Health Calendar
Today I made this bad boy and tacked it up on my fridge:
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It’s my new health check calendar. (I stole this idea from Back to her Roots.)
Every day of the month there is a little graphic for each goal that I want to get done. If I do it, I get to colour in the activity with coloured pens. I’m trying to keep myself in line for my waist goals and my other all-around healthy living habits.
It’s like a pretty and colourful checklist.
Did anyone else have an obsession with taking multi-coloured in school? I still remember my colour-coding scheme from university (blue pen for notes, black pen for examples, red pen for titles, purple pen for proofs, etc…). I digress.
Most of my goals are the same for every day, with a few differences in my workouts:
Every Day Goals:
Floss (the dental floss)
Remember to take my Iron supplements (the pill)
Eat a protein rich meal or snack (the egg)
Don’t eat sweets (the cupcake- sidebar: Matt debated the logic of colouring in a dessert graphic if I didn’t eat dessert but I’m sticking with my choice of graphic here)
Fitness Goals:
Weightlift on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday (the arm + barbell)
Sprints or HIIT on Wednesday (runner)
Yoga on Saturday (the yogi)
Long Distance Run on Sunday (the running shoe)
Weekend Goals:
Drink 2L of water – I always forget to do this on the weekends (the glass)
I’m hoping that it will keep me in check with my goals so that I am motivated to come home and colour in my calendar whenever I meet them. I like seeing things get finished. It makes me feel successful. I won’t get anything else for completing my goals aside from the satisfaction of gettin’ ‘er dun.
I know it’s odd to start something like this in the middle of the fourth week of the month, but I figure it’s now or never right? Don’t worry though, tucked in behind the October calendar is already one printed for November. Huzzah!
In classic Sam fashion, I already rearranged my schedule on the first and only day I have coloured in. I decided to weightlift today instead of sprint.
To be honest, I actually forgot today was Wednesday.
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I always felt weird for putting flossing on my daily to-do list. I feel much less weird seeing it on yours, too! Thanks
I know, it should be second nature, right? I can never remember to floss. It’s so bad. I’ll go on little kicks of flossing every day but then go for months and months without even thinking about it.
Did you make this calender yourself? It’s very clever! Best of luck with your goals! (and coloring them all in
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I also used to color code all my subjects in school. My 7th grade English teacher made us color code our subjects (yellow – English, Green – Science, Blue – History, Red – Math. Don’t remember what purple was.), and I continued to do it until I graduated from college. I kid you not. Talk about habits that stick.
Can you pencil it in to make me one too? I’ll send you a picture of me which you can colour in on your calendar when it’s done…
LOL! You’re hilarious!
I really will make one for you if you want though.