December Biggest Loser Challenge

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  • turningstar
    turningstar Posts: 393 Member
    Day 2 challenge completed. 64 oz h2o and under calories, even though I was REALLY hungry today!
  • Prettyme924
    Prettyme924 Posts: 86 Member
    Female
    141 lbs
    Waist 33.5
    Hips 38
    Wrist 6
    Forearm 9.5
    Overall goal is 125-127
    Goal for challege 135
    ...
  • Pam3
    Pam3 Posts: 1,687 Member
    Week #1 12/01/11


    Wt ...........175
    Waist ........37.5
    Hip ...........44.5
    Wrist ........6.5
    Forearm ...11.5
    Height .......5'6"
    female

    (all the challenges includes staying under target calories and drinking 64 ounces of water)

    Sat. December 3rd: 3 sets of 20 swimmers presses & 3.1 mile walk, run or bike
    Sun. December 4th: 1 min. bear walk, 20 leg lifts and 100 jumping jacks
    Mon. December 5th: 5 mile walk, run or bike
    Tues. December 6th: 3 sets of 20 wood chops, 3 sets of 20 swimmer presses & 3.1 walk, run or bike
    Wed. December 7th: 30 windshield wipers, 30 sets of 21's & 15 front kicks
    Thur. December 8th: 3.1 mile walk, run or bike, 3 sets of swimmers presses
    Fri. December 9th: Check-In, Rest Day and you have to do something nice for yourself (must be check-in no later than 9 a.m. on the 10th or you will be eliminated

    DEC 1...crunches completed//not mermaids
    water completed
    calories under
    exercise 60(stationary bike)
    DEC 2...... exercises not completed(wood chops/globe jumps)
    water completed
    calories under
    exercise 90(spinning/weights)

    QUESTION: is staying under calories, does include calories burned ?

    thanks for the challenge
  • cmarmey
    cmarmey Posts: 14
    Daily challenges completed
    Bonus challenge completed
  • sumnerfan
    sumnerfan Posts: 244 Member
    Wow! I guess I got mixed up. I thought I had read the start date was changed to December 3rd so I hadn't checked back the last couple days. I guess I won't be getting that extra point this week :noway:

    Beginning weight 182.0
    Waist 39
    Hips 44
    left thigh 25
    left calf 15.5
    left forearm 10.5
    wrist 6 1/8

    Wednesday I raked for 40 minutes and did some standing crunches.
    Thursday I went to Zumba (50 minutes) and walked for 15.
    Friday I tried to go to spin class, but they had cancelled. bummer so I'm about to do some pushups and whatever today's exercise was in the challenge.
  • heaverchell
    heaverchell Posts: 513 Member
    Fri. December 2nd: 3 sets of 20 wood chops (8 lbs) & 40 globe jumps complete

    100 jumping jacks bonus challenge done
    Also did Shred it with Weights (5 lbs)

    under in calories/over in water
  • mfastdriver123
    mfastdriver123 Posts: 143
    3 sets of 20 wood chops & 40 globe jumps=30 min, walked 1 mile 16 min, 100 jumping jacks=20 min, 50 squats =10 min, 30 knee lifts and 10 crunches=20 min. 10 push ups Total calorie burn 670. Bonus challenge done Under Calorie and over water. Looking foward to checking in tomorrow. good night everyone :D
  • Prettyme924
    Prettyme924 Posts: 86 Member
    No exceesise yesterday but ate pretty well...today I will try to do better
  • SEXY_2012
    SEXY_2012 Posts: 88
    Take a look my result
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    Just used _h_t_t_p_:_//tinyurl.com/c5sxhku
  • mfastdriver123
    mfastdriver123 Posts: 143
    Good morning,
    Time to Check In

    Female
    Current Weight: 181.4
    Current Waist: 45.0
    Current Hips: 49.5
    Current Wrist: 7.0
    Current Forearm: 12.5
    Exercise Minutes: 128
    Daily Challenges: yes all days
    Bonus Challenges: 12/1 no, 12/2 yes, 12/3 will be doing them

    This is more exercise than I have done in a very long time. This is a great thing for me. :D Thank you.
  • agirl11
    agirl11 Posts: 37 Member
    Would love to join. Is it too late??
  • MCDKI
    MCDKI Posts: 16 Member
    to gym today and did 40 mins or 3 + miles on elipitical.
    had a bad day yesterday but today is a new great day
    :wink:
  • Cylia
    Cylia Posts: 30 Member
    Same measurements as I posted yesterday. No daily challenges exercises. :( However, I did jump rope for 10 minutes and hula hooped for 5 minutes.
  • Pam3
    Pam3 Posts: 1,687 Member
    Week #1 12/01/11


    Wt ...........175
    Waist ........37.5
    Hip ...........44.5
    Wrist ........6.5
    Forearm ...11.5
    Height .......5'6"
    female

    (all the challenges includes staying under target calories and drinking 64 ounces of water)

    Sun. December 4th: 1 min. bear walk, 20 leg lifts and 100 jumping jacks
    Mon. December 5th: 5 mile walk, run or bike
    Tues. December 6th: 3 sets of 20 wood chops, 3 sets of 20 swimmer presses & 3.1 walk, run or bike
    Wed. December 7th: 30 windshield wipers, 30 sets of 21's & 15 front kicks
    Thur. December 8th: 3.1 mile walk, run or bike, 3 sets of swimmers presses
    Fri. December 9th: Check-In, Rest Day and you have to do something nice for yourself (must be check-in no later than 9 a.m. on the 10th or you will be eliminated

    DEC 1...crunches completed//not mermaids
    water completed
    calories under
    exercise 60(stationary bike)
    DEC 2...... exercises not completed(wood chops/globe jumps)
    water completed
    calories under
    exercise 90(spinning/weights)
    DEC 3.......exercises completed
    water completed
    calories not completed
    exercise 90(spinning)

