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The weather is about to get chilly, pumpkins are on the vine and healthy living is our goal. 
It is time for the fall challenge to begin. Welcome to new and returning members alike!
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The weather is about to get chilly, pumpkins are on the vine and healthy living is our goal. It is time for the fall challenge to begin. Welcome to new and returning members alike! www.sparkpeople.com/myspark/
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Purple Phoenix
Biggest Loser Sleigh Bell Slim Down Winter Challenge All Teams ~ Leader
BLC40 - Spark Sisters Rising
BLC24 - BLC39, 41 ~ Azure Destinations
BLC since BLC10
Purple Phoenix
Biggest Loser Sleigh Bell Slim Down Winter Challenge All Teams ~ Leader
BLC40 - Spark Sisters Rising
BLC24 - BLC39, 41 ~ Azure Destinations
BLC since BLC10
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It's 70 with a high of 90 and heat index possibly in the 100's today. Fit quote for today: You're never beaten until you admit it.--George S. Patton Motivational quote for today: The only limits are, as always, those of vision.--James Broughton Almost all green on my Versa just missed active minutes but achieved my steps per hour goal and had 17,482 steps yesterday. This week it will be cutting it close a couple days but will still get into the gym all 5 days. Tomorrow's workout plan is Legs and 15-20 min cardio of choice.
It's 73 with a high of 91 for today. Fit quote for today: Eighty percent of success is showing up.--Woody Allen Motivational quote for today: Mistakes are proof that you are trying. All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 18,584 steps yesterday. Won't know my work schedule for next week until sometime later today to plan my workout times of day and number of days. Hoping for all 5 days but will take 4 with a double workout. Currently still leading the Workweek Hustle challenge on Fit Bit app with 1 person left to sync their tracker.
It's 68 with a high of 91 and heat index in the triple digits today. Fit quote for today: Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.--Gail Sheehy Motivational quote for today: Don't count the days, make the days count.--Muhammad Ali All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 16,633 steps yesterday. Today's workout plan is Full-Body Friday.
It's 68 with a high of 88 and heat index just in the 90's today. Fit quote for today: You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well.--Wayne Dyer Motivational quote for today: Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.--Jackie Joyner-Kersee All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 16,096 steps yesterday. Today's workout plan is Chest/Shoulder/Triceps and 20 min walking laps around the turf. Got in a great Legs workout yesterday after my doctor's appointment. Won't know the results until next week.
It's 77 with a high of 86 for today. Fit quote for today: Discipline weighs ounces. Regret weighs tons.--Jim Rohn Motivational quote for today: When your burning desire for success is greater than your deepest fear of failure, you can create anything in your life! All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 15,344 steps yesterday. Today's workout plan if all goes well with the exam at the doctor's office is Legs and no planned cardio.
It's 75 with a high of 90 but heat index in the triple digits today. Fit quote for today: The hardest thing about exercise is to start doing it. Once you are doing exercise regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it.--Erin Gray Motivational quote for today: Change your thoughts and you change your world.--Norman Vincent Peale All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 17,470 steps. Today's workout plan is Back/Biceps and 10 min escalator (stair master) HIIT.
It's 90 feels more like 102 with a high of 93 for today. Fit quote for today: Next time you're tempted to say you can't, remember that what you're really saying is, I don't want to.--Craig Weller Motivational quote for today: Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.--Brian Tracy Almost all green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 15,071 steps yesterday. Got in a great Legs and 15 min treadmill walk this late morning. Tomorrow's workout plan is Back/Biceps and 10 min stair master HIIT.
It's 79 with a high of 93 but heat index will make it feel more like 100 or higher today. Fit quote for today: Turn your wounds into wisdom.--Oprah Motivational quote for today: No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions.--Dan Miller Almost all green on my Versa, almost achieved my steps per hour goal just came up 4 steps shy sitting in church last night but had 15,861 steps. Tomorrow's workout plan is Legs and 15-20 min cardio of choice.
