Two Week Halloween Spirit Contest: Be There Or Be Square!!!!
THIS BE A'S TWO WEEKS TO HALLOWEEN POUNDS BUSTIN' CHALLENGE!!! WHO WILL JOIN ME (either after their seven-dayer, consecutively or dumpin' the seven-dayer). THE TOWEL BOYS WANT A TWO-WEEK COMPETITION TO SEE WHO HAS THE MOST HALLOWEEN WEIGHT BUSTIN' SPIRIT IN THE PALACE: So, the challenge is to declare a goal (weight, health or fitness) ... then every day for the next two weeks, endin' on October 30, said Towel Boys are askin' for a postie in sienna (or some such color) that refers to the Halloween spirit challenge re weight or fitness goals (this could include maintenance or even weight GAIN, if anyone wants to do that, for some weird reason, or just health and fitness ... which includes just about everything in life, actually) and tells what we were successful at that day in workin' towards that goal. Daily posts in the a.m. where we DECLARE what we will do, as well as weekly posts with goals stated are encouraged.
Everyone who posts even one successful day receives a virtual Halloween goodie bag (noncaloric)! The TBs have also invited everyone to vote at the end o' the challenge to see which showed the most AMAZIN' ly Halloween Weight Management/Health/Fitness or Other Spirit!!!
What is it someone said up above: "Let's Get Serious!!!"
Let's go out there and kick some Demonic Weight/Fitness Blah B*tt for Halloween (or other spiritually correct October holiday that floateth thy personal boateth)!!!
WHO IS WITH ME????
Yes?
Ok?
Please?
Last edited by Amarantha2; 10-16-2005 at 04:26 PM.
Ok, Amarantha, I'm with ya on this. My Two Week Plateau Bustin' Goal is 136.4 ... I will reach that weight on October 30. To do that I will (1) eat no more than a weekly average of 1650 calories, with the caveat that some days I will eat higher BUT in the SPIRIT of forgin' ahead, I will do all that I can to keep 'em down most days, and retaining the right to reconfigure this number next Sunday if it is not workable; (2) eat for the first week only, with the option to renew the pledge but not the obligation, NO refined sugar or white flour and generally also try to stick to low to medium glycemic eating, though not strict Sugar Busters; (3) exercise 5-7 days formally and try to be more active the rest of the time with the stated intention o' BUSTIN' THIS PLATEAU ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!
Further, Amarantha hath pledged to post a to any who declareth herself herein as an OFFICIAL HALLOWEEN SPIRIT TWO-WEEK CHALLENGER!!!
Ok, Amarantha, but what about all those SEVEN DAY PLATEAU BUSTIN' CHALLENGES THAT AREN'T OVER YET 'CAUSE THEY STARTED LATER IN THE WEEK?
No prob, Mysterious Questioner, 'cause it's all good and Amarantha be eagerly awaitin' the results o' all those challenges AND be thinkin' also that those who dinna want to do a TWO WEEK HALLOWEEN SPIRIT CHALLENGE, should at the end o' their SEVEN DAY THINGIE, JUST POST THEIR OWN TIME PERIOD ... so long as we're all kickin' Demonic Weight/Fitness Blah B*tt here together so there's no nasty surprises come Christmas time!!!
Even though my 7-day challenge ends Tuesday, I want in on the 2-week Sprint to Halloween. Honestly I've forgotten what my 7-day goal was ---I really should backtrack and check, that would be the honorable thing to do!
I'm declaring the goal of getting closer to my goal of 135 pounds. If I'm not there, I plan on being pretty darn close for Halloween! Also, I'll be working out every day for the next 2 weeks and I'll be posting my food journal with no slacking even if things get ugly [which they won't! ]. And I'll be trying out that calorie cycling plan that I'm so fascinated by. I'm thinking 1200 calories one day, then 1350 calories the next day, then a big 1500 calories day, then cycle back to the start. It may work, it may not. I may go mad from lack of calories and become a slavering beast, but this way I'll know for sure.
Iwent back and checked out my plan for the last 7-day challenge and discovered that I had no plan. Pretty sneaky.... Just a declaration to start whittling away at the 7 pounds I'd gained since July. When I started 7 days ago, my weight was 142, I'll weigh in Tuesday and let you know if any magically "melted away".
I hate that expression--I've never had anything 'melt away'!
Still here in Toronto, getting my fill of DH's relatives, mostly it's been pleasant but more interactive-intensive than I need. Looking forward to kicking back and getting some work done tomorrow at MIL's place.
Could have been a disasterous weekend, foodwise, because there were 3 gatherings with almost entirely high-fat, white-flour-based, high sugar foods. And little to nothing otherwise. Ugh. Last night i just made the best choices possible from what was offered and didn't eat much of anything.
