Welcome to the 12 week challenge! Here we are incorporating each week (or at least trying to ) a tip that's posted on: http://health.discovery.com/centers/...m/program.html . I've tweeked it a tad below.

Week one: Incorporate exercise or establish a regimen.
Week two: Analyze your goals and make them reasonable.
Week three: Why do you think you over eat? (Think about it and discuss)
Week four: What are things you can do to make your health journey easier?
Week five: Making sure you eat all your meals in the correct portion.
Week six: Half-way through challenge: re-focus if need be.
Week seven: Are loved ones sabotaging your efforts? What will you do about it?
Week eight: Finding things to do other than eat.
Week nine: Coming up with strategies for eating healthy when at outings etc.
Week ten: How will you be health conscious even when on vacations or planning to relax?
Week eleven: Review your challenge accomplishments. What are you most proud of?
Week twelve: What has the challenge helped you to see or learn?



New members are more than welcome to join!....

Participants so far are (updated as you arrive ):
theotherjen (Jen)
Only1specialk (Karen)
Extrinsic Rapture (Rosie)
dolfingirl2000 (Vicki)
HippieVanLady (Catherine)
BamaMom (Angela)
Syn1977 (Keri)
Biggirl27 (Tammara)
Mar's Losing Now (Mar)
GizmoV (Vera)
Sandy00 (Sandy)


You may state your goals, measurements, dialy updates and struggles

Who's ready to join us for friday, 7/15?

Well lets see here...I got some measurements..:::gulp::::I weighed in...I am ready to go.

Week 1 (July 15-22) - Getting Started (from discovery.com)
Make sure to get in about 200 to 300 calories of physical activity each day. If you do, you'll lose from 1 to 2 pounds of fat every week. Write a contract with yourself to do the best you can on your weight-loss program.

So I will try to do a workout video before I go to bed.

starting measurements:
neck: 15.5"
chest: 48"
wrist: 6.75"
bicep: 17.5"
waist: 45"
hip: 59"
thigh: 31"
calf: 22.5"
ankle: 10.5"

PM weight: 295 ***update*** ok, gotta love that AM weight (that and good ol' fluctuation) I hopped on and was back down at 289.8...whewwww that was close

Dr.s appt. is on Friday and hopefully there will be a reason for the never ending period of DOOM...I am thinking that once it clears up there will be a nice loss of water and such...so we will see

Hi everyone I'm back and I'm in. I just took my measurments and I'm ready to start on Friday.

Neck: 18"
Chest: 55"
Wrist: 7.75"
Bicep: 17"
Waist: 57.5"
Hip: 64'
Thigh: 31.25"
Calf: 20"
Ankle: 12"
Weight: 348 lbs.

I can't say that I was too pleased with the results *sigh* but that's why I came back. I'll try to find some videos to do for exercise in addition to walking my dogs.

dolfingirl-I'm glad to see ya back sweety...and don't worry, none of us are pleased with our results

I think I will give this a try. I need to find things to refocus at times when I get complacent.

Neck: 14.5"
Chest: 45"
Wrist: 6.5"
Bicep: 21.5"
Waist: 41.5"
Hip: 62"
Thigh: 36"
Calf: 26"
Ankle: 12"
Weight: 365 lbs.

I must say that having thighs bigger than my waist should be is a wake up call. For week one, I am going to continue my water aerobics 3 times a week, and add to that cobblestone walking on days I am not in the pool.

Good Morning, Ladies

Here are my STATS:

weight: 277.7 lbs
neck: 15"
chest: 44.5"
arm: 20.5"
waist: 39.5"
hips: 54"
thigh: 33.5"
ankle: 12"

I'm already in an exercise regimen (5 or 6 days per week) and I will continue with that. My main struggle is going to be controlling my eating. I'm hoping that my 1 guilt-free day/week will handle my cravings.

Hi Ladies,

Count me in! I had a huge wake up call last night. I bought a scale that weighs up to 350 (cause I KNEW I had not gained THAT much from the 333 I weighed back in March). Well, guess what. I got an Error, so that means I am more than 350. Everyone else in the house used the scales and they were correct. sigh. I've got my measurements at home and I'll grab them tonight and post.

Okay...the first thing is exercise. I've got a full plate until 8:30 tonight. It will be difficult, but I WILL do it!

Glad to be on board with you guys!

Catherine and Angela-glad to see y'all are joining us

I have done some planning for exercise...Fridays I am off work so there is no reason I can't find something to do for exercise...I think I will go find a pool to swim laps and do my yoga video...Same for the weekends. I have church related stuff on everyother Monday and every Tuesday, so I think that I am gonna check out the Buddha Bodies yoga class that is only on Monday nights, its for fat people so that rocks!!!...the class nights, may just end up as free days unless I get on the Elliptical. Wednesday and Thursday will be Elliptical/WATP nights...so I think that just about covers it. I am afraid of over doing it so I am going to start slow and do the 1 mile WATP and 20 min or less on the Elliptical until I build my endurance back up.

Sorry for rambling this morning...just trying to get back on track before I derail completely I am going to get Nate to take a picture of me when I get home so I can post it for the Slim in 6 "after" pic and this challenge's before pic...hopefully y'all can see a difference

Count my saggy butt in! I will post my actual measurements tonight, but as of right now I am weighing in at 294.8 lbs! High but down a total of 14 lbs since starting WW.

My goal is to get to the track everyday afterwork, starting tonight....coincidentally, I wore my sneakers to work so I will be going to the track after stopping home and changing into sweats, a tee shirt, and grabbing my pedometer, socks, and water.

And I will walk for at least 45 minutes everyday!

Rosie, I'm so glad you started this!!! Count me in!!! Only thing is, I don't have a tape measure. I'm planning to get one this weekend and I'll get back to you all - I'm so excited!!! This challenge sounds awesome!!!

Speak to you all soooon (with my stats - ug, scary!!!!)

Okay everyone...here are my stats...ugh:

Weight - 350 +
Neck - 15 3/4 in.
Arm - 19 3/4 in.
Chest - 55 in.
Waist 56 in
Hips - 69 3/4 in. (Argh...someone save the chairs, please!!)
Thigh - 31 3/4 in.
Calf - 17 1/2 in.
Ankle - 9 3/4

(See...I measure everything because I want to know exactly where it is coming off...lol...more to celebrate!)

Have plans to walk with my sister after work. I've told her about the challenge and she is all up to do it with me, so YAY! I'll post how I've done tomorrow.
Good luck everyone!

Welcome Tammara (Biggirl27)! It's good to have you join us!!
The list has been updated in the original post.


Welcome to week one. As you already know this week's focus is exercise. The goal is to develop an exercise regimen and/or incorporate exercise into your daily life. If you already have a regimen, GREAT . Just continue along the path and see if there is anything that you'd like to add, change or progress into.

My stats:

Weight: 340.8

Neck: 16.5"
Chest: 58"
Wrist: 8.5"
Waist: 53"
Hip: 59.5"
Thigh: 35"
Arm: 18"
Calve: 20"
Ankle: 10.5"

So far the day's going good. Started posting my food on fitday.com. Hope to post eaten calories and activity later on.

Remember to post your measurements gals!

~Rosie~

Where is everyone? LOL...sry I know ya'll got jobs.

Calories: 2400
Activity: 1/2 of Leslie Sansone Brisk Walk (1 mile= 15 min.) + 15 min. yoga

I think I'll just track calories for week one (fitday does the rest ) and then week two I'll analyze what I should be tweaking.

Later,

Rosie