Turn your Life around 20's

Steph_135

frankyosage... Good for you for staying active even though you couldn't make it to the gym! You got a lot of washing in there! Stick with it and I'm sure the scale will move!

Drink up Sparksfly!

Sparksfly

149.5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

down 3 pounds this week...

Hope I dont hit a plateau soon, eek!

OliveCulona

Hey all! I'm new to this group but thought the energy and motivation would really help me! I'm 23yr old and have lost 11lbs so far! I started MFP on 1/15/10 and am stuck in a plateau at 173.4!!!! UGH I know I will get through it but if you have any suggestions to break this plateau let me know!!

ashmarie8722

Welcome OliveCulona! Good job! You'll get past it. I'm suck at 146 and just can't seem to keep it down. But I bet we can get through this!

So ladies Any challenge ideas?

VballLeash

Welcome OliveCulona! Good job! You'll get past it. I'm suck at 146 and just can't seem to keep it down. But I bet we can get through this!

So ladies Any challenge ideas?

I have a challenge idea... I know we already did pushups but the teacher at a class I take at the gym suggested this... do as many pushups as you can for 1 minute for a week, you'll be surprised how much you improve! Or we could do lunges or something... what do you guys think!?

Hope everyones having a GREAT day!

~Leash

ashmarie8722

Great challenge. I suck at pushups. lol. I think we can each do our own just 1 min of as many reps of whatever we need to focus on because i'm sure some people need arms others legs others abs. So. sounds great! I'm in!

OliveCulona

I'm up for the challenge! I need to do push-ups and lunges! Maybe i'll alternate sets to get some cardio in also haha

sollygirl

Great challenge idea I've been trying to do push ups everyday so this is perfect. So how is everybody's week going? I've been trying to avoid the scale bc i usually weigh myself ten times a day lol and get discouraged so i haven' t weighed myself since Friday. Yay me.

ashmarie8722

So I'm so excited for our challenge ladies! Also scared at how bad i am going to be at it. lol

I have this new food love, with Captin crunch berries. So i know cereals are "bad" carbs. but i woke up this morning and was pumped to get to eat it. I think i must reserve it for my "snack" because i just see this as being a bad relationship lol

I think If we can we should post how well we did with our challenge every day to keep everyone coming back and a little more push to get it done! I know a lot of us are busy so not everyone can but we could try.

ashmarie8722

Challenge!!!

Yay so I suck at pushups!

40 in 1 min. How did all of you ladies do?

VballLeash

Challenge!!!

Yay so I suck at pushups!

40 in 1 min. How did all of you ladies do?

40?! Are you kidding thats amazing! I can only do 25 at least with the correct form, my upper body strength is something I'm working on...

~Leash

sollygirl

Oh gosh you girls did great. I can do like ten at the very most.lol.but ill post what i get im not ganna do them till later though. but i do plan on taking my baby out for a walk/jog today so hopefully its not to cold like under 70 degrees lol. but every wed. we go eat at my restraunt i work at so im ganna try to save my calories for dinner and maybe do a workout video tonight.

While im typing this my SO and son are eating jack n the box right next to me. and i actually turned it down even thought it smells so good. Got a diet coke though.

mshay05

Oh gosh you girls did great. I can do like ten at the very most.lol.but ill post what i get im not ganna do them till later though. but i do plan on taking my baby out for a walk/jog today so hopefully its not to cold like under 70 degrees lol. but every wed. we go eat at my restraunt i work at so im ganna try to save my calories for dinner and maybe do a workout video tonight.

While im typing this my SO and son are eating jack n the box right next to me. and i actually turned it down even thought it smells so good. Got a diet coke though.

good job solly!

As for push ups, yea I could only do 22. haha I will improve though!

ashmarie8722

So i thought i wrote this but guess not. Haha. I kinda cheat and do girlie ones. I can do like 3 'real' ones. lol. Oh goodness. Tomorrow I shall try real ones, but i felt like doing more girlie ones would be more effective than 3 real ones and then me laying there for 30 seconds because i'm dying

sollygirl

Well i did 11 "real ones" and then 18 "girl" ones on top of that so 29 all together. I got a pull up bar thats also for push ups and sit ups so this should help me be more motivated to do them.

dirtybird

Oh god i'll be the oldie of the bunch at 29!

Is my last ditch attempt to get amazing before the big 30, count me in xx

sollygirl

Welcome! and its never to late good luck on your journey.


15 real push ups and 14 girl. So 29 again. But im glad that i cld do at least 15 real ones.

UCONNCOED

Hey its been 2 weeks since I weighed in, but i have kept up with the posts. I want in on the push up challenge! I will definitely do that starting today when I hit the gym. I did 3x at the gym this week so far. I willlll go today when i get out of work. My goal was 4 or more.

