MSU Red Cedar Message Board

You could go Biggest Loser style and use percentages. Then your first dude would have 14% weight loss and your second dude would have 25%. But me and the dude who wants to gain weight would definitely lose.

Percentages by BMI. Current / initial. Lowest percent wins.

I'm in...could stand to drop 20 or so.

I got about 50 lbs to go so I'm game

I think Percentage body fat is the way to go

You don't want to lose muscle

EDIT: I might have won this year if I known of the thread

I'm in. I can stand to lose about 10-15.

I think BMI is useless, you can have a very low percent of body fat but still be considered overweight. I would rather go by percent body fat, it's a better indicator of your overall health IMO.

But I'm not really planning on winning, I just want to get back into the habit of exercising regularly and eating better but seem to be lacking motivation lately.

I'm with you on gaining some weight. 5'10 175 and weak as an orphan. Time to Mannie up.

Anyone take Extreme Shock or Karbolyn for their workouts.

How can you measure body fat easily?

All you need is a tape measure and google a site to do the calculations, it isn't exact but it is close enough

I guess I should fess up:

6'-0" 205-210lbs. Ran the chicago marathon a few years ago at 190. Wouldnt mind getting back down to that weight, I was in pretty good shape. Havent really done a whole lot in about a year. Trying to get back to running again, though.

OK, I made the doc public so everyone should be able to see it, let me know if you cannot.

PM me if you want to be added to the list. Going forward every Tuesday I will update the doc, trying to figure out the easiest way to do this short of opening the doc on edit mode to everyone.

It might be easy to just PM me your stats. I am trying to figure out how to let everyone just edit their row.

I'm going to just eat fruits salads and workout everyday. I'm going to pick up a paleodiet cookbook for ideas.
Oh and the fitness pal app is a really nice way to track your caloric intake which is proven to improve eating habits. It can also track workouts and calories burned.

I like it!