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.)

Lisa g, Nancy, Nana...welcome to the challenge.

I still need e-mail addresses. Don't make me name you here that your not co-operating LOL LOL Send them to me at above listed e-mail

I have a participant list ready and will e-mail it to everyone so you can see who's as interested in you to stay focused for the up coming Holidays.

DeLarla..."Full Monte" Lol. God didn't give me a Full Monte LOL...Although I have lost 8 1/2 inches off hips so rear view might be looking better LOL. Butt I can't see it. When I see your picture riding thru the dessert I'll post mine.

Also get rid of that snow before Dec. 6th.

Thanks Becky... I am very excited about being grandpa. Kids stopped by after church for a while and I was already try to schedule myself in for babysitting time. LOL Daughter in law says she's worried about me LOL. Afraid I'll show up and steal the kid. LOL hmmmmmmm where could I hide???

Oops, was today the day we were supposed to start something? Hmm, I looked outside at the rain and made a cup of xtra sweet cappucino. How does that convert to calories burned? I did get angry at husband's clothes all over the house so that's gotta burn something (prolly brain cells with my luck.)

It's raining here too, it rained yesterday, and it's supposed to rain tomorrow! Yuck!

1:05 walking the dog, fast. . . I am so ready for this, I really need extra motivation over the holidays. Last year I gained 10 lbs. in the last six weeks of the year. I'd love to LOSE 10 lbs., but I'd be happy if I simply didn't gain anything this time around. I'm starting weight-training today, just a little bit at a time, hoping to lose my bingo arms by next summer.

Greg, at the rate you're going, it won't be long before you'll be able to hide behind a birch tree, grandchild and all.

DeLarla, we Upper Midwesterners do not want to hear how cold 42 degrees is. In November, that's warm to us. And by the end of the challenge in January, it will seem absolutely tropical. Put on a sweater and suck it up!

Well, I just volunteered to help walk a disabled man's dog four days a week. So that should help keep me going.

Lisa, um. . .I'm going to send you the definition of exercise. Now, exercising your options may have actually added brain cells, but getting mad at your husband burned them, so you're back to square one! Love your "Science experiment" label. You are so funny. But truly with this band and a few other bionic parts I sometimes feel like a science experiement, too.

Nancy

It got down to 29 degrees in my part of Oregon last night so no more whining from the Desert rat direction. LOL. Glad to see everyone join this challenge! Teresa

You guys just don't understand how the air is different in DeLarla's part of the country -- and mine. Or maybe just how smart we are not to live in the frozen wastelands.

Off I go to exercise, options and all.

Y'all are use to that cold weather though. When I lived up in the cold it didn't bother me as much, but since I moved down here, I can't take any cold at all. It gets 40 degrees and I freeze to death!

Yeah, Betty and Teresa are cold, too! Really, I do feel sorry for you peeps who are in the icy regions. It must be hard to exercise when your nasal passage freeze over. Ouch! Be sure to wear your hats!

ROFLMAO! Y'all are too funny!

Let me modify my excuse: I love the cold, and I love the rain. But I'm NOT allowed to walk without my dogs (they won't stand for that.) And they'd be soaking wet when we got home and would stink up my house and furniture worse than it already is. If that excuse doesn't work, then I'll go with old-fashioned laziness. Off to a bad start on this challenge, plus I'm going on another road-trip to California Wednesday. How am I gonna drive 10 hours without all the good junk food munching?

That cold stuff isn't fit fer humans! That's meant for moose!

That's why I haven't posted an avatar photo -- a drawing of Bullwinkle is close enough!

No excuses Zoe, post that picture!

OK, OK, I'll do it. My three-month bandiversary is the day after Thanksgiving; I'll post my horrid before picture, along with a current one I'll get taken over the next few days (not, however, while I'm draped over a recliner suffering from tryptophan overdose). Consider yourselves warned.

Back on topic, it's not too late to join the exercise challenge. See how much you can move between now and Jan. 3! Check Greg's recent post for details.

Walked the dog, husband and grandson for 30 minutes. Swam laps for 20. Very happy with my start.