Day by Day Challenge- part 2 (October)

nam14uk

Goals for Saturday:
1. Go to Body Combat class in the morning.
2. Keep within my cals (am going out in the evening so have to make healthy food choices).
3. Hoover!

Morning all!

Hope you're all well and had a great weekend.

So let me tell you about body combat - class was at 10am on Saturday morning and it's 11am Monday morning now and I AM STILL ACHING!! It's a high energy class kicking and punching (thin air not anybody)! and is set to music and is such good fun! It also helped that the instructor is possibly the best looking guy I have ever seen! Made me work even harder so I ended up burning 740 cals in that hour!!

So didn't quite get the hoovering done on Saturday but I did it last night and gave the place and really good clean so I feel much better!

Saturday night was great fun but the girl whose birthday it was was sooooo drunk and was very funny - entertainment for everyone else but serious embarrassment for her! She didn't seem that bothered the next day - I know I would have been if it was me! Happily I had a clean eating day and only a couple of low cal drinks that kept me below my cals for the day. It was the first time I have seen a lot of those people since I started on mfp and I got lots of lovely compliments which was really unexpected but lovely!

So goals for Monday:

1. Gym.
2. More veggies with my meals!
3. Water water water. This is still such a problem for me.

Sim have you been watching x factor?? I missed it on Saturday but managed to catch it last night. What was Cheryl thinking?? Retail therapy sounds lovely - enjoy and treat yourself to something for all your hard work!

Leela love it that you do a mini competition with your daughter! Great way of staying fit for you both!

Jess - love your descriptions of your kids! Sounds like every day is entertaining!

Fitbot - I've done Bikram Yoga before - oh my gosh is all I can say! The heat was incredible but it definitely makes you more flexible and able to do the moves. 6 days in a row is intense - good luck and let us know how you get on.

Nicole hope you are feeling much better and managed to get some rest.

Wow long post from me - must do some work!

Have a great day!

fitbot

i adore kickboxing.
i was at my fittest ever when i was doing it 2-3 times per week.

PSUgrl921

Good morning everyone!

Namika-- that Body Combat class sounds like so much fun! I used to kickbox and loved it ... and I know how much your body hurts afterwards. I am feeling a little better today-- I'm actually making it out of my room for classes! I made it out yesterday for a meeting. It was a lot but I made it.

Leela- O so much to do for homecoming! My fraternity has a float in the parade so I have to go pomp for at least 5 hours-- meaning folding up tissue paper and sticking it in chicken water. And I'm manning a carnival booth from 4-5 on Wednesday. And I have to play catch up.

And... I have my first THON committee meeting of the semester!!! I finally got the call last night that I got a position and am sooooo excited! Fundraising season has officially begun so we have our first canning weekend this month as well as the THON 5k!! So excited to get underway.

Moving on... because I do have class. Met my goals yesterday... not much schoolwork done. Like a tiny amount but I needed rest from laundry. Eagles killed me yesterday. No clue where they were but their heads were not in the game and now Vick is hurt... ahhhh.

Goals for today:

1. Water, fluids, etc.
2. Nap-- need to remember that my body does still need rest even though I'm back into things.
3. A few hours of pomping.

Have a good day everyone!

Nicole

TheNewJessieMae

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Goals for Saturday 10/02

1.) GET THIS HOUSE CLEAN AND BURN CALORIES WHILE DOING IT!!! I never would have thought how much 2 hours of cleaning can burn *****DONE*****

2.) At my childrens naptime-TAE BO

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FAILED. A FRIEND CAME OVER TO VISIT/AND I WAS GOING TO DO IT THAT NIGHT, BUT GOT A CALL THAT A FRIEND OF MINE THAT IS IN ICU, WILL PASS SOON-SO I SPENT A FEW HOURS AT THE HOSPITAL.

3.) Get my booty to SAMS and get some more EAS-I am OUT.

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FAIL FOR THE SAME REASON AS ABOVE.
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Didn't get on yesterday because I was at Kings Island all day.............

Monday 10/4 goals
1.)Be productive at work. Get things done that need to be done so I am not stressing over the same thing tomorrow.

2.)Exersice before I go to bed.

3.)Find time to make it to the hospital. My buddy wont be here physically ver much longer. Tragic accident. He struggled to survice for over 2 weeks. It's just been to much on him. I have said everything I've needed to say to him, but I still feel like I need to see him everyday. Pray his family finds peace. He is only 30. His parents and grandparents are having one hell of a time.

