March Calorie Marathan - Stay under cal goal every day!

Johnnygirl777

After giving into pizza last night I realized that I don't want to have calorie overage days, for awhile. I really feel like buckling down and thought the month of march is the perfect month to do it and gear up for summer.

I'm going to even take before and after photos because we can get a lot done in a month of really sticking to our calorie and fitness goasl.

Who's with me!?

Amy

RichB77

That sounds like a good idea!!

Please count me in to your challenge ;-)

pftjill

I don't know what your calorie goal is, but it is there to show you what you would need to lose the weight you want. It is taking into account your BMR-what your body needs. So how about you goal be to stay near it and not go above it, instead of staying under-that sounds scary. Just be healthy!!

Moorticus

EFF yah Amykins. I am down. Let's do dis.

Barelmy

I'm in.:)

Barelmy

I'm going to go ahead and post my before stats. Anyone is welcome to copy my style, though they don't have to.:)

28th February 2011;

Weight: 129lbs
Neck: 12
Waist: 27.5
Hips: 35.9
BMI/Body Fat Percentage: 21.1/22.9%

Photos:

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j99/Yunalookalike/MMBefore001.jpg
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j99/Yunalookalike/MMBefore002.jpg
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j99/Yunalookalike/MMBefore003.jpg

Goals for the Month:

* Carry on with Cto5k - I'm just starting week 2, and it's going better than I'd hoped!
* Drink enough water.
* Increase lean muscle mass, and drop my body fat percentage to 22.5%. I don't so much mind what my weight and BMI do.
* Get that waist measurement down to 27.
* Practice kicking at head hight until I can reliably and efficiently break an attackers nose.:D
* See a firmer, flatter, stomach.
* Eat better when I'm with my boyfriend. At the moment, because I'm a vegan, he doesn't know what to feed me, and I really don't want to buy food to keep at his place, carry food over from my place, or ask him to buy food for me (it's a new relationship). So we end up grabbing snacks, and food from the McDonalds next door.
* Try to up my protein consumption.
* Run an entire mile!
- In under eight minutes!

Johnnygirl777

Yay to all of your joining!! I love the support this is great!

pftjill - Let me clarify what I mean by staying under your calorie goal... basically not going over it. So if you're calorie goal is 1,200 for the day, meaning 1,197 or 1,205 is great, just not rocketing over it like I did last night with my pizza.

To see where we all get in one straight month of sticking to our goals and really getting focused

naturalbeauty47

Count me in!! I'm looking for a little challenge this month because last month I didn't do so good.

Johnnygirl777

Barelmy - Love your goals!

My goal is to stick close to my calorie goal, within 25 cals below or above.
6 days a week working out
Lower my body fat
Get up to 3+ ab workouts a week (currently slacking at 1-3)
Start running and utilizing my apartment gym
Move up into a whole new level of weights
See new definition in my body, especially my legs

Johnnygirl777

Welcome naturalbeauty47! I too didn't do great last month, my workouts were better but eating got worse.

hungrymarathongirl

Great idea! During the week, I have no problems staying under. It's the weekends that kill me. Count me in too!

Johnnygirl777

mom2jh - Same, I'm practically an angel at work, weekends are just terrible so that will be the tough part!

Glad to have you join

Roleigh

Count me in too! I've been off this past week and was over my cal. count a couple of times. I go back to work tomorrow, going back to a normal schedule will be nice for everyone :happy:

wriglucy

I'm in! What a great idea...and SOOOO attainable! Thanks for the post and the idea!

Johnnygirl777

Roleigh & wriglucy - WELCOME!!

Alright everyone, today is day one! What's everyone's workout plans & calorie goals for tonight?

My goal is:

Do an hour of kickboxing & stay at 1,450 calories

RichB77

Oooh measurements (!!!!!!)
Aaarrgggh!
I don't like giving these as i'm not where i wanna be!!! However, in the spirit of things, and in the hope that by the end of March there is a marked improvement, i'll put mine on once i've fininshed work.
And i feel everyone's pain about the weekends!!!
:drinker:

Johnnygirl777

Rich - I don't blame you, I don't want to post my measurements either

Last night I worked out, ate well and came under my calorie goal! Tonight I will be doing weight lifting and abs and going to the grocery to store to make sure I have some healthy options

Barelmy

Personally, I find I keep myself more accountable if I know I have public stats to update.:) Doesn't work for everyone.

