Morning friends!

I just finished my 20 minutes of ab work (insert groan here) - I chose the hardest segments on the dvd and now my abs are yelling at me. But I am done with all my minimums, but I for sure will need cardio today as it is my nephew's birthday party (pizza and cake are in my future).

Today the MFP gods decided that I needed to re-do my calories because I have lost too much weight (bullies!). So I have less calories to work with AND a birthday party. As I already took my by day, I have to be good today or I will mess up the team.

The bright side? My BMI is down to 27.7 from 35.4. I am significantly out of the obese category and 20 pounds away from a healthy BMI. *insert happy dance here*

@Skittles - have fun today at the garden show!

@Jan - I am in awe of your 600 club aspirations.

oh my gosh sara.... the landslides!! i keep hearing awful stories.


wed: swim 30c
thurs: tabattas (70c)
Fri: bootcamp (75c)
Sat: lift + bootcamp (70st)

Cardio: 175/250
Strength: 70/100
Average calorie intake: 6/6
Punishment (inchworms): 5/5
Exercise of choice (planks): 4/5

im SOOO close!!! ill see waht i can get in the rest of the day.... i am in need of yoga, so as soon as i get G down for a nap, ill take that on (60c).... then thats about all ill be doing... i think. ill msg you sara before midnight to let you know!!!

Day 6 Saturday 3/29/14, FINAL check in:

Cardio: 618/250 (Aiming for the 600 club!)
Strength: 130/100
Martial Arts/Combat: 180/135
Average calorie intake: 6/6 days
Weight loss for challenge: 9.8#/ 9# made my challenge goal :drinker:
Punishment (current) = 5/3 (inch worm)
Challenge (curtsy lunge) = 5/5
Exercise of choice = 5/5 (Tues = plank, Wed=crunches, Thurs=dancing, Fri=walking, Sat=running)

My extra goes to Coruscate (you're welcome), and whoever else may need it

Did my longest run to date. 11 miles But did have a NSV today. After the run today helped the youth group at church make Easter chocolates and didn't eat ANY!!!!! My daughters and I walked around Target. Felt great to buy a size smaller in underwear :laugh:

Kawookie - Congrats on the new BMI, I'm looking forward to moving into the healthy range soon!

I'm sorry I have been so MIA this week! I am on a major deadline at work and I have been pouring my everything into it. My cardio was super slacking this week. I am five weeks away from my first half marathon for the year. I am way behind in my training miles. I got out before dawn this morning and got 8 miles in along the ocean causeway. I have to get my training back on track and get my mileage back or the first half on my schedule is going to be pretty rough!! I'm in tough shape tonight. my legs are killing me!!

I am hunkering down for a night of the Walking Dead!! AMC is running a marathon of the entire season 4. I will catch up to all of you for tomorrow night!!!

Cardio: 280/250
Strength: 110/100
Average calorie intake: 6/6
Punishment (inchworms): 5/5 ( this sucked!!!)
Exercise of choice (25 crunches a day) 5/5

Totals Sunday- Wednesday; Friday-Saturday

Cardio: 374/250
Strength: 110/100
Inchworms: 3/3
Exercise of choice (abs): 5/5
Curtsies: 3/5
Food 6/6 (Today was a real challenge with MFP reducing me)
Weight loss: 10.4 lbs

final numbers for me.... still short, but not bad for 3.5 days

wed: swim 30c
thurs: tabattas (70c)
Fri: bootcamp (75c)
Sat: lift + yoga (70st + 60 c)

Cardio: 235/250
Strength: 70/100
Average calorie intake: 6/6
Punishment (inchworms): 5/5
Exercise of choice (planks): 5/5

Sorry, my strength should read 100/100.

Ok, the only one I didn't hear from was TJ and she did a midweek check in and is never over her cals so I gave her a 3. So perfect 3!


I chose SawJan again for MVP. She just rocked it in every area. I think we should all strive for her ninja skills.

I was watching too.

Woah! I know that today is our "rest" day, but I went out for a pancake brunch with friends and needed to gain some calories for dinner.

I decided to do Leslie Sansone's Walk Strong video. Now, I have done this video many times before but today I bumped it up from 3 lb to 5 lb weights. Ye gods!

I didn't know that some of these places could sweat, but alas they can. And did. My husband told me that a shower was required before he would feed me. I don't remember him ever doing that before. I feel like a limp noodle. I guess I finally did the video correctly!

I hate it when the series come to a finale. Well, no Carol in this one so wonder if we will do some rescuing in the next season? I'm going to write our next challenge. We will see who is the over all winner next week.

What to do next?

I'm not sure if you ladies have looked yet, but there really aren't any other challenges like this one. Sure there are challenges that focus only on a type of exercise (squats or planks) and those that challenge you to lose 20 pounds by date x. But there are very few true challenges out there that combine healthy eating with sensible exercise.

I'm not looking forward to the end of this challenge, but I am trying to decide what is next. I might spend more time focusing on strength training as the next logical step would be to focus on body composition. I still have more to lose, but the fact is that after losing a lot of weight that some muscle also gets lost. I want to gain back that muscle to become less jiggly in my tummy and arms.

I am working on upgrading a lot of my exercise videos to insure that I am getting both strength and cardio at the same time. I just got a step workout (with weights) and I have a kickboxing workout I tried once, that I might try again soon now that jabs, upper cuts, etc mean something to me. I bought a step a month ago and it has been helpful with my weight routines and I figure I should try some step workouts because I like the basic routines (and all of them are fairly basic) on the Wii.

These are my brainstorms. I am thinking 45 minutes a day of exercise or every other day 90 minutes. The longer workouts might be wiser if I am focusing on strength training? I hope that you all share your ideas because mine are still forming.

I plan to stay involved with my groups for total mileage (I generally aim for 125 miles of movement a month) and the hydr8 and keeping it green challenge that I run each month. They seem to still be helping, so if it isn't broken...

Sara - Thank you for the MVP! :blushing:

You earned it! 11 mile run, killer combat, cardio and strength and activity on the board. How could I overlook it? You are the one to beat. Skittles was right behind you. She always gets those high cardio numbers.

Day 1 Monday 3/31/14, check in:

Cardio: 165/250 (Aiming for the 800 club!)
Strength: 40/100
Martial Arts/Combat: 45/135
Average calorie intake: 1/6 days
Weight loss for challenge: 6#/ 9#
Punishment (current) = ?
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Can't we keep going beyond the end of the challenge?? :sad: