***A NEW YEAR, A NEW YOU ~ Week 3***

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ATTN:  THE RESULTS FOR WEEK 1 ARE STILL PENDING.  I AM WAITING ON RESPONSES FROM A COUPLE MEMBERS TO CLARIFY THEIR POSTS SO THAT I CAN AWARD THE POINTS ACCORDINGLY.  YOUR PATIENCE IS GREATLY APPRECIATED.

AS SOON AS I HEAR BACK, I WILL POST THE RESULTS FOR WEEK 1.

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The "A New Year, A New You" challenge is for those wanting to start off the New Year right and provide each other with the motivation and dedication needed to reach our goals.

Week 1:  January 1, 2009 - January 7, 2009
Week 2:  January 8, 2009 - January 14, 2009
Week 3:  January 15, 2009 - January 21, 2009

Please report the following information:

Member Name:
Height:
Starting Weight:
Goal Weight:

You can either report your calorie goal, workout minutes, calories burned, and calorie deficit daily or weekly.  

If you choose to report weekly, you will need to report your daily calorie goals at each weigh in (Thursdays) beforehand in order to earn the points.

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This challenge is points based.  There will be various opportunities to earn points but it is not necessary to participate in all the options.  You can pick and choose which ones work best for you and your goals.  Please try to report your points earned each day in a new post.  The points will be tallied after each week's weigh in.

POINTS WILL BE EARNED AS FOLLOWS:

POUNDS LOST:  5 points earned for every pound lost. (ie. 1.2lbs lost = 6 points earned, maximum of 2lbs = 10 points applicable)

Pounds Lost points can only be earned on weigh-in days (Thursdays).

CALORIE GOAL:  3 points earned for every day you reach within a 100 calories of your calorie goal.  The calorie goal needs to be reported the day before in order to earn points.  (ie. If your calorie goal is 1500 and you consume between 1400-1600 calories, you earn 3 points)

Please be sure to report your daily calorie goals the night before, first thing in the morning on the day of, or at the weekly weigh-in for the following week.  If the daily calorie goal is not reported beforehand, points will not be awarded.

WORKOUT MINUTES:  .5 point earned for every 10 minutes of workout you do. (ie. 55 minutes of exercise = 2.75 points)

Please report your workout minutes daily when you report your other stats or at each weigh-in.  If you report at each weigh-in, please list each day separately.  

Please list what kind of workouts you did along with your minutes to earn points.  Daily activities will not be awarded points.

CALORIES BURNED:  .5 point earned for every 100 calories burned by exercise.  (ie. 300 calories burned = 1.5 points)

Please report your calories burned daily when you report your other stats or at each weigh-in.  If you report at each weigh-in, please list each day separately.  

Please list what kind of workouts you did to burn calories to earn points.  Daily activities will not be awarded points.

CALORIE DEFICIT:  .5 point earned for every 100 calorie deficit you have each day. (ie. A 400 calorie deficit = 2 points, a maximum of 1000 calorie deficit = 5 points applicable)

Please report your calorie deficit when you report your other stats or at each weigh-in.  Please list the calories you burned for the day minus the calories you consumed to verify your calorie deficit.  (ie. 2300 calories burned - 1900 calories consumed = 400 calorie deficit)

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A New Year, A New You group has been created:

http://caloriecount.about.com/new-challenge-g 640

1/20/09:

Calorie Goal: 1500

Calories Consumed: 1235

Calories Burned:2230

Calorie Deficit:995

Workout Minutes:45 minutes spinning

Workout Calories:500

Member Name: Carlyn
Height:5'3"
Starting Weight:129.2
Ultimate Goal Weight:115 Hopefully by early March.

1/21/09

Workout Minutes 75 today, total for week = 505= 25pts

Calories Burned  today 649(Treadmill 4.5 miles) total for week = 3752= 18pts

Calorie Deficit  2410(burn)-1756(intake) = 654 deficit today, total for week 4219= 21pts

Calorie Goal reported yesterday-1800, actual calories ate today 1756= 3pts Total points for calorie goals so far this week = 15pts

Weigh In 1/8/09:  127.0

Weigh In 1/15/09:126.4 Total Pounds Lost: 2.8

Total points earned for week one: 83 (1/1/09-1/7/09)

Total points earned for week two: 62 (1/8/09-1/14/09)

Calorie goal for 1/22/09- 1600

1/21/09:

Calorie Goal: 1500

Calories Consumed: 1165

Calories Burned:1730

Calorie Deficit:565

Workout Minutes:0

Workout Calories:0

Member Name: Carlyn
Height:5'3"
Starting Weight:129.2
Ultimate Goal Weight:115 Hopefully by early March.

