Berry's bare belly challenge - March 2014
BerryH
Posts: 4,698 Member
Welcome to March fellow belly barers, sorry I'm a bit late to the party this month!
For new arrivals BBBC is simple. Post a before photo (if you want) of your bare belly. Commit to working out regularly all month. At the end of March, do a workout with your belly out - at home if you're more comfortable, outside or at the gym if you're brave (it'll be warm by then, right?) and post an after photo (if you want).
For February's challenge, see here:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1191564-berry-s-bare-belly-challenge-february-2014
Here's my before for March:
Allons-y!
For new arrivals BBBC is simple. Post a before photo (if you want) of your bare belly. Commit to working out regularly all month. At the end of March, do a workout with your belly out - at home if you're more comfortable, outside or at the gym if you're brave (it'll be warm by then, right?) and post an after photo (if you want).
For February's challenge, see here:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1191564-berry-s-bare-belly-challenge-february-2014
Here's my before for March:
Allons-y!
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Here's my before taken this morning.
Hopefully I'll see more difference by the end of the month. It actually surprised me how much difference there was in Feb!
Maybe by the summer if I keep at this I'll even feel comfortable getting my tummy out around the pool (if I work out where I can go on holiday!)0 -
Here we go!
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I'm a bit late in posting, but they were taken Saturday morning
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Sorry guys, I've arrived at the party late ;0)
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not letting me post pics? Never mind, hope my profile pic will do?0 -
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not letting me post pics? Never mind, hope my profile pic will do?
It took me a while!
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1041112-need-help-adding-pictures-look-here-tutorial-with-pics0 -
So what's everyone doing to get their bellies in shape this month? After a bit of a break for injuries I've started running again, albeit with walk breaks to start with. That'll be two or three times a week depending how well I recover. Cross training between - I did some heavyish lifting today with extra planks, ouch! Couldn't resist walking in the sunshine either!0
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Rest day today, but went for a half-hour lunchtime stomp over Kensington Gardens. I can just about maintain an average 15 minute mile pace, despite doing the whole not-getting-run-over thing at roads. I'm declaring here and now that'll I'll go for a lunchtime run tomorrow. Oh yeah.0
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Oh why did I find this 10 days into March! :sad: But that said I am in! However, I am going to reserve my picture for the end of the month. I do have one just not ready to share my bikini pic.
I continue to stick to my calories and do what exercise I can between my career, grad school and family time. Excited to see if I can view a change in myself thru the pictures. :happy:0 -
Welcome on board SBK! There's still most of March left and there'll be another BBBC next month :happy:0
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Did it! I even quite liked it, and may even do it again some time.I'm declaring here and now that'll I'll go for a lunchtime run tomorrow. Oh yeah.0 -
Hi guys, mind if I join late too? My name's Holly, I'm 22 and live in London. Will take a pic and upload (if I can figure it out..) tonight.
Since the middle of January I've been swimming 4 times a week, go cycling on the weekends and have recently got myself a pedometer so doing a lot of walking too.0 -
The more the merrier Holly!
Photo posting tutorial here:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1041112-need-help-adding-pictures-look-here-tutorial-with-pics
Quick précis:
1.Upload it to Photobucket
2. Edit to a sensible size if needed.
3. Copy the IMG code and post it here
4. Change the capital IMG and /IMG to lower case img and /img
Bingo!0 -
I was ravenous after my run yesterday, and still am today. No wonder I never lost weight by running alone!0
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UGH, march is biting me in the bum work-wise. Being the only monkey left after a bout of reduncancies is meaning I'm not only doing more than my fair share of work, but also it's really lonely and demotivating.
I'm trying really hard to do some JM workouts in the evenings after work, managed it the first week of march, but didn't manage it last week due to a combination of late nights, compulsory socialising and my housemate being a lazy pig and always watching tv in the living room.
I'm declaring now that tonight if she is in the living room I am kicking her out to do my workout. And that's in addition to my normal commutes so that's good.
