No More Excuses -- Week 37

Going to do better this week. I hope!!! At least holidays are over.
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I'm so glad I found this thread! I weighed mystart weight on Sunday (just by chance) an so...here I am! My current weight is 192. I would love to join in...where do I find out the challenges and such, here on the thread or somewhere else?

A bit about me... this is the second time I've been a mamber of MFP, but the first time I've actually been serious about success! I'm 34, married and have three wonderful kids. I'm just ready to do this for me. I quit smoking 10 weeks ago, that has been wonderful on it's own. Now I want to whip the rest of me into shape as well!

Anything I need to do to join this group, just shoot me a message!

HEY Sassy and Funk4life!!!!!! Welcome and glad you have joined us. As Jack said, we have lots of new faces which is wonderful because your new enthusiasm is going to help boost us old-timers on this thread!!!!

I just ordered and received a new DVD and book from Denise Austin. I can't wait to get into it. It is about a 12min a day work out. It is different every day so will let you know how it goes.

Well....off to get some more work done!!!

Again welcome to all the newbies!!!
Ann

Actually, I did gain weight. I forgot to send it to you. I gained 3 pounds (but lost 1.5 inches!).

Evening all...Had a busy work day today. I put all my typing off until today and had a looong day, but that was totally my fault. I could have typed some over the weekend but I always procrastinate. I did some swimming in the pool today and then hubby took me to the ball field to practice for softball season coming up. He fussed at me for letting a ball drop in front of me so I decided I would shut him up. I ran up on the next one and it didn't hit anything before it hit my kneecap, OUCH! It turned purple and got huge instantly. The color is better now but still swollen. That is what I get for showing him, huh? Had a great grilled sesame chicken breast and some tomato pie for dinner, stayed pretty close to my cals today, much better than last week. All in all a pretty good day. Now off to ice my knee.

Jack...Thanks for the chart!

Ann...Keep me posted on the new DVD. I love the 10 to 12 minute workouts. They give me no excuses for time limitations.

Welcome new members. Glad to have you all!

Well today was a good day. I have ate pretty good today, cut the grass, and went for my walk/jog. I have started walking jogging for 40 mins at least 3 days a week.

I even got some books done today.

Thanks for the chart Jack, and welcome to all the new members.

Hope the knee gets better Tammy, I know the feeling, last week I took a rock the size of my fist thru the back of the lawnmower. Had a black knee for a week,.

Sassy - the winner of each week picks the challenges for the week, whether they are food, or excerise challenges. I like the 50 squats, and 100 crunches - I will try to do them tomorrow with you.

I wasnt' the winner LOL- but sure i love company- the challenge is from another group i'm in- its to do those 5 days this week, the first day was easy peesy.....i'm sure that will change as the week goes on LOL

i haven't see the challenge for this week yet is there a time/date the challenge is suppose to be set by? sorry i'm a little ocd with time lines--- the military structure ya know?

Morning all.....Holy Gamoly...Denise Austin can kick your butt. In 12 minutes I was sweating like a pig at butcher time!!! My word!!!! So I made it through it though.....We will see how tonight goes. Bad thing is...we are leaving to go camping tomorrow. I do have a portable DVD player that works "sometimes".....plus don't think the ground is real conducive to aerobics where we are going.

I am anxious to get away for a little while. Will be nice. Jack....Estes Park is gorgeous. We live quite a bit south from there....in the south-eastern part of Colorado. Where they grow the cantaloupe and watermelon. YUMMMMMMM I can't wait for them to come out!

Well, everyone have a splendid day and make it a healthy one!

Ok, well i hope to win the challenge one day- so just a few questions

does everyone have access to an elliptical or treadmill?

what are the challenges usually on food/water/working out?

Ok, well i hope to win the challenge one day- so just a few questions

does everyone have access to an elliptical or treadmill?

what are the challenges usually on food/water/working out?

I have a treadmill. I like to incorporate a nutrition one, with a excerise one - but that is just my pref. I knew you weren't the winner, I thought I would just join u on the squats and crunches - can motivate each other to see if can do every day. Keep me posted on other challenges in that group each week.

Hey all-- here is my work out for today- pretty much similiar to yesterday

sprints- same as yesterday
50 squats
100 crunches
and now i've joined the 100 push up challenge if anyone's interested http://hundredpushups.com/
so i did the test - 9 push ups
and then day 1 week 1 level 2
6 pu rest 60 sec 6 pu rest 60 4 pu rest 60 4 pu rest 60 as many as you can do min. of 5. I did 5

I ate more food than i planned on today, not the worst in the world, but i did have a couple of sweets, and a fruit smoothie this morning, thats not in my normal food plan. I was planning on upping my cals from 1200 to 1600 I ate over 1700 but was still under cause of all the work out I did, I am going to try just sticking at 1600 tomorrow, should be easy enough to do just have to cut out the sweets or the smoothie.

