Looking for a group, so decided to start my own

Yep, I'm ready. I am in this for the ultra long haul - I realize that I didn't put this weight on overnight and am allowing myself time to get it off. I generally go by the fit of my clothes anyway rather than the scale as I have lost an amazing amount of inches and yet only 34 lbs. No clue why but so long as I see some changes I'm happy.

did you get my p.m about my playlist??

I just saw this! No, I didn't.

how did you get over the plateau. ive been this one weight for a whole month.

We're weighing in today, right!?

Last weigh in I was at 138lbs .... today, I'm at 135! My second goal is officially met. (: Now on full speed to 130 (:

We're weighing in today, right!?

Last weigh in I was at 138lbs .... today, I'm at 135! My second goal is officially met. (: Now on full speed to 130 (:

Great Job!! You guys are my inspiration to get my butt in gear!!

When I get over 500 its the days that I'm using a really steep incline with my usual pace

Ok so I was really bummed about my weigh in today. I chalked it up to not excerising enough and possibly water weigh gain. But I measured myself today and I have lost inches!!! 2 inches in my hips and 1 inch in my waist.

hey guys im sorry but i think i must gracefully bow out of this group, Im really busy with work and school in the coming days. GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

So sad to see you go:( Best of Luck in your studies and weight loss:))

Me too. I know how studies can zap time. Good luck with everything.

So no change, good or bad in my weight this week. This week wasn't my norm regarding exercise - wasn't able to do my water aerobics once and didn't end up doing anything at home other than yardwork etc.

No change is still good, especially when you haven't been yourself or been able to keep your normal routines. Keep it up, ladies!

I don't know what the challenges are yet. Leela set them for us last time. I haven't seen her around for a couple days, though.

Still no Leela ... I hope everything is okay and she's just super busy. In the meantime, let's get some challenges going for ourselves for the rest of this week.

Here are some ideas thrown out last week:

For exercise:
Pushups
Crunches
Lunges
Squats
Workout during commercials
Walk after dinner
Workout 10% more this week
Have you seen this site: http://www.twohundredsitups.com/ ? Situps = crunches in their program. We could take on that challenge as a group? They also have a plan for pullups, pushups, dips and squats.

For food:
Try a new recipe and then share it with the group
Try a new fruit or vegetable
Log and stay under your calories everyday for a week

So what do you guys think? What would you like to do?

Okay! Let's get these challenges going! These end at our weigh-in on Friday. Remember we're all at different fitness levels and have different goals. We're competing against ourselves and not each other. You can do them all or choose to focus on just one or two. We're setting these goals for accountability and a little fun. :-)


Food:
1) Log calories everyday and stay within your goal.
2) Share one new recipe this week. It doesn't have to be gourmet or anything. It could be something really simple. I find that I often overlook the really simple things and sometimes they are the best.

Exercise:
1) Meet your exercise minute goal everyday from now until weigh-in.
2) Crunches. You decide how many and what difficulty for your challenge.


Let's decide on our challenges for next week so that we're all ready to go. For exercise, we take on pushups plus one more? I hate them with a fiery passion but they are so good for upper body strength. For food, depending on how this week goes, maybe we keep the recipe thing going and add one more? What do you think? What would you like to add? We could also bring back one of the challenges we've already done.


Garrett - I'm pretty good with crunches, too, so I've added an incline and weight to make it harder. For example, today, I did crunches on a pretty steep incline with a 6lb medicine ball, 4 sets of 25. I threw the ball in the air and then crunched up to catch it. Instead of increasing the number of crunches, that might be the way for you to go in this challenge.