2 week challenge
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Jen, have you been posting your recipes on here or facebook? would love to try coconut curry chicken!0
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I didn't post the curry chicken, just the salmon. Here is the chicken - http://www.melskitchencafe.com/2011/01/coconut-curry-soup.html
Instead of using the canned coconut milk, I used 2 C if So Delicious Unsweetened Coconut milk. I prob would use less of the brown sugar ( I used the splenda brown sugar blend) and I would use more curry. Just my taste though.0 -
Between Leg DOMS and a head cold, I hit snooze and am opting for a late workout session tonight. Needed the sleep. I am down 7lbs from the 11 that I gained in the attempt at 'eat more to lose'. Clothes already fit 100% better. I really think too many carbs (even what some consider moderate) is too much for my body. They are delicious but anything over a 30% seems to have a negative impact on me. I'm comfortable right now with IF (though I didn't get IF in yesterday or today because I needed cappucino- no time for sick days and I feel like @$$) and a 1500 + exercise, if needed calorie count. It seems low for being 5'8+ but given that 40% at least is protein, I'm really not hungry and I feel good. So sticking with this through summer. Had NROL Stage 2 Workout B last night. Added some leg work and they are toast. Hoping to get in a light workout tonight to keep moving in the right direction! Plus, looks like I have 5 burpees to catch up on today!!
Jen- I love your recipes. You are a cooking machine. Love it. You come up with delicious, but healthy recipes-keep em coming. I'm still loving the detox tea. It really helps me on days I'm feeling bloated!
Amy- Glad you got our burpee challenge moving...keep us moving!!
Beeps-How was the event? Sounds fun! I live vicariously through all your ladies adventures! It's fun to hear about your evening out!0 -
Hello everyone Happy June!!!
Mama- Yay on your loss!!! I have no desire to do the whole eat more to lose more thing bc I know I would gain. I think different things definitely work for different people
Jen- That soup sounds amazing!!! might have to try that one
I did day 4 of the burpee challenge already keep it up everyone!!! Can't wait until we get up in the big numbers!!0 -
Yah, Day 4 of the Burpee challenge! I have a question about Burpees, not sure if I am doing them right, who would be the expert? I go down to a plank, are you supposed to do a full push up, though?
My run last night went pretty good. I only lifted once this week. I feel like I am getting lazy knowing how I have to crack down June 4. Like, I am storing up my self-control and not using any now.
I found a great dress for my formal event June 22, and it's sort of roomy, so I don't really have to lose anything for that.
Here is a pic:
I think I will wear gold or silver sandals.
Going to Vail this weekend with the friend who's having a tough time right now. She filed for divorce this week. It will be a bit of challenge so I think there might be too much drinking, but hopefully we can get out for some hikes and jogs and such, maybe a swim, she is pretty fit and active and told me to bring my workout stuff so maybe we can find a balance!0 -
I just learned how to do burpees yesterday!! I am TOATALLY not a fan of them, haha.. The way they taught them at CF was that you go right down to your chest on the ground and then all the way back up with a jump at the end0
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Oh I didn't know you were supposed to do a pushup? I just thought plank then up and jump.
Amy I love the dress esp the color!0 -
If the "burpee" challenge is going to include the "push-up" piece, I'll cancel my participation....even from a "time" perspective, it will be EXTREMELY tough for me to get in (non-push-up) burpees done when it's in the 50+ up days! And, I just don't want to make the "burpee" challenge about 'strength' elements (i.e. push-ups) because then I'm at risk for "overtraining".
So, as long as you know I'm just doing regular burpees (no push-up once in the plank position), I'll give it a go as long as I can (before I run out of time!).
I'm 4 days behind, so I have to do 1 + 2 + 3 + 4, today, just to catch up!
I'm off to the gym, will report back, later!0 -
Amy, the dress is GORGEOUS. I agree that losing more weight won't keep this dress having a flattering fit. LOVE the idea of a "metallic" sandal with it. Nice!0
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Beeps, you can do the burpees any way you like. I just didn't know if I was doing them right, or what is considered the right way. I think Jamie Eason called them something else, like a plank squat thrusts or something like that.
thanks on the dress compliments, I do like it and like even more that it was $16 at Macy's. I thought it was marked down to $24 and figured I had to get it for that price and she said it was another 40% off, so I felt like I was stealing it.0 -
Just did my 10 burpees, so I should be caught up regardless of what day we're on. I actually did 10 plus a couple half burpees because I kept forgetting about the puship part....
