Labor Day Challenge 2015

[GoneForARun]

Hello and welcome to the Labor Day Challenge 2015. 

We welcome all newbies and the awesome achievers from our 4th of July Challenge. 

This new challenge starts on July 5th and ends on Labor Day, Sept 7th.  So please feel free to post your Labor Day weight loss goals here and we'll be sure to provide lots of encourgament and support along the way.  I've listed my goals below.  Hoping to ready for my Labor Day Disney vacation.  For the newbies, here is a short key: SW = Starting Weight, CW = Current Weight, GW = Goal Weight, UGW = Ultimate Goal Weight.

SW: 200 (Jan 5)

CW: 173.3

GW: 159 (Labor Day)

UGW: 150 (Oct 13th, Wedding Anniversary!)

Trish

[dancefoxtrot]

wordwhimsey

Do u need an air conditioned space to dance or walk in? Some folks go to YWCAs, malls or gyms. Some folks have good AC at home and turn on music and dance. Just one more hour a day to make it to 10k in steps. Most important is limit animal fat, refined carbs (white bread, rice, pasta, flour and pasteries) as well as sugar. Eat lots and lots of veggies, some whole fruit, lean protein and you will be full and healthy. Consider a large salad as the main dish, have some vegetable bean soup and each day have some steamed veggies. (non-starchy ones). Good fats in nuts, salmon & avocado instead of french fries. 

You are moving in the right direction and if you lose 1 lb a week it will be 7 lbs by LD. Don't get discouraged measure your waist at the belly button level to see if you are losing by converting fat to muscle. 

We are doing this together and we can make it to our goals.

Barbara G

[dancefoxtrot]

Hi Kaela

Soda and candy destroy health. You can eat healthy and not participate in creating type 2 diabetes with your family. 

Best of luck,

Barb G

[SewSewn]

I would like to join the Labor Day Challenge -- even though I am a bit late to get going!  Just got my fitbit!

SW 234

CW 234

GW 224

long range goal 160

[shortstack]

SW=158

CW=157.9

GW=144

UGW=140

I sit on my rump all day at work so this is going to be a real challenge. I try to do the Wii every morning for 30 minutes and my goal is to get up to 10000 steps per day. I got my fitbit on May 19, started the Wii on July 16. I need the encouragement and support. For health reasons I need to lose the weight but most of all I need to keep it off. Labor Day here I come.

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@GoneForARun wrote:

Hello and welcome to the Labor Day Challenge 2015. 

We welcome all newbies and the awesome achievers from our 4th of July Challenge. 

This new challenge starts on July 5th and ends on Labor Day, Sept 7th.  So please feel free to post your Labor Day weight loss goals here and we'll be sure to provide lots of encourgament and support along the way.  I've listed my goals below.  Hoping to ready for my Labor Day Disney vacation.  For the newbies, here is a short key: SW = Starting Weight, CW = Current Weight, GW = Goal Weight, UGW = Ultimate Goal Weight.

SW: 200 (Jan 5)

CW: 173.3

GW: 159 (Labor Day)

UGW: 150 (Oct 13th, Wedding Anniversary!)

Trish

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[WordWhimsy]

@dancefoxtrot thank you for the good information, no excuses! I can do this. It's so worth it.

@shortstack I too sit all day, it's a challenge! I have a wii, but don't use it regularly, it is a lot of fun though.  I go in spurts. Any particular games you enjoy?

[AShante]

I want to join!!!

CW 174

GW (Labor Day)160

UGW 135

Happy Stepping Everyone!!!!

[Annegirl]

Hi!

I'm late with my sunday checkin - I haven't had intrenet 🙂

Here it is:

USW                 - 178

Challenge SW  -  161

CW                  -  158 (- 2lbs this week)

Challenge GW -  147

UGW               -  127

2 lbs down this week, and I'm the smallest I've been since I graduated college 4 years ago! Next stop, 145 - which I haven't been in 5 years 😄

[WordWhimsy]

Way to go @Annegirl you are close to my stats, and I'm so ready to be out of the 160s! You DID it!!

Do you mind sharing what you've been doing to get your 2# a week loss?  I'm always looking for suggestions.  I appreciate everyone's support.

[Bobbinyc]

Great job guys.  Forgot to post yesterday:

SW (Jan). 185
CW 172 (-1 this week)
GW for Labor Day 163
Ultimate Goal - fewer health problems, more energy

[Bobbinyc]

Barbara G,

Glad your tendon is healing.  Keep doing those exercises.  You may have to continue after you have healed to prevent recurrence.  I do my achilles and plantar exercises daily - don't want to go back to a year of being sedentary, or that kind of pain.  I have several inserts, depending on the shoes and how things feel.  I'm up to 10,000 steps periodically with no pain so...until this heat wave I was doing about 7,000 regularly.  Feels so good to be healthy and able to move.  

