For the month of March, post your daily calories (or WW points) and minutes of exercise. If you want, post any other goal(s) for the month.
Once a week - you pick the day, post your lbs up or down for the week. Just edit your original post daily - 1 post/participant. OR if you prefer, post your weight everyday.
Begin your post on March 1 (or 2 - or whenever you get here)!
A prize (the travelling cookbook - winners are responsible to send the book to the next winner) will be awarded to the participant doing the best job for the month. NOTE: in the event of a tie, the person with the highest % of weight loss for the month wins.
Let's help each other make March 2008 a Spectacular Weight Loss month!
Well . . . February was a disaster . . . hopefully March will be better . . . I'm in. However, I'm just going to concentrate on calories and net carbs for March. Need baby steps right now . . .
OMG . . . I'm five pounds heavier than I was at the beginning of January and that means I'm ten pounds above my low of 222 at the beginning of December. Starting March at 232. Hopefully there will be more of us in this thread before the day is done, but I'm going to be posting anyway. I really, really need the accountability. I have to get my act back together.
March 1 -- 1428 total calories; 119 net carbs and 1240 net calories
March 2 -- 1539 total calories; 123 net carbs and 1327 net calories
March 3 -- 1657 total calories; 110 net carbs and 1469 net calories
March 4 -- 1422 total calories; 103 net carbs and 1330 net calories
March 5 -- 1485 total calories; 139 net carbs and 1253 net calories
March 6 -- 1869 total calories; 151 net carbs and 1609 net calories
March 7 -- 1399 total calories; 127 net carbs and 1215 net calories
Averages -- 1543 total calories; 125 net carbs and 1349 net calories
Starting second week of March back at 227. Just confirms that most of the last 5 pounds I gained in January and February was water, I guess.
March 8 -- 1877 total calories; 106 net carbs and 1757 net calories
March 9 -- 1621 total calories; 163 net carbs and 1353 net calories
March 10 -- 1393 total calories; 129 net carbs and 1165 net calories
March 11 -- 1432 total calories; 135 net carbs and 1236 net calories
March 12 -- 1659 total calories; 134 net carbs and 1487 net calories
March 13 -- 1807 total calories; 173 net carbs and 1603 net calories
March 14 -- 2426 total calories; 263 net carbs and 2314 net calories
Averages -- 1745 total calories; 158 net carbs and 1559 net calories
Sooo . . . week three starts at 229 thanks to the water-retention power of yesterday's carb binge. Hopefully, true to pattern, it will soon be gone again.
March 15 -- 1323 total calories; 127 net carbs and 1107 net calories
March 16 -- 1762 total calories; 197 net carbs and 1662 net calories
March 17 -- 1319 total calories; 80 net carbs and 1135 net calories
March 18 -- 1546 total calories; 139 net carbs and 1342 net calories
March 19 -- 1474 total calories; 129 net carbs and 1230 net calories
March 20 -- 2006 total calories; 150 net carbs and 1930 net calories
March 21 -- 1635 total calories; 118 net carbs and 1339 net calories
Averages -- 1581 total calories; 134 net carbs and 1392 net calories
Here we go, week four is starting at 226, hopefully, there's no place to go but down.
March 22 -- 1411 total calories; 135 net carbs and 1359 net calories
March 23 -- 2284 total calories; 192 net carbs and 2088 net calories
March 24 -- 1593 total calories; 150 net carbs and 1369 net calories
March 25 -- 1386 total calories; 124 net carbs and 1246 net calories
March 26 -- 1787 total calories; 208 net carbs and 1599 net calories
March 27 -- OOPS -- Tomorrow is another day -- and it will be better
March 28 -- OOPS AGAIN -- one more time -- tomorrow is another day
Averages -- Well, obviously I can't average the past 7 days and it makes no sense to average the five that I've got. Will just get to work on the last 3 days of the month.
And . . . I'm not going to record my weight again until April 1 . . . in the hopes that I can undo the damage I know I've done so far. Yes, I can do this, I really, really can.
