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Can we get this group geared up and going again?
Kinda dropped the ball on you guys the last couple years - lots has happened in my life but I won't go into that. I want to recycle the enthusiasm we had when this group started and begin fresh. Are there any members still hanging around willing to give it a go?
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Can we get this group geared up and going again?
Kinda dropped the ball on you guys the last couple years - lots has happened in my life but I won't go into that. I want to recycle the enthusiasm we had when this group started and begin fresh. Are there any members still hanging around willing to give it a go?
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March Madness - Challenge Day Seven
You may think today is a day of rest - it is not. It is a day of reflection. Your challenge for today is to look back through this week's daily challenges and to try to incorporate as many of these challenges into one day. A summary of the daily challenges: 1. Drink your weight in water today. 2. Cut your current weight in…
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March Madness - Challenge Day Eight
Ok - so are we ready to sweat? Have you blown the dust off your workout shoes? Gonna have several of you with restrictions due to medical conditions so do your best to modify the challenges or come up with something to replace it with. Bottom line is that you DO SOMETHING to move your bottom! Today's challenge - find the…
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March Madness - Challenge Day Six
Today's challenge is to eat your daily allowance of FIBER. Make sure you do NOT exceed your calorie and carb allowances for the day. Most of us do NOT meet our recommended allowance of fiber each day. IMPORTANT NOTE: Increase your fluid intake for the day as fiber absorbs water and you can easily become dehydrated or…
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March Madness - Challenge Day Four
Posting this EARLY as it may take a trip to the market....... Eat a rainbow for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Include the colors - RED, ORANGE, YELLOW, GREEN, BLUE, PURPLE. Color additives do NOT count. Good luck with the blue and the purple. jp
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March Madness - Challenge Day Five
If it's round eat it - if it's square leave it there! Think healthy. Note: Sorry guys - pizza and cookies are excluded. jp
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March Madness - Challenge Day Three
Eat your biggest calorie meal for breakfast and your smallest for dinner. Excluding the hour of your meals, help yourself to one HEALTHY snack and 8 ounces of WATER - every hour on the hour. Bon Appetit! jp
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March Madness - Challenge Day Two
Weigh in this morning. Cut your current weight in calories from your diet today. You should end the day with a deficit of that amount (or greater). Can you do it? :flowerforyou: jp Posting this early for our European friends!
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March Madness - Challenge Day One
Drink your weight in water today. Ounces that is! Can you do it? Cheers, :drinker: jp
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March Madness
Spring is just around the corner and we will be wanting to bring out those shorts and T-tops. I think it might be time to kick it into high gear and make some plans and set some goals for the upcoming month. Consider taking the time and responding to this post with your own stats. Let's restate our weight issues first of…
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Recipes - If you got to eat, eat right!
After viewing a lot of your diaries, I think there are some mighty good recipes out there to be had. Feel free to share them with us. I eat quite a lot of broccoli but run out of ideas on how to fix it. Here's a really good one that is so easy to make. BROCCOLI BAKE 1. Cut up a bunch of broccoli. (Make sure it has been…
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Fresh ideas for my Playlist
Would love to hear from any of you with regard to some of your favorite workout music. I run and like to have a "beat" that is compatible with my pace (which by the way is pretty slow). It isn't always about my favorite songs - some music is just too slow and other songs are too fast. I figure it should be about 150 beats…
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Almost 60 - Anyone interested in losing 40 lbs in 40 weeks?
