Make that a new priority Arika… Drink more water.

As I’ve mentioned before, AWARENESS is a big key to success.

I want you to become aware of how you eat and behave on days when you ‘forget’ to drink enough water.

Do you find that you pick at food more? Are you always looking for food? Do you grab the wrong kinds of food?

Also, what is your energy like on days when you don’t drink enough water? Do you feel more sluggish? Is it more difficult to focus?

Now compare that to the days when you do drink enough water.

Water has such a huge impact on our behaviors and actions.

It is absolutely crucial to the firing of neurons in our brain. It helps all of our brain signals operate at maximum efficiency.

Here’s an analogy for ya…

If you were going on a road trip to an incredible destination and you had a choice between two cars… one that has no oil or gas in it and one that is fully lubed up… which one would you choose?

Drinking water is like fuel and lubrication for our brain. It’s essential for it’s efficiency.

Yet if you stuck a dip-stick into most people’s brains you would find that the amount of water would be closer to the Fill mark rather than where it should be at the Full mark.

It’s one of the easiest things to do. Have a jug of water at your desk and don’t end your day unless it’s gone.

It’s not like I’m asking you to run for 4 hours. All you have to do is drink water.

You can do it!

One of the biggest issues I’ve had is drinking enough water everyday. Now, I keep my water bottle on my desk and I’m chugging a whole bottle a day – of course I need 2 of them to hit the minimum amount of water I need a day, but getting one of them down has been a big accomplishment for me.

As for my own tip – Keep motivating each other! Honestly, without the motivation from everyone else who would still be doing this? I’m sure not as many of us…so even though we’ve been at this for nearly a month we still have to keep helping each other along. Cheer one another on and pick each other up when we’re down.

Great job everyone – keep it up! And, if you’ve been slacking this week…GET YOUR COMPUTER BUTT MOVIN’! You’ve got catching up to do!

And yes, that was directed at myself as well – I missed 2 days of workouts this week and I felt it yesterday. When I did my workout yesterday morning I knew what I’d been missing those two days.

Lexi,
I have a lot of upper body strength where I was on crutches for over four months and then had to use a cane for a long time.
My knees however were so weak that I couldn’t ride a bicycle. I probably couldn’t lift 20 lbs with my legs.
So believe me you could definitely out run me 😀
Erica

I’m happy we have all been able to stick to it!

Tips? What do I have? Angela took the good one. Keep your water handy. Can’t stand the taste of just water? Add a bit of lemon or lime to it. I have never added sugar ie lemonade, just straight lemon.

I got an early Birthday Present from hubby. He bought me the chair base for my exercise ball. OK this takes a bit of coordination to use. Someone should have warned me!

Tips. Hmmm… I guess my best tip is just keep trying. It’s amazing how far you can advance in just a week and even if your body continues to rebel, almost any particular set can be substituted for something you can do. Just remember the original at some point.

Take motivation off your strengths. I have a lot more upper body strength than I thought and mentally it makes me want to get the rest of my body in that shape.

And the Lord will provide. (This isn’t really a workout tip.) Just yesterday I was saying that I just didn’t think I could drag myself out of bed earlier in the morning so I wasn’t up so late. Today, I found out I am going to be watching one of my friends 20 month old son because of some issues at daycare. Something about short a daycare worker and hiding the fact that there were 17 children in the 1-2 year old class with ONE teacher!!

But back to my point, I am going to have to get up at 6:30 to get my workout done before he gets here. And I actually think the kids together will entertain one another rather than my having so many extended interruptions everyday.

Hope you all are having a great week. Get excited for squats tomorrow.

Ok, my canned beans have gotten way too light for me (obviously). I mean, my arms don’t even get sore anymore. So I really need to get those weights. Still, I doubt I’m going to get 20-lb ones.

It feels greeeat to do the strength training and cardio in the morning. Then for the rest of the day I’m thinking, “Hey, I’ve done my exercise for the day! What else do I have to do?”

Can I call you Oscar Meyer???

HA! Weenie 😉

Try to do the cardio sessions every chance that you get. But on those days where you know that it’s just not going to feel right, then go right ahead and repeat that day’s workout session.

It’s all about having fun and compliance. I’ve always prided myself on making a few modifications to a program to ensure that I’ll stick with it for the long term.

You ROCK Nicole!

So excited to see your eagerness for new fun and fast ways to challenge your body Angela.

You totally ROCK and have the attitude of someone who could win some nice prizes during the Home Office Fitness Transformation Contest 😉