Weight-Loss Walkin' To A Winter Onederland--team Thread

Weight-Loss
LOL...

Got in another 45 mins. today! :hurray:

I'm tryin ta catch up and I hope to still do 3 hours and start earning the extra points to!

:waving:
 
Go, Stacy!
 
I got all my exercise in over last weekend. I am finally seeing some weight loss too - so I just hope that it stays off until Saturday.

Stacy

You are notching up that exercise well. The great thing about exercise is that it makes you feel so good when you stop and have a rest.

Phoebe

You would have sworn my legs belonged to two different people. It wasnt just a slight difference - the difference was huge. I even asked my doctor about it - it was so odd. It went on for months until it evened up.

Now my stomach is eroding in an odd shape. I have huge hollows at each side of centre (kind of under each boob) and it seems to stick out as far as ever in the middle.

My body seems to go out of its way to be awkward.
 
Hello Everyone~
Just wanted to say that I am trying really hard this week to manage the exercise portion of the challenge.
I have 2 hours and 15 minutes in as of Tuesday. I had an out-patient surgery yesterday so was out of commision all day. I am hoping to get on my ellipitical tonight to make up the time. Hopefully I will also be able to get some extra time in for the bonus.
Unfortunately my weight has been heading in the up direction all week. Probably due to the fact that I was nervous about the surgery.
Hopefully though I will be back on track by Saturday.
I'll catch ya all later!
 
Don't worry too much, we will forgive you. It wasn't laziness, after all, but surgery! Hope you are feeling better.
 
Well i'worried about my weigh-in this week as well. I've been putting in the effort calorie wise and gym wise. I could do better with some of my calorie choices but im in my range. I'm just at odds with the scale. I weigh-in daily and this morning was 222.4 again. :(
 
Hi Jaxxy

The great thing about the exercise points is that if you put in the 4.5 hours you are guaranteed quite a lot of points. The weight only gives a comparitive few points positive or negative. All we can do is our best. If we are good with our food and do our exercise we have earned a loss whether we get it or not.

Naturally there are some tricks we can use to try and improve our chances. Like not eating anything too salty or spicy on Friday - because they often make us retain water.

Also drink lots of water Friday (64 fluid ounces or 2 litres) in order to encourage the body to release its water stores.

Sometimes it works - sometimes it doesnt - all we can do is do our best. Regarding weight loss - nothing is guaranteed for any of us.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Thanks Margaret!

I'm just a bit frustrated. I want to be under 220 so badly. I was having a hard time getting below 200 a few months ago and then I quit smoking which pushed me up to above 220. I definitly need to get back to the basics...water being a biggy! Thanks for the tips and we will see what happens on Sat.

I'm off to the gym for 2 1-hour classes putting my exercise above 4.5 hours! Woot! Woot!
 
Hi Jaxxy

Why not set up a diary - then we can pop by and give you encouragement.

If you pop by our diaries you will see that we all have the same frustrations - especially around milestones. I spent 15 days in the 2 pounds above the 13stone mark (got through last Saturday). It is so tantalising when you are less than half a pound from the milestone.

Well done for getting your exercise points.

As I said earlier - none of us can do more than do the exercise (if well enough) and keep control of our food. Sometimes the weight will not come off to our schedule. We must never feel a failure when that happens. It happens to us all.

I remember the 220s oh so well. And I was feeling quite trim by then.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Yay, exercise done! And no point worrying about the weight. I'm looking forward to something else next week - this was far too much exercise for me. Margaret, I think your idea of being able to share the challenges between team members is a great one - something where we'd all have a minimum, but then a team goal that was higher than the sum of all the members' minimums would be really neat. (I so don't envy Kimberly the chosing of the bonuses - easy enough to speculate on what you'd choose when you don't have to live with the consequences!)

ETA: Hey, my new scale came in the mail today! It weighs about 1.5 pounds heavier than the old. Since we're mid-challenge, should I stick with the old scale for the "official" weigh-ins, or use the new and adjust the 1.5 off? (I lean towards keeping the old, since we'll be on vacation for the last two weigh-ins, and I'm willing to take the junky old scale with me, but am unlikely to take the shiny new scale.)

Tomorrow I'll switch to the new one, with no adjustment for the weight difference, for my trendline tracking, since that's just for my reference. Since my ticker runs off the trendline weight, it's probably going to bounce up for a week or so.

Also in today's mail: a pedometer. 1573 steps, 0.75 miles, since 7pm. ;)
 
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Hi Phoebe

Well done getting your exercise in.

I agree - stick to the old scale for the challenge.

The pedometer is great. I love my pedometer. Wear it all the time - you burn calories all the time. It is false to ignore the bits of walking around the house. That way you can try to build to the 10,000 steps they recommend for daily life. Naturally I go above that - but I am just odd that way!

