While there were no fitness competitions this Sunday, teams still reported to work out, weigh in, and attend their weekly lecture. ACE Certified Health Coach Pam Hutchinson spoke about portion distortion, and made participants aware that in our culture, "you eat with your eyes". Pam provided guidance and tools that would help teams overcome the portion challenges when planning their meals. A small group of repeat participants worked with Clinical Psychologist, Cheryl Gelernter, PhD., to delve into eating behaviors to better manage their personal weight loss.
With the teams now several weeks into the Largest Loser program, some contestants have been faced with challenges such as illness/injury that could potentially curb their weight loss efforts. The green team lost trainer Casey Canada, as he has to return home. Still, each team collectively managed to yield positive (rather, negative) results. Great job to all teams!
Green Team
Even as we battled flu and the loss of a trainer (good luck, Casey!) we managed to take the top spot in % of all teams this week, with 1.4 % loss of body fat.
Robert continues to be a force and we all held in there with losses on the scale.
Workout accomplishment this week:
Completion of Tabata homework, fitting in workouts no matter how small, in the face of life's adversities.
Goals for the week: eat more greens, stay active, eat mindfully.
Blue Team
The blue team continues to work hard to drop those pounds. Thank you to Pam for teaching us about portion distribution. We as team blue have hopefully learned to not eat with our eyes. Team blue had some great weight loss numbers which allowed for us to tie with the orange team (our cousins), coming in second place in team weight loss this week.
Orange Team
This week we faced some challenges. Team members continue to deal with injuries, sick children, family functions that make food choice difficult and busy work schedules. Life happens and we need to remember to account for that in our lifestyle changes.
We had an awesome workout Tuesday night with the Blue Team- 30 people, 13 stations and lots of sweat! Thursday night we ended our training by running a mile. Congrats to Amy who took two minutes off of her time!
The Orange Team also wanted to thank Lisa for her Saturday morning workouts. Boy can we feel those tabatas. Vince has also been offering a water workout Sunday mornings for those who have mobility issues. Another great opportunity to burn calories and lots of fun too.
Yellow Team
Wednesday, March 26th – the workout was the best
organized and most challenging of the first month. The circuit/stations that were laid out
looked “oh so easy”. They were not. About three minutes into the first round of
stations the exercises took on the feeling of “boot camp”. With drill sergeant J. Johnny Johnny and
Major Tully leading the way, it was a perfect mix of energy bursts and rest
periods. We were also graced with a
guest appearance from Hall of Fame trainer D. Forsilius. The wiley veteran kept the pressure up with
words of encouragement while ensuring we endured maximum pain and fatigue from
the “wave rope” station. We hope she
returns. Everyone was fully exhausted
from the workout and we knew it was time to end the circuit training when one
Loser chose to not stand up but roll on the floor from one station to the next.
Even the Golden Girls were tested towards by end of the circuit training but none of the team dropped out!!
Our inspirational leader, Austin, returned in a week and
half to resume
his mastery of the plank position.
Our
Sunday, March 30th weigh-in showed the group losing the least amount of
weight (percentage-wise) of the teams but percentages may be
deceiving. The middle weeks of the program present their own set of
challenges. We are not yet in great physical shape and are probably
still in the process of "breaking down" muscle tissue in some areas of
the body. Other parts of the body may be getting stronger and those
muscles weigh more than the fat it replaced so great weight loss will
not be realized each week. Our commitment to the program and doing the
right thing is still strong and week by week we should be
able to exercise harder and for longer periods. When physical
limitations affect strenuous exercise, dieting and adherence to the
nutritional guidelines we have received will keep us on the right path.
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