Gaming Trend's Forum Weight Loss Challenge

[naednek]

It's the new year, and it's time to get in shape.  If you're interested, starting Sunday Jan 6th please post your body weight.  Then the following Sunday report back with your results and new total.  Instead of creating a new post each week, edit your existing post, and add your results there, so it would be in diary form.

SpicyJ has volunteered his time and skills to create an online database for us to use to plug in your numbers.  Here is the link http://www.jxprime.net/Weighttracker/

Simply register with a user name and password, enter your weight goal.  Once you do that you can enter your weight in weekly.  However, as far as I know it doesn't track your weekly fluctuations, so you might want to also plug in your numbers here as well for a bigger picture.  We'll see if we can add that in.

Anyways, don't forget to weigh in tomorrow!

Please post in this thread if you need to leave a comment...  http://www.gamingtrend.com/forums/index.php/topic,24263.0.html

[naednek]

May 11th 2008

Starting Weight: 201.6
Last Week's Weight: 202.2.0


Today's Weight  204.0         

Weight Loss/Gain This Week 1.60     
Weight Loss/Gained To Date +2.40 

Goal Weight: 180

[EngineNo9]

Start: January 6th
Starting Weight: 298.2

Week 1: January 13th
Today's Weight: 299.4
Weight Loss/Gain This Week: +1.2
Weight Loss/Gained To Date: +1.2

Week 2: January 20th
Today's Weight: 297.4
Weight Loss/Gain This Week: -1.8
Weight Loss/Gained To Date: -0.6

Week 3: January 27th
Today's Weight: 294.2
Weight Loss/Gain This Week: -3.2
Weight Loss/Gained To Date: -4

[WinoMcCougarstein]

Gator's Spot or G-Spot for short:

Feb 3rd 2008

Starting Weight: 249
Last Week's Weight: 226.6

Weight Loss/Gain This Week:  -5.2
Weight Loss/Gained To Date:  -27.6

Today's Weight:  221.4
Goal Weight: 210

1st week recap(Jan 13):  -9.2lbs is a pretty good start!  How was it done?  1.5 hours of cardio on M,T,W,T,S,S and flag football on Friday.  Combined with eating a lot less and making healthy decisions I've been able to get some great results.  Also, I should say I weighed in at 280 in September so this is something I've been at for a few months now.  Everyone else keep up the good work!

2nd week recap(Jan 20):  -6.7lbs  Same workout plan except I skipped Saturday. 

3rd week recap(Jan 27):  -5.9lbs  Just sticking to the same plan.

[DarkEL]

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April 13th 2008

Starting Weight: 272
Last Week's Weight: 251

Today's Weight: 253

Weight Loss/Gain This Week: +2
Weight Loss/Gained To Date: -19

Goal Weight: 215 - 225

Depression hasn't been helping my weight loss....

[depward]

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January 27th 2008

Starting Weight: 199.5
Last Week's Weight: 194.0

Weight Loss/Gain This Week:  -1.9 lbs
Weight Loss/Gained To Date:  -7.4 lbs

Today's Weight 192.1

Goal Weight: 170

Time to end:  July 13 - wedding date and honeymoon thereafter

[ATB]

I'm starting now:

January 1st 2008

Starting Weight: 201

Weight Loss/Gain: ---

Ending Weight: 201

Height: 6'0
Current BMI: 27.3

Target weight by March 5: 185
Target weight by October Marathon: 170
Target weight by December 31 2008: 175

January 6:

I weigh 201 today. So no loss...but I haven't started to count calories...until today and I ran short distances this past week (and will for this week) to get my body used to the pounding again....  So the running plus the calorie count should result in some progress for next week.


Jan 13. 199. However, the synergy of calorie count and exercise is not quite yet to peak efficiency. This week should mark the beginning of the sweet spot in that regard...provided my left knee holds up.

Jan 20. 198. Wasn't as streamlined a week as I had hoped.  Any progress is progress though.

Jan 28. 198.  Unbelievable. 

February 3. 196.  This slow progress is really disheartening...

February 10. 193.8.  New scale that measures 1/10ths in the house.  Now I can obsess even more.  Don't know what the difference is, but I'm happy with a 2 lb loss.

