Yes you did Marie!! remember that thread on here about 1lb of fat?!!
That really IS a good way of lucking at it, Cheryl - (thanks for that!!
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oooh Pandora, Im so excited - this is giving me a great incentive!! - was just thinking, how "meant to be" (lol) was this?, have just realised that the three of us all weigh in on a Tuesday, dont we?
So, completely inspired by this and as an extra push to achieve my 26 week challenge, I made a 17 week challenge with the girls in the office (to incorporate into my 26 week one)
The reasoning for the 17 weeks is because, Laura (one of the girls) is jetting off to Florida the first week of June and had been saying to me she wants to be bikini ready (she is tiny! - a size 8-10, would be so health conscious but reeeaally wants to tone up here tummy for her own confidence)
Anyway, this is what I planned with the girls incase you may or may not want to try it....
I put up an extra calender and gave each girl a set of coloured stickers (there is only 3 of us too!!) obviously each colour represents a girl (im blue for instance)
So, (im probably not explaining this very well at all!!) we have decided that we all have to exercise four days a week, for a minimum of 30 mins.
The exercise can be anything... a walk, (laura does yoga on Mondays, so that'll be one of hers for e.g), 30 mins on an exercise machine at home (which we all have) or I have a Davina box set (never opened
) there is 3 dvds in it so Im going to distribute between the 3 of us and we're going to alternate the dvds once a forthnight (to save boredom setting in)
As an extra incentive, Im collecting €2 off each of us every Friday, putting in a little tin I have in my desk.
Every day that we do exercise we put our coloured sticker on the calender for that day.
At the end of the 17 weeks whoever has the most stickers on the calender gets all the Money in the kitty to treat themselves with.
If two have the same amount of stickers, we'll split it and if 3 do well we'll split it 3 ways and look on it as a good way of saving.
Ive said to the girls to set mini goals on a 4 week basis for themselves, privately - be it to loose pounds, inches, tone or to increase their fitness levels - its theyre business but may help motivation wise.
Myself and Laura are also thinking of starting a class - pilates or boxercise - we're looking into it at the min..
So what do you think?
Im a great one for starting to exercise, do great for a week but then the novalty wears off for another few months. I think this might give me a boot up the bum. Plus Im soooo competative!!!
Thanks again for this Pandora!!