TheNewJessieMae

I get up at 5:30 monday through friday, get my two angels and myself ready. Take them both to their schools, and then I come to work until 4:30. I leave work and go pick up the children and usually don't make it home until around 5:30 or so. So there is 12 hours out of my day that is completely devoted to others. lolol.
Then when I get home my husband and I both cook and clean together. (love him!!!) Spend time with the kids, put them down at 8pm. Then after that---finally

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I can exersize. I really wish I was a stay at home mom, but we just can't swing it. I try sometimes to walk during lunch, but I get all sweaty, or it's raining, or something. Heck we have a gym in our building, but I have to deal with the public and can't shower afterwards. lol So, $$$ and time wise there is no gym going for me. I can't do it. That's why I struggle finding time to do it on my own.

Ravyn1982

Ok so I got most of what I planned on getting done accomplished this weekend. Still working on getting the kitchen around because we ended up spending all day both Sat and Sun over at the in-laws. Took longer to lay the new floor than we thought it would. Also they accidently put 2 holes in the wall... Oooops:) hehe Fun fun. But I did get a good workout this weekend moving all of that furniture around and then scrubbing the floor to get the old glue off from the old flooring. I still took my walk though I didn't end up doing it on the Riverwalk. I walked the path at the park that is closer to my in-laws house. They live a county over from us. It takes almost a half hour just to get over there and its mostly highway driving. But it was good weekend.

Goals for today.

1. Start Shred. Not really looking forward to starting this one. But I know it will be good for me:)
2. Finish the kitchen
3. water water
4. Stay under calories
5. clean off the ottoman so I can get into it. Its where all our blankets are and its started to get cold. We had a frost this morning. Yay for my allergies!!:)

Well I'm off to get started on that Shred. Jillian is gonna kick my butt today.

Good to see everyone is enjoying this thread so much. I like us all being so tight knit on here:) You all help keep me into this more than I would be otherwise! Thank you all so much for that! :flowerforyou:

fitbot

day 2 of 6 of bikram yoga, complete / no dairy eaten / stayed under calories

goals for tomorrow
1- bikram day 3 of 6
2- stay under calories
3- lots of water!!!!

sim247

Good evening all,

So tired, I have walked my little feet off today!

Today's goals...

1. Stay within my cals - yep
2. Drink plenty of water - yep
3. Make wise food choices at the shopping mall - erm, I had a kfc but still within my cals because I burnt loads of calories walking.

Goals for tomorrow
1. Stay within my cals
2. Do at least 30 mins exercise
3. Make wise food choices

Leela, I love reading your posts and you are always thinking of everybody. You really do have a big heart :flowerforyou:

Nam, I am loving the x factor! Not sure about some of their choices but it is definately hotting up! And the twist next week! Der, der, derrrrrr!!!!!

Simone

Ravyn1982

1. Start Shred. Not really looking forward to starting this one. But I know it will be good for me:) DONE:)
2. Finish the kitchen FAIL
3. water water DOING GOOD
4. Stay under calories DONE
5. clean off the ottoman so I can get into it. Its where all our blankets are and its started to get cold. We had a frost this morning. Yay for my allergies!!:) FAIL

So I'm running on about a 65% sucess rate today:) Considering what I got done had to do with weightloss and what I didn't get done is just house work, I'm happy with that:)

Now for tomorrow

1. Riverwalk with friend
2. Doc appt for me. Hoping to get referral to an endrocronologist.
3. water
4. day 2 of shred.
5. kitchen

Ok well Hopefully I can get all of that done tomorrow:) Goodnight everyone!

TeamLeela

Monday-
1. go to gym after my daughter goes to school, burn atleast 400 calories.
2. walk atleast 2 miles in the afternoon.
3. eat fruits and vegetables with every meal.
4. try to avoid soda.
5. continue packing.

I didn't get to stay at the gym as long as I would have liked to. I didn't go for a walk this afternoon. I ended up doing an exercise video. But I did burn a total of 527 calories. I tried to eat fruits and vegetables with every meal. I didn't do a good job avoiding soda. I did get most of the packing done.

Tuesday-
1. Clean eating all day (this means no potato chips or pop).
2. continue abs and push ups.
3. Workout after the doctor's office.
4. go for a walk in the afternoon or do another video.

TeamLeela

bump.

PSUgrl921

Good morning everyone! I met my goals yesterday! Yay! Not so hard right now since most of them aren't weight loss related-- just recovery mode related. I'm feeling a lot better, but I'm not sure I"m ready for today. I will be out of my room from 9:30 to 7:15. No time for a nap so here are my goals.

1. Find a little time to relax somewhere. It's going to be a hard day on my still recovering body.
2. Fluids. Water.
3. Homework in between classes. Still playing catch up.

Have a good day everyone!

