Idea's for exercising

1. Walking but make sure you get your heart rate up.
2. Squats but if they are to hard organize your kids toy box and bend over on each toy one at a time.
3. Bike ride even with your kids if you want.
4. Free weights or use canned food for weights.
5. Get a pedometer and watch how many steps you take and try to increase that each day.
6. If you have stairs in your house run up and down your stairs until you are breathing hard.
7. Sprints
8. There is excersing classes on PBS in the earily mornings around 6 I think.
I am encouraging you all to set up a routine for 5 days that you do everyday and let us know how it went. We are struggling to so we wanted to throw out some different ideas. Let us know how you did and we will tell you how we did. Chaelaine

Challenge

Since everyone is struggling no sweets until Friday after weigh in. Just in time for the parade! Charie

Down 2 lbs.....

I lost 2 pounds so I guess I am the biggest loser. Charie

I lost sort of

so when I weighed in I was the same but I weighed in in the middle of the day and I was down almost two lbs. so I geuss I lost I am with Chaelaine I am having a hard time staying motivated also but I will try Charie's challenge and will also throw in 5 bucks that makes 15 maybe I can get something to wear if I win since everything I own won't fit I am excited for that day. Cory

I stayed the same!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I stayed the same so let me have the challenge. I am having a hard time getting motivated myself why does food have to taste so good? I was at the hospital on Thursday with Avery for her surgery everything went great but we got home late and exhausted so pizza it was. I need to do good during the day to. Having the kids home from school has actually been harder for me for lunch time and making a breakfast so I will try to get back to being motivated I will do Charies challenge and throw in $5.00 myslef so we are up to $10.00 I better get going so I can make some money hee hee hee. Good luck this week atleast the 4th falls on Friday morning after weigh in yeah!!!!!!!!! Chaelaine

Jason has given up...Jill gained this week

Any suggestions to remotivate Jason? He wants to do this, but he really doesn't have a motivation right now. I explained the 6.7% challenge and didn't get much of a response. I gained. Let me have a doozy of a challenge!

Lacey stayed the same

We had family visiting this week, and I am glad I didn't gain anything while they were here. I started my new workout schedule today, hopefully I'll start actually losing again! I won't be joining Charie's challenge because I don't need to lose the full 6.7% to meet my goal, but if I happen to surpass my goal and get there it will be just a nice bonus!

6.7% Weight Loss Challenge WINNER GET"S $5 Bucks

For those of you that would like to participate. Take your weight from Fridays weigh in or if you did not weigh in on Friday weigh your tomorrow morning. Take your weight X .067= the amount of weight you need to lose. Starting now you will try to lose your weight who ever loser their weight first will blog it in no matter what the day is. And on the day you have lost all your weight Let's say it was Wednesday you lost all your weight that following Wed. you need to be at the same weight or less to win. Good Luck to all of you who are doing the 6.7% weight loss Challenge. For who ever is the winner I Will give them $5.00. I know it is not much but is is something to fight for or work towards. Charie

I am up one!!!!(boo hoo)

You guys said some good things so hopefully I can get motivated to get going. Still have been going to the gym just not watching what I am eating. This is hard nursing because when I don't eat a ton I lose my milk. But when I eat well and eat my ice cream and stuff I can feel it come in when I nurse and everything. I will try to do good this week. It will be a little crazy because Avery goes in for surgery on Thursday so nerves will be shot that day. Keep up the good work everyone I know it is hard to stay motivated. Chaelaine

Lacey stayed the same

The same this week. I've had an aweful head cold this week to top off last week's stomach bug! Its summer for crying out loud, I shouldn't be feeling so crappy! I am starting a new workout schedule next week. I'll hopefully be able to workout 5-6 days each week for 5 weeks. Hopefully that gets me past this bump in the road...good job to everyone who lost weight!

Robin gained

I gained 1.3. So bring on the challenge, I deserve it!!! Good job to ya'll who lost and to those who won't give in!

Jill lost & we need to check in with Jason

Well, you can't ask for more than losing 1.8 pounds even after a trip! Jill and the kids went to a family reunion in Utah last week and there wasn't internet access to log in and keep updated. They were quite a bit more active with a trip to the zoo and all the games at the reunion. Good luck to everyone!

