Summer 2009 WILL Be Different Challenge!

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I think this sounds fabulous! I forgot to post mine last week but it was 210# - up 3 from when I started on Monday! Next week will definitely be better! My mind is made up - I am GOING TO LOSE WEIGHT and get healthy!! I love checking in here and seeing what everyone is doing and how they are doing it - you guys are awesome!!
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glad to have you back on track

soon2bgaudet

Ugg....yesterday was HORRIBLE!!! So did not follow my plan and totally pigged out! And I am so paying for it as a result! I woke up this morning with sharpe stomach pains and they will not stop! Regardless, I am going to push through them and go to the gym. This is what I get for being so bad....Hope everyone has a wonderful Monday!

phetzgetfit

I'd like to join too! I have my 40th high school class reunion coming up in july and I haven't seen most of my classmates since the 10 year reunion. My summer goal is to show up there looking and feeling fit. But my main goal is to get and stay as healthy as I can for the rest of my life, so I can enjoy life to the fullest and have the energy to continue to contribute to a variety of causes I'm involved in. Starting weight 158 (down 9 lbs since starting in MFP in January). July reunion goal: 148.

Can someone tell recap for me what some of the challenges are? I think I saw that drinking our water was one of them. I'm up for that challenge. It is really hard for me to do but I know I need to focus on that.

Thanks everyone!

amanda15

Thanks for the welcome! My starting weight was 134 which is what I was on Thursday. I hope to lose at least a pound this week. We'll see. I'm definitely on for the water challenge. And I want to work out 3 days this week.

eri1mani

Count me in pls?? Im kinda late but , better late than never right:happy:

sw: 210( have not been on scale for 2 weeks)
won't weigh my self until Thrus. Really struggling with getting the water in me, But crossing fingers for 3/30, (walked this moring for 45min)

réalta

Count me in pls?? Im kinda late but , better late than never right:happy:

sw: 210( have not been on scale for 2 weeks)
won't weigh my self until Thrus. Really struggling with getting the water in me, But crossing fingers for 3/30, (walked this moring for 45min)

welcome to the challenge, we want to get fit and healthy for Summer 09, if you have any questions just ask, we are all here to help each other

:flowerforyou:

réalta

hey guys!

so how are you all doing after our second weigh in, are you where you want to be or do you have a little bit more work to do? we are all here together with the one goal, so lets stick with it

some more challenges, some old, some new, some easy, some not so much!

if you want to change/suggest new challenges just jump straight in, i was thinking for week 3, these could be the challenges . . . .

1. drink 2 litres / 64 oz of water EVERY DAY! drinker
(some people have this down to a fine art, some are still struggling with it, so lets try real hard to do it for a whole week again :blushing: )

2. set your goal for April 30th (see previous posts) :flowerforyou:
(set any kind of a goal you like, be it weight loss, fitness, exercise minutes, fitting into those jeans (we all have a pair like that! lol) or something that you think will motivate you, and when you have decided on a goal, work out realistically what you need to do in order to meet that goal, i think sometimes if we have a plan in our heads it can be easier to stick to and see where we are going with it)
(oh and i think JoJo is going to keep a track of our progress and report back on 30th April, is that right JoJo hun? thanks so much for the great idea :flowerforyou: )

3. get moving
i want everyone to try to add 10% more exercise into their week this week!
(can you all look back at how your exercise went last week, and try to add 10% more exercise to it? so if you did 5x 30 mins, that would be 150 minutes exercise done, so then you would add another 15 minutes into your week? does this make sense? if anyone needs help calculating your percentage just ask, im a maths nerd! lol if we can increase our exercise we can be healthier, fitter, and lose more weight! yippee!

WELL DONE OVER THE LAST WEEK, JoJo calculated that we have lost a total of 43.6 POUNDS! :drinker: that is amazing, really well done everyone, keep up the hard work

*** our 3rd official weigh in will be next THURSDAY! *** lets stay motivated! :drinker:

WE WILL DO IT!

SUMMER 2009 WILL BE DIFFERENT!!!

here ya go phetzgetfit, these were this weeks challenges

:flowerforyou:

WantToBeMoreActive

My knee hardly hurt at all when I got out of bed this mornining. Yeah me!!!!

