Seeing as how Christmas is six months from tomorrow, this would be a longish challenge. It would be for 26 weeks (26 weekly weigh ins). Anyone interested?

I don't know if anyone else has noticed but the Christmas challenge participants have lost a combined 162.9 lbs. So, we have basically lost a person and that's with a lot of people who have not updated their weight loss!

Just saw this and I am joining today! I need some workout motivation. I see that many people have huge goals, but I am doing 48 lbs, which seems impossible right now...let's see how this goes.

Sure I would love to do the christmas challenge.

BEFORE SURGERY 337LBS

SURGERY 01-21-2009

SURGERY WEIGHT 328LBS

CURRENT 252LBS

GOAL 200LBS

Holy Cow!! :thumbup: Already 162.9lbs and only a few weeks in! :w00t::w00t: Can you imagine how much we can lose by Christmas? Way to go guys and keep up the awesome work! :tt2:

I don't know if anyone else has noticed but the Christmas challenge participants have lost a combined 162.9 lbs. So, we have basically lost a person and that's with a lot of people who have not updated their weight loss!

Wow! What a tremendous loss so far!

Just saw this and I am joining today! I need some workout motivation. I see that many people have huge goals, but I am doing 48 lbs, which seems impossible right now...let's see how this goes.

I'm joining today. I also need some workout motivation!

Ugh...for some reason I am retaining water. So I stayed the same this week. My ring is tight again and so was my bra which wouldn't have happened if it was weight related. Guess I'd better check my salt intake. I've had more than a couple of the new McDonald's smoothies this past week and even if they fit in with my calorie goals it is the only change I made so I will cut them out and see if that gets me back on track. Congrats to everyone else! And I'm not really unhappy as I'm doing well anyway.

Lost 2.8 this week! Woohoo! We are less than 5lbs from hitting the 200lb lost mark (as a group). Way to go guys!

Bumping the link to the spreadsheet:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?k...CIbr1NIE#gid=0

Congrats everyone! 231lbs lost, that's awesome Scale hasn't been doing much for me, but down another pants size.

Dumb question - how do you guys do the double tickers ???

3 pounds down this week and feeling great. Love these challanges. Everyone - keep up the great work!

1/5 of the challenge down and we've lost 272lbs! That's an average of 55.2lbs a week! If we keep up an average like that, we could lose 1,435lbs total by Christmas. I think we should set a group goal of trying to lose a thousand pounds by Christmas. Thoughts?

I'm up for this challenge. I have 20 weeks and my goal is going to be to lose 40 lbs. I need this more than ever :redface:

Count me in! I'll add myself to the spreadsheet on Monday, when I weigh myself for the Labor Day challenge. I think I set too ambitious of a goal for that one, so I'm going to go with 50 pounds for the Christmas challenge. One of my coworkers is getting banded today, so we're going to start hitting the gym together at lunch once she recovers. Sort of looking forward to it (though the lazy part of me is not!).

I've got 29.2 lbs left of my original 40lb goal- that averages out to 1.5lbs a week needed to make goal. I'm hoping I didn't make my goal too ambitious.

Bumping spreadsheet:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ApBMiLjvkwExdEh3eXQwZ2JOemthWHRhaWRZMldpR2c&hl=en&authkey=CIbr1NIE#gid=0