Kicking *kitten* In Our Twenties - November Challenge!!

Hey Ladies

Finally posting feels like forever but really just since Monday!

Megan Glad to know everything is going well with tour pregnancy and really hope your cough?congestion clears up ASAP!:flowerforyou:

Meg My hair is nice but i have another appt. Dec 2nd because the level of highlight I want to achieve is light and I was a dark brunette so I am gradually working my way up to a light pale blonde in highlights that is! Keep up with your running, you will do great on your 5k and 5 lbs is definitely noticeable great job on losing and staying motivated despite so much going on!! Keep pushing the semester is almost over!!

Meag Thanks Im not sure why my body hasn't screamed at me but before I get ahead of myself I might be hurting tomorrow from todays bootcamp?circuit training which I know was not a good idea to try a new workout the day before the Turkey Trot but it's too late and Im too stubborn so I will learn the hard way!! NOLA that sounds like it will be amazing my brother and his wife used to live there, he LOVED it! But had to move because he was stationed elsewhere! Looks like you kicking some major *kitten* not logging, eating intuitively and still managing to lose weight?maintain keep it up and keep trusting yourself!! YOU CAN DO IT!!!

Eleanor I think I might be around 75-80 miles in but i have a 10k tomorrow so I will be over 80 for sure, which puts me at 20<miles in a week very doable!! Your recipes sounds yummy and nutritious and I agree something about this weather makes me more domestic too lol!! :happy: BTW pumpkin chicken soup is easy and delicious!! made it a couple weeks back!!

AFM I will keep it short I started bootcamp/circuit training this past Monday and plan on going Mondays, Weds., Fridays and maybe Saturdays! Since I have been weight training lately the Monday bootcamp did not make me sore and i was able to do incline push ups more easily than before! Monday was my last day running just a short 3.5 miles since I wanted to rest my legs Tuesday and Wed.

Tuesday I focused on stretching and light cardio and Wed I decided to go to bootcamp despite the fact that I'm risking being sore for my 10k tomorrow! I thought I was weaker in my upper body but I guess from weight training I have increased muscle and tore those fibers already idk but I thought today would be easier and I struggled a lot more and my bum and thighs and calves are sore ALREADY! I will be paying for it tomorrow my mistake regretful a bit but oh well you live and you learn... :ohwell: Apparently I thought all my running has made my legs stronger but the workouts today targeted muscles I must not use lol. Planning on eating moderate portions but will have dessert as well, my family doesn't cook too traditional soI will stay away from the delicious tamales, too much damage plus I'd rather have dessert anyway!! Have my Turkey Trot tomorrow and for some reason Im nervous. There will be 21,000 ppl running thats a hell of a lot of ppl out there hope it distracts me from running on sore legs and makes my time go by faster lol, my goal is just to obviously finish, enjoy the scenery and run comfortably!! Bought my gear for the rain tomorrow and plan on having an awesome 4-day weekend well thats it for me so much for a short post lol. almost done completing my 100 miles and have been doing pretty well keeping up with most my goals! Hope you ladies continue to kick *kitten* and have a great, safe Thanksgiving whether you celebrate or not enjoy the 4-day weekend or whatever day you have of!!:bigsmile:

Cynthia

I just found out your challenge and seems so interesting to me!

Hope you will have another one for December so I can participate!

Megan - soo glad to hear that you and the baby are doing well!! Hope your cold clears up soon!!

Cynthia - Wish you the best of luck in your Turkey Trot today!!! Be sure to let us all know how it went!! Sounds like you have done a lot of training so I am sure you will do great!!

booboo - Congrats on the weight loss!!

Em - I agree with Meag, I know its hard not to stress over the scale...its taken me a long time to stop focusing on it....but just make it through the holidays the best you can. Let yourself enjoy it and just work on staying on track with your workouts!! The weight will follow!! And Italy is fabulous...I spent 3 months there in college and fell in love with the country!! I am sure you will enjoy every second of it!

Meag - Dont stress over a weeks worth of food....you are soo healthy all of the time, and sometimes crazy schedules make it soo much harder! I'm sure your choices arent as bad as you think they are. And great job in still fitting your workouts in even if you have to alter them...its better then skipping them!! Good luck on your race Saturday....you'll rock it!!!!
And hope the resume building and new job search work out for you, you sound like you really need to get out of your current work situation.


AFM - Very excited to be buying my new treadmill tomorrow morning...even if it means dealing with the craziness of "black friday" shoppers!!! Hopefully this will keep me on track through the cold season! I am proud of myself today though because I woke up extra early so that I could get in a p90x workout before heading to work today....not something I ever do in the early AM!!! But this way I wont feel soo guilty about my thanksgiving dinner later. I am stuck at work most of the day though (ended up being 8am-4pm) so I will be enjoying the festivities afterwards.....then staying up for the midnight shopping deals!! After waking up at 6:30 today to work out, I am sure to be beat by the midnight shopping trip but oh well!!

Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving (those in the US) and a great weekend!!!

Hey Ladies,

Sorry been missing a bit! I promise to catch up!

Abby And Meag Thanks ladies the Turkey Trot was fun!

AFM Thursday I had the Turkey Trot and despite being sore and getting running cramps starting from mile two till mile 6 it was a great day came in at 60:09 even with the rain so Im beyond happy with that. I was secretly timing myself even though it was my first 6k so I was shooting for 64-66 mins so Im happy with that. I received a complimentary massage and chiro adjustment and it was awesome and it helped that the guy working on me looked a like a model lol! But apparently I have twos shifted disks in my upper back, a tight middle back and chronic muscle tension in my right shoulder which I figured since I always ache from working at a coffee shop for years... But I wasn't expecting all that, I have the tools now at least to rehabilitate the muscle. I ran 8 miles that day and wash;t too sore yesterday thankfully! I did manage to attend a sparring/kickbxing class and boy was it harder than I expected!

For today Im running late to my core class and running a few miles after until later ladies have a great Saturday!! :bigsmile:

Too late for Nov. Will there be a December?

Hello, everyone! I'm new to the site! I've been logging for 10 days now and I'm loving how things are going so far! Just looking to add friends and stay motivated and be able to support and motivate others! This sounds like a great forum. :-)

Good Morning!!! I actually got my lazy behind out of bed this morning and made it to the gym where I perceeded to run for 30 minutes! I didn't go but 2.25 mile because I have to keep my pace really slow so that my heart rate doesn't go to high, but it still felt really good. It definitely looks like its going to take me at least 2 hours to do this 15k, but thats ok! I'm still going to do it! Just felt like sharing. Hope you ladies have a great monday!

Hello there Lovelies!! Just checking in to let you know that I have not fallen off the face of the earth!! My new boss has me switching jobs at work so the new workload on top of the stuff that hasn't been passed on yet has me way stretched out at work.

My Thanksgiving was busy but nothing close to what I'm used to. I didn't have either one of my kids and since my parents moved to Arizona in July, my brother and roamed the streets and ended up at four different houses. It was nice to spend time with all of them and I was completely grateful for all of them opening their homes to us. I was originally worried that we weren't gonna have anywhere to go. And I was pleasantly surprised with myself...I did not overindulge, did not eat at every house, and only had a few bites of carrot cake. I weighed in Friday morning and was down 1.5 pounds. Double checked it again on Monday morning and the results were the same. I'm hoping that the busy-ness at work will keep me from snacking. Had every intention of heading to the gym tonight for an hour of kickboxing and an hour of hula but my daughter had a meltdown at daycare today so that needed to be handled. I'm actually super tired but was still looking forward kicking some *kitten*!! Hopefully next week will work out better. I don't know that my weigh in will be as successful this week but we shall see!!

Meag and Cynthia - we should definitely have a party for our birthdays cause mine is the 16th and it will be my dirty 30. However, I will not be having my party until January because I refuse to compete with everyone's Christmas parties. I want everyone there!!

Happy Hump Day Lovelies!

