Rock That Dress Challenge! (Closed Group)

myboysmomx2

Hi ladies. I lost 1.5 pounds since my first post here on the forum last Saturday. My scale has been slow to move lately also, so I was glad to see it go down. I think changing up my workout routine helped with losing weight again. I started evening out my power walks, step aerobics, and weightlifting by doing a more equal amount of each rather than focusing on one are too much. I went over one day on calories this past week, but I did meet all my other goals including weightlifting a minimum of 3x this week which was a big goal for me. It's so nice to read your posts every day. You all encourage me and help me to want to press on toward my goals. I can't wait to see where we are at the end of 10 weeks time. Today starts our new challenge that I posted earlier in the week, so let's keep moving! Have a great day everyone!!!!!

TwinMommy2CnC

My goal for this challenge is to lose 1.7 lbs per week. This week I lost 2 lbs!!! Yippee! After a very idle August, this has been wonderful to see.

For the challenge this week, my goal is to walk 20 miles. I started this morning with 2.68, so 17.32 to go! I also want to add weights in this week at least 3 times. Looking for some good arm workouts. What good is a sexy dress at the end of these 10 weeks, if I still have flabby arms?!? Good luck ladies with the challenge this week! Thanks for all of your encouragement! :flowerforyou:

GypsysBlood

Hey Ladies! Down 2.8 this week :-) Feeling pretty good about that but still hoping for more. I didn't meet my exercise goals so I really need to work on that, my motivation was waning this week. Luckily I belong to this great group that will help keep me pushing on ;-) Keep up the great work ladies! I am gonna keep my goals the same, since I didn't quite meet them

SW (beginning of RTD Challenge): 204.8
CW: 202
DAILY GOAL: Stay within my calories, LOG ALL FOOD!, make sure I am getting enough water ( I am a tea addict and usually drink more of it than water) look in the mirror and tell myself that I am doing it and that I will be successful!
WEEKLY GOAL: Workout 6x per week, including Cardio/strength interval circuits 5 days a week and Bike/Tread/Elliptical/Rowing Machine 3-5x depending on schedules
SEPTEMBER GOALS: lose 10 lbs this month, hopefully more
REST DAY: Varies, but most likely Thursdays

CindyLynn28

Good morning, ladies!!

I was down to 159.8 this morning! I haven't been in the 150s since I gave birth to my oldest almost 7 years ago. Total down this week: 3 lbs!!!

For the weekly challenge I'm going to try to add 20-30 minutes of elliptical to my 30 Day Slimdown Challenge. Depending upon my speed, I could do an extra 10-15 miles per week.

SW: 162.8
1st WI: 159.8
November 12th GW: 152.8

DAILY GOALS: Log all food, Stay within calorie and sodium limits, and exercise at least 30 min. per day.
WEEKLY GOAL: Exercise 5-6 days per week (Either Jillian Michael DVDs or elliptical)
SEPTEMBER GOAL: Complete the Jillian Michael 30 Day Slimdown.
REST DAY: Will vary depending on school schedule. Next two weeks it will be Wednesday, unsure of rest of month.

vkcooper

Hey Girls:
Since RTD Challenge I am down 3 pounds. Only 5lbs to meet and hopefully surpass my Sept goals. I have yet to have a positive pregnancy test so we still do not know. I went for 2 miles tonight so I only have 13 miles left for the week!! I had a baby shower to attend so I ate horriblely today but have not logged it yet to see if I am over or under calories! This week I really need to focus on homework and working out. Keep me posted ladies!

myboysmomx2

TwinMommy2CnC: Here's the arm workouts that I do: http://www.womenshealthmag.com/fitness/michelle-obamas-arms-workout I also do this one: http://health.yahoo.net/rodale/WH/get-sleek-toned-arms

It looks like y'all are doing great and losing weight. Don't beat yourself up if you didn't meet every single one of your goals. Goals give you something to work toward. So...if you didn't hit every single one, tomorrow is a NEW DAY. Just pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and go for the gusto again. I am so happy to see everyone working so hard and making strides for a NEW YOU!!!!! Keep up the good work!

myboysmomx2

For those of you who want a neat animated walking ticker to keep track of your walking goals, here's the one I used last month. It was neat to see my person walking along until my goal was reached. Here's the link: http://www.andfam.net/kim/tickerpicker.html

Annie5859

I burned 348 calories running 40 minutes today. I my weight is 158lbs, which I am happy with as I am in my maintenance range.

