"Life's New Journey" November Challenge Week 2
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luvs_choc8
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Happy Monday to All,
This is the first post for Week 2 of our November Challenge and will contain Mini Challenges for the entire week. This will hopefully make it easier for everybody to find the challenges. I will continue to review every day and add a Quote of the Day. Hopefully this will work better,
:flowerforyou: Monday Mini Challenge:
Food- stay below allowed calorie limit.
Cardio- do a 3 mile or 45 minute brisk walk.
Strength- 100 crunches (three different kinds)
:flowerforyou: Tuesday Mini Challenge:
Food- Give up one of your comfort or must have foods for the full day and maybe continue the whole week.
Cardio- Do 100 jumping jacks throughout the day
Strength- Do 10 sets of 10 tricep kickbacks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO81bExngMI&feature=relmfu
:flowerforyou: Wednesday Mini Challenge:
Food- Try to prepare from scratch everything you eat today. If it takes less than 5 minutes to prepare or comes in a box, chances are it is not the healthiest.
Cardio- power knees http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U6AVmC9C8U
Strength- Do 10 sets of 10 squats
:flowerforyou: Thursday Mini Challenge:
Food- Carb Reduction. For one day cut your carbs in half. If you on average consume 150 then try to drop it to 75. Analyze what kind of carbs you are eating.
Cardio/Strength- Circuit Training, Do the following circuit three times. 25 jumping jacks, 25 sit ups, 25 push ups.
:flowerforyou: Friday Mini Challenge:
Food- Sodium reduction. Try to decrease your sodium by 500mg.
Cardio- Interval training. Warm up for 5 minutes, jog for 1 minute, walk for 1 minute, X8 reps, cool down for 5 minutes
Strength- Can't ever do enough crunches. Lets do 100+5 (3 different kinds)
:flowerforyou: Saturday Mini Challenge:
Food- Make sure you are not snacking on bad foods. Keep your snacks healthy. (fruits, vegetables, nuts etc)
Cardio/Strength- Saturday is my house cleaning day and actually burns a fair amount of calories. Move the furniture and give a thorough clean today.
:flowerforyou: Sunday Mini Challenge:
Food- make sure you are being honest with everything you consume.
Cardio/Strength- we all deserve a day of rest and relaxation so today, take a leisurely walk outside with your children, pet or just yourself and enjoy the world around you.
Please continue to post progress and general discussions here for week 2.
Keep Smiling
Donna
This is the first post for Week 2 of our November Challenge and will contain Mini Challenges for the entire week. This will hopefully make it easier for everybody to find the challenges. I will continue to review every day and add a Quote of the Day. Hopefully this will work better,
:flowerforyou: Monday Mini Challenge:
Food- stay below allowed calorie limit.
Cardio- do a 3 mile or 45 minute brisk walk.
Strength- 100 crunches (three different kinds)
:flowerforyou: Tuesday Mini Challenge:
Food- Give up one of your comfort or must have foods for the full day and maybe continue the whole week.
Cardio- Do 100 jumping jacks throughout the day
Strength- Do 10 sets of 10 tricep kickbacks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO81bExngMI&feature=relmfu
:flowerforyou: Wednesday Mini Challenge:
Food- Try to prepare from scratch everything you eat today. If it takes less than 5 minutes to prepare or comes in a box, chances are it is not the healthiest.
Cardio- power knees http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U6AVmC9C8U
Strength- Do 10 sets of 10 squats
:flowerforyou: Thursday Mini Challenge:
Food- Carb Reduction. For one day cut your carbs in half. If you on average consume 150 then try to drop it to 75. Analyze what kind of carbs you are eating.
Cardio/Strength- Circuit Training, Do the following circuit three times. 25 jumping jacks, 25 sit ups, 25 push ups.
:flowerforyou: Friday Mini Challenge:
Food- Sodium reduction. Try to decrease your sodium by 500mg.
Cardio- Interval training. Warm up for 5 minutes, jog for 1 minute, walk for 1 minute, X8 reps, cool down for 5 minutes
Strength- Can't ever do enough crunches. Lets do 100+5 (3 different kinds)
:flowerforyou: Saturday Mini Challenge:
Food- Make sure you are not snacking on bad foods. Keep your snacks healthy. (fruits, vegetables, nuts etc)
Cardio/Strength- Saturday is my house cleaning day and actually burns a fair amount of calories. Move the furniture and give a thorough clean today.
:flowerforyou: Sunday Mini Challenge:
Food- make sure you are being honest with everything you consume.
Cardio/Strength- we all deserve a day of rest and relaxation so today, take a leisurely walk outside with your children, pet or just yourself and enjoy the world around you.
Please continue to post progress and general discussions here for week 2.
Keep Smiling
Donna
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Hello there!
LOVE this format! This is great - helps me see what I need to do and plan ahead for it!
You are awesome!0 -
I'd love to do this. I missed the first week, but this will be great motivation!0
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Thank you for this format. It's much easier to find, and plan ahead. Some of those days I may have to switch around, as my work week isn't the usual Mon-Fri. So, I may just re-arrange the days to suit my schedule : ) Also, I am limited on what I can do physically because of knee injury, but I am joining the gym tomorrow, so I will, again, modify your challenges to work for me. For example, a 45 minute brisk walk... probably not! But I can split up the 45 minutes between the arc trainer and the treadmill. Power knee things... jumping jacks... don't think so... but I will do strength training on the weight machines. I think I can make this work! At least you are giving me creative ways to adjust, AND I can look at your challenges and plan what I will do at the gym so it doesn't get too redundant for me! Thanks for all your hard work for us!0
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Great idea!0
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I'm glad that you started a new thread and I love the new format!!!
Thank you!
Linda0 -
Hi Donna! Thanks for the challenges! I love the weekly format.
How many power knees are we suppose to complete for Weds challenge?0 -
Nice! Thanks Donna!0
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thanks. today i was stugelling with myself wether i should go walking or not.öNow i know what i have to walk minimum!0
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Love this format! Thanks!0
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Love the new forum! Thanks!0
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Well, when I weighed myself Friday I was 141.5...this morning I was 143 even tho I did awesome over tne weekend...blah!0
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I'm going to try to stay accountable this work week!0
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Working to get back on track after a not so in control weekend - HA!
Really like the full week of mini challenges all in one post. Thanks Donna!
Hope everyone has a great monday!!
GO Journey to Loose Ladies!!0 -
Thanks Donna, This makes it easy for me to print out and keep with my workout gear. Searching through the form was rather annoying last week; happy to see the improvement! Thanks again for all of this. You're Awesome! I'm deff going to be more accountable this week. Good Luck everyone!0
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I also love the new formatt!!!0
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Good morning,
Did ok last week. I am down about a 1/2 lb.0 -
Good Morning Everyone,
I am glad you are finding the new forum and liking it. I hope it works for everybody.
Monday's Quote:
"The greatest thing you have is the 24 hours in front of you. The past is gone; the future is distant. Today you CAN succeed. Set a goal you can achieve in the next 24 hours"
I hope you all have a wonderful Monday
Don't forget to put your weight on the spread sheet. I would like to announce the winners by Wednesday.
Donna0 -
I agree with everyone - love the new format! Seeing all the mini challenges in one post will definitely help me plan out my week. Thanks Donna!
Good luck this week to everyone!0 -
Love the new format also! Will be much easier to plan ahead :happy:
I love having a challenge to keep me accountable...in October I lost a total of maybe 3 lbs, the first week of November I'm down 4.5!! Part of that was probably due to TOM bloating from last weeks weigh-in but I'll take it!0 -
Much easier this way! I was spending a lot of time scrolling around looking for what I needed (could have something to do with ME!). I will be weighing on Friday this week, so I will post then.0
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