Weight-Loss Orange Team Thread

Weight-Loss
Don't forget to update your scorecards with your weights everyone!

Athala: Don't worry about what food you have eaten or what others will say, we will not be judging, just here to support and motivate so we can all do great with this challenge :)

Food was mostly horrible today :( : water, coke, chocolate, chili, grilled cheese sandwiches, air popped popcorn with salt and butter, and am about to make a sloppy joe. Have felt kind of indifferent today I guess, almost uncaring regarding food saying I will do better tomorrow. Not a good start but will do better tomorrow.

Exercise: did a lot of walking today - about 1hr worth in the end I would say. Will see if I do anything else tonight. A bought me Just Dance 2 so now I can do the tutorial mode and learn the moves and then work up to JD4. If I don't today I plan to wake up early tomorrow and do something. We are going out to eat tomorrow and I'm meeting a friend later - not sure if it will be over food outside or just hanging out at her place but will try to make good food choices and drink lots of water compared to today.
 
Sun 19th Jan

Weight: 149

Food and drink:

750ml water
250ml peppermint tea
750ml water
250ml peppermint tea

2eggs 2seeded toast - 500
Subway chicken 6inch - 500
Homemade chicken wrap - 500

Total cal - 1500/1500

Exercise - 30min walk

Very happy so far. Been clothes shopping. Need to do grocery shopping :)
 
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Week 1​


AthalaRanger said:
Saturday, January 18, 2014.​

I ate kinda badly yesterday's night, but thankfully didn't gain weight.

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Weight81.6 Kg (179.8 Lbs), this is my starting weight.
Food and Drinks.Only water.

I fasted today. I'll probably be back to regular eating tomorrow, but I'm playing with different ideas.
Mood.Fairly neutral for most of the day. I felt a little tired and inclined to eat by mid-day, but it went away and I felt fine for the rest of the day.
Exercise.80 minutes (1h 20min) of walking at normal pace, and 42 minutes of yoga class.
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Sunday, January 19, 2014.​

WeightStill at 81.6 Kg (179.8 Lbs).
Food and Drinks.Today I'm just counting calories and not restricting food groups. Tomorrow I'll start a diet-experiment.

- Water. (didn't count).

- Tomato. Kcal = 20.
- Natural (I.e: Plain) yogurt. Kcal = 121
- Mashed potatoes (I didn't prepare this, but as far as I know, it was just potatoes and added non-fat milk). Kcal = Didn't count. I'd say 350 - 400 just to be sure.

- 1 cup potato chips (Ha, couldn't help it). Kcal = 131
- 2 tbs non-fat milk + 2 tsp coffee + 1 tsp unsweetened cocoa powder (+ water). Kcal = 70 + ??? + 20.

-500 ml water.

- 2 cups of lettuce (+ lemon juice and red wine vinegar).
- 1 cup of mashed potatoes. Kcal = 200?
- Medium peach. Kcal = 60.
- Plain yogurt. Kcal = 121.
- 2 tbs non-fat milk + 1 tbs coffee + 1 tbs unsweetened cocoa powder. Kcal = 110 aprox.

- Some more water.

- 250 ml water.
- Medium orange (I wanted potato chips here, but used this one as a convenient replacement). Kcal = 62.

- 1 cup of lettuce.
- Chicken breast (I didn't weight it, but I believe it was around 200g.) Kcal = 200.
- 1/2 cup of mashed potatoes. Kcal = 150 maybe?

- Total = Around 1665, could be a bit higher, as the potatoes screw up the numbers.

A lot more variety than what is the rule for me. I'll cut some groups for the following weeks, as a part of different experiments, so variety will be considerably less.
Mood.-A bit stressed in the morning, but I'm fine now.

-It's mid-afternoon and I'm feeling quite good now. I actually want to exercise more!
Exercise.-On the early afternoon, 15 mins of isometrics (Normal, side and reverse planks, bridges, etc) and 60 min brisk walking.

-30 min brisk walk on the night.

(A total of 105 minutes of exercise today and grand total of 227 min so far.)

