Friends Needed for 21 day May challenge

dinichols
dinichols Posts: 37
edited September 26 in Introduce Yourself
I weighed in this morning and haven't lost any weight on my own since Jan 1..so .. its time to get a move on with friends!
I am challenging myself and anyone that wants to join to a 21 day challenge..my personal goals are to complete my fitness pal diary every day...to add veggies and fruit to my diet..to excercise..and to read the 21 day companion book to Made to Crave book..of course my real goal is to lose weight so I can actually wear some summer clothes I own and not have to buy new bigger ones!
So..how about it..ready to stop feeling crappy and start feeling good?
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  • rosieflo
    rosieflo Posts: 218
    YOu can feel free to add me! :) I'm working through Made to Crave as well! :)
  • ClarkMer
    ClarkMer Posts: 206 Member
    I sent a friend request :)
  • RTricia
    RTricia Posts: 720
    me... I need to cut the carbs in a major way!
  • BastaConLaPasta
    BastaConLaPasta Posts: 76
    I'm not sure how to add you as a friend so please send me a request - I have got a big event coming up on May 27th and need to be looking good for it!! Could use your support.
  • Peyton115
    Peyton115 Posts: 75
    i would love to do this with you!
  • shapestocome
    shapestocome Posts: 399 Member
    Hi, I will join you! I am on my last 10 pounds and I really want to lose 5 of it this May. I have a BodyMedia armband that I wear to calculate my calories that I burn each day. So my weekly goal is to have a 4480 calorie deficit for the week so I can lose the 5 pounds by the 29th.

    My goals are to log every morsel of food I put into my mouth, drink my 8 - 8oz glasses of water, and to exercise 6 of 7 days (with at least 2 days of strength training). Also, post every morning my deficit for the day before on our challenge thread.

    This will be fun, I have been looking for a challenge to help my with these 5 pounds for May!
    Thanks!
  • Ren0913
    Ren0913 Posts: 58
    Sounds great!
  • shapestocome
    shapestocome Posts: 399 Member
    Yesterday I completed all of my goals! My cal burn for the day according to my bodymedia was 2051 and I ate 1500 for a deficit of 551.
  • BastaConLaPasta
    BastaConLaPasta Posts: 76
    well done shapestocome!

    Well I am nearly at the end of Day 1 (am going to have an early night) and I have stayed within calorie limit as well as doing a Dukan Attack day (protein only)

    No scheduled exercise but spent a good two hours at the park with my youngest child this morning, playing football and generally running around, and then spent most of the rest of the day on my feet around shops pushing him in the buggy

    Hope everyone else is feeling good and positive!
  • cjjones007
    cjjones007 Posts: 602
    I weighed in this morning and haven't lost any weight on my own since Jan 1..so .. its time to get a move on with friends!
    I am challenging myself and anyone that wants to join to a 21 day challenge..my personal goals are to complete my fitness pal diary every day...to add veggies and fruit to my diet..to excercise..
    Ditto here!!!
    Count me in...
    I'm not sure how to proceed as I'm new here - feel free to add me as a friend if that is of interest - I support you in your goal!
  • shapestocome
    shapestocome Posts: 399 Member
    well done shapestocome!

    Well I am nearly at the end of Day 1 (am going to have an early night) and I have stayed within calorie limit as well as doing a Dukan Attack day (protein only)

    No scheduled exercise but spent a good two hours at the park with my youngest child this morning, playing football and generally running around, and then spent most of the rest of the day on my feet around shops pushing him in the buggy

    Hope everyone else is feeling good and positive!

    Great job LTEC!! I was looking at the Dukan diet but I am eating flexitarian so most of my meals consist of plant proteins (it's not that I don't eat meat - I just don't eat a lot of it) and I am not sure how that would be for that diet. I look forward to hearing about how it is working for you! Great job on getting out and moving -- exercise is allowed to be fun!! :)

    Yesterday I had a banquet for our bowling league so I ate light most of the day and then ate a nice dinner there. It was also my rest day so I didn't exercise. My body media said I burned 1840 for the day and my cals were 1319 for a deficit of 521.

    Welcome CJ!

