2 week challenge
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Lots of Platinum Stars, ladies - VERY NICELY DONE!
Amy, do you want to jump into the "star challenge"?? Just tell me your (net) calories for the week.
Ladies who want to stay in, let me know....and let me know if you are "altering" your weekly (net) calories, at all.
Might as well go for 8 weeks and see how we do! I will say that the "accountability" of this challenge has helped me TREMENDOUSLY!0 -
Amy- I totally agree with the weekends being such a struggle. I don't know why I always say all week that I am going to be good once the weekend comes, but then once its here I always feel the need to indulge.
Beeps- I agree with you that I don't get how they can have big cheats and still be under cals!!
So I increase my cals to 1960 net a day, so 13720 a week. That sounds like so many cals, I should have no problem staying withing them, especially bc I really think my nausea is gone. This week I am really holding my self accountable. I need to this weight gain to stabilize for awhile or I am going to end up gaining 80 pounds in this pregnancy!0 -
STOP!!! Back up! I just remembered something else I ate yesterday, input it and I am over by 133 cals :ohwell: So no platinum for me :sad:0
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why to go with the honesty, jeno!
I will jump in next week, Beeps! I need to figure things out. I want the challenge to challenge me, I just have to decide whether to count exercise cals, or account for them. 1200 is just too low but 1400 is like maintenance so I I don't know. The real challenge will just be logging everything. I do get into trouble sometimes if I eat out and there's no way of guessing what is in the food. I really want to give the cycling a good shot-2 weeks of it, so I might just try that and then workout on the higher cal days...0 -
Hello. I have been following along on the thread a bit. You all seem great.
I'd like to join in on the challenge.
9500 calories/wk
Maybe the idea of getting a star will keep me motivated.
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jen - you are TOO funny! Let's just "move on" to weeks 5 thru 8 of the STAR CHALLENGE!
Amy - most challengers *are* accounting for their exercise calories....that's why it's a "net" challenge. (I am *not* accounting for exercise calories because, frankly, weight-lifting doesn't burn a ton, anyway....and I'm still only at 1 cardio-day per week - sometimes 2 - so I'm just leaving those out - BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO!)
alicia - I like how you're just gonna jump on it. I've recorded that you are ingesting 9,500 calories per week.
THIS 5TH WEEK RUNS MONDAY, APRIL 22ND THROUGH SUNDAY, APRIL 28TH.....record those calories, ladies!!0 -
Sorry I am reporting in late am just now geting on the computer. I was 367 calories over my goal - reason? a most delicious lemon white chocolate cheesecake I made and brought to my parent's house for dinner last night. I love cheesecake and now the leftovers are in my fridge calling my name - it's gonna be a tough week. I will check back in tomorrow when I have more time to go through everyone's posts.0
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Checking in! Sorry I missed this star challenge, sounds fun!
I am finally ready to put a bit more structure around my goals. I have two work trips coming up but I am going to make it work. I am giving myself a 1 month clean eating/crossfit challenge.
Week 1:
- Take measurements
- have 1 off plan day (this week baseball game Saturday)
- Eat 1300-1700 cals, drink lots of water
- Write down every non clean item eaten outside of off plan day/night and try to decrease it the next week
- Shoot for 125-150 g protein per day, min. 100 g.
- Crossfit 5 times, hit 10,000 steps/5 miles per day
I really need to get rid of some of this fat if I want to feel ready for summer 0 -
Yep Beeps, I've been getting some pretty major burns in between my long training runs (netting up to 1000 calories!) and my last weekend full of yard work. Between that and having a couple days early in the week that I'm under, I've managed to stay under my goal. Surprinsingly. I'm fearful of a gain this week; I'm just feeling a bit fluffy. And where it looked last week like my abs were starting to lean out, they are gone this week. :sad: I'll give it a couple days and try to keep the eat good and clean and most importantly, listen to my body. I wasn't hungry for breakfast yesterday, and at 10:00, I'm still not today so I'll most likely hold out till lunch. I'm debating a mini cleanse with 24 hour "juice" fast right before my trip. I've got Derby next weekend, so we'll have a party, and I'm going to the track one day (so I'll drinking and eating on the product rep), and then Oaks Day (day before KY Derby), I think my husband has off too, so we'll probably drink mimosas and bet on horses online all day. So next week is going to be a doozie. I will most likely need some damage control the week following which is also the week before my beach trip!
