<p>I'd have to get on the scale to do that. No way.</p>
Biggest Loser - Winter Edition
<p>A Haiku</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Race Season is Done</p>
<p>For most of us who need help</p>
<p>For Next Year, START NOW!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>CW: 189.5</p>
<p>GW: 175</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Ok, I am about to begin my training for the Rev3 Full in 2012 at Cedar Point. I want to get faster on the bike and I know that the easiest way to do that is to lose weight. Also, I'm feeling heavy and lethargic. For me, I will probably post some measurements, too, but I am starting a slow built through October, and will really pick it up as I head to November. I may fall off the wagon a little as I have to help my folks move, but for the short term, I will be eating better/less and starting to get back to the pool 2x per week, run at least 2x per week, and bike at least 2x per week. I do have the Jewish Holidays' this week, but let's see how it goes!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Race Season is Done</p>
<p>For most of us who need help</p>
<p>For Next Year, START NOW!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>CW: 189.5</p>
<p>GW: 175</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Ok, I am about to begin my training for the Rev3 Full in 2012 at Cedar Point. I want to get faster on the bike and I know that the easiest way to do that is to lose weight. Also, I'm feeling heavy and lethargic. For me, I will probably post some measurements, too, but I am starting a slow built through October, and will really pick it up as I head to November. I may fall off the wagon a little as I have to help my folks move, but for the short term, I will be eating better/less and starting to get back to the pool 2x per week, run at least 2x per week, and bike at least 2x per week. I do have the Jewish Holidays' this week, but let's see how it goes!</p>
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<p>after yesterday's "I'm going to eat all the things I love but make me sick" craziness, I'm feeling all sorts of awful today which is definitely helping me motivate. Food is planned and purchased for the week... so GO!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>SW: 238.5</p>
<p>12/31/11 goal: 214.5</p>
<p> </p>
<p>SW: 238.5</p>
<p>12/31/11 goal: 214.5</p>
<p>ok, who's up for some sort of now-till New Year's challenge? a little reverse resolution-ing?</p>
<p> </p>
<p>pick a weight for 12/31/11. </p>
<p>pick a reward if you make it (spa day? new tri toy?)</p>
<p>pick a penalty if you don't (charitable contribution? run your new year's 5K in drag?)</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>pick a weight for 12/31/11. </p>
<p>pick a reward if you make it (spa day? new tri toy?)</p>
<p>pick a penalty if you don't (charitable contribution? run your new year's 5K in drag?)</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>so, me.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>weight for 12/31: 214.5</p>
<p>reward: New Kindle touch (assuming that passes the husband sniff test). </p>
<p>penalty: 1 week with no social media (facebook and The Twitter)<br>
</p>
<div class="quote-container"><span>Quote:</span>
<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by <strong>em73</strong> <a href="/t/75264/biggest-loser-winter-edition#post_2015693"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border:0px solid;"></a><br><br><p>ok, who's up for some sort of now-till New Year's challenge? a little reverse resolution-ing?</p>
<p> </p>
<p>pick a weight for 12/31/11. </p>
<p>pick a reward if you make it (spa day? new tri toy?)</p>
<p>pick a penalty if you don't (charitable contribution? run your new year's 5K in drag?)</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
</div>
</div>
<br><br><p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>weight for 12/31: 214.5</p>
<p>reward: New Kindle touch (assuming that passes the husband sniff test). </p>
<p>penalty: 1 week with no social media (facebook and The Twitter)<br>
</p>
<div class="quote-container"><span>Quote:</span>
<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by <strong>em73</strong> <a href="/t/75264/biggest-loser-winter-edition#post_2015693"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border:0px solid;"></a><br><br><p>ok, who's up for some sort of now-till New Year's challenge? a little reverse resolution-ing?</p>
<p> </p>
<p>pick a weight for 12/31/11. </p>
<p>pick a reward if you make it (spa day? new tri toy?)</p>
<p>pick a penalty if you don't (charitable contribution? run your new year's 5K in drag?)</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
</div>
</div>
<br><br><p> </p>
<p>one week in!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>SW: 238.5</p>
<p>CW: 235.5</p>
<p>12/31 GW: 214.5</p>
<p> </p>
<p>total progress towards goal: 3 lbs of 24</p>
<p> </p>
<p>SW: 238.5</p>
<p>CW: 235.5</p>
<p>12/31 GW: 214.5</p>
<p> </p>
<p>total progress towards goal: 3 lbs of 24</p>
<p>Flounder, I can't lose all the weight I need to by 12/31 without chopping off an essential body part or two. I'm all about achievable interim goals though, so we're doing a reverse-resolution to get us to New Year's. I'm sure we'll do the next round after that (and probably after that, and after that...)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Anyone else in? No deadline, just put it up here and make yourself accountable.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Anyone else in? No deadline, just put it up here and make yourself accountable.</p>
<p>when I weigh everyday, it helps me identify foods I react to.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>it also typically starts me off in a craptastic mood, but that's a separate issue.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>it also typically starts me off in a craptastic mood, but that's a separate issue.</p>
<p>two weeks in.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>SW: 238.5</p>
<p>LW: 235.5</p>
<p>CW: 232.5</p>
<p>12/31 GW: 214.5</p>
<p> </p>
<p>total progress towards goal: 6 lbs of 24</p>
