January 2019 health challenge RESULTS

Thanks Amy. It is nice to have fresh ideas. Everyone get ready for Friday.

We will start Friday, March 1st. Fridays will be called Funday Friday. Friday will be our nutrition game day. Each day of the week will have a different theme. Ideally, we will all share ideas and those ideas will motivate each of us in ways we might not have thought of doing. Our sticky topic will be 'Health Challenge.' The days will have the following themes:
Menu Monday--what is on your menu? You can share just one meal or several. The idea is to think ahead and plan and perhaps we might want try one of those ideas that someone else does.
Tasty Tuesday: What is cooking? Share something you are making. You may even decide to share a recipe or link to something. Perhaps you are trying a new ingredient or using a fun kitchen gadget. The idea is to get us making healthy meals and share ideas.
Willpower Wednesday: Let's have will power today. Can we pass up an unhealthy treat? Can we decide to take a walk instead of nap? Celebrate that healthy choice today and let us know what you are doing.
Tip/Trick Thursday: This will be more of a nutrition/exercise information day. We will focus on one idea. There might be links to get more information or ideas on the topic.
Funday Friday: A nutritional related game
Substitution Saturday: Share a healthy substitution you made today.
Successful Sunday: Today we celebrate or successes. Tell us if you lost weight, clothes fit a better, you made some good choices, you met your exercise goal etc.

We can experiment with this plan in March and decide if we will continue it after the trial.

Amy is helping come up with something new for March. Stay tuned.

I have lost 6 this year. I did like this thread of accountability each week. It helped me stay focused on my weight loss goals. I wanted to be able to post a loss each week!

I have lost 4 so far this year. I think a thread separately like Meg is talking about in addition to the other Bev is talking about would be good.

I have lost 5.5 pounds this year, but haven't kept up with posting. I think we will go back to nutrition challenge and healthy eating threads.

Did any of us lose weight last year and keep it off? We have the monthly Goals and Resolutions (randomly without the S for some reason) threads but it doesn't seem like it's helping any of us with long term accountability.

I like the idea of a healthy eating board, but I also feel like even if it's not weekly, maybe we try a little more accountability with the weight side. We're doing State of the Stash, how about a State of the Scale?

I like Amy's idea.
We're on the road headed for STL.

It looks like lots of us didn't keep up. I guess I'm not doing well and that is the reason for not keeping up. I do plan to do better very soon. I might like more of a nutrition thread. Perhaps food/spice of week with info and input on how others use the item. Perhaps some links or recipes to try. Maybe even some of the spark recipes. Basically, a healthy eating thread (all sugary, fatty etc. items/recipe links banned!). Purely positive and healthy eating tips and ideas.

I didn't do well keeping up with this one. I think I prefer the old method. Anyone else?

I flunked and fell off the wagon. But I'm rezooming. Carol

Sorry I didn't see this sooner. It sounds like a good challenge. You are all doing well.

Jan 6th, beginning weight is: 243
My exercise plan is: OTF 4x/week
My weight loss goal is: 10 lbs

Progress:
Jan 13th weight is: 239.4
Jan 20th weight is: 237.6
Jan 27th weight is: 236.2
Feb 3rd weight is: 232.8

Exercise goal met:
Jan 13th: Orange Theory 5x this week. So yes!
Jan 20th: Orange Theory 4X this week.
Jan 27th: Orange Theory 5x this week.
Feb 3rd: Orange Theory 5x this week.

Edited by: DOG_MOM at: 2/2/2019 (08:12)

Jan 6th, beginning weight is: 168
My exercise plan is: walk/hike and/or weights 30 minutes daily
My weight loss goal is: 10 pounds

Progress:
Jan 20th weight is:166
Jan 27th weight is:
Feb 3rd weight is:

Exercise goal met:
Jan 20th:
Jan 27th:
Feb 3rd:


Edited by: GCHUNG at: 1/20/2019 (09:49)

Jan 6th, beginning weight is: 237
My exercise plan is: walking , strengthening exercise to help with knee replacement
My weight loss goal is: 30 lbs

Progress:
Jan 13th weight is: 236
Jan 20th weight is: 237.8
Jan 27th weight is:
Feb 3rd weight is:

Exercise goal met:
Jan 13th: - met my except not enough water
Jan 20th: didn't get all my exercise done this week
Jan 27th:
Feb 3rd:


Edited by: FABGRAMMA at: 1/21/2019 (11:11)

Jan 6th, beginning weight is: 185
My exercise plan is: walking and yoga
My weight loss goal is: 5 lbs or as much as possible

Progress:
Jan 13th weight is: 182.8
Jan 20th weight is:
Jan 27th weight is:
Feb 3rd weight is:

Exercise goal met:
Jan 13th: 4 15 min walks
Jan 20th:
Jan 27th:
Feb 3rd:

Edited by: 4DOGNIGHT at: 1/13/2019 (11:31)

Jan 6th, beginning weight is: 243
My exercise plan is: OTF 4x/week
My weight loss goal is: 10 lbs

Progress:
Jan 13th weight is: 239.4
Jan 20th weight is:
Jan 27th weight is:
Feb 3rd weight is:

Exercise goal met:
Jan 13th: Orange Theory 5x this week. So yes!
Jan 20th:
Jan 27th:
Feb 3rd:

Edited by: DOG_MOM at: 1/12/2019 (11:01)

Jan 6th, beginning weight is: 208
My exercise plan is: haven't decided yet.
My weight loss goal is: - 4 lbs.

