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Edit:  Announcing Team Merger Weekend!!!

Hot News Flash: Merging Gut Busters & Fabulous4Ever! 9/22

We are merging the Fabulous4ever and Gut Buster teams this weekend.  Monday we'll know the new team's name and get everyone their team patches ~ Woo Hoo!!!

Please post your Submissions on the New Official Team Thread for Week 3 here:

http://www.calorie-count.com/forums/post/1481 7.html

Be sure to sign in on your New Official Team Chat Thread Here!

http://www.calorie-count.com/forums/post/1482 0.html

We hope everyone will continue to play!  We'll have a strong team of active & enthusiastic players when all is said and done.  So watch out!  The new team players will be raring to go!  They will take on all the other teams in the Head2Head Games!!!  Woo Hoo!!!

The new Team Captains will be DebCowan and Supersized!  Co-captains will be Jamie0218 and Renicki :)

What to do over the Weekend!  Help pick a Team Name!!!  Check in and Shout OUt that you are in & raring to get started!  Bond!  Make Each Other Friends!  Chat it up and Get to know each other!!!

Don't worry, we will transfer all your points and submissions.  We're picking up and moving it all, including each and every one who still wants to play!!!  So don't be shy!  Join your new team :)

We hope everyone enjoys the Challenge & Games.  We want them to be fun, a bit inspirational and a little thought provoking! A gr8 place to meet new {{{friends}}} and a gr8 way to walk the walk!

{{{hugs}}} jules (united2gether, games hostess)

Please do NOT post to this thread anymore.

/end edited message

OLD Gut Busters Week 3 Message

Way to Go Gut Busters! You've completed 2 weeks of the Challenge! 

Week 3 starts Thursday 9/21 and ends Wednesday, 9/27.   Please pick up the challenge and Parts for Week 3 on the Official Challenge thread.

Now that we're all getting into the swing of things, the challenges will be easier to understand.  Remember, this is meant to be fun and inspirational, so please don't feel like you have to spend a lot of time on this...  Maybe 10 - 15 mins each part... If you want to.  Think about stuff in your head or write stuff down.  It's up to you!

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

• Give your scorekeeper your points for all the parts you did for Week 3 by Wed, 9/27!  Click here to get a points sheet for week 3!
• Email your answer for the Week 3 Part 3 Brain Bender to brain.bender@hotmail.com (please note the DOT in brain.bender:))
• 2 players from your team need to submit a Main Dish Recipe (part 4, week 3) to this thread by Wed, 9/27.  If it is your own recipe, click here to put it in the new calorie-count Recipe tool. Then, all you need to do is post a link to this thread for your calorie-count recipe!  Otherwise, please post one of your own favorite recipes that you use from any source :)
• For Part 6, week 3, Help your team choose the Team *super food* Link  by sharing your opinion on your Team Chat thread or here! 
  • On or after Saturday, 9/23, Click here to get your team list of Links submitted by your team players during week 2!
  • The Captain and Co-captain will call the ball on the actual link to be used. 
  • Find more on this here in part 6, week 3 of the challenge.
• For Part 7, week 3, Help your team choose the Team Motivation Statement by sharing your opinion on your Team Chat thread or here!
  • On or after Saturday, 9/23, Click here to get your team list of Motivation Statements submitted by your team players during week 2! 
  • The Captain and Co-captain will call the ball on the actual Motivation Statement to be used.
  • Find more on this here in part 7, week 3 of the challenge.

Special Note to our Late arrivals and People who missed weeks 1 or 2!

• you can catch up.  Just go back to the old challenges and do them.
• When you are done, give your Team Scorekeeper your points for the old weeks!
• How to find the old weeks challenge and points sheet.
  • Click here for the old week 2 challenge.
    • Click here for the old week 2 Points Sheet.
  • Click here for the old week 1 challenge.
    • Click here for the old week 1 Points Sheet.   

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



We'll be eagerly awaiting your entries on this thread!  Enjoy the Challenge :)

here's my link:

http://www.healthchecksystems.com/hfoods.htm

I was gonna go with spinach, but now it has e coli, so I opted for mushrooms--the fungus among us!  :)  haha!

Go Gutbusters! 

My answer to the Motivation Challenge:

The key to healthy living sounds simple: Eat right, exercise and drink water.

The problem is that for a variety of reasons we as a society have lost touch with the meaning of those words. We are bombarded every day by images of impossibly thin girls and big macs. Somewhere in the mixed media, the over sized restaurant portions, the convenience food our image of what eat right looks like gets lost.

