[Riestrella]

I lost the stats of people who had dropped out of the challenge due to the sabotage, so my facts for the week have had to be reset. Here are the results of this week!

whitelikechalk has managed to keep her top spot in the challenge chart, with Aware riding hot on her tail coming it at number 2!
Congrats to Quiet Ballerina for winning this weeks weigh in, losing an amazing 6 lbs with a 3.90% of herself and earning 20 points!
lilypad has taken the top spot for the overall charts having lost 7.27% of her weight with a 12 lb loss. Final Count Down came out of no where and entered the charts in 3rd with a new top 5 entry by Sabletora!

Congrats to everyone who made it into the charts and to all those losing, the spreadsheets I use to make the charts are now viewable by the tabs at the bottom of the spreadsheet but are locked so can only be edited by me. See how far you were away from getting in the top 20's!

By the end of the week there were 112 people listed on the spreadsheet.
I have had to move 14 people to the stand by list.
There are now 98 people remaining in the challenge!

Challenge Chart:


Week 2 Chart:


Overall Chart:

[MusicalAstronaut]

I'm almost a little worried about myself. This morning I weighed in at 181. Which is exciting, but how did I lose more than 4lbs this week? I didn't go running a single day. I couldn't get myself to go. I've been moping around, crying, watching tv, and I even ate ice cream twice this week. I don't think I'm dehydrated, I didn't drink less water (as far as I can remember). Does being miserable make you lose water weight or something? Or maybe I don't realize that I'm eating less. I also didn't count calories this week. :/ I'm a bit of a mess. Hopefully I can find my energy. But why am I losing so much?

[Daki]

MusicalAstronaut , you definitely could be eating less than you think you are. I know that when I'm really upset the smallest amount of food will make me uncomfortably full. And I don't exactly understand but one week where I slacked on my exercise I wound up losing more weight. No idea how it happened but it did.

Just keep hanging in there! /hug

[philana]

MusicalA: Sorry to hear you are feeling so bad! That sucks big time. The weightloss could be from before this week still too I think? Just like how some people will work themselves silly, not drop anything and then in one week they lose 4lbs. The body works in mysterious ways! Also, like Daki says, you might be eating less than you think. Hope you feel better soon!

CONGRATS to the wonderful ladies that did so well in the challange! QB - how'd you lose 6LBS?! Awesome work!
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After the doing great I wasted SO MUCH calories last night omg. I did not bake the cupcakes because I did not want to waste calories. I did not buy my favorite snacks even though I had saved up calories because, I did not want to waste them. In the end I wasted them on popcorn that I thought was low-cal ending up being high cal. And then I was so annoyed I just had this old-habit "it's messed up now already" mentality and ate a bag of chips that wasn't even very good. So BLUH for me.

But, I counted it out and I basically ate about a 1000 calories, which means averaged out over the weekend I had two maintenance calorie days this weekend, so I start monday fresh at where I was on friday. No biggie! Went on a run straight away and am gonna end up at 1000 calories today just to be on the safe side. I was hoping to see a loss by today or tomorrow and I can't stand it if it takes another WHOLE WEEK. So a bit more ffort is gonna go into it. Hihi.

Sorry for the ramble. I need to ramble. It's who I am. Nobody around me knows about my attempts. My mom can't be supportive. So it's you guys I ramble to!

[Quiet Ballerina]

Imagine my delight when I got on the scale this morning. 145.8!
Double and triple checked again. Also putting my new meal plan into effect today (I sort of started over the weekend, but really jumping into it today), and so far it's going well. Since it's Monday and I don't have class (YAY!) I want to make it to the gym tonight. I hate waiting until one of my shows come on (around 8pm usually) but the workout goes by a lot faster if I'm watching TV.

Jellbb that's really nice of you to buy stuff at the dollar store for people in Cuba. I never would have thought of doing something like that. : You also showed some amazing will power! Great job!

Tiny Tiger Don't worry! Maybe it's just your body retaining water? Are you eating enough for all of that exercise?

Musical That's what happened to me during my big weight loss week. I was nervous and stressed and then I was upset and stressed...so food just wasn't appealing to me. So when I ate, since I didn't want much, I made a big effort to put healthy things into my body and drink lots of water.
:hugs: sorry you're stressed. At least today begins a new week, right?

philana I'm as shocked as anyone else! I kept weighing myself every day waiting for the scale to go "ha! fooled you!" I've been working hard at eating better though, which is a big deal for me right now. No takeout (except one day), tons of veggies. Low carbs. Tried to avoid processed foods/snack foods. And water water water. I drink SO much water.

