Healthy and Fit in 2012! (Closed Group)

Awe Wimberly, love that your dog keeps you motivated.

I am detoxing from Facebook so I kind of need to vent to someone who is a third party spectator lol. I was walking my dog this morning on base and there is a strict "clean up after your pet" policy on base. I'll admit I forgot my puppy bags at home but there are bag stations on almost every corner. So Nate, my dog goes poop FAR from the sidewalk almost in a little ditch where absolutely no one walks. We begin walking towards the farther corner so I can get some exercise and grab a bag for the walk back (it would have been a total of 7 minutes-ish for me to walk there to get a bag and make it back). As I'm walking a woman stops in the middle of the road blocking traffic in her car to nag me about him pooping and me not cleaning it up right away and points back the way I came that there's a bag station blah blah. She says she is going to take a picture of me and my dog and report us and then proceeds to drive off and then before I know it she has turned around and is parked watching me go get a bag and watches me clean it up then drives away.

I know I was wrong for not getting a bag before him going to the bathroom, my problem was how she went about embarrassing me, herself for acting crazy, and just blowing the matter out of proportion. Lesson learned on my end but what the heck can't you be a little nicer about it??? And this is my opinion but let the military police on base or housing officials care for this matter, I wouldn't take time from my life to nag a stranger about something petty. To each his/her own I guess.

Hey everyone. I'm sorry for not being around the past few days....I feel terrible not being able to offer supportive comments or the sort. I've have been sick again the past fews days. Just dealing with hypoglycemia issues and an SLE flare (so nosebleeds, pain and etc)

I have not been logging everything this weekend, I just couldn't focus. My body is completely rebelling right now :-( I will be posting a review of this past week (big epic fail) and my upcoming weeks goals as soon as it's officially Monday!

Okay, So I've had a super rough week. Been sick, so I'm taking medication that puts me off kilter....bloated, working overnights constantly blah blah blah. I'm hoping to shock myself back into some sort of normalcy. The one thing I did VERY well this week is keeping up with my exercise, which actually HELPS my joint pain! So I have additional motivation in that department.

***WEEK 1 RECAP***
EXERCISE:
- Go to spin class 3x (CHECK, went 4x)
- Do an additional 60 minutes of additional cardio (CHECK, additional 95mins)
- Strength training 1X (CHECK, did 2x)

FOOD:
- drink 16 ounces of PURE water a day (CHECK)
- Hit 80 grams of protein 3x (CHECK, managed it for 4 days!)
- Have some sort of veggie everyday (CHECK)
- Eat fruit on at least 5 days next week (ALMOST, 4 out of 5 days!)

***GOALS FOR WEEK 2***
EXERCISE
- Burn at least 2000 calories through exercise
- Strength training 2x

FOOD
- Drink a total of 64 ounces of fluids each day (tea, flavored water etc.)
- 24 ounces of that needs to be PURE water everyday
- Stay UNDER or AT goal calories everyday (I've had a problem with going over SMH)
- Hit 80g protein 5x this week
- Daily veggie!


Weight loss goal: 10.2 lbs (This is a desired loss including the water weight I gained over the holidays) Going for 132 lbs!
Weight loss total: 5.0 lbs

Week 0: 142.2 -- starting weight (post Holiday bloat & gain ::GASP::)
Week 1: 135.6 (- 6.6 lbs; a lot of water weight lost)
Week 2: 137.2 (+1.6 lbs; ugh between BAD eating and all the medication I'm on...rough week & a lot of bloat right now)
Week 3:
Week 4:

I do realize I will probably NOT make my monthly goal of getting down to 132 with this past week chaos, but I'm going to keep it up there to motivate me...I'll get as close as I can :-)

Okay, So I've had a super rough week. Been sick, so I'm taking medication that puts me off kilter....bloated, working overnights constantly blah blah blah. I'm hoping to shock myself back into some sort of normalcy. The one thing I did VERY well this week is keeping up with my exercise, which actually HELPS my joint pain! So I have additional motivation in that department.

***WEEK 1 RECAP***
EXERCISE:
- Go to spin class 3x (CHECK, went 4x)
- Do an additional 60 minutes of additional cardio (CHECK, additional 95mins)
- Strength training 1X (CHECK, did 2x)

FOOD:
- drink 16 ounces of PURE water a day (CHECK)
- Hit 80 grams of protein 3x (CHECK, managed it for 4 days!)
- Have some sort of veggie everyday (CHECK)
- Eat fruit on at least 5 days next week (ALMOST, 4 out of 5 days!)

***GOALS FOR WEEK 2***
EXERCISE
- Burn at least 2000 calories through exercise
- Strength training 2x

FOOD
- Drink a total of 64 ounces of fluids each day (tea, flavored water etc.)
- 24 ounces of that needs to be PURE water everyday
- Stay UNDER or AT goal calories everyday (I've had a problem with going over SMH)
- Hit 80g protein 5x this week
- Daily veggie!


