Healthy for the Holidays Challenge - 9/06 - 11/22

I have yet to try to the Group function of MFP because I havent' had time, and I'd love to try the Group. I think it would just be easier to find.

have an awesome day, all!

I like the idea of the group as well .

I vote groups too. We can still start a new challenge with a fun name every time, but it will be way easier to find the weekly challenges.

Biggest problem with a group is making sure we invite new members from the general forum. I'm so glad I found this group

I went "hard core" with my exercising today. On top of doing the Wii Fit Plus, I also did all of this week's exercise challenges.

I did 1 minute of push ups. I did 30 of them instead of 20 of them but most of them were modified as I don't have enough arm strength as of yet to do 30 "proper" push ups. One day I will though! I have increased my strength and enurances in other areas so I will get there in time with push ups too.

I did 1 minute of jumping jacks. I did 60 instead of 50 jumping jacks as this is an area that I have worked on and have increased my endurance.

I did 90 seconds of plank but in 30 second increments and I had to modify for about half of the 90 seconds. I still need to work on increasing my endurance with this exercise but I previously couldn't even do a plank at all so I do still show improvement.

I did the stairs for 5 minutes in my house but I walked at a decent pace instead of running as walking the stairs for 5 minutes took my breath away enough!

Did the 1 minute of sit ups with not too much problem, other than the burn, but this is another area where I have been increasing my endurance and have been showing improvement.

I am also a part of a team challenge and we have daily fitness challenges
so I have also done the following challenges this week:
Sat.: 30 minutes of cardio (did more)
Fri.: 5 minutes of tricep kickbacks (I had to do them without weights though, it was our choice to do with or without weights)
Thurs.: 35 push ups
Wed.: 45 jumping jacks
Tues.: Any exercise

I think oliviawink borrowed some of our challenges! She has been doing some of the daily challenges with us.

As for the food challenge, I did 63 minutes of exercise and then I ate 2 tablespoons of Chipits. I am totally fine with my caloires but it sent me over my sugar. Can't be perfect in all areas though!

Ok, groups is it.

inshapeck gave me a great idea: make these challenges more of a challenge with points that can be earned for doing things in the challenge. What do others think? We could change it up periodically but how do people feel about starting with a few weeks of team challenges? i think it might help us stay strong over the holidays, as we will be accountable to a team. If not, we could start with individual. Let me know what you all think of this...

Okay I'm up for a group, but who is creating it, and will that person post on here the group name so we can find it an join? I'm like you Ailene, I need to shake things up to get me motivated through the holidays.

Hope

Don't want to lose the group!

stared the group shell at: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/944-challenge-yourself-to-be-your-best-you
tonight or tomorrow I will put up some information via posts
Please let me know if you would like to be a moderator, which will allow you to create pages and monitor content to ensure it's all appropriate.

Big weigh-in tomorrow then we start a few group strong.

Sounds like we'll ease in with an individual competition. I'm thinking we'll ave weekly winners and overall winners (1st, 2nd, 3rd). Helen, would you be willing to do the spreadsheet for weight and I will track the point system?

If you are a "friend" who's logged in in the last week, I sent you an invite. I might have made typos, though. If I'm not your "friend", I would LOVE to be! and you can go to the page with the link posted above

Ok, I am a little confused by how this all works with groups but hopefully I'll catch up!! I want to stay with you all! Love this crowd!!!

so excited about the groups and the final weigh in. I hope I lose...!!!!!

Bumping to track

Last check in for H4H Challenge:

Last Week 144
This Week 144

No change, again! This just reinforces the fact that I am pretty much at my goal weight. So I hope that the point system in the next challenge will bring out my competitive side, which will help me reach my ultimate goal of 140.

Have a great day ladies!!

Steph

Final weigh in 154.6.

So I've been bouncing around the same weight for months and it is time to get serious! Can't wait to get started for the next challenge.

I did terribly, ending the challenge at 129.8...I let stress get to me a bit too much, and exhaustion with the baby has set in, I feel as if I am sleepy all the time, so tired, complete lack of energy. Really hoping to do well in the next challenge, I am looking forward to the group!

Final weigh in - On Friday I was still at 166.9 so I'm going with that as my final because I don't think a TOM weight should count as final for the challenge.

I definitely leveled off at the end of this challenge - my desire for comfort food goes way up when it gets cold out - I didn't realize until this year that cold is definitely an eating trigger for me.

I went back and looked at my NSV's and I did pretty good on those.

1 - Wear my old dance costume for Halloween (ice skater). I did and it fit great. Love wearing something left from when I was 15!

2 - Stuck to my 10 mile training program and ran in a 10 mile race on 10/29. Final time 2:07.42. I was most excited because I managed to maintain the pace I set from start to finish (I didn't run the whole thing I ran/walked in 5 min/ 2min intervals).

3 - Post before and afters - I haven't done this yet but maybe I'll have time over the long weekend.

Anyway congrats to everyone who hit there goal!

For the next challenge I'll chime in from time to time, but my goal from now until the end of the year is going to be to maintain. Work is too crazy to workout (although I get more exercise at work than normal) and it's harder to plan meals.