No More Excuses -- Week 34

Cool.....Welcome to maneyes and aehensen.....We are a very relaxed but motivated group!!!! Jump right in and tell us about yourselves.

Well, I am happy for my 1 lb loss.....I just hope I don't gain it back this week as so far.....it hasn't been a good week....TOM....One of my employees even brought me "tons" of chocolate yesterday because I was so craving it......I was proud however and didn't eat everything she brought in!! !;) Tomorrow is a new day

Didn't make it to curves last night or go for my walk since I actually went home early cause I was really in pain!!! Feeling much better today and will get both accomplished!

So it looks like Tericamp gets to give us our challenge this week! Congrats to all the other losers as well!!!!

Talk to you tonight!
Ann

Morning Team,

Thanks for the chart Jack and welcome to our new folks.

With a nice long weekend coming up for the holiday, my goal is to have fun, eat right, get as much excercise in as I can and not gain any weight if possible. :happy:

I hope all of you have a great 4th as well.

Hawkeye

Since I'm still kind of new, I'm not positive about how the challenge thing works, but here goes:

CHALLENGE -- WEEK 34

We'll call this the Firecracker challenge

Lets do the following at least 4 days this week in addition to our regular routine (modification is okay, please don't kill yourself):

Start off with 10 minutes of warm up.

--Do 10 squat thrusts (squat down, place your hands next to your feet and kick your feet out behind you to a push up position , do one push up, jump back between your hands and stand up, repeat)

--Do 20 walking lunges (begin by stepping into a lunge where both knees are at a 90 degree angle, step with the opposite foot into a lunge, repeat)

--Do 20 ski jumps (with your feet together, bend your knees and jump to the right as far as you can then immediately jump to the left as far as you can, repeat)

--Do 20 jumping jacks with a kick (after each jumping jack, kick each leg out in front of you (think rockettes )

--Do 10 bicycle crunches (lay on your back with your arms behind your head and bend your knees, bring your shoulder up to meet your knee, lie back, bring your opposite shoulder to meet your opposite knee, lie back, repeat)

You can repeat as many times as you would like. I recommend at least two sets if you can. Don't forget to cool down for 10 minutes after you have finished your last set.

Have an Awesome Fourth of July Weekend!!!

Hello all...We had a busy few weeks. We are having a terrible time getting this pool up. We bought a new liner and dug the spot for a 27' pool, which is what we were told it was. It turned out to be a 28' pool and we now have to sell the first liner and buy a bigger one plus make the spot for the pool bigger. It has been a mess. In the middle of this we got a new fridge and had to put it in on Saturday night and moved our old one out and sold it at the same time. For some crazy reason I decided to paint my kitchen cabinets right now. I have my kitchen completely torn apart and need to get them finished today. I am so tired. Hopefully we can be finished by the middle of July and ready to swim and relax. Oh, did I mention I also have to hire someone to replace my roof? Needless to say exercise has been put on the back burner and we've been eating out a lot due to my kitchen situation. Maybe just another week and things will be back to their normal pace. Hope you all had a good holiday weekend. TTYL.

Well we are back from camping, had a wonderful time. Now to get caught up on laundry, and books. Going golfing tonight if we dont get rain.

Well I gained 2.4 pounds (ick) and I just edged over 160, which I said I never would be again, so I have some work to do this week. Won't be excercing much, but will try to keep in check what I put in my mouth.

Hope everyone is having a good week, will check back in tonight.

Good morning Team. Well I am back at it this morning. Had a wonderful week-end away, but now have to get back with the program. Ate way too much, and didn't even get to weigh in, cause we weren't around any computer or scales!!!! So....I will be off the chart this week, but will be back next week.

Today is going to be a hectic day, so guess i better get to it!

Have a great one!
Ann

Hi all...I have been missing this week. Still trying to finish up these cabinets before we put up the pool this weekend. I decided I needed a project on my day off Monday instead of resting. I missed weigh-in this week but will be back on the chart next week. I didn't notice a new thread yet, hope I'm not posting to the old one. Happy hump day!

Morning Team,

I am also just coming back this week after being out myself, so I plan on posting my weight next week. Sounds like that's what most of us are doing.

I know I gained a few more pounds but will be working to lose those over the next several days.

I hope everyone has a great active weekend.

Hawkeye

Hi all...Everybody have a great day! Busy, busy, busy again. Hope to talk to y'all soon.

Hey, I'd like to join in on the group. I need a little motivation to get back into weight loss mode. I've lost a total of about 45 lbs since the beginning of the year, but the last 2 months, I've lost absolutely nothing, though fortunately, I haven't gained it back either. Somewhere in there, I lost the motivation to stick to a healthy eating plan, but, I did stay exercising.

What happened? I didn't pay the renewal dues on my previous group membership! Yeah, thats it, I'll blame it on being a cheapskate Heck, my wife would agree! Actually, its more like I didn't want to be held accountable any longer and figured I would do it on my own. I've decided that I do much better when I know there is a weekly weigh in coming up!

Dan