It's 91 feels like 108 for today. Fit quote for today: Nobody owes nobody nothin'. You owe yourself.--Rocky III Motivational quote for today: There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.--Lady Blessington All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 16,154 steps yesterday. Plan for next week is to get into the gym all 5 days. After another gym rest day tomorrow it's back into the gym for Legs and15-20 min cardio of choice.
It's 70 with a high of 86 and no chances of rain today. Fit quote for today: The difference between try and triumph is just a little ump!--Marvin Phillips Motivational quote for today: Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.--Brian Tracy All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 15,169 steps yesterday. Today's workout plan is Full-Body Friday. Won't know my work schedule for next week until sometime either later today or tomorrow to plan my workout times of day and number of days.
It's 70 with a high of 77 and rain most all day. Fit quote for today: Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.--John F. Kennedy Motivational quote for today: If you can't handle stress, you won't manage success. All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 15,206 steps yesterday. Got in a great Legs and no planned cardio workout yesterday. Today's workout plan is Chest/Shoulders/Triceps and 20 min walking laps around the turf.
It's 70 with a high of 90 and heat index should be close to 100 today and slight chances of rain this afternoon. Fit quote for today: Workouts are like brushing my teeth; I don't think about them, I just do them. The decision has already been made.--Pattie Sue Plumer Motivational quote for today: The money you attract is the exact measure of value of the ideas you have succeeded in externalizing.--Elizabeth Towne All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 15,105 steps yesterday. Today's workout plan is Legs with no planned cardio.
It's 75 with a high of 91 and heat index close to the 100's again today. Fit quote for today: Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.--Jerry Rice Motivational quote for today: Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.--Napoleon Hill All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 15,339 steps yesterday. Today's workout plan is Back/Biceps and 10 min stair master HIIT. Again please check my blog being posted later tonight to see my progress in how much I have left to reach my mini goal of 132 and my maintenance goal of 125.
It's 70 with a high of 90 and no chances of rain today. Fit quote for today: Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.--Bo Jackson Motivational quote for today: By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. Almost all green on my Versa just missed active minutes but achieved my steps per hour goal and had 17,575 steps yesterday. Today's workout plan is Legs and 15-20 min cardio of choice. Scale is down 1.5# from last week and please read my blog later to see how much I have left to reach my mini goal of 132 and goal of 125.
With your exercise.
It's 70 with a high of 88 and no chances of rain today. Fit quote for today: I wouldn't say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it.--Michael Phelps Motivational quote for today: One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time. Almost all green yesterday on my Versa just missed active minutes but achieved my steps per hour goal and had 15,259 steps. Right now my back is feeling better but I'm still going to take it easy in the gym tomorrow and not go as low on the squats. Plan is to get into the gym all 5 days this week as my work schedule worked out that I can get in there Monday and Tuesday late morning/early afternoon, Wed-Fri morning.
It's 72 with a high of 82 and slight chance for rain this afternoon. Fit quote for today: You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.--Lee Iacocca Motivational quote for today: Nobody said that becoming successful would ever be an easy task by any means. One must be willing to fail and fail time again until they get things right. All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 17,446 steps yesterday. Workout didn't go as planned as I tweaked my back unloading truck yesterday morning so went to the gym and did some stretches and rolling out on the foam roller. Won't know my work schedule for next week until sometime later today to plan my workouts for next week. Hoping for all 5 days but will take 4 days with a double workout if needed. Friday's workout is a full body workout for August.
It's 73 with a high of 82 and chances of rain most of the day. Fit quote for today: That which does not kill us makes us stronger.--Friedrich Nietzsche Motivational quote for today: Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.--Jim Rohn All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 15,196 steps yesterday. Today's workout plan is Turf work and Biceps/Triceps to finish up this training month. Hoping for all 5 days again in the gym but won't know until either later today or tomorrow my work schedule for next week.
