4 Week Challenge 7/15-8/12 (CLOSED)

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  • trispire
    trispire Posts: 70
    I have lost no weight -:(

    Why?
  • dieselbugparrot
    dieselbugparrot Posts: 160
    Unfortunately I have let myself down and now I am no longer part of this challenge. For 4 days I over indulged on food. So much so that I didn't enter anything for the last 2 or 3 days because it would be too hard to figure out everything I ate. And I have not worked out the last 3 days. :0( We went for a 2 mile walk this morning. It's amazing how being bad for 4 days has made my body feel like crap. I just felt really stiff and didn't walk as fast as I normally do. Good thing I'm getting back on track today, I don't like feeling like this.

    Anyway. Good luck everyone. I hope everyone else finishes this and any challenge you are currently do!
  • susanelizabeth1988
    susanelizabeth1988 Posts: 80 Member
    I have lost no weight -:(

    How often are you weighing in? Your body fluctuates +/- around 2.2 lbs a day. try weighing once a week at the same time. And remember to account for certain 'monthly cycles' - as water retention could be a reason :smile:
  • jennyocox
    jennyocox Posts: 143
    dieselbugparrot............ don't give up!
  • lcarter25
    lcarter25 Posts: 286 Member
    I dont know why i've lost no weight

    I weight the same this week as I did last week not tom

    some people have said maybe im not eating enough
  • Victorian131
    Victorian131 Posts: 130
    I hear ya! I haven't lost anything either, I don't think Im eating enough so have been trying eating more...now its about tom time so its all an uphill struggle at the moment!
  • trispire
    trispire Posts: 70
    Hmm. There was a time I was working out like crazy and eating about 1400 calories a day. I wasn't losing weight, maybe 1/2 a pound a week but I was burning 5k calories a week exercising plus having the food deficit. I went to see a nutritionist and she said I needed to eat more to fuel the amount of workouts I was doing and she wanted me to be at 16-1800 calories a day.

    It could be you should eat more, if you are working out A LOT and eating under 1400 calories a day. If you are working out moderately and eating 1200-1500 calories a day, I would think that woudln't be the problem.

    Really look at what you're eating, are you logging everything you put in your mouth? Are you eating a lot of high sodium foods? I can usually find error in my food when I am not losing as expected. Otherwise, I have had a week or two that I lose nothing and then drop 5 pounds the next week. So it could just be that. It depends on how long this has been going on for, how honest you're being with your calories in vs. calories out, etc.
  • lcarter25
    lcarter25 Posts: 286 Member
    Well I am good at tracking my food and usually have cals left over so even if I am not too accurate I should still be ok

    Exercise calories i go by what the site says when I enter the info, I go to zumba which burns 250 cals adn walk for 30 mins at a time which burs 120 apaprently

    I do eat all my net but not all burnt just in case info is incorrect
  • rachypompa
    rachypompa Posts: 653 Member
    Hi all

    I've been off track for the last week or so ... had some friends to stay, ate out, drank too much alcohol, had a great time, but now need to get back on track! So here I am ... will weigh in tomorrow, but it's not going to be pretty!!

    Dieselbugparrot - don't go, we all have bad days, weeks whatever. The point is to support eachother and aim to stay on track as much as possible, no-one is perfect, we just have to be good more often than we're not, and not let getting off track become our normal way of being!!

    Will be back tomorrow to weigh in.
  • theseagull
    theseagull Posts: 181 Member
    I lost the total of 0.7 kg out if 5kg I stated as a goal ! I lose weight too slow! Oooh !

    I had TOM which blowting me this week. Plus I did bad in the last week. Hope Hope Hope to cover this slowness by the 12th of August !
  • Victorian131
    Victorian131 Posts: 130
    Well, I know its not Friday yet but I've been eating more for about a week now and today I weighed myself and had lost half a lb, not much for some but its amazing to see the scale finally move in the right direction again, especially since an unexpected visit from TOM has left me feeling crap. I don't know what it will be tomorrow but Ill check in and let you all know!
    I don't think anyone should give up, even if its slow, a decrease in weight is significant no matter how small :D I think everyone on here is doing really great and should be proud of themselves.
    Have a great Thursday...its nearly the weekend!
    Vic x
  • mom2nate08
    mom2nate08 Posts: 287 Member
    Unfortunately I have let myself down and now I am no longer part of this challenge. For 4 days I over indulged on food. So much so that I didn't enter anything for the last 2 or 3 days because it would be too hard to figure out everything I ate. And I have not worked out the last 3 days. :0( We went for a 2 mile walk this morning. It's amazing how being bad for 4 days has made my body feel like crap. I just felt really stiff and didn't walk as fast as I normally do. Good thing I'm getting back on track today, I don't like feeling like this.

