2.5 lbs a week until Halloween Challenge
 

16 weeks and 6 days till Halloween, my favorite Day of the Year. So, needing serious motivation by way of a challenge I can look forward to the finish line in, I've decided to start a Halloween challenge.

This is just one of those simple challenges, the goal is 2.5 lbs a week, so the people closer to goal probably won't be too interested. At the end, if you've lost weight, you're a winner. I'm not big on setting up complex rules or policing anything, I just want people with the same goal (about 40 lbs by the end of October), who are supportive.

I want to hit 200 and be possible doing a onderland dance on Halloween in a costume that I bought off the rack instead of something I have to make myself because nothing fits.

So, anybody interested, start posting!

Alright, here is the link to the online spreadsheet that challenger Mya created and posted for our weigh ins. Just click the link and enter your weight for the weekly weigh ins! Thank you Mya!!
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spre...LvFa89VQ#gid=1
after entering your weigh in, just click the save button on the top right side of the page.

2.5 lbs/week is a lot for me, it will probably have me burning more calories everyday. That's not bad at all, I'm in!
If I lose 40 lbs by then I will be one happy, dancing, sexy witch. Let's get to work.

I'm in! I would love to be down 40 pounds by the end of October. I not only want to dress up for Halloween, but I am also planning a girls only weekend at the end of October & would love to buy some sexy jeans!

YAY!! So happy other people want to try this! There are still 5 days left before the 1st week of the challenge so we should all use our weight in five days to start. Or we can just start today and have five days at the end of the challenge to work with. Whateves...really, don't like rules and stuff ;)

I can use my weight now or in 5 days. Doesn't matter to me. Just let me know what works best for you all. :)

I'm in! I weigh-in on Thursday and on Sunday, so I'll use either of those days as my stating weight, whichever you prefer! :)

I'm in I want to lose 40 pounds by Thanksgiving, but if I can get it done by Halloween I'd be even happier.

Wow! This is just what I needed! I'd love to be that much lighter by Halloween. I'm going to start first thing in the morning to get a heads up! Thanks for the motivation.

WOOT! Love the enthusiasm! Lets just weigh in and start tomorrow and then have five days at the end, that way, no more procratinating (its the last thing we need). So, first thing tomorrow weigh in and post your SW and set your GW based on 2.5 lbs lost a week. WOOOHOOO! Okay, I'm a little overexcited, need to calm down.

I'm in! this is exactly the motivation I need and about exactly the same weight I want to lose. My goal us also onederland!

I'm definitely in! I want to be at 195 (or lower) by Halloween!

I'm in! I'd LOVE to be in Onederland by Halloween.
SW: 233
GW: 2.5 lbs per week will put me at 193, but I'm shooting for 199. As long as I'm below 200, I'm okay!

Ohhhh....my....
I just weighed...probably for the first time in months. I thought I was around 240ish, noooo.
I weighed in at 255. This is the HEAVIEST I have ever been in my LIFE and I am NOT HAPPY. I'm ready to cry.

So
SW: 255
GW: 210
It would be unhealthy to try for a 55 lbs loss in only 16 weeks, but a girl can wish.

I guess I should say, heaviest I've ever been without a 9 lbs baby in me and lots of fluid and goo. I was 260 my last week of being pregnant with my son. I was huge. I can't believe I'm that huge again (without the big belly, although, my belly is pretty big now).

SW:247.7
GW:199.9 or below ;)

Mango, love your sig quote!

Thanks! You just made me read it and it gave me a bit of a picker-upper for the moment, good thing because I was feeling pretty low. Love your Avi, hIGHlarious!

SW: 208
GW for challenge: 168

Oh man! I wanna trade numbers with Hometowngirl!

Sw:206
Gw:176

Im in :D i wanna be at my goal weight by halloween hopefully *crosses fingers*
starting 135
goal 115-110
25 pounds in 4ish months. Sounds pretty good to me :D

Yay, more people are joining! This makes me so happy I think I need a ticker in my sig and my goals! I'm soooo bored tonight too I might just follow through with it. I have to hunker down in my bedroom to get away from the squatters who took over my livingroom at the end of June. Can't wait till they leave.

I'm in. It's Thursday and today I weight 210.6.

That would put me at around 170 by Halloween. That seems reasonable.

So, is this a once a week weigh in, and since we started on a Wednesday do we always weigh on a Wednesday? Got only scale this morning and was up a half lbs, but I drank a lot of water yesterday and spent time on a treadmill which I havn't done in months so I assume it's just water in my muscles. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Wednesday, because it's hump day ;)

ok
 

Alrighty, haven't been here for a while..will try this..need to : )

SW - 208
GW - 168
I would feel so much better physically if I could get these pounds off!
I'd be really thrilled to see 173. That would put me in a normal weight range (just barely).

