A Lot to Lose Challenge "B-LOSE-ING IT"(team closed)

AmyNVegas

Ok ladies here is where the Blue team "B-LOSE-ING IT" can post all of our progress and challenge stuff for the A Lot to Lose Challenge!:flowerforyou:

AmyNVegas

Ok did 6 miles on my recumbent bike and did the crunches. :bigsmile: Not sure if I will be under calories I am going out for dinner I have a free dinner for my birthday at several restaurants this weekend I will be 37 on Sunday!:drinker: (that is tea in the mug :laugh: ). So my total so far today is 70 points.

AmyNVegas

yay went out to eat and still stayed under calories woohoo!!!! so total is 75!

AmyNVegas

B-lose-ing it totals for Friday
AmyNVegas-75
k2quiere-15
rosemiller11-15

So 100 for the team- the other 2 members didn't check in for yesterday.

AmyNVegas

Correction on Friday it was 105 :blushing:

Okay so our totals for Saturday were:

AmyNVegas- 15
k2quiere-15
rosemiller11- 5
clala82-65 :drinker:
mndbbr- no response to any team stuff yet haven't heard from her:ohwell:

Saturday Total-100:drinker:

Grand total-205!:drinker: I realized I didn't add very well on Friday I blame it on the birthday dinner out Friday night :laugh:

k2quiere

Sorry, didn't realize we were supposed to post on here and not just e-mail you. I'll let you know how it goes at the gym a little later.

AmyNVegas

Email is fine we just set this up to chat among the team members in case we wanted to talk about the challenges or cheer each other on.:bigsmile: Well as for sodium no way I was going to be under got a big salad and wings at Dave's BBQ but hey it's my birthday!:laugh: I ate half at the restaurant and the other half (minus 2 wings that my sister ate) at home for dinner. I did 6 miles on the recumbent bike and the woodchucks though so my total was 70 today.

k2quiere

Well, with some careful planning, I was able to keep under sodium and I didn't the woodchops. I also rode 5 miles on the bike, walked 1 mile on treadmill and track, and walked another 90 minutes shopping (I didn't count stops to pick stuff up). So, I think that makes my total 105. Let me know if I'm wrong on this.

clala82

Hi Everyone! Sorry I was MIA over the weekend. I use my phone to check in to MFP on the weekends, an the app doesn't have a function to connect with the message boards. :ohwell: So I'm more responsive during the week when I'm on the computer all day at work.

I haven't kept up to date with the original group challenge thread because it got so many posts I didn't want to sort through them all. How are we supposed to know the challenges? And are they daily or weekly? Thanks!

Happy Monday, team b-LOSE-ing It!!! :flowerforyou:

AmyNVegas

So we only had two check in for Sunday:ohwell:
AmyNVegas-70
k2quiere-105 :drinker: :drinker: You go girl!

Team total for Sunday- 175

Overall Total- 380

I have not heard from mndbbr at all she has not answered a single msg so we may be replacing her on the team if I do not hear from her today.:frown: Jen has ppl waiting to join though so shouldn't be a problem getting a replacement. I hope she was just out on vacation or something and will let me know today. I will let you know.

clala82

I haven't kept up to date with the original group challenge thread because it got so many posts I didn't want to sort through them all. How are we supposed to know the challenges? And are they daily or weekly? Thanks!

Never mind. I saw that today's goals are to stay under calories and do crunches. Oh, I bet my abs will be sore tomorrow. I probably haven't done a crunch in two years!

AmyNVegas

clala82- you must have posted while I was posting.:laugh: I got the list for week 1 from Jen's post here is the first week and it started this past Friday so we are going Friday to Friday. You can post your number here or send them to me in email each night so I can total everything and get it to Jen.

Week 1:
Just as a refresher:
We will base everything on a points system:
For every mile that you run/walk/bike/swim/etc, you will earn 10 points for your team.
For daily nutrition challenges - each person on your team that completes the challenge will earn an additional 5 points for your team
For daily exercise challenges - each person on your team that completes the challenge will earn an additional 10 points for your team

Every day, the team captains will need to send me their team's total points for the day. I will maintain a spreadsheet for everyone to monitor the progress of the challenge.