    Hope everyone else is doing well!
  • Nikki_GodzPrincess
    Nikki_GodzPrincess Posts: 138
    I'm trying to lose 30lbs by the end of June! Feel free to add me, I am always done for some encouragement and to encourage others :)
  • limestang
    limestang Posts: 24
    feel free to ad me. I need to lose 100 more pounds. Where do you get the book that you are talking about?
  • shapestocome
    shapestocome Posts: 399 Member
    madetocrave.org -- there is a 21 day challenge for free on the website and you can get the book there too.
  • Nursebeachnut
    Nursebeachnut Posts: 83
    I want in !
  • shapestocome
    shapestocome Posts: 399 Member
    Yesterday I choose to sleep in instead of getting up and doing the treadmill BUT... I came home from work at 7:30pm and got a good walk/jog in! So my food intake was - 1351 and my body media said I burned 2054 for the day for a deficit of 703! I am zigzagging my cals so this was a lower day for me -- today is a higher day.

    How is everyone doing?
  • dinichols
    dinichols Posts: 37
    I actually downloaded mine through Amazon Kindle on my iPad... I would love to meet the author.
  • lornainak
    lornainak Posts: 40 Member
    I'm in, these last 10 lbs are killing me.. I'll send a friend request
  • tigerwolf22
    tigerwolf22 Posts: 3 Member
    Im in
  • Maripoza28
    Maripoza28 Posts: 15 Member
    Im new i want to join
  • BastaConLaPasta
    BastaConLaPasta Posts: 76
    morning everyone! It's Day 4 for me and it's going well. I'm down 4lb (to 132lb) since joining MFP a few weeks ago and seem to have undone the damage caused by the recent 4-day weekend over here (am in the UK) Had a good cardio last night, burning over 800 cals - but my diary ten said that I was waaaaaay under my calorie goal for the day. Are you supposed to eat back your exercise cals? What does everyone else do? Have great days all
  • BastaConLaPasta
    BastaConLaPasta Posts: 76
    ps I can't figure out how to send friend requests so please feel free to request me :-)
  • mommybgood
    mommybgood Posts: 19
    count me in and feel free to add me!
  • shapestocome
    shapestocome Posts: 399 Member
    Hello, everyone -- My food intake for yesterday was - 1627 and my body media said I burned 2281 for the day for a deficit of 594! It was a higher day with my zigzagging but I still had a deficit. I was up 1.6 pounds this morning - which made no sense to me at all except that my sodium was high yesterday. But I only log my weight on Mondays so I am not going to worry about it. Today is a low day for me for zigzag so it should come back down! We will see!

    LTEC -- Normally, I eat back 1/2 of my exercise calories when I am following mfp's guidelines (depending on my workout - if it is a smaller workout 300 cals or less I may eat them all back but my 800's I don't -- I am too full and I don't think you should stuff yourself). But since I am doing the zigzag I used the calculator and that put my exercise calories into the numbers so right now I am not eating them back. Great job on the 4 pound loss that is incredible especially so close to goal!

    Anyone who is doing this challenge and wants to add me as a friend, please do!
  • dinichols
    dinichols Posts: 37
    To request a friend click on their name and then you will see a button that says send friend request..
  • dinichols
    dinichols Posts: 37
    Day 5..Woke up feeling sore and loving it! Feeling so much better - it is so true that the more you move your body the more energy you have - combine that with not stuffing myself and feeling bloated all the time..weighed in this morning and was down .5 lbs from my last weigh in on MFP but that was actually 2 lbs since 5 days ago I was up even higher than when I started MFP! So glad to be below where I started!!
    Reading what everyone else is doing is a huge help! Everyone is doing great..Keep it up!
  • alabelle1
    alabelle1 Posts: 31 Member
    I would love to do that.. not sure how to add myself tho ..?
  • dinichols
    dinichols Posts: 37
    From Made to Crave 21 Day Challenge: "we must prevent the control food can take over our lives. If we purposely begin to think before we eat, we'll be better able to see the way out that God promises when we are tempted" ~ Lysa TerKeurst
  • shapestocome
    shapestocome Posts: 399 Member
    Yesterday I ate 1209 cals and bodymedia says I burned 1731 for the day. Deficit of 532. Today is my high day for zig zag.
  • alabelle1
    alabelle1 Posts: 31 Member
    whats made to crave??
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