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Healthy Pony Summer
« on: April 19, 2017, 04:19:53 PM »
I do not think I can stop doing healthy pony. You would think I was the healthiest pony but I am not. So I do healthy pony to keep me going towards healthy and helping others as well. Each round is a little different, so be sure to read, before you sign up.

1. Sign ups start today and go to May 1st.
2. You may start your healthy self at anytime, but this round will have a winner at the end. So we will have all of us start May 1st.
3. You may sign up after May 1st. If it's between May 1st and May 5th you are eligible for the prize. After that it could be hard to catch up. You can still join so you can be a healthy pony.
4. Keep comments constructive and positive. We are here to support each other.
5. Healthy Pony Summer starts May 1st to July 31.
6. You may adjust your sign up, as we learn what works and what doesn't:)

Sign up.
1. What do you want to accomplish by the end of Healthy Pony Summer? (You can have multiple things)
2. What are some steps you plan to make to reach your accomplishment.

CG sign up.
In 3 months I want to accomplish
1. Playing the piano 1 hour a day.
2. Work multiple knitting projects.
3. Work out 20min a day..or more.
4. Walk 7 days a week.
5. Recording my progress and calories.

My plan is to take small steps. Starting to play piano 5min or more a day and progress to longer times. I need to organize my knitting projects and need to give many projects my attention. I tend to focus on one project, ignore others, and for get what I was doing. A lot of unraveling going on. I want to be 130lbs. I am 180lbs (sigh it's hard to see that number) so I am starting to work out. I do walk almost every day. I want to keep it up and add work outs to loose some weight. I also want to keep notes and track of how my days are with calories and practices. I hope this will keep me on task.

How do you win?
1. Sign up:)
2. Rate your day. 0 for doing nothing towards your goals(we all are these days") 5 is going above and beyond. Example. Normal task play 1 hour of piano. I end up playing 2 hours.  So each day you give yourself a 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5.
3. I will be giving 1 point to posts that are positive. Maybe you cheered someone's bad day or you posted about something great. The post shows you are actively participating in the discussion :)

Who has the highes will get a prize from me. If you would like to send some one a prize just send me a pm. If there is a lot of great participants, I just might send out more prizes:)

Feel free to ask questions:)
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Re: Healthy Pony Summer Sign Ups
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2017, 04:45:21 PM »
I want to sign up!  :)

What do you want to accomplish?

1. Keep working out 3-4 times a week.
 2 Replace more calorie heavy drinks with zero calorie ones.

3. Lose some pounds


I want to keep working out when I can even if I'd rather do something else, watch my calorie count more and try to find a low calorie drink to replace at least one soda a day. That's going to be hard.

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Re: Healthy Pony Summer Sign Ups
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2017, 08:18:33 PM »
Welcome back:)
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Re: Healthy Pony Summer Sign Ups
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2017, 08:24:45 AM »

1. Not sure if this counts but I need to keep my studio clean.  It just helps me so much and it looks like it's falling into the same disaster it was in before.
2. Train twice a week
3. Hit 5000 steps 3-4 times a week
4. Improve my Muscle Mass, lower my body fat.
5. Ride a bike once a week, weather permitting.
6. Eat Clean.  I need to make healthy lunch prep, once every two weeks and plan out healthy meals throughout the week.
7. Get rid of stuff, junk and clutter.

I'm sure I can come up with a few more.
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Re: Healthy Pony Summer Sign Ups
« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2017, 12:41:46 PM »
Welcome aboard:) again. All goals are accepted for healthy pony:)
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Re: Healthy Pony Summer Sign Ups
« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2017, 08:24:14 AM »
Greetings, everyone. Hi there, Crowning Glory. I suspect I owe you a photo, hm?  ;)

Anyway, I want to continue or restart some good habits, and perhaps some online accountability will help me keep at it.

1. Walk.

I seriously want to make it my goal that I will walk a half-marathon distance later this summer. In my health, I'm not sure if I can pull it off. The spirit is willing but the flesh (especially my flat left foot) is weak. Perhaps I will only make it to 10K or even 10 miles in the end, or something that's less than 13.1 miles. But I won't know until I try. So I'm following a training course that has me walking about 4 times a week. Three of those walks are around 3 to 4 miles, but the one big weekly walk gets a bit longer every week to build endurance.