For the exercise challenges - You choose if you use weights or not. This is all about pushing yourself to do something that you wouldn't ordinarily do, BUT we don't want anyone getting hurt. The main idea is to go DISTANCE. The Nutrition & Exercise challenges are EXTRA.

::::Week 1 Challenges::::
Friday
Nutrition - Under Calories
Exercise - 50 Crunches
Saturday
Nutrition - At LEAST 10 cups (8oz) of water
Exercise - 50 Windshield Wipers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omeqA3O4DUk
Sunday
Nutrition - Under Sodium
Exercise - 50 Woodchops (25 on each side) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBG7tzX0aT0
Monday
Nutrition - Under Calories
Exercise - 50 crunches
Tuesday
Nutrition - At LEAST 10 cups (8oz) of water
Exercise - 50 Windshield Wipers
Wednesday
Nutrition - Under Sodium
Exercise - 50 Woodchops (25 on each side)
Thursday
Nutrition - Under Calories
Exercise - 50 crunches

AmyNVegas

So today's challenges are:

As many miles as you can get in walking, running, biking, or swimming, or any other machine that keeps up with miles, or if you do aerobic or other exercise 20 minutes = 1 mile.

Then the bonus challenges are:

Monday
Nutrition - Under Calories
Exercise - 50 crunches

k2quiere

Already have 7 miles in, and I think I will have to fight to even get near my calories today. I'm gonna do the crunches later and will check in again with my total for the day.

k2quiere

Ok, so it won't let me edit my last post to update...maybe I did it on my phone (can't remember :noway: ) Anyway, I rode the 7 miles, stayed under calories, and did the 50 crunches. I did the crunches on my exercise ball, and as soon as I was done, my stomach cramped up so bad I almost couldn't sit up. I don't think those muscles appreciated being moved in such a way...they better get used to it because Jen is trying to kill us.

Today's total for me: 85

AmyNVegas

Great job!:drinker:

Ok totals for Monday Great Job Team!!!!:drinker:

Rosemiller11- 20
Clala82- 25
k2quiere- 85 :drinker:
AmyNVegas- 75

For a total of: 205 :flowerforyou: :drinker: YAY Team!!!!!

Grand Total:585 woohoo!:drinker:

k2quiere

Glad to see four of us for yesterday...still nothing from our 5th person?

AmyNVegas

Nope but Jen just gave us a new person cklbrown I am contacting her now.:drinker:

clala82

Today's water challenge is going down! I drink lots of water, anyway, so this is going to be easy peasy. :drinker: <

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That cup is full of water. Hehe.

k2quiere

I'm with you on the ease of the water challenge...it's tomorrow's sodium challenge that makes me worried everytime. I also have to say that this focus on abs for the exercise challenges is killing me; I did the crunches on my balance ball and my stomach was so tight I almost couldn't sit up or stand when I was done. Needless to say, I have not completed the windshield wipers today; I'm only at 25 so far.

Can't wait to get in the pool this afternoon though.

AmyNVegas

I have to admit I haven't even tried the windshield wipers. I have a fray in the socket of my right hip right in the groin and I am afraid to bother it. Need try them flat on my bed though. I do 60+ crunches in bed each night and sometimes in the morning. I also do front leg lifts and side leg lifts and some Pilate moves it helps me sleep at night and gets the blood flowing to my hip when it is hurting. I started out with 15 crunches at a time and worked my way up. The ab muscles are fast healers and learn fast too so it will get easier quickly hang in there! If you do some crunches even on the days when it is not the challenge it will keep the muscles active. When I go to the gym 3 days a week I do weighted crunches/back presses and they have built my abs up like you wouldn't believe. It has really helped my back and balance. Okay need to go get on my recumbent bike and try those windshield wipers!:laugh: I'll let you know how I do.

As for sodium challenge I normally do not track sodium (I am for challenges) because I actually eat extra salt to keep from cramping on my low carb diet. Right now I am trying to stay at ketosis level with my carbs so I need the extra sodium or I get killer leg cramps from the diuretic effect, so I prob won't ever make the sodium challenges. But like you ladies the water challenges are a cake walk! I drink 24+ cups every day I mean hello I live in a desert after all and it's 106 today!:laugh:

cklbrown

Hey all I am very excited to join, but I don't know what is a windshield wiper. From the posts I read, it sounds hard!

