Posts by firststep84

Hey Guys,

 I hope all is going good with all of you.

I am sorry i have disappeared from the face of the earth but i have been crazy busy for the last two weeks since i was changing from one rotation to the other.

I have updated the worksheet that i have been lagging on, but should be good now:)

I miss all of you guys,

but tom. is a better day.

My progress is weak as you guys can see from the worksheet, but again, tom. is a better day.

Got to go now, but will catch up withyou guys later.

Mena

Dear all,

Sorry for the lag with the update but i have been very busy with everything going on in the hospital for the past week.

As of now so far i have updated the weights on everyone and their BMIs (Body Mass Index) and also i have added TINA and Shawn

Potato: i know that you guessed at your weight, but just as a reminder, i have kept your older starting weight and updated the new one, so congrats to you girl :)

So far you guys are in contact but we are not in contact enough, so lets try to work on that, lets try to make daily but if not every other day contact.

don't go cold on me now :)

I have been getting people to tell me their weight on private messages and here,

Whatever you prefer, but i think when you post here it gets the other team members moving and the thread up for other people from the forum to see it and congratulate you.

Now fact of the day:

We are all shooting for under 30 BMI
30+ is Obese 
25-29.9 overweight
18.5-24.9 normal range
below 18.5 underweight

So primary goal is:

Get under BMI of 30

Now congrats to Jan she was able to make it to the gym this weekend, i have been in contact with her on private messages and she seems very nice.
I would recommend adding her as well as every one in the team to your friends list so you can track them and get to know them better.

As far as me as you can see from the chart today in the morning i was up 1/2lb which is driving me nuts, but i guess it is water weight from over the weekend.

But hey i will flip it around.

So in the end my best regards to all and I hope all is fine.

Talk to you later.

Mena

Hey guys,

sorry for the late reply, but I came back  late from work and i had people visiting they just left

Today has been a good day, i weighed in and i was 1/2lb lighter
tom. i will try to start going to the YMCA that i have a membership in

I updated all the weights on the chart as they came in.
I addedj3nn and karrene and dabakene

But sadly we are closing the group as of now, no body else shall join, but of-course all can follow the progress and give their insight :)
dan and dakabene i don't have your weights
and j3nn i don't have your hight to calculate your BMI.

Karrene I have not seen this workout before but i heard about an HITT workout which is high intensity treadmill training where you go fast on the treadmil for 3 mins and slow for 3 mins, and that's for your body not adapt to the high speed and slow the burn of fat as a conservation method. but please share.

I would unlternate my weight training from muscle to muscle to give them a day to heal.

It is also medically proven that weight training burns more fat that cardio. thus i would also start weight training next to cardio even if it is light weight.

Happy first day guys,

Mena

Hotpotato it looks like you and a "private member" that contacted me on private messeges are the first in the team

I am on even if it&n bsp;is just us three
Tomorrow thursday we start the log
this is just a weight log that i will creat on google docs.
we are not in a competition but we are in support to each other

This is what I did l ast time and i lost  50lbs :

1. Water ( LOTTTTTS OF WATER), it takes water to lose water weight.

2. LOTS of veggies, fiber to keep you regular and complex carbs for energy

3. Avoid Fats as much as possible, ( take omega-3 oil pills)

4. Avoid simple carbs (sugar, white bread, etc.) and take in complex carbs (wheat, etc.)

5. Eat proteins, ( Chicken, lean meats, TUNA, etc..)

6. Reduce Salts, and you will lose all the water weight hanging around your body

7. Don't starve yourself or your body will break down muscles and keep the fat.

8. your calorie intake should not exceed this formula:



Your weight(lb) X 11 = calories per day to keep your weight as is ( for females)
Your weight(lb) X 15 = calories per day to keep your weight as is ( for males)


1 lb=3000 cals

So What you don't eat you burn for your body to get its needs
Co you cut a 750 calories from your diet and burn another 750cals on the treadmil, within two days you lose 1lb of fat.

Another good news, since you are in the begining you will lose pounds easily and then it will eventually get harder.

If you have any additional notes I would love to hear it.

it seems like we are  ;vetrans of the same club  but we just have to  stick with

Good luck potato and hope fully i will hear good&nb sp;news about the new bab y soon

:)