Weight loss goal: 10.2 lbs (This is a desired loss including the water weight I gained over the holidays) Going for 132 lbs!
Weight loss total: 5.0 lbs

Week 0: 142.2 -- starting weight (post Holiday bloat & gain ::GASP::)
Week 1: 135.6 (- 6.6 lbs; a lot of water weight lost)
Week 2: 137.2 (+1.6 lbs; ugh between BAD eating and all the medication I'm on...rough week & a lot of bloat right now)
Week 3:
Week 4:

I do realize I will probably NOT make my monthly goal of getting down to 132 with this past week chaos, but I'm going to keep it up there to motivate me...I'll get as close as I can :-)

Hang in there girl!! You are doing what you can, and that to me is SUPER motivation! If I felt like that plus working late shift I'm not gonna lie, I'd probably just crash! But you keep going and that is awesome! You will figure out a way to make things work, but for right now just keep doing what you can to take care of you.

Week 2 goals:

Exercise- run 5 days, power walk two days.
3 ab workouts
3 strength sessions
Stretch every morning
Go to yoga!

Food- stay under
Fruits and veggies every day
At least 10 cups of water/tea each day

Good luck everyone on week 2!!

I pretty much failed on the abs I only did 1 ab session. Going back to work after not working for 5 months threw me off a bit this past week. I vow to make week 3 better. I also started getting sick Friday, full-fledged sickness yesterday, and now it's somewhat gone today.

Missed out on yoga class, lol. I did stretch myself more!!

Arm workouts were done! I got in 80 push ups Friday! Yay!

Running I didn't run 5 days I did run 3 I believe...kinda forgot. But I definitely went walking if I wasn't running!

Stayed under or at least right on target each day, drank tons of fluids, and got more veggies and fruits


Week 3 is to get 3 ab workouts in, 4 arm sessions, and do c25k 4 days and if not then definitely 3 (depends on how I feel!!)

Go to one yoga class!!!!

Continue eating fresh foods, lots of water, and staying under. No bored eating!!! Thankfully working will help with that!

*** Didn't weigh in this past week. Too busy honestly and been sick all weekend so I will just wait til next time. I felt really bloated today so I definitely was not going to weight myself with that feeling!!! :P

Have a good week everyone!

~Wimberley

My goals this week are pretty much the same as last week (alternating between C25k & powersculpt and CardioMax dvd, drink plenty of water, stay under 1200 consistently)...BUT my big one for this week is: no weighing until next Monday! I've gotten obsessed with stepping on the scale and then fighting feelings of disappointment when there is no change (or shows an increase! :grumble: )
Originally, I thought I weighed 150.6 when we started this challenge, but every day after that for the first week, the scale showed 152.6, meaning I had actually gained 5 lbs over the holidays-not 3. So, I'm not sure what the loss has been each week but I was at 150.4 as of yesterday, a 2.2 lb loss overall since we began. This makes me feel a little bit better....and a maybe a little bit sorry for kicking my scales that one day :laugh:
Looks like everyone is doing great--despite some of you working way too much and being so stressed! I hope you can all get the rest you need soon. Hang in there! We're rooting for you! :drinker:

Hi Everyone,

Looks like you're all doing a very good job!!! WTG!! :drinker: :flowerforyou:

Sorry I've been absent for the last few days...my mind has been very occupied. On Friday I found out that our office is being moved to Georgia and my last day at work is on Jan. 31st. I've been at this job for 5 years and have built some very close relationships so this is very tough :brokenheart: Although this is very scary for me :sick: at the same time, I'm a little bit relieved. There has been a lot of stress and pressure at work lately and frankly it has taken over my life. Losing this job is going to change my life completely but I think it's for the better. I feel like I'm about to start a new journey so I've been thinking things through trying to figure out how to be most successful with what I'm about to face. If all goes well, I will be able to finish school while sitting on unemployment. I only have another year to go. The funny part is the night before when I was driving home from work I was thinking "this is going to be a year of changes". I strongly feel that these will be positive changes.

Anyways, I think I did very good last week on my goals. I had to put the cleanse on hold for a few days but no biggie...it was my birthday weekend. I even lost 5 lbs but gained it all back overnight. I still don't understand how...the only thing I can think of is it has to be the alcohol or TOM. If you've seen my diary, I've been drinking the last few days. I drank a lot on Saturday night and woke up the next morning with all of that weight back. I just about fell over! And I can't seem to shed an ounce for 3 days now. It makes me mad because I worked my butt off to lose those lbs. I don't like it! :grumble: :explode:

I would like for my goals to remain the same as the week before. Except I would like to add a push ups to my exercise routine.

GOALS FOR THIS WEEK:

Sleep 8 hours every night-even 7 would be nice
Drink at least 10 glasses of water per day

Exercise:
Do 30DS everyday
Walk on lunch-at least 3 weekdays
Do atleast 10 push ups twice per day (increasing with one push up each day of the week)

Food:
I'm doing a cleanse so I have to stay away from all processed foods, allergents, dairy, and wheat.

