I don’t know about you, but weighting for the weight to go aweigh…well, it weighs on me! I remember in the early weeks of this incredible journey, it seemed like it was going to take FOREVER. (and yes, I know that for me it has gone pretty fast. But I didn’t know it was going to do that!) I think winning the battle of patience is probably more important to this process than we know. What do you think?
One day at a time, one weigh at a time… We’re gonna get there!!
Now let’s see those stats, shall we?! 
212/183/145ish
Yah, up 2. I so deserve this. We made horrible decisions this weekend! It’s a new day right?
I have a total of 20 exercise pts.
Comment by Tami — May 14, 2007 @ 5:43 am |Edit This
Stayed the same. A little bummed as I did try to exercise despite a major stiff neck and migraine for the entire week, but it is better than a gain. 26 exercise points. I hope everyone has a great day!
Comment by Kellie — May 14, 2007 @ 5:50 am |Edit This
No change, which is amazing considering I also made a few bad decisions this weekend. Learning how to “treat” without slipping into “cheating” is an interesting, slippery slope!
I have 22 HH points, which is the reason I think I managed to pull a “no change” this past week! This next week, here I come!
Comment by Anne — May 14, 2007 @ 5:51 am |Edit This
215/184.5/160 Down 1.5 Must have been all that walking at King’s Dominion. I’m TRYING to get back on track today.
Comment by Kimberly — May 14, 2007 @ 6:10 am |Edit This
200/169.8/160
Down 1.6. 14 exercise points, and most of those are from cycling to and from work. My knee’s feeling better though. Time to get serious about more exercise I think.
Comment by Bekki — May 14, 2007 @ 6:12 am |Edit This
143/128.5/120ish
down 2.5 (wow…this is huge for me!)
I got 8 exercise points…better than nothing
Actually I barely exercised last month because of several crazy things in life…The little bit I have done this month has really made a difference, I think!
Comment by Brandi — May 14, 2007 @ 6:13 am |Edit This
151/144/132, up 1 el-be this week. Muscle, baby. All muscle!
Was there a max on 4 points per day? I think I remember something like that…. so, my points for the week: 26.
Comment by lady laura — May 14, 2007 @ 6:15 am |Edit This
Down 2, with 14 points.
Comment by CJ — May 14, 2007 @ 6:18 am |Edit This
147/143/130
Down 1 - Which really surprises me since I was up 1 yesterday morning and didn’t do very well on the healthy eating during the week. But yesterday I ate good. Weird.
16 HH points this week.
Comment by Anita — May 14, 2007 @ 6:21 am |Edit This
oops. I typed in my weight numbers wrong. They should be 147/133/130. Sorry.
Comment by Anita — May 14, 2007 @ 6:22 am |Edit This
231.5/201/160
Down 2.
I haven’t exercised in probably three or four weeks. I need to get on the ball! I do, though, move around quite a bit with for my job.
(I know I’m grasping at straws.)
Comment by Bird — May 14, 2007 @ 6:22 am |Edit This
210/168.2/135 - I’m down .4 — I was down a whole 2.2 lbs earlier in the week but yesterday I got AF as a Mother’s Day present. Yippeee for me!! I have 28 HH points (we were just counting from Sunday of last week to Saturday….right? — If we were counting yesterday then I have 30 points) I have to say that I was working really hard this week in the exercise department. I’m going to go take my measurements and hopefully I had some better losses in my inches than I had on the scale.
Comment by Mandi — May 14, 2007 @ 6:51 am |Edit This
AF being…?
Comment by Bekki — May 14, 2007 @ 6:55 am |Edit This
D’oh, brain clicked just as I posted.
Comment by Bekki — May 14, 2007 @ 6:55 am |Edit This
239.8/223.6/200
Down 1.8lbs
I managed to get in 30 points for working out. The only day I missed was the first Sat and this past Sat I only got in 30 min.
Comment by Cristina — May 14, 2007 @ 7:22 am |Edit This
With Cristina’s post I’m confused. Did the competition start on last Saturday or last Sunday? And when did it end?
Comment by Mandi — May 14, 2007 @ 7:56 am |Edit This
Hey y’all… well last Monday I weighed 168. Then I was 173 when I weighed in the first day I posted on the site and today I am 167. So I think I have gone down 1 lb and the 173 was a flukey water retention nursing too much caffeine thing??
