2 week challenge
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hey, shanaber, it worked! thanks for your help, I could tell you what I was doing wrong but it's kind of embarrassing (essentially I had to scroll down to see "media", it didn't appear in the box and I didn't know there was more to view.
Here we are at my cousin's wedding:
and the other one:
now, the cropping of photos is whole 'nother matter!0 -
hey, shanaber, it worked! thanks for your help, I could tell you what I was doing wrong but it's kind of embarrassing (essentially I had to scroll down to see "media", it didn't appear in the box and I didn't know there was more to view.
Here we are at my cousin's wedding:
now, the cropping of photos is whole 'nother matter!
Never worry about being embarrassed on stuff like this - it is how we all learn! I am just so glad it worked. Anytime you try to upload/load a photo you should see that 'media' and be able to get to them that way.
You both look amazing! Really great pictures!!0 -
Beautiful pictures!!! I've never even tried to post pics, so I'm sure I'd have trouble too.
Now I can ask you if I ever try. 0 -
Good looking couple!
Yay!! IT's Friday and my birthday weekend!! Now to get the work day over with.....
Our giant dumpster arrived yesterday and demo should start today or Monday. Time to tear the roof of our house!0 -
Cute cute cute! Love the pics!
Ashley-good luck with that, we are considering doing some renovations in our kitchen-new counters, back-splash and painting the cabinets hiring it out, but still dreading it. And if that goes well we will do the bathroom as well.
So I caved and had some wine last night, and then I slept great right along with my baby who is feeling much better today. I did get up and do a PiYo core workout this morning. I plan on running outside tomorrow and Sunday, the weather is supposed to be perfect!
Oh and I HATE shopping for clothes, which is why I never have anything to wear :laugh:0 -
Ashley - Happy Birthday! Be prepared for lots of noise with that roof work. We had ours done recently and I couldn't believe how noisy it was. The outside is all finished (new roof, new windows, new front door, new stucco and paint oh and new gates too)! Now time to figure out what we will do on the inside and start those plans, new paint or wallpaper and definitely new flooring to replace the worn out wood we have now.
I love shopping for clothes, I just don't like going to the mall and shopping by myself. I usually do it online unless I need something right away.
Heading out for my run and enjoying my Friday off! Have a great day everyone!0 -
Yay!! IT's Friday and my birthday weekend!! Now to get the work day over with.....
Our giant dumpster arrived yesterday and demo should start today or Monday. Time to tear the roof of our house!
Happy Birthday! :flowerforyou:
Tearing the roof off, literally, huh? That's exciting. Are you getting a new roof, or popping the top or something?
Fluffy, I can help you now, if you want to post a pic. It's a bit of a hassle because you have to use a hosting site (I like tiny pic).
But Shanaber had to help me get pictures from my camera, to my mac, to tiny pic so I could get the link to paste in here.
Chloe, glad you are better! I think I sleep better with wine-some but not too much, gotta find the balance. Last night I only had one glass. It wasn't enough...0 -
Yeah, I'm interested to see how my Wednesdays off with Daphne will go during construction.... She may be napping in the basement. The construction will be going on right next to her room, so that's out. We're basically taking most of the back half of the roof off and expanding some attic space into a 6'x10' play room and 12'x10' bedroom and extneding the 2nd floor out slightly over the kitchen. So not a lot of new square footage, but big job because it's on the second story. Apparently they are going to build the new roof over the existing roof and then tear the existing roof off. I'm excited but a little nervous. Hopefully it goes smooth and quickly. I may begin to get nervous in a month or so considering baby boy will be here probably January 14 (if I do a repeat C, which I am leaning towards). They say no more than 60 days. Not that he needs his own room right away, but the new room will become my daughter's room and I really want to get her transitioned to there before her brother comes and takes away a bunch of time. They apparently started this afternoon, so I'm excited to get home!0
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It was a tough choice - wine or gym?... wine or gym?... Why not gym then wine
Yes, always gym then wine! If the wine comes first I find the gym does not happen!0 -
Amy - you look FANTASTIC! BOOM!
Happy birthday, Better! BOOM!
Got my lifting in and done in a gorgeous gym in vancouver. I am now at the airport....waiting for my lunch and my flight home.
My travel-heavy september is over and octoberwill be about removing the five lbs september gave me....
Have a great weekend, all!0 -
Please don't kick me out of star challenge, shanaber!
I knew september i would be useless due to all the traveling.
I didn't log last week....but, i lost half a pound! I don't think i ate that much. No star.
But, i will do better for october. I want platinum every week. Keep my weekly calories the same.
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I don't have any particular direction for a two-week challenge. Just going to eat less, drink more water, keep working out.
I am spending time regulating my workday to make sure i am optimizing my networking.0 -
Happy Monday!
Ashley- I hope you had a good birthday.
Beeps- Great job on your loss. I took 2 weeks off of logging.I have decided to go BACK to logging this week.
