GOALS

Danielle (193.5): Have a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby.
  • Eat veggies/fruit with every meal, 1/2 my plate.
  • 30 min of aerobics and stretching 5 days a week
  • 9 hours of sleep a night

Mel (208): 180 lbs by March 31st, 2008. Final Target 175 lbs by August 31st 23 BMI.

  • Workout 7 times a week. Minimum of 400 calories burned - Cardio. Weights every day - rotation of upper/lower body.
  • No food 1.5 hours before bedtime.


Kelly: 150 lbs by August 12th 2008. Drink 10 glasses of water a day!

Jossie:

  1. Live a healthy life
  2. Run 15 miles a week

Karen:

  1. Work out 4 times a week and make it a habit
  2. Find fast and easy meals to cook that are still healthy and meet the GF criteria
  3. Cook meals ahead of time to have when I'm busy
  4. Start by losing 5 pounds

Kathryn:

  1. Workout 3 times a week
  2. Find fast and easy meals to cook that are still healthy and meet
  3. Drink more water
  4. Up my daily fiber
  5. Eat more home cooked lunches/dinner (try to reduce eating out)
  6. Reduce sodium intake


Monday, March 24, 2008

Just keep walking....

I'm shooting for the 30 min of exercise every day recommended by "the experts". So far I have chosen my treadmill downstairs as my M.O.

The weightlifting program I never really got started. I'll see where I am in a week or so on getting that started again.
Posted by Danielle at 3:05 PM

2 comments:

Austin said...

Walking is a great way to exercise, especially if you have a partner. It's a nice, mellow aerobic exercise that helps relieve stress.

Jogging is another great exercise that stimulates the heart and helps you lose weight more quickly. A person who weighs 150 who walks for 30 minutes uses 207 calories, versus 337 calories with jogging. The first few times are not pretty, but it gets easier and you get more in return.

I found the above numbers here: http://exercise.about.com/cs/fitnesstools/l/blcalorieburn.htm.

Tip from my wife: Running on pavement is better than running on the sidewalk because of a lower material density. :)

4/02/2008 4:34 PM
jmac said...

It is true that jogging burns calories faster, but most people cannot jog the same amount of time as they would walking. Jogging can also cause pain in the knees, lower back, neck, shoulders, etc. The word around is that the goal should be to get 10,000 steps in everyday.

I would like to start swimming because it's better for the joints...but the water in the Midwest is coooold even if it's indoors, unless it's heated and then you have to pay for it :-)

4/03/2008 2:19 PM

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