November challenge !!!!!!!!!!!! : >

Nicobh

The first day was a good start. Today I ate every three hours, did 60 minutes of cardio and strength training, and drank all 8 glasses of water. I struggled around 7pm with wanting to snack on some almonds, but i keep busy and made it through. It really helped to think about having to report in. I did well with my food choices today. I played around with the database combining foods I thought about eating, and was able to plan my meals for the day and not just grab at things. I am going to work at keeping that pattern going through November.

nicolealison

Count me in!!!!!
Daily Goals: Drink ALL my water ... 136ounces every day!!!
Stay under my calories
Get some sort of exercise every day, but good exercise 5x a week!!!
Habit: Spending time to unwind after my shifts (I work nights) washing my face, brushing my teeth, etc.

Let's do this!!!

hawkeyegal1995

Day 1:
1-Recorded everything think I ate and even tried to measure out things better so no guessing.
2.-drank 2 liters of water at work (the added bonus being more to trips the restroom on the other side of the building). After work though I only had a few sips of water so I need to work on that.
3.-Spin class on Tuesdays so I wil try and get on the bike trainer tonight.

amsw1275

Hi!
Ok, so I stuck to the challenge except didn't realize I needed to check in yesterday...oops! I logged in everything. Last night was also our date night, although oddly enough I think I was pretty close to staying in the green. Its hard to be 100% accurate when guessing restaurant foods, unless its a chain with a posted listing. After dinner my husband wanted to take me to a local place for frozen custard (I hadn't been before), so I only had a kids cup. It tasted great, and was just the right portion size. This morning I've already logged in breakfast, and will be heading to the gym as soon as my little one finishes her breakfast.

elimay59

Good morning No nonsence challengers :bigsmile: I am so ready to go start my day just checking in I am going to logg my food before I go I will be gone most of the day but I am physicly and mentaly prepared to be succssesful today. I will check back this evening .

Good job amsw No pproblem I will give you a tally mark for yesterday
You had a good day too hawkeye :happy:

Have an awesome day everyone :bigsmile:

DeeBear Thinking about you and your surgery today :frown: Feel better so soon :flowerforyou:

Emwalker3406

I just wanted to share my little NSV I had today. I take my measurements every month on the 2nd of the month. From Oct 2nd-Nov 2nd I have lost a total of 9.25 inches. I don't SEE it yet but I know I am healthier for all we are doing. I will check back in with you all tonight. Have a great day :flowerforyou:

lstnlondry

I just wanted to share my little NSV I had today. I take my measurements every month on the 2nd of the month. From Oct 2nd-Nov 2nd I have lost a total of 9.25 inches. I don't SEE it yet but I know I am healthier for all we are doing. I will check back in with you all tonight. Have a great day :flowerforyou:

Hooray!!! This is AWESOME!!!!! Keep it up!!

sammylc

Day 2 - not so good :ohwell:

Gone over on cals by a couple of hundred, which surprisingly is the same amount as that white choc chip bakery cookie I just found in the kitchen!!!!
No cardio for me today, I've done a full day at work followed by a governors meeting at school so I am completely pooped. Should manage to do 300 crunches though this evening.
Replaced some of my coffee with green tea, so I am a little closer to changing my caffeine habit.

Take care all x

ravenzwart

So, i tried to log in yesterday but something went wrong. After 3 times a gave up, but probably it was two lpng days in a row that just killed me.
Stayed on track yesterday, drank enough water (counted the tea) and my total amount cal was okay.
But today, pff. Ate to much (chips, sweets you name it). And i didn't even drink enough and got no exercise done.

It seems everytime i start a challenge (first i followed a different counting site), i can't stay on track.

Okay enough complaining, got to pick it up. Tomorrow a new day a new round!

schotas

Day 2--
Much better today!
Staying at about 1200 calories.
Drank more water.
Avoided the candy bowl at work, and SUCCESS--I was given a Twix bar and a Kit Kat, and I threw them away! That is huge for me...if I weren't doing this challenge and fully aware that I had to log on tonight, then I would have eaten both of them.
Woohoo!

Hope everyone else is doing well today.

campfirecrafter

Day 2- I did well keeping up with logging everything and I managed to to bring a lunch (though not a super healthy one - I still need to work on that ) and I have exercised today.. yay go me

Emwalker3406

This has been a pretty good start to the month. Meeting my goals and a nice nsv today. I hope the rest of the month goes as well.

