Sexy in Six ***Closed Group*** Week 4

peanut613

Great job tackling the first half, ladies! Let's get right into the results of week 3.

Pink Team is our winning team this week, with a total loss of 6.7 pounds! Megamoo04 pulled out a huge 6.4 pound loss for the team, making her the pink star! You all completed our crunches challenge a total of 39 days to give your team 14.5 points.

Blue Team had a total of 6.3 pounds lost. Sarah61587 had a 2.2 drop, way to go Blue MVP! You guys had 37 days of crunches, and a total of 13.7 points.

Purple Team, you lost a grand total of 5 pounds this week, with j991i leading your team with a 3.2 pound loss. You did 48 days of crunches, giving a total of 14.6 points.

Green Team fell short this week with only 3.4 pounds lost. Feydruss had the biggest loss with 2.2 pounds. You ladies did 29 days of crunches, and had 9.2 points.


This week, our Questions of the Day go to:
Monday: arcticbear
Tuesday: tjutrostina
Wednesday: kristyann86
Thursday: j991i
Friday: persanta


This week, our challenge is to do a legitimate workout each day. That means you burn calories doing something OTHER than cleaning, cooking, etc. You need to burn calories by: Walking, Running, Using Exercise Equipment, Dancing, Zumba, Aerobics, Sports, Calisthenics, Circuit Training, etc. You may still log calories burned by regular daily activities like cooking, cleaning, breastfeading, sex, mowing the lawn, things like that. This is to encourage everyone to INTENTIONALLY exercise!

If you have any questions about the challenge or want to check if a certain activity counts as "INTENTIONAL" exercise, just email me! You ladies are working your butts off (literally!) Keep up the awesome effort!

klyvers512

Great Job ladies
Pink Team!!! We are rocking! Let's take this week too and show them we're here for business!!

Hope228

Congrats to pink and Megamoo! :-)

sarah61587

I'm excited for this weeks challenge! I will actually be motivated to hop on my elliptical now!

tbhoover

Can't believe we are already at week 4!

feydruss

I've already forgotten what my goal is for this challenge.

Peanut, I'm still travelling. I'm spending probably 4-5 hours a day walking around, pushing 80lbs in the stroller, carrying babies, sometimes up and down steps or hills. Can this still count as exercise? There's no way I can organize a specific workout while travelling with twins!

sakus32

Great job last week ladies . . . . . . week 4 is going to be THE week for Team Purple good luck to all and get your groove on w/your workouts

ranewell

Congrats to everyone! GO TEAM PINK!

tjutrostina

Great job last week ladies . . . . . . week 4 is going to be THE week for Team Purple good luck to all and get your groove on w/your workouts

We are going to ROCK IT!!!!

SiyaL8R

Team Purple let's bring the heat and make it burn. WE can do it!

megamoo04

Congrats to pink and Megamoo! :-)

Thank you

almille

Great challenge! I know I need to step it up a bit, last week was mediocre for me and this weekend was awful. Cravings and cramps really got to me last night, but here's a new Monday!

Let's pick it up Green team! Haven't gotten much of a chance to chat with you all. How is everyone doing?

I'm enjoying the progress I'm making, but I've hit my first roadblock. I have shin splints. I've been babying them for a bit, but they aren't healing very well because I'm on concrete all day at work and Im getting sooooooo bored with the elliptical which is hard on my knees and the stationary bike which I can't get a really good workout on.
I'd like to be swimming, but I can't afford the Y right now (c'mon, a monstrous joining fee for just three more months before I go back to my college gym?).

Any ideas on low impact cardio exercises or how to heal shin splints faster?

megamoo04

WAY TO GO PINK TEAM!!! WE KNOCKED IT OUT OF THE PARK!!! LET'S CONTINUE TO STAY STRONG

kaleighmorgan

Way to go, Pink Team!! I started this week's challenge with a 10 mile run I'm very excited! (And I'm going to bring it this week.) A friend of mine on here suggested 1,000 jumping jacks a day (10x100) because you burn 1 calorie per every two jumping jacks a.k.a. 1,000 jacks x 7 days = 7,000 jacks / 2 calories = 3,500 calories = 1 lb. of fat a week!!! I'd like to mini-challenge as many members of MY team (PINK) that are willing to see if we can't tackle that and get another week in first place!!

megamoo04

Way to go, Pink Team!! I started this week's challenge with a 10 mile run I'm very excited! (And I'm going to bring it this week.) A friend of mine on here suggested 1,000 jumping jacks a day (10x100) because you burn 1 calorie per every two jumping jacks a.k.a. 1,000 jacks x 7 days = 7,000 jacks / 2 calories = 3,500 calories = 1 lb. of fat a week!!! I'd like to mini-challenge as many members of MY team (PINK) that are willing to see if we can't tackle that and get another week in first place!!

ill give it a try, is it all 1000 at 1 time or can we spread it out?

