Week 4 Points

I'm not doing fancy colors today. The first number is exercise/challenge points, the second is weight loss points, the third is of course your total.


Mom- 107+135=242

Christine- 190+0=190

Jason- 136+0=136

Jana- 81.5+0=81.5

Dad- 43+0=43

Jen- 42+0=42

Annette- 24+0=24

And this week's challenge winner is ............. MEREDITH!

Week 4 Weigh-In!!!

This past week's challenge was most water consumed. Post that in BLUE. And if you need the conversions, follow the numbers on the conversion post.

Christine here, just clarifying: Wanted to make sure everyone has been counting ONLY water. No juice, pop, kool-aid, etc.


Christine- 194 4.4 lb loss, total 0.2 lb gain 500 minutes of exercise I didn't keep track of water . . . I knew it would be too pitiful!

Annette - 126.4 I don't want to talk about it. 2.75 gallons of water.

Jana-127 1 lb gain. Total 0 loss/gain. 140 min. exercise. 4.24 gallons water = 16.09 liters (Which is over 8 cups a day, which is good, so I'm fine with that)....Mer and Jason, that is a lot of water....talk about lots of trips to the bathroom....but GO MER, I can't believe you've already lost your Logan weight! That's so fast!

Dad - 155 no water, exercise? a bunch but don't know how much. He needs to post this himself next time...

Mom - 181.5 hmm,.. how did that happen? 4 down. Next week I had better see a 7 in that number! 300 min exercise. Water - 4.4 gallons which is 15. something liters. My brain is too tired. I guess I made it to 1/2 bushel. Meredith, did you almost drown?

Jen -114 0 lb loss/gain. 180 min. exercise

Jason - 188.4 1.2 lb loss, total 7.8 lb gain 360 minute of exercise 8.5 gallons of water

Week 3 Points

Okay, I just put up the points for last week, but now I've taken them down, and these are the revised points.

You guys . . . . you weren't seriously thinking we would get points for losing a pound we just put on the week before were you? That completely defeats the purpose of the contest. This isn't a weekly contest, it's for 3 months. To see who can exercise the most and lose the most in 3 months.

At the very end, we'll have all of our exercise points, plus points for the number of pounds we've lost since the start. So yeah, points will fluctuate a bit in the mean-time. I, for instance, lost a bunch of points this week.

I hope that makes sense to everybody-- but if you really think about it, it just wouldn't be fair. Jason and I just gained 10 pounds each that we're going to lose really fast -- how fair is that if we get points for it? Or like for round one, Jason's weight went up or down a pound all the time. He would have gotten tons of points for losing the same pound over and over again.

So I'm going to put up the points as 2 sets, the exercise ones that will stay the same and we'll keep adding to, and the weight loss ones, which will fluctuate from week to week.

**Remember, we don't lose points for gaining, we just un-get the points we got for losing.

exercise points + weight loss points = total points


Christine- 140+0=140

Jason- 100+0=100

Jana- 67.5+30=97.5

Mom- 77+15=92

Dad- 43+0=43

Jen- 42+0=42

Annette- 24+0=24

Conversions

OK, here is a conversion chart that I found at this website. Let's use this to convert our water measurements, however we are doing it. That way we're all converting the same way. How does that sound???

Liquid Measures

16 ounces = 1 Pint
32 ounces = 1 Quart
128 ounces = 1 Gallon

2 Pints = 1 Quart
4 Quarts = 1 Gallon
8 Gallons = 1 Bushel

1 Cup = 8 Ounces
1 Pint = 16 Ounces
1 Quart = 32 Ounces
1 Gallon = 128 Ounces

1 Gallon = 3.785 Liters
1 Liter = 0.264 Gallon
1 Liter = 1.0567 Quarts

And how did everyone do with their water drinking yesterday? I drank way more than I actually thought I would. I set a goal, and more than doubled it!

Week 3 Weigh-In!

This past week's challenge was least amount of time watching TV. Post that in BLUE.

Christine- 198.4 8.6 lb gain, total 4.8 lb gain 360 minutes of exercise about 3 hours of TV (I didn't really keep track because I knew Jason would beat me!) Heh heh, told you guys I gained! What can I say, eating was pretty much the best part of the cruise! I'm actually pretty happy today though, because I was 202 yesterday!

Annette - 124.4 2.2 lb gain. Total 2.8 lb gain. 120 minutes of excercise. I lost track of the TV.

Jana-126 2.5 lb loss; Total 1 lb loss. 240 min. exercise. Many TV hours and much movie watching. It seems that I should shout praises to South Beach Phase One, even though I detest being on it.

Dad - 152 1 lb loss 230 exercise 3.5 hrs TV

Mom - 185.5 boo hoo. 1.5 gain. 280 min exercise. TV was 8.5 hours
Jen -114 0 lb loss/gain. 180 min. exercise

Jason - 190.6 8.4 lb gain/ total 8.4 gain 380 minutes of exercise 0 hours TV Ah, but the food was good!

