Never going to give up !!!!! challenge

emmaruns

This is amazing as I JUST posted about this a second ago!

Here are my goals:

1. Do the elliptical before work for 45 minutes
2. Walk on my treaddesk 6 miles per day
3. 1200-1300 calories of food, the healthier the better

Been at it for about 38 days now and it seems to be working!

sammylc

How lovely to see so many new faces, welcome to you all

Goals for February will be pretty much the same

Exercise - cardio 5 times a week, 400+ crunches 3 times per week
Food - stay under calorie allowance a much as possible, but don't feel guilty if I do go over as long as this is only 1 or 2 times per week
C25K - on Week 4 at the moment, so want to continue with this and hopefully reach week 7 or 8 by the end of Feb

Today is one of those days that I have gone over on cals but that's because I have no time on Wednesdays to workout and earn myself extra, never mind.

I am working myself up to today's mini-challenge. I'm sure my words were 'thank goodness we are not doing the plank' and somehow that was turned into Sam wanting to do the plank - hmm, how did that happen?!:sad: I will let you know later if I manage it.

Here's to a fabulous February everyone xxxx

clover5

I am working myself up to today's mini-challenge. I'm sure my words were 'thank goodness we are not doing the plank' and somehow that was turned into Sam wanting to do the plank - hmm, how did that happen?!:sad: I will let you know later if I manage it.

That's my fault Sammy. Sorry. :flowerforyou: I'll do yours if you want.

I've just finished dinner and just barely over calories, which is fine assuming I don't eat any more - no promises. Will check in in the morning.

Night.

elimay59

Hello :happy:

Clover I will help with sammys mini I hate planks too, I can only do modified. Butt kicks for fridays mini :bigsmile:

welcome to our new ones happy to have you join us :flowerforyou:

Penny you are inspiring I wish I had your energy ,20 lbs that is great. go to the store and pick up 20 bag of potatoes that is what you are no longer carrying around woooo hoooo

Jemma good job on being close to your goal. I have never heard of that maybe ask in the community.

I had 5 little girls over to decorate cupcakes and make jewelery tonight ,I am pooped but it was fun . I didnt stop running all day

Hello Istnlondry I am doing good how are you .

Hawkeye and Deebear you are doing great too. Good to see everyone back today :bigsmile:

My new goals for Feb

1. loose 5 lbs
2. stay under calories
3. drink 64 ounces water
4. 20 mins excersize everyday

I am trying to only check in only in the evening, I spend to much time on computer. Have an awesome thursday everyone , see you all tommorow .

elimay59

Wow! This is my 3rd time writing this!
Goals are to
Stay at calorie goal
Burn 1000 calories most days
Focus more on me/house/procrastination list

Lately Im succeeding. Of course Im a work in progress.

Everyone else doing well? My daffodils are in full bloom which makes me happy-what makes you all happy lately? Elimay, hows it going?

I love daffodils they are just happy flowers :flowerforyou: love them. Glad you are doing well ,I am doing better too

sammylc

Morning all, well I did my plank arghh!!! I had 3 attempts and only managed 30 seconds each time. Hawkeyegal, 3 minutes is awesome, wow.

Jemma - never played lacrosse but it looks fun. I suppose if you enjoy team sports like hockey then go for it.

Will check in later, got to get ready for work now. x

ladytinkerbell99

Hi All,
Is this a private group? I am interested - but not sure.

sammylc

LadyTinkerbell, you are welcome to join us. Some of us have been supporting each for a few months now and others have joined us more recently. Set yourself a few goals and let us know how you are doing each day (or as often as you can), we sometimes set ourselves mini-challenges too.

Elimay - that sounds like fun, decorating cupcakes and making jewellery with 5 little girls.

Goals today
I have closed my diary and I am just under for the day, but there are many hours left til bedtime and I may just want a few more nibbles
Exercised on the Wii this morning, crunches and weights to be done soon
C25K - I did the 3rd session of Week 4 earlier, looking forward to starting week 5 in a couple of days

Look forward to seeing how you are all doing my friends xxx

PennyChallenge

****** DONT FORGET FRIDAYS MINI CHALLENGE ******
BUTT KICKS ;0)

MONDAYS- BUTTERFLY KICKS!

ELIMAY- HOWS THE DIET AND HOW ARE YOU FEELING? I THANK YOU DAILY FOR ORIGINALLY STARTING THIS GROUP!

SAMMY TOMORROW IS TGE END OF WEEK FOUR BUT I STRUGGLE , IN YOUR OPINION SHOULD I REPEAT IT?

CLOVER IM VERY PROUD OF YOU AND YOUR GOALS!

JEMMA THANKS! ITS A WONDERFUL FEELING AND I KNOW ITS ONLY GOING TO GET BETTER FROM HERE!

HAWKEYE HOW IS YOUR CHALLENGE GOING?