I believe today was a pretty good day over all. I'm a bit behind on total time compared to previous days, but I did make up in intensity for it. I've noticed a small drop in performance, though (I.e: Can't hold a plank for as long as I used to), so for tomorrow I'll do something easier and probably just stretch a little and walk for a long time on a regular or maybe even slow pace.
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Exercise: 50 lengths at pool, so, about an hour

Food:
Porridge
Rice and veggies with soy sauce
Jacket potato with veggies and some chow mein sauce

Mood is pretty good today despite being in bed until 3pm with my bad eye
 
Hi guys! Excited to have joined this team. My starting weight is 257.5 lbs (Holy water weight, Batman!!!).

Week 1:

Saturday:

Food: oatmeal and a cup of tea for breakfast, beef and noodles with a tangerine and water for lunch, Chinese buffet for dinner.
Exercise: none
Mood: excited to start exercising again this week, guilty over the Chinese buffet

Sunday:

Food: Chex cereal with a banana and an orange for breakfast, vegetable soup with a bit of cheese for lunch, and white wine chicken stew for dinner. Water all day.
Exercise: none
Mood: pretty neutral today, not ridiculously happy or unhappy

Monday:

Food: Fruit smoothie, pasta with roasted broccoli and acorn squash sauce, 1 doughnut, taco salad
Exercise: none
Mood: Really good at first, but very frustrated by the end

Tuesday:

Food: acorn squash with spinach, mushroom and ricotta cheese, rice with sausage stew, two tangerines, two cups of green tea.
Exercise: 60 minutes of pilates
Mood: Pissy

Wednesday:

Food: fruit smoothie, rice and sausage stew, WAY too much BBQ, a cupcake
Exercise: none >:[
Mood: Even pissier than yesterday

Thursday:

Food: oatmeal with blueberries, rice with kimchi and tuna, shrimp pad tai, two cups of tea
Exercise: STILL none >:[
Mood: moderately pissy, but less than yesterday

Friday:

Food: fruit smoothie, pad thai, sword fish and mixed veggies, graham cracker, popcorn
Exercise: none
Mood: fantastic :]
 
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WOO HOO!! Welcome Cory!

Today, i was a bit manic this morning with a todo list longer than the day, but I've been super productive and I should sleep like a baby tonight.

Breakast
egg
soy links
2 waffles (dry)
black coffee
water

lunch
2 tofu corndogs
rice crackers
sugar free energy dink
water

dinner
baked tofu with multigrain and veggies, multigrain toast
6 hrs housework
run
32 min 19 secs
avg hr 155
2 miles hilly

I also fit back into 8 pairs of jeans/pants that didn't fit at the first of the month.
 
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Sunday 18th:

Taco Cupcakes
Bagel Thin w-CC: 200
Tostito Chips and Salsa
2 Cookies
2 Chicken Wings
2 Sunkist
Other small snacks

As you can see, today is my cheat day… Typically on my cheat day, I try to not go this crazy, but it was a special occasion, Pats in the playoff game. So I am not too upset with myself, I wish I tried to do a bit better. But, it is what it is. My mood was affected much more by the outcome of the game. :(
 
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Mon 20th Jan

Weight: 148.75

Food and drink:

750ml water
250ml peppermint tea
750ml water
750ml water
250ml peppermint tea

2eggs 2seeded toast - 450
Total Greek yoghurt - 70
2 crisp breads - 70
Cottage cheese - 90
Dessert - 200
2 Chicken sandwich - 500
2 chocs - 140

Total cal - 1520/1500

Exercise - Leslie Sansone 45mins

Really good start today. Have been floating between 149 and 151 for the last 3 weeks. Below 149 today. Recording what I eat is really helping I think. A bit disappointed at the lack of strength exercise so far. Terrible excuse but honestly have not had the time.

Feel better now after the exercise. Really simple but got me sweating. Someone recommended I could do it with kids in the same room. Can't do the Jillian workouts until they're in bed.
 