I got a nice easy 2.5 mile stroller run in last night. I'm dreading the hot weather. At 71 degrees, I was already sweating and sticky. I'll be digging holes tonight for a couple hours. I'm planning on lifting Wednesday and Thursday morning. More labor Friday, and my mini Saturday! I'm supposed to lift Sunday too. We'll see.0 -
Abigail - THAT'S A SILVER STAR!! NICELY DONE!
chui - it's not too late to enter the STAR CHALLENGE - all are welcome! Just tell me what you are aiming for, in weekly calories (net of exercise....meaning, if you are wanting 10,000 calories net, you might ingest 12,000 and do 2,000 exercise).
Better - even a PEEK at my "abs" would have me SWOONING! Good for you.
Today is a full rest day for me. Am meeting an old work acquaintance for lunch and then getting my roots done after work - GO AWAY GREY!!0 -
Enjoy your rest day, Beeps!
I downloaded some new music and I can't listen to it unless I am working out, that's the rule! should be motivating:bigsmile:
Abi, sounds like you need to share more of that awesome cheesecake so it stops calling to you
Welcome, Alycia, that sounds like a challenging goal.
Kate, have you tried "Whole 30"? It sounds like an amazing challenge to me. It would be pretty difficult in my house!
Ashley, enjoy your celebrations and your beach trip.0 -
Beeps, I am aiming for 11,000-12,000 calories per week! Woo hoo!
Amy - I have heard of it! I should look into it more...but I think you have to pay? May be worth it. Logging has consistently been good for me but over the last 6 months or so I have been moving to a more intuition oriented approach. Now, I have been eating more junk and thus have no results to speak of BUT I don't need to log to to maintain a comfortable weight. It seems I need to eat to lean down but I hope I can do that and transition to clean eating 90% of the time without cutting.
Got in crossfit last night and walked a lot (12,000 steps for the day). I am really improving on my kipping pull ups. I am using the weakest band for support and want to experiment doing them with no assistance. I think I am still not quite to an unassisted strict pull up but am very close and still can do a strict chin up just fine.0 -
Amy - what are you aiming for in weekly calories?? You're into the "bikini-bod-countdown" right?? Might as well record your STAR CHALLENGE results, too!
chui - your crossfit results are A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!! (PS - I've got your weekly calories recorded for the 2nd 4-weeks of STAR CHALLENGE!)0 -
Thanks, ladies. Good luck for the challenge.
Beeps - 11,500 ingesting would be more realistic for me! I have burnt around 3400 last week working out every day except my rest day where I ate a bunch! I like to be active, so I can't eat that little! I'm still trying to figure out what works for me. I am tall and strong but I don't want to overeat. Last week I ingested 15,457 calories so 11,500 seems like a good challenge to start. We will see. I just started looking at my calories in weekly totals so sorry if I'm a newb!! Looking at it weekly helps me realize how I didn't really lose despite working out fairly often.0 -
Ok, Beeps, put me down for 9800 per week (that's 1400 per day). It will be tough. I am not part of any official challenge, is there a "bikini bod" one? I am counting down to Vegas in Memorial Day, and I do plan to wear a bikini, so I need to get motivated!0
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alicia - I updated your weekly calorie goals for the next 4 weeks of the STAR CHALLENGE.
Amy - I've recorded your weekly calorie goals for the next 4 weeks of the STAR CHALLENGE.0 -
Yay!!! More people in on the challenge!
Amy, I am so jealous of Vegas! I'm trying to finagle a trip there myself! 4 and half weeks left until pools open and I can't even imagine myself in a bikini right now :ohwell: My arm definition is starting to happen though, so hopefully the abs will follow suit!
Kate - great goals!!
More treats ALL week in the teacher's lounge for staff appreciation. I was eating my lunch when they were delivered: lemon bars, chocolate chips cookie bars, cupcakes with pretty pink frosting, chocolates, muffins, cookies, cinnamon rolls...I finished my tuna and quinoa salad and walked right out. Thursday is another potluck...I will be eating in my office. Saving my "off" meal for Saturday at a friend's BBQ. She's from the middle east and she cooks really healthy, so I'm not worried about that...it will be the drinking
Keep it rolling strong ladies!!0 -
I'm going to vegas May 30 - June 2. I don't think I'll wear a bikini, but I think I might try and find a better tankini...
