September Weight Loss Challenge

_Crazy_Mary_

Open to anybody who would like to lose a few pounds. It always helps if you know somebody else trying to get in shape!
Here's how it'll work:
On September 1st, post your starting weight and your goal weight for the month. Then on the 8th, 15th, 22nd & 29th come back and post your current weight for those dates. If you can't post on those dates, no worries, post as close as you can.


I don't know what I weigh right now, but I have gained a few pounds this month and I'd like to lose 6 lbs. in September. I also want to get back into working out, I've been a complete slacker the month of August.

sennin

I'd like to stay the same weight....or wouldn't mind gaining a little....but I want to be 50% more "fit".

How do I measure that?

markymark550

my weight: too much

my goal: lose some

RolandTD20Kdrummer

The 29th of this month is officially one year for me of regular weight training with a clean diet.

I've decided to put on a good 20 lbs of muscle this year. Next summer I'll have ample ammunition to cut up again with.

it's for life now.

drivingrl

_Crazy_Mary_ wrote:

I don't know what I weigh right now, but I have gained a few pounds this month and I'd like to lose 6 lbs. in September. I also want to get back into working out, I've been a complete slacker the month of August.

Me, too. I moved at the beginning of this month, so I haven't found a gym yet. There is one within walking distance, and September is my month to rawk back into shape!

vedderfan10

_Crazy_Mary_ wrote:

Open to anybody who would like to lose a few pounds. It always helps if you know somebody else trying to get in shape!
Here's how it'll work:
On September 1st, post your starting weight and your goal weight for the month. Then on the 8th, 15th, 22nd & 29th come back and post your current weight for those dates. If you can't post on those dates, no worries, post as close as you can..

I'm up to the challenge...gotta lose a crapload of tonnage for my Dec trip to Hawai'i...like 60 pounds by Christmas...is that even possible? I gotta start walking everyday at work...and maybe some yogging, too.... Can't post on Sept 1 as I will be whooping it up in Seattle!! Yay...will post when I get back.. Cheers, everyone -- and good luck!

Anon

I'm ready to do this too, but I'm gonna have to lie about my starting weight.

covered in bliss

Public accountability is a great motivator yet I'm not comfortable posting stats at a Pearl Jam forum.

If anyone is interested, please join this new group!

http://www.peertrainer.com/TeamDetails.aspx?GroupID=36677

drtyfrnk29

I'm in. I have the whole month of September with no obligations and I'm running and jumping on the bike all month. Every morning.

brainofPJ

i'll post now...

210 lbs now

by end of sept would like to be at 200...

and then keep going

thunderDAN

sennin wrote:

I'd like to stay the same weight....or wouldn't mind gaining a little....but I want to be 50% more "fit".

How do I measure that?

I'm in the same boat. I'm 6'0 and got myself up to about 185 when I was lifting and running 5 times a week. Now since I stopped I've lost 30 pounds and look like a twig. I eat all the time too. It's the most backwards, f'd up thing I've ever seen.

Steve Dunne

I think I need detox more than weight loss, but count me in. I'm sure the detox will help with the weight loss. First day back at the gym was yesterday, but I need a bit of a head start vs. all you youngsters out there.

Hitch-Hiker

I've been on college work experience in an office for the past 6 months. In that 6 months I have gained half a stone. I plan to be fit, and mildly ripped again for haloween. I finish here in 3 weeks then I'm back to college. Let the games begin!
Actually let the games begin after this weekend because I'm going to a festival and there's no way I can stay healthy at that (unless I get in some tent sex).

By the way, I'm 11.5 stone now. Wanna get back to 11. I'll allow myself to be slightly over if it's muscle instead of fat.

Anon

Hitch-Hiker wrote:

I've been on college work experience in an office for the past 6 months. In that 6 months I have gained half a stone. I plan to be fit, and mildly ripped again for haloween. I finish here in 3 weeks then I'm back to college. Let the games begin!
Actually let the games begin after this weekend because I'm going to a festival and there's no way I can stay healthy at that (unless I get in some tent sex).

By the way, I'm 11.5 stone now. Wanna get back to 11. I'll allow myself to be slightly over if it's muscle instead of fat.

How does a stone equate to a pound?

Hitch-Hiker

Dollpartz wrote:

How does a stone equate to a pound?

I have no idea. It weighs a lot more though.
I'm leaving work right now, but I'll look it up when I get home.

Hitch-Hiker

1 stone = 14lbs.

Anon

Hitch-Hiker wrote:

1 stone = 14lbs.

put me down for 1.5 stones then

rrivers

Vedderfan10 wrote:

I'm up to the challenge...gotta lose a crapload of tonnage for my Dec trip to Hawai'i...like 60 pounds by Christmas...is that even possible? I gotta start walking everyday at work...and maybe some yogging, too.... Can't post on Sept 1 as I will be whooping it up in Seattle!! Yay...will post when I get back.. Cheers, everyone -- and good luck!

I have a friend who joined Weight Watchers at either the end of July or beginning of August. He has lost 26 pounds as of Sat. His wife lost 11.

Vedderfan10, if you are a guy, I would say you definitely can do it!

mookie9999

Speaking of Stones I was watching something on the BBC the other day and Gordon Ramsay was saying that if he doesn't watch himself he could gain a stone in 7 or 8 days! That's a lot of eating!

momofglynn

The day after the Police at Fenway I decided was the beginning of a new program for me, I needed a change. I needed to do somethng about my weight. A friend of mine had attempted a program in the past but never could get past the first 9 days. I told her that I would do it with her to help with the motivation. So I started as on 7/30/07. I have not stepped on a scale yet but I have lost one pant size so far and my mid section is getting smaller and smaller every day. For those of you who that watch TV, the program is the same one as the celebrity fit club.