Been awhile since I have posted being on vacation. Great trip with Jay and Charie. I actually lost one lb on the trip but at weigh in this morning I gained it back. Did better on the trip. Stephanie

A Milestone

I have reached one of my goals which is very exciting for me. I gave myself several goals for my weight loss in the hopes it would keep me motivated and i am happy to have reached one. As for as the weigh in goes I lost 2lbs and am still going strong keep up the work everyone else Cory.

THE CHALLENGE

Well, it's always hard to come up with a good challenge. Get your heart rate up and keep it up for 15 minutes. To get it up, do kickboxing, jumping rope, jogging, lunges, squats, whatever it takes and you can switch these around to keep it new for 15 minutes. THEN do leg lifts and situps for 10 more minutes. Hope that's enough of a challenge for you guys who say you've stayed the same for weeks in a row! This routine is pretty much my workout (when I can) otherwise, I'm busy weeding and hoeing and playing with the kids and cleaning and ... well, you get the idea. Keep drinking lots of fluids and eat small portions at meal time and perhaps a snack in between breakfast and lunch. This is my formula. Keep up the great work! Robin :)

Stayed the same

Looks like Robin gets to set the challenge so do it girl. 3 weeks staying the same I think it is time I get my butt in gear. It is really to bad that they make food taste so good. I don't think someone posted the challenge last week so I should do that one. One Saturday I finally did Corey's challenge with my 9 year old Abbie we ran 2 miles it was great. Keep up the good work and don't be afraid to post even sometimes I don't like to post but I know it is good for me. Have a great super dupper week. Chaelaine

Lacey is a loser again!

I didn't post last week. I had been the same weight for 3 weigh-ins. But today I was down 2 lbs! I was actually down 3 earlier in the week when I had a stomach bug, but it was just water weight. I've been homebound potty training my 4 y/o who also has autism--so I've not been able to take him ANYWHERE, especially not to a day care at the gym. But things have calmed a lot. I will be working out more starting next week. So hopefully I will get back on track. I'm back down to my lowest weight since we started, so I'm hoping to drop a few more pounds before I have another inevitable set-back!

Robin down 2.4lbs!!!

Cory weighs in

i am begining to wonder if everyone has fallen of the wagon and afraid to post come on people lets get it together. I am not one to really talk though because I have not lost a pound and not gained any either so I stayed the same which means cory needs some challenges to get her but in gear so what are they bring them on and everyone else who has slacked off like me lets get in gear and forgive yourself feeling bad about it only makes it worse just try to do better.

It's been a while since I checked in. Two Fridays ago, after nearly 2 weeks "off" I weighed in and had gained about 1.3 pounds. Then when I weighed in 2 days ago, I had lost that weight and am back to where I was when I was "off". So, starting in this week, I'm feeling the need for some intense physical exercise...hope ya'lls are doing great! Robin

Jason gained this week.

I'm a gainer

I did not excersise at all this week and the result is I gained a pound at least I didn't gain back all my weight and hopefully I will get back to excersising I am participating in the relay for life tonight and will have to run or walk alot so that should help. Please make the challenge hard whoever does it I feel I need to suffer for my slacking Cory

Jill lost

I lost 3.2 pounds this week. What a shock when I looked at the scale this morning! I haven't been exercising, but as I am recording the housecleaning and other things I am doing, I can see how many calories I am burning...and I am getting some compliments on our house also. We'll catch up with Jason later.

I stayed the same!!!!!!!!!!!!

I did not gain and I did not lose but I also only went to the gym twice. It is hard when family is here I diffently eat worse when family is here probably because it is cheaper to feed them crap rather than good stuff. I will do the challenge from last week this week since I did not check the blog and then I will do this weeks challenge also. Hope everyone did better than I did. Have a great weekend. Chaelaine

the challenge is

Well I think that I will make this tough just for Charie although I don't when she will be able to do it. first warm-up and go run 2 miles or walk if you can't run then come home and do 20 push ups and a wall-sit for 2 minutes and if that isn't enough charie then I want you add some wind sprints

Cory, the challenge is up to you

Jason said that Cory can give the challenge this time because he didn't weigh in for 2 weeks.

a tie

It appears we have a tie for the biggest loser so what do we do hey Jason wanna flip a coin.