AmyNVegas

Karen here is the link for the windshield wipers. I heard the same need to try them today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omeqA3O4DUk

AmyNVegas

Ok I have just done something I rarely do when it comes to fitness, I amazed myself! I was doing my usual half hour 6miles on the bike and when I got to the end thought "I can do 45 I think" and kept going then 45 came and I was "Wonder if I can do an hour?" and I did! I did a whole hour on the recumbent bike and the first half hour was on the big hill program so the resistance went as high as it goes at the top of each of the 4 hills and then comes back down then back up. When the hour was done I had done 11 miles! Holy Cow! So that inspired me to try the windshield wipers and I could actually do them.:noway: I had to break them into sets of 10-14 (14 was the most I could get to in one set whew they are hard) but I got all 50 in! Woohoo!:drinker: I had no pain in my hip while doing them although I thought my abs would never un-clench afterwards (but they did:laugh: ) I hope that makes up for the fact that I will probably not be under sodium today or any day for that matter. I will try to make up the points for the team through exercise though. So this taught me a lesson- Never say I cannot do something until I have actually tried it.:flowerforyou:
Go team!:drinker: :flowerforyou:

k2quiere

Great job, Amy! I actually won for the week in one of my challenges, so I got to make up the mini-goal and it was to start with 25 crunches a day and add 5 each day for the week, working up to 50 because I know this is my weakness, and I wanted to work on it. Haha...any excuse right??

I, too, have to break up the windshield wipers into groups of 10-14 to make it through...they're not necessarily hard, but they definitely work the abs. I also found those woodchops to be the same way...crazy on the abs and obliques, although they looked so easy on the video.

I need to get motivated to go back to the gym. My body hurts too much to do my normal routine, so I wanted to get in the pool, but when I got there, they were having swim team practice and children's swimming lessons. I normally refuse to leave the house once I've gotten home and comfortable, but I also want to get some mileage in for today, since I have done no walking or riding today.

AmyNVegas

That's why I love having the bike at home, no need to leave the house. I go to the gym 3 days a week for weight lifting so I do my bike or elliptical there when I go but the other days I can just ride in my room with a good book.:laugh: Some days I just don't feel like leaving the house so it makes it easier. My worry is keeping up the exercise pace once I go back to school in August. I know the first week I'll be wiped out but the exercise really helps with stress so I have to do it.

k2quiere

That is my biggest temptation this week is to not workout with the excuse that this is my first week back to work, and I should just rest afterwards. I did, however, get my lazy butt out of the house and get in the pool, which, honestly, made the rest of my body feel so much better...all the pain is gone!

So, I don't have the endurance to swim too far, but with everything today, I got in one mile, drank 16 glasses of water (so far) and am about to finish up the windshield wipers.

Total for today: 25 :-( but better than what it would have been had I just stayed home.

cklbrown

I jogged 6 miles today. I drank 116 oz of water. I did 50 windshield wipers. I don't think I liked them. Am I missing anything?

AmyNVegas

Karen that's perfect so your total is-75 :drinker:

Mine was 11 miles on the bike, drank a gazillion cups of water, and did the windshield wipers so-125 is my total.

k2quiere - 25

So I will get you guys a total once I get the other mileage and such from check-ins.

Wouldn't you know the day we are not doing a sodium challenge I am way under sodium!:laugh:

AmyNVegas

We can add clala82's 5 points for water yesterday so our total was 230 for Tuesday!:drinker:

rosemiller11- is on vacation visiting her sis. I told her to have fun and enjoy her time. She will be back in full swing when she gets back.:bigsmile:

k2quiere

Well ladies, I missed out on 5 points today, as my well laid plans for staying under sodium were waylaid by a colleague who had to stop for lunch (with me in the car) at McAlister's. I thought I was getting something good in the chicken salad sandwich, but little did I know.

9.5 miles on exercise bike
.5 miles walked during warm-up and cool-down
50 woodchops

Today's Total: 110

On another note: I got some very nice looks from a couple of very nice-looking men on my way in the gym (in my work clothes, not workout clothes). It's been a long time since that's happened without alcohol. I don't think the few pounds is noticeable, but I am willing to bet the confidence is...I feel so much better at the beginning of this month than I did at the beginning of last month. Just thought I'd share :-)