I loss .6 pounds this week, which is better than gaining. I am getting tired of dieting and have been waiting to eat more…The challenge is coming to an end, with only a few more weeks left. Last week I joined a gym, which might have been a mistake, I have only been therer once so far. I am going to try to hold the membership and see if I can get myself to go there, I usually prefer to stay home and do exercise with my kids.
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This was a great week for my weight, I lost 2.4 pounds! I am happy with my this, but know I need to do this again next week. Basically I loss what I gained over the past several weeks.
I am at 2.43% weight loss since I began this challenge, if I can get 9 more pounds I will be extremely happy and then will just work on maintain that weight for a bit. I am trying to set realistic goals, I have to be able to achieve them and then after I achieve it I work on the next goal.
My team is currently at 6.20%, right in the middle of the other two teams. The top team is at 8.64% and the bottom team 5.59%. My partner is doing great, I need to do better these next couple weeks and we can win this.
MyFitnessPal – Nutrition Facts For Foods
1.2 pounds!
That is what I gained this week, I am not happy, this weight in cost me $2.00. I don’t have a lot to say about it this week, the numbers speak for themselves.
MyFitnessPal – Nutrition Facts For Foods
I gained again this week, 0.4 pounds.
I knew I didn’t do good this week and I can blame it on anything and everything. But, the fact of the matter is that I gained and I need to be loosing. I would be super happy if I could get under 200 by the end of this challenge in June. I am currently at 210, so this is an achievable goal to just under 200.
My Fitbit broke this past Saturday while I holding my dog for the vet, during the time I apparently bumped the table and broke it. First off, a Fitbit is a small super pedometer in my opinion, it wirelessly transmits data from the small device to my computer and then I can monitor my activity through their web site. I am able to tell how many steps I traveled as well as the number of floors I climbed and the intensity of effort that I put in. This information combined with my personal information (weight, age, height) is used to determine how many calories I burned.
I started the week using that as an “excuse” to overeat this week and that is what it was an excuse. Also, I emailed the Fitbit and told them what happened to my Fitbit and they replaced it for me. I am amazed that they needed, I was hoping to buy a refurbished one and didn’t expect to have it replaced. This company is amazing, the fact that they replaced the Fitbit for me shows they really care about their customers and I am now a customer for life.
MyFitnessPal – Nutrition Facts For Foods
This week was not a good weight it, I gained 0.08 of a pound from last week. Below are a few of the charts that I pulled from MyFitnessPal that I will talk about in this post.
My goal is to stay at 1,500 calories a day, which from looking at the chart I went over on 3 days. Also we can see that on 2 days I was under that which is not good. I need to make sure that I am maintaining a healthy caloric intake for my weight loss to work.
Every weekend my steps go up and I usually try to get 10,000 steps on each day off. I need to increase my steps on weekdays and also add a regular exercise routine to my schedule.
I can see that my carbs increased as I left stoped attempting to “Do Atkins”, maybe this wasn’t the right idea, not sure on that. Another factor is that I do like to have a beer on weekends. I stay with low calorie beer and only have a couple.
I think keeping my carbs under control does a lot, I will see how I do this week and will increase my calorie burn.
I am happy with my weigh in, I am loosing weight still and sticking to my diet and logging everything I eat in MyFitnessPal.com. I have decided not to continue with Atkins, it is just not working for me, couting calories is something. As you can see my weight is dropping, but I still have a way to go before I reach my goal.
It’s amazing how many calories are in different foods, sometimes it just surprises me. I am hold off on one thing to have another. My daily calorie goal is 1,520 per day, this goes very easy. The more vegetables and lean meat make it easier to achieve, keeping the carbs low helps also. I pass on the bread so I can have more meat or a light beer.
This week I will be introducing more walking into my routine, I am going to start using the treadmill again and would like to also start doing some kettlebell works a few times a week. I would like to jog on the treadmill, but I wll see how that goes. My goal for this week is to put activity in my daily routine.
I am at 2.43% and my team is at 4.10% this week, we progressing well. Everyone has lost wait again this week so noone is adding more to the “pot”.
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Today is the second weight in for our Weight Loss Challenge, I weighed myself at home this morning to see how my scale compares to the “official” scale at work. I have been logging my food and rotating between Aktins and just low calorie. The first phase of Atkins has a limit of 20 net carbs per day, it’s is harder than I thought, net carbs are calculated by subtracting fiber from carbs which gives you the net carbs.
I am making sure that I always have a calorie deficit which I now will make me loss weight and also measuring my activity with my FitBit. I am not doing any extra exercise, yet.