I cracked up when you said you look forward to my upbeat posts.  I feel like I complain a lot.  Like about still not being a smaller pants size!  But, it's great to feel healthier and have fewer aches and pains.  I have been doing pilates, which i find great for overall flexibility, strength, balance.  I use tapes and a large ball.  And I have been doing weights - hopefully won't lose much muscle as I lose weight.  

I can't get over you cutting down trees, moving brush, putting together a picnic table, etc etc.  As usual I'm very very impressed.  You must be very strong, energetic, flexible, balanced, agile.....wow!

[SewSewn]

Anne Girl--

Congratulations to you!  

[dancefoxtrot]

Beautatious AnneGirl,

You made the 150's by losing 2 lbs. Isn't this cool- getting back to a more fit and healthier body. 

Congrats,

Barbara G

[dancefoxtrot]

Hi again Bobbinyc,

Well you are very positive and supportive to me and we all complain a little and we are allowed. Just part of the process to look at what is still missing or difficult for us. The important part is that we don't give up when we are injured or on a plateau. We have lots to be grateful for while we get healthier. I'm glad that you can do the 10K steps again.

Now I'm going to complain. My PT went a little crazy with deep massage on the tendon and within a few hours while dancing I felt pain increasing.  It turned out that my ankle area go swollen, stiff and painful. Man I hope that she knows what she is doing! So I drove home, limped upstair and have been icing and elevating the foot for hours. I took Ibuprofen and now off to sleep in hopes that I can teach my exercise class in the morning. 

Let's keep on keeping on choosing healthy food and trimming our excess padding. 

Spoiler

Barbara G

[dancefoxtrot]

Welcome Ashante and Shortstack and other newbies,

We are all rooting for each other as we get more fit. Eat lots of veggies and lean protein and some fresh fruit. Drink all the 64 ozs. of water each day. You can do this,

Barbara G

[kmme]

Hi Everyone , hope i can join in. Athough i have had my fitbit for a month now ,  I am re-motivated . I put on a lot of pounds over the last several years and it's time to get back under control. Have already dropped 28 pounds over the last year. I will post my stats as of this week when i started. I also follow a low-carb diet. My body loves this:)

July 20 - SW-175

CW-171.6

GW-140 ( for now)

Good luck everyone

[Bobbinyc]

Welcome kmme. Great job with the weight loss so far. We are close to the same weight now, and heading toward similar goals. What is your goal for Labor Day?

[Bobbinyc]

Barbara, so sorry to hear about your tendon. Those tissues are so delicate. And therefore annoying. When i was in PT, at first i couldn't do much of anything as the tendon would just tear more. As it began to heal, and i did more, the PT tried the graston technique, designed to do deep massage, get blood to the area and break up scar tissue. It hurt terribly, partly because my skin isnt as thick as it once was. But at first it helped. She kept going, and thwre was a point where it made things worse. It just irritated the healing tissue, and the pain got bad again. I'm not sure they can tell how your body will respond. You have to be in charge, based on how it feels. I had to stop everything, PT and walking for a bit, just to recover from that! Things don't always heal in a straight line. It sounds like you are taking great care of that tendon, so you will probably be back on track very quickly. Hooe it feels better today.

[WordWhimsy]

I just wanted to share something I found today for lunch. We recently moved (I used to go home for lunch) now the real goal is to start packing my lunch, but sometimes I don't quite get around to it, like ahem..today. 

I was thinking about what I was going to have, and I remembered that Noodles & Co. have something called Buff Bowl, where they swap the pasta for spinach and do double veggies, so I ordered online a Japanese Pan Steak bowl, just 320 cals?!?  I'll report back how it tastes. My mouth is watering!

[kmme]

Thanks for the reply Bobbi , i forgot to add my Labour Day goal , let me try again

CSW-175

CW-171.6

GW - 155 ( Labour Day)

UGW-140

I know 20lbs seems a lot , but wheni go strict low carb my body losses a lot , so for me this is a bit of a challenge but quite attainable:)

Wow , congrats to everyone else here as well , you all seem to be doing terrific. Looking forward to joining the ranks

Kim

[dancefoxtrot]

Bobbinyc,

Thanks for sharing your healing journey. I'm glad that you took a break and protected your foot. My PT won't be doing that deep massage to me again as I won't allow it. My body is in my trust and the PT stepped over the help harm line. Now that said, after spending the afternoon and evening icing, elevating and resting it, I'm astounded that my ankle is normal size and not in pain. I taught my 2 exercise classes with some restraint and I'm resting and icing my ankle before my waltz class in 1 1/2 hours. The body is so incredible in it's ability to heal even at 74 yrs young. Something we can be profoundly grateful for each and everyday if we do our part to listen to it and feed it well.

All the best to you,

Barbara G