CindyLynn28

I burned 355 calories today and stayed within my calorie goal. I also did 2 miles on my elliptical. I need to work on water intake though. I think I only drank about 5 cups, if that, and it's fairly hot here so I should have had more. Gonna work on that tomorrow.

Annie5859

I went to the gym today and burned about 250 calories doing 30 minutes on the elliptical and 10 minutes on weights.

bayerngirl

Hallo ladies,

I haven't worked out since Friday. Ended up in the ER at the Nationa Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland for over 5 hours. I have acute ear/sinus infections since my surgery in 2009. My ear is so swollen and my head hurts like crazy. I can't even bent over.The doc gave me antibiotcs and heavy pain killers. They make me so tired! I have to go back on Monday, hopeing to get a workout in soon. I lost a total of 5 lb since last week, I am so happy the scale is finally moving.

Eveyone is doing fantastic, keep it up!

texastae1010

Hey I just saw this challenge I know its a closed group but would love to join if I can (don't have to worry about changing up the badge or anything)

Active Duty Army Wife here we have a ball Nov 5th

If it is to late to join I understand and I wish you all the best of luck in getting it done and rocking that dress

Janie5605

Hey everyone! This weekend I couldn't work out (and for once it drove me crazy!!!) I dislocated my knee again and it's just been annoying all weekend. BUT I am surprised and happy to say I have not gone over on Cals at all this whole week! and and and weighed in this morning at an amazing 212...I havent logged it here yet since my official weigh in day is thursday. I leave next weekend for a nine day visit with family and dont intend on being perfect but i wont go back to my old habits.

TwinMommy2CnC

I guess I ended up taking my rest day yesterday. / and I went over on calories a little. But I'm heading in the right direction today since I've already gone for a walk. Have a great Monday everybody! Get out there and strive for your goals!!!

myboysmomx2

Hey I just saw this challenge I know its a closed group but would love to join if I can (don't have to worry about changing up the badge or anything)

Active Duty Army Wife here we have a ball Nov 5th

If it is to late to join I understand and I wish you all the best of luck in getting it done and rocking that dress

Hi Ladies...I would like to invite another Army wife (Texastae1010), here to join us. I've had two ladies (cougs12 and Krissykg) inform me that they will not be able to do the RTD challenge at this time. I will update the banner later on today if time permits and give you all the new link to reflect the changes in our group. Let's continue to encourage each other toward reaching our goals. You're all doing fantastic so...keep up the good work!!!

Letting you all know too that yesterday I finally reached 40 pounds lost if you didn't see it on my wall. I'm SO HAPPY about that! Rock on ladies! You can do it!!!!!

MereMe

Hi ladies!
I haven't been checkin in daly - I forget I need to! So i am posting my calories burned and weight loss to date. My weigh-ins are Mondays, so I am a bit behind on check-ins anyway.
9/3 - 648
9/4 - 418
9/5 - 918
9/6 - 1126
9/7 - 310
9/8 - 698
9/9 - 225
9/12 - 602
Weight loss is down 3.7 since challenge began! I am SO pumped!

RDH77

I'm sick for the first time in over two years. So yesterday and today become impromptu rest days. I don't workout if I'm sick. I just don't think it's a good thing. So hopefully tomorrow I will be feeling better and I can get back to exercising.

Congrats to myboysmomx2 on your 40lbs lost!! WTG! Welcome to the new members!

texastae1010

Hi everyone and thanks for letting me join later in the challenge....

