Games & Challenges

Ok all here for motivation!!!!  

Cardio minutes

KT-195

chris-160

sheila-45

val-180

GMMMMMMMMMMMM H4Lers!!! 

OmG i slept last night!!!! weeeeeeeeeeee 8 whole hours!!!  i feel great!!!!!!!!  went to sleep at 12:30, dang what a concept!!  So if i used up the energy, does that mean im gonna have to excersise 3 hours a day????  no freaking way i can do that!!

So it is friday, thank goodness, my 2 older babies will be home sunday woooooooooohoooooooo i miss em so much, lol wasnt i complaining about them last week???  too funny!!

Not much going on here for the weekend fight night tomorrow, hope no drama like last one!!!!!!!  I hate drama, especially when it comes to a bunch of drunk dudes!!!  But it is funny when they almost cry!!

Next weekend i am going on a float trip, so KT if u could do numbers for me again that would be GREAT!!

So i am down 3.5 this week so 195.5. which means i have lost 25.5 pounds!!  I have also lost 29.75 inches....sad i had that much to lose!!

hugzzzzzz everyone!!

ok i couldnt see it DON, said error......what did it say??

oh had a huge discussion about the sopranos and i guess the fade to black was how he descibed death, so i think tony died!!  lol i just found this out last night, Lorraine Bracco (sp) was on our radio station.......lol im slow kinda glad they didnt show that i WOULD OF CRIED!!!!

Chris,

First of all CONGRATS. WAY TO F'N GO! Team captain leading by example

as for the link if you want I could e-mail it to you if you want just let me know. Oh yeah I also hate the drama and usually the people I watch the fights with I don't have to worry about it.

Amaxpo

forgot to ask how did the run go yesterday and GJ with the weight loss.

 REMEMBER EVERYONE POST UR WEIGH IN TODAY OR TOMORROW!!!!!   the earlier the better, so lets say by 5 pm whereever u are!!!  lol

happy losing all!!!

wow chris! i guess you are losing extra to make up for me :(

i dont' know why i can't get the damn numbers to go down! i drop calories and it doesnt work, i increase and it doesnt work, i zigzag and it doesnt work! ugh I'm at least not going up though so I guess

 I'll count my blessings. HOpefully tomorrow i will be down something!

I need everyone's challenge numbers no later than 5:30 Pacific time tomorrow! I will not be at my computer later than that so they have to be in to me! If you will still be eating later than that, calculate those points in but be honest!

Chris-i don't know yet if I can do next weekend. I will hopefully be goign to Tahoe but that's not for sure yet. If I cannot do it, does anyone volunteer to be a back up to me?

So I just about died at my workout last night. It was over 100 degrees and after the bike ride, I wasn't doing too hot (well i was too hot lol). so i didn't do the run for fear of passing out lol. but all is well now!

Ok when u get everyones challenge numbers, post em here or send them to me!!!

tahoe FUN!!!!  i wanna go!!

im sure VK can do em next weekend if u cant, and if not someone will.....and if not worse case we send em friday!!!

and not gaining is awesome!!!!!!  how many calories are u eating now KT lets see if we can all help u fix this!! 

OMG 100 degrees how far did u ride?

i rode 30 minutes last night. I don't have cages on my bike so I didn't have any water w/ me during the ride.

Right now I'm eating around 1500 cals....most days it's about 1400 though. It says I burn about 2500 cals a day if I don't add any activities to it. But when I calculated my BMR from my tri booklet it said I burn about 2700 cals per day. I am scared to go up further. I guess maybe I'll try 1600 cals per day and see how that goes?

or u could try giving your body a shock, and eat 2200 calories, which u would still have a deficit, but eat about 2200 for 2 days and see what happens, what do u have to lose??  then when u go back down to 1500 calories u would start losing again, just a thought not sure if it will work, but i have heard it does cause ur body gets confused??

I can definitely step in for next weekends numbers.  No sweat.

KT, isn't it you that gets into the Chipotle burritos?  I think this is a great opportunity for you to enjoy a burrito!  Have you logged in your activities.  A half hour of bike riding has got to be a couple hundred calories burned.  Whatever it is, subtract that from your calories eaten and that's how many you've really consumed.  It does look like your deficits are too big.  It does get scary to eat more when we've been trying to eat less but use it (like I should've done w/a gyros I've been wanting) and get a burrito girl!!!  Shock that system of yours!  I totally agree with Chris.

haha the problem is when i do get the chipotle burrito i eat very little the rest of the day to make up for it! Well my calories in yesterday were abotu 1600, calories burned were around 2800 (that's including the bike ride). When I first started on here I was eating about 1500 cals a day and went over that a few days but I was losing. I don't get it! I shouldn't be plateauing after only 20 pounds! hmmm I'll think about those 2200 cals. it's so tempting lol.

o and thank you vk! My dad is checking on the hotel right now (they have a timeshare so it wouldnt cost me anything to go up there) so I will let you knwo. but likely i will be celebrating graduating that weekend so I won't be availabel to do it.

just try it out with lots of water, for 2 days like sunday and monday ur body will be like woahhhhhh and then when u drop the calories im thinking it will fall off!!

