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Diet Journals - October *Intl*

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Diet Journals - October *Intl*
Swap Coordinator:crstarlette (contact)
Swap categories: Challenges  Themed  Letters & Writing 
Number of people in swap:7
Location:Other
Type:None
Last day to signup/drop:October 1, 2008
Date items must be sent by:November 7, 2008
Number of swap partners:1
Description:

Anyone else need to drop a few? Is anyone else better at keeping commitments to other people than to yourself? This swap is for a journal to be kept though the month of October recording your diet successes and setbacks. If there is interest I will continue this every month until... ?

For this you will buy one journal in which you must write at least one entry per day, Oct. 1 - 31, about your diet/exercise. At the end of the month you will send the journal to your partner along with a nice gift to congratulate them for doing their best this month.

Gifts can be anything and can be handmade or store bought, but please spend $5 - $10 and the item must be new and nice. Please look at your partner's profile and pick something they will like. You should also send a nice encouraging note.

Some things you may include in your journal:

What you ate/drank

How many calories you consumed

How much and what type of exercise you did that day

How certain foods affect you emotionally and physically

Beginning and ending weight

All your thoughts and feelings

Recipes

Great diet ideas

Why you want to lose weight and/or how you gained it.

Things you send and receive in our group swaps.

Labels (incl nutritional info) from foods/drinks you love.

Other ideas? Post them in the comments! :)

First or all, please begin your journal with a short introduction of yourself - minimally half a page. Recipes and diet ideas are wonderful additions, but please do not have your journal entry for any day be only a recipe or diet idea, or your food for the day. These are not "how to diet" books. These journals are meant to help keep us on track and to help us to see that other people have some of the same thoughts and feelings. Also, just a list of foods someone ate is not very interesting or inspirational.

Please be honest. If you don't stay as on track as you want to this month, you can do better next month! On the bright side, your down days will help the receiver not feel so bad about theirs.

You may decorate your journal if you want to, but it is not necessary.

Finally, although beginning and ending weight are not necessary (I doubt I will include them), it would be nice to put how much weight you lost at the end of the journal. A simple "I lost 10 pounds!" or "I didn't lose any weight." would suffice.

A lot of time, feelings, and some money are going into this, so there will be limits. If you can't get in this time, there will be next month.

You must have a 4.8 or higher rating and be rated on at least 20 swaps

OR

you must have a rating of 5 and be rated on at least 5 swaps.

A big THANK YOU!! to Fairyfufu for generously volunteering to angel the swap if necessary.

Ok, let's get skinny!

Discussion

hurleymurley 09/23/2008 #

Thank you for doing an international version of the swap, I'm really looking forward to this one!

teanhoneybread 10/ 1/2008 #

Is there a preferred type of journal? Will any small book do?

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