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bikinibound
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I will be creating teams for the next challenge randomly. There will be 2 or 3 teams depending on how many people sign up for it. And like the TV show, teams could get mixed up and changed at any point. There will also be a merge at some point once the teams have lost several people.
I think you did a great job losing during the challenge--especially considering all you went through near the end.
Have a great week!
I think you did a great job losing during the challenge--especially considering all you went through near the end.
Have a great week!
Omega
Moderator
Thanks for visiting.
Dani
Sixty pounds is a lot of weight to lose and regain like that. It is a major problem and one that we all need to anticipate and watch for.
Make sure that your friend checks out page 1 of my journal. At the start of the year someone made a really good PCOS posting of special weightloss ideas for PCOS ladies. Some of it I had heard before, some I had only just concluded for myself - but it really was an excellent posting. I thought that it was so good - I copied it into page 1 so that I could refer to it at any time. If your friend does not seem inclined to check out my diary - copy / paste that inclusion into a word document and hand it to her.
Kelly
Things are going fine here. I hope that they are for you too. It is nice to get pleasant weather over a bank holiday. Although I dont work - it is nice for Rod to be off with me. We are just toying with the idea of going out this afternoon.
Kimberly
I have no idea about the tv show - I have comparitively little time for television once I have watched my Australian soaps and the odd murder/mayhem drama.
So - once more we are back to the luck of the draw with the challenge teams. I wonder how many disappearing people I will get on my team - I remember before Christmas when two people disappeared from my team in the last week - never to be seen again! I hate it when people disappear like that. Having said that - the MILFs and Shannon did really well and the girls did not know Shannon until we basically introduced them last minute almost like a random team. The idea of the teams getting reshuffled at any point sounds interesting!
I must admit - I was surprised that I got an average weightloss of 1.5 pounds per week which is on my average weight in the challenge just about exactly the fabled 1% of weight. I really couldnt hope to do better than that and in all honesty would think it pushing it to hope for that. Especially when you consider the hospital trip etc........
Take care
Love
Margaret
Dani
Sixty pounds is a lot of weight to lose and regain like that. It is a major problem and one that we all need to anticipate and watch for.
Make sure that your friend checks out page 1 of my journal. At the start of the year someone made a really good PCOS posting of special weightloss ideas for PCOS ladies. Some of it I had heard before, some I had only just concluded for myself - but it really was an excellent posting. I thought that it was so good - I copied it into page 1 so that I could refer to it at any time. If your friend does not seem inclined to check out my diary - copy / paste that inclusion into a word document and hand it to her.
Kelly
Things are going fine here. I hope that they are for you too. It is nice to get pleasant weather over a bank holiday. Although I dont work - it is nice for Rod to be off with me. We are just toying with the idea of going out this afternoon.
Kimberly
I have no idea about the tv show - I have comparitively little time for television once I have watched my Australian soaps and the odd murder/mayhem drama.
So - once more we are back to the luck of the draw with the challenge teams. I wonder how many disappearing people I will get on my team - I remember before Christmas when two people disappeared from my team in the last week - never to be seen again! I hate it when people disappear like that. Having said that - the MILFs and Shannon did really well and the girls did not know Shannon until we basically introduced them last minute almost like a random team. The idea of the teams getting reshuffled at any point sounds interesting!
I must admit - I was surprised that I got an average weightloss of 1.5 pounds per week which is on my average weight in the challenge just about exactly the fabled 1% of weight. I really couldnt hope to do better than that and in all honesty would think it pushing it to hope for that. Especially when you consider the hospital trip etc........
