TEAM: The Big Butt Theory (September)
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Mini Ultimate Accountability Challenge - September Week #1 (Sun the 1st to Sat the 7th)
Winner's Circle - 6 or 7 days:
@annabananamc (7) - 9th week in a row in the Winner's Circle!!
@cmhubbard92 (7) - 31st week IN A ROW in the Winner's Circle!!
@energyseeker (7) - 1st time trying the Mini Challenge and lands in the Winner's Circle!!
@ethelsmommy (7) - 2nd week in a row in the Winner's Circle!!
@heaz10 (7) - 6th week in a row in the Winner's Circle!!
@mirendybryant (7) - only attempted last week; this week lands in the Winner's Circle!!
Notable Effort - 4 or 5 days:
@brandi_84 (5) - 1st time trying the Mini Challenge since rejoining and puts in a Notable Effort!!
@ForLangston (5) - puts in another Notable Effort!!
@murdog3t (5) - didn't even attempt last week, this week puts in a Notable Effort!!
@Ar_cervantes (4) - puts in another Notable Effort!!
@MelsLeanDream (4) - 1st time trying the Mini Challenge since rejoining and puts in a Notable Effort!!
Attempted:
@abowersgirl (3)
@Audgiebug (3)
@dymphnadaniels (3)
@erikNJ (3)
@pkg1998 (2)
@Nicoletime4me (1)
@stubbornloser (1)
@swauters (1)
We had 19 participate this week, up from 12 the week before, but that is to be expected at the beginning of a month when everyone is keen!! We had six Winners, which is up one from the week before and all six Winners were accountable for ALL SEVEN DAYS!! I have never seen that before!! This week, @annabananamc, @cmhubbard92, @ethelsmommy and @heaz10 were joined at the top by @energyseeker and @mirendybryant!! Congratulations to all six for an outstanding week of absolute accountability!!
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I think we are supposed to set our step goal for the challenge. My goal is 10,000 a day so 70,000 for the week.
With that being said, I am off to a slow start today, but it is only lunch time.2 -
Results for September Week #2
Team TBBT had a much better second week of September coming in third as a team with a loss of 0.35% (0.55% for first place). Our team's Biggest Loser for the week was @cmhubbard92, with a loss of 2.48%. Congratulations, Christine!
The TOP NINE Big Butts, all losing over 1% of their body weight for the week were:
@cmhubbard92 - 2.48%
@energyseeker - 2.26%
@swauters - 1.55%
@cossmoss15 - 1.41%
@abowersgirl - 1.40%
@heaz10 - 1.31%
@MelsLeanDream - 1.20%
@Caronell - 1.19%
@Coral333 - 1.14%
Congratulations to these nine and to any Big Butt that lost weight and contributed to the team's third place finish!!4 -
I think we are supposed to set our step goal for the challenge. My goal is 10,000 a day so 70,000 for the week.
With that being said, I am off to a slow start today, but it is only lunch time.
I've added you to the spreadsheet!
Anyone interested in the step or water challenge can view progress on the spreadsheet. If you want to submit your steps, use the form linked below, or post them here in this thread with the day you are entering them for! I am excited to see how we all do!
Here is the spreadsheet
Here is the form to enter your steps
***Please remember the spreadsheet is a work in progress. There are some things on the challenge page that do not apply at this time! Let me, @cmhubbard92, know if I made a mistake with your goal, daily steps, etc. I will fix these things as soon as I can! Also, let me know if you have any suggestions!***0 -
cmhubbard92 wrote: »@sandkp I also find that challenges really motivate me and I love some of your ideas. Are you thinking that we add a new/ different challenge to or weekly mini-challenges? For example... We still post tracked, under/ over, exercise plus then whatever the challenge is?.... a pic of your dinner, a link to a video, etc?
