Hi there! Hope that everyone who has off from work for Memorial Day today is enjoying it. My weekend has been very low-key just as I wanted it to be, and has included a tennis session with my hubby, some shopping and cleaning, and renting a movie. If the cloudy skies clear out here, I'm going to head to the beach today, but before I hopefully become a beach bum for the afternoon, I wanted to share a recap of my last week participating in Jen Widerstrom's Summer Shake Down DietBet! In case you missed my past DietBet recaps: DietBet Week 3 Recap + 5 Ways to Drink More H20 DietBet Week 2 Recap | Persevering When the Scale Won’t Budge DietBet Week 1 Recap + Letting Go of the All-or-Nothing Healthy Living Mentality Since I knew that I'd be in Palm Springs the weekend before ... [Read More]
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DietBet Week 3 Recap + 5 Ways to Drink More H20
Hello, hello! I'm back on this lovely Wednesday to give you a week 3 update on the DietBet game I'm participating in. Just in case you missed my other weekly recaps and want to check them out: DietBet Week 2 Recap | Persevering When the Scale Won’t Budge DietBet Week 1 Recap + Letting Go of the All-or-Nothing Healthy Living Mentality Exercise Activity-wise, I killed it in week 3. Lots of kickboxing, HIIT, walking my pup, a few hikes, and some yoga practice thrown in there. Saturday was my rest day to relax and give my body a chance to recover, and I did some foam rolling and icing throughout the week - though I'm making a mental note to try to ice every single day. Diet Food-wise, week 3 started off kind of shaky. I was eating healthy, I just wasn't nixing the ... [Read More]
DietBet Week 2 Recap | Persevering When the Scale Won’t Budge
Hi friends! Last week I shared details of the DietBet game that I'm currently participating in and did a week 1 recap, so today I'm chatting about week 2. You can check out my first post here, but the idea is that I bet a few bucks that I could lose 4% of my body weight in a month in a game with 2,101 other people. Week 2 Recap Workout-wise, in contrast to my recent weeks of trying out lots of fitness studios in my area, last week was full of mostly at-home exercise, including FitnessGlo HIIT workouts and some Jillian Michaels strength & cardio DVDs. I also went on a nice long hike with pup and had my first swimming session of the year last weekend. Diet-wise, I did pretty well. As I mentioned in my week 1 recap, all I'm really changing is my portion sizes (a ... [Read More]
DietBet Week 1 Recap + Letting Go of the All-or-Nothing Healthy Living Mentality
Hi friends! My post title makes this pretty obvious, but I'm currently participating in a DietBet game. I figure that springtime is the perfect time to shed a couple of pounds and tone up. Each week for the next month I'll be doing a recap of my weekly progress, as well as discussing an important healthy living theme. So what is DietBet? DietBet is a game that emphasizes online community in helping people to lose weight. I'm participating in Jen Widerstrom's Summer Shake Down - whose The Biggest Loser trainer - which currently has 2,128 players and a pot of $63,840! For this game, all participants bet $30 on themselves that they can lose 4% of their body weight in a month. Everyone that achieves that goal wins the game and gets to split the pot evenly (after an admin ... [Read More]
By the Skin of My Teeth
A couple of weeks ago, I talked about my participation in a DietBet. If you're curious about the details of the game, check out this post, but the gist of this DietBet is that I put money into a pot, betting that I could lose 4% of my body weight in a month. I did really well the first few weeks of the bet, working out hard and watching everything I ate. I needed to lose a bit over 5 pounds to reach my 4% goal, and I was well on my way to accomplishing it. But then I hit a roadblock. My grandma was diagnosed with cancer. I flew to my home state of New Jersey to be with her in the hospital as she underwent a major surgery to remove the tumor. This would have obviously been enough to throw me off my game in itself, but when her health deteriorated with a case of pneumonia and the ... [Read More]
Participating in a DietBet
A few weeks ago, I heard about FitFluential's January DietBet. I had never heard of DietBet before and was intrigued. Here's how it works: DietBet is a social diet game that involves $$. You cough up some mula to join or start a challenge - in this case it was $25. Everyone puts in the specified amount of money, essentially betting that they can lose 4% of their body weight in 4 weeks. At the end of that time, whoever lost the 4% splits the pot evenly. Here's how the weigh-ins work: You have to take a full-length picture of yourself in ''airport attire" standing on a scale, then immediately take a photo of your weight on the scale at the beginning of the bet. DietBet is pretty smart about reducing cheating, and they email a secret word to you right before your weigh-in, which you need ... [Read More]