Take care
Love
Margaret
Omega
Moderator
Sunday 04/05/08
General Data:
Morning walk = about 6.6 miles
Round the block = 3 times
Extra exercises = none
Weight = 10st 5.2 lbs (i.e. 145.2 pounds)
Steps = 23,931
Distance = 9.25 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
No creaming regime – apart from morning / evening moisturising face
No ankle exercises
My Food / Drink:
Basic eating plan
1 banana 2g prot
3 weetabix, sweetener, 350 ml skimmed milk 17.3g prot
1 handful honey shreddies 2.9g prot
1 handful honey shreddies 2.9g prot
½ handful honey shreddies 1.45g prot
1 pear 0.5g prot
1 pear 0.5g prot
1 clementines 1g prot
1 clementines 1g prot
1 apple 0.45g prot
40 grapes 0.9g prot
Thin pork loin steak 16.5g prot
2.5 litres of cold water
some diet cola
140g Roast pork 41.17g prot, 175g cauliflower 6.3g prot, 50g broccoli 2.2g prot, carrots, onion, celery, spring greens, gravy
(other veg contain protein but already at the required total)
1 plums 0.45g prot
1 plums 0.45g prot
1 peach 0.6g prot
1 peach 0.6g prot
General Data:
Morning walk = about 6.6 miles
Round the block = 3 times
Extra exercises = none
Weight = 10st 5.2 lbs (i.e. 145.2 pounds)
Steps = 23,931
Distance = 9.25 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
No creaming regime – apart from morning / evening moisturising face
No ankle exercises
My Food / Drink:
Basic eating plan
1 banana 2g prot
3 weetabix, sweetener, 350 ml skimmed milk 17.3g prot
1 handful honey shreddies 2.9g prot
1 handful honey shreddies 2.9g prot
½ handful honey shreddies 1.45g prot
1 pear 0.5g prot
1 pear 0.5g prot
1 clementines 1g prot
1 clementines 1g prot
1 apple 0.45g prot
40 grapes 0.9g prot
Thin pork loin steak 16.5g prot
2.5 litres of cold water
some diet cola
140g Roast pork 41.17g prot, 175g cauliflower 6.3g prot, 50g broccoli 2.2g prot, carrots, onion, celery, spring greens, gravy
(other veg contain protein but already at the required total)
1 plums 0.45g prot
1 plums 0.45g prot
1 peach 0.6g prot
1 peach 0.6g prot
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bikinibound
New member
At least with the eliminations it pretty much weeds out those people who disappear without having too much effect on the rest of the team.
I too, love murder/mayhem dramas. Last night H and I sat there watching this show called "Snapped." It's true life stories of women who knock of their husbands. They had a little mini-marathon of them going, and we couldn't stop watching them. It's so engrossing. I'm getting lots of ideas--like take out a big life insurance policy on H...
I'm just kidding of course. It is astounding what greed will make people do.
I too, love murder/mayhem dramas.
Last night H and I sat there watching this show called "Snapped." It's true life stories of women who knock of their husbands. They had a little mini-marathon of them going, and we couldn't stop watching them. It's so engrossing. I'm getting lots of ideas--like take out a big life insurance policy on H... I'm just kidding of course. It is astounding what greed will make people do.
Omega
Moderator
Thanks for visiting.
Kimberly
I'm all for eliminating the people that have disappeared - it keeps me in with a chance on my weight gain weeks.
I love those true life murders too. I always think - why do murderers never watch these programs. You sit there saying - "so they think they have cleaned up the murder scene - do these people not know about luminol?". It's a good job that we are not murderous - at least we wouldnt make all the obvious mistakes.
Claudia
Thanks for the congratulations. Only one more pound to another milestone! I like lots of milestones - it always amazes me how many people only have milestones every 10 pounds. It takes too long to lose that much - it is much better to have a lot more milestones and never be more than a few pounds away from the next one.
I have a new strategy for the next challenge. If it is in July I will hopefully have been away on holiday in June. If that is the case I will probably have put on a ton of weight - so heaven knows how much splurge weight I will be trying to lose in July.
We will all just have to hope that the random teampicking fairy looks favourably on us all.
Take care
Love
Margaret
Kimberly
I'm all for eliminating the people that have disappeared - it keeps me in with a chance on my weight gain weeks.