I am down 3 pounds from 2 weeks ago! So 10 pounds so far! I am really happy about this. If i followed the plan more strictly I would be losing 2 pounds a week, but the weekends are the DEVIL for me. ANY SUGGESTIONs? Anyone else set weekend goals to help them get through it (i have no will power over weekends)

High weight-185
Current- 175

renasneed

So this week wasn't a great week for me and I expected to gain a little bit. I did do just that. I gained .4 pounds back. Booo. However, it's a next week next week with new expectations! Good job to all of you!

sollygirl

Well this week was good for me. I lost 2 lbs which was my goal for the week so hopefully i can keep it up!

The push up challenge is also going really good I've even done more then the challenge. I've also been doing sit ups and trying to be able to do pull ups but i can only do two at a time lol.

Now i just need to start drinking water. Ah!

VballLeash

Sollygirl- GREAT job!!!!!

dirtybird- Welcome to the group!

Rena- No worries, you can do this! .4 is nothing anyways, you didn't do bad at all!

Uconncoed- AWESOME!!!! Uh yea weekends can suck especially if I'm bored but I make sure to get great workouts in so the eating isn't as much of a problem and just think about that scale that you'll have to face or the jeans you want to continue to fit in or maybe ones you want to fit in, you can do it!

I actually lost a pound myself, I'm not really trying to lose although I don't mind losing a few, I've been really diligent about logging my food so I make sure I'm getting allll the nutrition I need... I have been having some health issues and I finally have an appointment in march for the tests I need to get done. I'm hoping they can figure things out cause all I want to do is RUN... lol.... My pushups have been going alright, I really need to work on that upper body strength, it helps in running more than one might think so I'm off to do .. lets go for 26!!!! Have a great weekend everyone!

~Leash

ashmarie8722

Good Job ladies!

I am again not weighing in till monday. So I don't go overboard this weekend! But i'm making a big spaghetti dinner and Cookies today. Its only me and this guy, but I'm Italian and I don't know how to make little meals lol. So I'm working out extra and cleaning with more drive than usual! haha.

You ladies have a wonderful Saturday!

VballLeash

Good Job ladies!

I am again not weighing in till monday. So I don't go overboard this weekend! But i'm making a big spaghetti dinner and Cookies today. Its only me and this guy, but I'm Italian and I don't know how to make little meals lol. So I'm working out extra and cleaning with more drive than usual! haha.

You ladies have a wonderful Saturday!

Good luck with your weigh in tomorrow girl!

Hope everyones having a great Sunday...

~Leash

learning2fly4

Hey all!

Hve continued to maintain, but I have been shoveling my face full of carbs like crazy, not sure where that happened, but back to salads for lunch this week, which will hopefully get me back on track. Now that i think weve had our last snow, we will get back on track to the gym.

Hope everyone has a good week.

sollygirl

Good Job ladies!

I am again not weighing in till monday. So I don't go overboard this weekend! But i'm making a big spaghetti dinner and Cookies today. Its only me and this guy, but I'm Italian and I don't know how to make little meals lol. So I'm working out extra and cleaning with more drive than usual! haha.

You ladies have a wonderful Saturday!

Hope your weigh in goes good!


Well today i went over board but i did work off a lot of calories, but tomorrow i will start the week off right!! Hope everyone is doing good with thier push ups!!

ashmarie8722

Ah! Weigh in not a total loss, but not great either! My challenge for myself this week is not to snack! This weekend I was so bad! I was under my calorie goal almost every day, but didn't add in the time i decided to sneak cookies. So i guess I cheated! I will not do that this week. I'm off to go do my Morning Yoga!

Less than a pound away from 20 lost! I will do it this week!

FrankyOsage

This was a very good weigh in! I thought that after my road trip (700 miles round trip, no excercise, all restraunts) that I wouldve gained weight. Psh, lost 1.6 instead! I watched what I was eating and only went far over my calories one time. Maybe my body just needed a break from me being super good where I only lost 3lbs in the whole month of February. Back to the grind before my "Spring Break" to NOLA this weekend!

mshay05

Well, I kinda forgot about the challenge this week. There has been so much going on!! Planning a wedding, one of my good friends is having a baby like tomorrow! Busy busy!

For the weigh in, I lost .06. So that is better than nothing!

Great job to everyone! Totally helps me stay motivated! :flowerforyou:

ashmarie8722

Lets keep this challenge going another week, considering we started it late i believe, and its a good one!

sollygirl

Thats a good idea. I actually am so sore if any of you want a good challenge my bf and I did this two nights ago and are ganna do it every tuesday, thursday, and sunday.

Get a deck of cards and first person flip it over and watever number is on it thats how many pushup u need to do. J=11 Q=12 k=13 A=14 then next person goes. It then goes back to first person they flip card and double the number and thats how many sit ups you do..Its a great workout and a lot more fun then just ur normal sit ups and push ups.