Amy, nice work finding a $16 dress! I love a good deal. I think metallic shoes will look great, I have a couple of strappy silver shoes that I love.0 -
Ris, you should bank those Burpees for when we're at Day 90
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I'm dropping OUT of the burpee challenge.
I tried to fit them in at the end of my weight-training, today....right before the body matrix.
I could only do 7 burpees before my form gave out. 7. Good gawd, why BOTHER???
So, then I did the body matrix. Again, I was TOO TIRED to actually do the "jump squats and jump lunges" even though THAT is what my glutes NEED.
Pounded out 3 more burpees (I had to do 10, today, to catch up for the last 4 days) and then did the second body matrix.
Screw it....I don't have enough time, or energy, to do the burpee challenge. I admit it. Ultimate FAIL.0 -
I must confess I am opting out of the Burpee challenge - I hate them! As far as the push-up thing goes I have seen them done both ways. Amy, I love that dress and what a gorgeous color for you! Best wishes for all you dashers and runners. I have not done a 5K in awhile so I was thinking about going on-line to find one locally and sign up for it. My 2 week challenge got a little de-railed this week due to the holiday followed by some really bad allergies. The pollen count is extremely high and I am suffering. I almost started crying in ballet class last night I was in so much pain and I didn't sleep much last night so took it easy today. I still went to my jazz class, but I was really late and we spent a lot of the time talking about costumes so there wasn't much dancing. Hopefully I can make up for it over the weekend.0
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Amy - Sounds like your weekend with your friend should be really nice and active. I'm sure she will appreciate your company, so nice of you
Th dress rocks and I LOVE that you got such a great deal on it!
Beeps - the matrix was the death of me every time! You did not fail!! How was the gala? I'd love to see a pic of you in one of your dresses!!
Abigail - sorry about the allergies. Hope you can find a race, keep us posted!
Ris, - I'm with ya, got my 10 burpees in today to catch up!
Mama - Fantastic on the weight loss!! That was fast!! Woohoo!
Workouts and food have been good since Tues, but I did damage over the holiday weekend and the scale is not moving this week
BUT, that's ok because since my food has been good, I am feeling tighter and clothes are feeling better, so that's good I even resisted cookies 2 days in a row!!
Hoping this continues on through the weekend!! Lets do it!0 -
I should post a gala pic....but, I'm determined to get into a BETTER gala dress by end of July.
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Today was a steady-state cardio day. I KICKED *kitten*, today.
Oh, I take my photos and measurements tomorrow - will report back.0 -
My 2 week challenge is to workout 5x a week and not eat any protein bars. 3x a week of weight training 3x a week. Lets get um!!0
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Okay, so my photos don't look very different from the end of April. Boo.
But, in that one month, through heavy lifting, I chiseled:
- 1" off my natural waist;
- 1.5" off my belly button waist; and
- 1.75" off my hips
So, May *was* a success.
Oh, and I'm down one whole pound for the month. (I am down 5 lbs. since Xmas, 2011 - so it is approx. 1 lb. per month of pure body fat loss, I believe....)
I'll take it. The quest continues....0 -
Beeps- May WAS a Success! Awesome! And the loss of BF is awesome too. So there is so HUGE positives to be shared! Great job. Sometimes it just takes a little movement to make us realize we really are progressing!
Magenta- welcome.
Jen- scale movement will come...clothes are more important! And good job on resisting. Cooking up anything fantastic today?
I'm out of the burpee challenge as well. Totally no excuse other than I just keep forgetting and the DOMS in my legs is RIDICULOUS that I can barely convince myself to hit the gym let alone do extra!!
IF is going well. Making it easy to make healthier choices oddly enough. And workouts are good. (case in point: DOMS) Keep on keepin' on at this point! Mini camping vacation next week (though its been pouring here for days!!) so I'm hoping that I'll be feeling more confident for summer clothes by the time that rolls around. Not to mention that 30th birthday is creeping up on me! LoL.