It's 70 with a high of 88 and no chance of rain until early tomorrow morning. Fit quote for today; If you push your limits, you will find them. It will hurt.--Roland Fisher Motivational quote for today: When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.--Lao Tzu All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 15,827 steps yesterday. Today's workout plan is Turf work the Back and 10 min rowing machine sprints 30 sec on and 30 sec off. I was supposed to leave my notebook at the gym for my trainer on Tuesday but did yesterday so should have my new workouts written in there today.
It's 72 with a high of 90 and possible heat index in the 100's today. Fit quote for today: Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.--Babe Ruth Motivational quote for today: You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.--Les Brown All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 15,812 steps yesterday. Today's workout plan is Legs and 20 min walking laps around the turf. I've got 8.4# to go to reach my mini goal of 132 and 15.4# to reach my goal of 125.
It's 68 with a high of 88 and no chances of rain today. Fit quote for today: Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.--Og Mandino Motivational quote for today: So you're a little weird? Work it! Different? Own it! Better to be a nerd than one of the herd!-- Mandy Hale All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 15,207 steps yesterday. Today's workout plan is 750 meters on the rowing machine then Chest/Shoulders and 750 meters more to finish up.
It's 72 with a high of 90 and raining currently. Fit quote for today: Falling in life is inevitable-staying down is optional.--Carrie Johnson Motivational quote for today: There may be people that have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.--Derek Jeter Almost all green on my Versa just missed active minutes and came up 105 steps shy of achieving my steps per hour goal sitting in church yesterday morning but had 15,340 steps. Today's workout plan is Legs and 15 min either treadmill walk or HIIT haven't decided yet.
It's 72 with a high of 90 today but heat index will probably make it feel more like 100 sometime later today. Fit quote for today: Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.--Alex Karras Motivational quote for today: Live in the present it's the only thing that truly exists. Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. Almost all green yesterday on my Versa just missed active minutes but achieved my steps per hour goal and had 15,190 steps. Plan is to get into the gym all 5 days this week to kick off the final week of this training month.
It's 64 with a high of 88 and no chances of rain today. Fit quote for today: If you're going through hell, keep on going.--Winston Churchill Motivational quote for today: Truly, for some men nothing is written unless they write it.--Lawrence of Arabia All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 20,296 steps yesterday. Won't know until sometime later today my work schedule for next week to plan my workout times of day and number of days. Hoping for all 5 days again but will take 4 days but do a double workout or two if needed.
It's 81 feels like 82 with a high of 84 and no chances of rain today. Fit quote for today: Don't you ever try to tell me that something is impossible--Will Smith Motivational quote for today: Done is better than perfect.--Sheryl Sandberg All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and have 15,545 steps for today. Got in a great Turf work and Biceps/Triceps workout this afternoon. Won't know my work schedule for next week until sometime later today or tomorrow to plan my workout times of day and number of days.
It's 61 with a high of 84 and no chances of rain today. Fit quote for today: If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?--Joe Namath Motivational quote for today: It's okay to be scared, but you have to get out there, open up, love, make mistakes, learn, be stronger, and start all over again. All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 15,093 steps yesterday. Today's workout plan is Turf work then Back and 10 min rowing machine sprints 30 sec on and 30 sec off.
It's 57 with a high of 82 for today. Fit quote for today: Low aim, not failure, is the crime. Motivational quote for today: When the wind of change blows some people build walls and others build windmills.--Chinese Proverb All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 15,124 steps yesterday. Today's workout plan is Legs and 20 min laps around the turf unless there are lots of people wanting to use it then will walk the mats instead.
It's 63 with a high of 81 for today. Fit quote for today: Exercise to live. Never live to exercise.--Jack LaLane Motivational quote for today: Happiness is an imaginary condition formerly often attributed by the living to the death, now usually attributed by adults to children and by children to adults.--Thomas Szasz All green on my Versa, came up 135 steps shy of achieving my steps per hour goal and had 15,660 steps yesterday. Today's workout plan is 750 meter rowing machine row then chest/shoulders and 750 meter row to finish up. I've got 6.1# to lose to reach my mini goal of 132 and 13.1# to go to reach my goal of 125.
