Welcome to the WISH Biggest Loser 7 Challenge

[50sjayne]

Well, we are going up to Portland this weekend and those weekends are famous for us for drinking and--well, eating. The happy hour is just too good. I've beent thinking about it and will let husband get all the drinks he wants, I'll just do the minimum for the food and maybe we'll split stuff. And possibly find something else fun to do while we're there lol, like a movie in one of the theater pubs...There is a pool at our hotel too ;-)

 

[donac]

COW Week 3

Ok ladies and gents, time to add something new. This is where that pedometer comes in.

This week you need to….

Drink 8 cups of water a day
Eat 3 servings of veggies a day
Walk 5,000 steps a day ~about 2.5 miles depending on your stride
(the goal is 10,000 a day ~5 miles, but we will start slow. If you make 10,000 by all means let me know!)


Here is a refresher of the COW rules in case you are new or forgot. I will post a new COW sometime every Thursday. Each challenge week begins 12:01 am Friday morning and runs till midnight Thursday night. I figure posting the COW on Thursday gives you a little time to “plan” out how best to complete the challenge before the clock starts. Please email or PM me your score by Monday morning of the following week. (So tomorrow’s challenge score is “due” the 2nd, although I recommend you pm or email it to me on Friday when you email Brenda your weight.)
If you chose not to do the COWs at all, or only get around to doing a few items on the list that is perfectly fine. The idea is to get you thinking and doing new things on this road to a new you, not to stress you out.

So here is how this version will work. Every Thursday I will post a new task to add to the previous tasks. This should help you establish good habits during this BL. I got this idea from the 12 days of Christmas song actually. So,

Week 1 all you need is the partridge and the pear tree
Week 2 you will need the turtle doves and the partridge
Week 3 you need the French Hens, turtle doves and partridge
And it goes on

So this week you will report...
I drank my 8 cups X days
I ate my veggies X days
and I walked 5,000 steps X days
Or if you are really good, I walked 10,000 steps X days!

COW Week 1 Results

Ok all. I am a bit disappointed. With over 100 people still participating, only 20 of you reported your water. I know you are all drinking it, so lets go, get me your numbers!
Week 2 scores are due tomorrow, but for those that have not been keeping track, a new COW starts tonight at midnight. You can do this!

As for the reporters, 15 were perfect with their water this week. Good job! Keep up the good work. You wont be sorry!

The other 5 are trying and that is all that really matters.

I expect this group to be on the list of biggest losers because of their efforts.

Thanks for doing the COW. I love this set you have come up with. You are trying to teach us new or renew old habits and I love it. You mentioned the pedometer last week and I have been trying to put it on so that by Friday I would get there. Yesterday I was walking into the cafeteria ,where I get between 500 and 1000 steps, and realized that I didn't have it. It felt funny not to have it so I think I am good to go for this challenge.

PS I am one of the ones who reported in my water and I am almost ready to report for last week. 1 more veggie and some more water and I will have a perfect score. Let's hope that it translates onto the scale this week.

Thursday QOTD:
What is your next event that makes you nervous about staying on track?
What is your game plan to get past this event and stay on track/OP?

I have an anniversary luunch on Sunday for my inlaw's 60th anniversary. Since it is lunch I should be able to find a nice soup or salad. The hard part will be the cake but since my sister in law is buying it it may not be the best so I think I can get by with the tiniest piece and just squish it around the plate.

Have a great day everyone.

 

[leamom2princesses]

Thursday QOTD:
What is your next event that makes you nervous about staying on track?
What is your game plan to get past this event and stay on track/OP?


The next event making me nervous is Super Bowl Sunday. We are going to a party at a friends place and the menu so far is dips, chips, wings, etc. My game plan is to eat before we head over and bring something fairly healthy to pass that I can nibble on throughout the night. I plan to drink a lot of water too. If I can stick to this I think I will be okay.

 

[corinnak]

QOTD - Wednesday:
Whatare your favorite treat's that are still relatively healthy?


My new favorite is a banana with 1/2 T peanut butter. I also enjoy hot chocolate, which is not especially healthy but does not seem to have me longing to go get another serving the way that chocolate ice cream always does.

QOTD - Thursday:

What is your next event that makes you nervous about staying on track?
What is your game plan to get past this event and stay on track/OP?


Travel is hard - when we go to WDW, I tend to stop counting points and just try not to go completely overboard. The hard part then, though, is to start back to counting the next day we get back. When I got back from Marathon weekend, the thing that helped jumpstart that was getting on the scale the very next morning.

