Super Shape-Up March 2017: Week 1 (3/1-3/7)
baconslave
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I wanted to call this challenge the "Spring Shape-Up," but considering Fall is approaching on the other side of the globe, I dropped "Spring." Regardless where you're from, seasons are changing. And it's a great time to change things up in your life.
So let's embark on a Super Shape-Up Challenge.
Shape-up something in your life.
There will be a post in the Sticky section for easy access should the thread get buried on the feed. I'll keep a link at the bottom of that post for each thread.
Feel free to go ahead and post your goals for March here!
So let's embark on a Super Shape-Up Challenge.
Shape-up something in your life.
- Shape-up your strategies with Mindful Eating or improving or picking up new WOE hacks. (Check out our Mindfulness challenge from last year.
- Shape-up your intake by improving your consistency/compliance with your plan.
- Shape-up your body by committing to step-up your fitness.
- Shape-up your health by adopting a more positive health habit (like more sleep, less alcohol, avoiding unnecessary stress, and etc.)
There will be a post in the Sticky section for easy access should the thread get buried on the feed. I'll keep a link at the bottom of that post for each thread.
Feel free to go ahead and post your goals for March here!
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Look at you global thinker!
I am IN! I am doing this! WOOT!
OK, March...March...
Water (I know it's to thirst, but I am TERRIBLE at this, so I'm going to shoot for 48 oz min. Srs guys...it's bad)
Log Food
30G carb limit
Some kind of physical activity (if I shoot for daily, I might actually hit a few times a week)
7 hrs of sleep minimum (this one's hard...I get up at 4am for work and don't get home until 6pm)
I am very caffeinated this morning!!!
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I think I'm going to try to post here daily as a way of keeping on target...my shape up goals for march:
1- log all food and maintain a deficit, I'm so bad at this on the weekends
2- weights 4x/week (2 full body, 1 upper, 1 lower)
3- not more than 1 alcoholic drink per week3 -
Well in the spirit of the February challenge I'm going to continue to stick rigorously to my calorie and macro targets which I managed throughout the month and saw a 28 day weight loss of 16lb! I really need to get to the gym more, but life, illness and my other activities have been getting in the way and I'm not sure if I would be able to commit seriously to saying 'gym 3 times a week...' and make it stick. That being said, I manage something every day even if it's just my daily morning routine on waking up. I think an 'as you were March' should work for me!5
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Thanks for creating this challenge!
Shape Up Challenge Goals
1. Eat between 20–30 g of carbs per day max
2. Drink 6 to 8 cups of water per day
3. Lift weights 3 to 4 times per week
4. Swing kettle bell 6 to 7 times per week
5. Walk six times per week
6. Set phone every hour for five hours out of the day to get up and move
7. Record daily
8. Lose 6 to 8 pounds
SW 142.8
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I'm in!
Would like to start getting more physical activity in. Have been doing some walks on my lunch hour, but need to up my game from that. Two goals for me this month.
1. Up my physical activity
2. Try to decrease my stress levels.
I think these two could actually complement each other. Would love to do some yoga with my daughter.3 -
I'm doing my final run for Feb challenge this afternoon after work so I'll see what the time is and what I want my new goal for March to be.
HOWEVER, in the spirit of sweeping out, cleaning up, shaping up I'm going to commit to something that feels surprisingly hard and scary and the fact that it feels scary and hard is ....well....scary (and embarrassing).
I'm going to leave my phone downstairs at night.
I have a NASTY habit of dicking around on my phone at night when I wake up. 230am? scrolling facebook. This is not conducive to good sleep hygiene or mental health so, because I cannot be trusted when I'm home, phone charges DOWNSTAIRS at night.
I'll post fitness goals once I find my baseline this afternoon on the very last day of the shortest month of the year.
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I'm going to leave my phone downstairs at night. I have a NASTY habit of dicking around on my phone at night when I wake up. 230am? scrolling facebook. This is not conducive to good sleep hygiene or mental health so, because I cannot be trusted when I'm home, phone charges DOWNSTAIRS at night.
Good for you! Good luck....I know that can be hard, but I think you will be surprised what a good night's sleep will do for you!1 -
@swezeytba we make all the kids leave their electronics down stairs at night and our reason is "better sleep and no temptation." So maybe, as a parent I should take the advice I give my kids and follow my own rules.
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@swezeytba we make all the kids leave their electronics down stairs at night and our reason is "better sleep and no temptation." So maybe, as a parent I should take the advice I give my kids and follow my own rules.
If I followed all the things I make my kids do I'd be a happier, healthier person. I'm a better mom than human!
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I'm in.
1. Keep carbs under 40g/day
2. Water. I will drink it. 1.5l/day. Surely it can't be that hard?!
3. Stop sitting on my *kitten* - minimum 30 mins activity 2 evenings per week and up every hour at work.
After the excitement and upheaval of last month I think I'm going to keep it simple for March2 -
1. Finish Top 3 in our Biggest Loser Contest at work (currently #5)
2. Begin Weight Training after Contest is over
3. 2 lbs per week weight loss until Ideal Weight obtained (27#'s to go!)
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My goals are to stay under 30 net gram of carbs per day and under 2000 calories unless I excercise and those are added to calories (no carb increases)
Get some sort of physical activity every day, 2 days a week it can be a light walk only, 2 more days some form of more intense cardio and 3 days strength training and an intense cardio. On top of this I want to do 1-2 yoga classes a week.
