Clydesdales/Athenas (200+ lb / 91+ kg) - Clydesdales Athenas Biggest Loser Week Ten 12/1 - 12/7

Biggest Loser Week Ten:champ2:
Total Pounds lost as of week 9 weigh in: 179.6+!!!

Week 10!! TIme for a new week.....Come on in and post your goals for the week. Thanksgiving has passed and hopefully people stayed on track...or time to hop back on the wagon!

New? Come join us! :WELCOME:.... We weigh in on Mondays and post our goals and often come back here and check in!!

Post your weight loss for last week on last week's thread - and post your goals for this week on this thread!


Weight Loss for Week 1 thru 9 will be posted at:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p4lQlSjxTqY1KzKB4jLY7bw
Thank you DorsalPhin for keeping track of the group weight loss!


THE BIGGEST LOSER PARTCIPANTS
Abbynemmy Light Green Team
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Cyclokitty
cradduck - Newbie
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DorsalPhin Ocean Team
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funrover Purple Team
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Imeridian Dark Orange Team
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JoelS Mint Team
JoeMetal Blue Team
LowKeyedUp Fuscia Team
MissBumble Pink Team
Natbla Western MD Team
Nobull60 Indigo Team
odano - Newbie
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simonofsocal Plaid Team
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theetruscan Geek Team
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TurboCruiser Green Team
uncadan8 Silver Team
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Wandalyn Bronze Team
WindyWheels Yellow Team
W00die

Lose 1 pound. Commute by bike all five days, freezing rain be damned. Gym 4 times. Coming up are the 2 busiest weeks in my memory, so mostly I don't want to backslide more than I did last week.

going for 5 lbs this week, and going hard for it.

I'd just like to lose a pound. I don't know how much cycling I'm going to get in. My wife is going on a business trip and I don't have a good sitter for the kids. So for me, it's all about portion control. And I need to be drinking more water.

1) Ride the trainer 5 x 30 mins
2) Reduce late night eating
3) Finish cleaning kitchen and bathroom
4) Loose 1 lbs or more
5) Try to be in a better mood

246, 2 lbs. down from 248 last week, 9 pounds down from 255 about 3 weeks ago. Been doing lots of riding because I've been on vacation. No more vacations in the near future.

My goals this week are:

Portion control
ride as much as possible
run as many errands as possible on a bicycle

I don't drink lots of water, because I work in live television. You can't drink a lot of water if you work in live television. I'll let you figure out why.

Goals for the week, same as last week except for the weight.
1) Current Weight: 252.6, Goal Weight: 251
2) Commute to Work 1 day this week.
3) 10 miles on the bike
4) Spinning class on Wed. and one other gym visit.
5) Cut smoking to 6-7 per day.

It would be nice to see the 240's again at the end of this week, but I think that would be unreasonable, and I don't want to push myself too hard.

Good luck this week to everyone.

Goals for week 10:

1) Lose @ 1 lb.
2) Ride a local bike path without concern about mileage or speed
3) Do 3 exercise videos

That should do it for this week. Luckily the holiday food doesn't start showning up for another week or so.

Week 10 Goals

Spin sessions 4 x 55 mins. 1 down 3 to go
Start taking vitamins to help supplement what I may be lacking
Plenty of water
All meals at home except lunch which will be prepared and packed at home
Buy one of those excercise balls and learn how to use it. Gotta start working on the core muscles now that I've lost weight.
And of course, Wish all my fellow BF BL participants a great week of riding, and keep those lbs coming off!!

Denny

December is when I start planning on what events I will try to make next season. Here's the short list so far.
Icycle Bicycle (annual bike clubs New Years Day Ride mileage varies depending on weather)
May 3rd: Appalachian Spring Spectacular in West Virginia (45 miles)
May 17th: Pedal Pittsburgh (50 miles) date still tentative
June 13th: Tour de Cure Indianapolis with BF Team Stormcrowe (100 miles)
August 16th: Pennsylvania Lancaster Covered Bridges Metric with BFer's
November 8th: Red Flannel Metric / Ohio with BFer's

That's all I can think of at the moment, but I'm sure there will be others

ride 80 miles lose 2 lbs. drink lots of water. ride bike at new locations and explore more trails.