<br><p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>SW: 238.5</p>
<p>LW: 235.5</p>
<p>CW: 232.5</p>
<p>12/31 GW: 214.5</p>
<p> </p>
<p>total progress towards goal: 6 lbs of 24</p>
<br><p> </p>
<br><br><div class="quote-container"><span>Quote:</span>
<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by <strong>pcsronbo</strong> <a href="/t/75264/biggest-loser-winter-edition/50#post_2017370"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border:0px solid;"></a><br><br><p>I'm having a monthly situation. It's been a month and i've made squat for progress. Ok, maybe it just seems like it</p>
<p> </p>
<p>232</p>
<p> </p>
</div>
</div>
<p><br>
one good choice at a time - that's all you need to do. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>motivation for Ronbo: I'm now *just* lower than you. Get on it!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(are you in on the 12/31 reward/penalty challenge? what are you risking/rewarding here? let's get some accountability up in this bizatch)</p>
<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by <strong>pcsronbo</strong> <a href="/t/75264/biggest-loser-winter-edition/50#post_2017370"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border:0px solid;"></a><br><br><p>I'm having a monthly situation. It's been a month and i've made squat for progress. Ok, maybe it just seems like it</p>
<p> </p>
<p>232</p>
<p> </p>
</div>
</div>
<p><br>
one good choice at a time - that's all you need to do. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>motivation for Ronbo: I'm now *just* lower than you. Get on it!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(are you in on the 12/31 reward/penalty challenge? what are you risking/rewarding here? let's get some accountability up in this bizatch)</p>
<p>three weeks in.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>SW: 238.5</p>
<p>LW: 232.5</p>
<p>CW: 229.5</p>
<p>12/31 GW: 214.5</p>
<p> </p>
<p>total progress towards goal: 9 lbs of 24.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>all of a sudden in the last two days it's apparently obvious that I've lost weight, since everyone and their brother is commenting on it.</p>
<div class="quote-container"> </div>
<p> </p>
<p>SW: 238.5</p>
<p>LW: 232.5</p>
<p>CW: 229.5</p>
<p>12/31 GW: 214.5</p>
<p> </p>
<p>total progress towards goal: 9 lbs of 24.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>all of a sudden in the last two days it's apparently obvious that I've lost weight, since everyone and their brother is commenting on it.</p>
<div class="quote-container"> </div>
<p>I am. It's insane how much weight just falls off me when I stop eating things that I react to. I feel better and I'm so much less hungry. The trick/problem will be figuring out how to keep doing this without going insane (which is what happened last fall, which is why I regained weight...). I'm thinking of scheduling cheat weekends every 8 - 12 weeks so I can sustain this for a while.<br>
</p>
<div class="quote-container"><span>Quote:</span>
<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by <strong>SpartyGirl</strong> <a href="/t/75264/biggest-loser-winter-edition/50#post_2017501"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border:0px solid;"></a><br><br><p>Nice loss MoCo! Are you doing an elimination diet?</p>
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<br><br><p> </p>
</p>
<div class="quote-container"><span>Quote:</span>
<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by <strong>SpartyGirl</strong> <a href="/t/75264/biggest-loser-winter-edition/50#post_2017501"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border:0px solid;"></a><br><br><p>Nice loss MoCo! Are you doing an elimination diet?</p>
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</div>
<br><br><p> </p>
<p>Really long answer ahead. The quick answer is that an elimination diet is designed to figure out what makes you sick, not to help you lose weight. For ME, those two are the same thing.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>There's two ways to do it. One is to keep track of your diet and your symptoms in a diary, look for patterns, cut out what might be the cause, see if you improve, lather, rinse, repeat until you're good.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The challenge to that is if you're reacting to multiple things, it's nearly impossible to narrow it down. Also, you eat foods in combination, so it's hard to say if it's the tomatoes from last night, or the garlic in the sauce, or the pasta, or the cheese, or the chicken, or the wheat in the breadcrumbs... or the additives in the bread crumbs. Or if it's a delayed reaction to the eggs you had at breakfast, or the peach you ate at 3 PM, or some combination of the above. In that example, I react to the garlic, the pasta, the chicken, the wheat, and the additives. Oh, also the eggs, and the peach. So it gets complicated.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>What an elimination diet does (and this is generally under medical supervision, but I'm a rebel) is cuts out almost everything at once. There's various options out there, but the one I follow allows turkey (and I limit to certain brands of turkey, since additives kill me), lamb, wild-caught fish, certain veggies (excluding white potatoes and garlic/onions), and pears. That's it. I'm a tad more flexible, since I know I can eat a few more fruits than that (specifically tomatoes and mangoes), but the first time I did it I followed it to the letter. Nothing to drink except water.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Then, you're basically miserable for 7 - 14 days while your body gets rid of whatever it was that it didn't like. I was moody, headachy, and had seriously intense cravings. Once you reset though, if food* intolerances were your problem, you should feel pretty much amazing. I have more energy, less appetite... all sorts of good things. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>When you get to that even keel, you "challenge" food. This is where the medical supervision comes in, if you have any chance of an anaphylactic reaction. You have 3 - 4 servings of the potential trigger food over 24 hours, then look at how you feel over the next day or so. If your symptoms return (for me, I actually start gaining weight - I think I put on 4 lbs overnight when I tried soy), the food triggers a reaction. If your symptoms don't return, you put it on the good list. You then remove the food from your diet whether your react or not, and try the next thing. The key is if you react, to wait until you are back to that even keel before you try the next thing. Once you've gone through the top list of possibilities, you go back to a more normal diet, excluding the things that are triggers.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>It's insanely boring and very challenging, but if you've been struggling with things, it's really great. I had IBS for years, until I cut out my biggest triggers. Now my GI problems are rare, and most of the time when I have them, I know exactly what I ate that triggered it.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Hope that helps.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>*If you don't feel better, it's not food. Look at other things (fragrances, other chemicals you use - laundry detergent, shampoo, body wash, etc)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>There's two ways to do it. One is to keep track of your diet and your symptoms in a diary, look for patterns, cut out what might be the cause, see if you improve, lather, rinse, repeat until you're good.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The challenge to that is if you're reacting to multiple things, it's nearly impossible to narrow it down. Also, you eat foods in combination, so it's hard to say if it's the tomatoes from last night, or the garlic in the sauce, or the pasta, or the cheese, or the chicken, or the wheat in the breadcrumbs... or the additives in the bread crumbs. Or if it's a delayed reaction to the eggs you had at breakfast, or the peach you ate at 3 PM, or some combination of the above. In that example, I react to the garlic, the pasta, the chicken, the wheat, and the additives. Oh, also the eggs, and the peach. So it gets complicated.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>What an elimination diet does (and this is generally under medical supervision, but I'm a rebel) is cuts out almost everything at once. There's various options out there, but the one I follow allows turkey (and I limit to certain brands of turkey, since additives kill me), lamb, wild-caught fish, certain veggies (excluding white potatoes and garlic/onions), and pears. That's it. I'm a tad more flexible, since I know I can eat a few more fruits than that (specifically tomatoes and mangoes), but the first time I did it I followed it to the letter. Nothing to drink except water.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Then, you're basically miserable for 7 - 14 days while your body gets rid of whatever it was that it didn't like. I was moody, headachy, and had seriously intense cravings. Once you reset though, if food* intolerances were your problem, you should feel pretty much amazing. I have more energy, less appetite... all sorts of good things. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>When you get to that even keel, you "challenge" food. This is where the medical supervision comes in, if you have any chance of an anaphylactic reaction. You have 3 - 4 servings of the potential trigger food over 24 hours, then look at how you feel over the next day or so. If your symptoms return (for me, I actually start gaining weight - I think I put on 4 lbs overnight when I tried soy), the food triggers a reaction. If your symptoms don't return, you put it on the good list. You then remove the food from your diet whether your react or not, and try the next thing. The key is if you react, to wait until you are back to that even keel before you try the next thing. Once you've gone through the top list of possibilities, you go back to a more normal diet, excluding the things that are triggers.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>It's insanely boring and very challenging, but if you've been struggling with things, it's really great. I had IBS for years, until I cut out my biggest triggers. Now my GI problems are rare, and most of the time when I have them, I know exactly what I ate that triggered it.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Hope that helps.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>*If you don't feel better, it's not food. Look at other things (fragrances, other chemicals you use - laundry detergent, shampoo, body wash, etc)</p>
<p>I made my husband do it with me, and we don't have kids. That makes it easier.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<div class="quote-container"><span>Quote:</span>
<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by <strong>mrscoby78</strong> <a href="/t/75264/biggest-loser-winter-edition/50#post_2017547"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border:0px solid;"></a><br><br><p>I tried this.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>I lasted 32 hours.</p>
<p> </p>
</div>
</div>
<br><br><p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<div class="quote-container"><span>Quote:</span>
<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by <strong>mrscoby78</strong> <a href="/t/75264/biggest-loser-winter-edition/50#post_2017547"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border:0px solid;"></a><br><br><p>I tried this.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>I lasted 32 hours.</p>
<p> </p>
</div>
</div>
<br><br><p> </p>
<p>After a certain point, the reward (how much better you feel) makes it easier to stick with it. That's why it isn't and shouldn't be a weight loss plan - it's not a sustainable way of life unless your body limits the types of foods you can easily digest. At some level, it's like being diagnosed as celiac - you just don't have the same food options anymore, so you figure out a way to make it work for you. I never thought I could live without bread, but now, I only miss it rarely.</p>
<p>four weeks in. not a good week - I re-challenged wheat to find out that yes, it still does make me sick. 
