TEAM: The Big Butt Theory (January)
AB0215
Posts: 7,141 Member
Welcome to the Challenge new and returning teammates!! This is the conversation/weigh in thread for your Team 
Keep on losing because our first weigh ins begin THIS Sunday! I am here for you should you need anything - simply message me or tag me by putting an '@' just before my username (NO SPACES) and I will get to you asap! ~ Ashley @AB0215.
Keep on losing because our first weigh ins begin THIS Sunday! I am here for you should you need anything - simply message me or tag me by putting an '@' just before my username (NO SPACES) and I will get to you asap! ~ Ashley @AB0215. 0
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Hello everyone!3
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Hello everyone! Welcome to the new and current members! My name is Amber! I’ve been on this team for almost a year now. I absolutely love everyone on this team! Everyone is so supportive.
My goals for this month:
🔹drink at least 8 cups of water a day
🔹log everything regardless if I’m going over or not. I have a bad habit of not logging once I go over.
🔹report daily for the accountability posting!
What’s everyone goals? 😊4 -
Hello Everyone!
Looking forward to the Jan. Challenge. Still figuring out my way around the BLC group page.
Go Team!4 -
Hi everyone, I haven't been on mfp for a while, so may need to relearn some things.
My goals for the month are to track my food and cut out late night snacking.3 -
Hi Everyone!
My goals will be to do ST 3 days a week and drink 8 glasses of water a day.5 -
@Mrscanmore and @redhatsenior Welcome to TBBT!! We're very excited to have you. I'm Sue, and will do a proper introduction later. I just wanted to pop in and say hi. 😁🙋♀️4
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Hello everyone! Looking forward to the New Year. Confirming we weigh in on our regular day this coming week for starting weight or is everyone on Sunday. Thanks!3
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Happy New Year everyone!4
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lawyerette wrote: »Hello everyone! Looking forward to the New Year. Confirming we weigh in on our regular day this coming week for starting weight or is everyone on Sunday. Thanks!
@lawyerette your starting weight will be whatever your last weigh in was in the December thread.
Happy New Year! 🎉🍾🎊🥳3 -
Happy New Year to all. Welcome new members. I'm Dee, and I've been on this team for just a few months. I'm Canadian expat (I live in Mexico).
New years eve was a personal success for me. I had an engaging and interesting evening. I normally overindulge in every way possible, and never remember the night. This year I reached out to the group for some of your tips to enjoying a party setting without overindulging...whatever that might mean to you. I got some great advice from @DaffyGirl88 I avoided my usual habits. It did help that the evening was a few english speaking couples, and a Mexican family of 8. Some were bilingual and some only spoke one language or the other, and some (me included) are learning each other's language. The mexican family put on a feast of barbq turkey, poblano pepper spaghetti noodles, secret grandmas recipe mole sauce for the noodles, and some delicious flavored type of chutney for the turkey. We enjoyed each other's company and learned to feel more comfortable speaking, or attempting to speak in each others language. The evening was a success. I did not overindulge in food or wine, although I did not keep within my calorie limits. I watched the new year roll in with fireworks across the beachfront sky.
I woke up this morning with a awesome feeling that this will be THE YEAR! The BEST EVER! Lets all believe it and Live your best life every day. Happy Happy New Year:)4 -
Date: 12/31
Username: Murdog3t
logged food: yes
under calories: yes
exercise: yes
Steps : 8096
Water: 96
Username: Murdog3t
Weigh in week: ?
Weigh in day: Friday
Last Week's weight: 155.8
Todays Weight: 1554 -
Please can you roll my weight over to January.
I'm finding navigating here really difficult. Everytime I think I've understood how-to get here iend up having to do multiple steps.
I hope it gets easier in time. I used to look at these posts daily. Now I'm lucky to get here to make a post once a week.
I have bookmarked it.3 -
Hello team TBBT and a warm welcome to our newcomers!!
Within the main weight loss challenge we have another optional, but highly recommended, challenge. It is called the Mini Ultimate Accountability Challenge, (Mini Challenge), or the MUAC. It is based on another MFP challenge group by the same name, the Ultimate Accountability Challenge or the UAC.
The way it works is simple:
1. Log everything you eat that has calories in MFP.
2. Stay inside your allotted daily calorie budget.
3. Do at least 20 minutes of activity daily. This could be anything that gets you off the couch and being active: run, walk, cycle, swim, gardening, housework, yoga, gym, etc.
