2 week challenge
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HAPPY 2014!!!0
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Happy 2014, Indeed! :drinker:
I am looking forward to it. I am also looking forward to costa rica (Feb 15) so I need to get on the fat loss track. My strategy is to work out using the last 6 weeks of the Cosgroves Drop 2 sizes but I know I will really have to watch cals for the last 21 days of the plan. The easiest way to cut calories for me is to cut carbs, so I will start doing that gradually.
We have a nice tasting menu for NYE and SIL's bday tonight, and for the rest of this week I plan to stick to the exercise but no real eating plan until next week. I am going to try for a few sober days until the P!nk concert Jan 19;)
But then I plan to stick to a 1200 daily average by cycling some so I can have higher days for events, but I am going to try to keep those, and drinking to a minimum.0 -
Hey Ladies! Happy 2014!
My goals for the next few weeks are:
1) Keep cals at 1800 average for the week I am still breastfeeding so that nets out to about 1300 cals
2) 25% carbs for the week (so if I do have a high carb day I can offset it with a low one)
3) Keep doing Jillian's Body Revolution I am on week 5 now0 -
My 2-week-plan:
1. Keep calories, per week, to 9,450 - 9,750.
2. Drink 12 glasses of water everyday (or coffee/tea, but NO ALCOHOL).
3. Low-carb in week 1, to rid myself of cravings, then back to lower-carb in Week 2, but NOT low-carb.
4. Weight-training 3 x per week, cardio 1 x per week.
5. Sleep - 8 hours per night.
6. Brush my teeth RIGHT AFTER DINNER every single night.
7. If 'craving' strikes, must grab protein shake (during the day) and either 1/2 protein bar or egg-white omelette (during the evening).0 -
oh, goals! well, I should put them down.
Week 1:
workout 4 times
week 2
no alcohol
workout 4 times0 -
Happy New Year everyone!
I'm a newbie to this group so I hope it's ok if I join in on this thread. I'm not a fitness/weight-loss newbie if it makes a difference. I just stopped using MFP for a while.
Anyway, 2 week goals are pretty standard!
1. Stick to calorie limit every day, and track every day
2. Exercise 2 to 3 times a week
3. Work on correcting posture, especially when sitting (as I do for most of the day)
I have a really hard time keeping my feet flat on the ground like you're supposed to when sitting at a computer, and that eventually leads to me slouching completely! I'd really like to straighten myself out, as what's the point of losing the weight if I'm all hunched over anyway!0 -
Happy New Years Eve!
Beeps-YOU are Funny! Your goals sound great!!!!
Amy- Will you actually drop 2 sizes or is that just what it is called?
Chloe- Sounds like a good plan.
Welcome, TM!
Yesterday, I got into a cleaning spree and never worked out. I walked by my full length mirror and got scared. I have a LOT of junk in the trunk AND a jelly belly. Oh, I have my work cut out for me. Luckily, I have until June for our Florida vacation.
2 Week
1. LOG everything
2. Workout 5 times a week
3. water and try to drink hot tea at night
I'v been munching at night. My DH got me a keurig for Christmas so I thought I would try to drink more tea.0 -
KC - I highly recommend Twining's Earl Grey k-cups! Also, it's not a k-cup, but the brand Celestials makes a tea called Sugar Cookie Sleigh Ride which is amazing! I'm a bit of a tea enthusiast, haha. I've got about 20 or 30 types of tea at home including k-cups, bags, and loose-leaf!0
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Welcome to the group tm - I also have a slouching problem & am working on my posture
2 week challenge:
Food goals - no wheat or sugar (after the 1st of course)
Exercise plan is Sunday - Cardio, Monday - Strength & Jazz, Tuesday - Ballet, Wednesday - Cardio, Thursday - Ballet, Friday - Strength & Saturday - yoga.
Good luck with your goals ladies & Happy New Year - be safe!0 -
Thanks for the welcomes, everyone! If you want to go by names mine is Taylor.