Agua

Just a reminder that tomorrow starts the MOST WATER CONSUMED challenge week. So drink up!

And don't forget we're measuring in LITERS!!!

From wimpy Mom: Please can't we do quarts because I am always drinking 16 oz bottles or cups of water. I don't know how to change it to liters!

Christine here: Track water how ever you want, we can convert it at the end. (we're tracking ounces too mom.)

Prizes

What do you guys thinking of changing things so that there's more than one big winner? I was thinking maybe 1st prize $150, 2nd $60, 3rd $30. Any thoughts?

Christine

Points for Week 2

Here's where we're at after week 2! Total points are in GREEN, points earned from this week are in (parentheses).

Christine -- 224 points (+66 points)

Mom -- 109 points (+88 points) (mom corrected this)

Jason -- 52 points (+24 points)

Annette -- 48 points (+45 points)

Jana -- 43 points (+32 points)

Dad -- 43 points (last week's since he hasn't reported in yet)

Jen -- 42 points (+18 points)

This week's challenge winner....CHRISTINE!

This Week

So this week's challenge is the TV one, right? Too bad I already lost by watching American Idol before I realized what the challenge was...but David Cook was worth it, my friends! Anyway, make sure you all watch at least an hour so I will not lose.

Net Here: Crap, I forgot about the tv thing too, so after we watched American Idol, we also caught up on the two New Amsterdam episodes that we had missed. At least I don't really watch TV during the day though. Does anyone else find that there is exactly NOTHING tempting on TV during the day?

Week 2 Weigh-In!!!

Last week's stats are in PURPLE, be sure to change it to the right colors. This week's challenge was most time spent exercising. I, Mer, volunteer to post the winner and points later on since Christine is on vacation.

Christine- 189.8 .4 loss 440 min. exercise! (doesn't make sense, does it???) This is mom posting for Christine since poor Christine is out on the ocean doing her exercising this week.

Annette - 122.0 1.2 lb loss. Total .6 lb gain. 90 minutes of excercise.

Jana-128.5 1 lb gain. Total 1.5 lb gain. 345 min. exercise. My findings: lots of exercise + eating yummy naughty food = :( . I guess it's true what I've heard: 80% of weight loss is diet. When you think about it it makes sense. You eat a bunch of junk so the first hour of exercise is getting rid of that crap you ate yesterday, leaving all that previous weight for another time. Alas. Well, good think I'm back to strictness. No more cookies, pizza, or cake. Question: do we lose points for gaining weight? Or is it ignored until I get back to zero and then I'll start earning points for losing?

Dad - 153 1 lb gain

Mom - 184 2 lb loss (corrected) Wahoo! 280 min. exercise I'm so glad Christine has such a nice exercise room! I go down after the kids are in bed and spend a while watching the DVR and gettin sweaty. It's loverly.Yikes, what will I do this week to keep me entertained while exercising? I really need to do a new picture and try to look thinner.... This one is so nasty. ick.

Jen -114 0 lb loss/gain. 180 min. exercise

Jason - 182.2 same weight. 240 min exercise. Thanks to my favorite mother-in-law in the world for posting for me.

excitement

I was just wondering, did anybody else feel that the contest end was a little anti-climactic?  I mean, it was a little more exciting for me because it was close, but I just called Annette and asked and that was it...and nobody else really even cared about the end because they weren't winning.  Is there anything we can do to make the end more exciting?  Like not weigh in for the last three weeks before the finale so it's like the real Biggest Loser?  Or for the last one, send all the results to one person and then they announce it in some grand way?

Points! -- Updated!

Jason decided to join in! So the prize money is back up to $240 even without Eric!

Here are the standings from week 1:

Christine -- 158 points

Dad -- 43 points

Jason -- 28 points

Jen -- 24 points

Mom -- 21 points

Jana -- 9 points

Eric -- 3 points

Annette -- 3 points


And this week's challenge winner is . . . . . DAD!

Disclaimer: I try very hard to be accurate with the points, but I don't promise perfection. Feel free to double check me and let me know if I'm wrong.

Week 1 Weigh-In!!!

I can't remember who all is in this round, so we'll just add our names ourselves this time. Sorry! Official people, put your names in ORANGE.

Christine- 190.2 3.6 lb loss 500 minutes of exercise 24 miles I lost a lot (for me!) this week, so I think the exercise must be making a difference! I think we should stick with the miles challenge too, but maybe we could do it again next week, instead of the most minutes challenge. If you guys want. I'm not big on mileage so it doesn't matter to me.

Annette - 123.2 1.8 lb gain. 30 minutes of excercise. No Miles. Yes, clearly my head is Not in the game yet. And what with the cheesecake and donuts, I'll do better this week.

Eric - 225.0 30 minutes of exercise. No miles. Darn his work! It's keeping him toooooooo busy! **I think Eric is just going to be an unofficial contestant. He wanted me to remove him completely, but I don't want to do that. He's just so swamped with work that he's never able to do anything but sleep and work. It really sucks. So anyway, he's no longer official, and I won't be putting his money in.**



Jana-127.5 .5 lb gain. 90 minutes of exercise. 4 miles. HolY CRAP Christine, you are out of control! You GO girl! My head, like Annette's, is not in the game.