Nicole

TheNewJessieMae

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TheNewJessieMae

Monday 10/4 goals
1.)Be productive at work. Get things done that need to be done so I am not stressing over the same thing tomorrow.--I WAS SOMEWHAT PRODUCTIVE BUT NOT LIKE I SHOULD HAVE BEEN.

2.)Exersice before I go to bed. DID NOT DO THIS, I WAS AT THE HOSPITAL TOO LONG.

3.)Find time to make it to the hospital. My buddy wont be here physically ver much longer. Tragic accident. He struggled to survice for over 2 weeks. It's just been to much on him. I have said everything I've needed to say to him, but I still feel like I need to see him everyday. Pray his family finds peace. He is only 30. His parents and grandparents are having one hell of a time. ***DONE.

Today, 10/5/2010

1.) I will meet my goals
2.) find time to walk, abs, weights, walk, abs, weights and walk again. Circuits are very calorie burning. AND I need stress relief.
3.) Increase Water and Green Tea intake.

nam14uk

So goals for Monday:

1. Gym - DONE went this morning before work!
2. More veggies with my meals! DONE - managed to basically just eat veggies for dinner with some noodles so that was good.
3. Water water water. This is still such a problem for me. NOT QUITE DONE - I definitely increased my water but I don't think I had enough.

Hi everyone! Hope you're all having a good Tuesday. Only a couple more hours before work is over for the day but not sure I can wait that long! I went training this morning and am feeling so tired! Definitely a rest day for me tomorrow.

Given that Tuesday is almost over I'll post my goals for Wednesday...

1. WATER!
2. Stay within cals to 1200 as I won't be exercising.
3. Be a bit more productive at work! I have soooo much work to do but don't seem to have accomplished that much the last day or two.

Glad to see everyone is doing so well. Keep it up!

Nam x

fitbot

bikram day 1 completed! lalalalla that s halfway thru my self challenge
i did get intense sugar cravings after and perhaps ate too much at lunch

so tomorrow
1. bikram day 4
2. still no coffee
3. keep closer to 1200 cal goal

sim247

Good evening all,

How is everyone doing today? I am soooo tired, yawn.....

Today's goals.

1. Stay within my cals - nope
2. Do at least 30 mins exercise - 40 mins on exercise bike
3. Make wise food choices - nope, hence the reason I am over on cals.

I will keep the same goals for tomorrow.

Simone x

Ravyn1982

1. Riverwalk with friend---We walked a little over half of it.
2. Doc appt for me. Hoping to get referral to an endrocronologist. DONE
3. water DONE
4. day 2 of shred. FAIL
5. kitchen---I have my son working on it right now.:)

So I over did the shred yesterday. My legs have decided that they don't want to support me right now. I can't even walk in my house without holding on to the wall. I'm so sore that even though I took painkillers I still am in alot of pain and I have a high pain tolerance. So I decided not to do the shred today and I will not be doing any exercise tomorrow.

I have my son working on the kitchen because he got in trouble at school today and grounding him just doesn't seem to really work so I put him to work this time. He kicked a kid who made him mad with something the kid said. He's 7 he knows thats not how you take care of things like that.

Goals for Tomorrow

1. Water
2. Rest
3. Make some jewelry (good way to make sure I stay off my legs a good portion of the day.)

TeamLeela

I don't really have time to respond individually, but I do see that everyone is doing a great job trying to stay accountable and on track with their goals.
Here's my Tuesday's recap.

Tuesday-
1. Clean eating all day (this means no potato chips or pop).
2. continue abs and push ups.
3. Workout after the doctor's office.
4. go for a walk in the afternoon or do another video.

1. failed....I had a pop and snuck a few of my daughter's chips off her plate....BAD, I know.
2. yes and yes, not as motivated to do the push ups, probably because they are still really tough to do
3. failed....I was at the dog gone doctor's office for over 2 hours. It was the time that I had allotted for both the doctors and the gym and I had to stay on schedule.
4. I did go for a 4.4 mile walk today. it felt awesome. the night is not over yet, I still may do a video.

So For Wednesday-
1. finish off all the fruits and veggies. Whatever fruit I don't finish, pack it for my healthy snack on the train.
2. try to organize the house. it looks like a train wreck (cheap pun).
3. go to zumba and do 30 minutes of cardio after.
4. limit myself to one diet soda a day so I don't feel like a failure when I drink one. its much better than the 3 to 5 I used to drink daily.

I decided to pack exercise equipment that I can use. Resistance bands, jump rope, a beach ball (to do crunches on like a stability ball) I deflated it so it takes up virtually no room in the suitcase. I also have a 5 pound weighted ball thats awesome, its coming with me too. There are lots of hills and great places to hike, I'm really looking forward to that part of the trip.

