Personal Excellence + Healthy life challenge

Ideal Vision of health, fitness and lifestyle


My Ideal vision – I am around a 10-12, and fit. I don’t want to be buff, I want to be toned but still feminine. I want to be able to run 10km easily and at least 3 times a week. All up around 20-30km running a week, and cycling 3 times per week. Lifestyle would be up early every morning and doing an hour of exercise before work.



What do you want to accomplish at the end of the 21 days

Over the next 21 days I want to lay the foundations of a healthy lifestyle. Getting up and walking, starting with 10mins of a morning and working up to 30 minutes. If possible I would like to fit in another 30 minutes of an afternoon with the dogs. With food I want to cut out the crap food and get to a point where I am eating 80% unprocessed foods. Cutting out majority of dairy products except for some milk and yoghurt and small amounts of cheese.



Get ready. What are 3-5 things that you can do now that will help

The most helpful would be to find a job close to home. Other than that, preparing food, getting up 30 mins earlier to have breakfast and go for a walk.

I need to get up early enough to prepare breakfast and have a cup of tea. This is number 1 priority, otherwise I am too tempted to get something on the way into work. Breakfast could be weetbix, oats or toast with eggs. The other thing that is a must is preparing something for lunch, and having a snack. Whether it be a stirfry, steamed veg or salad. Snacks can be fruit, nuts or yoghurt.



Day 1. Drink 8 glasses of water. Daily requirements are 3.5Litres

Eeek this actually equates to 15 glasses of water. I need to start chugging. But this could also be why I am having so many issues like waking up feeling ill, being constantly hungry and fluid retention.



Day 2. Create Calorie List – use my fitness pal

Calorie list is pointless, I don’t really have general things that I eat constantly.



Day 3. Calculate Daily expenditure. BMR 2152 - + 1.2 for sedentary lifestyle = 2582



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Good morning



So far today I got up at 5.30, took my puppies for a 15 min walk (starting with babysteps) had weetbix for breaky. Just devoured a tuna salad with wholemeal roll for lunch and will most likely have a stirfry for dinner.



On the drinking side of things, I am going for 2L a day for the first week, 3L the second week and working up to 3.5L. I have just bought some cordial to add to it. I know its not the best of ideas, but it does help it go down, and I have already nearly finished the first litre.



I have logged my calories for yesterday and today. So far I am at 900calories for today and yesterday I finished up on 1783. so a definite deficit.