So my starting weight is 220.2 my goal weight for November 12th is optimistically 195

My daily goals are to stay within my calorie range and drink at least 12 servings of water and to completely cut out sodas I don't drink them often but when I have one I always start to crave sugar

For this week I plan on working out for 6 days and lose 2lbs (my weight today is down but I am supposed to start my period today or tomorrow so I am unsure of a Saturday weigh-in lol)...I try to do an hour of cardio a day at minimum plus some strength training

My monthly goal is to have lost at least 10lbs I hope more as I have a nice chunk to lose...I plan to stick with my six days a week of exercise no matter what (we are going to D.C. for the Army Ten Miler and then home to Texas) so I have a lot of walking a head of me and I am formulating a plan of healthy eating while staying in hotel rooms and going out to eat

Normally Sundays or Wednesdays are my rest days but I had a doctors appointment this morning so today is not my rest day as I got a nice shot in the tushy and well it just doesn't want to workout so I will post my water consumption later today.

Thank you again for letting me join you ladies

GypsysBlood

first off, WELCOME texastae1010!

I had a really rough weekend, but looking forward to getting back on track today. Not sure if I am going to be able to do C25K right now. I threw my back out just doing the little bit of running, it is just too high impact for me right now :-( wasn't able to do much this weekend because of it. Feeling a lot better today though. Hopefully after some more lower back strengthening and can give running another go, I really want to do some charity 5ks and work up to a half marathon :-)

Hope everyone has a good week!

vkcooper

Well hello to our newest member! Seems like we have a few girls sick, or injured or in the hospital. I hope you all feel better soon and stay on track!!! I am going to give a new excuse... I found out I am pregnant, and was so excited I did not walk last night because my husband wanted to hold my tummy. I have class today and do plan on walking when it lets out tonight!!! We think I am VERY EARLY (4 1/2 weeks). But back on yucky vitamins for the baby which always makes me sick but keeping it down today and rocking the counting calories. Doc next week to tell me if this is ok

myboysmomx2

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Welcome Texastae1010! We are glad to have you and look forward to getting to know you better :-D

Janie5605

WELCOME!!!

So it's Monday. Yuck. Husbands flight was canceled again so i'm less optimistic about moving before the holidays then i was Friday. Oh well. My knee is feeling better after dislocating it three times in the last week...BOO.So i'm back in full force!

Today so far I have burned 488 cals. I walked 2.5 miles did 700 crunches along with my PT exercises and some other in home exercises.

My weight is officially all over the place! But whatever it's going down (minus one weigh in eek) so thats all that matters. Thursday I weighed in at 213.2, yesterday (sun) I weighed in at 212 (WHAT!!!) And this morning i weighed in at 213.8. I have stayed on point with my calories just took the weekend off from working out so i dont do serious damage to my knee. I'm in crunch time now...go home saturday and really just want to drop as much as possible before then...anything more actually would be fantastic!

TwinMommy2CnC

Welcome Texastae1010! Glad you can join us!

I burned 343 calories today during my walk. I planned to walk again this evening with my neighbor, but that got cancelled because we decided to take our boys to the river. We went yesterday and saw manatees, so we wanted to take our snorkeling gear with us this time to try and swim with them. Soooooo cool! My boys and hubby all got to touch them. I was the designated photographer or I would have loved to do it too. What a cool, COOL afternoon! Looking forward to tomorrow and getting some more exercise in! )

Oh, and CONGRATS to myboysmomx2 on hitting that 40 lb mark! I am so proud of you! Truly an inspiration to me...thanks for including me on this weight loss adventure! Love you!

CindyLynn28

The last two days have not gone very well. I haven't exercised and have gone over calories both days. My schedule this week is pretty jam-packed, but I'm hoping to still get exercise in during the mornings.

I hope the rest of you guys are doing well.

Oh, congrats to VKCooper!! I wish you a healthy and happy pregnancy!

