Losers! Challenge 2 (28/03-20/06)

I know! Heroes run sounds like so much fun. Have wanted to participate for like 2 years but haven't been fit enough. So next year here I come!!

I'm up for a 1 2 3 4 challenge!

1 hour of swimming
2 hours of window cleaning (does that count? if not i'll come up with something different)
3 hours of biking
4 hours of walking

This week's challenge is met btw. 4463 calories burnt, and I feel proud! For the April challenge I have burnt 11365 calories - only 2000 from my goal! I dont even wanna think of how much i'll have to burn in May:noway:

Edit. Just calculated on how much I'll have to burn in May with an estimate that i burn 500/day for the rest of this month and end up with 19651 with those 10% included. That is 633/day... INSANE!!!

ahhh i'm struggling this week! can you share your best tips to stay on track and stay motivated?

and i'm up for the challenge:

1 hr of the AMT trainer (it's like death...so difficult!)
2 hrs of biking
3 hours of elliptical
4 hours of walking

i can do this!

Struggling and lack of motivation is never fun. I share here and the support from you guys always make me happy no matter how I felt to begin with. Other than that i challenge is always making me work harder and I know that even if I'm on a plateau I have to keep going. Even if I'll never ever lose more weigh again I'll rather be a healthy fat girl than just a fat girl with no stamina who just sit around eating crap food. I know you can do this!!!!

Morning ladies

Weigh in day for me and I'm posting a 1.2kg or 2.6lb loss, yay to that! So I'm now weighing in at 84kg or 185.2lb, my little ticker looks like it's almost halfway! I also now have $240 to spend on ME! I was going to join weight watchers, but decided to try MFP instead, and so I decided I'd save up the meeting fees and spend them on me as a treat!

Awww! Love you too Claire, have a fantastic holiday!

Nice burn Hanna! I've burnt just over 3500kcal this week, including my triathlon yesterday. I'm happy with that!

With the motivation thing I think you just have to make the positive things we do on here habit, logging your food, doing your exercise etc. I think we all lose motivation at certain points, but if we can keep doing those things until it returns we'll do fine. I do find that, exercise wise, having an event to aim for helps me, also seeing myself getting faster and fitter helps too!

Nice challenge suggestions Jenn! I'm up for the 1, 2, 3, 4 challenge ....

1 hour of swimming
2 hours of running
3 hours of fitball
4 hours of cycling

Be good to get a bit of strength training in!

I have a couple more events lined up ... a 45km bike race on the 1st of may and then the first of my run auckland runs on the 8th May ... so I need to increase my biking distances, and add in some more hills, as the course is quite hilly! eeeek!

Nice loss Jenn, that one has been well deserved for the hard work you've been putting in for quite some time now.

Hanna the heroes race sounds AWESOME! I might have to time a trip home, just to give it a go! I think wonder woman, power your mind to believe you are wonder woman too!!

Hello all! I am back from my wonderful weekend in Williamsburg. Sorry i don' thave tiem to catch up on every post.

Rach I am super proud or you for completeing your triatialon that is amazing!!!

Clair I love the new hair style. I support teh no scale challenge but I have to weigh in weekly for another challenge right now.

Hanna- i'm so glad you are feeling better about oyur body and how you look in pciks.

I have finally lost some weight durring this challenge. I am down 2lbs to 217

I did pretty well on my personal challenges laste week in bed on time 5 out of 7 days. Under my cals 5 or 7 days (teh trip made it dificult) and I exercised 6 or 7 days..one mor ethan planned.

I am up for the 1, 2, 3, 4

1 hour yoga
2 hours aerobics (highl/ow and zumba)
3 hours packing boxes (does this count we're moving and that will cut into my exercise time or maybe I can do 3 hours of yoga and change my 1)
4 hours walking

I will also stick with my persoanl challenge of getting in bed by 11pm mon-thurs

Good Luck All!

Courtney, well done on your loss. Glad you enjoyed your weekend away.

Tami, a point 2 pound gain is hardly anything, so dont be concerned. Just concentrate on you finals this week. That is your priority. Good luck with them.

No weigh in for me this week. Away on vacation without accees to my scale, luckily we are getting in lots of walking. Hope you all have a great week!

