Hello Fellow Bandsters,,

Whatever catagory you feel you fit in, you are not alone. We are all on this WL Journey together!!!!

I wanted to start thinking about next week. The new year has always aspired me to make commitments and try to do new and different thing. So I bring this to you all to help develop another challenge with a combination of other challenges so loved by all.

NSV and Weight in one post.

First Start Date, January 3,2006

End Date March 1,2006

Challenge is to list on the same post 1 new NSV (non scale victory) each week along with your WL stats. It would be helpful to date your entries.

The reasoning is to keep all your stas and NSV in one place for you and others who are cheering you on to follow. By going back and editing/updating your orginal post we would be back to basic each log in. Rememberng the whys and our accomplishments each week. Something I know I forget sometimes. By the end of the challenge we should have a great idea of how it's going and a quick reference to where we need to be.

If you are not yet banded - please join in and tracking your goals and accomplishments as well.

This WL thing is truly a team sport and together we can acomplish more!

ROAR!!!!

Any thoughts, changes suggestions??? We have a week or so to refine it.

COuld one of the moderators please sticky this?

Debby

handmade cards are nice too

Oh yeah, I guess those are state run... Oh well.

why do we have to ancell the idea Lisa?? I loke the idea of sending a SMALL gift less than 10 including postage to the biggest looser!!

Lets do that!!!

OK now I'm really motivated!! I do not have any adults to buy gifts for me...I want presents from strangers!!! You guys all know we ARE strange right, some of us stranger than others..lol

Okay, I'm in for this challenge. Sadly, I had to go revise my ticker UP since the end of the Fall challenge. I've put off doing this as it SOOOO discourages me, but time to get clean and BACK to work... or working out as it were. My exercise was minimal over the holidays and omigosh WHAT a difference it makes.

It's not like I don't already KNOW that. Since I always feel so much better when I'm working out regularly why the heck to I take breaks from it? Oh well, I'll try to stop beating myself up now. If I can go a week without feeling dissapointed in myself it would be a BIG NSV.

An even 180 to start. By the end of this challend I want to in the 160's.

More gifts, I'm in!

NSV, helped my secretary clean her new place, including the refridgerator, I had practically my entire body in that thing, cleaning every inch of it, in a squat position. Before I wouldn't have been able to fit into the fridge, or bed over that long, much less squat, stand, squat, stand, kept getting up to change the nasty Water. AND, I wasn't even sore the next day, but she was, and she's 30 years younger than me, LOL.

I'm in, sounds like a good time.

My NSV is kind of an SV; Over the last few months I crept from 225 to 230, and somehow between about the 15th of December to today I managed to get back down to 225. So, I'm 225 and I Lost weight during the holidays!

I get banded on Monday!!!! I would like to participate in this too. I want to start being accountable from the start!!! I just have to figure out all this stuff on here first?

I'm in! This will be my first challenge!

1/3/06 214 lbs. (goal to be 204 at end of challenge)

NSV had to hook my bra in the LAST hooks to keep it from riding up my back

Is there a minimum amount of weight you have to set your goal to? Not banded yet so I have no clue if I can lose more than 10 pounds in that amount of time.

i am in!!! official weight on 3 Jan is 255 goal for march is 230

nsv i am in an 18w...have not been there for a long time!! yoo hoo!!

Thank you Debbydo for the info and I accept the challenge! I'm not banded but, since the surgeon would like to see 10 pounds gone for surgery this will be great. Since I'm not banded yet my goal is 10 pounds and to exercise at least 4 days a week.

BRING IN ONNNNN sistas and brothas! (Oh my, where did that come from....God please help me )

01/04/06

starting weight: 291

goal: 20lb loss

nsv: i can slide on/off my size 22's w/o unbuttoning them (time 2 go shopping)

I'm definitely joining this challenge.

Starting Weight: 236

Goal weight: 216

1/4/06 NSV: I bought a size 18/20 belt to hold up my too loose size 22 pants.

These Non scale Victories are AWESOME!!!!!!!! We are in some definitely good company here. Cheers to us!

There's another challenge going with a bootcamp twist - I think I'm joining that also - in this case more support and accountability is better!!!

Have a great week.

Deb, thanks for starting this challenge. I took the liberty of making a list of everyone who COMMITTED by putting their starting weight. Once you commit, the challenge becomes real. I hope you don't mind me jumping in like this, but I needed a challenge, so you're on!

If I missed your name or screwed up, remember, I'm fuzzy from band removal surgery drugs. Since being debanded, I'm really afraid of gaining, so I'm taking this challenge to heart. I've rounded up half pounds since some scales don't register half pounds to make it fair to everyone. Here's what I came up with:

Anwyn ~ 220

Bandedforlife ~ 211

Cissy ~ 210

DawnNH ~ 273

DeLarla ~ 243

Debbydoo ~ 181

HeatherGurl ~ 296

Jessiebear ~ 305

Justbeingme ~ 255

Kare ~ 180

Lianna ~ 214

LSasha ~ 291

Maggie63 ~ 255

Mariemaru ~ 225

RoadQueen ~ 177

Shanna ~ 189

TessL ~ 200

TommyO ~ 355

TriciaK ~ 236

Vtobon ~ 244

Since I didn't start this thread, I can't make any rules (boo hoo.) But I will send the winner, who will also be the biggest loser, a fabulous prize basket from Slumber Parties. I have lovely items from rated PG to rated XXX, so get your butt moving! If anyone else wants to send a prize to the winner, add your name to this list by cutting and pasting it into a new thread.

1/1/06 ~ 3/1/06 LBT WEIGHT LOSS CHALLENGE LIST OF FABULOUS PRIZES!

1. Gift basket from Slumber Parties by Lisa (DeLarla)

2. (You don't have to write what you'll send, just add your name saying you'll send a prize.)