I can't believe it's October already. It is time to really kick it up a notch for me. I've been gaining and losing and regaining the same weight for the past month and I am tired of it. I gain 1.2 lb this week and I am not happy about it.

Any football fans here??

My husband is a Bears fan, and they don't get tons of play down where we live. So we go to the bar.

The beauty of this? There are two sports bars in our neighborhood. One has a low-cal chopped salad (once you remove the cheese and pasta). The other has a make your own salad bonanza, where you get to pick six veggies and a meat.

So I go to the bar willingly, lol

Hi everyone! Just posted my GAIN in the weigh in thread. I was really good all week, but TOM started today and there is just no budging my weight the week before TOM. It doesn't move at all, no matter how hard I try, and I tried hard! Oh well, can't do anything about hormones.
My goal for next week is to break even again, get back down to my low of 178.6 which would mean losing the 1.2 I gained this week. Do you guys ever feel like you have to lose triple the weight in the long run due to the fluctuations?
Thanks for the encouragement and kudos last week! I was thrilled.
I am in this until the end and hope to get good results by Christmas. I don't want to look back and wish I had tried harder this fall. It's now or never! We can do this! Bring on the mini challenges! I am trying to think of some ideas myself! Hope everyone has a great week, go girls!

Cardio Challenge
Beginners - 3 x 30 min cardio
Pros - 5 x 50 mins cardio
or pledge how much cardio you want to achieve this week.....

Inches Challenge
Measure yourself and post here, or on the bottom of your weigh in thread, and we can all check every few weeks how our bodies are changing shape.
Suggested measurements; waist, hips, upper arms, bust, thighs
but just measure whatever you'd like to

Make the Right Choice Challenge
See how many times this week you can beat temptation
It might be saying no to a cookie at work, a glass of wine in the evening, a lift when you'd planned to walk. WHATEVER! Whenever you make a good choice, eat the right thing, get up off the sofa and do something that you wouldn't normally, post here and let us know about it!

GOOD LUCK!

I'm pledging to do the beginners cardio challenge, and will post here each time I manage a session. I'll do my inches in the morning, and I REALLY want to make lots and lots of right choices this week, I'll keep you all posted!

I am planning on exercising more this week... I did yoga yesterday but starting tomorrow I will do more cardio!!!!

Just updated my stats. Only a little loss this week, but i'd better get used to it because i've done the easy stuff now, and it's on to the tricky-to-move weight for the future.

Good challenges! Not the cardio one for me though as i already do more than the pro cardio! This year so far i have averaged 46min per day proper cardio (doesn't include walking - just running or hard cycling or gym classes, so i'm happy about that and don't really want to increase it particularly.

The inches challenge is good.
I'm 35.5" bust
27" waist
33" stomach!
38" hips.
Any decrease is good - especially stomach and hips, but guess it'll take til xmas to see anything significant due to randomness of tape measure technique?? - never actually measured myself before!

And the good choices one is great for me this week as i'm away with the sales team all week, so i'm going to tell them i'm dieting and i'm not drinking alcohol and i'm watching what i'm eating which will be better than trying to pretend i'm eating normally!

Taking Control - how about posting a stats thread if we get any more interest in this challenge and then we can compare what we are now with what we are at christmas more easily?

I'm going to skip the inches challenge -- I promised myself not to get remeasured until goal.

But I will pledge myself to the cardio challenge -- does it have to be cardio, or does nonstatic weightlifting (like Body Pump) count?

'Right choices' from yesterday include:

having veggies instead of naan bread with curry
having smaller portion of curry than i would normally
no dessert
no crisps although i was hungry and husband was sat next to me devouring a packet!
soda water (with ice and a piece of lemon) instead of wine
smaller portions than normal at lunch and breakfast

oh, and a 3hr bike ride including carrying it over boulders and streams etc!

My good choice from yesterday:

Not eating my husband's birthday cake (Carvel football cake, his fave) ... 9 points per serving was just too much

37 - bust
31.5 - waist
38 - stomach
45 - hips

Operation *** and belly begins here!

Busy this morning now, will post results later

THE RESULTS ARE IN.......

This week's Biggest Loser is.......

2cutetobefat!!!!!!

Well done!!!

1 2cutetobefat -0.96
2 taking control -0.75
3 littlebluecat -0.61
4 Ange82much -0.5
5 kelly315 -0.46
6 toodles11 -0.36
7 shanhat82 0.1
8 Zogo 0.35
9 Jomatho 0.67
10 slimmer_down_now 0.71
11 Lop92 0.8
12 Ryler832 0.93
13 Carlaveg 1.3




Kelly315 15.2 6.20%
2cutetobefat 20 6.08%
Ange82much 7.4 5.44%
toodles11 7.6 4.39%
Zogo 7.2 3.99%
slimmer_down_now 9.5 3.25%
littlebluecat 5 2.99%
Jomatho 5.4 2.92%
Ryler832 3.4 2.63%
shanhat82 3 1.73%
Carlaveg 1.6 1.15%
Lop92 0.4 0.25%
takingcontrol -4.75 -2.45%


The first number is lbs lost and second number % weight lost, if it's not clear let me know and I'll have another go at posting it!

CONGRATS TO EVERYONE
still taking part in the challenge!
Let's see what amazing results we will see by Christmas I can't wait!

And yes, I am the only one to gain, ha ha ha ha! It's been a terrible holiday filled and exerciseless month and a bit for me, but hey ho, this challenge has kept be accountable, and I'm now on plan and ready to try and claw my way up the table, watch this space guys!!!!!

CarlaVeg Good luck with upping the exercise, how's it going so far?

Ange82much Good idea on the results thread, the weigh in thread is beginning to annoy me being so messy, but it's mainly my mess so I can't really complain!
Sounds like you've made some great choices so far this week, and all the exercise you do is clearly paying off looking at how much you've lost over the last 6 weeks!

Shanhat81 Of course you can have body pump as your exercise, the challenges are just there to motivate us, you can make up your own rules really! Well done re the birthday cake

OK, so, I've done my inches, and I've done my first 30 min cardio session, just my own made up interval training, felt so good to be hot and sweaty again after way too long off! I WILL stick at it! Made lots of good choices yesterday, chose a super healthy lunch and avoided the sweets being passed around class. I chose to do the stairs, to walk to the bus stop rather than get a lift, I chose not to snack after dinner and I chose to turn down my mums roast beef and yorkshires and had chicken and spinach instead. Today I've just chosen to stay on plan. Made some bad choices about playing around on teh internet rather than do uni work, but great food/exercise choices! Can't have it all!

Love seeing those results, thanks takingcontrol!

Congrats to tocutetobefat for this weeks climb to the top!

Good choices from yesterday:
1) opted for zucchini in place of pasta noodles that the rest of the family had.
2) Took the leftover brownies from DS birthday and wrapped them to throw in the freezer so they aren't staring me in the face. They won't bother me in there and the rest of the fam can have one when they want.

Working on the cardio challenge, pro style, oh yeah