I just realized that March will be here day after tomorow... and that means summer time is just around the corner.

I figured that losing 12 pounds by June 1st is doable (couldnt decide if I wanted to go for the full 15 or just 10 pounds, so I split it :cool: ) ! That's 12 pounds in 3 months. And that should put me well below that almighty 200 mark.

Is there anyone that would like to do this with me? ...please???

Betty I will see what I can do about that picture. LOLOL!!!! MAYBE!!! (Notice I didn't say WHEN!)

Hey, count me in! I need to get that scale to move! Ahhhhhh, I'll pass on that bathing suit one, but sure would love to see you in your new one Penni!

Okay Paula... I'm in! My bandiversary is June 30th so this might really spur me on to be closer to my goal. We leave for vacation July 1st and I want to feel good about every picture we take! Ummmmm ... I'll skip the swimsuit thang... yep...definitely can't go there yet. First I have to get comfortable in my own skin... then maybe a second one. :cool:

I am in, I get my first fill March 14 but I already feelthat I slip on my food choices on the week ends. Let me know where to find the challenge thread and lets see how much we can lose as a total team effort.,. (like the show on thelife channel where it is not the individual goal but the team number that counts at the end)

hmmm... how should we do this??? Any suggestions?

Do you all feel comfortable posting your current weight every Monday???

or is there another way we can keep track of each others loss?

Jamie, if you want to go for 25 pounds by June, thats fine with me :cool:

If anyone else wants to have a different goal, thats fine too... just so we can do this together!

Becca - glad to have you join us.

And Jonathan, guys ALWAYS lose faster - so from the start Im predicting you as the winner.

Penni - for the swimsuit thread, we could all send in photos of ourselves with our faces hidden and make everyone guess who is who... what do you think??? (lol...just joking)

Becky - we are going to the in-laws for Memorial Day. I would LOVE to be in a size 12-14 pants by that time. So thats where this motivation came from.

Paula you got yourself a deal. Iam in!!

12 lbs by June 1st would put me at 173,

I need a jump start I have had no weight loss in 2 weeks now. I am eating good foods and exercising like a crazy woman .I just think my body is resting now. 10 months of continuous weight loss every single week, I was due for a plateau. So I am ready for this challenge!!!

Yeah Michelle!!! Thank you.

Bigmom - thats a great idea about the total weight loss.

Becky, LOL... (shhhh, she still knows NOTHING about my surgery)

Heck, I gotta get motivation somewhere!!!

Do any of you have 'rule' suggestions?

And Jonathan, guys ALWAYS lose faster - so from the start Im predicting you as the winner.

Is there something we can do to make it fair? Multiply (or divide) my weightloss by some ratio? Maybe guys have to lose 3 lbs for every 2 the girls do? Or 2 for 1?

Count me in! I think I can, I think I can, LOL! If not I will just go get another overfill and lose 12 pounds in one week, LOL!! Let us know how we're gonna do this!

Since everyone keeps saying "what rules do we want" and nobody's saying what rules we want, I'll start with an idea, and you can all tell me to be quiet. (That's how the male-female relationship works at my house anyway =) )

I suggest we do monday morning weigh-ins. You can either start your weight at whatever your weight is monday morning, or you can start at "0" if you don't want to disclose your weight. Then each week, we'll keep track of your weight and the weight change, or, just the weight change, depending upon your personal preference. June 1st is a Wednesday, so we'll have the Monday weigh-in that week, then a final weigh-in Wednesday morning.

If you guys want, I can set up a page on my website with everyone in the challenge and update the challenge on a weekly basis. Then maybe we can sticky this thread, put the link on the first post in it, and use it to update. That way when you click on the thread, you need only click on the link in the first post to see the current status.

Are any other "rules" needed?

Jonathan

I like the idea of starting a new thread. I think it can be an excel spread sheet. If anybody wants I can set it up.

Jonathan, thats a great idea about the weigh-in's. And yes, it would be great if we could get a thread going with 3 column's. Not sure how we can do that. Bigmom????

I wrote a new mambo component (mambo is the content management sytem I use on my website) to handle a weight loss challenge. You can view my "test data" here:

http://www.waistingaway.com/index.php?option=com_wlc&Itemid=50

or go to http://www.waistingaway.com and click on "Weight Loss Challenge".

Like I said, if you want, we can just link to this. It will be easy for me to update, since it's all done through a control panel. In fact, if Paula wants to help, I can give her access to it and she can update it too -- or I can do it, I don't care. =)

Having the list here would be nice too, but HTML is turned off, so we wouldn't be able to use tables to make it pretty. Trying to import an excel spreadsheet might work, but I'm not sure if the spacing would look right. But, whatever =)

Jonathan

Here is my starting weight Monday morning 184.50

SIGH!!! Did I say that loud enough? No! OK here it is again. SIGH!!!!!!

My weight this morning is 242 back up two lbs. WHAT GIVES?

Looks good to me Jonathon!