New Weight Loss Challenge

Fresh off the winning losers from this week, I'd like to offer up the newest challenge.

I think that the % of body weight lost in the next 8 weeks is an excellent way to go.

For all of you who don't want to stop weighing in and checking in with everyone else, here we go. We'll start this Friday (March 1) with our beginning weights.

See, everyone gets a fresh start!

I don't have any great ideas for a prize... anyone out there with good ideas? For me it's always about the food or coffee, but perhaps there is something more appropriate to have as a reward! :rolleyes:

AGain, you can register as non-reward or reward challenge. If you don't want to have to get a prize for the winner (or don't care about getting one if you are the winner), then register as a NON-reward challenger.

I'll make an attempt to do a graph or table for us all to see each week.
Weigh-in reports on Friday; hopefully report will be ready sometime on Mondays for everyone.

Thanks all... good to have each other for motivation!
Jes

So, is today weigh-in day? Or Monday?
Anyways, I'm in the challenge again as I have yet to reach my goal weight (150) :-)


Today's weight: 179.6

I'm still in. I woke up Wednesday night with some sort of gastrointestinal bug that kept me sidelined and in bed yesterday. I'm feeling a bit better but still a little ooky about eating. But crackers and bread get old quickly!

I weighed yesterday (thinking it was Friday) and today (realizing it was Friday) and I'm 146.2. I'm guessing that's a bit low from being sick, so we'll see what it is next week.

My long-term goal is 130.

I'll try to think of a good prize. I'm not sure if I want to do reward or non-reward this time.

Hope everyone had a good week!

I will do the non reward challenge in light of the fact that leaving for Hawaii lies in the middle of the challenge (in 8 days) and I won't be packing my scale!

I am 152 on the knot.

I am stoked. My goal weight is about 148. I got down to 145 about a year ago and had people tell me that I looked sick and scrawny. I will "try on" 148. Hopefully I will get there this challenge.

Bring on the bikini!!

I am definitely in! And if there is a competition, I am in for that too - it helps me to stay motivated. :)

I have no problem with sending out another water bottle to the winner. I think that works well.

I am slow and steady - after the first challenge, I had lost 2.5 pounds. After the second challenge, I lost another 2.1 pounds.

I even lost .5 pounds between when the last challenge ended and this one started.

I like the downward trend, so that is my goal again this time - to keep on going down!

My weight today - 141.7

Lynette

Excellent ladies! Here we go again.
As of this am, I am at 176.4.
Fridays are weigh ins.
Sounds like the suggestion was another water bottle. So be sure to let me know if you are in for reward or not.
I'm in for reward this time.

Flybye: How did you manage addresses? Just see who wins, and then give everyone there address? Is that ok with all? (PM of course... no public announcements!)

Will get us a chart on Monday
Jes

I'm in again. Starting weight is 139.5 and bodyfat is at 31%. Hope to do better this go 'round. I've got to stay motivated. I'd love to see my weight down to 130 and/or bodyfat at 27%

Kerry

Flybye through out the idea of biking socks to the winner! What do you all think? I think that sounds like fun.

Am in again, too, but not for a reward. I'll report my weight and body fat percentage tomorrow morning, as I don't like the numbers this morning. My weight has jumped all over the place lately and I've not been exercising because of bronchitis, but am so happy to start a new challenge. My weight even fluctuates according to where I place my scale. Go figure. :confused:

I am so in on this one. I need some motivation to get these last few pounds off. I will have to weigh in when I get home though as I did not weigh myself this morning. If any of you are interested, I have created a challenge on the nikerunning.com website but you must have the Nike+ iPod chip. If you do and would like to participate, visit this site. It is for TE members only. :)

http://nikeplus.nike.com/nikeplus/?l...nges,955170597

I am on the fence. I did not do well at all at the last one.....I will have to report a Saturday AM weight as I did not weigh in today (if I am in the game again)....I'll mull it over. Right now I am feeling stuffed...I kinda over ate at lunch. (Can't wait to see the scale in the AM!) I started the week out so good, counting my WW points. Lastly I need to find out where to send my water bottle....did I miss getting email. :confused::confused:

Hi Katluvr! Join us... who cares how you did last time... that isn't what it's about! It's just having a little more motivation. Sat am is fine!

I think that the last person just checked in this morning on the last challenge. Flybye will PM everyone where to send the water bottles to the winner! I hope she's thirsty!

Jes

Hi Ladies,

I am new to the forum and would love to join as a reward participant on this weight loss challenge. This is just what I need to get off the winter weight. Today's weight 117.8 goal weight 110

Hey guys!

Count me in again...but for the no reward challenge this time. My starting weight is 165.2 (this was Wednesday's weight before my scale was packed away on the moving truck!!).

