On A Mission

Sunday was not only the Super Bowl - it was also the kick-off of Mission: Move Your Ass! I am doing something a little different for this one. I have made a page for it. Please check in there early and often! I will be updating it as new info comes in, and updating weekly when people report in. Please let me know if you are interested in joining.

I, for one, am very glad we have a new mission getting started. I have hit an anti-motivated streak here, so having this mission will hopefully help propel me to get my ass to the gym! I have an appointment with YC on Monday. I may get the opportunity to burn some extra cals, because I may have to kick him if he wants to gloat over the Packer victory.

So enough of sitting on my ass. Enough of eating whatever I feel like. It is time to get it together for my last month here. It is time to get in as much bonding time as I can with YC. It is time to get in as much time as I can at the WAC before I have to go back to LTF - and no longer have my own personal TV on my treadmill. It is time to move my ass.

Before I go, I do have one more note. SHOUT OUT to "Big Sexy". The half of my eye candy that has spent the last couple of months on the Packers practice squad. He now has himself a Super Bowl ring. It is the one spec of silver-lining I can find about being trapped here right now.

SDtS Mission 101: The Final Week

**I inadvertently picked the wrong date for posting, so this is late. Sorry about that!

Mission 101 has come to a close. This was the last week. I cannot express the appropriate level of gratitude to those of you that went through this with me! I am so appreciative! You are all fantastic! Whether we ultimately reached our final goals, or not - I think we were all more conscious of the decisions we make for ourselves. Hopefully the healthy choices have increased? I know they have for me... I still totally have lapses, but they have become shorter. =) 

Below are the totals for January. Thank you, again - to all of you! Please let me know if you are interested in "Mission: Move Your Ass" that starts next week. So far, I'll be moving it by myself....

Jennifer

• SHARE: Holding steady...it was a crazy week. Hardly time to breathe. I am going to look for a class to do or finally give in and buy a wii so I can exercise at home...what does everyone think about wii fit???

Dawn

• Maintained her weight for a total loss of 2 pounds
• Worked out 6 times

Kate

• Lost one pound for a total loss of 2.8 pounds
• SHARE: Total -12.6…I think I lost. On a roll now! 

Kari

• Lost .5 pounds for a total loss of 1.5 pounds
• SHARE: Happy that overall I'm down 15 pounds since October!

Mackenzie

• SHARE: I have been doing some toning exercises at home- no cardio.  Eating pretty healthy on a regular basis. yippee!  

Linda

• Lost a total of one pound
• SHARE: last week I was up a pound but slept all 7 nights. This week I’m back down the pound but slept only 5 of the 7 nights.  

Marill

• SHARE: Still doing well. Making a lot of the right choices with food this week and still haven't broken my promises I made :-) ... Still need a scale but Im down 4 total since we started.

Gela

• Lost a total of 1.2 pounds
• SHARE: Umm, not working out = no losing weight. Duh! Gained .6 lbs (not bad) and ran zero miles. :( BUT, I am cancer free and we get our travel dates on Monday, so LIFE IS GOOD!

Melissa

• SHARE: I got all 4 workouts in this week...up .3  =(

Hillary

• SHARE: I lost 3 pounds (I had a really bad stomach bug this week) for a total of 4.6.

Lia

• Maintained weight for a total loss of 10.3
• Exercise 4x/week - 5x
  
• Track all food eaten - until Thursday, when I fell ill and didn't care about food after then too much.
• SHARE: It was an OK week I guess. The only highlight was YL saying today while I was sweating on the spinning bike "I thought your pulse would go higher than that...", and when I looked at him puzzled, he continued smilingly "...and that's a praise."

Natalie

• Lost a total of 5 pounds
• SHARE: my slacking attitude last week, and trip back to MN, were not kind to me on the scale. Back to business, now. 

 Thank you to everyone that went through this mission with me! I hope some of you will join meon my next one!   

Mission: Move Your Ass

Back in September, a beautiful thing happened. I told you guys I was starting a mission for myself, and had a bunch of you offer to join me. Although I didn't reach my ultimate goal of the mission (to lose enough weight to reach a total of 101 pounds lost by January 1st), it was so helpful to have you guys doing it with me. For those of you that stuck with it, I thank you. I am so inspired and motivated (when it is possible for me to be, that is =)) by all of you! I will have the Mission 101 results posting tomorrow. I am giving the last stragglers a couple more minutes to get their results in (you know who you are... LOL).

Alas, the time has come to announce a new mission! I decided to make this one exercise-based instead of focusing on weight-loss. The reason, you ask? Because even if you don't have weight to lose, you should probably be exercising. It isn't just skinny people who have dangerous health conditions: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, etc. A lot of this stuff is hereditary, and exercise can help. I have a few family members who are in or near their ideal weight range who still have health issues. 

So with that in mind, my latest brain-child has been born. I am proud to announce "Mission: Move Your Ass"! (PC-ly referred to as "Mission: MYA" in emails, so no one gets in trouble!) I would love to have anyone interested join me! Here is what I am thinking for the guidelines.

What: Mission: Move Your Ass
When: February 6th-April 30th
Who: Anyone willing to join me
Why: Because moving your ass is good for your heart...and your ass
Where: Wherever you are! You can do it anywhere!!


So here is what I was thinking. You can choose any combination of the parameters below for your goal:

• Miles moved (most equipment will track your distance for you)
• Steps taken (you can get a pretty cheap pedometer at any Wal-Mart, Target or sporting goods store)
• total minutes of medium-high intensity cardio (for those of you that participate in group fitness classes)

You can also change your goal at any time. I will be increasing mine each month. I am counting a week as Sunday-Saturday.


For example - my goal is pretty straight forward. I am not counting my weight-lifting. I am only counting my cardio/machine work. I am also increasing as the mission marches on.

My Goals

• My goal is to put on 20 miles/week. (60 miles for the 3 weeks in February)
• I will increase to 90 miles for the 4 weeks of March
• I will go for 120 miles for the 5 weeks of April 

You also have an option for how often you want to report. You can do it weekly, bi-weekly (every 2 weeks, not twice a week) or monthly. This is basically like a "Choose-your-own-mission" like those choose your own adventure books from when we were kids! Who didn't love those? No one. The same number of people who won't like this mission! =)

So are you ready to move your ass? Are you ready to dust off your treadmill/elliptical/nordic track/gazelle? Are you ready to buy an actual drying rack, and stop using your exercise equipment as one? Then email me your info! It is going to be AWESOME!! 

Please email me by Thursday, February 3rd, if you are interested in participating! Please include the information below.

• email me at: natalie@slimmingdowntosexy.com
• What name would you like to go by for the mission? (Sadly, Sensatalie is already taken!)
• Which parameter, or combination of parameters, would you like to use as your goal?
• What quantity, or quantities, would you like to use as your goal?
• A short bio. Anything you're comfortable reporting...so we can get to know you a little bit. We're like a team! =)
• How frequently would you like to report?

Thank you in advance for joining me on this quest! We are going to kick some ass, with move your ass!!


And as always - if you know of anyone else that might like to participate, they should be reading my blog! =) Kidding...sort of. Please pass this on to them, so they start! And they can get signed up for Mission: MYA!