April 2012 "On Plan" Challenge - Daily Check In - Everyone is Welcome
Our main goal on this thread is to stay ON PLAN (or OP for short) whatever weight loss plan we're following. Everyone is welcome to join in (the more the better)! Let's all get April off to a great start and let's all have great results to report at the end of the month. WE CAN DO IT!!!
April 2012 Challenge:
1. Stay ON PLAN the entire month. Lets see if we can be OP with your eating for all 30 days. Be sure to come here to the board if you feel like you are going to go off-course and need some support!
2. Set a weight loss goal only if you feel comfortable doing so.
3. Set a goal of how many days you’d like to do some form of exercise every week.
4. Set a goal of how many days you’re going to VISIT THE THREAD and check in with us. The accountability is important and a great way to stay on track.
Anything else you’d like to track here for the month, please do so! Feel free to track your daily eating, daily exercising...anything you'd like! We are here for each other because we're all here for a common goal: to be healthy, fit and happy!!
Some of us have been struggling so let this be the month we turn it around and get back 100% on plan. I hope you all have a great month!
I am ready to get started this montlh. I had some good days in March but more bad days and I am ready to turn things around and have 30 good days this month. I am so ready to start losing weight again.
My goals for the month are:
1. Get back to eating right (mostly power foods)
2. Workout at least 4 days a week
3. NO BINGES
4. Attend a WW meeting each week
5. Avoid sugar
6. Journal each day
7. Track my weight daily for the month
This would be a good challenge for me, but I've never been on plan for a month ever. So I don't know. LOL. My weightloss is slowing so I need to find the motivation to stick with it even though it's hard.
I'll try!
- Eat between 1200-1400 calories a day and/or add 30% of my exercise calories when needed
- Do weights 3 days a week
- Do cardio 3 days a week (not counting bike to work)
- Do stretching-core every weekday (really simple 10minute routine)
philana - to the April challenge and congrats on your loss so far. I hope you have a great month. I know it will not be easy but I'm sure we both have the strength to stick to our plans this month. Stay strong! We are going to do it!
For the most part, I have found it easy to stick with my plan - if I make one. So I think this thread is the accountability I need to make the plan to stick to.
April - Make a daily plan for food - and stick to it!
Stay with exercise plan (M/W/F gym/weights; other days yoga)
April already. Wow, time flies! It's going to be a crazy month. I'm moving from Florida to Alaska in a week and a half. I'm going to have a lot going on with travel and living weird until my stuff arrives up there, so my main goal for this month is to simply maintain my weight.
I'm not going to try to set anymore goals for diet or exercise, it's just too overwhelming right now to think of trying to stick to a plan on top of everything else. I'm just going to do what I can when I can and hopefully survive the month and end it weighing somewhere between 185-180. =)
Welcome philana & dcapulet! This is a great thread, hope you stick with us.
I really, really need to make a plan and stay accountable. Not just for weight loss, though. I need to find a way to take iron, take t3 4 times a day and drink coffee. I've been trying to start on those for a while, but then I give up so I can go out and have coffee. How smart is that? Hopefully, this thread will help with that.
Also, Easter is in 2 weeks. As per usual, I'll go vegan the week before, which usually results in weight loss. But once Easter comes around... I do intend to try to stay OP, but I know I'm lying.
My goals:
1. Make a plan to fit in all the meds and stick with it.
2. Exercise 4 days a week and throw in some extra cardio if I can.
3. Figure out what kind of an eating plan I want and can follow.
4. Lose 5 lbs.
5. Switch to brown sugar in my coffee and start reducing it, too.
i've been reading about basal metabolic rates, and total daily energy expenditure, and reduced metabolism from too much of a caloric deficit, etc. enough to make one's head spin! the moral of the story is: eat more to weigh less.
that is my plan. i am going to eat 15% below my total daily energy expenditure (that means i should be eating AT LEAST 2000 calories a day, but if i keep up my exercise at the level i have been, i could eat up to 2600 calories a day!), and let the deficit come from my exercise alone, instead of trying to make my body compensate for the loss of fuel both via less food and more exercise. i have read a lot of success stories about this method.
if this doesn't work, april fools to me. IF IT DOES? hello plan for life. i'm tired of being hungry, tired, miserable, and bored with my food because it's bland. i miss cheese and peanut butter and nuts in more than just a teaser capacity, and i will welcome them back into my food plan with open arms.
i will probably see an initial gain, depending on how much i've messed up my metabolism from the cycle of overfeeding-underfeeding-overfeeding again but i'm willing to wait it out... at least my stomach will be happy in the process. i plan to try this for the next 4 months until we move to texas.
