My 2011 52 7/7 challenge!!

Good evening everyone!! Today was Hubby's last Christmas holiday and we did some clean up in the house. I also did 30 minutes of cardio workout. Tomorrow, I will go over the posts I missed on this thread. I can see there are several of you who have joined our old group, that is super!!

This evening, I will be busy still, I have to get ready for university. I am going to complete a bachelor degree that I started several years ago. I will do a total of 11 courses in 5 semesters. I should have completed them all by July 2012.

My daughter also wants to go to the supermarket to get some good foods. She wants to take care of herself by eating healthier and going to the gym. That is a really good idea!!

Today, I was able to schedule a meeting with a technician about my treadmill and will have a visit on Thursday. It should be fixed in about 2 weeks. I know Kitty will be very happy as much as I will be :laugh:

All in all, today was a good day!! Hope yours was as good!!

Missou : 3/7

Hello everyone! I am glad to see that we are already on page 3 after just 3 days, I guess we will be quite busy during 2011. I better not slack off on the tables and the smileys this year :laugh: I will post last year's final table later today, I promise. By doing so, I'll be able to start this year's new table. I beleive I will have a lot of smileys to give out

For now, I will go out for a 6k walk with Kitty. After that, I want to go on the AKP for several reps. I'll be back in about two hours to go over these three pages I missed. Speak to you all later!!


I just realized that we are now on page 4. Let's keep on rocking it!!!

YEAHH!!! I just completed a 6K walk in about 75 minutes. It is so good to be back!!

Missou : 4/7

I will tell my story to the new participants so that they understand why I started this goal a year ago. I don't want any sympathy or Wows. I did what I needed to do to keep me going as everyone does. 23 years ago I was hit by a car while crossing a street to meet my boyfriend who was picking me up. 8 years later, I broke the tip of my right femur bone that is in the knee and ended up with a valgus in the leg. Both of these events and the fact that I was taking a medicine that was causing muscle pain where very hard on my body and in March 2009, I had difficulty just getting up and walking in my house, my back was in so much pain. I knew I had to do something so I stopped the medicine and that is when I discovered MFP. My husband had taken massage therapy classes to help me with the pain, he even went to take some calsses in the United States with three different teachers to perfect his skills. He now has magic hands

Before the accident, I was an artistic gymnastic coach and I had some knowledge of how to start my rehabilitation. Hubby had to give me a little treatment on my back every evening so that I could keep on going in the first few months. Because of the accident, I have a partial paralysis on the right side of my body that makes it absolutely impossible for me to run, even jogging is difficult so I walk and use the inclines when using my treadmill. In 2005, I got myself one of Tony Little's Gazelle's Cross Trainer because I felt it was going to be easier on my back. It is true but I couldn't use it enough back then.

Between March and December 2009, I did a lot of progress but I sometimes would spend weeks without doing anykind of exercises just because I was lazy. I wanted to have somekind of challenge that would keep me moving and I knew MFP was a good place to start it. I began the 2010 52 7/7 Challenge with no great expectations. I didn't beleive I would keep it up for even 1 month. You can imagine my surprise when I completed 6 months with only 1 day off.

Last July, I had a surgery in my jaw. I had a plate and 5 screws that were installed on my chin but 1 of the screws was rejected and I had a bone infection because of it. The screw was remove last December and now, I feel really good and up to starting a new 52 7/7 challenge for 2011. I doubt that I will get a perfect score by the end of the year since I need to have my uterus removed and hopefully will get some type of work done on my knee but this year, I intend to keep on giving smileys to those of us who deserve it. I also don't intend to have another major infection like I did last year, that way, I will keep on moving even if it is just going up and down the stairs or going on the treadmill for a while.

This challenge is one that hopefully will help us keep on moving, even on our rest days. A walk, going up and down the stairs, playing tennis or bowling on the Wii counts. The more we move, the more agile we are and the more we are able to do. Sometimes, when I read what Brenda, Victoria, Verda or Choco do, I get discouraged because I am now unable to do it but then I think about how much I have accomplished since the accident and I don't feel so bad. I hope to do Shaun T's Hip Hop Abs DVD's someday but for that, I need to have my knee checked.

Here is my little story and now, I will go do some reps on the AKP. I want a flat belly after the removal of my uterus :happy: :happy: