Onderland By Christmas Challenge
 

I decided to start a ONDERLAND by Christmas Challenge. Just put your SW when you join challenge. Good Luck Everyone!

SW: 243.8
GW: 199

I'm in! Onderland by Christmas, I think that's doable.

Starting weight - 225
Goal weight - 199

count me in as well
SW: 232
GW: 199

im not sure if i will make it to onderland by Christmas but i would sure like to try

sw:265
gw:199.9

Count me in :carrot:

Thanks for starting this thread.
My
SW is 238
GW is 199

sounds great i want to give it a try.

SW: 231
GW: 199

I'm in, I want to give this a try. I think I can reach this goal by Dec 15...Here goes!!!! Thanks for posting this!!!

I'd love to join. Logically I should be able to reach onederland well before Christmas, but the way I've been going it's anyone's guess when it'll actually happen...

SW: 218.6
GW: 199

Id like to join also since my goal is 199 come year end!

SW 232
GW 199

This is just what I need to jump start me! Thanks for posting this :)

SW 263
GW 199

Oh I'd hoped there was something up already. I'm totally in.

SW: 253 (:()
GW: 199

I'm definatly in! It would be the first time since junior high...even if I don't make it anything closer to 199 is good for me!

SW 240
GW 199

I'm in, my goal is to be in the 100's by the new year so this is perfect. I'll post my progress every Wednesday.

SW - 219.4
GW - 199.0

Let's do it!

I'm in! I haven't done a challenge here yet (I mostly hang out in 20-somethings), but this sounds great. I think it will be hard work for me, but possible.

SW: 236
GW: 199

I'm in! Thanks for starting this challenge. I am definitely hoping to be into the 100's by Christmas.
SW: 237
GW: 199

I'm IN! That would be the best Christmas gift ever to be in the 100s again!

SW: 259
GW: 199

i would love to be 199 before christmas! would love to join!

SW: 243
GW: 199

I should (hopefully!) be at around 199 by mid-October, but either way, this will be a kick in the pants.

CW: 219
GW: < 199

Count me in, too! I should be in Onederland before then, but this is still good motivation! I can't wait until I never have to see the big 2 again!!!

I am so joining this
GW: 199
SW: 252

count me in :

sw : 258

gw: 199

Absolutely count me in too ! I was just wondering if there was a challenge like this one around. I sooooo want to achieve this.
SW - 240
GW- 199
:carrot:

This has been a long slow horrid summer for weight loss. :mad: But I'm putting on my boxing gloves and starting over again. Me versus The Scale. Round II. :D

SW 223
GW 199

17 weeks, 24 pounds (1.4# loss per week)

Thanks for the heads up on this, Rochester! :D I'm definitely in it!

SW: 230
GW: 199

31 pounds in 17 weeks... That's just under 2 pounds a week, which is pretty much what I've averaged through my journey thus far! I'm SO stoked for onederland... SO stoked! :D

Ok, had to post todays whoosh, nearly a tenth of the challenge !
sw. 240
cw. 237 YAHOO :carrot:

this looks like the perfect challenge for me...i am currently @ 248 so i can make it if i'm really diligent...i'm tired of just talking about it!! good luck everyone

Are there going to be regular weigh ins/check ins? I really want to join, but my weight loss lately has been slow...But I see others with about the same amount or more to lose, so maybe I should just go for it? Yes, I will go for it!

SW: 246.2
GW: 199.8 :) It's still Onederland!!!

All that I have to say right now is that I'm having some serious hate issues with my scale the last 3 days.

That is all! :lol:

But I know you Diana. You'll get over your stuckedness and go whooshing away! :D

Weekly weigh-in!

222.9/-1/221.9

Not the 1.4 loss I need to stay on track or the enormous whoosh I was dreaming of, but a loss nevertheless!

