Round 3 First Weigh-In

Alright! Here goes! Post your weight, and your individual goals. This week's group challenge is NO CHOCOLATE!

Jana: 132.5 Weekly Weight Goal: Lose 1 pound. Exercise Goal: 200 minutes. Eating: Normally I'll be doing South Beach but probably not this week.

Meredith: 166.4 (vacation ruined me!) My personal goal/challenge for the week is to stay on South Beach and to lose 1.5 to 2lbs. Jana...I modified the post...sorry. I suppose I volunteer to be the blog posting person or whatever.

Eric: 223 He hasn't come up with a personal goal, so I will make it for him....to go to rugby this week.

Karen: 178 (the summer ruined me!) Challenge: I will run for 5 minutes on the treadmill at least once this week. I will lose 2 lbs. I will be doing my Low sugar & carb, high protien plan like last time, and taking the Pine oil capsules that Christines says help her lose.

Christine: 181.2 This week's goal: eat at LEAST 5 servings of fruits and veggies every single day. Exercise 360 minuts. (christine can you design another page for us to print and keep track of our stuff? i really used that a lot and need one for this time around. you're such a good daughter!) Yes I can design another one, what should I put on it? Like the other one...daily excercise, the weekly challenge and weight, and our own challenge.

Bonnie:Sugar said...
Big dork here. I can't figure out how to edit this post so I can add in my goals (albeit almost a week late!).I'm staying in hotels for the next 2 weeks and was in one last week. My food is basically provided for me. I didn't check this blog until today so I will do the no chocolate this week in addition to the new challenge.I DID exercise 3 times in the hotel fitness center!!! I'm not up to 50 minutes but I could probably get there this week. Oh, and I can't count on the scales at these hotels (the last one said I weighed 230!!) So, for now my weigh in will have to be on Sundays. But I know that doesn't matter to anyone and you're wondering why I'm telling you so much:-)I have an old picture of me when I wanted to lose weight (beware...it's scary) that I'll post when I find it.Current weight 215Goal weight 14075 lbs!!!!And my other goal is to fit into the fitted Hawaiian mu`u mu`u temple dress that I had made in 1995. On a side note, a 34 B would be lovely but I'll settle for a C.I bought a pedometer so 10,000 steps a day is my daily goal as well-beginning next week when it arrives.Smiles, Fave
August 3, 2008 10:17 AM

Too many rules?

I was just looking at the things I put as possible rules and am wondering if it is too many things for us to post. Do you want to post the individual goals? Challenges for yourself? And does someone want to volunteer to be the .....webmaster or whatever you are who figures it all out like Christine did? (Christine?) I am not quite smart enough on the McPuter to do it.

IF we are posting our own goals, then my first one is:

Challenge: I will run for 5 minutes on the treadmill at least once this week.
I will lose 2 lbs.
I will be doing my Low sugar & carb, high protien plan like last time, and taking the Pine oil capsules that Christines says help her lose.
And that's my stuff.

No Chocolate!!!!!
I guess I did say first come.... so The first challenge next week is no chocolate.
And I was just trying to figure out how many minutes we should get in each week so I am fine with the 250 minutes however we can get them in.

OK! I have tried twice to post this as a comment and I keep boo-booing on Bonnie's Mac so now I will attempt my own Post.

How about 1.5 lbs per person per week for the next 4 weeks (till Christine's b-day). And 50 min. minimum exercise 5 days per week. This adds up to 42 lbs and (get this!) 7000 minutes of exercise. We still report lbs lost and minutes each week. Who would like to issue the first challenge to us all? First Come first served .
Any changes ?

Let's Get This Party STARTED!

Alright people, when are we doing this??? I was thinking of starting next Tuesday, with Karen being out of town and all. What do you think???

I like the weigh-ins on Tuesday, because that seems to be the best day for me weight-wise! It's just enough time for me to recover from the weekends...

Me too

OK, I need to get in on this. My goal won't be to lose weight, but I need to start exercising again and go back on some semblance of the South Beach Diet even though I REALLY don't want to! I think my mysterious energy deficiency and nausea may be coming from my eating habits :::sigh::: so I need to try to fix that.

Our Idea

Eric and Mer here...

We don't think that there should be a cash prize at the end.

We think that this round shouldn't be about competing, but rather working towards a goal together as a team. Meaning we all win, or we all lose.

