New Weight Loss Challenge

I'm up this week to 148.0 But I was sick with a stomach bug last week and had no appetite so I'm guessing that either made me lose some weight or I "celebrated" having an appetite back a little too much this week (or both). It's ok, I'll get serious next week!!!!

Oh and put me down for the reward challenge, please!

And Flybye - Have a GREAT time in Hawaii! I bet the fruit there will taste pretty incredible. I've only had coconut gelato in Italy but it is my absolute favorite, I can image coconut ice cream being amazing, too.

Put me down this week for 160.5

I don't have a digital scale, but the needle is just a smidge over 160. I would like to celebrate this loss, but I think it is, ahem, water weight.

We'll see a more real number next week.

I decided not to join in, but thought I would check out how everyone is doing. Great job and good luck to all.
I am actually down in weight a bit this week. For 2 SOLID weeks I have keep to my workout/training plan. I didnt' make it toooo challenging and I have been able to be consistent. I have done MOSTLY good this week on eating except one day at the ball park for spring training...had to have a hot dog and beer!
Good luck to all!:)

put me down for 139.0 this week, up a tiny bit but its all good!

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Originally Posted by PinkBike

put me down for 139.0 this week, up a tiny bit but its all good!

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Have you got any water bottles??

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Originally Posted by Flybye

Have you got any water bottles??

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That reminds me - I'm have to send mine out on Monday but it's coming. ;) I have company coming so things have been hectic. Hope I can be a little "good" this weekend.

And Congrats on winning PinkBike! I'm not sure if I had congratulated you yet.

Way sick today, and haven't been able to weigh. (Actually, I've only been getting out of bed to go lay on the bathroom floor occasionally. Feeling slightly better now...sitting up in bed, at least.) But yesterday my weight was the same as last week: 243

I wasn't able to get to the gym at all this week, so the lack of loss is no surprise to me.

I am down to 145, but it is not from anything I did. I had the stomach bug which was horrible. The last time I was that sick was in 1996 when I got food poisoning. So The weight may go back up in the next few days. I am on day 2 of recovery. Have a great weekend.

Nice work everyone! I hope all of you who were sick this past week are back to feeling better.

I have to say that this contest is motivating me more than I thought it would. Thank you ladies! However, I am up a little this week. I was 118 yesterday. Which I'm happy with considering pms attacked this week.

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Originally Posted by firenze11

That reminds me - I'm have to send mine out on Monday but it's coming. ;) I have company coming so things have been hectic. Hope I can be a little "good" this weekend.

And Congrats on winning PinkBike! I'm not sure if I had congratulated you yet.

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I don't think I congratulated you either, PinkBike. And my water bottle hasn't been sent yet, either. I will get it out to you, hopefully in the next week or so.

Scale is stuck on same number. :( I exercised more and didn't pig out too much. This increase in exercise is paying off because my clothes are looser, but that darn scale won't budge.

I am up this week to 135. Those girl scout cookies are killing me!

Brenda

Good morning ladies! Finally up and moving after two solid nights at work without much sleep in between.
Weight this am: 172.8. Down from 176. -something. I think I weighed at a bad time last week?

None the less, too much work to constantly eat (which I'm really good at when I'm bored!), and stuck to my workouts for the most part this week. So I should be losing!?!?!?

I'm really sorry everyone is so sick this week. Sounds AWEFUL. Get better all, and don't breathe our direction!

Good work on the first week! I'm taking those girl scout cookies to the office today. I like flybye's idea of what to tell the girl scout cuties... I'll just give money next time!

And Jen-Jen... I too am a carboholic. I've worked pretty hard to break away from rice and / or pasta at every meal. It just always seems like something is missing without it, but I'm getting more used to it!

Good luck this week. I'll post everything by Monday.
Jes

I have no idea what I started at but my weight on Friday morning was 119.0 I've been recovering from laser eye surgery and haven't been eating much but I haven't been exercising either so it'll be interesting to see what happens with my weight this week.

I was listening to NPR and a guy at some university hired a student to nag him, and then bet a friend that if he couldn't lose x amount of weight in an eight week period, he would pay that friend 500 bucks. He lost the weight.

Loss aversion thereapy works pretty well. How about for the next challenge, everyone agrees that if they don't lose a certain amount of weight or body fat, they donate x amount to charity?

Just a thought.... I'm about 5 lbs over what I'd like to be weight-wise, and the jeans are snug, so I would be in on this one.

Although... I'm biking three days a week for commuting and I think a lot of the weight is muscle weight... my body is definitely different this time at this weight than it was last time I weighed this amount. I seem stockier.

I was on the scale and it was stuck at 220lbs. Upside, no weight gain!

