Quote Originally Posted by Adventure Girl
Having a buddy with you is great motivation! Good luck! If you end in a tie, then you're both winners! So what do you do to break the tie? How about the winner being the person that remains at their goal weight the longest. I think keeping the weight off is really harder than losing it the first place.

And if you can put a time limit on it... like one year. If you both keep the weight off for the year, you should splurge and treat yourselves to something nice (facial or massage?) that you can do together.

Side note... I think 14 pounds is too much to lose in 2 months! But that's just my 2 cents.
I like the idea of having to maintain. Well, I would maintain... she would have to lose more weight (she wants to lose a total of 27 pounds). But, we would need an ending point... so we could get the reward! Maybe we check in every 2 weeks or something? Hhhhuuumm?

She and I discussed what her weight loss should be... and she agreed to 14 pounds. But... maybe we should drop it back down to 12. It needs to be a challenge though. Basically, she will drop 3.5 pounds every 2 weeks, so less that 2 pounds a week to lose.

And... even though I am only losing 6 pounds... I will be taking my body fat from (est. for now) 23% to 18%. Losing body fat is much harder... as it requires a really strict diet and working out a lot. For a women to achieve 18% body fat... is a challenge unto itself! Much less in 2 months times.