Weekly Goals - #2

Each week, I'll set a few small goals to achieve and build upon. After all, you can't sprint from the starting gate and expect to win the race, right? The emphasis may change from week to week, but all the goals are a continued effort. I'll share them here and would love to know what you think of them. Let me know if I'm giving myself too much slack, or not enough credit.

Weight loss GOALS for week two:

- I must eat Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner & a Snack.
- I must drink at least 20 ounces of water.
- I must acknowledge everything I eat in a daily journal.
- I must get at least 5 hours of constant sleep each night.
-- One night this week, I need to get 8 hours of sleep.

So how did I do with Week One? Not too bad. Excitement is always a great motivator. I think the trick is to start small and grow accustomed to the healthy lifestyle that I'm trying to adopt. Namely, eating healthy while getting lots of water and a good night of sleep. Hence the small weekly goals. To some they may seem evident and dense. But low calories, exercise, and willpower only go so far with me. I need more then a diet. I need the whole package...and that needs one strong foundation.

This week it was trying at times to make the effort to eat three times a day. (I'd rather just drink some milk or have coffee.) So with adding a snack during my day as well now, I'd really like to find a great smoothie recipe to fill the meal void. I also got back to drinking SmartWater. Ever try it? Its really a great help to have the added electrolytes it provides. I feel so much better and hydrated drinking it. So that will help as I've increased the daily minimum I need to drink this week.

An additional challenge, is having to write down everything I eat in a daily food journal. Last week it helped to make that mental note, so this written feature should bring even more clarity to my diet-busting habits. Should you be doing this too, this just needs to be a quick line and note relating how well liked or needed each food item is. Last but not least, the roughest part of my weekly agenda is to keep getting five hours of constant sleep each night. Sleep is far under appreciated and I hope that I can increase this number over time. But to keep the pressure on, my new weekly goal is to keep my five hours of constant sleep each night and ante up one evening with a full 8 hours. Wow...that is something I've been working towards, diet or no, for 18 months!

So with that...bring on week #2.