Fit & Fun Sized Group ~ January 11

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Today I started the year off right by attending boot camp at Fit Neighborhood. Today we played baseball. Each exercise represented a base and a "man in between bases". Round 1: 5 inchworms, 10 jumping jacks, 5 push ups, 10 jump squats, 10 seated dips, 10 jumping jacks and 10 oblique crunches. One you completed all these exercises your team scored a point and then you begin the circuit again. Round 2: 10 sit ups w/lbs, 3 sumo burpees, 10 plank rows w/lbs, 3 sumo burpees, 10 pulsing lunges, 3 sumo burpees and 10 bicycle crunches.......Great fun!

Hi! I'm new here. This year is going to be great. I can feel it. Woke up happy with my 3 kids and one of my dogs in my bed. I'm 5'2" so I think I'm considered short. Got about 50lbs to lose.

Thanks for welcoming me! Love to be welcomed! I'm a newcomer to the site, and to losing weight... AGAIN! I lost a substantial amount of weight a couple years ago but put half of it back on when I hurt my knee snowboarding and couldn't exercise for 4 months... kind of puts a damper on your morale! I love that there's a group here for shorties like me! Again, thanks, and I'll be checking back in and posting for support, and to support you gals as well

Ohhhh, and a question for you all that have been here for a while... how do you add the pounds lost and a quote to the bottom of your posts??

Go to TOOLS and click on ticker. From there you can select which ticker you want.
To add a quote - go to Signature under community.

Hello & Happy New Year!! I would love to join this group. I'm 5 feet and 1/2 inch. I would love to get back down to where I used to be which was 130-140. Less would be even better, but not sure if I can maintain that. Good luck everyone!!

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Happy 2011 to everybody……I am ready for a calendar full of clean pages ready for new adventure and learning new healthy habits.

:flowerforyou: Babygurl, you can change your goals for all your nutrients by going to “My Home” then “Goals” then “Change Goals” and then choose “custom” and you can change anything you want as often as you want.

:flowerforyou: Blondie, welcome to the group….I hope we hear from you often…it’s snowboarding season now---will you be snowboarding again this year?

:flowerforyou: Dancer, I am happy to see you on this thread….we share the challenge of getting enough nourishment without losing weight…..I love to dance….I took ballet as a child and teenager and now that I’m retired I line dance three days a week and dance whenever I can

:flowerforyou: Choco, “fit neighborhood” sounds like fun (and a huge workout)

:flowerforyou: JAM, thanks for starting the new thread….I am sorry to hear about sickness at your house….you are amazing taking care of so many people and still taking care of yourself.

:flowerforyou: Melody, please check in with us even if you don’t think you’re as far along as the others….we support each other….everybody started somewhere…..two years ago I had 70 pounds to lose and couldn’t imagine that I would ever be anything but fat and pathetic and one day at a time I made changes to what I ate and how I exercised and amazing things happened…..so much of the things I learned and the changes I made came from being part of MFP

:flowerforyou: Sweetie, welcome to the group……it helped me to check in every day and report on my fitness routine…..we who are shorter just have to exercise more….it’s just a fact of life.

:flowerforyou: Kizzy, I love your fitness and nutrition goals…..thanks for sharing them

:flowerforyou: Daybyday, it looks like you are doing great with weight loss…..keep up the exercising with us and remarkable things will happen

:bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: I am allowing myself only 30 minutes at a time sitting down then I have to exercise…I took the dogs to the dog park and walked for 45 minutes, rode the exercise bike for 20 minutes, and jogged and danced while watching a movie for 20 minutes….it’s time to get moving :bigsmile:

Hi. I am new to the group. A friend was telling me about this group for shorter people. I am under 5 ft tall. And trying to shed some unwanted pounds. I have been training to run a mini with my friend. My goal weight is 110. And I am at 146 now I was 160. I am so excited about the mini. Training for it has been awesome. I take my rn boards sometime this year which is a lot of added stress.
Happy new year to all.

Barbiecat... yes, I've already been snowboarding this year! My injury wasn't my fault... I got hit by another snowboarder! Let's hope it doesn't happen again this year Thanks for the welcome!

:drinker: :drinker: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: JAM, I love ramen noodles but you are so right about the sodium....but they are so comforting when you are sick.....just don't let the scale get you down after all that sodium,

:flowerforyou: Blondie, I will think positive thoughts for your safety this year as you snowboard......how far from home do you have to go to do it? do you get to go often? do you have a bunch of friends who go with you or are you a solo athlete?

:flowerforyou: dancer, I hope you feel better soon....good health makes life so much easier.....I always put health near the top of my daily gratitude list because I know how much it contributes to quality of life.

:flowerforyou: kladams, training for a race sounds like a good way to stay on track with exercise...we have a great group here with lots of varied ideas for exercise....we are different ages and different fitness levels so we can't all do the same things.

:flowerforyou: tatiana, planning to exercise more and cook more sound like good goals......since I've been on this weight loss journey I cook more from real foods and avoid packaged foods and going to restaurants....we eat a lot of chicken, turkey ham, fish served with a lot of steamed vegetables and sometimes sweet potatoes

:flowerforyou: today is my Isagenix cleanse day so I take it easy except for a group of easy chores and some exercise.....I've taken the dogs to the dog park where it wasn't crowded and they ran and I walked for 50 minutes.....all the water faucets are shut off for the winter so I had to walk all the way to the restrooms to fill the water bucket and since the water source was a normal bathroom sink, I couldn't fill the bucket very full.....tomorrow I'll have a better plan.:bigsmile:

Happy New Year!!! So I'm back, lost myself for a few weeks there. Figured I'd be starting over at the beginning again but I'm shocked because I didn't gain... I lost. I'm confused since I was horrible but I'll take it. This year's resolution... make it past week 2 of C25K. And welcome to all the people I haven't met yet! :happy:

Good evening all..hope everyone has had a good day so far. Got all my crunches in last night and it felt so good I just went for it..I had my Ipod blasting with some Salt N Peppa "Push It" and I ended up doing double my usual! 600 in total. I am feeling pretty darn good about that!!! 40 minutes of Turbo jam, 20 minutes of Pilates, and 600 more crunches tonight.

Kladams- It's back to the pavement for us tomorrow 8miles chick!!:bigsmile:

I love Salt N Peppa's "Push It" too! I'm new here... how do you reply directly to someone's quote?? Thanks guys!

Barbiecat: me too! I have an auto-immune disease so every day I feel good is a blessing...and the times I don't are a good reminder that feeling able to work out is a privilege

vlwise: I am a picky eater too! Tell me if you find something amazing :P

Babygurl1: oh go you! that is an impressive number. I need to get cracking on mine!

I haven't had pop/soda/soda pop for a couple days now. That is my new short-term goal - no pop!! I wish spring would hurry up. It was easier to get in more workouts/burn more calories with the nice warm weather!!

I have officially started the Turbo Fire/Chalean Extreme hybrid program. I started w/the transition week, so, today I completed Fire 45 and Stretch 10. Since I decided to jump right into it I bypassed the "new to class" option which was pretty interesting. It took a minute for me to get the moves but I was eventually able to catch a stride. On moves that took a little longer I improvised so that I could stay moving. I'm sure it will get better as I become familiar with the moves but I was happy with the end result. I burned 444 calories in 45 minutes and then another 71 by completing the stretching. I added 5 minutes onto the stretch so i could have a solid hour of working out.

I believe tomorrow will be my first HIIT workout.