10-week challenge
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Yes, it hurts. Some times worse than others. It's worth it though. I had my bikini area done a few years ago and had great results, so I decided to go for the underarms, too. It isn't completely permanent. I have to get zapped for maintenance 2 or 3 times a year once the initial treatment is done. But it is SO much better.
I have no idea what my Mother's Day will look like. Dh works, and my dad is out of town. I have a feeling my mom will want to go out to eat. :-( I would rather not, just because of the crowds, but we probably will.0 -
Nah, I disagree - laser hair removal doesn't hurt!! (Go in the middle of your TOM cycle and take a tylenol before you go if you are REALLY pain adverse!) I've had my entire bikini done, brazilian done, calves done, underarms done and am in the middle of having my upper lip, chin and upper legs done.
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I am fitting better into my clothes, already. Interesting.
For me, it simply isn't enough to lift heavy weights, obviously. Eating at maintenance all these months has kept me "fluffy". Now that I am eating below maintenance, I'm losing weight AND I'm losing inches.
So, not saying it's the same for everybody - but for me, THAT is the formula.
Makes it *much* easier to keep on keeping on when there are results in the mirror.
Oh, and I'm done with my "rest week" now - I'm going to start Stage 5 NROL4W today - yay!0 -
Beeps - I totally agree. I've been at 1800 most days, with a few spikes here and there due to traveling, but my pants are starting to get looser on me now. Hopefully I will be in that size 8 in no time!!0
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NOW THAT IS THE ATTITUDE!! Love it, jen. LOVE. IT.0
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My scale moved! It read 188.5 this morning (after being "stuck" bet. 189-193 since I started on Apr. 16). Three times without different readings. So I counted it, and I'm hoping it means my body is getting the message that I mean business with these weight workouts!
Stage 1, A6 today, and man, I worked HARD, and it felt sooooooooooo good!!!
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My scale moved! It read 188.5 this morning (after being "stuck" bet. 189-193 since I started on Apr. 16). Three times without different readings. So I counted it, and I'm hoping it means my body is getting the message that I mean business with these weight workouts!
Stage 1, A6 today, and man, I worked HARD, and it felt sooooooooooo good!!!
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Yay, karen!! That's EXACTLY how it's done! BOOM!
I had a great Mother's Day. Ate more than I had planned for...and for sure took in more sodium, than I would have thought!
So, it's right-back to deficit, today and for the remainder of the week. Next weekend is a long weekend, so I'll have to choose my "maintenance" day very carefully.
I am meeting with a personal trainer, today - so I'll get back to NROL4W on Wednesday.0 -
Karen - that's awesome!
I had a great Mother's Day as well - although I totally over ate. Spent most of the day outside building a swing set for the kiddos, but it was great. And as I was helping hubby carry a section of it, he says "Holy crap look at those muscles!" AWESOME!! That was on top of the other comments he had already made about my waist being smaller and my calf muscles the day before.
Traveling totally kicked my butt, I don't know how people can stand doing it for work all the time. I was supposed to get my second workout for the week in on Saturday and that didn't happen. I was planning on getting up this morning and that didn't happen. I've got to get back to my sleep schedule soon!!!0 -
If those are your gams, jenthomas, they look friggin' SPECTACULAR.
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Beeps - they are definitely mine and Thanks!0
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Well I'm pretty sure I've completely ruined the minimal progress I had made in the last two weeks over this weekend. I don't know what got into me but I just ate everything in site on Saturday and Sunday was pretty bad too. I ate at maintenance yesterday to try and get back on track and I will go back to my deficit today. The scale :frown: is still up 3.8 lbs today. I know, I know I didn't eat enough to gain that much but I did eat enough to gain 1 or maybe even 2 lbs as much as I hate to admit that.
I'm planning to finish up stage 2 on Saturday and then I will have about a 10 day break to give my body a rest for a 10K I'm doing on memorial day. I think I may go on more of a calorie cut during the break since I won't have the strength training hunger monster after me and hopefully kick my butt back in gear!0 -
There's a saying, right, "...fall down 7 times, get up 8...."
In my view, so long as that is what you are doing, you WILL succeed. You will. It's all good!!
I cannot get a work-out in, today. I have both a lunch engagement and a supper engagement. So, I'll perfect my diet, today. Having a salad and a lean protein, only, at each of those meals. Tomorrow is a 'weight-check', and I want to KILL IT.
