Neil_B

2011 Clydesdales/ Athenas Biggest Loser Week 03 01/17 to 01/23 - Come join us!!!

Please join us as we all work toward our goals to be healthier and fitter!

How Does this Work?

On Mondays:
Post your starting weight for the week, post goals for the week, and report on the prior week.

Throughout week come on back and let us know how you are doing. (The good, not so good and the awesome.)


2011 Participants - Welcome newbies!!!

Adenthang
B.Alive
bbeasley
BigPolishJimmie
BigUgly
CraigB
cyclokitty
davin1023
DoubleTap
dehoff
gigemags1155
gus69
InsanityBeckons
jeneralist
Jethro56
John423
morph3715
mrdelprate
mthayer
OiS
Passage4
petflunky
ReallyBigGuy
RichardGlover
Rthomse
RunningPirate
Sayre Kulp
Seenowevil
Seve
showme230
SingleSpeedDemon
Suprafly
The Historian
thestoutdog
Tony.N
Wogsterca
wxduff
Wylde06
XR2

*If I missed anyone, please let me know and I'll add you in.

And for our American posters, Happy Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day!

adanthang

Starting Weight 9/1/2010 - 241.5 lbs
01/03/11 - 216.5 lbs
01/10/11 - 212.5 lbs
01/17/11 - 216.5 lbs

Not a good week. "Snowmageddon 2011" closed my gym and my office for 4 days last week. The Packers played a big game on Saturday night. I didn't exercise or eat right all week. That said, it is out of my system. I worked out this morning and am ready to get back on track.

BigPolishJimmy

About the same this week, need to kick it into gear but the winter blues are getting to me. At least my excercise bike is set up where it needs to be, now i just have to ride it.

Week 1 - 268.1
Week 2 - 270.4
Week 3 - 269

Neil_B

Background: I was 310 for much of last year.

Now: I came in at 278.6, down four pounds from last week. Honestly I don't know how. I'm restricted in what I can do while my knees heal. But I'll take it. This is the first time I've been below 280 since late 2008.

gus69

Another good week here.
1/10/11 ---> 279.0
1/17/11 ---> 274,9

I managed to eat too little food a couple of days, that resulted in an evening I ate 300 grams of chips.
This weeks goal, another 2 lbs and finally get out on my bike ( the ice have melted).
I'm now improved my distance to 3,8 km in 30 minutes on the treadmill.

kansastdi

Not working out for atleast a week because of my illness and the entire family was sick also. Last Friday was one of those top five days - top five worst days from being sick. It ranked right up there with the day i first had gout. Hope the rest of you have avoided the flu.

10/19/10 - 368
1/17/11 - 353.6

CraigB

Heaviest - 304.5 a few years ago, 264.5 when I got serious in April '10.

01/01 - 210.5
01/08 - 209.5
01/15 - 210.5

This bouncing around has to stop, and stop now.

The new WW program has be a little off-balance. It's focus on protien, fruits and vegetables has eliminated a lot of my formerly low-point go-to foods and the things I need to replace them with are either less convenient (no more Fiber One or Quaker granola bars) or don't stick with me long (most fruits). Plus I've had a hard time shaking the habit-forming eating patterns of the holidays. I don't mean to make excuses - I know the reasons for my poor performance, and I take responsibiliy for them. And now I feel like I'm ready to recharge and begin anew.

RunningPirate

11/29 = 236.0 lbs
12/06 = 229.5 lbs
12/13 = 229.0 lbs
12/20 = 228.5 lbs
12/27 = 232.0 lbs
01/03 = 228.5 lbs
01/10 = 232.0 lbs
01/17 = 226.5 lbs

dehoff

1/10- 250.2
1/17- 247.3
1/24 (goal)- 245.0

I didn't manage to get any workouts in this weekend, so my weight plateaued about mid-week. Hopefully there won't be any snow to deal with this weekend.

