"WeLosersWin" Closed

salmat77

Writing the goal on the inside of the wrist is awesome, I may try that!! Thanks for the suggestion!!

Hartach

Alright girls, I am off to babysit (which should def count as a calorie burner) then off to the gym. With panic attacks I don't always do very well at the gym. Especially alone.

RENAEJAE

Wednesday
Nutrition - under sodium - yes - Way under!!! which is unusual for me!
Exercise - woodchops- yes
MILES - 8 (nice bike ride last night with my 14yr old)

It's Thirsty Thursday - so drink up ladies!

MarysFit

Wednesday
Rest day for me.

ChristiCare

I'm with you. most of my excise comes from swimming, but i can go hit the bikes also. I am not much for riding so I am not sure what a logical amount would be. How about you choose the distance see you are a rider, lol. I will put forth the effort to what you think is good....let us know

salmat77

Wednesday
Nutrition - Under Sodium
Exercise - 50 Woodchops (25 on each side)

Nutrition- NOPE AGAIN

2 MILES

tried to do the woodchops but only could do 10 on each side successfully.

ChristiCare

Message from the head boss:
Hi there,
I wanted to follow up with everyone and see how you all thought this week went for the challenge. How does everyone feel about the points system? I've had a couple suggestions that the method of calculating points isn't entirely fair. I don't want anyone to feel that they're being short changed because of the way the points are calculated. If this is a common feeling throughout players, maybe a more fair way to calculate points is to go by calories burned? X calories burned = 10 points? And then we could keep the nutrition/exercise challenges at their current point values?

Speaking of the nutrition/exercise challenges - how did everyone feel they went this week? Were they too difficult? Not difficult enough? Anyone have any suggestions for other exercises we can do? This week, I focused on abs. Maybe next week, we can focus on another area.

I want to make sure that everyone remains motivated and on board!

Also, one last thing - does anyone have any team members that are not participating?? Please let me know. I want to be sure that everyone is on a level playing field.

Thanks all! I look forward to all of your feedback!

RENAEJAE

Thursday
Nutrition - under calories - yes
Exercise - crunches- yes
MILES - 4.25

RENAEJAE

I think the challenges are fine. No problem with tracking miles. I've tracked calories burned before and it's harder. Some of us use MFP while others use a HRM.

Make it a great day girls!

MarysFit

Thursday
Crunches - Yes
1hour of Yoga

Crsticare - I do 30 min on the rec bike at level 1 [I started with 10 min] and that gets me 5+ miles.

About the points system. . .
Because I have knee pain, and I get bored easily, and I want total body fitness, I have to do a variety of workouts. Many of them, like yoga and strength training do not have a "distance." Also, I can do 2 miles in 10 min on the rec bike, but only .3 miles on the elliptical. I don't track food calories, but exercise calories shouldn't be too difficult. I'm ok with making a ballpark estimate of calories burned.

salmat77

Thursday
Nutrition - Under Calories
Exercise - 50 crunches


Yes under calories
Yes did crunches woo hoo!!!

walked 2.5 miles!!!

ChristiCare

Hows everybody doing? Second week started Friday, everybody is doing great, keep focused on why we are here.

Anybody have anything for the weekend?

Hartach

So it's the same thing every week? That's cool...just didn't know. I've had the worst personal couple of days that I've had in a LONG time. Sorry to let you guys down. I feel so let down in other ways (life). It's not fair. I'll try to keep it up.

salmat77

:sad: I have 2 miles for yesterday you can log, but nothing else for Friday, Saturday or Sunday, sorry ladies I was ill with my asthma so didnt really feel much for working out. I need a kick in my butt!!!!!!

salmat77

Oh yea under calories for yesterday too!! woo hoo!!!

Does anyone know how to log my workouts from my pedometor on my phone? The numbers never add up to what this website shows??

salmat77

So it's the same thing every week? That's cool...just didn't know. I've had the worst personal couple of days that I've had in a LONG time. Sorry to let you guys down. I feel so let down in other ways (life). It's not fair. I'll try to keep it up.

You didnt let us down girl, dont feel that way. WE are all here for you no matter what!!! Everyone of us has bad days so its okay, we will help you up and you will do better!!! If you ever need to vent please thats what we are here for... support and motivation and just an ear to listen..

ChristiCare

You didnt let anybody down! I think we all had a bad week. I am at the "want to fizzle out" point but I know that I can't. I know that I have to keep going if I want to accomplish my goal. That is where I am hoping/know that this fitness challenge will help me. (expecially being captain) I know I have to report everybody's numbers in.

If anybody is feels they are losing steam, It helped me to go in and read some of the sucess stories in the community tab. Expecially those that have lost 100+ pounds. It shows we really can do this

We can do this! We can do this!

You can do this! You can do this! You can do this! You can do this !

