What I am doing this week is a minimum of 90 minutes exercise each day. With an average of 30 of those minutes being vigorous (jogging, high intensity cardio DVDs, etc.) and the remainder being moderate, (walking, easy pace on elliptical, lower intensity cardio DVDs, etc.)

I have a bodymedia arm band that automatically tracks my activity levels and calorie burn, and adjusts my calorie levels on MFP accordingly. I don't eat back all of my exercise calories, but I do eat back some... more if I'm hungry, less if I'm not so hungry.

I am using the T25 workout DVDs, right now I am on my second round of Beta, and will most likely repeat it again once more before moving on to Gamma. I also jog, walk, use the elliptical, and sometime work in some of the cardio and stretching routines from P90x.

I have my MFP calories set to 1200 net calories, but I eat a lot more than that, I aim for 1500-1600 calories a day, but on a very active day I eat closer to 2000, my net still stays around 1200 because of the calorie adjustments made by my bodymedia arm band.

Things are going well. This week is a bit challenging as I have so many "social" enagagements that involve dining out-sooo, my goal next week will be to eat out only 1 time. I think that is what gets us. I have been great about exercising and this challenge has motivated me to track!!!! Thanks again.
Down 1lb.

My workouts have been daily 1 hr walks. in addition to:
Squats,
knee squats
30 sec wall sit
push-ups
planking
chair dips
bicycle crunches
mountain climbers
burpees
supermans
single leg circles
sit-ups

I use fitbit to monitor my activities and calories burned and adjust MFP accordingly.

I'm doing Insanity plus a workout challenge on fb.

My goal was to workout for at least 30 minutes for a least 4 times this week. I am actually getting ready to do my Leslie Sansone walk video right now and then some Pilates for a bit.

Tuesdays are my rest days and this last Monday I missed my workout because some friends came over and I was too polite to tell them to leave... they didn't leave till after midnight and I was almost too tired to crawl up stairs to bed let along workout. :sad:

So today (Wednesday Dec 4th) is the first day this week I'll be working out.

My plan is Wednesday- Saurday with a possible Sunday workout.

I'm also working on getting up and out of bed an hour earlier in the mornings to do my workout then, so no matter what happens during the rest of the day and evening I have already gotten it done, but I'm sooooo not a morning person so I'm STILL working on that.

Nix

Well, I reevaluated my schedule and am switching my workout days a little so rest day is Tuesday. I portioned out my snacks for today and next week at work also. Since it's 4am I'll be working out after I get off work and get some sleep.

My goal for this week is to acknowledge that I may need to take some time off from exercise to heal my injury. Sidelined by injury for the past few months, I think I have turned to food to cope with my inability to train how I would like (in addition to the fact that I am no longer burning as many calories!).

Doing 40 min on the teadmill and 20 min of weight trianing

I have walked daily for an hour and incorporated 20-30 min of strength training.

My week has been mixed. Last Sunday was my first day back from a week of Thanksgiving-related travels during which I was able to stay on plan some days but definitely not on others. Traditionally, I do well when I set a routine and get into the groove of it, but once I deviate from that routine I have a really hard time getting back into the swing of things. So for most of last week I was struggling to get back on track, not wanting to exercise and wanting to enjoy all the good food the holidays have to offer. But on Friday, after mulling things over, I decided not to struggle and feel bad about myself and fuel a vicious cycle of self-sabotage. Instead I decided to raise my daily calorie goal to almost maintenance (my calorie deficit is 90 for a .2 lbs loss per week) and to scale back my exercise goal from 30 minutes six days a week to 30 minutes four times a week for 1000 calories burned per week. I'm also looking around for new exercise dvds, routines, programs. We have been doing the same Leslie Sansone video for about three months now and it is starting to get really old, plus although we like the workouts, we find her extremely annoying. Yesterday we did a strength training routine that I downloaded from workoutz.com and that was nice just to have the workout sheets and music of our choosing. Yesterday at the grocery store I bought chocolate-mint Nestle Flipz and enjoyed two 1oz servings and have half the bag left for another time. So for the past two days I have been eating well under my calorie goal and not eating back my exercise calories. Today we have a big celebratory luncheon after church (it is the bishop's annual visit0, and that will be a challenge, but I think I'll be able to enjoy myself and stay within my calorie goal.