Eco-Chic Lifestyle Change Week 9 : Overall Project Reflection

What was your smart goal? and did it change?
My goal was to walk to school each day during the school week and I changed it these last few weeks adding no alcohol and also adding a salad to one of my meals each week.
What helped you be successful? What things got in your way? How can you address these in the future?Wanting to save gas and get into better shape were things that helped make the change succesful for me. The things that got in my way were the holidays and rainy days. I should probably get a rain coat or an umbrella or something, well not in this case some snow boots.
How did you benefit from this project? What did you learn about yourself? What did you learn about behavior change?I benefited saving a ton of gas from this project and getting the endorphins flowing every morning by walking to schol. I learned that if you keep at something it can become a habit. I learned that even if I dont want to do something you just have to do it and you will feel better.
How did others and/or the environment benefit from you changing this behavior?
Well I barely used my car doing this whole project and if I saw trash on the way I would pick it up. I think my change was for the good.


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Eco-Chic Lifestyle Change Week 9 : My SMART Goal

My health goal for this week was to walk to school every day and to quit drinking and have a salad for a meal each day.
How did it go?
This week is probably by far one of the worse weeks I had. I did walk to school every day but I did not follow through with having a salad every day. The holiday made it extremely hard. Also with the drinking part, I did fail with that to. I am pretty upset with myself and I am hoping to finish strong. It was just hard being home and my friends like to go out alot so it was hard to avoid the drinking aspect.
FUTURE GOALS...
I am still going to continue my plan and just work alot harder at completeing these last few weeks or so.
Until next time good luck to everyone and good luck!

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Eco-Chic Lifestyle Change Week 8 : My SMART Goal

mY sMaRt GoAl!
Yo and welcome to another week of some Eco-Chic!
My smart goal was to walk to school all 5 days of the week and also I added some other elements, such as no drinking of alcohol and also replace one of my meals with a salad each day as well.

dID i AcComPliSh iT and what were the challeneges and successes?
Well yes I did accomplish it but...................................................................this week was a little harder than most. I did quit the drinking for the week and it wasnt hard at first but it got harder especially during the weekend and I am out of town for hockey and everyone around you is also drinking. The salad part wasnt hard at all because I love salad and creating them and they just taste good in general I think. When I was a kid I thought different. I must have been a weird kid. Walking to school was pretty easy but the hard part is walking home later when it gets dark earlier and it becomes kinda depressing.
wIlL U CoNtInUe?
I will continue this same goal and I believe the alcohol things will get better. UNtil next time have a good one.

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Eco-Chic Lifestyle Change Week 7 : My SMART Goal

Hey!!!!!

Welcome back to another week of Eco-Chic!

Smart Goal:

My smart was to walk to school every single day whether or not it rains or shines, and I have to say the weather was really nice this week! I achieved my goal and it has became a habit so its pretty easy to do now.

Challenges/Successes

As far as challenges go...I had ZERO! I enjoy walking to school and it has been a big help getting my energy up in the morning.

Feelings?

I felt pretty happy everyday...Walking to school made me feel pretty good and more energized so I hope that continues.

What did I learn?

I learned that I should start picking up my walking pace because I know I am slow walker, but I realized this last week that im EXTREMELY slow when it comes to walking and I kinda just mosey along. So will try to to pick up the pace when I walk to school from now on.

Future plan?

I will be modifying my Eco-Chic lifestyle change a little bit...I have been having some personal issues so I am also adding that I am quitting drinking and staying sober until Dec 31st. Also I will be eating one salad for a meal once a day as well as keeping my old goal of walking to school every day.

Until next time have a good one everyone!

Eco-Chic Lifestyle Change Week 6 : My SMART Goal

This week i wrote a peom for my lifestyle change post. I was going to rap this to a beat and post it in a video but my camera went dumb on me...

My goals to walk to school all 5 days of the week /
And to make sure it aint boring my ipod is always on the beat /
Listening to the greatest music knodding my head to the rhyme /
My biggest challenge I faced this week was getting to school on time /
Because For some reason my body just didn’t want to wake up /
But than my stomach started growling so it didn’t take much /
To hop right out of bed and take on the eco chic /
Lifestyle challenge that we blog about every week/
And next week wont be any different im doing the same thing /
Whether it snows bad or I gotta walk to school in the rain /
Because Im successful so far on this journey for a change /
And im going to stay strong every week all the way to the end /
And what I learned this week is that I gotta get more sleep /
So I got enough energy to survive and I be able sit up in my seat /
So until next time that I see you all in class /
Have a good week stay happy not mad/

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Eco-Chic Lifestyle Change Week 5: My SMART Goal

Smart Goal?

My smart goal was to walk to school all 5 days of the week. This week I did an awesome job and achieved my goal.

Successes or Challenges

The week was a success. The weather was pretty good for the most part. The most challenging part was walking home on Monday after class when it started getting dark again and it was colder to, but otherwise it wasnt that bad. In that case I walked alot faster than I normally do.