We can have some sort of group reward at the end if we meet the goal, and if we don't, maybe some sort of consequence. But either way, it would be small and not a big deal.

We've discussed this with Mom and she agrees with us and likes our ideas.

The New Biggest Losers 3

The time has come for us to start a new Biggest Loser contest! We are excited to begin again because we NEED to begin again! We still have flab we want to say good-bye to and muscles we want to build up and show off! We all should say (as Dad/Don does every time he lifts weights :) " I AM STWONG!!" OK, this just HAS to be our new motto ! I have talked to Meredith & Eric & Christine and these are the ideas we have come up with so far. Please let us know what you think in a new post!

1. Weekly weigh-in and minutes exercised
2. We will set group goals of pounds to lose to achieve by 3 birthdays: First Christine's, August 26, then Mom's, September 18, and Mer's, October 24th which will be the ending date of the contest. For instance, If there are 6 people, we decide we want to lose 15 lbs by the 26th. That's 2 each and a few more we hope some of us will achieve.
3. We will each post our own Weekly Goal . i.e. the first week my goal is to lose 2 lbs and exercise for 300 minutes. Posting it for all of us to see should make us more determined to achieve our goal! AND our own personal challenge, like... One time this week I will run for 10 minutes (that would be 3 times longer than I have done this). So whatever YOU choose.
4. We will each post our diet plans at the begining. It is important to know what you will eat because we have discovered it really doesn't work to say "I'll eat more healthy" or something generic like this. You need a real plan like "low carbs" or "Low fat" or "South Beach" or "High Protien" . However you want to do it.
5.We will have Weekly CHallenges which we will take turns choosing. (most water, no sugar, most minutes exercising etc.)
4. AND WE WANT MONEY AT THE END! How about we charge $20 per person again and Dad and I will put in $100. We could say Winner take all OR have a first and second place OR wait and see if our totals are so close that we need to divvy it up between the Biggest Losers.

I will handle the money and will want it sent in soon. We hope to start this week so chime in with your opinions quickly!

Let's make this work and start getting STWONG!

The e-mail message went out to Eric, Mer, Christine, Karen and Bryce

And the winner is . . . .

CHRISTINE!!!

This is christine posting this . . . I didn't want to be the one to declare my own victory if I was the winner, but it turns out Jana is a) really bad at math and b) too busy. SO, I'd just like to say,

BOO-yah!

Iwin I win I win! I am so proud of myself, I have NEVER wanted something so bad or worked so hard at it. I'm especially proud that I won despite gaining 10 pounds on my cruise! Thank you guys so much for doing this and motivating me, I never would have lost this much by this point if it weren't for the biggest loser! Speaking of which, as of today I have passed the 50 lb mark! Woohoo!

Here are the final points for the top 3 people:

Christine: Today's weight: 178.2, Total loss: 15.6 lbs. Percentage lost: 8.05%
Weight loss points: 468 Exercise/challenge points: 664 Percentage bonus: 250 Total points: 1382

Mom: Today's weight: 172, Total loss: 14 lbs. Percentage: 7.52%
Weight loss points: 420 Exercise/challenge points: 466.5 Total points: 886.5

Mer: Today's weight: 158.1, Total loss: 13.1 lbs. Percentage: 7.65%
Weight loss points: 393 Exercise/challenge points: 303 Total points: 696


Oh and MOM is this week's challenge winner! You're the only one who did it, go mom!

Poor Fools

I'm really sorry that some of you (Christine, Mer, Mom) seem to have the impression that you actually have a chance of winning this competition. I guess you haven't noticed my dedication and motivation, my competitive nature kicking in....

Well, what I'm really trying to say is, sorry, but I'm going to WIN by a MILE!!!!

MWAHAHAHAHAHA

Week 12 points

(for those who weighed in anyway . . . )

I figured these with our weight loss points from last week, so I'm just putting up grand totals.

Christine- 931

Mom- 747

Mer- 678

Jason- 493


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

Week 12 Non-Weigh-In!

This week's challenge was the most getting up to 7 gallons of water (not who could drink the most), and we are not weighing in today; the final weigh-in will be Saturday!!! But I'm leaving in last weeks weight results just for fun. And remember...no desserts/treats/sweets this week!!!


Christine - 3.75 gallons, 585 minutes of exercise

Annette - 123.4

Jana - 128.5 total 1.5 lb gain.

