citabean

Welcome Lambda42! And hihi to Gnomicus! *waves* So how's everyone's week been! Any fun plans over the weekend to stay active? Me? Lol, mall walking! I need to give my quads some serious rest time. I plan on just doing some walking this weekend, and if the weather turns nice tomorrow (It's supposed to stop raining at least) I may take my bike out for a spin.

Thanks everyone! I ended up at 5 guys and grabbed a bunless burger with all the vegetables I could get on it! Had some peanuts and called it a day!

Mid day 5 here and I'm feeling a mix of sadness and pride. Proud because I did do my workout. Sad because my legs still hurt and when I started doing the lunges the soreness turned to pain, so I didn't do many at all. I'm also having mixed feelings about a night out tonight and staying on course with my eating. I've gotten some really great suggestions from people here. I think I'm going to be OK and I just need to not stress. Today's Workout: BW Brigade: Workout B BW Rows (Using Smith Machine bar): 5,6,7,7 = 25 (Same height as Wednesday) Close Hand Pushups (on knees): 10,12,10,12 = 44 BW Lunges: 10,6,5,0 = 21 Planks: 60s, 70s, 60s, 68s = 238s Bonus Move - 5 Squat Thrusts Yummies Thusfar: Breakfast - 2 Eggs, Ham & Cheese "Egg-which", Small Apple AM Snack - 2 Hard Boiled Eggs, Almonds, Apple Lunch - Chicken Breast, Green Beans, Salad & little bit of melon salad PM Snack - Nothing planned, ate a big, late lunch. Dinner - TBD

Happy Anniversary! And yay to getting in some activity even if it wasn't the planned activity!

Tonight I have to eat out. Right after I get home from work I have to pick up my son and take him 1 hour to his dad and then drive back home. That puts me home around 9pm. Prior times taking him, we'd grab something fast food-ish and eat on the road. Can I say I'm freaking out about what I should eat and what I shouldn't? Does anyone have any suggestions on good choices?

@67alecto My first day out all we came across were magnetic letters! You know, those kind we had for the fridge when we were kids??

You can add exercises in both the cardio and strength sections. If you click on "Add Strength" and then "My Exercises" there is an item at the bottom that says "Create a New Exercise." That's the best place to do it.

Oooh gardening! This is my second year in my new house and I plan on rocking my garden this year. I have an 9x9 raised bed... I'm wondering just how much I can put in there... Pondering getting some pots going too.

Day 4 is in the books! Yummies Today: Breakfast - Ham & Cheese Omlette, Apple AM Snack - 1/2 Apple & Spiced Roasted Almonds Lunch - Grilled Chicken Salad (with the 1/2 apple from snack!) PM Snack - None, lunch was huge, and I was full Dinner - T-Bone Steaks, Grilled Carrots, Salad, 1/8 potato After Dinner Snack = Spiced Roasted Almonds My thighs were are indeed still sore today so I took an easy on my cardio intervals. Instead of high intensity, I did mid intensity. I still rocked it hard! 1 Mile Treadmill: 14:57 3 Miles Bike: 11:33 1 Mile Elliptical: 12:25 I'm excited with how far I've come in just this short time. I am looking forward to my workouts again, which is amazing for me. I'm so excited to see how I finish this challenge and where I am when I finish.

I love that you get to overlook a pool area while on the treadmill!

Have a great workout today!!

Good Luck! I'm with you both on the not feeling hungry part. I figure it's a good thing

Awesome job! Love the song!

Doing something you love will make it easier! Congrats on getting the job!!

Awesome job on finishing up day 3 strong. The cravings will go away soon enough.

Heya Everyone! This is my first challenge, I'm excited to be on a squad with y'all! Team names... I'll think on that one! Should we do brief introductions? Lets see... I'm a 35 year old single mom of a 9 year old boy. I work in IT doing primarily DBA, Programming and Business Intelligence stuffs. I'm currently working on shifting more towards a project management role, which is exciting stuff! I actually started following the RSG last week when I got it, to familiarize myself with everything. My goals for this challenge are to follow the RSG BW Brigade workouts. I'm currently doing Rank 1, although I might move to the squat move for Rank 2 soon. My Chin-ups aren't happening, so I'm doing BW Rows. My Push-ups are on my knees until I can get to reps of 20, then I'm moving to my feet! (Kinda excited about this one!) I do my BW workouts MWF. On Tues and Thursdays I'm doing a cardio triathlon on the cardio equipment. 1 mile on the elliptical, 3 on the bike and 1 on the treadmill. I've played with switching the elliptical and treadmill, just to keep it fresh. On the weekends? I play outside when I can! Eating wise, I'm following the Slim Down guide. I've lost about 130 pounds and have around 70ish or so more to go. I'm loving the Paleo way of eating. I feel energetic and always full. I'm losing inches and weight and feel great! Let's see... anything else?? I'm an optimist and I love to encourage people to do their best!

Day 3 is complete! My hunger finally caught up with me! I ate very well today! Yummies Today: Breakfast - Hamburger, Zucchini Omlette AM Snack - Apple & Spiced Roasted Almonds Lunch - Leftover Shepard's Pie w/ Mashed Cauliflower & Salad PM Snack - Chicken Salad w/ Mustard, Cucumber & Peanut Butter (not together...hehe) Dinner - Ground Beef, Carrots & Spiced Roasted Almonds My workout rocked! I'm still shocked that the GM/Trainer in my gym was so astounded by my workout and how hard I was working! BW Brigade - Workout A: Push-Ups (On Knees): 10,12,10,11 = 43 BW Rows (Using Smith Machine bar): 3,4,5,6 = 18 (I went lower to the ground today) BW Squats: 30,35,40,50 = 155 Side Planks: L: 30,34 R: 33,60 My thighs are still sore from my workout on Monday and the hard Cardio I did on Tuesday. I'm really pondering doing a slower Cardio session tomorrow if they are still sore. I don't want to cause damage. Overall? A+ Day!

