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2011 Clydesdales/Athenas Biggest Loser Week 09 02/28 - 03/07 -- Come Join Us!

Please join us as we all work toward our goals to be healthier and fitter!

How Does this Work?

On Mondays:
Post your starting weight for the week, post goals for the week, and report on the prior week.

Throughout week come on back and let us know how you are doing. (The good, not so good and the awesome.)


2011 Participants - Welcome newbies!!!

Adenthang
B.Alive
bbeasley
biggieou
BigPolishJimmie
BigUgly
CraigB
cyclokitty
davin1023
DoubleTap
dehoff
gigemags1155
gus69
InsanityBeckons
jeneralist
Jethro56
John423
kansastdi
morph3715
mrdelprate
mthayer
OiS
Passage4
petflunky
ReallyBigGuy
robtown
RichardGlover
Rthomse
RunningPirate
Sayre Kulp
Seenowevil
Seve
showme230
SingleSpeedDemon
Suprafly
thestoutdog
Tony.N
Wogsterca
wxduff
Wylde0
zjrog

robtown

I almost got the title correct - Week 9

1/10 - 230.7
1/17 - 225.8
1/24 - 223.6
1/31 - 221.2
2/07 - 220.4
2/14 - 219.0
2/21 - 216.6
2/28 - 212.4

CraigB

All-time high: 304.5 in May, 2004

01/01 - 210.5
01/08 - 209.5
01/15 - 210.5
01/22 - 208.5
01/29 - 211.0
02/05 - 212.5
02/12 - 208.5
02/19 - 199.0
02/26 - 201.5

I guess this proves there was some weird post-flu thing going on with my body last week. But I'm OK with being at 201.5. I had bounced back to 203.5 mid-week, so I'm happy to have dropped from that point by Saturday. It still amounts to a net loss of 11 pounds over the past 3 weeks, which is way more than I'd been losing lately. But having tasted sub-200, I'm even more motivated to get back there.

The coming week will be a bit of a challenge. I'll be in northern WI for 4 days with some old high school buds, doing snowmobiling stuff, away from exercise and, no doubt, sensible food. My regular weigh-in would be during that time, too, so my next weighing will be 2 weeks out.

cyclokitty 

1-1-2011 290 lbs
2-28-2011 275 lbs
15 lb loss for the year so far!

Last week I increased my fitness each day from 30 minutes to 1hr. My fitness was mostly walking with some snow shovelling but I also joined a Couch to 5K program and that added extra walks on 3 days. The first day I speed walked around the indoor track for 2 km. The second day I managed to run 1/2 km in total from my 2 km of laps. But that earned me 2 large blisters on my heels because my @#$% running shoes are a bit loose on my heels and a nasty calf strain that took days to heal. The third day I walked around the track for 3 km but it was painful because of the muscle cramp.

This week I'm continuing with the 1hr of fitness a day, plus the Couch to 5K program, and adding strength training 3 times per week. I don't have a gym membership and the equipment at home is limited to a few hand weights, a yoga mat, and a balance ball so the strength training will be core exercises and those other contortions gym teachers love.

jleiwig

1-2-2011 Starting weight 394.4 lbs
2-27-2011 weight 354.0 lbs

Hoping to be under 350 lbs by my Sunday weigh in.

BigUgly

1/1/2011 - 250
1/6/2011 - 246
1/17/2011 - 250
1/24/2011 - 247
1/31/2011 - 244
2/07/2011 - 243
2/14/2011 - 240
2/21/2011 - 239
2/28/2011 - 236

Bought into the whole Livestrong MyPlate website. Logging calorie intake and activity level over the past week certainly seemed to help. I missed my end of Feb goal of 235 by a pound but I will take it. End of March goal is to get into the 220s. With the weather getting warmer the daily activity level will only increase.

antimike

02/07 = 290.4 Mileage = ~34
02/14 = 286.8
02/21 = 290.0 (OMG had a fantastic weekend with drinks and bad food...won't do that again)
02/28 = 282.0 (lot of hard work and made some drastic changes, almost no eating out (if I did then it was fish or chicken (not fried) put a few miles on the bike (not as many as I wanted) and did some resistance bands, crunches, skipping rope, run/walk, and most importantly..watched what I ate! PROUD WEEK)

Tony N.

