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Hi everyone. I'm excited to get started with week number two. I took today as my rest day and i think my body is thanking me
Today i weighed in at 144.4, so i am down 1.6 pounds from last week. I did not lose any inches. My goal for tomorrow is to wake up and do a Booty Call. I did my first ever on Saturday morning and i liked getting moving first thing.
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Did anyone do a workout today? I did a Booty Call (Cto5K workout) and Under the sea. Had to follow the printable version bc the video kept re-starting. These gals keep me laughing. :laugh:0
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PS - thanks for the welcome Karen! 0
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The last email I got was under the sea and the sand castle workout. I haven't gotten any since.. which sucks. I'm still working out, but I would love to be able to follow along with their workouts.0
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I haven't been getting the emails either, I've just been checking their blog.
I took a rest day yesterday but today I did C25k, the bikini strap workout x 3 sets, and one set of the 8 toning moves video. Legs are sore!
We should do weekly weigh-ins/measurements for all 8 weeks.. maybe I'll start one! 0 -
Hi everyone. Checking in
Sorry I've been a bit absent, been busy girl studying/working/visiting Nana but am now on study leave so can get back into it with full force No workout today cos it's my wonderful boyfriends birthday so had plans with him, so tomorrow is my official comeback Cant wait to get back to it. The TIU girls are awesome! 0 -
Just been reading the TIU blog and they've put up a bunch of 'must do's for the rest of the 8 weeks:
1. Check in every day
2. Drink half your weight (in lbs) in water (ounces)
3. Eat "Lean, Clean and Green" - no heavy white starches, large portions of cheese or fried foods
4. Yes you can have some cocktails
5. "Booty Call" 4 times per week (Booty Call is a 30 minute early morning workout - anything you like)
6. Read through challenges carefully - they need to become your new habits
So, if we plan to check in every day here then we can let each other know how we are going in relation to our personal goals as well as the goals set above and each day by the tone it up crew
Additional information to note:
Nutrition:
Avoid processed/packaged carbs such as crackers, chips, white bread, sugary cereal, white pasta and candy
Instead eat kumara (sweet potato), quinoa, brown rice, wholemeal wraps, oatmeal, wholegrain cereals
Eat TUI approved desserts such as dark chocolate
Don't eat food with chemicals in them, such as artificial sweeteners, eat as close to nature as possible0 -
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7200/6891790724_958a05fb24_b.jpg is the link to the April calendar - tried to post it but it was too big 0
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Thanks for the updates!!
Sunday I did one of their older workouts - the sand castle. It wasn't so bad. I took a rest yesterday. I didn't get their Motivation Monday email until last night, and didn't see it until this morning.
Today should be a new workout so I'll do that one when its posted. I've been pretty good with water and eating fresh food (except for icecream which I mean I can pronounce the. ngredients but I don't think they'd find so hot). I think ill try for a booty call tomorrow morning, and see how.that goes.
Ps I love that they love kale. I always have it around, and until they said it never thought to make a salad with it. A little low fat feta, some red grapes, and a balsamic dressing. Yum!0 -
Did the Sandcastle workout today instead of the new Livestrong one. I do have a medicine ball, but it's only 5 lbs and I do not have the space to be throwing a ball up in the air and smashing it down on my new floors haha! I liked the Sandcastle one.. the fronts of my thighs sure feel it!
I'm hoping to get up nice and early and do a Jillian Michaels video for my booty call tomorrow!0 -
I did the sand castle last night too. No medicine ball =\
Tried a booty call this am. I randomly picked a video from the site "beach bum" and my *kitten* was burning!! I got maybe 10 minutes. So ok I didn't do the full 30, but I did more than nothing, that's some progress
Hope you're all staying strong and doing well 0 -
Did the Sandcastle workout today instead of the new Livestrong one. I do have a medicine ball, but it's only 5 lbs and I do not have the space to be throwing a ball up in the air and smashing it down on my new floors haha! I liked the Sandcastle one.. the fronts of my thighs sure feel it!
I'm hoping to get up nice and early and do a Jillian Michaels video for my booty call tomorrow!
Ha ha ha! I can def relate the not wanting to throw the ball around. Although the Alternating Ball fly move was very nice, my arms are soreeee. And the sandcastle workout I'm gonna go do in about 10 minutes! I was waiting for the workout yesterday but i ended up doing one of the other workouts while waiting.
have a great day everyone!!
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Check in Thurs 26/4 (but doing wednesdays plan due to time difference)
Today I got my booty call in - went for my c25k run with my flatmate
Planning on doing my 10 minutes of butt exercises tonight, when I also have to run up and down the stairs and do some press ups and crunches for the zombie apocalypse challenge!0 -
Did a 30 minute rollerblade with my dog this morning for a bootycall Between the Sandcastle workout and my rollerblade, my booty is hurting! I made it through one round of the Beach Bum video then switched to today's Random Ab routine (check out randomabs.com if you've never heard of it!) 0
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^never heard of it I will check it out, thanks.
Did Beach bum yesterday morning -- decided booty calls are dangerous for me unless I can wake up even earlier to have coffee first.