Weighed in at 154. Good week.:)

Kim

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Originally Posted by indigoiis

I was listening to NPR and a guy at some university hired a student to nag him, and then bet a friend that if he couldn't lose x amount of weight in an eight week period, he would pay that friend 500 bucks. He lost the weight.

Loss aversion thereapy works pretty well. How about for the next challenge, everyone agrees that if they don't lose a certain amount of weight or body fat, they donate x amount to charity?

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I used to belong to a coaching club where this was called a "leverage". We used to be required to use them in certain situations and it really, really worked for most people. A great way to do it was to agree to donate the money to a charity that you don't support. Then, if you don't make your goals (and all goals had to be reasonable, of course) there was NO benefit to you. If you agreed with the charity, you might be likely to think "oh well, at least so and so gets a benefit from my screw up". Opposing political campaigns were popular choices as incentives. ;)

Anyway, I'm checking in here to say that I've been pretty bad this week while travelling. I ate a lot of the wrong stuff and I basically sat on my fat butt for 8 - 10 hours each day. Ick. Since we've been in Portland (Friday afternoon), I've been better. We rode yesterday (15 - 20 miles or so) and I'm definitely making better food choices. No more driving, either! I don't have a scale, so my weigh-in will have to wait until next week. The problem is...I also won't have internet after today until next Saturday, so I'll be a day late. Oh the joys of moving... :mad:

It sounds like everyone is doing well, and I hope all you sickies are recovering quickly! See you next week!!

C.

Sorry it took me a bit to check in, ladies. Anyway, I'm at 161 again for this week. No loss but no gain. I think it's mother nature anyway. No biggie. We'll see what happens this coming week. :)

Sending healing vibes to everyone that is sick this week!!

I'm at 116.0 this week.

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Since we've been in Portland (Friday afternoon), I've been better.

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GLC:

WELCOME TO THE NORTHWEST!!!!!
Hope you and all your stuff made it in one piece.
:)
Jes

OK, so I've seen one person weighing 116 and another weighing 118.
Unless you're four feet tall, why do you want to lose weight?

Good question. On a tall day I'm 5'1. :) Three years ago before I met my husband I was 108-110. Since falling into the comforts of marriage and getting lazy with my diet I had gained 12 - 15 pounds. I have taken some of the weight off, but if you can imagine 10lbs is a lot of weight on a small person. I want to get back to a more comfortable weight, but mostly I just want to be more consistent with healthy eating.

I am only 4'10". I currenlty weigh between 117 and 120...depending on the contant flucuation. I was truly 99 pounds in my younger years. Even then I was not fully toned and had some "fat". I reached a max of 140 pounds. I know for many people 120 - 140 is "ideal". Not if you are barely at or over 5 feet tall. Even at 120 pounds AND riding AND strength training my % body fat is 30% (not good) my BMI is just now 25-ish (normal). So by no means am I thin or anorexic. When you are short, a little poundage means a lot! Yes, I see folks cringe when I say I need to lose weight but wear a size 6. But then again, I am not even close to average height, why should I be an "average" weight or size? Hope this explains things a bit. I am truly trying to lose weight for body fat%, BMI, health and cuz I see the fat around my tummy! Good luck to everyone! At any size weight lose or keeping it off is a lot of work!

Ah...so you are four feet tall :p

I'm in the same boat as the other two. It's not so much about weight as it is body fat %age. This time las year I was about 4 lbs heavier and was at 30% body fat. I think that's lower now but I'm not sure how much lower.

I can completely understand why it must be frustrating for us to see ourselves in the same boat as others who might be trying to lose a great deal more weight but at the same time, it's so hard to compare. My original weight of 141 lbs would be a perfectly wonderful weight for many of you who are taller and perhaps larger boned, but on me, it looked and felt awful. Losing 25 lbs from a small frame can be like losing 50lbs on a taller person. Also, it can hard for people to uneerstand that we're not necessarily trying to be skinny 20 year old models - we just want to maintain a healthy body weight.

Thank you for saying this. I am not in the weight loss challenge, but at barely five one, if I gain a pound, I can't button my pants. When I got out of college, I gained weight for the first time in my life. It took me a year to lose 25 lbs. It was long and painful. Us short people have to work twice as hard and long to lose a pound! Thankfully, I have been thin since then, but I had to lose after both my pregnancies (which I exercised through). I am best at 105-107. I tend to get a bit above that in the winter, even with all of the winter sports I do, the gym, etc. nothing keeps me as skinny as cycling.
I like to eat too much to starve myself, but I do eat very healthy stuff, no junk food, soda, fried food, and rarely have dessert. I do like my piece of dark chocolate almost every night and some wine a couple of times a week, but now I notice even that can push my weight up. I guess I'm going to have to do some major weight training, because I can see this getting just a little more problematic every year as I get older. It doesn't matter if others think I look skinny or if I have acceptable body fat percentage; if I don't stay vigilant, I will be 10 pounds heavier in a flash.

