Weight-Loss 3 months till summer challenge

Weight-Loss
Jonny - dont give up - reclaiming our health is too important. We all deserve to be the shape that we aspire towards.

Well done for taking off that weight which you temporarily gained - spending time with your family. Getting out of our normal routine damages all our projects.

Stay focused (firm control of your food and regular exercise) and you will lose those two pounds and hit that two year low weight.

I am desperate to lose a very small amount of weight - even though I have some way to go to get to goal. On today's weighing I am 0.4 pounds above 147 pounds. At 147.0 I will weigh 147 and I will have lost 147. I will be able to look into the mirror and see what the weight that I have lost looks like. I cannot describe what a surreal idea that is - to be so close to literally having halved myself.
 
As mentioned yesterday - I will take over as caretaker leader for this challenge. No wonderful websites / blogs - just a challenge run along the same lines that we signed up for

As I see it this is the current situation regarding all contestants.

Let me know if I have got anything wrong.

Where weight is given in Kg - I simply multiply by 2.2 - If you would like a more accurate conversion post in pounds as well.


===========start weight==============1st goal weight
-----------------15-Mar---21-Mar---11-Apr----15-Apr
[Focus]..............
a-n-g-e-l............ 161.2-----???.?-----???.0-----157.2
BisDasEnde.......... 197.0-----???.?-----???.?-----185.0
busy91................
crissyb................
erakoci................155.7-----???.?-----???.?-----140.0
HeatherMarie........ 157.0-----???.?-----???.?-----148.0
iluvgymnastics......
India................... 176.6-----174.8-----???.?-----169.7
JennaRenee123..... 151.0-----149.5-----???.?-----145.0
jennbabe06........... 202.0-----???.?-----???.?-----192.0
JonnyG................. 217.0----215.2-----211.8-----205.0
keepitoff83........... 123.0-----???.?-----???.?-----120.0
lescor27............... 151.0-----149.0-----???.?-----144.0
Lindseeybotk3k......
lisamcrn................ 163.0-----???.?-----???.?-----153.0
mermaid................ 159.8----157.0-----156.6-----154.3
newbride02............ 224.0-----???.?-----???.?-----214.0
Omega.................. 155.0----152.8-----147.6-----149.0
Peach...................
plebian.................. 190.0----???.?-----188.0-----184.0
SylvanFox..............

There are four of us still playing that I am aware of - although some of the others will hopefully join us.

I suspect that few people will be reaching the 15 April goal so I suggest that we ignore that as far as distributing points go.

The only point of a challenge is to motivate us to reach our goals and a key part of that is having obtainable goals. I suggest that you may wish to reconsider the mid May and mid June goals in the light of current weights.
Feel free to update them over the next few days so that everyone has something that they currently believe is attainable to shoot for.

In Jennbabe's absence I will distribute different points for the challenges that I set. Jennbabe may want to convert these into her points on her return. It retains flexibility for her to decide on a conversion rate. I am in an awkward position as it is definitely not my intention to annex it from her. I will call my points sunpoints as we are all looking forward to summer.

I have ignored the points that Jennbabe associated with the first mini challenge. I would prefer to look at the sunpoints situation alone - that way - we restart from the same place. I suspect that this will optimise the motivation that can be gained from following the challenge.

This means that we all start from a clean sheet. Let me know if anyone would prefer that I acted differently with this.

I firmly believe that both diet and exercise are required to healthily control our weight successfully.

The first mini challenge that I am setting for us runs for 1 week from Monday 14th April until Sunday 20th April. It comes in two parts - the first part being dietary and the second part pertaining to exercise. I freely admit to having cut and pasted aspects of this from other challenges. Good ideas are always worthy of repetition.

Dietary aspect:
Many of us don't consistantly get enough water each day. It's important for our bodies to be properly hydrated for many reasons. One of those reasons is that it helps our bodies to function well, helps our skin, and the biggest reason for us is that when we're dehydrated, our bodies hold on to the water it has, causing water retention, making the number on the scale higher. When we're properly hydrated, that excess water is flushed out of our systems. Proper hydration also helps prevent constipation--along with fiber. :D

So this week's dietary challenge is to drink at least 1oz (29.5735ml) of water for every 2lbs of your weight. 2 sunpoints for each day. For those of you doing metric, just round down to the nearest whole number. For example, if you weigh 200 lbs you divide it by 2, giving you 100. 100 X 29.5735= 2,957.35. So you'd drop off the .35 and drink 2,957ml of water per day. Or, 1kg= 32.53ml of water. If someone drinks their full water allocation each day of the week they will earn 14 sunpoints.