There are a few things that I have to pack last minute like tolietries, hrm, digital food scale, phone charger, etc. otherwise, packing is all done.

Everyone have a nice night. I'll check in tomorrow night.
Leela.

PSUgrl921

Good Afternoon everyone!!!

Hope everyone is having a good day. Ravyn, that sounds painful. Hope you are feeling better tomorrow! Staying off of them and resting them is a good idea through tomorrow.

I did fairly well yesterday although I did not find any time to relax. It was a crazy busy day and I couldn't sleep last night so I'm exhausted. But goals for today are:

1. Homework, homework, homework! I have a quiz and an exam tomorrow.
2. Get to bed as soon as possible after my THON meeting.
3. Water!

I'm feeling soooo much better but still a little exhausted and weak so for now, walking to classes and meetings are my only exercise. Plus, it's homecoming week so I don't have much time anyway.

Have a good one!

Nicole

TheNewJessieMae

Well my goals for yesterday were kept except the walking part. It was too cold outside and my treadmill died. So instead I did steps, weights, abs, squats.

My goals for today 10/6/10:
Water baby!!!
Eat more than I have been
When I get home from work-laundry, laundry, laundry.

fitbot

completed day 4 in a row of 90 min bikram. i hurt. today was rough as i gave in and had a coffee, which means i was sweating buckets at yoga. lets try to not do that tomorrow.. shall we.

just 2 more days.

tomorrow's goals:

1. bikram yoga in the am
2. no coffee
3. stay under and not stress eat
4. not overeat at dinner with friend
5. avoid temptation to drink while at art opening + dinner w friend

fitbot

aargghhghg today has been a major FAIL.
i had to skip yoga due to an emergency deadline
and i have already eaten pretty much all of my alotted calories and its only just after lunch

BOOOOOOO

TeamLeela

So For Wednesday-
1. finish off all the fruits and veggies. Whatever fruit I don't finish, pack it for my healthy snack on the train.
2. try to organize the house. it looks like a train wreck (cheap pun).
3. go to zumba and do 30 minutes of cardio after.
4. limit myself to one diet soda a day so I don't feel like a failure when I drink one. its much better than the 3 to 5 I used to drink daily.

1. no, but I did pack them to take with.
2. trying....still trying
3. I did 2 hours of zumba yesterday! woohooo once in the morning and once in the afternoon.
4. this worked really good. unfortunately I made very poor choices in my eating yesterday!

Thursday-
1. double check every room of the house to make sure that I'm not forgetting anything.
2. have a nice lunch with my family before I leave.
3. have a good time without thinking about every morsel that goes in my mouth.
4. walk around as much as possible to increase circulation.
5. download some new music.

that's all I have for today!

luvbnamom-- thinking of you sweetheart! keep your head up!

fitbot, you have been doing so well. don't let one bad day derail you.

kizzy_muss

october 7, 2010:
-drink 64 oz water
-go grocery shopping
-get workouts i missed in of the jillian michaels 30 day slimdown such as no more trouble zones x 2

PSUgrl921

Hello everyone!!

Not a whole lot of time but ... I got my goals done yesterday. Didn't get as much homework done as I wanted but... I got some done so I'm ok with that. Goals for today:

1. Drink lots of water.
2. Fruits/veggies with lunch and dinner.
3. Homework done. Still playing catchup. ugh.

Have a good day!

Nicole

sim247

Good evening everyone,

How are we all today? The weather has been quite warm today for a change....

Had a bad couple of days and today is no better. I will post 3 goals on here tomorrow for the weekend and hopefully stick to them. I would set goals for tomorrow but it's my mum's birthday tomorrow and I don't think I would hit my goals if I set any.

Keep up the good work everyone and have a good, happy Friday!

Simone x

Ravyn1982

Well I did well yesterday. Today I've stayed within my calories but I never posted goals for today. So I'm just gonna post for tomorrow. I feel much better now. My legs aren't rubber anymore:)

Goals for Fri
1. riverwalk with friend.
2. eat healthier
3. lots of water
4. laundry

Now off to bed for me:)

kizzy_muss

october 7, 2010:
-drink 64 oz water:drinker:
-go grocery shopping:drinker:
-get workouts i missed in of the jillian michaels 30 day slimdown such as no more trouble zones x 2 :drinker:

kizzy_muss

friday, october 8, 2010:
-MORE GROCERY SHOPPING
-JILLIAN MICHAELS 30 DAY SHRED LEVEL 1 X 2
-DRINK MORE THAN 64 OZ WATER