Weight-Loss NEW YEAR: 12 Week Biggest Loser Challenge!!

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Mr. Love said:
I go out of town for a few days and all hell breaks loose, lol. To much drama for me. Im out
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I am sorry that you feel like that.
The storm should be over and things should settle back down now to great, mutually supportive weight loss.
Feel free to join back in at any time.
 
ChefAshley said:
I'm not really following the whole points system thing, but I'll just trust that I'll get the hang of it. So there is going to be a chart that we fill out ourselves now instead of pming tomorrow? Right.. I think thats what I got out of all of that.
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No need to worry about the points system. I will worry about how all that hangs together.

All you need to worry about is that is that you make a scoresheet on another thread and edit it each week.

Here is the thread:
http://weight-loss.fitness.com/club...iggest-loser-challenge-scoresheet-thread.html

This week you need to (set it up with weight data and) fill in week 3 info.

The headings are
=====weight====exercise===task1======task2=== task count (if approp)

The week 3 line currently looks like this

Wk3---______------00:00--fssmtwt

If I find that I weight 132.0 when I get weighed and did my 2 hours of exercise I fill in the first two columns as

Wk3---132.0------02:00--fssmtwt

If I logged my food on friday, saturday then forgot for the next two days then did on tuesday, wednesday, thursday - I will fill that in as

Wk3---132.0------02:00--YYsmYYY

I am the only one that needs to worry about how the points add up. You just need to be aware of the tasks that earn them.

Anyone who has logged their food at home but not posted in the thread can do so and claim the points.

I even give lesser points to people that do less than 2 hours of exercise. Any amount of exercise is good to us. I am not going to deprive the person who does 1hr55 of exercise of any points. :)
 
Wednesday - day 6
calories 1709 eaten
calories burnt from exercise (from fitday) 2150
protein 108.4g (in excess of 1g per pound LBW)
fibre 50.1g
calcium 998mg (RDA = 1000mg so I am classing it as there:))
sodium 3000mg - rediculously high!!!

water 2.5 litres (alloc 2litres is sufficient)

Certainly had more than 5-a-day hitting lots of colours

Exercise
6.5 miles on treadmill at 4.3mph.

Fitday gives values for 4.0mph and 4.5mph. I take the time spent and assume a calorie burn mid way between the two.

My calcium would have been low nutritionally hitting only 598 but I log in fitday as I go and caught it and took 400mg calcium supplement.

What I ate

I tend to have a very light breakfast then a large lunch that many would think of as being a brunch. It is very much on a par in size with my evening meal. I dont go in for snacks as such - but do like to eat my s/f sweets


1 Shape yoghurt
2 pears

cooked lunch
2 oz (dry weight) wholemeal spaghetti
130g drained weight tuna (in brine) rinsed in a seive
radishes
small amount of soy sauce (reduced sodium)
I made up this dish as part of an Amazing Race challenge - but did not like it after having enough for the points. I therefore added
1 tin (420g) of low salt low sugar baked beans

evening meal
1/2 large chicken breast
frylight
1 onion
1 red pepper
1 green pepper
11.5 oz courgette
1/2 jar of tesco pasta sauce

I also had lots of sugar free sweets
 
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Omega said:
I feel that Jericho was being a little mean with his points.
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I'm never mean...but I do think I am going to slide out of this challenge. I'm not hitting these challenges for various reasons. I'm still losing weight (4 pounds this week) but i'll be honest, my head hurts trying to understand the new point system. I'll still follow and cheer people on. :)
 
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Jericho said:
I'm never mean...but I do think I am going to slide out of this challenge. I'm not hitting these challenges for various reasons. I'm still losing weight (4 pounds this week) but i'll be honest, my head hurts trying to understand the new point system. I'll still follow and cheer people on. :)
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I only took this on because you asked me to. You did say that you would help out if I did.

I didnt say yes at first.

You were the first one that posted and said that you wanted it to continue.

All I was doing was trying to give people that cannot do things every day something to shoot for and I was willing to do all the sums and said so.

Lots of people missed their water. There werent that many perfects on the list. It was only the perfects that would have got any points as it was proposed.

Lots of people didnt post their food every day. You didnt.

Clearly my efforts have been misinterpreted again.

I'm quitting and the other thread is going too. I've had enough of this.
 
Now hold on Omega. This wasn't about you at all, really. I have found this challenge wasn't the right one for me cause I'm not at the point in my weight loss to do some of the things. You have to understand I have been really big all my life. First I swore I would never get over 300. Then it was over 350. the 400 and that was the point I really draw the line. I want to really focus on it and I'm worried that the failures in the challenges will have me questioning my own ability to change my life. This was purely about me.

I think you was doing great.
 
Jericho said:
Now hold on Omega. This wasn't about you at all, really. I have found this challenge wasn't the right one for me cause I'm not at the point in my weight loss to do some of the things. You have to understand I have been really big all my life. First I swore I would never get over 300. Then it was over 350. the 400 and that was the point I really draw the line. I want to really focus on it and I'm worried that the failures in the challenges will have me questioning my own ability to change my life. This was purely about me.

I think you was doing great.
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I really cannot take fighting an ongoing battle - and I dont think that anyone is interested any more.

I have my own weight control problems to deal with (whatever my current weight).

I know what it is like to be big. BMI wise I am sure that I have spent my life a lot bigger than you. Click on the diary link in my signature. You will see my photos. That is what I am dealing with here.

