Weight-Loss Purple Team Thread

Weight-Loss
Saturday

bagels
cheese
prawn cocktail
2 Maryland's gooey chocolate cookies
4 Belgian chocolate pralines
Mixed meat with cashewnuts and rice (Chinese takeaway)
blueberry muffin

Calcium:
1600+ mg (from Calcium and Vitamin D supplement & food)

Exercise:
30 minutes walking
 
I'm in the same boat about Valentine's day. We went to a Chinese restaurant and I ate 2 plates worth of rice/noodles and then I had 2 eggrolls and 2 spring rolls. We then had some poutine and wings later in the evening. Was NOT my best night haha. Oh well, I try not to beat myself up when it comes to date night. We have to live a little.

Just looking at my food, I don't think there's any way I can get my full calcium. I get sick if I drink milk products (I'm very surprised the yogurt I eat doesn't make me sick). I can more than happily take calcium vitamins but if that's not allowed than I may have to let my team down :(. I'm not going to make myself sick to get the points. I also really, really don't like drinking calories either.

Saturday
Food
Cottage Cheese [10 calcium] - 110
3 Chicken Wings - 300
Chips - 140
10 baby carrots - 35
3x Yogurt tube [18 calcium] - 150
Cereal bar - 130 [2 calcium]
Frozen dinner [10 calcium] - 250
Veggies w/ sauce [8 calcium] - 120
1 cup green snap peas [6 calcium] - 45
1 calcium supplement [50 calcium]

Exercise
40 min walk
40 min dance

Calcium (1000mg = 90%)
94/90
 
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I had piles of food today, including a takeaway. It was my birthday on Friday (yupp, I'm a Valentine's baby), so that was my treat. :) And I don't feel guilty about it one bit! ;)
 
Found some interesting information for calcium so I can have different options rather than eat too much milk products:
 
Happy belated birthday San. Your birthday food looks positively saintly compared to my Friday food. You are right not to feel guilty about what you had.

Loch - I know that fish and baked beans that I have regularly always contributes towards my calcium intake... There would probably be some calcium in the M&S nutty wholefood salad that I had and also the mixed pulses for soup that went into the stew but I have no idea how much... Luckily I had a lot of yoghurt so didn't need it...
 
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I counted up my calcium yesterday and it was 1087. I was pleased that I met my 1000 RDA because I didn't change anything. I did have to look up the values in the foods without labels. But there are actually little bits of calcium in lots of foods.

Sunday Food:
Peanuts
Strawberries
Coffee
Gelatin
Protein Shake
Vitamins
Cottage Cheese
vegie straws (Junk Food)
Squash
Marinara Sauce
Salad

Calcium RDA = 1000
Calcium today = 1092
 
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Sunday

2 bananas
500g low fat yoghurt 800mg calcium
1 tin apricots
1 M&S fruity couscous salad
1 M&S nutty salad
diet cola
sugar free butterscotch
2 shape yoghurts 202 (raspberry) + 205 (strawberry) mg calcium
3 pork loin steaks
1 tin baked beans with chili sauce 215mg calcium

exercise
walking
 
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Sunday
Food
Yogurt tube [6 calcium] - 50
PB&J sandwich [4 calcium] - 300
1 cup 2% milk [30 calcium] - 130
Chips - 140
10 baby carrots - 35
Yogurt tube [6 calcium] - 50
Cereal bar [2 calcium] - 130
Frozen dinner [10 calcium] - 260
Soup - 150
1 calcium supplement [50 calcium]

Exercise
None

Calcium (1000mg = 90%)
108/90
 
I tried keeping track of my calcium yesterday, and to be honest, if I didn't take the supplement, I would fail miserably this week. None of my foods have labels that list calcium, and figuring it out seems impossible. I have muesli that is a mix out of three different kinds of mueslis, and I would have no clue how to find out what the calcium content of those is. My yoghurt doesn't list it, and after 15 minutes of searching the net for info, I hadn't found any kind of yoghurt with similar stats which listed calcium. Same with any self made food in various portion sizes. Fruit and whatnot is straight forward, but anything beyond that seems to be a major pain in the behind, with either no, or conflicting information on the net. :/
 
Ok... so sorry I'm late once again. I just updated score sheet with last weeks numbers.

Omega, I have a dilemma. I'm going away on a vacation from 2/28-3/8 and things are getting crazy for me as I try to tie up loose ends and get everything all straightened away. I can stay in this challenge with the understanding that there's a good possibility that I'll be late again to update my sheet next week and I will not be able to post my results for the last week. Or, I can bow out now with the points I've gotten to date. I honestly wasn't expecting things to get this busy right before my vacation or I would've held off on joining. So, I'll leave the decision up to you on how you'd like to proceed with me.
 
