a more consistent week ahead . . .