then apparently I ate something yesterday that did not agree with me.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>SW: 238.5</p>
<p>LW: 229.5</p>
<p>CW: 230.5</p>
<p>12/31 GW: 214.5</p>
<p> </p>
<p>total progress towards goal: 8 lbs (up one this week)<br>
</p>
then apparently I ate something yesterday that did not agree with me.</p><p> </p>
<p>SW: 238.5</p>
<p>LW: 229.5</p>
<p>CW: 230.5</p>
<p>12/31 GW: 214.5</p>
<p> </p>
<p>total progress towards goal: 8 lbs (up one this week)<br>
</p>
<p> </p>
<p style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(253,252,250);">SW: 238.5</p>
<p id="user_yui_3_4_1_3_1321279733126_82" style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(253,252,250);">LW: 230.5</p>
<p style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(253,252,250);">CW: 228</p>
<p style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(253,252,250);"> </p>
<p id="user_yui_3_4_1_3_1321279733126_80" style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(253,252,250);">12/31 GW: 214.5</p>
<p style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(253,252,250);"> </p>
<p style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(253,252,250);">I should be down more than that, but I'm reacting to something I ate last night (either the yeast in the GF crackers, or the beer, but I needed a vacation from the strictness)</p>
<p style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(253,252,250);"> </p>
<p style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(253,252,250);">I'm ready to be back at it. Seven weeks to new year's people... what are YOU doing today to reach your goal?</p>
<p style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(253,252,250);">SW: 238.5</p>
<p id="user_yui_3_4_1_3_1321279733126_82" style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(253,252,250);">LW: 230.5</p>
<p style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(253,252,250);">CW: 228</p>
<p style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(253,252,250);"> </p>
<p id="user_yui_3_4_1_3_1321279733126_80" style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(253,252,250);">12/31 GW: 214.5</p>
<p style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(253,252,250);"> </p>
<p style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(253,252,250);">I should be down more than that, but I'm reacting to something I ate last night (either the yeast in the GF crackers, or the beer, but I needed a vacation from the strictness)</p>
<p style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(253,252,250);"> </p>
<p style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(253,252,250);">I'm ready to be back at it. Seven weeks to new year's people... what are YOU doing today to reach your goal?</p>
<p>you have seven weeks to lose ten pounds. You clearly CAN make it. I challenge you to give up wheat for two weeks. Just do it.</p>
<p>I told you, you're going to feel like crap for a few days, and then you're going to feel better and it's going to be way easier.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>And are you telling me you're going to let the bread win? Wuss.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>And are you telling me you're going to let the bread win? Wuss.
</p>
<p>what do you want more?</p>
<p> </p>
<p>do you want the deep fried chocolate cake (nom!), or do you want to run faster?</p>
<p> </p>
<p></p>
<p> </p>
<p>do you want the deep fried chocolate cake (nom!), or do you want to run faster?</p>
<p> </p>
<p>
</p>
<br><br><div class="quote-container"><span>Quote:</span>
<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by <strong>mrscoby78</strong> <a href="/t/75264/biggest-loser-winter-edition/125#post_2019931"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style=""></a><br>
I'm at the "well, I'm not really THAT fat, and I don't really feel THAT bad...oh look! Cake!"<br><p> </p>
<p> </p>
</div>
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<p><br>
yeah, I'm there, but I AM that fat. That's why I'm trying to focus on other things, like dragging my fat *ss up the hills in Quassy in June.</p>
<p> </p>
<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by <strong>mrscoby78</strong> <a href="/t/75264/biggest-loser-winter-edition/125#post_2019931"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style=""></a><br>
I'm at the "well, I'm not really THAT fat, and I don't really feel THAT bad...oh look! Cake!"<br><p> </p>
<p> </p>
</div>
</div>
<p><br>
yeah, I'm there, but I AM that fat. That's why I'm trying to focus on other things, like dragging my fat *ss up the hills in Quassy in June.</p>
<p> </p>
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