20D by Halloween Challenge: WEEK ONE

Back from being out all afternoon. Got my strength training, cardio, and water intake for the day. However, I did felt the earthquake as I was running on the treadmill. I thought it was me. :laugh:

Anyway, did some food shopping and grabbed some lunch. Now I need to reach my net calories for the day and I'm golden. However, I do need to double check my sodium. If I'm a little too high... WATER TIME! :huh:

Day two has been fun! I left early this morning so my children and I could get dropped off for my sons hearing aid appointment. So i was only able to walk arpound town with the kids for a hour.

But tomorrow will be so much better

Struggling with snacking! I want everything in sight recently. I've yet to exercise tonight, but I plan on doing the 30DS and at least 20 mins on the treadmill

Today seemed hard. Wasn't motivated, felt tired/sluggish and had hellish cravings for salt and chocolate.

Went to massage therapy today, worked on my foot (plantar fasciitis) and lower right back (strained this w/e lifting 50 lb box of cat litter to put under cart). That always wipes me out.

Came home, ate dinner and lazed on the couch. Finally got up on the treadmill and, once past my first 20 min (always want to quit) I just zoomed along. Even tried running at walking speed to see if I could successfully run on the treadmill (always been scared to). Worked out mighty fine. Will now do c25k on treadmill.

Definitely got my water in today- that is the one thing I didn't struggle with.

Hope the rest of team #5 is kicking butt!!

I've been doing some pretty good workouts this week. Did a double cardio workout on monday with running/spin and yesterday did a run and a personal trainer session. Bad part is though that I went out with the girls last night and there was alcohol and nachos. Those things still have a hold on me!! :sad: Today I'm super sore, but will try to at least get in a good power walk. I also walk around all day at work, so here's hoping last night doesn't have too much of a negative effect.

Keep up the good work everyone (especially team 6!)

ezak & Bee, I think it's good (and somewhat necessary) to splurge sometimes! I think one splurge day per week shouldn't throw you off too bad. I think it makes being very disciplined the rest of the week a lot easier. That being said, you probably should set a limit for your splurge. And... track EVERY bite, EVERY sip. I know it's hard and I am extremely guilty of not writing down everything I eat. Seeing a lower number makes me feel better when I go over but then I am surprised when I see the scale.

Bee, is TOM around the corner? You know sometimes that can affect your weigh in. A loss is a loss though!!! Don't get discouraged!

I haven't been working out this week but I have been trying to have a very healthy eating week and really working on that aspect of my diet. I have been pretty good about working out lately, but not so much about eating, and I have been on a plateau for months. I think it is time to really FOCUS on my eating for a while until I drop a few pounds. I am going to keep the exercise light for these two weeks, but September 1st starts the Cto5K program. I am excited about that!

Hope everyone has a great day! I am meeting a friend for brunch so hopefully I will make good choices.

ezak & Bee, I think it's good (and somewhat necessary) to splurge sometimes! I think one splurge day per week shouldn't throw you off too bad. I think it makes being very disciplined the rest of the week a lot easier. That being said, you probably should set a limit for your splurge. And... track EVERY bite, EVERY sip. I know it's hard and I am extremely guilty of not writing down everything I eat. Seeing a lower number makes me feel better when I go over but then I am surprised when I see the scale.

Bee, is TOM around the corner? You know sometimes that can affect your weigh in. A loss is a loss though!!! Don't get discouraged!

I haven't been working out this week but I have been trying to have a very healthy eating week and really working on that aspect of my diet. I have been pretty good about working out lately, but not so much about eating, and I have been on a plateau for months. I think it is time to really FOCUS on my eating for a while until I drop a few pounds. I am going to keep the exercise light for these two weeks, but September 1st starts the Cto5K program. I am excited about that!

Hope everyone has a great day! I am meeting a friend for brunch so hopefully I will make good choices.

If my reproductive system agrees with me, it should happen sometime this weekend or the beginning of next week. My periods are usually very irregular that it can go a couple of months without it. When I had my period at the beginning of the month, I went on water overload yet stayed within my range for the day, going over by a couple of calories once. I end up losing 2.5 pounds by week's end.

That's really good Bee! Good for you staying on plan... that's a hard time to do it. I always get bloated and feel "fat" bc I gain up to 4lbs of water weight. Frustrating!!!

Hey Teams 4, 5 & 6...would anyone allow me to join their teams??! Jackee said y'all had only 7 and that I should check with y'all about joining...

I'd LOVE to join this challenge!!

Please let me know!!

I already started doing really well this week, so I am right there with y'all...

THANK YOU!!!!

Does everyone on Team 4 okay with EMQuinn621 joining?

End of day report! I had a healthy breakfast, and a BIG splurg-y lunch. Went to Mimi's Cafe with an out-of-town friend. I got the pancake breakfast. I just couldn't resist. Ended up tacking on about 1200 calories just in that meal alone. I am glad I had a healthy breakfast! Actually though, that meal has stuck with me all day and I am STILL full... probably in part from all the water I've been drinking today. I actually felt a little sick from it. When I eat really healthy, then have a day of not-so-healthy, it makes me feel really icky.

I have had lots of water today but also had a mimosa! At least there was some orange juice in there. This definitely counts as my splurge day and I will be very mindful the rest of the week.

Still haven't felt 100% so I haven't exercised yet this week except for a few crunches and stuff. I really want to start that couch to 5k program asap.

Does anyone on team 6 want to start a team group on facebook? If we are all on there, that would be easy for us to motivate each other and check in. Here is good too!

Hi everyone, day three was pretty good for me. I taught a kick butt spinning class this morning, then I strength trained chest and triceps. My water intake was good. My food choices were good except Chinese at lunch. I had tofu and sushi, resisted the egg roll and lomein, but I did put a hurting on some sushi Lets have a great day tomorrow!!

Go team 6!!!!

(I talked to Jess, would love to get info for everyone else on team 6, thanks, look forward to this challenge with you all)

Welcome EMQuinn621!

I was under calories today with 1 hour of water aerobics.

Morning and welcome EMQuinn621to the team!

Feeling stiff after that Spinning class, so I decided to take aqua aerobics instead today. If I would've taken the body works class, my body would feel worse that it did before.

In the meantime, I'm gonna enjoy my smoothie with extra blueberries added, then figure out what to have for lunch.

Today was a very busy day! Never got a work out in but I did play basketball with my kids and I enjoyed it so much and I did some heavy cleaning ( i just didnt log it in) ! Still having to go for my walk later with my husband I still have a few hours left and I already drank my 8 cups of water and under my calorie count by 111.

Getting kind of worried about my up coming weigh in on Tuesday, but still very excited because its been a long two weeks!

Julieash youc an join team 3 if you would like.

Go team 3!! Hope everyone else had a good day as well.