One thing I've been doing for a year is to put away a dollar for every mile I walk. So I combined two good habits into one. Saving a little bit of money in a jar, and walking. I'm hoping to save up for a new bike. I was up to $300 in February and spent it on a Switch instead of a bike. (Darn you, Legend of Zelda! You hit me hard! :blush: ) So I'm starting over again. It feels good to see the jar get filled with some loonies and toonies and bills.

I'm not walking this week because it has been raining. Even snowing this morning.  :pout: But the sun will come out again sometime and I'll be off like a shot.

By the way, does anyone have an account with MapMyWalk? We could buddy up on there.  ^.^

2. Get the house tidy and maintain it.

I will make no secrets about my poor housekeeping habits. I lack energy and motivation, and a strong dose of general laziness added in, so I'm a "messy." I suffer from CHAOS (Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome) for all my life and I'm a bit tired of it. So for the past two months, I've been using an app that keeps track of daily, weekly, monthly, half-yearly and yearly chores and I've got my home in somewhat better shape. It's got room for improvement, but it's at a state where I don't mind if a friend comes over. In the past, I have often been able to get the house clean when external need demands, but it's not long before I slip into old habits and the house becomes a disaster zone again. So I want to maintain the habit, continue making improvements, and invite my neighbor over on a monthly basis so I can tap into that needed external motivation.

3. Memorize.

I think it was two years ago that I started memorizing Scripture. I just simply wanted to, to prove to myself that my mind can retain. Improve my memory, and that sort of thing. Also use an app to help me with that. When that external need to tidy the house cropped up two months ago, I pushed memorizing aside in the mornings to clean instead. By the time I'm done with my daily cleaning, I just want to goof off. Either playing video games or watching YouTube or anything else that dominates my leisure time. I need to figure out how to best prioritize these two things, because when I spend a decent time doing one, I often don't feel like doing the other.

Are you familiar with the "spoon theory"? (I highly recommend looking that up if not. Good read.) That kind of applies to me, here. But it's also that laziness/lack of motivation/depression thing that is at play. If I post about it in this thread, perhaps that will help me tap into that need for external motivation again.

I may also memorize some other things in the future. Having lived in the Yukon for a few years, I have taken a shine to some Robert Service poetry. I wouldn't mind having a few of those in my head.

There's something pleasantly satisfying to stuffing your head with that kind of stuff and reciting it whenever you'd like, word-for-word.

BONUS GOALS

 (Meaning I put a lower priority to do these goals, but if I can manage to fit them in, that would be great.)

* Manage my pony collection.

I want to thin out my collection. They take up space, contribute to the clutter, and just generally aren't as enjoyable as they once were. But what does an unenergetic, unmotivated person do to be free of them? The path of least resistance, usually. Well, I put a few of them in some grocery bags and gave them to the Value Village. I don't feel the least bit regret about it, but it's not the most ideal way. Perhaps there is a collector here in Lethbridge or even just southern Alberta who doesn't mind visiting Lethbridge who would like to have them. I'm not intending to give them all up. My sun collection will likely stay. I love my Sunny Dazes, my grail Sunburst, and custom Sunflowers.

* Adoptables

I was parted from my favorite art program, Paint Shop Pro 8, for a whole year. My son found the disc just last week. I missed it so bad and was pleased to reinstall it. Perhaps I can get lightly back into making adoptables. Maybe to keep from being deluged with requests at first, I'd just offer them to the people who participate in this thread. I'm thinking about it anyway. Plus, it would boost my participation here at the Arena, which has been lacking due to general burn out.

Anyway, I've spent enough time on this post. I need to get to my tidying. See you around.

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Re: Healthy Pony Summer Sign Ups
« Reply #6 on: April 26, 2017, 09:43:46 AM »
A picture for me????

