TEAM 3! Ready To Rock!!
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A big thanks to Steve for the link to the new Fitbit Dashboard. It rocks!!!!! Now I can see all of the challenges going on. But, does anyone know how to get the actual weight off of it??? I tried to hide it in the corner next to the scale, haha.
You are welcome
I do have windows 10. (which was your previous question). I switched over about a month ago. It was a little finicky fixing a printer issue. And for some reason when I opened the media player some of my songs reverted back to the working titles vs. the final titles. Overall, I'm liking the change.
Do you not want to see your weight being tracked on the dashboard? If you do want to get rid of it, I think if you hit the pencil in the top right. It will let you delete or move each individual tile. I'm not sure if that's what your were referring too.0 -
Hi everyone! Okay TEAM 3 - THE VARIETY PACK!!!!
today and tomorrow are the last 2 days to add your minutes for the amazing race! Some of you only have one day filled in, or none! Please go to the spreadsheet and add as soon as possible! If you are having any problems please let me know as soon as possible!!
Just wanted to type that here as well as we have several people not posting times.
Some I can't seem to get an answer out of - I may have to assume they are out.
Sounds like you all are doing great!! I apologize I am not as physical as I usually am due to several new work responsibilities.
Hmmm. Maybe I should get on the dreadmill after all. If we have several people not posting then we might need the miles.............
Good News / Bad News
I did a little calculation on our excel sheet.
Good: We have over shot our destination of 4882 miles.
Bad: However, I think (if I understand it correctly) everyone needs to do 10% of the the distance as a minimum. With 18 of us (is that right?, 18?) we each need a minimum of 272 miles (minutes).0 -
Hi guys! Sorry for posting so late. I have been busy navigating the rest of the posts and the spreadsheet. I think you are right about the 272 miles. I know that will be difficult for me as I typically only workout for 30 minutes a day.
Can we use other team members addition minutes to make up for our deficit? 0 -
Hi team!
So we have had two dropouts (motivated sister gets congrats for being in the family way!) and cherrybomb withdrew. 2 more, Misschellechelle and rachaelstilson910 I cannot get any reply out of. Rachael has not been on for 3 days. Also Kathycocker was active but now hasn't been on the app for 6 days. I'm worried about those two. Zmeplay has only 1 day doc and Chatpati has 2 - I left them messages to fill in the rest adaptic. 2portera is having technical difficulties and I'm going to try to get her info and fill it in for her.
The rest of you are doing great! We are over the needed miles even with a few missing team members!
Week 3 coming up, sounds like a good one! I love the rainbow food challenge! Hope you are all doing well and keep supporting one another as you have been- I'm so happy to have you all on our team!!0 -
I don't think we have to worry about Zmeplay.
This popped up on my news feed...
"zmeplay 5 hours ago
We have two more days to complete our personal workout of 272 minutes for this week's challenge."
"zmeplay 5 hours ago
burned 183 calories doing 150 minutes of cardio exercises, including "Walking, 4.0 mph, very brisk pace""
However, she might be a day out. It is a little confusing that weight in is Tuesday, but the week starts Monday.0 -
This week started off a little confusing but I'm really finding this challenge motivating. :-) go team 3!0
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Okay, this week we are travelling to Ireland....just in time for St. Patrick's Day! It is a shorter distance, so I am confident we will make it this week.
There are two Roadblocks, and just like the TV show, we EACH need to do ONE. Of course, we can still get credit for both if we choose to do both.
The first Roadblock is the seven Irish dance videos. I haven't looked at them yet, so I can't comment but they are worth 35 points if you do all seven. That's quite a chunk of points! (I would imagine they get the heart rate up, so a good workout as well!)
The second Roadblock is preparing an Irish inspired meal and it is worth 25 points. Melanie gave two examples of corned beef and cabbage, or lamb or beef stew, but obviously there are others out there. I am not sure how much of a stickler she will be on actually preparing them ourselves or if just eating an Irish inspired meal, let's say at a restaurant, would count. I will let you know.