And this site is a huge help to me. I know that I want to watch what I eat and try and get in exercise to see results..but it helps that I know every Monday I log onto here and have to post my weight! I love coming onto 3FC and sharing about my weekend or problems that pop up. Having people to commiserate with about how difficult it can be to lose weight. One of my friends that 'gets it' isn't local, and we don't get to talk as much as I'd like.

It's cold. and rainy. we had some snow over the weekend. brrr! A good day to stay inside if you ask me.

One thing I need to do with my meal plan is figure out the calorie count. I made the meal plan so I could get in daily amounts of fruits, veggies, proteins, etc. I think I'll go work on it now while the babies nap.

[baker23]

MusicalAstronaut- Our bodies are strange. Some weeks we'll lose nothing and others we will have a big drop =D...Enjoy it. Congrats. Fanastic loss this week

philana- Even if you went a little higher then you intended, you didn't gain and thats a success in itself =D. How much running did you end up doing?

[Tiny Tiger]

Jelbb: Hmmm, could be pre-TOM, now that you mention it. My muscles aren't feeling sore, and I run that distance every weekend without a big gain afterward, so I'm not sure that's it. I did drink a bit on Saturday night, so yesterday morning I was dehydrated and I think yesterday I just packed the water on. Trying to be patient but after over a week it gets so hard!

Wow I'm on the challenge chart this week! I feel a little guilty about it because the only reason I lost so much last week is that I was relosing the weight I had just gained the week before. I'm still above my starting weight! But I will get my butt in gear and work to really deserve those points! Great job everyone!

[aleksandra]

congratz to y'all!!!!

[MusicalAstronaut]

I think a lot of us only have 3fc to ramble to. I'm glad that we can all talk to each other on here.

[MadameZombie]

Woo... Hey everyone! I'm a big lurker on this board but I thought I'd drop in and say hi and congrats to everyone! I dropped this week because I was sick last week and I got my braces tightened... I was basically on a liquid diet and now I'm starving. x_x. I can't wait to get back to the gym and eat something harder than broth.

[Jelbb]

Originally Posted by Tiny Tiger

Jelbb: Hmmm, could be pre-TOM, now that you mention it. My muscles aren't feeling sore, and I run that distance every weekend without a big gain afterward, so I'm not sure that's it. I did drink a bit on Saturday night, so yesterday morning I was dehydrated and I think yesterday I just packed the water on. Trying to be patient but after over a week it gets so hard!

Oooh. That could be it too. Dehydration = body clinging to as much water as possible? Or just TOM being mean.

Either way, I know how you feel. After the weekend I'm up to 172.2... and even though it was a very tempting weekend, and I should just be proud that it was a minor gain, I wish I'd lost...!

[kimmyskelter]

aleksandra thank u sooo much. i dnt see any link and my pop ups are not blocked. i cant wait to b able to pm. ook. plz add unto my week two i dropped 4 pounds soo im at 252 currently. thank u soooo much. cuz this whole not being able to post on the page is gettin me real sad and demotivated. i look forward to posting but now i cant..uuugghhh that person who ruined the page was soooo selfishh!!!!!

[Riestrella]

Originally Posted by kimmyskelter

aleksandra thank u sooo much. i dnt see any link and my pop ups are not blocked. i cant wait to b able to pm. ook. plz add unto my week two i dropped 4 pounds soo im at 252 currently. thank u soooo much. cuz this whole not being able to post on the page is gettin me real sad and demotivated. i look forward to posting but now i cant..uuugghhh that person who ruined the page was soooo selfishh!!!!!

I checked to see if the link I gave to mandalin was correct and it was, so it must be an issue with your browser. I'm honestly not sure why it's loading properly...it wouldn't make a difference if the link was public or not it's worked for everyone else =S. Perhaps try using a different internet browser? Which one are you using now?

[aka8941]

I'm not on the list. Hmm not sure why but my weight today is 197.5. My starting weight was 201.5

[kimmyskelter]

Riestrella im using google chrome. is there anyway someone can email the link to me then??