4. Report each day on this thread (something to the effect of logged food: yes, under calories: yes, exercise: yes, and a brief description is nice)
****When you post your accountability, please put the date, or the day of the week to which you are referring. We are all in different time zones, and some people post in the evening for that day, and others post the next morning, so it gets confusing trying to decipher without a day or date. Thanks!!!*****
You get one free pass day a week (went over calories, could not log food, rest day, etc). At the end of the week, if you have managed to be "accountable" (three yes's) for at least 6 of 7 days, you will be recognized on this thread as being in the Winner's Circle!
This strategy works for weight loss because it is based on calories in and calories out.
What's great about this challenge is that it works for everyone, as long as you are honest with yourself. There are no dietary restrictions, so you can eat whatever you like, and follow whatever plan you like. Your own daily calorie budget is set by you and MFP and you choose your own exercise and intensity of exercise! Plus it is a practice that can be carried beyond weight loss into maintenance! If you are having a bad week, a new week and a fresh start is just around the corner!
Consistency and new habits have been shown to be the keys to long term successful weight loss. Why not make the Mini Ultimate Accountability Challenge your new habit, that you do consistently?!
The January Challenge and the Mini Ultimate Accountability Challenge starts on Sunday, January 2nd.5 -
Hi, I'm Lisa, 55, and I live in a small town in southwestern Ontario Canada with my husband of 30 years. I work VERY part time in the office of the family farm supply business. We have two grown sons; the oldest is single and lives in town, the youngest has a serious girlfriend and lives in Prague, Czech Republic. He has been there for 15 months. We were able to go see him for 8 days in October and he and his girlfriend are here in Canada right now until the 17th of January. Needless to say, my focus will not be on MFP much before then, I am afraid. However, I have gained a tremendous amount of holiday weight and I have chronic foot pain that I fear is related, so I need to get my act together!!
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Daily check in for Jan 1
Logged food: Yes
Under calories: Yes
Exercise: Yes5 -
Saturday 1 January
Starting weight: 180
logged food: yes
under calories: yes
exercise: yes
The "new year new me" might be cliche but it's in fact a good kind of motivation knowing that you can start over if you lost track or continue with the good work you've been doing in the previous year. So I hope we all can achieve our goals in 2022!5 -
Saturday 1 January
Track: yes
Under: yes
Exercise: yes
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(Daily Post - Jan 1)
Logged: yes
Under: yes
Exercise: yes
Water: 10.5 cups
Yesterday was a great day! I was keeping myself busy and that helped with the mindless snacking! Plus i made sure to at least hit my 8 cups of water goal! I’m ready to keep moving along😊4 -
IvanaKirilova wrote: »The "new year new me" might be cliche but it's in fact a good kind of motivation knowing that you can start over if you lost track or continue with the good work you've been doing in the previous year. So I hope we all can achieve our goals in 2022!
I completely agree! That’s one of the things that’s keeping me motivated right now. I keep telling myself it’s a fresh year and its gonna be great! I think this year will be amazing for all of us to crush our goals 😊💪🏻
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Hi Team!
I am new here, but have done BLC on Sparkpeople. I am still confused about what thread to post my accountability on. I believe
this is a discussion thread, not a logging thread.
Anyway, yesterday I celebrated New Years and today am back on track. We joined Jenny Craig in Nov. and it helped me avaid
gaining weight over the holidays.
Go Team!2 -
redhatsenior wrote: »Hi Team!
I am new here, but have done BLC on Sparkpeople. I don’t have much left to lose, but the last pounds are really tough to shed.
I am a retired librarian from northern Ohio and love the 4 seasons, our great Metroparks, and our beautiful national park just 20 minutes
away. So lots of places to walk outside or cross country ski.
Jan.1.
150
Logged no
Under no
Exercise yes (25 min. Brisk walk)
@redhatsenior I believe this was meant for the team thread.0 -
redhatsenior wrote: »Hi Team!
I am new here, but have done BLC on Sparkpeople. I am still confused about what thread to post my accountability on. I believe
this is a discussion thread, not a logging thread.
Anyway, yesterday I celebrated New Years and today am back on track. We joined Jenny Craig in Nov. and it helped me avaid
gaining weight over the holidays.
Go Team!
@redhatsenior this is a one stop shop thread for everything The Big Butt Theory (TBBT) related. That includes daily accountability posts, weekly weigh ins, random thoughts, complaining about one's husband/kids, and/or general venting. 😁
If you're struggling and need support? Post here. If you have a question or are looking for suggestions or recommendations? Post here. If you have a non-scale victory (NSV)? Definitely post here. If you're bored and want to chat? Post here. This is a very supportive group of ladies. 🥰
This is a safe place we use to support each other, whether or not it's health and fitness related. What happens on MFP stays on MFP. 😊
I'm Sue by the way 🙋♀️. I'll get around to posting my intro tomorrow when I'm at my desk. In the meantime, if you have any other questions just tag me and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. With the new forum format I still miss things sometimes. 😕
Welcome to TBBT, we're glad you joined us.4 -
Sunday weekly check in.