01/217.4
02/214.6
03/214.6
04/211.2
05/210.4
06/207.4
07/207.4
08/200.6
09/203.4
I think week #8 must have been a fluke. Anyway, that's what the scale said and I weighed every day this week to watch it more closely. One thing that has affected my plans is I stopped taking my 20mg per day Lexapro a couple of weeks ago and the withdrawal has been bad. I decided to go cold turkey after googling the withdrawal symptons. Did I say bad? it has been very bad but I think I'm over the worst.

bbeasley

July 2010 252lbs
Starting the New Year, 2011, at 229
1/9/2011 227
1/16 231
1/24/2011 230
1/31/2011 224
2/6/2011 229
2/13/2011 228
2/21/2011 228
2/27/2011 224

mthayer

2-14-11 258.8
2-21-11 262.2
2-28-11 259.0

B.Alive

1/1/2011 279.4
2/14/2011 283.2
2/21/2011 277.9
2/28/2011 280.1

Water weight!

RunningPirate

11/29 = 236.0 lbs
12/06 = 229.5 lbs
12/13 = 229.0 lbs
12/20 = 228.5 lbs
12/27 = 232.0 lbs
01/03 = 228.5 lbs Mileage = 119.7
01/10 = 232.0 lbs Mileage = 58.63
01/17 = 226.5 lbs Mileage = 89.37
01/23 = 224.0 lbs Mileage = 57.96
01/31 = 224.0 lbs Mileage = 75.82
02/07 = 226.0 lbs Mileage = 69.31
02/14 = 224.5 lbs Mileage = 71.23, YTD Mileage = 542.02
02/21 = 223.5 lbs Mileage = 108.36, YTD Mileage = 650.38
02/28 = 220.0 lbs

Seve

01/05/2011 - 196 lbs.
01/12/2011 - 194 lbs.
01/19/2011 - 193 lbs.
01/24/2011 - 190 lbs.
01/31/2011 - 189 lbs.
02/07/2011 - 188 lbs.
02/16/2011 - 189 lbs.
02/21/2011 - 186 lbs.
02/28/2011 - 186 lbs.

My goals for the current week are:

5 hours of cardio exercise at my exercise hr.

Follow my meal / nutrition plan.

InsanityBeckons

1/3 217
1/10 217
1/17 217
1/24 214
1/30 217
2/07 215
2/14 214
2/21 213
2/28 213
We out of town with friends and ran a 5K, bad thing was the food was good. I ended up gaining 2 lbs.

RichardGlover

1/3/2011: 201.0
1/27/2011: 199.0
2/1/2011: 197.5
3/1/3011: 197.0

3 more lbs, then no doctor on the planet will ever say I need to lose weight again.

robtown

ARGH - I picked two of the pounds up that I lost last week overnight. In a fit of depression I just consumed a bag of cashews and a piece of chocolate. I was good this morning and put in my workout.

ARGH again - I picked up another 2 pounds! My only slip was eating the equivalent of 3 hershey kisses

jeneralist 

1/04/2011: 194.8
1/10/2011: 195.6
1/18/2011: 195.0
1/24/2011: 191.8
2/01/2011: 191.4
2/07/2011: 189.4
2/15/2011: 194.2
2/24/2011: 191.2
3/02/2011: 191.4

Feh.

biggieou

1/31= 327
2/2= 322
2/6= 314.5
2/13=308
2/20=302.5
2/27=304
Update: on 3/2 I weighed myself and I was down to 298!!!! Now this isn't my official weigh in day and I don't normally count mid-week weights, but I was really happy. I also weighed myself on two scales and one was 298 and the other 296, so I will just go with the higher of the two.

Lets hope the trend continues. I am really starting to see a difference. I even had a buddy at work today comment on how "thin" my face was looking. I haven't seen him in a few weeks so he said he could really tell.

zjrog

I decided I'm not weighing this week. Co-workers have mentioned my pants looked a bit loose, I checked and I'm down a size... And today, three people I haven't seen for a while all said (at different times) I was looking like I've lost weight...

19.5 pounds since Novemebr 11th...

kansastdi

3/2/11 - 358