We need new 2 week goals right?!
For me: (continuing strength 3x a week, protein at 100g or higher and IF from last implementation of plans!!)
I will run 3x this week (5k is coming up on 16th and I need to prepare, sore legs are not...I'm signed up and need to get some running in!!!)
I will keep my carbs below 120g 5 out of 7 days a week. (I really think, though there are 'good' carbs...that too many carbs inhibit my ability to get to my goals...so I'm experimenting to see if I'm off base!)
I will not use camping 'vaca' as an excuse to forgo my goals. Hit protein goal on vacation and get some cardio in while there.0 -
Yes, we *do* need 2-week-goals....thanks for the reminder, mama!
As a follow-up on my last 10-days-of-May goals, I was 100% on track. NO cheats. I haven't eaten chocolate-covered-almonds. I got in my protein. I was too low on my calories - but, given that 'photos' were upon me, I'm okay with this, lol.
For the next 2- weeks (and throughout June, actually), "consistency" is what I'm looking for.
1. I will work-out 5 or 6 times per week. 3 x strength-training. 2 (or 3) x cardio.
2. I will eat 125 - 150g of protein per day.
3. I will NOT late-night-snack.
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Beeps- that is awesome!!!!
I think today was day 7 of the burpee challenge- well that's how many I did. First week of my two week challenge wasn't bad. I only worked out 5 days this week, but I kicked butt all 5 days! This week I want to get at least 3 cardio, 3 strength and some stretching. I should have said eat cleaner - not clean. I did pretty well. DH and I went out last night so that was bad and I think I snacked A LOT one day, but otherwise did okay. I decided to add in IF this week. 0 -
OK I need a total reset this week! Terrible weekend and I am feeling icky about it and just trying to move on.
My goals for this month I should say-
1) Stay under calories - EVEN ON WEEKENDS! (but, if I do go over make sure I do not go over my net for the week)
2) 3 days strength/3-4 days running
3) limit drinking to 2 days a week max ( I am struggling with this now that summer is here)0 -
Look at all you "burpee" ladies go!! I *love to read about this....0
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I hear you Chloe - I did some self sabotage this weekend after a great weekend starting IF. Saturday I knew would be bad but I let Sunday go as well with no real excuse. I need my one "off" day but I need it to better and I need to only have one!
Here are my goal going forward:
1. Goals: only one day of non adherence (aka, can eat more carbs/fat) that INCLUDES logging!
2. Do all works outs - that's 3 NROL and 2 other workouts.
3. Make my window clearer (12-9). I think I did pretty well starting out but I want to make it more standard (aka I ate late on Saturday night and didn't do myself any favors)
4. 145 g of protein daily
According to my handheld my body fat dropped quite a bit since last week. We'll see if that's the case! Either way, I am liking the IF experiment so far. I find it relatively easy to follow through on and I like that I can eat a big meal and its nothing to worry about.0 -
Hey peeps. So on my goals, I did relatively well last week. I got lots of cardio in, although my "long" run ended up being the 4k tap and run we did (in about 29 minutes). It was SOOOOO fun! I sweat and all, but stopped to drink 4ish oz of beer every km. I will do another in September. If one comes to your city, DO IT! It was a blast. Other than that I did get 2.5 of my 4 strengths in. I dit one day of HIIT and would have done more strength but I ended up doing about 6 hours of manual labor over the weekend. I'm talking moving large pieces of concrete, pulling in cart, dumping, shoveling, etc. I am sore and burned lots of calories (yes I tracked them via HRM). So, there way no way I was lifting anything other than concrete. Good news is our yard is getting closer to completion. At least this phase.
On the drinking front, I did much better than last weekend. I only had a couple glasses of wine on Friday and woke up at 6am all bright eyed and bushy tailed. Saturday we drank throughout the day (race and then grad party) but ended up not getting schmamered as I usually would drinking all day. I am having a hard time setting a specific number of drinks I'll have. I'm with Chloe, summer is here (well almost) and cocktails seem to be everywhere. So rather than say, "I will only have 2 drinks on these days" I am going to aim to only drink limited (2 or 3) one week night and not overdo it on the weekends a.k.a. not waking up with a hangover. My food is typically relatively good although last week included donuts one day, cupcake another, pizza Friday. So I need to try to eat cleaner for the most part. But I'm typically staying within my 1800-2000 cals a day.