Berry kudos on the lunchtime run, I'm not brave enough for that, noone needs to see my beetroot face here!0 -
I did it, I did it, I did it.
And now I ache...0 -
Berry dared me to do this! ...
1 year into cycling and 3 months into weights:
I'll do another in a few months and might be interesting to compare ... hope to see less wobble and more definition in months to come if keeping up the current cycling and 2-3 weight sessions a week up.0 -
You and your belly are very welcome Jakess, thanks for joining us!
My weekend was quite belly friendly exercise wise, but not so much diet wise.
I did Zumba Step on Friday (a fusion too far, to be honest - neither good Zumba nor good step), picked up heavy things on Saturday and joined a running club for the first time in a good couple of years on Sunday. There's no question running in company makes me run further and faster that I would ever have attempted alone. Today even thinking about negotiating stairs makes me whimper!
Unfortunately, I also descended into an unbridled orgy of eating and drinking. This morning I'm 5lb up in DOMS and guts full of food. I'm hoping it won't stick around too long :ohwell:0 -
My workouts aren't really happening this month, not like they have in previous months. However, my FitBit has arrived, and I am netting much lower calories than I have done in months, hopefully by the start of April I will finally be back to pre-Christmas weight...0
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I've been eating (and drinking over St Patrick's weekend celebrations) like a loon and need to get on top of it. I thought I'd been keeping on top of my workouts but it turns out after my rest day on Monday, I needed another yesterday because of rank insomnia and trudging round a trade fair.
However, Zumba Step tonight (still don't like the fusion, but this is with my favourite instructor so I have high hopes she'll do things better) and a new African dance inspired class called Fierce! tomorrow.
Don't tell anyone, but I'd rather be running.
<-- Especially now I have these to try.0 -
Ugh, March is kicking my bum and I'm exactly where I was at the start.
Trying hard not to get completely derailed, but the lack of movement on the scale, and my bike dying and the hideousness that is work at the moment are certainly not helping!
Trying to not lose any ground now, and hopefully I'll see some progress in April!0 -
Yikes, all of a sudden there's just a week to go! I fear I've gone backwards this month, but I shall use bare belly terror to keep me motivated and work extra hard for these final seven days.0
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I have been keeping this in the back of my head and I fear I may not see any change. I shall celebrate the end of the month (also my birthday) by biting the bullet and comparing the pics. Even if there is no visible difference I feel different. Getting pumped up for it!0
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Morning belly busters.
<--- I took these beauties out for a trot last night, a total 30 minutes run/walk with a solid mile in the middle. A mile on the dreadmill is so much harder than a mile outside - even pushing myself I was a good 10 second slower than the Comic Relief mile I did on Sunday, and I was having a fully-blown asthma attack then!
If I don't get time for a full workout tonight, I'll do my 8-minute HIIT resistance circuit:
As many as you can do in/hold for 30 seconds with 10 seconds between each:
Jumping jacks
Press-ups
Wall-sit
Abdominal crunches
Step-ups on a step or chair
Squats
Triceps dips
Plank
High-knee running
Lunges
Press-up with rotation to arm-up side plank
Side plank (each side)
Optional extras
Planks with leg raise
Side plank with reach-around
Reverse curl0 -
Ugh, it's not pretty. Been over on calories the majority of days and lazy of workouts and I've put on weight. It's a case of failing to plan meant planning to fail. Still, I have these lardies (fat belly selfise) to spur me on next month.
Here I am all sweaty after running back from taking the car in for its MOT and doing two back-to-back Davina 15-minute workouts:
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Here's my before taken this morning.
Hopefully I'll see more difference by the end of the month. It actually surprised me how much difference there was in Feb!
Maybe by the summer if I keep at this I'll even feel comfortable getting my tummy out around the pool (if I work out where I can go on holiday!)
And here my no progress end of March "after"... And on to the next month...
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