Weekly Goals!

I spoke a bit last week about what my 3 basic goals were from now until the end of the year.
Link here. Now, let's talk about weekly goals. Not goals we make new every week, but simple goals we want to achieve every week. The same goals to keep us in track on our weight loss journey. These are goals we can make easy to start and build up more through out as the weeks go along and we get stronger.

You need to start off with your main focus.What is my main focus? My main focus is to lose weight. So I know I want to lose at least 1lb per week and to do that I must have roughly 500 less calories in my diet a day. So that leads me to controlling my intake and pushing my daily activity levels.

The way I keep track of my caloric intake is through a website (or phone app) that you can log what foods you eat, what nutrients are in that food, and how much you are eating. I, personally, use MyFitnessPal . I find that out of all the other websites this one gives you a upper hand by being a very popular and well used website. You will find more foods that have been verified in nutrition and caloric values. I log my food every day to keep track of the amount I am eating to stay under my calorie goal. This helps me keep that extra 500 calories off my plate (pun intended). You can also track your calories burned through your workouts, steps taken through your phone or fitbit tracker, and weight tracker.

I have to keep in mine one of my 3 basic goals. Keep it simple, I can push myself later. I want to be able to achieve my goal relatively easy at first, always being able to challenge myself later. I feel like I am the type of person to get discouraged easily if I start off with a rough goal and can't attain that goal on a regular basis. It's just who I am.

For example; My husband and I started a week ago running/jogging on a trail behind our neighborhood. It's one mile long. We started our jog only able to finish half with being out of breath. Now, a simple week later we are able to finish that mile with roughly two 30 second breaks of brisk walks for a break. Coming back we cool down while walking, then finish the last 1/4 of our mile running to the finish line. We slowly, every day we run, make our last mile more running rather than walking.

So, ultimately my weekly goal is to push my caloric intake down by 500 calories. Whether that be through restricting my diet, pushing my work outs, or both. I want to be able to push myself with my work outs, running, and over all healthier eating habits.