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A Big Hello from Mumbai, India!

2008-07-19T04:05:39Z

Hi there!

My name is Rajiv, a 40 year old from Mumbai, India. Despite my busy work-life and travel(i’m a CEO), i have managed to stay healthy and fit primarily through free-hand exercises, running and staying active.. I have been listening to MTM podcasts now for over a year and learnt several simple yet effective tips, techniques to get better, fitter. So Thank you!

I am reasonably healthy and fit - 5 9” and 75 Kg (162lb). But, I started measuring my body fat % through a simple hand-held device and noticed that i am at 26% body fat..in fact a few months back I was 78kg and 29% body fat%..

I run at least 2 half marathons a year - and that means running practice for almost 8 months of the year. I run to enjoy as well so i run easy not hard. And then it really gets hot in summer this part of the world so i ease off the exercise a bit.

I was never bothered about my diet and pretty much ate everything in moderation. But now i’ve got more conscious and try to follow Scott’s 400*4 daily plan..I know i can do better..Every once a while (constant travel is a challenge and i like my beer!)

I would like everyone in this forum to give me suggestions and encouragement to take my weight to maybe 72kg and body fat under 20%..as a milestone. When can i hope to get there?

Any ideas? Cheers, Rajiv

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiii from Priya, Hyderabad, India

2008-07-19T14:38:26Z

Hey Everyone.. My name’s Priya… a 22yr old(will be 23 yrs old the day after.. yeah..!! ) from Hyderabad, India. Decided to start working out and shed all the kilos or pounds in the next hundred days… will be happy if everyone guides me through the basics of exercising.. not quite sure what to start with.. will start with brisk walking though from tmrw…

Hope.. i will get all the motivation i am looking for!!!

After lurking for a whole year, here I am.

2008-07-20T12:09:08Z

Hi everyone, this is Claire, and I have finally updated my bio on MTM.

I’ve always been a ‘big girl’. My mum told everyone I would lose the ‘puppy fat’. I didn’t. I joined a gym for the first time in 1988 just after my 21st birthday. I thought I was really fat, compared to other girls my age I was chubby. What I would give to be that weight now! Between graduation in 1996 and 2006 I put on 11 kilos (24 lb.) It crept up on me silently and hand in hand with my feelings of despair and shame. Many years of self-development followed, I learnt along the way about issues that have enabled me to downplay ME. I blamed my mother, my sister, my bosses, my teachers and my ex-boyfriends.

Despite my healthy eating, and healthy lifestyle, I always feel bad about how I look no matter what anyone says, because I do not feel right carrying this weight. I want to wear the clothes I want to and not think about my arms, my boobs, my butt, my thighs and how they will look. I want to welcome the sun instead of being glad when it rains so I can cover up. I should be having a wonderful life, instead I find myself stuck.

* Stuck in fear of looking stupid if I go out jogging (I like jogging).
* Stuck making excuses again to not go to the gym (I love the gym when I’m there).
* Stuck starting boxing, pilates, yoga and not showing up consistently (I really love all these sports)
* Stuck saying I want to start my own business but being overwhelmed (an excuse to not go to the gym).

I started listening to MTM in 2007 and became a premium member in July 2007. I am what Scott calls a ‘lurker’. I have listened to hours and hours worth of MTM, and recently nearly wept when my PC got wiped and I lost several shows. I have learnt valuable lessons from Scott. It’s taken me this long to post a message and update my bio. Listening back to an old podcast Scott said something that really bugged me. It played on my mind for days. Then I told my boyfriend: “Scott said I’m not serious and he’s right.” Now of course, Scott did not say that to me personally, but he mentioned in a podcast that some people waste their time and his because they’re not serious. I realised that that is what bugged me. I am not serious; not serious about losing weight, not serious about starting my own business, not serious about starting moving and staying moving.

So today, Sunday, July 20th 2008, I have become accountable. Because today started like too many other days for me. I told my boyfriend that I was going to the gym for pilates. I got myself ready and the nearer the clock ticked to the time I should be leaving, I suddenly had to do all types of things. I got delayed, so delayed that there was “no point going to the gym anymore for the class.” I knew I was flaking, I knew I would feel bad. I forgot to ask “How do I want to feel?” I forgot to take accountability, because I don’t really know how to apply it to my personal life.

