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06-04-2007, 12:17 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Posts: 20
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Checking in for the first week (??).
Roses- Keeping to my nutritional plan with a planned "cheat" for Sunday dinner. Did 3.6 miles walking on Saturday night to keep on my training schedule.
Thorn - Did not get my first lifting session in this weekend - will finish moving my weights back from the garage to the basement tonight.
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06-04-2007, 12:59 PM
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#62 (permalink)
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2006
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 1,263
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Roses - Nutritional plan...great running weather
Thorns - Couldn't get to the gym this morning due to a wreck out on the only road in and out of here....Writer's block and a Friday deadline.
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06-04-2007, 01:29 PM
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#63 (permalink)
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23.8 lbs & 23.25" lost!!!
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Embracing the Suck
Posts: 3,836
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Egham What kind of writing do you do?
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06-04-2007, 01:56 PM
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#64 (permalink)
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Member
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Chillicothe Ohio
Posts: 92
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Week 1 check-in.
Roses Started NROL FL today with a good work-out.
Thorns: Missed a planned SS cardio over the weekend. Wanted to finish the weekend with 5 out of 6 nutrition point intact. Only got 4.
As of 6/3/07
NG 4/6/110
RT 0/22
HIIT 1/18
SS 0/8
Personal Goals:No weigh in until 6/11. Attended mass yesterday.
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06-04-2007, 02:44 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Long Island, New York
Posts: 208
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Hello All,
Checking in and since we are talking about roses and thorns I had a strange one this morning -- At my gym we have three squat racks and one of those smith machines so normally there is never a line to do squats; however when I got to the gym every single one had someone in them doing squats!
Who would have thought a squat rack would have been good for squats and people were actually doing them! 
It is even more amazing since it was at 4 AM this morning.
Jim~
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The things we want or value the most may not be found under a blanket of warmth and security, but out there, in the cold. ~MMMM~
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06-04-2007, 03:00 PM
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Member
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Iceland
Posts: 35
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Ok week 1
Roses: workouts like planed, althoug I just got a new job wich I will start this week and also have to work all nights except 2 so I still have to find out how I will plan my workouts.
Thorns: I find it difficault to eat enough, but I´m doing my best
Adda
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06-04-2007, 03:15 PM
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New and Improved!
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Little Rock, Arkansas
Posts: 1,379
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Thorns - Saturday, about six hours after the 5k, I was very hungry for simple carbs so I did it.
Roses - I did my challenge and did it in the time I wanted to do it in.
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Because I don't know if I've told you this, but I am really kind of a mess. Some parts of my personality have no manners and no sense. Some come tracking in shit. Some are wearing killer stillettos and don't give a damn. I've been going behind them, scolding and tut-tutting. -Kyran Pittman
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06-04-2007, 03:30 PM
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#68 (permalink)
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Member
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 48
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61 Day Challenge Log Check In
Week 1
June 01: Nutrition 2/2 ; Cardio walking: 2x5 outside + 1x20 treadmill; weigh in 300.6 lbs
June 02: Nutrition 2/2
June 03; Nutrition 2/2; RT:1 circuit
Weekly & Overall Totals
Weigh-in: 297.8 (-2.8)
Nutrition: 6/6/95
RT: 1/21
SS CT: 1/21
Competative Goal: 0
Personal Goals:
1) Read and implement 2 books about emotional eating. - Ordered: Shrink Yourself by Roger Gould)
2) Read and implement 2 books about parenting. - 2 chapters read in Martin Seligman's The Optimistic Child
3) Be in bed by 10:30 on 31 of the days. -1/3/31
4) Make the 2 overdue doctor visits that I have. -Not yet
5) Complete at least 9 stretching sessions. 0
Thorns and Roses
Roses
I have a lot more energy than I did last week. I find that I have a more positive outlook in my daily life.
Thorns
I'm having a hard time planning preparing and measuring each meal. My wife is very helpful, but measuring almost everything I eat is really time consuming.
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06-04-2007, 04:02 PM
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#69 (permalink)
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2006
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 1,263
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Originally Posted by SpacecityPaula
Egham What kind of writing do you do?
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As an energy and environmental policy consultant, all of my projects involve writing. I help corporate and research institute clients understand the implications of energy and environmental issues. I also work with them to manage identified risks and opportunities through development of and implementation of targeted public policy strategies (I don’t do communication strategies), provided they choose an economically and environmentally sound course of action. 90% of my work is focused on global climate change, an issue that has consumed most of my time over the past 19 years.
