Inchredibles Week 7 Message ~ Post Submissions Here (75)

Week 7 Challenge ~ Emerge a Butterfly!!!  Thursday, 10/19 - Wednesday, 10/25

So, what's up for week 7 ~ Emerge A Butterfly??? 

It's the Grand Finale ~ Game Plan Week!  A chance to look back and note the changes in our plans!  Plan for the Upcoming Holidays!  Figure out how to continue our Journey!

Ready to read all about it and pick up your Week 7 challenge and parts here!  No points sheet for week 7!  

The Points!  This week is a little Different!  This week we're not doing points by part! 

• In Part 3, we ask you to email your brain bender answer to brain.bender@hotmail.com for a trick or treat!  The Games Coordinators will give your bonus points for the brain bender to your scorekeeper.
• In Part 8, we would like you to share your "Game Plan" and post it on the Team Submission Thread for a trick or treat!  The Games Coordinators will give your bonus points to your scorekeeper.
• No points for Part 2 ~ it's just some fun information and quizzes that look back over the games
• No points for Parts 1 and 5 ~ it's all about you and your goals!  Do you want to take a minute to look back at your goals when you started.  See how far you've come?  Maybe plan a bit for the future?
• No points for the rest of the Parts like Part 4 Main Dish Recipes, Part 6 Googled Links, and Part 7 Motivation Statements ~ thought we would share the submissions from everyone.  You can bookmark these for later when you have more time to peruse or want a new recipe to try?

Need the New, Updated & Current Games Directory?  Team Roster?



pssst!  1 last leetle thing! ~ If you are still participating in the Challenge, then you have won!  Perhaps you even learned a little more about what you like and dislike, what you enjoy, and perhaps you set a few new goals.  Perhaps you discovered new tools and the wealth of health, nutrition and exercise information available here at calorie-count and on the net.  Perhaps you met a new friend or two, strengthened your friendship with old friends,  enjoyed the journey together. 

The really gr8 news!  The games may be over but we don't have to part!  We look forward to seeing you around calorie-count for a long time to come :)

Cheers, United2gether, Garnet77, Kalkette, Beanie1125 ~ your Friends & Games Coordinators :)

Reserved week 2

Congratulations, Inchredibles, on completeing your first week!  

Week 2 starts Thursday 9/14 and ends Wednesday, 9/20.   Please pick up the challenge and Parts for Week 2 on the Official Challenge thread.  

Don't Fret! This is the biggest week to understand and get everyone organized!  It is a lot easier than it appears, and the rest of the weeks will seem like a walk in the park!

This is not a test and you don't have to spend a lot of time...  Maybe 10 - 15 mins each part... If you want to.  You don't have to write anything down, unless you want to. 

Don't let the Challenge overwhelm you.  Maybe do a part or 2 a day and before you know it, you'll be done ;)

Post your Challenge & Game Submissions for week 2 on this thread.  

• Your Brain Bender Answers! 
• The Sir Links~a~Lot you googled! 
• Your little Motivation Statements! 
• the Main Dish Recipes and Nutrition analysis from 2 players only!

Team Scorekeepers!!!  Each team will have a Team Scorekeeper to keep everyone's weekly scores!  It may be your Captain or Co-captain or someone else.  Please check with your team to find out who will be the scorekeeper for your team!

Week 2 Points!  Please give your Week 2 points to your team scorekeeper by Wednesday, 9/20.   You can find a points sheet for week 2 here!  Your scorekeeper has an excel spreadsheet you can use to track your weekly points if you want.  Just ask your scorekeeper for it :)

Hot Newsflash!!!  Week 1 Players deadlines extended to Wednesday, 9/20!  Everyone can double back and catch up including the Team Scorekeepers who need to put week 1 points into the new team spreadsheets.   Please give your Week 1 points to your team scorekeeper by Wednesday, 9/20.  You can find a points sheet for week 1 here!  


Other Important links you may find useful: Challenge Directory,  Challenge Roster


Enjoy the challenge!  We hope you will have a minute to chat with your team on your official team thread!    Be sure to ask your team if you have any questions!  Most importantly, enjoy the Games! Make yourself a Priority this week!  Live!  Love! Laff & Be Happy!  Here!  Together!

Your fellow Inchredibles Players

lindsay1977 (Captain)
tlwerner2001  (Co-Captain)
lunadelmar  
bgr    
sheilabright  
pokaroni
thinsky
xuraiya
nicole123

We'll be awaiting your entries with bated breath!  Good Luck Inchredibles :)

Hot off the Press! Get your copy of the challenge Challenge for week 2 here!

Turn your points for the week into your Team Scorekeeper by Wed, 9/20.

Post your Game Submissions Here to this thread by Wed, 9/20!

Enjoy!  We'll be watching for your submissions!

Just a Brain Bender Hint!  Supersized & JayD nailed the technique when they said... 