Scott said this could happen and yes today, I have had enough.

I want to feel free to be the person I know I am - somewhere under this weight, she be there.

Perhaps I finally have ‘the click’.

Statistics as of July 20, 2008:
Height: 1,60 m (5,2)
BMI: 30.1
Starting Weight: 77 kg (US 169 lbs)
Goal Weight: 55 kg (US 120 lbs)

Tim in DC - 101 Days and counting…

2008-05-02T08:38:41Z

Day 101:

Cardio - 45 minutes of running out on the (National) Mall

Song of the Day - “Milquetoast” by Helmet

- Tim

Fret41’s 100 day Challenge

2007-10-07T21:09:42Z

Hi everyone!!!

My name is Suzzy and today I started the 100 day challenge!!!

My Goal is to learn and live life to the fullest with a healthy lifestyle
and be a great role model for my children and grand children.

Today I walked 10, 000 steps which I havent done in a few months.
Not all at once tho. Practiced the LSB that Scott talked about in a podcast
last week or so. Oh my goodness it actually worked, and I met my goal
today without killing myself. Plus I actually did 15 set ups too.

Tomorrows Goal is 30 minutes at Curves for Strength training and reaching
10, 000 steps again.

Weeks Goal: Curves 3 x’s a week
Walking Daily 10, 000 steps

Becs 100 Day Challenge

2008-06-13T10:10:52Z

I’m 29 going on 30, or 40 or 50 it seems sometimes. I have been feeling bad about where I am in my life for a while now. Mostly Post-Katrina (and yes I use to live in New Orleans).

Yesterday I read an article online. I swear I don;t even get the paper any more except for the coupons. WOW I sound like a grandmother. Oh well. I read all my news online. And yesterday there was an article about a couple who took a 100 day sex challenge. It was an interesting read, and after it was over they required a month off. Gotta love that!!

Anyway, as I read it something struck me, what about a 100 day excercise challenge. FOr me it would be like saying, “I haven’t smoked in 32 days, or had a drink for an alcohalic”. For me I am addicted to NOT exercising. I’m overweight, but not huge, though I feel it sometimes. I HATE going to the gym, but I am sure I should. I hate feeling unattractive and a hate loathing myself. (well aren’t hate and loath the same thing, yes they are.... and FYI it is not a good place).

So I GOT ON THE INTERNET, and googled the words “100 day excercise challenge” and voila. Here I am. I am not going to lie, I need this site. I need the accountability. I need the support. WHen it comes to this part of my life, I am a complete and total wuss. It isn’t pretty let me tell you.

WHAT DO I WANT OUT OF THIS!

1. I want to be happy about myself for the first time in about 25 years.

2. I turn 30 (OMG) at the end of the year, and frankly, no lying or skating my the truth, I want to be SMOKING HOT. I have never been hot in my life. I have bee cute, I;ve dated some nice guys. But I have never felt comfortable with myself. And I think if I don’t feel comforable with myself I am never going to be truly happy. And I definitely want to be happy.

3. I want to be healthy. I would like to be able to run 5 miles without stopping (EVENTUALLY). I would like to be able to put on a bathingsuit and not freak out. I would like to go to the gym and not feel like the ugly step sister next to the gym chicks. Gyms are a very strange animal and they scare the hell out of me.

WHERE I AM TODAY.

29 years old
170 lbs
size 10-12

WHERE I WANT TO BE

Well i guess I can’t stay 29 so I am going to have to give up that notion.
120 -125 lbs
size 6

I WANT TO DO THIS, I NEED TO DO THIS, I HAVE TO DO IT. TODAY HAS TO BE THE FIRST DAY OF A NEW BEGINNING.

BECS

PS: I really hope I post this in the right spot. If not I am terribly sorry!

Breeze through 2008

2008-01-01T14:53:38Z

Happy New Year! Resolutions are meant to be broken, so I don’t make them. But I’ve had some goals for a while that I will share.