Good Morning H4L'ers  (almost afternoon here in MI) -

I LOVE reading all the posts .... you guys make me grin :-)   (no I'm not a Lost fan either, but when I was in Hawaii on vacation with my girlfriend, we HAD to be back at the room for Lost AND Survivor!!)

Lost only ONE pound this past week .... but I will TAKE IT (one lost is better than one gained) !!

Chris  - YOU ROCK and YES A GREAT INSPIRATION for us ALL !!!  I wish my body could take all the exercise ... I hope now that I'm losing, I will be able to do more things.  I AM feeling a LOT better :-)
BTW Chris - it does sound like you had low blood sugar/lack of protein ... before doing that much exercise, if you don't have time to eat, you should at least get some protein (drink?) in you. 

Katie - I am on another thread that one of the ladies gave us a formula for calculating how many calories we actually need (and you can calculate - add or subtract - calories by the amount of exercise you do.  I know I didn't say that right, but I'll go find the formula and paste it here for all of us.

GJ ALL of us on everyone's efforts and loses (or maintaining) this
week !!!

Ok Guys ... Here is the Calorie Intake Formula from one of my other threads - see if it works for you:

Lesson 1 is understanding how many calories it actually takes for your BASIC metabolism. This means just daily life and your weight is stable.

    * Current weight / 2.2 = A (this is converting weight to kg)
    * (8.7 x A) + 829 = B (BMR Basal Metabolic Rate)
    * B x 1.3 = C (these are the calories needed daily to maintain your weight where you are TODAY)

Ok. So this is your starting place. Not pulled from a hat. But based on basic science and math.

The 1.3 used in the calculation represents determining the daily energy requirement. This could be low for a few people. BUT the most common mistake made is people underestimate the calories they consume (if they were to measure and weigh faithfully) and overestimate the amount of activity they actually get!



Lesson 2...now that you know how many calories it takes to run your body at a very light level of intensity, let's figure out how to make adjustments WITHOUT starving or making our bodies think we are starving.

    * One pound = 3500 calories
    * One pound per week = 3500 / 7 = 500 calories per day

Now, you have a couple of options here. You KNOW you must arrive at a deficit of 500 less calories PER DAY in order to achieve a one pound weight loss per week.

    * Achieved through eating 500 less calories each day
    * Exercising enough to burn off 500 calories
    * or a combination of BOTH! 250 less calories eaten and 250 calories burned through cardio.

Now you are armed and dangerous. Play with it. See what YOU are comfortable with. For me personally, I am aiming at a minimum of 1.5 pounds a week...which would bring me calorically to 1370...and THEN all of my cardio will just further my results. I lost 3.6 last week. This is always a slightly moving target and you must be willing to play with it and be open minded.

    * You should NEVER EVER eat less than 1300 calories per day! You can burn it off...but you must at least consume that many into your body and those calories MUST be good ones.


Hope this may help some/all of us !  :-)

I cheated and peeked again today...and if I read the number right I'm going to show a modest loss again this week.  1.5...hope it holds steady until tomorrow, unless it wants to move further down.

My office manager said she wants me to try the dessert she brought for the BBQ our office is having today.  Yeah...she says it's a layer of ice cream sandwiches covered with vanilla ice cream topped with cool whip.  I told her "NO WAY!!! What are you trying to do, sabatoge me!?!?!?"  She just laughed.  No worries guys...I brought my handy dandy measuring spoons with me today so I can really be good while I'm being bad.  I don't care what anyone says about how dorky I look.  This dork is going to lose this extra person hanging all over me.

ok the calculations judi had said I use 2100 cals a day! haha they are all different!

ok tahoe is definitely a go for next weekend. My awesome dad got the hotel! now i owe him a really good father's day present.

wooooohooooooo KT have a great weekend!!!  there ya go a weekend to shock ur body and up those calories!!!

VK g8 job on the 1.5, that is awesome!!  maybe it will be a lil more tomorrow even if not u cant complain!!!

wtg JUDI  1 pound nice work!!!

ty VK for doing numbers next week, im not staying in a hotel like KT, ill be on a river canoeing, and camping....that should be good for my FAT arms!!

No complaints here on the 1.5 (if it sticks)!  I'll take what I can get.

That said...I just went to the kitchen to pull out my fruit salads for the BBQ and had to walk by 5 HUGE bowls of various types of chips.  HELLO, I'm hungry because I skipped my snacks in anticipation of this bbq.  Send some willpower vibes this way!!!!

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will power being sent!!!  u feel it............

did you get my vibes???? lol I'm munching on cantaloupe and thinking of you vk!