delorie.com/health/asdlc/2004-12.html   search  
Alt.Support.Diet.Low-Carb Monthly RoboChallenge

This is the automated monthly weight loss challenge page for the alt.support.diet.low-carb newsgroup. See participation details below

Dec 2004

LOW CARBER'S NAME STARTED LCing OVERALL STATS MONTH'S GOAL CURRENT WEIGHT POUNDS LOST
A Ross
168/117/115 112, 5 Lbs 117
April Goodwin-Smith
346/262/150 257, 5 Lbs 262
Beth Friedman
208/139/130 135, 5 Lbs 139 1
Bunky
282/185/180 180, 5 Lbs 185
Carol Ann
175/170/125 165, 5 Lbs 170
Cubit
311/200/165 199, 5 Lbs 200 4
curt
211/189/180 184, 5 Lbs 189
Dale Kipling
285/285/195 280, 5 Lbs 285
Daniel Hoffmeister
325/192/190 188, 5 Lbs 192 1
Irv Finkleman
297/215/210 210, 5 Lbs 215
jamie
168/125/125 120, 5 Lbs 125
JJ
275/175/180 170, 5 Lbs 175
Kevin Martin (Homebrewer)
370/285/270 280, 5 Lbs 285
Lady o' the house
296/185/160 182, 5 Lbs 185 2
Lilith79
295/295/175 290, 5 Lbs 295
Lorelei
220/163/144 155, 5 Lbs 163 -3
marengo
270/219/180 214, 5 Lbs 219
Marengo
270/219/180 214, 5 Lbs 219
moonprincess
230/153/130 150, 5 Lbs 153 2
nanner
176/141/120 136, 5 Lbs 141
PJx
180/158/158 153, 5 Lbs 158
RT
247/175/175 245, 5 Lbs 175 75 - GOAL!
S t a c i
213/179/179 174, 5 Lbs 179
Saffire
205/145/125 142, 5 Lbs 145 2
Sprgtime
260/200/170 195, 5 Lbs 200
Stefan Holm
289/246/170 241, 5 Lbs 246
Tom
210/180/180 175, 5 Lbs 180
Travis Newbury
280/195/170 190, 5 Lbs 195

Participation Details

Note that your email and full name are used to uniquely identify you. So, spam-proofing your email is fine, but if you change your email during the month you'll end up with two (or more) entries in the challenge.

One of my computers scans the postings to the adslc newsgroup a couple of times a day, looking for signature lines that have weight loss information. The lines must look like this:

start/current/goal tag:value tag:value ...
These are the common "what are those three numbers?" lines you often see on postings. The numbers represent your weight at the start of your weight loss journey, your current weight, and your final goal weight.

The various tags and values allow you to give extra information, such as how much you are trying to lose this month, and URL to link to from your name, etc. Examples:

200/187/160 url: http://www.delorie.com/users/fred/
215/171/140 monthly-goal: 5 since: 27/04/2001
The line is accepted if it has the three numbers, and the third number is less than the first number, and the third number is less than 1960 (this filters out dates ;). Useful tags are:
monthly-goal
The number of pounds (or kg, stone, etc) you will try to lose this month. If not given, a default of 5 is used.
month-start
Your weight at the start of the month. By default, the first "current" weight you report is used as the start weight.
url
If given, your name on the form will be a link to this. You can recind a previous url by using "url:none".
since
When you started low carbing. Note that the format for this is day/month/year, which is different from the usual month/day/year USA residents are familiar with.
woe
Your current Way Of Eating. Not currently used.
Note that each month's page is also available as YYYY-MM.html. For example, Dec 2004's page is 2004-12.html. Also, for any page YYYY-MM.html there's a corresponding page YYYY-MM-tab.txt and YYYY-MM-csv.txt that contain tab-separated and comma-separated tables of the data.

  webmaster     delorie software   privacy  
  Copyright © 2005     Updated Jan 2005