Weight Loss Challenge

[dbhost]

Grrr. Maybe I can step down a size in snowpants in another week or two

I probably ought to mention, the community gym has an indoor pool and it is in no small part of why we joined. It had been in the mid 30s for several weeks, then a freak spit of 70s, now back to the 30s and 40s... I guess mother nature is trying to give me pnuemonia...

[trungdok]

Haven't re-weighted myself yet, but I wouldn't doubt that I've been gaining. I'm just hoping it's muscle weight LOL.

[atgcpaul]

Last week I started using MyFitnessPal (MFP)to track my calorie intake as well as adding in my exercise.

I'm glad you posted that. I got burnt out with tracking during WW but I know it helps. Since I joined this challenge, I've been wanting to track again. This app is a lot like the WW app (but faster).

[leehljp]

My scale is moving in the wrong direction!!!

I'm up to 188 lbs. So, I'm beginning to wonder if this new scale is working with any accuracy at all. . .

I'm NOT giving up though!

CWS

Same for me! I am at 230 - up from 227 at the beginning! But I am trying!

I should add, as LOML reminded me, we have had a much longer and colder winter than in years, even when we were overseas. As a result, I have been inside far more than usual. It has been nearly 3 months since I did more than 15 minutes work outside or even in my shop. I am getting "cabin fever" so to speak. My shop is not heated. Lack of even a little work outside is hurting the weight loss and even contributing to weight gain!

[cwsmith]

My scale is moving in the wrong direction!!!

I'm up to 188 lbs. So, I'm beginning to wonder if this new scale is working with any accuracy at all.

I'm afraid I'm a creature of habit; but several months ago I decided I wanted to loose weight. Not that I felt fatter, but I certainly wasn't my anywhere close to the weight that I was in my 30's and 40's; and "my gut" of the late 90's had already been trimmed significantly. But still, I decided to cut out some of evening snacks. No more potato chips while I watched TV, gone too was the small bowl of ice cream during the news, and that piece of Hershey's after lunch. That was all cut back in October and at Christmas, I still hadn't lost a pound.

So along came the BT3 challenge and I figured I might want to jump into that and here I am three weeks later and I've actually gained almost a pound. I was really hoping that all this snow shoveling of the past couple of weeks would do the trick, but obviously not.

I'm NOT giving up though!

CWS

[woodturner]

The scale didn't move much but I had to step down a size in swim shorts this week...

Grrr. Maybe I can step down a size in snowpants in another week or two

Tweaked the spreadsheet, BTW - now it will auto-report ranking by percentage weight loss. Now if I could just figure out a better formula to use the last posted weigh-in in the calculation.... (currently it is a string of if's to find the last column with a value, then calculates loss based on the last entered weight).

[Cochese]

I'm not exactly sure how I'm losing, but I'll take it. A bit smaller portions, a bit more activity. Hopefully I will start my outdoor activities this week.

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[dbhost]

I haven't entered my weigh in yet... been OCD with tracking. Worked out St least 1 hour a day for 5 of the last 7. The scale didn't move much but I had to step down a size in swim shorts this week...

[Black wallnut]

I decided to become serious about losing weight. Last week I started using MyFitnessPal (MFP)to track my calorie intake as well as adding in my exercise. So far it is working 239.8 this morning. Yeah for me! From what I have read from others tracking calories or charting what you eat helps. One of our mechanics brought in donuts on Friday. After I took one and took a bite I went on MFP to add the snack. I honestly was shocked to find that there are 420 calories in a maple bar donut, I'll not be eating any more of those.

How is everyone else doing? I see a lot of blanks in the google doc.

[atgcpaul]

Cheated and didn't lose. I will be better this week. Have to at least keep up with Blackwallnut.

I didn't watch a lick of the Superbowl but ate like I did. I'm still feeling it.

... It's not MY fault, I told her not to buy those Doritos! (Or maybe it was those cupcakes she made.)

Ain't that the truth?!!! My wife picked up a 2-for-1 deal of Doritos and Cheetos from Sam's for the kids and she expected me not to eat any. Yeah, right! She is the ultimate enabler. I'm weak.

[dbhost]

I wasn't able to squeeze gym time in yesterday, and depending on how my remote work goes today, I might not be able to get in tonight. However IF I can squeeze it in, I am hoping to go get in and do some weights tonight. I need to not only drop weight, but strengthen my muscles in my lower back as well. I am doing much better tracking now, so that is good. I haven't slipped off too badly, although I was already at my points last night before I had 1 cup of no sugar added ice cream. (Thank you Blue Bell!). I haven't figured out how to add that yet, but I have tracked it before the plan changed and it was 3 points, which fits into my splurge points. So I am good...

So far today I have been fine. 3 packets of maple / brown sugar instant oats (12 pts), banana (freebie) and black coffee. Lunch is going to be Chicken Tamales (9 pts) and home made all vegetable salsa (Freebie) with strawberries as a desert. Dinner is supposed to be an Italian Herb rotisserie chicken breast and leg (8 pts), Chopped greens salad (Freebie) with light italian dressing (1 pt) and a couple of leftover Olive Garden bread sticks that I put in the freezer. (8 pts). I will still be well below my daily points target, so I am good...

Yeah planning out meals is helping too, although the weather is NOT cooperating with me at ALL. If I could get a slightly warmer, and DRY weekend I would clean up, and fire up the smoker and cook up a roast, some dry rubbed beef ribs, and some vennison sausage. Maybe even some Turkey breasts. I could pre cook for 2 weeks and literally just come home from work, or the gym, pop something in the microwave and be done for the night...

[cwsmith]

No improvement this week! I forgot to post Sunday, but yesterday (Tuesday) I'm still showing the same weight as the week before... It's not MY fault, I told her not to buy those Doritos! (Or maybe it was those cupcakes she made.)

Well, this week we've got way too much snow here in NY, so maybe I can work off all the extra calories of the last week and a half.

CWS

[Mrs. Wallnut]

Mr. and Mrs. Walnut are scaring me though. Hey guys is this the norm for you? To get those kinds of numbers I would have to take a butcher knife to my gut...

On the plus side, when I drop the weight I am carrying, portaging my 80lb canoe will seem like nothing...

I am doing a diet program that cuts calorie intake down to about 500 calories a day. Plus some drops and other vitamins to go with it. I have cheated this week but I am going to do this and get back down to where I was in about High school or even further down. My boss did the same diet and over about a year or so she lost 150 pounds.

[Mrs. Wallnut]

Cheated and didn't lose. I will be better this week. Have to at least keep up with Blackwallnut.

[dbhost]

Didn't get any real shop time in yesterday. LOML and I finally gave into pressure from the doc and joined a gym close to the house... Went and did 4 miles on the indoor track (ZZ Top in the MP3 player helps a lot...) and then hit the indoor pool for about 100 yds before we decided it was time to hit the hot tub. Even heated indoor pools are COLD in early February!

I know it's the hot tub speaking, but my lower back feels a LOT better this morning than it has in a long time...