I will get to 22% body fat. I’m currently at 30%. My current weight is 145, I’m in a size 6. I have no idea what I’ll weigh, or what size I’ll be when I reach my body fat goal. It really doesn’t matter.

I will do this by running at least 4 times a week, 3 short runs, 1 long run. And I will eat like a person who is at the size I want to be. More fruits and veggies, less starches, only the best sweets when I really want them.

I will have muscle tone and flexibility unlike I’ve ever had before.

I will do this by doing yoga and calisthenics at least 4 times a week.

I will run a half marathon in October. I am currently running 3 mile long runs and am ready to increase my distance.

I will increase by .25 miles a week until I reach 6 miles, as long as my HR stays in the target zone the duration of the run. I will get to 6 miles by Mouse’s 6th birthday (in April). I will then evaluate the best way to proceed to reach the half marathon distance by October.

When I reach my goals, I will feel strong, capable, and proud. I will wear the clothes that make me feel and look good only. I will hold my head high knowing that I achieved my goals through hard work and determination.

Thank you all for coming with me, and this is going to be one awesome year!

Bree

Derek’s Second 100 days

2008-07-08T16:27:48Z

OK, my second hundred days challenge starts right now. I took the last 3 days off anyways. What the heck, I’m lazy if I’m not committed.

I’m not doing the multicolored thing anymore. That got annoying, for me anyways.

This 100 days starting at 239. My next goal is 230 lbs. And to be much healthier.

I will post the workout when I’m done. So if you will excuse me, there is a bench and treadmill with my name on them.

Cheers!

Ann’s Journey…Journal…

2008-02-01T12:26:15Z

whatever the good one is, as my friend Greg says (from a Seinfeld episode.)

I seem to be basically journalling all over my 100 days thread, exercise, diet, whether I’ve flossed, etc. Maybe that’s because sometimes when I post I’ve just finished exercise, and I’m all hopped up on adrenaline. Who knows?

So, a basic check-in with me-starring-me: I started deciding I wanted to make changes in my life in July 2006. I didn’t start dieting, or counting calories properly, until late August. I took up exercising on New Year’s Eve 2006 by walking a treadmill in my apartment complex’s little fitness room. Told myself if I stuck it out for a month, I’d buy myself an iPod Shuffle, which I did and which has made walking, both outdoors and in, so much more enjoyable.

I didn’t own a scale so I was guesstimating my weight loss. In May 2007 I made a doctor’s appointment for a thorough checkup. Turns out I was in the ballpartk about how much weight I’d lost (at that point 55 pounds) but had been so in denial about how much I weighed to start with. I had thought about 200 pounds, but in Jan 06 at my previous appointment I weighed 230. Yikes!

This morning I was at 157.2. I was stuck at 170 for a long time last year, and then hovering at or above 160 for the past month and a half or so, but all this week I was only above 160 on the scale once, in the evening, and I tend to trend my morning weight. I’m so pleased to be under that mark consistently. It’s a struggle every day though. I was tempted yesterday to stop off for a bagel on the way to work. I was in the left turning lane, then changed my mind.

My goal is 135 pounds. At this point it’s a slow inch-forward, but I feel good. Little sore here and there, kinda between sizes right now as I hope to lose more weight before I buy a lot of new things.

I don’t watch the Super Bowl, so I intend to do what I did last year, which is get on the treadmill during much of the broadcast, as there will be no one else around in there. I just don’t care about football. I hope for good ratings, as I am the research director for two TV stations, one of which is airing the game. But I’d rather be moving myself forward!

Kristen’s 100 Day Journey

2008-05-28T10:09:53Z

So I’ve been told by those more fit and more wise than me that I can begin posting my 100 day’s journey and begin on day 10. Today will be day 10 of meeting my exercise goals: >10,000 steps per day and 60-75 minutes on the treadmill or in the park 6 days per week. My goal is to do 10,000 steps on my rest day--just not on the treadmill.

My weight goal is to lose 25 pounds by September 9th.

Thanks to Cleda for the kick in the butt to get me over here.
You all can look for me consistently on this board. PROMISE!