Please direct all of your and victories to the "All Teams Thread" so the team leaders can use this thread only for weigh in results. Thanks!

Week One

Can you believe it? You've successfully made it through your first week of the challenge and things are rolling along beautifully. (Although I wasn't here to witness a lot of it! ) I can tell the exercise challenge is moving along well and everyone is having a great time!

Things to Remember for Week Two: I was reading in a book called "Your Best Life Now" that there is a mountain hiking resort that is designed to help build team morale by climbing a mountain together. Everyone starts out excited and ready to go and they start their journey together. As they make it to the halfway point, there's a restaurant that's built as a resting place. In most cases, only half of the people that start in a group end up making it to the summit. This is not because of the difficulty of the hike, but because the other half of the hikers think that halfway is "good enough."

What I really want you to take from this is that going halfway in diet and exercise is not "good enough." You are a much better person to settle for less than you really are. With that, go into Week Two knowing that you are going to finish all twelve weeks of this challenge. Not only that, but you will come out of it as a stronger and healthier person. Trust in yourself that you can look back on this experience and can see your accomplishments!

Blue Team Results

The Blue Team worked really hard this week for a great loss! We only had 2 people that had to use freebie weeks which is a great response rate.

Blue Team Motivation for Week Two: Try to write down as much of what you eat in a day as possible. Not only will this show you what you're eating in the end that got you to your success, but it will help show you areas where you may need to improve your diet.

Starting Weight: 12,209.8 lbs

Week One Weigh In: 12078.2 lbs

Week One Weight Loss: 131.6 lbs

Week One Weight Loss Percentage: 1.08 %

Week One Blue Team Biggest Loser: ssgtswife33 - 11 lb loss - 4.78 %

Black Team Results

The Black Team, you did AMAZING this week. We had 8 people who didn't weigh in this week (therefore using a freebie).

Starting Weight: 12,211.6 lbs

Week One Weigh In: 12,083.6 lbs

Week One Weight Loss: 128.0 lbs

Week One Weight Loss Percentage: 1.05 %

Week One Black Team Biggest Loser: TatianaHDZ - 9 lb loss - 4.02% WAY TO GO!!!!!

I also wanted to make special mention of those ladies who crossed into the sacred place called ONEDERLAND on their FIRST weigh-in!:

GetSmart - 198
Caitbeans - 197.8
Hope4Me - 196

Red Team Results

We had 9 people using freebies this week for not weighing in. Not too bad, however lots and lots of people on Red team who never come chat with their team. Stop by and say hi sometime!! We'd love to hear from our teammates!

Starting Weight: 12081.7 lbs

Week One Weigh In: 11927.9 lbs

Week One Weight Loss: 153.8 lbs

Week One Weight Loss Percentage: 1.27%

Week One Red Team Biggest Loser: bbybear712 - 16.8 lb loss - 4.41%

It was really close for Red team biggest loser this week. We had some AMAZING losses for Week 1 Way to go RED team!!!

We had 2 cross over into Onderland and the were:
mom23BC
spidermonkey78
Way to go!!!

Lets go Red team..we are well on our way to another successful week!! We can do this!!

Congratulations Red Team!

You are the Biggest Losers for Week One!

Week Two

Well its week two and this is usually the point where everyone is really getting to know everyone else and things are flowing nicely. There is however a slight problem... some people are STILL not participating in the chat threads!

Things to Remember for Week Three: COMMUNICATION IS EVERYTHING!! We all understand that you have busy lives outside of this challenge, but the reason that people sign up for the challenge is because they need the support from others trying to battle against weight loss. If you signed up just to post a number every week and get a title, you have really missed the whole purpose of the challenge. While the team threads are still 40 plus pages, no one is saying you have to go back and read every little thing about each person. All that the leaders are asking is that everyone checks in at least once or twice a week. It takes roughly two to five minutes to ask how the team is doing, give everyone an update about you and wish them good luck. Really simple people... so let's try it!

Don't get me wrong, some of you have done an amazing job keeping up with the chat threads. From what I've observed in the past challenges, people that talk more in the chats usually lose more in real life.

Blue Team Results

The Blue Team had a little harder of a time this week with some gains and stalls but we are going to mush on through week 3!

