Game On! Diet Competition Update

Game On! Diet competition update:

The first week was easier than I thought it would be. To be honest, I was excited to be able to eat right after I woke up. I was intermittent fasting before I started the competition, so I was used to waiting until 1 pm to be able to eat after having quit eating by 9 pm the day before.

Meals

I am loving being able to eat 5 times a day. I haven’t missed a meal, so I’ve gotten the full 30 points for that every day. It’s also a lot easier for me to get the meals in since I have been staying at home and self-quarantining due to the large increase of COVID cases in our area.

Recipes

I tried a few of the recipes in the Game On! Diet book and I will continue to make some of them for the rest of the competition, like Krista’s Quick and Easy Breakfast and and Kate’s Simply Skinny Sausage Supper.

Krista’s Quick and Easy Breakfast

Water

I thought it would be more of a struggle to get 3 liters of water in a day, but it’s actually not that bad. I guess I drink more water in a day than I thought.

I definitely thought I would have to pee a lot more. I only run into that issue when I drink a lot at once to try and catch up for the day. When I spread it out over the course of the day, it’s fine.

Sleep

The sleep points are also easier for me to get because I always go to bed with the intention of get 7+ hours of sleep. Our group agreed that if you are really trying to get the 7+ hours, you get the points whether it actually happens or not.

Exercise

The competition has helped keep me on track with getting some exercise in every day. Sometimes it is just a walk outside with my dog, Charlie. I was going a little harder earlier in the competition, but I still do something every day!

New Habit

I’ve been doing pretty well with my new habit, which is writing something every day. I’ve written a lot more blog posts lately due to this new habit! Some times I just work on my “maybe a book”, it all depends on what I am feeling that day.

Bad/Old Habit

I believe I have only messed up once and done my bad habit. Shopping online for things I don’t need. I obviously have to do SOME shopping online since I don’t go out to the stores for groceries, but I try and stick to necessities.

The one time I messed up, I was scrolling through Facebook or Instagram and ended up looking at some clothing before I realized what I was doing. -10 points for me that day.

Communication

I think I have communicated with members of my own team or the other team every day, so that’s been a fairly easy 5 points daily. It’s usually nice to have everyone rooting for each other. 

Body Fat

I was really excited the 1st week because I lost 1% of my body fat (Jeff calculated it for me). That meant I got to add 20% of my total points to my score. 

Unfortunately, I think I overindulged on my day off last week, so I didn’t lose the 1% body fat for the second week. I got close! But I was still bummed. I have had Jeff look at the scale for me so that I don’t have to until the competition is over, but he said I have lost 4.4 pounds overall. That’s not bad!

Discouraged

Some ladies on the other team shared that they had lost 7 and 8 pounds.

That made me feel bad and a bit discouraged, until one of them mentioned that she usually drinks a lot of alcohol, so that likely made a huge difference.

Points

We are currently in our 3rd week of the 4 week competition. Our teams are neck and neck. Seriously. The first week, our team won by just 5 points! Our score average was 756.7, and the other team got 751.5 for their average.

For our second week, the other team won by .1 point! I thought for sure after I heard how much the those ladies on the other team had lost that we would have been left in the dust. 

Nope, we are still in the game!