We're Losing It-Biggest Loser Challenge (closed group)

mom2alexandmatt

If anyone likes Kickboxing, I found a great workout On Demand (Comcast) today. It's Cardio Kick Boxing with Chris Freytag. I really like her. I've done sculpting workouts with her before but this was great cardio. 40 minutes of high intensity but low impact (just right for my knees!) workout. My heart rate average 142, but was mainly around 155 which is my optimum range. And the combos were easy enough to follow along with. I will definitely be doing this again! 395 calories in 40 minutes!
I also had an exciting shopping experience today... bought size large shirts, which I have not done in years. In January, I was wearing 2x tops and size 22/24 pants. Today was large tops and size 16 pants. :laugh: :happy:

Definitely a reminder of why I've worked so hard, and great inspiration to get me moving again!
Hope you all have a great weekend!

loseit4ever

If anyone likes Kickboxing, I found a great workout On Demand (Comcast) today. It's Cardio Kick Boxing with Chris Freytag. I really like her. I've done sculpting workouts with her before but this was great cardio. 40 minutes of high intensity but low impact (just right for my knees!) workout. My heart rate average 142, but was mainly around 155 which is my optimum range. And the combos were easy enough to follow along with. I will definitely be doing this again! 395 calories in 40 minutes!
I also had an exciting shopping experience today... bought size large shirts, which I have not done in years. In January, I was wearing 2x tops and size 22/24 pants. Today was large tops and size 16 pants. :laugh: :happy:

Definitely a reminder of why I've worked so hard, and great inspiration to get me moving again!
Hope you all have a great weekend!

Congrats on the smaller clothes!! That's great! I've decided to find one thing in a size I still can't wear that is going to be my next goal item because I've hit all my original ones! Time to find something else to strive for. Keep up the good work!

Navallez

Hi everyone, I will be joining you in this challenge, a little late but I have been following your posts and really need the support and to do this challenge. I am 42 yrs old, married and mother of 4 terrific children, 20 boy, 18 girl, 7 girl, 5 boy. as you can see everyone keeps me busy! I have been obese half of my life, my teenage yrs up to my twenties I was between 125-145 so I gained a whole person and to tell you the truth I want to get rid of the OTHER women:laugh: So I have never ever exercised with my current weight(which I have had for the past 15 yrs or so) I started exercising with diet about a month ago and I LOVE IT! who knew? So far I have lost 17 wonderful lbs and very very determined to lose many many more lbs. Hope to meet new friends and count on me for support! As of last Monday my CW is 321 lbs (I smile because 4 weeks ago I was 338)

loseit4ever

Hi everyone, I will be joining you in this challenge, a little late but I have been following your posts and really need the support and to do this challenge. I am 42 yrs old, married and mother of 4 terrific children, 20 boy, 18 girl, 7 girl, 5 boy. as you can see everyone keeps me busy! I have been obese half of my life, my teenage yrs up to my twenties I was between 125-145 so I gained a whole person and to tell you the truth I want to get rid of the OTHER women:laugh: So I have never ever exercised with my current weight(which I have had for the past 15 yrs or so) I started exercising with diet about a month ago and I LOVE IT! who knew? So far I have lost 17 wonderful lbs and very very determined to lose many many more lbs. Hope to meet new friends and count on me for support! As of last Monday my CW is 321 lbs (I smile because 4 weeks ago I was 338)

Welcome to the group!! This is one of the best groups of people to keep you motivated and support you in any way possible. I am glad to have every single one of them on my list of friends! Together we are all going to get where we want to be!

Navallez

thank you

zumba66girl

Hi everyone my name is Brenda and I am 45. I am so glad that Brandi put this group together. I need all the motivation I can get these days. I will post things as I can and hope all is well with all of you. At my highest weight last September I was a little over 200 lbs and right now am teetering at 180. I am 5'11" and lately not very active....going through a lot of personal stuff and not dealing well. I want to be at 160 lbs by the start of 2012. I think there will be big changes in my life and I have to be healthy to start over. Thanks all of you for being here. It helps tremendously. Good Luck and Happy Losing to all of You!!! ((((hugs)))) :flowerforyou:

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kimcat73

Good morning my little losers! Hope everyone had a great weekend and starting a fabulous week! I'm still on vacation so I am of course having a great week lol

Having a little trouble keeping my eating in check. My family cooks extremely well and most of the time it tastes so good, I need seconds! Not to mention the eating out! But, all is well, I'll be back on track Thursday when I'm home and can focus on me again:)

loseit4ever

Good morning friends! Only one more day until our first weigh in!! I'm so excited to see how we've all been doing! Keep in mind that if you've had a rough week, this is a long competition. We'll all have good weeks and bad weeks, so hang in there!