Goals for week 10:
(1) Workout Tuesday, Thurday, Saturday - Jog/Fast Walk 60 minutes
(2) Workout Wednesday, Friday, Sunday - Swim 60 minutes (This one might be tough... a new habit)
(3) Go easy on the food....Eat lots of Subway!
(4) Drink 64 oz water
(5) Create update to Mom's cookbook - I know a bit too much food centerd - but a cool aweosme gift
(6) No riding - as I am in Chicago for the next 11 days

1) No more soda no sugared drinks! (I had been doing fine everyday up till today then 500 calories poof)
2) Ride 3 days
3) Gym 3 days
4) Not gain back what I've lost

Goals:
1. Drink lots of water or non-sweetened iced tea...at least 60oz. a day.
2. Continue commuting to work on cross bike...start riding the beach cruiser anywhere I need to go within 5 miles.
3. Stay away from red meat and (Edit....) stay away from Nutella all together...because I just can't stop myself.
4. Fill up on salad and veggies as much as possible before eating the normal dinner.

MissBumble, I am doing better, thank you for the condolences. Pictures will be posted ASAP.

OK- This week I am going to track my calories. If nothing else it will make me accountable and aware! I am using the old fitday now called Everyday health http://www.everydayhealth.com

Yesterday was pretty clean - hopefully today will be even better.
Wt 182 Goal 140
Monday 12/2 1812 Calories In, Exercise - Not much - walked to my gate at airport :) DId have a glass of wine at night and now have a headache..Sounds liek I may need to skip wine!!

I want to lose 2lbs this week I will do it by getting in an hour's worth of exercise a day, eating less sweets, eating more salads, I've managed to cut my coffee consumption a lot these past few weeks so I'll keep that up -- no more than 3 cups of coffee this week.

Goals:
1) No soda/sugar drinks at all this week
2) Treadmill c25k program week 2 3x's this week
3) More h20 during the day

Goal this week is simply to continue monitoring food intake through The Daily Plate in order to lose approximately 1.5 pounds per week.

2) Treadmill c25k program week 2 3x's this week


Hey Dorsal - What's the c25k program??? Details....

Thanks Sue

Its called the Couch to 5K program. It's a program that will get you from no running what-so-ever (hence the couch part) to running a 5k in 9 weeks. I also have podcasts that do the interval training with music, so it tells you when to switch from walking to running and stuff. Its actually quite fun and doesn't work you too hard, but enough to get you used to the idea of running. http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_3/181.shtml :)

Goals.. get back to it LOL

Goals.. get back to it LOL



:cool: We missed you!! :WELCOME:

Whoops, I lost track of this for a few weeks. Luckily, I haven't lost track of my weight.

I was at 272.0 on monday 12/1. Guess I should post that in the week 9 thread?

Yesterday I signed up for a gym and I got a personal trainer and did a session, and this morning I did a spin class. I'm trying to get stuff back on track.

My goals are now:
1) Do four days at the gym in a week, including 2 spin classes
2) Maintain a 2500 calorie diet
3) No high frutcose corn syrup at all

My problem is uneven food intake. some meals i do great, some less so, and it costs me. Did 10 miles on the bike and 20 minutes on the treadmill and a few late night crackers with cheese killed most of the loss for the day. Granted it might come off tomorrow but I need to keep working.

Well ,not sure of how this whole thing works but I changed my diet 2 weeks ago and I'm down 4 lbs!:D

I want to lose 30 which will put me be back in climbing form!:thumb:

No alcohol or cigars until Christmas Eve. Begin serving pasta and rice only as part of mixed meals where the veggies and protein served "out-volume" the carbs portion.

Cressey Week 10-11; begin researching a follow-up strength training routine that relies on less volume for the 16 weeks following Cressey.

Ride outside Saturday before the rain moves in.

David, Seattle

Oh, and down to 216.

Well ,not sure of how this whole thing works but I changed my diet 2 weeks ago and I'm down 4 lbs!:D

I want to lose 30 which will put me be back in climbing form!:thumb:


:CLAP:GO MR B. First off I think you are perfect just as you are! But ok - Weigh in on Monday on this thread... Dorsalphin will add you to our spreadsheet. Then state your goals for the week on that weeks thread (Week 11). You might as well get the hang of it by stating your goals for this week here.