Mid week I switched to MyFitnessPal.com for logging my food, I felt this site was more intuitive and the iPad app is awesome! MyFitnessPal also links to FitBit so my steps are passed automatically from FitBit to MyFitnessPal. I am able to adjust my goals such as the amount of daily calories and carbs as well as my goal weight, plus several others.
So, my offical weigh in went good, I am 1.31% down, my team is at 3.26% with this weigh in. This weigh in had everyone’s initial weight loss and we will see how everything continues.
I made a steak salad for dinner and am enjoying a Bud Light Lime tonight, I will be adding some more exercie into my daily activity next.
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Well, last week someone from work approached me about joining a weight loss challenge. We would be competing in teams, and the team with the highest percentage of weight loss wins.
This is a great idea to help motivate and stay committed to my diet, Atkins is moving along very good. The hardest part of Atkins for me is not know that something has carbs or is high in carbs. This has messed me up several times, but I am also watching my caloric intake and I am always under what I burn.
So, back to the challenge, we had our first weight in last Friday, I am at 214lb for a 5’6 man. I have a good way to go to get to a good healthy weight (170 is my goal)., the challenge run until June 1st and I am determined to win. An extra motivation was agreed upon this week by all members, we will be penalized $1 per pound gain from the last weigh in, this plus the $10 entry fee will make the pot grow bigger. The winning team splits the winning and also has bragging rights of the most weight lost. But, more importantly we all lost some weight hopefully.
I am looking forward to the weigh in tomorrow and expect to have lost weight, I have checked my weight in at home to verify but have been watching what I eat strictly all week.
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I have been having trouble with our food budget lately and haven’t posted anything for a few weeks. But, as I stated before I am trying to make some changes and eating healthy and loosing weight is a large part of my healthy lifestyle. So, I have been researching both the DASH and the Atkins diets, I have decided to use “do Atkins” and begin this last Friday.
I have talked to several people who have used Atkins to loose weight and liked it. I don’t think I will do this long term, I plan on switching to the DASH diet after I achieve a milestone or two.
My starting weight was 213 and my goal weight is 170, so I have 43 pounds to shave away. But, I don’t just want to loose this weight, I want to move myself to a healthy lifestyle. What this means to me is eating right, a well balanced meal and portion control. I also want to add exercise into my life, regular exercise that I an use to maintain a healthy weight ans be healthy.
The reasons I choose the Atkins diet to start is I would like to see sme quick results and counting carbs and being able to eat meat just works for me. I don’t feel that I would like to live a low carb life, I would prefer to have a more balance diet.
I have placed both pyriamids on this post and they are linked to their respective sources. Looking at the two pyramids there are major differences, I will just post my personal feelings and opinions. Watch my results which I hope are good,that comes down to me committing to the diet and following through on the suggested guidelines.
I also use a Fitbit, for monitoring my steps through the day and will be posting more on that in a later post.
I will be documenting my progress here and will be returning to Project: Food Budget shortly. belong to this project provides some great ideas for meals and a wonderful supprt network of individuals. Please look at the other blogs participating in Project: Food Budget,you will find some wonderful posts.
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I started this year intent on getting myself into better shape, just like last year. Last year I lost the weight only to gain it right back. This year I am working on a complete lifestyle change, I will be working on first losing the weight but also toning myself. My goal is to do this through the year and help be a better model for my children in this area. I will do calorie counting like I did last year, that seems to be the best thing for me.
I also will be walking, you have to eat healthy and exercise to maintain a healthy lifestyle. I purchased a sophisticated pedometer, the Fitbit that tracks all of my activity. I clip it to my pocket every morning and go about my day. I really like the Fitbit a lot, the battery lasts several days even though typically I connect it to the USB charger at night. I can review how my day is going and strive for specific goals. The Fitbit is able to track the amount of floors I walk as well, I have been using the steps at work for nearly 3 months now. It keeps track of the number of steps I walk as well as the intensity of the movement.
The Fitbit has a corresponding web application that the data is synced to, on the web app you can view how you are doing to monitor your progress.
The number of steps that I have been walking are displayed in a bar graph over the past 30 days, it also shows the time I didn’t where my Fitbit. You can set and modify goals, I changed my to a daily goal of 5,000 steps. I have been very impressed with using the Fitbit and feel it is well worth the investment. I have been logging my food into the Fitbit site as well as watching the data that is collected so I can have a complete picture.
The chart above shows my calories burned in comparison to my calories consumed. Weight losses requires a caloric deficit, which I am achieving so far this month. I will be posting more about my challenges of achieving a healthy lifestyle in future posts.