March 29 -- 1466 total calories; 160 net carbs and 1282 net calories
March 30 -- 1441 total calories; 132 net carbs and 1257 net calories
March 31 -- 1689 total calories; 165 net carbs and 1481 net calories
Count me in again. Seems like the closer I get to goal, the slower the weight is coming off - even if I stay POP. So, March goals are: Stay below 1400 cals, 5 hrs. of exercise each week, and 146 by the end of March (I revised this when I realized that I will be traveling the last week of March. I should have sporadic Internet, but no scale that will be reliable).
March 1 - 1156 cals, 40 min. aerobic dance
March 2 - 1077 cals, Sabbath rest day for me
March 3 - 1127 cals, 70 min WATP firming and aerobic dance
March 4 - 1097 cals , 65 min yoga and WATP
March 5 - 1150 cals, 90 min pumping rubber and skiwalking, 149.6
March 6 - 1002 cals , 30 min pilates
March 7 - 1156 cals, 70 min stretchie band and aerobic dance
March 8 - 1244 cals, 40 min aerobic dance
March 9 - 1253 cals, 148.4
March 10 - 1152 cals, 30 min WATP Firming
March 11 - 1233 cals, 30 min yoga, 1 hr walking
March 12 - 1378 cals, 30 min walking
March 13 - 1356 cals, 20 min walking
March 14 - 1389 cals, 90 min walking
March 15 - 1371 cals, 85 min walking
March 16 - 1311 cals, 20 min walking
March 17 - 1216 cals, 30 min WATP firming (glad to be home and back in my routine)
March 18 - 1211 cals, 70 min yoga & aerobic dance - 148.6
March 19 - 1157 cals, 80 min pilates & aerobic dance
March 20 -1248 cals, 50 min pumping rubber and walking
March 21 - 1121 cals
March 22 - 1222 cals, 60 min Zumba, 147.4
March 23 -1176 cals, 50 min WATP
March 24 - 1296 cals, 55 min yoga & Zumba
March 25 - 1230 cals, 75 min walking and WATP Firming
March 26 - 1117 cals, 75 min pumping rubber and Zumba
March 27 - 1243 cals, 30 min pilates, 146.2
March 28 - 1391 cals, 25 min walking, 146.0
We take off for TN in the morning, it is unlikely that I will be able to post again in March. We will be back on the 5th of April
Last edited by CountingDown; 03-28-2008 at 06:28 PM.
Personal Information: Weight beginning DP - 185 Weight as of 3/1/08 - 150.6 Interim Goal Weight - 140 Age - 62 (63 in April)
Weight loss journey -
1st 10 pounds - March 15, 2007 - June 15, 2007 (3 months)
2nd 10 pounds - June 15, 2007 - September 20, 2007 (3 months)
3rd 10 pounds - Sept 20, 2007 - February 20, 2008 (5 months)
4th 10 pounds - Feb 20 2008 - ?
Lowest weight this journey - 147.2
March Goals - track weight (on date), track exercise (from day before date), track calories (from day before date) on this Challenge Thread; Stay within 1200 - 1300 calories; exercise 60 min on 6 days/week.
To counteract problems with after-dinner-eating, beginning on 3/5, I'm going to add a new element to my challenge - NEAD - "No Eating After Dinner."
March 3 - wt 150.6 March 4 - wt 151.6; exercise 75 min; calories 1409
March 5 - wt 150.8; exercise 60 min; calories 1051; NEAD
March 6 - wt 150.2; exercise 0; calories 1059; NEAD
March 7 - wt 150.8; exercise 70; calories 1390; Ate SF pudding after dinner
March 8 - wt 149.4; exercise 100 min; calories 1156; NEAD
March 9 - wt 149.8; exercise 50 min; calories 1086; NEAD
March 10 - wt 150.0; exercise 60 min; calories 1173; NEAD
March 18 - wt 149.6
March 19 - wt 149.0
March 20 - wt 149.4
March 21 - wt 149.8; exercise 30 min; calories 1067; NEAD
March 22 - wt 149.0; exercise 90 min; calories 1074; NEAD
March 23 - wt 148.8; exercise 60 min; calories 1153; 1/4 protein bar
March 24 - wt 148.6; exercise 125 min; calories 1599; After a PERFECT Easter eating day, I had a breakdown and ate 400 calories after dinner!
