DOWN for 2013 - New Year New You!
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2012-12-31 12:52 PM |
Pro 3730 NorCal | Subject: DOWN for 2013 - New Year New You! Happy New year! Let's GET DOWN in January! Anyone can join, we are here to support each other! I realize that we are all at different levels of fitness so let's start with the basics: Mini- Goal: Set a mini goal each week, maybe it's drinking less soda, or eating more veggies. Big changes happen from small changes! Long Term Goals: This can be a number on the scale, fitting into a certain outfit, measurements or maybe it's just staying on track without GAINING weight. It's YOUR goal and up to YOU! Cardio 4x a week for 45 minutes (minimum): This can be anything that raises your heart-rate, no need to stick to S/B/R. Strength 3x a week for 20 minutes (minimum): You don't even need to go to the gym! You can do push-ups, squats, dips, crunches, planks all in the comfort of your home! Nutrition: What you eat is sooooo important! This part is up to you....Pick something that is realistic for to accomplish when it comes to what you fuel your body with. If you are just beginning to take note of nutrition, maybe it's something simple like logging what you eat each day or cutting out one soda or drinking more water. If you are ready to make a more drastic change in eating habits maybe you are looking at following Paleo, Clean Eating, Weight Watchers, eliminating sugar, calorie counting, etc. When you agree to the challenge, YOU decide what you will commit to and then report back to the group on how you are doing meeting your own expectations. Cheating.....no one is perfect and we all fall of the wagon, try to plan a cheat in advance and then get back on the horse! Weekly Weigh-in/Measurements: Every Friday. If you only want to weigh-in or only do measurements, no problem. The scale lies Pictures: I'm a huge fan of taking pictures to track progress! You can post them here or just in your BT log, but take them!! Those are the basics, so introduce yourself and let's get DOWN! Abbie |
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2012-12-31 1:22 PM in reply to: #4555262 |
Champion 14677 | Subject: RE: DOWN for 2013 - New Year New You! Let's do this! My very first goal is to kick this cold to the curb and get back on the workout/training wagon. The horse threw me off! |
2012-12-31 3:20 PM in reply to: #4555262 |
Elite 3488 Lakewood, CO | Subject: RE: DOWN for 2013 - New Year New You! Hi, I'M Scott, 2012 was not a good year weight wise. Started off terrible then just hit a level that I was stuck at, couldn't get myself disciplined enough to make the loss happen either food wise or workout wise - this morning was 218.6 - my highest end of year weight since 2009. Mini- Goal: With the striking of midnight tonight, I am going off carbonated beverage and peanut butter. ( I will try keeping a bit of almond butter in the diet since I don't eat that like ice cream). Speaking of ice cream, that will only be allowed for B-day celebrations and race PR's. Long Term Goals: I will be down to 204 by the first day of Spring. - Ready to be fast and PR a 10K 3-23-2013. Would love to be be down to 193 for a half mary Aug 2013 Cardio 4x a week for 45 minutes (minimum): This can be anything that raises your heart-rate, no need to stick to S/B/R. This part is not too hard. Looking for a run/bike balance and then just stuff that is fun. Strength 3x a week for 20 minutes (minimum): This part is more challenging for me. I started off well in the Down for the holidays and then it just went away. Want to work on Core 2 of those 3 days and chest and back the other day. Nutrition: See mini-goal Cheating.....Hopefully cheating will be within bounds described above. Weekly Weigh-in/Measurements: Every Friday. while the scale lies, I do much better with daily or every couple of days. Pictures: We shall see Have a fast and fit 2013 everyone |
2012-12-31 5:22 PM in reply to: #4555262 |
Royal(PITA) 14270 West Chester, Ohio | Subject: RE: DOWN for 2013 - New Year New You! YES, I was a complete slacker in round 1 hiding behind excuses to eat crap. Goals....I have a few pair of jeans that look spray painted on me.....they need to fit. Not sure what this translates into because I can barely get them on so a photo is not likely. |