That is why we have all come here. It doesn't matter if you are trying to maintain a healhty weight, loose weight or increase to a healthy weight the principles are the same. Your body needs food to live, it needs to have exercise and regular maintenance to function properly, and it needs water because we are mostly made of water.

The tools on this site will help you determine how much food you need to support your body on a daily basis. They will also help you log and track those foods. If you are trying to loose weight, you need to create a deficit, but not so much that you go into starvation mode. If you are trying to gain weight you need to add foods slowly because your body is most likely in starvation mode.

There are excellent resources in the library. The members here have written some very informative articles on how many calories a day is average, how to reduce and what to watch out for. Take advantage of this information, because information is knowledge and knowlege is power, and power is what you need to support yourself on this journey.

Implementing those three words can seem very hard at times. We are literally learning how to care for ourselves all over again. Something that we would assume would come naturally to us, but apparently does not. Give yourself permission to learn, realize that learning is a process and will not happen overnight. Lean on the people here and share what you are going through.

At the end of it all you will eat right, exercise and drink water, and it will (eventually) be simple.

ROLL CALL / POINTS TO DATE

Supersized - 235
Renicki - 180
Hubbaji - 135
Write Stuff - 110 (may have more points but I don't know where to add them)
Sonechko - 85

Yet to hear from:
Daveka - 50 (points for completing week 1)
Han - 50 ( points for completeing week 1)
Tonyamackenzie - 50 (points for completing week 1)
J_Willis - 50 (points for completing week 1) - may no longer be on team.

Total Points: 870 (920 - 50(lowest score) = 870)

I may not have caught eveyone's points appropriately. I have checked this thread, our submission thread, and my e-mail super.sized@hotmail.com for points. If I have you as unsubmitted for any part please let me know which parts you have completed and I have not registered, either here, on our submission thread or to my e-mail

Here is what I have on a part by part break down:

Part 1: Write down 3 daily goals and 2 weekly goals - 10 pts
Submitted:
Renicki
Supersized

Unsubmitted:
Daveka
Han
Hubbaji
J_Willis - member?
Sonechko
TonyaMacKenzie
Writestuff

Part 2: Logging your food & reading nutritional info posted by team - 10 pts
Submitted:
Renicki
Supersized

Unsubmitted:
Daveka
Han
Hubbaji
J_Willis - member?
Sonechko
TonyaMacKenzie
WriteStuff

Part 3: Brain Buster - 10 pts
Submitted:
Hubbaji
Renicki
Sonechko
Supersized
Writestuff

Unsubmitted:
Daveka
Han
J_Willis - member?
TonyaMacKenzie

Part 4: Submit Recipies (Hubbaji, Sonechko THANKS) and read submitted recipies -25 pts
NOTE: Anyone who does not have these points can get them simply by reading the recipe links posted by Hubbaji & Sonechko
Submitted:
Hubbaji
Sonechko
Supersized

Unsubmitted:
Daveka
Han
J_Willis - member?
Renicki
TonyaMacKenzie
Writestuff

Part 5a - Think about an exercise plan - 25 pts
Submitted:
Renicki
Supersized

Unsubmitted:
Daveka
Han
Hubbaji
J_Willis - member?
Sonechko
TonyaMackenzie
Writestuff

Part 5b - Exercise - 10 pts / day up to 5 days
Submitted:
Renicki (5)
Supersized (3)

Unsubmitted:
Daveka
Han
Hubbaji
J_Willis - member?
Sonechko
TonyaMacKenzie
Writestuff

Part 5c - Do something extra - 25 pts
Submitted:
Renicki
Supersized

Unsubmitted:
Daveka
Han
Hubbaji
J_Willis - member?
Sonechko
TonyaMacKenzie
Writestuff

Part 6a - Posting "Super Foods" Nutritional info - 25 pts
Submitted:
Hubbaji
Supersized
Writestuff

Unsubmitted:
Daveka
Han
J_Willis - member?
Renicki
Sonechko
TonyaMacKenzie

Part 7a - Motivational post - 25 pts
Submitted:
Hubbaji
Supersized
Writestuff

Unsubmitted:
Daveka
Han
J_Willis - member?
Renicki
Sonechko
TonyaMacKenzie

Part 8a - Completeting week 1
Submitted:
EVERYONE!!!