Then at night, I did a random exercise video on youtube, and then some extra various crunches (100) and push ups (20).
I also have been taking the stairs in my apartment building (I live on the 7th floor). My office building is a maze, I can only find stairs that let me go down (I can't find them to go up, where the door opens from the ground levels), cause that would double my stairs
My pilates studio had another groupon offer yesterday so i loaded up. I will be going to reformer (or chair haven't decided) class tonight, so after that I'll try another toning exercise depending on how challenging the class is (last time i was the only one there - it was raining - so i basically had a private session and she kicked my *kitten*)
And the first TIU pancake did not end up good, i made it at night and microwaved in the morning - bad idea - it's mostly egg whites and it became rubbery. Tried again today, made the batter last night, the pancake wasn't rubbery, but it's thin and needs sweet (i think i might get some frozen blueberries like suggested and try again - third time is the charm).
Hahha this post is epically long. Good Morning!!!! (Can you tell I'm drinking coffee now, caffeine woo hoo)0 -
Check in Friday! (Thursdays workouts)
So yesterday didn't end up doing anything else after my run, whoops! Better get onto it today.
Thursdays email has 3 sets of 8 toning moves, plus cardio.
I planned on doing another bootycall run this morning, but it's pouring with rain outside, so I think I will do the toning moves now as well as some zombie apocalypse stuff - and then if the weather clears up I'll go for my run this afternoon
Focus for today is my eating! I'm going to eat healthy food only for the rest of the week! too many chocolate buttons for me yesterday!0 -
Good Morning Ladies! (or afternoon or evening depending on where you are)
Still working on mastering that TIU pancake. With blueberries = better, but it still needs some work.
Thirsty Thursday Check in!
Water: 10 cups
Cardio: 17 min of intervals
Toning: 3 sets of 12 of their video0 -
Hi everyone! Got in a Cto5K run for the Booty Call, but I think it's cheating to call it that since I don't do it first thing in the morning. I'm thinking about trying to go for a walk first thing. And I mean first thing, as in, before coffee. I'll try it tomorrow and see how that works out.
I tried to do the 8 sculpting moves today but the streaming video wasn't working.
I think I need to buy the issue of the magazine where it has everything printed. That might help.
Anyone else having that little issue? It's do-able to do the workouts from paper, but more fun to have a video guide. oh well! At least I'm not bored!
And i love the idea of happy hour Friday! 0 -
Yesterday I did the 8 toning moves but didn't get a chance to go for a run because it rained until 9pm..
Today my only exercise will probably be a C25k run tonight. Maybe a 30DS workout too. School is currently destroying my workout time and healthy eating, so we'll see.
smiles4miles - I find the video for those toning moves really distracting and hard to follow since you have to constantly pause/play. I might buy the magazine for the moves too. I like the first set of 8 much better than this set though.
karen - how did your pancake work with the blueberries? I found mine really hard to flip when I added the berries to it and it just made a big mess. I also accidentally only added 1 egg white instead of 2 the first time I made it, and I honestly like the texture better with only 1... so that's how I've been making it. I really like it with the other half of the banana cut up on top, with some sprinkled cinnamon and 1 tbsp of natural peanut butter. It's definitely dryer and more dense than a regular pancake but also much healthier!!0 -
The videos work fine for me, I wonder why they aren't working for you? Yeah I have to pause-play them which is kind of annoying though haha.
Saturday check in!
Yesterday I ended up running up and down my stairs (flight of 15) 40 times haha and then I did some press ups and crunches. Not a booty call though, I've done two booty calls this week and if I do one tomorrow then that's three and will aim for the full four next week. I'm going to print the May calendar when it comes out and put it on my wall so I know what to expect each day.
Fridays challenge (which I'm doing today) is to write down something we feel grateful for each hour on the hour (happy hour friday!) so I'm going to start that now. I'm grateful for the amazing community on mfp to make me more committed to my health and fitness! Will post the rest of my list in tomorrows check in As for the other goals we are supposed to be working towards:
1. Check in every day - Yep I have done every day since we got these
2. Drink half your weight (in lbs) in water (ounces) - too lazy to work it out, but I've been getting my 8 glasses so tick!
3. Eat "Lean, Clean and Green" - no heavy white starches, large portions of cheese or fried foods - NEEDS WORK
4. Yes you can have some cocktails - I went out to the casino last night and had only one glass of wine (and took $20, left with $50) I call that success
5. "Booty Call" 4 times per week - 2X so far
6. Read through challenges carefully - they need to become your new habits - Getting there!0 -
i was pausing the videos also, then i realised that there is a link for the printable workout. So i printed them out. Easy access anytime. Today i did the 8 toning moves X3, 400 stairs, and Turbofire 45.0
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Alright... yesterday was a bit of a failure, didn't end up doing any exercise but I'm not getting too upset about it because my last rest day was Sunday. I'm going to go for a run today and do my best to eat healthy, but tomorrow I leave for Vegas for a week and I know it's going to be impossible to eat as healthy as I'd like to and work out while I'm there. I tend to naturally like the lean/clean/green foods anyways so my eating shouldn't be too terrible (but the drinking will be!). I won't have access to a gym but I will be walking a LOT. I bought the 17 Day Diet book yesterday, and when I get home I'm jumping straight into that and back onto the Bikini Challenge!
