TEAM TWO
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@llmg970 Hey I hope you feel better soon! <hugs>1
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@llmg970 take care of yourself. @Soulfood77 I heard that snow is coming my way. @lbenson2006 I need to recalculate my calories as well. I'm in maintenance mode now and have not been calculating in my exercise calorie expenditure. Today should be no problem with 125 min of exercise so far.1
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It seems like we have a quite a few of Team2 beat members that are sick right now. Here's hoping for recovery and health and energy flowing your way. At grave risk of jinxing myself- I have been putting ginger and lemon in my water and teas all winter...so far... so good
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Well I really need to learn TO READ AND FOLLOW DIRECTIONS - I reread the step challenge AFTER doing 74 flights (of 18 steps). UP AND DOWN. I ONLY COUNTED THE UP. Oh well extra minutes for me AND TEAM2BEAT. What a workout! I think I'll have some frozen yogurt now.3
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Just getting home and went to come in here to catch up...9 new posts on our thread alone!! Great communication guys!
Tameika - thanks, hadn't notice...message sent to mission enforcer! Great motivator seeing your commitment to all this! Good job so far and here's to meeting your February goals!
Laura - please take it easy and recuperate before you get back at it. Work on getting healthy for the next several weeks! There's still several to go so definitely don't want you pushing and being down for the count!!
Kim - I look forward to being able to change my calories goals. I have always netted off my exercise but I also do it in a weird way...lol. I use my fitness tracker to get my expenditure but then only log half of that. So far it seems to work. Not sure how maintenance mode will go, I'm guessing it will be a learning curve.
Cindy - bonus steps!! Woohoo! Yes, it is very important to read the challenges very carefully. They have structured the steps challenge in the past where it was only up that counted. I definitely prefer it this way!! Lol
Managed to stay under goal today!! Woohoo!! Sometimes it seems that it's all about getting your mind on board. Off to bed soon, hoping I can still get up early to workout. 4:30 will be here way too quick. 
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I love doing stairs!!!! I can't wait to do them!!! Much better than dancing
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I like the stairs challenge also. I've gotten to where it's my routine now to take the stairs at work. I'm only on the 2nd floor but each way is 27 steps. To have made that part of my daily routine was a huge success in my book!
Slept in today.
Was just too tired. Sorry. Really wanted to get a lot of 2x per days in this week. Lol 1 -
lbenson2006 wrote: »Tameika - thanks, hadn't notice...message sent to mission enforcer! Great motivator seeing your commitment to all this! Good job so far and here's to meeting your February goals!
Thank you!!
So I've finished both the stairs challenge and the Fitness Blender challenge. I loved them both. Did 62 floors yesterday on the Stairmaster + 69 today for a total of 131 floors = 1572 steps/stairs. I did the balance video yesterday and again today and I must say, today was definitely easier. I still can't quite hold my balance during the one where you move your head up and down though, it's much harder than it looks. I will definitely keep this video in my rotation to continue to improve on my balance.
Under calories yesterday and more than likely will be for the rest of the week except my cheat day Friday where I purposely eat above my calorie allotment.2 -
At the blood donors clinic so no more minutes fr m me today!!! 2
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Fitness blenders times 2 done, I have such poor balance. AT 829 Steps so far. Doing well with calories.2
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Joanna2012B wrote: »At the blood donors clinic so no more minutes fr m me today!!!
Woohoo! Yeah, Joanna! Love that you do this!!2 -
My work has stairs that lead up to the kitchen (with the water cooler) and bathrooms so I get lots of flights in throughout the day. I also walk my errands and that often puts me in a position to take lots of stairs. I don't really look at it as exercise, per se, just another part of this new healthy lifestyle, so I'm not sure how to equate that to minutes/miles throughout the day. Any suggestions?0
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I should add that I'm keeping track of the number of stairs.1
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I don't live somewhere where you can do a lot of walking for your errands. I would say for the work time stuff that that would not count. Regarding the stairs, I only count time spent on them if I am specifically making an exercise out of it. Any stairs I get in at work, I only count towards the steps challenge and not towards the minutes/ miles. I'd like to hear other team members opinions on the errand walking. I am thinking if you had a way to track your time spent actively walking to and from, that it should count.1
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lbenson2006 wrote: »I don't live somewhere where you can do a lot of walking for your errands. I would say for the work time stuff that that would not count. Regarding the stairs, I only count time spent on them if I am specifically making an exercise out of it. Any stairs I get in at work, I only count towards the steps challenge and not towards the minutes/ miles. I'd like to hear other team members opinions on the errand walking. I am thinking if you had a way to track your time spent actively walking to and from, that it should count.
