buzz5985
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After watching week 4 of BL I'm kinda thinking about something. They showed the unknowns board with the calories and I was appalled. I know they are monitored but 1025 or whatever it was just seems outrageously low for the amount of exercise they do. How can that little calories feed the muscle they are gaining?I suppose now between realizing they do a ton of exercise and eat that low I can see how they get such high numbers but is it all fat loss is what I'm wondering. I know some do get quite a bit of muscle but like last season that one guy got pretty buffed up but that was at home when he probably ate a little more than he did on the ranch.
Actually, if you keep up with the show, the Doctor will come back on and show the fat loss. I forget what girl it was, but she was laid up in an accident and gained weight - her fat percentage was close to 60%!!!! The Doctor told her - if you aren't willing to exercise at least 90 minutes a day after you lose the weight you may as well go home now. They lose more weight from fat than most conventional diets, which people lose more lean muscle mass. The Doctor had a book out years ago that's an interesting read. He recommends 1 hour of running on the street, not a treadmill (notice they don't use weight machines in the gym on BL) and another hour of some other activity.
What I find most interesting with the BL, is that the people are just as successful at home as they are at the Ranch. If you pay attention to the weight loss precentages at the finale, the at home winner has, for the last several seasons, lost a higher percentage of weight than the BL.
There is a very interesting article in Runner's World this month about Biggest Loser and how they do things -- it is based on Season 10. They have an incredible amount of medical supervision so the calorie thing may be based on that. I thought that they did 1200 calories a day on the Ranch. If they mix things up from time to time that 1027 might have been a low day.
After being in the local Biggest Loser challenge at the gym I have accepted that I would never cut it for a BL losing style -- just too exhausting not to mention so totally unlike a real lifestyle. Sure it's taking me forever to reach my goals but it's not a race!
Never mind the exercise - I could never get up on a scale, on TV, in my underwear, letting it all hang out!!! LOL DH and I watch it.
Even Better, I have the weekend off
So i can stay up to the wee hours of the morning to type responses 
Add to that I wrecked the car a little over a week ago, a trip to my parents, head cold and NOW Aunt Flo is packing to leave. 
And a big thank you to Octoberbride03 for coaching this week! 
for a good dental appointment today. 
And you haven't even reached the part where you go to 
I had put together a great plan that I thought would work beautifully, but once we turned it over to our vendor, he said that it was a "mess" and wouldn't work 
The dumb thing is, I totally adhered to all of the rules he gave me before I started, but now there are apparently some new things he forgot to tell me about 
I think it would be nice for you to be in maintenance mode in March. 
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That is strange. I really don't love to run, and most days, I feel like all I want to do is be done, but every once in a while, I will have a really great run. I felt like I could have run longer, but unfortunately, I had to get back to work 
and 
) But my run in with the Raisinets last weekend had me beating myself up pretty badly on Monday. WHY?? Because it was a stupid, "old-me" choice! But I picked myself up and got back on my "normal" healthy eating on Monday morning and had a really good week (even with a birthday dinner out at Uno's on Wed.). But I didn't have a loss this week and, of course, I am beating myself up again today, angry about the lack of loss (especially since I had a small gain last week that should be gone by now) and kicking myself all over again for letting Raisinets get the better of me.
But, no sense in beating myself up over it, just gotta do better from here on out! The old me would have gained MUCH more over the Holidays and maybe never taken it back off! I'm now one pound away from a 25 pound clippie
For the QOTD, it does seem like life gets in the way alot. I could make an excuse for eating and exercise just about every day. It's best just to be proactive when you can rather than reactionary....looking over your schedule the night before to see when there's time to exercise, making sure to have proper foods ready at home and on the go, etc. It helps me to sort of think about things as an experiment, I wonder if I try this, will it work? And later I might realize something didn't work as well and I'll think what a better alternative might have been. You can choose to be healthy at each opportunity, it just takes a little more work and planning. I keep harping on this, but I think the most important thing is to never quit trying. I feel like I have actually adapted some new behaviors thanks to just repeating the behavior over and over and over again as often as possible.
I spent too much time reading and responding below so no time to chat. Have a meeting in an hour, then DH wants to go out for lunch (he is feeling bad that I got stuck with the tire thing yesterday!) and I have no idea where to go to stay on plan. Then we have to go to 
Its easier to find the foods. I find them on the first search. No pop ups and no second database(SP has main then what others have added) to go searching through. 
I didn't mean to pick it apart or downgrade the program. It's quite obvious that it works. Especially whatever the unknowns have been doing. 
I'll try to get it tomorrow. (I weigh on my wii so I'll have to get it up in the morning.) I'll measure tomorrow too. Sorry.
