Summer Challenge

Forgot to state my starting weight: 183. First Goal: 170. Thx!!!!!

Cool, I'll just assume that I'm in.

Taught Karate tonight for 4 hours. Only about 1.5 hours of it was exercising for myself though. Plus, my birthday is tomorrow and my students surprised me with cake, which I happily obliged them by wolfing down. I'll call tonight a wash.

Tomorrow will be a good day. 30 minutes of calisthenics and 1 hour of Kickboxing drills to teach, followed by an additional hour of Kickboxing sparring. Nothing burns calories like getting kicked in the head.

Good luck to everyone else doing the challenge!

Happy Wednesday everyone! Hope you all are having a great week so far!

Challenges for this week:
Water: I usually don't drink water so I took on the challenge and drank 32 oz today! I never drink this much and boy did I have to use the bathroom a lot! LOL
New exercise: I started a new workout program called Insanity on 5/28/12!
Calories: I'm under calories today! That's 2/7 for me this week!

Drank my extra water yesterday but thats about it :frown:

I was "bullied" into going out for dinner and cinema so went over my cals and didnt have time to exercise. Never mind right back on track today. only a few hundred over so I can make that up over the next day or 2 :ohwell:

Decided my new exercise will be the 30DS and will be keeping it up until the end! (will be taking rest days probably once a week)

Hope you're all well today :flowerforyou:

Ugh! I went over by 80 calories by the end of Wednesday. I did get in all my water plus some. That helps. I only did the 30 minutes of Wii Just Dance which was new for me. Today will be better for keeping my calories under - on the run all day. Have to keep mindful once I do get home tonight though. That's the worst part of the day for me when it comes to eating.

Everyone have a great day!

Denise

New exercises anyone? I'm always look ing for more variety. Currently I regularly play hockey, kickbox, treadmill and lift weights. To that I will add elliptical (HATE IT!!!) stationary bike (HATE IT!!!) and a rowing machine. I also do many squats throughout the day... when I'm washing my hands, waiting for the microwave etc. I tried yoga and I can sincerely say that it is not for me. I tend to need action/movement to keep my attention. So what other suggestions for activity is everybody out there doing? I need to mix it up!

MarieB

One thing I do to break a sweat is dance, particularly I'll turn on Just Dance for Wii and do it for a half hour to an hour.

I think I might do yoga for this week though unless I can think of something better.

OOOHHH I forgot that I bought the Ultimate Fighter (or some MMA type game) that has exercises on it for the Wii. I also play Wipeout with my daughter. It's the most ridiculous game but such a hoot to play!

Marie

I did the treadmill again this morning. It's nice to squeeze in 30 minutes as a backup. I do have tonight scheduled for exercise, but with 4 kids, a hubby, a business.... sometimes nighttime gets away from me!

Today I get to be the chaperone on my daughter's field trip. I had a tiny health scare a couple of weeks ago and it reminded me that work will alwyas be there waiting for me. My kids are growing too fast. My oldest just turned 18 and will go on to college in the fall. HUH? How did that happen? I seriously feel like I"m still only 25 years old. I was blessed to be able to stay home with them before they went off to school, but with the bad economy it's been up to me to do many jobs at work and that means many, many hours at work. We survived the worst of it and now I am almost to the point where we can hire more help again. But my family time is the most important thing in the world and it goes too fast.

Wow, sorry to get so crazy on that topic. Guess I'm feeling a bit weepy about it this morning! Ahhhh life changes - my kids growing older I can NOT control but my healthy lifestyle I CAN! :happy:

MarieB

I've never been a part of a challenge before. This is great! I am losing weight for for my wedding in November, but more importantly, I am losing weight for myself!

5/29 Update:
Water - No
Exercise - Yes (I added pushups to my routine)
Calories - Under

So far, so good!

5/30 Update:
Water - Yes! Drank 6 cups instead of 4
Exercise - Yes (I added pushups to my routine)
Calories - Under by 46

SW: 131
GW: 123

Water-not so good with water challenges as I hate drinking it plain but have switched some of my diet soda to propel zero and like it so that is a change for the better

Exercise-push up challenge this week, 10 push ups a day

Cal-better than over the weekend, finally logging again consistently, every time I don't log, I gain weight.

Good luck all!

I think I posted my weight, but not sure, so just in case: Starting 154 Goal is 140

I have hit a bit of a plateau lately so I need another kickstart or challenge this is perfect, I have a wedding on September 1st as a goal. I am going to weigh in on fridays, I hope to lose 20 pounds in this time frame.
CW-180
GW-160

Hope you don't mind if I join a little late. My weight hasn't budged in the last couple of weeks so I'd really like to set a goal in mind and go for it. My birthday is on Aug 30th so my goal is to loose 25lbs by the 28th. That's less than 2lbs a week and I don't want to aim too high.

SW: 180
GW by Aug 28th: 155 or less

Update:

I am drinking tons of water (about 12 glasses a day)

I'm thinking I'm going to try jogging for my new exercise. I'm going to see how long I can go without stopping (shooting for at least 5 minutes). Finally going to get my butt back in the gym!

I haven't been over calories yet :happy:

I'm a little late but I would love to be in this challenge..
Starting Weight 248
Goal weight by August 28th - 218

Total weight loss goal- 30lbs.. :O

Details:

Starting weight - 168lbs
Goal weight by 30/8/12 - 150

Weight loss goal - 18lbs

Would be amazing to lose more, but don't want to lose weight too fast. Also going away this weekend so don't know how 'good' I'll be in terms of eating and logging my food etc.