Christmas Miracle Challenge!

Hey there yall..

I am looking for some people to get into a serious challenge mode!!!  To loose a goal weight by Christmas! It will be the best present you can give to yourself!

Ladies and Gentlemen, we are all in this together.

Here's how you start....

Name
Current Weight
Scale stepper or Judge by clothing
Amount of weight you wish to lose
How often do you want to weight-in?

Goal by Christmas?
What do you do to workout? Eat right? Tips or advice

ALSO I want you to make weekly challenges and put them in here and then report back once a week with your results and any new news!!

This is going to be mine every week:

10 miles on my bike

700 crunches

300 minutes of cardio and weights

 Is that good enough? I don't know I guess after my first week I'll find out!! lol.  We will start on Monday after we get some people interested!!

Start September 20th
End December 25th

We can do this. Challenge yourself to move weekly. This will be awesome and we can loose the weight by Christmas!!

~Jackie

Original Post by ranchobernardo:

Ijust found this thread and would like to join in...

Name: John
Current Weight: 165.0#
Scale stepper or Judge by clothing
Amount of weight you wish to lose: 5.0#
How often do you want to weight-in? Daily, but I'll post here once or twice a week.

Goal by Christmas? 160.0#

What do you do to workout? Weight lifting 3 times most weeks.  Hiking, walking, jogging, or running 5 or more miles 6 times most weeks.  Eat right? I journal all my food.  Make sure I burn at least 250 more calories a day than I take in most days, get at least 80 grams of protein and at most 55 grams of fat (at most 15 grams saturated fat) most days.

ALSO I want you to make weekly challenges My challenge this week is 7 hours of cardio exercise.

I've been working on this for 13 months and have lost 85.0# with just 5.0# more to go to reach my goal.  My actual goal date is December 1 which is 70 days away.  That's just 0.5# a week, so I know it can be done and I am really already beginning the transition to maintenance.

Wow John...such amazing achievements so far! Serious respect for you! I'm sure you'll do really well on this challenge - good luck with meeting your goal!

Original Post by mynameismonkey:

Original Post by ranchobernardo:

Ijust found this thread and would like to join in...

Name: John
Current Weight: 165.0#
Scale stepper or Judge by clothing
Amount of weight you wish to lose: 5.0#
How often do you want to weight-in? Daily, but I'll post here once or twice a week.

Goal by Christmas? 160.0#

What do you do to workout? Weight lifting 3 times most weeks.  Hiking, walking, jogging, or running 5 or more miles 6 times most weeks.  Eat right? I journal all my food.  Make sure I burn at least 250 more calories a day than I take in most days, get at least 80 grams of protein and at most 55 grams of fat (at most 15 grams saturated fat) most days.

ALSO I want you to make weekly challenges My challenge this week is 7 hours of cardio exercise.

I've been working on this for 13 months and have lost 85.0# with just 5.0# more to go to reach my goal.  My actual goal date is December 1 which is 70 days away.  That's just 0.5# a week, so I know it can be done and I am really already beginning the transition to maintenance.

Wow John...such amazing achievements so far! Serious respect for you! I'm sure you'll do really well on this challenge - good luck with meeting your goal!

I agree! Great Job John! I wish you the best in your weighloss goals!

Jessica :)

Hey I'd love to join! I have been struggling with the last pounds for my goal and this challenge would be great to keep me more fosused.

Name: Monica
Current Weight: 155 lbs
Scale stepper: more often than it's healthy. 
Amount of weight you wish to lose: 5lbs
How often do you want to weight-in:almost daily but like John I'll post 1-2 times a week probably Monday and Friday

Goal by Christmas: 150 lbs
What do you do to workout: Running 3-4 times a week, Strength training 4x a week, some cross-training on off running days.

Eat right: I try my best, I login calories daily and try to keep cals around 1800.

Tips or advice: No eating after dinner, if you're hungry drink ice cold water and munch on the ice chips.

Challenge this week: stick to my running schedule even, specially, when I just want to play dead on the couch. Training for Nike+ Human race 10K on 10/24.

Original Post by healthmd:

Hey I'd love to join! I have been struggling with the last pounds for my goal and this challenge would be great to keep me more fosused.

Name: Monica
Current Weight: 155 lbs
Scale stepper: more often than it's healthy. 
Amount of weight you wish to lose: 5lbs
How often do you want to weight-in:almost daily but like John I'll post 1-2 times a week probably Monday and Friday

Goal by Christmas: 150 lbs
What do you do to workout: Running 3-4 times a week, Strength training 4x a week, some cross-training on off running days.

Eat right: I try my best, I login calories daily and try to keep cals around 1800.

Tips or advice: No eating after dinner, if you're hungry drink ice cold water and munch on the ice chips.