And I want to lose 8-10 lbs during the month of March3 -
geekgirl127 wrote: »My goals are to stay under 30 net gram of carbs per day and under 2000 calories unless I excercise and those are added to calories (no carb increases)
Get some sort of physical activity every day, 2 days a week it can be a light walk only, 2 more days some form of more intense cardio and 3 days strength training and an intense cardio. On top of this I want to do 1-2 yoga classes a week.
And I want to lose 8-10 lbs during the month of March
You can do this! You set realistic goals and thats what this is all about! GLTY.1 -
@swezeytba we make all the kids leave their electronics down stairs at night and our reason is "better sleep and no temptation." So maybe, as a parent I should take the advice I give my kids and follow my own rules.
@mmultanen - It's a good rule. We recently started that with our daughter when I reviewed some of her texts and realized she was sometimes texting (with a certain boy go figure) at midnight. We also started having her leave her phone at home during the day to keep the distractions away at school and wouldn't you know it . Better sleep and better grades.2 -
@mmultanen I'm with you! I can't leave my phone elsewhere at night, given that it's my alarm. But I should definitely stop putzing around with it until the moment I fall asleep. I'm not that popular anyway Great goal that I'm copying. No more phone after 8pm
I want to do a squat/lung challenge I saw online where you start off doing 10 squats/lunges and then add 5 more everyday. I want to also look up some exercises incorporating hand weights and exercise bands.
Logging my food everyday...even if I slip up. To be accountable for what I'm putting in my body.
And then just carrying over the rest from February, as far as eating slower and keeping daily total carbs below 50g. I am going to try to use the scale as little as possible, and no more than 1 weigh in a week.2 -
I would like to step up my fitness goals.
Steps 42000 per week
Sit ups 200 per week
Indoor bike 90 minutes per week
By the end of the month do a 2 minute plank, not sure if that one is achievable.
And keep within calories and drinking goals.
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Ok the Feb sprint got be back in the right direction after some slacking. So for March I will challenge myself to the following:
1) Daily spoonful of coconut oil (BPC was hard-hubby kept using & not cleaning the Ninja)
2) Daily 30 minutes of activity
3) Daily vitamins (even weekends)
4) Daily plank
5) Add strength training back in once a week
@tcunbeliever I need to post here daily as well, including weekends.1 -
I will commit to being better about logging. I have not done as well with keto as with regular calorie counting.0
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I'm already pretty happy with my carb level, calories, and cardio. What I'm lacking is strength training. That's my challenge for March.
My goal is to do at least 3 strength sessions per week.2 -
30 minutes daily assorted activity.
report daily when I log in food.
More is better, but no rollovers.lol.1 -
I want to just stick w/keto and not go off when I have a carb/sugar craving or its the weekend. I am yo-yo-ing and am sick of it.
SW - 196
CW 130.5
GW - 115
I'm 5'4 and 54 y/o female4 -
Hi, I am a newbie to site and to keto, so hope its ok for me to join in!? Started on Sat 25th Feb, so still in my first week and getting to grips with it all. With that in mind my goals for March are to:
-Log daily without fail
-Aim to get as close to macros as possible (count BEFORE eating so not going over)
-Primarily, just to stick to keto for the entire month and not give in / carb binge
I'll likely revisit goals as time goes by - just want to get started on right track to start with before setting self too many challenges. Presently so excited by new WAO!5 -
Awesome!! I just started a beach body program yesterday. Im already feeling the burn. Here's to sticking with it! It's 6 days a week so I'm intimidated but dedicated to a 90 day program.3
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'Back on the wagon' time lol.
* Get all my 8 glasses of water in.
* Do not eat after midnight (I'm on night shift til 4:30 am) or before 2 pm (IFing).
* NO MORE CANDY EVEN IF THEY GIVE IT AWAY FREE!! Damn post holiday sales!
"Maintainer March"2 -
Hi everyone! Newbie alert
I'd like to join in on the challenge, but as a newbie my challenge is just going to be about being mindful of what I'm eating and planning ahead so I don't get caught out... I'm keen to try and work more veggies into my totals too, so that'll be challenge #2 6 -
I'm back from vacation. "only' a 3 pound gain. Sigh.
Had a great time, ate, hiked, walked, ate again drove and ate again.
New Month and new start. Hopefully, the weather will start getting warm again and the days longer soon so I can get out and move more this month. Being more mindful helped me last year. I am ready again.
SW: 173
GW: 163 for March.
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@swezeytba we make all the kids leave their electronics down stairs at night and our reason is "better sleep and no temptation." So maybe, as a parent I should take the advice I give my kids and follow my own rules.
If I followed all the things I make my kids do I'd be a happier, healthier person. I'm a better mom than human!
This cracks me up because it is so true for me too.0 -
@mmultanen I'm with you! I can't leave my phone elsewhere at night, given that it's my alarm. But I should definitely stop putzing around with it until the moment I fall asleep. I'm not that popular anyway Great goal that I'm copying. No more phone after 8pm
I want to do a squat/lung challenge I saw online where you start off doing 10 squats/lunges and then add 5 more everyday. I want to also look up some exercises incorporating hand weights and exercise bands.
Logging my food everyday...even if I slip up. To be accountable for what I'm putting in my body.
And then just carrying over the rest from February, as far as eating slower and keeping daily total carbs below 50g. I am going to try to use the scale as little as possible, and no more than 1 weigh in a week.
Where is the squat lunge challenge, adding in small amounts of strength training and toning has made such a huge difference in how I feel:)2
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