14 Weeks to Christmas Challenge!!

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HELLOOOOO CHRISTMAS CHALLENGERS!!

How are we all hanging in? Did you all enjoy last weeks challenge? I'm guessing from the fewer posts this week that it maybe wasn't such a popular one but I'm keen to hear all your feedback! Were you inspired to try a new recipe? Did you find anything you liked?

Personally I tried a new main course using my favourite meat - salmon and made grilled chilli & coriander salmon with ginger rice. It was very tasty. Check out the recipe and nutritional values at:
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/7007/grilled-chilli-and-coriander-salmon-with-ginger-ri

I also got myself hooked on the dessert recipes from Cook Yourself Thin:

Turkish delight brownies recipe: http://www.channel4.com/food/recipes/healthy/cook-yourself-thin/index.html

Individual strawberry cheesecakes recipe:
http://www.channel4.com/food/recipes/healthy/cook-yourself-thin/individual-strawberry-cheesecakes-recipe_p_1.html

Harry's sticky toffee pudding recipe:
http://www.channel4.com/food/recipes/healthy/cook-yourself-thin/harrys-sticky-toffee-pudding_p_1.html

There's also a lot of lovely main course ideas on the Cook Yourself Thin site and all the nutritional values have been worked out for you which is a big help - of course you can adapt the ingredients to suit yourself but I find it handy to see a basic idea of the nutritional value when I see a recipe I like!

Did everyone have a good weekend? I went away with my boyfriend and his family and then had a birthday meal last night and I confess that I didn't make the best food/drink choices over the past few days. I'm sure it will be reflected when I weigh tomorrow and I deserve that.

In the spirit of picking myself up and dusting myself down however I've used this wobble to inspire the Week 10 Challenge!!


On the 10th week of Christmas MFP challenged me... TO RECORD EVERYTHING THAT I PUT INTO MY MOUTH IN MY DIARY!

***************************Bonus challenge: Make your diary public!!*****************************


I will be doing both of these things as a way of getting over my weekend blip and ensuring that I enter the last 10 weeks of this challenge in the best mentality I can and I encourage you to join in and really think about the choices that you're putting in your mouth.

I appreciate that there will already be lots of you fab MFPers who do this already and who won't find this a challenge. However I'm sure there are also a LOT of you like me who maybe aren't quite so religious about entering the odd nibble that you indulge in throughout the day or late at night when you've shut down your computer. Maybe some of you (also like me) track pretty well during the week when it's easy to use MFP from your desk at work but who don't do so well at the weekends.

Let's make this week about really thinking about what we're all eating.

As for the extra challenge to make your diary public, I think I might stir up a bit of controversy with this suggestion so let me explain... firstly, it's an extra challenge as it's optional and it wil depend on each of you as an individual as to whether or not you wish to share this information. I've included it as past of this weeks challenge as I think for some people, myself included, that it will add an extra layer of accountability and that's something I feel that I need just now!

There's been a bit of a debate on the public diary issue on the forum and blogs of MFP this week, while some people seem to feel strongly that hiding your diary is cheating, others don't agree. For example, Beebee78 said in her blog that, "Personally I could have my food diary set to private and have a picture of my uncle's, cousins 3rd daughter's friends pet chiuaua as my avatar and still kick *kitten* at weightloss because I am a highly motivated person and I push myself hard." (Read the whole blog entry here: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/Beebee78/view/so-very-sad-44508) I think this really sums up my own opinion - while I think making diaries public will help some of us, I'm quite sure that there are many of you who don't need to share this info to get super duper results!!

Hmm... well I think that's quite enough from me for now! I'm interested to hear your thoughts and to see your results from week 4!



Ok finally, it's time to post your Week 4 results below. Thanks to everyone who's already done so and to those who display the info in their signature.

WEIGHT WEEK 1:
WEIGHT WEEK 2:
WEIGHT WEEK 3:
WEIGHT WEEK 4:
AIM FOR WEEK 5:
WHETHER YOU MANAGED TO TRY OUT A NEW RECIPE IN WEEK 4?
IF YOU CAN POST THE RECIPE OR THE LINK TO IT EVEN BETTER!!

Well done again to all the Week 1-4 Challengers and good luck to everyone for this week. 10 Weeks to go guys, let's remotivate and make each of them as sucessful as we can -- starting now!

xxx

P.S I sense a fun challenge on the horizon for week 6!!


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