6-week challenge: Spring into Fitness

kylakesgal

You are doing fabulous Rose! I'm sure you are super excited about your horse. I was checking out the calorie burn on horseback riding.....pretty good burn too!! You can do something you enjoy and burn calories too:) I'm finding my niche of what I enjoy doing for exercise. It makes the time go by so much faster if you are having fun doing it:)

chickadee2010

chickadee2010 checking in for today
Staying under fat recommendation: 1/7
Weights: 1/7

I'm starting out good this week. I think I had seven fats left and I did some dumbbell presses earlier today.

stefv86

Oh, yes, my challenges.

Stayed under carbs and sodium! woohooo!
Did not do any strength training. I fell asleep on the couch after dinner. In my gym clothes, actually. lolol I woke up and felt like a doofus. Oh well, I got yoga in. Plan on going to the gym right after work tomorrow so I can't lose my motivation!

LeslieRoyale

Hi everybody
Today was good...nice loss, under on the 'bad' nutrients (sodium & cholesterol) met/exceeded good nutrients (Vitamins & Iron).
This is really helping me to remember to take my vitamins!! It's been MONTHS, and I know I need to get back into the habit.

AND, even though I got distracted by the hockey game on tv, and skipped the 'workout', I did work my arms out while watching!! So...yay for strength work two days in a row!! :bigsmile:

Have a great Tuesday!!

jessicamarie81

I added 3 lb. dumbbells to my walking today...I only did 2 miles today, less than normal. I'm tired from last weeks challenge, LOL. Also did stretch band work during the walk too. Tomorrow I'm going to do the shred a little I believe, I need some ankle weights!
Singer, I bet you are excited for your horse! I'd love to horseback ride. Primal Blueprint sounds very interesting too, I'm gonna look into it.
I made a fabulous pizza today, Angelas idea...chicken spinach alfredo pizza on a pita bread. I used very little alfredo and cheese, added baby spinach, garlic, and mushroom, it was wonderful.
I'm going to watch my cals to make sure I'm not too far under and my sodium as always. My sodium made me so mad I took it off my diary for awhile but I couldn't just not know, so it's back on now! Devil sodium! :grumble:

oliviawink

Did ok on today's challenges. A bit over on carbs, but much reduced in sodium, so overall a gain.
Didn't do a lot of weights today, still very sore from my ultimate frisbee games (2 1.5 hr games back-to-back) yesterday, so I only did a 20ish minute work out with some weight work, not above-and-beyond as Rose has challenged us to. did get some good cardio in. Not quite 500 cals burned today, but I'll settle for 411 after the huge up in cal burn last week. Tomorrow I'm gonna hit the weights hard!

I'm thinking that the scale is going to tell me good things in the morning. Thinking positive thoughts. My neighbor that I work out with 4-6 days/week told me tonite that she can see a huge difference. When I told her my total loss, she told me that it looked like way more. That's what I needed to hear.

Lunarokra

No change to last week.

madamelaporte

Hi all,

Here are the Spring into Fitness challenges for the week of Mar 28 - Apr 3.

Fitness goal: Add some strength-training/weight-lifting exercises to your workouts 3 times this week. If you are already doing so, try a different exercise or increase reps or weights.

Food goal: Choose one or two of the nutrient goals in your food diary to target for attention or improvement this week. (For me, it's keeping carbs <100 grams, sodium <1500, and making sure I'm close to my net calorie goal.)

Just for fun challenge: If you've lost a significant amount of weight, put that weight in a backpack and climb a flight of stairs or go for a short walk to see the change. If you are at the beginning of the weight-loss experience, put some of your desired weight loss in a backpack and see what a difference it will make when you lose that amount.

Have fun!
Rose

LOVE this weeks challenges

Will definitely be doing these

Will put 10lb in a backpack as although it isnt much I can feel the difference when doing certain things like jumping jacks that I havent got that extra weight and although I am far from being one I sometimes feel like a fairy floating without that extra weight lol - does that sound strange?!?!

I will use my resistance bands this week and get in some additional strength training with them - havent used them for about a month now - so thankyou for the motivation to use them

Im not sure what to do for my nutrient goal as I have a hard time 99% of the time reaching my goal anyway apart from protein which I more often than not go over (but Ive heard its a good thing) so guess I will maybe try and eat more calories (I always have around 400 (mostly more) left over.

Thanks ahain for setting te challenges

sueceeq

I stayed the same this week at 234.2. I need to kick into high gear!

UnoDiamante

I'm thinking that the scale is going to tell me good things in the morning. Thinking positive thoughts. My neighbor that I work out with 4-6 days/week told me tonite that she can see a huge difference. When I told her my total loss, she told me that it looked like way more. That's what I needed to hear.