Supersized said...

Yup, I just used my own logs. You can log all the food information in tomorrow's food and activity logs, this will give you a blank slate to be able to figure out the calorie deficit.

Also you can go into your tools menu and choose BMI and just quickly edit your own settings (not hard to put them back they're put back automatically from your profile's default settings).

Sorry if this gives everyone a leg up, but I figure this is really about sharing. And, not making life difficult for our beloved Erik and Igor.

Cheers,

JayD said...

 you don't have to worry about your weight log because you can go back and edit your entries for the day. :)

Heads up about Week 1!  

Part 4 has been significantly edited for clarity. No one has to go back at all, but can if you want. We simply want people to start where they are and go from there!   

The deadline for week 1 has been extended for everyone until Wed, 9/20.  

Here's the link to the revised week 1 challenge

http://www.calorie-count.com/forums/post/1376 1.html#3  

Here's the link to the revised exercise part  

http://www.calorie-count.com/forums/post/1376 1.html#7  

Here's the link to the week 1 points sheet  (you can use the point sheet or whatever way your team turns points into your Captain (or Co-captain or team scorekeeper).  

http://www.calorie-count.com/forums/post/1376 1.html#9

and here's the updated text  

• a)  [edit:  Part 1 Weight Questions (enter 1 on line 10, wk1)]
  • *Weight* a Minute!!!
    • How Much Do {{{you}}} Weigh?
    • How often do you Weigh?
    • Why?
    • OR you get the points if you know why you don't weigh yourself.  (If you don't get weighed, that's ok!  Sometimes it's better to put the scales in storage!  The point is to figure out what you do and why!  Then let's keep doing it as long as it works for us in our lives :)  Everyone adjusts what they do when something quits working!  Including Weighing ourselves :)
• b) [edit: Part 2 Weight Log (enter 1 on lines 18 - 20), wk1)]
  •  *Weight Log*
    • Have you considered tracking your weight in the free and cool tool *weight log* here at calorie-count or some other place like your computer at home or in a paper journal?
    • On the calorie-count weight log, do you understand the *blue line*?
    • Do you understand the *green line*?
    • OR you get the points if you know why you personally don't track your weight
• c)  [edit Part 3 BMI (enter 1 on line 27), wk 1)]
  • *BMI*
    • Do you know yours?
    • What is it, how do you find yours and how is it calculated?
    • Do you prefer the general tables, the *formula* or a calculator like here?
    • OR you get the points if you know why you personally don't track you bmi
• d) [edit Part 4 Measurements (enter 1 on line 43), wk 1)]
  •  *Measurements*
    • take yours, any or all that you prefer!
      • Neck, upper arm, forearm and wrist
      • Chest (all), Breast for Women
      • Waist and hips
      • Thigh, Calf and ankle
    • OR you get the points if you know why you personally don't track measurements
• e) [edit Part 4 Exercise (100  ponts possible from 3 parts
  • *Exercise*
    • ___ 25 regular points (enter a 1 on line 46, week1) 
      • write down someplace what you normally do each week for an exercise routine.
        • What are your exercise activities?
        • how long
        • how often
        • how intense or level, incline, weight amount, reps, etc...
        • why you don't or can't exercise right now
      • What are your exercise goals that you would like to do or change in the next 6 weeks?
    • ___ up to 50 Points (enter 5, line 53, week 1)
      • for doing your normal exercise routine this week! you get 10 points for each normal  exercise *session* you do.  Up to 5 exercise sessions count. 
      • OR you get 50 points (enter 5 on line 53) for doing your normal routines if you normally do less than 5 sessions 
      • OR  you get 50 points (enter 5 on line 53) if you work on an exercise plan that is realistic for you because you have not been exercising.
    • ___ 25 points (enter 1 on line 56, week1) for doing 1 something *extra*
      • for adding a *new* exercise, or
      • adding an extra *workout*
      • doing more, longer or farther, or
      • increasing intensity
      • OR just getting started for the first time
      • OR just starting to think about why you should start exercising if you don't.

Okay--my answers for week #2, challenge #3's brain bender....

Her BMI is 28.3
Caloric defecit is 188 (assuming she was "sedentary")

!

Hey all, maybe I'm going at this too fast (I have a lot of time on my hands right now hehe...), but who is going first for the Med. recipe challenge??

Nicole,

Hi!

I am try to figure out the brain bender...I think this is pretty much a guess...still working

Hey Laurie :)

Mine was essentially a guess too--I don't know if it's for sure right or not, but that was what I came up with hehe

Math is not my strong suit! 

I'm curious to see what everyone else comes up with!

Okay, I am not sure about this, BUT this is what I came up with....

