TEAM FIT continued - November!

aabelein

Hi team!!:happy:

Can you believe thanksgiving is in 2 days?! where has this year gone!? It went so fast! but i'm glad because its making it seem like this whole weight loss journey isn't so bad and its as long as it is. As long as I keep up what I'm doing, I could be to my goal of 150 by February or March! it still seems so far away but I know it will go by qucik! I just really hope that I can get there before my birthday, which is April 8th. I know I can lose 25 pounds by then!:flowerforyou: I just cant give up! And lately I've wanted to! I dont know why but when i exercise for a 2nd time at night, i'm really tired and slow and i just dont want to do it at all. But i force myself to be strong and not to give up... I just dont see why its harder now than before? lol. oh well. its worth it in the end!:laugh:

yesterday: 70 mins of exercise and 8 glasses of water
today: 70 mins of exercise and 8 glasses of water.

I think karen said she was going to be gone for a little while? But I can't remember completly if she said that last week or if i'm remembering from when she went on vacation earlier this month...... or whenever it was.. lol. she'll be back though!:flowerforyou:

Have a great tuesday team! keep it up! you are all doing so great!!:drinker: :bigsmile: :glasses: :flowerforyou:

DownSizin

Hi TEAM FIT!!!!
Hey, everyone! I have missed talking to you! Sorry I haven't been here in a while....I've been trying to sort out insurance benefits for open enrollment with both mine and hubby's companies. Usually, it's not bad, but his company was bought out and everything was online instead of sent via snail mail. It was crazy trying to sort through it all! I spent last week and all weekend online and my brain is FRIED!!! :frown: I'm so glad that's over and next year will be better! :happy:

I have updated the spreadsheet and I'm sending it out. Everyone has been doing a great job of losing or maintaining which is awesome at this time of year!!! NOW is when we have to stay strong! We've been working hard and we need to remember how hard we have worked when we get tempted with all the Thanksgiving goodies! Let's not gain - let's all MAINTAIN! :drinker: Drink the water, if you can't make it to the gym, atleast walk. Okay?

If I don't talk to you before Thursday, I hope you all have a blessed Thanksgiving! :happy:
Remember our Troops and their families over this Thanksgiving Holiday and always. Pray for their protection and if you see one, THANK THEM FOR THEIR SACRIFICE & SERVICE! :flowerforyou:

kholmes

Good evening ladies.

Tuesday - 60 min workout 10 glasses water

I have not been doing very well in my calories. I think I am staying within the range but I am eating unhealthy. Hopefully once I get in a new routine with the new job I will go back to normal.

joline - congrats on the new job. what did you decide to wear???

ariel - don't give up. the being tired at night could be that you are just tired from the long weekend, but it could also mean that you are in a rut with your routine. maybe you are getting bored with the routine or something. try chaging things up, add some great music, do something different for a while and see if you are still that way. I was getting that way towards the end of my 90 days, but now that I have changed things up I am good again. 10 days will be tomorrow so I will let you know the results

karen - glad you are back. understand the insurance - why is it so confusing. thanks for your support with the weightloss and the spreadsheet - I agree - we can all hope for maintaining.

Thursday morning lets all say a little chant that we are not going to overindulge. get a little of all your favorites skip the stuff you could really do without eat a little dessert and exercise. go for a family walk or play a crazy interactive family game.

I am thankful for each one of you. Hopefully I will get time to get back on tomorrow night before to tell you each Happy Thanksgiving, but if not - Happy Thanksgiving to you and your families.

aabelein

Hi team!!

I can't believe tomorrow is Thanksgiving! Where has this year gone?! WOW!:glasses: :laugh:

Yesterday: 70 mins of exercise and 9 glasses of water
today: 70 mins of exercise and 8 glasses of water

I told myself that i wasn't going to over eat tomorrow and that i was only going to have 1 slice of pie! but i dont even know if i'm going to have pie now because my favorite is pecan and no one else in my family likes pecan pie. So I wont have any. I was going to go buy one from Marie Calendars but then I thought about it and was like "if i go buy a whole pie and i am the only one whos going to eat any of it, then i'll end up eating the whole thing!!" So I've decided to stay away this time. lol. Hopefully at Christmas time i can have some. :happy:

If i dont talk to you all before then, like Kim and Karen have said, I wish you all a very happy and safe Thanksgiving! And please say a little something for our troops! God bless them and keep them! Have a great Wednesday everyone!!:glasses: :drinker: :bigsmile: :flowerforyou:

DownSizin

Happy Wednesday, TEAM FIT! :flowerforyou:
Are you ready for Thanksgiving? I am - mentally, that is! I am going to do what Kim suggests. I am not going to over do it. I'll have a little of my favs (pecan pie, like you, Ariel!!!) and watch portions. I've already planned a 'group dog walk' after doing dishes. Clean up will get me up off the couch, and we have two dobers who love to walk, so they'll keep me moving. :laugh:

Jolinne - Sorry I missed your big news in my last post! I scanned the mails to get spreadsheet info and totally missed your NEW JOB. CONGRATS!!!

Kim - A new job can get you off track. You'll get back to it in no time. Stay focused on healthy food!

amm - Enjoy your Thanksgiving with the other Marine families.

I won't be on here tomorrow - I'll be in the kitchen all day, so THANK YOU EVERYONE for being here daily to motivate me! THANK YOU for your friendship and enjoy your time with family, friends and loved ones this Thanksgiving!

kholmes

Good Morning Ladies

I got my 40 min workout in this morning.

Guess I am lucky with the Thanksgiving food front. It will only be my husband and 16 month old so I can only overdo it if I overcook. I am planning to make a bake chicken because we can't eat a whole turkey and my husband likes dark meat so turkey breast would not work. Then I am going to make a small batch of sweet potato casserole no marshmellows, green beans with garlic, and these copper pennies (carrots) that my husband likes. Then 1 4 pack crescent rolls so I will only get 1 and then I have to make a pecan pie. Hopefully my husband will eat most of it. I do plan to make mimosas for breakfast because we always get special beverages for holiday breakfast at my house (or at least we started once we all got of age)

Ariel - if you want to take a roadtrip to Vegas I will save you a piece:happy:

Karen - enjoy your cooking in the kitchen. I wish could cook for my whole family but my sister gets that duty in Dallas this year.

AMM - we are supporting you, your family, and all of the other marines and military that are protecting us. GOD BLESS each and every one of them.

If I get a chance I will post tomorrow just to keep me accountable if not I will try once I get finish with my crazy Black Friday sales.

aabelein

Good Morning Ladies

I got my 40 min workout in this morning.

Guess I am lucky with the Thanksgiving food front. It will only be my husband and 16 month old so I can only overdo it if I overcook. I am planning to make a bake chicken because we can't eat a whole turkey and my husband likes dark meat so turkey breast would not work. Then I am going to make a small batch of sweet potato casserole no marshmellows, green beans with garlic, and these copper pennies (carrots) that my husband likes. Then 1 4 pack crescent rolls so I will only get 1 and then I have to make a pecan pie. Hopefully my husband will eat most of it. I do plan to make mimosas for breakfast because we always get special beverages for holiday breakfast at my house (or at least we started once we all got of age)

Ariel - if you want to take a roadtrip to Vegas I will save you a piece:happy:

Karen - enjoy your cooking in the kitchen. I wish could cook for my whole family but my sister gets that duty in Dallas this year.

AMM - we are supporting you, your family, and all of the other marines and military that are protecting us. GOD BLESS each and every one of them.

If I get a chance I will post tomorrow just to keep me accountable if not I will try once I get finish with my crazy Black Friday sales.

You are only about 4 hours away from me!!! lol. At least I think..... i've never been to Vegas so I dont exactly know how far it is from Phoenix, but thats what I've heard. lol :laugh:

amm114

I have some catching up to do! (Both on posting what I've done this week and with my exercise routine in general!!)
Saturday: no exercise, 2 glasses of water
Sunday: 90 mins yoga, no cardio, 3 glasses of water
Monday: no exercise, 2 glasses of water
Tuesday: no exercise, 1 glass of water :embarassed:
Wednesday: 45 mins cardio, 3 glasses of water

I have to say, you guys are so nice!!! :smooched: Not just to me, but to everybody on the team. Everyone is so supportive. No drama or petty-ness... AWESOME!!! :flowerforyou:

HAPPY THANKSGIVING everyone and good luck to those of you braving the Black Friday sales!!! I like to shop, but not THAT much... I will be sleeping in. :bigsmile: My husband is cooking tomorrow (he can cook circles around me) and the best part is, he's making apple pie!!! And there's ice cream in my house again... lead me not into temptation... :devil: I WILL go to the gym tomorrow and the rest of this week.

kholmes

Good morning everyone

So I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I had a great day. I got up and exercised 40 min then cooked breakfast and started on all of the lunch items. We had lunch and then went for an extra long walk to the park so that my son could play. Then walked back. I did go to Michaels for there Thursday sales but that was it. I did not even venture out this morning for Black Friday sales. I may go a litle later but I really wasn't in the mood and nobody had anything that looked that great for me.

I got up and worked out this morning and just had breakfast. It is a nice day outside so we may take a bikeride.

Thursday - 80 min workout, 8 glasses water
Friday - 20 min workout so far

Hope everyone hung in there. If not, don't worry just get back on track.

Oh ariel - I only had one piece of pecan pie and my husband had two so I still have over half the pie left.
AMM - there is a reason I don't keep ice cream in the house. I can taste how wonderful your husbands apple pie and ice cream must have been - yummy
Karen - hope you got to enjoy Thanksgiving and didn't spend the entire day cooking

aabelein

Hi team!

Well i logged what i ate yesterday and i am so mad! lol. i was bad and had two pieces of pie!! i had a slice of lemon meringue and apple. lol. and i only exercised for 25 mins yesterday. i'm going to make sure i exercise at least 70 mins today and i have to exercise saturday now since i didnt do 70 mins yesterday. i hope you all had a fantastic Thanksgiving! :flowerforyou:

btw, what do you all think of the new layout? i dont really like it.....

amm114

Thursday: 45 mins cardio, 2 glasses of water
Friday: 45 mins cardio, 2 glasses of water... and I lost 2 pounds!! :happy: I'm halfway to my goal weight!

Why don't I notice a difference in how my clothes are fitting? I have lost a total of 7 lbs but I can't tell other than what the scale says. Still can't fit into those darn jeans I bought 1.5 years ago. I don't know where my weight loss is coming from! I guess I should have been measuring myself each week at weigh-ins.

DownSizin

Good morning, TEAM!
I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving! It sounds like you did...I sure did! I did some major cooking Wednesday and only had the turkey to do Thursday morning. I was all delicious and I overdid it on dessert. :sad: I haven't exercised since Wednesday, so I'm not looking forward to seeing the scale but I'm going to the gym this morning to get back on track.
I usually don't do the Black Friday sales...I don't care for crowds and the one time I braved it before, I didn't enjoy it because the shoppers were so rude. It wasn't fun, so I just don't do it anymore.
We spent yesterday putting up the Christmas tree and decorating the house. I guess I got some exercise in with the cooking and decorating....lol...but still, I was bad and I really need to get back to the gym!
I'll be updating the spreadsheet later today. As for the new layout, I don't like it much...probably because it's new. It's going to take some getting used to.

Everyone enjoy your day! :happy:

DownSizin

Hi TEAM!
I have updated the spread and am sending it today. Enjoy your Sunday....holiday over - I need to get back to my WORK OUTS!!!

aabelein

:flowerforyou: Hi Team!

So today was weigh in and i didn't lose any weight but i didnt gain any either.... so i'm okay with that, this week was weird with the holiday and all. so starting tomorrow i've gotta get back on board and focus!! i'm going to start the couch to 5k in 2 weeks with my sister and my roommate. so i'm excited!:bigsmile:

hope you all had a good Thanksgiving!! Back to work tomorrow.....:sad:

aabelein

Good Morning team!!

Hope you all had a nice weekend! I haven't exercised since Thursday so I am ready to get back into things!:bigsmile: I want to work really hard this week since last week was so weird. I want to try to lose at least 8 pounds by this time next month. And I'll be starting the couch to 5k in two weeks! So I am excited to try something new out and hopefully it will keep me from going on another plateau.:noway:

What do you guys think about those new reebok shoes? I thought they looked cool and i'd like to try them out. I thought they might be good to use when i am doing the couch to 5k. I asked my boyfriend for them for christmas :blushing: :laugh: I was reading reviews and peple were saying they didnt lose any weight or any inches but it def. helped tone that area up. any thoughts?

well have a fantastic Monday everyone! be strong this week!! :flowerforyou: :glasses: :drinker:

kholmes

Good morning everyone.

