Weight-Loss Purple Team Thread

Weight-Loss
Sorry for falling behind with my logs. Had a couple of bad days, and on those days, it's difficult for me to focus long enough to even turn the computer on, never mind doing anything useful with it. Feeling a bit better now, so here we go:

Thursday

Breakfast:
Peach and Almond Muesli with skimmed milk
tangerine

Lunch:
Lentil and Bacon soup
2 slices of wheatgerm bread with peanut butter

Dinner:
Braised steak with mushrooms and rice

Drinks:
2 litres of still water
6 pints of water with sugar free apple squash
4 cups of coffee
1 cup of 3-in-1 coffee

Exercise: 85 minutes (Walking, strength)

Friday:

Breakfast:
Peach and Almond Muesli with skimmed milk

Lunch:
Melon, Kiwi & Pineapple with fat free blueberry yoghurt
2 slices of pumpkin seed crisp bread with peanut butter

Dinner:
Chicken and bacon ravioli with mascarpone sauce

Drinks:
2 litres of still water
3 pints of water with sugar free apple squash
2 cups of coffee
1 cup of 3-in-1 coffee
1 pint of sugar & caffeine free Pepsi

Exercise: 60 minutes (walking)

Stayed just under 1500 calories on both days. Might not see a loss in weight though, since I'm being pumped full to the hilt with cortisone and painkillers. :/

No naughties on either day, despite the fact that the cortisone made me want to raid the fridge, and every food cupboard in the house.
 
The food log should list the items.

The instructions were quite specific:

Omega said:
I will give 2 points for each day where you record all food and drink. No need for quantities or measurements - simply log a whole list and do not forget about things.
It is ok to say for instance sugar free sweets without saying how many.

We all know which food are the naughty things. We know when we have sugary sweets, cakes, biscuits, crisps etc that it isnt going to help us to lose weight. We know that there may be healthier options than pizza or chips.

We are only human - and things do tempt us at times. Sometimes we resist - and other times we don't. The purpose is to identify the naughty things on our daily list and identify how we were feeling. It may give us insight.

I will give 1 point for every day where we analyse our moods - we do not need to post whether we were stressed, celebratory, sad, felt peer pressure... In many ways it is no-one's business but your own - but I do think that there is value in being aware of why we do things.
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FRIDAY
1/24

Breakfast
Eggs
Bacon
Water

Lunch
Salad
Water

Dinner
Turkey Club w/ Avocado
Grape Soda

Snack
Dove Chocolates (3 little pieces) - it was supposed to be a cheat night for me, but it didn't turn out that way. So, the few pieces of chocolate is all I had.
 
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Saturday food
diet cola
2 bowls Weetabix, skimmed milk, sweetener
sugar free butterscotch
250g total 0% yoghurt
1 tin apricots
Restaurant meal out - small amount of a popadom, chicken korma, nut rice, 3 chapatis

exercise
walking
2 hrs zumba

drank between 2.5 and 3 litres of water at zumba which covers my requirement...

A mixture of good and bad... The exercise and water consumption were brilliant.
The food was ok until the restaurant - but then I ate a high calorie meal...
At least I had no alcohol - I limited the starter to part of one of the popadoms that we all shared and had no dessert...
 
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As expected, my weight went up. 280.8 this week. Makes me feel very disheartened, because I did pretty much what I could, and sometimes more, and still my weight goes up. I KNOW it's mostly down to medication/hormonal problems, but still. *sigh* Will just have to try again next week. :/
 
Forgot to log my food in yesterday.

MORNING:
- Two eggs over easy, homefries, and white toast.
- 2 Andes mints

AFTERNOON
- Saltine crackers
- 2 Andes mints
- naval orange

DINNER
- Steak and rice pilaf

DRINKS
- Water 16.9oz x 4
 
I know how you feel San. I was so excited to see my weight at almost 272 on the 22nd. Today I weighed 274.0 which is NO loss from last week. I know it could just be that I'm retaining water, or something else, but it sucks. I won't let it discourage me though. We have to stick to our goals and power through the cruddy weeks.
 
Friday--

Protein bar
Low fat yogurt
2 graham crackers
1/2 tsp peanut butter
Steak and potatoes soup
Sm scoop mashed potatoes
Pork steak
Green beans
1 cup coffee
36 ozs water

Saturday:
2 protein bars
Low fat yogurt
3/4 cup sloppy joe meat without bun
Sm ciUp strawberry ice cream-- needed something cold
Tomato basil soup
Saltines
Coffee
Water
Diet mt dew
 
Bad day, ugh...Never again.

Food
2x toast w/ cheese whiz
Small bag of chips
Cantaloupe
3 slices of pizza [So angry at myself for this]
Cereal bar
Veggies
Frozen dinner
Chicken breast w/ vegetables

Water
So far, 3 out of 6 710ml bottles

Exercise
20 min walk home
 
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So, we don't need to log in our food intake for Saturday? I just want to be sure...you know...before I embarrass myself.
 