The Nutritional challenge is worth 5 points and it is VERY easy! Over five days, eat at least one fruit or vegetable in these five color groups : red, green, blue/purple, yellow/orange, and white. This has to be over five days....don't just eat them all in one day!
The Accountability challenge is also worth 5 points. It is to log your food in MFP for five days this week. It is a habit that, if you don't have it already, should adopt quickly if yo want to succeed at this weight loss thing. And if you go over your daily calorie allotment, that's fine...it happens from time to time and at the beginning of this process if you are just figuring out how to do it. So hit the "complete this day's entry" button on your log or just post in the thread that you have entered all your food for the day (it is an honour system here).0 -
I am assuming
that we are still doing the arm challenge and the squat challenge from before, and we will just add the ab challenge and whatever other challenges we have along the way. So at the end of the Amazing Race we will have a lot of challenges that we will be doing. 
My question is, do we still log the old challenges on the spread sheet or just on the thread? 0 -
Sorry MIA..I got tickets to go see BNP tennis tournament so was out there most of last week. And then I had 2 back to back tennis matches on Saturday and I am still sore. Hoping to spread out my exercise over the week a little better. And track my food cuz that falls by the wayside when I am out and about having fun. I have more matches planned for this weekend and I am playing tonight. I need to find time to fit in other types of exercise0
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Thanks for checking in Kathy!
Jagzag- the squat continues throughout the month, no place to document that although there may be at the end of them month. The arms were for last week's challenge- continue it on your own but no need to document it any further.
Everyone:
I have to add onto the spreadsheet for this week but don't have time today - will do my best to do it tomorrow. If anyone is good with spreadsheet work you can look at team 2 or 4 and see how they just started the next week with new headers below the first week ... Feel free to fill it in for me! But if not, all good, I'll get to it! :-p0 -
Advice needed! I am taking pistachios as my snack at work this week (cracking the shells keeps my hands busy so I'm not mindlessly eating). I measured out the 1/2 cup of shelled pistachios I'm eating, but I'm wondering if anyone else knows a better way to track them without having to unshell them all and weigh them.
Hope everyone's Mondays are going well!0 -
Well, if you've already weighed a 1/2 cup and got the weight, just use that measurement for the remainder. A couple of pistachios either way isn't going to make much difference and it'll even out unless you are stacking them over the cup.0
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Thanks for checking in Kathy!
Jagzag- the squat continues throughout the month, no place to document that although there may be at the end of them month. The arms were for last week's challenge- continue it on your own but no need to document it any further.
Everyone:
I have to add onto the spreadsheet for this week but don't have time today - will do my best to do it tomorrow. If anyone is good with spreadsheet work you can look at team 2 or 4 and see how they just started the next week with new headers below the first week ... Feel free to fill it in for me! But if not, all good, I'll get to it! :-p
I'd be happy to have a look and see what I can do...0 -
@headrain, i've updated spreadsheet..... i felt team 4 seemed easier option. PLEASE feel free to adjust further according to preferences etc. I'm not colour coordinated, so perhaps someone might like to enhance visual appearance if that sort of thing is important.
also, seems a good idea for ALL team members to get into habit of logging a number score rather than a yes / no, to assist leader in keeping scores..... any details or explanation (optional) can be added as a comment. I wonder does any of that make sense?
Welcome to Ireland. Fáilte go hÉirinn. (Pronounced as ..... "fawlta guh Hare in")
Anybody need some Irish recipes? sent me a PM......0 -
@headrain, i've updated spreadsheet..... i felt team 4 seemed easier option. PLEASE feel free to adjust further according to preferences etc. I'm not colour coordinated, so perhaps someone might like to enhance visual appearance if that sort of thing is important.
also, seems a good idea for ALL team members to get into habit of logging a number score rather than a yes / no, to assist leader in keeping scores..... any details or explanation (optional) can be added as a comment. I wonder does any of that make sense?
