April Calorie Deficit Challenge - Newcomers always welcome!

We all know that in order to lose weight you need to have a calorie deficit.  This challenge is about that deficit! 

You can sign up anytime by posting in this thread and indicating which group you want to be in.

We'll start counting on 4/1/09.

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How it works
To start with, you choose a goal deficit for the month.  Then each day you keep track of your calorie intake and calorie output, then compute your calorie deficit.  You post in here (daily, weekly, whenever) your running deficit for the month in the form of: deficit to-date / goal deficit.  Be sure to post a new post every time you post - do not edit previous posts or I will not see it!  Also, be sure you keep track of your on-going total - I won't be doing the math for you! 

For example
Let's say I want to lose five pounds this month.  So, I sign up for the 17,500 Challenger group.  On day 1 my calorie output is 2000 and my intake is 1500.  That makes my day 1 deficit 500, so I post: 500/17,500.  On day 2, my calorie output is 1800 and my intake is 1500, making my deficit 300.  So, I add my day 2 deficit onto my day 1 deficit, and post:  800/17,500.  On day 3, I didn't do so well and took in 2000 calories and burned 1800 calories.  So, on day 3 I subtract the calories I took in over maintainence and I post my total montly deficit as 600/17,500.   For more examples check out the March Calorie Deficit Challege found here.

Questions?
Ask!

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CHALLENGERS*
10,500 (3 pounds) challengers
     alle0299 - 4227
     brivb10 - 1773
     droppinlbs - 12152
     rylindis - 700

14,000 (4 pounds) challengers
     augenblick - 406
     figurethefat - 7209
     future214 -  6000
     kacka - 8980
     v_avila - 100

17,500 (5 pounds) challengers
     cbussiere - 11376
     faithhopelove76 - 4648
     nellebelle1 - 4379
     nodame - 3010
     r4eboxer
     redhead27 - 1368
     wesmoot - 12680

21,000 (6 pounds) challengers
     betzc - 11209
     eat4health - 17170  
     healthmd - 6699
     jnielsen006 - 12350
     kkfrench - 17185
     lemntwist - 6798
     musicalfishmich - 5614
     ntack2 - 7546
     smartypants_57 - 1720
     tigerlilyncsu - 12052

24,500 (7 pounds) challengers
     annulyju - 11783
     girlfighting27 - 8004
     luleelu - 21758
     lilygirl1970 - 16775
     sereniticat - 27160

28,000 (8 pounds) challengers
     acomley11 - 28318
     anastase - 19936
     bell62 - 13526
     bking1969 - 1797
     buttercup98
     courtneymarie2689 - 4068
     diva_n_da_making - 13897
     ericaly - 18400
     edspillane - 5500
     gbpfan4life - 26121
     inacio68 - 1965
     jesselou
     lvanryss - 18385
     neozanne -  7299
     sarahshe - 16270
     shapeshifter - 10700
     smartasu
     tealparadise - 11450
     terikopplin - 17819
     turning50 - 4800

*REMINDER:  Be sure to post your running total for the month, using your
  last posted total not the posted total.  Otherwise you'd risk missing some 
 calories in your total!

April 2-   1,239

Total:2,800/24,500

April 2: 900

Total: 1,801/24,500

Today 482

845/14000

Peace

Day 2

379

Total

1100/17,500

April 2 - 1800/28000

1120/12000

2083/28,000

april 2 def: 403

total: 1304/17500

Apr 2: 1,800/ 28,000

April 2 - 552

827/14000

 1627

April 2nd: 3246/28,000

143 / 10500

Original Post by eknutsen:

How do you find your deficit for the day before?  Like if I wanted to know what mine was on 3/31?  So far, I can only find it on the day itself...

As far as I know, you can't.  You could probably make an educated guess though (using your burn today and editting it as needed to match your activity yesterday).

886/24,500

Original Post by healthmd:

Here we go, 802/21000.

Hey alle, by the looks of your new pic, you own a new house! Yoohoo! Big congratulations!!!!

Yes we do!  Thank you :)  If I'm tardy with responses it's because I'm distracted by all the projects.

990/14000

Original Post by annulyju:

813/17,500  pretty good start

Just to clarify, do you want to be in the 17500 group or the 24500 group (per post #39)?   I left you in the 24500 for now assuming the 17500 was just habit from last month :)

day 2 deficit = 1350

Total: 2431/21,000

I want to join.  Sounds like fun..want to do the 28,000 challenge.

3400/28,000