Olivia, this is really good because it means your loss is probably mostly fat loss...when you lose 10 lbs of fat, it looks like 20 lbs because fat is light but takes up alot of space.

aab1

Week 3 / Day 1 (didn't get a chance to report in last night)

Exercise - I added ankle weights to my 30DS & cycling; added an incline to my treadmill run & walk (hopefully I can count this??)
Food - stayed below 1,000 on sodium

oliviawink

So far I have logged weights for:
SEStack
downby15
ceejay000
debcarv
Julieash
kylakesgal
jessicamarie81
oliviawink
kcthatsme
norcalbeezy
sakenne
roselynsy
sheilabennett
gorgeousgunner
unodiamante
singer201
leslieroyale
c100700
stefv86
kris1085
lunarokra
aab1
sueceeq
chickadee2010
ngory07

I'll be waiting to crunch numbers and post for tonite to give people more time to post weigh-in. Please let me know if I missed you.

nikki8marie

Oops sorry for the delay, I've been out of it for a couple days due to a cold :sick: . CW 255, no change.

I like strength training. I'm going to try and do push-ups everyday and we'll see how many I can do by the end of the week. As for which nutrient goals, probably will be sugar and calcium. I like the weight in a bag idea, I can do that while I'm cleaning. Take care everyone.

It's my turn to make the challenge next week, I'll have to think of something good.

madamelaporte

im noton there I lose 1lb now down to 137

roselynsy

todays been a good day done 30ds level one and used 5lb on chestflys also 20mins of stepups including 2mins of 5lb bicep curls

5lb chestflys 2/3
mins 5lb BC 2/3
20mins walking with 19lb 1/1

fat ok sodium ok

soccerlyss08

Sorry I forgot to post yesterday. CW: 156. No change

I already strength train several times a week, but I'll try to up my reps. And I plan to watch my sugar more closely (the rest is usually pretty good).

singer201

I didn't mean for you to do regular exercise with the backpack of "lost" weight. It's just a one time thing to give you some "atta-girls" and motivation to keep going.

Reading through the Primal Fitness E-book, I learned that what I've been doing with walking and yard work, and soon will be doing with riding and horse chores, is excellent for fitness. My main need is to get my strength back, which should come as I work on the 5 essential movements (squats, pull-ups/chin-ups, push-ups, planks, and overhead presses).

Walked for 48 minutes at 3.66 mph (taking it a little easier today) and did yard work for 21 minutes (using the squat exercise).

roselynsy

5lb chestflys 2/3
mins 5lb BC 2/3
20mins walking with 19lb 1/1

thats my totals for the week i only have todo one more lot of chestfly and bc and ive done my extra ST. although i did kinda like the walking with weight and will for sure do it again even if its once every other week.

Melissaol

Sorry. I have been out if town. My weigh in is 172. Lost 2" off my waist, hips,

oliviawink

@melissaol - I don't have a start or goal weight for you. can you repost? thanks

chickadee2010

chickadee2010 checking in for today
Staying under fat recommendation: 2/7
Weights: 2/7

I got both done today too. Sorry I haven't been very active on here. I have many challenges I'm doing and it's hard to be on the boards all the time, but I do read. You all have been doing wonderful!

oliviawink

Did much better today on our challenges. Feeling good about the process of thinking about more than just cals in my food, and pushing my strength training a bit more.

reducing carbs to ~100: 1/7
staying under on salt: 2/7 (today I'm not even at 1000 mg yet, which is really good for me)
kettlebell workouts: 1/3

Haven't done the additional challenge of strolling around with the lost weight, but I'm going to soon. Although, every time I lift my 10lb kettlebell, I think dang, I can't believe I lost (a bit) more weight than this! It's a good solid amount of weight to lose in just over 6 weeks!

aab1

Worked out with the ankle weights during 30DS & cycling. I can feel it in my calf muscles.

I hit 2,000 on sodium today; here I think I'm eating healthy with plain yogurt, cottage cheese, etc...but there's so much sodium in everything. ARRRGH!!! :mad: I'm impressed with those of you that can keep your sodium so low! Are you eating primarily veggies & salad????

I haven't carried around my lost weight yet...I''m hoping if we get nice weather later this week I'll go for a walk.

singer201

Yeah, cottage cheese really high in sodium. I was thinking it would be a good high protein food to use often, but then I looked carefully at the nutrition stats--440 mg of sodium for 1/2 cup! Greek yogurt is much better for a dairy protein source, especially if you eat the unsweetened kind.

To keep sodium <1500 mg, I eat a LOT of plain raw veggies (though they could be cooked, as well), either in salad or as finger foods. Small servings of fruit for desserts. I've been eating relatively plain beef, chicken, shrimp, and fish and using just tiny amounts of condiments like tartar sauce, cocktail sauce, and A-1. I don't salt eggs and egg dishes like quiche anymore, and don't really notice the difference. I haven't been eating bread lately, and that's a way to cut salt quite a bit. Almost anything that comes in a box is going to be high in sodium.