Johnnygirl777

Barelmy - You're brave, I respect it for sure!

Alright everyone... tell me what you're doing today.

Day 3 - March Challenge - Tonight I'm doing an hour of cardio and abs, taking a break from the weights for a day to get my sweat on. Yesterday I was under my calorie goal again What are you doing today?

RichB77

I'll compromise on the stats:- i'll report them at the END of March, that gives me even more focus and i wanna be proud of what i've accomplished!
The reason i'm here at all is to lose weight and be in better shape for summer.
Oh, and most importantly:
March Challenge Day 3: Goal Calories: 1690, actual: 1617.
Thanks for the motivation peeps, keep burning those calories!

:flowerforyou:

Barelmy

I did my regular two hours of krav maga training.

I was supposed to be doing a mystery shopping assignment for lunch today, but I moved it to another time. I needed to order certain things, which I already had down in my diary. I'd also been letting myself get a bit hungry, so I could really appreciate it. If I'm going to eat a high calorie meal, I am damn well going to enjoy it!

But, yeah, once I moved it, I stopped by Cranberry, a little stall which sells lots of 'healthy' snacks, ie, vegan sweeties. Things like dried cherries, and flavoured cashews, and dark chocolate covered almonds. Heaven tastes like chocolate covered almonds. And real turkish delight, which is the perfect vegan sweetie - pure sugar! Some of it with coconut and walnuts and yummy yum yum yum.

Then, because my timing was all messed up, I didn't have time to eat properly before training. So, after training, I stopped for chips and a scallop (deep fried battered potato). I could afford the calories and saturated fat, but it's really done a number on my nutrients. I usually only get one of those at a time. I'd already earmarked a big vegan bacon sarnie as my treat/protein, so I was a tad disappointed. Plus, that would have gotten me so much more of my nutrients.

Johnnygirl777

Day 4 - March Challenge! Tonight I'm doing weight lifting and abs Last night I did cardio, light weights and kickboxing and was right under my calorie goal! What are YOU going to do today??

Rich - I like your plan, Iook forward to your gains by the end of the month. Great job yesterday on your cals!

Barelmy, you're making me hungry! Great job on doing 2 hours of krav maga training, that's seriously intense, you definitely deserved your reward treats

mazza500

Coming in on Day 4, hope it's not to late to join the party?

Need to get motivated if I am gonna fit into last years shorts....

Johnnygirl777

Welcome Mazza! Not too late at all

Good goal, shorts for summer is always a great motivation, how have you been doing so far?

Barelmy

Barelmy, you're making me hungry! Great job on doing 2 hours of krav maga training, that's seriously intense, you definitely deserved your reward treats

The problem was that, because I didn't plan well, I spent my calories on sweets and greasy food that I didn't even want that much (apart from the dark chocolate almonds). I could afford it, calorie-wise, but I suffered nutrient-wise and didn't get my (v) bacon sammich.:(

Johnnygirl777

Day 7 of March Challenge! Sunday was great, stayed under my calories and did an hour workout, I'm soooo sore today. OUCH! I may just do Yoga X tonight and get some stretch and core work done. What are you doing today?

Barelmy - don't you hate that? You didn't even really want what you ate, feel bleh afterwards and screws up your day. I'm no stranger to that, which is one of the exact reasons I started this challenge, to get into the habit of better planning.

Johnnygirl777

Day 9 - March Challenge! Much needed night off last night, I got a chiropractic adjustment because I was all out of wack, relaxed and slept, met my calorie goal and now am feeling much better! Tonight, I'm going to probably do Yoga, just take it easy until I'm 100% What are you all doing today?!