I am very busy. I have a forum to run where a lot of the most respected people here spend time, support each other and deal with their own weight issues (WLF mods and the like). I do not have time for a major battle to serve a population where the people that say they want a challenge to continue decide to leave as soon as I do as they ask.
 
Ok Omega, Sorry you think I dragged you into this.

But I'm in a good mood. I lost 4 more pounds so no one is raining on my parade! :party:
 
:( I wanted to keep going.

I would say I'd step in to take over, but I know that I do not have near the experience to continue a contest as large (and long) as this one.
 
Omega said:
Is there anything that any of us here can help you with getting back into the swing of things. I think that most of us have been there before...
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Here is were I am at. I started this challege at 219. For the first 2 weeks I could only walk on the treadmill. This is the first week back at the gym full on (other then some stuff is still a little painful like push ups it pulls on the inscision site) I have been pretty good about how/what I eat (other then the occasional oreo's but they are out of the house now) and I am up to 226. I do not know what gives. Does anesthesia do that? It has been a full 4 weeks since surgery. Then the boxing class.............Talk about an a$$ woopin' I can not believe just how out of shape I am. It just pisses me off. I feel like I almost need to do something extreme to jump start the weight loss again. And what that is I have no idea. I was at 207 in August when we found out that I had the ectopic pregnancy.

So that is where I am at. I am failing miserably, not only have I let myself down but I am letting my trainer down by gaining weight instead of losing. All the other women that he trains are losing weight hand over foot. But no Tracy nuhhhh ahhhhh she is gaining it hand over foot. :nopity:
 
Tracy740 said:
Here is were I am at. I started this challege at 219. For the first 2 weeks I could only walk on the treadmill. This is the first week back at the gym full on (other then some stuff is still a little painful like push ups it pulls on the inscision site) I have been pretty good about how/what I eat (other then the occasional oreo's but they are out of the house now) and I am up to 226. I do not know what gives. Does anesthesia do that? It has been a full 4 weeks since surgery. Then the boxing class.............Talk about an a$$ woopin' I can not believe just how out of shape I am. It just pisses me off. I feel like I almost need to do something extreme to jump start the weight loss again. And what that is I have no idea. I was at 207 in August when we found out that I had the ectopic pregnancy.

So that is where I am at. I am failing miserably, not only have I let myself down but I am letting my trainer down by gaining weight instead of losing. All the other women that he trains are losing weight hand over foot. But no Tracy nuhhhh ahhhhh she is gaining it hand over foot. :nopity:
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I would be very careful about anything that pulls on the incision site. If you get a bad feeling about it I would stop doing that type of exercise until you have raised your concern with the doctor. After my operation I was told to leave things longer than that. I was allowed to walk (at my own pace) straight away (building up by a mile a day) - but I was told to do no other exercise for at least 6 weeks.

You can lose weight effectively with the treadmill alone for a while. The main thing is to look after yourself while you are healing and be active in areas where you do not feel that you are risking things.

Remember - there arent just the stitches that you can see on the outside - there are a lot of stitches on the inside that you cannot see.

Are you still on any painkillers? Maybe you should do a little bit of research on them if you are.

When I had an operation in 2008 - I was in the middle of my project. I suffered an immediate post operative gain of over 8 pounds despite not eating for days while it was happening ("nil by mouth"). This was down to the saline drip. A lot of people are salt sensitive - and really benefit from watching the sodium content of their food.

My weight did not come down immediately - even though I was very careful. I then realised that the painkillers that I was given by the hospital contained sodium. I decided to use some other painkillers instead and drank a fair bit of water and that did help.

One of my friends had a huge post operative gain and felt that she was not going to the toilet as often as normal. Drinking extra water helped her too. Think about whether your toilet habits may have altered...

If you are not doing so already - I would ensure that you are drinking your full allocation of water (1 oz per 2 pounds that you weigh) and ensure that you are not having too much sodium. The RDA is 2300mg per day. You can count it with a free account from . It is in the nutrition analysis - but I set it as a custom nutrition goal.

A friend told me that rubbing E45 cream is really good for the scar area too. She did that and her doctor told her it was the very best thing to do... I think that is more to help the scar skin heal to a softer more natural consistency instead of so much of a ridge...

If anyone has had surgery recently (more recent than you) I tend to suggest that they chat to their pharmacist about taking arnica. I did so after asking my pharmacist about the idea and she said that if she was me and had just had my operation she would be taking it. :)

Dont care about other women. They havent had surgery. They havent had your other recent problems come to that. Heck - you dont know what they are doing. I was just reading an article about trainers having plastic surgery.



Dont care about what your trainer might or might not think. He is someone that you hire to help you with your aims - and it doesnt sound like he is doing that great a job at the minute. He should be able to give you confidence that he can lead you through these issues - not adding to your problems by making you feel bad about yourself.

Focus on the fact that it is perfectly possible for you to exercise gently and lose this surplus weight.
 
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Omega said:
If you are not doing so already - I would ensure that you are drinking your full allocation of water (1 oz per 1 pounds that you weigh) and ensure that you are not having too much sodium.
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I thought that it was 1oz per 2lbs you weigh? Otherwise I'm not drinking nearly enough! lol
 
One or two people were still in this at the end.
I have negotiated with Dawn who is running a challenge where the entry closed a couple of weeks ago that she will accept new people.
Just post that you want to join in on this thread.
 
I'm going to close this thread since its been over with for a year now :)
 
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