*update ~~ today is day 90 on my journey and I am down another 2.2 pounds for a total of 46. I am at the lowest weight I have been in 8 yrs and am ecstatic!! Now I just hope the scale keeps going downward and doesn't decide to stand still again. The plateaus are killing me!! I am hoping to be down an other 9 pounds by the 30th for my graduation weight goal. We shall see if Mr. Scale works in my favor or not!

Have a blessed day everyone and happy losing!

Yay Tami on your 2.2 pound loss and at being your lightest in 8 years. You must feel great.


Yesterday I went to our Royal Easter Show and walked a lot. So I have recorded that as my 4 hours of walk. Had no intention of doing it in one day but thats how it happened. It felt good to be fit enough to keep going and going. probably walked for longer, but feel thats a fair record with the stopping to look at things that I did. Food was tempting. food at the fair always is. but most of my choices were pretty good. Sushi for lunch, ice cream for arvo's, fresh pineapple pieces, donut (opps) ice cream (opps) sml pizza (opps again)

Good afternoon everyone....

Thanks for thinking of me!! I definitely think I am over the hump (FINALLY). I am at 327.6 today and have not weighed this in 8 yrs at least. I am eager to lose the next 7.6 pounds which would put me at my graduation goal (need to reach it by the 30th and am confident I will). Another 12.6 pounds and I will be the weight I was when my daughter was born 16 yrs ago. I can't wait!! She has never seen me at that weight and I think she will be surprised by it. And I am 2.4 pounds from my 50 pound milestone.

My hubby and I went to the gym today - first time we've been there in about 4 months. It hurt but man do I feel good now!!

Well I'm off to get my nose pierced (sm diamond stud) - my hubby's reward to me for sticking with it and losing like I am (he just surprised me by telling me we are doing this).

Keep up the great work everyone. You are all doing great!!

Go Tami. Well done and now keep your focus on the net goal.

Rach. I hope you don't have a cold. You have to much training to do.

Sharing with you all a couple of quotes I read on here yesterday.

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race”

Calvin Coolidge

"A goal without a plan is just a wish." Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French writer (1900 - 1944)

Tami- so may milesrtone coming up. You are doing great! i hope you love your pierecing

Rach - I hope you feel better soon. Don't over do it. But I know how you feel depending on teh exercise cals some days.

Jenni - i like your quotes, espically teh second one. I plan everything

I'm doing pretty well with my 1, 2, 3, 4 bairly squezed in a walk yesterday. Planning 45min of sculpt and 30 min of wlakign tonight,.Progress below. I had to be at work at 4am today...soooooo hungry right now!

1 sculpt/weight lifting
2 Yoga - 1 hour down
3 packing boxes
4 walking - 2hours down

Have a great day all!

Copied from another post on here. In case anyone missed it, some info you may need to know or not. :laugh:

The Diet


BREAKFAST
1/2 grapefruit
1 slice whole wheat toast
8 oz glass skim milk

LUNCH
4 oz lean broiled chicken breast
1 cup steamed zucchini
1 Oreo cookie

MID-AFTERNOON SNACK
rest of the package of Oreo cookies
1 quart Rocky Road ice cream
1 jar hot fudge

DINNER
2 loaves garlic bread
1 large pepperoni & mushroom pizza
1 large pitcher of beer
3 Milky Way candy bars
1 entire cheesecake

DIET TIPS
1. If no one sees you eat it, it has no calories
2. If you drink a diet soda with a candy bar,
they cancel each other out.
3. When eating with someone else, calories dont count
if you both eat the same amount.
4. Foods used for medicinal purpose have no calories.
These include any chocolate used for energy,
brandy, cheesecake, and ice cream.
5. Cookie pieces contain no calories, because breakage
causes the calories to leak out.
6. If you eat food from someone else's plate, the
calories don't count.
7. Movie related snacks are much lower in calories because
they are part of the entertainment, and not ones
of personal fuel.

Tami! You are doing so great, good luck with your study.

Courtney - I couldn't do this without the exercise calories, on a normal week I under eat a bit every exercise day as I know I feel hungry on my rest day if I stick to my allotted calories. It seems to be working for me, and I'm finding this the easiest way to lose weight ever!

Ahhh, Jenn, the diet! Those were the days eh!? I still believe in that crumbs of anything bit, crumbs have no calories, they're too small!! I too weighed myself this morning I'm 83.1kg, which is almost a kg down from last Monday ... I'm going to do lots of exercise to account for the chocolate ... mmmmmmmmm