Exercise aspect:
I will give 0.5 sunpoint for every 15 minutes of exercise completed during the week. The weekly maximum is 5 hours. If someone did 5 hours of exercise (or more) across the whole week I would give them 10 sunpoints.
Any form of exercise is acceptable - cardio or strength. I personally do a lot of exercise walking and this certainly counts.

This means that everyone has the opportunity to earn up to 24 sunpoints over the next week.

If Jennbabe does not appear - I will set a new mini challenge next weekend to start next Monday. Since it will include a dietary aspect - I will try and post by Saturday morning so that people can organise their shopping lists and meal plans with it in mind.

Dont forget to review your goals as we really want to feel that we can still get to them with a month or two months of hard work.
 
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Hi Girls, I am still game for this. I have looked at my weigh in for this challenge as monthly with our goals and inconsistent logging of weigh ins since we started.

Omega I like the sound of your challenge. I would love to stay active and enjoy the bonus types of challenge with exercise/nutrition etc.....more fun and keeps me focused. My only request is can we start with one specific area to log our weigh ins and results for the exercise/dietary points.
 
Good idea!

I'll start a new thread for us to post scoresheets in a minute and paste in the table.

We can use this as a chat thread and that as a results and scoresheet thread.

If we all update the single scoresheet in that thread it should be nice and easy to keep things organised.
 
Omega, thanks for starting this up again. My weight has been rising and I need something to get me on track again.

I'm not sure what the dates are, so I'm making my own:
goals:
130 by May 1
125 by June 1
all the while working on my strength and toning.
 
JonnyG said:
03/15/2008: 217
04/15/2008: 205
05/15/2008: 195 Will be my first time under 200 in 3 years.
06/15/2008: 185 Will be my first time under 190 in 9 years.

Week 1 Weigh in (3/22) = 215.2lbs (-1.8lbs for the week)
Week 2 Weigh in (3/29) = 213.6lbs (-1.6lbs for the week)
Week 3 Weigh in (4/05) = ???.?lbs (unknown - bad eating with family weekend)
Week 4 Weigh in (4/12) = 211.8lbs (-1.8lbs since last weigh-in)
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So, it looks like i forgot to post this week's weigh-in. so.. here ya go.

And BTW: woke up this morning and was at a new low: 210.8 :sifone:
Only 1lb to go until i'm at a 2year low!
 
Great to have more people back.

Jonny - can you do me a favour and paste your scoresheet into the new thread. Congrats on the new low. I have hit a major milestone today!!!!

OK - following the excellent suggestion from Lisa I have started a new thread. Everyone should have a scoresheet on page 3 or 4 of this thread.

Go to it and click edit, then highlight and control c - if you then go to the new thread and click on reply you should be able to control v to paste it in.

Remember to revisit your goal dates for mid May and mid June.

If you have lost weight since 15th March leave the 15th March weight info as your start weight.

If you have gained weight - I am happy for you to change the start weight to the current weight.

The main thing is that we all are remotivated and can move forward in the two months until summer.

We will keep all the chatting here and all the weight info there so it should be nice and easy to keep things sorted.
 
Well, i've updated the new thread with my info.
I've also changed my Goals for 4/15, 5/15 and 6/15 to 10lbs/month (thats lofty enough as it is).

I love the idea for the new challenge. The water intake wont by my issue, it'll be the 5hours of exercise :D
I usually do 45min on the treadmill every other day, then only 20min on the bowflex (if i feel like it) every other day... looks like i'll have to step it up in order to get the points.
 
Omega said:
I am desperate to lose a very small amount of weight - even though I have some way to go to get to goal. On today's weighing I am 0.4 pounds above 147 pounds. At 147.0 I will weigh 147 and I will have lost 147. I will be able to look into the mirror and see what the weight that I have lost looks like. I cannot describe what a surreal idea that is - to be so close to literally having halved myself.
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Super UBR Congratulations on your amazing (AMAZING) accomplishment!
Do you plan on posting some "1/2 of me" before/after pics?
Those would be some truly amazing comparison photo's, i'm sure.
 
