MC Day #24
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MARCH WEIGHT LOSS CHALLENGE - DAY #24
Totals: Tuesday, March 24, 2009
beerab………….
brseay…………..
delitaagain…….
eileen2blean….
feathers………..
goodlife………..
grabthebull…….
hveeck………….
inkheartmeg….
janthea………….
jaxie……………..
joy………………..
photogirljen….
whitters…………
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1 green star = 10 gold stars
If you’re new here and wondering what this challenge is click here.
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Eileen - Day #261 - Tuesday
Daily intake goals:: 20-35g carbs / 64+ oz. water
Total net carb grams Tuesday: 16.6 oops!
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Well, I have good news - and good news!
First and most importantly, my mom is doing well! She is recovering (somewhat) and was moved to a residential rehab facility last night. The doctors are expecting her to stay there for about 2-3 weeks. We found out yesterday that the reason the nephrologist was throwing around words like “terminal” and “hospice” was because my mom had signed a Living Will that specifically says ”no life-prolonging treatments” if she has an “end-stage condition” (Stage IV kidney disease would be considered end-stage). In other words, he thought she was refusing dialysis. When she made it clear that she had no objection to dialysis, then his outlook for her improved dramatically. She is still very sick right now but with treatment and care, she could possibly outlive us all. =D
Okay - the other good news! I would love to say I lost ten pounds, but nahhh, that’s not it.
It’s about this March Challenge thing. Earlier this month, once it got rolling, I was so excited and inspired! OMG people were actually skipping snacks or exercising 15 more minutes - just to get a star!!! I had never experienced anything like it, and I thought it was pretty cool! The fact that it was a competition BUT that it wasn’t a competion about weight-loss - that made it different. So I started looking around.
I found a competition on the 3FC message board that was actually very similar to the one I’d come up with (it had been there all along, I just had never noticed it, ha!). It too was not about weight-loss - but the difference was that participants earned points for exercising, even if it was only 15 minutes. So, yeah, similar, but not the same.
So I looked on the web (I am the google queen! lol!) and guess what - I didn’t find much of anything that was similar. I did find a couple weight loss buddy/team sites, but most of them weren’t free, and none of them were competitive in nature (well, except for little “The Biggest Loser” contests but those are, of course, about weight loss).
SO - back on March 10th, I picked a domain name, and started building a website.
It was almost done, almost! when my mom went into the hospital. I wanted so bad for it to be up and running before the end of March! I wanted this website to be all set up with all of the March Challenge members in it and all their stars recorded! I also wanted it to be functional so that people could log and control their own stars - and so that others could open challenges and host their own contests.
I finally got to work on it yesterday and today and… it’s ready for unveiling!!
Now, keep in mind that I am NOT a webmaster by day. Going into this I had no idea how to set up membership and login and databases and tables. I still really don’t know what I’m doing, but I’ve tested it (with you all, though you didn’t know it!) and it all seems to work. Well, mostly. There were a few things I couldn’t figure out, but I’m still working on it.
Okay so the website is: www.w8challenge.com and there are accounts already set up for all the March Challengers, so all you need to do is click on LOGIN and enter your username and password. I had to get creative with the passwords, lol.
Username # of characters Password
in pswd
brseay 7 (letters & numbers) goalXXX (the XXXs are your workout goal)
delitaagain 7 (letters only) your week 32 was _______ city
feathers 4 (letters only) your dog’s name
goodlife 9 (letters & numbers) targetXXX (the XXXs are your Apr 1 target)
grabthebull 4 (numbers only) Your upper limit on calories
hveeck 4 (numbers only) Your upper limit on calories
inkheartmeg 6 (letters & numbers) XXcups (the XXs are your water goal)
janthea 4 (numbers only) Your upper limit on calories (the new one!)
jaxie 4 (numbers only) Your upper limit on calories
joy 7 (letters & numbers) XXyears (the XXs are your years married)
photogirljen 4 (numbers only) Your upper limit on calories
whitters 4 (numbers only) Your upper limit on calories
Anyway, I hope y’all like it! I’m gonna do a bit of online marketing and see if I can get some other traffic - but even if I don’t, it was definitely a learning experience for me!
