I dare ya! I double dare ya!

Is there anyone who's roughly at the same place I am (70-100 lbs. to go, 1-6 months after banding, 35-55 yrs. old) who'll take up a challenge from me? Oh, hell, I'll challenge anybody!

Weigh in on Nov. 22 (the 41st anniversary of the JFK assassination), check in again on Jan. 3 (first Monday of the new year). Only rule is: no fasting or other insane food deprivation. Or, if you want, we can have a straight exercise challenge on the honor system; you set the terms, whether it's miles, steps, minutes, etc. One-on-one, in the street, you vs. me. Come on, you competitive bandsters, just try to kick my ass! (Mind you, that's a big target.)

To tell you the truth Becky I was terrified of stepping on those scales this morning. Who knows, tomorrow it might show a gain of 3 pounds, but I'm not looking! lol I guess it was because instead of 5 pieces of fudge, I ate 2, and instead of 10 cookies I ate 1 or 2. I can't tell you how many times I walked over to them and started to take one though. The funny part of it is I am not a sweet eater usually, but it seems like Christmas gets the best of me and once I taste it I can't stop! Almost any other time of the year, I can pass it right up. I even pack cookies every day for my hubbies lunch and never taste one.

I think it is your fault Becky, you are the one that got me going on the fudge kick!

Betty, that was quite inspirational. I mixed sugar-free candy in with my chocolatie-green and red wrapped candies. Believe it or not, I always chose the sugar-free, as Martha would say, "that was a good thing".

I think I'll wait until tomorrow to weigh, I just ate 4 prunes.

I think I'll wait until tomorrow to weigh, I just ate 4 prunes.

Now THAT cracks me up! :laugh I like your technique.

Ok Ok Ok...Hold on right here Becky.

You told me men are turned on by cimmamon and you were looking to get the old man active.lol lol. So I sent a receip that if made right would do the trick. This plan was to get husband active so you could burn off some calories Hmmmmm won't say how.

YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO EAT THE CIMMAMON BARS TOO.

Suppose since I didn't add the footnote to the e-mail I sent about YOU not eating any will result in me being sued for your weight gain. Ha go ahead. means you have to make a personal appearnce in court same time I do and then I can give you a big hug...lol

I made them damn cimmamon bars last week for a church function and was so proud of myself that I doidn't eat a single one while at home. Got to church and couldn't stay out of them. Wife said looks like you eat three pounds of them. Damn thats what I gained this week. She is good.

Oops...the bear comes out of hibernation. :guess Such a sweet little teddy bear!

I suppose I knew, deep down in my saggy belly, that I wasn't supposed to eat the cinnamon bars. And I knew by the way my chin wobbles that I shouldn't make any fudge for my poor Papa. And my jiggly thighs should have reminded me that the guys really don't need 2 of every kind of pie, even though they beg and resort to trickery.

So I'll take full blame for the weight I gained. No lawsuit necessary. Sigh... but I am gonna blame the weatherman that I can't go walking because it's raining here.

No lawsuit..Phew knew I loved ya for the right reasons

I'll still collect on that promise of a hug, though.

Greg, you're hilarious!

Penni, so glad you had such a wonderful Christmas.

I feel robbed. I gained two pounds, yes, but I didn't have any of the fun the rest of you were having. No fudge, no candy, no nothing. Maybe a few too many nuts. I was at 179, but this morning the scale said 181 and this morning is what counts. Oh, well.

Nancy

how come the bad stuff goes down so easy...... don't feel a restriction when i eat that stuff... hahahaha

Nana, you lost "only" seven pounds over the last six weeks? I say that's a major victory!

After going up last week, I'm down to 228.5 this morning -- first time I've seen the 220s in a while. I hope they aren't going to welcome me back big-time, because I don't want to stay long. So I've lost only 2.5 lbs over the course of the challenge, but I've been walking for an average of over an hour a day, and I feel great. I can move pretty fast without getting winded, my back doesn't hurt, and although I haven't loss any impressive poundage, I've lost inches -- my size-20 pants are all too big now. Still, I've gotta get over my bad holiday habits. Walking for an hour and a half in the morning then capping the evening off with a slab of band-friendly cheesecake isn't a great long-term plan! It's been fun, though, to be able to indulge in all the yummy holiday foods, knowing that a fistful of Christmas cookies didn't represent the destruction of my life but just a blip in the bandster path.

I am delighted that so many people joined the challenge I posted back in November. I have to admit that my competitive nature helped keep me going over the last six weeks -- that, and the habit of writing my daily exercise in a notebook every single day. I'm going to stay with it for the next two months and see how I do.

Congratulations to everyone who joined the exercise challenge, even if just for a short time or sporadically. Greg, let us know who the biggest loser is, and who's moved the most.

WHAT the Challenge is over. HMMMMMMMMM I thought it started on Jan 3rd. Ops...

I will get everything complied as best I can. I do apoligize but due to several family matters and the busy holidays I didn't keep up well with the stats. And also not everyone sent me their stuff HMM. But I will get the stuff I have figured out soon. When I offered to keep stats I fighured I'd be able to run the stuff when I was at work then they went and hired a new girl and she is there with me every nite training.

But then I am a man so not much is expected lol

I still expect to see the Speedo shot posted right about when the post-holiday blues set in.

Okay, Greg. The blues have set in for real. Where's that Speedo shot you promised??? I'm sure glad I didn't promise anything if I lost this challenge!

I have stayed pretty much the same, I think. Exercise is once or twice a week and I'm still at 175. Geez....

I'm glad I backed out of this challenge! So, how did it go? Is there a winner (or should I say a big loser?)

I started to be involved and then fell off the site for a while. I'm not even sure what I weighed in at when we started this. I did ok, I didn't gain over the holidays, but I'm sure if I hadn't been into all the christmas goodies I'd have lost more. I'm at 237 this week, and seem to be at another plateau. We'll see now that all the merry-making is over. So who did win?

My Fault Stats arn't out yet. I wiull have them on Monday