Annie5859

I decided to take this day as a rest day. I joined a gym today however!

myboysmomx2

I'm looking forward to getting back to a normal workout/meal routine tomorrow. Life has been a little crazy this past week! We have some pretty amazing women in this challenge. Despite injuries and other circumstances, we all just keep on keeping on! Good for you. I do caution everyone to be careful and not overdo it though. I know we all want to stay on track with our goals, but just be careful :-) I wore my HRM while cleaning for a long period today. It was not my intention to use that calorie burn as my official one, but time did not permit regular exercise so I used the numbers my HRM gave me instead. I'll be back in the swing of things tomorrow. For now, I'm SO tired and can't wait to sleep. Rock on ladies!

texastae1010

Myboysmomx2-thank you again for letting me participate within this group and for making an updated banner and again congrats on the 40lb loss

RDH77-Thank you for the welcome and I hope that you feel better soon

GypsysBlood-Thank you for the welcome, how is your back feeling? I hope that you are taking care of yourself…even if you can’t do the c25k (which I can’t lol with my weight + my crappy knees it is not my friend right now) what are you planning on doing? I hope your back is getting better

Vkcooper-Thank you for the welcome and Congrats on the pregnancy

Janie5605-Thank you for the welcome sorry about your husband’s flight that is no fun at all…I hope that your knee feels better soon and holy batman you and your crunches that is some pretty good stuff

TwinMommy2CnC-Thank you for the welcome-sounds like yall had fun with the manatees…I have only seen them in the aquarium so that I can only imagine how much fun that was for your family

Cindylynn-Hope you can get your exercise in…it is amazing how life can get so busy and in the way all the darn time

Annie-congrats on joining a gym that is wonderful

Ok yesterday I did not exercise as I stated earlier but whatever was in that shot they gave me I know it was for allergies and a bit of steroids (the kind for sickness lol) made me feel really hot, hyper, I was all over the place honestly I went into the bathroom and my face and neck were just as red as if I had been working out and I was so thirsty…I got my water in I stop counting after I reach 12 servings (I drink a lot of water I am one of those people that always have a drink in their hand, purse, car, etc. if I don’t have one then I feel thirsty it is so odd)

My husband comes back home very soon I am excited (he is just away at school but still a couple of months is a couple of months)

Today I am going to get up and at em…today I will be working out at home (I had planned to go to the gym this morning and re-start walking but my ipod is dead I forgot to charge it and I don’t have the ability to just walk the treadmill or be on the elliptical without my armor it is hard enough to go in there feeling fat but also this is where my husband’s Soldiers workout at and they always stop and say hi which is very nice but they want to chit-chat etc and kind of ruins my workout…again I do understand they are being very nice and kind but just because I am not running like they do doesn’t mean I am not working out lol)

bayerngirl

Hi ladies,

I had to go back to the Navel hospital in Maryland. I saw 2 ENT doctors. They wicked both my ears, arrr. My entire left side of my face is swollen, not very painful. I did menaged to get a walk and 60 min weight training in yesterday, had to stop and rest alot! But i got it in! Not sure, what cardio I will do today, but I will do something low impact?

Hi and welcome, Texastae1010!

Congratulations to vkcooper!

GypsysBlood - hope you feeling better.

myboysmomx2 - WTG on that weight loss! That's amazing!

Waves Hallo to the rest of the group. You ladies doing great.

RDH77

Hey gals, I went over on my daily cals today and I didn't work out but I still can't breath through my nose so...trying to get over whatever this bug is! At least I was able to move around today unlike yesterday. I hope tomorrow I can get a light workout in.

TwinMommy2CnC

Burned 805 calories today on 2 different walks. My first walk, I used 3 lb weights and did different arm exercises in 1 minute intervals. Trying to do this 3 times this week and will try to use some bigger dumbbells next week....maybe. ;o) I have a really busy day tomorrow, and won't be home from about 8:15 am - 9:30 pm. I'm hoping to get some kind of exercise in there somewhere. We. Shall. See. Hope everyone had a great day! I'll look forward to seeing everyone's updates in the morning.