If you are finding your name under an unsubmitted heading on any given part then I have not recorded points for you for that part. Please let me know if I need to add them.

I'm missing:

5 a) 25 pts b) 40pts c) 25 pts

6 a) 25pts-- its in the submissions thread

Part 5 isn't in my journal (yet) its in a notebook I take with me to school. I'll post it eventually but the thing with my goals are that they change pretty much daily, so it'll be a lot of typing. Other than those little things, my points r fine!

I've emailed you my points sheet super . I think I've got full points this week.

Who ya gonna call? GUT BUSTERS!

Gut Busters Week 3 Message ~ Post Game Submissions Here 


Way to Go Gut Busters! You've completed 2 weeks of the Challenge! 



Week 3 starts Thursday 9/21 and ends Wednesday, 9/27.   Please pick up the challenge and Parts for Week 3 on the Official Challenge thread.

Now that we're all getting into the swing of things, the challenges will be easier to understand.  Remember, this is meant to be fun and inspirational, so please don't feel like you have to spend a lot of time on this...  Maybe 10 - 15 mins each part... If you want to.  Think about stuff in your head or write stuff down.  It's up to you!

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

• Give your scorekeeper your points for all the parts you did for Week 3 by Wed, 9/27!  Click here to get a points sheet for week 3!
• Email your answer for the Week 3 Part 3 Brain Bender to brain.bender@hotmail.com (please note the DOT in brain.bender:))
• 2 players from your team need to submit a Main Dish Recipe (part 4, week 3) to this thread by Wed, 9/27.  If it is your own recipe, click here to put it in the new calorie-count Recipe tool. Then, all you need to do is post a link to this thread for your calorie-count recipe!  Otherwise, please post one of your own favorite recipes that you use from any source :)
• For Part 6, week 3, Help your team choose the Team *super food* Link  by sharing your opinion on your Team Chat thread or here! 
  • On or after Saturday, 9/23, Click here to get your team list of Links submitted by your team players during week 2!
  • The Captain and Co-captain will call the ball on the actual link to be used. 
  • Find more on this here in part 6, week 3 of the challenge.
• For Part 7, week 3, Help your team choose the Team Motivation Statement by sharing your opinion on your Team Chat thread or here!
  • On or after Saturday, 9/23, Click here to get your team list of Motivation Statements submitted by your team players during week 2! 
  • The Captain and Co-captain will call the ball on the actual Motivation Statement to be used.
  • Find more on this here in part 7, week 3 of the challenge.

Special Note to our Late arrivals and People who missed weeks 1 or 2!

• you can catch up.  Just go back to the old challenges and do them.
• When you are done, give your Team Scorekeeper your points for the old weeks!
• How to find the old weeks challenge and points sheet.
  • Click here for the old week 2 challenge.
    • Click here for the old week 2 Points Sheet.
  • Click here for the old week 1 challenge.
    • Click here for the old week 1 Points Sheet.   

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



We'll be eagerly awaiting your entries on this thread!  Enjoy the Challenge :)

Gut Busters Wk 2 Sir Links~a~Lot  Player submits link this week

• Sonechko 
  • http://www.nationaldairycouncil.org/NR/rdonly res/E9DB8D5C-E4 FE-4D7C-AAF2-E286C4758AFD/0/SuperfoodsCheckli stFINAL.pdf#sea rch=%22super%20foods%22
• Han  
• Supersized (Captain, Score keeper)
  • http://www.healthcastle.com/food_supplements. shtml
  • I like this link because it's got tonnes of health information, which for the most part seems sound (I say for the most part because I haven't read it all). Also, you can click on any of the "super foods" and get a quick write up that is simple to understand and a great check list for each.  
• Renicki  (Co-captain) 
• Tonyamckenzie
• j_willis82
• writestuff
  • http://www.healthchecksystems.com/hfoods.htm
• hubbaji  
  • I found a plethora of foods I actually like, but I settled on two - the simple but oh so delicious and versatile apple and ever refreshing tea(any tea, all teas,so many to savour). The sites I viewed and found chock full of information or just plain entertaining were:
  • http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/apples/  
  •  http://www.celestialseasonings.com/research/a bouttea/teagood health.php
    
• daveka  

Gut Busters Week 2 Walk the Walk Motivational Statement Player submits stmt this week

• Sonechko 
• Han  
• Supersized (Captain, Scorekeeper)  
  • The key to healthy living sounds simple: Eat right, exercise and drink water.
    