So I was good on Thursday and Friday but I was bad Saturday and ok on Sunday. No exercise Sat or Sun and definetly went over on calories on Sat. I was going to get back on track this morning, but I overslept. I am going to walk at lunch and hopefully get in a workout tonight, plus being back at work makes me stick to my calories - even though I just saw an Einstein Bagel bag go by for a meeting - yikes.

Good news - I lost 1 pound since last weeks weighin so I am back down to 133.

Ariel - maintaining is great. Get back on track this week with exercise and calories. I haven't actually seen or researched the Rebok shoes so I can't help

Karen - thanks for the spreadsheet. We have a little over 3 weeks til Christmas so get back into it for 3 weeks so that you have a wonderful Christmas without regrets

AMM - you are doing great. I normally lose in my bra first - so have you seen any changes there? Your body is probably shifting and you just haven't seen the changes yet but I am sure it is happening. Keep up the workouts and calories and you will see the changes

kholmes

Oh - do we want to start a December forum tomorrow morning. Who ever logs in first go ahead and start a new one. Karen that will probably be you since you are the first time zone.

aabelein

hehe yes i want to keep this group up!! i like you guys!!:flowerforyou: :bigsmile: :drinker: :happy:

lmr9

Hi everybody!! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!! I sure did - and I'm scared to get on the scale!! :frown: Maybe I'll wait until Friday to weigh myself. I'd love to keep this group going for December - count me in! :drinker:

kholmes

lmr9 - welcome back. if you don't want to weigh in don't that way you aren't upset if you did go overboard, but make sure you stick to your calories, water intake, and workouts for the week

Hey - I say we all make a committment to keep all 3 this week - 8 glasses of water, workout at least 4 times this week, and no going over calories (but eat at least half your exercise calories). Let's see if we can all drop 1 pound this week.

Who's in???

aabelein

I'm in Kim!! I am really ready to push myself this week to make up for last week!!:drinker: I'll have to find a way to get in at least 1400 calories today, since i didnt get to eat lunch. i had a job interview during my lunch hour and i didnt bring anything to eat. so i'm hoping to can make up for it later but i have a feeling i wont be able to eat that much later on.... lol:laugh: i'm going to try though. and i will make sure i get at least 1400 calories the rest of this week! plus i'm going to exercise for 70 mins every day! even friday! i dont know about the weekend yet, they are usually my rest days, but i will do at least 30 mins on Saturday and Sunday! I really want the last 25 pounds to come off so I am totally driven!:drinker: :bigsmile: :glasses:

DownSizin

I'm in for December!!!
Welcome back, lmr!!! We missed you and hope you had an awesome vaca/holiday! :happy:
amm - I agree with Kim, you are probably shifting and haven't noticed it yet. Don't get discouraged - you'll start seeing/feeling it any day now! :flowerforyou:
Ariel - I can tell you are very motivated to lose the last 25...go for it - you can do it!!!! Good luck on your prospective new job!!! I have seen the new Boks - they look great! I'm wondering if they work, though. . .
Kim - Congrats on your 1lb...that's GREAT during Thanksgiving!!!

Okay, I'm comitting to 8 water, 5 workouts and all cals+wo cals this week. I'm like you, lmr, I'm not getting on the scale until this weekend. I know I bombed last week and through the weekend!!! :sad: The great thing is, I have all of you to help me get back into it. LOL...

Have a great day, everyone...B strong! :happy:

aabelein

hi guys! i made a new thread this morning.... i wasn't sure if someone else started it though.....

but here's the link! :flowerforyou:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/72182-team-fit-december-continued

jolinemariem

Sorry guys ive been working like crazy!!!!
ive been drinking nohting but water and ive been counting my new job as my workout because it is very physical
i just havent had the chance to log on!!!

amm114

For the rest of November...
Saturday (28th): 45 mins cardio, 2 glasses of water
Sunday (29th): 45 mins cardio, 2 glasses of water
Monday (30th): exercise day off, 3 glasses of water