Today I just ate a handful of chips because there was, at both parties, literally nothing to eat that wasn't full of white flour and/or sugar and I just needed something in my tummy. But forewent the pizza, chocolates, etc. Then came back to the hotel and had some roast chicken and salad. Should be easier to control what's available from here on in.
I'm in for the 2-week challenge, but taking it right to the 31st and overlapping with my current 7-dayer which I'll be WIing for on Wednesday. I think that gives me an extra day on my 7-dayer and one less on the 2-week, and it will more or less even out.
Lots of walking -- a couple of hours yesterday and Friday. Today DH and I walked down a trail we found close to the hotel that took us right down to Lake Ontario and the stunning Scarborough Bluffs. Beautiful, huge cliffs, multi-colored leaves. There was a wonderful, big sculpture down there too. Rugged and steepish path down to the water, strenuous going back up. So much nicer than my highwayside walking yesterday. Tomorrow I intend to go back down there and do some tai chi and back up again.
The weekend is over and there is still so much I wanted to do....hate having things hanging over my head. Ah well...can't do anything about it now, will just have to whittle away at them during the week.
I'm thinking my 7-day challenge ends tomorrow? Tuesday? Hmmm. Why is it such a bother to go back and look? I'll declare it tomorrow because I'm eager to start the new Two Weeks to Halloween challenge! Didn't do terribly this last week, but definitely room for improvement. Seem to have won the battle of whatever bug was trying to infest me, so this week I'll feel more up to exercise. I can't do daily morning posts, but I can do daily sometime posts, most likely evenings. Two weeks...I'm going for five pounds...might as well reach high if I'm going to reach! Dec 9 is approaching quickly.
No luck on the lamps at the Reuse Center yesterday. DH found a brand new ceramic butter dish, though, for $2.00. Excellent find, because I've been using a tupperware container to keep butter in, and this lovely domed butter dish looks MUCH nicer!
Also an excellent find on your pressure cooker, Kaylets!
Anagram, so glad to hear you've had a good rest and enjoyed your day!
Hooray, we've got a challenge!!!! GO QUEEN TEAM!!!!
Huzzah!!! A hearty Towel Boy kind o' to the TWO WEEK BE-THERE-OR-BE-SQUARE-GONNA-KICK-SOME-HALLOWEEN-DEMON-SOMETHIN'-ER-OTHER CHALLENGE, to Wildfire (tomorrow, and hey, the daily postie thing was just the Towel Boys blatherin' ... post when ya can, Wild Thing!), Arabella (sorry they fed ya white flour and sugar, don't ya just hate that, you did good), Eydie (great goal and you will do 'er 'cause ya always do and calorie cycling really helps, E, lookin' forward to the menu postin')
Kaylets, I'd love to have a pressure cooker. Thou inspireth me.
Aria, be thou out there?
Hallo to all s, mentioned or un ... let's have some fun!!!
Oh, forgot my own report: ON DAY ONE OF THE TWO-WEEK, ETC.: calories 1770 (high day in the calorie cycle), exercise minimal ... I logged 20 minutes of housecleanin' into Fitday, but needed to rest from formal exercise (rest is also good for the body and for weight loss), because it is a very long workday tomorrow I may not go to gym, I usually don't on the two long Mondays, we'll see. No sugar, no refined white flour. Over and out. Towel Boy Number One is around here somewhere ...
Last edited by Amarantha2; 10-16-2005 at 11:13 PM.
Reason: Drank more milk!
Don't know if this be late night or early morning post! Would like to say it's my enthusiasm for challenge that has me up but the dialysis machine alarmed at 3:20 and sleep again eludes me. Going to have to do better about all this.
Anyway, my 7 day challenge was sort of vague and while I wasn't GOOD, I at least was better and did finally come up with a toehold (walking plan). So I'm declaring that one done and embarking this morning on my renewed, refreshed, rarin' to go Halloween Happiness Hike. Not being strict with me - just improving diet, water, etc. I.E., I have one HUMONGO bag of frozen broccoli in the freezer - I declare it will be gone by the end of the challenge - I have been veggie impaired. Fruit impaired as well. DHs diet alone has been a challenge and I've been piecemealing around it. I hereby declare that I will now pay attention to the health needs of both of us, opposite directions though they be.
So, ok, that's a lot of back to basics. I've really only been ROTTEN the last four weeks and, with the help of my weight lifting (DH), have not gained a whole lot. Last weigh in still decent. But of course I think of how much better I could have been. Anyway, I'm in.
And I must confess I don't feel a bit bad about the PUMPKIN flavored ice cream I had yesterday. About a lot of other things I had but not that one. And I think that's how I'll get through this - if it's something REALLY SPECIAL that isn't always available, I may have it. Otherwise, it's eating not so much to lose weight (though that's always such a thrill) but to be in a healthier mode.
I woke up early, draped the bedside lamp with shirts to keep the light from disturbing DH and here I am -- Monday, Monday. The wireless connection is magically working again so I'll try to get some work done whilst the royal consort doth gently snortle away. We check out of hotel this morning and go to MIL's for tonight, so it will be good to have this little bonus of time to accomplish stuff.