Chef, from the main thread:

"I do however think that logging food like we have done in week 1 is very important to keep us aware of what we are really having... I will therefore give 1 point if you continue to log food in your team thread."

Don't be embarrassed. I had a bad day too.
 
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Chef, from the main thread:

"I do however think that logging food like we have done in week 1 is very important to keep us aware of what we are really having... I will therefore give 1 point if you continue to log food in your team thread."

Don't be embarrassed. I had a bad day too.
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Ahh, I just read that. Ok, here goes...

SATURDAY
1/25

Breakfast
French Toast
Bacon

Lunch
Monkey Bread
Cherry Coke Zero

Dinner
Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo
Cherry Coke Zero

Snack
Brownies
Ice Cream
Butterfinger Peanut Butter Cup
Beer

FYI - Today is a cheat day, the first I've had in three weeks. Therefore, I am consuming whatever the hell I want, HAHAHA
 
I suspect that there has been some confusion about how to record both bonuses so I will give people a few more hours to complete their scoresheet this week - then people can see what the others have done and understand better...

Most team members still have to complete their scoresheet.

lisamcrn, MandyH and AAA have not completed their scoresheet.

Dan16316 has never posted in this thread at all - so it is far from certain that he still wants to play. He never set starting data in his scoresheet. He has only made 6 actual postings on the forum and has not posted since 13th January when he asked to join the challenge... If I do not hear from him by 8 a.m. GMT Monday (which is 24 hours after the challenge deadline for the week - I will assume that he changed his mind and decided to not join the challenge at all...

ChefChiTown has not recorded whether or not he analysed his moods if he had any naughty food items... He looks certain to get a brilliant score with excellent weight loss...

Angel of the Orange team has achieved an excellent score.
 
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I would if I could xD. Speaking of, do I add the Y/y each day or at the end of the week?

I hope today is better for me, and everyone! Went on the scale this morning, and I went back down to 271.8 from the 274 I was at yesterday. I wonder if it was all that water I drank? Unfortunately, I could only power through 3 out of 6 of the bottles of water. I'll try better today. It's so hard when you aren't used to it!

Even more motivated to eat better after my slip up yesterday!

Food
2x toast w/ cheese whiz - 250
Yogurt - 50
Cucumber - 60
Veggies - 100
Dorito chips - 140
Cereal bar - 130
Frozen dinner - 300
Steak - 300
Veggies - 120

Exercise
20 min walk

Water
710ml water
500ml water
710ml water
710ml water

2630/4050
 
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Sorry I’m so late in updating my sheet. I was busy all day yesterday and didn’t have much time to figure things out. I’m just now getting to sit down today.

I’ve updated my weight and all that stuff, but I’m confused as all hell trying to figure out the bonus side. No points for evaluating my mood, just never thought to really. For exercise, I did 30 minutes every date except for Monday which I used as a rest day. On Wed I also put in another hour. If I’m figuring this out correctly, it comes out to 240 minutes. I just can’t figure out the whole YYYYYY-yyyyyyy system.
 
If I read it correctly...

1 task was to record food every day
1 task was to record your mood every day

So that would mean you could have YYYYYYY for one task and yyyyyy for the second task. SO, if you logged food every day, but didn't post your mood every day, you would have YYYYYYY

If you didn't log food every day, like, on Sunday and Monday, it would be --YYYYY

Does that make sense?
 
Traditionally in challenges - we record 1 for each day of the week - so the first character shows what you did on Saturday - the second for Sunday
A bit like a ssmtwtf set-up

That makes it easy to see where you are and what days you have reported if you fill it in as you go...

If you logged food but didn't check up on your moods when you had naughty things to try to understand why it happened - then it would be reasonable to show either
YYYYYYY nnnnnnn or YYYYYYY xxxxxxx

Since x is often a default character or n could easily denote no

The problem with just showing YYYYYYY is that it is uncertain for me to know whether you didn't do the task or simply forgot to report it...

If anyone is in doubt as to how to fill things it - it may be clear if you look at the scoresheet of the experienced challengers...
 
So it was one task, to log food and our mood?

This week is 2 tasks though? So it would be yyyyyyy (water) + yyyyyyy (food log)? But, if we only drink 2L of water on, say, Saturday, it would be yYYYYYY?
 
Loch said:
I would if I could xD. Speaking of, do I add the Y/y each day or at the end of the week?
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The choice is yours - you can set it as you go or wait until the end...
If you do the task some days and not on other days it can be easier to set things as you go so you do not forget what happened...

If you are recording things as you go - it is important to follow the days of the week positions in the string marking the ones that you haven't done so that you know where you are if you forget to look in and update one day...
 
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