WEEK 2 ~ Team Amazing Grace (CLOSED GROUP) August Challenge

walkingingrace2011

Tried a new kind of workout today - kettlebell! OK, this kicked my butt!
3 sets of 21's
100 jumping jacks (When I started fitness pal in March, I could not do more than 3-5 of these!)
20 swimmer's presses
15 glasses of water
under calorie count
0 extra miles today - still 6 miles to reach the 10 mile commitment for this week!

Woooo hoooo!!!!!!!

amazing_grace♥

You guys are DOING IT! AWESOME! I'm so impressed!
Today I did...

~50 Squat Kicks
~50 Swimmers Presses
~50 sit ups
~50 Mountain Climbers
~5 Miles walking
~3 Sets of 21 Bicep Curls
~100 Jumping Jacks
~12 glasses of Water
~Came in under calorie goal

Whew! I'm tired! I'll catch up with you all tomorrow!
You guys ROCK!

Edithrenee

21's and 100 jumping jacks
under carlorie goal
water done 9 glasses
I did not do reg exercise today this was an off day and usualy my day off.
Oh did you count my 2 miles yesterday? I wasnt sure if i added on my post. I did on my cardio diary.

song2sing

You guys are DOING IT! AWESOME! I'm so impressed!
Today I did...

~50 Squat Kicks
~50 Swimmers Presses
~50 sit ups
~50 Mountain Climbers
~5 Miles walking
~3 Sets of 21 Bicep Curls
~100 Jumping Jacks
~12 glasses of Water
~Came in under calorie goal

Whew! I'm tired! I'll catch up with you all tomorrow!
You guys ROCK!

And you are doing all this and keeping stats for our entire team. YOU ROCK too Amazing Grace!! Thanks so much for all that you do for each of us, to keep us motivated to jump higher, run faster and TEAM IT UP to Kick August in the Glutes!

amazing_grace♥

AS OF THIS POST, WE HAVE 33 MILES TOWARDS OUR 100 MILE TEAM CHALLENGE FOR THIS WEEK.

I'm soooooo sore this morning,,, ugh!! I think that my exuberance has caught up with me!! haha. But I have a date tonight, and am up early to go out and get (some) of my walk in this morning!! (Smile).

My time online has been limited the last couple of nights, so I will be messaging some of you to check in on your stats that I may have missed this week....

Also, I think that I still need recipes from the following people:
me
Carrriebear
cath
clew
edithrenee
cblackb
healthymern
kat
lisaap (vacation)
TNGirlyGirl
Xtine
Yay_Me

if you've posted it, and I've missed it, please let me know.

Have a GREAT day everybody!! TGIF!!

musky4

for yesterday:
water - ck
under calories - ck
exercise - ck
(walked 2 miles --- not sure if that will go towards 'our' miles or not)
mountain climbers balance - ck
cruches (from wed)- ck
3 sets of 21 (from thurs)- ck
did 25 jumping jacks (i must not be doing these right - my ankles kill me at 15, feel like i'm gonna twist one of them by the time i get to 25 - when i go out i am on the tops of my feet - i assume this isnt correct??)
so i have left: 75 jumping jacks for thurs and todays (fri) stuff.

song2sing

Hey friends!

I'm a little achy today in the back of my neck down through my shoulders, throughout my back, and in my hip joints. Anyone else with me?

Since the weather got nice I had not done my indoor Calisthenics (core work) for quite awhile. I was very weak in my core and sometimes I couldn't even support my body with some of Jillians floor work. So I went outside and started walking and running.

Well baby, we are getting stronger!! No pain, no gain, right?! Very very thankful for this challenge as it has made me get back into strength training again. I need a good foundation (as in a strong core) as I am such a weakling!! All those years couching it was giving me a faulty and unreliable foundation.

Today I will listen to my body and keep an eye on my aches and pains as I push through, so I don't push myself to an injury.

Have a great and awesome TGIF day!!

Joyful in the Journey!
Tammy - song2sing

cath1717

AUGUST 11TH 2011

So sorry, Im still sick today... I didn't do any exercice but I will do them to get up to date with everything needed friday, promise!

Water = check
Under calories = no check
Exercice challenge = no check

So sorry, I feel so tired and sick

Cath

song2sing

AUGUST 11TH 2011

So sorry, Im still sick today... I didn't do any exercice but I will do them to get up to date with everything needed friday, promise!

Water = check
Under calories = no check
Exercice challenge = no check

So sorry, I feel so tired and sick

Cath

Rest and relax and let your body heal Cath!
You'll catch up later! No worries!!
We are here for you, just let us know how we can help!

Praying for you,
Tammy = song2sing

cath1717

Thanks Tammy!

I have a question, I created a recipe in my profile under Food/Recipe and they asked me if I wanted to share it with everybody and I said yes. This is the recipe I would like to share with you guys, but insted of rewritting everything here, is there a way you can find it/search it in this website? Cause I said that I want to share it with everybody or maybe it's gonna be available in the future on the site... The title of the recipe is : Couscous à la marocaine / Joël Legendre Page 292

Cath

cath1717

RECIPE TITLE : Couscous à la marocaine / Joël Legendre Page 292

WHAT’S ABOUT : Recipe that comes from the french Québécois vegetarian book called: JOËL LEGENDRE MA BIOGRAPHIE GOURMANDE. It’s a Moroccan vegetarian recipe. It gives you 7 big portions and it’s really good reheated, that’s why I do a lot of portions in one shot and either eat it at lunch the day after or either freeze the in individual portions the rest for lunch at work!