Welcome to Ireland. Fáilte go hÉirinn. (Pronounced as ..... "fawlta guh Hare in")
Anybody need some Irish recipes? sent me a PM......
Makes perfect sense to me. 0 -
Thanks to Pat for working on the spreadsheet, he's an angel.
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Could someone please give me the title to the second dance video? I can't play it on MFP, so I will go to You Tube and get it. Thanks in advance.0
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@headrain, i've updated spreadsheet..... i felt team 4 seemed easier option. PLEASE feel free to adjust further according to preferences etc. I'm not colour coordinated, so perhaps someone might like to enhance visual appearance if that sort of thing is important.
also, seems a good idea for ALL team members to get into habit of logging a number score rather than a yes / no, to assist leader in keeping scores..... any details or explanation (optional) can be added as a comment. I wonder does any of that make sense?
Welcome to Ireland. Fáilte go hÉirinn. (Pronounced as ..... "fawlta guh Hare in")
Anybody need some Irish recipes? sent me a PM......
I love you!0 -
I updated the spreadsheet.
I corrected a calculation and added a percent per person of the total distance. This will make sure we get everyone to 10%.
Out of curiosity, do we get credit for surpassing the team goal?. Or is it capped at the distance?0 -
juOkay, this week we are travelling to Ireland....just in time for St. Patrick's Day! It is a shorter distance, so I am confident we will make it this week.
There are two Roadblocks, and just like the TV show, we EACH need to do ONE. Of course, we can still get credit for both if we choose to do both.
The first Roadblock is the seven Irish dance videos. I haven't looked at them yet, so I can't comment but they are worth 35 points if you do all seven. That's quite a chunk of points! (I would imagine they get the heart rate up, so a good workout as well!)
The second Roadblock is preparing an Irish inspired meal and it is worth 25 points. Melanie gave two examples of corned beef and cabbage, or lamb or beef stew, but obviously there are others out there. I am not sure how much of a stickler she will be on actually preparing them ourselves or if just eating an Irish inspired meal, let's say at a restaurant, would count. I will let you know.
The Nutritional challenge is worth 5 points and it is VERY easy! Over five days, eat at least one fruit or vegetable in these five color groups : red, green, blue/purple, yellow/orange, and white. This has to be over five days....don't just eat them all in one day!
The Accountability challenge is also worth 5 points. It is to log your food in MFP for five days this week. It is a habit that, if you don't have it already, should adopt quickly if yo want to succeed at this weight loss thing. And if you go over your daily calorie allotment, that's fine...it happens from time to time and at the beginning of this process if you are just figuring out how to do it. So hit the "complete this day's entry" button on your log or just post in the thread that you have entered all your food for the day (it is an honour system here).
JUST TO CLARIFY ROAD BLOCK 2 IS ONLY WORTH 5 POINTS. IT IS JUST ONE MEAL AND WELL THE VIDEOS ARE A LITTLE CHALLENGING THIS WEEK AND WORTH 35 POINTS.0 -
@mallowbar @Headrain thanks for clarification.0
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Darn, I was just getting ready to try and help you
Glad you're able to get them though.
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Don't forget to record your weight, everyone! Today is weigh-in day 0
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Today has been a total bust. Dentist appt., grocery store, voting, feed store, I have been in the car most of the day. Now, I am exhausted and still have to cook dinner and do all my challenges. I won't be posting 'til very late today. It's 4:30 and I only have 4332 steps in. Going to have a very late exercise night I fear.0
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So we're off to Ireland! Do Pmm5pla miles count since he's in Ireland?0
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Cut off txt again? " just jealous". Erin go brah! Spelling? Only Irish I know. Rough couple long work days, trying to keep up.0
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Hello. Can't find the link to Irish dances in the main page announcements! Can someone post where they are please?0
