Team Jillian - Week 5 Challenge
LeighAnnaMS
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Hey Team! :happy: I am soooo happy with everyone's results. This weigh in is blowing my mind! We have members who are reaching unbelievable milestones in their weight loss journey, this week we had people say good bye to the 200's and the 230's and HELLO to MUSCLE growth! :explode:
This weeks challenge is to share your healthy tips/recipes/fitness routines you love. Every day I want each of us to share to the group! POST, POST, POST! We are slacking compared to the other teams!
We are going to get some Pinterest Motivation! One of our team mates suggested each of us sharing our Health & Fitness boards from Pinterest on this thread so each of us can utilize all the great ideas there. We can follow each other on Pinterest as well :happy:
I also want to use this week to reflect, we are going into the half way mark of this challenge. Share with the group what has changed the most with yourselves, is there anything you notice or pay more attention to. My mom shared with me on Sunday one of her changes she has noticed that when she is out with friends, she pays attention to their lifestyle choices and now can realize which are good, and which are bad ones. What have been your true successes, and what can you improve on. Thinking back to one of our first weeks, we challenged ourselves to share our excuses with each other and come up with ways to BUST those excuses, have you been successful in busting yours or do you need your teams help to come up with more ideas? :glasses:
SHARE everything this week!!! I also want to challenge you to push your excercise calories burned - try to burn 10% more calories then you did last week! Lets push ourselves to the limits and lets go into the half way mark on TOP! LETS GO TEAM JILLIAN!!!!! I hope everyone has a great week! :flowerforyou:
This weeks challenge is to share your healthy tips/recipes/fitness routines you love. Every day I want each of us to share to the group! POST, POST, POST! We are slacking compared to the other teams!
We are going to get some Pinterest Motivation! One of our team mates suggested each of us sharing our Health & Fitness boards from Pinterest on this thread so each of us can utilize all the great ideas there. We can follow each other on Pinterest as well :happy:
I also want to use this week to reflect, we are going into the half way mark of this challenge. Share with the group what has changed the most with yourselves, is there anything you notice or pay more attention to. My mom shared with me on Sunday one of her changes she has noticed that when she is out with friends, she pays attention to their lifestyle choices and now can realize which are good, and which are bad ones. What have been your true successes, and what can you improve on. Thinking back to one of our first weeks, we challenged ourselves to share our excuses with each other and come up with ways to BUST those excuses, have you been successful in busting yours or do you need your teams help to come up with more ideas? :glasses:
SHARE everything this week!!! I also want to challenge you to push your excercise calories burned - try to burn 10% more calories then you did last week! Lets push ourselves to the limits and lets go into the half way mark on TOP! LETS GO TEAM JILLIAN!!!!! I hope everyone has a great week! :flowerforyou:
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Loving the challenge!!
Let me start us off...
My healthy tip is to share my favorite workout video.... It's called Result's Fitness 10 Days to a Better Body. It consists of two different workouts; one upper body and one lower body workout. They are 35 minutes each including warm up and cool down and I love them!! It is the perfect at home workout.
Now I have no idea what "Pinterest" is but I am going to google it right now to figure it out.
I am definitely down with the 10% challenge, especially since my knee is slowly starting to feel a bit better.
I am not going to reflect too much on the past few weeks as my physical limitations were harder on me then I expected. All I am going to say is I am definitely looking forward to the second half!!!
Good Luck Team Jillian!!
Cheers,
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http://pinterest.com/tattoome/thinspiration-and-inspiration/
here is my board if anyone needs an invite to Pinterest just give me your email
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Another GREAT Challenge Captain! :bigsmile:
My diet tips were given to me by my personal trainer: Try to avoid eating white flours.....so only whole wheat pasta, brown rice, and whole wheat bread. I also have found great success with quinoa. If you have not tried this yet, it is a great replacement to rice or pasta and oh so filling. I will admit, that you will either love it or hate it. The taste is.....unique I also was told to drink Green Tea. I feel the difference when I drink the tea I feel much less bloated. And finally..... eat your veggies. I try to fill my plate at least 50 % veggies.
