Weight-Loss WLF Team Challenge Team CRUISIN' FOR LOSIN'
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Don Keykong
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Thursday Update:
Mowed the Lawns x 90'
Bicep Curls x 10 ea @35lbs.
Pushups x 20
Leg Lifts x 15
Maybeee... I'll do Bike HIIT yet tonight, too.
Good water, organic snow peas and broccoli.
Full points.
Mowed the Lawns x 90'
Bicep Curls x 10 ea @35lbs.
Pushups x 20
Leg Lifts x 15
Maybeee... I'll do Bike HIIT yet tonight, too.
Good water, organic snow peas and broccoli.
Full points.
San2
Mod
New mini challenge starting Saturday:
Diet Challenge: 2 Points for every day where no junk food at all is consumed. By junk food I'm talking candy, potato chips, cakes, ice cream, etc. Also, 2 points daily for NOT adding any additional salt to your meals. I still cave into my cravings for sweets from time to time and I do love adding salt to my meals so this will be a challenge for me. It may be a lay up for the rest of you.
Exercise Challenge: I *think" it should be nice enough for everyone to get outside now so hopefully this one will be a fair one. 2 points a day for a half hour's worth of exercise (walking, jogging, swimming, yard work, etc) outside. Getting out and about in the fresh air and sun can be a great moral booster. I hope this one will be doable.
Diet Challenge: 2 Points for every day where no junk food at all is consumed. By junk food I'm talking candy, potato chips, cakes, ice cream, etc. Also, 2 points daily for NOT adding any additional salt to your meals. I still cave into my cravings for sweets from time to time and I do love adding salt to my meals so this will be a challenge for me. It may be a lay up for the rest of you.
Exercise Challenge: I *think" it should be nice enough for everyone to get outside now so hopefully this one will be a fair one. 2 points a day for a half hour's worth of exercise (walking, jogging, swimming, yard work, etc) outside. Getting out and about in the fresh air and sun can be a great moral booster. I hope this one will be doable.
yippy!
San2
Mod
RULES UPDATE:
In the past few weeks I was kind of lax with the rules and when people put their results up. That included being late with it myself, which is really setting a bad example.
From now on, scores that come in after Monday at noon (UK time), will NOT be counted, and the person reporting in will receive a strike. Two strikes in a row (meaning being late or not reporting in at all for two weeks), and the person is out. If there is a good reason for not updating, please let me know of course. I'm not a monster. This is only about not updating, and not giving any reason whatsoever.
I will also no longer send reminders to people and ask them to please update their score sheets. I think we're all old enough to remember to do something once a week without somebody having to say 'pretty please'.
That's all. On with the losing, everybody!
In the past few weeks I was kind of lax with the rules and when people put their results up. That included being late with it myself, which is really setting a bad example.
From now on, scores that come in after Monday at noon (UK time), will NOT be counted, and the person reporting in will receive a strike. Two strikes in a row (meaning being late or not reporting in at all for two weeks), and the person is out. If there is a good reason for not updating, please let me know of course. I'm not a monster. This is only about not updating, and not giving any reason whatsoever.
I will also no longer send reminders to people and ask them to please update their score sheets. I think we're all old enough to remember to do something once a week without somebody having to say 'pretty please'.
That's all. On with the losing, everybody!
San2
Mod
It would appear that I made an error in the scoresheets, and didn't double check weight loss and percentages properly. I will have to go through every single sheet again and recheck numbers. From the looks of it, something that I thought was self-explanatory, wasn't so simple after all.
I will go through the sheets and adjust as necessary.
The problem is that people who happened to gain weight at some point, and then lost the next week, used the higher weight from the week before to calculate their percentage. Obviously that is not how it is supposed to be. So to make sure, here is how it works:
If you GAIN weight at any given point, and then LOSE the week after, please use your lowest weight so far to calculate your actual loss, NOT the higher weight from the week before.
Example:
Week 1: 250 lbs
Week 2: 252 lbs
Week 3: 248 lbs
You weight loss in week three would be 2 lbs, not 4. Taking into account weight gained would mean that you could basically count your weight loss twice, which would be rather unfair.
As said, I will go through the spreadsheets again and have a look, and adjust numbers and percentages where necessary.
Based on that, it would appear that Justina is not the person with the biggest weight loss last week, but I have to crunch some numbers to be absolutely sure.
Sorry about the confusion.
Also, we had a dropout from the challenge. I will try to fill the void.
I will go through the sheets and adjust as necessary.
The problem is that people who happened to gain weight at some point, and then lost the next week, used the higher weight from the week before to calculate their percentage. Obviously that is not how it is supposed to be. So to make sure, here is how it works:
If you GAIN weight at any given point, and then LOSE the week after, please use your lowest weight so far to calculate your actual loss, NOT the higher weight from the week before.