Hi all.. Think I have almost everyone (except for GLC who likely hasn't unpacked her scale!)

I'll attach it again, and hopefully everyone can open it. If not, I can email it if you need that -- PM me.

I still have four people I am unsure if they are in for a REWARD... biking socks, of course!!!! So if you would like in to receive the reward, or purchase for the winner, let me know! These are the people I don't have yet: jen-jen, kelownagirl, limewave and Starfish.

Thanks all! Good luck this week!
Jes

No reward for me. Sorry I didn't reply earlier!

i went to Taco Bell tonight and ordered off the Fresco menu. I was really hungry and ordered TWO soft tacos, one steak and one chicken.
When I used the WW points calculator they only added up to 5 points!

Well, I'm on spring break. I haven't counted a calorie since saturday. I'm trying to be careful to see if I can manage without my notebook. I have ridden almost 70 miles already this week so hopefully they will balance out. I will check my weight thurs to see how it's going. I may be back to the notebook asap.

Kim

Oh... I MISS spring break! Have fun and RELAX!
Jes

Mine starts on Saturday. DH and I heading to the gulf islands and the the west coast for a week. Then we'll putter around the house and yard for the second week. Sigh...

Urgh. I'm not doing so well. I can't seem to get motivated. I'm trying to eat well but I seem to get so hungry. Maybe it's just because of my period this week. Either way I need some motivation. I really want to lose weight and get fit and strong. I guess I just need to buckle down.

Anyway I weighed this morning just to see where I was and I'm the same as last week. I doubt I'll magically lose anything by tomorrow. But I'll weigh again anyway. I think I just needed to whine about my lack of willpower/motivation. :rolleyes:

Maybe I need a more structured plan. . .I don't know.

I hope everyone else is having a successful week, though!

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Originally Posted by firenze11

I can't seem to get motivated.

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I'm right there with you. I've been wondering if I should pull the plug on this effort for now, because I just don't seem to be doing what I need to in order to lose weight right now. Not exactly not motivated...just not doing what I know I need to do, either in terms of planning/eating, or in terms of setting up motivational triggers like I normally do.

A little frustrated.

Starfish -

Keep it up! :-)

It's not necessarily about losing weight, but at the very least maintaining. :-) Heck, I'm finally back down to 172, my pre-sickness season weight. (I've been really sick three times this winter - I'm blaming the college students since I haven't gotten really sick until I went back to school). I got up to 178 and FREAKED - two runs of antibiotics will do that to you. :-( I got down to 175, then got tonsillitis this week. I haven't been able to really eat solid food until last night, so I lost three more pounds. I drank lots of fluids and soup. :-) Ice cream has been helpful, too.

I'm not in this contest, but you guys have inspired me. I'm 172 today, and my goal is 155 by the end of summer. :-) Slow weight loss, fast biking. ;-) My goal weight is 150, then we'll see how low I really want to go, but that'll probably be it, because I like having muscle, and I like to eat. What's weird is that so many competitive male cyclists are around 155.

DiBear: Well said... you and I sound like we are at the same point in our weight, same goals. I also like to eat and have muscle too much to lose too much (I cannot remember when I last weighed less than 150 -- hmm, age 23 I think!).

But just being conscious of what you eat and how you workout is what it is about. Eventually, it catches up. I spent three years sitting at 175 to 180, and am FINALLY moving downward. Something finally snaps at some point! I think this forum really helps me to know that someone else is paying attention... and I have to weekly WRITE IT DOWN! That helps my own motivation -- and I know that no one else is keeping track. Just me, but it seems that is enough.

Everyone does it in their own way at their own time! We're all just here to support that.

Keep up the work. :)

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Originally Posted by Starfish

Not exactly not motivated...just not doing what I know I need to do, either in terms of planning/eating, or in terms of setting up motivational triggers like I normally do.

A little frustrated.

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Weight Watchers gives you all those.
You only need to go about four times to get all the literature you need for the plan you choose. I first went to WW about 10 years ago but still had all the books.
It's not as hard as I had worked it up in my mind to be.

I tried WW and did not lose any weight. I was pretty frustrated as some of my co-workers started it and lost weight. But the more I thought about it, I eat pretty healthy most of the time and exercise quite a bit while my co-workers usually ate fast food all of the time. I need to find something that will work. I do have hypothyroidism which I am sure affects my ability to lose weight. I keep a food journal and eat anywhere from 1200 to 1600 depending upon the day. Stay away from most processed foods too. Maybe my body is happy with 150.

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Weight Watchers gives you all those.

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No program in the world works if you don't work it. I know what to do. I know the types of things that typically motivate me. I lost 10 pounds in December/January.

The problem at this point is within me.