October Calorie Burn Challenge - Week 1

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  • getsveltEagain
    getsveltEagain Posts: 1,063 Member
    ahhh found it, it was right at the bottom of the page,
    ty for that

    :wink:
  • amazing_grace♥
    amazing_grace♥ Posts: 620
    Thanks carrriebear for answering questions on the forum!! Appreciate your willingness to jump right in there!! Also, you were kickin some behind working out today... wow!!

    Me,
    Cleaning my apartment today - 307 calories
    cooking / food preparation - 55 calories
    Zumba class tonight (my first!) - 295 calories

    TOTAL - 657 calories today

    under calorie goal
    10 waters
    100 ab crunches :smile:

    Where is everybody??!
  • carriel1976
    carriel1976 Posts: 129 Member
    Today was a great day for me. This morning I took an hour and a half walk while pushing my very lazy 5 year old and 2 year old in the sit and stand stroller on the bike path. I went home and while my 2 year old napped I burned 600 calories on my bike and did 100 crunches. Tonight after the kids went to bed I did 500 more calories on my bike. I also did some squats and worked on my arms. I was way under calories, but I feel really full-I know you aren't supposed to do that but i'm not going to force feed myself I doubt I am really in starvation mode. I drank 9 cups of water today.
  • cath1717
    cath1717 Posts: 120
    Wednesday, October 5th,

    Today, I still have the flu, BUT I still did:

    - Walk on my lunch break = 135 calorie burned
    - Boxe Lessons = 561 calorie burned
    TOTAL CALORIE BURNED: 696

    - Jumping rope 900 / 1000 for the week
    - Abs: 475 / 1000 for the week
    - Push ups: 75 / 250 for the week

    - Under calories
    - More than 10 glass of water

    @Moon_light10 I think in the Google DOC, you have to write 5 points if you are under your calories and not how calories left you have :wink:

    Have a nice day!

    Cath1717
  • getsveltEagain
    getsveltEagain Posts: 1,063 Member
    Today, took my walks during my breaks, Walking, 3.0 mph, 20mins burning 85 calories, 50 pushups for my personal challenge, Calisthenics (pushups, sit-ups), vigorous effort 15mins burning 155 calories, and Running (jogging), 5 mph (12 min mile) for 30mins burning 310 (this may increase if I have time between work and school). Total that is 550 calories for the day plus the 460 so far this week means I have 1,010 for the week... leaving 990 for the week. (halfway there!!!)

    I didn't go over my calories :wink:

    I did get all my water in staying at the 8 glasses

    Keep it up everyone! :flowerforyou:

    actually went to the bar after class to shoot pool, added 4 more glasses of water!
  • getsveltEagain
    getsveltEagain Posts: 1,063 Member
    Thanks carrriebear for answering questions on the forum!! Appreciate your willingness to jump right in there!! Also, you were kickin some behind working out today... wow!!

    You're very welcome! Thanks for letting me know that 8-9 glasses of water is the one point and 10 or more is 2 points. That is really helpful. I couldn't find it on the thread anywhere!? lol
  • amazing_grace♥
    amazing_grace♥ Posts: 620


    @Moon_light10 I think in the Google DOC, you have to write 5 points if you are under your calories and not how calories left you have :wink:

    Have a nice day!

    Cath1717


    Yes Cath1717 - you are correct about the points. It's 5 points if you are under your calorie goal for the day. It's 1 point if you have 8 or 9 glasses of water (NO POINTS if you don't make it to 8!) and then 2 points if you have 10 or more glasses of water!!

    I didn't realize that I had not put the calorie goal points and the water points in the instructions at the beginning of this thread - I"M SO SORRY!! :blushing:

    Thanks cath - for your clarification - and I hope you get to feeling better SOON!!
  • amazing_grace♥
    amazing_grace♥ Posts: 620
    Tonight I did a short walk that burned about 145 calories.
    100 crunches

    10 glasses of water
    under calorie goal!

