Plan B: Bravo Month

This year is going to be my alphabet soup year of fitness and eating. I'm anticipating working my way through at least the first half of the alphabet in plan names. Plan A was simply to attend the Crossfit Basics class, eat my Vemma Bode meal plan, and meet with my coaches to develop a plan. Now that Basics is almost over, I'm checking off Plan A and moving to Plan B.

Plan B is really huge for me because I tend to crash when my initial plans run into some kind of trouble.... be it of the family interruption kind or the financial crunch kind or the schedule insanity kind. I am trying to 'chunk' my plans into one-month sustainable goals that fall in line with my larger quarterly goals. Now, I'm kind of off kilter because this class is ending mid-month, so this plan is for 6-weeks... and then I'll set the next one.

Plan B (Bravo 'month': mid-March to May)

• Attend a set Crossfit class 3x/week. 

• Eat Vemma Bode meal plan. 

• Stay off the @#$! scale. 

Voila! New plan in place that I can sustain for 6 weeks... the hardest part for me will be the last one, which is actually pretty sad. Also, I know (and my coaches know) exactly which class I'll be attending- just wasn't sure I wanted to tell all the interwebs those little details. 

Plan C coming up for May!

How are you doing with your current plan? Have you moved to a new one?

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Systems Not Goals

Last week, I told one of my coaches at Big Thompson Crossfit that my goal was to not set any goals. I'm sure he thought I was being goofy, but I was dead serious. I am such a driven, goal-oriented person that I tend to suck the life out of my efforts in the gym and in the kitchen.

As I am re-entering the world of fitness, I'm trying desperately to ensure that this isn't yet another year that I work to lose 20-30 pounds over the spring and summer only to regain it all over the fall and winter. I also ran across an article on inc. that talked about setting systems and structures in place that will get us to where we want to be without setting an actual goal. This was a huge revelation for me.

I set up an appointment with my coaches with the intention of gaining some accountability for my 'systems'. Here is what we collectively decided on as my 3 month plan (note that they don't look much like goals at all):

Have you recently set some systems in place rather than goals? How is that working for you?