2012-12-31 7:57 PM in reply to: #4555262 |
Expert 1951 | Subject: RE: DOWN for 2013 - New Year New You! I'm in. :=) |
2013-01-01 7:46 AM in reply to: #4555262 |
Champion 6046 New York, NY | Subject: RE: DOWN for 2013 - New Year New You! I am in. I gained 15 pounds last year when I got mono, then another 5 creeped on. Back to training (pretty consistent) but need more accountability with eating as lo and behold the scale is not budging. I did just find weightlosswars.com and joined a contest there - so had to take the front side and back pictures - the most humiliating pictures of myself EVER - I think this must be the heaviest I have been. Long Term Goal - 22 pounds down from today's weight - so yes I have a number on the scale to aim for short term goal - do ALL my training plan this week
I have a HIM March 17th so not sure I will get all the strength work in before the race - after yes but right now just trying to get all the base training in! |
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2013-01-01 8:17 AM in reply to: #4555262 |
Veteran 2441 Western Australia | Subject: RE: DOWN for 2013 - New Year New You! I'm in. Goal weight is 60kg (130#) I think I have just short of 10kg (20#) to lose. Weigh myself tomorrow and check. |
2013-01-01 9:50 AM in reply to: #4555262 |
243 | Subject: RE: DOWN for 2013 - New Year New You! I would love to be accountable, really, for this year. Mini goals for Jan-down 5# from 158. Long term goal-get to 145 by March 15 so training for IMRaleigh 70.3 at a stable weight is realistic. Then down another 5-8 before B2B in Oct. Ending weight goal<140. Haven't been there since junior high school over 40 yeasr ago. Workouts/strength/cardio are all being accomplished now although need to take it up a notch. Nutrition- Really have to focus on this. Stop eating after 7 PM or earlier. Cut out processed sugar,flour etc. Just those 2 things will be tough enough for now! Thanks for this! C |
2013-01-01 10:42 AM in reply to: #4555262 |
Regular 117 Fishers, IN | Subject: RE: DOWN for 2013 - New Year New You! I'm in. Short term goal: Lose 5 lbs end of January Long Term goal: Lose 40 lbs by end of summer, hopefully for an olympic tri Cardio: 4 x 45 min should be reasonable. Strength: Will try to fit it in. Trying to get better a S/B/R this 3rd year so i can actually do a Sprint Tri Nutrition: I'm fairly good, but maybe issues with portion control. Will work with fruit/nuts for snack. Focused on whole, least process nutrition. Cheating: I think i do well with one every weekend. Weight in, sure thing, every Friday Pictures, probably will. I swam in jammers today, so modesty has left for me. |
2013-01-01 12:20 PM in reply to: #4555262 |
Pro 3730 NorCal | Subject: RE: DOWN for 2013 - New Year New You! Welcome and HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone! Mini- Goal: No sugar or sweets for the month of January!!! Anyone want in on this??? This includes sugar, stevia, honey, agave....etc....I know if I trigger that sweet sensation it can push me over the edge of craving more. EXCEPTION is during training! Long Term Goals: under 130 Nutrition: Need to juice at least once a day, I find it really helps cut out sugar cravings. Typically I eat a combination of Paleo/clean-eating. I also need to be consistent on taking my vitamins and starting my day with warm water with lemon for digestion. |
2013-01-01 1:17 PM in reply to: #4555262 |
Royal(PITA) 14270 West Chester, Ohio | Subject: RE: DOWN for 2013 - New Year New You! I started off my new year in the gym with strength & a swim, still have a bike workout later on. Did not step on the scale as it was not a fasting weight. Will face the music on that on Thursday when I go in for Master's. |
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2013-01-01 2:10 PM in reply to: #4555262 |
Champion 6107 Out running or enjoying a fine glass of red... | Subject: RE: DOWN for 2013 - New Year New You! Back in! Mini- Goal: Back to no/low grain eating Long Term Goals: 162 for January, 150 for 2013 January training goals: Keep on my run plan, trainer ride x2 per week, yoga(strength) x2-3 per week, swim x4 month Nutrition: Back to modified paleo. Lose the grains again is January goal. Starting 2013 at 167.6. Need to get some pics...the scale does lie. |
