Cheat to Win!!

It hasn’t even been a week yet…and I am already thinking about cheating. BUT, I did find some information that tells us that Cheating is GOOD for you!!

If you've been on a strict diet all week long, then allowing yourself to have a cheat meal can actually do more good than harm. It will satisfy psychological and physiological cravings and help prevent you from "falling off the wagon." It's human nature to want what you can't have or aren't supposed to have, so going too long without letting yourself relax a bit can lead to binge eating.

If you've been on a very strict low calorie and/or low carbohydrate diet, you might even find yourself leaner with fuller looking muscles after going off your regular diet and increasing your calories for a day. Why? Because the months of severe dieting may have put their bodies into "starvation mode."

When you increase your calories and add foods that you've been restricting for a long period of time (fats and carbohydrates), this can actually speed up your metabolism and make you look leaner - it's like telling your body, "We're not starving anymore; it's safe to start burning more calories now.”

I don't recommend taking an entire day off your diet; keep it down to one meal per week; otherwise it's too easy to get thrown off course and lose your momentum. Maintain your discipline and keep a steady routine including consistent meal timing and frequency. Remember, good day to day habits are the foundation of your success.

Calorieking.com

Dietary control and exercise. It’s true what they say - all you need to do is watch what you eat, and expend more energy than you consume. It’s really that simple.

Yeah, well we all need help with figuring out what this amount is and how to calculate all of this into food and exercise. A great tool that I use all of the time is Calorieking.com. This website is great...there are a lot of great weight loss tools as well as a listing for just about every food that you can ever think of. It even has a ton of restaurant food, including PF Changs, etc. It has the calorie, fat and carb listing for each food, among other information.
You can even put a toolbar on your computer for quick and easy lookup!

Fatty Fees and Paypal

**Important Information if you are using paypal for the pool**
In order to keep the Fatty Fees in the pool at the entire $5.00 amount, our Paypal account will only accept Paypal balance transfers or cash transfers.
Why?
Well, if you pay with a credit or debit card, Paypal assesses the recipient a number of fees. So, the $5.00 you actually owe would only reflect a payment of $4 and some change by the time the fees are taken by Paypal. For that reason, to keep it fair, payments have to be cash. Hopefully that isn't a big deal to anyone, but we want the Pool at the end to be the maximum it is supposed to be, not less because of the Paypal fees.
Simply go to Paypal, click on "add bank account" and when you "send money" you switch the "payment" part to "bank account," not debit or credit card.
Any Questions, please email me.

Start your Engines!!

Beginning Sign ups are in...we are 11 people strong!
Amy R.
Chris L.
Erik M.
Amy W.
Andy W.
Angie B.
Bradie W.
Nate W.
Sharon B.
Brian B.
Chelsey B.

If you know of anybody who still wants to sign up, they will be able to until Jan. 26th...they will just have to pay a $5 penalty depending on how many weigh ins were missed.
Please comment on how you are doing with this..any challenges you are facing,etc. We can all help each other.
I will have different posts up here often to give you different tips. 1st Weigh in will be Wednesday, Jan. 14th. Send me your new weight before midnight, hopefully it is lower!!
Good Luck to all!

2 more Signups!!

2 more sign ups....come on lets get this competition started!! Still trying for at least 2 more to have 10 total people.

Extension of Beginning Signup

I have extended the beginning sign up to Midnight on Wednesday, Jan. 7th to get as many people as we possibly can into this pool. Tell your family and friends to see if they want to join as well! Send me your name, paypal email, and starting weight (by email or phone).

So far we have 6 signups, I will keep you updated as to new numbers tomorrow!

Good Luck!

Tomorrow is Kickoff!

If you want to have fun losing weight and join the pool, you will need to sign up by midnight tomorrow, Monday, January 5th. Email me your name, starting weight and paypal email address. Please also send me a pic of the numbers on the scale to start off with, you can either do this by email or taking a pic of the scale on your phone and sending it to me by text/picture mail to 515-865-1678. If you are in close proximity to me and would rather pay the "pool" by cash rather than paypal, I would except that as well. Just remember, if you don't pay...you are kicked out of the pool.

We already have about 6 people signed up...this will be fun if we get a lot more people!!! Hope to start with more tomorrow!!