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May Monthly Challenge
May kicks off our challenge to complete Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred. This program has 3 workouts (levels). We will be doing: Level 1: May 1st-10th Level 2: May 11th-20th Level 3: May 21st-30th It is up to you how many times you complete the workout during each time period. The workouts last only 20 minutes and can be…
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Mini Mini Challenge: May 5th-8th
An abridged mini challenge for this week.... Eat the Rainbow Eating a variety of different colored fruit and vegetables is a big step in the healthy direction. Consuming different color foods plays a role in insuring we are getting enough essential nutrients, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, fiber, and more. So for the…
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Goals Revisited: May
As we approach our final month, this is a good time to take stock and come up with new or affirm commitment to existing goals. What's working that you will continue this month? Do you have any new plans to incorporate this month? Let's finish strong!
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Motivational Monday: May 1st
It's a new month, a new chance to re-focus, and the last month to make it count in our challenge! It's also weigh-in day, so don't forget to post your weight :) Our new May month long fitness challenge starts today, which is Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred. I've posted the Level 1 workout on that thread and we will be doing…
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April Monthly Challenge
Welcome to the April Challenge! 1st of all congrats to everyone who completed, participated in, or even attempted the March Challenge!! I still can't do a full push-up but my modified ones are a lot stronger than before. This month there will be 2 challenges....The 30 Day LBD (Little Black Dress) Challenge + a bonus 30 Day…
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Mini Challenge: April 25th to May 1st
Okay, I promised a fun mini challenge to make up for the clean eating challenge: The mini challenge for this week is to watch TV :) Pick one or two to try this week, if you don't see one for a show you watch, there are a ton of these on the internet. I'm definitely going to do the Big Bang Theory one as it is always airing…
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Weigh-in #8 Results (4-24-17)
Congrats to everyone who weighed-in!!!!!! We've been at this for 8 weeks now, so thank you for continuing to show up! Together we are stronger! Next week kicks off our final month of this challenge so if you've slacked off, or if you have not committed yet, there is still time...you can start the change today and see…
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May Challenge...Sneak Peek
Just wanted to give a sneak peak of the May Monthly Challenge so that you can get prepared if need be..... For May we will be doing Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred! That's right, we are going to see amazing results at the end of May! You do NOT need to have this DVD to take part in this challenge. The workouts are available…
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Motivational Monday: April 24th
It's weigh-in day! Please post your current weight in the weigh-in thread if you haven't already. I was doing epic spring cleaning/purging over the weekend and while going through some old papers, I found a chart from 2 years ago when I attempted the Little Black Dress challenge that we currently have going on as our April…
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Mini Challenge April 18th-24th
This week's Mini Challenge is "Clean Eating" What does it mean to "eat clean"? For different people it can mean different things. Clean eating is about eating more of the best and healthiest options in each of the food groups—and eating less of the not-so-healthy ones. That means embracing whole foods like vegetables,…
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Weigh-In #7 Results (4/17/17)
Congrats to everyone who took part in the weigh-in this week...coming off of what was a holiday weekend for many people is tough but you stayed accountable, so feel great about that no matter what the scale showed! Our biggest loser this week is @jurapak9960 who lost 2.84% Amazing Results! Our reining champ for the…
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Mini Challenge April 11th-17th
This weeks mini challenge is to take the stairs more! Did you know that 30 Minutes of climbing stairs can burn around 230 calories (based on weight of 155 lbs)? Climbing stairs is a strenuous activity and consumes more energy than walking as you have to work against gravity. You can burn 3 times as many calories climbing…
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Motivational Monday April 17th
It's Weigh-In Day! The weigh-in thread is open in the Announcement's section and I'll leave it open to around 10 p.m. today, so go share your results with everyone :) I hope everyone had a good week, my loss was definitely slowed down by a holiday weekend but I'm not discouraged, it's about finding the balance. I want to…
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Weigh-in #6 Results (4/10/17)
Sorry, I thought this posted yesterday! As a group we lost a total of 35.4 lbs this week and our cumulative challenge total is now 245 lbs lost! Our biggest loser this week is:@Shiloh2112 who lost 3.25% Great Loss!!! Our biggest loser for the challenge (so far) is:@laureljenn who has lost 9.65% - Amazing!!!! Our Top 5 this…