Progress:
Jan 13th weight is: 207.4
Jan 20th weight is: 207.2
Jan 27th weight is: 206.8
Feb 3rd weight is:

Exercise goal met:
Jan 13th:
Jan 20th:
Jan 27th:
Feb 3rd:


Edited by: QUILTYENGINEER at: 1/27/2019 (17:15)

Jan 6th, beginning weight is: 0 lost
My exercise plan is: 55K steps/week
My weight loss goal is: -4 pounds

Progress:
Jan 13th weight is: 0 lost and 0 gained! Stressful week.
Jan 20th weight is: -0.6 another busy stressful week
Jan 27th weight is:
Feb 3rd weight is:

Exercise goal met:
Jan 13th: yes and it was exceeded
Jan 20th: no, but close--very busy lots of urgent stuff to deal with
Jan 27th:
Feb 3rd:

Edited by: WISAMY at: 1/20/2019 (10:29)

Jan 6th, beginning weight is: 266
My exercise plan is: M-W-F Prime Strength Training workouts; Walking
My weight loss goal is: 8 lbs

Progress:
Jan 13th weight is: 263.6
Jan 20th weight is: 265.4
Jan 27th weight is: 261.2
Feb 3rd weight is: 259.6
Lost 6.4 lbs I am still happy about this because I got below the 260 "barrier"!

Exercise goal met:
Jan 13th:
Jan 20th: missed Fridays strength workout
Jan 27th:
Feb 3rd:


Edited by: SEWINGMAMACDS at: 2/3/2019 (21:01)

Jan 6th, beginning weight is: 226.4
My exercise plan is: 15 minutes a day
My weight loss goal is: 5 pounds

Progress:
Jan 13th weight is: 225.8
Jan 20th weight is: 227 (I upped my water-could this have caused an increase?)
Jan 27th weight is:
Feb 3rd weight is:

Exercise goal met:
Jan 13th: Not met
Jan 20th: Not met
Jan 27th:
Feb 3rd:

Edited by: JULIEJO39 at: 1/20/2019 (09:25)

Jan 6th, beginning weight is:
My exercise plan is:
My weight loss goal is:

Progress:
Jan 13th weight is:
Jan 20th weight is:
Jan 27th weight is:
Feb 3rd weight is:

Exercise goal met:
Jan 13th:
Jan 20th:
Jan 27th:
Feb 3rd:

Jan 6th, beginning weight is: 185
My exercise plan is: Jazzercise & walk--at least 3x a week
My weight loss goal is: 7#

Progress:
Jan 13th weight is: 185.6 --up .6 ACK
Jan 20th weight is: 185.6 - same as last week. Just won't move!
Jan 27th weight is: 183.6 - down 2
Feb 3rd weight is: 182.4 - down 1.2 Total 2.8 loss

Exercise goal met:
Jan 13th: Yes
Jan 20th: Over and above! YES
Jan 27th: Yes
Feb 3rd: yes



Edited by: LJK091354 at: 2/5/2019 (07:33)

Jan 6th, beginning weight is: 185
My exercise plan is: walk/hike and/or weights 30 minutes daily
My weight loss goal is: 10 pounds

Progress:
Jan 13th weight is: 183.5
Jan 20th weight is: 182.5
Jan 27th weight is: 182
Feb 3rd weight is:

Exercise goal met:
Jan 13th: YES!
Jan 20th: Yes
Jan 27th: Yes
Feb 3rd:




Edited by: BEVPRESLEY at: 1/31/2019 (23:29)

We will be trying something different, at least for January. Instead of a nutrition challenge, we will have a health challenge. To make things easier, we will start on Sunday, and run through Saturday for 4 weeks and see how it goes. On this thread we will keep our weekly results. There will be a challenge discussion thread for encouragement and discussion. Our exercise goal for each week will be to each exercise 200 minutes (that is less than 30 minutes per day). Choose your own exercise plan, it can be walk, run, bike, weights, jump rope, whatever suits you. The second part is to lose weight (set your own goal for that, but it should go down each week). Please copy and paste this chart as a reply to this thread, and edit your response to update (don't make a new post) and that will keep your results together.

Jan 6th, beginning weight is:
My exercise plan is:
My weight loss goal is:

Progress:
Jan 13th weight is:
Jan 20th weight is:
Jan 27th weight is:
Feb 3rd weight is:

Exercise goal met:
Jan 13th:
Jan 20th:
Jan 27th:
Feb 3rd: