Hot For Cupid (Valentine's Day Group)
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hi :flowerforyou: if it's still cool, i'd like to join this challenge!
Starting Weight: 199
Challenge Goal Weight: 185.8 (out of the "obese" category) 13.2 lbs
Strengths: eating healthy
Struggles: exercising regularly
i just recently got out of the 200's :drinker: but it's been really slow for me since then. i've only lost a pound in 3 weeks, when i usually lose about 2/week. i've stepped up my workouts and added weights, so i know that plays a big part, on top of already losing 80+lbs, so i know it's supposed to be slowing down naturally anyway. i'd like to join this challenge with a goal of losing 1lb per week. :bigsmile:
Starting Measurements:
Chest - 45
Arm - 14.5
Waist - 44
Hips - 43.5
Thigh - 25
11/01 - 199
11/08 -
11/15 -
11/22 -
11/29 -
12/06 -
12/13 -
12/20 -
12/27
1/03 -
1/10 -
1/17 -
1/24 -
1/31 -
2/07 -
2/14 -
goal - 185.80 -
[V-Day Challenge starting weight: 219.0lbs]
--Week 1: 215.0 -4lbs
--Week 2: 213.0 -2lbs
--Week 3: 215.2 +2.2lbs
--Week 4: 213.0 -2lbs
--Week 5: 211 -2lbs
--week 6: 211 -0lbs
--Week 7: 209.0 -2lbs
--Week 8: 208.0 -1
--Week 9: 208.2 +.02
--Week 10: 206.4 -1.8lbs
--Week 11: 206.2 -.2lbs
--Week 12: 205.0 -1.2lbs!
[End of challenge goal weight: 180lbs]
Neck 13.5
Waist 35.5 ----CHANGE!
Hips 43.0
Chest 44.0
Right Arm 15.5
Left Arm 16.0
Right Thigh 25.0
CHANGE!!!
Left Thigh 26.0
My struggles: I'm having issues keeping up with my Zumba challenge. I should've been almost done by now but I have been set back by 5 days. I had a TERRIBLE food week....i gave in to cravings and such. I'm glad I've been able to maintain the weight at least...but it wasn't the best choices for me.
My strengths: I saw a picture of myself when I was teaching (first day!) and one from 8 months ago at my son's baptism and there's a major difference. It motivated me a lot
My goals:
Under 200--6lbs away
50% lost---- 20.5lbs away
V-Day:
24.5lbs0 -
1st of all, I hope your brother is ok Jersey.
My weekly check in.
I stayed the same. I managed the water challeng on 1 day and got between 3 - 6 cups the other days. It's an improvement!
Name : Pany
Starting Weight: 218 lbs
Challenge Goal Weight: 168 lbs
Week 1: 214.6
Week 2: 213.8
Week 3: 213.8
This Weeks Loss: 0
Total Challenge Loss: 4.2
Weight Loss Remaining to Goal: 45.8 lbs
Strengths: I didn't eat too badly. increased my water intake
Struggles: No weight loss, only went to the gym once, still not enough water, emotional eating again
Goal for the week: Work out like crazy, stick to Atkins 100%, drink my water, post my eating!
Not a great week really. I didn't eat too badly but I let stress get to me, causing a few mini binges. I really need to learn how to handle stress better.
Good luck everyone!0 -
Starting weight 175lbs
Weekly weight check in: 165lbs
last week: 165lbs
I have been 165 for the last month.
This week I plan on consuming water like I have been, cut out sweet drinks all together, quit the coffee.
strengths: I have started planning my meals and pre-cooking and find that this really helps to stay on track. I am also cutting back on eating out and saving the eating out for special occassions.
Good Luck everyone:) February is not that far away!0 -
Thanks for checking in guys!! For those who haven't yet, remember to post your weigh ins by midnight tonight!
My brother is back home and being closely monitored. He has appointments all week with specialists. Decided to take out his own stitches (the ones in his mouth) with Swiss army knife scissors. Idiot. They were dissolving stitches!! He was too impatient to wait! What can you do.
This weeks water challenge was an issue for me too. Today I am on my 9th glass already though! Whoop! This weeks weigh in should be a good one! May even meet my mini goal of 169 (if I am REALLY lucky) and I'll be in a healthy BMI! Not going to lie... Getting excited!
@mrsmellymac I hear you on the trouble with the Zumba challenge. While I am not doing Zumba, I am struggling to find the energy to kick back into Rushfit. Its tomorrow. No more excuses!
@craft338- welcome to the gang!! What an inspirational loss you've posted! Can I ask how tall you are? It might help with offering suggestions for your weight loss stall (only if you want suggestions of course)! Looking forward to having you here!0 -
Good morning team!! Here's to the beginning of another great week
"Think about what you want to accomplish today and remember: All it takes - is all you've got."
Go get it!0 -
To anyone interested in joining: This is an OPEN group! We are always accepting new members!
14 WEEKS UNTIL VALENTINE'S DAY!!
Biggest Weekly Loss (determined by %): SpecialK_Flett with 2.6 lbs lost!! (1.4%!!)