I have to be 'no reward' as we are driving across the country this week and I won't have my scale for the next weigh in. I *should* have it by week 2 though!

jesvetmed - I'd be happy to keep doing the chart if you'd like. By week 2, we'll be more settled and I should be able to be more 'timely' in my postings. :) If you'd rather do it yourself (or if you'd like me to email mine to you), I'm ok with that too. Just send me a PM and be patient on replies as my computer access over the next 7 days will be sporatic at best.

Yay! I'm glad we are doing this again!!

GLC:
Funny.... I read your post as I was making the chart! Done already so don't worry about it.. but thanks for the offer! Have a good, safe trip out to the west coast! Check in when you arrive!
Jes

Hi Everyone,
I'm definatley in again, and love the idea of socks!

Today: 117.1

Wishing everyone a great first week of the challenge with lots of good clean healthy eating, fun exercise, and no illness!:D

i'm in again, starting weight 138.4, socks sounds great, i know i wont win this time - its those last 10 pounds that always refuse to come off, right?

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Originally Posted by snowtulip

Hi Everyone,
Wishing everyone a great first week of the challenge with lots of good clean healthy eating, fun exercise, and no illness!:D

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Uh-oh . . . I've already broke down and had some (alot) of ice cream and I have a cold! And I haven't exercised! I'm off to a bad start.

Ready for another challenge, with beginning weight of 179. Eeeks!

I'm in. Starting at 119.6.

I'm in, non-reward since this is my first time. I start at 158. heading to 145....
Kim

Those darn girl scouts got me at the grocery store! Ugh!
EVIL!:(

If it's not too late, please count me in! (non-reward).

I missed the last one, but really need some motivation from my TE sisters to get on track again.

Starting weight 180.4 (from last Friday).

In a moment of weakness, I ordered 4 boxes of Girl Scout cookies, but the plan now is to put them out for the people at work, and not bring them into my house to darken my cupboards.

I would love to join the weight challenge. My starting weight OMG....is 220lbs. and I would love to hit my goal this next couple of weeks of below 200 lbs. I haven't seens that in jeez....10 years.


Count me in if I am not to late to join.

If it is not too late I too would like to join in on the non-reward. I have about 10 that I need to get rid of. I have a hard time staying focused. Maybe this will help. I am 150#

I meant to post the yesterday, but my online time completely got away from me. Anyway, I'd like to join in on the reward challenge.

Starting weight: 243 lbs.

This should be interesting, because I have no actual goal weight. I'm really only trying to take off some weight now in hopes that it helps the knee that's been so resistant to treatment. I've always disliked the notion of dieting, so I'm hoping that by joining a challenge like this I can stay a little more focused.

OK. I've been seeing this thread, and avoiding it, because I have really, really been off track since I lost 10 pounds in November/December. I had really been on track. Since then, I have tried 1000 times to get restarted, but I am struggling. I'm working out lots...but the eating is not sane at the moment.

I would like to join the non-reward challenge. I almost hate to join, because I don't like lying to myself, and honestly, I am not sure I am motivated to stay on track at the moment. But, I really, really need to lose some more weight. I haven't been this heavy, for this long, for a long time. :(

So, here we go. Deep breath. Starting weight for this challenge: 162lbs.

I would like to lose 10 pounds in this 8 weeks. But, even if it was a solid 5 pounds, that would be an improvement. Good luck, everyone! :)

It's definitely not too late -- we'll take you all! I'll get our progress chart posted tomorrow and can then update it weekly after each Friday weigh in! No worries to you all....I've already put on 1 or 2 lb since weighing in Friday.. .is that possible!?!?:( Time to get back to work!

Okay, I was out of town all weekend so I weighed in first thing this morning. I'm at 161 lbs right now. Trying to get to 150. This weight is a little heavy since I normally weigh in around 158 +/- a pound, but that's okay. Anyway, I'm joining the non-reward challenge.

If it is not too late, please count me in. I have been reading this thread all weekend but was too chicken to do anything about it. I am 134 and would like to be 129. I have already lost 28 lbs in a year, but would like to hover at 130 instead of 135.

Brenda

I'm attaching the participant list and starting weights as a TEXT file... couldn't upload an excel or word file. I'm not sure how to just put the table into an entry here, so this will have to do!

Welcome to everyone....
Friday is next weigh in! Good luck

Stay away from evil girl scouts... they are everywhere right now!
(OK.. buy the cookies, but give them away!)

If there is a "?" under REWARD by your name, it means I am unsure whether you are in to get / give reward at end to loser of the most weight by percentage... please let me know your preference. And, NO, you can't wait till the last week to decide!!!! :p

Jes

I could use a little TE WLC support today. The week has been going great, diet-wise, until today, that is. The 4 boxes of GS cookies I ordered 2 months ago are here. I put a box of peanut butter Tagalongs on the community table nearby, but there are 2 boxes of Thin Mints (150 calories for 5 cookies) and 1 more box of Tagalongs (150 calories for 2 cookies).

By about 4 PM, they will be very difficult to resist. If I bring them home, I am doomed. How can I resist the temptation?