March 25 - wt 150.4; exercise 0 min; calories 1084; protein bar & 2 chocolate squares
March 26 - wt 149.8; exercise 50 min; calories 1192; NEAD
March 27 - wt 149.2; exercise 0 min; calories 1227; protein bar
March 28 - wt 147.6; exercise 50 min; calories 1193; NEAD
March 29 - wt 147.2; exercise 50 min; calories 1212; mini-Glucerna bar
March 30 - wt 148.2; exercise 0 min; calories 1079; prune, SF pudding, mini-Glucerna bar
March 31 - wt 147.4; exercise 50 min; calories 901; NEAD
Personal Information:
Weight beginning WW on Jan. 9 - 270
Weight as of 3/8/08 - 255
Interim Goal Weight - 180
Age - 56 as of 2-10
March Goals - Lose some more weight! Get that water in!
My problem is that due to health problems, it is difficult for me to exercise. I just don't know what to do about that until the weather breaks and I can maybe do some walking.
Following is today's menu and points. Sat., March 8
Breakfast: 2 sl. WW toast (1 pt); 1.5 tsp. each whipped butter and jelly (2 pts.); 1 grapefruit (2 pts.) TOTAL: 5 pts
Mid-am: nonfat yogurt: 2 pts
Lunch: 2 sl. WW toast (1 pt.), 1 3-oz. bl chicken breast (3 pts); 1 TB Miracle whip (1 pt); 1 12-oz can V8 (1 pt.) TOTAL: 6 pts
MidPM: nonfat yogurt : 2 pts.
Dinner: 4 small stuffed shells (5.25 pts); 8 oz. cooked spinach (0 pts) with 2 TB whipped butter (2 pts); 1 2-oz. sl. Italian Bread (2 pts); 1 TB whipped butter (2 pts). TOTAL: 11
PM snack:
1 c Chocolate "mousse": 2 pts. Total Points:28.25 pts. (allowed 28-33) Sunday, March 9: Yesterday was not a normal day, woke up late.
Brunch: egg salad (5), 2 sl. WW Bread (1), V8(1) , Lite Yogurt (2)
Mid afternoon: Yogurt (2)
Dinner: 5 oz chicken (5), 1 c. brown rice (4), 8 oz. cooked spinach (1)
4 Irish Potatoes (4) (so slap me)
Points: 25 out of 28-33
Monday's, March 10:
Breakkfast: lg. pink grapefruit (2), 2 c. coffeew-2 tsp sugar free vanilla caramel creamer each - 1
Mid-AM: Non-Fat Yogurt (2)
Lunch: egg salad (5), 2 sl. WW bread (1), V8 (1)
Dinner: 4 oz shrimp (2), 1 c. rice (4), 1 c. peas (2), 1 sl. (1/12 pie) yogurt cheese cheesecake (4), 1 sl WW bread (.5), 1 TB whipped butter (2).
Evening snack: yogurt (2) TOTAL 28.5 points
Realized that 12 large shrimp are plenty, that equals 4 oz., and cut my cheesecake portion to 1/12 instead of 1/10.
Tuesday:
No breakfast, I know, my bad!
Lunch: V8 (1), Egg Salad, 1/3 c (4), 2 sl. WW bread (1); Mid-PM: Yogurt (2)
TOTAL: 8
Dinner:
Shhrimp, 5 oz (2.5), No Yolk Noodles, 1 c (3); Alfredo Sauce, 1/2 c (5); Mixed veggie california style (0); Grapefruit (2); Cheesecake (4): TOTAL: 16.5
PM snack: keylime pie, no crust (2)
Late night snack (mother problems!): cheesecake - 4 TOTAL FOR DAY: 30.5
WEDNESDAY
Breakfast: 1 lg. pink grapefruit (2); 1 lite, whole wheat muffin (1); 1 tsp jelly and whipped butter (1); creamer in coffee (1)
Lunch: Egg salad (5); 1 sl. WW bread (1); Yogurt (2); 4 whole wheat graham crackers (6 - mother problems AGAIN!)
Dinner: 4 oz shrimp (2); 1 cup brown rice (4); V8 (1); 2 sl. WW bread (1); 2 tsp whippped butter (1); cheesecake (4) TOTAL: 32 PTS Weighed self today, lost 5 lbs!