The weekends are always hard too - we often get together with friends and for some reason, it always involves food. I'm just planning to keep on being mindful, counting what I'm eating. And also planning on having some days where I purposefully have more food, and days when I have less. The important thing is to make sure that everyday is not a MORE food day.


For right now, things are going well for me. This challenge is very helpful and fun. I don't know why it is that sometimes I am so in the groove and sometimes I'm just not. Just a few weeks ago I was complaining that "food is hard" and now it just doesn't feel like that big a deal. I dread the day that the pendulum swings back.

 

[MelanieC]

COW Week 1 Results

Ok all. I am a bit disappointed. With over 100 people still participating, only 20 of you reported your water. I know you are all drinking it, so lets go, get me your numbers!
Week 2 scores are due tomorrow, but for those that have not been keeping track, a new COW starts tonight at midnight. You can do this!

As for the reporters, 15 were perfect with their water this week. Good job! Keep up the good work. You wont be sorry!

The other 5 are trying and that is all that really matters.

I expect this group to be on the list of biggest losers because of their efforts.

I forgot last week when we were doing just the water (forgot to report). Is it too late?

 

[My2E's]

Thursday's QOTD: Yesterday was our 15 year anniversary, and my husband and I are planning on going out to eat and maybe to a movie this weekend. I usually pig out at special events like this, but I am going to stay strong and order some grilled chicken and maybe steamed veggies instead of those fries I would normally get. I don't know for sure where we are going yet, but I'm sure I can get chicken where ever we end up.

 

[Krisi616]

Hope everyone is doing well. I can't go back and read the previous weeks posts, but keep up the good work (or get back on track!). We had a great time at Disneyland (so glad to go back and get an AP again).

Well this week the scale said 274.2 - which is up from before – I thought I didn’t do to bad at Disneyland but apparently not as well as I thought as the scale said 269.8 when I left. I have quickly got back on track with the eating so hopefully that will help things go back in the right direction.

I have seen a few posts about the meals - love that question - will have to find those again and make some notes. If I don't cook my family doesn't eat so I cook healthy all the time but if I don't cook and need to take something to work my go to meal is either a Lean Cuisine or a peice of chicken with salad, frozen veggies or a can of green beans (yes COLD right out of the can).

 

[TammyNC]

I'm out of town until Sunday but hope to be popping in now and then. I'm off scrapbooking...they provide the meals so my plan is to ask for smaller portions, eat lots of salad and load up on my water.

Have a great day everyone!!

 

[GabbyMom]

Thursday QOTD:

What is your next event that makes you nervous about staying on track?
What is your game plan to get past this event and stay on track/OP?

My birthday is 2/2 and my DD3's is 2/26. I don't know what I'm doing for the b-days yet. I'm researching what restraunt has the best choices. Chilies is out so far.

 

[hobbester]

Thurs QOTD-This Sunday we are celebrating 4 January birthdays at my parents house. I've already told my mom to please have some healthy items, the bad part is that I'm making the cake. Hopefully since I'm doing the baking - I will not want to eat any of it. My plan is to keep my portion sizes small.

 

[Worfiedoodles]

Thurs. QOTD -- For me it's the SuperBowl. We always have a ton of food, and it's never good for you! My plan this year is to have a veggie tray with salsa, meatball subs (I'll just have my meatballs sans sub), and a ton of popcorn instead of chips and dip and nachos. It may not be perfect, but it will be a big improvement!

Maria

 

[LuvBaloo]

Thursday QOTD:
Tomorrow night going out to Robby Burns night, which is a family buffet dinner and dance. Plan to limit the desserts, and to dance lots to burn off the extra calories from drinking pop. And to consider this my one time of fast food for the week.

 

[Riverhill]

I've been very tired this week and in general having a bad week. Called in to work today because I was not feeling well. Although I've been doing great with the eatting. I have not exercised at all this week. Not looking forward to the weigh in tomorrow.
Oh well tomorrow is another day. Time to snap out of it and get back on the treadmill.