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Monday 1/20/2014

Mood
Surprisingly spry for a Monday morning. I'm a bit anxious about the work this week, but I'm going to use it to get lots of exercise and I'll stay with my good eating habits. I'm coming up on 3 weeks of back on track and I feel really good. I'm happier without drinking and overeating. I'm constantly active now which is odd. I've never slept better.

Breakfast
1 egg
4 soy sausage
2 dry toaster waffles
Black Coffee
Water

Lunch
baked tofu multigrin and veggie stir fry
doritos
larabar
venison jerky
water
coffee
sugar free energy drink


run
30 min 36 secs
avg hr 148
1.9 miles
 
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YAY CORY! Welcome to the better TEAM ORANGE! :D

Great job everyone! Keep it up! Hope you are all getting lots of exercise into your day - I'm still working on that.

Food Sunday (better than Saturday!):
Stir Fry (Mongolie Grill - overate!)
Water
Turkey Sandwich (Subway)
Strawberry Fruitopia
Subway cookies

Mood: Meh. A little stressed and frustrated, happy here and there as well, and tired.

Sadly no exercise yesterday but will try to make up for that the rest of this week.
 
Week 1​

Monday, January 20, 2014.​

Weight82.0 Kg (Up .4 Kg).
Food and Drinks.Just counting calories again. No restrictions just yet.

- 250 ml water.
- 250 ml Chamomille/green tea (+ added cinnamon).
- 1 medium orange. Kcal = 60.
- 1 medium banana. Kcal = 105.

- 160g of chicken breast. Kcal = 170.
- 400g cooked onion. Kcal = 175.
- 3 tbs of nonfat milk, 1 tbs of unsweetened cocoa powder. Kcal = 145 (105 + 40).

- 1 piece of white bread. Kcal = 200?
- 250 ml soda. Kcal = 110.
- 1 cup potato chips = 130.

- Half piece of sweet/bread. Kcal = 150?

- Multigrain* (That would be the literal translation) pasta. Kcal = 300.
- Tomato salad (2 tomatoes + garlic). Kcal = 40.
- 2 tbs light mayonnaise. Kcal = 50.
- 250 ml soda. Kcal = 110.

1745 calories so far. I probably went a bit over board with the bad food today, but I'm pretty satisfied right now and don't really want any more. A bit is usually enjoyable but after certain point that just stops.

I'll probably finish the day with some fruit / milk.

- 1 medium banana. Kcal =105.
- 3 tbs nonfat milk, 1 tsp of cocoa powder. Kcal = 105.
- Some sweet bread (Okay, never mind what I said above. I did tried to resist it though :(). Kcal = 160.

- 750ml herbal tea.

2115 total of today.
Mood.- Fairly decent, but I'm pretty tired at the moment. Don't want to do much.

- I won't really stress about food today. I just want to hit my calories and walk. I'll keep an eye on intake but not gonna 'ban' foods.
Exercise.- 20 / 30 (not really sure) min regular walk in the early afternoon.

- I walked for 2 hours and 57 minutes non-stop at night. I wanted three hours, but didn't know I had 3 minutes left and my legs were hurting. Still pretty happy with this.

Total of 197 minutes for today. (20 + 177).

Had a pretty bad night yesterday... I want to rest a little, so the plan for today is to eat at my [sedentary] maintenenace calories (2200), and get 3 hours of regular walking in, nothing intense for today.

I'm up to 82.0 Kg today. I'm not really that worried, I was actually expecting a little gain and I'm pretty confident that I didn't gain .4 kg of fat at 1665 calories.
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Exercise: half an hour in pool, an hour step class

Food:
Woke up late so no breakfast
Couscous, mackerel, salad
Chicken and veggie stirfry with noodles
Two bottles of water

Mood: My illness was abit iffy today so abit drained. Almost didnt go to step class but pushed through it
 
January 20: Monday

Rice Crispies & Milk
Apple & Cheese
Pita Hummus carrots and broccoli
Pork Dumplings & Sweet Chili Sauce.

I have felt a bit hungry all day, I don't know if it's because I ate so much yesterday or not. Also - I am feeling a bit anxious because I want to eat something, but don't want to go over in calories so its stressing me a bit.
 
