Weight-Loss Summer Shake-Up Challenge Chat Thread

Weight-Loss
bikinibound said:
LOL@Rod looking like a garden gnome! :smilielol5: I will have to read that post to David. That cracked me up!
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I read the the whole thing out to Rod and he agreed that he remembered it in much the same way - except he remembered thinking that he looked rather good like that!!!!

bikinibound said:
So far so good today with the eating. But I usually do well during the day. It's in the evening when I tend to misbehave--in the eating dept that is. :smilielol5:
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A little misbehaving at night can be quite good at times. :)
 
Omega, you sneaky woman.

So I managed to hit all my challenge targets again yesterday (except for the beans which ain't gonna happen), and, when I plugged it all into FitDay (which I'm using again after a couple months off because I've been slacking on my diet and I need to reestablish good habits and caloric discipline), I discovered that - lo and behold - my macros fell almost perfectly into the 40/30/30 balance that I have been seeking. I actually came out to 40% carbs, 32% protein and 28% fat.

So all of this has been a scheme to, by having us meet and then maintain all of these challenge points, end up with a perfectly balanced diet.

You're diabolical. :)
 
Cord the Seeker said:
Omega, you sneaky woman.

So I managed to hit all my challenge targets again yesterday (except for the beans which ain't gonna happen), and, when I plugged it all into FitDay (which I'm using again after a couple months off because I've been slacking on my diet and I need to reestablish good habits and caloric discipline), I discovered that - lo and behold - my macros fell almost perfectly into the 40/30/30 balance that I have been seeking. I actually came out to 40% carbs, 32% protein and 28% fat.

So all of this has been a scheme to, by having us meet and then maintain all of these challenge points, end up with a perfectly balanced diet.

You're diabolical. :)
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That's me!!! And you thought that I was just making you do party games with no good reason for it...
 
Well the scale didn't change for me this week. however i'm still sticking with it. i gotta get this weight off.
 
Heather - the scale doesnt always change in the way that we would like but our hard work is eventually rewarded. Remember - things like food weight and water retention are reflected in the scales. It is often a good idea to log measurements too.

It is good to hear that you are still sticking to it. Most of us here know that if we dont it wont be just that we do not lose weight. Many of us are inclined to gain weight if we do not watch things quite carefully.
 
I have just announced the new bonus starting Saturday 8th August.

Omega said:
WEEK 7 – week starting 08 Aug 09
Many of us know that we can have too much of a good thing when it comes to food. Starchy carbs can be a healthy aspect to most people’s diet with many great nutrients in cereals for instance. Unfortunately many people find that they are inclined to eat too many of these which can be at the heart of their weight issues. Whilst trying to lose weight we may control levels with calorie counting – but many of us believe that calorie counting is not a long term solution as we do not see ourselves counting calories for every day for the rest of our lives.

Joanna Hall is a UK expert on weight loss who believes that the most important thing that we can do if we want to lose weight is restrict our carbs using what she calls a carb curfew approach. Her preferred solution is that we have no starchy carbs after 5pm. She is specifically limiting bread, potatoes, cereals, pasta and rice in this way – not other carbs. The 5pm deadline is so that people do not snack on starchy carbs in the evening either. She does say that people can swap their carb curfew meal to breakfast or lunch if that fits in better with their schedule. She believes that this will help us to lose weight – and continuing this pattern of eating will help us to maintain the weight loss. It also provides a natural restriction on our calories (encouraging us to fill up on fruit and veg for that meal) and leads us towards a low GL diet.



This week's bonus is to eat one meal each day – be it breakfast lunch or dinner where you have no bread, rice, pasta, cereal or potatoes. You do not need to stick to the same meal each day so you can restrict dinner one day and lunch the next.
3 points for each day

So – do a Joanna Hall carb curfew each day to collect 21 points.

Reinforcing previous bonuses, I will give 1 point for each day that you have 5-a-day, 1 point for each day that you drink your allocation of water, 1 point for each day that you have sufficient calcium, 1 point per ½ cup of beans (max 3 cups), 1 point for each day that you have 25g fibre and one point for each day that you have enough protein giving a possible maximum 41 points. Anyone reporting a 3 litre lower level of water drinking will earn half a point for each day.

ADDITIONAL ONE-OFF WEEK 7 BONUS
We will continue the extra fruit/veg bonus. I will give 2 points for each different item of fruit /veg that we eat a portion of during week 5 – maximum 5 items.


