August 30 day Challenge

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  • J_Squared_77
    J_Squared_77 Posts: 29 Member
    edited August 2017
    Starting weight: 156
    Goal weight: 147.6

    Tuesday 1st: 155.5
    Tuesday 8th:
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    What can you improve on: getting my steps in. goal is 6000/day.
  • mse71203
    mse71203 Posts: 3 Member

    Starting weight: 185
    Goal weight: 170
    Tuesday 1st: 185
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    What can you improve on: Drinking more water
  • chelzbel
    chelzbel Posts: 4 Member
    edited August 2017
    This is my first challenge and I began my journey yesterday. I hope I am doing this right!

    Starting weight: 266.2
    Goal weight 251.2
    Tuesday 1st:
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    What I can improve on: Tracking my food and exercise everyday and no soda through August!
  • irishladyo
    irishladyo Posts: 46 Member
    Sorry, forgot to weigh myself yesterday morning -

    Starting weight: 224
    Goal weight: 214
    Tuesday 1st:224.2
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    What can you improve on: Sodium and not snacking when I get home from work.
  • Vijayatallam
    Vijayatallam Posts: 2 Member
    How do I join this group
  • aganey
    aganey Posts: 501 Member
    edited August 2017
    barbiegaia wrote: »
    barbiegaia wrote: »
    I'm in!
    Starting weight: 177lb
    Goal weight: (5%) = 168lb
    Tuesday 1st: 175.6lb
    Tuesday 8th:
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    What can you improves on:
    ✓ Exercise 2x a day as I am doing only 1 currently.

    Wow and you're already at 177!?!?! That's so amazing! I would love to see that number in 3 months! Good work!
  • enyagoboom
    enyagoboom Posts: 377 Member
    Vijayatallam wrote: »
    How do I join this group

    I'd copy and post the initial post and jump in! :D
  • bbeckett5623
    bbeckett5623 Posts: 2 Member
    Count me in as well...let's do this!
  • bbeckett5623
    bbeckett5623 Posts: 2 Member
    Starting weight: 179
    Goal weight: 165
    Tuesday 1st:179
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  • sugargrammy45
    sugargrammy45 Posts: 251 Member
    I'll give it a shot . . . I need a new motivation!

    Starting weight: 210
    Goal weight: 200
    Tuesday 1st: 210
    Tuesday 8th:
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    What can you improve on: Become more physically active
  • joinn68
    joinn68 Posts: 480 Member
    How is everybody doing so far... 1 day into the challenge?

    My area of improvement was sleep and I am not doing so well. I could really see how it impacted my performance at the gym today. Will definitely try to do better.

    A lot of people have mentionned better logging. Don't forget to go back to the "Getting Started" and reading the stickies. Some really great posts there.
  • enyagoboom
    enyagoboom Posts: 377 Member
    joinn68 wrote: »
    How is everybody doing so far... 1 day into the challenge?

    my areas of improvement are: Increasing my step count (current goal is min 5k a day, I would like to be at a steady 7500/day by the end of August with at least 3 days at 10k+) and I should be two thirds of the way done with the C25K by the end of this challenge.

    One of the ways i'm trying to increase my step count is taking short walk breaks at work - I got two in today. It's a paltry 340 steps each time, but if I can get that up to 4 times a day that will make a difference, plus a walk at lunch where I can go for longer periods of time.

    I'm supposed to do day 2, week 2 of my C25K tonight but my new shoes won't be here until tomorrow and my knee has been really unhappy with me the day following my runs, er, determined plods, so I'm weighing my options right now.

    I'm also going to add two things to my challenge - I'm working on a personal plank challenge this month (this morning 2 sets of 10 seconds each) and I started the 21 day fit videos (not the food containers or shakeology).

    So personally even though I was up half a pound on day 1 from my start goal, I am feeling really good.
  • mse71203
    mse71203 Posts: 3 Member
    I'm trying to stay motivated. My goal is to do my 10,000 steps daily so far I have only hit it once. I have stayed between 6-8 thousand. So I really want to be successful at that and drinking my required amount of water...which I am not even close. So good luck to everyone!!! I know we got this
  • cmgundy
    cmgundy Posts: 1 Member
    First ever challenge! I'm in.


    Starting weight: 258
    Goal weight: 245
    Tuesday 1st: 258
    Tuesday 8th:
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    What can you improve on:. Eating smaller portions through out the day. Get some exercise in.. ;)
  • slimfast108
    slimfast108 Posts: 29 Member
    Current weight: 176.3
    Goal weight: 167.5
    Tuesday 1st:176.3
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  • shallid1
    shallid1 Posts: 296 Member
    Starting weight: 240
    Goal weight: 228
    Tuesday 1st: 240
    Tuesday 8th:
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    What do I improve on: No snacking out of acceptable food list. Drink more water.
  • enyagoboom
    enyagoboom Posts: 377 Member
    mse71203 wrote: »
    I'm trying to stay motivated. My goal is to do my 10,000 steps daily so far I have only hit it once. I have stayed between 6-8 thousand. So I really want to be successful at that and drinking my required amount of water...which I am not even close. So good luck to everyone!!! I know we got this

    I am hoping the hitting 10k steps a day gets easier with the habitual but I am finding just hitting 5k a day is like pulling teeth on the days I'm not doing a C25K training session so I totally hear you on this. Good luck on the water goal too!!
  • joinn68
    joinn68 Posts: 480 Member
    edited August 2017
    enyagoboom wrote: »
    joinn68 wrote: »
    How is everybody doing so far... 1 day into the challenge?

    One of the ways i'm trying to increase my step count is taking short walk breaks at work

    I'm supposed to do day 2, week 2 of my C25K tonight but my new shoes won't be here until tomorrow and my knee has been really unhappy with me the day following my runs, er, determined plods, so I'm weighing my options right now.

