In Which I Join a Local Competition to See if It'll Help Me Lose Weight...
Interested in the Pound for Pound Challenge by The Biggest Loser or Oprah's New Plan? Check the highlights below.
Highlights
- Am I Crazy or What?
- Oprah: Have You Fallen Off The Wagon?
- Stay Informed With Oprah's Plan
- Your Best Life Now
- The Biggest Loser: 2009 New Season BIGGEST Ever
- The Biggest Loser's Challenge
- Join the Pound for Pound Challenge!
- The Biggest Loser Formula
- My Secret Weapons
- The Flat Belly Diet
- Belly Laughing is the Official Sport for Couch Potatoes
What Happens After The Competiton?
Note: This is where I was 6 months ago
Next week, the three month competition ends. It's been an incredible gift for me, motivating me to lose by competing with others.But all good things come to an end. Or do they? I don't have the answers yet, but I'd like to continue monitoring my weight loss on this lens. I've found some incredible tools that I think can help anyone. I'll continue to share these with any reader. Because my journey is not finished.
I started this journey 2 1/2 years ago. I didn't make much progress in the beginning. There was a death in the family which set me back, then my health deteriorated and I became borderline diabetic. Before the competition I had lost 15 pounds. During the competition I lost close to 30 pounds. With many more to go.
My challenge will be creating new challenges for myself to continue to take the pounds off. I hope to share them with you here.
Here We Go Again...
Hey, Even Oprah Fell Off The Wagon
I felt really foolish gaining back almost all of the weight I lost during the competition. But then Oprah confessed her own feelings and I felt a tiny bit better. Now, I want to find the lifestyle that will be sustainable for me every day, all year.I know what to do...why don't I do it?
I'm off to answer Bob Greene's five questions including: Why am I overweight? (He wants a deep answer on this one).
Am I Crazy or What?
Weekly Updates 1/07
I got a Wii Fit for Christmas. It seems kind of lame as a weight loss tool, but it does keep track and make exercises more fun. I just don't work up much of a sweat yet on it. Maybe, if I tried ALL of the exercises instead of just the fun balance ones. And it is a good reminder when I'm watching TV.
"Weight loss to date:
20 pounds: 5 from the Competition and 15 from before"
My Weekly Intentions
Get back on the wagon....Starting over.
My prediction:
Ener-G, at 8pm on September 28, 2008 predicts:
First Week: Get back to exercise and right diet.
Reader predictions:
Fetching predictions now... please stand by
sandyspider, at 2am on April 26, 2009 predicts:
I just wrote a lens to help me lose weight. Too bad it is so easy to gain weight. My goal is set at 20 pounds. Though I can go further.
ElizabethJeanAllen, at 10am on January 10, 2009 predicts:
I joined the Biggest Losers Contest at work. I'm going to take the prize!
Ener-G, at 10am on January 7, 2009 predicts:
My intention for the year: Lose 60 pounds
Ener-G, at 10am on January 7, 2009 predicts:
This month's goal...lose 6 pounds. Join the Oprah's show program. Exercise every day, get back to calorie counting.
Ener-G, at 11pm on December 27, 2008 predicts:
What a roller coaster fall. I've been in a lot of anxiety preelection, then denial and inertia post election. I want to be able to eat right and exercise as a way of life, not as a competition.
Fetching predictions now... please stand byOprah: Have You Fallen Off The Wagon?
Your Best Life Now
If Oprah can fall, I guess I don't feel so badly about gaining back most of my weight loss from the competition.
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- Oprah's Weight Loss Confession
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The Biggest Loser: 2009 New Season BIGGEST Ever
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Join the Pound for Pound Challenge!
Every pound lost is a pound of food donated by the Biggest Loser to Feed America
- Join the Biggest Loser Club
- Get motivated, feel like Jillian's right in your face.
- The Pound For Pound Challenge
- Join and pledge so that every pound you lose will benefit Feed America with 1 pound of food. They feature a scale on this link so you can see how much has been pledged. It's a lot already!
The Biggest Loser Formula
You might need a 3rd grader to help you with the math
- 1. Calculate your ideal heart rate. Needs to be at 80% for prolonged workout for metabolising fat.
2. Calculate your Body Mass Index. Figure out what percentage of fat you are.
3. Calculate your Basal Metabolic Rate. This is how many calories you burn in a normal day.
4. With the above information, you can figure out how much exercise to do in a week and how many calories to cut for your weekly goal in weight loss. The trick is to not put the body into starvation mode when it will quit losing weight.
Featured Secret Weapon: Exercising to Boost Metabolism
Andrew Weil has a great newletter on health. In one of them he mentioned a study on boosting metabolism by exercising 30 minutes, then resting 20 minutes (I do yoga stretches) and then exercising 30 more minutes. It has really boosted my fitness this past week.
My Secret Weapons
I've got a few disadvantages in this competition. My age (52), my hormones (menopausal), and my sex (men lose easier than women). Hopefully, my secret weapons will give me that edge I need.
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Belly Laughing is the Official Sport for Couch Potatoes
Great Diet Books
You: On A Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management
Dr. Oz explains the health dangers in a large belly.
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Flat Belly Diet!: A Flat Belly Is about Food & Attitude, Period (Not a Single Crunch Required)
The Prevention book on this diet that targets belly fat by eating chocolate! There's science to it, of course.
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The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health
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The Rice Diet Solution: The World-Famous Low-Sodium, Good-Carb, Detox Diet for Quick and Lasting Weight Loss
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The Biggest Loser Cookbook: More Than 125 Healthy, Delicious Recipes Adapted from NBC's Hit Show
When it's time to add some variety to that diet.
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Don't Just Tell Me...Show Me Your Support!
In many fund raisers, people pledge so much a mile for the runners/walkers/bikers that goes to the chosen organization. You can do the same to support me.
Pledge a certain dollars (or cents) for each pound I lose (the goal...110 pounds) and earmark it for a charity of your choice. I'll be giving to Heifer.org.
Together, we might raise thousands of dollars!
Be sure to leave me a note voicing your support and who you gifting to.
I'll be donating directly to Heifer...$2 for every pound lost.
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Posted April 26, 2009
ElizabethJeanAllen wrote...
Great lens. Losing weight has always been one of my New Year's Resolutions. This year I'm going to do it.
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Posted January 10, 2009
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You can do it, gia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted March 18, 2008
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