Wk7---0hrs 00mins----ssmtwtf---ssmtwtf---ssmtwtf---123456---ssmtwtf---ssmtwtf---ssmtwtf---newveg*0---
If someone completes all of their tasks I would expect their Wk7 main scoresheet line to look as follows:
Wk7---10hrs 00mins----JJJJJJJ---PPPPPPP---FFFFFFF---BBBBBB---CCCCCCC---WWWWWWW---VVVVVVV---newveg*5---
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Cord the Seeker said:
No, I knew basically what you were up to, I was just surprised at just how well it is all coming together. Nicely done.
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Thanks for the lovely compliment. I should repeat the fact that a few of the bonuses (water, fibre, protein) have been taken straight out of Kimberly's excellent challenges from years gone by. Important topics are always worthy of reviewing. It's a shame in some ways that we are running out of remaining weeks as there are some more great things that would be worth us all looking at. I am having to be very selective when deciding what else to do.
 
Nice challenge this week BTW, a carb free meal (more or less)? MMM, sounds like sirloin tips on the grill served with a nice salad to me :drool5:


Or something like it.
 
Most of my meals i try to make carb free or at least the extra added carbs of bread and etc...

I think I updated the rest of my week last week Margaret, but what i will do is make sure both weeks are complete
 
It's good to hear that you should find the new challenge not too onerous. It is no surprise that many of you have been doing this already quite often - we have all been working on cleaning up our diet for some time.

I just thought that it was a good idea to have it out there so that we did it consciously instead of subconsciously. That way we are more likely to put a bit of effort into keeping it up.

I just love giving away those points for our hard work...

Cerella - I will sort out both last week and this week for you over the weekend and we will all get up to date.

Reminder: We are logging up to 10 hours of exercise - and there is still time to post a recipe for the current week if you havent done so yet. Quite a few people havent got round to doing that yet.
 
Well I have to say that I havent been having a good day with food today. I am pretty much on target to hit all my challenge and nutrient targets - the only problem is that I am certainly going over on calories....

It has been pretty stressful - because I had to go to see my doctor and that is always a bundle of fun... We got letters to say that she is retiring next month and I wanted to find out what was happening about my boobs. She promised me well over a year ago that she would support the reduction surgery that I need. She said that I would have to wait quite a long time.. Well we heard no more about it - and then got this letter to say that she was retiring. She says that she will get in touch with them and I will hopefully get an appointment to move things forward. I am far from convinced that she had done anything.

I have to call in at the surgery to pick up some sort of document in a week's time - but it will be a couple of weeks as I am going away on Monday.

Add in the fact that she decided to spend ages discussing various gyni trips over the past year and a host of issues that are guaranteed to depress me. I think that she decided to get her notes up to date - since there was really no reason to go over this old ground. It was depressing enough every other time we have discussed certain issues with her - and nothing whatsoever to do with my boobs... She was typing up notes all the time that I was speaking too... I was overeating on healthy food before I went (I knew that it was not going to go well) and have continued in that vein since the appointment too. My weight was up this morning and it will be up even more tomorrow...

I'm just off to find something else to eat - even though I am not at all hungry.... Then I'll make the meal...
 
Sorry you're stressed out. Wish there was something I could do to help.

I think it is probably more important to hit your nutritional targets than your caloric targets - as long as you don't go nuts. Your body would probably rather have a few extra calories than be short on something it wants.

You eat amazingly well - you have nothing to worry about.

If you're not hungry and you don't need it - don't do it. I know, easy for me to say. But think about it before you put it in your mouth - do I need to eat this? Do I just want it just for emotional reasons?

Sorry - I'm being pedantic. Feel free to ignore me.

Take Care, love.
 
Hello, fellow babies!

Just sharing some news.

Did my weigh-in today and...

261!

That's down 8 from last week, and 6 from two weeks ago.

And best of all, that's 50 pounds lost so far. I can hardly believe it.

I also took my monthly measurements this morning, and will be putting them up on my journal page (Cord's Quest) in the usual clunky, chart-like form, so everyone can follow along.

I'm sure this challenge is helping me, because it all seems to go well when I work on hitting the challenge/nutritional targets, even though that generally means going a little over on calories from the number I (arbitrarily) set.

This is also just over four months that I have been on my quest. So far, so good....
 
Cord the Seeker said:
Sorry you're stressed out. Wish there was something I could do to help.

I think it is probably more important to hit your nutritional targets than your caloric targets - as long as you don't go nuts. Your body would probably rather have a few extra calories than be short on something it wants.

