Day 97: 4/17/15

SingRunTing

TGIF and one more weekend between us and the end of this challenge! Push through to the end everyone!

I hit my goals yesterday. Mr. Ting is away for a few days, so I kept myself busy with some extra working out last night.

Goals for today:
1. stay within calories
2. 10,000 steps
3. short run & strength (legs & abs)

Kenda2427

Happy Friday! It's my day off and it's supposed to be +18, so hoping to get some good outside exercise. Take the dog for a good walk/run, maybe hit up some playgrounds to practice some OCR obstacles...monkey bars and climbing

Met all goals yesterday. Had 17,400 steps yesterday. Today's goals are simply:
Stay within calories
10,000+ steps

danelutza19

Good morning everyone!!!
Wow, time sure flies by so fast, this challenge went by very quickly.
Nice going SingRunTing! Kenda you're so awesome I can't find words to describe you!!
Yesterday I was going to rest but the sun was bright, the air was warm and nature was calling so my daughter and I decided to hit the trail and hike to a remote park. To say it was fun would be an understatement
Today is a very big day because it marks the end of my two weeks experiment. During the last two weeks I haven't used the scale and my food intake was set at 2700 calories I woke up today a bit nervous... My first though was that I gained like 10lb or something ... No, I gained a total of 2.6 lb in two weeks. This is great data for me. Assuming my metabolism is healthy and the weight isn't all water, I was over by 9100 calories. So in 14 days I was eating 650 extra calories, therefore my TDEE should be somewhere around 2050. Of course, I know that number is too low, based on my normal food intake over the last year but I'm here to play ball and I will do this right for the second part of my experiment, I will drop calories by 500 and see what happens then this science stuff is so exiting!!!!
Have a fabulous day everyone!!!

krp97

Yesterday was alright. My knee is still bothering me but I was back at the gym yesterday. I did a light 20 minute elliptical workout and it felt fine but if I tried to crank up the resistance to much it protested. Then I did my weights routine. This was the best part. I just started doing it again last week and I was using 8lb dumb bells. Yesterday I was doing it and they were too light so I had to upgrade to 10lbs for all my exercises except 1. Also my abs didn't protest at all when I was doing my sit-ups which was a weird thing. All those were good things but then my eating got off last night. I need to have a meal ready for me when I get home from the gym so I don't just eat whatever is around.

Goals for today:
1. Stay under calories(going to grandma's house so this might be tricky)
2. Enjoy the rest day.
3. Water

lemurcat12

Can't believe how close we are to the end of this challenge. Glad it's continuing.

For this week I decided to go back to TDEE method rather than eating back calories on workout days, and changed my number to one that I think is a bit (not a huge amount) lower than what I was averaging in a week before. After experimenting, I found that I really do prefer not having to worry about workout calories--for me, it messes me up as I start thinking in terms of how many calories I'm burning in the workout and whether it's "enough" vs. what I actually want to accomplish. It started off a big rocky, but by the end of the week I know it was definitely the right choice, I feel like everything is just a lot easier.

Today's goals: (1) get in a bit of an extra workout (sprints, perhaps) in addition to my regular Friday pilates class; (2) get my emissions test and license plate renewal (half done); and (3) stay within calories (this will be challenging since I'm going out for dinner, but unlike most places I go there are calories for this one, so it's doable!).

nicolejo143

Sweet! I lost 1lb in 1 week. I cut 150 calories day, and pushed myself a little harder in my workouts, I also tried to get 10,000 steps in everyday (which wasn't that hard because I'm a runner). I went from losing less than half a pound a week to 1! It took me the whole challenge to figure out how to lose weight. I will be ready for the next one!