PER PORTION : Calories 507, Carbs 92, Fat 9, Protein 19
(But you feel full after that, no dessert needed after, there's a lot of protein! And you can divided in 8 portions for less calories)

INGREDIENTS:
2 Onions
1 tbs Olive Oil
2 Garlic glove mash
1 Red bell pepper in small cubes
1 Orange bell pepper in small cubes
4 Peeled Carrots sliced
2 cup of Chick Peas
2 tbs tomato paste
12 dates without the seed and cut in 4
The juice and zest of 1 orange
2 tsp of ground Cumin
1 tsp of ground Tumeric
1 tsp of ground Ginger
1/2 tsp of ground Cinammon
1/2 tsp of ground Cayenne pepper
3 1/2 cup of Vegetables broth
2 1/2 cup of medium Couscous
1/4 cup of fresh Coriander
1/4 cup of fresh Peppermint
1/2 cup of sliced almond

INSTRUCTIONS:
Cook in a large pan, cook Onions in Olive oil, few minutes.

Add Garlic, Peppers, Carrots, Chick peas, Tomato paste, Dates, zest and orange juice, spices and the broth. Simmer everyting for 20 minutes.

Drain and KEEP the broth separated from the rest.

Take the broth, bring it to boil, take it out of the heat and add the coucous. Put a lid on and wait 10 minutes. After, with a fork separed the couscous.

Add the fresh herb in the couscous. Put the couscous in a big plate. Put the veggies on top and sprinkle with the almonds. Enjoy!!!

amazing_grace♥

for yesterday:
water - ck
under calories - ck
exercise - ck
(walked 2 miles --- not sure if that will go towards 'our' miles or not)
mountain climbers balance - ck
cruches (from wed)- ck
3 sets of 21 (from thurs)- ck
did 25 jumping jacks (i must not be doing these right - my ankles kill me at 15, feel like i'm gonna twist one of them by the time i get to 25 - when i go out i am on the tops of my feet - i assume this isnt correct??)
so i have left: 75 jumping jacks for thurs and todays (fri) stuff.

@ Musky - perhaps you are spreading your feet too far out ?? I have bad knees so I don't spread my feet that wide apart when I do them and I don't "jump" real high - I modify it - I know, but hey - I'm still "jumping".... haha.

Let me know what you think......

@ Song2Sing - I'm pretty sore today too.... I've been feeling so good and doing so well - that I think sometimes I forget that I am still a "grandma" hahahaha. We HAVE come a long way though!!! I'm soooooo proud of US!! You GO girl (but take it a little easy - haha).

@ Cath - that recipe sounds delicious!! I'm thinking that might be a little over my head though (hahaha). But I'm writing all of our team recipes down so that I can try them out.... Thanks for sharing!!

Xtine72

2 Miles Biking CHECK
160 Jumping Jacks CHECK
100 Stair Climbs CHECK
Water CHECK

Will do Globe Jumps Tomorrow!

TNGirlyGirl

Yesterday and Today (sorry I didn't get it logged yesterday -- it's been crazy at work!!) (Day 4 and 5)

Water - 10+ both days
Under calories - both days
Exercise -- nope... neither day will be completed. It's been too much at work

I did walk 3 more miles toward the 100 mile team challenge yesterday, tho. I'll try catch up on some of the exercise challenges tomorrow!!

SarahRuth♥

I walked twice at work today, 1 mile each. And I walked home from work today, 7.3 miles. So you can add 9.3 miles to our team 100 mile goal.

I am so sore and exhausted from walking home, I am probably not going to get to the exercises for today. If I don't, I will make them up on Sunday.

Under calorie goal, and 9 glasses of water.

Edithrenee

Globe jumps done
no jumping jacks
I did do my aerobics.
water doen and im under calorie goal also.
i am tired still.

maureendonahue

Did the 50 crunches for tomorrow already, drank my water (9 glasses) and was under my calorie goal for the day. My knees are really sore (rain is coming!) but I will try the modified ones tomorrow and see if that is easier for me.

walkingingrace2011

104 stair climbs
10 swimmer's presses
20 overhead presses
100 jumping jacks
regular workout
16 + glasses water
under calorie count

globe jumps tomorrow

cath1717

AUGUST 12th 2011

Hi guys! I'm Ba-aaaa-ck, i'm feeling better, but not 100% top shape yet. Hope tomorrow everyting gets better

Today, I catch up all my mised exercices from wednesday and thursday because I was sick + I did my friday exercices + I walked 4.75 miles for the 100 miles challenge!