Methinks I didn't articulate mine Halloween challenge. Weight-wise, it's in the penguin ticker (love to see that little guy make progress and think the ostritch with head in sand is a very appropriate starter No more of that!) Behavior-wise, I'm committing to:
mind/body: meditate daily, some m/b exercise daily
lotsa water
1 hr. aerobic exercise daily unless ill enough that I shouldn't (and do all in power to keep that from happening)
weights 3x weekly
at least 7 fruits and veggies, trying to stay mostly low GI
no wheat or other nasty white stuff -- possibly small amounts of 85% dark chocolate, which is good GI-wise and satisfies with a tiny piece. Truth told, it's likely much better for me and lower GI than the date treats I make myself.
One good thing that's happened to me since I started trying to cut out the sugar is that I really don't care for most commercial chocolate anymore, even Godiva too sweet for my taste. Can't think that's a bad thing.
Anagram, so sorry that the dialysis alarm woke you! That must be an awful way to come to consciousness! Are there any calming rituals that you could do when that happens? I don't think I'd be any more successful at sleeping again after that happened. I hope you'll be able to nap later or at least pamper your royal self somehow.
Wildfire, thinking of you since I'm in your neighborhood again. I wish we weren't so time-crunched. There hasn't been time to visit anyone other than DH's family. I guess that makes sense since the visit's really for MIL's b'day.
Amarantha, I think you're right -- rest, when that's what the bod needs, is very good for weight loss. Fatigue, I know is very, very bad for same as is feeling under the weather (at least in mine own experience and I've heard many others have the same experience). All in all, I think if we focus on our health our bodies will find us a good weight to be at.
Hmmmm.... I feel boring today, nattering on. Might as well go do some work. Love to all! Let's make this a good one!
And a hearty ... well, a double to our newest TWO-WEEK-HALLOWEEN-HIKE (stole that, thanks Anagramatic) challenger, Anagram!!!!! Huzzah!!! Thou be an inspiration, Ms. A ... hike away!!!
AND, congratulations to Anagramatic for the successful carryin' out o' the seven day challenge. You really are doin' well!!! Rock on!!
Arabella, methinks natterin' on be called for right now and I love it when though natters anyhoo ... methinks we need to sound the drum, natter and yell and voice our opposition to the IMPENDING ANNUAL HOLIDAY FITNESS/WEIGHT MANAGEMENT dilemma we be facin' so we'll all arrive (or stay) at our favorite weight and the year 2006 at the same time!!! And, I do think you are right ... take care of the bod's health and the weight will take care o' itself. There are many lovely weights to be at, IMO, the GOLDEN NUMBER, for me, is just somethin' to get me mind around, to give form to the quest. It is about health and feelin' good and we must never lose sight o' that ... and I AM takin' another rest day from exercise so I can feel like doin' the spinnin' tomorrow.
My mini-goal for today in the interest o' the TWO WEEK CHALLENGE is to cycle cals downward so that the WEEKLY AVERAGE (which appears in the calendar as I update Fitday PC during the day) drops to the 1600s. THIS IS DAY 2 of no refined sugar, flour, etc., THE NEW INITIATIVE. It's no prob ... did it for seven months straight and can do it forever if need be.
WooHoo! Great to see so much enthusiasm---we're going to do this thing together, my friends!
I'm not sure that I mentioned this---but it finally happend this past Friday. I had my first sugar in over a year. We were at my favorite restaurant and they brought us a compliementary dessert. They were so kind and earnest that I couldn't refuse it.
It was tiny anyway! It was simply a strong sweetened ginger tea in a saucer with a small quarter-sized piece of silken tofu floating in it and they sprinkled brown sugar on the tofu. And it was served warm so it was like a spicy custard-thing. It was really good and comforting---and it didn't trigger me to crave more sugar at all, so maybe I can lighten up here and there within reason. I'll not be ordering dessert or buying chocolates anytime soon though.
Two Week Halloween Spirit Contest: Be There Or Be Square!!!!
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---I really should backtrack and check, that would be the honorable thing to do!
]. And I'll be trying out that calorie cycling plan that I'm so fascinated by. I'm thinking 1200 calories one day, then 1350 calories the next day, then a big 1500 calories day, then cycle back to the start. It may work, it may not. I may go mad from lack of calories and become a slavering beast, but this way I'll know for sure.
Just a declaration to start whittling away at the 7 pounds I'd gained since July. When I started 7 days ago, my weight was 142, I'll weigh in Tuesday and let you know if any magically "melted away". 
Hello, Royal Ones!
Hooray, we've got a challenge!!!! GO QUEEN TEAM!!!!
No more of that!) Behavior-wise, I'm committing to:
too sweet for my taste. Can't think that's a bad thing. 
