Posts by chaimberbell

2/8: Bah, I forgot about a snack, so this day was actually 341

2/9:  757

2/10: 1,210. Yeah, today was awesome. 

Total Feb Deficit: 3,491/17,500

2/6: 679 deficit for a total of 1,683/17,500

2/7: Today we celebrated my brother's engagement with a huge party and lots of food (it was a pot luck, combining Chinese and German cultures). I had no clue what I was eating half the time so I counted today as a free-counting day. But I don't want to mess up the long term results, so I'll make it -500? I suppose that makes my running total...

1,183/17,500

I'll be busting my butt this next couple weeks at the gym, so I should be able to catch up. This is fun!

Thanks, y'all :-). I did end up having a snack and I felt fine about it. I just kept it to around 100-150 so that even if I did underestimate, I still had a good deficit!

Just one of those situations where it's no big deal if it happens once or twice, but I could see somthing like this happening all the time with me since I tend to guess on my cals :-D.

I don't have the lack of sight problem, but I do have the lack of tape measure problem and I think my solution might help. I got a flat, thin belt and just put tape on where the end met the other side and called that my "starting point." All I did was for chest, waist, and hips because I can easily tell which is which since my hips will always be the biggest and my waist will always be the smallest. I'm sure scotch tape vs. boxing tape vs painter's tape would give a nice tactile difference, though, if necessary.

Doing this, I can tell I've lost somewhere near an inch off my chest and about half an inch on the other two. I can't really get more precise than that anyway since I can never tell if I'm pulling the belt as much as I was the first time I measured.

Hope that helps!

And yes, my weight has done that too so far, but I think part of it is my personal eating habits since I tend to be more motivated at random times during the month.

Cheers,

Tracy

Hey genius! Thanks for setting all this up! I picked up a new, more accurate scale (which has me at the same weight right now, btw) just to make sure I could see the exact number throughout the holidays! Body fat and water percent (?) and everything (35% body fat...quite the eye opener ^_^). 

Now, as a very competitive person, how exactly are we judging a winner? Percent weight loss? 

And one last thing, are we doing a weekly weigh-in (I might have missed where this was discussed...)?

THANKS!!! CHALLENGES ROCK!

That was a great idea! I went ahead and added those two things you added to mine and uploaded a new version of the spreadsheet (v1.1).  I'm doing a 7-day average and used the equation I found here for calories burned: http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/ harris-benedict-equation/

BTW, if you ever mess up the formatting again, you can go to the example log, copy everything you'd like to fix, then go to Paste Special... and paste formatting only on top of what got messy. I usually use the paste formatting thing for big sheets like this ^_^. 

Glad you liked it!

I'm a tea drinker, also. Usually I'm just looking for something to do since I grab a snack when I get home out of habit, so the act of making hot water, brewing the tea, adding my fake suger (and a touch of real sugar to fake myself out) and the cream makes it a snack that's no more than 50 cals (depending on how much sugar I put in) and lasts for nearly an hour since I'm a slow drinker. I do this at coffee shops too for studying.

And I love the grooming idea also! Nice! And my eyebrows really need plucked...

So I usually get Caesar salads at Chili's when I go there because I always imagine it being healthier than what I would otherwise eat. WHOAH! I looked it up and there are 1010 cals if you eat the whole thing (I never do but that's not the point ^_^). That Caesar dressing is LOADED, hah. Yay, CC for helping not down 1010 cals when I think I'm eating ~200.

It's still probably healthier than fries and a burger, but 1010 cals? I can think of many other things I'd rather eat for that much.

We went there tonight and I had half a turkey sandwich and a cup of soup. I guess it's all about portion sizes when you eat out. I was actually surprized at how fast I filled up. Drinking water or tea helps curb the appetite as well.