BMI  28.3

Calorie Deficit   459 (edit: I used Moderate activitiy)

Hey everyone :)  Last week when we wrote the challenge in the wee hours of the night in our spare time cuz we're just friends here like everyone... we thought we knew what we were saying.... But... we confused the heck out of everyone!!!  Sad but true!!!  So, we're giving everyone the chance to catch up on week one and make sure you got the right points!

The only points from week 1 last week are from Section 4, the exercise part!  We actually had people who never exercised or only once or twice a week.  Kind of not fair to make them all of a sudden exercise 5 times to get points, huh???

So... we have made a few little changes...

Deadline for week 1 has been extended to Wed, 9/20!!!

The Points from Week 1 were all in Section 4.  You can Look at the Section 4 again from week 1 here:

http://www.calorie-count.com/forums/post/1376 1.html#7

Check your points against the new week 1 points sheet here:

http://www.calorie-count.com/forums/post/1376 1.html#9

Let your team captain (or scorekeeper) know if your points changed for week 1.

Plus... the other parts of week 1 were just for you to work on your own goals and things!  If you did all the parts from week 1, then you get more points this week :)  It's up to you!

Here's the link to the revised week 1 challenge!

http://www.calorie-count.com/forums/post/1376 1.html#3

The stuff from week 2 is also due Wed, 9/20.

Turn your points for week 2 into your team captain or scorekeeper by Wed, 9/20

Players should post their entries on your team submission thread here:

http://www.calorie-count.com/forums/post/1420 2.html

Players do not need to post their goals and other notes from other parts of the challenge... just 4 things this week.

What Players should post on the new Team submission threads:


Slappy's Kick A$$ Team
Neeners Nightmares
Jayd's Phat Fighters
Team Dyn-o-mite
Eliminators
Fabulous4ever
Gut Busters
Hard Body Hooligans
Inchredibles

What to post on the Team Submission Threads...  Please post your:

• brain bender answer, calorie deficit and bmi
  • (from part 3, week 2)
  • http://www.calorie-count.com/forums/post/1376 1.html#13
• the googled super foods link
  • (from part 6, week 2)
  • http://www.calorie-count.com/forums/post/1376 1.html#16
• the motivation statment 
  • (from part 7, week 2)
  • http://www.calorie-count.com/forums/post/1376 1.html#17
• 2 players need to post a Main Dish mediterranean recipe this week (2 players will do this each week)
• (from part 4, week 2)
•  http://www.calorie-count.com/forums/post/1376 1.html#14
• this can be volunteer or assigned...  and if you don't make this part this week, we'll let your team catch this part up next week... )

Link to the week 2 challenge!

http://www.calorie-count.com/forums/post/1376 1.html

Link to the week 2 points sheet!

http://www.calorie-count.com/forums/post/1376 1.html#19

Hope this helps!  If you have a question, please ask :)

Here is my super foods link:

http://www.quakeroatmeal.com/qo_livingWell/fi berWholeGrains/article.cfm?articleid=288

Lots of good info on fiber, whole grains...plus oatmeal is one of my favorite foods....

Walk the Walk...

To accomplish great things,

we must not only act,

but also dream,

not only plan,

 but also believe-

Thats beautiful Laurie. Good call!

Super foods..........

Flaxseed :)

Nicole...Your right flaxseed is a super food...it is so beneficial...everyone should use it!!  The only problem with it, is that you have to grind it up....so I get my coffee grinder going in the morning and add it to my OATMEAL!!!!  He he he....

Also, I will do a recipe....I have one vegetarian one and one with meat....I will put the vegie one in ...not sure it will be a popular one, but I like it!  My grandmother use to make it....

Laurie, that's a lot of extra work!  There is milled/ground flaxseed already available, and that's what I usually buy... I add it to almost everything I bake (even pancakes!), it can be used as an egg replacer, and I also mix it in with brown sugar to make a fat-free topping for a more healthy version of apple pie :)  It's like magic dust hehe.

Challenge #7:

"Your desires are unique to you; you alone can decide what is right and wrong for you.  Choose your heaven, and fight for it to the death; or be content to live in Hell."

I know that quote is a bit harsh for motivational words, but it always keeps me going strong.  I just take it as, if you *really* want something, then you better fight for it, or you have absolutely no right to complain if you are subsequently miserable.

Nicole,

I LIKE that quote...your right I see it as meaning fight for what you want and if you don't, don't complain about how your living...

Okay, here's a recipe...now I took this as a recipe from "around" the Mediteranean...which, I hope, also means Italian....

Pasta & Ceci

8 oz can Garbanzo beans (ceci)

2-14.5 oz cans Red Gold Petite diced tomatoes w/ garlic & olive oil  

1 Tbl Basil

1 C. Water

2 Tbl Olive Oil

Salt & Pepper, to taste

In pan add all ingredients, simmer for 1 hour, stir occassional.

1# Farfelle ( bow tie pasta, or you can use any other pasta)

Cook pasta al dente and add to sauce.  Serve with fresh grated parmesan cheese.