@swauters that was kind of what I was thinking.... nothing too overwhelming or needing tracked more than what we are posting for the other. Just a way to share info (videos etc ) along with getting us focused on something different or new (like the food stuff) I know I am just starting to get my head somewhat above water and am treading but not swimming yet so I didnt want something to detailed or that needed tracked because I couldn't take that on right now. Now if the spreadsheet is up and running with a link to it we can all get to easily, it may be easy to add a space on there for the weekly challenge or to add a link for the videos etc but since I am clueless on Google sheets that would be for those with knowledge to say how hard or easy it would be.
@sandkp Click this link and just fill in username, step goal, day reporting and number of steps. I have everything all set to fill in 😊 if it doesn't work for you that way, I can copy any numbers you post on here!
I can try working on a merging it into a challenge spreadsheet-adding links and whatnot! I will play with it today, and if it comes out alright, I will share with you all later!
Edit: I started playing around with the spreadsheet. Here is what I have so far @energyseeker @swauters @HASWLRS @sandkp and anyone else that I've forgotten to tag. If for some reason it is allowing public editing, please leave everything as it is for now. I will be leaving for work shortly, and am still working on this!
@swauters I could open it and that is exactly what I was thinking of. I won't be doing step challenge - I don't have a tracking device and have to figure out it I want to add it to the gift list (meaning if I will really use it!) If I remember right, once we have the link and the spreadsheet ready to go, it can be opened on a computer or sheets app and then we can find it easily right?
@HASWLRS - if we get the sheet up and running using same link every week and it is working - maybe add that to the first post on the monthly group welcome so it is always easily found on page 1 of the monthly group for anyone that doesn't have the link saved or needs to "find it again"... just a thought.0 -
Posting a pic of the paella I made last night for anyone who needs a bit of food inspiration. It’s one of my faves because I can pack in the veggies (peas, peppers, onion, tomatoes and courgette in this one) plus some lean protein. You add in the rice and some stock and then leave it to cook so it’s actually quite a simple meal for dinner time when I’m normally running around mad! You can make it as low or high cal as you like as well, this portion had 700 caps per bowl.
That looks great @Coral333 - may have to try that as the family loves shrimp! little man veggies not so much - but everyone else is good to go!0 -
My struggle for this week has been resisting the urge to snack since we have to eat dinner pretty early several days a week.
@brandi_84, I kind of missed this the first time around. If you have to resist the urge to snack in the evening, then leave some calories on the table to do just that. Eat fewer calories up until dinner, (which I assume would be easier to do than foregoing a snack at the end of the day) so that you have enough left for a night time snack.
And I hope your pulled muscle is feeling better this week!!
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Hey team... love the challenge ideas. definitely on board for the water - been working on that while I haven't been doing much else. I don't track steps so I wouldn't be in that but I think for those that do it would be a great challenge (who knows may motivate me to get a tracker for Christmas!)
I love challenges - they seem to keep me more motivated. One of the things that I loved about the Amazing Race group that I did was some of the different challenges every week - things like pick an exercise video that your favorite to share and then others would choose one of the videos to do or you have things like a rainbow challenge where you have to have a plate with rainbow colored food over the course of so many days to meet the challenge during the week trying to get you to eat differently. lots of little things like that that maybe we could just put out as personal challenges to the group or just out there for anyone who wanted to do something fun like that for the week with us. Personally I think those kind of fun weekly challenges within the team could be done where we don't have to have it so tracked... it wouldn't be any more work for us just to post it versus having weekly leaders. I think things like the the steps and walking are great foreseeing that part of it but these other challenges I think it would be just fun to see if we could just work together with it without adding more on to leadership.
as I said before I haven't been involved like I wanted to be but I'm hoping to get back into doing more. my plan is: Sunday is my well.. I don't want to say reboot because every time I say reboot I seemed to end up back at the hospital with somebody so I just want to say it's my fresh start.
@sandkp, love the idea, Shawnee, of a weekly group challenge like the ones you suggested. We'll definitely do that, once we get the water and step challenge up and running, with all the bugs worked out!! You will be our first volunteer (voluntold!), so get thinking about what challenge you'd like to extend to the group!