First weeks goals:
90 min cardio to get back on track (80 min done 10 left)
20 Min strength ( 50 done)
Keep my numbers in the green (I did much better today Everything was green)

I also need to get back into the habit of drinking at least 9 glasses of water. (12 glasses)

My free day is Sunday

amsw1275

Knowing I was going to post again tonight kept me in control and to stick to my goals. It meant adding spinach to dinner, watching how much I ate, and logging it all in. I also got 45 minutes worth of cardio this morning. And now I will walk away from the kitchen (well, the food at least, the dishes still need to be done).

DeeBear

Okay Day #2. Did not do any of my challenges but had to have surgery today to have the hardware removed from my left ankle. No excuses, I know, but I did however do my diary and check in with the November challenge, so I guess not everything was a wash. Will get back on the bandwagon tomorrow. However probably will not be doing any exercise until November 16th when I get my staples out. Will have to really watch the food intake for this two weeks, which I feel very confident about. You girls are all doing an awesome job. It is nice to read everyone's messages. Keeps me motivated to do well watching all of your progress. Keep up the good work everyone!!! Talk to you all tomorrow! (If there are any mistakes or contradicting statements in this post I blame it all on the pain meds). HeHeHeHeHe

hawkeyegal1995

Day 2:
So I forgot that I did actually cook something on day 1 for supper so tonight was left overs. I honesty think that was the first time I had made supper in about a month. Logged everything today and stayed below my calories.

-DId 30 minutes of interval spinning on the training stand.

-Drank 2.5 liters of water.

Only stepped on the scale once today.

Keep up the good work everyone!

moonfleur75

Day 2 was a bust food wise. I had difficulty staying away from sugar. I did log everything in the food diary. I did 50 minutes of cardio on the arc trainer at the gym.
Followed through with the healthy habit of flossing

elimay59

Hello Everyone !!!! Everyone is doing great :bigsmile:

Emwalker that is amazing so happy for you that is huge

DeeBear I was so happy to hear from you, That is dedication that you had surgery and checked in glad your surgery is done. No excercize no problem just change up your goals till your staples are out.

Yay amzw That is great tht the challenge kept you in control :happy:

Hawk eye thank you you too !!!! you had anouther good day

Yay maura land !!!!!!

9 have checked in so far for the 2nd day good job !!!!!!!! even DeeBear who had surgery today Yay everyone :happy:


Im doing really good today I need to excercize and drink the rest of my water so far so good I feel in control

I will check back with my grand totals latter :bigsmile: Keep up the good work everyone

elimay59

no worries raven I logged you both days good job

l00zrr

Huh. I think I'm in a different time zone as you guys.
It seems like everyone logs pretty early, like 5pm for me.
Oh well. It's about 7:30pm here, now.

Pretty good day, landed a job that has me walk 8-10 miles a night.
Not really done eating for the day, but my excersize was good.

Half an hour of cardio and strength total. 15 mins short of my goal.
Not done eating, like I said, but I still have around 525 cals left before my limit.
Brushed and flossed twice (:

elimay59

good job !!!! congrats on the job :bigsmile: all the walking will be good for your goals .We are in the same time zone I just check in early and then latter its 7:40 Washington State

Kelene616

Day #2 went well. Stayed under calories and got my cardio in along with some strength moves. Had two glasses of green tea and eleven of water! And I remembered to floss too. Yay!

elimay59

good job Kelene !!!!!

I have did good today although I am so crabby I cant stand myself .


My goals :

1. stay under calorie. Im good on calories

2. drink 64 ounces water or green tea a day. Still working on water

3. excersize 30 mins a day. I will ride stationary bike when I get off here I already logged it

good Habit: floss and waterpic eeverynight. I am on my way to do it before I ride my bike

Goodnight everyone you are doing great it really encourages me to see everyone trying so hard Good job :flowerforyou:

See you tommorow !!!!!!

Nicobh

Day two started well but ended VERY badly. I did 60 minutes of cardio, leg lifts and crunches. Drank all 64 ounces of water, and planned what I wanted to eat for the day. Big but, I did not take enough food to work to last for my long day. I broke the 4 hour maximum between meals goal. There were more than five hours between lunch and my next meal, and that for me is a curse because once it happens my desire to eat trumps my will power. I tried to stay on course, but it did not happen today. I put it all into the food log.