That's great.

Thanks for the compliment Jonny.
I will be posting pictures fairly soon in my diary. I promised my chums one - but I need to have the photo taken.
 
Omega,

Love the new challenge. Looks fun and I am re-motivated by it.
Also, congrats on your weight loss. I'm so proud of you.

Johnny,
You are doing great, and really kicked that small bump you had! You have a great attitude and it's rubbing off.


Peg
 
Hi Peg

I'm pleased that you are feeling remotivated. We all need all the motivation that we can get.

Many thanks for your congratulations. I must admit that I am on cloud 9 - it is a dream come true. It is over twenty years since I became morbidly obese and I tried many times to lose weight. Suddenly it has all happened for me in the last 14 months.

===
Margaret
 
I would appreciate it if people could record the sunpoints phase task activity in the format that I use on my scoresheet.
It will make it easier for me to work through when sorting out the points.

This format is actually often used on many of the competitive challenges on this forum.

There is no need for anyone to be sorry about calculating their water in litres. I measure my water in litres myself. In the UK we buy most of our drinks in litre measurements. I simply fill up 1 * 1litre bottle with water and 3 * half litre bottles with water every night and put them in the fridge. When I have ploughed my way through all my bottles I know that I have had 2.5 litres. This was the amount of water that I needed when I last calculated it. I have lost some weight since then - but I still keep on having 2.5 litres. I find the different bottle sizes convenient for putting one in my bag if I am going out.
 
So, I'm at a new 2yr low: 209.8lbs today :D
And I even had 1/2 a Meatball sub that my fiance brought home (good thing it was within my daily caloric budget - after another 30min of exercise).
 
Jonny - Congratulations on the new low. :hurray: We all love those. Well done on getting some exercise in - it really makes a huge difference.
 
Wow! Congrats Johnny!!! You are doing great!

You must feel absolutely super! Don't you love reaching goals like that?
My first personal mini goal is 175 - which will mean I have lost all the weight from having kids, and I can't wait!!! Course, I will still have a way to go, but this one is really keeping me on track.
 
Omega&Jonny: congrats for your weight loss!!!
I'm having hard time to drink my 2.3 liters a day...it seems so easy, but everyday I simply cannot see my bottles empty!
Today I will not check my weight: I had at least 3 bad diet days and I know I would find a gain...and I dont' want to be discouraged!!! I will weight next week, and I want to report something good! I think it is not a problem for the challenge: we just have to weight ourself for the goal dates: is it correct?
Good night!
 
Well I am sure that you will all be doing better at drinking water than I am this week.

I actually normally drink 2.5 litres of water every day. I havent been able to this week as I got rushed into hospital on Wednesday and spent part of Wednesday and all day Thursday with a "nil by mouth" sign. Since then I have had no means of measuring my consumption.

Hopefully everyone will be doing a lot better than me at having their water. I do remember that drinking sufficient water was a bit of a struggle at first.

I will post the next mini challenge very soon for you.

Jennbabe spoke of us weighing in every Friday and on goal dates - with points associated at goal dates.
 
The second mini challenge that I am setting for us runs for 1 week from Monday 21st April until Sunday 27th April. It comes in two parts - the first part being dietary and the second part pertaining to exercise. I again freely admit to having cut and pasted aspects of this from other challenges.

Dietary aspect:
Fiber is important in any diet, whether you're trying to lose weight or not.

This week's bonus is to eat at least 25g of fiber each day. 2 sunpoints for each day
If someone has their fiber each day of the week they will earn 14 sunpoints.

Exercise aspect: – same as last week
I will give 0.5 sunpoint for every 15 minutes of exercise completed during the week. The weekly maximum is 5 hours. If someone did 5 hours of exercise (or more) across the whole week I would give them 10 sunpoints.
Any form of exercise is acceptable - cardio or strength. I personally do a lot of exercise walking and this certainly counts.

This means that everyone has the opportunity to earn up to 24 sunpoints over the next week.
 
Wow! Sounds like a good goal. I haven't followed by fiber grams before. It will be interesting to see how much I usually get in a day.
 
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