Challenge this week: stick to my running schedule even, specially, when I just want to play dead on the couch. Training for Nike+ Human race 10K on 10/24.

Monica, I think you are practically my twin! As far as goals are concerned: I am 150, want to lose about 5 lbs, my workouts are about the same, I'm compulsive about the scale and I'm training for a 10k on 10/25. Woo! Your pictures are amazing and your story is so inspiring.

I decided to put away the scale for about a month because it was making me crazy, so I won't be weighing in as often as everyone else. I'm going to keep track of my measurements and go by how my pants fit for now.

Who has seen some results so far??

Christmas Miracle Challenge!

Name: Gela

Start Weight (Sept. 20): 170

Goal Weight (by Christmas Day): 150

Last Week's Goals: accomplished!

This Week's Goals: Focus on diet. All the yoga and exercise in the world isn't going to help me if I overeat. Try to have discipline at night when my hunger kicks in. My goal by next Friday is to weigh 167.2.

September 20: 170

September 25: 168.8

This week went pretty well. I had one day that I lost control of my diet, and I ended up undoing all the hard work I had done that wekk, but I seem to have lost the weight again, so I'm pretty happy about that. I started doing yoga and it seems to be working well for me even though I don't even feel like I'm doing anything. Like I said, I really just need to focus on my diet.

Well good luck everybody! I hope everyone is having as much success as I am! Yay!

~*~Gela~*~

My challenge this week was 7 hours of cardio exercise.

I did 728 minutes which is over 12 hours.

My challenge for this next week is 21 servings of fruits and vegetables.

Helloooo fellow Christmas Challengers! I believe it is weigh in day today? Monday? Anyway,  Crazy week for me. I had been "plateauing" for two weeks in the sense that I hadn't lost and then...

Challenge Starting weight: 148.5lbs

Current weight: 145.8lbs

Challenge Goal weight: 138.0lbs

Guess who's a happy bunny today :D

Hi All,

So good so far.

Challenge start weight: 170

Current weight: 167.4 

This week's loss: 1.6 lbs

Challenge goal weight: 155

Good luck everybody!

So weigh in day!

Challenge Starting weight: 209 lbs

Current weight: 207 lbs

Challenge Goal weight: 188 lbs (down 21 lbs)

Weekly challenges: 300 minutes cardio - I did 480 minutes; 3x week weight training - I did 2x :( 

I was aiming for 1.5 lbs lost a week and managed 2 lbs - yeah! Especially after one week of no loss and one week of only 1 lb.  Very happy.

Ok, so today is WI day and I can say I have a GAIN!  I really have not been on the wagon lately, but I am ready to go today.  I saw some pics of me before I lost 50lbs and that really motivated me to loose the last 50 lbs.  So I am ready for a great week.

Start Weight: 196

Todays Weght : 200

Goal for next Monday: 195 (I know most of my gain is water weight, so maybe I can loose at least one real pound).

I also want to get in 4-5 days Cardio and 3 days strength this week. 

Congrats to all of you who lost this week.

I had a couple of really good eating days and then my mom came to visit and we ate like mad. I'm not that stressed out about it, though.

Still don't have a scale so I can't weigh in!

Original Post by gimpy03:

If you ladies dont mind id like to join. Christmas is my first real target date that i set for myself when i started eating healthy and losing weight. so here are my stats

Name: Marek aka Gimpy
Current Weight: 274.5
Scale stepper or Judge by clothing: scale
Amount of weight you wish to lose: 25. want to be at 250 by that time.
How often do you want to weight-in? I usually do three times a week but my main one that i focus on how i did for the week is Saturday Mornings.

Goal by Christmas?

To look good in a nice shirt and tie for my mom.

My goals for sept 19-25. I've been following the exercise plan that is on this site since i started being healthy. I guess its to accomplish all the workouts that i have listed there. And for the cardio that week lets try 3 sessions on the treadmill of atleast 30min.

 Well Last week i managed to achieve my set goals except that i missed out on one of my scheduled workouts. But still managed to do my 3 cardio sets of 30 min or more and 4 of the 5 planned .  Current Weight as of Saturday .... 271

Goals for This week.

1. Repeat the three cardio sessions that i did last week

2. Finnish all Five of my planned workouts.

3. Try my best to stay around the 2000 limit per day.

Weight Goal for this week: to get under 270 for the first time i years.

Original Post by jaylong:

So weigh in day!

Challenge Starting weight: 209 lbs

Current weight: 207 lbs

Challenge Goal weight: 188 lbs (down 21 lbs)

Weekly challenges: 300 minutes cardio - I did 480 minutes; 3x week weight training - I did 2x :( 

I was aiming for 1.5 lbs lost a week and managed 2 lbs - yeah! Especially after one week of no loss and one week of only 1 lb.  Very happy.