Biggest Challenge Loss (Starting September 26, 2011 - determined by %): SpecialK_Flett having lost 9.6 lbs! (5.29%!!)
Weekly Chart:
Italicized means Starting Weight
Bold means Current Weight
Underlined means Weekly Loss
If you don't check in I will stop charting your results. But fear not! If you want to come back just let me know and you'll be charted again!
SpecialK_Flett: 181.4 lbs | 171.8 lbs | 2.6 lbs
321blueeyes: 146.5 lbs | 143.5 lbs | +1 lbs
Mrsmellymac: 211 lbs | 205 lbs | 1.2 lbs
Jersey3025: 174.2 lbs | 171 lbs | + 1 lbs
Panyg: 218 lbs | 213.8 lbs | 0 lbs
Cantjustcant: 202.6 lbs | 195.8 lbs | 2 lbs
Kandrews24: 211.6 lbs | 209 lbs | 1.4 lbs
Livinglifeandloving: 165 lbs | 165 lbs | 0 lbs
Craft338: 199 lbs | 199 lbs | 0 lbs
This Week's Challenge: Weight Training! (A really good book to read to understand the basics AND importance of weight training is: The New Rules of Lifting (there is a book for men and women). Let's work on getting EACH part of your body worked on with weights 2 - 3 times this weeks. Now, this doesn't mean that you weight train twice a week and you're good to go... It means your legs need to be done twice a week (or three times), your arms, your back, etc etc. If you are doing complete full body weight training each session then 2 - 3 sessions will be enough to succeed at this challenge! But if you only work legs in one session and arms in another, this may be a tricky one! Muscle growth and strength is an important part of a healthy living and it also gets you that rockin' bod that you want! Don't worry ladies, you won't "bulk up" from this. It is incredibly difficult for the female body to "get jacked" like a males would. You get bonus points this round if you: A) Read the book mentioned above,
use hard core weights and not barbie weights (1 - 5 lbs, so named because of their usual bright colors) and C) if you make this part of your usual routine from now until forever!
Don't forget to add your PERSONAL CHALLENGES to your posts! We can only help to support you with them if we know what they are!0 -
Double post... I know, I know. A friend posted this on her blog, which was a repost from another blog... and now I'm reposting it here. Why? Because it's something that we all need to hear, at one time or another.I totally stole this from Nerd Fitness, but it is too awesome not to share. Read more here:
http://nerdfitness.com/blog/2011/11/07/it-will-never-be/
It will never be:
*EASY
*PERFECT
*THE RIGHT TIME
Nobody is going to:
*tell you exactly what to do
*drag you out of bed in the morning
*yell at you to eat healthy
*lift weights for you
*run a race for you
There will always be:
*holidays
*sick days
*sleepless nights
*early mornings
*vacations
*bad weather
*long days at the office
It will always be easier to:
*say no
*hit SNOOZE
*do nothing
*settle
*blame others
*make excuses
*give up
*say "I tried my best" when you really didn't
Life is freaking tough - health, wealth, and happiness certainly don't come easy.
For those reasons, you don't need:
*The best equipment
*The best business plan
*The PERFECT workout program (it doesn't exist)
*A super specific meal plan
And it's okay to:
*not have all of the answers yet - NOBODY does
*not have your life completely figured out yet - NOBODY does
*get started and figure things out as you go
As Teddy Roosevelt once said, "Do the best you can, with what you have, where you are."
Take action. Make changes.
You will make mistakes. You will fail. Embrace it.
You know what's NOT okay?
*to expect instant success and gratification
*to give up immediately when life doesn't go your way
*to keep doing the same thing while expecting different results
*to coast through life while complaining about it
*to constantly wonder "what if" without ever finding out
Tomorrow never comes.
Eventually never happens.
Today.
Now.
Shut up and start0 -
OK I really suck at this challenge thing
however I do want to share that I weighted in this weekend and after three weeks of NOTHING I am down 1.2 lbs!! 154.6!! 0 -
^ Heck yes you're down!! Whoooop!! I LOVE hearing about people smashing their plateaus! Awesome stuff!! Anything in particular work for you? Or was it patience?
(On a side note, I am so glad that you posted, I was just about to triple post asking where my posse was at! :P)0 -
just kept at it! some of it was bloating and water retention... that TOM other than that i dunno. I've started buying low sodium stuff. just push through i guess 0
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YAy! congratulations on your plateau break!!!
I will work on some weight training!!! its hard with the baby but i'll add weights to zumba or use my son as a weight while I do some leg lifts lol!0 -
^ lol! Get hubby to take a photo of you using your son as a weight... that would be incredibly hilarious.0
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Hi Valentiner's!
With the addition of groups I thought I would ask your opinion on whether to hop aboard that ship or not. I personally don't feel that we need a group, our one thread has been serving us well and we don't REALLY chit chat a lot. That being said, if you think it would better the challenge to have a group, let me know!!
Hope everyone's weeks are going well!0 -
a group kind of sounds fun, why not do both? it might be easier to chit chat, I like to do that but I don't want to take up so much space on a thread lol0
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To be honest, I'm not sure what the difference is!0
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My Weekly Check In:
Starting Weight: 179.5 lbs
Challenge Goal Weight: 165 lbs
First Week: 178.5
Second Week: 176.8
Third Week: 176.4
Fourth Week: 175.4 lbs
Fifth Week: 175.0 lbs
Sixth Week: 174.2 lbs
Seventh Week: 174.8
Eighth Week: 173.6 lbs
Ninth Week: 173.2 lbs
Tenth Week: 172.8 lbs
Eleventh Week: 170.0 lbs
Twelvth Week: 171.0 lbs
Thirteenth Week: 168.8 lbs
Total Challenge Loss: 9.7 lbs
Weight Loss Remaining to Goal: 3.8 lbs
Somone met their mini goal!! Yes groupies, I am now officially a healthy BMI! I think the last time I was a healthy BMI was grade... 10? I stopped weighing myself when I started to see the number getting higher and higher, it was too hard to see (but not hard enough to make me change anything). I remember stepping on the scale in grade 11 or 12 and seeing 175 lbs. I am lighter than I was through most of high school!! I am a HEALTHY BMI!!! I know that I still have ~19 lbs until my end goal (which seems like a ton, but really isn't on a 5'9" frame) but the bottom line is, I am already at a fabulous point, the rest of this weight loss, muscle gain and fitness increase is really just a bonus! I'm not going to lie, posting a huge loss this week was elating, but I am not going to expect it to continue. If anything, the weekly weight loss will start to slow down even further as I am coming closer and closer to a weight that is comfortable for my body. But I'm okay with that! I'm a healthy BMI! :P
Weekly Success: Getting back into Rushfit (redoing the final 4 weeks again), staying within my calorie goal, getting into Eckhart Tolle's book The Power of Now (which is pretty freaking empowering. That man has some amazing insights).
Weekly Struggle: Macros. I really need to get back into paying attention and managing macros. I have been a carbohydrate *kitten* lately... and my protein is really not up to snuff.
This Week’s Personal Challenge: Continue with Rushfit, watch my macros and spend some quality time with myself. Life has been too busy (brother was back in the ER AGAIN 2 nights ago...)0 -
Id like to join need some motuvation and support i kinda fell off on my diet n i need to get back on track and would like to lose 25 lbs by valentines day
Starting Weight: 200
Challenge Goal Weight: 175
Strengths: working out i love exercising
Struggles: eating right n drinking water
Weekly Success:
This Week’s Personal Challenge: replace soda n all other drinks with water
Starting Measurements:
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Nice loss Jersey! Congrats on the "healthy BMI" milestone too!0
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Welcome to the gang Ashntony47!! Good to have you!!
I forgot to comment on groups. Really the differences are:
1. You wouldn't have to search for the thread, we would have a sub-forum under the group heading.
2. We could have many threads in one sub-forum, they could address certain questions, challenges, etc
3. We would feel like cool kids.
I would be more than happy to start a group if that's what everyone wants! Up to you guys!
Any glaring reason why not to? Any glaring reason why?0 -
Welcome to the gang Ashntony47!! Good to have you!!
I forgot to comment on groups. Really the differences are:
1. You wouldn't have to search for the thread, we would have a sub-forum under the group heading.
2. We could have many threads in one sub-forum, they could address certain questions, challenges, etc
3. We would feel like cool kids.
I would be more than happy to start a group if that's what everyone wants! Up to you guys!
Any glaring reason why not to? Any glaring reason why?
3. We would feel like cool kids.
this is the best reason why
but i think it would be awesome!!!!0 -
Is it to late to join you guys? I'm looking for all the motivation and support I can get. If you don't mind here are my stats...
Starting Weight: 226.8
Challenge Goal Weight: 195
Strengths: Drinking water and working out
Struggles: staying away from "bad" foods
Weekly Success: 4.2 pound loss
This Week’s Personal Challenge: to push myself harder during exercise
Starting Measurements:
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Starting Weight: 195
Challenge Goal Weight: 160
Strengths: I have the determination to finish what I start!!
Struggles: Doing it on my own sometimes.
Weekly Success: I try to lose 1-2 pounds a week.
This Week’s Personal Challenge: for the scale to show 193
Starting Measurements: no clue....guess ill have to figure that out.
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Right Bicep-
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Welcome guys!! Good to have you!!
Make sure that you guys weigh in on the "great group debate" :P
ETA: Looks like, as of now, we are leaning towards starting a group of our very own!0 -
awesome! i'm looking forward to it! it seems very cool for something that's gonna be a while, like our challenge!
Welcome guys! hope you find this as motivating as I have!!!0 -
No one else seems to be replying and I am getting ants in my pants over group starting...
Get your votes in Valentiner's!0 -
Either/or works for me.0
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I wasn't sure about the groups at 1st. But after seeing them in action, Im a fan.
So thats a yes from me for groups!0 -
Well I think we're okay to start a group then? Lol0
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