What are YOU doing, today, to make this challenge a success?????0 -
Still here! Pretty poor food choices the last several days so brought the treats to work where they were gobbled up and not by me. Had a good workout today and refocusing on food choices. Still no love from the scale but increasing definition and now the new size 6's seem looser too so something is working. Might have to get body fat monitor thing or maybe bodymedia/fitbit thing to see how the numbers are really shaping up but will trust in the clothes and mirror approach for now.0
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I'm doing a "quick-measure" today....it's half-way through May and I thought I'd see if I'm on the right track. I will have to hit the scale at the gym, but I'm not there, yet!!
On the tape measure, I'm down 1" on my smalles waist, I am down 1/2" on my belly button waist and I think I am the same on my hips. Not too shabby, I guess (i.e. NO GAIN!).
I hope the scale has me down a lb. or 2, as well!0 -
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Beeps - great progress.
I have not been keeping at my 1800 calories very well at all the last couple weeks. I also have not had any changes in measurements for the last month. I've got to get a better handle on my weekend eating, but we are always so busy, it's difficult.0 -
Well, I cannot say 'great' progress, because my hips/thighs are my trouble area and my hips measurement stayed the same (no change since end-of-april measuring).
But, at least it makes me FEEL like the calorie-deficit I am choosing is a good idea just now.
I'm really committed to making these 10 weeks count. And, looking at the calendar, with only 7 of 'em left, it's REALLY time to POUR ON THE FOCUS.
NO MORE EXCUSES!!
(And, yes, being "busy" really is very, very difficult. But, it's a "CHALLENGE" - if it were something else, it would be called an "EASY"....)
PS - I like the new user-name, jennie....and I LOVE your calves. Nice!0 -
ok, I *totally* blew the diet piece of this challenge, yesterday. Which, for me, is the ENTIRE challenge, so, GLAD YESTERDAY IS GONE.
Whew.
After my successful mini-measurements yesterday morn, I stepped on the scale (before my work-out) and it hadn't budged and then I had an emotional FREAK-OUT because of that. So dumb.
But, I did. And then I ate fast food. Followed by junk food.
The day is a complete write-off. Anyway, there's 2 weeks left in May. I can still drop a lb. I figure, if I (again) closely monitor my caloric intake. So, I'm back on track, today. It's about the best I can do!!0 -
Eh, we all have those days. At least it's over and you've moved on. Best thing you can do.
Thankfully my eating has gotten under control the last couple days. Now I just need to make a plan for the weekend, although, it may not be as difficult as I was planning since it looks like my son's team will not be in the soccer tournament this weekend like we had planned. Apparently they don't have enough teams at his age level.0 -
Where did everyone go??? How are you doing on your goals?
This weekend was awful, as I suspected, but it's my own fault for not being prepared in advance. On a good note, I stepped on the scale Monday just to see how bad and I was down 1/2 lb. But my measurements don't seem to be budging at all (I measure just my waist about once a week just to see how I'm doing). I plan on doing a full measurements on Thursday since that ends another challenge I'm in.0 -
Yay for 1/2 lb. down, jennie!!! Nice!!
I blew this weekend, too. But, clearer heads will prevail and I'm determined to be very strict through the remainder of May so that when I take MY month-end measurements, there *is* some improvement!