You eat amazingly well - you have nothing to worry about.

If you're not hungry and you don't need it - don't do it. I know, easy for me to say. But think about it before you put it in your mouth - do I need to eat this? Do I just want it just for emotional reasons?

Sorry - I'm being pedantic. Feel free to ignore me.

Take Care, love.
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Thanks for the support.

I keep telling myself that at least I am not binging on chocolate - but when you have said that you have said it all...

If only I was good and didnt still get an uncontrollable need to eat when things get depressing or too stressful.... I most certainly do it when not hungry - I can eat too much to be hungry... Emotional reasons can be harder to ignore than hunger.
 
Cord the Seeker said:
Hello, fellow babies!

Just sharing some news.

Did my weigh-in today and...

261!

That's down 8 from last week, and 6 from two weeks ago.

And best of all, that's 50 pounds lost so far. I can hardly believe it.

I also took my monthly measurements this morning, and will be putting them up on my journal page (Cord's Quest) in the usual clunky, chart-like form, so everyone can follow along.

I'm sure this challenge is helping me, because it all seems to go well when I work on hitting the challenge/nutritional targets, even though that generally means going a little over on calories from the number I (arbitrarily) set.

This is also just over four months that I have been on my quest. So far, so good....
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Congratulations on the great weight loss. You really are steaming ahead now. A loss of 50 pounds is a superb milestone and you should be really proud of it. :party:

Our bodies really do appreciate it when we tick those nutritional boxes - and it is great to see that it is working well for you.

Those four months could not have been better spent. Your health will have improved immeasurably for those 50 pounds lost - and we have seen the photos and know that the difference is so very noticeable.

Well done!
 
And what an impressive set of measurements they are. I have copied them in here so that everyone can see how great they are...

Cord the Seeker said:
A new month begins (okay, we're already a week into it, so sue me), and thus I take some new measurements - and it is also weigh-in day, so there is lots of crunchy goodness for you, loyal readers.

Let's start with the tale of the scale.

July was a funny month. My weight was yo-yo-ing (how do you spell that, anyway?) due to the holidays and trips I was on, plus the brutal heat threw my eating out of whack. But the overall trend was down, and whenever I went off course I came right back again.

So, my weight as of today is...261 pounds.

This feels great. It is 8 less than last week, and 6 less than 2 weeks ago, leading me to think that a lot of that weight gain is water weight, probably from eating too much salty stuff. It's only a theory.

This puts my total weight loss to date at 50 pounds. That feels pretty awesome. Although I think I said that my next incremental goal was going to be getting to 250, I still think that 50 pounds is a pretty good point to get to.

This also means that I'll be halfway to my stated eventual goal in 6 more pounds.


Measurements: here are my latest measurements, in clunky table-like form that includes my previous measurements.

-------- 02 April -- 30 April -- 29 May -- 02 July -- 07 Aug
Chest: ---- 55 ----- 52 ----- 51 ------- 49 ------- 48
Waist: ---- 53.5 --- 50 ----- 49.5 ------ 47 ------- 46.5
Hips: ----- 52 ----- 51 ----- 50 -------- 49 ------- 47
Upper Arm: 17 ----- 16 ----- 16 -------- 15 ------- 14.5
Forearm: --13 ----- 13 ----- 12.5 ------- 12.5 ----- 12.5
Thigh: -----31 ----- 30 ----- 29 -------- 28 ------- 26
Calf: ------20.5 --- 19.5 --- 19.5 ------- 18.5 ----- 18.5
Neck: -----17.5 --- 17 ----- 16.5 ------- 16 ------- 15.5

As of last Sunday, I have been doing this for four months. That's also pretty cool.

Thanks to all of you who have come along with me so far, and who have offered support and advice along the way.
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First off, Cord, that is phenomenal stuff you got going right there. awesome job, Bro! :party:

Second, Margaret, It sounds like you had a bad day, and I'm sorry for the stress level. I agree, at least if you're going to go over on something, healthy food is the way to do it.

I don't need to tell you this, though, you know it. You, of all people know what it takes to get through the rough spots and tough areas, so...

I'll just send you a virtual hug instead :hug2: in fact, take another one :hug2:
 
Thanks for the hugs - sometimes a girl needs all the hugs that she can get...

:grouphug:

Well - its a new day now. I am hoping that I can be better today. I will only know as the day progresses as that is when I will see if I have broken it.

I will go out on my walk soon and will not eat anything until I am back. Then I will see if I have my control back again.
 
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