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ok i have no idea how to track how many miles i walk/jog unless i'm at the gym (i'll be outta town)... any ideas on how to track this?

:T and i'm screwed with the pull ups and push ups, I just started working out so I don't have any upper body strenght (or any strenght really :p) but oh well it'll be fun to try. Do we have to do normal push ups or can we do the modified kind?
 
Week 3 Day three (sunday)

food log

All on track
 
Today's Food- Saturday
Breakfast:
Kashi Go Lean Oatmeal- 150
1/2c Blueberries- 41
1 Kiwi- 35

Lunch:
99% FF Ravioli- 340

Snack:
1 Sm Green Bell Pepper- 24
1/2 C Blueberries- 41

Dinner:
Lean Gourmet Meatloaf and Potatoes- 180
2 Dinner Rolls- 180
2 Bud Select 55- 110

Total: 1201
 
I will do the walking - but I cannot see me doing anything on the other two challenges.

I am not too concerned about my arm strength - and although I do a level of ST have no wish to divert time from my normal exercise schedule into doing lots of push ups and pull ups.

I will certainly not going to be doing 2 fruit and 2 veg - no more - no less. I consider that to be an unhealthy approach. Most authorities say that we should be aiming to have AT LEAST FIVE servings of fruit / veg every day. I always do - and often have more. Since fruit and veg are a good source of fibre - having less than five servings severely limits the amount of fibre that a person can healthily eat. The minimum RDA is 25g for a woman and 38g for a man. To eat more is very healthy since this is a minimum... Since fruit is higher in sugars than vegetables - many people believe that a healthier approach is to have more servings of vegetables than fruit. Fruit and vegetables contain many vitamins and should be classed as central to adopting good nutrition.

I will eat healthily so will never have 2 servings of fruit and 2 servings of vegetables in a day - no more - no less. That would be a sign of me having a very bad day.
 
I think it was probably sposeta mean eat at LEAST 2 fruits and 2 veggies... I don't think it was typed out as a "don't eat more than x amount" comment. A lot of people don't eat enuf fruits n veggies- not gonna lie- I sure don't! Love em, just never eat enuf... :rolleyes: thats the kind of challenge that will actually get me to focus on eating more of the good shiz. lol. Good for you Omega for having the healthy amounts of veggies and fruits in your diet!! :D
 
Saturday - day 2
calories 1844
protein 94.8g (well in excess of RDA but 5g short of 1g per pound LBW)
fibre 53.5g
calcium 1170mg
sodium 2819mg (high)
water 2.5 litres (alloc 2litres is sufficient)

Certainly had more than 5-a-day hitting lots of colours
Only negative was too much sodium - due to gravy... Would have preferred to have a little more protein.
 
w3, d2 food:
leftover turkey tacos: 640c, 14f.
salisbury lean cuisine: 270c, 10f
yogurt: 80, 0
turkey sausage "tacos"(not really, but it was pretty much all the same ingredients as my turkey tacos, lol, except for the sausage...): 480, 14f
craisins: 130c, 3f

ANNNND then the bad: 2 red beers with clamato: 290c, OBVIOUSLY 0f, lol.
3 shots: ROUGHLY 180calories, based on what I could find online... Could be a few more, could be a few less... Hadn't planned on going out tonight, was sorta last minute planning.

Total(ish) calories: 2070. Surprisingly woulda been A-OK at the beers. The shots are what put me over... :Rolleyes: damn.
Total fiber: 41grams. Holy crap. thats a lot... hardly ever get that high... Hope it doesn't kill me later!
ALso missed the gym due to going out with a few friends; will hafta make it up tomorrow.

Here's to a great day 3 everyone! :)
 
Jess393 said:
I think it was probably sposeta mean eat at LEAST 2 fruits and 2 veggies... I don't think it was typed out as a "don't eat more than x amount" comment. A lot of people don't eat enuf fruits n veggies- not gonna lie- I sure don't! Love em, just never eat enuf... :rolleyes: thats the kind of challenge that will actually get me to focus on eating more of the good shiz. lol. Good for you Omega for having the healthy amounts of veggies and fruits in your diet!! :D
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Unless PlumpHope comes back and clarifies this - we have to go by what she has written which is "no more - no less". Frankly - I do not think that there is a need to have 2 items of fruit a day. I often do - but I am happier with my nutrition if I have more veg and less fruit. I am perfectly happy with days where I have a lot of veg and no fruit.