@sandkp I also find that challenges really motivate me and I love some of your ideas. Are you thinking that we add a new/ different challenge to or weekly mini-challenges? For example... We still post tracked, under/ over, exercise plus then whatever the challenge is?.... a pic of your dinner, a link to a video, etc?
@swauters, yes, something like that, Sara. It could just be a one time thing that week, or something we try to do over a few days, but just an added post required...no one needs to tabulate and you can participate or not.
@HASWLRS - you are not doing anything new to me... seems my life lately has been one long "voluntold"
I am definitely okay with gathering some ideas for this. Thoughts - do you all want to do one "fitness/exercise" type and one "food/nutrition" type each week or alternate between the two? I personally vote for one of each every week.
we can either log it with out min-challenge OR if the sheet gets up and is able to be utilized for tracking that (meaning we can enter our stuff) without putting undo burden on anyone else to track that weekly it would be good. My thought is that if we do suggest links etc. the sheet would be a great place to have that list all in one so to speak so that others can choose. IF that works, we could even do a "do and provide link for a favorite workout video" one week and another week "choose someones fav video and try it" for another week - that would be harder if there was no set place to keep track of them easily.0 -
Anyone interested in the step or water challenge can view progress on the spreadsheet. If you want to submit your steps, use the form linked below, or post them here in this thread with the day you are entering them for! I am excited to see how we all do!
Here is the spreadsheet
Here is the form to enter your steps
***Please remember the spreadsheet is a work in progress. There are some things on the challenge page that do not apply at this time! Let me, @cmhubbard92, know if I made a mistake with your goal, daily steps, etc. I will fix these things as soon as I can! Also, let me know if you have any suggestions!***[/quote]
@cmhubbard92 I would definitely like to be added to the water challenge - no step challenge for me at this time. Thanks!0 -
Hey team... love the challenge ideas. definitely on board for the water - been working on that while I haven't been doing much else. I don't track steps so I wouldn't be in that but I think for those that do it would be a great challenge (who knows may motivate me to get a tracker for Christmas!)
I love challenges - they seem to keep me more motivated. One of the things that I loved about the Amazing Race group that I did was some of the different challenges every week - things like pick an exercise video that your favorite to share and then others would choose one of the videos to do or you have things like a rainbow challenge where you have to have a plate with rainbow colored food over the course of so many days to meet the challenge during the week trying to get you to eat differently. lots of little things like that that maybe we could just put out as personal challenges to the group or just out there for anyone who wanted to do something fun like that for the week with us. Personally I think those kind of fun weekly challenges within the team could be done where we don't have to have it so tracked... it wouldn't be any more work for us just to post it versus having weekly leaders. I think things like the the steps and walking are great foreseeing that part of it but these other challenges I think it would be just fun to see if we could just work together with it without adding more on to leadership.
as I said before I haven't been involved like I wanted to be but I'm hoping to get back into doing more. my plan is: Sunday is my well.. I don't want to say reboot because every time I say reboot I seemed to end up back at the hospital with somebody so I just want to say it's my fresh start.
@sandkp, love the idea, Shawnee, of a weekly group challenge like the ones you suggested. We'll definitely do that, once we get the water and step challenge up and running, with all the bugs worked out!! You will be our first volunteer (voluntold!), so get thinking about what challenge you'd like to extend to the group!
@sandkp I also find that challenges really motivate me and I love some of your ideas. Are you thinking that we add a new/ different challenge to or weekly mini-challenges? For example... We still post tracked, under/ over, exercise plus then whatever the challenge is?.... a pic of your dinner, a link to a video, etc?
@swauters, yes, something like that, Sara. It could just be a one time thing that week, or something we try to do over a few days, but just an added post required...no one needs to tabulate and you can participate or not.