Thursday, March 13
Not a normal day, basically until dinner I was off program. Had no breakfast, a soft pretzel for lunch, no idea how many points.
Dinner: Shrimp, 4 oz. (2); rice, 1 c (4); Cal. veggies (0); yogurt cheesecake (4).
Evening snack: Grahm crackers: 6
Was REALLY bad today
Friday, March 14
Breakfast: lg grapefruit (2)
Mid AM: Yogurt (2)
Lunch: Egg salad (5); Lite, whole wheat English Muffin (1); V8(1)
Dinner: 7 oz broiled flounder (4.5); 1 c. no yolks noodles (4); Mixed Cal. veggies (0); yogurt cheesecake (4); 2 oz. Italian bread (2); 2 T. whipped butter (on bread and veggies) (4) TOTAL: 27.5
Last edited by Phillygirl2; 03-14-2008 at 09:45 PM.
I'm so glad you found the thread and have joined us. On this thread, we update our original post daily by hitting the Edit button and adding any new information.
This is a place where we focus on our efforts - daily intake of food; exercise; whatever challenge we want to make. The idea is that we can control our efforts - the effects (what the !@#$%$^%&&* scale says) are often despite our efforts.
I see that you posted your menu for the day. If you want me (or others) to review your menu, let me know.
Lynn
Last edited by ladyinweighting; 03-09-2008 at 05:40 AM.
My present weight is 169.5 lbs. My goal weight is 130. Age: 65.
3/11 1314 cals. 30 min brisk walking.
3/12 168.5 lbs -1305 cals no exercise Doing well at keeping my snacks to a minimum. This has always been my downfall in the past.
3/13 167 lbs. 2011 cals!! 40 min brisk walking. Started out the day so well but went out to eat and blew it!
3/14 169.5 lbs - 1328 cals - 30 min. fairly brisk walking
3/15 WEEKLY WEIGH-IN DAY 167 lbs. - 1729 cals! ate out twice today..really messes me up! And also didn't exercise it was very windy and I also was achy.
3/16 166 lbs. -1574 cals I was pleasantly surprised by my loss despite yesterday's calories! No exercise again today.
3/17 166.5 lbs - 1341 cals - Walked 29 min. Still having these strong gusts of wind. Lost my cap once!
3/18 165.5 lbs - 1633 cal -walked 30 min at moderate pace. Too hot to walk very fast but at least the wind has died down. Had to change this again because I ate some fruit tonight.
3/19 166 lbs - 1530 - no exercise today but I feel I did well with my eating today as it was a long day of traveling. I was tempted to buy at least one of my favorite travel foods..Cheetos, Ice Cream Sandwich etc...but I DIDN"T!! Yea for me!! That's a first! :-)
3/20 165 lbs - 1335 cal -no exercise again today as we were again traveling. Now at Travis AFB and will be here until Mon. We will busy with family so not sure how much exercise we will get in but will try to get some.
3/21 162.5 lbs.-1492 cals. No exercise but did park so had to walk etc. Feeling a little discouraged by family problems but thank God I have not given in to emotional eating! That's kind of a first too...the stress is not over though so cannot really brag yet. :-)
3/22 164 lbs -WEEKLY WEIGH-IN so down 3 lbs! didn't track calories to day...but I know I ate waaaay too much!! Spent day with dd and gs and her bf and I'm sure a lot of it was emotional eating. So will probably gain back the 3lbs esp as we are going to a big family dinner tomorrow! We did walk casually about a mile + today.
3/23 166 lbs (sorry I posted my weight wong yesterday..I WISH it had been true! Not corrected. But anyway just as I figured I would, I gained most of my loss back. But I have a weekto work at getting it back down. Todays the big family dinner so pray for me! :-) 2274 cals! Well, I blew it again! And no exercise. Hope to do better the rest of the week.
3/24/ 169.5!! lbs.(knew I'd gain but didn't think woud be this much! know it's mostly water so hope I lose it fast) - 1448 cals - traveling so no exercise again!
3/25 165.5 lbs. lost track of calories today but don't think I did too badly. No exercise as we just arrived home and MUCH to do!!
3/26 165.5 lbs. - 1500 cals - no exercise.
