Loserville Challenge 3 (CLOSED GROUP)

Hello ladies......I am BACK!!! Unfortunately I gained back about 13 pounds of what I had lost, but am on the downward trail again. Missed ya'll so much while I was M.I.A., but I really needed to work on me for a bit to overcome the emotional side of my hubby leaving (though he is still living with me as a roommate). He will hopefully be moving out on the 1st so I will truly be able to move on with my life.

Hope all are doing well!! Talk to you all again soon.

Hello ladies.....it is finals week again so I am not able to be on here much yet, but hopefully starting next week I will be back in the forums/links daily like I used to be.

I have the eating back under control, but have yet to get my exercise mojo back. I just do not have the energy nor the desire to do anything more than I have too....and I dread cold weather coming. Guess I should get into the gym so the weather won't be a factor :grumble:

I am trying to catch up on posts as I can....but a question....is there an October challenge and if so what is it? I need to get back into challenges and force myself to get back where I was before the separation and emotional roller coaster happened.

I'm Home.

Tried so much harder this time in the city and I walked my legs off. Have just logged all my kilometers and am amazed as to how much i did. Mind you the legs feel like it, aching all over. But the weather was so beautiful and the Botanical Gardens are in spring bloom so it was not hard to head out for a walk or 2 each day. Some walks I didn't log for calorie burns as they were slow walks so that i could enjoy the sights, but I have logged them as part of our challenge. i can't imagine how much I must have actually walked as I measured only my "walks" not any general daily activities, shopping and cleaning the wee unit etc. Actually this time I decided not to do all Samara's housework. I just made sure she had meals and her clothes were ready. She has finished with the movie now, they were very long days, so even though she enjoyed it and would do it again has been glad to finish and have some rest. So the last 2 days she has enjoyed coming to the gardens with me. But then we sit and she sun bakes and dozes. I am also pleased that i got to 3 classes while in the city, 2 ballet and 1 jazz wore my heart rate monitor. So a much more accurate burn now. Although my body is so sore and worn out I don't feel any bettter for all my effort, and I fear the scales wont reflect my efforts.

Congrats "Aunty" Beccy. Hope baby Izy is well and strong.

Welcome back Tammy. Nice to have you back on board.

Whizzy, do what physio advise and get strong. Our bodies are our temples and must be looked after. Well my temple looks more like a ruin but it will be a temple again one day. Take the time to focus on your nutrition.

Claire, how are the kids? All well I hope.

Courtney and Rach I will have to catch up with what has been happening with you two.

I appreciate how lucky I was this week to be able to be free and focus on walking and enjoying the sights. Now I am home and all my chores are waiting for me. Oh joy. :laugh:

Thanks for the link!! I will start on Monday with the challenge if that is okay. I entered my name and 9/19 weight. Don't know what my weight was the week before that as I did not weigh in and keep track of it while I was M.I.A.

Heads up for those of us ahead in time. What are the exercise challenges for this next week? I may have to go into the city again and want to be prepared.
Todays prayer please let the scales be nice to me tomorrow. (not feeling it though)

Sounds good to me, Rach. No actually sound hard but that's good. Not looking forward to weigh in tomorrow I know I have worked hard but I am not feeling it. Week before TOM and for me that is when I put on but you would think that with all the hardwork there should still be a loss. Oh well guess in about 8 hours I will know how I went.

Rach I admire you for doing boot camp. And now that the weather is nicer I'm sure you will drop that weight quickly.

200gram loss. woohoo. I am being sacastic. :grumble: :ohwell:

Honestly I worked harder than that and I know its a loss and a loss is good but I want to have a whinge. I know its probably due to TOM's distant arrival. But I was working so hard to see a big loss. Hopefully I will see the results of my effort after this week. But now another week of working hard begins.

I don't know about anyone else but I like a bit of healthy competition. I love the spreadsheets and would like to see them used by us all more regularly. I know myself was not able to enter till I got home friday night. But it would spur me on to try harder if I could see what others were doing. So I would like to suggest that we daily enter at least on our home page and maybe even here. I'm sure if I saw that Claire had done her push ups and kick squats for example, it would give me the push I might need that day to do them. Or if Beccy tried a new exercise and put it in, it would help us all try and maybe by even sharing the idea would help each other. After all this is about weight loss, good health, motivating and helping each other. So losers lets get our act together and do it. If you can't do any exercise that day maybe log a nutrition tip or reminder to help us all.