I find that eating vegetables is very central to my ability to control my weight. I eat tons of them - and would not change that for points on a challenge.

I would encourage everyone to have more in their diet. There are great benefits to hitting lots of different colours too as the different colours indicate the different vitamins / properties that you find there.

 
Saturday's Food intake:

Breakfast - 1 wholemeal/nuts and grain bagel with small amount of low fat spread (260 cals)
Lunch - Weight loss meal Beef hotpot (240 cals) with grated cheese (100 cals)
Snack - 2 x toasted teacake - 300 cals
10 cups of tea (60 cals)
3 chocolate biscuits (225 cals)
Dinner - small portion of chicken breast with bacon cheese and BBQ sauce - (340 cals on the packet)
1.5 litres of water
Crab stick snack pack (110 cals)

Total - around 1635 cals
 
Shinsplint said:
You are scarily healthy girl. I don't know if I could eat raw chicken. You have my wholehearted respect. :)
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LOL - lots of us list such things by raw weight. Many of the tools like fitday assume a level of things like sodium and fat added in the cooking. You get a better idea of the nutritional breakdown if you weigh the food raw and then add in anything extra (like salt, fry light etc) that you add for the cooking.
 
Week 3, Day 2 Challenge Food Log:

I will preface by saying that I chose for yesterday to be a "cheat" day or whatever you'd like to call it. I've been very strict with my diet all week and also stressed out from work, so it took a lot to keep it together all week long, but I did it. I decided that last night I would take the opportunity to give myself a little break ... and back to the grind this morning.

I actually hit quite close to my maintenance calories ... and although my ratio of carbs/proteins/fats is pretty bad, it's still much better than I used to eat in a given day and my calories are still less, too (not by much, but still).

I had a LOT of salt and alcohol last night, so it's no surprise that I'm up 2.5lbs this morning, but I have no doubt that will be off in the next couple of days.

I also took yesterday off from the gym, and although I am quite sore from Friday's workout, I think I will be going to the gym this morning to do a little bit of cardio at the very least.


Breakfast:

1/2 Banana
1 Slice Bread, oatmeal w/ 2 Tbsp. Peanut butter
3/4 Cup Egg substitute, liquid (Equal to 3 eggs) scrambled with 3/4 oz. Turkey breast, luncheon meat; topped w/ 1 Slice Cheese, Swiss, lowfat
1 Cup Milk, 1% fat

Lunch:

2oz. "Buffalo" style chicken breast (hot sauce, barbeque sauce, cooked tomatoes, onions, etc) sauteed with baby spinach as a sandwich (2 slices bread, oatmeal) with ranch dressing and topped with 1 slice lowfat swiss cheese.

Dinner:

1.5 Cup Spaghetti with meatless sauce
2 Egg rolls, fried

1.5 Cups Dulce de Leche Ice Cream

Drinks:

4 Cups Orange Juice (mixed with peach flavored rum)

Total
3,073 calories

Fat (34%) Carbs (49%)
Protein (17%) Alcohol (0%)

I don't think I've had over 2,600 calories in a day since I started this thing over 2 months ago, so one day @ 3,000 won't kill me, especially since I'm still over 300lbs.

Kudos to everyone who has stayed on track, however :)
 
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Clarifications!

As far as the push-ups/pull-ups go, you can do the kind you are best able to do. We are all at very different fitness levels, so modify away!

As far as the fruits and vegetables go...

The reason I put it at a "no more, no less" ammount was because most people aren't eating enough fruits and vegetables, and it would be a new thing to branch into them... And just like other foods they have calories, some more than others, so I didn't want anyone saying, "Weird, I ate tons of fruits and veges and gained weight this week." If you don't change your normal diet and add in several extra foods, even healthy fruits and veges, you're changing your calories in vs. calories out ratio and won't lose as much, or might even gain.

I took the 2 fruit/2 vege servings per day from the nutrition diet the contestants on The Biggest Loser are set to follow... I'm open for suggestions, but I was just trying to follow the actual Biggest Loser nutrition guide schedule!! :coolgleamA:
 
Shinsplint said:
You are scarily healthy girl. I don't know if I could eat raw chicken. You have my wholehearted respect. :)
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I weigh the chicken raw then cook without any added oil etc by placing it on a non oiled wire rack over my baking dish in the oven so any excess fat drip out and the chicken doesn't cook in it.. If I weigh the chicken afterwards calorie king seems to think I have added fat during cooking.
 