Example:
Week 1: 250 lbs
Week 2: 252 lbs
Week 3: 248 lbs
You weight loss in week three would be 2 lbs, not 4. Taking into account weight gained would mean that you could basically count your weight loss twice, which would be rather unfair.
As said, I will go through the spreadsheets again and have a look, and adjust numbers and percentages where necessary.
Based on that, it would appear that Justina is not the person with the biggest weight loss last week, but I have to crunch some numbers to be absolutely sure.
Sorry about the confusion.
Also, we had a dropout from the challenge. I will try to fill the void.
San2
Mod
Please check the main challenge thread http://weight-loss.fitness.com/threads/57895-New-WLF-Team-Challenge for revised scoresheets and news. Thanks.
San2
Mod
New mini challenge for next week, as sent to me by Christine:
25 jumping jacks starting Saturday and increased by 5 everyday for 2 points. (Apparently, Jumping Jacks are also known as 'Star Jumps')
No pre-packaged food like frozen dinners, pizza, chicken wings, and nothing you can microwave for 2 mins for a quick meal. The idea is to get back to the basics. When all this stuff was not available to us and to eat the way we are suppose to be eating without all the chemicals and salt for another 2 points.
And One more no weighing for a week..I know this is hard for us cause alot of us are scale junkies..But lets look in the mirror instead ofa scale to make us feel good..Its not all about the numbers..for another 2 points. (Obviously, other than the weigh in on Saturday)
25 jumping jacks starting Saturday and increased by 5 everyday for 2 points. (Apparently, Jumping Jacks are also known as 'Star Jumps')
No pre-packaged food like frozen dinners, pizza, chicken wings, and nothing you can microwave for 2 mins for a quick meal. The idea is to get back to the basics. When all this stuff was not available to us and to eat the way we are suppose to be eating without all the chemicals and salt for another 2 points.
And One more no weighing for a week..I know this is hard for us cause alot of us are scale junkies..But lets look in the mirror instead ofa scale to make us feel good..Its not all about the numbers..for another 2 points. (Obviously, other than the weigh in on Saturday)
Don Keykong
New member
Sorry, but I can't do standard jumping jacks yet. I can do some, but 60 by the end of the challenge is not remotely possible for me.
I can do a modified JJ where I don't fully leave my feet... it's the way I learned from some obese person's exercise videos.
Secondly, I have always weighed in every day and will continue to do so. I use the data and it's important to me.
Look, I realize it's hard to choose a challenge that fits all of us (and I've dreaded the idea of being the one to choose) but some of these being chosen
that are NOT unhealthy habits being changed fly directly in the face of the way some of us are doing our weight loss process. I feel like it would be akin
to me saying everyone must forgo red meat... it may be healthy, but others may be eating red meat as part of their diet.
Sorry team, but unless there are some changes I'll be missing out on a lot of points next week.
I can do a modified JJ where I don't fully leave my feet... it's the way I learned from some obese person's exercise videos.
Secondly, I have always weighed in every day and will continue to do so. I use the data and it's important to me.
Look, I realize it's hard to choose a challenge that fits all of us (and I've dreaded the idea of being the one to choose) but some of these being chosen
that are NOT unhealthy habits being changed fly directly in the face of the way some of us are doing our weight loss process. I feel like it would be akin
to me saying everyone must forgo red meat... it may be healthy, but others may be eating red meat as part of their diet.
Sorry team, but unless there are some changes I'll be missing out on a lot of points next week.
San2
Mod
Some changes to next week's challenge, please read:
1) Jumping Jacks - as with any exercise, any kind of modification that anybody needs to make the exercise possible for them is okay. Also, I am dropping the amount from 25 to 10, and then at least one more than the day before on each consecutive day. How many more is up to how much you want/can do.
2) The weighing in thing is only 2 points overall, not 2 points per day. So it shouldn't make a great difference whether you decide to do it or not.
3) The third part about the non-microwave stuff stays as it is.
I hope this helps. As said, there will always be challenges that are unpopular with some people (this one certainly is with me! ) but that is why it is called a challenge in the first place.
1) Jumping Jacks - as with any exercise, any kind of modification that anybody needs to make the exercise possible for them is okay. Also, I am dropping the amount from 25 to 10, and then at least one more than the day before on each consecutive day. How many more is up to how much you want/can do.
2) The weighing in thing is only 2 points overall, not 2 points per day. So it shouldn't make a great difference whether you decide to do it or not.
3) The third part about the non-microwave stuff stays as it is.
I hope this helps. As said, there will always be challenges that are unpopular with some people (this one certainly is with me! ) but that is why it is called a challenge in the first place.
Sunflower2
New member
*shakes bingo wings enthusiastically*