Bootcamp! 9/11-10/11

jennelle: 141.4 :sad:

ok i know im the only one posting on this board right now, and most of you are probably out enjoying your friday night - but im lame and have plans the next two nights so im staying in and thinking all about health and fitness so after all my complaining in my last post, i decided to do a piyo workout after john left (it's another workout program by chalene johnson that combines pilates and yoga and some other awesome stuff and it's an AMAZING strength workout that still burns calories and you don't need weights, just your body!) i am SO glad i chose to do this workout because i forgot that a) it would be dark out if i went for a run at 7:00...silly shorter days! and b) i LOVE this workout! interestingly enough, when i finished my workout, i had a post on my facebook wall informing me of a piyo instructor training in a month - i think i'm going to do it! that way i will be certified to teach turbo kick and piyo and when im FINALLY done with school i can start to teach them both! YAY!!!

i hope you all have a fabulous evening! now that i burned 400 cals i can shower and eat an actual dinner and not stress about it! woot!

thanks nikki! i am excited to do the piyo training and finally have time to start dedicating to teaching and moving into the career i really want to be in - health and wellness!

i woke up around 9:00, just had a bowl of granola with almond milk, and now im going to change and get ready to go to turbo kick! great way to start my saturday! then it's off to the grocery store to get some goods for the week and to bring to the party we're going to tonight and tomorrow. i've already got my drinks figured out (selzter and vodka - 60 cals a pop!) but i need to figure out what to bring that is on the healthier side, yet still delicious it will be hard to stay in my calories this weekend, but that's why im making sure to work out today and hopefully tomorrow (even though sunday is usually my rest day - so we'll see!).

nikki - have a great time at your weddings! they can still be fun even if you don't know anyone just reminisce about your own wedding and snuggle up close to the hubby

everyone else - have a great weekend!!! and MOVE YO BUTT!

christina - your elliptical workouts are amazing! whenever you post your exercise on those days im so impressed! you are killin it girl! i definitely agree that strength workouts are necessary, and they really do help with the fat burt too - it just sucks because you don't see the calorie burn as much ive try to alternate every day between cardio and strength, but usually get in a little more cardio than strength a week (which is ok, it's recommended to do 3 days of strength a week). also, sometimes i combine them, i do a short cardio, and cool down with strength. but - strength doesn't HAVE to be weights! pilates or yoga workouts are strength as well - you gain a lot of muscle mass doing these kinds of workouts, and thats actually been my preferred type of strength training these days! i highly recommend trying some - there are some great dvds for at home yoga (jillian michaels has a really good one thats only 35 mins) if you're looking for something

nikki - im so sorry to hear you fell! i hope you're ok! that sounds painful! but i like your determined attitude! sometimes moving helps injuries the most anyway im also sorry to hear about your experience with drinking this year - that sounds terrifying on so many levels. again though, you have a great attitude - it's true that you don't NEED alcohol to have a good time, and anyone who feels that way should really start to consider what that means for them. i certainly enjoy a night of drinking with my friends, but there are plenty of times that i hang out with my friends and barely drink at all and still have a great time anyway - i hope you have a great day golfing! that is fantastic exercise! i hope your foot heals asap!

afm (as for me) - i did ok yesterday - not the best ive ever done, but pretty good. i ate a breakfast before turbo (smart choice for me) went to the class, burned 565 cals (woot woot), went grocery shopping for an hour (trying to find the healthiest options to bring to the party we were at least night and today), came home and made a low cal lunch, and then started baking. for last night's party, my friend asked us to bring sweet stuff because she didnt have time to make anything sweet - that's the hardest stuff to make healthy! i had some slice and bake chocolate chip cookies in the fridge that i had bought to make for my class this summer but never did (i gave them truffles instead haha) so i made a ton of those - and amazingly only ate one while baking (and it was a cooked one! im such a sucker for raw cookie dough so this was an nsv for me haha). then i decided to make these cinnamon strudel muffins with a healthier recipe (almost milk instead of regular milk, apple sauce instead of vegetable oil, and egg whites instead of eggs) - they turned out yummy and like a healthy sweet treat! i made half-muffins so they were like little sweet muffins treats for 75 cals! not bad i also made banana nut fiber one muffins for the party we are supposed to be going to today, and again used apple sauce and egg whites! i licked a bunch of the batter as i was cooking, but i was pretty good about not eating the food as i made it - which is so hard to do! i took a nap and then went to my friends party, with lots of cals to spare i made flavored seltzer and whipped cream vodka drinks all night - 60 cals a pop! so great, because i had roughly 5 of them and it was only 300 cals - which is less than 3 bud lights! and i was very very drunk haha i can't be sure how much i ate - i guessed 825 cals, but it's so hard to tell - i had a helping of home made mac and cheese (probably the worst thing i ate all night), two slices of low cal home made margarita pizza, some reduced fat cape cod potato chips with a little ranch dip, a couple of the slice and bake cookies, a small slice of brownie, and two pieces of mozzarella, tomato, and prosciutto appetizer rounds - i think that's it? ugh parties are so hard. it wasn't my best party eating, but it wasn't my worst either. all and all im pretty ok with the way i ate yesterday we are supposed to be going to our friends house warming party (except its just a new apartment, not a house warming haha) from 1:00-5:00 (we haven't even showered yet so 1:00 is definitely not happening haha) and i don't think i'll have a big of a problem with food today because i don't plan to be there long and im not as hungry, and it's during the day on a sunday so i don't plan to drink much, other than maybe a couple glasses of wine. i also want to get in some exercise today, but im not sure i'll have the time before we try to go, so it might have to wait until later, which is never my favorite, so, we'll see. anyway, i think that's enough out of me for my first bootcamp weekend, having to go to two parties makes for a big challenge - but so i life