I love those true life murders too. I always think - why do murderers never watch these programs. You sit there saying - "so they think they have cleaned up the murder scene - do these people not know about luminol?". It's a good job that we are not murderous - at least we wouldnt make all the obvious mistakes.
Claudia
Thanks for the congratulations. Only one more pound to another milestone! I like lots of milestones - it always amazes me how many people only have milestones every 10 pounds. It takes too long to lose that much - it is much better to have a lot more milestones and never be more than a few pounds away from the next one.
I have a new strategy for the next challenge. If it is in July I will hopefully have been away on holiday in June. If that is the case I will probably have put on a ton of weight - so heaven knows how much splurge weight I will be trying to lose in July.
We will all just have to hope that the random teampicking fairy looks favourably on us all.
Take care
Love
Margaret
Omega
Moderator
Monday 05/05/08
General Data:
Morning walk = about 6.5 miles
Round the block = none
Extra exercises = walked 3.5 miles with Rod at Hatchlands stately home grounds
Weight = 10st 5.0 lbs (i.e. 145.0 pounds)
Steps = 28,833
Distance = 11.14 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
No creaming regime – apart from morning / evening moisturising face
No ankle exercises
My Food / Drink:
Basic eating plan
1 banana
3 weetabix, sweetener, 350 ml skimmed milk
1 handful honey shreddies
1 handful honey shreddies
1 handful honey shreddies
1 pear
1 pear
1 clementines
1 clementines
1 apple
40 grapes
2.5 litres of cold water
some diet cola
Chicken breast, fry light, ½ red pepper, ½ green pepper, 1 onion, 1.5 courgettes, ½ jar of sauce, garlic
1 plums
1 plums
1 peach
General Data:
Morning walk = about 6.5 miles
Round the block = none
Extra exercises = walked 3.5 miles with Rod at Hatchlands stately home grounds
Weight = 10st 5.0 lbs (i.e. 145.0 pounds)
Steps = 28,833
Distance = 11.14 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
No creaming regime – apart from morning / evening moisturising face
No ankle exercises
My Food / Drink:
Basic eating plan
1 banana
3 weetabix, sweetener, 350 ml skimmed milk
1 handful honey shreddies
1 handful honey shreddies
1 handful honey shreddies
1 pear
1 pear
1 clementines
1 clementines
1 apple
40 grapes
2.5 litres of cold water
some diet cola
Chicken breast, fry light, ½ red pepper, ½ green pepper, 1 onion, 1.5 courgettes, ½ jar of sauce, garlic
1 plums
1 plums
1 peach
Where do you think you'll be traveling on your holiday? There's honestly no reason why you can't maintain your weight on your holiday. Sure, you may go up about 1 to 3 lbs from a new low if you just hit the new low before you go away, but I believe you can maintain with just minimal effort. Stick to having your fruit around and to 3 meals. You may be quite amazed that maintaining isn't HALF the effort that losing is, though of course it still must be approached on a conscious level. You deserve a break from the exercise too, but if its in a nice location, a 2 mile a day walk will definitely keep you at maintenance.
Omega
Moderator
Hi Claudia
The plane tickets are not booked yet - but we have been talking about going on holiday in June for some time - and it is just round the corner.
If we go, we will go to a little village in the south of the Greek island of Rhodes. We have spent a lot of time there (for instance we spent two entire summers there - May to November) and being a village we know everyone there. An awful lot of our friends are from there.
We were on the phone to there yesterday having a gossip and catching up on the news.
I will face some definite food issues there:
Some of my friends have restaurants and will want me to eat their specialities. The hours that they work in the summer means that you have to see them at the restaurant and they give you things when you are there. If people give you something you are not ordering it from a menu.
With knowing a lot of people - we will encounter a reasonable amount of other hospitality which is a bit of a challenge to weightloss. It is difficult not to eat / drink things that people give you when you go to their houses.
I know that I will restock on all sorts of healthy food things - but am aware that they all carry calories. I have friends with things like olive trees and bees. That means that I will get lots of presents of olives, olive oil, honey which will all come back to England. Then I will start cooking with olive oil instead of fry-light again etc.