DEEBEAR HOW ARE YOU SWEETS?

I HAD A FANTASTIC DAY! FABULOUS WORKOUT AND DELICIOUS DINNER! NOW ITS FAMILY TIME! HOPE YOU ALL HAD A GREAT DAY AS WELL!

lstnlondry

Hello ! I hope everyone has had a chance to wind down this Thursday night! (Or good morning to some!) I am sooo looking forward to a hot shower & jammies!!

Goals are to
Stay at calorie goal
Burn 1000 calories most days
Focus more on me/house/procrastination list

Well well well....I found the most delightful macaroon today. I had to estimate on calories and I hope I overestimated! I couldn't find anything in our mfp database that resembled "A taste of Heaven". Either way, I didn't have the calories to spare so I went for a good workout. Oh and I made tortillas and sent them in the mail to my baby boy in college!! I wish I could see his face when he opens it!

Everyone else doing well? Elimay, my daffodils smile and say "Hello" when I walk to my front door!! I planted them 8 years ago and they come see me every year!!

PennyChallenge

Istnlontry - you are too cute! I love talking flowers that put a smoke on my face. Yummmmm homemade tortillas! Great goals! Have a lovely evening! Jammie time for me as well!

Goodnight all of you wonderful friends!

clover5

Here it is almost 10 o'clock and I'm finally off my feet and sitting down. Good day though. I don't mind being busy. Took my daughter to get braces today. The xrays look terrible, poor girl. Went out shopping after dinner because we are having winter storm for the next 24 hours or so. School has already been cancelled for tomorrow.

Goal check:
Increase water to 5 glasses a day - yes
exercise - begin jogging again, weather permitting, YES! and took the dog with me. She did pretty well staying with me. For once she wasn't pulling. :-)
strength exercise each day - no
housework - 1 hour weekdays - yes
Stop procrastination - I'm going to count the jogging here also as I have been meaning to do so for a few weeks.
Log calories and exercise - yes

Jemma, we like go watch pro lacrosse games. If you like running games like soccer or field hockey, then you will likely enjoy lacrosse too. Elimay, did you get your teeth fixed yet? Istnlondry, good goals.

I'm taking the rest of the day off. Good night.

elimay59

Hello :happy:
clover good job on goals. You had a busy day today. Im going to the dental school which is very time consuming but cheaper, so I have not actually had work done yet, the dentist student said something about pulp being dead in that tooth Im thankful the pain is gone
Istnlondry what a great ma ma you are awww I love it !!!! I need to do that (plant daffodils} macaroons yummy , I had fozen yogurt from sweet spots with goodies on top I just counted 300 still under calorie goal wooo hooo.

Sammy good job!!!!! It was very hectic but fun , my niece wore her neclace to our meeting tonight.

Penny awwww you are welcome ,Its everyones encouragment that makes it a great group. Im ready for tommorow mini. I am feeling better I think it is out of my system now thank you. Diet is going ok Im under cals.

Has anyone heard of the color 5 K? I am going to do it with my girls in may you are painted multi colors by the end , I am really excited.

1. under cal
2. water nope : <
3. excersize doing it in a min I already logged it.

Goodnight my friends :flowerforyou: have a great friday !!!!

sammylc

Yay, it's Friday!!!! Youngest daughter has a day off school today so we are going shopping - the best way to burn calories

Lstnlondry that macaroon sounds lovely - yum

Penny, why don't you see how you feel once you have done the last session of week 4, you could always just do an extra session without repeating the whole week. I have found week 4 difficult as well, but I want to push on to week 5. Remember I am doing it indoors so probably not as hard for me as it is for you.

Elimay the color 5k sounds like fun, we shall all be wanting to see photos of you when you have done it.

Clover good job on the jog, I wonder how many calories your dog burned?

have a great day everyone x

DeeBear

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!! Getting ready for 15 inches of snow here!!! Love snow if I can stay home!! Hope you all have a GREAT FRIDAY!
Later my friends.

hawkeyegal1995

Happy Friday everyone!

My other challenge is going well this week--it is a miles challenge so that's pretty easy. Needed to get 35 miles but with my biking I am already up to 118 miles and still have till Sunday(my miles will help pull up people that could not get to the 35). The second part of the challenge is to write a letter to myself about my accomplishments-that I am struggling with since I'm not happy with my progress. (I'll keep that little rant to myself since you have heard it all before).

Dee-heard about Nebraska getting hit with a big snow storm....please keep it out there! I am traveling a lot for work over the next week and don't want to deal with rescheduling! Of course I would like some snow on the ground to ski and snow shoe(bought the stupid things and not been able to use them all winter).

My eating has pretty much sucked this week.....I seem to be grabbing the jar of PB at night and happily snacking away. I have the rotten mindset that I burned all these calories so everything is far game-so wrong!