Here is my weight progress. Does anybody know what happened to the signature option? I can't seem to find it anywhere.

:glasses: 2012 WEEKLY WEIGHT LOG::glasses:
Jan. 2nd-->215
Jan. 9th-->212
Jan. 16th-->211.8

Hello Ladies! You're all doing absolutely great! Its so motivating to read up how everyone is exercising! We all have rough days and we all hop back on our 'healthy' train!

As hard as I've been working this week I am hoping to see some kind of loss after this week but with not feeling 100% I have a feeling my body is just holding onto everything to heal and recoup....even though I burned up 2000+ calories so far this week. That's fine though, as long as I start feeling better and as long as it's not a gain!

Mandy I truly understand what you mean when you feel like you see a fat girl in the mirror. I have been battling that feeling and lately been trying to really see what I am and not some distorted image. It's hard especially if you used to be a lot heavier and are now seeing a thinner version of yourself. I think a half pound of loss sounds good since its time for you to start thinking more of maintaining rather than straight losing. I'm always here for support! I 100% understand your worries!

Hey Ladies! Happy Monday!

Alrighty here's a recap of week 3:
Sugars 5g or less over- 2/7 (goal7/7)
Fresh fruit-7/7 (goal 7/7)
Fresh veg- 5/7 (goal 7/7)
Cardio- 5/7 (goal 5/7)
Strength/circut training- 1/7 (goal 2/7)
Yoga-0/7 (goal 1-2/7)

I did some readjusting of my main goals today, so I will be posting my weights...
Weight so far on challenge:
Start- 203.5
1/9- 198.5
1/16- 198.5
1/23- 197.5
Hoping to end challenge at 196!

Final week goals:
Sugars 5g or less over- 5/7
Fresh fruit-7/7
Fresh veg-7/7
Strength/circut training- 3/7
Cardio- 4/7

Here we go! Hope everyone has a great week!

calories: unsure about this; switch to 0.5 lb loss per week? maintain weight and tone?

Any advice or thoughts you all have is welcome and appreciated!

DEF switch to 0.5 loss per week and eat your exercise calories back for a week or so and then switch to full maintenance and tone. You dont want to all of a sudden go into maintenance because it might be psychologically screwey to be eating more lol.

So this week went a lot better than week 2...except for Sunday. Traditionally weekends have always been very difficult, especially Sundays. Went over on my calories, but still under for the entire week so I’m somewhat pleased....My workouts don’t seem to be the problem. For the most part, my food is good too....even my meal planning is great. It those d@mn “moments” I get into...when I’m at work and get RAVENOUS (ahem weekends) or just when I feel crappy.

***WEEK 3 RECAP***
EXERCISE:
- Burn at least 2000 calories through exercise (CHECK! BURNED 2394)
- Strength training 2x (CHECK!)

FOOD:
- Drink a total of 64 ounces of fluids each day (CHECK)
- 24 ounces of that needs to be PURE water everyday (CHECK)
- Stay UNDER or AT goal calories everyday (ALMOST 6/7 DAYS, OVER ON SUNDAY)
- Hit 80g protein 5x this week (3/5 DAYS NEEDS IMPROVEMENT)
- Daily veggie! (CHECK)

***GOALS FOR WEEK 2***
EXERCISE
- Burn at least 2000 calories through exercise
- Strength training 2x

FOOD
- Stay UNDER or AT goal calories everyday
- Hit 80g protein 5x this week
- Veggies 5x!
- Have fruit 3x this week
- Stay UNDER my Sodium!


Weight loss goal: 10.2 lbs (This is a desired loss including the water weight I gained over the holidays) Going for 132 lbs!
Weight loss total: 5.2 lbs

Week 0: 142.2 -- starting weight (post Holiday bloat & gain ::GASP::)
Week 1: 135.6 (- 6.6 lbs; a lot of water weight lost)
Week 2: 137.2 (+1.6 lbs; ugh between BAD eating and all the medication I'm on...rough week & a lot of bloat right now)
Week 3: 137.0 (-0.2)
Week 4:

Again, I know I wont be making my goal weight loss for the month but I’m keeping it just to motivate me!

holy MOLY being on my feet for 7 hours straight playing with kids all day, pushing them in swings, playing tag, eating fruits and veggies at snack time, and pushing buggies with 6 toddlers in them for a couple hours should be a workout on MFP!!!!! I am definitely feeling it! LOL

holy MOLY being on my feet for 7 hours straight playing with kids all day, pushing them in swings, playing tag, eating fruits and veggies at snack time, and pushing buggies with 6 toddlers in them for a couple hours should be a workout on MFP!!!!! I am definitely feeling it! LOL

Awesome, I hope you are loving it! And you ARE right...it should count as exercise on MFP! I'm sure "pushing swings" is not in the data base, but something comparable is...maybe "push-ups"? See what I mean or...depending on how much you work you may be able to change your activity level in your profile.