February 17. 191.4- Was on pace for a 3 lb week this week, but had a late dinner Friday night and that threw the whole thing into chaos.  I even ran twice yesterday to try to get ahead of it, but no good.  <sigh>

February 24. 193.4 -   Had a very stressful week at work with long hours as we crunch on a major deadline (this wed) and I sought refuge in food.  I'm +2 lbs this week- but I'm pretty sure that it's all just stuff sitting in my guts.

March 2. 190.00- Glimpsed the 180's (189. twice this week but it wasn't meant to be.  I'm shocked at how long this is taking as I thought I would have no problem of hitting my March 5th goal of 185.  Looks like i'll be about 189 or so.

[ROTC1983]

January 1th 2008

Starting Weight: 172
BMI:  26.1
Last Week's Weight: N/A

Weight Loss/Gain This Week (12/30 - 12.5): 
Weight Loss/Gained To Date

Today's Weight171
Goal Weight: 162

[Laner]

January 15th 2008

Starting Weight: 217
Last Week's Weight: 217

Weight Loss/Gain This Week: 2.5
Weight Loss/Gained To Date: 0

Today's Weight: 214.5
Goal Weight: 190

[unbreakable]

January 6th 2008

Starting Weight: 275
Last Week's Weight: N/A

Weight Loss/Gain This Week
Weight Loss/Gained To Date

Today's Weight 275
Goal Weight: 225





BTW: someone mentioned it last year, but what was that website you can use to track your workout plan?

[warning]

Starting Weight: 242
Starting BMI: 28.0
Total miles run: 38.8
Current Weight: 237.6

[TheMissingLink]

January 13, 2008

Starting Weight: 209.6
Last Week's Weight: 210.3
This Week's Weight: 212.2

Weight Loss/Gain This Week: +2.2
Weight Loss/Gained To Date: +1.9

Goal Weight: 175 by summer

[Xmann]

January 6th 2008

Starting Weight

Weight Loss/Gain

Ending Weight

[wonderpug]

Week 7: February 24

Starting Weight: 146.9 lbs
Starting Fat: 27.2 lbs, 18.6%
Last Week's Weight: 142.1 lbs
Last Week's Fat: 24.4 lbs, 17.2%

Weight Loss/Gain This Week: -1.2 lbs
Fat Loss/Gain This Week: -0.6 lbs, -.3%
Weight Loss/Gained To Date: -6.0 lbs
Fat Loss/Gained To Date: -3.4 lbs, -1.7%

Today's Weight: 140.9 lbs
Today's Fat Weight: 23.8 lbs
Today's Fat %: 16.9%
Goal: <14% Fat

Feb 24:Well that feels good: this week puts me at 6 lbs total loss by just moderately watching my diet. I must must must get some exercising in this week, though.
Feb 17:And well, half undid the damage from the previous week. I'm happy I'm at least maintaining the initial weight loss, but man I need to get exercising.
Feb 10:Well, up again.  Had fairly good diet but no exercise the past week.  Once I get into a running schedule again I'm sure I'll be happier with the numbers.
Feb 3:Yay, lost what I gained last week and then some.  I'm trying to organize a way to run home ~5 miles from work three times a week, but I'm lacking in cold weather gear.
Jan 27:Odd, I put more effort in than last week but I gained weight.  Helps give extra incentive for the coming week, though.
Jan 20:I'm very excited to see good results today considering my only exercise this week was from working up a sweat on Rock Band drumming. I guess it must be what I ate. Hope to get back on track with the workouts today.
Jan 13:Dusted off Yourself! Fitness and got 3 cardio workouts in with Maya, with a little bit of strength training mixed in.  I miss having a gym; only have a 40 lb dumbbell set at home. Was good at eating somewhat healthily except for porking out way too much yesterday watching the playoffs.

Month 0: January Fitness Assessment
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 146.9 lbs
Body Fat Weight: 27.2 lbs
Body Fat %: 18.6 lbs
Blood Pressure: 125/83
Resting Heart Rate: 76bpm
Elevated Heart Rate: 126bpm

History
Date - Weight, Fat Weight, Fat %
January 6th - 146.9, 27.2, 18.6%
January 13th - 144.3, 25.8, 17.9%
January 20th - 142.5, 24.5, 17.2%
January 27th - 143.8, 25.3, 17.6%
February 3rd - 141.7, 24.2, 17.1%
February 10th - 142.6, 25, 17.5%
February 17th - 142.1, 24.4, 17.2%
February 24th - 140.9, 23.8, 16.9%

*Using an electric body fat scale, so body fat #s are just rough estimates.

