Biggest Loser--Fall 2011 Challenge for Losers & Maintainers!!

[keenercam]

About to go into work but just got a call from mom. She's on her way to my grandmas because she got a call from my gma saying she took half a bottle of pills but it didn't work. My mom is obviously freaking out and her and my aunt are headed over there. This isn't the first time something like this has happened but I'm concerned and not sure what I should do. I'm going to work and I will wait to hear from my mom.

Please keep us posted on how your grandmother is. I am sure it is hard to go to work when you are so worried.

Cam, I so understand your frustration. I go down a pound, up a pound for weeks and then it finally moves. You are doing great and you got some jogging intervals in this past weekend. I'm so proud of how far you've come from not being able to hardly walk pre-surgery with all that pain. I only wish I could be doing the 1/2 with you in January.

Thanks, Patty. I really appreciate that you help motivate me to get to the Y many mornings when I would put it off in the hopes of getting there in the evening. I wish we were doing the 1/2 together, too.

I just made friends with keenercam in MyFitnessPal for added motivation (thanks Cam!). If someone wants to add me - you can find me under itsgeektome - just mention you're from the Fall BL challenge

Ruth - Thank you for "friending" me there. I am looking forward to using that site/app and getting to know you better, too! Are you tracking your food and exercise there in a diary? Is your diary private?

I am hoping others will join us on myfitnesspal. I tried to get the WISH group active on sparkpeople years ago, but it fizzled. There are many WISHers on mfp and I am hoping they will be another "accountability" factor for me.

 

[akhaloha]

QOTD Tuesday, September 13, 2011: What exercise excuse do you use most often?
* I don't have time
* I'm too tired
* It's too difficult for me
* It's boring
* I don't want people to see me
* I don't know what I'm doing
* I don't make any of these excuses
* I have my another excuse

"I don't have time" & "I'm too tired" are my two most used excuses. I have found that if I change into my workout cloths right when I get home, I will actually workout. If I even sit down for one minute - I'm a goner and all the excuses come into play. So, even though I know this about myself, did I workout yesterday? Unfortunately - no. I definitely need to get back in the habit.

 

[pjstevens]

Ruth - Thank you for "friending" me there. I am looking forward to using that site/app and getting to know you better, too! Are you tracking your food and exercise there in a diary? Is your diary private?

I am hoping others will join us on myfitnesspal. I tried to get the WISH group active on sparkpeople years ago, but it fizzled. There are many WISHers on mfp and I am hoping they will be another "accountability" factor for me.

I just started using myfitnesspal also, thanks to my buddy Cam. I'm really liking how easy it is to scan. it even read my whey protein that I use EVERY single day for breakfast, lol. I was shocked and happy. So easy to add.

I can't figure out how to 'friend' someone, so you can find me as pjstevens (real original, lol).

 

[keenercam]

I just started using myfitnesspal also, thanks to my buddy Cam. I'm really liking how easy it is to scan. it even read my whey protein that I use EVERY single day for breakfast, lol. I was shocked and happy. So easy to add.

I can't figure out how to 'friend' someone, so you can find me as pjstevens (real original, lol).

For Patty and anyone else that wants to "friend" someone on that site, here are two ways to do it.

OPTION 1:
Log in
Go to "My Home"
Click on "Friends" on upper right side of screen -- it is 3 "rows" down
you'll see a green button that says "invite your friends"
fill out the form on the next screen to send an email to anyone you want to add.

OPTION 2:
Log in
Go to "My Home"
Go to Profile
click on "find members"
From there you can put in an email or a user name in the far right box at the top to locate someone you know or someone you think has an account (many WISHers use the same username)
Alternatively, you can look for members that you don't know by putting in their criteria: gender, age, location, weight loss goal, etc.

Hopefully, more of us will show up there to track calories and fitness.

 

[lisah0711]

Are you scanning in the info with your phone, Pat?

Also, how was your cruise?

 

[keenercam]

Are you scanning in the info with your phone, Pat?

Also, how was your cruise?

Lisa - I can answer the scan question. You tell it you want to add food to your diary and then you press a little barcode button and point it at the package barcode; it switches your smartphone to a camera feature where it takes the image and sends it and then pulls up the food item's nutritional information on your phone screen. You then make sure the serving size is right and just click "add". It is so great to use! This morning, I had a yogurt, an individual size hummus, a can of green beans, a bagel thin, a sandwich thin and a package of ground turkey on the counter and just "shot" each item and told it what meal the food was for. It's such a fun "toy".

So far, the only packaged food item it couldn't find was Weight Watchers barbecue potato crisps that I bought at the meeting location. If it doesn't pull it up by barcode, you can search to see if someone has already entered all the information, or you can add it yourself.

 

[lisah0711]

Lisa - I can answer the scan question. You tell it you want to add food to your diary and then you press a little barcode button and point it at the package barcode; it switches your smartphone to a camera feature where it takes the image and sends it and then pulls up the food item's nutritional information on your phone screen. You then make sure the serving size is right and just click "add". It is so great to use! This morning, I had a yogurt, an individual size hummus, a can of green beans, a bagel thin, a sandwich thin and a package of ground turkey on the counter and just "shot" each item and told it what meal the food was for. It's such a fun "toy".

So far, the only packaged food item it couldn't find was Weight Watchers barbecue potato crisps that I bought at the meeting location. If it doesn't pull it up by barcode, you can search to see if someone has already entered all the information, or you can add it yourself.