Feelings?

The feelings I had this week were different for different days. One day I actually felt like dancing and I had my ipod so I had to bust out some moves....haha. Another day I was pretty happy and proud of my mom getting her new promotion. And other days I again walked to school angry because of my ex gf bothering me.

In closing...

I learned that walking definately helps out letting out the emotion or anger that I get and helps me relax. For next week I am going to stay on this plan and MAY even have a different way of posting for this blog... we will see though. depends how creative I want to get. Until next time have a good one.

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Eco-Chic Lifestyle Change Week 4: My SMART Goal

My goal..... is to walk to school all school days..so 5 days in a row. This week went well, it sprinkled here and there but I handled it. I did succeed in maintaing my goal and the challenges were just the weather...I am not excited about the cold weather at all. My strategies was wearing my huge jacket and letting that be my rain coat and it worked pretty well.
Feelings?! I had lots of them this week...I guess since this is a blog I can say whatever I want right? Well... I broke up with my ex gf about a month ago and it seemed everyday before I walked to school she would post something on facebook or text me something to make me angry. So I spent a lot of my week walking to school angry, but walking home I wasnt to angry because it wore off by the time I had to walk home.
I learned this week that being prepared for the weather makes it alot easier to walk to school. My goals for next week are the same and if the weather is bad I am going to continue my strategy. Til next time! Ps sorry my fonts are boring looking. Something is wrong with my page and I have no options for my fonts.

Eco-Chic Lifestyle Change Week 3: My SMART Goal

My smart goal is to walk to school every day. This has been the most difficult week I have had to deal with. I have been fighting the H1N1 and this defintaly goes down as my bodies worse 5 things I have had to deal with in my lifetime. Its just miserable, there is no words to explain it. I just got out of the hospital on Monday with breathing complications and am sentenced to lay down some more, which is boring but ok in a sense that I feel I just ran 5 miles when I stand up off my couch to walk to the kitchen or something. On a brighter note....This flu should be gone soon and I can go back to my normal life eventually. Well I hope. I learned this week that even though you keep washing your hands that REST is also very important. I myself dont get alot of rest on a normal day because my schedule with school, hockey and music has me constantly going and I usually do not get to sleep til 3 am on most days if im lucky. So to all those out there take the time to rest. I didnt do so great at accomplishing my goal this week because of my sickness. Next week I plan to get right back at it and finish the semester strong. With that take care everyone until next time!

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Eco-Chic Lifestyle Change Week 2: My SMART Goal

Here we are into week 2 of the smart goals. My smart goal was to walk to school 4 out of the 5 days of the week. I did awesome on achieving my goal. I have been walking everyday actually and also walked to the grocery store, even though it was hard I felt alot better afterwards.
The strategies that helped me accomplish this was to dress for the weather. The challenges I faced was the cold weather. It sucked to be honest. But what made it easier if that I have a locker at school so bringing a jacket isnt a big deal so I could stay warm.
The feelings I experience were satisfaction, in knowing that I am helping the world and myself by walking to school.
I learned that all you need to do is focus on the goal and stay positive and you can be succesful.
My plans for next week...I am going to modify mine a little bit. Since I was able to walk everyday, I am going to continue that and vow to walk everyday to and from school for the remainder of the ten weeks through whatever kind of weather it may bring.
To everyone good luck!

Eco-Chic Lifestyle Change Week 1: My SMART Goal

My Smart Goal
I am excited for this. For my Eco-Chic Lifestyle Change I will be focusing on walking to school 4 out of 5 days a week for the next ten weeks. The reasons I chose this is because according to an article called The Benefits of Walking Instead of Driving walking instead of driving would save. It would save gas, which in turn would save money. Also it allows me to have time to exercise.

How is this Change Eco-Chic?
Not only is this a good individual change, but I also think its a good earth change as welll. With me being on my feet and walking to school more I will be using less gas and putting less carbon dioxide and gases  in the air because I will be using my car a lot less.  Also I will be saving more money instead of spending every dime I have on gas because it is so expensive.Also its better for me because it allows me to get more exercise especially on days that become very busy.

Why is this Change important to me?
This change is important to me because I am making a difference to help the world be a cleaner place. Even though it may seem like a small change, its a change and a change is better than no change in my eyes. Also I will be able to help myself be more active and keep living a healthy lifestyle.

Another reason this change is important to me is because it would cause less stress when it comes to money factors and also now I know I am helping making a change to better the world.

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Keithsgreenbike (introductory post)

 Welcome to Keith@keithsgreenbikes

Hey hey hey! My name is Keith Enstad. I am a Health Education Major and believe my calling is to help people. In this blog I will be posting things about the enviroment and other things that I think are important topics about the enviroment. My hobbies and interests include hockey, cooking and making music.



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