It's 70 with a high of 82 and light rain now. Fit quote for today: Of course it's hard. It's supposed to be hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. Hard is what makes it great.--A League of Their Own Motivational quote for today: Let the past make you better, not bitter. All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 16,525 steps yesterday. Today's workout plan is Legs and 15 min treadmill either walk of HIIT haven't decided yet.
It's 75 with a high of 95 and possibly one more day of heat index in the 100's. Fit quote for today: Scar tissue is stronger then other tissue. Realize the strength, move on.--Henry Rollins Motivational quote for today: Pain makes you stronger, fear makes you braver, heartbreak makes you wiser. All green on my Versa, came up 48 steps shy of achieving my steps per hour goal and had 22,517 steps yesterday. After a gym rest day today it's back into the gym tomorrow for Legs and 15 min treadmill either walk or HIIT haven't decided yet.
It's 81 feels like 86 with a high of 95 but going to feel more like in the 100's this afternoon. Fit quote for today: Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.--Henry Ford Motivational quote for today: Nobody roots for Goliath-Wild Chamberlin All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 16,464 steps yesterday. After taking the weekend off from the gym it's back into the gym for 5 days of great workouts again this week. My work schedule was published yesterday so I can get into the gym on Monday-Thurs morning and Friday late morning/early afternoon.
It's 77 with a high of 95 and heat index of closer to 105 today. Fit quote for today: Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.--B.C. Forbes Motivational quote for today: Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop. All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 16,266 steps yesterday. Today's workout plan is Turf work then Biceps/Triceps to end my week in the gym.
It's 77 with a high of 95 but heat index in the 100's today. Fit quote for today: Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.--Carl Bard Motivational quote for today: The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.--Walt Disney All green on my Versa yesterday, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 15,141 steps. Today's workout plan is Turf work/Back and 10 min rowing machine sprints 30 sec on and 30 sec off. I've still got 6.7# to lose to reach my mini goal of 132 and 13.7# to reach my goal of 125. 
It's 79 feels like 84 with a high of 95 but heat index will make it feel more like 100 later today. Fit quote for today: You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.--Wayne Gretzky Motivational quote for today: Change is not merely necessary to life-it is life.--Alvin Toffler All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 15,563 steps yesterday. Today's workout plan is Legs and 20 min either turf walk or walk on mats all depending on how busy the gym is when I get there and if there is lots of others working on the turf when I get ready for cardio. I've got 6.7# to go to reach my mini goal of 132 and 13.7# to reach my goal of 125.
It's 68 with a high of 91 for today and we are under a heat advisory until at least Saturday if not Sunday. Heat index should feel more like 100 or higher. Fit quote for today: Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.---Jameson Frank Motivational quote for today: Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.--Helen Adams Keller All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 15,218 steps yesterday. Today's workout plan is 750 meter rowing machine row then chest/shoulders and 750 meter row to finish up.
It's 70 with a high of 79 and cloudy all day. Fit quote for today: Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.--Dale Carnegie Motivational quote for today: Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.--Zig Ziglar All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 20,812 steps yesterday. Today's workout plan is Legs and 15 min treadmill either walk of HIIT haven't decided yet.
It's 75 with a high of 86 and no chances of rain today. Fit quote for today: The path to success is to take massive, determined action.--Anthony Robbins Motivational quote for today: There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness,--Lady Blessington All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 16,937 steps yesterday. After another gym rest day today it's back into the gym in the AM for Legs and 15 min either treadmill walk or HIIT haven't decided yet.
It's 70 with a high of 90 for today. Fit quote for today: Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.--Margaret Lee Runbeck Motivational quote for today: Your words are simply the thoughts of yours that will become things the soonest. All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 17,043 steps yesterday. Off tomorrow so vacation starts at 5PM today. Plan is to get in a great week of workouts and keep a better eye on my eating this week.