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Motivational Monday, April 10th
Happy Monday Everyone! It's Weigh-In Day :smile: Please post your current weight in the Weigh-In #6 thread in the Announcement section today if you haven't already. I'll keep the thread open to about 10 p.m. tonight and will post the results tomorrow. Today is the last day of the eat more fruits & vegetable challenge, so…
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Weekly Challenge: April 4th-10th
This week's mini challenge is to eat (at least) 5 servings of fruits/vegetables a day. If you are already doing this, maybe try some different ones this week and you might find a new favorite. If you aren't getting enough fruits & vegetables this is the week to expand your diet and add them in! The American Heart…
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Introduce Yourself
Please post your introduction on this thread. I will take your current weight and that will be your start weight for the challenge once the spreadsheets go up next week for our 1st official weigh in. So here's my introduction: Name: Jane or MJT Age: 40's Height: 5'4 ish Current Weight: 160.7 Challenge Goal Weight: 134…
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Weigh-In #5 Results (4/3/17)
Congrats to everyone who weighed in this past week! Our combined group total of weigh loss since the challenge begain is 208.5 lbs! Yay us!! This week our biggest loser is @jfmp who lost 2.53%!!!!!! Also want to give a special shout out that everyone who posted a gain in weigh-in #4 posted a loss (or maintain) in weigh-in…
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Weekly Challenge: March 28th- April 3rd
This week's mini challenge is to abstain from (or limit) alcohol consumption. It's only a week, we can do this! I know that while I consider myself someone who drinks in moderation, it is a factor in my weight gain and/or inability to lose weight. These are empty calories which are predominately carbohydrates and with…
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Motivational Monday: April 3rd
It's weigh-in day! Don't forget to post your current weight on the Weigh-In #5 thread in the announcements section. I'll leave it open to around 10 p.m. tonight. After seeing a slight gain last week because I ate all of the foods, I buckled down and really committed 100% to both my food and workouts this past week and what…
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March Monthly Challenge
Our March Challenge comes from 30DayFitnessChallenges.com and of course, it's about ARMs to get us Sundress Ready. Join if you can and post in this thread your challenges and triumphs as you continue throughout the month. Day 1 starts on March 1st & if case the image doesn't show up for some, I'll post each day what the…
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Weigh-in #4 Results (3/27/17)
Great job to everyone who posted their weigh-in results this week!!!! So far we have lost a little over 170 pounds as a group - AMAZING!! Our biggest loser of the week is hannahhooter who lost 3.23% last week! She posted a progress picture in the NSV thread and her hard work is really showing in her photos. Our overall…
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Mootivational Monday: March 27th
It's weigh-in day today! Don't forget to post your weight in the thread in the announcements section today...I'll leave the thread open to around 10 p.m. tonight. I did not have a good week, was only under calories 1 day and just kind of did whatever I wanted the other 6 days - not good! So, I'll be posting a gain this…
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Weigh-in #3 Results (3/20/17)
Congrats to Everyone Who Weighed in This Past Week!!!! It seems like a lot of us are slowing down a bit (myself included) or are struggling a little bit on this weigh-in, so you should all feel really great about yourself that you still held yourself accountable and showed-up! Let's all really re-focus on this new week and…
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Weekly Challenge: March 21st-March 27th
This week our mini challenge is journaling, either here on this thread or private if you prefer. While we are all (I hope!) keeping a food journal (i.e. logging on myfitnesspal), we might not be "logging" the emotional journey of our weight loss. Weight loss is more than just eating well. Successful dieting often involves…
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Motivational Monday: March 20th
Morning Everyone! It's our 3rd weigh-on day today, so please paste your current weights on the thread in the announcements section. I've got a crazy busy day/evening today, so I won't even have a chance to look at the numbers and add them to the spreadshette until tomorrow morning, so I'll leave the weigh-in thread open…
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Weekly Challenge: March 14th-March 20th
This week's mini challenge is to focus on portion control. Research has shown that people consistently eat more food when offered larger sized portions. Portion control doesn't mean restricting yourself to horribly depressing quantities of food. It does mean being aware of what you are eating and stopping before you over…
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Weekly Challenge: March 7th-March 13th
Our new week's challenge is all about staying hydrated....some of the ways drinking water can help in our efforts to lose weight are: 1) Staying hydrated can help prevent overeating. Often, feelings of thirst are actually confused and interpreted as feelings of hunger. If you feel a hunger twinge come on between meals,…