Today, I lift!0 -
Thanks, Jeno, and I like the inspiring things you post on Facebook too! I also have courtney prather on my feed, she said if you don't eat to meet your goals you won't meet them. harsh but true. it's the hardest piece for me. Even 80/20 would be a good start.
I am excited for Vegas, I am sure it will be a good time.
Beeps, I just got my suit from Lands End and they have a good selection of tankinis and they're really well made and I think you can take them back at Sears if you have those...0 -
Amy - that is right about eating to meet those goals, that has always been hard for me. I enjoy exercise so that part has always been easy, however I also enjoy eating - a lot - and seriously lack self-control in that department. When I was younger I could get away with it, but things are starting to change for me and it is difficult to adjust
Beeps - thank you so much for the star challenge, I needed it!
Jen - that's crazy about all the food at work. I worked at a private school for ten years as a Financial Administrator and it was crazy all the junk that showed up in the teacher's room. Unless it was brought in specifically for the staff or for a special occasion I used to throw it in the garbage when nobody was looking! Most of the time it was leftovers that people were trying to get rid of.
Alicia - welcome, this is a great group, so glad you joined us
Ris - can't remember if told you yet - congrats - very exciting news, so happy for you!
Speaking of throwing things away - that cheesecake is going in the trash when I get home - no more!0 -
I am so guilty of bringing stuff to work so I won't eat it. Sometimes people like it...
It is Admin Professionals Day so I thought there might be some treats but none here, which is all for the best.0 -
I love to eat.
I love to drink.
I'm going to wear a binkini in FL even though my abs aren't perfect. They never have been and may never be "perfect' but they look a lot better than they have in the past and I've always been a bikini girl. I like tanning as much of me as possible.
No workout this morning. The smooth move tea did a number on me: obvious side effects along with some dizzines and sweating spell for a few minutes. I didn't really have the time after it was all said and done and then I just wasn't feeling 100% so I went and got my kiddo and we all watched the news together.
Getting my hair did after work and then probably out to dinner. Probably no workout today. And I had a big lunch. My Monday and Tuesday were low, so that's fine. Yesterday was strange. I never got an appetitie till around 6. Today I was starving. I think my body cycles. It's like every 3rd day if I am "watching" waht I eat, I feel like I need food. Lots of it.
Lost another half pound this week. I'll take measurements in a couple weeks. I'm 1.5 from my FL goal.
I'll be (mostly) abstaining from alcohol between vacations as my husband has been advised to not drink for 30 days and have his liver enzymes retested. So I'll play along.
Still debating my in between vacations workout. I was all set for 6 week 6 pack 3-4x a week, but I sort of want to keep the strength training up. And of course I'll need to run. (Things just don't seem right if I'm not running at least a little). Maybe 6w6p 2x a week, strength 2x a week and a run or two. It's only 4 weeks...I can do that right?
Have a great day everyone!0 -
I got my admin assistants BEAUTIFUL bouquets of flowers....but had them delivered on MONDAY so that they could enjoy them ALL WEEK LONG (rather than receiving them, today).
Better - 6-week-6-pack isn't "weight-training"??? How the heck else does someone think they are going to ACTUALLY get a "6-pack"??? Congrats on being SO CLOSE TO GOAL!
THAT IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!
My glutes are sore. The end.0 -
Hey ladies!
I have been keeping up, but just way too busy at work to reply to everyone! It all sounds like you have great plans!
I had a great Monday and Tuesday. Yesterday not so much. I had planned on getting a good walk in after work and then of course the headache came back. And for some reason when I get these headaches I feel like carbs will help, well they don't but I eat them anyways. So I ended up way over cals. Today is going to be a tough one also I have a work dinner tonight. But my plan is to get whatever the fish option is and vegetable, so I should be pretty safe there. But, no time for a workout today. This weekend is supposed to beautiful, so I am hoping for alot of outside active time!0 -
Hey ladies, sorry, crazy busy here. I will however say I am never posting about my willpower again!! As soon as I do, I fail and I mean BIG TIME!! Ugh, I succumbed to the sweets in the lounge yesterday and $1.99 margarita night last night at our local Mexican place :grumble: Today is the last luncheon at work, I suck. Ok, I'm done venting...gonna get in some MAJOR food prep this weekend. I think this is why I have pore food choices this week. That is all!0
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The more research I do on the topic, the more it seems that women, in particular, cannot KEEP a "deep deficit" for very long....maybe 2 or 3 days and then, women simply "need" more of a "re-feed" day. Now, the POINT of a "re-feed" day is to try to keep it at maintenance calories....