Elleebell

Had a pretty good day today, but not great. For exercise, I took my daughter to the park and spent over an hour using my hands and feet to make a huge leaf pile big enough for her and two little boys she met to play in together. It was hard work! I was sweating and it was freezing haha. I ate sweets while doing four hours of math which seems unavoidable today, and impending TOM makes me SUPER HUNGRY! Like a constant urge to eat. But I had 28 calories left at the end of the day so I'm feeling pretty good I also drank 8 glasses of water!

lstnlondry

The rules........

1 . My first couple goals will include staying at 1500 calories or so, drinking 128 oz of water & exercising 2 times a day..

2. 1 Good Habit will be to eat dinner early enough to take a walk afterwards.

3. I will try to check in everyday !!!! good or bad .

4. I haven't mastered taking a day off of exercise yet!

Today I ate about two hundred calories over, which I'm okay with it because I burned almost 1200 calories today!!
Today I went on my dogwalk after a healthy homemade dinner. (watchout! leftovers tomorrow!!)
Today I checked in and feel very good about my day. I really do, and I'm determind to move that scale!!
Today I planned on stopping at the after-dinner walk but I pushed myself to get to the gym!! (I can do so much more when my hsuband's at work & kids have leftovers!!)

I hope everyone else had a good day today!! Elimay? How'd you do??

I WILL make November a great month !!!!!!!!!!!
PS: what an awesome group of people we have this month!!

l00zrr

Might buy a scale today c: Mine recently broke.
Keep up the good work everyone! We CAN do this!

elimay59

Good Morning Challenge friends :flowerforyou: I think I am in a better mood today urggggg yesterday !!!!! dispite that I stayed in line except a bit short on water I lost track.

We had a total of 13 that have checked in 2 days in a row GOOD JOB :bigsmile: And I am really empressed that you are logging in good or bad I know that is not easy to do even though its part of the challenge, In the long run it will help us and it shows our dedication to our goal, it also encourages others that we are trying, And if we have a bad day it gives our challenge friends a chance to encourage us ,so again I say GOOD JOB!!!!!!!!!!!

Great 100zr a new scale is good its encouraging to see your progress . YES WE CAN DO THIS !!!!!!!!!!! :happy:

Istonlondry good job you are motivated and motivating I love seeing you on here it brightens my day , Thank you for checking on me it means alot. I agree WE HAVE A GREAT GROUP !!!!!! I will make november a good month too

Nicobh, Some days are like that ,its good you realize your trigers, Mine the first day was pretzel sticks {cheese flavored} and sugar cookies in that situation they will be garbage next time ,there are just some things I cant trust myself with :noway:

I was down to 209 went back up to 216 I have not changed it on my WI but I will do that today so i have a fresh start this month .I was down to 213 this morning so I am happy I am starting to loose again. I am adding the goal of loosing 14 LBS this month I know I can do it as long as there is no nonsence AND THAT IS UP TOO ME
YES I CAN DO IT !!!!!!!!! AND SO CAN YOU :bigsmile: Have a great day everyone !!!!!!!!

sammylc

Hey Guys

Day 3 has been much better for me. Fairly close to 1200 cals today and still got my exercise cals that I could use later if I need a snack before bed. (I'm in the UK in case you are wondering why I'm always so quick to check in).
Cardio - did my 30 mins workout at 7am, really love starting my day like that (I wouldn't have said that a couple of months ago!), I've also done C25K Week 1, Day 3 - looking forward to moving on to Week 2, think I'm ready for it.
Caffeine - only 2 cups of coffee today, other drinks have been green tea.

Love reading how the rest of you are doing, Sam x

ravenzwart

Day three went a little bit better, but still i didn't drink enough. Long meeting and full speed at work to make the deadline.
Got todo better at that one.
Made myself go for a short walk (and because of that take a break of work) and tried not to snack to much when the chocolates came out at the office.
Stayed below my calories, so thats fine. Sleeping wont be a problem. Snacking after half 9, no problem because im having a late dinner.
Enough for today, time to relax!

motherbetty

Day 3 was productive for me. I have been really well behaved with my food intake and reached for fresh fruit instead of processed junk. I also raked leaves for close to 2 hours, which I am counting as my cardio. I had to dump the leaves down over the hill so that meant lugging a wheel barrel up and down, up and down. I could feel the burn! I'm still working on my water but it;s early and I feel I will probably accomplish it!

Hope everyone is having a good day!