This weekend I ate a lot.:sad: I stayed off the scale. I will get back on on Friday and Friday will be my new weigh in day. I bought Chalean Extreme this weekend on Ebay for $37. It should be here Friday. I am excited.
2 week Challenge
1. 3 strength workouts
2. 2 Cardio Workouts
3. LOG EVERYTHING
Does anyone have the LP (Leah Peel or something like that?) info? Kate had sent it to me once and I guess I didn't save it. I want to try that.We have just over 13 weeks until New Years and I want to ring in the New Years looking Smokin' Hot!0 -
Hey ladies. I had a great birthday weekend. Friday night I had book club and didn't get home till after 11:30. I guess I can stay up late with my girlfriends without wine.... Who knew?! Saturday we did our usual coffe/farmers market. I relaxed during naptime, read some, and then we went to a festival in the afternoon. It was a lot of fun. They had kid stuff, so Daphne had fun and I won a semester of music class for Daphne! That should be fun. There was a great band playing also and a "maker fair" which was a bunch of sciencey/invention type stuff. Then we went to fancy dinner out later that night and the food was great. I had brisket and it was fall apart tender. Sunday was shopping, visitng my friend and her new baby, a little down time, grocery shopping and food prep.
I made 2 lbs of chicken avacado burgers, so that's lunch this week. I also made pickled veggies and a dessert I got from Shannon's Pinterest. It's 1 cup vanilla Greek yogourt, 1.5 cups cool whip (I know the stuff is full of crap and terrible, but it tastes so gooood!), 1/2 cup strawberries pureed mixed toget and put over 15 graham cracker squares in a pan. Then you top with another 15 squares and freeze and cut. They're sort of like little icecream sandwiches and have 50 calories so the recipe says. I bought a box of mini icecream sandwiches last Sunday and I need to not do that again. I sometimes eat 3 in one night. :blushing: I didn't do any official workouts, but it was my birthday weekend. We walked our normal amount, so there was that.
Goals for the week:
1. 100ish calories in dessert max (that means 2 popsicles, 2 dessert bars, 1 icecream sandwich or 1 small bowl sherbet. I seem to love dessert these days......)
2. 4 workouts (lifting today, class tomorrow, running Wednesday, and a real workout over the weekend)
3. In bed by 10, lights out 10:30. I didn't sleep enough this weekend.
4. 14 glasses of water a day
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Amy - beautiful pics, I especially like the purple dress - great color on you!
Beeps - yes, traveling can really mess things up for you weight wise, hopefully you can recover in October
Ashley - hope you had a great birthday
kc - hope you enjoy Chalean extreme, I haven't done that one, but have seen commercials for it
That's all I can see right now. As far as my challenge is going I really blew it on the food end of things, so much for no sugar, seems like it was everywhere last week, couldn't escape it. However, I FINALLY got my husband to do a trail run with me & we had a blast. I am hoping that he will continue with it. 0 -
Here's a pic from my birthday:
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Ashley, you are a cute couple and a cute pregnant chick!
My weekend was ok. I get a bronze star. I tried to log as well as I could but brunch and bloody mary bar yesterday I am sure I am not altogether accurate. I think this week will be easier to log, planning on lots of meals at home so that helps.
Should also be able to work out a bunch. I am still alternating lifting days with running days, but I am getting a little bored, not sure what I want to do...0 -
Glad you had a fun bday! Cute picture!
Bronze for me again. I'm so irritated with myself. I just can't handle weekends. I help up so well Friday night and Saturday day...then Saturday night came and I was very into ice cream. And last night there was an incident with cupcakes.
I'm giving myself an October challenge to MEET MY DAMN GOALS every day. Every day. Anyone want to join me?? We could friend each other and make a little challenge, not exactly sure what the details will be. I'm going to ask my friend list, too. I know I just have to do it for me, but hey whatever helps, right?0 -
Ashley, can you post your recipe for the chicken avocado burgers please?0
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ASHLEY!!!!!!!!!!! You are adorable! Ram where are your pics???0
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Thanks y'all!
Here's the recipe, but I of course don't follow it: :bigsmile:
http://laughingspatula.com/chicken-avocado-burgers/
I used 2 lbs of beef and 1 avacado (use one that's not too mushy). I also skipped the breadcrumbs and garlic but added some cumin, chili powder, garlic powder, s&p, and chopped cilantro, which is what I think really makes it. If I had to guess, I probably did a teaspon of cumin and chili, probably just 1/4t of garlic powder, and probably 1/4 cup chopped cilantro. They were really sticky when I made them, but I put them on a cookie sheet with wax paper and refigerated for about an hour and they dried out a little before going on the grill. They're really yummy and moist. And I make double batches and freeze them too.0 -
I used 2 lbs of beef........
Not beef....ground chicken. Oops.0 -
Bronze for me again. I'm so irritated with myself. I just can't handle weekends. I help up so well Friday night and Saturday day...then Saturday night came and I was very into ice cream. And last night there was an incident with cupcakes.