And I started C25K today! So I have a happy heart! char
Comment by Charlotte Cushman — May 14, 2007 @ 7:59 am |Edit This
Okay so I stopped being lazy and went back and re-read the HH post. I was not including last Saturday (the 5th)in my point totals. I need to re-submit that I have 34 points. I worked out 1 hour everyday except for yesterday (since it was Mother’s Day and all!!) — I only got in 30 minutes of walking yesterday.
Comment by Mandi — May 14, 2007 @ 8:04 am |Edit This
210/169.6/155
I am down .2 this week, which is a little annoying because yesterday morning the scale read 168.6. But I’ll just call it .2 and be done with it.
I guess I had about 5 points, I don’t really know. I just can’t do an hour a day.
Comment by Jana — May 14, 2007 @ 8:22 am |Edit This
The HH competition started Sat May 5th and went through Sun May 13th. We were able to get a max of 36 points.
Comment by Cristina — May 14, 2007 @ 8:25 am |Edit This
HH runs from 5th May? I thought it ran from Monday 7th? OK, then I got 22 points.
Comment by Bekki — May 14, 2007 @ 8:36 am |Edit This
212.8/138.4/135
Up 1.4
Water, water everywhere….
Comment by blestwithsons — May 14, 2007 @ 8:40 am |Edit This
198/182.5/140. It’s up 0.5, and I have 16 points. I started off disappointed cause it seemed my points were low - but I averaged 30 minutes a DAY, not just the 3 days per week I’ve been aiming for. And I’m ready for more, please! I did over an hour already this morning.
Anyone know how much more water you should add when you exercise? I think I am retaining, and it’s not knowledge!
Comment by missy — May 14, 2007 @ 9:24 am |Edit This
missy, when you lift weights, you get small muscle tears (the good kinds) that cause you to retain water. i’d add 8-20 oz per hour worked out… anyone else?
Comment by Anne — May 14, 2007 @ 9:31 am |Edit This
Anne, why add more water when lifting weights if we’re already retaining some water due to the muscle tears? Sorry…I’m clueless.
Comment by Cristina — May 14, 2007 @ 9:47 am |Edit This
I think you always add water when you’re working out, no matter what kind of exercise it is. Period. (Anyone else?)
If you’re retaining water from weight-lifting, it’s because your body needs the water to build new muscle, so you definitely don’t want to drink less water. That’s my understanding, at least.
Comment by Anne — May 14, 2007 @ 9:55 am |Edit This
Cristina - I don’t know the technical answer for that. My husband told me since I was working out hard that I needed to have 1 1/2 gallons of water a day. I was really down early this week but I did not get all my water in this weekend and I think that made a big difference in why I’m holding so much water in. I know that you want that water in your muscles. I think it makes your muscles expand (hence that pumped up feeling after you work out) and this is what helps your muscles grow.
Comment by Mandi — May 14, 2007 @ 10:03 am |Edit This
up .6 to 268.4
I think I managed 4 points this week, but am aware that I haven’t been getting enough exercise. Aim for this week - more exercise, in particular raising the amount of walking I do everyday.
Comment by Debs — May 14, 2007 @ 11:05 am |Edit This
About water retention–I am no expert, but went through MAJOR water retention with my first pregnancy. I mean like everyone commented that I looked like a water balloon. Anyways, I read that the best way to get rid of it is to drink more water (don’t know if it helped.) I wonder if dehydration can cause you to retain kind of like starving yourself can slow your metabolism. I also stopped using salt completely. I don’t know if that helped either…but those were the two most common recommendations–more water and less salt.
And you all know that muscle weighs a lot more than fat, right? Once I went on a diet in high school. Part of it was power walking like an hour a day. After a few weeks, no weight loss! I actually went to the doctor because I wondered what was wrong with me. I told her about the diet and walking and she said, “that should work, are your clothes fitting more loosely?” I felt like an idiot. “Well, yes, as a matter of fact they are…..” Duhhhhh
HTH!
Comment by Brandi — May 14, 2007 @ 11:36 am |Edit This
I guess I need do better about tracking my water intake so that I can see how drinking more affects me. I lift weights for 30-40 minutes 3x’s a week and we just got some dumbbells for home use, so I might get more weights in…so I need to do better with my water intake.
Mandi, what type of weight workout do you do? I think it’s time to change mine up a bit, so I’m looking for some ideas. I’ve been following BFL since Jan and I haven’t changed my routine…still doing the same exercises with same number of sets/reps, although I have increased the weight.
Comment by Cristina — May 14, 2007 @ 11:59 am |Edit This
198/170/140
Down two pounds this week. Blest - I saw last week you were two pounds away, then up this week. Don’t get frustrated or discouraged! I bet by next Monday you’ll make your goal!
Comment by Caroline — May 14, 2007 @ 12:43 pm |Edit This
Cristina - we pretty much follow the BFL deal. This week is 3 days of weights with 2 being legs/abs and 1 being arms/chest/back. You can increase or decrease the time between sets…..try different exercises. If you always do shoulder presses then lateral raises try doing shoulder shrugs and then front raises. (You can look on their website for more exercises) Also, are you working your muscle to fatigue?? That set of 6 (right before the 12) should be VERY hard…and then when you do the 12 it should be a struggle to complete. Sometimes I cannot get all 12 in. My dh says that is good b/c you want to fatigue the muscle. Are you doing squats and lunges for legs? There is NOTHING better for legs IMO. I also do about 20 minutes of cardio right after my weight training. We do interval training (run as hard as I can for 2 minutes…then jog/walk for 30-90 seconds…then start all over again). I don’t follow the BFL when it comes to cardio. I don’t think you want to do more than 3 days of weight training in a week. The recovery time is when you are building your muscle. You could mix up your cardio and try to fit in an aerobics class/dvd where you are strengthening your core or using light weights/resistance bands. My only other comments relate to eating and I think you have to make sure you are getting adequate protein to build your muscles.
Comment by Mandi — May 14, 2007 @ 12:55 pm |Edit This
220/181.6/175
Down 2.
Points 7 although that didn’t include the first weekend but don’t think I did any exercise to speak of then. I think we all got confused about which days we were counting.
Its not a wonderful total but better than nothing. Do we still keep counting this week? I think I should anyway as it is good for me to have something to aim for.
I hurt again today. Left over from the chest infection of a few weeks ago - at least the aches have never gone away but it does seem worse again. Maybe I need to go back to the doctor.
Comment by elly — May 14, 2007 @ 12:55 pm |Edit This
Thanks for the advice Mandi. I think I need to change my exercises and up my weight. I was just telling my husband this weekend that I don’t feel sore after doing weights anymore, so I think it’s time for a change.
It seems like we’re doing about the same thing. I do the weights 3 times a week and on those 3 days I also do 20 minutes of cardio right after. Then on the off days I do 60 minutes of cardio. I like your idea about the interval training with the cardio. I think I’ll do that to kick my cardio up a notch as well.
Thanks so much for the ideas/suggestions!
Comment by Cristina — May 14, 2007 @ 1:11 pm |Edit This
Cristina - 60 minutes of cardio!!?? I can only do 30 minutes of cardio when I am doing the intervals…..right after each of my cardio days I work out my abs. You can work the abs out everyday (so I’ve read) as they don’t need as much recovery time as other muscles. I think you should try and lower your cardio to no more than 30 minutes. I think it would help your muscles recover better and you may notice you have more stamina for your weight training days. Just a suggestion. Bill Phillips says that if something is working you should stick with it until it stops working. I see that you had a good loss this week so maybe your exercise routine is good….maybe you just need to increase the intensity with higher weights. For cardio if running is difficult you could also just increase the resistance or incline. Tonight after working my legs out they were just totally spent. I could only do the intervals for about 8 minutes. After that I did intervals but by raising/lowering the incline level. Sometimes with cardio I think less and more intense is better than long and less intense.
Comment by Mandi — May 14, 2007 @ 5:38 pm |Edit This
I wish I could run…my knees are so bad. I used to do walking for cardio but I need to loose more weight. I’ve been doing elliptical and stationary bike because it’s easier on the knees. I’ll do elliptical for 20 minutes (my feet start going numb after 20 minutes…ha!) and then I switch to 25 minutes bike and then another 15 minutes elliptical. I’ve just recently upped the intensity level but I think I need to pay attention and not slow down when the higher intensity kicks in.
I definitely want to try the intervals like you’re doing…maybe then I won’t be able to last the full hour. Tomorrow is cardio day…so I’m going to try that out tomorrow. Yeah…I’m so looking forward to my cardio tomorrow…I’m adding in those 2 minutes of more intensity!
Comment by Cristina — May 14, 2007 @ 5:54 pm |Edit This
216/191/145
Eeeek. That’s four pounds up. And still haven’t worked out.
I have a pretty good reason…just not gonna go into it now. I get 12 Heart points. 
Comment by Bethany — May 14, 2007 @ 8:52 pm |Edit This