As for workouts, I'm sticking with what I've been doing and plan to continue this through the month of June:
1 HIIT
A, B, C, D Strength workouts
3+ mile run
3 other cardio days (this includes walking, running, whatever)
Looks like you all are having a blast with your burpees! BTW, I do mine w/o pushups. Nice work ladies!0 -
Kate- Are you finding that with IF and the increased protein that getting enough calories is an issue? This seems ridiculous to say but I'm now worried about not getting 'enough' calories. Though I feel great and am full. I'm going to take a peek at your diary (hope you don't mind!) Keeping carbs lower and protein higher always leaves me fuller. Which I'm not complaining about and short term low calories shouldn't be an issue but thinking longer term, I need to find some ways to add more calories in without busting tightened carbs. If only I liked red meat! LoL. BTW- Your stomach looks awesome! Be proud! And BF down? Great news! You are rocking it!
Ashley- I saw your updates this weekend...oh the joys of home renovations. They suck during but the after is worth it plus the during leads to nice calorie burns! Great job and so glad you had a chance to get a little fun in with that run. Sounds awesome!
Chloe- You've got this. You bounce right back without a doubt. Your clean eating will keep you moving forward.
Kc- Great job sticking to the goals. A little weekend splurge tends to get most of us! That's why Monday we are all back on and back on track quickly! Balance between having a little fun and being healthy!
**I feel awesome** not even 'body' awesome but just better perspective awesome. When I dove into NROL and tried that increase in calories it just bummed me out in all kinds of ways mixed with chaos at work/home. Now everything is settled down. I'm loving NROL plus my added workouts. Looking forward to this camping vacation and 5k on the 16th. I feel well fed and fueled for my workouts. I, too, am loving IF. And I love that even if I feel a little hungry earlier I can move the window around a little without feeling like it was a fail kind of thing. So-positive Reese is back!! And thanks for bearing with me through not so positive Reese!! :flowerforyou:0 -
Reese - yes and no...at first it was a lot of food and I wasn't eating it all! But I am getting used to it and now I think I am getting plenty of cals. I'm doing 2000 cals on lifting days and 1560 cals on non lifting days. This averages out to what I was eating before 1750 cals a day. Feel free to look at my diary, just ignore the weekend The more I focus on protein the less I have to worry keeping carbs down - I agree it makes me feel full!
I just need that scale to go down a bit and keep losing fat! I'll take pictures next week when I'm finished with stage 4. I missed after stage 3 since things were nuts so I will have a long time to compare!0 -
I am so glad I have all of you and your strategies to steal from, I need to do some changes to my diet and exercise plan.
So I am going to try and eat cleaner: drinking only 2 nights each week, getting 100 grams of protein.
I checked your diary for ideas, Kate, you are doing a great job getting a ton of protein!
Workout-wise, I need to catch up on the burpee challenge, I thought it was Day 7?
I am going to stick with stronglifts 5x5 three days this week, but next week I might look at trying something different for the month-can't decide if I should do the Spartacus workout or some other type of circuit training.
I have decided not to try IF, but I do want to try calorie-cycling on my non-workout days.
The weekend was pretty indulgent and I feel refreshed for my challenge and really needing to clean up my eating!0 -
I wanted to ask you all about sugar. It seems I am over everyday and I don't feel like I eat a lot of sugar. My cereal is probably a little more sugary than it should be maybe (8 grams) and also my light soy milk has 6 grams. I have this for breakfast everyday. (Thinking of switching back to oatmeal breakfast). I also typically have a popsicle or fudgesicle at night. Plus I see today, my apple has 11 of the 32 grams of sugar MFP says I should have a day. I guess I feel like "sugar" is bad and I am always over. Does 32 grams seem low? It's the default I think.0
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I don't pay a ton of attention to sugar and here's why: it matters to me whether I get my sugar from an apple or a hershey's bar and MFP doesn't discern. So I sometimes I see high sugar numbers and try to cut the sources with "unnatural" sugar (like greek yogurt with fruit already in it/sweetened) but don't sweat the sugar that just comes naturally (like completely plain yogurt or fruit).0
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