TEAM 1: TEAM AWESOME!

Mel started the new group...look for Summer Sizzler

Oops...Sizzing Summer Meltdown Round Up

Hi Team! Sorry I've been MIA the last little while and sadly not very active. Knew this was going to be a weird week for me for various reasons. Just came home from the weight loss conference out of town where I received recognition for being 1st place winner for my weight loss in my category for the province. Quite the occasion! 2 days of being on stage and telling my story etc. Anyway, ironically all that driving and sitting at the conference made it almost impossible to get any exercise! Go figure! So I'm disappointed I wasn't able to do my part this past week. Really wanted to make this last week shine. However, I see many of you are certainly doing your part!!! Way to go!! Keep it up! Still one more day! I'm going to try to make it up as much as I can tomorrow!
Also, will check out what Mel's got cooked up for us! Sounds very interesting! Glad so many of you are interested in staying as a team! Will definitely stay in touch with all of you!!

bm1409

Its been great being with everyone on this team. Everyone did amazing!

farmerpam1

Sorry I've been MIA last week. Spring weather, calves being born, manure to spread, shoveling and more shoveling. No hiking this week. It sounds as if everyone has had a busy week also, I just posted what I had, I still haven't done the yoga video, I'll try to get it done tonight. I'm not crazy about the yoga, I think that's why I've been putting it off. I enjoyed the boxing stuff though!

Pam, I will tell you that I really like some of the yoga I have found in the past but there definitely are some that are not as fun. These have not been quite up my alley so if you have not enjoyed them, I wouldn't completely rule out yoga forever based on them.

Leanne, so happy you had fun at your event and I hope when all the logging in the spreadsheet catches up, I hope all is looking OK. Things come up and we just have to do what we can do. You have been an amazing leader and I look forward to being on your team next go-round.

Sorry, but just noticed our # of posts was a bad number so....hi every one and hope you all enjoyed the last week of our awesome team!

farmerpam1

Leanne, so good to hear your success story at the conference!! What a great feeling after all your hard work. Thanks for taking the time to be our leader and keeping it together, I know it's a lot of extra work for you. And a big shout out to all of team 1!!! It's been such an inspiration seeing how hard, and how far, everyone has come on their weight loss journey.

gawworthington

Did you see the nytimes articles on a 6 year study of BL contestants. I know I have been struggling with feeling very hungry lately and food that kept me full in the past does not work. I have been struggling not to overeat in the last three weeks.

Has everyone finished entering their activity and challenge info onto the spreadsheet? Please let me know if you need me to enter anything else on your behalf. We're not exactly going out with a bang here ladies! Team 6 will be very pleased to finally beat us!

What are BL contestants?... Biggest loser??

That's right Tammy. I saw the article yesterday but never got to read it. If I can find it today I will see if I can get a link copied here. Happy Tuesday everyone!

Just read the article and watched the video accompanying it. Part of it makes sense but I feel they didn't explain enough about the type and amount of exercise the past contestants were doing following the show. Also, many of us know, we don't just eat when we're hungry. Suppressing our appetites is not always going to work. So much of it involves a persons mental/emotional state. I think the key statement from that piece is about how most people cannot sustain the time and expense of having a team of consultants at your disposal like they did during the show. Yes I believe a persons metabolism is affected after such an extreme loss in such a short period of time. I believe that is part of my problem now. That and I'm not as young as I was the first time I lost a significant amount of weight. Although I certainly didn't lose the amounts the contestants did. I believe slow and steady loss is key.
I've never seen the show but the way they describe the regime for some of those people is absolutely ridiculous. No surprise some of those people are messed up after the show!

gawworthington

I have done all the challenges and 700 minutes of exercise and weigh the same. I can't get to the spread sheet right now

Tammy - Here is the address for the article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/health/biggest-loser-weight-loss.html?_r=0

llmg970

I am also having trouble with sheets app. I did all the roadblocks, Friday I did 55 minutes, Thursday was 90 minutes, I think I put down what I did on Wednesday as that was the day we did all the walking. @leannev68 can you check on this for me and thanks

llmg970

ok, I reloaded my sheets app and I think I was able to update my numbers.

@gawworthington I've put your stats in Gayle. Great week!
Well, with 3 no-shows this week, we are 196 miles shy of Mexico. Too bad. In any case, it was an absolute pleasure heading up this wonderfully amazing team. We managed to stay in first place throughout almost the entire race!!! We were definitely the team to beat due to all of your hard work and dedication. Thank you to everyone and I hope we can be on a team together again later on this summer!!

Thank you, Leanne, for all your hard work. And thank you to all of team awesome. I think the people we have on our team made this a huge success and I hope we all come together again for the next amazing race.

bm1409

leanne , thanks for your hard work. You made a awesome leader! We had a great team. I am glad I was a part of it!

Thanks all! Olena just posted her stats on the spreadsheet and we have now officially made it to Mexico!!! Yay! Looking forward to keeping in touch with all of you over the summer! Can't wait for the next challenges and race! Stay well!

cjborkowski

Yay, we made it to Mexico! I'm so glad I was on this team & got to know you all! I lost 10 lbs for a total of 22 so far! Didn't quite get to my goal but I'm happy with where I'm at. I'm joining the summer challenge so hope to see many of you there.
Leanne-Thanks for all the time & work you put into keeping our team going & definitely helped with our success!

Thanks for the link, interesting analysis. I believe regardless of the loss or amount of time it takes 100% personal motivation and resolve to stay the ccourse is required. Personal choice of what you eat, quantity and quality, same with exercise. Our daily life stresses in the real world that trigger overeating wouldn't be solved with a million dollar team of experts...unless they lived with you 24/7 and slapped the food out if your hand...lol

RoseTheWarrior

Leanne, thanks for being an awesome leader! Thanks to all team members for making this a very fun experience!

gawworthington

Can someone post my final weight 187

gawworthington wrote: »

Can someone post my final weight 187

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