I agree that theoretically I should be able to more or less maintain - but I realise that it is going to be much tougher than going to a resort where I know no-one and just exploring and enjoying the scenery.
I should be able to get some short walks done - but it is generally too hot to walk for the kind of distances that I do at home. I will definitely be wearing my pedometers and will do some walking.
Take care
Love
Margaret
The plane tickets are not booked yet - but we have been talking about going on holiday in June for some time - and it is just round the corner.
If we go, we will go to a little village in the south of the Greek island of Rhodes. We have spent a lot of time there (for instance we spent two entire summers there - May to November) and being a village we know everyone there. An awful lot of our friends are from there.
We were on the phone to there yesterday having a gossip and catching up on the news.
I will face some definite food issues there:
Some of my friends have restaurants and will want me to eat their specialities. The hours that they work in the summer means that you have to see them at the restaurant and they give you things when you are there. If people give you something you are not ordering it from a menu.
With knowing a lot of people - we will encounter a reasonable amount of other hospitality which is a bit of a challenge to weightloss. It is difficult not to eat / drink things that people give you when you go to their houses.
I know that I will restock on all sorts of healthy food things - but am aware that they all carry calories. I have friends with things like olive trees and bees. That means that I will get lots of presents of olives, olive oil, honey which will all come back to England. Then I will start cooking with olive oil instead of fry-light again etc.
I agree that theoretically I should be able to more or less maintain - but I realise that it is going to be much tougher than going to a resort where I know no-one and just exploring and enjoying the scenery.
I should be able to get some short walks done - but it is generally too hot to walk for the kind of distances that I do at home. I will definitely be wearing my pedometers and will do some walking.
Take care
Love
Margaret
Bellaryna
New member
Oh Margaret
Your vacation sounds dreamy! I would so love to go somewhere so different from my little world. LOL
Currently our family vacation this year will consist of camping, hiking and rafting. We plan to go into MI and camp along a large river. Do some fishing and other general outdoor activites. And on the last day/s do some rafting/tubing down the river.
I think that my kids will enjoy it alot. Well at least the two younger ones will as it seems that the oldest is quite attached to all his electronics. As I am most definately an outdoor girl I will definately enjoy it myself. The less things that are plugged in on my vacations the happier I am!!! LOL
I agree with Claudia that I am sure you won't gain nearly as much as you think and that maintaining will be way easier than you think. I mean look at Kimberly and myself! We are maintaining perfectly!!! hahahaha
So I bet with minimal effort on your part you will definately still be in a good place by the time of the next challenge.
Your vacation sounds dreamy! I would so love to go somewhere so different from my little world. LOL
Currently our family vacation this year will consist of camping, hiking and rafting. We plan to go into MI and camp along a large river. Do some fishing and other general outdoor activites. And on the last day/s do some rafting/tubing down the river.
I think that my kids will enjoy it alot. Well at least the two younger ones will as it seems that the oldest is quite attached to all his electronics. As I am most definately an outdoor girl I will definately enjoy it myself. The less things that are plugged in on my vacations the happier I am!!! LOL
I agree with Claudia that I am sure you won't gain nearly as much as you think and that maintaining will be way easier than you think. I mean look at Kimberly and myself! We are maintaining perfectly!!! hahahaha
So I bet with minimal effort on your part you will definately still be in a good place by the time of the next challenge.
Omega
Moderator
Hi Dawn
The funny thing about going to Gennadi is that it is not really completely different from my own little world at all. We have been going there for so long and have spent so much time there - it is our other little world. Completely different from life here in England - but nothing new, nothing different at all. We know how to predict everything from the times the church bells ring to the times that the shops open and close. We know pretty much where everyone will be at any particular time of day. We dont meet anyone new because we know everyone (and their cousins and their grandparents....)
We have talked about going for some time. Did I mention - when I was in hospital it seemed that Rod found that he could deny me nothing! (Or almost nothing - he says that he wont give up his job and go there for the summer). He says that he will book tickets this week.