So I'm doing my last side planks before my cool down. The gym general manager/personal trainer looks at me and asks, "How many squats did you just do?" I huffed and puffed, "That set was 50, I did 20, 30, 35, 40 before that." She looks shocked and says, "You are working really hard! Great job!" She complimented me twice more. Once to the person she was training while I was almost done with my cool-down and then again when I was done and was on my way to the shower. Talk about me feeling great after a workout!

Welcome fellow Hoosier!

I have diabetics in my family, and I had it when I was pregnant. Since I was taking insulin, I knew exactly what the symptoms were and what to watch for. With all of my body changes that have happened in the past 9 years, I can get the same sort of low blood sugar "episodes" now if I don't eat often enough. If I skip a snack, my blood sugar plummets and as soon as I eat something, I generally feel better. Best things to eat for that? Oranges or other fruits with a higher sugar content. If I remember correctly, you're following the Slim Down Guide in the RSG? The best way to prevent this from happening is to balance your meals with equal protein and carbs from fruits and vegetables, and eat every 3-4 hours. That should get you up to the 2000 calories you need to function as an adult male.

Day 1 finished strong! I had ground beef and carrots for dinner... then made spice roasted almonds (yum!) After dinner my son, boyfriend and I walked over to the local school yard and played some softball followed by playing on the playground! A+ day! Day 2 is half over and I've finished my Cardio HIIT Triathlon! My legs feel like absolute jello! Stats for distances: 1 mile treadmill 14:13 3 mile bike 10:46 1 mile elliptical 10:57 Yee-haw! Them legs are movin faster! Go me! Eating today is better, or rather I was actually hungry after my cardio workout! Breakfast was egg, zucchini, sausage scramble. Apple & Almonds for a pre-workout snack. Lunch was grilled chicken, green beans, salad w/ zucchini and a small apple. Dinner tonight? A Shepard's pie concoction with ground turkey, veggies and topped with mashed cauliflower! I also want to get more almonds so I can roast them up tasty like for my snacks! Project Manager training is going well. I'm creating project plans for various larger projects myself and the other developer have going on. I get to meet with the boss later this week to go over exactly how he sees this transition. Sad to hear yesterday, the data analyst we got, that we were working on transitioning the report writing I do to, has decided to leave. Hopefully that doesn't bork up my plans to go for more a PM role.

Day 1 workout is complete. I decided to do the workout in the gym downstairs at work, because there is pull-up/chin-up equipment and I wanted to see, if I could actually jump up and at least hold myself up there for a few seconds. The answer? Nope! I tried doing something I saw in a video, where you keep your feet on the chair and try to use your arms to go up, but it felt like I could cheat too much by using my legs, so I dropped to the floor and did body weight rows instead. Because I started the workouts last week, I just went ahead with where I was instead of starting over again... BW Brigade - Workout B: BW Rows - 5,7,10,10 Close Hand Push-ups (on knees, i'm working toward full push-ups, promise!) - 10,10,10,15 Lunges (each leg) - 10, 10, 10, 15 Plank - 48s, 50s, 68s, 63s Bonus Move: Squat Thrusts, I did 5! Eating today has been well. I had an egg, guac, zucchini scramble for breakfast. Apple & Peanut Butter for a snack before working out. Salad, grilled chicken and green beans for lunch. Oddly enough, I'm not hungry. This usually happens on days I work out. It worries me only slightly that I'm under calories right now (like 780) and I know I can't eat 700 for dinner. However, I know that it's the calories for the week that matters, not for one day. And since on days I don't work out, I tend to be hungrier and eat a little more, I figure it all will workout in the end, right? Anyone else ever have those days where when they workout they just aren't hungry?

I've been using MyFitnessPal for months now. I love the tracking. However, the only thing I don't like is the reports. I'm a data geek, I'm a little anal about reports. But for tracking what I eat and exercises I do, it is great!

Name: Citabean or Cita A bit about myself? I’ve strength trained before, so this isn’t a complete newbie thing to me. I am going to be following the Rebel Strength Guide, BW Workouts and the Get Slim eating guide. I’m excited for the next six weeks and look forward to sharing my progress with everyone. I’m using this to “reboot†my fitness and diet goals to continue on my path to my goal weight and to become a healthier me! Fitness Goals: Follow the BW Workouts of Rebel Strength Guide 3x per weekCardio HIIT "triathlon" 2x week, increasing time for each distance (1 mile elliptical, 3 mile bike, 1 mile treadmill - Currently at 11:32 min, 11:49 min, 14:28 min)Be able to do 5 chin-ups by end of six weeks!Life Goals: Train to become project manager at work. My 1 hour a week training will be in project management or Business Intelligence.Eating Goals: I’m going to aim for eating 95% Paleo. I actually started this last Monday when I got my Rebel Strength Guide and found it fairly easy considering that I was only eating grains about once a day anyway.Challenges I expect to face? Fitness wise, none. I have access to a gym during my work day and my boss encourages me to go. Eating? Eh, some. My boyfriend and son are still following a normalish diet, so there are things in the house I won’t be eating, but may tempt me on some of my more emotional days. Life goal? Heh, too much work that I don’t actually get to do my 1 hour training per week.

Heh. Didn't know where I should share this, but I wanted to get the word out. Today I went to a local playground and did my workout using the play equipment. After I finished up, I searched for some nearby Geocaches! We have family plans this weekend to go out and find some. Anyone else enjoy Geocaching?