RunningPirate

Indeed, using fruit as a snack only buys me maybe 1/2 hour or so before I'm hungry again. I guess I'm not the kind of guy that is full after eating an apple

Out of curiosity, can you just keep doing the Old WW program? I mean, if it works, it works, despite not being the newest/greatest invention.

As for holiday eating patterns...well, hell - I think we've all been there. Just a couple off weeks ago, I lost complete control on eating - with no real good reason why.

Neil_B

There's something rotten in the state of Denmark. :-)

Sorry, I always wanted to use that line.

XR2

Starting 7/4/10 303.6

1/3/11 286.4
1/10/11 287.6
1/17/11 287.2

Got it going the right way. Now I just need to deal with it and ride. S'posed to snow tonight. The rain tomorrow ought to remedy that.

jethro56 

I really wish I could eat fruit. It seems any kind of sugar just makes me hungrier. Fiber One Original is a basic staple for me. I've tried the other versions but they taste too sweet for me and they set me off.

Tony N.

1/7/11 217.4
1/10/11 214.6
1/17/11 214.6

Don't have an answer. Been hitting the weights and ridin the excercycle hard this week. Lots of ice and snow on the raods most of the week. Also careful to not eat sweats and drinking water only.
Not about to fold tho. Will crank it up a notch this week. Still going for the -4.6 by the 24th.

Showme230

Did good last week weighed SAT and was 295. Then I sat around and watched football and snacked all weekend. Weighed today at 299. Not real happy about that. Got a good work out in this morning which helps but need to tighten up the diet for the weekend. Good luck this week.

gus69

Quite all right, it made me laugh, but how did you know chips gave me flatus ;-)

cyclokitty 

last week I was 288.

This week 284! I'm still recording all the food I eat and I walk each day for at least 45 minutes. As well I shoveled snow twice last week and that added 2 1/4 hours to my fitness last week. Even though the snow eats into my cycling times, the shoveling is a heck of a workout. Even better, I ate pizza on Saturday and it was delicious. There was no way I was giving up pizza so I ramped up the physical activity to earn it.

My goal this week is another 2-4 pounds while recording what I eat and walk for at least an hour each day.

CraigB

I could, but it would take any degree of precision out of it, since the online database of points per food item would no longer work. And any new information about foods would likely be "off" a bit. I think I'd rather focus on this hard for a couple of weeks and do my best to follow it and not screw up, and see where that takes me, before bailing on it. I know 99% of my failures over the past few weeks are my own, and when I try to tie them to the new program, what I really mean is it takes more time and effort for me to follow the program than it used to. And that's something I just need to get over.

seenoweevil

1/1/2011: 263.5
1/10/2011: 261.5
1/17/2011: 261

Bah! One workout and ride the entire week. Snow's been aggravating my lazybone! Going to the gym as soon as I get off work today(misting rain and cold so no ride)!

bbeasley

Hey Historian WAY TO GO! lowest weight since 2008

July 2010 252lbs
Starting the New Year 229
1/9/2011 227
1/16 231....geez started counting calories and gained weight. Got to stop the evening snacking

gigemags1155

1/10/11 - 228.8 lbs
1/17/11 - 230.2 lbs

This week I will:
- Drink 0 calories
- Workout 5 sessions

As a side note I quit dipping this past week... As great a feat as that is this is a hard time diet wise. But I have a normalcy going now so hopefully I can get the scale headed the right way!

mthayer

1-3-11 265.6
1-10-11 262.0
1-17-11 262.0

I am thinking that my scale is out of whack. I weighed once this morning, at 262, then about 10 minutes later reweighed was 263.8. I am going to replace the scale because of its inaccuracy and varying weights. Any recommendations?

BigUgly

arrrghhhh! My weight loss plan is not working and I jumped off the wagon this weekend with some Philly Cheesesteaks since I was in Philly.
1/1/2011 - 250
1/6/2011 - 246
1/17/2011 - 250

bahhhh!! Running twice a week, riding once a week. Frustrated but not giving up.

Neil_B

Another custom more honored in the breach than the observance.

morph3715

1/10/11 249
1/17/11 247