I am sure that you will love your camping holiday. I used to go on holidays like that when I was a child. The summer when I was 7 - we went camping in Scotland. One of the places that we stayed was by Loch Ness. I fell into the Loch there (at the edge where it is shallow) and everyone commented that I must have wanted to meet the monster.
My family is Cumbrian so we spent a lot of time in Cumberland too - visiting lots of the lakes there.
We will have to wait and see what happens with my weight on holiday. Obviously I will try my best to be good - but I am aware of my own limitations. One thing is for sure - if my weight does go up I will just have to get back on track and tackle it as I get back home. I saw that most people lost Christmas gains very quickly when they got back on track so I am determined that I will not be too phased if I see a huge gain.
Take care
Love
Margaret
The funny thing about going to Gennadi is that it is not really completely different from my own little world at all. We have been going there for so long and have spent so much time there - it is our other little world. Completely different from life here in England - but nothing new, nothing different at all. We know how to predict everything from the times the church bells ring to the times that the shops open and close. We know pretty much where everyone will be at any particular time of day. We dont meet anyone new because we know everyone (and their cousins and their grandparents....)
We have talked about going for some time. Did I mention - when I was in hospital it seemed that Rod found that he could deny me nothing! (Or almost nothing - he says that he wont give up his job and go there for the summer). He says that he will book tickets this week.
I am sure that you will love your camping holiday. I used to go on holidays like that when I was a child. The summer when I was 7 - we went camping in Scotland. One of the places that we stayed was by Loch Ness. I fell into the Loch there (at the edge where it is shallow) and everyone commented that I must have wanted to meet the monster.
My family is Cumbrian so we spent a lot of time in Cumberland too - visiting lots of the lakes there.
We will have to wait and see what happens with my weight on holiday. Obviously I will try my best to be good - but I am aware of my own limitations. One thing is for sure - if my weight does go up I will just have to get back on track and tackle it as I get back home. I saw that most people lost Christmas gains very quickly when they got back on track so I am determined that I will not be too phased if I see a huge gain.
Take care
Love
Margaret
Omega
Moderator
Tuesday 06/05/08
General Data:
Morning walk = about 6.9 miles
Round the block = 3 times
Extra exercises = none
Weight = 10st 4.8 lbs (i.e. 144.8 pounds)
Steps = 23,749
Distance = 9.18 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
No creaming regime – apart from morning / evening moisturising face
No ankle exercises
My Food / Drink:
Basic eating plan
1 banana
3 weetabix, sweetener, 350 ml skimmed milk
1 handful honey shreddies
1 handful honey shreddies
1 handful honey shreddies
1 pear
1 pear
1 apple
2.5 litres of cold water
some diet cola
Breaded plaice, tin of baked beans
1 plums
1 plums
1 peach
1 peach
2 kiwi fruit
7 strawberries
General Data:
Morning walk = about 6.9 miles
Round the block = 3 times
Extra exercises = none
Weight = 10st 4.8 lbs (i.e. 144.8 pounds)
Steps = 23,749
Distance = 9.18 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
No creaming regime – apart from morning / evening moisturising face
No ankle exercises
My Food / Drink:
Basic eating plan
1 banana
3 weetabix, sweetener, 350 ml skimmed milk
1 handful honey shreddies
1 handful honey shreddies
1 handful honey shreddies
1 pear
1 pear
1 apple
2.5 litres of cold water
some diet cola
Breaded plaice, tin of baked beans
1 plums
1 plums
1 peach
1 peach
2 kiwi fruit
7 strawberries
bikinibound
New member
Congrats on the new low!!! 
You'll be into the 130s in no time at all!
I wouldn't be worried about your weight while in Greece. Let's not forget that you managed to lose weight over Christmas. If you do gain, I doubt it'll be much, and you'll lose it quickly, like you said.
You'll be into the 130s in no time at all!