1/22/09

Workout Minutes 90 today, total for week = 90=4.5

Calories Burned  today 460(Calisthenics, treadmill) total for week = 460=2pts

Calorie Deficit  2210(burn)-1725(intake) = 485 deficit today, total for week 485=2pts

Calorie Goal reported yesterday-1600, actual calories ate today 1725= 0 Total points for calorie goals so far this week = 0pts

Weigh In 1/8/09:  127.0

Weigh In 1/15/09:126.4

Weigh In 1/22/09:125.8 Total pounds lost: 3.4

Total points earned for week one: 83 (1/1/09-1/7/09)

Total points earned for week two: 62 (1/8/09-1/14/09)

Total points earned for week three: 79 (1/15/09-1/21/09)

Calorie goal for 1/23/09- 1600

Sorry for the late start, but I've just gotten back to school, which was when I was going to restart my diet after the holidays since my parents seem to think that "diet" is a 4-letter word. (and they'd be right! :D)

So basically I don't expect to be counted points-wise in this week as I wasn't on the wagon for the first few days and don't know when the weight loss happened.  Like it could have been last week.  I'll be up and running for next week's though!  For now I'm just moral support for you guys ahaha.

Carlynj- I hope you don't mind me using your post format!  It's just so good~

Member Name: Phylicia
Height:5'7"
Starting Weight:151
Ultimate Goal Weight:128 (BMI of 20)

week ending 1/22/09

Workout Minutes total for week = 90

Calories Burned total for week = 875

Calorie Deficit total for week last 4 days = approx 2100

Calorie Goal

Total points for calorie goals so far this week = n/a

Starting Weight: 151

Weigh In 1/22: 146

Total Pounds Lost: 5

Daily Calorie goal for 1/23-1/30 = 1600 / day

So, UndertheRainbow (original challenge host) has a lot going on right now and asked for someone to take over the challenge and tally up the weekly points. I have been able to get the points tallied for Week One and am going to post the results in the Week One Group thread for now since I don't have the privelages to post it in the original thread. Like I said in the post, if you feel the points are wrong please let me know. I did the best I could and will try and get the other weeks totals done by tomorrow.

Original Post by tealparadise:

 

Member Name: Phylicia
Height:5'7"
Starting Weight:151
Ultimate Goal Weight:128 (BMI of 20)

week ending 1/22/09

Workout Minutes total for week = 90

Calories Burned total for week = 875

Calorie Deficit total for week last 4 days = approx 2100

Calorie Goal

N/a for now seeing as I didn't report my goals since my first post in December.

Total points for calorie goals so far this week = n/a

Starting Weight: 151

Weigh In 1/22: 146

Total Pounds Lost: 5

Daily Calorie goal for 1/23-1/30 = 1600 / day

 

Our week 4 actually started today since the challenge started on a Thursday. If you want to redo your totals to just include today only, then you can get a fresh start into the week to get the points for week 4. I am working on getting things totaled and staying on top of things since I think I have a lot more free time than the original challenge host. Thanks!

Week 3:

1/15 Weight lbs  275.8  Activity: 1  Activity Cal: 601  Food Calories  1650  Dificit:  1800

1/16 Weight lbs  276  Activity: 1  Activity Cal: 604  Food Calories  1715  Dificit:  1739

1/17 Weight lbs  274.4  Activity: 0.5  Activity Cal: 310  Food Calories  2158  Dificit: 1053 

1/18 Weight lbs  274.8  Activity: 0  Activity Cal: 0  Food Calories  1721  Dificit:  1244  

1/19 Weight lbs  274.8  Activity: 1  Activity Cal: 500  Food Calories  1724  Dificit:  1618 

1/20 Weight lbs  274.4  Activity: 0.5  Activity Cal: 150  Food Calories  1991  Dificit:  1060  

1/21 Weight lbs  273.6  Activity: 1  Activity Cal: 450  Food Calories  1755  Dificit:  1528

An I think I will stick with my 1700 calorie goal

Original Post by carlynj21:

Original Post by tealparadise:

 

~Things~

Our week 4 actually started today since the challenge started on a Thursday. If you want to redo your totals to just include today only, then you can get a fresh start into the week to get the points for week 4. I am working on getting things totaled and staying on top of things since I think I have a lot more free time than the original challenge host. Thanks!

Whoopsies!  Thanks for the correction!  I'm so out of the loop here.

(( 5'7", 18 years old, daily calorie usage = 1820 ))

1/22/09:

Calorie Goal: 1600

Calories Consumed: 1610

Workout Minutes:35

Workout Calories:250

Calorie Deficit: 460

Points Today: 8.3

Tomorrow's calorie goal is 1400

Completely forgot to post yesterday. 

Thursday Weigh in: 158  (down 2 lbs for the week!)

I haven't been doing a very good job of actually keeping track of my calorie intake, so I suppose that will be all for this week.

Okay everyone. I am going to start a new thread for week four. I will get the numbers that you have already posted for week 4 from here so don't worry about that. This thread will be locked shortly and here in a minute I will edit and post the link here and in the group forum. Thanks everyone for being patient and hopefully we can get some more people back in here as well. Keep up the good work!  http://caloriecount.about.com/new-youweek-fou rcome-join-ft126789 

1/22/09:

Name:kwoodwarduga

Height: 5'6''

Starting Weight: 145

Current Weight: 137.4

Calorie Goal: 1500

Calories Consumed: 1199

Calories Burned:2219

Calorie Deficit:1029

Workout Minutes: 45

Workout Calories:489