[Larraque]

Week 0: January 6th, 2008

Starting Weight: ~300 pounds. (Need to double check this)

Goal Weight: 240 pounds.

[Turtle]

Height: 6'1"

Starting Weight: 207 (Jan 2, 2008)

Goal Weight: 180 or a much better lean to fatty mass ratio.

Primary exercises: daily push ups and sit ups, personal training from the university rec center, and Couch to 5k running program from coolrunning.com

[Purge]

Wierdo Stats:

Height: 5'10"
Starting Weight:              8 lbs,3oz    (mid seventies)
Maximum Weight:          365 lbs         (2001 - 2002)
lowest recent Weight:    252 lbs         (2006)

Log Entry	Weight	Weekly Change	Loss to Date	Comments/Excuses
Jan 02, 2008	277 lbs	- --	- --	Starting a bit early, not waiting for the Sunday Weigh-in.
Jan 13, 2008	267 lbs	- 10	- 10	Off to a good start; this is the easy stuff.
Jan 21, 2008	265 lbs	- 02	- 12	Chinese food and a Wedding didn't help me much.
Feb 1, 2008	261 lbs	- 04	- 16	Circuit training and brown-bag lunches FTW.
Mar 10, 2008	264 lbs	+ 03	- 13	Fell off the horse for a while; life got in the way of living well. That being said my workout partner and I switched to plyometrics; we've both seen weight gain and it may be due to workout out muscle groups that are generally underutilized.

[faide]

I really need something like this to keep me motivated!
This space reserved for Faide.

January 2 2008

Starting Weight: 237
Last Week's Weight: N/A

Weight Loss/Gain This Week
Weight Loss/Gained To Date

Today's Weight: 237
Goal Weight: 190

[Arkon]

March 2nd, 2008

Height 5'11"

Starting Weight:267
Last Weeks Weight: 245

Weight Loss/Gain This Week:-1
Weight Loss/Gain to Date:-23

Today's Weight:244
Goal Weight: 180

[SpicyJ]

FYI it will now show your difference from previous weight on the front page (I haven't added it to the "My Weights" page yet).

[DarkEL]

SpicyJ has volunteered his time and skills to create an online database for us to use to plug in your numbers.  Here is the link http://www.jxprime.net/Weighttracker/

Simply register with a user name and password, enter your weight goal.  Once you do that you can enter your weight in weekly.  However, as far as I know it doesn't track your weekly fluctuations, so you might want to also plug in your numbers here as well for a bigger picture.  We'll see if we can add that in.

Anyways, don't forget to weigh in tomorrow!

??????

So we're not supposed to use the forums now?

Seems like more of pain to now have to go to a whole other site and remember another username / password.

[SpicyJ]

I don't think it's meant to replace the forums...it's in addition to, and it's not required or anything. It's just a simple way to see all your weights in one place, combined with other people who choose to do it.

[SpicyJ]

Last fix, it should show the differences between weights on the "My Weights" page. Shoot me a PM if you want more functionality/find something that doesn't work.

[ROTC1983]

Thank you, I registered and made mine public

[spoonful]

January 6th 2008

Starting Weight: 209
Last Week's Weight: N/A

Weight Loss/Gain This Week
Weight Loss/Gained To Date

Today's Weight
Goal Weight: 160

[IkeVandergraaf]

I am doing my weigh-in on Tuesdays

Weight as of 8 Jan 08:  188 lbs.
Height:  5'7"

Target weight:  140
Target height:  9'3"

And why can't we have a commentary thread here?  I don't want to feel like I have to post on OO.

Weight as of 15 Jan 08:  186 lbs.
Height:  5'7"

Net gain/loss:  -2 lbs, 0 inches

For the record, my weigh-in protocol is in the morning before going to the gym, after pooping and having a glass of water.