Blue Team Motivation for Week Three: Try to think about one positive thing about yourself each day. Most people when overweight become very focused on the negative things they think about themselves, and neglect the underlying positives. Not only will this bring up your spirits, but you may have extra pep in your step.

Week One Weight: 12,078.2 lbs

Week Two Weigh In: 12,028.3 lbs

Week Two Weight Loss: 49.9 lbs

Week Two Weight Loss Percentage: 0.41 %

Week Two Blue Team Biggest Loser: victoria ayumi - 4 lb loss - 2.11 %

Red Team Week 2 Results

Red is still going strong! We had alot of freebies this week! All in all I think we are cruising right along to success!! Excellent Job Red!!

Week One Weight: 11927.9 lbs

Week Two Weigh In: 11884.2 lbs

Week Two Weight Loss: 43.7 lbs

Week Two Weight Loss Percentage: 0.37%

Week Two Red Team Biggest Loser: ksk571 -3.5 lbs -1.94% Way to go Karen!!!

Black Team Results Week 2

Sorry about the delay in having these posted - our internet has been giving me troubles today! UGH!

Week One Weight: 12,083.6 lbs

Week Two Weigh In: 12,018.0 lbs

Week Two Weight Loss: 65.8 lbs

Week Two Weight Loss Percentage: 0.54 %

Week Two Black Team Biggest Loser: ChickiChickiBangBang - 5lb loss - 3.03% loss!! CONGRATS!!!!

Way to go Black Team!! Apparently we had 3 ladies drop out this week (their weigh-ins are no longer in the weigh-in thread ) but, they'll still be in the weigh-in tabulations until their freebies are used up and we have 4 others who are one missed weigh-in away from no longer having their results tabulated with the Black Teams. It's kind of discouraging to see that with the challenge JUST starting. But, for the ladies who are left, you are ROCKING!!! Keep it up girls!!!

And... a special mention to our Onederland lady for the week:
Hsmomx2 - 199.6

Congratulations Black Team!

You are the Biggest Losers for Week Two!

Week Three

Well everyone, if you are still in the challenge you can give yourself a big pat on the back... You've made it through the first quarter of the challenge! Can you believe it?

Things to Remember for Week Four: Last week I talked a little about how communication with your team is a great key to success. Since I've been having internet issues and haven't been able to get online, it got me thinking. What would I do without the support of my team and the challenge to guide me. Unfortunately, this is a question we must all face at some point in our journey. Take this week to reflect on how things went for you when you couldn't make it to the boards to "talk it out." Try to find the things that cause your plans to slip and take active measures to write down ways you can fix them.

Blue Team Results

This week we lost a few people for various reasons, but we wish them the best! quite a few freebie weeks this week too. Maybe it had something to do with me not sending my Monday reminder pm?

Week Two Weight: 11,379.8 lbs

Week Three Weigh In: 11,326 lbs

Week Three Weigh Loss: 53.8 lbs

Week Three Weight Loss Percentage: 0.47 %

Week Three Blue Team Biggest Loser: FrouFrou - 4 lb loss - 2.16 %

Onederland Bluesters of the Week

Frozen Peach - Lost 4.2 lbs - 197.8
missingmyerica - Lost 0.6 lbs - 199.8

Week 3:
Red team Results!!

Well TOM took residence on our team this week, or as we so begrudgingly have referred to as DOT! But I think we still did pretty fantastic! We also cut some of what was weighing us down (BL term! LOL) by losing 7 members of our team.

Week Two Weight: 10120.5 lbs

Week Three Weigh In: 10076.2 lbs

Week Three Weigh Loss: 44.3 lbs

Week Three Weight Loss Percentage: 0.44 %

Week Three Red Team Biggest Loser:jlbake -3 lbs -1.62%!! Way to go!!

Way to go this week Red team!! AF didnt get us down now did it!!

This week, we had a pretty bad week with TOM, Birthdays, and other personal issues that affected our weights. We also lost a 9 people this week!! However, I know the Black team and I know we'll bounce right back!

Week Two Weight: 9913.0 lbs

Week Three Weigh In: 9891.0 lbs

Week Three Weigh Loss: 22.3 lbs

Week Three Weight Loss Percentage: 0.22 %

Week Three Black Team Biggest Loser: Bojooki - 3 lb loss - 2.11% Way to go!!!

Congratulations Blue Team!

You are the Biggest Losers for Week Three!