Emily - Thanksgiving was definitely nothing close to what I'm used to but I sure can't complain either. Hula is soooo much fun!! :bigsmile: And I love doing it after kickboxing cause its such soothing music and usually an awesome dance but still a great burn. I always feel it in my legs. Glad you were able to check everything off of your list.

Cynthia - glad to hear the pup is doing better now!

Abby - sounds like putting the treadmill together was a workout in itself. I am sure you are gonna have a great first run on it though.

Meag - hope you're having a great day!!

Quote of the day - "If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down." ~Mary Pickford

Hey Ladies,

The pup is fine he ate part of the blanket and obviously it's not digestible and thankfully the ($) damage wasn't too bad!!

Meag Yes that is me on the right! Thanks the headband is from Target 10 bucks I always wear it now! E-Celebrate sounds awesome lol I love my b-day too but sucks because I have to plan around and celebrate around peoples holiday plans since it falls a couple days before christmas!!! great job running at a fast pace 7.5 wowsers thats me sprinting all out lol. Im vertically challenged too lol And thanks for posting the new thread will post my new goals tomorrow, despite with everything going on you have been consistent logging and posting and doing an excellent job with the whole stressful job situation i think you're doing great and not logging food sheesh thats great, I know my time for not logging will be sometime next year because I want to trust my self and choices that I make. Hope your horrible headache has disappeared and you have a great Thursday "Friday" and get a good workout after work!! Woohoo to a short week for you!! :drinker:

Abby Thanks! BTW I do the bootcamp 4xs/week and run 3-4 xs it's a bit challenging because of the early morning wake up but I feel great after and Im finally starting to notice definition in my arms, back and just overall strength, I would honestly recommend everyone to try this marine bootcamp once at least, it kicks your *kitten* but shows you how to properly weight train as well since there is circuit training and kickboxing too. Glad you enjoyed the new treadmill thats awesome your very own treadmill, they can be boring but maybe some great music which Im sure you already have but it's nice to know you have that as a back up method if you can't run in the night or if it's too cold or rainy! Good job with your goals especially the fruits/veggies and staying under your calories, keep it up you'll rock December!!

Bethany great job losing 1.5 lbs that great especially during this time of year!! We should celebrate our b-days or e-celebrate like Meag suggested!! Thats a good idea celebrating your b-day next month after all the festivities so you're not competing with anyone, Im just so impatient I don't even like celebrating too early or late because then mentally it doesn't feel like it's my b-day lol!! Good luck next week in getting your workouts in!! :happy:

Emily thanks the Pup is doing better! And the bootcamp/kickboxing/circuit training is very similar to what you did today we usually do those drills 3xs per week and then spar/kickboxing once per week, this class is held in a MMA studio but is not competitive at all since it's not actually kickboxing or MMA training but incorporates those techniques, fun class for sure and definitely an *kitten* kicker, you might be sore tomorrow but just stretch out those toxins but hope your not sore!!

AFM I ran 2 miles only yesterday i was in pain from the day before with bootcamp/running my 7 miles/stairs, so i decided to take it easy.

Wed. I ran 5 miles and beat my 100 mile goal by 5.5 miles so 105.5 miles total WOOHOO barely reached but I did it. I need to look back at my goals but Im pretty sure i kept up with 85-90% of them!! Going to start and read Eat pray Love tonight needed something good! Hope it is!! I would like to train for a 1/2 Marathon for either April or sometime around that time of year but do want to start a general 14 weeks training plan and modify as I need to, not set in stone if I will train this coming month or wait for Jan. since bootcamp will be over then! i also will be taking some nutrition classes beginning next year that the trainer at the studio is offering need more details first though! Plan on running tomorrow in the early morning at the trail and have plans to celebrate a co-workers bday with some Pakistani food can't wait!! I feel like I forgot something to post but If I did and do remember I will be back here asap, if not until tomorrow evening ladies have a great Thursday and enjoy the first day of DECEMBER!! Can't believe it!!! I will post my new goals like I mentioned above^^^ tomorrow!! Good night ladies!! :bigsmile: Cynthia