I did great staying on track all week with both exercise and food. But I'm probably going to totally blow it on my mini-vacation today and tomorrow which will involve pizza, wine, a hot tub, a pool party, a cookout....and lots and lots of fun! I'm not going to fret about it, though, because I really need to relax and enjoy myself.

Hope everyone else is doing well with the challenge. We're not a very chatty bunch, are we? :)

Congrats on the loss. Maybe we can make this a more chatty group! I had a .4lb loss this week, but I know I've been a little lax with my eating. And of course, today we're having a birthday party for my youngest son, complete with lots and lots of food and desserts. Hopefully I can keep it in check today, it's the sweets that always do me in! Good luck with your little vacation, let us know how it goes!

Woo-hoo for a loss! :D Always good, even when it isn't exactly what we'd like.

And maybe this is more of the norm around these parts.. .And we're just very chatty people who happen to end up in the same threads a lot?? :lol: Either way, I'm sure we can chat this place up a bit. We're pretty much pros. ;)

As for my issues, it wasn't even just stuckedness... No... I was at 229 for 3 days, then I was 230 for a day... Then 231... Then 232... And now I'm on my way back down again, today at 230, but still. I believe the day I posted about my irritation, I was at 232 and was just hoping that the number wouldn't go up AGAIN the next day! Ugh! It wasn't fun. But now that I'm most of the way back down I'm feeling a little better. :)

Hope everyone is doing well!

Is it too late to join in?

SW: 244.6
GW: 199

I need to get the scale moving again, it's been pretty slow lately. I'm considering dropping the calorie counting and just sticking to a whole foods type/ intuitive eating plan. When I don't have so much processed stuff like bread in my diet, I tend to not rack up as many calories, and really only eat when I'm hungry. I feel like this may be the best approach to get the scale moving again, but not sure if that's the way I'm going to be eating for the rest of my life. Just something I have to ponder.

I had the most wonderfully fantastic mini-vacation. Total fun and total relaxation! :D

My food choices weren't great but not horrible either. And even though I ate some things I probably wouldn't on "regular" days I was able to consciously control how much I ate of those foods, and for me that was a huge deal.

@dudesmon - Hope you enjoyed the birthday party. Good luck with trying a whole food/intuitive way of eating...let us know how it goes.

@Diana - You've had a pretty substantial loss so far so you're body is probably just adjusting. I'm sure you'll see the scale moving downward again soon.

I'm already a part of the 30 lbs by Christmas challenge, so what's a few more pounds?? I'm in!! It's going to be tough, but hopefully I can push it out. I've been pretty lazy the past couple of weeks.

SW-234.5
GW-199

Wow, I had kind of a rough day today and what was my first gut reaction? To eat. Crap! Luckily, I really don't have any bad stuff around, so I had like 5 fries and a regular sized brownie and that was it. I'm hoping that at some point in time I won't have that automatic reaction to turn to food. I'm not really over it now, but at least I'm processing it, and without turning to food. That's my story for the day. How is everyone else doing?

I've been hanging out at 230 for the last couple of days, which in reality I've been okay with since it's way better than the number going up like it did... Sure would be nice to see 229 in the morning though, so I don't have to adjust my ticker up! I've been behaving myself and really working on getting more exercise in. I'm super excited for this weekend when I run in my first ever 5K on Sunday with my mom! So freakin' stoked.

Rochester, I'm glad you had a nice little mini vacation! Sounds like you handles everything very well. Always good!

Dudesmom, it's a good thing that you didn't have too much in the house! From the sounds of it your indulgence was minimal, and that's great! As long as you're right back on track now, you're fine. :)

I'm in!
SW: 224
GW: 199

I only weigh once a month and may cut back on that. I go by how my clothes fit.

Golly Ninepaw, I have so been having your type of sitch with the scale. After the whoosh I bragged about, the three pounds went back on, then another two, and have been fighting my way back to 237. Sometimes I just can't fathom how this works. Soooooo still 38lbs to go !!