Perfect Ten (Closed group)

Feel free to inbtroduce yourself, and anything else.

I am 30 years old, I live in Cudahy, WI a suburb of Milwaukee, WI, yes, beer and cheese! to bad I can't drink beer, and I need to limit my cheese intake. My kids are my 3 cats, Jack, Monte, and Wiskey. I live with my finacee, Mark, he has probably been my biggest support thru my weight loss, and weight gain over the past 7 years. Yes, he and I do get in many arguments, we both have a hard heeded, stubborn streak, and our family backgrounds, and eating habbits are very different. Just as an example, he loves anything fried, and swimming in gravy, me I prefer simplicity, but I'm a ribs, wings sloppy bar food girl, he is very particuler about how he eats, and hates getting messy with food. I also love to experiment with cooking, and always making new things., with just a few ingredients.

mark and I recently bougth some land in the Wisconsin dells area, I refer to it as "Condo land" as the plot is ours, it's a locked community, and we pay monthly dues. very exciting, as those are our stacations, which I do have alot of planting to do up their next year.

As far as weight: I am 5'2" I have been around 140 most of my life, I think I may have been 120 inlike 6 or 7 grade! When I learned about fruity yummy adult beverages I went up to 170, lost it when I started dating mark, then went thru a bnch of different birth control pills, for out of control hormones, the last one I was one, I went up to 173! I have since changed birth control pills, which I think may be helping in lowering my weight. However, without making some lifestyle changes i know it will come back. My mom's side of the family is full of individuals who are morbidly obese, they have heart problems, diabeties, 2 years ago my mos older sister, I barely know alot of my family, passed away, she had a bad liver, from being over weight, something that was generally saw in alcoholics. It is scary to think about how many health conditions your weight contributes to, and this has opened my eyes. I have also spent many years trying to quit smoking, and exercise helps curb the cravings.

Their is so much to me, I think this is more of a synopses. Feel free to ask any questions at any time, good luck, and welcome, we can do great, Win, loos, or draw, I am happy, as lond as we give it our all, and the only person who is cheated is yourself.

Melissa-
I hear you about being out in the cold, it stinks, when you need a winter jacket, boots, and whatever else to get you thru. I don't know if any schools by you do this, the High School in Cudahy, for $5 gioves youa pass, and you can keep it for as long as you want, and walk the halls after school hours, during the school year. I am planning on doing that.

Michelle-
Congratulations on being engaged, and soon to be married! I understand slow loss is disapointing, but remeber slow is goog, the weight can stay off better this way.

Lynda-
I know what you mean by the Ahh moment, I think it really kicked in gear when the doctors scale told me 173! I weighed 173 before I joined MFP, I lost weight before joining, but a friend told me aboiut this, and really got me hooked. ( P.S. don't be afraid of cooking, feel free to pick my brain anytime. My younger sister used to make fun of me for watching cooking shows, and now, I'm the one who can cook, my mom turns to me about sauces and marinades, once you know the basics, your imagination is the limit.) great thought with the no excuses, I love it!

John-
I know what you mean about the metabolism slowing down, it happened to my brother after he left the Army, he is 40, loves working on computers, I love him, but would love to see hi more active, like I remeber him being, he is also 9.5 years older then I am. Bread, and pasta, my favorietes, my favorite food was left over noodles, smothered in ranch, the microwaved, and swimming in Parmesion cheese, now that just sounds gross to me, especially thinking about the oil left behind. Sounds like you have a wonderful support team at home.

Tiffany-
I love couponing! it's like a cheap thrill, what can I get for nothing.

Lynda, I love baking too, it took my years to be able to get it right, some old ladies at one of my jobs gave me tips and tricks to bake better, and it made all the diference.
Brandi-
You will hit that 130! If it wasn't for you I wouldn't be here at MFP now.

I did see a sneak peak at the first weeks challenges, something different everyday! It's alot of work, but I'm sure we can all do it. I'm going to push myself to do the harder sets at least everyother day, Sunday's are a free day. I know their are a few questions about start dates, which is why I have not given the exercise information out yet.

Lindsay

MFP has been great, all the support to keep us on track, I love it.

I hope everyone is ready for this: September challenge information.

I apologize.....it was late last night. I am reposting the exercises for the first week!

HESE ARE THE ADVANCED EXERCISES! I will post the youtube videos tomorrow!

SEPTEMBER CHALLENGE
WEEK 1 – BUSHMEN SERIES (Advanced)
Week One Daily Exercise Challenge
Each team member that completes their daily exercise challenge receives one point, if all team members complete each daily exercise for all 6 days the team is then awarded an additional 5 Bonus Points.
Welcome to 300 Week You will do 6 exercises at 50 reps as quickly as possible 3 times this week. These are not to be broken up into segments. You are the BUSHMEN it’s time to push yourself!
Day 1 - 50 Squat Kicks, 50 Jumping Jacks , 50 Crunches, 50 Mountain Climbers, 50 Wood Chops and last but not least 50 Globe Jumps!
Day 2 - 2 sets of 15 Swimmer’s Presses, 2 sets of 21’s, 2 sets of 15 Dumbbell Chest Fly’s, 2 Sets of 15 Lawnmowers, 2 sets of Tricep Kickbacks, 2 sets of 15 Shoulder Shrugs (weighted)
Day 3 - 50 Squat Kicks, 50 Jumping Jacks , 50 Crunches, 50 Mountain Climbers, 50 Wood Chops and last but not least 50 Globe Jumps!
Day 4 - REST YOU DESERVE IT!

*******Please watch the videos as they may differ from your version of the exercise!*********
Week One Weekly Team Challenge
Each team member in order to get the weekly team bonus points must all log every day and not go over their target calories and log at least 64 oz. of water each day. If each team member does this all 6 days your team will be awarded 5 Bonus Points. *Feel free to do these exercises in sets if you are unable to do them all at one time. Please do your best as you are much stronger than you believe.

I will post the videos this evening!

I messaged Gary about the spreedsheet, i have not yet received it. If you want to enter your own info that would be fine.

I was worried with the jumping jacks. Old house, hard wood floors, let me tell you!