OK! You are in! Go Mr Beanz!!:champ2:

I'm horrified by the weight reading this morning. It appears as though I gained back my last two weeks worth of loss, though the loss was extreme compared to what I should have been losing, it is still incredibly disappointing. I've stayed on track, so I guess it's a "self-correction" of some sort, since I really shouldn't have lost so much weight the last two weeks anyway. I'll post my official weigh-in weight later today.

Well, last week continues to follow the trend of losing weight only on the weeks that make no sense. Was super busy, at work 12+ hours a day, eating whatever was most convenient. Biked to work 3 days, didn't get to the gym once. down 2+ pounds. 215.8 lbs now.

One commute to work last week, lots of cardio in the gym or on WiiFit.

Ate a mix of good and bad, with some late night snacking included.

Evidently, the good days outweighed the bad: Down 2.2 lbs. 309.

Weigh in: 153 this morning.

Well, did not reach my goal, but I did have a loss, so I can not complain too much. Very weird week, but I did get my commute in. Was not able to make it to the gym, and my smoking increased instead of decreasing, so not a success, but not a total failure either.

Oh well, this week is done, time to start the next one.

Previous weight 303.6
Current weight 307.4

+3.8 Ugh. Very stressful week, finals, holidays and depression all led to uncontrolled carb intake this past week and my back acted up so I only rode 2 times. Hopefully this week I can try and relax a bit, control the eating and ride a bit more. Sorry for hurting the group #'s

241.2 again. But yesterday I weighed in at 239.something. That was the first time I've dipped below 240 in a while, so I'm hoping that next week I'll officially drop below 240. :)

Ooops....gained back some I'd lost last week.

Last week: 165.1 This week: 165.6

I'll blame it on the salty peanuts I ate yesterday!

Mileage was one ride to the Snake bridge - about 30 ish miles rt - with DD Saturday. During the week I did 2 exercise videos and maybe 1/2 hr on an eliptical. I'm noticing more of my clothes are loose fitting now so there may be some shopping in my near future! :)

Ooops....gained back some I'd lost last week.

Last week: 165.1 This week: 165.6

I'll blame it on the salty peanuts I ate yesterday!

Mileage was one ride to the Snake bridge - about 30 ish miles rt - with DD Saturday. During the week I did 2 exercise videos and maybe 1/2 hr on an eliptical. I'm noticing more of my clothes are loose fitting now so there may be some shopping in my near future! :)

Hey Wanda - HAve you tried the itrain.com workouts for the elipticl..Maybe that will help with the weight loss. I used to do that one and not am doing the itread ones.

Spreadsheet updated!

Hey Wanda - HAve you tried the itrain.com workouts for the elipticl..Maybe that will help with the weight loss. I used to do that one and not am doing the itread ones.


I'd like to but the elliptical we have doesn't have much in the line of lower resistance settings...it's cheap and old. The best I can do at the lowest setting is 2 to 3 mph. I usually listen to lower bpm music or a book on tape when I use it. I suspect the itreads require sprinting if they're anything like the icycles I've tried. I've considered craig's listing it and getting a better one when the resolution sales start up in Jan.

When I go to the gym I use cardiocoach workouts on the elliptical. Check them out at cardiocoach.com I think you can download a longish sample to try out for free. Coach Sean's coaching is very inspirational and motivating and I like the music more than most of the itrain selections.

good week 284.8 weighed last night, rode 77 miles this week and didn't eat any red meat

Hey Guys - Well I am in Chicago (not at my apt in Atlanya where my real scale is located) and yesterday did not go workout where the scazle is so did not weigh myself. But in reality I chose not to weigh myself- as the gym is in my apt building. So I think I was too scared to see the number.

Today went and worked out (ran 3.1 miles...did ya know the Bee is a runner?) and weighed myself. Seems I am holding on - 180 today. Yup - have not lost much here on the BL but have had a lot of social outings and have not gained too much. So all is well! And y'all are losing... and some are doing amazing!!

OK- The Bee - 180 lbs today... I look like a svelte 150 I swear!

Looks like I gained a few back this week. Seems I have that kind of trend going about every 3 weeks.

Previous weight: 169
Current weight: 172
Plus / minus: +3

Denny

273.4 :(

That's an increase 4.9 pounds, in one week. AGH! I hope it is water weight, either that or my metabolism went into hibernation.

Updated!

Oops...wrong week.

12/8 checkin: 270.2 !