Since you asked, here's the way I see it for my own self: I only count things as exercise if one of the primary functions of it is purposeful exercise to benefit my fitness. For example, I don't count walking around while shopping or doing chores as exercise minutes. Some other people do. (Don't know if that's right or wrong or just a personal preference thing?) But I do count walking my dog as exercise, because I am moving at a brisk, sustained pace.
I wouldn't count walking around while at work as exercise either. That's just more like part of one's daily activity to me. If I was devoting an extended period of time and effort to taking the stairs purposefully as exercise, I'd count that as exercise. But I wouldn't count taking intermittent flights of stairs at work as minutes or mileage toward purposeful exercise. I would, however, have no problem adding the number of stairs to the total needed for the purposes of the challenge.
I guess it would all depend on how fast and furiously you are walking those errands, whether the activity is sustained and getting the heart rate up, and how often and how many flights of stairs you are taking whether it should also count as mileage. If you feel like you are doing a legitimate workout and you can track it, go for it. I'm cool with whatever you guys think.
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@jenilla1 I track my exercise minutes as you describe, that's how I read the rules as well. I'd track the steps for the challenge.2
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Was able to get in fitness blender video for the 2nd time and finished my stairs. Woohoo!! Feels like a good day already!!
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I agree with @jenilla1.2
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Awesome! Thanks for the feedback! @jenilla1 that's how I look at it, as well!
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Thank you guys for the well wishes. I am still recovering, for some reason when I get a simple cold I get it severe and need antibiotics sometimes even steroids to help. I have been much healthier in the last few years and haven't had a cold, I attributed that to all the exercise and healthy eating but this one got me. I am hoping to get to the gym on Saturday as long as I am feeling better. I am working on the stairs that won't be a problem for me as I have plenty of sets at work. I will also be able to do the videos tomorrow. I don't think they will be too high intensity so it wouldn't bother me to do.
Now good news. My fur baby is already back to her happy playful self. Yesterday she wanted to go run in the snow. Tomorrow we are getting a foot, she will be so happy to play in that2 -
I decided to walk up and down the stairs at my house for the challenge and had a little furry helper right there with me! I got half of them done today before I had to leave and pick up a child.
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^ Those speckled legs are so adorable!
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Laura - glad to hear you are feeling a little better. So glad to hear Jaz is back to her normal self! That was a quick recovery!0
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Anna - he's so adorable! It would be hard not to want to stop & cuddle him!!1
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We are almost halfway to the Gold Coast, but we have a LOT of missing information. Please fill in the spreadsheet as soon as you can, even if it is just putting in a 0. It helps to see an accurate picture of where we stand. Right now we are darn near half the points of Team 1, it's not even close. I am hoping though that is because we have so many blanks.
Happy Friday Eve!1 -
No gym for me yesterday (planned) and none today (unplanned). Just feel like I need a day to relax, kick my feet up, work on some self-care, do some planning, etc. A day to slow down if you will. I feel like I've just been going and going and... like the Energizer bunny.
I WILL get an exercise video done later though. Because Sunday is a 0 day for me (too much housework to do, no time for dedicated exercise) and I don't want more than one 0 per week.
I hope everyone is having a fantastic week!2 -
Weight Loss Leader Sheet has been updated.1
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Just swam/ snorkeling for 40 or more minutes right outside my condo for the week. Life is good. I think I burned off those random deep fried foods. .
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So sad that there are so many blank spaces! I have an active weekend planned so I will try to rack up some more minutes!1
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