P.S. Janthea - I was in the middle of trying to develop this site when you volunteered to take on the April challenge, and at that point I had NO idea whether I would ever get it up and running! So I’m sorry if I’m stealing your thunder but THANK YOU so much for being so willing to host the next challenge. (You of course, can still host a 3FC contest if ya wanna).
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How COOL! So how does a girl who skipped March get in on this action?!
Nevermind, I clicked on the link and it took me right through it!
YAY! I’m excited!
Good job, Eileen!
you are awesome!!! and i’m fine with keeping with you chicks!!!!
so glad about your mom!!!!!
Eileen I am so glad to hear about your mom! Good thing the communication was cleared!
You are so awesome girl I LOVE YOU lol. I guess now we can track our own stars? COOL!
shrinkie - yay!! You’re the very first person to actually JOIN a new challenge at my site!! **happy dance** Thank you!!! (And I’m really happy that you’re going to be joining us next month!!)
janthea - oh yay, I’m glad you’re not upset or anything!! Thanks for your support and all the good thoughts and wishes in the last few days. (In fact, thanks to EVERYone for that!!)
beerab - Yep, everyone can put their own stars in and they don’t have to wait for me! =D BTW, I left you a message on the group page - OMG you are SO creative, how you got your stars to show up!! There really is an easier way, though. I guess I didn’t word the instructions clear enough!!
omg I haven’t posted my stars since the 20th!! I’ll catch up
tomorrow. I also need to catch up on blogs. take care
sat 21st = 1 star for food, no exercise
sun 22nd= 1 star for food, no exercise
mon 23rd= 2.5 stars for food, and 90 min exercise.
tues 24th= 1.5 stars for 90 min exercise, i went over on calories.
wed 25th= 1 star for food, no exercise.
man I need to get my ass to the gym
wow, Eileen, you are the bomb to set up that website!! sounds exciting
how cool! Im so happy things are looking up for your mom, dialysis is an amazing thing
Eileen you’re a rockstar! I checked out the page and I’m most impressed.. and I’m sure you’ll soon figure out how to total. AND i have updated my stars there. Am still giving you my stars for the last couple of days (out of sheer habit)… I guess will keep doing it for this month at least.
Here goes:
March 23- 2.5 stars (one for food, 1.5 for exercise)
March 24- 1 star (for food, no exercise)
March 25- 2.5 stars (one for food, 1.5 for exercise)
Also, great news about your mom. She’ll be fine. She has to be, what with all our prayers and best wishes. take care.
haha I downloaded a picture of the stars, then edited to three stars, then re-uploaded it. I was like oh that C: was your hard drive, obviously it’s not on my computer.
beerab - I could tell you’d done that because the file name was agreenstar.jpg instead of 30.jpg!! I was so impressed that you had figured out how to do that!
I changed the instructions a little, hopefully for the better. I know it’s a bit confusing but once you have the stars on your own hard drive, it becomes much easier. I think!
hveeck - Wow, that made a difference in your stars! I went ahead and updated your stars for you at the W8C site. =D
goodlife - Thanks!! I noticed that you updated your stars on the site first try!! Wooohooo!!! Did you find it confusing at all? I’m still trying to tweak the instructions!
Eileen, Hey good to see you back here. I have
6 (SIX) stars coming my way sonce last recorded.
I have an idea. I hope that we are allowed to do this. I have an extra copy of HUNGRY GIRL cookbook. It has an array of all kinds of healthy.low fat/low carb recipes. I would like to put it up as a prize for the winner of April. I am going to be in the competition but WILL NOT compete for the prize. What do you think???? Are we allowed to do that on this site?
Take care
Joy
I left the comment on the wrong area sorry.
First I am so glad that your mom is doing much better. That is wonderful.
Second I see you made a seperate site for us that is great.
Third I want to put up a healthy cookbook as a prize for April.
4th I will NOT be a part of the April competition.
Lastly thank you again for all of your hard work in this.
Joy
Ok I had some troubles…. but was determined to figure it out since I credit myself to usually being able to figure these things out! I have Windows XP. The unzip option didn’t come up but I knew where I saved it, so i went there and extracted the files. The problem I had though was that the stars would not show up unless I clicked Save New. Save Changes and everything else I tried gave me a little white box with a red X in it. Maybe when I change the stars tomorrow Save Changes will work.
Really good job though Eileen! I like it!
Way to go delita on the first red star. Awesome job!