Here's what I want you to start thinking about. I want you to come up with two goals for yourself for the next week. They can be diet or exercise related, related to an event you have coming up, or even specific to your weight loss goal for next week. Reply here with your two goals by the end of the day tomorrow! And don't forget to get me your weight tomorrow too!

My two goals:

1) Ride my stationary bike 20 miles in addition to finishing week 3 of c25k.

2) Drink at least eight glasses of water EVERY day...I'v'e been slacking on this!

MamaPru

Hey everyone! I am just getting started on my journey. I know that we will be able to motivate each other to keep pushing forward and making our health and ourselves a priority! Looking forward to getting to know all of you. WE CAN DO THIS!!!

Betsy:flowerforyou:

mom2alexandmatt

Hello everyone! Hope you all had a fantastic weekend! I definitely did as I spent Saturday morning shopping for new clothes and yesterday cleaning out closets and packing away "fat clothes". I no longer have any clothing that is too small for me!
This challenge is exactly what I needed... a reminder of why I'm doing this and how good it feels to have succesful results!

My goals for this week are:

1) Try out the 40 minute Extreme Workouts by Chris Freytag on Exercise TV. (I did the kickboxing one on Saturday and boy do my arms feel it!) Do this 3 times this week.

2) Do 3 toning sessions through the week - arms, abs, butt/legs.

I am really striving to hit the 50lb loss mark by November 6th, which is when we are getting family photos taken. This will be the first formal family portrait we have had done since having my youngest son, who is now 8!!!
I think it's a great way to reward myself!

I ate well and moved alot this past weekend, so I'm feeling happy with my progress. Hope it shows on the scalre tomorrow!!!

Keep losing it, ladies!

2011_4mygirls

Hello all BLC'ers! I did not log in over the weekend because it was too crazy. I tried to keep my eating in check the best that I could.

My goals for this week are:

#1 - log atleast 30 miles of exercise this week
#2 - 8 glasses of water EVERY single day!!!


Thanks again Brandi for putting this together!

MamaPru

I have spent some time today reading your posts and I am so impressed by everyone's success and motivation!
My goals for the week will be to walk or bike a total of 15 miles. I will also drink my 8 glasses of water. I am just getting started with really putting my true efforts into working out. My nutrition is usually good, but I slack off on exercise or just do it half-assed! I am ready to do what it takes to get this done!!! Thanks for the motivation!

Navallez

Hi everyone!!!! I am new to this challenge and would like to know when everyone weighs in and if you have a spreadsheet or just post your progress here....either way proud to say I lost 2.2 lbs, a bit on the down side because I was losing more than 5 lbs a week for the past 4 weeks, but still proud of my progress...almost 20 lbs not bad if I say so myself

loseit4ever

Hi everyone!!!! I am new to this challenge and would like to know when everyone weighs in and if you have a spreadsheet or just post your progress here....either way proud to say I lost 2.2 lbs, a bit on the down side because I was losing more than 5 lbs a week for the past 4 weeks, but still proud of my progress...almost 20 lbs not bad if I say so myself

Hey! Our official weigh-in day is Tuesday for this challenge, but if you don't want to do it more than once a week, you can use the weight from whatever your regular day is. Personally, I am weighing myself on Tuesday mornings because it's my motivation to stay strong over the weekend. My regular day is Friday. You can either post it here or send it to me in a message. And I can take either current weight or pounds lost. I have two spreadsheets to use for tracking progress.

Great job this week!! You'll start losing slower as you go, so don't get depressed! Two pounds is still an amazing loss!

Navallez

Thanks for letting me know..maybe I will weigh in on Tuesdays for this challenge because a day does make a difference!! I will keep you posted

kimcat73

Hmm, let's see, my two goals for the next week -

1) Drink drink drink! So slacking in the water department!

2) Take off the few pounds of water weight I've put on being on vacation.

SunSand76

Hi peeps!

Hope your Monday is going well

Ok, my goals for the week:

1. Exercise a minimum of 30 mins everyday, Mon-Sun

2. I would like to lose 1-2 lbs this week (2 would be SWEET)

3. (I have 3 this week!) I've been pathetic with my water intake, even though I do so much better when I drink more h2o. So this week I want to jack up the intake to minimum 80 oz daily.

Good luck with your goals friends. We can ALL do what we need to do!!

pittsblue99

Hi everybody I hope you all had a nice weekend and your Monday went good. My goals for the week are pretty minimal unfortunately but my 5 year old is in the hospital so "me time" will likely not happen easily.

goal 1 - to not gain anything this coming week

goal 2 - to exercise at least once this coming week

Good luck to all, we can do this :happy:

zumba66girl

Hi everyone it is Tuesday Morning and that dreaded weigh in....just weighed myself and I am 183.6.....Sorry will work harder for next week's weigh in....please don't vote me off. hehe. Love ya all and chat with you soon.....6 am and gotta jump in the shower and run. Good luck to all.:flowerforyou:

alisons7598

Good morning everyone!. It's weigh in day:) New weight is 192.4. Spent most of last week sick so didn't get much exercise in. So at least I had a a loss/perk from being sick, lol. Finally starting to feel like my old self so hopefully this week will be better. Have a great week everyone, we can make this week awesome!

hwilliams519

Hello everyone! Sorry I have not posted sooner, but I was on a mini vacation Thursday thru Sunday and totally forgot about this until today. Unfortunately, with the traveling, I did not lose any weight this week. But here's to a fresh start!