    QUESTION: do we eat our exercise calories or not???

    thanks for the challenge
  • turningstar
    turningstar Posts: 393 Member
    Day three challenge completed, under calories, over h2o. I even did 30 day shred and tomorrows exercises!
  • cmarmey
    cmarmey Posts: 14
    Daily challenge done!
    Also did and hour of climbing stairs
  • mom2nate08
    mom2nate08 Posts: 287 Member
    Friday - Daily challenges - done!
    Exercise - 0
    96 oz water
    Under calories

    Saturday - Daily challenges - done!
    Exercise - 60 minutes (run/walk, strength train)
    64 oz water
    Under calories
  • SassyZ123
    SassyZ123 Posts: 7
    How does this work?
  • Focusonfifty
    Focusonfifty Posts: 105 Member
    I was interested in this challenge until I saw you recommend going UNDER your suggested daily caloric intake. I guess who don't know better is following along. IT IS NOT RECOMMENDED YOU GO UNDER YOUR SUGGESTED CALORIC INTAKE! Especially if you are working out. You NEED energy (calories) to exercise for endurance and to hold proper form. When you go under your calories your body goes into "starvation mode" and the reverse happens; it holds on to the fat for "survival." Please do your research. There are a lot of blogs regarding this topic right here on MFP or just google it. EACH ONE TEACH ONE.
  • heaverchell
    heaverchell Posts: 513 Member
    I was interested in this challenge until I saw you recommend going UNDER your suggested daily caloric intake. I guess who don't know better is following along. IT IS NOT RECOMMENDED YOU GO UNDER YOUR SUGGESTED CALORIC INTAKE! Especially if you are working out. You NEED energy (calories) to exercise for endurance and to hold proper form. When you go under your calories your body goes into "starvation mode" and the reverse happens; it holds on to the fat for "survival." Please do your research. There are a lot of blogs regarding this topic right here on MFP or just google it. EACH ONE TEACH ONE.

    You do not have to eat back 100% of your exercise calories. It takes a while for the body to go into "starvation mode" as it says in many of those blogs you speak of. There are plenty of people that can exercise, eat healthy and stay under in the "suggested" calories. I am not able to eat back ALL of my exercise calories nor do I want to. I have been at this for 3 months now & my body hasn't gone into "starvation mode" and I normally never eat all of my "suggested" calories. I am losing at a good rate --average one pound a week-- by doing this. Please understand that this challenge is to get you staying in a healthy calorie range--you can eat up to your daily intake but not go OVER, doing exercise, and getting fit at the same time.
  • heaverchell
    heaverchell Posts: 513 Member
    Sat. December 3rd: 3 sets of 20 swimmers presses & 3.1 mile walk completed
    under in calories/over in water

    Sun. December 4th: 1 min. bear walk, 20 leg lifts and 100 jumping jacks
    under in calories/over in water
  • heaverchell
    heaverchell Posts: 513 Member
    QUESTION: do we eat our exercise calories or not???

    Yes--from last month's challenge--you eat back your calories but just do not exceed them. It is up to you if you eat back all of them or not. As long as you do not exceed in your overall calories (to include the added calories from exercise) then you will get the point for that day.
  • heaverchell
    heaverchell Posts: 513 Member
    How does this work?

    There are exercise challenges daily & a bonus exercise challenge for the week. You get points for drinking at least 8 glasses of water a day, not exceeding your overall calories (including exercise calories) daily, doing the daily exercise challenge, bonus point if you do the weekly challenge. Then you weigh in and measure on Fridays and based on the % of your weight loss & measurements, and points you got from the challenges you are ranked and either move on to the next week or get eliminated.

    It really a great challenge that gets you doing exercises (which you can do at home) that you might not normally do. I did it in November and really enjoyed it.
  • Prettyme924
    Prettyme924 Posts: 86 Member
    I been eating healthy but no excersise and see no change so I'm gonna try to cut back a lil more on food and excersise more ...tomorrow meeting with my personal trainner ...
  • cmarmey
    cmarmey Posts: 14
    Challenges complete for today!
  • mfastdriver123
    mfastdriver123 Posts: 143
    Hi all,
    Daily Challenges completed. No bonus jumping jacks done. Water intake was over and Calories were under. Ready for tomorrow. Have a graet night.
  • arubababy
    arubababy Posts: 46 Member
    Ahhhhhh! :sad:
    Since Thursday, have been under on calories, over on water, have done daily challenges and have even got myself back to the gym and pool, until today.............. I feel terrible, everyone at work has some kind of cold/flu so inevitably so do I now. no way I can haul myself around 5 miles. So am having a day off from excercise!! Heres to hoping I feel better tomorrow. I hope everyone else is managing to do the daily challenges etc and is enjoying this challenge as much as I am
  • cmarmey
    cmarmey Posts: 14
    Daily challenges complete
    Bonus challenges complete!!!!
    Can't wait for to weigh in!!
  • heaverchell
    heaverchell Posts: 513 Member
    Ahhhhhh! :sad:
    Since Thursday, have been under on calories, over on water, have done daily challenges and have even got myself back to the gym and pool, until today.............. I feel terrible, everyone at work has some kind of cold/flu so inevitably so do I now. no way I can haul myself around 5 miles. So am having a day off from excercise!! Heres to hoping I feel better tomorrow. I hope everyone else is managing to do the daily challenges etc and is enjoying this challenge as much as I am

    UGH feeling bad is the worst....Hope you get to feeling better soon
  • heaverchell
    heaverchell Posts: 513 Member
    Mon. December 5th: 5 mile walk --done

    under in calories/over in water
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