WEDNESDAY (but done on friday)
50 sit up = check
50 mountain climb = check

THURSDAY (but done on friday)
3 x 21 = check
100 jumping jacks = check

FRIDAY
40 globe jump (crazy this one!!!) = check
100 jumping jacks = check
100 stairclimbing (my boyfriends was wondering what I was doing and what was the noise ahahah...) = check

100 MILES CHALLENGE
One walk outside of 2.75 miles
One walk on treadmile of 2 miles
TOTAL OF 4.75 MILES Yeah

Have a nice evening everybody!
Catherine

song2sing

August 12, 2011

~25 Squat Kicks
~25 Swimmers Presses
~50 Ab Crunches
~50 Mountain Climbers
~2 Sets of 21's
~100 Jumping Jacks
~40 Shoulder Presses
~8 Water
~Under Calorie Goal

Sorry, will try the Globe Jumps tomorrow (I don't have any energy left tonight.)

Amazing Grace, let me know what else you need from song2sing for the week! I have doubled up and overlapped through the week and have lost track! I know I need to run some more and will try to finish up what I need tomorrow and maybe into Sunday. Thanks for the info hon! AS IF YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TO DO, RIGHT?!!

Joyful in the Journey, but a bit tired tonight!
song2sing

lisaap77

HELLO TEAM AG!!! I'm Back from TN and had a great time with my sister. I tried very hard to keep track of my calories and I think I did allright! I did my daily exercises EVERYDAY plus I hiked at least 2 miles EVERYDAY. (My sister thinks I'm nuts btw!! LOL) I drank at least 8 glasses of water EVERYDAY! And I feel WONDERFUL and am hoping for an AWESOME weigh in tomorrow!

musky4

for yesterday:
water - ck
under calories - ck
exercise -ck

for today so far:
i am caught up on all challenge exercises except for the one mile xtra walk (gonna be doing that real soon) -
so i need to do that and remain under calorie goal, and water for the w/end. got a busy one planned hope to get
more than just one walk in over this w/end - ---- have a GREAT day everyone

musky4

o - forgot --- WHO DID 25 WEIGHTS for the shoulder presses?? LOL ---
i was at 5# LOL

musky4

2.6 miles in - did i mention its humid and misting?? lol - starting on water!

SarahRuth♥

Um... I have no stairs available to me... Stair climbs? I imagine that is actually running up/down stairs?

Xtine72

40 Shoulder presses CHECK
50 Crunches CHECK
1 Extra Mile CHECK
Water CHECK ** ALREADY **

Burned over 1000 Calories this morning!! CHECK

Xtine72

Forgot to add...

50 Globe Jumps CHECK

Woohoo!!!

amazing_grace♥

You guys are tearing it UP!!!! WOWSA!!

@Cath - thanks for being so ORGANIZED with your post. That made it VERY EASY for me to log it all..... :flowerforyou: I'm glad that you are feeling better.......

@Musky - I only have 5# weights too..... doubt I could have done 25# anyways!! LOL....

@ SarahRuth, yes, that is going up and down the stairs..... perhaps you could go to the mall or somewhere that has stairs? I live in an apartment complex and although I live on the first floor, I'm going to go up and down the outside stairs here.... just an idea.

My date last night went VERY well - we went out to watch the first Steeler game (pre-season) and it ended up not being on Direct TV at all!! I was soooo disappointed. But the company (my date) was very nice and we ended up watching his team play ball instead. I was MORE excited that I was able to go out on a date and STILL STAY UNDER MY CALORIE GOAL for the day - I was really worried about THAT... haha. TOMORROW we are going for a drive in his new Hummer to Zanesville Ohio and out to the park to have a picnic... I'm really kinda excited!

I'm headed out now to do some walking.... I have some miles to make up for and plan to double up today and tomorrow!! Have a great weekend ladies!!!

REMINDERS......

Don't forget to weigh in tomorrow morning!! I'm so excited to see everybody's WEIGHT LOSS for this week!!!

Also, don't forget that starting Monday morning, I will have a new thread for us to post to. I'll put the link to the new thread on this one, but DON"T POST to this thread as of Monday morning.... (you know the drill)..... lol

SarahRuth♥

I seriously can't think of anyplace where there are stairs that I have access to. The closest mall is 40 minutes away, and I don't think there are any stairs there either. We don't believe in stairs here in Florida... Hahaha. I might have to just use my step that I do step aerobics with. It's only one stair, but I could climb that one stair 100 times. LOL.

Oh, and I covered 20 miles in my bike ride this morning. So if we find ourselves short on miles for the 100 mile challenge, you can use those.

maureendonahue

I seriously can't think of anyplace where there are stairs that I have access to. The closest mall is 40 minutes away, and I don't think there are any stairs there either. We don't believe in stairs here in Florida... Hahaha. I might have to just use my step that I do step aerobics with. It's only one stair, but I could climb that one stair 100 times. LOL.

Oh, and I covered 20 miles in my bike ride this morning. So if we find ourselves short on miles for the 100 mile challenge, you can use those.

I don't have stairs either, but luckily my sister needed help the other day with grocery shopping and she lives on the second floor. (Luck for me and the challenge, not for my sister needing help!) If anyone comes up with an alternative to this (my sister lives 60 miles away-I don't do that very often!) please share. I know that stair climbing is a great exercise!