    The problem is that for a variety of reasons we as a society have lost touch with the meaning of those words. We are bombarded every day by images of impossibly thin girls and big macs. Somewhere in the mixed media, the over sized restaurant portions, the convenience food our image of what eat right looks like gets lost.
    
    That is why we have all come here. It doesn't matter if you are trying to maintain a healhty weight, loose weight or increase to a healthy weight the principles are the same. Your body needs food to live, it needs to have exercise and regular maintenance to function properly, and it needs water because we are mostly made of water.
    
    The tools on this site will help you determine how much food you need to support your body on a daily basis. They will also help you log and track those foods. If you are trying to loose weight, you need to create a deficit, but not so much that you go into starvation mode. If you are trying to gain weight you need to add foods slowly because your body is most likely in starvation mode.
    
    There are excellent resources in the library. The members here have written some very informative articles on how many calories a day is average, how to reduce and what to watch out for. Take advantage of this information, because information is knowledge and knowlege is power, and power is what you need to support yourself on this journey.
    
    Implementing those three words can seem very hard at times. We are literally learning how to care for ourselves all over again. Something that we would assume would come naturally to us, but apparently does not. Give yourself permission to learn, realize that learning is a process and will not happen overnight. Lean on the people here and share what you are going through.
    
    At the end of it all you will eat right, exercise and drink water, and it will (eventually) be simple.
• Renicki     (Co-captain)
• Tonyamckenzie
• j_willis82
• writestuff
  • I don't know about all of you, but I knew when I was ready to start my journey towards better health.  And, over time, I can look back and claim big victories, but they didn't happen overnight.  Au contraire, my friends!!  :D 
    
    With each little step of progress and each healthy behavior practiced on a daily basis, I get a bit closer to my goal.  My clothes first fit better--and now they're too big.  I'm down from a 3x to an XL or L.  My waist went from 50-something inches to 40-something to 30-something.  My cholesterol went from 209 to 122.  But . . . I had/have hungry days.  I had/have cravings.  I didn't/don't always eat "perfect" or exercise as much as I could. 
    
    I just keep plugging away.  I'm still plugging away.  I'm making lots of little changes as I go and converting them into new, healthy habits.  I may not have gone from couch potato to a 5K runner, but I can walk a little faster or a little longer each time.  And I am getting there!!
    
    The moral of my story??  If I can do it, YOU can!!  Take it slowly.  Believe in yourself and your goals.  Go one step at a time.  If you stop or step off the path, get back on and get moving again.  You WILL achieve.  You will be a thousand miles beyond where you were--mentally, physically, emotionally, and possibly even spiritually--if you stick with it.  And, if you're lucky like I am, you'll also have made some fantastic CC friends along the way!  :)
    
    Enjoy the journey . . .
• hubbaji
  • If there is one piece of knowledge, information, whatever that I have learned since starting my journey to better health it has to be, "You must eat to survive". Sounds simple enough, don't it? But, how many people truely understand that simple statement? Whether we want to gain weight, lose weight or simply maintain a healthy weight - we have to eat enough in quantity as well as quality to nourish our bodies. It is not a matter of eating or avoiding foods, it is all about sensible, healthy choices. Take care of your body and it will take care of you. Julius Erving said it best, "If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end."
    
• daveka  

I'm assuming this is going to be our submission thread through to week 3, unless the organizers start week 3 submission thread. Here are our updated points for week 2.

ROLL CALL / POINTS TO DATE

Hubbaji - 255
Supersized - 245
Sonechko - 200
Renicki - 180
Hubbaji - 135
Write Stuff - 110 (may have more points but I don't know where to add them)

Yet to hear from:
Daveka - 50 (points for completing week 1)
Han - 50 ( points for completeing week 1)
Tonyamackenzie - 50 (points for completing week 1)
J_Willis - 50 (points for completing week 1) - may no longer be on team.