I’m constantly developing scientific, economic, and technology development overviews, executive briefings, issue papers for lobbyists to use when they visit Congressional and Administration offices in Washington, DC, strategy documents, reports on multi-stakeholder meetings and workshops, etc.
In addition, I “translate” scientific, economic, and technology papers for a research institute so that an educated layman can more readily understand the results and their significance. These are papers that result either from their own research or the research of others, usually in universities, that they fund. They send me the papers prior to publication either in peer-reviewed journals or their own institute research reports and then distribute my summaries to their funders soon after publication. I really enjoy doing these because it helps keep me abreast of many of the latest developments….And, I know about them before they become public, which helps me in working with my other clients. |
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06-04-2007, 04:09 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: NJ
Posts: 20
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Checking in...
I suck at these challenges. I know 1 day at a time...yeah, I haven't earned a single point in 3 days.
Today I've been on program & doing well.
I leave for Hawaii in 26 days. I'm so psyched. I found a run for the competition portion. I'll be doing a 5k in Honolulu with my DH, DD, niece, & a girlfriend & her BF. It should be tons of FUN! It's a run to raise funds for epilepsy research. http://www.active.com/event_detail.cfm?event_id=1442438 |
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06-04-2007, 04:09 PM
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#71 (permalink)
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23.8 lbs & 23.25" lost!!!
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Embracing the Suck
Posts: 3,836
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Egham
I had a very good friend who did similar types of stuff for a think tank. Hmmm I must go track him down now.
The reason I actually asked is that I do technical writing for the oil and gas industry. I also do a lot of personal and expository writing when I'm not writing manuals.
Thanks
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06-04-2007, 04:24 PM
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#72 (permalink)
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2006
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 1,263
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Originally Posted by SpacecityPaula
Egham
I had a very good friend who did similar types of stuff for a think tank. Hmmm I must go track him down now.
The reason I actually asked is that I do technical writing for the oil and gas industry. I also do a lot of personal and expository writing when I'm not writing manuals.
Thanks
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My experience is mostly in the electric sector. I've also done some work in the gas pipeline industry. |
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06-04-2007, 05:07 PM
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Trees Hug Me
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Australia
Posts: 1,304
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Week 1 check in
June 1 - Nutrition 2/2, Boxing workout
June 2 - Nutrition 2/2
June 3 - Nutrition 2/2, Mobility Work
Thorn - Weekends are always busy and eating enough food is always difficult.
Roses - Completed a major clean-up of the house/yard and still managed to eat properly.
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Current Lifts- BW = 190lbs
- Deadlift = 400lbs
- Squat = 243lbs
- Bench = 237lbs
- Chinup 3rm = 223lbs
- Broad Jump = 85 inches
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06-04-2007, 06:27 PM
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#74 (permalink)
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23.8 lbs & 23.25" lost!!!
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Embracing the Suck
Posts: 3,836
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Week 1 Checkin
Nutrition 5/122 blocks. I did have to purchase oatmeal but I was still on plan foodwise.
Exercise
Meals Carried for work 2/100 completed
Resistance 2/26 completed
Interval 0/8 completed
Cardio 1/8 completed
Missed the Event I registered for this past weekend. Will try for another event Father's day weekend.
Doing well on eating when I get up instead of waiting.
1 article written and posted on my web site: http://dontbeapicklebump.com/mambo/i...d=59&Itemid=50 |
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06-04-2007, 06:38 PM
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Lead Cat Herder
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Orange Cty, CA
Posts: 3,460
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report for week 1: Jun 1-3
nutrition: on track (6/6 on the week, 6/122 on the challenge)
fitness: on track (1 RT, 1 HIIT, 1 SS)
personal: nothing yet
event: chosen but not yet registered
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my training log
"Have fun and be determined to finish"-- Jack "UpNorth", 9.
"You see yourself every day. Nothing changes. Change comes in an explosion of awareness. You wake up one day and it dawns on you that it's not a sleep line but a wrinkle." - Deserve (aka Gabe)
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06-04-2007, 06:52 PM
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Mistressing the Chin-Up
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 2,186
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Week 1 Check-In:
June 1 (all on track) -
Nutrition = 2 pts.
RT = 1 pt.
June 2 (all on track) -
Nutrition = 2 pts.
HIIT = 1 pt.
June 3 (all on track) -
Nutrition = 2 pts.
RT = 1 pt.
Personal = to start next week
Competition = registered for 1 event
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-Tracy (forumite formerly known as 'Victoria')
On Krista mistressing the chin-up, "It's amazing", said one gym source, "considering that for months she just hung there like a dead fish."
The Year of Magical Lifting
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