I spend so much time at the computer, it's really hard to stop slouching. I'm also concerned I might have a bit of an anterior pelvic tilt. My abs are really weak so hopefully working on that area will help the tilt, too.0 -
Hi Ladies. I'm Jitsuda. My goal for the next 2 weeks is to do cardios for 5,000 KCals. I do not own a heart rate monitor so I'll go by what MPF says. Happy New Year everyone!0
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2 week goals Jan 1 - Jan 14
1. Pack healthy lunch every day
2. Keep within 200 cals of my daily 1410 calorie goal
3. Drink 64 oz of water every day0 -
Hi everyone, I'm not new to MFP but back at it after a hiatus. My goals:
1. log everyday and stay on target with calories
2. cardio3-4 a week and weights 3-4 (I love Beachbody workouts)
3. wine only 1-2 nites this is my weakness I love my cab while cooking and listening to pandora
4. keep positive
Everyone has great goals...very inspiring!0 -
Welcome goal the "2-week-challenge" newcomers!
Happy New Year!
Today, I lift!0 -
Awesome, have fun! I kinda miss lifting. My husband and I want to save up to get a squat rack and a bench for home!0
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I need 2 weeks of really focuses effort to get my weight-loss restarted: it's stalled a bit.
The Plan
Stay under MFP calories every day
3 workouts per week
At least 2 liters of water a day
I kept it simple to increase my chances of success!!0 -
Happy 2014 ladies! I hope you all had a fantastic holiday! I know I definitely indulged a bit too much with wine and sweets, but it's a new year! My short term goals for now are:
1. Get back to my pre-holiday weight before Feb. 1 (my sister's wedding)
2. Go to the gym 3-4 times a week
Longer term:
1. Work on getting arm definition
2. Get in good shape for a wedding dress!
3. Find a comfortable goal weight and try to be happy with the body I have!
I'll have to catch up with everyone later, time to get back into the flow of work after having over a week off!0 -
Hey everyone. And welcome to the new ladies! I am Ashley. Good to hear from you all! My holidays have been rather non stop. I have a bit too much fun New Years Eve and am still feeling sleepy today. I have three lists of goals for 2014, but I'll start simple here:
1. I think I'm going to start logging again.
2. Take weight and measurements at some point to find my new starting point
3. Weekly workouts: lift 2x, run 2x, weekly yoga-pilates-strength class
4. Limit the drinking
Our trainer is coming for the first time Saturday. She's more for Eric, but I'm going to have her help me with my form on a couple lifts.
Taylor, I sit at a computer all day and have bad posture too. Sometimes I'll prop a binder under my feet and that will help me sit up straight. This was advice from a physical therapist I went to for several months.
Let's have a great 2014 ladies! Should we do some sort of introduction? I'll go:
I'm Ashley. I'm 33. I have an almost 2 year old daughter. I work 4 days a week behind a computer. I've been active most of my life, but starting switching up my workouts after baby. I no longer spend tons of time on cardio equipment. I aim for shorter higher intensity workouts. I will run as long as my body lets me, but not long distances. I like to lift heavy. I like food and wine.0 -
GREAT planning...bump for later0
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Thanks for the tip, Ashley. I've started working with my Wii Fit posture/balance game again, too. It really helped me when I first got it.
I suppose introductions (especially for us newbies) would be a good idea!
I'm Taylor, I'm 26, married but no kids (unless you count my 2 dogs and 2 cats!). I've always been a bit of a couch potato, or computer potato rather. I work 5 days a week in front of a computer, then go home and sit in front of the computer some more, haha. I want to be more active, and get back into a regular exercise routine. I used to lift and really enjoyed it, but I no longer have a gym membership, and although my husband and I want to get equipment for a home gym we don't really have anywhere to put it! So, for now I'm going to work with my own body weight and some resistance bands. I like cardio, but I absolutely hate running. I am not a runner! I like to do fun stuff that doubles as a workout, like playing Dance Dance Revolution. I'm looking in to Zumba now as that seems right up my alley!0 -
Welcome to those new to the thread. My name is Amy and I am married without kids, too. I will be 38 next month. I have two rotten cats:huh: I also work a desk job.
My 12 week plan is Drop 2 sizes but, no, I won't be dropping two sizes. I hate the name of the program but I like the workouts.
the scale hasn't been my friend so I know I have to get the eating under control before I am in a bathing suit in Costa Rica on Feb. 15. I am excited-for costa rica but not for the slim-down effort:noway:0 -
Amy, *maybe* you will drop 2 sizes, who knows?!?!?!?
Hi shander and BetterBalance!