If I was to ACTUALLY look at my diary, it is VERY true that I can keep a deficit for about 5 or 6 days, and then on the 7th day, I'm going koo-koo with calories....which just undermines all those days of GOOD progress!
I might actually "consciously" try to keep a deficit for only 2 or 3 days and then allow 1 day of maintenance. This might work better with my natural (womanhood??) cycle.0 -
Hey chicks. A few things to respond to...
6 week 6 pack = 6 pack? For me? Probably never. Howver I will say my abs looked the best they may have ever after completing this. Albeit I was nursing so at my low weight (126...my current goal). But I think I relaly do have at least a 4pack under the layer of fat. Personally, my body seems to respond really well to interval training. So maybe, if I quit drinking and eating carbs and did 6week 6pack, I could get a 6 pack. Will I? Probably never.
Jen, don't be too hard on yourself. You're doing awesome. Everyone "slips up". And if your slip up was one margarita, I thin kyou're in fine shape.
Beeps, I think it's the whole storing of fat to make babies thing for women. I think most women just need a certain amount of food! And I think if we continually deprive ourselves, we're more likely to binge and go WAY overboard, undoing all the good we've done. I've been allowing myself one 2000 calorie max day. Knowing I have that keeps all my other days mostly in check.
Alright. Lots of work to do. BIG public meeting tonight. I get to speak in front of maybe 100 angry neighbors. I did get my workout in this morning. Benched 75lbs 6x. I could only do it 3x last week.0 -
I think I should never do a bulk, it just is too hard to shed the weight for me and I don't think the muscle gains are sigmificant.
I wonder about the cycling, I always thought it was PMS (want a cheeseburger and a chocolate bar), but I will have to pay attention to the cravings and see if it follows a pattern.
I agree it is hard to maintain huge deficits, and cycling cals seems to make sense. 1200 cals isn't hard to stick to if you plan, I can have a very reasonable breakfast for 300 cals, lunch for 400 cals and dinner for 500 cals. But it is easily derailed by a restaurant meal or a sweet treat, or a drink, but I can still do it if I go 300 breakfast, 300 lunch, 400 dinner and then 200 calorie snack/drink. something to be said for enjoying life, Jeno, and $1.99 mags:drinker:
But yeah, a day or weeks at maintenance are good for all of us!0 -
Thank you ladies!! This is why I love you all!! Beeps - I think you are on to something with 2-3 days on and then MAINTENANCE re-feed, that is the key. I enjoyed today's luncheon, am miserably full, so I must kick my own *kitten* tonight in class, kill the weights tomorrow and then kick my *kitten* again Saturday. I went totally strong for 3-4 weeks, so I will cut mysel some slack and continue to move forward!!
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I am all about the re-feeds. I think is a physical side of it (satiation, carbing up, lectin levels, blah blah blah) but it's also mental! I need to be able to let go for a day. I have the most success when I strict 6 days with one evening/meal+ of whatever I want.
Ashley - you go on the bikini! Rock it! I think very few people *love* everything about their bikini bod but that's no reason not to wear them. Also, right with you on the 6 pack. It's all about accepting your body and loving it as it-and then looking for reasonable improvement.
Jen - I agree, one marg is nothing to fret about! I am impressed you stopped there!
I am on day 4 of good eating! I am on track to hit my goal I think (1 day1300 cals, 4 days 1500, 1 day 1700, 1 day 2400). Plus I have been mooooving with 16,000 steps yesterday. Just gotta keep it together Friday and Sunday (weekend, but not total cheat days!). I am making paleo bbq pulled pork tomorrow so that should help!
Strong man Thursday today at crossfit! Tire flips, stone to shoulders, weighted runs and prowlers!0
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