Dad - 153 1 lb gain 330 minutes of exercise 25 miles

Mom - 186.5 .5 lb gain. 210 minutes of exercise 8.5 miles I haven't really gotten into this yet but starting now I am really IN! Back to the fun grindstone and I'll add a gluteous maximus machine at the gym. Heh heh heh. Pretty soon my behind will be a little as Dad's.

Jen -114 (start weight) 240 minutes of exercise 4 miles

Jason - 182.2 2 lb gain 280 minutes of exercise 2 miles Just building muscle man!

Jana's After

Hey all, here's my AFTER picture!  I am using my new iMac to post this.  I confess I do NOT love it yet because the mouse is weird and nothing I want to try to do works out because nothing is where I think it should be.  I am very good at navigating on a PC and figuring this out, and it's like somebody with a different kind of brain put this one together and it doesn't work the way I think it should work.  Also it isn't compatible with microsoft word or the version of photoshop I have, which are the two things I use the most other than the internet.  One of the usb ports isn't working for some reason even though it was working yesterday and my ipod won't work anymore either--it got unplugged from that same usb port accidentally and now won't connect to either computer.  iphoto doesn't make sense to me.  I just feel disabled using this computer.  I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually but right now I'm mostly frustrated.  It DOES look beautiful on my desk, though.  Especially next to the ugly Dell.

Sorry, none of that had anything to do with biggest loser.  It was just on my mind.  Here's me, 18.5 pounds lighter than three months ago.

BIGGEST LOSER II

Contest duration: 13 weeks (almost) beginning Tuesday, April 1 and ending Saturday, June 28th (because of reunion week when access to original weigh-in scale won’t be available.)

Entry Fee: $25.00

Grand Prize: $225 (approximately. Total will be the sum of all the entry fees plus $100)


Grand Prize Winner: Most total points accumulated through the duration of the contest


Point System

30 points for every pound lost
One point for every ten minutes of exercise
250 bonus points for the highest percentage of weight lost at end of contest
Gift Certificate for the best homemade exercise video (Don and Karen are the judges. The decision of the judges in final. Videos should be 3 to 5 minutes long)
10 points for winning or accomplishing the Weekly Challenge

Weekly Challenges
The weekly winner will receive a $10 gift certificate

Week 1: Most miles walked/run
Week 2: Most time spent exercising
Week 3: Least hours spent watching television/movies
Week 4: Most gallons of water consumed
Week 5: No chocolate (everyone who meets the goal wins)
Week 6: No eating after 7 p.m. (everyone who meets the goal wins)
Week 7: 75,000 steps (based on pedometer reading, everyone who meets the goal wins)
Week 8: Most servings of fruits and veggies (1/2 C or fist sized)
Week 9: Most miles walked/run
Week 10: Most time spent exercising
Week 11: Least hours spent watching television/movies
Week 12: Most gallons of water consumed
Week 13: No chocolate (everyone who meets the goal wins)

Disclaimer: Organizers not responsible for strained muscles, headaches from chocolate withdrawal, bunions, strained marriages or whistles from construction workers. Prizes not given where prohibited by local laws. Not valid in Canada. Judges reserve the right to award themselves all prizes.

After Pictures

So, here are our after pictures! Feel free to add your own.

Cameron is wearing his old pants, which he now refers to as his "fat guy pants".

Cash Rewards!

We will present Cameron with his winning Biggest Loser check for $240.00 at ceremonies this weekend in Salt Lake City. Jana and Mom's checks for $20 for losing 10% of their body weights will be mailed presently. This is a great way to spend money!

The Results Show

In honor of the final weigh-in of round 1, I have posted special results. The regular groups graphs are there, but I made a little individual chart for everyone showing every weigh-in as well as total weight lost. I must say that I am VERY impressed that EVERYONE has lost weight! My family is quite jealous that Annette and I got involved with this and have actually made significant progress. I want to offer a hearty THANK YOU to everyone for starting this and making it happen with regular support and contact. I know I wouldn't have done it without you, thanks.

Results can be found here.

The FINAL Weigh-In

Dad -152 final weight. 10 lb loss total.

Mom - 186 Final weight . Total 23 lb loss. Wahoo!!!

Christine- 193.8 .2 loss, Total 12.8 Loss

Jana- 127 1 lb loss. Total 18.5 lb Loss.

Cameron - 195.0 1.0 lb loss. Total 29.2 Lb weight Loss.

Kimi - 114 lbs, 2lb loss, total loss 11 lbs?

Bryce- 198

Jason- 180.8 .2 loss, Total 2.2 loss

Meredith - 171.2 0.8lb gain; 17.2 lb total loss This will also be my starting weight for Round two! And check out my new hideous starting photo. Yuck. I'm disgusting.

Annette - 121.4 2.8 lb loss. Total 7.8 Lb weight loss.