FAT 2 FAB Challenge!!!!

Awesome job you guys!!! I'm super impressed with Mary!!!!! I've been looking at her food diary and she eats awesome!!!! Also Sam, your workouts are INSANE!!! Tanya don't sweat a small gain! If your food intake is healthy then that's all you can do! How is your exercise? Maybe you could add that in? Looks like we all need a boot camp week this week!!!

S.W. C.W. Wk 1 Loss Wk 2 Loss Total Loss
Taylor 235 230 -5 -0 -5
Mary 238 232 -1.4 -4.6 -6
Sam 148.8 145.6 -2.8 -0.4 -3.2
Tanya 244 242 -5 +3 -2
Eddie 228 225 -0 -3 -3
Stephanie 179 176 -3 -2 -5
LaTonya 180 176 -3 -1 -4

Hey everyone sorry this post is late! My son is extremely sick and we've been in and out of the hospital :brokenheart: So this week I want you to stop and evaluate what you're eating! Are you eating good calories? Are you drinking water? Are you eating fruits and veggies? If you've answered no to any of these questions get ready for a challenge that pertains to you!

Eating Good, Feeling Great Challenge:

1) For the next 7 days you need to eat one fruit and one veggie at EACH meal EVERYday!
2) 64 oz of water
3) If you're not drinking water be careful not to "drink your calories"....substitute a sugary drink for something with less sugar! (crystal light is the best!!!)
4) Cut out some of your sugar intake
5) Complete your food diary EVERYDAY!!! Even if you know you went over, you should still complete it!

You CAN do it! As important as exercising is, eating right is what will really make the weight melt off!!! Give it one week and I guarantee you will feel and look great!!!!

Name............Start Weight...........Current Weight............Week 3 Loss............TOTAL LOSS

Taylor................235.............................230................................0................................-5
Mary..................238.............................230.8............................-1.2............................-7.2
Tanya...............244.............................239...............................-3................................-5
Stephanie.......179.............................174...............................-1.................................-5
Sam.................148.8..........................144.8...........................-0.8..............................-4
Eddie...............228.............................?...................................?....................................?
ltfitz...................180.............................?...................................?....................................?


Haven't heard from Eddie or ltfitz yet BUT our team lost a total of 6lbs this week! Not bad! Our Rockstar Award goes to TANYA for losing 3 lbs this week!!! Great Job Tanya!!! Our YOU GO GIRL award goes to Mary for losing the most overall weight so far at 7.2 lbs!!! You guys are amazing!!!! I will update the rest when I hear from Eddie and ltfitz!!!
P.S. sorry for all the dots, it's the only way to keep the spacing. I think I like this better than the way it was looking b/4!

Name............Start Weight...........Current Weight............Week 4 Loss............TOTAL LOSS

Taylor................235.............................228..............................-2................................-7
Mary..................238.............................227.2..........................-3.6............................-10.8
Tanya...............244.............................237...............................-2................................-7
Stephanie.......179.............................174...............................-0.................................-5
Sam.................148.8..........................144.8.............................?................................-4
Eddie...............228.............................223...............................-2................................-5
ltfitz...................180.............................?.....................................?.................................?


Ok people here it is!!! Our first month of weight loss!!! Below is your average weightloss per week (remember health professionals say a healthy weightloss is 1-2 pounds per week!) I didn't add Sam or ltfitz b/c I don't know they're new weights but I will update when they respond!

Taylor: 1.75 lbs
Mary: 2.7 lbs (over-achiever! )
Tanya: 1.75 lbs
Stephanie: 1.25 lbs
Eddie: 1.25 lbs

Wow great job you guys!!! Our group total loss for the month of January is 42.8 lbs!!! Woohoo awesome loss! (and that's not counting Sam for one week and ltfitz for 2 weeks) Keep it up guys!

CHALLENGE!!!:

Ok so I feel like our enthusiasm and momentum is slowing down just a little bit SO (with the help of my trusty and over-achieving partner) Mary came up with a great idea! This weeks challenge is to try something NEW!!! I want you to try a new workout and healthy recipe then come back and report to us! Did you like it, did you hate it!? Should the rest of us try it? This is a fun way to change up your workout routine and also add some fun new recipes that your family will love!!! You don't have to stop at just one workout or recipe, if you try something new everyday let us know about it!! Check in daily to see all the new fun things you can try! Please keep up with your food journal and water intake!!!

I will start by telling you about a workout I tried last week and am doing it again this week! It's ZUMBA!!! I'm sure you've heard of it but if you haven't you've gotta try it!!! I went to a class and the mixture of the loud pounding music and the energy given off from the rest of the group, I was in sweat heaven! It's basically a combination of salsa dancing, aerobics, kickboxing, and hip hop mixed together!!! The next morning not only were my legs sore but my arms, butt, hips, abs, and chest were sore too! It is a full body workout! If you're thinking to yourself "but Taylor I can't dance!" I say 'SO WHAT" half the ppl there couldn't dance! It's not about being a pro it's about moving your money maker and burning MAJOR CALORIES! I wore my heart rate monitor and in that 60 minute class I burned 1031 calories! wow! So my review is 5 STARS!!! I love it and know you will too!!!

Buahahaha Over-achiever, that's funny :laugh: I am so proud of all of us losing 42 pounds!! That's the weight of a small child! Yowzah!

Well I have not tried a new workout yet, but will this week for sure. There are some leg exercises I want to try. Zumba I am definitely going to check out, and I will be that girl that has no rhythm shaking her money maker!! Hahaha. I did try a new recipe last night that was super cheap, super easy and pretty nomtastic. I think anyway.

Saute vegetables, we did mushrooms, zucchini, onion, red pepper and added black olives at the very end. Make whole grain noodles, we used rotini. Add the vegetables to the noodles, add some soy sauce. Doesn't sound like much but it was good. We added some various spices and let our vegetables simmer a little bit in vegetable stock. I also added tofu, but you can add chicken, or tofu I highly recommend it if you're running out of time and have some extra veggies in your fridge that you need to get rid of. I think when I added it into the system it had around 260 calories for HUGE servings (I didn't know how much it would make so I put it as 4 servings when can probably be 8-10, we have a lot left)

I like this new challenge and hope to try one new healthy recipe a week.

Great job everyone, we're doing awesome. Sam, I'm sure you'll lose that weight and then some next week, TOM sucks for sure!!!

LOVE this recipe idea Mary!!! I now know what my fam is having tomorrow night!!!! THANKS!!