My name is Heather and I live in TN. I am happily married to my husband. We have been married for 4 years, but together for 8. Hoping to become a mother in the near future. Right now I'm trying to get my body healthier before I get pregnant.

Goals this week:

1. Drink 8 cups of water a day
(I am usually good at that but have really gotten off track.)

2. Start weighing my food and eating smaller portions
(I just received my digital kitchen scale before I went out of town.)

christy_frank

143.5 This morning, which I am happy about since it is my TOM.

Goals for the upcoming week: Lose another .5 lbs (I am realistic and know I don't lose more than that a week)
Ride 75 miles
Do Jillian Michaels 3x
Stay within my calories every day
Drink 10 glasses of water every day

mom2alexandmatt

Happy weigh in day everyone! I was down 1lb this week, my first loss in about 7 weeks. Not much, but happy to see the scale starting moving again. I had lost focus for a while but was happy to maintain my loss.

I also got a toning workout in last night and tonight's plan is to do a 40 minute cardio workout.

In addition to the goals I posted previously, I'm also focusing on increasing my water intake again. I hate when I start slacking in this area because it's such an "easy" thing (relatively speaking) to do.

Anyway, have a great rest of the week everyone!

Melanie

loseit4ever

So happy for everyone who lost this week!! It doesn't matter....a lot or a little, it all puts you that much closer to your goal. Personally, I had my first really good week in a long time, and I have to say, it's because of this group! I'm so glad I had a moment of craziness thinking one more thing to handle wasn't a big deal because I'm so motivated by you guys! I've totally rededicated myself to my workouts and MFP, and I'm excited about it again!!

Hope everyone has a great second week! You are all amazing!

loseit4ever

Okay, I didn't get new weights from a few of you. I know Rebecca is on vacation, so I'm just keeping her at last week's weight, which is what I will do for Heather(hwilliams519), Betsy(mamaPru), and Michelle(mikeyken) until I hear from you.

So, as it stands there was a tie for Biggest Loser this week:

Bobbi(2011_4mygirls) and I tied with 2.33%(she lost 4.6 lbs and I lost 4.8lbs) lost!! Yay us!

Here are the rest of the results(if you're not listed, it's because you either stayed the same or gained):
LBS Lost % Lost
Alison 2.0 1.03%
Scott 3.4 1.64%
Brandi 4.8 2.33%
Holly 1.0 0.57%
Melanie 1.0 0.53%
Erica 1.1 0.54%
Christy 0.5 0.35%
Kimmie 2.8 1.06%
Bobbie 4.6 2.33%
Michelle 2.0 0.96%
Claudia 2.2 0.69%

loseit4ever

Okay, I didn't get new weights from a few of you. I know Rebecca is on vacation, so I'm just keeping her at last week's weight, which is what I will do for Heather(hwilliams519), Betsy(mamaPru), and Michelle(mikeyken) until I hear from you.

So, as it stands there was a tie for Biggest Loser this week:

Bobbi(2011_4mygirls) and I tied with 2.33%(she lost 4.6 lbs and I lost 4.8lbs) lost!! Yay us!

Here are the rest of the results(if you're not listed, it's because you either stayed the same or gained):
LBS Lost % Lost
Alison 2.0 1.03%
Scott 3.4 1.64%
Brandi 4.8 2.33%
Holly 1.0 0.57%
Melanie 1.0 0.53%
Erica 1.1 0.54%
Christy 0.5 0.35%
Kimmie 2.8 1.06%
Bobbie 4.6 2.33%
Michelle 2.0 0.96%
Claudia 2.2 0.69%

Shoot...sorry this crunched all of the info together! If you hit the "quote" button, it will show you the info as it was entered! I didn't post starting weights and current weights in case anyone didn't want theirs public! Worth noting...we lost 25.40 lbs as a group, according to what I have now! WE ROCK!!

2011_4mygirls

great job everyone!!! Thanks again Brandi for doing this - I know it takes a lot of time to put it all together!!!

SunSand76

Great job fellow "losers"!!
Here's to another great week!!

Holly

loseit4ever

Oops....okay Heather, I didn't notice that you said in your post that you didn't lose any weight! Sorry! Sometimes I just need a smack to wake me up...lol!