Battle of the Blubber
A site where a group of friends who are trying to loose weight will post their progress. Hoping to get support and encouragement from their friends and family.
UPDATE:This is the main, summary, page. Each of us also has an individual page where we can post (or not) anything we wish about this project. Please visit them as well and leave comments there as well as here. Just click on our names or use the "The Amigos" drop-down at the top of the page. - Brandon
HEALTH HINT: Eating 5-6 small meals is better than eating a few larger meals.
The Goals
Amigo | Current Goal | by | Ultimate Goal |
---|---|---|---|
Bill | 199 | 4 May 2011 | 185 |
Brandon | 230 | 22 June 2011 | 210 |
Mike | 155 | 19 March 2011 | 150 |
Peter | 225 | ||
William | 190 | ||
Liz | 135 | 1 June 2011 | 130 |
The Chart — 2011
Green = Goal Achieved
2010 End | 213 | 313 | 162 | 264 | 237 | 141.5 |
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Date | Bill | Brandon | Mike | Peter | William | Liz |
Progress Summary |
- 7 | - 79.5 | - 3 | - 5 | -1 | - 8 |
15 June 2011 | ||||||
8 June 2011 | 206 | 233.5 | 133.5 | |||
1 June 2011 | 208 | 236.5 | 159 | 133.5 | ||
25 May 2011 | 237 | 159 | 258 | 134.5 | ||
18 May 2011 | 241 | 158 | 259 | 133.5 | ||
11 May 2011 | 246 | 161 | 257.5 | 134.5 | ||
04 May 2011 | 202.5 | 254 | 158 | 136 | ||
27 Apr 2011 | 203.5 | 259 | 160 | 260.5 | 139 | |
20 Apr 2011 | 202.5 | 259 | 161 | 258.5 | ||
13 Apr 2011 | 201 | 261 | 161 | 257 | 236 | |
6 Apr 2011 | 201 | 261 | 161 | 261 | ||
30 Mar 2011 | 202 | 262.5 | 163 | 236 | ||
23 Mar 2011 | 202 | 265 | 161 | 257.25 | 231.5 | |
16 Mar 2011 | 200.5 | 267.5 | 261.5 | |||
9 Mar 2011 | 202.5 | 274.5 | 163 | 259.25 | 234 | 139 |
2 Mar 2011 | 202 | 278.50 | 164 | 259.25 | 234 | 139.5 |
23 Feb 2011 | 204.5 | 286 | 164 | 264 | 237 | 142 |
16 Feb 2011 | 204.5 | 291 | 162.5 | 261 | 139 | |
09 Feb 2011 | 206.5 | 298 | 165 | 260 | 235 | 140.0 |
02 Feb 2011 | 206 | 310 | 165 | 234 | 142.0 | |
26 Jan 2011 | 206.5 | 315.5 | 164 | 259.75 | 232 | 143.5 |
19 Jan 2011 | 207.5 | 315.5 | 162.5 | 262.5 | 230.5 | 144.5 |
12 Jan 2011 | 209 | Out | 168 | Out | 233 | Out |
5 Jan 2011 | 209 | Out | Out | Out | 238.5 | Out |
Green = Goal Achieved
History
Bill | Brandon | Mike | Peter | William | Liz | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2010 Progress Summary |
+6.5 | +19 | -35 | +1 | +3 | -22.5 |
2010 Year End |
213 | 313 | 162 | 264 | 237 | 141.5 |
Past Charts — 2010
Comments
page revision: 219, last edited: 08 Jun 2011 14:18
I found these tips for the Holidays. I thought they were great tips!
Q. I’m attending an evening holiday party. How can I make sure I don’t overeat?
A. First, don’t arrive hungry. Have a good breakfast and a healthy lunch that day. Follow up with a smart, filling snack. Once you’re at the party, try the following tips:
Take small portions of your favorite foods, but only fill your plate once.
Try putting down your utensil between every bite. Eating slowly will give your body time to feel full.
Take tastes of everything on your plate, rather than eating one thing at a time. This will give you a chance to sample everything before you’re full.
Once you’re done, find something else to do besides eating, such as taking a walk, playing a board game, or having a conversation.
Also, don’t forget that alcohol has calories, too. Pace yourself and drink one glass of water for each glass of wine or beer.
Mike
Nice going Liz! What's been your secret?
Thanks! No secret. I've done this so many times that I have a set breakfast and a few different lunches with lots of vegetables and fruits involved. Then the rest of the day, I try to eat healthy and small. If I overeat, I try to stop eating until I feel hungry again. Oh, yeah, and get up every day and make a fresh commitment - no matter what I ate the day before!
Wow, nice job Brandon, didn't notice you going down 3 pounds this morning. Awesome!
Thanks, Mike. I have been very careful watching my food this last week.
Hello Gentlemen. I have a couple of items that I would like you to consider.
First is the Harvard Food Guide Pyramid. It might be a good idea for you to look at this and compare it to your current feeding habits. Then try to adust accordingly. And you should keep in mind that you can choose your favorite fruits and veggies to pump up your food choices. This leads to my second item.
And B, try this little strategy to change your feeding habits. Make sure that you eat twice as much fruit and/or veggies (try to emphasize the veggies) as any thing else you are eating. That would mean if you are going to eat a cheese burger and serving of fries, you would need to eat two or three handfuls of broccoli and a piece of fruit to balance it out (depending on the size of the burger and fries). But it would be better if you chose to eat half a cheese burger and a small serving of fries and one to two handfuls of broccoli and a piece of fruit. And in the hope of broadening your palate, try a new and different veggie or fruit every week. Hopefully over time you will have found several new items to eat to help reduce the boredom that might come from using the same veggie or fruit as a meal item over and over.
Again, you can stop being a slave to your old habits. Keep trying, keep trying, keep trying.
More in bit.
Just wanted to point out that Steven Colbert's segments on food are called Thought for Food as well… ;-)
Ok, guys it is time to take back some of your power over where you want to go. It needs to come from inside you. You make the ultimate choices and you can make good choices, you do it everyday. So now it is up to you.
Here are some tools to help you, but you have to use them when it counts.
Setting time- You should buy a kitchen timer (if you don't already have one). The kind that counts up and down and beeps on the count down cycle at the end. There are many helpful uses for these timers. For you, start with setting to count up and time how long you eat at each meal. Write down the time spent eating for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Then start setting on count down to give you 20 to25 percent less time to eat. When it beeps, you stop eating. It is up to you to make it work. It is your chance to be in control of you.
Record why - For your meals, put a small piece of paper next to your plate. Then write down why you are eating what is on your plate. Why you have the serving size that you do. Do you want it or need it. Can you decide when to stop. Why don't you take control and show yourself that you can.
For exercise, you can pull out a sheet of paper when it is time to go workout and write down why you are going. Why you feel good after you workout. Why you will be in a better place if you go. Why you make the decisions to get a good work out in.
Snacking - If you are a snacker, this can be the hardest of all. There can be only a small amount of the snacks you love available to you on any given day. A serving is a serving and you have to come to realize that for yourself. Then you have to come to grips with how often you are snacking. You would do best to write down that information also and take a good long look at the facts there. An apple is a snack, a banana, an orange. When you choose something from the snack aisle at the grocery store, read how many of that item constitutes a serving. Can you stick to that limit. If the answer is "no", then try to cut back on how often you buy it.
These are all things that you should get under your control. It is time that you seriously take back your power to choose. Some things can only be achieved from the inside. Take back your power.
So after this mornings workout it seems as though we are hitting the summer blues. Our lives are getting busy and we are past the new resolution phase of losing weight. :)
What can we do to get back on track with our weight loss goals?
Good question, I think the best thing to do is try to energize each other, don't push to hard but give encouragement and a little leading by example. Also less, shall we say "interesting" topics of discussion would help, maybe putting them off until cool down/showering.
Did something I don't normally do. I had some chedder cheese popcorn in the house. Instead of taking the bag to my desk, I measured out a serving onto a napkin and took that with me. Hopefully this will help curb my overeating of popcorn. :)
Someone just mentioned a weight watchers tip to me that I thought was really helpful. If the pounds aren't coming off as much as you'd like, change one thing this week and see if that makes a difference.
My one thing this week I'm going to try is no solids after 8:00 PM.
That has really worked for me. Not eating anything after 8pm has been a huge boon, especially because anything I eat after dinner is likely to be bad anyway.
I've tried it in the past and I keep slipping off the bandwagon. You are right that normally it's all bad. I just need to remember to eat early enough as sometimes I've slipped dinner after 8 in the past.
Being sick has some benefits! Still I hope you start feeling better soon.
No doubt. I had no idea I'd drop that much, especially because on Tuesday I was at 181. My guess is after this sickness I'll probably gain about 2-3 pounds back. I think 181 is around what I should be today. If that's the case, I want to throw out a challenge to all of you. I'm heading to Disney on May 29th. My goal is 175. If my real weight is around 181, that's 6 pounds in 5 weeks. Think all of you are up for it?
1 pound = 3500 calories burned. So 500 calories per day extra of a workout or food reduction.
I see that Mike is holding a steady course. Congratulation!
Bill, Brando, Peter, and William are you going to let him leave you in the dust? Take a long look at your food before you put it in your mouth. Start giving every bite some thought and decide who is in charge of your intake. Even if you only stop yourself one out of ten times in the beginning, it can lead to more self control in time. Spread out your intake over the day and eat small amounts over 5 or 6 meals. Just like your health hint at the top. Try to put two hours between these small meals and don't try to make up for missed meals later in the day.
It is nice to be able to put faces with names, not that I am sure that I have them all straight. Good meeting you all this last week.
You can all do this. Stay on it.
Martin