Tubby Tubby Weight loss challenge 2011

[Jim]

On my scale, I believe that the .4 .6 .7 etc. are just percentages of a pound. Therefore, the following table might be good to have.... regards, Rich

10% of 16 ozs equals 1.6 ozs

20% = 3.2 ozs
30%= 4.8 ozs
40%=6.4 ozs
50%=8 ozs
60%=9.6 ozs
70%=11.2 ozs
8%=12.8 ozs
90%=14.4 ozs

Excellent! I came up with 4.8 ounces also. You just confirmed it for me.

 

[richg99]

OK Over the last month or so...I posted a large number of foods that we SHOULD NOT EAT!

How about, for once, .... from my favorite web site...GOOD THINGS TO EAT..regards, Rich

https://eatthis.menshealth.com/slideshow/20-best-restaurant-foods-america?cm_mmc=ETNTNL-_-03252011-_-HTML-_-1


13. Best Drive-Thru Mexican.....
Taco Bell Grilled Steak Soft Tacos, Fresco Style
(2 tacos)
320 calories
9 g fat (3 g saturated)
1,200 mg sodium
18 g protein

With eight Fresco items to choose from, how do the Grilled Steak Tacos end up in the spotlight? Through a combination of low calories, high protein, and big flavor. But here’s the best news of all: No two-taco combo on the Fresco menu will bag you more than 360 calories, and if you’re feeling extra hungry, you can spring for a burrito-taco combination. Even then you can’t do worse than 520 calories.

12. Best Drive-Thru Combo Meal.....
Chick-fil-A Chargrilled Chicken Sandwich with Medium Fruit Cup and Unsweetened Iced Tea
360 calories
3 g fat (0.5 g saturated)
1,320 mg sodium

Surprise, surprise, you can get a healthy meal in the drive-thru lane. Here you have a full meal for 360 calories, and between the chicken and fruit, it provides 27 grams of protein, 40 percent of your day’s vitamin A, and more than 2 days of your vitamin C. Choose this over a Big Mac with medium fries twice a week, and in a year’s time, you’ll have cut almost 17 pounds of flab off your belly.

18. Best Fast Food Breakfast.....
McDonald's Egg McMuffin
300 calories
12 g fat (5 g saturated)
820 mg sodium

We’ve been behind the Egg McMuffin since the dawn of Eat This, Not That! and the reason is threefold. One, it’s incredibly lean by breakfast-sandwich standards; two, it comes stacked with 18 grams of hunger-fighting protein; and three, there’s probably one on your way to work.

8. Best Drive-Thru Burger......
Wendy's ¼-Pound Single
430 calories
20 g fat
(7 g saturated, 1 g trans)
870 mg sodium
25 g protein

In the shadow of so many elephantine burgers, we pay homage to Wendy’s ¼-Pound Single. Sure you can find burgers with fewer calories, but for one that’s portioned to be a meal in and of itself, this is your best option. Seriously, we’ve carefully compared the weight and calories of many of the food industry’s most popular patties, and calorie for calorie, you won’t find more burger for your bite.

3. Best Sit-Down Burger......
Red Robin Natural Burger
570 calories
25 g fat
979 mg sodium

The 570-calorie price tag is for the basic burger with lettuce, tomato, onion and pickle. If you’re looking for something more extravagant, ignore the house-made concoctions and start with the Natural as your base. Add on a few of the dozens of fixings on offer—salsa, ’shrooms, or, our favorite, a 42-calorie slather of delicious guacamole.

 

[devilmutt]

Starting Weight - 253.4
Jan 7 - 244.5
Jan 14 - 240.2
Jan 21 - 239
Jan 28 - 237.2
Feb 5 - 237.2 (New Scale)
Feb 11 - 233.4
Feb 18 - 235
Feb 24 - 235
Mar 4 - 235.2
Mar 11 - 234.4
Mar 18 - 234.6
Mar 25 - 234.4

 

[worminken]

Saturday is my start day and I plan on weighing (less) each Saturday morning. My starting weight is between 240-245. I'll let you know Saturday.
1-1-11 - 245.2
1-8-11 - 238.7
1-15-11 - 236.2
1-22-11 - 234.6
1-29-11 - 232.3
2-5-11 - 231.8
2-12-11 - 230.6
2-19-11 - 228.00
2-26-11 - 227.7
3-4-11 - 226.1
3-12-11 - 223.6
3-19-11 - 222.7
3-26-11 - 223.8

I must have hit a bump in the road. And killed it. And eaten it. A "high calorie" bump in the road.

 

[Brine]

One of these days.... #-o

You guys keep at it, and eventually I'll join ya!

 

[poolie]

I had a milestone day today. After a leg killing 30 mile ride on the bicycle (1400 calories) I wobbled back to the house for a nice warm shower then stepped on the scale. 169.2 Man... I have sooo been wanting to get out of the 170's. My initial goal was to get to 169 thought I not giving up until I get to at least 165.

That was 6 hours ago and my legs are still pooped. Strangely I can't wait to go do it again.

 

[richg99]

Congratulations....and I was happy when I walked four miles the other day...ha! Well done! Keep it up. If I ever got to 169 lbs....I'd be dead.
Rich

 

[Jim]

Had a little bit of a bender this weekend. #-o

Oh well, it happens. Time to refocus.

 

[richg99]

Whoops...gained back .8 of a pound this week. Plateaued...that is me.