Ooo, thanks, Cam! I love new toys. I agree that the sparkpeople group is a quiet one but I figure we are spending all our time on the Disboards.

 

[AUdisneyDad]

QOTD Tuesday, September 13, 2011: What exercise excuse do you use most often?
* I don't have time
* I'm too tired
* It's too difficult for me
* It's boring
* I don't want people to see me
* I don't know what I'm doing
* I don't make any of these excuses
* I have my another excuse

Mine would be that I don't have time. Not a very good excuse, however for the past two weeks I have been waking up at 3:30 am to workout and go for a walk/jog before I go to work.

 

[baby1disney]

I will have to look into Pilates. I do not know much about it. Does anyone know if Zumba's a good program. We have a couple close to our house.

Thanks,
Vicki

I have Zumba here at home on the Wii and I LOVE IT!!!! As soon as you hear the music..you wanna start moving!! You're dancing and having so much fun!! If you get a chance to get into a class..go for it cause it'll be worth it!!

 

[baby1disney]

I have also started a WISH Journal and would love for any of you to comment on it if you like. It's called Going from Beast to Beauty..My Journey. If I could figure out how to post the link from my phone..I would just do it!! I've gone through a lot and just wanted to share my story and possibly help or inspire someone else.

I'm loving all of the POSITIVITY I'm seeing on here!!! Keep up the good work ladies and gents...can't wait til the end when everyone will reach their goals!!!

 

[jaelless]

QOTD Tuesday, September 13, 2011: What exercise excuse do you use most often?
* I don't have time
* I'm too tired
* It's too difficult for me
* It's boring
* I don't want people to see me
* I don't know what I'm doing
* I don't make any of these excuses
* I have my another excuse[/B][/SIZE]

my favorite is too tired. I figure so tired I won't do good job so what is the point. Not good reason.

 

[jaelless]

I just installed that app on my phone. Now to figure out how to use it. Anybody else want to get added to friends list or qould like to add me? I am registered under jaelless of course

 

[mackeysmom]

Thank you all so much for the good thoughts re: my interview.

The interview was …. interesting. I think I have all of the skills necessary to do the job and I think I handled myself well, but I felt completely out of place.

The company is a distributor of sports and fitness supplements and everybody in the office was fit and buff and muscular. I mean, there were chin up/pull up bars on the door frames. Needless to say, I’m not fit, buff or muscular. I almost had to chuckle when they asked me about my familiarity with their product.

The whole time, I kept thinking - “Which one of these things is not like the other?!”

On the plus side, IF I did get the job I probably wouldn’t have to worry about co-workers sabotaging me with donuts, bagels, candy, etc.

They said they were interviewing other candidates throughout the week and would be making their decision early next week.

Back to the task at hand – I’ve had a really good few days food-wise and activity-wise. Come Friday, I think the scale will show that I’ve lost close to the 4 pounds that I put on between challenges. I think a lot of it was sodium-induced weight gain and the kind of quick gain that comes off pretty easily.

- Laura

 

[tigger813]

QOTD: My excuses are I'm too tired and I don't have time. I didn't get up this morning as I had a horrible time sleeping last night. I did some housework and put together Izzie's new twin sized bed and man I worked up a sweat doing that. I will clean up the kitchen in a few minutes and then try and do some work on Izzie's room since there is now a much bigger bed in there. I'll have to take some more things downstairs to store.

Just finished watching Eureka from last night and eating supper. Time to get cleaning before I head to my meeting in about an hour.

TTFN

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

About to go into work but just got a call from mom. She's on her way to my grandmas because she got a call from my gma saying she took half a bottle of pills but it didn't work. My mom is obviously freaking out and her and my aunt are headed over there. This isn't the first time something like this has happened but I'm concerned and not sure what I should do. I'm going to work and I will wait to hear from my mom.

Trina, keep ups posted. MY MIL did that once too, fortunately DH got wind of it and went over and made her expel it. It was very stressful for all of us.

 

[bellebookworm9]

I had a really good day until about an hour ago. My housemate and I went to the gym and neither of us could find our stride on the elliptical. My knee and foot started acting up about 15 minutes in, like it was doing when I was running over the summer. It feels like my knee has twisted and then the circulation doesn't get to my foot and it gets all tingly and numb. And then I could feel that my sugar was low for whatever reason so I went to the vending machine to get sugar ASAP-ruffles, a snickers, and half a bottle of orange soda. I'm still not feeling great.

On the positive side, I did talk myself out of a vending machine snack this afternoon. I thought through my list, and then got less hungry, then came home and had string cheese, pineapple, and carrot sticks.

 

[my3princes]

QOTD Tuesday: My excuses, I have none, I plan and simply don't take the time to exercise. It's my fault, I find time to DIS. It is definitely something that I need to work on.


I have been journaling the last couple of days. It does help as I really think about everything I'm putting in my mouth. I haven't actually calculated the points, but baby steps.

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

I just joined MFP, if you want to friend me it's BernardandMissBianca.

 

[buzz5985]

I would like to join the Fall challenge. Is it too late? I just started South Beach yesterday.

It's never to late!!! Welcome.

Janis

 

[jillbur]

QOTD Tuesday, September 13, 2011: What exercise excuse do you use most often?
* I don't have time
* I'm too tired
* It's too difficult for me
* It's boring
* I don't want people to see me
* I don't know what I'm doing
* I don't make any of these excuses
* I have my another excuse


My excuses are either I don't have time or I'm too tired. And some days, I feel like they are true. But, I am working on no more excuses!