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Starting Weight:
--------Minutes Exercised--------Detour/RB Pts--------Weight
Week 1:
Week 2:
Week 3:
Week 4:
Week 5:
Week 6:
Week 7:
Week 8:
 
Bikinibound's Amazing Race Challenge Stats

Starting Weight: 222lbs
--------Minutes Exercised--------Detour/RB Pts--------Weight
Week 1: 235min---------5cups cabbage------------------221
Week 2: 240 minutes-------------------------------------220
Week 3: 233 minutes-------------------------------------219
Week 4: 301 minutes-------kiwis eaten F S S M T W T----217.5
Week 5: 320 minutes------green tea F S S M T W T-------218.5
Week 6: 285 minutes-------Umngqusho eaten-----------220.5
Week 7: 556 minutes---------Siestas: 5------------------220
Week 8: 300 minutes-------------------------------------219
 
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Starting Weight: 11st 03.4lbs i.e. 157.4 pounds
--------Minutes Exercised--------Detour/RB Pts--------Weight
Week 1:---6hr 25min---------5 cups cabbage--------155.2-2.2 pounds lost-
Week 2:---8hr 23min-------------Capoeira-----------152.8-2.4 pounds lost-
Week 3:---9hr 25min---------------------------------151.8-1.0 pounds lost-
Week 4:---9hr 03min----------Kiwi fruit done--------150.4-1.4 pounds lost-
Week 5:---9hr 38min------Tae Kwon Do 1 to 15------147.6-2.8 pounds lost-
Week 6:---9hr 18min---------------------------------146.4-1.2 pounds lost-
Week 7:---361min-------------Siesta-done----------148.6-2.2 pounds gained-
Week 8:---9hr 53min----Brussels sprouts eaten-----145.4-3.2 pounds lost-

week 7 exercise:
sunday: 24 mins
monday: 53 mins
tuesday: 84 mins
wednesday: 86 mins
thursday : 114 mins

week 7 team total required = 19hrs 26mins = 1166mins.

week 8 exercise:
Friday: 2 hr 10 mins
Saturday: 2 hr 25 mins
Sunday: 2hr 40 mins
Monday: 3hr 40 mins

week 8 team total required = 19hrs 46min = 1186 mins
half = 9 hrs 53min


Easy reference:

bikinibound said:

Capoeira is a Brazilian combination of martial arts and dance. One team member must watch the first 3 videos and follow along with the next 4 videos once during the week. You don't have to do the moves perfectly, but do the best you can as you follow along. You can do all 15 videos if you like, but only the first 7 are required.


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bikinibound said:
Week 5—Auckland to Seoul 19hrs 15min. 6hrs25min split 3 ways

Do all 15 of the Tae Kwon Do how-to videos below once over the course of the week.
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Starting Weight: 190.2
--------Minutes Exercised--------Detour/RB Pts--------Weight
Week 1: 260 minutes------------5 cups cabbage-------188.4 (-1.8)
Week 2: 360 minutes------------Margaret did----------188.4 (-0) :(
Week 3: 450 minutes------------16oz Salmon----------187.4 (-1.0) :) w/ TOM!!
Week 4: 400 minutes------------kiwi------------------188.8 (+1.4) :(
Week 5: 355 minutes------------green tea (YUM)------187.2 (-1.6) Woot Woot!
Week 6: 750 minutes-----------Kimberly did------------186.0 (-1.2) Yeah!!!
Week 7: 750 minutes---5 m. mile (felt like I was dying!!)-187.8 (+1.8) Stupid TOM!
Week 8: 410 minutes----------Margaret did-------------188.0 (+.2) Same Friday and Thursday
 
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Hello ladies! So since Margaret will easily get half of this week's exercise in (6hr 25min), that leaves 3hr 15min each for Bella and me. :D Is that ok with you, Margaret? :D
 
Though I will strive to do more than that as I really want to get down to 165 by the time my MIL gets here in mid May.
I am hoping this challenge helps with a huge chunk of that.
 
No problem with me. I will report in to the team thread when the exercise is done. Probably Saturday if all goes according to plan.

Remember ladies to weigh today - because we can use either Thursday or Friday weight - can we not? It is logical to record the higher of the two weights as a starting point - since it is a valid weighing and improves our chances of getting a loss next week. I anticipate using my weighing from first thing in the morning.

EDIT

I am adding in the instructions here for easy reference (the earliest point in the thread that I can edit without disrupting scoresheets):

bikinibound said:
Because I'm still waiting to get a couple of teams formed, I'm only starting team threads for those with official team names. Once you've got your team together and have a team name, post it here and I'll start your team thread. :) I'm going to post the first week's info so you can get ready. Here it is!!!!!!

Week 1—Chicago to Moscow 12hrs 50min. This averages out to 4hrs 17min of exercise per person. Remember your team doesn't have to split it up that way. See the rules if you need to jog your memory regarding this.

Detour: As Russia is famous for vodka, your first bonus is to drink your weight in lbs in ounces of vodka. So if you weigh 200lbs, you must drink 200oz of vodka. You can either spread it out over the week, or drink it all in 1 day (not recommended). :svengo: Raise your hand if you thought if only for a split second that I was serious. :rofl:

Here are the real Detour choices which each team member must choose 1 option: 1. Do a Russian Cossack dance for 1 min w/out falling over (see youtube video link)

or 2. Eat 5 cups of boiled cabbage (Russians apparently eat a lot of boiled cabbage) during the week. 1 cup of raw green cabbage only has 22 calories, and is an excellent source of vitamin C. Feel free to make cabbage soup, or add other diet-friendly things to your cabbage.

