Introductions

hopsanddreams

Hi! I'm hopsanddreams, a wife and mom in my early 30's. I work as an architectural designer in Indianapolis. I try to stay involved in my daughter's activities, so weekdays are pretty busy with softball and girl scouts (I'm the girl scout leader this year - yikes!).

I have done 27 days of the Shred, and I'm attempting it again. My short term goal is to look good for my best friend's wedding in late October. My long term goals are to be in shape, cardiovascularly, and get off my meds for high blood pressure. I also would like to look extra great for my best friend's wedding overseas in the spring. His fiancee is from Ireland, so they're doing a second ceremony there, and I hope to be there with DH for the celebration and DH and my first trip to Europe!

I'm glad you're here! My plan, right now, is to do another round of the 30ds for Sept, and maybe go into Ripped in 30 in Oct. I like the Shred because it's do-able. It's only 30 mins a day, doesn't need fancy equipment, and I can DO it. I don't feel defeated halfway through and want to give up. Best of all, I can see results!

ETA: Sorry - my real name is Jhennifer. Hi Danielle!

newcs

Hi - I'm Danielle. I'm 26 and a senior tax analyst in Boston. I have a super sedentary job and my previous job in public accounting is a large part of why I'm here. I had terrible eating and no exercise habits. Add that to the fact that I grew up knowing/learning very little about being healthy and it was a disaster. I started my current job at a real estate trust last year and since then I've dropped about 20 pounds, 13 of which were from January - July of this year. I focused on my eating habits first and once I was consistently making (mostly) healthy choices, I got into exercising using the 30 Day Shred. I started in Mid July and I've completed 25 of the workouts. My plan from here is this:

In the next week: finish the last 5 workouts of level 3 of 30DS which will get me to my first fitness goal (and a heart rate monitor)
In the next month: start Ripped in 30 3x/week and the gym 3x per week (1 cardio, 2 strength or 1 cardio, 1 strength, 1 class)
In general: I have a bunch of goals in my profile. I'm at maintenance as far as weight so I'm trying to continue eating healthy and build up my fitness. I also hope to learn to lift so when I jokingly say "I lift things up and put them down" it'll be true.

I'm also still working on my diet in terms of eating realistically. I love to cook and bake so my new interest has been tweaking recipes to make them a reasonable number of calories but still have them taste amazing. I'm also trying to move further and further away from processed/artificial foods. I recently gave up Splenda which was easier than I had anticipated.