"Brand New You"-New weight loss group! (Page 4)

Aloha all I'm 44 yr old male rom Scotland.

Current: 254

90-day Goal: 215

Intermediate goal: Get fit enough to run again and do a novice tri.

Ultimate goal: 150 and Ironman 

Glad to see more and more folks joining....welcome everyone.

Just a question...are you guys setting realistic goals?

Losing 1-2 pounds a week is the most recommended by most to lose. Women and those closer to your goal weight often lose slower. Cut calories to much, you won't have good quality workouts. It is always a balance...enough calories to work out but a negative daily amount so weight comes off ...slow is best but not well embraced by us....as we are impatient.

I'd encourage you that are new to BT to use your training blog, put in your nutrition success and struggles so others in the group can check on you and leave inspires to encourage you. When you are struggling speak up as many of us have gone or may be going through the same thing...often folks just hide or disappear in tough times instead of reaching out. I'll admit it that is what I normally do.

Tomorrow if weather is nice in CT storms are forecasted, my 12 year old daughter and I are going to do a sprint tri as a relay.  She is going to swim & run and I'll bike as that is all I'm doing. I did go with her to the pool tonight and she practiced her 400 yd swim and swam it faster than I do and I think this is her 2nd time in the pool for the year...I swim 3x a week all year when healthy. I did try swimming with my separated shoulder...it went okay...just did 1.5 lengths but figure if I do a sprint in a couple weeks I can do it just freestyle with one arm like I do for drills...sure I'll look weird but I'll keep my shoulder happy.

Looking forward to tomorrow's weigh in... here's the most recent additions/edits.  For anyone who find out their goal was too ambitious, I'm offering a 30 day window for goal editing, free of charge.  After that you will have to leave me several encouraging inspires before I'll change it

Also added a new colum "% of challenge elapsed" so you can see if you are on target:

205.8!!!!  Thanks for the motivation guys - I didn't cheat once this week.  I'm stoked!

End of Week 1 : 164 lost 3.0 pounds..for me amazing

Start weight 4/03: 253
Start of this challenge 167
Lost for challenge: 3
Lost total: 89

For the week I averaged:
2037 calories in
475 calories burned thru exercise
1562 Net calories

Carbs 263 grams, 49%
Protein 126 grams , 24%
Fat 64 grams, 27%

I ate cleaner this week and tracked everything I ate through Calorie King. I started walking most days and I'm actually doing less training than normal due to injuries.

Goals for next week: keep walking, keep tracking calories, stop nibbling, only eat sitting down, try to plan food a day ahead and adjust only based on workouts

Start of this challenge: 199.6

End of Week 1: 189.9

Lost for challenge: -0.7

Not sure what happened this week, but had a serious balloon in the middle, but dropped it all over the next two mornings.

Start  206.0

Today 204.8  BF 22%

loss 1.2

Starting Weight (and Last week's weight): 181
This week's weight: 179
Loss this week: 2
Total loss for challenge: 2

I could have done better this week, but I'm certainly not complaining with the results.

As a suggestion, we might want to make weekly weigh-ins a separate thread.  Makes it a little easier on the organizers.