Sunday:
Breakfast - wholemeal nut/grain bagel with small serving of low fat pate (290 cals)
Lunch - low cal small chicken panini without sauce (300 cals)
Dinner - Weight watchers shepherd's pie (240 cals)
3 x chocolate biscuits (225 cals...the packet is finished now, no more temptation!)
Childrens party - 3 mini-pizza things, 1 cupcake (600 cals)
5 cups of tea (30 cals)
1 litre of water
Crabsticks (110 cals)

Total - around 1800 cals
 
Food Log Day 3

7 crackers
2 slices of low fat cheese
1 tbsp of ketchup
salmon sashimi
2 tbsp of say sauce
4 tbsp of light chocolate ice cream.

Everything was going well but we had a big dinner tonight and I overdid it, no idea how many calories, probably a few thousands. I had a piece of bread, a reaaally big empanada and a big piece of cake with marzipan.

I know I screwed up but we were celebrating and I enjoyed it so I'll just work harder during the next few days.
 
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Today's Food- Sunday
Breakfast:
1 Saus, Egg, Chz Snacker- 190

Snack:
2 Vegetable Egg Rolls- 200

Lunch:
1 Lean Gourmet Meatloaf & Potatoes- 180
1 Honey Wheat Sandwich Thin- 100
1 T Brummel and Brown Butter- 45

Snack:
1 Bag Kettle Corn Popcorn- 100

Dinner:
12 California Sushi Roll- 402

Dessert:
1 Bag Popcorn- 100
1 Carmel Mousse- 60

Total: 1277
 
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I have had 3 people PM me about this thread today. I finally have had time to sit down and read through all 18 pages of it and I must say that I'm disturbed.

Challenges are a welcomed part of WLF and a great way to encourage people and build community. However, it is to be expected that any challenge that is run on WLF will be run in a manner that encourages HEALTHY weight loss and not one that provides bad information or encourages unhealthy methods of losing weight in order to "win" or achieve some milestone.

Having read through this thread, I see many members who are eating unhealthily low levels of calories. I see people who are eating unhealthy diets as a whole. And I see that the person who is running the challenge is telling people not to eat more than 2 servings of veg a day .. which is in direct contradiction to all good rules of nutrition. When a challenge tells people to STOP eating healthy food out of a fear of eating too many calories, then there is a problem with that challenge.

And using the Biggest Loser guidelines with people who are not under the care of nutritionists and trainers and other professionals, as the Biggest Loser contestants are is EXTREMELY dangerous and .. if I might say .. borderline stupid. Not only are the situations on the Biggest Loser very different from that of the participants in a challenge, it's pretty common knowledge that the methods used on the show are extremely unhealthy and unsustainable over the long term.

I'm not here to rain on anyone's parade, but please note that I will not hesitate to shut down a challenge that promotes unhealthy behaviors. I'll do it not only because WLF is about healthy weight loss, but because the owner of the board doesn't need the legal liability.

Please feel free to run challenges, but make sure they are HEALTHY challenges, and not just "eat as little as you can to lose as much weight as you can as fast as you can" challenges.

Thank you.
 
It seem I am being included as an unhealthy low calorie member lol

Are my calories lower than a lot of other people of similar weight ? yes, my calorie target happens to be set by my nutritionist, I am also meeting the nutritional targets set by my nutritionist even if that may not seem to be "normal" for most people as my diet has been set up with specific goals in mind including not eating any of the many "healthy" food items I am alergic to or unable to eat due coeliac disease. (and yes My nutritionist gave to OK for the energy drink included on some of my days with specific guideline for it's consumption)

I am not eating a low calorie diet to win a challenge or loose as fast as possible be eating a little as possible. I have 8 kg to loose in 3 months to move from my current healthy weight (which has been maintained within a kg or so for over 18 months) to my lowest suggested healthy weight, not for an online competition but to improve my chances of representing my country.

If I consider a particular challenge to be unhealthy or detrimental to my real life goals, I won't do it, no one here is being forced.


Today my calories fall in the middle of my set range rather than the high end but the heat has been bad here today reducing appetite and increasing my water intake to over 5 litres so far.
 
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