2013-01-01 7:30 PM in reply to: #4555262 |
Veteran 2441 Western Australia | Subject: RE: DOWN for 2013 - New Year New You! I started with 40 minutes on the bike trainer, got a great sweat up. Here are my deatils Mini-Goal: for January drink 1.5 litres of water per day, no more than 3 cups of tea a day and chocolate only once a week. Long Term Goal: get down to and maintain weight of 60kg (130lb). Cardio: 6x a week for at least 30 minutes (depending n the training plan requirement). Strength: Twice per week and stretching twice per week. Nutrition: see above for water and tea intake as well as chocolate. Count calories to ensure what goes in is less that what I use. Also dramatically reduce sugar intake Cheating: Chocolate is allowed once per week. Weekly Weigh in: no problems. Pictures: I will take them but I will not put them anywhere on the net I actually weighed myself today for the first time in about 6 weeks and I am down from 68kg to 66kg which is a great way to start. |
2013-01-02 6:47 AM in reply to: #4556946 |
Champion 14677 | Subject: RE: DOWN for 2013 - New Year New You! StaceyK - 2013-01-01 8:30 PM I started with 40 minutes on the bike trainer, got a great sweat up. Here are my deatils Mini-Goal: for January drink 1.5 litres of water per day, no more than 3 cups of tea a day and chocolate only once a week. Long Term Goal: get down to and maintain weight of 60kg (130lb). Cardio: 6x a week for at least 30 minutes (depending n the training plan requirement). Strength: Twice per week and stretching twice per week. Nutrition: see above for water and tea intake as well as chocolate. Count calories to ensure what goes in is less that what I use. Also dramatically reduce sugar intake Cheating: Chocolate is allowed once per week. Weekly Weigh in: no problems. Pictures: I will take them but I will not put them anywhere on the net I actually weighed myself today for the first time in about 6 weeks and I am down from 68kg to 66kg which is a great way to start. I hear you on that ! Good job on starting on the down side. Edited by ceilidh 2013-01-02 6:48 AM |
2013-01-02 7:13 AM in reply to: #4555262 |
Champion 6107 Out running or enjoying a fine glass of red... | Subject: RE: DOWN for 2013 - New Year New You! Nice run yesterday, run & yoga on tap for today. I've started using myfitnesspal again (in addition to journaling my food here)...I'm going to need to mess with the calorie goal - I don't really do calories, but I need to get a better handle on what I'm eating, I think. |
2013-01-02 7:35 AM in reply to: #4555262 |
Veteran 2441 Western Australia | Subject: RE: DOWN for 2013 - New Year New You! Just wondering I did 40 minutes on the bike trainer today and my Timex HRM say 535 calories, but when I put the details into. My BT log it say 360. I'm guessing my HRM is way too high but does anyone have any ideas? |
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2013-01-02 8:31 AM in reply to: #4557392 |
Champion 6046 New York, NY | Subject: RE: DOWN for 2013 - New Year New You! I finally got a bodymedia band (I think they used to be body bugg) to get more accurate calorie output - I KNEW that TP, Garmin, etc were giving me more calories out than my body seemed to burn. So now I used that for the calories out and myfitnesspal for the calories in and the two are linked. biked and ran yesterday swam this morning 4 pounds down since Saturday |
2013-01-02 11:23 AM in reply to: #4555262 |
Extreme Veteran 544 Shawboro, NC | Subject: RE: DOWN for 2013 - New Year New You! IN!! |
2013-01-02 11:38 AM in reply to: #4555262 |
Extreme Veteran 544 Shawboro, NC | Subject: RE: DOWN for 2013 - New Year New You! IN!! Jim "SpeedKnight" Warren. I'll get more measurements later. Short term goals... finish the half-marathon I plan to do in March in under 3 hours. Crush the Clyde division of the Sprint I plan to do in June. Improve my OBX Olympic Triathlon time from 2:51:00 to about 2.5 hours.? Long term goal... Get down to about 220-225# and maintain it. Photos... when I can.