Phase 1=9 days
2 cups brown rice
4 egg whites
1 cup oatmeal
2 cups skim milk
unlimited fruits
unlimited veggies-however no white potatoes and no avacados:-(
beans (red, black, pinto, garbonzo etc)
1 cup of herbal tea
unlimited water but not flavored
NO coffee, soda or caffiene
NO Alcohol
NO Meat
No fast, fried food
No bread
try to do some sort of activity for 30 minutes a day.

I thought to myself there is no way I could do this without coffee. I am a stay at home mom full time and I work full time at night, until midnight. Seriously, somedays I pull a 21-22 hour day, multiple days in a row. But the 5th day, finally no more headaches, I no longer had all the mid day crashes, I broke my caffiene addiction!!! I also thought to myself there was no way I could find 30 minutes to exerise daily. You have so much energy just everything in your day becomes additional activity. You're doing that extra load of laundry, you're walking faster to the mailbox, your dancing more with your kids. By the 9th day I am starting to see a change in my body. I was impressed. I could feel muscle building to where there was fat before.

I decided to do an extra week of the first phase since the girl I was doing this with had a few rough days and I wanted to show her that I was committed to do this together.

But after the 9 days, you can move into Phase 2, which goes for 3 weeks.
now you can eat meat but don't eat the same meat twice in the same day. It has to be lean, so chicken no skin or bones, turkey skinless, boneless, 90% or 93% hamburger or ground sirlion, you get the idea....
still no fried foods of course
You can now add 1 10 oz cup of caffienated beverage
up to 2 cans of diet soda
you can back off on the 2 cups of brown rice to every other day if you want
still unlimited fruit and veggies.
In addition to the 4 egg whites you can add 1 whole egg
Still no white potatoes, no bread, still no alcohol.

I am still within the 2nd phase because I wanted to stay with her and honestly I love all the fruits and veggies, I never really missed eating meat. I feel great. I can not tell you how much energy I have. Phase 3 you can have alcohol! I do look forward to enjoying a beer soon! I love beer. But weight loss and being healthy is more important to me. I have 2 little kids that I just can't keep up with with all this extra on my frame.

So I will make Sept 1st my official weigh in day. If anyone wants more info on the diet I'm doing let me know and I forward the info that I have on it.

Anon

momofglynn wrote:

The day after the Police at Fenway I decided was the beginning of a new program for me, I needed a change. I needed to do somethng about my weight. A friend of mine had attempted a program in the past but never could get past the first 9 days. I told her that I would do it with her to help with the motivation. So I started as on 7/30/07. I have not stepped on a scale yet but I have lost one pant size so far and my mid section is getting smaller and smaller every day. For those of you who that watch TV, the program is the same one as the celebrity fit club.

Phase 1=9 days
2 cups brown rice
4 egg whites
1 cup oatmeal
2 cups skim milk
unlimited fruits
unlimited veggies-however no white potatoes and no avacados:-(
beans (red, black, pinto, garbonzo etc)
1 cup of herbal tea
unlimited water but not flavored
NO coffee, soda or caffiene
NO Alcohol
NO Meat
No fast, fried food
No bread
try to do some sort of activity for 30 minutes a day.

I thought to myself there is no way I could do this without coffee. I am a stay at home mom full time and I work full time at night, until midnight. Seriously, somedays I pull a 21-22 hour day, multiple days in a row. But the 5th day, finally no more headaches, I no longer had all the mid day crashes, I broke my caffiene addiction!!! I also thought to myself there was no way I could find 30 minutes to exerise daily. You have so much energy just everything in your day becomes additional activity. You're doing that extra load of laundry, you're walking faster to the mailbox, your dancing more with your kids. By the 9th day I am starting to see a change in my body. I was impressed. I could feel muscle building to where there was fat before.

I decided to do an extra week of the first phase since the girl I was doing this with had a few rough days and I wanted to show her that I was committed to do this together.

But after the 9 days, you can move into Phase 2, which goes for 3 weeks.
now you can eat meat but don't eat the same meat twice in the same day. It has to be lean, so chicken no skin or bones, turkey skinless, boneless, 90% or 93% hamburger or ground sirlion, you get the idea....
still no fried foods of course
You can now add 1 10 oz cup of caffienated beverage
up to 2 cans of diet soda
you can back off on the 2 cups of brown rice to every other day if you want
still unlimited fruit and veggies.
In addition to the 4 egg whites you can add 1 whole egg
Still no white potatoes, no bread, still no alcohol.

I am still within the 2nd phase because I wanted to stay with her and honestly I love all the fruits and veggies, I never really missed eating meat. I feel great. I can not tell you how much energy I have. Phase 3 you can have alcohol! I do look forward to enjoying a beer soon! I love beer. But weight loss and being healthy is more important to me. I have 2 little kids that I just can't keep up with with all this extra on my frame.

So I will make Sept 1st my official weigh in day. If anyone wants more info on the diet I'm doing let me know and I forward the info that I have on it.

The Fat Smash Diet....I bought the book, but I keep thinking I'll never make it thru those first 9 days without coffee. Thanks for posting, I think I might give it a shot since you seem so happy with your results!