3/27 165.5 lbs - 1464 - no exercise - too busy getting caught up now that we are home again. Will start back to gym after 1st.
3/28 165 lbs - 1514 cals
3/29 165 lbs WEEKLY WEIGH-IN Very disappointed to see a 1 lb. gain!! Boo-hoo...well I did overeat about 3 days out of the 7 and no exercise so guess it's too be expected. Better today though: 1362 cals. but still no exercise.
3/30 165 lbs. - 1462 cals
3/31 164 lbs - 1602 cals out of town, not so good on the eating!
I'm so glad you found the thread and have joined us. On this thread, we update our original post daily by hitting the Edit button and adding any new information.
This is a place where we focus on our efforts - daily intake of food; exercise; whatever challenge we want to make. The idea is that we can control our efforts - the effects (what the !@#$%$^%&&* scale says) are often despite our efforts.
I see that you posted your menu for the day. If you want me (or others) to review your menu, let me know.
Lynn
Yes, I would appreciate having my menus monitored.
Hi all,
New to this, but very much liked reading the steps everyone is taking to lose weight. My short term goal is to have 10 lbs of fat (or more) gone from my body by April 9th.
How do you get that cute weight chart thing at the bottom of your posts?
Trudy
Okay . . . Hi TRUDY and and to the Age 50+ Forum, also.
Now . . . TRUDY and MARY . . .
(1) . . . this thread is really only meant for a one per customer entry (which can be updated everyday using the edit button) for recording your progress on this month's challenge. There are three regular monthy chat threads on the Forum where we all hang out and "chat". I know MARY has found her way over there. Hope you will soon be joining us over there too, TRUDY.
(2) . . . getting a Ticker (the little weight tracker thingee you see in people's signature areas). Unfortunately, because we've been plagued by some nasty, thoughtless people of late that only come here to push their money-making personal agenda, we've had to be a little selective about letting people post signatures and thus, tickers. It's that old case of a few bad apples spoiling the fun in the barrel for a lot of innocent newbies. As soon as you've been a 3FC member for at least 30 days and you have at least 30 posts under your belt, you will be able to get one. You, MARY are almost there, girl, while you, TRUDY, will have to wait a bit -- just keep posting and the time will just fly right by.
When the time does come, simply click on User CP in the main purple navigation bar at the top of the community pages; then click on Edit Signature near the top of the left-hand column; then click on Click Here under the sample ticker -- and follow the directions.
BTW, MARY . . . Lynn is away at the moment, but I'm sure she'll give you some comments on your meal plan when she is back. I took a look, but since I'm not very familiar with Weight Watchers, I don't feel that I can offer you any advice other than something very, very general -- lots and lots of zero-point veggies are a great way to feel full and make sure you get plenty of important vitamins and other micronutrients.
Meowee, I think it was Phillygirl that wanted the menu review. As you can see I finally got my ticker! Thanks! I actually started it at 169.5 but it made it 170 which is fine. I've got a ways to go anyway ...what's .5 lb?!! But now my question is how do I edit it to show my weight going down?
Edited to say: never mind, I think I got it figured out!
OOPS . . . right you are, MARY (and PHILLY too) . . . sorry about that -- just another one of those Senior Moments.
Changing your weight in the ticker is fairly easy . . . Go to User CP; then to Edit Signature; then scroll down to the little code box under your tracker image. You will find three numbers that you will recognize -- the last of the three is your current weight -- just overtype it with the new number, and then don't forget to scroll down and click on "save signature". Let me know if you have any problems.
That's ok. How well I know about those "moments!" Now I'd like to know how to put one of those little women...a model to represent me...that I see in some signatures. I want to see me change!
There I can't help you . . . I know I once saw a site that had them but I didn't bookmark it . . . my best suggestion is that the next time you happen across a member that has one, send her a PM and ask where she got it.
March Challenge Thread
- a new chance to be successful!!!
Starting March at 232 
. Hopefully there will be more of us in this thread before the day is done, but I'm going to be posting anyway. I really, really need the accountability. I have to get my act back together. 
Hopefully, true to pattern, it will soon be gone again.
Yes, I can do this, I really, really can. 
, 65 min yoga and WATP
and 
to the Age 50+ Forum, also. 
