"Life's New Journey" November Challenge Week 2

luvs_choc8

Happy Monday to All,

This is the first post for Week 2 of our November Challenge and will contain Mini Challenges for the entire week. This will hopefully make it easier for everybody to find the challenges. I will continue to review every day and add a Quote of the Day. Hopefully this will work better,

:flowerforyou: Monday Mini Challenge:
Food- stay below allowed calorie limit.
Cardio- do a 3 mile or 45 minute brisk walk.
Strength- 100 crunches (three different kinds)

:flowerforyou: Tuesday Mini Challenge:
Food- Give up one of your comfort or must have foods for the full day and maybe continue the whole week.
Cardio- Do 100 jumping jacks throughout the day
Strength- Do 10 sets of 10 tricep kickbacks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO81bExngMI&feature=relmfu

:flowerforyou: Wednesday Mini Challenge:
Food- Try to prepare from scratch everything you eat today. If it takes less than 5 minutes to prepare or comes in a box, chances are it is not the healthiest.
Cardio- power knees http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U6AVmC9C8U
Strength- Do 10 sets of 10 squats

:flowerforyou: Thursday Mini Challenge:
Food- Carb Reduction. For one day cut your carbs in half. If you on average consume 150 then try to drop it to 75. Analyze what kind of carbs you are eating.
Cardio/Strength- Circuit Training, Do the following circuit three times. 25 jumping jacks, 25 sit ups, 25 push ups.

:flowerforyou: Friday Mini Challenge:
Food- Sodium reduction. Try to decrease your sodium by 500mg.
Cardio- Interval training. Warm up for 5 minutes, jog for 1 minute, walk for 1 minute, X8 reps, cool down for 5 minutes
Strength- Can't ever do enough crunches. Lets do 100+5 (3 different kinds)

:flowerforyou: Saturday Mini Challenge:
Food- Make sure you are not snacking on bad foods. Keep your snacks healthy. (fruits, vegetables, nuts etc)
Cardio/Strength- Saturday is my house cleaning day and actually burns a fair amount of calories. Move the furniture and give a thorough clean today.

:flowerforyou: Sunday Mini Challenge:
Food- make sure you are being honest with everything you consume.
Cardio/Strength- we all deserve a day of rest and relaxation so today, take a leisurely walk outside with your children, pet or just yourself and enjoy the world around you.

Please continue to post progress and general discussions here for week 2.

Keep Smiling

Donna

luvmybeebees

Hello there!

LOVE this format! This is great - helps me see what I need to do and plan ahead for it!

You are awesome!

lolabugs

I'd love to do this. I missed the first week, but this will be great motivation!

MelissaSel

Thank you for this format. It's much easier to find, and plan ahead. Some of those days I may have to switch around, as my work week isn't the usual Mon-Fri. So, I may just re-arrange the days to suit my schedule : ) Also, I am limited on what I can do physically because of knee injury, but I am joining the gym tomorrow, so I will, again, modify your challenges to work for me. For example, a 45 minute brisk walk... probably not! But I can split up the 45 minutes between the arc trainer and the treadmill. Power knee things... jumping jacks... don't think so... but I will do strength training on the weight machines. I think I can make this work! At least you are giving me creative ways to adjust, AND I can look at your challenges and plan what I will do at the gym so it doesn't get too redundant for me! Thanks for all your hard work for us!

KettyLan

Great idea!

Elbee1

I'm glad that you started a new thread and I love the new format!!!
Thank you!
Linda

loveme445

Hi Donna! Thanks for the challenges! I love the weekly format.

How many power knees are we suppose to complete for Weds challenge?

mamapaints

Nice! Thanks Donna!

kathas0trophal

thanks. today i was stugelling with myself wether i should go walking or not.öNow i know what i have to walk minimum!

tammihart

Love this format! Thanks!

tammihart

Love the new forum! Thanks!

wowsuzie

Well, when I weighed myself Friday I was 141.5...this morning I was 143 even tho I did awesome over tne weekend...blah!

bluesstarz

I'm going to try to stay accountable this work week!