However, I read the SECRET OF WEIGHT LOSS this morning... here is the LINK.
regards, rich
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https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/health/To-Lose-Weight-Relax-Grab-Shuteye-118977129.html

To Lose Weight, Relax, Grab Shuteye
NBC Bay Area - Greg Wilson - ‎1 hour ago‎
Exercise is good, but if you really want to lose weight, chill out and take a nap. A new study found that people who get between six and eight hours of sleep every day and are under the least amount of stress had the easiest time .

 

[poolie]

What's up with us gaining this week? My (obviously malfunctioning) scale said I gained back a .6 pounds this morning.

 

[fender66]

What's up with us gaining this week? My (obviously malfunctioning) scale said I gained back a .6 pounds this morning.

Has to be the phase of the moon pie sandwich.

 

[richg99]

I am convinced that..... if I originally cut my eating xxx percent or calories ...then that amount of cut produced 20 lbs ( in my case ) of loss. However, continuing eating at that same, new, adjusted rate...only allows me to "maintain"...but not improve... over the original weight loss.

Sooooooo... if that is so, the only way that I am going to lose additional weight is to either increase my activity a LOT...or...cut my consumption of calories by even more than I have so far.

To bear that out...I started out at WW with 47 daily points. Thea have now cut me down to a current 43 points. Little tiny women only get 29 points.

It seems to me that I have to cut back more or I am going to be on "maintain status" forever. Now, that wouldn't be all bad, since 20 lbs off is still 20 lbs off. I've heard of a lot of people who lost a ton more...and then...gained it all back again.

I have a minor knee operation scheduled tomorrow. That will screw up my exercise program for a few weeks.

We shall see. regards, Rich

p.s. My original target loss was 32 lbs. I am at 20 lbs. More to go!

 

[worminken]

Saturday is my start day and I plan on weighing (less) each Saturday morning. My starting weight is between 240-245. I'll let you know Saturday.
1-1-11 - 245.2
1-8-11 - 238.7
1-15-11 - 236.2
1-22-11 - 234.6
1-29-11 - 232.3
2-5-11 - 231.8
2-12-11 - 230.6
2-19-11 - 228.00
2-26-11 - 227.7
3-4-11 - 226.1
3-12-11 - 223.6
3-19-11 - 222.7
3-26-11 - 223.8
4-2-11 - 224.2

I'm headed in the wrong direction. I suppose I need more physical activity.

 

[richg99]

Boy....was I ever wrong....Increasing my exercise isn't, apparently, going to help with weight loss at all!


In short, it's what you eat, not how hard you try to work it off, that matters more in losing weight


"In general, for weight loss, exercise is pretty useless," says Eric Ravussin, chair in diabetes and metabolism at Louisiana State University and a prominent exercise researcher


The entire article from TIME

https://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1914857-4,00.html

 

[richg99]

Down .4 lb this week. Near my lows.

No exercise at all, due to a knee operation. Ate lots of apples, though. It seems that if I eat a lot of apples, I don't eat all that other junk. Must be something to it. No points for apples in the WW system.
Hmmm?????


Rich

 

[richg99]

30 Healthy foods that aren't...

https://eatthis.menshealth.com/slideshow/30-healthy-foods-arent?cm_mmc=ETNTNL-_-04062011-_-HTML-_-body

 

[poolie]

Boy....was I ever wrong....Increasing my exercise isn't, apparently, going to help with weight loss at all!


In short, it's what you eat, not how hard you try to work it off, that matters more in losing weight


"In general, for weight loss, exercise is pretty useless," says Eric Ravussin, chair in diabetes and metabolism at Louisiana State University and a prominent exercise researcher


The entire article from TIME

https://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1914857-4,00.html

Haven't read the article yet, but I have to agree. I can go out on the bicycle and burn off a 1000 calories or more a couple times a week and I have a temporary drop in weight, but if I slack off for one moment on my healthy eating it bounces back. Ultimately it's about calorie intake.

 

[baseball_guy_99]

On Monday, March 28th, I decided it was time for me to lose some weight.

I'm starting out by just cutting out my soda intake. I am also going to start trying to eat a little healthier.

My starting weight on the 28th was 240.2 lbs.

I weighed myself this Monday morning (4/4/11) and I'm down to 236.6.

All I have done so far is limit my soda intake to 1-12oz can per day which I would like to cut out completely.

My target weight is 215lbs...but more is always better!


BTW I'm 6'2" tall.

 

[richg99]

BB guy....welcome aboard. Lots of good ideas and sharing going on here. Rich

 

[Outdoorsman]

12/31/10 @ 248.5
1/3/11 @ 248
1/10/11 @ 249 - Up 1 pound.... need to get more active and snack less...
1/13/11 @ 246.5 - Did some snow shovelin....
1/17/11 @ 243.5 - Now my next goal is 240...could not get there last time...
1/28/11 @ 248 - Major setback... unexpected shi@# happens.. fell of the wagon.. was eating wrong to help deal with the shi@#... time to get back on the right track...
2/10/11 @ 243 - Back down to where 240 is in my sights... one good thing about all the snow is that even with a snowblower I worked and swetted off the pounds...
3/6/11 @ 238.5 - Broke my short term goal of 240 about a week ago.. just wanted to maintain it before I posted it here...now its on the 235...

Outdoorsman