6 WEEK JUMP START TO SUMMER CHALLENGE
HAMMBONE
Posts: 155 Member
Hi everyone.
Anyone interested in joining me in a 6 week challenge to kick start weight loss? Summer is right around the corner and it is time to give our weight loss a huge push and reach for the stars.
Are you willing to give up the white stuff, mainly flour products and sugar for the next 6 weeks to make the scales move and the fat drop?
If so, post your starting weight and let's get started!
Thursday's will be our official weigh in day and our final weigh in will be June 1!
Let's get this party started!
This group will remain open so you may join anytime during the 6 week period!
I encourage everyone to keep their calories at a min. of 1200 each day. Let's keep it healthy.
NOW LET'S ROCK THE SCALES and SHAKE OFF SOME FAT....
Anyone interested in joining me in a 6 week challenge to kick start weight loss? Summer is right around the corner and it is time to give our weight loss a huge push and reach for the stars.
Are you willing to give up the white stuff, mainly flour products and sugar for the next 6 weeks to make the scales move and the fat drop?
If so, post your starting weight and let's get started!
Thursday's will be our official weigh in day and our final weigh in will be June 1!
Let's get this party started!
This group will remain open so you may join anytime during the 6 week period!
I encourage everyone to keep their calories at a min. of 1200 each day. Let's keep it healthy.
NOW LET'S ROCK THE SCALES and SHAKE OFF SOME FAT....
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Still working to lower my carb count. Today I have 85 gross carbs and 69 net carbs. Not to much over my max limit for the day.
I did walk for over 30 min, around Walmart while waiting for a prescription to be filled. Casual walking,
Next week, my goal is to increase exercise intensity and increase exercise time.
How's everyone doing?0 -
One dietary indiscretion today - which for me means one thing off plan that has gluten or sugar. In this case, a Three Musketeers bar. It's over. I own it. I gave up one of my planned meals to eat it. So I did go over my 100 g net carb limit, but not as far as I had expected. Tomorrow I will do better!
As for exercise today, walked 12 flights of stairs and did over 10,000 steps thanks to my fellow students deciding we should walk as a group during our breaks. Yay! Otherwise, might not have met my goal today.
Ok, to bed for me, early morning at the gym, early day at work, and then some massages scheduled for my clinic hours late afternoon tomorrow. Talk to y'all soon!0 -
Welcome to Hammbone 6 week jump atart to summer challenge
Thanks hammbone in starting this.thread.
Love my fellow Texan
Marie0 -
I will do this with your help , and GODS help. Thank you for starting.
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Got a great start today. Started off my morning with the 30 day shred, and I feel great! Won't be going to Zumba today, so I'll do another workout this afternoon. I'm going to take the stairs at work as much possible. We are going to a wine tasting this evening, so I need to make sure to adjust my calories, carbs and exercise accordingly. Have a great day everyone!0
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Hi everybody! I'm back to MFP thanks to Hambone's invite. Nice to see you all again! I'm WAY up in weight. No excuses ... things got a bit stressed around here since November and I've been a little piggy. Back on track now. I have finished 5 days of my plan and I'm down 8.2 lbs so I'm off and running. I'll post as often as I can, but I'm in school and really busy with classes, writing a dissertation, and my mundane household chores ... so I'll check in as often as possible. It's really good to 'see' you guys again!
Happy Losing!0 -
Hi everybody! I'm back to MFP thanks to Hambone's invite. Nice to see you all again! I'm WAY up in weight. No excuses ... things got a bit stressed around here since November and I've been a little piggy. Back on track now. I have finished 5 days of my plan and I'm down 8.2 lbs so I'm off and running. I'll post as often as I can, but I'm in school and really busy with classes, writing a dissertation, and my mundane household chores ... so I'll check in as often as possible. It's really good to 'see' you guys again!
Happy Losing!
Is that you, Joy? If so, NICE TO "SEE" YA, woman! Glad to see you are back on track!0 -
I will do this with your help , and GODS help. Thank you for starting.:happy:
Hi nanabannana And what a cute sugar babe she is too.
good seeing you again.
callie0 -
Great LBWO (lower body workout) today and a half hour on the treadmill at the gym. Not lifting to muscle failure yet, so still room to tweak the amount I'm lifting, at least with lower body workouts. We'll see. I often don't feel anything the day of - but the day after or the 2nd day can show some delayed onset muscle soreness. Best solution, I was told, is to drink plenty of water, so I'll be pushing that today.
My boss is back from outta town today, so leadership meeting this morning, work, then a couple massages to do this afternoon. I have to do 50 hours of massage in clinic before I can graduate, and I am hoping to reach 25 done this weekend - half way point! Woo hoo!