Wish me luck, friends! See you all in a week!0 -
Hey guys - happy Saturday (where I am, anyway)! Did my Booty Call this morning - walked one of the dogs. But, didn't do it first thing - had to have coffee first and ended up running some errands first too. I'm not planning on logging it as exercise calories, just an extra activity to ramp up for the day. Haven't checked out the workout for today yet. Hopefully I'll do it - I'm a bit groggy from some medication and may end up sleeping instead of exercising!0
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Hey guys - happy Saturday (where I am, anyway)! Did my Booty Call this morning - walked one of the dogs. But, didn't do it first thing - had to have coffee first and ended up running some errands first too. I'm not planning on logging it as exercise calories, just an extra activity to ramp up for the day. Haven't checked out the workout for today yet. Hopefully I'll do it - I'm a bit groggy from some medication and may end up sleeping instead of exercising!
I think the plan for the weekend is just to get some exercise in on Saturday and Sunday - nothing structured. So your C25K should probably cut it
I haven't done much exercise today - walked to the shops instead of driving, which takes about 15 minutes each way, but doesn't really count haha. After I've done a little bit of study I'll run up and down the stairs a few times and do some crunches and push ups for the zombie challenge and then that will be my exercise for the day. Will do another check in before bed and rate my progress for the week so that I can compare week on week a bit better.
Hope everyone is having a great weekend!0 -
Alright... yesterday was a bit of a failure, didn't end up doing any exercise but I'm not getting too upset about it because my last rest day was Sunday. I'm going to go for a run today and do my best to eat healthy, but tomorrow I leave for Vegas for a week and I know it's going to be impossible to eat as healthy as I'd like to and work out while I'm there. I tend to naturally like the lean/clean/green foods anyways so my eating shouldn't be too terrible (but the drinking will be!). I won't have access to a gym but I will be walking a LOT. I bought the 17 Day Diet book yesterday, and when I get home I'm jumping straight into that and back onto the Bikini Challenge!
Wish me luck, friends! See you all in a week!
Luuuuuck! And not just for the eating/exercising! I went to the casino on Friday night and took $20 (my limit when I gamble because I'm not very good) and turned it into $50! Yay! So my boyfriend and I went to the local farmers market in the morning and got some delicious breakfast and fresh bread and vegetables with our winnings 0 -
My progress for last week:
1. Check in every day Tick
2. Water Tick
3. Eat "Lean, Clean and Green" Cross
4. Drink only in moderation Tick
5. "Booty Call" 4 times per week 2/4
6. Do the challenges Cross
This week aiming for 4 booty calls, getting all of the challenges done, and eating "lean, clean and green"
Today is Monday (so Sunday for TIU) and I just need to get some exercise in. Have organised to do W3D3 of C25K with my flatmate this afternoon so will do that, as well as look out for the email telling me what I need to do tomorrow so that I can fit it in around my 6 hour workshop exam (yuk, wish me luck!)0 -
Cheeeeeck in Monday
Sundays plan was just to get some exercise in - which I did - C25K W3D3 yaaaaaay! Tomorrow need to get my booty call in, have a big big big exam tomorrow so some morning exercise to get my brain going - everyone wish me luck, if I don't pass this, I will have wasted my degree (which took 4 years of my life) as well as the past year I've been working! And have to find a new career haha aaaaah so scary!
1. Check in 1/7
2. Water 1/7
3. Lean Clean Green 0/7
4. Drink in moderation NA
5. Booty Call 0/4
6. Do the challenges 1/70 -
good luck! I wish you the best. You're so close!! yay!
great job for working out even though you're so busy. that is awesome!!
I am so sore today, Hopefully I'll get some sort of workout in.
Have a good monday everyone!0 -
Hi everyone!
Today I did some toning exercises, but tomorrow I'm going to try the HIIT -- we shall see if I hurt myself... this time I will stop for coffee before hand.
1. Check in 1/7
2. Water 1/7
3. Lean Clean Green 0/7
4. Drink in moderation NA
5. Booty Call 0/4
6. Do the challenges 0/7
Damn I'm a terrible runner!! Signing up for a race is daunting, esp. since I don't tell my friends about how I'm trying to lose more weight and don't want to explain TIU challenges. I feel like talking about weight loss in the past has opened the door to criticisms, so I just shrug off when people bring up my weight loss. "Yeah I lost a bit, just want to be healthy" seems to close that topic.
I would be Lean Clean and Green if it wasn't for that brownie -- it's TOM and I'm hurting today -- it was the best part of my day
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Hey guys I'm checking in from my phone so this will be short. Booty call done this morning (walked the dog) and did my cto5k w5d1. Will do the HIIT tomorrow. Picked up the magazine for the cards with the sculpting moves.
I haven't signed up for a race either.
Alex - good luck on your exam! What's it for?0