I agree that I do not envy Kimberly having to come up with bonuses. You certainly cannot please everyone.

Sorting out the protein is going to be so much harder for me. I have visions of me having to enter things in fitday which
a/ is hard because the one time I looked at it they did not seem to use the units we have over here easily
b/ means that I go through all the problems of calorie counting and food analysis.
I wish that Kimberly would leave my food alone. If it isnt broken why fix it comes to mind. I eat healthily and eat a lot. I eat a very balanced diet. Since I am getting a weight loss doing what I am doing I really dont want to fiddle with it much at all.

I would have so happily done everyone else's extra exercise than do this! I do over 23 hours of exercise a week anyway.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
:smash: I only have 130 mins. of exercise so far! :smash:

I'm tryin' guys!

Maybe I'll do better tomorrow!

Good News:

I'm down a lil more again!

Now ---> 173.8 {Was 174.2}

:seeya:
 
Phoebe I like your idea of a team bonus. It's too late to do it for this challenge, but if I do a New Year's Challenge, I will definitely use it.

I cannot please everyone--that is for sure. :cuss:

Margaret, I think it's possible to do the protein without counting calories or logging your food into fitday. I'm not sure about in England, but here in the U.S. all the food labels have to list the amount of protein. So for most foods, you can find out the protein just by checking the label. I'm sure if it's listed, it'll be in grams. Like when I figured out the tuna protein, 1 can is considered 2.5 servings, and there are 13g of protein per serving--so if one ate the whole can, it would be 33g of protein. No calorie counting involved. I eat a lot of chicken breast, and I know that 4oz of it has 20g of protein. I never measure it anymore, b/c I know what 4oz looks like. You can keep track of your protein by writing it down, and just use fitday for looking up protein amounts in foods that don't have labels. Just ignore the calories. FYI--1 cup of raisins has 4.67g of protein. :D

And some people's routines might not be broke and in need of fixing, but some people will find this bonus useful--I know I often don't get enough protein in my diet. You liked the veggie bonus b/c it didn't mess with your food. However, lots of other people hated it. I can't please everyone. There were bonuses on the last challenge that I didn't like--not weighing myself for a week was one of them--but I did it and I survived to tell the tale. :D I am interested in ideas for future bonuses, so if you have some, please PM them to me. :)
 
Hi Kimberly

I did actually say in my email that I didnt envy you coming up with the bonuses and that you couldnt please everyone all the time.

Thanks for the idea. I eat such similar things on a day to day basis that I may be able to sit and look at a few labels and if I am lucky be up to what I need with what I eat normally. I see that there is some protein in weetabix, skimmed milk and shreddies. A little research might get me there without really trying. Then I can effectively forget about it and stick to the food that seems to work for me knowing that it is covered.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
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Hi Kimberly

I did actually say in my email that I didnt envy you coming up with the bonuses and that you couldnt please everyone all the time.
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I know you did. And then right after you said you wished I'd stop messing with your food. :D Don't worry, I'm not taking it personally. :sifone:

Thanks for the idea. I eat such similar things on a day to day basis that I may be able to sit and look at a few labels and if I am lucky be up to what I need with what I eat normally. I see that there is some protein in weetabix, skimmed milk and shreddies. A little research might get me there without really trying. Then I can effectively forget about it and stick to the food that seems to work for me knowing that it is covered.
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Yes, milk is a decent source of protein. I think you will find that you don't need to tweek too much to do the bonus this week. :)
 
Hi Stacy

We can only do what we can do. I am sure that you will try to get in some exercise today.

As far as the weight goes you are down and that is great (for both yourself and the challenge). You are just about down far enough to get the points - so you want to try to keep it there. Remember to drink lots of water today and not have anything too salty / spicy (I put on a pound for a day the last time that I had something salty / spicy). It does make you hold on to fluid.

Also - remember to follow your own weighing ritual (poo then weigh) on Saturday. I combined it with my own (of pee, walk 6 miles, pee again then weigh) to give a new low on a weigh-in at absolute empty on Thursday.

I am not suggesting that you walk 6 miles - but I am saying that weighing at absolute empty certainly can make a difference if things are tight.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Hi Kimberly

I would hate you to take anything personally. I just get so twitchy about messing with my food.

I think that the challenge will turn out fine.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
*In the voice of Napoleon Dynamite*

HECK YES! :party:



I caught up with the exercise and went over for extra points team-mates!!!

This morning I had a *40 min. walk w/ZuZu and then did *40 min. OCD compulsive vacuuming! :sifone:

*WOOT!*

96 points total so far.

I know I'll earn more for weight-loss tomorrow as well!

I have a very good feeling! :D

Come on...Celebrate ME!

HAHAHA!

:smilielol5:
 
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