I'm giving myself an October challenge to MEET MY DAMN GOALS every day. Every day. Anyone want to join me?? We could friend each other and make a little challenge, not exactly sure what the details will be. I'm going to ask my friend list, too. I know I just have to do it for me, but hey whatever helps, right?
You might be too hard on yourself! I think a weekly average should allow for ice cream and cupcakes if you want ice cream and cupcakes! I know I have weeks with a gold star that includes sweets. Don't be so strict that you set yourself up! October is hard, so many sweets around!
And since we mentioned it, I have ice cream that is 160 cals for 1/2 cup (it's cookie dough regular ice cream not imitation or crap), and a cake cone (30 cals!) and that is a perfect after dinner snack.
And then there's 3-2-1 cake, and it's a recipe where you take a box of angel food cake mix, pour it into a big ziploc with any other box of cake mix you like, then you can make your own little cake in a coffee cup: 3 taplespoons of mixed mix, 2 tablespoons of water and one minute in the microwave. I like to top a lemon cake with strawberries and whipped cream (from a can, so probably much worse than cool whip
) and someone who is better at math than me determined this is between 100-120 cals depending on the type of cake mix you select.
And if you have a day when you eat over maintenance, just plan to have a low day later in the week. If you eat at maintenance, so what? that day is a wash!
Today, I didn't get hungry for lunch. I ate an apple and had some jerky when I got a little hungry but overall it evens out...0 -
13 weeks to the new year, huh?? Then I am going to aim to lose 0.5 lbs per week....for a 6.5 lb loss. That will have me finishing up the year about 2 lbs less than where I started it. I am good with that!
Today = day one. I am at about 1400 cals for the day. Too many....but still a deficit....0 -
Ashley - so cute! So glad you had a good birthday and the festival sounds great!
Kelly - are you in for the Star Challenge for October?
Actually that is a question for everyone - let me know! I will post the results and the goals I have for everyone in case anyone wants to change.
Beeps - I would never kick you out!
Kate - I echo what Amy said!
Amy - I love the little cake recipe! Does it work well in the microwave?
I am not much on desserts at night, ice cream once in a great while - especially if there are berries to top it with, but I love cookies (homemade) in the afternoon. I will make and freeze them and take out one or two once in a while when I need something sweet. A piece of dark chocolate works well too
Abigail - so great getting your husband to run with you! I would love that but it is not going to happen
I had an amazing weekend - the festival Friday was so good, it was out on the pier and beautiful out! The band we wanted to see was on last but we heard some other good groups we hadn't heard of before. We went to a tiny place for dinner that had some of the best ceviche I have had and local craft beer! I also tried a pumpkin ale and loved it! Could be very dangerous - kind of like pumpkin pie in a bottle but not sweet Saturday I slept late and then ran errands. Sunday I got up super early and went for a long run before my hair appointment! New stylist was amazing and my hair looks great! Oh and I went and bought some of the pumpkin ale but have restrained myself from having any (so far) but it is a challenge!
Who mentioned 13 weeks to the end of the year? I don't even want to think about 13 weeks to the end of the year :noway: how is that even possible? I need to get my Christmas shopping going!
I would join Beeps in the 0.5 pound loss per week until the end of the year but it doesn't seem to be happening no matter what deficit I have... Maybe being able to run more now and more often (back to back run today after my long run yesterday) will help - need to get back to where I was in May before the injury! :grumble:0 -
Star Challenge Results for September!
I did well - made Platinum again but I am struggling with eating enough as I seem to have a regular deficit over 500 calories... just can't eat back what I burn running. On the other hand I am not losing anything so maybe my calorie burn isn't near what MFP has.
I am going to lower my total again, and see if that helps.0 -
Goals for October Star Challenge - Let me know if you are in or not and what your calorie goal is!
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Yes, Shannaber, I would like to be back in the challenge for Oct. I hope to lose 5 pounds in Oct! Call me CRAZY but I have been slacking so much, I really think I can.
I think I started the year at 134...I am currently at 139. I want to lose that 5 pounds and 5 more.
This morning, I did HIIT like a girl and tonight I am running at the soccer park with my daughter. I have Chicken Tortilla soup in the crockpot. I will skip the yummy chips though. :-)0 -
kclynch, you are singing my song....i am 154 lbs right now....i was FREAKIN.g out jan/14 when i was 150! I wanted to end 2014 at 140....
Anyway, i want to make sure ALL of 2015 i am in the 140's, so, yes, i would like to get down to 147-148 by end of 2014.
I am thinking 140, for me, is just a pipe dream! But, 145 is totally doable.
Meanwhile, I did take my month-end measurements today....am down 1" on chest and 1" on hips....i will take it!0 -
Ashley, what a great pic, you look fantastic!
Shanaber, I started logging again yesterday so I will jump back into the star challenge for Oct, goal remains the same
Let's do this ladies!0
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