    Anyway. Good luck everyone. I hope everyone else finishes this and any challenge you are currently do!

    It sounds like a lot of us struggled this last week either with eating, exercise, or overall health. You are not alone! I think we all need to chalk this week up as a lesson learned, accept our weight for what it is, and kick butt over the next week! We can do this together! If we all get back on track I'm sure we will all see big scale movement next week!

    Good luck and I will post my weight (probably a small gain) tomorrow!
  • theseagull
    theseagull Posts: 181 Member
    So ... Most have a bad week haha. I'm not alone he he heee. I'll bite you all hahahahahaaai.
    [ devil eyes ]
    :-D
  • trispire
    trispire Posts: 70
    We have struggled, but you know what, we are still here! We are talking through our struggles. We can do this, lets just make good choices moving forward. Don't give up! Believe me, I have no problem telling myself I can give up and providing endless excuses why I should give up but then I remember how unhappy I am never meeting this one dang goal! I excel at most things but not my weight and it's time to become a success story!
  • rachypompa
    rachypompa Posts: 653 Member
    Woohoo!

    Weighing in at 171lb (3lb gain!)

    But I'm back on track now, and next week is going to be a good one.
  • Gary6030
    Gary6030 Posts: 593 Member
    I'd like to invite you all to join our TEAM August Challenge. Great daily exercise challenge, weekly eating challenges and team challenges. Lots of fun, support and motivation. Here is our forum post.

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/299772-team-challenge-beginning-august-1st-open-to-all

    Message me if you'd like to be on a team!
  • trispire
    trispire Posts: 70
    Hey all! Woah, sorry about the gain but you have the right attitude, make this week awesome!!

    I got up and did my Turbofire this morning...gosh I love that! I'm going camping but packed healthy snacks. I'm planning to keep on track and quite honestly, in the past I've found when I want to find a way to control my calories, I do! So there is always a way!

    I won't be able to check in tommorow but I will on Sunday. Make GOOD CHOICES!! :)
  • mom2nate08
    mom2nate08 Posts: 287 Member
    Hey all! Woah, sorry about the gain but you have the right attitude, make this week awesome!!

    I got up and did my Turbofire this morning...gosh I love that! I'm going camping but packed healthy snacks. I'm planning to keep on track and quite honestly, in the past I've found when I want to find a way to control my calories, I do! So there is always a way!

    I won't be able to check in tommorow but I will on Sunday. Make GOOD CHOICES!! :)

    I am in the process of packing for camping right now! We are leaving inthe morning and will be gone for a week. I am planning on limiting my junk intake and getting a LOT of exercise! I am hoping to lose a very big chunk this week.
  • jennyocox
    jennyocox Posts: 143
    I stuck to the plan like it was a new religon last week and I gained on my weigh-in (+1lb) :( I was out last night. Would being hungover make any difference I wonder?

    Also, due to the same hangover, I'm under my calories today and I'm not sure if I should be eating something 'just because' to make up the difference?
  • susanelizabeth1988
    susanelizabeth1988 Posts: 80 Member
    Gah, may have gone off the wagon a bit today, went to an indian restaurant with the other half and my mother. Not sure if its all been logged properly in my food diary - pretty sure it was way more. Came to just under 1400 calories for a veggie korma, pilau rice, naan and some poppadoms!!! :noway: :noway: I literally didnt eat anything else today, and went for a walk along the clifftops, so I *think* I still came under my calorie goal, not my greatest moment though. No 30 day shred today either for me, as today is my only day off work for the next 3 weeks ( I'm a student with 2 jobs, and a lot of the time the rotas leave me with no day off.) Very bad day today all in all :cry:
  • susanelizabeth1988
    susanelizabeth1988 Posts: 80 Member
    Just weighed in now and no change - but could still go up in the next few days.
  • sunshinemonkey
    sunshinemonkey Posts: 44
    hi everyone...sorry i missed fridays weigh in....had a horrible weekend.

    Friday I weighed the same, so i maintained. But then saturday and sunday happened and I made very bad food choices along with a bottle of wine, and gained 2lbs :sad:

    I am sooooooooooo disapointed in myself. I havent been to the gym since last wednesday either. I just don't feel myself. I feel overly emotional and and a little bit lost.

