NYBNY Challenge October (closed group)

I posted this NSV on my status, but I'll post it here, too, since that is also one of our weekly challenges and I might not be guaranteed another. In October I ran more than 113 miles! Yipee!

Congrats!!! That's a wonderful NSV!

Ok, I was worried about Meatless Monday because, it turns out, I eat meat for most of my main meals. So, when dinner arrived, i tried some Morning Star corndogs that are meatless and DAMN!! They were delicious!!!

I posted this NSV on my status, but I'll post it here, too, since that is also one of our weekly challenges and I might not be guaranteed another. In October I ran more than 113 miles! Yipee!

Congrats!!! That's a wonderful NSV!

Ok, I was worried about Meatless Monday because, it turns out, I eat meat for most of my main meals. So, when dinner arrived, i tried some Morning Star corndogs that are meatless and DAMN!! They were delicious!!!

the "chicken" nuggets are also really good

Agreed. And so are the chik-n patties. Also, I like the Boca All-American flame grilled burgers and so do my kids.

I posted this NSV on my status, but I'll post it here, too, since that is also one of our weekly challenges and I might not be guaranteed another. In October I ran more than 113 miles! Yipee!

Congrats!!! That's a wonderful NSV!

Ok, I was worried about Meatless Monday because, it turns out, I eat meat for most of my main meals. So, when dinner arrived, i tried some Morning Star corndogs that are meatless and DAMN!! They were delicious!!!

the "chicken" nuggets are also really good

Agreed. And so are the chik-n patties. Also, I like the Boca All-American flame grilled burgers and so do my kids.

I went meatless over the summer and fell in love with the MSF products Eating meat again but would rather have a MSF prime griller over a regular burger I like to slice the boco spicy chicken patties and put them over a salad yumm!!

K, now I'm craving some Morning Star!! HAHAHAH!!! I'll have to see if my Costco sells them in larger sizes. The ones at the grocery story are very small. The corndogs lasted maybe three days. My son had them for lunch and LOVED them! So I'll have to stock up

Now I'm excited to try some of the other MSF products. I love the breakfast sausage. I ended up buying those to use in my squash recipe tomorrow. The recipe calls for sausage crumbles, but I couldn't find them, so I will chop up the breakfast patties.

My NSV is that today I am wearing a dress I haven't been able to wear in a couple of years. It feels great becuase I didn't do real great last month, so to know I still made progress is very helpful.

Awesome!! That's such a great feeling

I forgot, I had a little social/fitness NSV yesterday. I'm a little bit shy to talk in public and I know I come off unfriendly. Well I've been in this particular Zumba class for months and I've said little to the teacher due to a huge girlcrush. She just seem SOOO cool and such a great dancer. Well she pulled out the belly dancing skirts with the bells on it and when she asked who wanted to wear them, I raised my hand first and took one. I was so proud of myself! I love wearing them because I seem to work harder in classl. I swear those skirts really make you work harder just so you can hear the bells jingle. I was drenched in sweat and felt SO good! And I didn't have to take any breaks between dances!

I Zumba!

Do we have a November thread yet? Or should I post my strength training exercise here?

I like to do wall pushups (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RtM3L00BUU). It is great becuase you can do it anywhere.

This is my favorite inner thigh strength training exercise.. Once you get used to it add some ankle weights The exercise is at the 2.08 mark in the video but all these leg exercises are great


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJJQz6Kt9MA

perfect! thanks a lot.

Alrighty...I'm already lost on the strength training points for today. But I'll do my best.

I'm at work and unable to watch videos so I'm not sure who's posted what but this is something we do in our Wednesday Get Pumped class that has my calves and thighs burning by the end.

Stand with your feet together and lift your heels together for a count of 10. Then, without stopping, point your toes to the corners of the room (making a V shape with your feet) and lift your heels to a count of 10. Change your foot placement again, without much pause, and point your toes together, lifting your heels for a count of 10.

You feel stupid doing this but I promise you, after 3 sets, your muscles are BURNING!! She has us do 5 sets of each while holding hand weights. The movements are small and not exaggerated, just simple smooth up and down. And switching between positions is a fluid change without stopping for more than one count.

Enjoy!

I am so bad at plyometric stuff! I was so envious of this guy I saw at the gym last week--he was standing on top of a swiss/balance ball and throwing a medicine ball at the floor below him SO HARD that it bounced up back to him like a basketball. Rinse and repeat. OMG.

I like to do my push-ups on an upside down BOSU. If I'm feeling really nuts, I'll put my shins on a balance ball as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyfSAou5mfk

Today I thanked one of my good girlfriends for always being there to listen and let me vent as well as bounce ideas off of her. I also thanked her for being a great wine drinking partner

I'd like to thank Lauren (dipsl19) for being a supportive MFP friend and keeping me in check, so thanks Lauren!

I am thankful for my amazing family and super supportive fiance who works his butt off so i have the luxury of staying home with our son. I am thankful for all of my friends especially my 91 year old grammy who happens to be one of the best friends a girl could ask for. I feel soo blessed

I am thankful for my mom for always helping me out when I need it. (Which is far too often)

I'm going to do some Turbo Jam tonight with a friend. I'll be doing the cardio workout, so it's a lot of punches and kicks

I'm BACK!! We're all moved in.

I'd like to thank Lorie for not kicking me out of the challenge while we were moving!! Hahahaha.

I wanted to see if I could find a short stretching video on YouTube I could do at work and I tried this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFBX9PDElco&feature=related It isn't so much a workout as just showing how to do some basic office stretches. I paused the clip after each exercise so I could do it. It took a little over 5 minutes and actually felt pretty good.