Don - 153.3

Mom -4 gallons (meredith can definately drink us under to table...) 300 minutes Exercise 175.5 total 10.5

Jason - 250 minutes of exercise

Meredith - 7.12 gallons 200 minutes exercise 158.5 12.7 lb total loss

No Tuesday Weigh-In?

Since we will be finishing this round this Saturday (because of the reunions), How about if we do not Weigh-In tomorrow, but only post our Water challenge number? Then we weigh -In and answer the last No Dessert challenge for the last time on Saturday?

Week 11 Points

Only 10 days left!!

exercise&challenge+weight loss=total

Christine- 556.5+306=862.5

Mom- 402+315=717

Mer- 267+381=648

Jason- 468+0=468

Dad- 273.5+0=273.5

Jana- 155.5+0=155.5

Annette- 54+0=54


See Mer??? If the contest ended today, you would win!


And this week's challenge winner is . . . . . . ME! Christine. And I guess I won last week too.

Week 11 Totals

Don - 153.5 lbs (in bouncing mode ) 1.5 hrs movies, 270 min Exercise

Karen - 175.5 lbs up .5. 2 hrs TV 95 min Exercise.....I don't think I won.... But Water, here I come!!!

Christine- 183.6 1.4 gain total 10.2 lb loss 205 minutes of exercise zero TV!

Mer- 158.5 2.7 loss, total 12.7 loss 210 minutes of exercise 1 hour TV

Annette - 123.4. Does walking around for hours in my relatively high shoes count as excersize? I didn't think so. Yeah, jana, I'm wondering the same thing about myself. Ah well, it's fun to be involved.

Jana-128.5 2.5 lb gain, total 1.5 lb gain. Why am I even still doing this? lol

Jason- 188.8 total 8 lb gain 385 minutes of exercise didn't count tv

Week 10 Points

exercise&challenge+weight loss=total

Christine- 536.5+342=858.5

Mom- 392.5+330=722.5

Meredith- 246+300=546

Jason- 429.5+0=429.5

Dad- 246.5+0=246.5

Jana- 155.5+30=185.5

Annette- 54+0=54

Not sure on the challenge winner. Everybody did the exercise challenge this week right?

Week 10 Weigh-In!!!!

This week's challenge was the most minutes of exercise, unless you did the tv thing, then the minutes will be next week for you!


Christine - 182.2 2.6 lb loss, total 11.4 loss 425 minutes of exercise I did the tv thing this week, but we can just count my exercise minutes for the challenge this week too. I'll put my tv hours up next week.

Annette - 124 And once again, when I posted this morning, it didn't save it. Annoying.

Jana - 126 1.5 lb gain, total 1 lb loss. Exercise: No Comment.

Don - 154 again.

Mom - 175 1 lb loss, total 11 155 min exercise Karen, you were 176 last week, so it's only a 1 pound loss, not 1.5. :)

Jason - 187.4 2 lb loss 300 minutes of exercise

Meredith - 161.2 10lb total loss 370 minutes exercise It wasn't a very good week for me, but at least I rounded out to 10lbs down! :)

Christine, please enter for me.
From Mom ...My weight is
175 lbs. 1.5 loss. ONLY about 155 mins exercize . I'm a slug. But I'm still losing!

New Challenge Suggestions?

I think Meredith's idea of No Sugar as in No treats or added sugar to replace No Chocolate is excellent. I know I am needing it now! And I want to OPEN THE FLOOR for suggestions for some NEW CHALLENGES if you have a good idea and would like to change any others in these last few weeks. Or is there one challenge we would really like to take on again instead of what is listed?

The Powers The BE

Mix it up?

OK, so I was just thinking about the challenges and how since we're starting to repeat some of them, I thought it might be fun to mix it up a little bit. So there were a couple of things I wanted to put out there....

1. For the "no chocolate"....can we switch that to "no sugar"? I think it would be a lot more difficult, and it's definitely something that I wanted to try and do. It would include chocolate, candy, cookies, cake, ice cream....any dessert with sugar, whether it had chocolate or not.

2. When I was telling the girls at work about our challenges and about the water one as an example, they reminded me that someone here in KC just died from drinking too much water (on a dare) and it kind of weirded me out a little bit. I drank a ton of water that week, and I just don't want anyone, including myself, to go overboard and get sick. So I was thinking of making it a goal, like "7 gallons of water" instead of "the most".

What do you think?