    I am moving to Istanbul in September and I think this has a lot to do with it. I am scared, anxious and I am going to miss a lot of people. who I seem to be distancing myself from. And my poor man who does everything for me is getting the brunt of this outburst. :cry:

    Sorry guys, I haven't done much good on this challenge. in fact I'm back to square one. I will keep going but I don't think I will reach my goal :blushing:

    SM xxx
  • sunshinemonkey
    sunshinemonkey Posts: 44
    morning ladies!

    Yesterday, after being really sick of my own misery, I decided to write things down, make some lists, and organise my life a little. In this organising I decided I would plan my meals for a week and make things that my man would enjoy too so that he would feel less need to eat crap around meals, which would then lead me to eat crap. Anywho, I came across my old Slimming world recipes which are all low cal, low fat meals. Then I came across my old weigh in book. I started slimming world on the 22nd July last year. so round about the time I logged on here again. Except, last year by now, in those first 2 weeks, I had lost 7.5lbs. :grumble:

    So, I decided that I am going to follow the slimming world plan again and combine it with my calorie intake on here. The food won't be that different anyway, but I feel like if this worked before it has to work again and if it doesnt then theres got to be something else. I just don't think 1-3lbs in 3-4 weeks is very much progress. AND...I drank 2 nights a week with slimming world. (after reading this back I realised that I cant expect to lose anything if i have a blow out weekend!)

    Anyway, yesterdays food was based on the SW plan and I woke up minus the 2lbs I gained at the weekend. Not that its down to the plan, they probably would have gone anyway, but I lost 5lbs the first week I did SW so hopefully I could lose 1 more by this weeks weigh in.

    Rant over
    SM xx
  • jennyocox
    jennyocox Posts: 143
    Good on you Sunshinemonkey! The most important thing you can learn is picking yourself up and carrying on. Well done! I'm starting to become convinced that challenges have the opposite affect on me than I planned. I'm not too worried about the weight goal now though because I FEEL good and that should be all that matters! :happy:
  • Victorian131
    Victorian131 Posts: 130
    Thats such an enviable attitude to have :) I could do with a boost tbh!
    I'm still at 155lbs and expecting to go up. I'm not going to log completely for a few weeks. Postgrad dissertation is pretty much my only focus atm, its making me so stressed and not eating emotionally is making my mood horrendous, not to mention my sleep pattern. I always put on weight when I stress regardless of food choices so until September 19th Im pretty much doomed. I refuse to give up and pig out but I'm struggling to find the time to log everything and my workouts have dropped to 3/4 times a week...and no wii as I have no TV where I am.
    I reckon as long as I'm not gaining I'm ok and can deal with that but being so anal about food and figures etc has to go on the back burner for a while.
    Obviously Im living off coffee so Ive trained myself to have it without milk as that can so quickly add up once you have upwards of 3/4 cups.
    But yes, sorry to have been so rubbish in this challenge and sorry in advance for my quietness.
    This is my 30th day of logging and I have lost a total of 2lbs in the 1st week and 3 weeks of stand still...maybe I have been paying too much attention to figures. I'm going to put my uni work first and see what happens...even if I gain at least I know my scales aren't broken!
    Well done everyone for all your efforts and thanks for the great motivation along the way!
    I wish you all the best,
    Vic x
  • susanelizabeth1988
    susanelizabeth1988 Posts: 80 Member
    Uni work is never fun - I usually get so stressed that I get ill and have migraines. I think you're right in not logging for a few weeks - uni should always come first! And the relief of getting your dissertation completed will make you feel a lot happier. The last thing I want to do when I'm feeling moody or down is count calories. Good luck with your dissertation, I hope you feel better soon!
  • theseagull
    theseagull Posts: 181 Member
    Uuuugh ... It seems that I'll not lose even a half of the goal I stated here ... my goal us to lose 5 kg but I lost 1.4 until now ..!
  • susanelizabeth1988
    susanelizabeth1988 Posts: 80 Member
    Almost there! 1 lb to go for this 4 week challenge - only my weigh in on friday will tell.

    How is everyone doing, this group has really quietened down over the past week or two.
  • susanelizabeth1988
    susanelizabeth1988 Posts: 80 Member
    Hi everyone,

    Just want to say - 4 week challenge goal achieved! (only just - scales just tipped in the right direction this morning). 8lbs lost!!

    How did everyone else do?
  • jennyocox
    jennyocox Posts: 143
    I'm going to post because I said I would. I'm exactly the same weight now as I was when I started. I lost 2lb the first week then stayed the same then gained 1 then gained 1. Funny part is, I stayed under calorie goal and upped my exercise by almost double. So I'm disappointed to say the least. I have however, insisted on tracking my measurements which ARE going down and I FEEL well so that's all good. I'll write off this challenge.
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