I started my year off the right way, yesterday, by laying down 5.44 miles on the Shoe Leather Express. I finished out 2012 with a 20mi/4mi brick. Today is a 24 hour work shift... the only workout will be ascending and descending copious amounts of stairs. Planned for tomorrow is a 22mi/5.5mi brick. Edited by SpeedKnight 2013-01-02 11:44 AM |
2013-01-02 11:51 AM in reply to: #4557392 |
Pro 3730 NorCal | Subject: RE: DOWN for 2013 - New Year New You! StaceyK - 2013-01-02 5:35 AM Just wondering I did 40 minutes on the bike trainer today and my Timex HRM say 535 calories, but when I put the details into. My BT log it say 360. I'm guessing my HRM is way too high but does anyone have any ideas? 535 does sound high, not sure why such a difference. I usually assume a 20% error rate for anything that counts calories. |
2013-01-02 11:57 AM in reply to: #4555262 |
Veteran 421 Boston, MA | Subject: RE: DOWN for 2013 - New Year New You! Happy New year! I'm in, thanks for setting this up. I'd tried doing a cycling challenge last month, but fell off the wagon pretty hard during the second half of the month. I'm hoping I'll be a bit more disciplined now that it's the new year. Mini- Goal: For this week, I'm going to make it a goal to drink at least 24 oz of water a day. I know this sounds like a really mini goal, but I'm one of those people who hates drinking water so this really will be a challenge for me! Long Term Goals: Getting back below 130, ideally to around 125. I did my official weigh in this morning and I was 133.5. I realize this isn't a lot of weight compared to some people, but it's difficult for me to consciously drop weight. I really need to do this though, since a lot of my pants are currently either really tight or don't fit at all! I suppose fitting back into my wardrobe is another long term goal... Cardio: I really do want to meet this 4x per week for at least 45 minute goal! Strength: This goal may be more difficult. I signed up with a personal trainer at the end of 2012 to try to get into strength training, but so far I only seem to do anything the one day a week I meet with him. We'll see if that changes, but even if it does, three times per week may be pushing it for me. Nutrition: I've started up with MyFitnessPal to see if I can stick to my calorie budget on most days. With a couple of events already planned for January, I know I won't be perfect everyday, but my goal is to stay within my calorie budget on the days when I don't have anything going on. Cheating: I'm allowing myself to cheat for special events. This month, that includes my anniversary this Friday, brunch with a friend on Sunday (it's our belated Xmas present to each other) and my weekend trip to TX in the middle of the month. Weekly Weigh-in/Measurements: I'll check in with my weight on Fridays. Here's hoping it goes down! Pictures: Haha, not likely! |
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2013-01-02 11:59 AM in reply to: #4555262 |
Pro 3730 NorCal | Subject: RE: DOWN for 2013 - New Year New You! Jumped on the scale today, 136....so I did't gain and didn't lose over the holidays. Day 2 unsweetened and have taken all of my vitamins Still need to juice and work on water intake today.
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2013-01-02 12:01 PM in reply to: #4558003 |
Pro 3730 NorCal | Subject: RE: DOWN for 2013 - New Year New You! KiterChick - 2013-01-02 9:57 AM Happy New year! I'm in, thanks for setting this up. I'd tried doing a cycling challenge last month, but fell off the wagon pretty hard during the second half of the month. I'm hoping I'll be a bit more disciplined now that it's the new year. Mini- Goal: For this week, I'm going to make it a goal to drink at least 24 oz of water a day. I know this sounds like a really mini goal, but I'm one of those people who hates drinking water so this really will be a challenge for me! Long Term Goals: Getting back below 130, ideally to around 125. I did my official weigh in this morning and I was 133.5. I realize this isn't a lot of weight compared to some people, but it's difficult for me to consciously drop weight. I really need to do this though, since a lot of my pants are currently either really tight or don't fit at all! I suppose fitting back into my wardrobe is another long term goal... Cardio: I really do want to meet this 4x per week for at least 45 minute goal! Strength: This goal may be more difficult. I signed up with a personal trainer at the end of 2012 to try to get into strength training, but so far I only seem to do anything the one day a week I meet with him. We'll see if that changes, but even if it does, three times per week may be pushing it for me. Nutrition: I've started up with MyFitnessPal to see if I can stick to my calorie budget on most days. With a couple of events already planned for January, I know I won't be perfect everyday, but my goal is to stay within my calorie budget on the days when I don't have anything going on. Cheating: I'm allowing myself to cheat for special events. This month, that includes my anniversary this Friday, brunch with a friend on Sunday (it's our belated Xmas present to each other) and my weekend trip to TX in the middle of the month. Weekly Weigh-in/Measurements: I'll check in with my weight on Fridays. Here's hoping it goes down! Pictures: Haha, not likely!
Try adding lemon, lime or even cucumber to give it some flavor. |
2013-01-02 12:44 PM in reply to: #4555262 |
Pro 3730 NorCal | Subject: RE: DOWN for 2013 - New Year New You! For those of you eating clean, there are some yummy recipes here! |
2013-01-02 1:36 PM in reply to: #4555262 |
Expert 1694 Illinois | Subject: RE: DOWN for 2013 - New Year New You! I am in again. Mini- Goal: No mindless snacking. Long Term Goals: Cardio currently in the base phase of HIM training, so am getting plenty of cardio. Strength 3-4x a week Nutrition: Pretty much paleo although I will have oatmeal or quinoa occasionally. Cheating.....I know there will be cheating this month, we are going on vacation to Mexico the last week of January. Pictures: Uh...maybe
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