6-week challenge: Spring into Fitness

oliviawink

the weight watchers veggie soups can be found at: http://www.weightwatchers.com/util/art/index_art.aspx?tabnum=1&art_id=47881&sc=3026
Our favorite is the mexican soup. We make it a little bit spicier and add a couple of tablespoons of non-fat greek yogurt when we serve it to it to make it creamy and delicious. You can eat more than 2 cups of this soup for under 100 cals!

Here's how I make the egg white cups:
I lightly sautee combinations of my favorite veggies (shrooms, peppers - bell and spicy, onion, garlic, spinach, whatever). Spray muffin tins with canola spray. Pour in egg white with each cup about 1/2 full. Scoop a little of the veggie mix into each cup. You can also add canadian baon, cheese, turkey bacon, etc, if you like (just make sure they're cooked before they go in). Put in about 350 degree oven for 15 mins or so, basically until it looks like the egg whites are done and no longer liquid. You can eat 2-3 of these and be well under 200 cals for breakfast. I particularly like to put them on 100 calorie sandwich rounds and make a tasty egg sandwich. Store them in the fridge in a closed container and just pop them in the microwave for a minute or less to heat in the morning. Fast, low cal and super healthy breakfast that's even faster than "instant" oatmeal! I will make enough on sunday to get me through a whole work week.

jackswife1207

I'm behind this week! Just got caught up. I have a feeling I'll be behind on the 500 cal per day because things are crazy busy this week! I will be getting in some form of exercise though which is more than I have been lately with the crazy last couple of weeks!

Colors for today:
Breakfast-tans and browns
Lunch-red, green, yellow

aab1

Hi,
Just poppin in for a quick sec with a weigh in

SW: 203.2
CW: 200.0 Whoop Whooop!!

:laugh:

@ Leslie - ooooohhhh....only 1lb away from being in Onederland! Nice job; keep up the good work!

jamboree1006

ok. I know I am a week late to this challenge, but I've been off the wagon for six months.I've got a long list of excuses, but i choose to cast them down. So, in one month, give or take a few days, I choose to lose
SW178.8
CW178.8
by April 25> 160
by May 25> 148
by June 25> 135
GW 135.0
What do you think,people, can it be done?

singer201

Walked for 47 minutes, and spent 35 minutes on yard work for 526 calories burned. I'm definitely getting all my colors in my meals today.

Olivia, I'm revising my goal weight for this challenge to 185.

roselynsy

thanks olivia

i burned 900 and something (tried jogging outside for the 1st time 15 mins on and of walking jogging) WOW jogging outside is hard my heart rate went right up to working at 84% injurance. i plan on, try to, do it two three times a week we'll see. im probs going to have a shred break tomorrow as i have a long afternoon walk planed and may be out in the evening. ill see how it goes
on the food side great i had a prawn salad for breakfast and lunch.
Pink prawns
Red tomatos
Green lettuce
Orange carrot
Cream pasta

and for dinner i had a lamb steak mix roasted veg and mini baked potatos and gravy (yum)
Gray lamb
Brown/cream potatos gravy
Yellow sweetcorn
Red pepper
Orange carrot
Cream parsnip
White onion

really loving this challange think ill need to go shopping again before the end of the week

oliviawink

Walked for 47 minutes, and spent 35 minutes on yard work for 526 calories burned. I'm definitely getting all my colors in my meals today.

Olivia, I'm revising my goal weight for this challenge to 185.

gotcha down for that singer. at the rate you're going I'm sure you're going to hit it. On this challenge, when we get to the end I'm going to post SW, GW and End weight, so we can see how everyone did. Go for gold!

oliviawink

I think everyone has weighed-in that's going to, so let's see how we did....
Here's what I have:
2010dutchess
SEStack -0.8
downby15 -1
hnason 0
findngme -1.5
chickadee2010 -2.2
ceejay000 0.5
debcarv -1
hellsbells417 -2.6
cutemommy88 -2
kylakesgal -1
jessicamarie81 0
oliviawink -2
kcthatsme -3.6
jamboree1006
norcalbeezy -3.8
sakenne -2.5
roselynsy -2
gorgeousgunner -2
lareishaH 0
sheilabennett 0
unodiamante -0.6
singer201 -3.8
c100700 -2.8
leslieroyale -3.2
onemoretime13 0
stefv86 0
lunarokra -0.6
kris1085 -1.5
egyptian mushroom 0
aab1 -5
jinkies54 0
sueceeq -1.8
ngory07 -5
nikki8marie 0

total loss for 34 women: 51.8
Great work everyone! If I missed someone, I'm sorry, it wasn't intentional. Just let me know and I'll add you (sometimes I miss people on the message board cause there's a lot to go through.
Looking forward to seeing big successes next week with our 3500 cals burned!

ceejay000

I had fun getting all my colors in for dinner tonight .