We all joined this site because we wanted something different in our lives, whether it be weight loss, eating better, or just wanting to be able to the simple things in life, like to tie our shoes without struggling (thats me, my belly gets in the way), or being able to walk upstairs without beinging winded. (thats me too)

So lets get our minds and hearts going again and relight our sparkler, we can do this we deserve it!

GO GIRLS

and for anybody that wants to vent, jump on in there, we will listen

ChristiCare

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/308959-lots-to-lose-challenge-week-2

Just in case you dont have it

ChristiCare

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArutZf2a6Ry5dEFsN0ZFOENrd3hjWEJJTHdUVkxxaHc&hl=en_US#gid=2

spreadsheet with team points

ChristiCare

I misunderstood what rest day was, so we need to pick a day, How about Wednesday this week and then we can go to Sundays, this is how it works.

None of your workouts for rest day count. The idea is to get your team to drink their water. Each cup of water that your team drinks is worth 10 points, up to a team max of 500 points. Exercise challenge doesn't count for whichever day you choose as rest day, but the nutrition challenge does. So, if each of your team members drinks 10 cups of water PLUS does the nutrition challenge for that day, your team can earn 525 points.

You need to choose a day between now and Thursday to have your rest/water day, since we're already through most of the week. You should probably confer with your teammates and decide which day and make sure everyone understands how it works. Please let me know as soon as possible which day THIS week you'd like to do.

If you want to use Sunday NEXT week, that will be fine.

salmat77

I think today is good for rest day and then move to Sunday's..

salmat77

Tuesday
Nutrition - Under Sodium
Exercise - 50 reverse crunches (http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/exercises.asp?exercise=8)


Nutrition: YES!! WOO HOO!!!
Exercise- Yes, damn they hurt too!!!

Also did 30 minutes on the Recumbent Bike for 6 miles
and
Walking at the track for 30 minutes for 1 1/2 miles.

salmat77

I drank 14 glasses of water yesterday for 112 oz.... OMG glad I didnt float away!!! LOL

I did workout but since I cant count it.. Oh well!!

Wednesday
Nutrition - Under Carbs- yes!!!

Hartach

How come we cannot choose our own rest day each week? Somedays just aren't good days. Also I haven't seen any challenge except for week one. Is every week the same?

Hartach

Thanks Sal. Not in the mood for ANYTHING. Not even venting. It's just personal/MAN problems. That I don't deserve. Sorry.

ChristiCare

Maybe it is just easier to keep track of it. Sometimes it is hard to keep track of 5 people, I cant imagine being the top dog and have to to keep track of 50 people. Sometimes no day seems good for eating right, and excercises, but one thing I am learning is that we just have to make it happen.

Have a great day

salmat77

Thanks Sal. Not in the mood for ANYTHING. Not even venting. It's just personal/MAN problems. That I don't deserve. Sorry.

Oh girl don't apologize its perfectly okay, just know we are all here for you okay?

And you are right you don't deserve it!!

salmat77

Under Sodium: UM No, def not a good day at all................:(

50 crunches- yes

40 minutes walking 2.5 mph


okay well try better tomorrow!!

ChristiCare

ok so here is our new thread for this weeks challenge

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/327625-ltl-week-5

::::Week 5 Challenges::::
Friday
Nutrition - Under Sodium
Exercise - 50 forward lunges (http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/exercises.asp?exercise=22)

Saturday
Nutrition - Under carbs
Exercise - Dance Dance Dance!!! 10 minutes again!!! (I heard that people liked this????)

Sunday
Nutrition - Under calories
Exercise - 50 Lying Tricep Lifts (http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/exercises.asp?exercise=190)

Monday
Nutrition - Under fat
Exercise - Exercise - 50 Windshield Wipers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omeqA3O4DUk )

Tuesday
Nutrition - Under sodium
Exercise - 50 squats (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8NKB_f06Os)

Wednesday
Nutrition - Under carbs
Exercise - 50 Dumbell Flys (http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/exercises.asp?exercise=155)

Thursday
Nutrition - Under calories
Exercise - 50 oblique crunches (http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/exercises.asp?exercise=4)

RENAEJAE

Thank Captain! I should have looked here first.

Sal - you're doing great!
Hart - bummer about the man problems. Hope things get better.
Crsti - thanks for organizing us!

ps - I am in a 100+ to lose thread that I absolutely LOVE. We have done a challenge each month and they are very simple and not difficult to organize. The girl that started this one said she wanted one that wasn't asadvanced as others on MFP but I have to say it has way to many people in it to be manageable!!! I don't know how things get tracked even close to accurately!!

In my 100+ group our August Challenge was to walk the Appalachian trail as a group. We each pledged the # of miles we thought we could achieve (personal goals are the best). We made sure we had enough people to do the 2100 or so miles in 30 days and made a google spreadsheet. We each post our own miles daily (walk,swim, bike, whatever) and we have 1 leader who updates the common ticker daily. I pledged 100 miles and have done nearly 160 now! So much fun and very motivating. Next month we are doing a triathalon. Teams of 3 and we can also choose to do a solo triathalon as well.