hope everyone else has a great sunday! yay football starts!!!

also, i can't believe its been 10 years since 9/11. so much has happened in these 10 years. the only thing that keeps running through my head today as i see footage and remembrances and tributes is.... united we stand

welcome geri!! it's so great to have you! this is going to be a great support system! this support has always been the extra part that i absolutely LOVE!

a little background on me - in january 2009 i finally decided, at 30lbs overweight and climbing, it was time to take control im a HUGE fan of the biggest loser, and so i joined the biggest loser club online - which is where this awesome bootcamp program comes from in fact! i started tracking my food and worked out six days a week using the at home dvd program Turbo Jam (which im obsessed with btw, and have upgraded to Turbo Fire - best workouts ever!). by may i had lost the 30lbs and had begun a healthy lifestyle i knew would stick i still have obstacles of course, and this summer was one of the toughest (im in my last year of a 5 year doctoral program and was teaching four days a week, writing my dissertation proposal, collecting data, and working on two other collaborating projects!) i let myself not stress over it this summer because i KNOW i am now a person who cares about health and wellness and being active! and also - ive got this awesome bootcamp program up my sleeve to whip out whenever i need a little kick in the *kitten* so here we are!

just to give you a little info on how we all know each other - nikki and i met online doing the original bootcamp with the BLC back in 2009 and have stayed connected every since! maria and christina are sisters (and my sisters as well, though not biologically and no longer legally, but that's another story haha) and erienne and i are in grad school together! all of us except erienne have done bootcamp before, so feel free to ask any of us questions as we go along! i'll let the ladies tell you a little bit about themselves if they choose!

i like to use this board to vent, give a little recap of how im doing, and listen to all of you do the same feel free to post anything at all here, we're a very supportive group

congrats on getting started with us, and again WELCOME!!!

haha christina is totally cool - as you WELL know, im a little long winded this message board is here for you to use as much or as little as you want to use it i like to talk and share my experiences so i'll likely be using it a lot

nikki - so sorry to hear about your neck that's a bummer, and sounds painful! i have a pinched nerve in my left elbow that acts up now and again - and when it acts up, my entire arm an hand through my pinky finger go completely numb to the point where i can't feel i have an arm and have almost broken my fingers because they didn't feel like there were there and i bent them back by accident! eek! hopefully yours never does that do whatever you can that doesn't cause pain! that's what i say!

as for the hrm - the ePulse2 is 10000 times better than the bowlfex watch we both had (sadly, because i thought that watch was the bees knees back then haha). however, i started to realize that it was WAY over estimating my calories burned - and i finally thought about the fact that it never asks you for gender, age, or weight - so how can it really know how many calories you should be burning based on your heart rate? i think it just assumes you are an average female and goes from there (i say female because it's a pink watch haha). the ePulse2 starts by asking age, gender, weight, and name (yay!) and then checks your resting heart rate so that i know what an elevated heart rate is for YOU! for example, john (my boyfriend for those of you who don't know) apparently has an absurdly low resting heart rate - we thought his wasn't working at first, but his heart rate can sometimes be as long as 58! (he's about 6', 205lbs so nothing crazy, and he's not SUPER healthy, but he's not very unhealthy either, i think it's just a normal variant). but you can imagine that an elevated heart rate for him might be lower than 100 even. for me, my resting heart rate is roughly between 75-85 and anything above 125 means im actually being acted! and the glorious ePulse2 knows this plus, i can't tell you how lovely it is to turn it on every day and see "welcome jennellee!" (yes, there's an extra e at the end because apparently i can't spell my own name right and i typed it in like this - bah!). anyway, i think the ePulse2 is much better and totally worth the money and has helped me accurately assess my calorie burn!

ok gotta go - dinner time!

hi bootcampers! today marks the end of week #1, the start of week #2, and our first weigh-in! i am going to start a new thread for week #2, but our last posts on this thread will be week #1 total ponts, weight loss, and % weight loss. when you go to post, please copy everything i've written below, and add yourself (just like we did for the initial weigh-in!) i hope everyone had a great first week!!!


Week #1 Points & Weigh-In

Jennelle: Total Points = 218, Weight Loss = 2lbs, % Weight Loss = 1.41%