Weight as of 22 Jan 08:  186 lbs.
Height:  5'7"

Net gain/loss:  -2 lbs, 0 inches

Weight as of 29 Jan 08:  185 lbs.
Height:  5'7"

Net gain/loss:  -3 lbs, 0 inches

Weight as of 05 Feb 08:  183 lbs.
Height:  5'7"

Net gain/loss:  -5 lbs, 0 inches

Weight as of 12 Feb 08:  182 lbs.
Height:  5'7"

Net gain/loss:  -6 lbs, 0 inches

[Knightshade Dragon]

Start Date: January 11, 2008
Starting Weight: 282

January 18, 2008
Weight Today: 280
Weight Loss/Gain This Week: -2
Weight Loss/Gained To Date: -2

January 25, 2008
Weight Today: 279
Weight Loss/Gain This Week: -1
Weight Loss/Gained To Date: -3

February 1, 2008
Weight Today: 280.8
Weight Loss/Gain This Week: +1.8
Weight Loss/Gained To Date: -1.2

February 8, 2008
Weight Today: 277
Weight Loss/Gain This Week: - 3.8
Weight Loss/Gained To Date: -5.0

Goal Weight: 200 by January 18th, 2009

To meet my objective I have:
Reduced portion sizes, added apples / oranges in between meals to curb hunger
Shifted my carbs to early in the morning
Gave up soda, coffee, beer, etc.  I drink Diet Green Tea and water.
Moved dinner to 4:00pm
Training in martial arts four nights a week
Added an hour long cardio class before martial arts class on Saturday
Began drafting a personal reward system for meeting certain weight goals
Made my success / failure public

[Arkon]

Time to weigh in all!

Lets see them pounds rolling off!

 

[JuniorDan]

Started January 21,2008
Starting Weight --247

Method--Kick boxing Classes M,T,W. 40 intense min.

Diet--Breakfast-POP Tarts or Danish & warm Tea
         Lunch----Slice Bread Sandwich (Ham, Turkey, Cheese)
         Dinner----Various Salads
 
Weight Today 2/6/08---(237)
weight lost since start--(-10)
Thats a lot of weight for 2 1\2 weeks....Is that healthy? I am going to see a doctor and get professional advice on this. 

[ATB]

Started January 21,2008
Starting Weight --247

Method--Kick boxing Classes M,T,W. 40 intense min.

Diet--Breakfast-POP Tarts or Danish & warm Tea
         Lunch----Slice Bread Sandwich (Ham, Turkey, Cheese)
         Dinner----Various Salads
 
Weight Today 2/6/08---(237)
weight lost since start--(-10)
Thats a lot of weight for 2 1\2 weeks....Is that healthy? I am going to see a doctor and get professional advice on this. 

Well, 5.0 lbs a week is a lot. But if you are obese (how tall are you?) then it's easier to lose weight more quickly without concern.

So I don't know that you need to consult a doctor. Rule of thumb is 2-3 lbs a week.  Then the plateau hits and it slows down.

[JuniorDan]

Started January 21,2008
Starting Weight --247

Method--Kick boxing Classes M,T,W. 40 intense min.

Diet--Breakfast-POP Tarts or Danish & warm Tea
         Lunch----Slice Bread Sandwich (Ham, Turkey, Cheese)
         Dinner----Various Salads
 
Weight Today 2/6/08---(237)
weight lost since start--(-10)
Thats a lot of weight for 2 1\2 weeks....Is that healthy? I am going to see a doctor and get professional advice on this. 

Well, 5.0 lbs a week is a lot. But if you are obese (how tall are you?) then it's easier to lose weight more quickly without concern.

So I don't know that you need to consult a doctor. Rule of thumb is 2-3 lbs a week.  Then the plateau hits and it slows down.

I am  6'1

[ATB]

Started January 21,2008
Starting Weight --247

Method--Kick boxing Classes M,T,W. 40 intense min.

Diet--Breakfast-POP Tarts or Danish & warm Tea
         Lunch----Slice Bread Sandwich (Ham, Turkey, Cheese)
         Dinner----Various Salads
 
Weight Today 2/6/08---(237)
weight lost since start--(-10)
Thats a lot of weight for 2 1\2 weeks....Is that healthy? I am going to see a doctor and get professional advice on this. 

Well, 5.0 lbs a week is a lot. But if you are obese (how tall are you?) then it's easier to lose weight more quickly without concern.

So I don't know that you need to consult a doctor. Rule of thumb is 2-3 lbs a week.  Then the plateau hits and it slows down.

I am  6'1

The unless you're uber muscular, I wouldn't worry about the rapid loss upfront as chances are you've cut out several 1000 calories a day...

[naednek]

Time to weigh in!

Please post in this thread if you need to leave a comment...  http://www.gamingtrend.com/forums/index.php/topic,24263.0.html