Never going to give up !!!!! challenge

How lovely to see so many new faces, welcome to you all

Goals for February will be pretty much the same

Exercise - cardio 5 times a week, 400+ crunches 3 times per week
Food - stay under calorie allowance a much as possible, but don't feel guilty if I do go over as long as this is only 1 or 2 times per week
C25K - on Week 4 at the moment, so want to continue with this and hopefully reach week 7 or 8 by the end of Feb

Today is one of those days that I have gone over on cals but that's because I have no time on Wednesdays to workout and earn myself extra, never mind.

I am working myself up to today's mini-challenge. I'm sure my words were 'thank goodness we are not doing the plank' and somehow that was turned into Sam wanting to do the plank - hmm, how did that happen?!:sad: I will let you know later if I manage it.

Here's to a fabulous February everyone xxxx

Morning all, well I did my plank arghh!!! I had 3 attempts and only managed 30 seconds each time. Hawkeyegal, 3 minutes is awesome, wow.

Jemma - never played lacrosse but it looks fun. I suppose if you enjoy team sports like hockey then go for it.

Will check in later, got to get ready for work now. x

LadyTinkerbell, you are welcome to join us. Some of us have been supporting each for a few months now and others have joined us more recently. Set yourself a few goals and let us know how you are doing each day (or as often as you can), we sometimes set ourselves mini-challenges too.

Elimay - that sounds like fun, decorating cupcakes and making jewellery with 5 little girls.

Goals today
I have closed my diary and I am just under for the day, but there are many hours left til bedtime and I may just want a few more nibbles
Exercised on the Wii this morning, crunches and weights to be done soon
C25K - I did the 3rd session of Week 4 earlier, looking forward to starting week 5 in a couple of days

Look forward to seeing how you are all doing my friends xxx

Hello ! I hope everyone has had a chance to wind down this Thursday night! (Or good morning to some!) I am sooo looking forward to a hot shower & jammies!!

Goals are to
Stay at calorie goal
Burn 1000 calories most days
Focus more on me/house/procrastination list

Well well well....I found the most delightful macaroon today. I had to estimate on calories and I hope I overestimated! I couldn't find anything in our mfp database that resembled "A taste of Heaven". Either way, I didn't have the calories to spare so I went for a good workout. Oh and I made tortillas and sent them in the mail to my baby boy in college!! I wish I could see his face when he opens it!

Everyone else doing well? Elimay, my daffodils smile and say "Hello" when I walk to my front door!! I planted them 8 years ago and they come see me every year!!

Here it is almost 10 o'clock and I'm finally off my feet and sitting down. Good day though. I don't mind being busy. Took my daughter to get braces today. The xrays look terrible, poor girl. Went out shopping after dinner because we are having winter storm for the next 24 hours or so. School has already been cancelled for tomorrow.

Goal check:
Increase water to 5 glasses a day - yes
exercise - begin jogging again, weather permitting, YES! and took the dog with me. She did pretty well staying with me. For once she wasn't pulling. :-)
strength exercise each day - no
housework - 1 hour weekdays - yes
Stop procrastination - I'm going to count the jogging here also as I have been meaning to do so for a few weeks.
Log calories and exercise - yes

Jemma, we like go watch pro lacrosse games. If you like running games like soccer or field hockey, then you will likely enjoy lacrosse too. Elimay, did you get your teeth fixed yet? Istnlondry, good goals.

I'm taking the rest of the day off. Good night.

Yay, it's Friday!!!! Youngest daughter has a day off school today so we are going shopping - the best way to burn calories

Lstnlondry that macaroon sounds lovely - yum

Penny, why don't you see how you feel once you have done the last session of week 4, you could always just do an extra session without repeating the whole week. I have found week 4 difficult as well, but I want to push on to week 5. Remember I am doing it indoors so probably not as hard for me as it is for you.

Elimay the color 5k sounds like fun, we shall all be wanting to see photos of you when you have done it.

Clover good job on the jog, I wonder how many calories your dog burned?

have a great day everyone x

Happy Friday everyone!

My other challenge is going well this week--it is a miles challenge so that's pretty easy. Needed to get 35 miles but with my biking I am already up to 118 miles and still have till Sunday(my miles will help pull up people that could not get to the 35). The second part of the challenge is to write a letter to myself about my accomplishments-that I am struggling with since I'm not happy with my progress. (I'll keep that little rant to myself since you have heard it all before).

Dee-heard about Nebraska getting hit with a big snow storm....please keep it out there! I am traveling a lot for work over the next week and don't want to deal with rescheduling! Of course I would like some snow on the ground to ski and snow shoe(bought the stupid things and not been able to use them all winter).

My eating has pretty much sucked this week.....I seem to be grabbing the jar of PB at night and happily snacking away. I have the rotten mindset that I burned all these calories so everything is far game-so wrong!

Hope that everyone has a great Friday--keep up the awesome work. Everyone is doing great on their goals!

I'm on board. Just joined 3 days ago...
My 3 goals will be

1. 64 PLUS oz. of H2O every day
2. Stay under fat gram goal every day
3. Exercise 4 times every week

Great motivators! Thanks!

Hey!

I have had an extremely poor couple of days but I am now back on the wagon and focussed again! I forgot about the mini challenges so I will catch up with them! Also what are butterfly kicks?

We had snow here yesterday...not quite a blizzard though! Clover I love the sound of your video I don't have an awful lot of room to workout indoors so I am always looking out for new workouts for small spaces!

Anyway I am off to do spot of shopping and then will return to do a massive workout!!!

Have a good day x

Hey Can I Join???

http://fortismag.com/butteflykicks.html <

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link to butterfly kicks!

I am down 24 pounds and only have three more till I'm at 1/4 of my goal! So happy! Hope everyone is enjoying the weekend!

We took all the kids 4 wheeling yesterday and had a great time. It started snowing and we were soaked and frozen but so worth it all! Got my girls riding by themselves on there new 4 wheelers 250cc. It was awesome to see them so proud! Even got grandpa going around! I love my family but sure miss my Mama! Thank goodness for an amazing stepfather! !!!

Hugs to you all!

OK, I am up for this one! I really need to focus on my weight loss. I have the exercise down, it is my food and water consumption that need help! I am struggling to get 10 pounds off, so this will be a huge motivator for me!