PW; 148.4
CW 147.6
Daily log for Jan 1
Log; yes
under; hell no...hahaha I was so behaved new years eve...but last night a dear friend and her hubby showed up unannounced. So, of course we had entertained them. We made mussels in garlic wine butter sauce and of course multigrain baguette so soak up the yumminess. Then steak, baked potatoes and asparagus. OOh and it was new years day, and here many of our friends have their family visiting during the holidays. So, we went for brunch with a friend and her brother and his family. We planned to go to a place on the beach, but all the staff was hung over so they were delaying were opening an hour later...haha so we went to a little known hole in the wall...but this day the whole world was there. So brunch took a few hours and no one ate what they ordered..but it's all lovely. The owners are awesome and they were doing the best they could...Heck we live in Mexico so this is how it goes...just go with it.
Dee here, Hi all. Let's live our goals....lets breathe and be what we imagine. No one makes tomorrow happen. We choose our own reality. So, here we go...I'm 52, Canadian expat, retired a few years back. I lived in Central America for a few years, and now living in Mexico. Learning the language is a constant...one day I'll be proficient but I'm a slow, passive learner so that will be way in the future. We bought a lot (piece of land) and are building a house. We are super involved in the process, and have a great team. We also built a few houses in central america...so we are very familiar with the process. I've always been active physically, love to trail run, it's my happy place. However, my new reality is I'm dealing with a spinal column issue that has changed my routine. I'm in this group to maintain my weight and lower it very slowly. Less weight even a few pounds is less that my body has to carry. My exercise is restorative yin yoga, and mobility pilates. Running is not an option. It's all good though....I have accepted my new reality and am enthralled with this new year. There is a whole future of unwritten tomorrows. What will I choose to do tomorrow?
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RESULTS - DECEMBER WEEK #5
Top 3 Individual % by Team:
The Big Butt Theory
1st - @DaffyGirl88. - 0.68%
2nd - @brandi_84. - 0.58%
3rd - @rawrxamberx. - 0.54%
Congratulations, Sue, Brandi and Amber for being able to post a loss right after Christmas and for being the top three losers, respectively, on team The Big Butt Theory last week!
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December Grand Finale Results:
The Biggest Loser Is...
1st - @Jeffeo84. - 7.52%
2nd - @Chalmation. - 4.56%
3rd - @JenKindo. - 4.36%
Top 3 Individual % by Team:
The Big Butt Theory
1st - @JenKindo. - 4.36%
2nd - @sandkp. - 3.62%
3rd - @dracocapricorn. - 2.09%
Congratulations to @JenKindo for being the Third Overall Biggest Loser for the month of December, losing 4.36% of her body weight!! That is awesome for any month, but especially for December!! And congratulations to @sandkp and @dracocapricorn for rounding out the top three Big Butts for the month of December!! Very inspiring ladies...you should all be very proud of your hard work and dedication!!4 -
Daily check in for Jan 2
Logged food: Yes
Under calories: Yes
Exercise: Yes, elliptical, bike, weights1 -
rebekah2882 wrote: »Hello everyone!
@rebekah2882 Hi, Rebekah!! Welcome to team The Big Butt Theory!! You are listed as having a Sunday weigh-in, so please post a weight as soon as you can. If it's not good, that's okay; We all know how hard it can be to get back on track after the holidays. This will just become your "new" starting point and it's all downhill from here!!1 -
RESULTS - DECEMBER WEEK #5
Top 3 Individual % by Team:
The Big Butt Theory
1st - @DaffyGirl88. - 0.68%
2nd - @brandi_84. - 0.58%
3rd - @rawrxamberx. - 0.54%
Congratulations, Sue, Brandi and Amber for being able to post a loss right after Christmas and for being the top three losers, respectively, on team The Big Butt Theory last week!
Awesome ladies! Way to end out the year!1 -
Mrscanmore wrote: »Hi everyone, I haven't been on mfp for a while, so may need to relearn some things.
My goals for the month are to track my food and cut out late night snacking.redhatsenior wrote: »Hi Everyone!
My goals will be to do ST 3 days a week and drink 8 glasses of water a day.
@Mrscanmore and @redhatsenior Welcome, ladies! You both have great goals for the month and I wish you good luck with them! I hope you have been successful at finding your way around the team thread.1