If you choose the Cossack dance, you must do it just like the kid in the video, and you must do it continuously for 1 minute in order for it to count. Good luck with that! I’ll be eating boiled cabbage, thank you very much. I have very muscular legs, and can't do it to save my life..haha.

Each team will get 10pts if each member does one of the two choices.

When your team thread is created, please copy and paste the form and log your starting weight. You can use Thursday or Friday's weigh in for this.

Good luck everyone!!!!!!!!!!!! :hurray::hurray:
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Omega said:
No problem with me. I will report in to the team thread when the exercise is done. Probably Saturday if all goes according to plan.

Remember ladies to weigh today - because we can use either Thursday or Friday weight - can we not? It is logical to record the higher of the two weights as a starting point - since it is a valid weighing and improves our chances of getting a loss next week. I anticipate using my weighing from first thing in the morning.
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We (being Kimberly, You and I) are so devious in how we play this game! LOL
I was already thinking along those lines when I had pizza yesterday for lunch. hahaha
 
Naturally you ate pizza because it fitted nicely into your food plan for the week and not because you had any desire to record a higher weight today. Damn! - why did I have salmon last night.

Funnily enough - I forgot to weigh again after my walk thismorning. I often weigh again just in case I can reduce things by a few ounces - so that means that I am going by my weight first thing. How tactical are we!
 
LMAO@U 2!! I would never do anything like that. :svengo: I would never eat peanut butter with melted chocolate chips, or hot dogs and mac & cheese the day before a challenge started. :biggrinjester:
 
We really are naughty aren't we!!! :biggrinjester:
Any excuse that I can have to eat a Philly Steak is a good excuse in my book.
It will be interesting to see how much we "lose" in the next week.
 
Eating is something that we are all pretty good at!

My TOM weight gain should be gone very soon - hopefully tomorrow. The next 2 weeks are when I am going to get any loss that I am going to have for this month. Then it will all seize up again.

Exercise is going well this end. My pedometer is on over 10 miles already and I will be out for another walk in a little while.

I have bought a cabbage and the pulses are soaking. I will invent a recipe for cabbage soup later based on my normal veg soup one (which I havent made for a year). I looked on the internet. There is apparently a cabbage soup diet - where you have nothing but cabbage soup. I swear I read the recipe and thought - "I couldnt survive 3 hours on that". It had a warning not to be on the diet having nothing but that for more than a week. Some people court starvation. They neednt bother with warnings like that for me. I will be having my soup as an afternoon snack!
 
I also had TOM weight this week. Even though I no longer have TOM I still get all the side effects. The tiredness, bloating, munchies and of course weight gain.
I just forget about all of it until it is just about done and then it hits me.
So I should a drop in weight as well next week.
Even if I didn't have TOM I should see a drop 'cuz I am going to be working it hard at the gym.
 
I have logged 4 hours of exercise for today.
This consisted of
1 hour keep fit class
3 hours exercise walks - pedometer up to 34,977 steps, 13.52 miles so far for the day.

I dont plan on doing any more exercise for the day now.
 
Omega said:
I have logged 4 hours of exercise for today.
This consisted of
1 hour keep fit class
3 hours exercise walks - pedometer up to 34,977 steps, 13.52 miles so far for the day.

I dont plan on doing any more exercise for the day now.
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Oh c'mon! 4 hrs isn't nearly enough. *cracks the whip* :smilielol5:

Well, my weight was up to 222 today, so I'll use that for my starting weight.

Cabbage soup diet? No thanks--I'd rather have a peanut butter/chocolate diet. :biggrinjester:

My TOM was last week, too, so I should be good to go for weight loss for awhile. I just don't know about my metabolism. I've got a plan worked out that will hopefully increase my metabolic rate, and allow me to lose a little at the same time. We'll see. :rolleyes:
 
bikinibound said:
Oh c'mon! 4 hrs isn't nearly enough. *cracks the whip* :smilielol5:
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Ok - You're a tough boss!!!

I've done another 3 hours today - so you can mark me down as having done the full 6hr 25min that I am allowed to do this week so it is all systems go for you dividing the rest as you see fit.

I am pretty sure that I will not manage to get next week's exercise completed by the Saturday because we are planning to go to Newcastle for the weekend. I normally manage 2 hours a day when we are away - but there is a question mark over whether I can get anything done on the travelling days. That should not be a problem because I imagine that I will be up to 7 hours by Tuesday at the latest next week if all goes according to plan.

I am having today's portion of cabbage soup as I write this. Four more portions to go. There will not be a problem - I could quite happily have more but with the pulses being quite high in calories - I should probably limit it to one serving a day. With the pulses containing protein I have slotted it in as my afternoon snack instead of the pork loin or gammon / ham. It is not a straight swap of nutrients but since I have a fair bit of other protein it will do me no harm. I am actually considering making soup more often for this snack because I am enjoying it.
 
Only 2hrs a day while in Newcastle??!! What a slacker you are! :smilielol5:Margaret's done 7hrs of exercise over the last two days, and I've done 30minutes. :smilielol5: Well, I hope to get another 30 min in tonight. :rolleyes:

I'm glad you're enjoying your soup. :) I still have to make mine.
 
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