I am so glad you joined sourdough....i am so excited and I just can't hide it:) :cheer:

I am with you on organize...its hard to get it together. I love your money idea! You have the switch! My hubby and I want one too:)

Looks like we will be having fun:)
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Re: Healthy Pony Summer Sign Ups
« Reply #7 on: April 26, 2017, 02:27:35 PM »
I've not done this before but after sliding again I feel I need to be accountable to someone other than myself/my husband. Because he doesn't care. I do.  :P

1. Walk at least 1/2 mi per day.
I've slacked off but need to do better. That's about 4 full laps around my block. A vagrant camped out in the woods and I stopped walking due to fear but I think he finally moved on.

2. Exercise at least 30 mins per day.
I'll probably start off around 10-15 and work my way up. I'm trying to get my waistline back. I'd love to get my legs back too or lose weight but changing my overall shape back closer to my college image is my goal.

3. Do garden work at least 3 times per week.
This will be easier as the summer progresses. Wake, water, walk, weed, misc. work, breakfast is how I've done it in the past. It makes other stuff easier.

4. Clean at least one room, fully, per week.
Dusting, mopping/vacuuming, clearing, etc. and all. I did the bathroom yesterday and hubby asked if my family was heading over.  ^^; I thought about a per day goal of about 2 cuft cleared off of a surface with the week ending with the floor getting done. I'll add shelving as necessary.

5. Get my veggies from the farmers market at least twice per month.
I'm getting better and more consistent with freezing and preserving fresh foods myself as well as cooking with them. I need to take advantage of the super-fresh, high quality items I know will be there. (Farm fresh eggs... :dribble:)

6. Create and maintain a new workspace. By the end of the challenge.
I've had and demolished a number of spaces in the house for work use. Now our "bedroom" is where I used to use as a creation space and hubby's new cat refuses to socialize with my elderly one and requires the den beside it to run around. Two teenagers and a young child take up the remaining space and I have commandeered the sofas as a "temporary" measure that has gone on far too long, IMHO. The first steps will be figuring out where and trimming my copious amounts of sheer materials into an organized and useable mass.

I may have more eventually but these are the ones I want to start with.  ^.^
Creatively cute and proud of it!  Have a very good day, [you]!  ^.^

I'm making custom cute pony plushies and have set up an Etsy store called Ponies A'More! Ponies + More + LOVE! :heart: :inlove: :heart:
Finally got my SALES thread up and update it as I can.  :satisfied:
Lastly, posting my Wishlist here!  :biggrin:

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« Reply #8 on: April 26, 2017, 03:40:19 PM »
Welcome to the party:) little by little we can do this:)
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« Reply #9 on: April 30, 2017, 08:44:48 AM »
May 1st is our day to sign up for the point system. I can tell you I need to work on my recording. I hope to do that here. I kind of slacked on the last stretch of the previous healthy pony:) I hope to see more sign up...if not let's get this party going!!!
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« Reply #10 on: April 30, 2017, 08:50:26 AM »
Hmm.
Do I sign up... or do I continue to be lazy, lol.
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« Reply #11 on: April 30, 2017, 10:08:58 AM »
Hahaha I vote sign up
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« Reply #12 on: April 30, 2017, 10:23:57 AM »
Yessss. and I should.
But I'd start the whole thing off with a 17day diet and... T_T; Oof. That's going to be a shock. (Plus I'm not quite prepared).
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« Reply #13 on: April 30, 2017, 11:30:15 AM »
You could do it as a prep for that diet. Get your self on a good track before that happens:) can anyone tell I work in sales?
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« Reply #14 on: April 30, 2017, 11:58:03 AM »
It's more like getting wet in a pool, i just kind of have to dive in. my breakfasts and lunches that I eat during the week fit into the diet... I just don't have anything to snack on. ...

Ok, I'm in. No point in waiting till the next one. XD

Goals: Kick it off with a 17day diet. Paleo for the remainder of the month. Reassess weight afterwards. I'm going to assume it'll be eat healthy on workdays (no/low carb) and whatever on the weekend.

Daily stretching for flexibility.

Hulahoop at least 3x a week. Starting with 5min and working up.

Walking at least 2x a week... This one is the one I'm unsure on because I kind of have obstacles with that.

I want to accomplish 1 size smaller in pants. :) Hopefully this is the last push towards that goal.
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