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LOL Right? This is why it kind of sucks being at my dad's. I don't know what he has and what he doesn't :P

And okay, sounds good!

CHALLENGES!

The challenges for the week (two weeks, whatever) 8/30/11-9/13/11

Nutrition: Drink at least 64oz of water per day.
Exercise: Boost it up a bit and do 30 minutes of exercise 3x per week
And the new one, wellness: Take a BATH once a week to relax the muscles.

There ya go! And since everyone seemed pretty good about doing daily reports, let's continue that!

right! I've just had a lovely long hot bath and I've drunk one pint of water.... about a quarter of what I was supposed to but its a start eh? no exercise yet, but I've got a week to make up for that!!

As long as you get your 3 days in!
I have to find my bath plug before I can, well, take a bath. Otherwise I'm gonna be sitting in an empty tub, haha.
And I usually have no problem with drinking water as long as I'm working. I fill up my 25oz water bottle at LEAST once when I'm at work and I drink more when I work out. We only allow water in my work so it helps

Daily report!

Nutrition: I'm looking at about 60oz right now.
Exercise: Pilates this morning, strength training for an hour.

So my daily report..
Nutrition: I slacked on water. Only about 32oz today because I drank ginger ale with lunch.
Exercise: I walked a lot. Probably about an hour and a half. Going to the gym tomorrow for a real workout.

For those that are interested, me and Ellie are doing a challenge. It's not really incorporated into this forum, and I don't expect a report or anything unless you want to (we talked about it on her status). 1000 situps (or if you have a bad back, crunches) throughout the course of the day. In Ellie's case, she's doing situps, in my case I'm doing crunches. It's up to you. But remember, they work different muscle groups

So me and kassette are starting the 30 Day Shred tomorrow. If anyone's interested, feel free to post your stories of success, or agony, on here If you're in the middle of it, that counts too. It's not a "challenge" per say, but it's just a little outside-forum activity.

And my daily report!
Nutrition: Only 32oz of water.. still working on my second water bottle.
Exercise: 10min of cardio, about 40-45 of strength.

Welcome Brittany!
Kassette hit it right on the head. 64oz is the goal, but obviously if you can hit more than that, that's even better. College is the best time to start anew. I tried doing that.. and then I messed up my hip and life got screwed up after that :P So my second year is the starting anew! I think 180s is the perfectly realistic goal for November 20th.
We kind of do a little bit of everything here. We do daily reports with the challenges, which we'll be halfway through this upcoming Tuesday so you have plenty of time to jump in And like kassette said, we do them biweekly, so every other Tuesday we change challenges. You don't HAVE to do a daily report, it just keeps us up to date with who's completing the challenges to see if we should actually continue them.

Today I had that bridal shower. I TURNED DOWN RED VELVET CAKE. I needed to put that in caps because it's a huge accomplishment for me. I was so hungry and was having a sugar crash, but I hadn't had a real dinner yet so I turned down the cake. Red velvet is my FAVORITE and looked so freakin' delicious and I said no. When the shower started, I ate a couple club crackers with cheese, and celery sticks with french onion dip. And I drank water instead of coffee or soda. I call this a success. Oh, and I won prizes with Lindt chocolate in them and I only ate ONE.

So since I'm pretty much done eating for the night, here's my daily report.
Nutrition: I slacked on water. Had only about 24oz today, but tomorrow will be much better. Will be working out more
Exercise: Did the 30DS Level 1, so only 20 minutes, but I did help a bit with moving chairs for the shower.

Nutrition: Ughhh.. 32oz of water today. Not awful, but not great, lol.
Exercise: 45 minutes of strength training. Didn't do 30DS today, bf was sick so I went to tend to him instead, haha.

Now to put together some stuff for school.

By the way, I'm down to a size 6 in pants

Well, each level your body will probably ache for the first day or two. When it stops aching, that's when you know you need to go to the next level I'll probably be doing it longer than you since I didn't do it yesterday and school's starting up tomorrow (blah).

And I'll never forget about you! I'm gonna stay on here even after I reach my goal in order to maintain.. Or else I know I'll gain it right back, haha.

Tomorrow will either be a 30DS AND gym day, or just one. I worked my *kitten* off today and even blew off going to the gym simply because I walked so damn much and busted *kitten* at work today (start of the semester, lots of new Freshman signing up for the gym.. FML!). A few NSV's today, though!

NSV #1: 9am- Walked the 10 flights of stairs (or maybe more? lost count) to the 5th floor for my Anatomy class. Could definitely feel it, but I wasn't CRAWLING by the time I hit the 4th floor like I used to.
NSV #2: 10am- Sitting with a friend/classmate that I haven't seen since the end of last semester. We both put on a lot of weight and have been eating healthy and losing weight. We ate fruit and she says to me "I've been watching your losses through Facebook. You can definitely notice it. You look awesome!" Why, thank you, Megan
NSV #3: 10:30am- Walked from one campus to another. I did it regularly before, but dreaded it, even though it was only a 5 minute walk. Today, I didn't even look to see if a shuttle was around. I simply started walking and even ran at the end!

And here's my daily report.

Nutrition: Had a Gatorade for a majority of the day, unfortunately. But I drank about 32oz of water at work if not more. Lost count, lol.
Exercise: Metric **** ton of walking and going up stairs. Plus work in and of itself was a fabulous workout.