Hi everyone! Long time lurker, new member. I figured April Fool's was the perfect day to get back on track.
Here are my goals for the month:
1. Track and count points for everything I eat. I calculated the WW points values of just about every item in my kitchen this morning and have already planned out my meals and snacks for the rest of the week!
2. Lose 5 pounds this month.
3. Complete an average of 40 minutes of Turbo Jam per day, 25 out of 30 days this month, for a total of 1000 minutes. With five built-in rests, I won't feel guilty when I inevitably miss a day.
4. Visit this thread daily. I have used both WW and TJ in the past with great success, but let myself be discouraged by other things that were going on in my life. I need the accountability!
thisbe. Your goals are great goals for the month. I look forward to reading about your successes. I am also on the Weight Watchers plan and I have Turbo Jam. I may pop mine in the DVD player this month too.
Mandy - I hope you see great results from your new plan. I am definitely going to check out your link.
B: Special K Red Berries with 2% milk (3 pt)
L: Salmon burger with dill and garlic spinach (3 pt)
D: Cheesy tilapia with corn on the cob (7 pt)
S: Herr's sour cream and onion chips x2 (8 pt), large Granny Smith apple (2 pt)
TOTAL: 23/28 points
E: Ab Jam, 20 Minute Workout (40 min)
TOTAL: 40/1000 minutes for the month
My snack choices for today are terrible (potato chips and ice cream, really?) but: a) I'm finishing off the last of them and b) the portions are individually packaged so at least I couldn't go overboard without knowing it!
Last edited by thisbe; 04-02-2012 at 06:41 PM.
Reason: changed up the dinner menu a bit!
konfyoozed: I saw your thread earlier today and it actually made me decide to up my calories to what my BMR is too, JohnP gives good advice I think. For me that means eating atleast 1400 calories a day. Which is almost perfect anyhow. Goodluck and I hope it works for you. 2000 does sound high, is that just your 'bare' BMR number or did you add the lifestyle-calories to that? My bare BMR is 1390, but with my sedentary lifestyle it would be 1640. Hungry isn't good so I am glad you won't be that anymore. I've not been hungry at all during my weightloss. I've just been slowing down.
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My day was as planned, a rest from exercise and food:
- My mom surprised us wiht a big breakfast, I managed eating 2 slices of bread with some meat and cheese and an eggwhite. (390 calories)
- No lunch but some candy (185 calories)
- Taco's for dinner, less meat more beans, only 2 shells. (370 calories)
- Evening snack: slice of bread with peanutbutter (200cal)
- Candy (120 cal)
I've not officially decided I should quit the candy but obviously I should. I am annoyed at myself for constantly grabbing it. It is a waste of calories that I should use on nutritious food. So maybe that will be part of my april plan. No mindless candy snacking. This is from the candyjar that is in the livingroom that I just keep grabbing stuff from without really needing it. I will stop that and only have candy that I specifically buy for myself to have as a treat. (That barely ever happens. I am not such a big candy fan really. It's just this darn temptation)
my RMR is 2000. my TDEE is 3126, and my calorie goal (TDEE - 15%) is 2657.
from what i've read, eating (or netting) below RMR on a regular basis results in weight loss, yes, but is also partly why moving into maintenance is so difficult... it slowly eats away at your metabolism.
April 2012 "On Plan" Challenge - Daily Check In - Everyone is Welcome
to the April challenge and congrats on your loss so far. I hope you have a great month. I know it will not be easy but I'm sure we both have the strength to stick to our plans this month. Stay strong! We are going to do it!
i'm tired of being hungry, tired, miserable, and bored with my food because it's bland. i miss cheese and peanut butter and nuts in more than just a teaser capacity, and i will welcome them back into my food plan with open arms.