It's 66 with a high of 86 for today and no chances of rain. Fit quote for today: Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.--Fitzhugh Dodson Motivational quote for today: I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.--Michael Jordan All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 16,333 steps for yesterday. Today's workout plan is Turf work then Biceps/Triceps.
It's 68 with a high of 86 for today. Fit quote for today: There is no greater achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.--J.G. Holland Motivational quote for today: Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.--Robert T Kiyosaki All green, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 17,483 steps yesterday. Today's workout plan is Turf work then Back and 10 min rowing machine sprints to finish up.
It's 79 feels like 84 with a high of 91 for today. Fit quote for today: A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.--Tom Stoppard Motivational quote for today: I do what you won't today, so that I can do what you can't tomorrow. All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 16,066 steps yesterday. Today's workout plan is Legs and 20 min cardio of choice either turf sprints or walk on Jiu Jitu mats haven't decided yet. Found out on Monday that they are a kinda combination of a wrestling mat and another kind of mat don't remember what he said but I still love to walk on it.
It's 91 feels more like 102 but started out in the upper 70's this morning. Fit quote for today: All you can do is all you can is all you can do. But all you can do is enough.--Art Williams Motivational quote for today: The death rate for people who play it safe and for people who live boldly is the same 100%.--Patti Digh All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 15,699 steps yesterday. Got in a great 750 meter rowing machine row to begin my workout then Chest/Shoulders and 750 meters more to finish up.
It's 90 feels like 100 but started out in the 70's this morning. Fit quote for today: I'm not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.--Michael Jordan Motivational quote for today: Remember that failure is an event, not a person.--Zig Ziglar All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 17,138 steps yesterday. Got in a great Legs and 15 min treadmill HIIT. Tomorrow's workout plan is 1,500 meter row broken up into 750 meters to begin my workout then 750 meters after and Chest/Shoulders.
It's 72 with a high of 86 and chances of rain this afternoon. Fit quote for today: Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.--Francis of Assisi Motivational quote for today: Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.--Bob Dylan Almost all green on my Versa yesterday just missed active minutes but achieved my steps per hour goal and had 16,587 steps. Plan is to get into the gym all 5 days this week as 3PM is the latest I'm off this week. Tomorrow's workout plan is Legs and 15 min treadmill either walk or HIIT haven't decided yet.
It's 70 with a high of 90 and a slight chance for rain later this afternoon. Fit quote for today: The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.--Vince Lombardi Motivational quote for today: It's time to start living the life you've imagined.--Henry James All green on my Versa, came up 174 steps shy of achieving my steps per hour goal sitting in a restaurant eating dinner but had 14,655 steps. Great Turf work and Biceps/Triceps to end the week of workouts. Won't know my work schedule until later this morning to plan my workout times of day and number of days.
It's 70 with a high of 91 for today. Fit quote for today: The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.--George Santayana Motivational quote for today: Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.--Babe Ruth All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 14,917 steps for the day. Today's workout plan is Turf work then Biceps/Triceps to finish off the week.
Happy 4th! 
It's 72 with a high of 82 and slight chances of rain later tonight. Fit quote for today: It's hard to beat a person that never gives up.--Babe Ruth Motivational quote for today: Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.--Epicurus All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 16,531 steps. Today's workout plan is turf work/Back and rowing machine sprints 30 sec on and 30 sec off for 10 min. I've got 7.8# to go to reach my mini goal of 132 and 14.8# to reach my goal of 125. Hoping to achieve my mini goal by mid to late July then my ultimate goal by sometime in August.
It's 73 with a high of 90 for today and no chances of rain. Fit quote for today: If somebody beats me, it's not because they outworked me.--Layne Norton Motivational quote for today: Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small.--Tim Ferriss All green on my Versa, achieved my steps per hour goal and had 15,652 steps yesterday. Got in a great 1,500 meter row and Chest/Shoulders yesterday. Today's workout plan is Legs and unsure if I have planned cardio since I don't have my notebook with me it's in the car. Will take a picture of my workouts for each day to post on social media and also so I know what I'm doing when I post.