Hi to the "new to this thread" peeps.
I'm the OLD BROAD around here....45, married, 3 kids (1 adult son who has moved away + 2 littler kidlets). I feel like I've been living in the "last 10 lbs" club, forever, but also feel pretty confident that 2014 will have me moving into "maintenance" and then trying to keep scale-swings to <5 lbs.
2.5 years ago I sort-of had a "parting of the ways" with my 25+ years of cardio-bunny stuff. I moved into heavy-lifting and now I lift 3 x per week with 1 x per week of scheduled cardio.
I'm doing a "NO EXCUSES" challenge for January....and part of that will be a 30-day "cleanse" (which I haven't started yet....).0 -
Welcome to the newbies! My name is Megan, I'm 29 and am also married without kids. I have a 2 year old boxer who might as well be our child I also work at a desk job and like a few of you have mentioned have TERRIBLE posture, which I am really trying to work on. I have been fairly active my entire life, and used to be a distance runner (have run around 9 half marathons) but got back into lifting and HITT a year or so ago. I love eating, and cooking and drinking wine!
As far as my goals - I'm still not sure if I'm ready to get back into logging, so I'll see where I'm at in the next two weeks and decide if that's where I want to go...
1. Drink Water
2. Finish up NROL4W Stage 1 (only two workouts left) and do HIIT 3 days/week
3. Eat healthy
4. Cut down on carbs
Happy New Year's everyone 0 -
I'll join in the intros My name is Shannon, I'm 25 and newly engaged to my bf of 6 1/2 years. I work at a desk/sewing machine for 40 hours a week so I'm with all of you with the terrible posture! I have always been on the not so heavy side being in dance most of my life, then a few years ago my metabolism decided to slow down, so now I'm trying to figure out what the right balance between working out and eating is! I've been active my whole life with dance, gymnastics, diving & working out at a gym. I just started running and I'm trying to figure out a good lifting routine! 0
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Welcome new friends! I am Kelly. I'm 32, married, 2 girls 9 and 3, and I am a Special Education Teacher. Before I went on break, my EA helped set up a big ball for me to sit on during reading groups. That should help my posture, right? I recently saw a post on here showing a picture of a person with good posture versus bad. The person with bad posture had a pooched tummy-not surprised- but ti also showed a saggier butt. I really want to work on my posture.
I got NO sleep on New Years Eve. I was surprised that I didn't eat horrible yesterday, just a handful of chips mid day. I need to run out of chips and NEVER buy chips again. Or bake cookies. :laugh: I took a nap and then worked out. SCORE!
Today, is upper body.0 -
Posture.. Interesting! How do I know mine is good or bad? How do you girls improve them?0
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Amy - I just got a boxer (mix) puppy!! He's 12 weeks old today, and he is a handful!
As far as the posture stuff goes, Jitsuda, I know I end up slouching and hunched over my computer a lot. If you think about the way you're sitting or standing, and often aren't sitting up straight, you could probably work on your posture! There are a lot of exercises that can help, mostly focusing on the core which is what keeps you upright for the most part. I don't have any specific resources, but if you google around you can probably find some info! I also use the Wii Fit game, which will measure your balance and give you exercises to help correct it. Yoga is also another good way to fix posture issues!0 -
Hello my name is Ely and I am new to this group and I am excited to be part of a group that suffers from my same issues. I am still carrying 10 lbs from 4 years ago when I had my child. SO, no more excuses.
My 2 week goals:
1. No alcohol
2. 3 x weight training 3 x cardio training
3. 10 glasses of water
I have a wedding to go to in Mexico at the end of Feb, so I must lose at least half of that weight. Thanks!!!
2014, I am ready to kick some butt!0 -
So, my math was off, I have a couple of weeks before the serious 3-weeks til Costa Rica, that starts Jan. 24 because I leave Feb 15! Might as well walk to the starting line, eh
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Hi all!
Joining in here. Not new to MFP, but new to this group. Love seeing so many like-minded people!
My 2 week goals:
1. No alcohol
2. Tracking (full disclosure!)
3. Shut the kitchen down after dinner - no snacking (with the exception of veggies if I'm super hungry)
4. 10 cups of water daily
5. Weights 3x/wk, HIIT 3x/wk
6. Carbs under 75g0
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