Oh, and haven't been on the scale since I discovered the banana/PB gain- but I can honestly say that my clothes are fitting a bit looser - and that my upper belly is smaller. You know what I mean - I have what some call "double belly" syndrome, LOL - a belly above my belly button and one below it. I'm sure I'm sharing too much, but eh, who cares? I'm not shy.....
I hope everyone has a LOSER day!0 -
i know what you are tslking about for i have 2 too
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^^^ I thought I was the only one with 2 bellies... I've got the same issue, trying to get rid of both!!!Oh, and haven't been on the scale since I discovered the banana/PB gain- but I can honestly say that my clothes are fitting a bit looser - and that my upper belly is smaller. You know what I mean - I have what some call "double belly" syndrome, LOL - a belly above my belly button and one below it. I'm sure I'm sharing too much, but eh, who cares? I'm not shy.....0 -
Wooohoooo, Fit so good to see you join us!!! Congrats on your loss. won't be long you will have the nasty gain off and be sailing!
Welcome to nanabanana... I don't think I spelled that right but WELCOME!!!
Those are NOT 2 bellies, those are pound puppies and we are putting them up for adoption!!!
I bow to Fireswan and Resalyn.... great workouts and here I sit dreading mine but I will get it done!
Calie, you're so welcome. This site is a bit confusing now but I am learning. I don't know how to pin this thread to the introduction thread but surely everyone will find us.0 -
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Pound puppies - yeah, mine are up for adoption. Heck, I'd even settle for someone to foster them for a while! (But if so, I ain't taking them back.....)0
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I am finishing today with 131 gross carbs and 111 net.
I may actually shoot for the 60 net carbs or less during the week and then shoot for 100 net carbs on the weekend.
I think with my lifestyle, this would keep me on track and I would not feel too restricted when eating with others.
I may experiment with those numbers for a few weeks and see what my results are.
Res, how many steps did you get in today?
Fit'50, do you still have your fitbit?
I forgot who else has one... fireswan maybe?0 -
Yep, I've got a fitbit. So far I have 9052 steps and 14 flights of stairs, burned 2182 cals.
I've done 2 workouts today, I thought about running stairs later, but I'm pretty beat at this point. I've had 103 carbs and 16g fiber. A little more net carbs than I usually have, but I treated myself to 1 serving of tortilla chips and homemade guacamole.
gotta have a little fun if I want this to be my lifestyle.
I will be working out indoors tomorrow since the weather will be nasty.0 -
What data do you have to enter into a fitbit about yourself ?
Phil
(yarwell is just a username)0 -
Good morning ladies and Phil,
Phil, I do not much about the fitbit so hopefully one of the ladies who has one will check in and answer your question.
I have a busy day ahead of me and I am already thinking about a nap and it is only 7.
Katie has softball practice at 10 am and it last 1.5 hrs then we will meet my db. He thinks he found the SUV he wants to purchase so I might get the highlander this weekend. (I am buying his SUV)
I am excited cause it has more room than my car.
He has decided on a newer model of the highlander. He looked at a few other things but I told him, he would not be happy downgrading amendenties. I have HAD to do that in the past due to finances and it is hard. Buying his older SUV will probably make it harder in the future when buying cause his is loaded and my pocket book doesn't allow alot of extras...lol
I am excited about the heated seats though....LOL
Katie likes the sun roof.
See the difference in what we like as we get older...LOL
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HAMBONE - I am all about the heated seats, seriously! In fact, the temp dropped like a stone today and had to dig out my winter coat and commuted to school with the heated seats on high - ah, divine!
PHIL - you can check out the Fitbit Ultra at www.fitbit.com. Fitbit is somewhere between a simple pedometer and an HRM. It is more of an activity tracker - has the same technology in it as they use in the WII - so it tracks elevation and equates that to the number of "floors" you climb in a day, keeps track of your total steps. If you get one, and go through the set up, you will enter your basic physical stats and it then will keep track of your calories burned based on your activity and your BMR. If you decide to, you can also wear it on your nondominant wrist at night, and it will also track your basic sleep patterns - how long it takes you to fall asleep, how long you slept, and how many times you awakened. MFP and the Fitbit website talk to each other too - so when the Fitbit says you have done 10,000 steps, it send that activity to MFP, so those additional activity calories will show up for you to use if you want to use them.
I love my Fitbit. It is so motivating to see how far I've come during the day - and sometimes just before bed, I see I"m about to hit a milestone and it encourages me to get in one more flight of stairs or another 100 steps for the day.