Hey all-- here is my work out for today- pretty much similiar to yesterday

sprints- same as yesterday
50 squats
100 crunches
and now i've joined the 100 push up challenge if anyone's interested http://hundredpushups.com/
so i did the test - 9 push ups
and then day 1 week 1 level 2
6 pu rest 60 sec 6 pu rest 60 4 pu rest 60 4 pu rest 60 as many as you can do min. of 5. I did 5

I ate more food than i planned on today, not the worst in the world, but i did have a couple of sweets, and a fruit smoothie this morning, thats not in my normal food plan. I was planning on upping my cals from 1200 to 1600 I ate over 1700 but was still under cause of all the work out I did, I am going to try just sticking at 1600 tomorrow, should be easy enough to do just have to cut out the sweets or the smoothie.

Thru the winter I had started the pushup challange, the squat challenge and the sit up challenge, but then got off of it some how. I would like to start them up again, but find summer kind of hectic, was thinking of starting in September if you are interested in joining me. Or I could suck it up and start next week. Let me know what you think. Now would prob be a good time to do them since during the summer I just seem to stick to cardio, come winter I usually do my Biggest Loser dvds.

Hey all-- here is my work out for today- pretty much similiar to yesterday

sprints- same as yesterday
50 squats
100 crunches
and now i've joined the 100 push up challenge if anyone's interested http://hundredpushups.com/
so i did the test - 9 push ups
and then day 1 week 1 level 2
6 pu rest 60 sec 6 pu rest 60 4 pu rest 60 4 pu rest 60 as many as you can do min. of 5. I did 5

I ate more food than i planned on today, not the worst in the world, but i did have a couple of sweets, and a fruit smoothie this morning, thats not in my normal food plan. I was planning on upping my cals from 1200 to 1600 I ate over 1700 but was still under cause of all the work out I did, I am going to try just sticking at 1600 tomorrow, should be easy enough to do just have to cut out the sweets or the smoothie.

Thru the winter I had started the pushup challange, the squat challenge and the sit up challenge, but then got off of it some how. I would like to start them up again, but find summer kind of hectic, was thinking of starting in September if you are interested in joining me. Or I could suck it up and start next week. Let me know what you think. Now would prob be a good time to do them since during the summer I just seem to stick to cardio, come winter I usually do my Biggest Loser dvds.

I know all about hetic hunny LOL single mom- 2 kids 3 and 5 (one with adhd), acitve duty navy, and school part time!! whew hetic right.....squats, sit ups and push ups are easy to fit in watching a show great, do some during the commerical, gonna grab a bath take 2-3 min knock some out... need to wake up first thing in the am there ya go!! you can do it.. no more excuses right? I say do it now, AND!!! we can start it again in the winter!!! it'll only tigten up our butts and the bat wings on our arms, and stregthing our core right??? lets do it together, and don't wait till next week to start. start today, with me!!!

Hey no more excuses,

its wednesday, has anyone checked in with our winner? She on vaca? or just need a little support??? Half way through the week....lets get motivated!!!!

Okay Sassy I am in. I am going to start all 3 today, push-ups, squats, and sit ups - since today is Wed I am going to cheat a bit, and start on day 2. I am going to do them Mon, Wed, Fri. I really have never finished anything before, started this quit, started C25K and quit (more so since I dont use treadmill in summer, and find it easier to do there - I know its an excuse). Also not going to do the initial test, I somewhat know where I am from last time, will post later at what level I am working at, and if I completed it. There is a nice app on the website that you can log your progress, on each of the sites.

I got to admit I am not as hectic as you. I have a 4 (turning 5 at end of Oct) son, and a 2 year old daughter (was 2 in Mar), and I am a stay at home mom, who works out of the house doing book keeping, and we farm, but this year is kind of slow since it is so wet here this year.

One thing I have realized, we are only as busy as we view our self. life is only as hetic as we make it. I have a lot on my plate, but I have to decide what is most important to me, working out and cleaning the house always feel last on the list for amyriad of reasons.

Now I realize those things need to come first why??? because they are optional, all of the other stuff I HAVE To do so they WILL get done no matter what, so I do the optional stuff first get it out of the way, and then everything else will fall into place. Also being completely honest with myself, when i took a solid self inventory, i realized i was sitting on the couch, because last time i was out working out so hard my marriage finally fell apart after years of him cheating, it finally fell apart, but it happend when i was out of the house so much working out so subconciously, i was waiting for him to come back home. When i realized how absurd that was and the things it was teaching my children just from them viewing it, I couldn't bear it anylonger. I have my sad days still, sometimes its still really really hard, and sometimes I want to quit, cause its rough doing it all alone, but i let myself experience that for a short time, and then i pick myself up and move on, I have found in doing that, the sad days are getting less and further between. I'm not sure why i just put all of this out there,so hopefully something i said has helped you or someone else who might read it. I'm here for ya!

I am set up to do it tue/thur/ sat, so we can bounce off of each other.

Well I did all 3 challenges this morning. For the 100 push up challege I am working on level 1, completed W1D2 max was 4 and I did 5. For the 200 sit up challenge I am working on level 2, completed W1D2 max was 10 and I did 15. For the 200 squat challenge I am working on level 3, completed W1D2 max was 16 and I did 20.

woah....good job...cept i missed the sit up challenge and squat challenge, i was working on just a weekly challenge from a friend of mine. are there threads on the other challenges where can i find info on them?