I went for 2 walks and did a 20 minute 'tank top arms' workout on www.exercisetv.tv

WantToBeMoreActive

I'd like to join too! I have my 40th high school class reunion coming up in july and I haven't seen most of my classmates since the 10 year reunion. My summer goal is to show up there looking and feeling fit.

phetzgetfit, I know what you mean...I have my 25th high school class reunion & it's our first reunion since high school graduation :noway:

I too would like to show up looking & feeling fit. :bigsmile:

ashaner

Well, I've already made my water goal for the day! I changed my goals to have it read 1# per week weight loss instead of 2# and I think just mentally seeing those calories go up has made it easier for me to stick with this. I am very competitive and just try to stay under my calories so every day when I was going over really got into my head! Besides - who can eat 1200 calories and not be starving? Yikes!! Not when I work out 2 hours/day! So this will definitely help!!

My goal for April 30 is to have lost 12#, which will finally put me under 200#!! I think once I get there I will be all the more motivated to keep going better and faster, plus the weather will be much nicer and I will be outside more! And if I lose more - well then, all the better! So wish me luck and off I go!

smithiekat

hello everyone! we're about halfway through this week. . . so keep pushing! :drinker: :drinker:

so, like many i did not have the best weekend ever. I went out on Saturday night and drank 4 beers even though I had already eaten all my calories for the day :blushing: And then on Sunday I woke up to go to yoga and discovered i had pinkeye so I stayed inside in the dark all day like a hermit.

but today i'm back. . . full force!!! i went to yoga today for my lunch break (it's 90 minutes and a million degrees so i'm definitely meeting the weeks goal of upping my exercise by 10% ) and i'm very tight on my calories today. tomorrow i plan to do yoga in the morning and then a nice hike with my bf because we have the day off. so lots of moving for me this week. i need to get some sort of measurer bc i haven't taken my measurements yet, but i can alreay feel a positive difference!

back to work for me (and :drinker: water drinking:drinker: ). just wanted to check in (ohhhhhhhhhhh we're halfway theee-eeere. ohh-oohhhhh livin' on a prayerrrrr---sorry i had to). :bigsmile:

phetzgetfit

thank you!
my april 30th goal is another 2 lb loss and I'm going to get back to walking an hour a day at least 4 times a week til then, drinking water all the while!

phetzgetfit

smithiekat, do you do bikram yoga too? sounds like it. i just discovered it a couple of months ago and i'm hooked.

smithiekat

smithiekat, do you do bikram yoga too? sounds like it. i just discovered it a couple of months ago and i'm hooked.

i do! i just started (last thursday to be exact!!! ) and i'm SO hooked. MFP and this group helped motivate me to start. i've been three times so far and i would do it every single day if it fit into my schedule. i love it. its nice to have someone else in this group who loves it too! :flowerforyou:

phetzgetfit

i took the 60 day bikram yoga challenge and I'm about 3 weeks into it. it's a stretch to go that much everyday but, hey, the promise is my life will be transformed. It already is becoming so. I'm soooooo much more energetic and just feel ALIVE. I normally have trouble doing exercise classes and workouts because of pain but the heat really loosens me up and, aside from thinking i was going to die in the heat initially, I haven't had any physical discomfort. And I LOVE getting to eat so much more. A bonus is that after all that sweating, I don't really feel like putting junk in my body. i hope that lasts! Glad to find someone else who does bikram here too.

l_mahloy

Hello everyone I was on vacation last week so didin't weigh in but will this thursday. I love the challenges and will try and meet them all starting today. Well I must go do cardio now.
Lynn

jacqueline0821

So in regards to our challenges and increasing our exercise time. I am doing great!! I didn't exercise at all the week before and so far I have done 2 days on the bike and 2 days running a mile. I jumped on the scale and am already seeing a difference. I can't wait until the weigh in!!!

How is everyone else doing?