Yesterday, I got in almost 11,000 steps, and I climbed 22 floors, or the "Wicked Twister" which I am assuming is a roller coaster. Today I am at school in clinic doing massages throughout the day, and plan on doing laps around the block and doing stairs in between studying for two tests and oh - actually massing people, LOL.
Y'all have a wonderful ACTIVE day!0 -
Welcome Phil, That fit thing is too high tech for this old lady.
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Hi Phil,
You pretty much enter the standard stuff- height, weight, date of birth, goal weight and how much you want to lose each week. I set mine up as close to MFP as I could. It seems to be working out pretty well. I just wish the activity would transfer over to MFP without me entering it in. But as Long as the time and calories burned match, it synchs from MFP to fitbit. I think fitbit's program is still a little buggy, but it works for me.
So, I wasn't going to do anymore stairs last night - fate had other plans - well, at 2am our fire alarm went off and had to grab both kitties and my hubby and I had to evacuate down 6 floors. It turned out to be a false alarm, so instead of waiting to get back on crowded elevators, we walked back up to the 6th floor. So, I got my stairs in! Ha!0 -
Lets make it a perfect Day One day at a time.
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Good morning yall.
Whew yesterday WAS a long day. Didn't get home till after 10 pm. I am still tired.
Yesterday my gross carb count was 117 and my net carbs was 96. I am going to start working on getting my fiber count up.
Oops forgot I ate popcorn so let me add that to the food journal and correct my numbers.0 -
update carbs for Saturday: 133 gross, 109 net.
Fireswan, you probably are STILL burning calories from your early morning run down the stairwells!!! Glad it was a false alarm.
You definitely got your exercise in!
Res, the Wicked Twister!!! Sounds like a roller coaster to me too. You are on a roll. Sounds like you had a busy day and reached your step goal... wooohoooo
Calie, technology really has made some advancements in recent years. While visiting my brother yesterday, my hubby and kate watched a 3d movie. I would take a peek every once in a while but it makes me sick. Not sure why it messes with my head but I can't watch 3 D. I take kate to the movies and if there is a lot of action in the 3d movie, I have to close my eyes or I will be sick as horse when the movie is over...LOL0 -
Hammbone - you are doing so well with your carb counts! WTG!
Fireswan - Ummm, I think you would have burned more calories from the adrenaline rush alone. Ohmygoodness - I'm so glad it was just a false alarm!!!!
I am a bit bummed on one hand and totally excited on the other. I forgot to put my fitbit on this morning, and I had already done like 4 trips up and down from the 2nd floor to the basement - so missed out on it counting those steps and floors.
But this totally makes up for that bummer - my hubby has committed to lifting weights with my every morning before work. So I cleaned up the workout room and just have to sweep/mop - and pick up another weight bench at Walmart and we're good to go. I will still do my cardio at the gym over my lunch breaks, but strength training will be at home with my hubby. I'm so excited to get him motivated to working out with me again. We are both so much more dedicated when we do it together. On the days I don't wanna get outta bed, he kicks me out - and vice versa. So this is a WONDERFUL thing!
Ok, I gotta get busy, got a ton of stuff to accomplish today. Y'all have a wonderful LOSING day!0 -
It looks yummy Callie!0
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YUM!!! Caliecat that look's delicious!!! I may have to try that for breakfast.
Res, I think it is great you and your dh are going to work out together. My dh has NEVER had a weight issue so he doesn't understand my struggle at all.
What a blessing for you and your dh to motivate each other!
Girl even if you didn't have your fitbit on, You KNOW you climb those stairs and your body knows it too. Hear the fat sizzle???? hee hee0 -
Today I had a total of 109 carbs (gross) and 93 net. Monday I am back to the 60 or less. I think I like boosting the carbs for the weekend cause it worked well for eating with all my family.0
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UGH, first day of working out with DH - EPIC FAIL. DH was off last week due to plant shutdown, and to be honest, most nights, he fell asleep on the couch and never came to bed. This was just fine with me and the dogs, cuz we got the bed to ourselves. The downside - when he actually slept in the bed last night, his snoring was so friggin loud I got MAYBE an hour and a half or two hours of sleep. I don't know if him sleeping downstairs meant that I lost some of my ability to tune out the snoring, but I am not kidding you, I seriously could have punched him in his eye multiple times.
So needless to say when the alarm went off for us to get up at 4:30 a.m., I turned it off and tried to go back to sleep for another couple hours. We will do our UBWO this evening instead. DH goes back to work tomorrow, so our routine will be back to normal - maybe that will help....0 -
that looks delicious, Calie! mmmmm0
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