I think I dropped my calories TOO low at the beginning of May - which lead to an over-calorie binge from Wed - Mon of this past week. So, I'm trying to keep my deficit at about the 250 calorie range. It likely means that my 10-week-challenge goals were TOO optimistic, but if I even hit HALF the target (i.e. if I lose 5 lbs rather than 10 lbs), I'll know I'm on the right track and I'll finish up my (wanted) weight loss through the summer months.0 -
I'm with you guys - had a baaad weekend :grumble: but it is a new week and gotta keep this truck truckin'
thinking of stepping up the cardio a little too maybe throwing an extra interval sesh in. Currently doing 3 days of NROL with workout b only having interval (stage 4) so thinking of adding it to workout a too. we'll see how I feel tomorrow after round 2 
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Still here! Bad food weekend as shared by many it seems Trying to get back on track food and exercise wise. Got up early today to get my workout in and even thinking about throwing in a little cardio later if it works out. Eating everything in sight and turns out it's just about TOM so that all makes sense. Think 10lbs will not happen before end of June. I'm with Beeps. At this point 5 would be huge progress. Mirror and clothes seem to be improving but just can't seem to shake these pounds. Can't understand how this third child (who will be 4!) put me over the edge here. Had always gotten back to prepreg weight before. :sad: Okay so prob not baby weight this far out:noway: Anyway, keep on keeping on and good things will continue to happen. Focus on all these other accomplishments:pushups, pullups, visible arm and back muscles and get over the scale. Prob would need to reduce calories to see weight loss and unable/unwilling to do that so must continue to work the program. 0
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I've had a bad food WEEK. :-(. I've had some good thrown in, but overall my eating has been horrible. And I wonder why I'm not losing. Duh. It's awful. The more crap I eat, the more crap I crave. I'm so bummed.0
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Well I'm in the same boat as everyone else coming off a bad week last week. I don't know what was going on with me, I just wanted to (and basically did) eat everything in sight! I finished up stage 2 saturday and I'm taking a break this week since I'm running a 10K monday. Planning to just take it easy this week and try to keep the eating under control. We can do this ladies!0
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If I can get through these next few days, on a lower-calorie plan, while zig-zagging, there might be some hope.
I am COMPLETELY bummed because, one of the things that is happening is the calendar months are turning over - and the results are harder and harder to come by.
When I started on NROL4W, there was a thread that showed this woman's body, which was in decent shape - and then it showed her body after 6 months of WEIGHT-TRAINING ONLY (i.e. no cardio) - and her body was in REALLY good shape.
So, that's why I started NROL4W - I thought: "in 6 months, I am going to have a body like that...."
Well, I'm nearing the end of month 5. And, my body *is* better, but it is NOT nearly as developed as I had pictured in my head. So, I'm depressed about that. It is obviously "my fault", so I accept all blame. But, in month 2, I wasn't so hard on myself - I kept thinking, "...the finish line is still 4 months away..." Same with month 3.
In month 4, I started to get REALLY worried, which is when I started thinking about this 10-week challenge. And now, in month 5, just about FULL-BLOWN PANIC is setting in.
I am *so* bummed that I'm not gonna "look like that" by the end of June. SO BUMMED.
Is *anyone* else feeling like this??
PS - I *realize* this is a lifestyle change, so whether I get there at the end of June, 2012 or whether I get there at the end of June, 2013, shouldn't matter. But, for this minute in time, IT IS MATTERING.
PPS - please give me the name of one pill that actually WILL curb my evening appetite. That's the *quick fix* that I'm looking for, today, and would be grateful for any private message in this regard....0 -
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"it is darkest just before the dawn"
Had a GREAT work-out today....used up the 2nd free session a friend gave me with her personal trainer. My last free session. So, of course, he worked me out SUPER-DUPER and now I want to CONTINUE with him. But, I'm not buying another gym membership....I have a gym membership....
So, he is checking into whether or not I can just buy PT time (I doubt it).
I would really like to meet him once-per-week, do NROL4W 2 x per week, and do some outdoor cardio 3 x per week - that would make for a GREAT SUMMER RECIPE, I figure.0 -
PS, I had to step on the scale yesterday, because the life insurance people were at our home gathering the necessary medical evidence for our life insurance application.
And....I am *officially* 15 LBS. HEAVIER than I was 3 years ago on this date.
That's right, people....15 lbs heavier!!
Yes, 3 years ago I was "skinny fat". Now, I just feel "muscly fat"....which isn't ideal, either.
Alright, there's no other choice except to POUR IT ON. I'm going to lose body fat percentage, period. And, I'm going to commit to eating my calories, getting my macros in, and seeking the comfort of regular exercise.
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Beeps - you totally rock!!!
I am pretty much the same weight that I was 2 years ago when i found out I was pregnant and my clothes are looser now than they were then and I'm much happier with my body now than I was then. Even if I don't lose any more weight and weigh 150 lbs for the rest of my life, I really don't care as long as I can get into a size 6 and look smoking hot!!0 -
We are about 1/2 way through this 'challenge' - and I'm not even stepping on the scale right now - that's how NOT successful (I think) I've been with weight loss.
Mind you, I've got 5 weeks left and today is a new day. I guess if I'm not LOSING any ground, that's still a "+" right now.
How are you doing, ladies??0