Welcome Jenichip1 and cinlo!

I'm having a **** of a weekend, although my squatters left today, so that's one stressful thing off my list. I'm using my time today to clean my room, rearrange my furniture and get my weekends worth of garage sale loot into their spots (1 dresser and one kitchen cart). There will not be any family in town for the next two weeks so I have that time to establish my eating patterns. Woohoo.

So, any discussion on particular plans you all are following? I'm doing something like the dukan or paleo diet. I'm Alaskan native and historically my people did not eat a lot of carbs, so I'm going back to my roots. I'd go locovoar, but I'd probably die, lol! Seaweed and fish? Lol!

SW: 233
CW: 235 (WTH?)
GW: 195 by 10/31

I GAINED 2lbs. WTF? I know my eating wasn't 100% perfect, but I did burn more calories than usual. I have had more salty foods than normal the past few days.

Hey guys! I know I'm a little late, but I'd really love to join this. If I could lose 30-40 lbs by Halloween I would be thrilled. Okay, honestly, if I could lose 30-40 lbs PERIOD, I would be thrilled!! There are 2 evil slices of pizza in the fridge that are standing between me and a true start. I can't bear to throw them out, so dinner it is. I'll be officially starting in the morning. I'm not gonna weigh-in until tomorrow morning (I think I'm right around 186-188 lbs), then I'll get on track with the rest of you guys (looks like Wednesday weigh-ins?). This seems totally do-able, though! Off to go clean house... the parents are on their way for a short visit - gotta make it look like I live a nice, orderly life - HA! Good luck guys! Looking forward to this .... :)

I'd like to join, if you are still taking new people.

Always like new ppl!

Mango, just went back to pag two and saw your post. I'm also doing something minorly low carb, but not extreme, also combined with IF. Oh, and as soon as I shift down a few dozen lbs I want to start the couch to 5k program and try my feet at running.

What is IF? Interm fasting? Why wait till you shift pounds to run? Just RUN! Lol!
I weighed in this morning to see how well I did on my first day of Dukan and I was amazingly down to 251.5, Wow, 3.5 lbs in a few days in not all bad, I'll take it!

There is a whole lotta jigglin goin on for me to be running! Lol! I ordered free weights, a 40 lbs dumbbell set to help me start firming up, and a medicine ball. Plus, it's the neighbors treadmill I'm using and I doubt she wants her fat neighbor bouncing up and down on her nice new machine. I'll hold off for the two more months before I can afford my own mill to abuse. No way am I running outside or at the gym in front of people.

Hey guys, is everyone ready for the big WI tomorrow?
I thought we could use a spreadsheet to register our weights, so I created one:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spre...LvFa89VQ#gid=1
You should open it and write your numbers every week.
Mango30, since you opened this thread, could you include this link in the first post so it's easier for everyone to find?

Mya, Thank you! I will edit my first post and include your link, and YES! I am ready for tomorrows weigh in!

Thanks for the awesome spread sheet Mya!
Brown: I have a gym membership, it's just a very snobby gym and I can't go there looking like this, maybe at 199, but not at 247.

And I am so ready for tomorrow's WI! Gunna kick some butt! Gunna shift that umber down!

Hey, count me in!
 

I totally want to join. My b-day is Oct 4th so this is the perfect challenge to get into. Some of the others are way too complex. Simplicity is the ultimate sophisication!

My plan includes the 17DD w/ Zumba, Kettlenetics, and walking the 1.5 mile around my neighbor with weights. I am on Cycle1Day3 and really like this plan; it's simple and uses good medical research.

I put my weigh from a week ago, the 3rd, because putting this past Sunday's would probably not show much change. I normally weigh in on Sunday, but this will give me a mid-week, hump day motivator.

Bust my @$$ today with zumba in the AM and 1.5 mile walk with weighted arms this evening. Still sore from k-bells yesterday.

Good luck everyone, will be WI in t-minus 6 hours.

Smooches,
LFG:carrot:

Originally Posted by Brown:
Oh, I love that! That's awesome. Thanks.

Also, to others who may not have seen, if you scroll all the way over to the right you can put in your goal weight, and have a running total of your losses.

Yes, I forgot to mention that :dizzy:
I wrote dates on the columns just to show which week it is, you can WI any day of the week.
I dropped 3.2 lbs this past week, did NOT see that coming. I hope I can drop half of that this week :)

WI Results
 

Lost 1.6 for 4% of goal. Love the spreadsheet Mya:bravo:

Started strength training :jig: this week so not too surprise. I am still sore from 20 mins of Kettlenetics on Monday with only a 4lb weight.

Great job, Mya. :cp:

I think everyone weighing in on Wednesday is a good idea. Gives me reason to check in all day today to see how everyone did!:grouphug:

Good luck peeps,
LFG