My favorite workouts are Acqua Gym and Zumba!!! Great burns and fun 0 -
Another GREAT Challenge Captain! :bigsmile:
My diet tips were given to me by my personal trainer: Try to avoid eating white flours.....so only whole wheat pasta, brown rice, and whole wheat bread. I also have found great success with quinoa. If you have not tried this yet, it is a great replacement to rice or pasta and oh so filling. I will admit, that you will either love it or hate it. The taste is.....unique I also was told to drink Green Tea. I feel the difference when I drink the tea I feel much less bloated. And finally..... eat your veggies. I try to fill my plate at least 50 % veggies.
My favorite workouts are Acqua Gym and Zumba!!! Great burns and fun
I loveeee quinoa!!! I just made chickpea curry with quinoa sooo yummy!!! I also follow a lot of these healthy tips
Here's the curry recipe: http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2010/04/ridiculously-easy-curried-chickpeas-quinoa.html0 -
I am definitely up for the 10% more calories burned. That is a goal I think I can reach since I haven't been exercising lately. Why? I don't know! I suffer severe depression and have been really really down, I am excited though, I am seeing a naturalpath on Saturday and am hoping she can help me...any help would be good.
I'm also going to a waterpark with my family this week so it will be good because I'm going to have to climb all those waterslide stairs! That has to be a 10%+ increase right there 0 -
YAY! So I am currently doing 30 minutes of excercise (when I can ) Now I am going to try to do 40 mins!! :happy: I will keep everyone posted!!
Thinking back to the beginning when we did our Excuse Buster challenge, I had said work is my biggest excuse, it still is.... I need to get work under control so it is not my priority and my excercise it. I have been really good at my healthy eating habits though by preparing for lunch and shopping better so I avoid buying bad food and going to the store hungry so I am not tempted to buy a "quick snack" which is normally unhealthy!
Right now, I am staying away from potatoes, rice, corn, peas, carrots, bread and sticking with my meals being no more than 300calories. I make healthy soup all the time and have it ready for quick snacks!0 -
I loooooove this challenge!
Here is my fitness tip for today: meal planning! It takes a lot of extra thought, time, and planning but it is so worth it. I know exactly what to buy at the grocery store because I make my list after planning meals for the week, so I feel less of an urge to buy snacky things that are not so good for me. I know how many calories are in everything so I know that I'll stay within my goal. It takes a lot of planning at first but once you get into it it's not so bad.
My excuse was social settings. Admittedly, I have just avoided some situations all together (Super Bowl!) and I know I can't do that forever. I have managed to go out to restaurants and stay within my calorie goal. Part of that is due to my meal planning (see above!). I know how many calories I have in my "budget" to "spend" at a restaurant. I look at menus in advance and look up calories for items. I do get disappointed thinking about what I would PREFER to order over what I actually end up ordering, but I'm adjusting. I'm hoping that little by little I can integrate myself back into my regular social life but still stay on track. I'm mostly just worried about peer pressure, but most of my friends are supportive!
I think raising my calorie burn by 10% will be tough, because I feel like I'm already doing a lot. I walk to and from work each day (3 mile round trip), I walk my dog twice a day, and I go to Zumba five times a week. I think for the extra 10% I'll lengthen afternoon dog walks 2-3 times a week... weather permitting. :-) Winter in Chicago - gotta love it!0 -
:sad: TEAMM!!! I have been struggling with my work outs !! I haven't even done one workout this week :sad: !!!!!! Work has been SOOO crazyyy!! been working 8:30am-2am almost every day !!!! Bahh too muchhh!! I don't want to let you guys down! I have been thinking of doing C25K, has anyone done this program?0
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:explode: LAST CHANCE WORKOUT TEAM!! :explode: What are you doing today to change tomorrow's results?0