Cutting down on salt works just like cutting down on sugar. It just takes a little while to get used to the way things taste, and then you wonder how you added so much to foods in "the before".

oliviawink

Great job this week everyone! I have the following 29 women weighed in with this difference from last week:
SEStack -1.4
madamelaporte 5
downby15 0
ceejay000 0
debcarv 0
Julieash 0.8
soccerlyss08 0
kylakesgal -0.8
jessicamarie81 -1.5
oliviawink -1
Melissaol 0 (this might be wrong, but I don't have an initial weigh-in)
kcthatsme -1.4
norcalbeezy -1.6
sakenne -2.5
roselynsy -1
sheilabennett -1.8
gorgeousgunner 0
unodiamante -4.2
singer201 -2.6
leslieroyale -4
c100700 -0.6
stefv86 -4
kris1085 -3
lunarokra 0
aab1 0
sueceeq 0
chickadee2010 1.8
ngory07 -5
nikki8marie 0

These 29 women have a total loss of 28.8 lbs. Pretty good for week 2, about 1 lb/per/week. Nice healthy weight loss. WTG everyone! (and sorry if I missed anyone, only human :flowerforyou: )

roselynsy

Worked out with the ankle weights during 30DS & cycling. I can feel it in my calf muscles.

I hit 2,000 on sodium today; here I think I'm eating healthy with plain yogurt, cottage cheese, etc...but there's so much sodium in everything. ARRRGH!!! :mad: I'm impressed with those of you that can keep your sodium so low! Are you eating primarily veggies & salad????

I haven't carried around my lost weight yet...I''m hoping if we get nice weather later this week I'll go for a walk.

im still not 100% sure im logging it all but like singer im not eat hardly any bread now i also eat lots of veg /fruit (mainly veg) and lean meats chicken pork venision, i not longer add salt to anything. also when possible i make my own soups as i was eating alot of bought ones, i cant believe how much salts in them. i also eat alot of fish and shellfish now (with side salad) and a little sauce

when im eating somthing, i think, i probs shouldnt. i tend to always have a smaller portion. i a great believer of you can have what ever you want as long as its in the right quantity. a little of everything does you good.

i still have along way to go but im getting much better at quanititys and how often now

Melissaol

Lost 2 lbs last week.
My cw. 172
also lost 2" off my hips.

jessicamarie81

im still not 100% sure im logging it all but like singer im not eat hardly any bread now i also eat lots of veg /fruit (mainly veg) and lean meats chicken pork venision, i not longer add salt to anything. also when possible i make my own soups as i was eating alot of bought ones, i cant believe how much salts in them. i also eat alot of fish and shellfish now (with side salad) and a little sauce

when im eating somthing, i think, i probs shouldnt. i tend to always have a smaller portion. i a great believer of you can have what ever you want as long as its in the right quantity. a little of everything does you good.

i still have along way to go but im getting much better at quanititys and how often now

Quantity and portions are everything! It's important to indulge a tad every now and then to not feel deprived. I find that just a couple bites of something not so good for me really satisfies me now.
I was also shocked at how much sodium canned soup has...and lunch meat! Now I just cook my own chicken and meats at home, saves a TON on sodium. Also making your own soup is great too, I haven't really done that yet since eating right but I see so many recipes I want to try.

So far this week I've added 3 lb. dumbbells to my walks and incorporated the stretch band too. I really want to buy some ankle weights, what a great idea to wear those while doing housework! Been watching sodium, I did pretty good with it yesterday...I'd love to lower it to 1500 a day, I really need to. You all are right when you say it's hard to lower sodium, it's very hard. And like you said, if it comes from a box or a can, it's probably going to be sky high.

aab1

Hellllllooooooo ONEDERLAND!!!! :bigsmile:
196 for me this week...that's 4 lbs for me too!!

@Leslie - Congratulations on hitting ONEderland!!!! Nice work!!

Week 1: Total loss for 34 women: 52.1
Week 2: Total loss for 29 women: 28.8 lbs.

We're doing awesome!!! (@Olivia - hope you don't mind I'm tweaking & tracking the weekly total weight loss!)
Keep up the great work, everyone!

kylakesgal

Good morning to all:)
On Monday's weigh in, I was disappointed with just -.8 weight loss but weighed myself again yesterday morning and I was down another pound!! Woohoo:) I'm not even going to update that yet, hoping I'll have more loss to go along with that come Monday. I'm loving the extra strength training this week. I bought some ankle/wrist weights and using those along with my walks and exercises. I'm tracking my sodium like crazy and pretty much know what to avoid now. I don't salt anything anymore either. It's funny because my husband says he feels like he is eating in a nursing home these days lol. Oh well, he can add salt if he likes....I don't even miss the salt so much now:) Happy Hump day!