Magic_Girl

Way to go, Pink Team!! I started this week's challenge with a 10 mile run I'm very excited! (And I'm going to bring it this week.) A friend of mine on here suggested 1,000 jumping jacks a day (10x100) because you burn 1 calorie per every two jumping jacks a.k.a. 1,000 jacks x 7 days = 7,000 jacks / 2 calories = 3,500 calories = 1 lb. of fat a week!!! I'd like to mini-challenge as many members of MY team (PINK) that are willing to see if we can't tackle that and get another week in first place!!

Wow! That's a great idea! I'm definitely going to do it! GO PINK! We definitely are going to get first place again this week! :bigsmile:

Bella1hud

Not if Green can help it! Nothing more motivating to get back in the saddle than a little friendly competition

ranewell

LOL, bring it! 1000 jacks a day????? Holy hell, lol. I'll give it a shot. I'm doing the Walk at Home challenge at 5 mile a day, but I will try to fit in as many jumping jacks as I can throughout the day! Anything for my team!

RunningAddict

Great work everyone!
Come on Green team, let's pull it together this week! We can do this!!

arcticbear

Ok! Monday: Question of the Day

Eating is a social thing, but when people try to tempt you to eat something which you know you shouldn't, and (probably) they know you shouldn't, what do you say?/How do you deal with it? eg: When people say, ' Oh just one, it won't hurt.' etc etc Any good tips out there?

I am finding people asking me to 'just have a bit of this chocolate cake' or ' have a chocolate' - or 'Go on, you know you want to', offering a cookie.

I am considering putting a sign on my office door saying: 'Please don't feed this bear'. I've also found myself saying things like, 'I'm trying really hard to be good'. And also just saying, 'No thank you' and then walking away.
I'm thinking that if it wasn't for the pressure I feel put under by others, I would find it easier to stick to my plan. I'm reminding myself that it is just me who has the power to choose.

And well done Pink Team!

But

Come on Team Purple!!!!!! Next week is our week!!! xx

lwdllc

Eating is a social thing, but when people try to tempt you to eat something which you know you shouldn't, and (probably) they know you shouldn't, what do you say?/How do you deal with it? eg: When people say, ' Oh just one, it won't hurt.' etc etc Any good tips out there?


Dealing with Food Pushers is one of the most difficult things. I just say no thank you, or that I'm not hungry, most often they just move on from there and offer some to someone else. When they are very persistent the "oh one won't hurt you" I just think - 1 is 1 more than I had planned on, and it is important to stick to my plan because before I planned I over ate every day. Therefore "No thank you, it does look great, but I'd rather not have any right now. "

Socially I have a harder time dealing with keeping myself in check, I always do better if I go in with a plan to a social situation, know what Im going to let myself eat and try to stick to it- I make through it about 50% of the time.

tbhoover

Eating is a social thing, but when people try to tempt you to eat something which you know you shouldn't, and (probably) they know you shouldn't, what do you say?/How do you deal with it? eg: When people say, ' Oh just one, it won't hurt.' etc etc Any good tips out there?

Being a stay at home mom...I dont deal with a lot of this. I do have to avoid the oreo cookies etc that my kiddos and hubby eat. But on a whole hubby keeps me quite accountable and I dont have to do with so much temptation.

For me the thing is that I just love going out to eat...and I have to just stay home because I have a hard time being good while going out to eat

megamoo04

Monday: Question of the Day

Eating is a social thing, but when people try to tempt you to eat something which you know you shouldn't, and (probably) they know you shouldn't, what do you say?/How do you deal with it? eg: When people say, ' Oh just one, it won't hurt.' etc etc Any good tips out there?

I kindly say no thank you and walk away. the people that i would with are on a diet so that helps a lot!

Hope228

Eating is a social thing, but when people try to tempt you to eat something which you know you shouldn't, and (probably) they know you shouldn't, what do you say?/How do you deal with it? eg: When people say, ' Oh just one, it won't hurt.' etc etc Any good tips out there?


