Did you know that 80% of people fail at their New Year’s resolutions by the second week of February? Or that losing weight is the #1 resolution that people make?
I’m not sharing this with you to depress you on this fine Friday morning, or to wow you with my random facts and impressive statistics-spitting. Just trying to convince you to join me in a challenge to keep our momentum and motivation going well into this new year!
I have struggled this past week, between the funeral and then worrying about the kids. I sure could use an extra dose of motivation. I searched online for a weight loss challenge, but nothing stood out to me as particularly interesting, so I figured: why not start my own?
I don’t have the time (or patience) for a lot of tracking and logging on top of what I am already doing, and I already know that if I have to count points or do a bunch of math every night, I won’t do it very long. So I want to keep it simple and something that can work for all of us.
How’s this? Starting on Sunday, January 27, we will set a goal of how many exercise minutes we will accomplish over the next 30 days (until February 28…okay, that’s more than 30 days, but I didn’t want to end a few days before the end of the month!) So, for example, if you want to work out for 30 minutes a day, four days a week, your goal would be 480 minutes by February 28.
Let’s see…I want to aim for 45 minutes a day, 6 days a week. That would be about 1080 minutes by February 28.
This way, the challenge is personalized to what you can do, what you want to accomplish, how much you want to challenge yourself.
Anyone want to join me? A fellow blogger had the idea of joining the challenge by writing on her blog about it, but I also thought we might want a central place to virtually meet up, like a Facebook group. I can create the group if anyone is interested, and I will post a link for anyone who would like to meet up there for accountability, tracking, questions, motivation, griping, whatever you need over the next thirty-ish days!
Sweat & Sparkle 