Barelmy

I'm going to go ahead and post my before stats. Anyone is welcome to copy my style, though they don't have to.:)

28th February 2011;

Weight: 129lbs
Neck: 12
Waist: 27.5
Hips: 35.9
BMI/Body Fat Percentage: 21.1/22.9%

Photos:

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j99/Yunalookalike/MMBefore001.jpg
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j99/Yunalookalike/MMBefore002.jpg
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j99/Yunalookalike/MMBefore003.jpg

Goals for the Month:

* Carry on with Cto5k - I'm just starting week 2, and it's going better than I'd hoped!
* Drink enough water.
* Increase lean muscle mass, and drop my body fat percentage to 22.5%. I don't so much mind what my weight and BMI do.
* Get that waist measurement down to 27.
* Practice kicking at head hight until I can reliably and efficiently break an attackers nose.:D
* See a firmer, flatter, stomach.
* Eat better when I'm with my boyfriend. At the moment, because I'm a vegan, he doesn't know what to feed me, and I really don't want to buy food to keep at his place, carry food over from my place, or ask him to buy food for me (it's a new relationship). So we end up grabbing snacks, and food from the McDonalds next door.
* Try to up my protein consumption.
* Run an entire mile!
- In under eight minutes!

Day 10 Update

10/3/2011

Weight: 127.5 lbs -1.5
Neck: 12.25 +0.25
Waist: 27.2 -0.3
Hips: 35.5 -0.4
BMI/Body Fat Percentage: 20.9/21.21% -0.2/-1.69%

No more photos until the end of the month, I'm not that brave.;p

Goals for the Month:

* Carry on with Cto5k - I'm just starting week 2, and it's going better than I'd hoped!
- I need to redo W3D2, but I surprised myself even by completing W3D1. It's going pretty well.

* Drink enough water.
- Working harder on that recently. Aiming for 8-12 glasses a day.

* Increase lean muscle mass, and drop my body fat percentage to 22.5%. I don't so much mind what my weight and BMI do.
- smashed it!

* Get that waist measurement down to 27.
- 27.2, it's going. I think I'm on track.

* Practice kicking at head hight until I can reliably and efficiently break an attackers nose.:D
- not yet, but I give a mean kick to the groin. And you don't want to get hit with one of my roundhouse kicks.

* See a firmer, flatter, stomach.
- Hard to tell, but my waist is smaller, and my clothes either fit better or fall off me.

* Eat better when I'm with my boyfriend. At the moment, because I'm a vegan, he doesn't know what to feed me, and I really don't want to buy food to keep at his place, carry food over from my place, or ask him to buy food for me (it's a new relationship). So we end up grabbing snacks, and food from the McDonalds next door.
- I'm giving up chips (fries) for lent, which will help. He's started buying vegan margarine, so I can always have toast, and last week, I took all the ingredients over and made us both a vegan fry up (with no frying!). I'm going to get some tins of lentil and vegetable soup, and get him to keep them in the cupboard for me.

* Try to up my protein consumption.
- I'm going to buy some hemp powder today.

* Run an entire mile!
- In under eight minutes!
I'm not so on track for this. I'm not sure of my speed, but I know I can't run a mile yet - three minutes is my maximum. I bet I can manage half a mile before the end of the month, though.

wriglucy

Do'h. I went over yesterday. We had thunderstorms...and I'm terrified of thunder storms. So, I had some to drink Which...led to eating more calories Back on track today though! And...10 days into March, and only over 2 days....I''m 8 for 10!

Johnnygirl777

Barelmy - GREAT JOB!! You are doing wonderful already, only 10 days in! I love your goals and progress, truly inspiration for me today

Lucy - Not bad at all, I've been over my calories twice but the goal is to stay close to them so as long as you get back on track and have more good days than bad, you're definitely doing good

Johnnygirl777

Day 14 - March Challege - We're halway through our challenge! I hope you all are doing great, last night was good, I was way under my cals and busted an hour of intervals, weights and abs. Tonight is heavy lifting! What are you doing today?

I was away from a computer for the weekend so I'm a little behind, I hope you all had a great weekend