Brown- whole wheat bread
White- cheese, turkey
Red- tomatoes
Orange- carrots
Green- celery
Purple- grapes

oliviawink

got my colors is:
breakfast:
white: egg whites, low fat cheese
red: red pepper
yellow: yellow onion,
brown: sandwich round, shrooms
green: spinach and cilantro

lunch:
brown: chicken-chile tostada meat, tortilla
red: tomatoes
green: lettuce, jalepeno, avocado
yellow: yellow pepper, corn
white: milk

dinner:
white: jicama, tilapia, yogurt sauce
green: cabbage, cilantro
red: red onion
orange: sweet potato
yellow: yellow pepper

Almost all my workout in, just need another 150 cals burned or so. will do another 45 minutes tonite and today's challenges will be met!

jessicamarie81

Got my colors in today:

Breakfast:
white- egg
yellow- cheese
brown- english muffin
brown- turkey sausage
blue- blueberries

Lunch
red- bell pepper
green- avocado
white and red- crab
white- rice
brown- sesame seeds
orange- carrot
white and pink- shrimp

Supper:
yellow- corn
white- potato
white- tilapia
red- bell peppers
green- jalapenos

Burned my 500 calories doing XBOX Fitness game with cardio boxing, personal training, and virtual smash, did 2 miles with Leslie Sansone, and vacuumed the whole house, even got out the attachments...lol, did 3 loads of laundry, and did dishes...plus have been running around with my three year old outside...I'd say I burned more than 500!

Loving this challenge week!!

NYCDutchess

You guys are awesome!
I'm having a little issue with the colors, because I'm eating really low carbs but for lunch I hit it.
Bkfst I always have two hb eggs and my coffee...not very colorful
Dinner always have a meat and veg (sometimes colorful, sometimes not)
Either way, I'm hitting the gym, eating well and here to keep cheering you all on as well!!!

WOOHOO!! You guys are doing awesome. Hope my next weigh in I see a little dip though inches are my primary goal!!!

chickadee2010

chickadee2010 checking in for today
1. Accumulate 500-ish calories burned daily 2/7
2. Food colors 0/7

Calorie burned total: 1027/3500
Food colors I've ate today: yellow, white, red, green, red, purple, black, white, brown, red, green, white, yellow, white, brown, black. I did get all my colors in for dinner, but I've yet to go a whole day. I'm hoping I accomplish it by the end of this week's challenge.

EmRN06

Ugh... Sorry everyone, I completely forgot that weigh-in was yesterday! Well, good news - I went down a little, but not much.

SW 180.2 (at the beginning of the challenge)
CW 179.9
GW 172

I'm happy with that though, and excited about this week's challenge. Good luck everyone!

aab1

Week 2 / Day 2
Exercise - 1039 for total of 2337/ 3500 (cycle, 30DS)
Food - I'm not hitting 5 colors/meal yet but I really am trying!
Breakfast -
light brown - milk
light green - grapes
white - chicken breast
brown - crispbread & peanut butter
Lunch -
white - chicken breast
red - tomato
dark green - lettuce
yellow - pineapple
light green - melondew
Dinner
white - chicken breast
dark red - red cabbage
white - cheese
light brown - tortilla

aab1

total loss for 34 women: 51.8 plus EmRN06 -0.3 = 52.1

What an amazing job we all did! 52.1lbs in only 1 week. Congratulations to everyone - no matter how big or small your weight change - we all did an amazing job of staying committed! Keep up the great work! :flowerforyou:

singer201

Something in my brain is changing with the weight loss and healthy food plan. On Sunday, I fully intended to have a "spike day" and eat more than my net calories, and I found I just didn't want to or feel like doing it. Today, we had a class at work and our supervisor always brings lots of mini-candy bars, but I just pushed them onto the other table and didn't feel deprived about not eating any (I really AM a candy/chocolate hound!). I guess getting to a healthy weight finally means more to me than the temporary pleasure of foods that would derail that.

chickadee2010

I'm reposting mine because I got in some more calories burned. I was in a great, amazing, lovely mood so I went and treadmilled again. Worked up quite a sweat, too.

chickadee2010 checking in for today
1. Accumulate 500-ish calories burned daily 2/7
2. Food colors 0/7

Calorie burned total: 1157/3500
Food colors I've ate today: yellow, white, red, green, red, purple, black, white, brown, red, green, white, yellow, white, brown, black. I did get all my colors in for dinner, but I've yet to go a whole day. I'm hoping I accomplish it by the end of this week's challenge.

oliviawink

total loss for 34 women: 51.8 plus EmRN06 -0.3 = 52.1

What an amazing job we all did! 52.1lbs in only 1 week. Congratulations to everyone - no matter how big or small your weight change - we all did an amazing job of staying committed! Keep up the great work! :flowerforyou:

That's 1.5 lbs each. Not too shabby. Let's see if we can match this number this week. so many are an inspiration to me today: chickadee putting in the extra burn tonite; singer finding her outlook on food more positive in many ways; aab being over 1/2 way to her 3500 calories in 2 days. Shout out - rock on ladies!

lolabugs

I burned 971 calories swimming for an hour and 40 minutes. I was going for 1000, but I'm close enough.