:drinker: :flowerforyou:

TamaraRR

recipe just made-sih

shread chicken breast, cut up tomatoes and green peppers, cook them together in a pan with taco seasoning and a little water
take a weight wathcers tortilla wrap and put in a toaster oven, after cooking for a few minutes it will blow up ish, and puff up. break the top
put chicken mix in the hole of the wrap and add 2 table of fat free sour cream.
so good!

whatabelighter

Hello everyone,

:sad: I, too, had a bad weekend...and today wasn't that much better. I wanted to start today out fresh but I went over my calories again today....wanted so badly to exercise to burn off those extra calories...but things happened and I never got my full workout in. :ohwell:

I heard on the radio that the third week into a exercise or dieting routine is the hardest and if you make it through that week... you will continue to better.... I hope so. :huh:

Congrats to everyone WHO had GOOD a weekend and stuck with their healthly eating habits and their challenges.:flowerforyou:

NanaDebby

Hi all,

Just re-joined after a much too long hiatus.....I noticed this challenge and wondered if it was too late to get in on it??

mammakisses

I burned 653 cal. today. Just had to tell someone cause I'm just so proud of myself. I did just 6 min of jump rope and I was totaly out of breath.

Good luck everyone!

l_mahloy

:happy: Way to go!:flowerforyou:

kirstina_23

Hey everyone ! Today was not a good day everything and everything that could go wrong did. i started tracking my food and activities again and im really under calories but theres just not to much right now that i can eat. Ughh anyways happy st.pattys to all!

réalta

Happy St Paddy's Day from Ireland!

:bigsmile: :flowerforyou:

TamaraRR

such a bad day, i had class until 4 today, then i didnt feel like working out, on break i had a mcflurry, a good 550 calories, plus im really sore from working out yesterday but i still could of probly worked through it, and then of course i went n bought some candy from the bulk barn cuz i felt bad about myself. stupid cycle. im exaclty at 1200 calories, but the food i ate today was not good at all.
hope other ppl had a better day
a positive i did buy a good scale that keeps track of weight loss and gain

kfeuvrel

Hi everyone,

I've actually had a good day. This is my second day in a row that I managed to drink all my water. And step class at lunchtime did not result in my . Things are looking up!

It did result in a nice tomato-like face for about 45 minutes afterwards. But hey, that's the small price you pay for a smaller *kitten*.

Why are the weekends so much harder? Is it just being at home, where all your food is, so it's easier to grab at? And I usually clean and do laundry on the weekends, so it's not like I'm being a total slug all day, camped out with a bag of potato chips and the remote.

Can't wait until Thursday! Tomorrow I'm going to the gym to take a Centergy Class (Gold's Gym) which is tai chi slash yoga slash pilates. It's my favorite.

whatabelighter

Hello Everyone,

Today was ok.....Bought a new pedometer, brand name GOWalking by sportline. Worn it tonight at kickboxing. I also did 10 minutes on the arc trainer burning 100 calories plus 30 minutes of strength training. The Pedometer read that I only burned off calories the whole entire time at gym. This doesn't seem right to me. :indifferent: I am puzzled into what amount of calories I should record in my exercise tab. I found a website at you enter you weight , the number of minutes that you did at a certain type exercise, and it tells you how many calories you could of burned...and that website tells me that I should of burned off at least 700 calories just for the kickboxing alone.

Not sure on what I should enter...:grumble: Any suggestions????

suprjewels

I just finished burning 440 calories in 45 minutes doing my fitness coach this morning. Can't wait for the weigh in tomorrow. been working hard!

ashaner

Well, I've done great with the water! That's really easy to do at my work because I'm at a desk all day and I just put it right there next to my phone - if I talk on the phone, I take a drink! The eating - not so much - although did very well until late afternoon and then dinner - MENTAL!! Did run 3 miles yesterday morning and walk 3 miles last night but had too many carbs and puffed up like a blowfish! Was really tired and sluggish this morning too - I know I shouldn't eat that!! So I have a meeting tonight but plan to run 5 miles afterward and am definitely going to watch what I eat today - I want a GREAT weigh-in tomorrow!! Good luck to everyone and have a great "last chance workout!!" hehe I the Biggest Loser!

melissaag1984

hey guys, I am back after a really bad couple of weeks. I totally fell off the wagon, had a lot going on in my personal life and school and work. But I wanted to get back on track again. Luckily I have not gained back anything I lost but I have not been eating great and have not been to the gym in 2 weeks. I am going to a step-muscle fusion class tonight [something new].

What are the challenges for this week?