    Whoo hoo!!
  • getsveltEagain
    getsveltEagain Posts: 1,063 Member
    Yesterday, took my walks during my breaks, Walking, 3.0 mph, 20mins burning 85 calories and 100 lunges for my personal challenge, Calisthenics (pushups, sit-ups), vigorous effort 15mins burning 155 calories. Total that is 230 calories for the day plus the 1,010 so far this week means I have 1,240 for the week... leaving 760 for the week.
    I didn't go over my calories :wink:

    I did get all my water in and went to 11 glasses

    How is everyone doing this week? :huh:
  • carriel1976
    carriel1976 Posts: 129 Member
    I did well today-rode my bike to burn 1144 calories. I also did my 100 crunches-they are not getting easier yet, but I am finally less sore afterward. I love this challenge it is keeping me very motivated-Thank you Amazing Grace for starting it! I hope everyone is doing well. Oh yah today was exciting because when I weighed myself I was in the 130's (139.5) for the first time in a while!
    :drinker:
  • getsveltEagain
    getsveltEagain Posts: 1,063 Member
    Today, took my walks during my breaks, Walking, 3.0 mph, 20mins burning 85 calories and 50 crunches for my personal challenge, Calisthenics (pushups, sit-ups), vigorous effort 15mins burning 155 calories. Total that is 230 calories for the day plus the 1,240 so far this week means I have 1,470 for the week... leaving 530 for the week.

    I went over my calories but not by much and a date to the movies is pretty impressive (for me anyway :wink:)

    I did get all my water in and went to 10 glasses

    Tomorrow I will be walking all over the Ren Fest here in Ohio so that will burn me some good calories! Anyone else have plans for the weekend?
  • carriel1976
    carriel1976 Posts: 129 Member
    Oooh I love the Renn faire-have a great time. I am taking my kids to a place we have here (CT) called The Dinosaur Place. They have walking trails in the woods with life size dinosaur statues throughout the hike.
  • carriel1976
    carriel1976 Posts: 129 Member
    Woo hoo weigh in day. I lost 1.5 pounds and an inch off each thigh. I somehow didn't realize until last night that we didn't log our calories burned and personal challenges on Sundays so I had to do 200 crunches in order to make my personal goal. I hope everyone else had a great week.
  • cath1717
    cath1717 Posts: 120
    Sunday, October 9th,

    Today, I still have the flu and tired of it!!!!! BUT I still did:

    - Walk with my dog
    - Did the rest of my personnal challenge
    - Walk on my treadmill
    TOTAL CALORIE BURNED: 722

    - Jumping rope 1000 / 1000 for the week
    - Abs: 1000 / 1000 for the week
    - Push ups: 250 / 250 for the week

    I can believe that even if I was sick this week and didn't train as much as I wanted, I lost 2.5 pounds and inches! Yeah :drinker:

    *** QUESTION ***
    @Amazing, is it better to put in the DOC Day 1, 2, 3 istead of Monday, Tuesday etc. The reason is that today I catch up for all my personnal challenges of the week cause I was sick, so Sunday it wasn't my rest day at all :tongue: So I put my calories burned of sunday on the saturday. It's just a suggestion :smile:

    Also, do we have any points for doing all our personnal challenges for the week? If so, I don't know how to calculate it and how much it's worth. Thankd :flowerforyou:

    Have a nice day!

    Cath1717
  • getsveltEagain
    getsveltEagain Posts: 1,063 Member
    Yesterday I walked all over the Ren fest... My exercise was Walking, 2.5 mph, leisurely pace for 180 burning 698. If you add that to the 1470 I have 2168!!!! I just made the goal :D

    Let's get ready for the next week and burn those calories :laugh:
  • amazing_grace♥
    amazing_grace♥ Posts: 620
    I am in Nashville this week on vacation!! Woot woot!! :heart:

    I added "SUNDAY" to the google docs spreadsheet, for those of you that asked for a SUNDAY because you exercise on Sundays too. If you typically use Sunday as your rest day, just leave it blank.

    Don't forget that each week our Calorie burn challenge goes up by 500 calories. This week we will be burning at LEAST 2500 calories!

    The new thread for Week 2 is here......
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/363681-october-calorie-burn-challenge-week-2
  • amazing_grace♥
    amazing_grace♥ Posts: 620
    Sunday, October 9th,

    *** QUESTION ***
    @Amazing, is it better to put in the DOC Day 1, 2, 3 istead of Monday, Tuesday etc. The reason is that today I catch up for all my personnal challenges of the week cause I was sick, so Sunday it wasn't my rest day at all :tongue: So I put my calories burned of sunday on the saturday. It's just a suggestion :smile:

    Also, do we have any points for doing all our personnal challenges for the week? If so, I don't know how to calculate it and how much it's worth. Thankd :flowerforyou:

    Have a nice day!

    Cath1717

    @cath1717 - I added a SUNDAY to the spreadsheet. You can make whatever day you want to a rest day. (Since not everybody takes the same "rest day" I thought this would be easier).

    Also, you get 5 points if you complete your personal challenge for the week. Just add 5 points to row 38 on the google docs spreadsheet. Let me know if you have any other questions.


    The new thread for Week 2 is here......
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/363681-october-calorie-burn-challenge-week-2
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