Total Points: 1140 (1190 - 50(lowest score) = 1140)

I may not have caught eveyone's points appropriately. I have checked this thread, our submission thread, and my e-mail super.sized@hotmail.com for points. If I have you as unsubmitted for any part please let me know which parts you have completed and I have not registered, either here, on our submission thread or to my e-mail

Here is what I have on a part by part break down:

Part 1: Write down 3 daily goals and 2 weekly goals - 10 pts
Submitted:
Hubbaji
Renicki
Supersized

Unsubmitted:
Daveka
Han
J_Willis - member?
Sonechko
TonyaMacKenzie
Writestuff

Part 2: Logging your food & reading nutritional info posted by team - 10 pts
Submitted:
Hubbaji
Renicki
Supersized

Unsubmitted:
Daveka
Han
J_Willis - member?
Sonechko
TonyaMacKenzie
WriteStuff

Part 3: Brain Buster - 10 pts
Submitted:
Hubbaji
Renicki
Sonechko
Supersized
Writestuff

Unsubmitted:
Daveka
Han
J_Willis - member?
TonyaMacKenzie

Part 4: Submit Recipies (Hubbaji, Sonechko THANKS) and read submitted recipies -25 pts
NOTE: Anyone who does not have these points can get them simply by reading the recipe links posted by Hubbaji & Sonechko
Submitted:
Hubbaji
Sonechko
Supersized

Unsubmitted:
Daveka
Han
J_Willis - member?
Renicki
TonyaMacKenzie
Writestuff

Part 5a - Think about an exercise plan - 25 pts
Submitted:
Hubbaji
Renicki
Sonechko
Supersized

Unsubmitted:
Daveka
Han
J_Willis - member?
TonyaMackenzie
Writestuff

Part 5b - Exercise - 10 pts / day up to 5 days
Submitted:
Hubbaji (5)
Renicki (5)
Sonechko (4)
Supersized (4)

Unsubmitted:
Daveka
Han
J_Willis - member?
TonyaMacKenzie
Writestuff

Part 5c - Do something extra - 25 pts
Submitted:
Hubbaji
Renicki
Sonechko
Supersized

Unsubmitted:
Daveka
Han
J_Willis - member?
TonyaMacKenzie
Writestuff

Part 6a - Posting "Super Foods" Nutritional info - 25 pts
Submitted:
Hubbaji
Sonechko
Supersized
Writestuff

Unsubmitted:
Daveka
Han
J_Willis - member?
Renicki
TonyaMacKenzie

Part 7a - Motivational post - 25 pts
Submitted:
Hubbaji
Supersized
Writestuff

Unsubmitted:
Daveka
Han
J_Willis - member?
Renicki
Sonechko
TonyaMacKenzie

Part 8a - Completeting week 1
Submitted:
EVERYONE!!!

If you are finding your name under an unsubmitted heading on any given part then I have not recorded points for you for that part. Please let me know if I need to add them.

Hello Everyone,

It would appear that we may have lost half our team. I am discussing merging this team with another team who has lost about half their members with the game organizer. I am volunteering to keep scorekeeping duites, but would really like to merge with a team that has a stronger captain that I have been able to be.

From each players perspective the game should not change. You are still doing the same challenge regardless of which team you are playing for. You will still keep your own points in the same way.  And, if I stay as scorekeeper you will still submit your points the same way.

I'll keep everyone posted and will post a link on our threads to our new team if we do merge.

Announcing Team Merger Weekend!!!

Hot News Flash: Merging Gut Busters & Fabulous4Ever! 9/22

We are merging the Fabulous4ever and Gut Buster teams this weekend.  Monday we'll know the new team's name and get everyone their team patches ~ Woo Hoo!!!

Please post your Submissions on the New Official Team Thread for Week 3 here:

http://www.calorie-count.com/forums/post/1481 7.html

Be sure to sign in on your New Official Team Chat Thread Here!

http://www.calorie-count.com/forums/post/1482 0.html

We hope everyone will continue to play!  We'll have a strong team of active & enthusiastic players when all is said and done.  So watch out!  The new team players will be raring to go!  They will take on all the other teams in the Head2Head Games!!!  Woo Hoo!!!

The new Team Captains will be DebCowan and Supersized!  Co-captains will be Jamie0218 and Renicki :)

What to do over the Weekend!  Help pick a Team Name!!!  Check in and Shout OUt that you are in & raring to get started!  Bond!  Make Each Other Friends!  Chat it up and Get to know each other!!!

Don't worry, we will transfer all your points and submissions.  We're picking up and moving it all, including each and every one who still wants to play!!!  So don't be shy!  Join your new team :)

We hope everyone enjoys the Challenge & Games.  We want them to be fun, a bit inspirational and a little thought provoking! A gr8 place to meet new {{{friends}}} and a gr8 way to walk the walk!

{{{hugs}}} jules (united2gether, games hostess)

Please do NOT post to this thread anymore.