Total calorie burn: 1971/3500

I guess I was a little confused about the color theme. I thought it was just for fruits and veggies. Now I realize it's colors in general. Here are my colors for today:

Breakfast:
Brown - Kashi TLC Honey Almond Flax Granola Bar


Lunch:
Brown - Wheat Thins Reduced Fat Crackers
Pink - Laughing Cow Light Sun Dried Tomato and Basil Wedge
White - Fage 0% Greek Yogurt Cherry W/ Goji Berries
Orange - Carrots
Red - Sabra Sun Dried Tomato Hummus

Dinner:
Brown - Flatout! Whole Wheat Flat Bread
White - Chicken Deli Slices
Yellow - Muenster Cheese
Green - Green Leaf Lettuce
Green - Pickle Slices
Orange - Carrots
Orange - Roasted Red Pepper Hummus
White - Light String Cheese
Brown - Chocolate

madamelaporte

not sure if you were only putting losses but you forgot me on the list I lost nothing so not sure if I should be bringing attention to it Havent lost anything for 3 weeks now feel so rubbish about it! Ilost inches just not lbs

so still 138lbs - I know I can be smaller as I have been before my childrenw ere born!!!!!!

madamelaporte

oh and by the way Im loving the challenge I am trying to stick with as many colours as possible

hellsbells417

Ugh... Sorry everyone, I completely forgot that weigh-in was yesterday! Well, good news - I went down a little, but not much.

SW 180.2 (at the beginning of the challenge)
CW 179.9
GW 172

I'm happy with that though, and excited about this week's challenge. Good luck everyone!

EmRN - every loss is a good loss no matter how big or small!!

Btw, i love the goals in your sig - the fact that you have predefined treats ready for when you hit your targets is great. I'm looking forward to seeing your new jewellery!! :-)

soccerlyss08

So I'm having some trouble with this week's challenges. My week has been pretty hectic, and I haven't been able to get 500 calories burned every day, but the yesterday I had some time to work out, and burnt over 600 calories. So I am trying to get a lot of calories burned, just not quite the goal amount. As for the five different colors, I've at least been trying to get the colors in throughout the day, just not for every meal.

But for those of you who are meeting the goal, and exceeding it, you're awesome!

oliviawink

not sure if you were only putting losses but you forgot me on the list I lost nothing so not sure if I should be bringing attention to it Havent lost anything for 3 weeks now feel so rubbish about it! Ilost inches just not lbs

so still 138lbs - I know I can be smaller as I have been before my childrenw ere born!!!!!!

sorry about the oversite. will update you on the spreadhseet now

chickadee2010

So far I've got all my colors in, except for dinner. I'm really wanting to eat leftover pizza because I need to get rid of leftovers in the next few days. So that's two, white and red. Salad would be a good choice, but pizza usually is pretty filling for me lately. So if i have salad too, that adds green and purple. I need one more color.

oliviawink

breakfast colors:
white(- milk, yogurt
red - raspberries
blue: blueberries
purple: blackberries
tan - oatmeal

calories burned: 312/500. taking a break for a bit, I'm tired from intense circuit stuff at home. Will take a walk with baby in stroller later and workout with my neighbor, which will put me over the top, I'm sure. Been banking a few extra calories burned everyday so I can take one day off this week. So far so good!

chickadee2010

Been banking a few extra calories burned everyday so I can take one day off this week. So far so good!

That's exactly what I've been doing too!

ceejay000

Just made a delicious sandwich for lunch. I think I got 4 different colors, unless I count the mustard, but I don't think I will.

Brown - whole wheat bread
White - turkey, cheese
Green - avocado
Red - tomatoes

I've been slacking on the exercise this week (sorry!). I've just been feeling really tired and letting myself off the hook. I'm going to try to remedy that today.

Great job, everyone!

nikki8marie

Hi guys, glad to see everyone is doing pretty good on their exercise. I'm been hitting 500 on average so I'm happy, sore, but happy. I'm kinda in a food rut now though. Yesterday wasn't a great day, I didn't go over my budget thanks to my workout but I went out to eat instead of cooking what I have. I'm tired of the same old things so I've got to figure out a way to mix things up. I like the soup idea (considering we just got blasts with more snow!). So I'm off to look at cookbooks and then the store.