Week 3- What A Good Week

So...ladies we all did so great this week!!! Props to us. Here are the results for the week:

KR- 1.5 pound weight loss :)
AS- 1.5 pound weight loss :)
RJ- 2.5 pound weight loss :)

We all did so great and we even had some personal challenges this week. We decided to keep the same rules for the week:

1. Put in atleast 4 hours at the gym
2. Write in our food journals....AND BRING THEM NEXT WEEK
3. Limit all snacks to 100 calories or less
4. One cheat meal/dessert/snack/etc

We also said we would share a recipe with each other next week that was low fat. I think we should maybe think of a night next week or the week after that we cook a healthy 3 course meal. An appetizer, main dish, and dessert. Thoughts?? I also was thinking that we should focus on what we did do well this week. I think this was helpful for me:

1. Starbucks only 3 times this week..I can't believe I followed that rule
2. A ton of water and I snacked on veggies
3. I also was EXTREMELY conscious of what I put in my mouth. I honestly would have a bite of a cookie and toss the rest because I felt bad and truly didn't want it. I just was stressed or bored.
4. I also measured things out more that I put on my dinner plate.

I think those were my tricks this week. Plus I'm competitive and there is no way that I was gaining again this week:) My goal for this week is to lose another 2.5 pounds so I can lose 5 pounds!! How awesome would that be!

First Week ended Feb. 13th

Okay, so the results are in for the week:

KR- 1 pound lost :)
AS- 1 pound gain :(...but you did lose 10 pounds :)
RJ- 1 pound gain :(

So we all agreed that the food journal helped along with the workouts. We did think that we needed to add maybe another hour to our workouts. So the goal for this week is 4 hours. We also said our most difficult part of this entire week was food. So this is what we thought we could work on this week in this area:

1. We can only have 100 calories or less for our non-healthy snacks. So this way we are not limiting ourselves to something we like to eat but we are watching the calories.
2. We said we could have "one cheat" item. So you can pick the day and what it is.

I was thinking a little more about waht KR said about what is alcohol in all of this. I think we either need to count our calories or our points. Because if you watch everything you eat all day why not have a few drinks...because you've already limited what you ate so you deserve a few drinks and it should balance out. I'm also going to try to limit my visits to Starbucks. I love coffee in the morning from them and even though I order it non-fat I think it would help me. So I am going to limit it to 3 a week for this week. It sounds alot to both of you but I am almost their everyday. Good Luck Girls!!

The Rules- February 5th

Okay, we had our first meeting today and we discussed that for the first week this is what we do:

1. We will go to the gym together on Thursday nights. At the gym we would weigh in and see how we did for the week
2. we would keep track of a food journal and write down everything we eat...EVERYTHING
3. We would go to the gym for a minimum of 3 hours a week and 1/2 of that would be cardio
4. Lastly, I think the hardest, we will can only have 2 processed snacks a day. This means, chips, cookies, candy, etc.

There are the rules...I know we can do it. I think, #4 will be the hardest for me