Daily Checklist

Daily Journal Checklist

The following journal plan should be copied and filled in every day. Never let a day go by that you don't document everything here. If you do it every day and concentrate on improving in most areas, you will succeed.

THE MORE SECTIONS FILLED IN, THE FASTER YOU ARE LOSING WEIGHT!
IT'S THAT SIMPLE. YOU CAN DO THIS.

Date: 4/21/07 Current Weight: 178, as of last Sunday, 4/15 Goal weight: 145 Point Range: 25-30 pts

Fill In Day of Week:

Saturday

Fill in:

Total Points for the day (keep within your Points Range) - WAY OVER!!!

No. of glasses of water (only) you drank today (target=8) - Maybe 2

Minutes of moderate activity (walking, vacuuming) (target=20+) - 30-40 minimum counting vauuming and yard sale-ing

Check if you ate 3 meals including breakfast - check and then some

Check if you ate one or two low Point snacks per day to replace the high-fat extras you regularly eat. - the popcorn would have been ok

Check if you ate 2 - 3 fruit servings. - nope, none

Check if ate reasonably at your daily main meal, and did not gorge. - well, i stopped at 2 pcs of pizza which is less than I'd normally eat and I stopped at 5 or so GS cookies, so at least i didn't kill a whole sleeve

Check if you ate 2 - 3 vegetable servings. - check

Check if you took a quality multivitamin/antioxidant (important for metabolism/health) - check, and fish oil, and acidophilus and one for hair/nails

Number of times you left food on your plate (show who's in control) - does the crust count?

Check if you made an extra effort to be more active, such as picking up, wrestling with the kids, doing one 'odd job' per day, cleaning that closet or workroom, fixing something, just moving around instead of hanging. - i don't know that i realized it but i did get exercise w/o thinking about it

Check here if you focused on and walked with perfect posture today, sucking in your gut and holding shoulders high and back perfectly straight. (You'll look like you just lost 5 pounds if you just do this last one) - nope but that's a great idea

What were the biggest obstacles you had this week? - staying in control, leaving tempting foods alone, not eating kid leftovers

What can you do to try and remove those obstacles? - have more willpower and self-control, easier said than done

What did you feel good about this week? - that i took my kiddies to the park at least once, that I took Emma to an art class, took them both swimming and had time alone on Saturday :)

Document any other comments or thoughts here. Discuss your feelings and your commitment to keep this thing going, so you can be healthier and feeling better than ever. Discuss the importance to yourself in reaching your goal, the benefits you will receive, how you will improve and extend your life:

It is very important to me that I set a better example of healthy living for my two girls than I currently am. I want to show them how to stay fit and eat healthy and that food is not a sport. I want to lose weight so I will look better and feel better. I am committed to doing this but some days it's very hard to fight temptation when I feel like I've "earned" a treat and that just a little won't hurt.