Lippis

Working to get back on track after a not so in control weekend - HA!

Really like the full week of mini challenges all in one post. Thanks Donna!

Hope everyone has a great monday!!

GO Journey to Loose Ladies!!

cmon288

Thanks Donna, This makes it easy for me to print out and keep with my workout gear. Searching through the form was rather annoying last week; happy to see the improvement! Thanks again for all of this. You're Awesome! I'm deff going to be more accountable this week. Good Luck everyone!

Jess05071981

I also love the new formatt!!!

BeachGurl815

Good morning,

Did ok last week. I am down about a 1/2 lb.

luvs_choc8

Good Morning Everyone,

I am glad you are finding the new forum and liking it. I hope it works for everybody.

Monday's Quote:

"The greatest thing you have is the 24 hours in front of you. The past is gone; the future is distant. Today you CAN succeed. Set a goal you can achieve in the next 24 hours"

I hope you all have a wonderful Monday

Don't forget to put your weight on the spread sheet. I would like to announce the winners by Wednesday.

Donna

jbreilly

I agree with everyone - love the new format! Seeing all the mini challenges in one post will definitely help me plan out my week. Thanks Donna!

Good luck this week to everyone!

sangelic

Love the new format also! Will be much easier to plan ahead :happy:

I love having a challenge to keep me accountable...in October I lost a total of maybe 3 lbs, the first week of November I'm down 4.5!! Part of that was probably due to TOM bloating from last weeks weigh-in but I'll take it!

MamaGoat1

Much easier this way! I was spending a lot of time scrolling around looking for what I needed (could have something to do with ME!). I will be weighing on Friday this week, so I will post then.

Alexagetsfit

Thanks for the weekly format! So much easier now.

PG63

Didn't do bad this week but still need to work on the exercise portion....did pretty good on the food side though even with my sons birthday dinner and that leftover Halloween candy. Will get that exercise in this week....baby steps I guess

Thanks for the new format Donna

Go Team Journey to Lose!!


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Nikki_is_Knotty

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mamapaints

I lost 1/2 pound over the course of the last week. It's not much, but I'll take any loss! Here's to week 2!

Today's mini challenge: I walked for an hour in the woods w/ my kids. It wasn't quite brisk (considering I had a 5yr old I had to drag along part of the time!) but I was also pushing a trail stroller over uneven terrain. I just finsihed my situps.. did some reverse situps, some regular crunches and some twisting situps.

audirain

definitely like the weekly format for planning.. thank you!

Mskraizy

I'm liking the new format too.

Week 1 was momentum for me to keep up with this. Apparently I gained 3 lbs but i feel it was because of my transition from "bad dieting" to "good dieting". Before this I wouldn't eat up to my normal calories, but since I've started really getting into this fitness craze (And this challenge) I've been eating alot more and regular (healthy mind you) so i figured the weight gain is from those extra calories that my body isn't used to having these days. So I'll continue to keep this up because I know this is a better path for me and I am doing better (even if the scale is LYING!) I will say, that I've been feeling more fit lately, so that will be my accomplishment.......for now.

sangelic

Mondays mini-goal results:

Food- Way under calorie limit with all the walking I did today
Cardio- 60 minutes walking at the dog park, then another 30 minutes walking the other dog through a hilly park
Strength- 100 crunches (three different kinds) - CHECK, I remembered to do it today, yes!

Mskraizy

Food: still working on that one but currently am under 1200+ calories (earned an extra 800+ =] )
Cardio: About 50 minutes altogether. 40 minutes light jogging around, 10 minutes salsa dancing.
Strength: 100 crunches...CHECK! 35 bicylces, 35 reverse, 30 leg up crunches. Also did some other strength training that added up to about 30 minutes. =]

Today was a good day. :happy:

sigsone

love this, thanks Donna!

allie0630

Thank you Donna!! I am loving this challenge. It helps to read what you all are going through so I know I'm not alone! I lost 2.5 pounds this week so, hopefully something is working! I really need to start doing the challenges though... Tomorrow is a new day