Tues 21st Jan

Weight: 148.5

Food and drink:

750ml water
250ml peppermint tea
750ml water
500ml water
250ml peppermint tea

2eggs 1seeded toast - 300
1seeded toast - 150
2crisp bread - 70
Cottage cheese - 70
Total strawberry yog with granola - 110
Choc - 60
Dessert - 350
Tuna olive toastie - 300
Pecan plait - 120

Total cal - 1530/1500

Exercise - 60min walk + 45min Leslie Sansone

Tired today. Last few days have been very busy. Need to do some exercise if I want to reach 300mins for the week.

Had a lot of unhealthy food today. Think because I'm tired. Reach for the nearest quickest food. Must do better for dinner.

Feel a lot better after the exercise. :)
 
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Bagel Thin w/CC
Yogurt
Healthy Choice Tortellini
PB & J
Rice
Pop Corn

Feeling better today, not so antsy. I think I get antsy/stressed after a day where I don't do great. I stay hungry and crave things the next day. Now that the holidays are over, and football is over, I will hopefully be able to steer away from a cheat day, and just have a cheat meal on Sunday. I think it will help my whole mindset for that day as well as the following.

When I got home, i just wanted anything and everything, and I think it was because I didn't have a meal planned. So I had PB & J, Rice and pop corn, those go together, right? I am still under 1200 calories, but I will remember this for future, have something prepared or in mind, don't just open the fridge and say, "hmm…" that's no good for me.
 
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Monday Food:
Toast with butter
Can of Coke
Sloppy Joe
Peanut Butter Sandwich
Water
Mood: Stressed, frustrated.
Exercise: About 30mins of WiiFit and testing Just Dance 2.
 
Exercise: 1hr zumba, half hour run, half hour in pool

Food:
Missed breakfast again!
couscous, mackerel and salad
2 bottles of water
protein shake post workout
salad and houmous snack
chicken and veggie stirfry with noodles
band practise: 2 beers, some crisps (chips), some grapes

Mood today is good, so glad I'm stepping up my exercise.
 
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Tuesday, January 21, 2014.

So yesterday was a bit of a cheat day. It wasn't a total disaster in terms of calories, but my weight today does reflect it a bit.

Weight: 83.2 Kg.

Food: I still favor the low carb way of eating, as I feel my health is better there, so I'm gong to change my way of eating to something based on the archevore diet. The focus is on whole animal foods here. Some carbohydrates can be added in the form of 'safe' starches and vegetables. Grains are better avoided, vegetable oils are a no-no.

I'm including black coffee, (unsweetened) cocoa powder, and cutting fruit as well.

I'll probably make a lengthy post in my diary about this sometime in the future.

Anyways-

Some fish... squares? (nothing breaded, just the meat. I have no idea of the name on english.) - 128 (4x 32 calories each).
Butter - 200.
2 tbs Non fat milk + 1.5 tsp unsweetened cocoa powder - 100 (70 + 30).

Some water.

1 cup celery.
2 hard boiled eggs - 140.
3 tbs Non fat milk + 2 tbs black coffee + 2 tbs unsweetened cocoa powder - 185 (105 + 80).

I'm feeling somewhat tired so I've added some coffee to see if that helps. I got a bit stressed in the early afternoon, and while I'm not craving food, I don't really want to exercise either.
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I'm feeling better now. Don't really want to do much, but I'm not lethargic anymore. Still waiting a bit to have my third meal.

Some water
250 ml herbal tea (it's a mix of different herbs).

170g beef - 190.
Natural (plain) yogurt - 120.
Butter - 200 (should be 150, but using 200 to leave some error margin).
1 tbs non fat milk, 1 tsp unsweetened cocoa powder - 55 (35 + 20).

250ml chamomile tea.

Total calories for today should be around 1320 for today.

Exercise:
30 min regular walk in the morning and 30 min in the night. Not much today. I'll try doing a bit more tomorrow, but it'll depend on how I feel.
 
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