Re: starting over, or again????

[Guest guest]

Are you officially entering the contest and turning in packets? If so,

I'd time it so that the cruise falls on your week off between

challenges. Then you can kick back and relax and celebrate and not be

stressed about it. If you're not turning in packets and pushing to

win, don't worry about it at all. Don't start anything over. Just

carry on, and if the thing falls in week 8, it falls in week 8. Plenty

of people have worse challenge mishaps than a cruise. If you exercise

every day and eat even remotely reasonably, you'll be fine. You'll

have a few weeks afterward to tighten things up again before snapping

pictures.

Keep the big picture in mind. You're going to be eating right and

exercising before and after the cruise no matter what the calendar

says. You're going to be doing a lot of fun activities on the cruise,

taking advantage of the health club, eating some delicious healthy

food AND some delicious decadent food. Don't stress about it. It's all

good. :-)

On 2/22/06, jesssiflower <jessiflower25@...> wrote:

> Good Morning everyone.

>

> I have a concern. I will finish this first challenge on April 23rd,

> and planned to take a week off in between the second challenge which

> would start on May 1st. If I do that I will go on the BFL cruise on

> the....get this...the 8th week of my second challenge. I was

> wondering if I should stop at week 6, take off a week, and then start

> again so I will be finishing a challenge before I leave for the

> cruise. I just heard a lot of people say, " dont expect to follow the

> plan while on the cruise, because its about celebrating and no one

> follows the plan " thats like 9 days for me, and I am afraid it will

> kill my challenge. Any thoughts...............sorry about all the

> dates, I had to look at the calendar. jessica

[Guest guest]

, thank you so much for your imput. I am entered into the

constest and plan on sending my before and after pics. I needed

some direction and you provided it. thank you. I am going to finish

this challenge, and take a week off as planed (that week off will

fall the week of my cousins wedding....cake!) Then I will start

again and go enjoy my vacaction and just get back on track

afterwards. Thank you so much for your advice, I know I can do it.

Thank you.

>

> Are you officially entering the contest and turning in packets? If

so,

> I'd time it so that the cruise falls on your week off between

> challenges. Then you can kick back and relax and celebrate and not

be

> stressed about it. If you're not turning in packets and pushing to

> win, don't worry about it at all. Don't start anything over. Just

> carry on, and if the thing falls in week 8, it falls in week 8.

Plenty

> of people have worse challenge mishaps than a cruise. If you

exercise

> every day and eat even remotely reasonably, you'll be fine. You'll

> have a few weeks afterward to tighten things up again before

snapping

> pictures.

>

> Keep the big picture in mind. You're going to be eating right and

> exercising before and after the cruise no matter what the calendar

> says. You're going to be doing a lot of fun activities on the

cruise,

> taking advantage of the health club, eating some delicious healthy

> food AND some delicious decadent food. Don't stress about it. It's

all

> good. :-)

>

>

>

> On 2/22/06, jesssiflower <jessiflower25@...> wrote:

> > Good Morning everyone.

> >

> > I have a concern. I will finish this first challenge on April

23rd,

> > and planned to take a week off in between the second challenge

which

> > would start on May 1st. If I do that I will go on the BFL

cruise on

> > the....get this...the 8th week of my second challenge. I was

> > wondering if I should stop at week 6, take off a week, and then

start

> > again so I will be finishing a challenge before I leave for the

> > cruise. I just heard a lot of people say, " dont expect to

follow the

> > plan while on the cruise, because its about celebrating and no

one

> > follows the plan " thats like 9 days for me, and I am afraid it

will

> > kill my challenge. Any thoughts...............sorry about all

the

> > dates, I had to look at the calendar. jessica

>