Maybe little more info on the Girl Scout Cookies will help. I found this article interesting



(CBS) The following is a weekly 60 Minutes commentary by CBS News correspondent Andy Rooney.


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Well, my Girl Scout Cookies came. Usually I just eat them, but
this time I've been trying to find out more about them. Harder than I thought it would be.

The Girl Scouts buy them for about 85 cents a box. They sell them for $3.50 a box so the girls are pretty good businessmen. Last year they sold 200 million boxes - that's $700 million. As I understand it, The Girl Scouts get to keep about two thirds of that. I don't know exactly what they do with it. All kinds of good things they tell me.

One box label reads "Made for The Little Brownie Bakers in Louisville, Kentucky." Not "made BY" Little Brownie Bakers but "made FOR" Little Brownie Bakers. They're actually made by the giant cookie company, Keebler. Keebler is owned by Kellogg's but their name isn't on the box, either. Nothing simple about this.

The other company that makes Girl Scout Cookies is ABC Bakers. ABC Bakers is owned by Interbake Foods in Richmond, Va.

I've tasted most of these and they're pretty good.

One variety is called the Reduced Fat Lemon Cooler Cookie. I don't think "Reduced Fat" belongs in the name of a Girl Scout Cookie
but they've had complaints about the fat content and I suppose they're trying to address that. "Lemon juice solids?" I don't understand that, either. Is it juice or is it solid?

"Tagalongs" are peanut butter cookies. I like peanut butter and I like cookies but I've never liked peanut butter cookies.

A new variety, called a Cafe Cookie, is very good.

Everyone's favorite Girl Scout Cookie is the Thin Mints.

As much as I like Girl Scout Cookies, there are some things about them that I don't understand.

I read the labels and I liked the cookies better before I knew what was in them.

They all have partially hydrogenated vegetable oil.

I made a lot of cookies in my lifetime and we don't have a drop of partially hydrogenated vegetable oil in our kitchen. We don't have any lecithin or niacin either. The Girl Scouts put what they call "reduced iron" in them. How would a girl reduce iron?

The Cafe Cookies have caramel coloring in them. You shouldn't color a cookie.

They all have riboflavin.

I looked up cookies in my Fannie Farmer cookbook and Fannie Farmer doesn't use riboflavin.

Next time a Girl Scout tries to sell me cookies, I'm going to ask her about partially hydrogenated vegetable oil and about riboflavin.


By Andy Rooney © MMVI, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.

I don't need a reward...I just need company!
It's not the evil girl scouts and their cookies....I am a carb-a-holic!!!! Bread, buns, muffins, potato, rice, and breading on everything!

Did I mention that I was married to a wonderful Italian man who loves pasta?

Ziti
Rigatoni
Rotini
Angel Hair
Farfalle
Gemelli
Manicotti etc...

Man can I cook and man am I in trouble! Italian dishes are becoming my specialty.

Crap.

kerrybelle, thanks for the laugh on the girl scout cookies.

I have resisted them FIVE times now. Haven't bought a single one.

Here's the scenario..................

"Would you like to buy some Girl Scout Cookies?"

me - "No thanks, what I would REALLY like to buy is smaller pants. Here is some money (I cough up whatever meager change I can) to help with your troop, thanks!"


complete thread drift here, but this is another one of my favorite lines..............

small box, kids, storefront, and KITTENS!!!

"Would you like a free kitten?"

me "Nope, I would actually PAY YOU to keep them!" :D

I am entitled to NOT like cats. Sorry to all you cat lovers. I have tried. I have had so many bad cat experiences that I wouldn't know where to begin. About the time I had to lay NEW carpet in my already NEWLY carpeted office because the cat decided that the location of the litter box was inconvenient, I quit seeing them as cute and furry. I started to see them as a $2000 investment that poops in the house.:eek::eek:

Good luck tomorrow!!

This morning's weight- 178.2 (down 2.2 from last Friday)

Wow- I am totally amazed, considering the evil Girl Scout cookies forced me to eat 3 of them last night!:rolleyes: But I did exercise close to an hour a day all this past week and was pretty good other than the cookies.

Off to a good start!:D

I'm at 178.4 :)

Down about 1lb from last week. So happy!

138.0 today, body fat same at 32%. I'm in for the non-reward challenge this time.

Luckily, I haven't run into any store front Girl Scout cookies sales, yet. I'm sure it's coming soon. Two people I work with are selling cookies, including my boss! So far I've been pretty good at resisting, but must admit I've eaten a few.

Kerry

Okay - here we go again!

Today's Weight - 141.3 (down .4 pound)

I'll take anything that is lower than the week before!:)

Lynette

YIPPEEEEE........................

It was only for a nano second, but the scale said 149.8 and then it went to 150.
YYYYYEEESSSSS!!!!!

I am shooting for 147. I am going to Hawaii in the morning and will be gone for 9 days. I plan to eat lots of fruit while I am there. However, there is fantastic coconut ice cream over there, so we'll see! Wish me luck!

Put me down at 149.8 1/2 or 150 :)