Challenge: Weight Loss During the Holiday Season (Page 9)

Sounds good Paul.  What will your healthy snacks be?

How did I miss this challenge?! Any way I can still get in? I set my goal at the beginning of the month and haven't made much progress, but I'm logging my food and am determined to stay under 2000 cals/day and stick with the training program. I think I started the month @ 145, am at 144 now and my goal is to hit 135 by xmas. Like a lot of you, I'm also doing the Crappy Winter Weather Challenge, winter cycling program and the You'll Log Challenge -- this seems like a good complement to them -- no more excuses! Heckling (and inspiring) welcome

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Drank 1.5L of water yesterday.
This morning rings are tight.
Scale is back up to 149.8
Headache is gone.

Will continue to drink and hopefully the scale will go down. I religiously tracked my food yesterday so I know I didn't over indulge.

Stacie

123.0 this morning.  Yay!  I'll take it although I'm concerned that I'm dehydrated.   When it turns colder I don't drink enough water.  

At least I'm home for all meals the rest of this week.

Great job and good luck on Sunday!  

Debbie 

142.5 today  

My scale and I were fighting a few days ago, so I took a couple of days off from weighing myself.  It paid off!  I'm at 185 today. 

I had some carrots and snow peas and a couple bites of broccoli. Oh, do Wheat Thins count as healthy? I had a couple of those.

I think limiting yourself to a couple wheat thins counts as healthy!  Better than I could do if they were around.

Yay! Nice going!

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tonight my daughter wanted take out from Chili's which is just a couple blocks from my office.  I went on line to check the menu and clicked on the nutritional information.  OMG!  There were VERY few options less than 1000 calories.  We don't have menus with calories required here but what an eye opener it is.

So what did you decide to do?

My weight is back up to 130 and my run did not happen today.     I will try for tomorrow but it depends on work.

I will do an ST session tonight but it will certainly not burn the same # of calories as a run.

Intros... good idea!!

I'm Emma.  Currently finishing up my last year of college and getting ready to embark on the next big adventure of my life which would include grad school, moving in with my boyfriend of 5+ years, hopefully getting engaged, and of course more triathlons.  Just completed my first triathlon in May and now i'm hooked.  I was never the athletic one growing up.  Horseback riding was my thing and I took lessons for many years.  Parents nagged and nagged at me to exercise but my stubborn self hated (and still does) being told what to do so I didn't.  Horses and riding were my escape when things got crazy or bad things happened (like my grandpa's death) and the horses I rode and the hours of riding still hold a very special place in my heart.  Unfortunately college meant I had to give up riding which I struggled with for a while.  I decided last December to prove to myself and everyone around me I could complete a triathlon and now I'm hoping to eventually do an Ironman one day.  Triathlon training is becoming what horseback riding was to me.  Running has become amazing stress relief for me.  I'm currently working on building up my endurance in all 3 sports so that next year I can complete an Olympic tri or quite possibly a HIM.  College brought late night study sessions with unhealthy food not to mention the crappy dining hall food and therefore I ended up gaining some weight which i would love to lose before I graduate.  Ultimately I'd like to get back down to 125 by May.

But its sooo tasty.

I can't picture anything taking the space reserved in your heart for riding your bike.

I chose one of the guiltless grill options with veggies instead of fries.  It was pretty good actually.


Edited by KOM 2010-11-16 10:13 PM

Better than the usual candy snacks I keep hearing about.

211.8 this morning, not sure where the 1.6 came from since yesterday

Good idea Bill!

My name is Melissa and I have been on BT since the end of May or start of June, when I started training for my first triathlon. I've always thought that triathlon was bad @$$ but didn't know there were shorter versions and just assumed that only pros did that kind of stuff. It's not publicized here like runs, plus my group of friends/family aren't into any of it so I didn't know what was available. One day I was reading a magazine I got at the outdoor show and saw a listing "try-a-try". I looked on the internet later that day and decided to tri!

Up until last September I was relatively inactive, more of a weekend warrior for whatever suited my fancy that week. I started P90X because I felt like a poser in my field (health and fitness - kinesiologist) and needed to become regularly active. I maintained this until I went to China in April-May, when my activity level skyrocketed because I walked and took stairs constantly. When I came back I realized I was now able to run a bit thanks to my stair training helping boost my endurance. This is how it all fell together! I'm really happy about it and love the endurance improvements I have seen in my body. It's become lifestyle rather than obligatory exercise. I should say, running has become lifestyle (if you've seen my logs) and cycling will soon because my spinner arrives tonight. Swimming and I are still negotiating.

My goals now are to maintain training, get faster, go further, improve my swim technique (eventually), and get a healthier body composition. I need to lose some inches in the abdominal area and wouldn't mind losing a little hip/butt/boob.

So far I'm not doing well with the weight loss and think I need an extension. Maybe a follow up New Years Weight Loss Challenge?

Triathlon seems to be a common sport choice for people who were previously less active. I don't know what it is about it that summoned me, but I like it!

My history with exercise... I was a 6 year competitive bowler (your horse back riding was MUCH more active), and stopped physical education class after grade 8. I got a C- in that phys ed class, now I am qualified to teach it! Funny how things work out.