Loserville Challenge 3 (CLOSED GROUP)

Jenn, big hugs and good luck with your treatment tomorrow. I'll be thinking of you, lovely of your daughter to go with you. You two seem to have a great relationship, you're both very lucky x

Hello Ladies! It's Tuesday Morning and I wish i were at home with my hubby. I am well on my way to completeing my 1, 2, 3, 4 already. i just have to keep it going today

Jenni- good luck with your treatment.

Becci- I love you 1, 2, 3, 4, goals. Maybe I need ot get a wii so I can do wii zumba. I miss zumba class.

Counting down to our big Thanksgiving meal a week from Thursday. I am so excitied to be hoasting my first big family holiday. I am also super excited to do crazy amounts of shopping in teh wee hours of th emorning on teh day after thanksgivig. We call it black friday here. The deals are amazing

I hope everyone has a great day.

1 week of staying under calories EVERY day! - all good so far!
2 cups of green tea a day (starting on Thursday!!)
3 runs to school to pick up Bill - done 2 so far
4 8 hour sleeps (early nights!) - done one so far

Got through treatment should see results in 7 days. It was painful but I had this whistle thing to suck which made me float. Slept the rest of the day away. So I have done number one of of my 4. I have done one 30 min walk. Will try and do jillian today and have to work on calories.

Wow Jenn, that sounds crazy! Being mad to float by a whistle!? Hope it's all good, should you be taking it easy? Don't do too much, it's hard to judge the pressure it could put on your body. Hope it's all good!

Courtney, you sound busy, but like you're doing well!

Well ...

1 week of staying under calories EVERY day! - I've been within 60 calories?! That wasn't the deal, but I do find it hard, and I have done better than usual, and that was the aim really!!! MInd I still have the dreaded weekend to come, but no meals out or anything planned, so I should do well!

2 cups of green tea a day (starting on Thursday!!) - Oh yeah, I'm rocking this one!

3 runs to school to pick up Bill - done every day this week! So managed 5!

4 8 hour sleeps (early nights!) - done two so far ... so tonight and tomorrow, but tomorrow is bootcamp, so I need to be in bed by 9pm to get 8 hours ... not sure I'll do that ...

TOM is here too, but surprisingly I'm not feeling TOO afftected by it's evil ways! Really hoping for a loss this week, make up for last week! LOL!

Hey ladies

Well I'm an idiot. I've been away to stay with a friend for just over a week and forgot to tell you all before I went so that you wouldn't think I'd fallen of the face of the planet. I'm home now anyway and will begin logging again today. Now I just need to scroll back and see what I've missed over the last week or so. Hope you're all doing okay. xxx

Welcome home whizzy

I loved our 1, 2, 3, 4 challenge this week. I almost managed to stay under my cals every day ... I really, really need to work on going to bed earlier, so I'm going to add in some points for getting enough sleep. For me that's 8 hours, I know that will be different for everyone, so I want you to say how many hours/ what time you'll go to bed, then we'll do 2 extra points for meeting that goal. Is there anything anyone else would like to add for points?

This weeks exercise challenges ...

Day 1 Exercise Challenge - 50 Squat Kicks*
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSu-wci9uTo )

Day 2 Exercise Challenge – 50 Swimmer’s Presses + 1 Extra Mile jog, walk,run (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYwzaUXK6gs)

Day 3 Exercise Challenge – 50 Situps or Ab Crunches* + 50 Mountain Climbers
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI8u58hPam4 )

Day 4 Exercise Challenge – 3 sets of 21’s + 100 Jumping Jacks
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xLcsg-5Dw8 ) 21’s The video is a little long sorry.

Day 5 Exercise Challenge – 40 Globe jumps (10 laps round) + 100 Jumping Jacks + 100 Step ups (jog or run, either run up 100 steps or up and down a step 100 times))
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKKKNR5USXc )

Day 6 Exercise Challenge – 40 Shoulder Presses + run/walk 1 extra mile + 50 crunches
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpWrzp9Mnyg) Shoulder Press

Day 7 Rest!

Link to our spreadsheet, fill yourselves in for this week ... we're on week 4!!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aq0fwi7BJUivdEUzSlhVeHZhZ2NPOXNMT0EwRkgyM2c#gid=6

I've had a great weekend, done plenty of exercise, no slip ups, just need to hope TOM is kind to me, but I'm feeling good and maybe that should be enough and I shouldn't worry myself with what the scales have to say!!

Wasting Time. What is the point of having good days if I just undo all the good work with really bad days. My weight is back to where I was 3 weeks ago. Only have myself to blame. But its just so disapppointing. I keep moving the goal posts to make it better in my mind. Wanted to be 88kg by Dec 12. Now I'm tellling myself so long as I get there by Feb 15 (my birthday). If I could just stick to the program I would have been there months ago. :sad:

Well done Courney and Rach on your weight loss. You show it can be done.

Thanks Rach. Your words have really helped me, its the support we give it each other that helps the most. Not sure I am ready yet to put a chart on the fridge, although I am happy enough to tell anyone who asks how much I have loss etc. Can see the benefit of a chart though. So will give that more thought. I just truely hope that I have finally learnt my lesson and dont have to redo this class.

I had to force myself to do my 30DS this morning, have not done it since last thursday, so a 3 day break. HRM status was not as big as calorie burner as usual so I obviously didnt push it as hard as I previously have done. So I have to improve on that. I had my podiatrist appointment. This very young guy has got me on my feet. 18 months ago I would get out of bed with a walking stick. He and his wife (also a podiatrist) are runners and have really helped me. So today feeling a bit low it was timely to see him and get a few more tips from him on foot/leg care and to keep moving. So I am now thinking of doing a Santa fun run. I think its 5km. And I will walk it but as fast as I can. Anyway have to research that yet.

