BP.Net Weightloss CHALLENGE

[sssnake]

I've been taking cardio kickboxing since the middle of January 2 days a week at my wifes school and I think I have lost around 8 or 9 pounds so far. It's coming off slow but at least its finally coming off lol.

Wish me luck, my goal is 30 to 35 pounds

Kyle

[littleindiangirl]

you don't taste the spinach at all... hence the reason for adding the nanners... they cover the taste! LOL

I can attest to that!! I've been drinking the smoothies since saturday, and they are sweet and keep you full all day. Aleesha and her friends are a huge inspiration to me, since I too was skeptical and have wanted to stop now every single day.

But every morning, I get up, and make my smoothies for the day in less than an hour. All my food for the day in one hour!? Fresh, delicious, and most of all filling!

My favorite smoothies so far are:

1 cup of water
bunch of spinach leaves
Blend till nice smooth and almost liquid

add:
about 2 cups of fresh pinapple (more if you like it sweet)
1 banana
hand full of strawberries (and for the seeds to chew on)
flax seeds
bee pollen
and some ice

Blend together and I have 8 cups of smoothie for the day! (2 quarts)

Then I make my breakfast smoothie, which is usually very green heavy

1 bunch of kale and spinach
1 cup of water
Blend well

2 bananas
some pinappple
cucumber
ice

blend again

That's me breakfast!

I have a bunch of frozen fruits now too, pineappple, berries, blue and raspberry, fresh strawberries
mangos
kiwi
fresh whole pineapple
bunches of and bunches of bananas
oranges
limes
passion fruit
apples
cucumbers (Yuuuummy)



and for greens I like kale, and romaine and looove spinach

So good!

[munding]

hi guys. i want to join this thread. im currently in offseason mode right now, and will be going through my pre-contest prep mode.
i am currently 205 lbs now. with 14% bodyfat. i am aiming for around 8-9%. while still holding on to as much muscle as possible.

i currently eat about 4 lbs of meat a day. which is 3 lbs of chicken and 1 lb. of beef. and about 4 scoops of protein powder which totals about 400+grams of protein a day.. and consume around 300-450 grams of carbs.my fat intake, whatever.lol.

im starting my diet soon. dropping the carbs to around 100 on low days and 300 on high days. high days are once a week just to load up the glycogen stores.

supplements that i use are:

N.O. xplode
glutamine
creatine ethyl esther
dymatize whey
testosterone
anti estrogen nolvadx
lipo-6/hydroxycut hardcore

i hope to achieve this in 9-12 weeks, after that i am hoping to rebound on that and maybe up my weight by dec. at around 225-230 lbs. my long term goal would be to look like jay cutler.lol.

hope we all achieve our goals this year. good luck guys. thank you for letting me share.

[recycling goddess]

Connie... you are grinding those flax seeds first right? You body doesn't break down those little shells... so you have to do it first.

Yup, Connie and I are on day 4 of drinking green smoothies only. It's a great healing opportunity for our bodies... and a nice weight release opportunity as well.

I'm still working out, loving life and smiling... a lot! Yaaaaaaaaa HEALTH!!! Looking back on where I was a year ago... my liver in severe distress, no energy, sick all the time... gaining weight more and more every week... and now it's the opposite. Thank goodness... *yes I'm blissed out folks*

[littleindiangirl]

Connie... you are grinding those flax seeds first right? You body doesn't break down those little shells... so you have to do it first.

Yup, Connie and I are on day 4 of drinking green smoothies only. It's a great healing opportunity for our bodies... and a nice weight release opportunity as well.

I'm still working out, loving life and smiling... a lot! Yaaaaaaaaa HEALTH!!! Looking back on where I was a year ago... my liver in severe distress, no energy, sick all the time... gaining weight more and more every week... and now it's the opposite. Thank goodness... *yes I'm blissed out folks*

LOL, yea, I guess I threw those two in at the end of the list because I forgot about em in the first place, so when I edited it they got stuck at the bottom. They get ground up pretty good.

[icygirl]

Connie... you are grinding those flax seeds first right? You body doesn't break down those little shells... so you have to do it first.

Yup, Connie and I are on day 4 of drinking green smoothies only. It's a great healing opportunity for our bodies... and a nice weight release opportunity as well.

I'm still working out, loving life and smiling... a lot! Yaaaaaaaaa HEALTH!!! Looking back on where I was a year ago... my liver in severe distress, no energy, sick all the time... gaining weight more and more every week... and now it's the opposite. Thank goodness... *yes I'm blissed out folks*

Have you ever thought about being a nutritionist or health educator? I think you would be awesome at it.

[recycling goddess]

heehee... na, i just love to share my info... hence my passion with my magazine!

although, to be honest... i'm going to be teaching about raw foods in my little town in sept!

*thanks so much for the huge compliment!*

[Inknsteel]

Ok, I've skipped over this thread since I joined the board, but now I'm gonna jump on the bandwagon too... First, Aleesha, seeing your before and after pics and reading your posts here are VERY inspiring... Good on you for keeping with it, and keep it up!!!

So, here's my backstory... My weight has been like a yo-yo since I graduated high school. I weighed about 175 or 180 when I graduated, and I think that was too skinny for my build. I am 5' 10", and have a VERY large bone structure. Since graduating 12 years ago, I've bounced from a low weight of 180 and a high weight of 315 or more (I stopped getting on the scale when I saw 300, but didn't stop eating the double quarter pounders).

About 2 years ago, I went to my 10 year reunion at around 225-230 lbs. Almost nobody recognized me, but that's where I reunited with my now girlfriend. Over the last 2 years though, I have been too happy and comfortable and have let my weight slide again... We decided about a month ago that it was time to do something about it, so we joined a gym. I went for the first time last night, weighing in at 266. I've set my goal at 200, not giving myself a deadline to lose the weight. I'm going to try to make it to the gym 3-5 times a week. Now that the weather is getting nice, the nights we have my girlfriend's daughter, we'll go for a walk or go to the park... On top of that, after running on the treadmill last night, I've decided that as soon as I finish the last pack of cigarettes I bought, I'm done with those too... Wish me luck guys. Here's to an amazing adventure I'm about to start...

Sorry for the long post everyone, but I'm feeling highly motivated after reading this whole thread...

[Thor26]

im joining a gym to as soon as summer starts for now im just trying to eat better. I am 6'2" and 320 i want to weigh 250. wish me luck you guys

[recycling goddess]

Thor, Inksteel... I wish you both the motivation to keep on keepin' on! That's what does it for me... motivation and routine. I go every day (after all, kids don't have a day on from playin!) - I don't do weights daily... only 3 times a week max... but using weights and the cardio machines really works!

I'm happily down to 190 today... that's 75 pounds released in total so far. On day 11 of my "Green Smoothie Feast for 30 days" - hopefully the weight release will continue