.Thin By Thanksgiving. *closed group*

Woo gooo! I'm aiming to carry on my 30 day shred and turbofire as well as increase my water intake. I hope I lose 2 pounds by next Monday's weigh-in.

Are you going to do a detailed spreadsheet of some kind? X

My goals are to stay under my calorie goal, drink at least 64 oz of water a day and exercise at least 6 days. I hope to be down 1.5-2 pounds by monday. Good luck everyone

Woo gooo! I'm aiming to carry on my 30 day shred and turbofire as well as increase my water intake. I hope I lose 2 pounds by next Monday's weigh-in.

Are you going to do a detailed spreadsheet of some kind? X

Whoot whoot! Just did my first turbo fire workout today!

I'm excited about being apart of this group.
My goals for this week is to workout at least 4 times, drink a minimum of 90 ozs of water and to lose 2 lbs.
GOod luck everyone

Very fun!

My goals this week is to start tracking my calories.....AGAIN! Do the water thing and start to cut out the Diet Pepsi(please pray for my family) and to exercise daily with the exception of Saturday(working a double shift!). I"m hoping to be down 2lbs but if more...that would be awesome! Good luck all!

My goals this week are:
*Workout at least 5 days this week
*Burn 4000 calories
*Lose 3 lbs (1st week back)

Carebear2 I will be praying for your family once that soda consumption is down (love it).

KaeChelle I am in the same situation. I did a wonderful job and reached my goal weight and maintained for a short period before I was in an auto accident that injurued my knee (there went the excercise and the comfort food filled the void). I am on this mission with you. I about fallout when I got the courage to step back on the scale :mad:.

Thanks Elisabeth for the list and the challenge! Wow... how many can I do in a minute? I'm gonna have to try that out! Push-ups are going to be hard for me. Never been able to do those really. I usually do wall push-ups when I do them.

Anyway, I need to get to work! Have a great day!

If you can't do push-ups do another forms of them.
Someone mentioned wall push ups.
Do them on your knees or lay down all the way and do them fast, more of a cadio push up.
They all will help and they all get the blood flowing.
Also maybe try to do a plank for 15 sec, then try and up the time everyday. Even if its only by a second

I hate sit-ups I do crunches or I get the big ball out and do them on it.
You can change up your sit ups everyday with different forms. IE bicycle, crunches, sit-up, ball.

Jumping jacks--- Make me sick, it throws off my equilibrium. Does anyone have any suggestions for this?


We can do this everyone..

Hey ladies! I am really excited about this challenge group. I am always looking for new people for support and to share this journey with.

Goals for the week:
1) burn 2500 cals (per HRM)
2) track ALL food
3) track ALL water and drink at least 8 cups a day
4) Keep sodium under 2500 mg

I love the challenge for the week. I have no idea how many pushups I can do never mind how many in a minute. I will get to that today or tomorrow and will post my results.

One thing I feel has been important for me during this journey is to keep the reasons for wanting to change my life in the front of my mind. For me I had 2 reason for getting serious about living a healthy lifestyle. 1) The birth of my son. I realized I could not raise a healthy child if I was not healthy myself. I want to be able to instill good healthy eating and exercise habits in him while he is young so hopefully he will never have to battle obesity. It also allows me to enjoy each day that I spend with him because I can keep up with him. Reason 2). On New Years Eve one of my marching band students passed away. She was 17. Her appendix burst. She had her whole life ahead of her and in the blink of an eye she was gone. It made me realize that any day could be my last and I need to live each day to its fullest. I would not be able to do that by living an unhealthy lifestyle. I signed up for MFP on Jan 1 and never looked back. I have so much more energy and love myself so much more in just a short 8 months.

So now I ask you, What changed in your life, mind or self that made you start this journey?

NAME: Maria
AGE: 44
LIVE: Edmonton, AB
HEIGHT: 5'2''
START WEIGHT FOR CHALLENGE: 197
GOAL WEIGHT FOR CHALLENGE: Lose as much as possible – I really just want to see what happens eating and exercising properly every day
START PANTS SIZE: 18 (US)
GOAL PANTS SIZE: Don’t care about this one
FOLLOW ANY SPECIAL DIET: Clean Eating – any and all real food is OK.
DIET GOALS: Eat regular meals and get my water
EXERCISE GOALS: 30 ds all 3 levels
OTHER GOALS: I want to be able to go ice-skating this winter
OTHER INTERESTS: Dance, Yoga and my friends and family.
OCCUPATION: Clerk

Measurements:
Bust: (right across nipples) 45.5
Waist: 39
Navel-line: 42.25
Hips (widest part!): 43
Calves: R- 16.5, L- 17.5
Arms: (where they jiggle!) R- 16, L-15.5
Thighs: (widest part!) R- 25.5, L- 25.75
Neck: 15.75

My goals for the week:
1. Hit the Gym 6 times, only taking friday off as a rest day., so far I am successful
2. Run a mile in under 9 minutes, I keep getting close, but I don't usually want to push too hard becauseI want to have some energy left over to go longer

Anyone have tips on how to get more vegetables in. My issue with eating healthy has always been that I simply can't stand the taste, texture of most fruits and vegetables. Suggestions? Right now my salads consist of a mixture of lettuce and baby spinach. For fruits I like: grapes, apples, and blueberries.

Anyone have tips on how to get more vegetables in. My issue with eating healthy has always been that I simply can't stand the taste, texture of most fruits and vegetables. Suggestions? Right now my salads consist of a mixture of lettuce and baby spinach. For fruits I like: grapes, apples, and blueberries.

Have you thought about juicing? If most of your problem with fruits and veggies is texture based, you can buy a juicer and throw in a bunch of them. I juice as a supplement to get nutrients, but I've found that adding some fruit can make the juice taste pretty good even though it contains a lot of veggies.

If it's a taste problem, I suggest trying some other "non-standard" fruits and veggies and try to find something you can tolerate, then add it to a salad or into a sauce.