**OFFICIAL** Jan 1st - April 1st [2013] Weight Loss Thread/Competition

[Earlbolus]

Sweet, cool to see you're still doing these krete77.

After a tough year full of emotional turmoil and really getting everything else in my life in check, I feel I'm finally in the best place I've ever been to be prepared to do one of these. So, let's bring it on. 2013 is my year.

I'll get a starting weight on Jan 1 - should likely be around 330.

Good to see you again!

I gained around 13 lbs back the last four months of the 32 initially lost. Time to get back at it!

[Metspride129]

good to see you again!

I gained around 13 lbs back the last four months of the 32 initially lost. Time to get back at it!

you again!!! Ahhhhhhhh 8-)

[Vaylor]

Sounds like fun.

[Sammm94]

I got 20-30 pounds to lose...so this should be good..
it's my first time trying to lose weight...been going to the gym constant for 2-3 weeks...counting calories for a month
haven't dropped a pound...so...I better be different by the time the competition ends

[triddle2]

It just means you have a lot more potential for weight loss. Shoot to win this thing!

How exactly is this competition won?

Is there a winner at the end?

[deebee83]

Initial weigh in at 179.

Starting creatine today (not doing a loading phase, just taking 5g a day from the beginning). Any ideas on how much I'll put on before weight plateaus?

[matman1813]

How exactly is this competition won?

Is there a winner at the end?

There is no prize but you win by; losing the most total weight or losing the most weight as a % of your original weigh in.

[krete77]

first weigh in is 1/6/13 correct?

You are correct sir.

There is no prize but you win by; losing the most total weight or losing the most weight as a % of your original weigh in.

^ That is how you win.

I've got a tshirt idea for the winner that's been brewing since the last couple competitions. Maybe I'll actually pull through with it this year lol

[Chrisgixxer]

I'm in I got 20-25lbs to lose to get to my goal 175-180!!!! Im starting at 201.... Great motivation!!!!

[truushot]

Starting weight will be 183.8. Goal... um ah... Lose some body fat.

[stingray72]

weighed in at 158 time to get back down to 146.0.

[NONOPUST]

Just sent my sign-up PM.

Starting weight today is 198.6

If all goes well, I'd like to get to 175 by April.

[theconomist]

Been trying to fast these past few days to make up for a binge I had a while ago but I just can't seem to.

Tomorrow will be a free day. Won't go above 3000 calories but I definitely won't hold myself back.
I'll try to fast the day after.

[johnnyj411]

IN! Goal is to lose 25-30lbs b4 beach trip this summer. LETS DO THIS SHIAT!..............














INB4 New Years bash tomorrow nite! MY last feast-over indulgence. Gonna make it f'n worth while too! Not a single furk gonna be givin that nite!lol

[Kerune]

I still can't believe that the retention rate is so low on these. I honestly didn't plan on cutting until April (just March), so I may be bulking then but we'll see, good luck to us all and I hope the ppl who keep consistent can learn to know each other.

[curjo]

I'll join in, still on the way down but it's going slow. Recomping quite a bit, my last two dexa scans showed a 34 lb fat loss and a 24 lb lbm gain. Starting weight as on yesterday is 252.0.

[KidAlchemy]

In and official! Starting at 176,5lbs and hoping to get low 155lbs by summer. No hurry .

[ShapingUp]

Subbed to pm tomorrow after I weigh myself {shudder}. I'm another one that has gotten too thin and put most of it back on again.

Thanks OP and Good Luck Everyone!

And thanks for the template Earlbolus.

[truushot]

I'll join in, still on the way down but it's going slow. Recomping quite a bit, my last two dexa scans showed a 34 lb fat loss and a 24 lb lbm gain. Starting weight as on yesterday is 252.0.

Dude you didn't gain 24 pounds of LBM... No chance.

[Mustrainhard]

I'm in after missing out on the last one back in Nov. I have been consistently losing about a 1lb/wk inspite of the holidays and hope to keep that up. I would like to lose about 40lb total to compete in PL next Fall. However my main goal is just being healthy and more energy. I also plan on lifting 6 days a week to keep muscle. Tall order perhaps, but you gotta try.

[Kelekin]

yeahhhhh buddy! great to have you back Kelekin!!! old school name droppin baby

Awesome Let's do this.

[ProfessorPants]

My goal in the competition is to get below (and stay below) 200 pounds. I'll re-assess at the end and maybe move on to reaching 190 by May.


I weighed five pounds less this morning than I did on Saturday morning (losing water weight from a cake-eating fiasco on Friday night), but my initial weight was submitted yesterday. Is that cheating? Should I resubmit another weight (such as tomorrow's)? I feel bad that I already lost a cheap five pounds.

[Kelekin]

I learned a lot this year in regards to how my body works with weight loss. Part of it is the realization that yeah, I do have to work a little bit harder than some others, but being okay with it. It's amazing that there are still people that don't understand that every single person actually -does- have a different metabolism despite every single biology book stating this. I gained weight throughout school despite being in after-school sports programs every single weekday for at least 2 hours, due to poor eating habits, but I also was restricted by my parents on food at the same time. So after two years of metabolic experiments and discussion with my doctor, I can finally conclude that even at 330lbs, I maintain at 2300 calories. My body also metabolizes carbohydrates very poorly, since I've had liver issues for over a decade so I see significantly more progress on lower-carb diets so I'll be trying to eat less filler carbs like wheat/sugar.

Which, based on actual metabolic information in obese people, means my metabolism is roughly 20% slower than the average person (not this 4000 calorie maintenance bs people think they have while sitting on their asses). But instead of letting myself get down about it, it just means I have to work harder. It's just funny that there are people that can cut and lose weight at 2300, and it's unfortunate that at my weight I can't do so.

My food habits are better, which has allowed me to barely gain anything back in the past six months. I am right where I was at the end of June, despite having weeks where I'd eat non-stop, because I've stayed super active and on any day after I ate like ****, I'd actually just make a broccoli/cauliflower stirfry and have that for the day and be satisfied. A year ago, I would have barely touched vegetables. Now I make tons of veggie soups and stirfries and am slowly learning to add more and more into my daily life. I want to go to Europe in August. I need to be in good enough shape to do that. So it's time to get this together. I fixed almost all the other aspects of my life this year, except this, the biggest one.

My goal is steep, I'm going to say my goal is 60 lbs. Rather set the bar high.

[KidAlchemy]

You are correct sir.

So it's every sunday?

[Nobodychange]

So it's every sunday?

Yeah. But its important on 1/6/2013 you send in your wieght in or you will be dropped. THat is the first weigh in.

[curjo]

Dude you didn't gain 24 pounds of LBM... No chance.

Sorry but the dexa scans don't lie. A lot of that was water due to me getting my first one after 10 weeks of an extreme low cal diet and being extremely depleted. Notice I said lbm and not muscle.

[krete77]

first weigh in is 1/6/13 correct?

So it's every sunday?

Yup. After this following sunday, I accept any entry on any day if you are late. I just drop you until you resubmit. However, the first submission is important because it shows me who is serious about sticking it out.

[krete77]

Hey all,

69 entries so far. If you don't see your name on the list, then you submitted incorrectly or I didn't get it. I'm still getting incorrect entries.

Just to clear a couple things up;

- Submissions are on every Sunday (anytime) from here on out.
- If you do not submit this upcoming Sunday (1/6) you will be dropped permanently, no exceptions.


https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...sRTZkNEE#gid=9

[anonymous]

I'm in! Want to be at around 200 by the time the contest ends.

[stormtiger]

Definitely in!

Happy New Year everyone!