Challenges for this week:

300 minutes of cardio

3x week weight training

1 60 minute swim

2 litres of water a day

Funny, I ate between 1500 and 1700 calories a day (instead of the 1500) and I made sure I did not go over 50% of that for carbs.  Seems to have worked!

Good luck everyone!

WOW! Everyone is doing sooo well.  I'm going to go workout tonight and I'll let you all know later what the scale says!!  I did go out of town to a wedding this weekend but I did skip the wedding cake which is pretty good for me!! haha. My friend that went with me gained 4 pounds so I'm nervous about looking at the scale.  Wish me luck! 

Last Weeks Weight: 198.4

First Weeks Weight: 197.2

Total Lost: 1.2 lbs!

1st Week Goals: Accomplished :)

2nd Week Goals: Attend two Zumba classes, go to the gym 4 days a week for at least one hour each time, drink 4-6 glasses of water a day (i usually don't drink that much but water is good for you!)

~This week went pretty well. I went to two Zumba classes, I don't know if anyone else has gone to these classes but they are so much fun, and you get a really good cardio workout without feeling like you are working out because it is so much fun dancing around! I had a bad day because we went out for chinese and then a movie, and at the movie we had icees and popcorn. These are not calorie friendly things, as I have found out. But I am not going to back out because when I started calorie counting I was 203 pounds, and I have lost 5.8 pounds!

I am going to try this week to be much better about the type of food that I am taking in each day.

Good Luck to everyone as we start week two!

~Jessica

Original Post by thesilverstar121:

Hope it's not to late for me to join.

Name: Ashley
Current Weight: 185
Scale stepper or Judge by clothing: scale
Amount of weight you wish to lose:22
How often do you want to weight-in? once a week

Goal by Christmas? to weight 163

Goals:

Do one hour of exercise on my Wii Fit every morning

Do half hour on the elliptical or stationary bike at least 3 times a week

Keep my calories under 1600

Drink more water

 

So what day are we weighing in, or do we pick our own day?

sorry i missed weigh in day. I hope this still counts

Starting Weight 185

Current Weight: 179.8

Total loss: 5.2 lbs

don't worry i don't plan on losing this much every week. I don't even know how that happened. i think it's because I'm exercising more that i ever have before. 

Goals for next week: Maintain or lose no more than 1.5 lbs

Keep working out with Wii Fit

Test out 2 Zumba classes with my mother in law.

Try and get on the elliptical or stationary bike when i can. (i didn't do that at all last week.)

Drink at least 4 large glasses of water a day.

Congrats to everyone for doing such a great job!!! 

Challenge Starting weight: 139lbs

Current weight: 137.5lbs

Challenge Goal weight: 125lbs

My goals right now are to relax about my weight loss.  I have a lot of other stressors in my life right now, and as food and exercise was something I could control, I was becoming overzealous about it.  I've decided to take a break from calorie counting and eat intuitively, and work out by riding my bike to school instead of driving.  I'm hoping that I'll continue to drop weight just by maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

It's time to see how well I've learned my healthy eating habits of the last 6 months!

Congratulations everyone else on the success so far!

I'm not weighing in for 3 more weeks, but I still want to update.

I haven't worked out since Thursday (other than a leisurely bike ride on Saturday). So that means I have skipped a 4 mile run and one day of weights. :-/ I'm going to Body Pump tonight though and running again tomorrow, also running Thursday and playing volleyball. I will get myself back on track.

On the other hand, I wore my khaki pants to work today and they are huge in the waist! So I must be doing something!

I'm going to try to skip my afternoon diet cokes this week and stick to water. I decided to forego my usual breakfast of oatmeal made with vanilla soy milk and sliced bananas, plus grapefruit juice - 400 calories! Today I made egg beaters and 2 slices of turkey bacon instead. 80 calories. WOW. Talk about a difference. Also I have been eating apples for my morning snack instead of granola bars.

Still focusing on drinking tons of water.

Congratulations everyone so far!

Original Post by ranchobernardo:

My challenge this week was 7 hours of cardio exercise.

I did 728 minutes which is over 12 hours.

 

My challenge for this next week is 21 servings of fruits and vegetables.

I got 23 servings.

My challenge this week is to keep between a minimum of 1200 calories total and a maximum of 0 more than I burn each day.

Christmas Miracle Challenge!

Name: Gela

Start Weight (Sept. 20): 170

Goal Weight (by Christmas Day): 150

Last Week's Goals: not so much

This Week's Goals: Get back on track! Yoga and other exercise everyday, no overeating.

September 20: 170

September 25: 168.8

October 2: 169.2