I than had time before seeing my doctor to do a quick grocery shop. Was good and bought all vege and fruit. Even bought a ready made salad for when I got home so hungry i wouldn't be tempted to grad a quick fix which is usually not so healthy.

Great report from my doctor. I have got my diabeties very well controlled she said it couldn't be better. So that has inspired me to keep going. Its all worth it if i can keep the other complications that come with diabeties away. My cholestrial (cant spell) has also come down and is in the normal range. So I hope rather then rest on my laurels I will strive to get even fitter. My next issue is my poor sleeping habit. So she has put me on Melatonin so we will see how that goes.

Zumba tonight. Last weeks class was cancelled. So 2 weeks break. Could be tough tonight. Samara is coming home for the night. YAY!! I see her weekly and its just for the night as an appointment out tomorrow morning and then she will be on the train back to the city, but I am excited to have her home for the night.

Morning ladies. How is everyone going? I am having a very moderate week. Not over doing it if I can help it. I have to go into the city today for the next few days. Dinner out tonight, friday and saturday. I was hoping to do lots of walking. My body is sore doing the 30DS. However its raining cats and dogs here. So there goes my walking plans. And I have just discovered that my husband has taken my set of keys to daughters unit interstate with him. This is going to make it somewhat difficult. Oh well. Life could be worse.

Courtney, I really hope you enjoy the next few days. I love festivals and celebrations.

I'm looking forward to Christmas.

Ok so plans have changed quickly. After discovering that Tony had taken the keys interstate and I rang Samara and told her. We figured we would manage and have to stick together. 30 mins later she rings, you will never guess, she has locked herself out of her unit. So now she is out here at home. I'm happy with that. Had to cancel going to dinner and movie tonight, I'm happy with that. But now she is making cupcakes. She loves to bake and has no oven in her unit and she has invited friends over to catch up and is having pizza and garlic bread. I have plenty of salad in the fridge and home made soup in the freezer. But the aroma is killing me. Luck for her she wasnt working at one of her many jobs tonight. Also lucky that one of the ladies at a meeting with my husband is flying back this afternoon and is bringing us the keys.
I have bought myself another health/fitness magazine might hop the exercise bike and read it and try and stay away from all this baking.

Courtney, I really want to join you in the zone. You are doing so well. I was also thinking about Christmas and Samara will be coming home for at least 4 days and wants to bake. I am going to start looking for healthy alternatives she can make for me. I also am thinking that i should have more time for exercising. So will try and increase my calorie burn even if its just an extra walk each day which I can easily turn into a family affair and walk around the neighbourhood looking at christmas lights.

Well, I didn't manage any exercise tonight, but I have worked out that over the week I'm only 117 kcals over, which is easily made up. I'll probably go over by a similar amount tomorrow, as it's my rest day, but I'm hopefully going to make those calories up with lots of exercise and good eating over the weekend.

Night night everyone, see you on Friday! Whooo hoo!

Evening losers!

I've decided to do a 6km trail run tomorrow. Hubby is doing the 20km option, and they have childcare ... so I'm doing the 6km!

http://www.thewestcoaster.co.nz

It starts along one of the west coast beaches here in Auckland, then up along a ridge following the coast and back. If the weather is good, it will be a stunningly beautiful run! I'm not looking forward to running on the beach, but it's only 6km!! Right need to go and get myself organised, as I'm still planning to do bootcamp too. It's our fitness test tomorrow and I like to see if I'm any fitter!!

380kcals over today, so 500kcals over for the week. I may or may not try to catch that up over the weekend, I'll see how I feel. Have a fabulous weekend. I'm thinking of you loving black Friday Courtney, hope you score some real bargains, enjoy yourself. Love to all. R x

6km trail run was great, it was a there and back course and I got to the turn around, and was quite surprised to have run 3km already, which is always good! It was an odd run, we were told we'd have to run through a stream, that was more like wade through a river! Then we ran through a bog, then there was this single track up a hill, I tried to run, but so many people were walking up that it was tough to get past. I should have started closer to the front, but I still don't think I'm a runner, but it's always nice to overtake people! Anyway, I came 19th out of 80, which I was well pleased with especially as I know I could have done it faster.

Hopefully the disruptions will stop getting in your way. I know what you mean about losing motivation. I'm like that too, hard to make yourself number one when there's others about!

What shall we do for next week's challenge? I'd be quite happy to do points from here until Christmas? Am open to any suggestions though. I'm still in the zone, feeling like I've got this all sussed again, for now! Still not mastering the art of going to bed early ...

Personal challenge is all good with me ... my plan ...

1. Get to bed earlier - aim for 8 hours sleep

2. Stay under calories for the whole week (am already over today - tired hunger)

3. exercise plan ...
Mon: Swim & run to pick kids up from school & 30DS
Tue: bike to bootcamp, bike to school and back with kids & 30DS
Wed: Swim & run to school & 30DS
Thur: bootcamp & try to run to school (depends on work) & 30DS
Fri: Rest
Sat: bootcamp & 30DS
Sun: Big bike ride (30km +) & 30DS

4. Start 30 day shred, do every day but Fridays until Christmas

Events are expensive Jenn, the 6km run would have been $45, but as Keith was entering too we got a discount. The ladies triathlons I do used to be such good value, $100 for 15 races, but triathlon new zealand bought the event and prices increased last year and then again this year, they now work out at about $35 per race if you do a few, but are about $50 or $60 just for one. I really ummed and ahhed about doing them next year because of the price hike, but they're still cheaper than others. It's irritating as clearly the company originally running them could do so for much less ...

Right ... kids just finishing their pudding, then it's bath time! Happy Monday everyone!