Anyone up for a challenge from now through July 4th?
 

Edit: Here's our official spreadsheet!

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Hey ladies! I'm in serious need of a boost, and I think some casual competition/encouragement might help me out.

Is anyone interested in doing a friendly challenge from now until the 4th of July? We could do it based on pounds or Biggest Loser-style (percentage lost).

Let me know if anyone's up for it! :dance:

Ooh ohhh! Me! Meeee!!

I'll join the challenge. I'd like to lose 20 pounds between now and July 4.
That would put me at 172 pounds. I hope I can get my weight down!

:cheer::cheer:

SW:192
CW:182
GW:172

SPREADSHEET:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...CUVI0YXc#gid=0

Oooh, I'm definitely in! I have a wedding on July 7th and would love to lose 30+ pounds by then! I'm going to pretend like it's a July 1st challenge though since that's Canada Day ;)

Me!! Im new on here and a competition is what I need. On my intro post I let everyone know Im a Army wife whos husband comes home about July 15th. I am looking to lose 40lbs by then!

Yay, lets do this!

Awesome! I'm thinking tracking by percentage of body weight lost might be best since, since our weights vary so much. Does that work for everyone?

I was thinking I'll keep track of percentages weekly in a spreadsheet like they used in this challenge.

When should we start? I'm up for jumping in tomorrow if everyone else is (I think that would end us on Canada Day, Laura78 ;)! Or if you'd rather keep it to exactly 22 weeks, that would be Wednesday.

Tomorrow would be great for me. Right now I weigh only on Mondays, but am thinking about tracking daily! Thanks for putting together the challenge!

I'd love to join this challenge too please! I'm also in a BL challenge at the moment, but that runs out at the beginning of April, and this will keep me going beyond then, and hopefully to goal!

Starting tomorrow is great by me, I weigh in Sundays so will just put my weight down a day early.

SW 185.25 GW 150

I would love to join you folks in this challenge! I am participating in a Biggest Loser challenge at work but that ends on 4/13/2012 and this will motivate me to keep going after that time has passed.

Tomorrow is fine for me. I weigh-in on Fridays, but I will log my Friday weights on Monday since I only like to weigh-in once per week.

I also weigh in on Fridays, Laura.

I would like to lose 40 pounds by July 4th!

May I join in too please!? :) My goal date is July 7 (my birthday) so this is perfect! I weigh in on Sundays too.

Hi my name is Sarah I would Also love to join I'm hoping to loose close to 40lbs by then :)

I'm going to a festival in July and would like to join as well, hoping to lose 40 lbs :)

I'm in :carrot: I'll be going on a trip to NY on July 14th and I'd love to be down 25 pounds by then. I wish everyone much success. I'm starting out at 210 and hoping to reach 185 by then.

Ok, everyone, here's our spreadsheet! It's viewable and edit-able by anyone with the link.

We can all weigh in here, and to make things easy I'll add the numbers for the week into the sheet and do a post that compiles the totals (unless you'd rather add your own numbers, in which case go ahead!). The total values in the bottom row are a little goofy, but I'll fix the formulas as we go.

See you all here tomorrow :D

I just joined this group tonight and would love a challenge. I am getting remarried in July and would love to weigh 130 pounds again which would be a 34 pound loss.

Starting weight 1/30: 209,2 lbs

Thanks for setting up the spreadsheet ParadiseFalls :) I've updated my start weight on there, it's 185.25.

Good luck to everyone!

Yes, Thanks for putting this together! I weighed this morning and updated the spreadsheet as well....starting in at 172.5!

Awesome! I logged my starting weight :)

Okay I've logged in my starting weight of 164.2, now to get a healthy breakfast.

I want to join! I have put myself on the spreadsheet. I am starting at 320.8 lbs. and my goal for July 4th is 275 lb.

I'm in! My other challenge is done in April too so it would be great to have this one to keep me going. I weigh in on Monday nights so I'll add mine right after!
My goal- 44 pound loss. 2 lbs a week! I would honestly like to do more but I figure a 2 lb a week loss will be a good steady loss.

Here's to getting healthy inside and out! :woops:

Thanks ParadiseFalls for setting this up. I am excited to see where I'll end up in July.

I hope everyone is off to a great start today :cb:

Good afternoon, ladies! I'm so excited to get started :) I've never done one of these challenges before. For those of you who have, do you find it helps you stay focused?

1.30: 299.4

Paradise - I've found that these challenges do help me if I stay committed and follow it to the end. I am really looking forward to this one as it ends just before my trip to NY and I'd love to do some shopping for a smaller size:D

Weighed in yesterday at 204, which is down 3.8 from last week. I'm using this as my starting weight, can't wait to see how this turns out for all of us! :)

Leftoverqueen - Congrats on your loss!

I want to be at goal by then. I hope to be there by then, but July 4th is the DROP DEAD LAST time I want to be at that weight. So, 15 pounds for me. Though, I suppose it is theoretically possible to lose even more, but I'll wrap my head around that when/if I get there. LOL

This would be great for me! We have a trip to the states in August and I'm really hoping to be at my goal weight (whatever that may be!) by then. That means somewhere between a 9-24lb loss still. Since July is still a month away from that I'll put my goal as 10lbs and then be thrilled if I lose more than that. ;)

ETA: I weight daily and just report loses when they come because they normally come in whooshes with weeks of stalls in between.

Paradise I absolutely feel challenges help me to stay on track. When I know I have a group to come and post my weight in, it spurs me on try my best to get a good number, but also, when the scale stops moving or starts moving the wrong way, the support a group can give is amazing. It's also great to get to know a bunch of people and share in their successes and hear what works and doesn't work for them.

I would like to join the challenge! I am a newbie and I'd love to stay motivated :carrot: I'd like to lose 40lbs by July ~ I'd love in to be in onderland but am trying to set a realistic goal loss of 8lbs a month.

I'm in! Starting weight is 182.2, hoping to be down as close to 150 as I can get. If it's more even better!

Runningfromfat and berryblondeboys, I added you to the spreadsheet, which you can see here. I'm also adding it to the top post in the thread for fast access.

I added in the rest of the starting weights from tickers, so change it in the spreadsheet if it's wrong!

Let's do this! :dancer:

so we are 18 ladies and we weigh almost 2 tons....wow. Congratulations to all of us in taking this step in continuing in our weight loss journey and goal of happier and healthier lives.

I think the way for me to stay motivated through something like this is that Im very competative, and don´t like to lose, so I will do everything in my power week by week so make sure I don´t have the lowest % lost. :D:D

lovemydoogiesx2 Great attitude!

Have a fab day everyone!

That's fine with my starting weight. I missed the chance to weigh-in this morning before eating so 164lbs will have to do. ;)

Good morning ladies,

Lovemydoggies - I'm with 'ya. I like your attitude too and it's rubbed off on me. I don't want to be the lowest % either so I am going to give it my all. I'm so excited and can't wait to see how we all do!

Let's all have a great OP day :)

Cool thanks!