Its time Losers to clean up our Village and get it working for us.

PS, One of our residents Hanna is still missing. Anyone have any news on her where abouts?

Wooohooo!

Thank you mayor, that sounds marvelous!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aq0fwi7BJUivdERVU0V6OWVnUWpMZVdwenhya1NxekE&hl=en_US#gid=3

I've filled in our names for this weeks challenge, I've done the order that we posted on this page, so this weeks teams are ...

Tami and Nicki
Jen and Coutrtney
Me and Claire
Becky and Hanna

If Hanna doesn't come back in time then we'll link Becky into another pair ... for bonus points!

So remember ...

5 points for being under or within 50 of your calorie goal
5 points for drinking enough water, you just fill in your point and your partner's points will be updated automatically.
1 point for trying out an exercise you haven't done before or for a while
calories burned/ 500 = points
% weight loss x 2 = points

3 points for each of the 6 daily challenges that you do ...

1. 50 jumping jacks & 20 windscreen wipers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omeqA3O4DUk)
2. 20 burpies & 25 tricep dips
3. 30 kick squats & 30 push ups (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSu-wci9uTo)
4. 30 ab crunches & 30 jumping twists
5. 50 high knees & 30 chest flys on the floor (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v0KAd8U9ZY)
6. Walk/ run/ jog a mile that you wouldn't normally have & 50 toe touches (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBOlJfUhjuU) & 2 sets 21s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXc98BhRSyQ&feature=related)


Week 1 winner was Nicki! Whoop whoop ...

Week 2 winner is Jenn ... by miles! LOL!

Umm well after after such warm beautiful weather to cold and wet and dreary and then the unexpected visit of nephew and his girlfriend. I cooked a feast for lunch, and pikelets with jam and cream for afternoon tea. And yes I ate up. so I think I have already gained the measley 200 gms I lost.

Courtney, you and I are going to rock this challenge. We need a team name. How about "AwesomeTwo" or "Better then Ever" or "Try and Keep Up"

Well I'd be over the moon with a 200g loss Jenn! I've gained 2.5kg!?! I'm sure that can't be quite right, I have had a bad week eating wise but I think TOM has played a part in that gain too.

I've had a few Eureka moments this week .... I felt slow and heavy running on Saturday, and as I struggled along I thought, this is NOT how I want to feel! I want to feel sprightly and energetic, and eating properly does make me feel that way! My trousers are starting to feel a bit tight, and I thought I've not come all this way just to go back to where I started from ... so ... here we go! Consistency is the key, I know if I'm consistent I will lose weight ...

*waves* at team mate Claire! Woohooo! I am going to eat sensibly and exercise hard out ... not just for this week, but I'll start with this week!

Rach i woudl liek to suggst you link Becci with Jenni. My cruise vacation begins on Thursday and I won't be back until Monday. I will kick som butt unti then though.

Jenni - I like Try and keep up! but as stated above i will be out Thursday- Sunday. I will do my best for you until then.

I had a wondeful weekend preparing for my cruise and cleaning my house. The house is really begining to look the way i want it too and that makes me so happy.

I hope everyone has a great week!

I am so ready to kick some *kitten*!! And I lost 10.4 pounds since last Monday....so I am ready to keep that going!!!!

Nicki I am so sorry -- didn't see the exercise challenge so I messed that one up for Monday! I will do better the rest of the week :flowerforyou:

TOM hit hard today after being 9 days late....I think it is making up for lost time, cramps are horrible. Hoping exercise tomorrow will help with it. Guess we'll see.

Other than that today has been a good day....off to read for a while then going to bed....talk to ya all tomorrow.

Awww Jenn big super huge hugs coming at you guys. Don't you just hate poor management, such a pain in the bum, anyway sounds to me like you'd both be more appreciated elsewhere. Never heard of crawl up a log and hide, but don't, you need to go get 'em girl!

Tami, you can catch up with the daily challenges, the idea is that it's one per day, but you can do all 6 on one day if you so wish.

I've just done lots of jumping jacks to get me back to within 50 cals of my goal. I had a chocolate brownie at the cafe today and that put me over. It's been a while since I have made up for my overeating, for weeks now I've been 'giving up' when I went over and going even more over, so that shows that I'm getting my head in the right space again. PHEWEEE!

Another good day under my belt, thats two in a row ... YES!