St. Patrick's day Challenge

CourtneyLomonaco wrote: »

So I didn't do so well not eating any candy. Fistful of skittles before bed for no reason at all. I was up during the night, but instead of eating candy then, I checked this! Small victory, I guess.

Yes it is a victory, good choices are bound to produce good results. Everyone has their weakness or indulgences. Mine is wine. Red, white, purple, Aawwe heck I'd drink it bright green! But what I do is not make it available at all during the week. Then my hubbie picks up two bottles on a Friday night. It has to last until Sunday night and I mark with a sharpie a 4 oz pour on my favorite glass. This is extremely helpful and besides who wants to exercise for an hour and then have all the calories swept away by alcohol? (Well...ok ...me on occasion) lol. The point is what works for me is having to wait or work for your pleasures and not making them readily available. Hope this helps! Let's do this!

If it's not too late to join, count me in! I typically don't weigh myself; the fit of my clothes tells me what I need to know. But I'm willing to do a weekly hop on the scale.

My goals: avoid diet soda and meet my water goal (64 oz), walk 40 minutes 4-5 days a week, meet my nutritional goals (mfp) and take vitamins every day.

KareninLux wrote: »

Day whatever - 21 Feb. 10km cross country hike in yick weather and 10 minutes of weights. Yay.

Congrats for getting exercise in despite the bad weather! When it's yucky out, my motivation is low.

I'm way late but I'm in. I'll be happy if I get close to 10 lbs lost by March 17th. I'm adding in daily tracking and 8 glasses of water daily.

CW: 186
GW: 176

joymomrn4 wrote: »

Yes it is a victory, good choices are bound to produce good results. Everyone has their weakness or indulgences. Mine is wine. Red, white, purple, Aawwe heck I'd drink it bright green! But what I do is not make it available at all during the week. Then my hubbie picks up two bottles on a Friday night. It has to last until Sunday night and I mark with a sharpie a 4 oz pour on my favorite glass. This is extremely helpful and besides who wants to exercise for an hour and then have all the calories swept away by alcohol? (Well...ok ...me on occasion) lol. The point is what works for me is having to wait or work for your pleasures and not making them readily available. Hope this helps! Let's do this!

Oh I love my wine too! I'm almost to the end of a "30 Day Dry Spell", which I started for a couple of reasons: 1) to kick start my weight loss, and 2) to make I actually could go 30 days without. I don't plan on staying dry forever, but I'll be vigilant about tracking the calories when I do treat myself.

I'm in. I need all the motivation I can get! My goal is to drink at least 60oz of water per day and walk on the treadmill for 30 minutes at least 3 times per week. As far as weight loss goes, let's aim for this...

SW 180.2
GW by St. Patty's Day 174

Also looking for buddies for motivation. Feel free to add me.

Bethie_ess wrote: »

joymomrn4 wrote: »

Yes it is a victory, good choices are bound to produce good results. Everyone has their weakness or indulgences. Mine is wine. Red, white, purple, Aawwe heck I'd drink it bright green! But what I do is not make it available at all during the week. Then my hubbie picks up two bottles on a Friday night. It has to last until Sunday night and I mark with a sharpie a 4 oz pour on my favorite glass. This is extremely helpful and besides who wants to exercise for an hour and then have all the calories swept away by alcohol? (Well...ok ...me on occasion) lol. The point is what works for me is having to wait or work for your pleasures and not making them readily available. Hope this helps! Let's do this!

Oh I love my wine too! I'm almost to the end of a "30 Day Dry Spell", which I started for a couple of reasons: 1) to kick start my weight loss, and 2) to make I actually could go 30 days without. I don't plan on staying dry forever, but I'll be vigilant about tracking the calories when I do treat myself.

I dont think I have gone 30 days without wine in over 15 years! I think you have just inspired me to try it. To make sure "I could actually go without" is wise and courageous. Good for you!

russellmarcia0721 wrote: »

How do I join the group?

see the little star at the top right corner of the feed? if you hit the star, we will show up on your notifications. I myself tried to officially add to my groups list and could not, I believe because it is a challenge and not a group. I hope this helps.

joymomrn4 wrote: »

russellmarcia0721 wrote: »

How do I join the group?

see the little star at the top right corner of the feed? if you hit the star, we will show up on your notifications. I myself tried to officially add to my groups list and could not, I believe because it is a challenge and not a group. I hope this helps.

Thanks

I got in 70459 steps last week (10K more than my original weekly goal). I didn't gain weight over the weekend, despite eating too much yummy Greek food last night. This week's goals are 60,000+ steps again. Remember to work on logging of some sort.

I don't know what day this is but had 2 days of over over over UGH! Weighed in this morning down 3# so I need to get back on the horse and do it again. This week my goal is to maintain my caloric goal all 7 days and exercise for 5 of them. I have 11 more # to hit my goal. I'm sick of being in the"200 club" .

joymomrn4 wrote: »

kirstendawm wrote: »

Well I went over my calorie limit today. But let me tell you, we had some AMAZING steaks off the charcoal grill. Plus, I washed my car for at least probably 40 minutes hardcore without my Fitbit on, so I definitely got more steps in and calories burned than were accounted for, so I'm hoping that will even out my calories! Better luck for tomorrow

I think I'll get a Fitbit! So many MFPs have one. Do you love yours too? And just a question. These steps are they considered exercise? I know that sounds like a dumb question coming from a nurse but what I mean by that is this: remember when calculating our fitness goals and MFP asked our activity level? Sedentary, lightly active, etc. I'm wondering if this formula already has expectant "steps" calculated into our calorie goals. I'm hoping the answer is NO and all steps count as added exercise, what do you think? Thanks

I'm a hairstylist and everytime my arm moves it counts a step even though I'm standing in place. I think accuracy for me is in a pedometer. Just a FYI

Brand new to my fitness pal but not new to fitness and clean eating. Would love to have some "luck of the irish" to get me going! I will commit to logging all food & exercise, posting every day and exceeding 10k step goal on my recently dusted off fitbit.
CW: 196
GW: 154

Day 2
12,000 Steps – Yes
Under Calories - Yes