Hope that everyone has a great Friday--keep up the awesome work. Everyone is doing great on their goals!

sammylc

Butt kicks done - didn't really know what these were so I did 2 different sort of exercises, hopefully 1 of these were right.

Had a lovely day shopping and Nandos for lunch - yum yum. This has meant that I've gone over cals but only very slightly. Exercise was done this morning.

Just ending my day with a much deserved glass of wine or 2

jen3015

I'm on board. Just joined 3 days ago...
My 3 goals will be

1. 64 PLUS oz. of H2O every day
2. Stay under fat gram goal every day
3. Exercise 4 times every week

Great motivators! Thanks!

clover5

Good evening friends. Welcome Jen. Lots of drifting snow and blizzard conditions here. I've been inside all day. Hawkeye, bring your snowshoes and come to Colorado. I did my butt kicks. I'm not sure what a butterfly kick is. Is this like a swimming frog kick? Elimay, cant wait to see you covered with rainbow paint. Sammy, ha ha, you're funny. I don't know about the dogs calories. I'd like to subtract them from my calories though. I did a boot camp DVD this afternoon. It was a good workout, and only requires a small space - like a closet.

Goal check:
Water - 5 glasses a day - yes
exercise - yes
strength exercise - yes - Gunnery Sargent Walden covered all the bases!
housework - 1 hour weekdays - no
Stop procrastination - yes - sewing task done
Log calories and budget - yes

Jemma_02

Hey!

I have had an extremely poor couple of days but I am now back on the wagon and focussed again! I forgot about the mini challenges so I will catch up with them! Also what are butterfly kicks?

We had snow here yesterday...not quite a blizzard though! Clover I love the sound of your video I don't have an awful lot of room to workout indoors so I am always looking out for new workouts for small spaces!

Anyway I am off to do spot of shopping and then will return to do a massive workout!!!

Have a good day x

clover5

Jemma, It's "Harvey Walden presents Fighting Fit Fighting Fat." I got it at the library. Definitaly a military style work out, but it's exercise. Give it a try.

Cdc253

Hey Can I Join???

elimay59

Welcome crystal !!!!! Hello girls I have been gone all day and yesterday too. wanted to at least say hello see you tommorow :bigsmile:

PennyChallenge

http://fortismag.com/butteflykicks.html <

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link to butterfly kicks!

I am down 24 pounds and only have three more till I'm at 1/4 of my goal! So happy! Hope everyone is enjoying the weekend!

We took all the kids 4 wheeling yesterday and had a great time. It started snowing and we were soaked and frozen but so worth it all! Got my girls riding by themselves on there new 4 wheelers 250cc. It was awesome to see them so proud! Even got grandpa going around! I love my family but sure miss my Mama! Thank goodness for an amazing stepfather! !!!

Hugs to you all!

sammylc

Wow Penny, 24lbs is awesome.

Goals today:
I'm over on calories today, probably due to the home baking. We had cupcakes and caramel slices - yum yum
Exercise - yes i got this done this morning
C25K - think I'm falling behind a little, I meant to start week 5 over this weekend but didn't manage to fit it in.

Just got some new digital scales, looks like I'm 1 lb heavier than I thought :ohwell:

elimay59

Hello girls, I have not did anything all weekend :grumble: I have got to get back on tract . I have been so busy on the run all day everyday. I need to deal with it because its not going to change anytime soon.
Good job sammy and Penny . Penny 24 lbs is awesome :bigsmile:
Penny that sounds like so much fun I have a 4 wheeler too. Sorry about your mama !!!!! I miss mine too she has has been gone since 1988 46 yrs old. I have alot of sisters im happy for that .

Ok so tommorow I will plan better goodnight see you tommorow

clover5

Good morning ladies

Goal check:
Water - 5 glasses a day - yes
exercise - yes - snowsnoeing
strength exercise - yes - wrist curls
housework - 1 hour weekdays - Sunday
Stop procrastination - no
Log calories and budget - yes

This is my daughter, 12.

Harvest02

OK, I am up for this one! I really need to focus on my weight loss. I have the exercise down, it is my food and water consumption that need help! I am struggling to get 10 pounds off, so this will be a huge motivator for me!

sammylc

Butterfly kicks done, hope everyone else is managing todays mini-challenge.

Clover your daughter looks a sweetie

Goals today
Not stayed under cals, still nibbling away at yesterdays baking.
Exercise - day off cardio but did 200 ab crunches and the mini challenge
C25K - completed W5D1 earlier so I'm pleased that I'm still on track with that and I suppose that counts as a cardio workout really.

elimay59

Good morning ladies

Goal check:
Water - 5 glasses a day - yes
exercise - yes - snowsnoeing
strength exercise - yes - wrist curls
housework - 1 hour weekdays - Sunday
Stop procrastination - no
Log calories and budget - yes

This is my daughter, 12.

Your daughter is cute clover