 

[ohMom]

hi folks

i'm not having a great week here in central ohio -- not sure if the blah January days are causing me to feel not like working out and more like snacking. this is not a good combo for me --

 

[donac]

I've been very tired this week and in general having a bad week. Called in to work today because I was not feeling well. Although I've been doing great with the eatting. I have not exercised at all this week. Not looking forward to the weigh in tomorrow.
Oh well tomorrow is another day. Time to snap out of it and get back on the treadmill.

hi folks

i'm not having a great week here in central ohio -- not sure if the blah January days are causing me to feel not like working out and more like snacking. this is not a good combo for me --

I have to agree about being out of sorts. Today was the first time the sun has been out since last week and it won't last too long. We need a long stretch of warm sunny weather here in jersey. I have spent most of the day talking myself out of my rotten mood.

 

[Riverhill]

I have to agree about being out of sorts. Today was the first time the sun has been out since last week and it won't last too long. We need a long stretch of warm sunny weather here in jersey. I have spent most of the day talking myself out of my rotten mood.

Nice to know I'm not the only one. I've just wanted to wrap myself up in blanket all week and grumble at the world. I live in Michigan and I can't take one more day of winter. I really miss sunshine. I think I need to take some Vitamin D.

 

[PRINCESS VIJA]

Thursday QOTD:

Well, funny you should mention this... I was thinking about this, this morning before I saw your post.

I SURE COULD USE SOME SUGGESTIONS!

I am worred about 79 days from now. I have given up McDonalds and chips for 100 days, I am at 22 so far, but what happens at 101 days? I am so worried about falling back into the pattern of eating chips by the family size bag full, and McDonalds mutliple times a day. I have given this stuff up for 100 days before, only to QUICKLY fall back into the previous destructive patterns. I don't want to say I can never have them again, but neither does "have it in moderation" work, because I KNOW me, I start with one chip and it snowballs, I can't seem to be able to resist that temptation. My one thought was that for 1 day, say at 101 days I can have the chips and mcDonalds and then start another 100 days challenge on the very next day.

I just don't know what to do.

 

[mousemgr2]

Thursday QOTD:

What is your next event that makes you nervous about staying on track?
What is your game plan to get past this event and stay on track/OP?

I don't really have an 'event', but I am nervous about the weekends. I always have more difficulty staying on track over the weekends. When I am at work I can be regimented and plan ahead. It all falls apart on the weekends.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[njmom23grls]

I SURE COULD USE SOME SUGGESTIONS!

I am worred about 79 days from now. I have given up McDonalds and chips for 100 days, I am at 22 so far, but what happens at 101 days? I am so worried about falling back into the pattern of eating chips by the family size bag full, and McDonalds mutliple times a day. I have given this stuff up for 100 days before, only to QUICKLY fall back into the previous destructive patterns. I don't want to say I can never have them again, but neither does "have it in moderation" work, because I KNOW me, I start with one chip and it snowballs, I can't seem to be able to resist that temptation. My one thought was that for 1 day, say at 101 days I can have the chips and mcDonalds and then start another 100 days challenge on the very next day.

I just don't know what to do.

Wow! Many of us must be on the same wave length. I just logged because I was thinking about this afternoons disasterous encounter with a bag of chips. I had been doing so well and thought - ok I'll measure out a portion and put the rest away - well, I ate that portion and then started for "one more" out of the bag and, well, lets just say that the end result is not a happy one. I really feel like I guess I have to say no, ever, to chips in a big bag.

Vija - I don't know what to suggest - other than maybe after 100 days McDonalds won't be so tempting and that the fact that you were able to control your cravings will empower you so that it won't make it so tempting for a fast food frenzy. I know for myself that after my lack of control this afternoon, that I'm caving in and buying the more expensive prepackaged single serving chips. I might buy something I don't like or can easily resist for the family for the weekend but if I'm going to eat them - it has to be a small bag only.

QOTD - well, the immediate concern is all the girl scout cookies in my house that my daughter has to sell. I did look up the points value of them so that I didn't do my usual and eat a sleeve of thin mints (18 points btw) then look up how many points I just had. I am trying to think about how to enjoy a cookie or two and not binge on them. So far, I'm not convinced I can so I'm not having any. Not one. nope. (I have to keep telling myself - sorry)

Good luck everyone! I sure can't wait to hear suggestions for Vija and everyone else who is struggling this week

Lisa

 

[MelanieC]

I so want to eat something else right now - But I'm at 1526 calories for the day and my range is 1200-1550 so I have to be done. No matter how much cheese and crackers, peppermint bark or a banana, peanutbutter and chocolate smoothie are calling to me............I WILL NOT EAT THEM!!!

One meal at a time- I can do this!! My scale has been in the 169's for the last two days, so I must must must keep from eating tonight - because I want it to be in the 160's again tomorrow!!