@HASWLRS - you are not doing anything new to me... seems my life lately has been one long "voluntold" I am definitely okay with gathering some ideas for this. Thoughts - do you all want to do one "fitness/exercise" type and one "food/nutrition" type each week or alternate between the two? I personally vote for one of each every week.
we can either log it with out min-challenge OR if the sheet gets up and is able to be utilized for tracking that (meaning we can enter our stuff) without putting undo burden on anyone else to track that weekly it would be good. My thought is that if we do suggest links etc. the sheet would be a great place to have that list all in one so to speak so that others can choose. IF that works, we could even do a "do and provide link for a favorite workout video" one week and another week "choose someones fav video and try it" for another week - that would be harder if there was no set place to keep track of them easily.
@sandkp, if there are links involved, then one easy place to find them sounds great. But if it is just a food challenge, or a specific exercise challenge, then posting with the mini challenge sounds right. As far as how many to do each week, that can be determined on a weekly basis, depending where the inspiration is coming from.0 -
ForLangston wrote: »I appreciate all of your work @HASWLRS and your individual encouragement @cmhubbard92 ! Life is busy. I don't know anyone who is retired on this thread and if so, they should also be resting and enjoying life. Back way back, the biggest loser was just a weekly posts of weight. I appreciate that we have these mini-challenges. But I think we all should contribute based on the time and energy that we have. @HASWLRS : I wish I could take it over, but unfortunately, I don't have that extra time. Thanks for all that you do. For all of you who show up for yourself, post or not post, and just try, I applaud and support you. It's a free-site designed to help us on our journey, let's enjoy this complimentary mfp, biggest loser, and this thread. Have a great wknd!
@ForLangston, I agree wholeheartedly that we should all contribute based on the free time and energy and desire that we have. In no way are these discussions intended to make people feel guilty if they decide to only read the posts and not interact. For some people this is their first experience with the MFP community, and we don't want to scare them away by saying to have to be vocal!! I think where this discussion is coming from, is that some people wanted to be more invested and interact more, but it was feeling like a one way conversation, so those tend to not last long, even if the desire to talk is there!!1 -
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cmhubbard92 wrote: »I think we are supposed to set our step goal for the challenge. My goal is 10,000 a day so 70,000 for the week.
With that being said, I am off to a slow start today, but it is only lunch time.
I've added you to the spreadsheet!
Anyone interested in the step or water challenge can view progress on the spreadsheet. If you want to submit your steps, use the form linked below, or post them here in this thread with the day you are entering them for! I am excited to see how we all do!
Here is the spreadsheet
Here is the form to enter your steps
***Please remember the spreadsheet is a work in progress. There are some things on the challenge page that do not apply at this time! Let me, @cmhubbard92, know if I made a mistake with your goal, daily steps, etc. I will fix these things as soon as I can! Also, let me know if you have any suggestions!***
Thank you! Spreadsheet looks great and I just finished my first bottle of water. I hate water, but I love challenges. Thanks for all of your work on this.1 -
cmhubbard92 wrote: »@sandkp I also find that challenges really motivate me and I love some of your ideas. Are you thinking that we add a new/ different challenge to or weekly mini-challenges? For example... We still post tracked, under/ over, exercise plus then whatever the challenge is?.... a pic of your dinner, a link to a video, etc?
@swauters that was kind of what I was thinking.... nothing too overwhelming or needing tracked more than what we are posting for the other. Just a way to share info (videos etc ) along with getting us focused on something different or new (like the food stuff) I know I am just starting to get my head somewhat above water and am treading but not swimming yet so I didnt want something to detailed or that needed tracked because I couldn't take that on right now. Now if the spreadsheet is up and running with a link to it we can all get to easily, it may be easy to add a space on there for the weekly challenge or to add a link for the videos etc but since I am clueless on Google sheets that would be for those with knowledge to say how hard or easy it would be.
@sandkp Click this link and just fill in username, step goal, day reporting and number of steps. I have everything all set to fill in 😊 if it doesn't work for you that way, I can copy any numbers you post on here!