I am very honest and to the point. I tell them I am on a diet and I can't. If they have a problem with it, It's their problem, not mine :-)

Wish I had some tips though!

j99li

Monday: Question of the Day

Eating is a social thing, but when people try to tempt you to eat something which you know you shouldn't, and (probably) they know you shouldn't, what do you say?/How do you deal with it? eg: When people say, ' Oh just one, it won't hurt.' etc etc Any good tips out there?

I usually just say Im not hungry and I change the topic so that the focus is no longer on me and food. I also just say no if I dont want to eat it. Sometimes though, there have been things that I crave and so I will take a small bite but just to take the edge off before I get derailed.

dezedeze

Way to go, Pink Team!! I started this week's challenge with a 10 mile run I'm very excited! (And I'm going to bring it this week.) A friend of mine on here suggested 1,000 jumping jacks a day (10x100) because you burn 1 calorie per every two jumping jacks a.k.a. 1,000 jacks x 7 days = 7,000 jacks / 2 calories = 3,500 calories = 1 lb. of fat a week!!! I'd like to mini-challenge as many members of MY team (PINK) that are willing to see if we can't tackle that and get another week in first place!!

I'm in! Gonna do mine right now...

ranewell

Monday QOTD:

Eating is a social thing, but when people try to tempt you to eat something which you know you shouldn't, and (probably) they know you shouldn't, what do you say?/How do you deal with it? eg: When people say, ' Oh just one, it won't hurt.' etc etc Any good tips out there?

I worked in an elementary school and currently work in an office, and I know how challenging this can be in those settings!! I always brought my own food when I worked in the school, and I ateprior to first lunch, which in that environment meant I was lucky enough to avoid the staff room at the height of the goodie rush. Currently I'm lucky enough to work with amazing women who know where i am, and they offer (they're sweet, they will say "we have this, can you afford it?") and respect me when I decline. Otherwise, I just say no thanks but it looks great! I haven't been faced with junk food pushers yet! LOL

RunningAddict

Monday QOTD:

Eating is a social thing, but when people try to tempt you to eat something which you know you shouldn't, and (probably) they know you shouldn't, what do you say?/How do you deal with it? eg: When people say, ' Oh just one, it won't hurt.' etc etc Any good tips out there?

I usually say I am so full! If I eat another bite I will explode for sure. Either that or I say well I'll take one for later and then trash it. I try to be as nice as possible.

peanut613

Eating is a social thing, but when people try to tempt you to eat something which you know you shouldn't, and (probably) they know you shouldn't, what do you say?/How do you deal with it? eg: When people say, ' Oh just one, it won't hurt.' etc etc Any good tips out there?

Okay, I had a big thing with this back at my 4th of July picnic (less than a month into my MFP life!). My mom went all out with the food, especially the desserts. She ordered Smith Island Cake Pops (for people who don't know, Smith Island Cake is a locally made cake, that alternates 15 thin layers of cake and 15 layers of icing.) These were the small, round cakes on a lollipop stick. They had a coconut, red velvet, and a chocolate. They looked amazing. I mean, slap yo momma good. I wanted the coconut one SO BAD you don't even understand.

Well, my mom had invited a lot of church people to the party and all the women were scarfing the cake pops down. I mean eating 8-10 of them. They asked me which one I liked most and I said I hadn't tried them. "Well what are you waiting for? Try one of each." I politely declined, I didn't want any. "Oh come on. You NEED to try at least one! They're incredible!" No thanks, again. They didn't relent. One woman (who is a fitness instructor and had chowed down on 10+ at this point) kept insisting that I eat one. Eventually I looked her square in the eye and said I had only been on my diet for a few weeks and I wasn't wasting hundreds (yes, hundreds plural!) on a cake pop!!! The women eventually shut up and clucked at something else.

It's so annoying to INSIST that you don't want something, only to have people keep hounding at you. Come on, people....no means no! You just gotta stick to your guns. (PS, I saved the calories to eat one the next day...but they were only 'okay' not great.)

feydruss

My problem is telling MYSELF it's not okay to have it! A lot of the time in those situations I'll take something and just have one bite to taste it, then I'll throw out the rest. If I'm at a sit down event or something where it's still sitting on my plate, sometimes I'll liberally salt it so that it's inedible. I prefer to just refuse it in the first place, saying "no thanks, I'm good!".

feydruss

Btw peanut that cake thing sounds AMAZING. Cake is one of my weaknesses!