That’s my goal – to be at 140 by December 16th. It’s totally reasonable. In the last 10 months I’ve lost 20 lbs – so if I step things up, I can absolutely do it. Today I weighed in at 159.7 lbs. I sincerely cannot remember the last time in my life I weighed this little. Exactly 10 years ago I had just lost weight and gotten down to 169, which means that I had been heavy for a time before that. Crazy. I would estimate it’s been a minimum of 15 years since I’ve been this weight, and I know this is the healthiest I’ve been in my life.
Here’s me this morning:
For the next 20 weeks I am committing to:
- Posting a picture per week.
- Posting my weight every week (including high, low, and average).
- Posting weekly about my successes and challenges.
- Set weekly goals for myself, and discuss them.
- Doing a minimum of 3o minutes of physical activity per day.
Week 1 goals:
- Five days of no sweets/processed sugars (save for my post-workout chocolate milk).
- Tracking food every day.
- Only water or black coffee five days this week.
- 4 days of jiu jitsu.
- 3 days of lifting weights (these can overlap with jiu jitsu).
- Walking 30 minutes on days I don’t do BJJ or weights.
It’s shown that people are more successful when they’re publicly accountable. So I want to encourage you. Let’s lose together – (or if you’re trying to gain, that’s cool too.) Tim Ferriss mentions in The Four Hour Body that tracking + loss aversion > how-to. The simple act of tracking helps ensure more success. Public accountability creates an incentive.
17:00-21:00 is where he starts talking about weight loss and behavior change. Very cool and worth watching.
He also mentions the rules of behavioral change: Make it conscious, make it a game, make it competitive, make it small and temporary.
So make a commitment – here, now. If you’d like to join me, I ask you to:
- Commit to posting about your weekly successes and challenges.
- Commit to creating weekly goals for yourself and assessing your prior week.
- Commit to sticking to this until the end (or when you have decided you will stick to it).
- Commit to doing it in a HEALTHY way – this is not about CUTTING weight.
- Commit to helping support others here – encouraging them and checking up on them.
I encourage you to:
- Post about this on your blog – get your readers involved as well.
- Share numbers – either measurements or pounds.
- Track your food.
I’ve tossed down the gauntlet. Will you take it up?
This is a great idea. I have a similar goal, but I I was planning to outline the whole process after it was done. I tempted to reconsider that now.
No reason you can’t do both!
I took your advice.
KB – are you doing this? Want to link to your process?
I’ll put up a update after the Atlanta Open.
http://bjjcanvas.com/sharpening-the-blade/
This is the outline of what I’m doing, and I’ll just update it as I go.
Awesome! That’s a really cool thing to do – that hard line for yourself. Good luck to you, man!
I’m in–I wish I had the courage to post the actual numbers, but I don’t. Suffice it to say that I don’t think I’ve ever weighed as much as I do currently except when I was very pregnant, and I’m, well, not now. Some of what I need to lose is baby weight, but some of it is I-just-went-face-down-in-a-bowl-of-ice-cream-at-10PM weight. Sadly, 20 pounds still isn’t all the weight that needs to come off, but it’s a beginning. I’m going to start by cutting out the extra “treats” and make sure my calories come from food and not regular soda or Starbucks–and I need to get moving 3x per week on the bike we have at home, or by walking the dog or going to the gym.
Hey Debbyie! I’d encourage you to do it here – no one else knows who you are! I *definitely* won’t be judging you – hell, I got up to 231 and I had no baby to blame it on even a little bit. Excellent – are you going to try to cut out all the treats 7 days per week? Or 5? I’d encourage you to pick how many days. Going cold turkey might be a bit hard!
Okay. Nevermind. I read the entire post (shame on me for skimming). I am totally in. Do I need to make a blog or something? Or just post on here?
Just posting on here is fine. I would recommend posting about it on Facebook though!!