I can try working on a merging it into a challenge spreadsheet-adding links and whatnot! I will play with it today, and if it comes out alright, I will share with you all later!
Edit: I started playing around with the spreadsheet. Here is what I have so far @energyseeker @swauters @HASWLRS @sandkp and anyone else that I've forgotten to tag. If for some reason it is allowing public editing, please leave everything as it is for now. I will be leaving for work shortly, and am still working on this!
@swauters I could open it and that is exactly what I was thinking of. I won't be doing step challenge - I don't have a tracking device and have to figure out it I want to add it to the gift list (meaning if I will really use it!) If I remember right, once we have the link and the spreadsheet ready to go, it can be opened on a computer or sheets app and then we can find it easily right?
@HASWLRS - if we get the sheet up and running using same link every week and it is working - maybe add that to the first post on the monthly group welcome so it is always easily found on page 1 of the monthly group for anyone that doesn't have the link saved or needs to "find it again"... just a thought.
@sandkp that is usually how it works on my sheets. The only time it doesnt is if I open it in MFP app(I have to open in new window for it to save).Anyone interested in the step or water challenge can view progress on the spreadsheet. If you want to submit your steps, use the form linked below, or post them here in this thread with the day you are entering them for! I am excited to see how we all do!
Here is the spreadsheet
Here is the form to enter your steps
***Please remember the spreadsheet is a work in progress. There are some things on the challenge page that do not apply at this time! Let me, @cmhubbard92, know if I made a mistake with your goal, daily steps, etc. I will fix these things as soon as I can! Also, let me know if you have any suggestions!***
@cmhubbard92 I would definitely like to be added to the water challenge - no step challenge for me at this time. Thanks!
And once I close out of this, I am adding you to the water challenge! As a heads up, if you have a smartphone, you can install a free step tracker. Of course it would only work when you have the phone on you, but could be something to use for yourself if you don't want to put it on the gift list right away!0 -
@HASWLRS - if we get the sheet up and running using same link every week and it is working - maybe add that to the first post on the monthly group welcome so it is always easily found on page 1 of the monthly group for anyone that doesn't have the link saved or needs to "find it again"... just a thought.
@sandkp, yeah, I was thinking the same thing about page #11 -
@HASWLRS - if we get the sheet up and running using same link every week and it is working - maybe add that to the first post on the monthly group welcome so it is always easily found on page 1 of the monthly group for anyone that doesn't have the link saved or needs to "find it again"... just a thought.
@sandkp, yeah, I was thinking the same thing about page #1
That's a great idea. I will continue using the same sheet/form so the links dont change every week! I will just put the new weeks at the beginning of the sheet so it can be viewed easily!1 -
cmhubbard92 wrote: »I think we are supposed to set our step goal for the challenge. My goal is 10,000 a day so 70,000 for the week.
With that being said, I am off to a slow start today, but it is only lunch time.
I've added you to the spreadsheet!
Anyone interested in the step or water challenge can view progress on the spreadsheet. If you want to submit your steps, use the form linked below, or post them here in this thread with the day you are entering them for! I am excited to see how we all do!
Here is the spreadsheet
Here is the form to enter your steps
***Please remember the spreadsheet is a work in progress. There are some things on the challenge page that do not apply at this time! Let me, @cmhubbard92, know if I made a mistake with your goal, daily steps, etc. I will fix these things as soon as I can! Also, let me know if you have any suggestions!***
Thank you! Spreadsheet looks great and I just finished my first bottle of water. I hate water, but I love challenges. Thanks for all of your work on this.
Not a problem! I'm a geek when it comes to this stuff. Always trying to learn new stuff in it!1 -
Onederland Watch List
Currently we have five Big Butts, who are in single digits, and within sight of Onederland!! That is very exciting!! They are:
@Ar_cervantes
@cmhubbard92
@Coral333
@heaz10
@swauters
And two more just over the horizon. They are:
@sandkp
@stubbornloser
We are rooting you all on!!5 -
Well team, I'm definitely feeling motivated with the challenges. Forced myself out after tea for a walk to boost the steps and I'm ending the day on 12048 (will update the form now @cmhubbard92 ) I've also finished my water and managed almost 2 litres which I think is about 8 cups. Thank you all for the boost!