I wouldn't be worried about your weight while in Greece. Let's not forget that you managed to lose weight over Christmas. If you do gain, I doubt it'll be much, and you'll lose it quickly, like you said.
Omega
Moderator
Hi Kimberly
Thanks for your new low congratulations. I am just chipping away at it with a fifth of a pound a time - but I must admit that it is nice every time. I am edging ever closer to the point where I will have lost 150 pounds. Then will come becoming "normal" (BMI under 25) and the 130s. I really have some great milestones sitting in front of me to try and keep me focused.
I would much rather go to Greece and face the temptations than stay at home and keep things as they are. It will probably mean that I can write off the month of June for weightloss (and may end June heavier than I start it) but that is not the end of the world. The Krinse put on a bit over Christmas but it all came straight off and she is hovering over her ticker goal and has already reached her WW goal. When we experience the shock of the gain we just need to look at examples like that and keep our heads.
Take care
Love
Margaret
Thanks for your new low congratulations. I am just chipping away at it with a fifth of a pound a time - but I must admit that it is nice every time. I am edging ever closer to the point where I will have lost 150 pounds. Then will come becoming "normal" (BMI under 25) and the 130s. I really have some great milestones sitting in front of me to try and keep me focused.
I would much rather go to Greece and face the temptations than stay at home and keep things as they are. It will probably mean that I can write off the month of June for weightloss (and may end June heavier than I start it) but that is not the end of the world. The Krinse put on a bit over Christmas but it all came straight off and she is hovering over her ticker goal and has already reached her WW goal. When we experience the shock of the gain we just need to look at examples like that and keep our heads.
Take care
Love
Margaret
Omega
Moderator
I agree Wishes. You get to the stage when you want to get to goal and you know that you are a lot less than you were - but things do slow down. If only we could get the weightloss that we were getting this time last year!!!
Time was I could get through 2.5 litres of diet cola. I was addicted. My husband is still pretty much addicted. We permanently have 6 litres of diet cola sitting in the fridge so no wonder I succumb to temptation every day with some. I always make sure that I get through my water though.
Time was I could get through 2.5 litres of diet cola. I was addicted. My husband is still pretty much addicted. We permanently have 6 litres of diet cola sitting in the fridge so no wonder I succumb to temptation every day with some. I always make sure that I get through my water though.
bikinibound
New member
Yup, you'll be fine in Greece. You won't have any weight gain that you can't get rid of quickly.
The thing that impresses me is that even though your weight loss has slowed down (which you know is to be expected), it has been so consistant. I wish I could keep my eating under control consistantly enough to keep losing as regularly as you do.
The thing that impresses me is that even though your weight loss has slowed down (which you know is to be expected), it has been so consistant. I wish I could keep my eating under control consistantly enough to keep losing as regularly as you do.
Bellaryna
New member
Congrats on the new low M~
Even with my achingly slow weightloss I keep telling myself that the slower it comes off the healthier it is. As well as the odds of it ever coming back are lots less.
I think that you will do just fine in Greece.
Even if you do gain, you will most likely gain some, it will come off fairly quickly just like it did for the Krinse.
Besides all that you really do have your head in the game.
I can compleltely understand "eating things when they are giving to you" when you go to another culture. It is the same way with my hubby's family. Especially when we go to the Island. As usually the only way they can celebrate our being there is by feeding us. And to turn it down is considered an insult.
So basically we just spread out all our visits over a week instead of getting it done in 2-3 days.
Even with my achingly slow weightloss I keep telling myself that the slower it comes off the healthier it is. As well as the odds of it ever coming back are lots less.
I think that you will do just fine in Greece.
Even if you do gain, you will most likely gain some, it will come off fairly quickly just like it did for the Krinse.
Besides all that you really do have your head in the game.
I can compleltely understand "eating things when they are giving to you" when you go to another culture. It is the same way with my hubby's family. Especially when we go to the Island. As usually the only way they can celebrate our being there is by feeding us. And to turn it down is considered an insult.
So basically we just spread out all our visits over a week instead of getting it done in 2-3 days.