I was actually thinking of doing this because I really wanna cut to 110 pounds so I can compete in Pluma :PPPPPPPPP without cutting weight and being horrible to my body! I’m miraculously 120 pounds now without particularly watching what I eat (and you’ve been to Malaysia, u know how bad/good the food here is for you! Bad for the body, good for the mouth!) so I figured if I just train as I do and watch the diet, hopefully that will bring me down to Pluma. š
Agreed! You are such an awesome cook – I literally gained 10 lbs in 10 days!
What specifically will you be doing? Will you be cutting noodles 5 days per week? Candies or soda? What is your goal date?
I plan to follow this diet that seems sound and at 1500-1800 calories that seems quite do-able (I’m probably hitting 2000 over calories a day at the way I eat nyuk nyuk nyuk).
Spending a week with me you probably realize I don’t eat too much candies or soda (or sweet stuff in general except bubble tea but I’ve since given that up) but giving up rice and noodles is gonna be hard!
http://blogilates.com/blogilates-90-day-challenge-meal-plan-workout-calendar
http://blogilates.com/nutrition-2/6596867132
http://blogilates.com/diet-2/lean-out-mini-meal-plan
Goal date? Probably end Sept is a good time. I need to start planning the diet now cause I’m gonna have to bring my food to work and spend the extra time preparing my meals!!!
LET”S DO IT TOGETHERRRRR
I’m going to post here. Too many of my teammates read my regular blog, and I oddly don’t want to tell them what I weigh, even if I’ll tell all YOUR readers.
My approach: gluten free, dairy free (doctor’s orders) and semi following the Warrior Diet (one meal a day)– 5 days a week working out in my regular gym, a crossfit-esque 50 min class. Jiu jitsu, 6 days a week.
Today: weighed 148.
Will you be going gluten and dairy free 7 days per week?
I can’t do one meal per day. My feeling is that I want to lose it in a sustainable way and create good habits, and for me, I can’t sustain 1 meal per day. What’s your thinking behind this? (not accusatory – just curious). Because I’ve also been very public with my weight loss, there’s no way I ever want anyone thinking I lost because I was fasting or doing something extreme other than sensible diet/exercise principles, so for a while I was doing Intermittent Fasting, but it didn’t suit me well.
Hmmm…I should post about my experience with IF.
Level up! http://www.nerdfitness.com/
I love that website!
I’ll do it, too. I’m going for 40 lbs in 12 weeks (safely & healthfully). I published my first of many weekly posts on my blog about it. I’ll be updating it weekly and I’m very excited to follow everyone’s progress!
Thanks for pushing this, Julia! It’s precisely what I needed at this time!
Hey Ronnie! No problem! Hmmm – 40 lbs in 12 weeks is about 3-3.5 lbs per week. Good luck to you! I don’t think I could do that – I’ve already lost more than 30% of my body weight total, and once I hit 138.6 I will have officially lost 40% of my body weight. Nutzo! I know that it’s easier to lose the weight at the beginning, and those last bits are really hard to lose. I’ll be routing for you!
It was the push I needed to help motivate myself. Somehow it seems much easier if I know other people are (sort of) relying on me. I hadn’t been as strict as I needed to be to break through that 159-163 mark, and so asking others to join me helped me with the mental aspect.
Good luck to you!
Absolutely, social support plays a HUGE role in positively reinforcing motivation for our goals! Thanks for exciting people to do this & for encouraging us bloggers to write about it & share our journey.
I recently updated my “before” pics at my blog, per your request š
Ronnie – your blog post disappeared. Did you do this? Are you updating?
I’m in, probably starting Monday – posting on my blog (bunnyjiujitsu.wordpress). I’m trying to gather courage to list my weight on my blog (not sure if I will yet), but I know I can lose 20lbs!
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Starting weight – 194.0
Will take measurements today.
GOALS
Track food all week.
30 min cardio – 6 days
strength training- 2 days
EXCELLENT! I’m actually writing up the week 6 round up as we speak!
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