@HASWLRS it's great with chicken or any type of fish thrown in too. Really is a sort of "anything but the kitchen sink" dish for me
@sandkp I have all that to look forward to! Right now my daughter is happy to eat anything I'm feeding off the spoon but her independent streak is developing already at only 13 months so I can imagine the green trees and other veggies aren't going to be as appealing to her soon! lol
Really inspired by the other onederland chasers as well - I'm cheering us all on!1 -
Okay, I love this one-derland chasers; #goals!
Tracked, yoga/10k steps, and at
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Sept 14&15
Tracking: no
Calories: no
Exercise: yes
Step: 4511 & 4558
Water:88oz1 -
@murdog3t is the 4588 for Monday? Today starts the week, so I will be putting Monday's number in for you 0
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ForLangston wrote: »Okay, I love this one-derland chasers; #goals!
Tracked, yoga/10k steps, and at
@ForLangston I agree! Great motivation @HASWLRS!
@ForLangston I added you to our step challenge because I always see you posting your steps. If you want, I can remove you... if not, I will update your steps when I see them!1 -
9/16/19
Tracked: yes
Under: yes
Exercise: yes
Steps(currently): 12,530
Water(currently): 96oz
Took the pups on separate walks. Roy went for the shorter walk because he loves to pull(old habits die hard), and Dillon went for a longer walk in the opposite directions. I have to say I had so much energy after taking Dillon even though he's picking up the pace on our walks(which I am totally for), but I feel totally drained after walking Roy. Made my snack(grapes and cheddar cheese) and boyfriend's lunch, cleaned up the kitchen, and cold-brewed some unsweetened iced tea so I can have at work tomorrow. I am heading to bed in a few minutes, so I will update any new numbers in the morning!3 -
@cmhubbard92 I can’t even imagine trying to workout at home with a puppy running around. But I’m sure it provides plenty of other activity.
I had 66 messages to read through so sorry if I do not credit things already said.
I would like to do the water challenge. Someone said something about drinking water as soon as you wake up and that is exactly how I start my days. I try to drink between 20-40 oz before I leave the house for work and I carry another 16-32 with me. Then of course having it with food and exercise always helps.
I have a fitbit but no clue where it is. I’ll look for it this weekend and see about joining the steps challenge next week1 -
Mini-challenge
Sun
tracked: yes
under: no
exercise: yes
Mon
tracked: yes
under: yes
exercise: no
Stayed under calories today but since I stayed up late to watch the Eagles suck and lose I only got about 5 hours of sleep so I didn't have energy to go to the gym after work. On to tomorrow0 -
@cmhubbard92 - I filled out the form, but I wasn’t able to edit the spreadsheet. Any idea why not? I would just prefer to update the sheet directly since I have the app and can find the spreadsheet easier than the form.0
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@Ar_cervantes
@cmhubbard92
@Coral333
@heaz10
@sandkp
@stubbornloser
I hope you all have more success with onederland than I do. I seem to play this game where I step into onederland, then fall face-first out of its border. I spend months trekking back, only to repeat this over and over.
@cmhubbard92 I filled out the form for steps and water but to be honest I might end up losing the links and just put my numbers in my posts.0 -
mini-challenges
Sept 16
tracked-yes
under-yes
exercise-yes, weights and arc trainer
water 108 oz, steps >16000
goals
teeth, weights, and computer- all so far so good. It's only day 2 of 73 -
cmhubbard92 wrote: »@murdog3t is the 4588 for Monday? Today starts the week, so I will be putting Monday's number in for you
@cmhubbard92, those steps were for Saturday and Sunday.0
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