San - I don't know whether it helps - but
Morrison's low fat Greek style yoghurt has 80 cal per 100g,6g protein, 160mg calcium.

Shape strawberry has 63 cal per 100g, 5.3g protein, 171mg calcium. Pots are 120g.

Shape raspberry has 64 cal per 100g, 5.3g protein, 169mg calcium.

The data is on both these packages.

Some product data is listed on the internet - but not on the package...

All you can do is hope to find a brand with similar statistics that does give the calcium and assume that the calcium level is the same...

gives data for a lot of raw ingredients. The also give stats for some basic processed foods that can be useful.
 
I hit my calcium intake again yesterday without making any adjustments. Today I almost hit my max (2000) though.

Monday Food:
Pecans
Blueberries
Protein Shake
BBQ Chicken with Rice and Beans
Vitamins
Cottage Cheese
Starbucks Vente Skinny Vanilla Solo Latte
Salad

Calcium RDA: 1000
Calcium today: 1830
 
I use myfitnesspal.com to figure out my foods. There's a lot of stuff on their database.

Monday
Food
Yogurt tube [6 calcium] - 50
PB&J sandwich [4 calcium] - 300
1 cup 2% milk [30 calcium] - 130
Chips - 140
Cereal bar [2 calcium] - 130
Chicken w/ veggies [10 calcium] - 300
1 calcium supplement [50 calcium]

Exercise

Calcium (1000mg = 90%)
102/90
 
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Mandy - we are currently working on the 5th week of a 6 week challenge... I suspect that the challenge is due to end on the day you go on holiday. Since we weigh in on either Friday or Saturday - that would tend to mean that the day you go on holiday is a standard day for making that final weighing... I wouldn't worry too much about the notion that you may feel that you will not earn many points on that last day... We all have days like that... With all my dancing and exercise my daily stepcount is normally ridiculously high - but it was less than 3,000 steps last Sunday when I was feeling ill.

I haven't been enforcing the weekly deadlines until well into the following week - so I suspect that you will be able to complete your scoresheet for this week before the deadline. I would encourage you to stick with the challenge... If you fill in your scoresheet for the final week as you go - it need only mean updating with the final weight and you could be the first person to complete their scoresheet at the end of the challenge... I'll even let you use your weight from Thursday 27th if it helps you to get things completed before you go...
 
Monday food:

2.25 ltr water
diet cola
sugar free butterscotch
500g low fat Greek yoghurt 800mg calcium
250g Total 0% Greek yoghurt 294mg calcium
2 tins apricots
2 shape yoghurts - raspberry 404mg calcium
3 bananas
2 bowls gammon stew (gammon, carrot, onion, leek, swede, pulses)
alcohol
40g red leicester cheese 288mg calcium

exercise:
walking
1 hr light aerobics
1 hr salsa lesson
2 hr zumba
 
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Tuesday List:
Pistachios
Berries
Coffee
Gelatin
Protein Shake
Vitamins
Banana
Snap Peas
Salad

Calcium RDA = 1000
Actual = 1376
 
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Tuesday food:

500g low fat Greek yoghurt
2 * shape strawberry
3 tins apricots
2 bananas
2.5 ltr water
diet cola
sugar free butterscotch
3 sausages
1 tin baked beans
250g Total 0% Greek yoghurt
alcohol

exercise
walking
3 salsa classes and social salsa dancing
 
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Tuesday
Food
Oatmeal with 1/2 cup milk [17 calcium] - 215
Banana - 100
Chips - 150
Yogurt tube [6 calcium] - 50
Cereal bar [2 calcium] - 130
Baby carrots - 35
Frozen dinner [10 calcium] - 260
Chicken w/ veggies & Quinao [10 calcium] - 560
Yogurt tube [6 calcium] - 50
8 Yogurt gummies [2 calcium] - 140
1 calcium supplement [50 calcium]

Exercise
40 min walk
40 min dance

Calcium (1000mg = 90%)
103/90

I've decided to increase my fiber, and now that I've done some grocery shopping I'm feeling optimistic about my goals. It's hard when you have very little options at home. I realized I was NOT getting enough fiber in my diet, so I'm gonna try some chia seeds I've seen mentioned here :).
 
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Sorry for falling behind with my logs. Spent most of the last two days in A&E / hospital. Only got home a couple of hours ago. Will catch up as soon as I can.
 
Sorry you spent all that time at the hospital. They are miserable places to have to spend time...
 
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