Healthy for the Holidays Challenge - 9/06 - 11/22

Hello everyone! I had a great day yesterday and got most of my water in. Yeah! I did my 30 minutes of cardio and maybe 15 minutes of strength training too.I tried exercises I hadn't done in a long time and felt really good afterwards. I really stayed under on my calories and it wasn't that hard. I haven't actually lost any weight yet but it feels good to be in control of myself for once. I feel empowered and like I can really make this work.
Have a great weekend!

Today is my 7-month anniversary on MFP, and today I hit the 60 lbs. lost mark--only 0.1 lb. away from a healthy BMI! Thanks to all my challenge buddies for supporting me along the way. I still have about 10 lbs. to go to make my Goal Weight, but the hardest part is OVER!

@Rose Congratulations on almost being at a healthy BMI, 60 lbs, that is quite the accomplishment!
@Ailene Glad there is no pain right now, just be sure to not overdo it.
@Helen You are such a blessing to us all with your work with the spreadsheet, thank you!

So far I am doing good with both water and exercise, the weekend is the real test though, I am so bad at getting my water in.
Hope ya'll have a great weekend!
Jenni

I had a tough day food-wise. My husband is on vacation and we met friends for lunch. I just ordered what everyone else was having (hot weiners). After lunch we went for a long walk on a path by the bay.... Tonight, I spent some time planning for tomorrow. I know that if I want to meet my goal, I need to stay focused.

Has anyone done Jillian Michaels' Shape Up Front side/ Back side videos?

I did a search but mostly came up with threads for the most popular JM DVD's like the 30 days shred or ripped in 30.

So, I said I would post more than just my starting weight later and I want to keep my word and commit to the challenge so here goes.

In a previous post: Starting Weight on Tuesday September 6th: 144 pounds

Goal Weight For 11 Weeks From Now: 139 pounds (lose 5 pounds) (lose about 1/2 a pound a week)
(lose the 2.6 pounds I gained back, then lose a "new" 2.4 pounds that I have never lost since joining My Fitness Pal)

Non Scale Victory Goals: Get back on track with the 3 goals I made earlier in 2011.
(1) Stay under my calories 5 to 6 days of the week.
(2) Exercise 180 minutes a week (30 minutes, 6 days a week)
(3) Drink 4 to 6 glasses of water a day.

As for this week's challenge:
(1) 10 glasses of water is too much for my body to handle. Sometimes my body gives me problems when I try to drink 8 glasses. For now I wil stick with my own goal of 4 to 6 glasses a day. I used to be good when it came to drinking water and measuring it out but haven't been good at either of those things lately so will get back on track starting today (since it's after midnight and a new day!).
(2) As for exercising 30 minutes a day, I will go with my NSV goal of 30 minutes 6 days a week so I have a day of rest. So far this week I did jumping jacks for 3 minutes on Monday but our weigh in week didn't start until Tuesday. So here is what I have done from Tuesday on:
Wednesday Sept. 7th: Walked for 13 minutes
Thursday Sept. 8th: Did jumping jacks and sit ups for 9 minutes, Walked for 1 hour and 20 minutes
Friday September 9th: 3 minutes of sit ups (did 30 then took a short break, then did 38)(made/encouraged my husband to do them with me!), 3 minutes of jumping jacks (50, break, 50, break, 25, break, 50, break, 25)

So for My Fitness Pal's exercise week (Monday to Sunday) I have done 111/180 minutes.
For this challenge (Tuesday to Tuesday) I have done 108/210 minutes.
To meet my goal of 180 minutes this week I need to do 69 more minutes so 34.5 minutes on Saturday and 34.5 minutes on Sunday.

Sorry my update is sooooooooooooooooooooo long!

I may have started late, but after only two days of 30 min exercise and 10 glasses of water I feel really good. I always forget how much better I feel when I'm drinking MORE WATER and LESS SODA. I even switched my usual Diet Coke at lunch for a bottle of SmartWater! I'm so proud of myself :happy:

Feeling Great- Hope everyone else is too!
Best of Luck Everyone!:flowerforyou:

I'm starting to track what I eat.


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Yesterday was a much better day. I feel so much better (physically and emotionally) when I am on track. I have a plan for today and I am going to stick to it!!
Have a good day.

I didn't get any exercise in yesterday.. i was having a blah day. the weather is blah. I did get my water in though so i'm 5/7 on water and 4/7 on exercise.

So my food choices were good this weekend. Funny how making myself log it in kept me on track. Did pretty good on the water 8 glasses both days. I did an hour of zumba on Saturday and getting ready to my knee exercises now, so not bad on that either. All in all a good weekend! I am pretty proud of myself, I usually am totally off track on the weekend. :happy:

like everyone else, I was pretty busy all weekend, but managed to get in my challenge requirements. Yesterday I did 50 mins of strength training with my neighbor and then walked to and from the beer festival at my hubby's work place (staying safely off the streets after drinking and got exercise - 2 birds, 1 stone! :laugh:). Today I played 2 games of ultimate.

But the not-so-good-news is that somewhere between beers 4-8 (lost count) I tweaked my knee and noticed it was bothering me on the way home. But of course, I still scaled and jumped fences, climbed through bushed and slid between broken slats of an old wooden fence all to go the short, and more fun, way home. So that did not help my knee, which had me up at 4am for ibuprofin. And I woke up with a head cold to boot. So I played ultimate injured and sick and I'm really paying for it - my knee is sore and stiff and I throat and head hurt like nobody's business.

Anyway, gonna drink a few more glasses of water, watch some TV and ice my knee then get to bed early

Lots of work to do today and I really need to get to the gym. I have a new program with weights and I want to make that a habit. My husband was on vacation last week and so was I! Today....getting my exercise back to the gym. We did go for nice long walks the past three days so I am glad that I got some moving in.
Have a good day.....I saw the scale move down today...so hopefully tomorrow's weigh in will be a good one!

Well sounds like the group has had a lot of ups and downs this week! With the exception of Friday I've been good with the water and exercise, but my eating for the last week has not been so great. I had suspected this would be the case, though, since I was on staycation. Back to work and a normal schedule today! Um, yay? :ohwell:

I've also come to the conclusion that my work is a serious stress/emotional eating trigger for me-as if I didn't have enough reasons to be looking for a new job! I was fine all last week, but then as soon as I started thinking about going back to work and what I had to do, boom, I'm eating everything in site yesterday. Fortunately I realized it and stopped myself before I got too out of control, but man this is just getting rediculous! I mean we all expect some stress from our jobs, but this seems to be bordering on the point of affecting my health.

At any rate, hope everyone is off to a great start to their week!

oh ellen, I know this job has been really hard on you. I think you're wise to be paying attention to the emotional eating triggers and look for a new job. You gotta take care of yourself, girl!

As head colds do, mine is worse today than yesterday, but I'm confident that it'll start getting better tomorrow. My knee is actually not nearly as bad today as I thought it would be. It's only a little stiff and sore. This is good. I'm sure it'll be good as new in just a few days

Happy Monday everyone!
I did really well over the weekend. Got my exercise in Friday and Sunday. I'm doing better with the water although still not up to 10 glasses. I'm working on it though. I'm actually down 1 lb in one week!! I hope everyone has a great week, and stay on track!