I decided since today is October 25th, we are exactly two months away from Christmas to start a challenge. I participated in the Halloween one and it worked out great. I have 6 more days of that one, but I am close to my goal. I am so excited about that, I want to do it again!

Do you guys want to do a Christmas challenge? If so...

I will start it off...

SN--- Forensikchic SW--194 GW---174 CW--194 lbs to goal--- 20

For this challenge, the starting weight is what you start the challenge at, not your original starting weight. Good luck peeps and I hope we have a lot of people do this challenge too! I say shoot for the moon!

I understand your frustration. I'm going through the same issues right now myself. We are about the same weight. I just started going back to the gym a week ago, things were just too hectic for the prior month. I'm staying on program with my eating, it is frustrating when the loss slows down even when we're doing all the right things. But, like you even though I haven't dropped much in the past month and a half, I can tell I have lost inches based on how my clothes fit. I am happy that some slacks for work I am putting in my "fat" pile and are now too big to wear. So, that is comforting.

We can do this!

SN--- Forensikchic SW--194 GW---174 CW--191 lbs to goal--- 17

I gained a pound this week. This is my first stall and week with no loss, also my first gain. I started working out a week and a half ago every single day and I think that is messing with my weightloss. I am determined to be positive and know I am doing the right thing. I am just going to keep on keeping on and see what happens. I have lost a couple inches in the last two weeks so I will take that.

Staring weight 220pounds

current weight 176 pounds

Christmas goal 165 pounds

Good luck to everyone!!!

I lost 1.8 lbs this week. Not a huge loss, but it's one step closer to my goal :smile1:

SN - Kala

SW - 187

CW - 181.4

GW - 174

lbs to goal - 7.4

I weighed myself in the evening, so it's possible I weigh less than 180.6. I usually weigh myself in the morning. Regardless, I'm so happy to almost be in the 170's!!!!

SN - Kala

SW - 187

CW - 180.6

GW - 174

lbs to goal - 6.6

SN--- Forensikchic SW--194 GW---174 CW--191 lbs to goal--- 17

I gained a pound this week. This is my first stall and week with no loss, also my first gain. I started working out a week and a half ago every single day and I think that is messing with my weightloss. I am determined to be positive and know I am doing the right thing. I am just going to keep on keeping on and see what happens. I have lost a couple inches in the last two weeks so I will take that.

SN--- Forensikchic SW--194 GW---174 CW--187 lbs to goal--- 13

I usually weigh in on monday but I am so excited to report my los this week! I weighed 186.5!!! Only 12.5 to go. Yay!

Finally moving in the right direction. Now to just not let Thanksgiving get me off track. This is my first major holiday being sleeved. Halloween and it's treats was a struggle so I must stay focused this week!!

Loves Christmas!!!!

SN: Phatgurl80

SW: 231

GW: 215

Today 11/21: 225.8!! Yeah baby! I think this stall has finally broken! Could it be the body bootcamp????

Good morning everyone!

I previously pledged to lose 20 lbs by Christmas. So far I have lost 11 lbs and it's not even Thanksgiving. Therefore, I am re-setting my goal to 30 lbs.

SW : 230 CW : 219 Goal : 200

Wish me luck!!

This week was quite surprising. I lost 3 lbs instead of 1 or 2! YAY

SN--- Chevelle69 :Banane55:

SW-- 248

GW-- 228

CW-- 243 (1 more to reach 100 lbs)

lbs to reach goal for Christmas Challenge --- 15

There are different sites that offer this for free. Many people here seem to use www.tickerfactory.com.

They will have the instructions on how to put it in your signature here. Good job on your weight loss!

This week was quite surprising. I lost 3 lbs instead of 1 or 2! YAY

SN--- Chevelle69 :Banane55:

SW-- 248

GW-- 228

CW-- 243 (1 more to reach 100 lbs)

lbs to goal--- 15

Can someone explain the supercute tickers at the bottom of their posts? I want to add one!

I weighed myself in the evening, so it's possible I weigh less than 180.6. I usually weigh myself in the morning. Regardless, I'm so happy to almost be in the 170's!!!!

SN - Kala

SW - 187

CW - 180.6

GW - 174

lbs to goal - 6.6

I was right- I should have waited to weigh myself in the morning. I'm down to the 170's! Well, barely at 179.5. I don't ever remember weighing in the 170's. When I was 12 I weighed 160, and the next time I weighed myself at 13 I weighed 185! This is a pretty big deal for me

SN - Kala

SW - 187

CW - 179.5

GW - 174

lbs to goal - 5.5

How exciting! I'm so happy for you. I'm struggling right now to keep the scale moving right now. I'm right at the top of the 180's and it's just so frustrating!

Keep up the great work!

I was right- I should have waited to weigh myself in the morning. I'm down to the 170's! Well, barely at 179.5. I don't ever remember weighing in the 170's. When I was 12 I weighed 160, and the next time I weighed myself at 13 I weighed 185! This is a pretty big deal for me :smile1:

SN - Kala

SW - 187

CW - 179.5

GW - 174

lbs to goal - 5.5

The Halloween challenge was my first ever and it was fun to follow peoples' progress and it helped me to stay motivated with a mini-goal. I beat my Halloween goal by 2 pounds. So I'm very happy. I've set my Christmas goal with a 2 lbs a week weight loss in mind. I think that's reasonable and doable.

It's so exciting to think that I won't mind my picture being taken this holiday season!!!

SN--- Slimming Sara

SW--- 204

Overall GW--- 140

CW--- 163

Christmas GW--- 148

lbs to Christmas goal--- 15

Yikes! It's been 3 weeks since I joined this challenge (on Halloween) and I've only lost 2 lbs. Things definitely slowed down for me this past month. Tomorrow is my 3 mo. surgiversary. I'm still hoping to meet my Christmas goal, but at this pace it won't happen. I'm not too worried about it though because I'm down enough that I'm feeling much more comfortable. I have 20 lbs. to go until I reach my ultimate goal and if it slow going so be it. I will get there eventually!

SW--- 204

Overall GW--- 140

CW--- 161

Christmas GW--- 148

lbs to Christmas goal--- 13

LindaS ~ 206 SW . . . . . 200 CW . . . . . 186 GW . . . LBS to GOAL: 14

I am right on track.

It's so great to see how everyone is doing! I've lost 8.8 lbs so far and I just started on 11/8. Like Shae, I'm not sure if I should revise? I'm only 4 wks from surgery and this is my first goal, so I'm not sure what to guess.....I'm afraid to overestimate then be all mad at myself for not reaching my goal What if I hit a big stall? My old weightloss failure demons are still haunting me.....I think I'm overthinking it, lol! I guess I'll just trend what I have been doing....so I'll change my ticker and goal to lose 20 more lbs by Christmas. Man, that seems like a lot, 30 lbs in 6 weeks. Oh, well......we'll see! What have I to lose but weight!! Keep up the hard work, everyone! So excited to see where we will all end up!

CW - 284 275

GW - 265 254

NEW lbs to goal - 19 30 total

11/8 - 284

11/14 - 281

11/21 - 275

Oh I'm so excited, I get to join my first challenge!!! I'm so in! I've been watching these for months and now I get to play, too! I'm starting late, so I don't know how I'll do, but I'm only 2.5 weeks out from surgery so maybe I'll be lucky? We'll see!! I'll also start a Christmas ticker! Sheesh....I will have too many tickers, lol!

SN - soon2bminimommy

CW - 284

GW - 265

lbs to goal - 19