The Kickin' Christmas Crew! [Closed]

Hi ladies, Sorry for my random checking in. I weighed in on sunday and my weight was 165.1 so I will not rach my goal for christmas. Today is going to be day three of p90x 2 and so far Ive done good. I really hope that I can do it this time and not give into temptation or give up.

Hi Girls! I started 2-a-day workouts this morning. Last night I did Just Dance 2 for 1hr and I burned 1265 calories alone (I wore my HRM) WOW! This morning I did Shred Level 1 and instead of bussing it to work from the bart (which is 8 long blocks) I walked it. I usually walk in the evenings, but I said why not get more exercise and save $2. Tonight I am going to do some sort of work out, not sure yet. Shred will be every morning M-F and tomorrow night I will probably take a strength class in the evening with a friend. I realize this weather and this season has really played with my weightloss, so I have to show it who is the real boss, take charge of my destiny. I got a big push from Biggest Loser Finale last night and they are already going to start a new season on January 3rd. I am like WOW...that is quick. Anyway, ladies I had for breakfast a Spicy chicken Italian sausage link wrapped in a whole wheat low carb fajita with a little sprinkled mozzarella cheese and a cup of coffee. I brought yogurt and jello for my snacks and will by me a small salad at lunch today...Not sure what this evening holds...but one of my goals is to plan meals out instead winging it...I need to get myself organized in 2012. My whole life I've been the organized one and for some reason when things in my life got out of control so did that...LETS do it LADIES! And by the way YES, shopping is exercise (mark it off at walking for however long you shop) shoot cleaning is exercise! lol I am not getting on the scale no more until next week (it is way too discouraging).
Joni, I will make sure I consider your advice and if I start to feel overwhelmed I will make sure to take a break, but I am thinking that if my 2-a-day workouts cease on the weekends I will be okay. My Saturday workout usually is crazy anyway and Sunday I normally dont exercise, if I do I walk up this 1.5 mile straight up hill with my neighbor.TTYL

Today....I ate a cookie ice cream sandwich. LOL so much for good food choices. But I still came in under calories and I didn't log my shopping/running around Berkeley because I figured the cookies might have more calories than what I think they did. I definitely did not eat the healthiest today, but I felt good with my choices given what was available.

And yes Joni, I DID find something nice...a PURPLE fleece jacket at the North Face Outlet I am super excited that it fits and that it has a hood and did I mention it's PURPLE??? Hahaha, my friend was laughing so hard because I was literally jumping up and down when I found it on the rack.

Mandie, how did your plan to avoid chocolate go? Pineapple is always a good substitute for chocolate, in my opinion :drinker: (pretend the cups are pineapples )

Alicia, you are definitely my inspiration. I don't know how you are able to do so much and stick to it, but your self-discipline is amazing!

Tomorrow I plan to get up at 7 to go to the gym before heading off to brunch and pedicure session with one of my girls, and I'm supposed to hit the food trucks for dinner before Bible study, so trying to plan ahead for better choices....so on that note, good night!

P.S. I you all!

I DID do pretty well yesterday! I didn't eat any snacks at work or at home and when I was at my aunt & uncle's house for dinner I ate 3 small christmas cookies (seriously, you have to beileve me that they were really small lol) And that was it! Everyone else, even my adorable 6 year-old god-daughter ate like 7 cookes :laugh: I think Andrew had at least 10! :noway: haha too funny...

Anyways, I had a small bowl of cereal this morning for breakfast & am having a chicken alfredo lean cuisine for lunch with a banana!

TONIGHT I am meeting my NEPHEW for the very first time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is almost 6 months old and I can't wait to hold him. My sister & her family live in Germany because her husband is in the Air Force and they are coming home for CHRISTMAS and will be staying with my parents for over 2 weeks!!! (Well, my sister & her boys are coming home...my brother-in-law is currently deployed to Qutar) So, I'm super excited to meet little Zeke and hangout with my nephew Eli, who is now 5 :happy: :happy: :happy: Oh yeah, and I guess it'll be fun to see my sister too

Have a happy thursday girls!

Hey girls,

I'm so glad that we've decided to post daily, or somewhat close to it...

Today I barely stayed under...I had breakfast and went to the gym early this morning but had a HUGE meal right after; I was sooo hungry it was ridiculous! Haha, but I ran around the rest of the afternoon doing errands and baking cookies (which I only had a bite of since it was a new twist on an old recipe) before racing to the food trucks. I definitely gave in to the temptation of crab with garlic noodles, but I am proud to say that while I did finish my half a crab, I only ate half of the garlic noodles, and I refrained from buying my own cupcake!! Small victory (I had a bite of my friend's) but still an improvement.

Tomorrow should be easier because I get to choose or make my own dinner (between meetings at church), then I'm going to squeeze in a gym session before going to sleep. My goal is to up my water intake back to 9 or more glasses every day (I've been slacking and feel the effects).

Mandie, I'm soo excited for you! I absolutely love babies and little kids, and meeting them for the first time is always an amazing experience. So glad you get to spend Christmas with your family :happy:

Alicia, just out of curiosity, is your church doing the Daniel fast? That's the first thing that came to my mind when I saw 40 days and no sweets or meat.

Have an awesome Friday ladies! Goodnight!

OH BOY, OH BOY!!!

In the past 6 days of eating right I was able to go from 158.2 down to 153.6!!! I am soooo pleased with that number that I can hardly stand it :laugh: Now I just need to keep this up even with all the Christmas goodies coming up behind every corner!

Have a great weekend girls :flowerforyou:

Over 4000??? Wow...I really need to up my game. This weekend felt like a bust food-wise. I had my cousin's wedding banquet (think 10 courses of Chinese food) and then more Chinese food today because we had an evening event at church and had dinner catered. Although I skipped all the fried food today and had vegetables, beef, and tofu, but added cupcakes since the event was called "Christmas Carols and Cupcakes". I also somehow forgot the first line of "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" which I soloed I think I need to figure out how to stay away from the goodies, especially since I have a ton of baking to do this week...any suggestions? I will probably weigh in on Tuesday so I can get rid of the sodium and water. Hope you girls are having a great weekend!

I know, I know...I was the last person to write on the topic, but I'm back again!!! I just had to report that I am at work and I am feeling soooooooo hungry so i'm coming on here to tell you all that i'm not going to eat the yummy chocolates or mints on my co-workers desk!!! Instead, (THIS IS FOR YOU, MANDIE) : drink lots of water, and prepare for the meeting in an hour :laugh: haha Because if you give in then we don't get pizza or a snack tonight and we've already planned for those. You must have strength...You must not give in!!!!!!!!!!! haha

nice pep talk, eh?
:laugh:

Holiday...Holiday...who said you could go on Holiday Joni (joke)...lol. Have an awesome time, but it already sounds like you will...skiing in the Alps for a week (must be nice) ;-) I am sure we will all weigh in sometime before the new year to finish off the numbers for this challenge, so we can start the next phase of our group. Merry Christmas to everyone. My last day at work is Thursday and then I am officially on Holiday, but I am not going anywhere a staycation it is!