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LIVIN' LARGE: Minimizing yourself and maximizing your life! When you have over 100 pounds to lose it can seem impossible to get started in the right direction.

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Old 05-31-2007, 01:19 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Google SpreadSheet 61 day Tracker Instructions

61 Day Challenge Tracker.

Step 0: Green is good, white is bad.

In the tracker there are cells that are colored green. These are to be used to enter data. The white cells are either not used or contain formulas. If they contain formulas and you change them, the sheet will not work properly and will be a useless tool for you.

Step 1: Setting up the sheet for your use.

The first thing you will need to do is open the spreadsheet at the following location.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ ccc?key=pcYKF234Hk5Ugwwq35c-IFw
This will open the master copy.
Click on "File, copy spreadsheet". This will make a personal copy in your google documents.


Step 2: Setting your goals.

a) Nutrition: We have 61 days to account for, each day has two segments. So we have 122 chances to eat well on this challenge. How many times will you eat well? My personal goal is 110. I enter that into the green target box for nutrition in the goal section.
b) Resistance Training/interval/cardio: How many times in this 61 day period will you train? 2x a week? 3x a week. I am aiming for twice a week so I enter 16 sessions in the Green target areas for the various areas.


Step 3: Tracking our progress

a) Personal goal: Very up in the air, track it however you want. I put a place for a basic description and some notes. if you type "yes" into the completion box it will add the points on to the total for you.
b) Competitive goal: Enter the name of the event, when it is, and if you have registered. Again type yes in the completion box when you are finished. An example is provided in the purple circles below
c) Nutrtion: Each day has a single spot. Enter 2 if you ate according to your plan the whole day or 1 if you screwed up a little and only managed to eat clean for part of the day. If you really screwed the pooch, enter 0. Nutrition is illustrated in the red circle below.
d) Fitness: on the seperate page each of the days has 3 categories, RT(Resistance), Int (Intervals), SS(Steady state). Enter the number of sessions you completed on the given day.

As the challenge progresses the tracker will tally up your sessions and compared them to the goals you have set and express them as a percentage. It will also caluclate the total points you have attained based on the multipliers discussed in the official rules.

If you choose to publish your tracker sheet you can make it viewable to everyone so we can view your progress on the fly. As you will find in my signature.

I hope this helps you use the google spreadsheet a little better.

Pros and Cons: The excel spreadsheet is prettier. The google sheet can be accessed anywhere.

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Old 05-31-2007, 08:29 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Thank you so much for that...Got mine!!
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Old 05-31-2007, 09:09 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Thank you, Keith. I agree the Excel is prettier but google docs will be more functional and in the end help save me some time in tabulation....

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Old 05-31-2007, 09:15 PM   #4 (permalink)
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When I change the nutrition goal in E4 it is not updated in cell D22, it still says 110.
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Old 05-31-2007, 09:22 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Damn.

All you need to do is open the spreadsheet for editing. Click on D22, type = and then click on E5, then hit enter.

If anyone has problems, feel free to add me as a collaborater (ogedei@gmail.com) and send me the link in a private message.
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Old 05-31-2007, 10:21 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Og, you're my hero. I was going to do this, but you beat me to it.

This opens up a lot of magic that can be done with the gdata spreadsheets API. I might be hacking on this this weekend.
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Old 06-01-2007, 12:33 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Nice job Ogedei, this is going to make things a lot simpler to track!
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Old 06-01-2007, 06:01 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Thanks for the kind words everyone. I like spreadsheets, i am a nerd that way.

Although I noted yesterday that the tracker had already counted down to 61 days so I added a fix so it would work. Today I note that it should DEF read 61 days and it reads 62.

To fix the problem on your sheet do the following.

open the spreadsheet.
double click on B6
delete the +1
hit enter


All is fixed! I made the changes to the master copy already.
Worst case your sheet is off by a day on the days remaining. Not the end of the world.
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Old 06-01-2007, 08:08 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Thank you so much for this! I have MS Works so couldn't use the excel (but it was pretty to 'read-only'). I'm all set and ready to go now.
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Old 06-01-2007, 08:57 AM   #10 (permalink)
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You are a lifesaver..thank you..
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Old 06-01-2007, 09:46 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Thanks Og!! I was completely clueless before, but this makes perfect sense now! Awesome! Since I will be offline for a good part of the challenge, I have saved it to my 'puter and will upload to Google docs when online ...
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Ogedei:
Does the fitness tracker sheet tie into anything. I want to add an additional sheet so I can track my number of meals carried per day and since the main area of fitness tracker sheet (where you set it up for resistance, Interval and SS) could be easily adjusted to that, I want to make sure that it doesn't tie into anything before I start entering stuff into it.

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Thanks for setting this up, Og! Very helpful.
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Old 06-01-2007, 01:12 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Ogedei:
Does the fitness tracker sheet tie into anything. I want to add an additional sheet so I can track my number of meals carried per day and since the main area of fitness tracker sheet (where you set it up for resistance, Interval and SS) could be easily adjusted to that, I want to make sure that it doesn't tie into anything before I start entering stuff into it.

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It adds the value up on that sheet and transfers them to the summary section on the main page where it figures out your points.

At the bottom you can add new sheets and customize it a little. I have a couple of extra sheets added onto mine.

Hope this helps,

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It adds the value up on that sheet and transfers them to the summary section on the main page where it figures out your points.

At the bottom you can add new sheets and customize it a little. I have a couple of extra sheets added onto mine.

Hope this helps,

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I think I got it figured out so that it doesn't transfer stuff to the front page (at least it looks like it anyway )
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My tracker page is all set. Thanks so much for putting that together, Og. That's great!
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