    I'm working on a personal plank challenge this month (this morning 2 sets of 10 seconds each) and I started the 21 day fit videos (not the food containers or shakeology).

    You are tackling quite a number of things... Did you new shoes arrive?

    I finished C25K a couple of years ago. The following year my left knee was completely busted and I had to stop running, walking up hills and all. But then I've always had a problem with my left knee. I hope your knee issue is temporary and you can finish C25K. What exercises are you doing to strengthen the muscles around your knee?

    What's the 21 day fit videos? Never heard of the program
  • enyagoboom
    enyagoboom Posts: 377 Member
    joinn68 wrote: »

    You are tackling quite a number of things... Did you new shoes arrive?

    I finished C25K a couple of years ago. The following year my left knee was completely busted and I had to stop running, walking up hills and all. But then I've always had a problem with my left knee. I hope your knee issue is temporary and you can finish C25K. What exercises are you doing to strengthen the muscles around your knee?

    What's the 21 day fit videos? Never heard of the program

    It seems like a lot when writing it out but the plank challenge is only a few minutes a day, the C25K is every other day (or in my case, every third right now) and the 21 day fit is every other. The videos are part of the beach body group of workout things. They're not bad, it's mainly just something to get me moving until school starts at the end of the month and I can use the gym there.

    The shoes did arrive but UPS decided I needed to sign for them and we had taken my boss out for lunch soooo no shoes. Again. Tomorrow though. (which is good because I'm in the last few days of one of my summer classes and am a bit behind)

    I started reorganizing my health and fitness priorities a month ago (today is my 30th day logging!) and have changed everything incrementally so I don't get overwhelmed. I didn't think about knee exercises (derr...) I should definitely incorperate those. I am doing a lot of stretching and dynamic stretching but nothing knee specific. I really think the issue is my shoes and plantar. Usually when I get new shoes and stiff insoles my knee and ankle feel much better and I'm able to go for a while.

    Thanks for the question! :)
  • brittanydashnay
    brittanydashnay Posts: 203 Member
    I'm in!

    Starting weight: 234lb (as of Aug 3rd)
    Goal weight: 222.3lb (5%)

    Tuesday 1st: 242.2 (this is high because i gained back the 6lbs i had lost the previous week so i want to make my starting weight what it was as of Aug 3rd)

    Tuesday 8th:
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    What can you improve on: tracking all food intake and exercise, i joines the walking challenge and plan on trying to walk 100km this month (25km/week), i plan on drinking lots of water, when i have a 'bad' meal or day to focus on the next meal.and not wait until the next day to eat right.
  • xenaforever
    xenaforever Posts: 75 Member
    So far so good for me this week. Hit my 7500 steps a weekday goal 3 out of 4 days. Tracking my food intake daily. Really helps to motivate me. Lost 2 lbs this past week
  • sweetjay92
    sweetjay92 Posts: 10 Member
    It's already Friday and so far I'm down to 157 lbs. woo hoo! I've doing the 5:2 rule if anyone is curious. I feel amazing. Cant wait to weigh myself again on Tuesday.

    Starting weight: 159 lbs.
    Goal weight : 150 lbs.
    Tuesday 1st: 159
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    What can you improve on? Cut my carbs in half and no sugar.
  • etiennenicole202
    etiennenicole202 Posts: 2 Member

    Starting weight: 173.5
    Goal weight: 140
    Tuesday 1st: 170.5
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    What can you improve on: need to increase protein intake, start more exercise (two bike rides a week)
  • joinn68
    joinn68 Posts: 480 Member
    So far so good... but week-end ahead will be difficult. Tonight going out to a vietnamese restaurant. I skipped lunch but wasn't able to get my exercise in.
    Plan for the week-end is to spend as much time as possible in the gym. If not raining, morning walks + gym session both days.
    The upcoming weigh-in on Tuesday is really helping me to stay focused
  • epixa28
    epixa28 Posts: 115 Member
    Weigh day: Thursday
    Starting weight: 202.2
    Current weight: 193.2
    August goal: 183.2
    Ultimate goal: 130

    4th: 188.2 whoops! I was supposed to update last night, I forgot. BUT I had a really nice drop these last couple of days. Plenty of water and steps logged in
  • Louz163
    Louz163 Posts: 243 Member
    Current weight : 181lbs
    Ultimate goal : 140lbs

    4th August: 181lbs

  • chichidachimp
    chichidachimp Posts: 109 Member
    Starting weight: 166.4 Aug 1.
    Goal weight: 156
  • mbherrly
    mbherrly Posts: 4 Member
    Starting weight: 152 lbs.
    August Goal weight : 140 lbs.
    Ultimate Goal weight: 135 lbs.

    Tuesday 1st: 148.4 lbs.
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    What can you improve on? Changing my workout routine (more strength training), adjusting my calorie intake for optimal energy balance.
  • enyagoboom
    enyagoboom Posts: 377 Member
    Starting weight: 219.7
    Goal weight: 207.7
    Tuesday 1st: 220.6
    Tuesday 8th: 219.4 - progress!
    Tuesday 15th:
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    Improvements for this week: I weigh in on mondays which is why I'm a day early :) get through my paper on due at 11:59p on Tuesday and then hit the track. Also planned out my meals and prepped 1 meal a day. i'd like to be under 219 in my next weigh in and i need to get moving consistently to make that happen. I parked far away from my office this morning to walk and will take walk breaks every couple of hours to get my steps up.
  • Cfkearney
    Cfkearney Posts: 197 Member
    Starting weight: 197 Goal weight 187.1 Tuesday 1st:197
    Monday 7th:193.3
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    What can you improve on? Being more active
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