"A winner makes commitments, a loser makes promises." I made a COMMITMENT on December 4th, that I would lose 40 pounds BEFORE I turn 60 next year. Being the realist that I am, I know that this is an almost impossible goal but I need the motivation of an "impossible dream" in order to begin, to challenge myself, and to…
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COME JOIN US - new friends, motivation, and commitment
Just wanted to extend a welcome to anyone who wants to make new friends, stay motivated, and drop those pounds. The only requirement is that you come with an attitude of COMMITMENT. We are a group of international friends who have challenged ourselves to become Champions. Remember - A WINNER MAKES COMMITMENTS, A LOSER…
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Beginner's Workout Plan - only for "Newbies"
A car that hasn't been run for a long time needs some "start up" maintenance done on it BEFORE you turn the key. And so do our bodies! If you are wanting to begin an exercise / workout program, I encourage you to participate in these simple "start up" exercises before you rush out and sign up at a gym or go out and buy…
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Supplements & Nutritional Aids
So many things out there promoting weight loss, healthy living, increased stamina (ha ha - not talking Viagra). Just wondering if you all would share some of the "magic pills" you all include in your daily regiment. What are they? What are they suppose to do for you? Do they work? If so, how do you know. Can't wait to hear…
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Champions: Hall of Fame
This group is so amazing, so inspirational, and so motivating. As one of our members has achieved her GOAL, I think it is only appropriate that we award her first place in our Hall of Fame. There WILL BE MORE to follow. 1. HollisGrant Her quote on her profile: "You are amazing.....believe in yourself."
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Beginner's Workout Plan - only for "Newbies"
A car that hasn't been run for a long time needs some "start up" maintenance done on it BEFORE you turn the key. And so do our bodies! If you are wanting to begin an exercise / workout program, I encourage you to participate in these simple "start up" exercises before you rush out and sign up at a gym or go out and buy…
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Welcome Friends
You all have so much to offer to each other, I didn't want to be selfish and not share. I am amazed at the DETERMINATION and INSPIRATION which I found in each of you and I draw from your strength. This a team effort now and we will succeed! Any of you willing to act as a Moderator on a particular topic, please let me know…
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Your Bucket List - a strategic plan for living
Saw that wonderful movie with Morgan Freeman and the one and only Jack Nicholson - if you haven't seen it, you should rent it. Got me thinking...... Why make a "bucket list" of things that probably I won't get accomplished. Things that perhaps I can dream of but are not realistic goals? What about things that are within my…
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Quotations for the Soul
"Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it." Alexander Dumas
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Workout Safety
Make sure you are READY when you turn your treadmill on. That means adjusting your clothes, messing with your FitBit, or starting your music. The treadmill waits for no one!
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MIND GAMES
Isn't if funny how we play "mind games" with ourselves? It's as if we have multiple "friends" and we are determined to fool them. Got to thinking about some of the things that go through my mind as I attempt to diet, exercise, or justify the facts. Here's a few that come to mind and I'm sure there will be more which I will…
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"Things do not change; we change." Looking for friends.
"A winner makes commitments, a loser makes promises." I made a COMMITMENT on December 4th, that I would lose 40 pounds BEFORE I turned 60 next year. Being the realist that I am, I know that this is an almost impossible goal but I need the motivation of an "impossible dream" in order to begin, to challenge myself, and to…
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Good food is getting too expensive
Why is it that all the good healthy food - like fruit, dairy, meats are getting so dang expensive??? Wanted some grapes so bad today but they were $4.75 a pound. It's getting too depressing to go grocery shopping. I use to think it was a challenge - kinda a fun game to see how creative I could be buying healthy foods and…
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Treadmill running at an incline - calories burned
Appears to be a discrepancy between MFP and treadmill readings as to calories burned. I know each piece of equipment is different but here's my question. When I input what my treadmill says I burn and I am running at a 2% incline - the notice it posts on my Homepage refigures my time. Can this be corrected? How do you…
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Your Bucket List - a strategic plan for living
Saw that wonderful movie with Morgan Freeman and the one and only Jack Nicholson - if you haven't seen it, you should rent it. Got me thinking...... Why make a "bucket list" of things that probably I won't get accomplished. Things that perhaps I can dream of but are not realistic goals? What about things that are within my…
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Thoreau said "Things do not change; we change."
I turned 56 in December. I want to live out the rest of my life healthy, happy, and ready to take on those challenges that I never tackled, that I never had time for, or that I had only dreamed of. All those things that I put off until......tomorrow. The "tomorrow" of my life is here and now. I could go it alone and tackle…
