January Weight Loss Challenge
 

Are you ready to start the New Year right? The monthly weight loss challenge is a great place to track your progress in January and, then, follow through with each monthly thread for the rest of the year.

State your goal for January and join a supportive and encouraging group to help you meet it. We will compile our goals into a list. As each goal is met during the month, it gets turned RED in celebration.

Join us at our sister thread, as well, to track your January fitness goals: http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/chic...challenge.html

I really am enjoying these challenges! And I love seeing the progress that everyone is making.

I've been losing at around 12 lbs a month. I'm just going to go for an even 10 this time around.

CW: 280
GW: 270

I am in, I will post weight on the 1st. My plan is to drop 5 pounds in January.

SW 152.4
GW 147.4

31: 152.2
01: 152.4
02: 151.6
03: 149.4
04: 149.4
05: 149.6
06: 149.8
07: 150.6
08: No w/i
09: 149.6 TOM
10: 146.4
11: 146.4
12: 146.4
13: NO W/I
14: NO W/I
15: NO W/I
16: 150.6
17: 147.4
18: 146.6
19: 148.4
20: 149.2
21: 145.2
22: 145.8
23: 144.2
24: 144.2
25: 144.4
26: 143.8
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28
29
30
31

Yay! :yay: I'm in! I'll post my starting weight on the 1st. Thanks Joy!

Thanks Joy I'll be back on the first to weigh in, I have an idea, but will wait and see what the scale says.
Happy New Year!

Thanks for starting us off! I will jump in on the 1st with my start weight. I am aiming for 5lbs in Jan but hoping for more!

i'm in too!! I didnt track a day in December.. I guess I took a break from the weight loss and did my own thing. Time to pull my socks up and hit the gym. Goal is to get into Onederland by end of january.

I'm in for 5 lbs in Jan!

I would throw in a big stick and say 10, but I'll set a goal for 5.

Hello please include me for January. My goal is 10 lb. I will weigh in on Fridays.

I'm in and will work at getting 5lbs off. will post starting weight on Jan 1st.

This sounds like so much fun! I definitely need support from others as right now I'm on my own with trying to lose weight amongst friends and family. I look forward to giving and receiving support on the forum. My goal for January is 10lbs as I'm just starting and I know people tend to lose more weight at the beginning of the process. Let's start this new year out right. :)

SW: 240
CW:240
GW: 165

January goal 10 lbs down to 230!

Today I am at 210.4 but I will do an official weigh in on Wed morning. I am aiming to see 204 by Jan 31st. I need something like this to help me keep track. I am really bad at forgetting what day I weighed in and I for get the exact number. This will be a nice record to keep.

I'm in. I hope to lose 7 lbs.
sw-225.4
Gw-218.4

I'm in and hope to lose 4 pounds in January. I'll post my starting weight on the 1st. Thanks for starting this challenge Joy.

Hello, good morning!
 

I'll be looking at 10 lbs in January which would put me at 253. Lofty, but beginning a diet usually does well at least at first. We shall see. It will be tempting to go out to eat at the end of the month and it would be bad.....really bad... I'm still sorta pre programmed to reward with food, I know its a bad habit. :devil:

So hiya all, welcome to 2014! :newyear::newyear:

Hi everyone! Happy to be starting the January challenge, thanks for putting it together Joy :)

I'm glad that it's the new year, and I can focus on my resolutions to stay tough this month. It looks like I'll probably stay in the same decade and not hit any mini goals, so I may need that to stay strong. My goal this month is 5 lbs again.

SW (Dec 31) 145.6
GW: 140.6

Happy New Year's Eve Everyone! :celebrate: Have fun and be safe tonight!

:welcome: to all the newcomers! It's good to have you! And great to see so many returning members! :wave:

Joy, I forgot to mention earlier than I want to lose 6 lbs, but I will wait until tomorrow to give my start weight. I'm still hoping I can shed that one last pound to start 2014 at 40 lbs down! :carrot:

Happy New Year's Eve!!! :hat: Count me in! This month I would really like to lose 6 pounds...not lose 3, gain 4...lose 2 gain 3 like I did in December. AAaaargh! :mad: Will weigh in tomorrow...hoping I don't totally lose control tonight!

Be safe all of you that have parties and celebrations!!:celebrate:

Thank you for starting this challenge!!

I'll weigh in tomorrow and then every Monday after that. My soft goal for January is to get into onderland and stay there, but really I'd like to drop an even 10lbs by the end of the month.

Good luck everyone!!

I will definitely be up for this challange. Not yet plucked up the courage to weight myself but what ever the damage I will aim to start off with half a stone, then any more than that is a bonus. I will weigh myself tomorrow and let you know how I get on.

Allison

I am in!!!

Dipped my toe in the 150s before Christmas and I want to be there again. By Feb 1st I want to be 150 so I'd like to lose 10.5lbs!!

Lucky I'm in the January Exercise Challenge too!!

Happy New Year's Eve, Everyone!!!

:twirly::cheer3::cheer2::cheer::beach::woo: :balloons:

If I may I'd love to jump back in and join for the January challenge and will put myself down for 7 pounds.

I think I last reported in towards the end of November and skipped December because for some reason I'm not as eager to post when the numbers are going up (although i still follow the threads). It defeats the purpose of the accountability, doesn't it, however, I will say that when I am on plan, I do find this thread a fantastic motivator to keep going so thanks in advance for taking me back!

I'll report my weigh in tomorrow :newyear:

Happy New Year's Eve to you my online peeps!

I was hoping to start my year year at 150...but I don't think The Whoosh Fairy will whisk away 2.2 pounds (and she seem to have moved on from my house). One can only hope :crossed:

I lost nearly 15 pounds in 2013, I am hoping to drop 25 lbs in 2014 and finish this weight loss journey and enter into the wonderland of maintenance.

Again, happy New Year to my friends! :love:

Woodstock! Good to have you back! :hug:

Im in again. Starting off 2014 on the right path. I'll post my weight every week instead of daily.

Sw:290
Cw: 272
Gw: 267

1/1 -
1/6 -
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1/20 -
1/27 -
1/31 -

I'm in! I am going for 10 - 12 pounds in January. Starting out at 167.4 Dec 31st. Let the weight loss begin!

http://swlf.lilyslim.com/1sKum8.png

My January goal:

My goal is exercising for 31 days - cardio, stretching/yoga, weight-bearing

1500 calories of real food for 31 straight days

Pounds will be whatever it is. I may not even weigh until the end of the month. I pledge that it will be at least 5 pounds.

SW: 80,7kg
1/3:
1/10:
1/17:
1/24:
1/31:
GW: 78,0kg

Good morning :)

HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of you from the past month's challenge, and to everybody else joining this month.
My goal is to lose 2,7kg in January, which basically is the weight I put on during December. I decided to only weigh-in weekly from now on (with Friday being my weigh-in day) but I will check in daily reporting calories and exercise. You are a very encouraging bunch of people, and thank you all very much for helping me stay accountable.

I hope everybody slipped into the New Year well - I had a great Raclette dinner with friends and then when to a party. Fireworks are really big over here in Germany, but it was super foggy and even though we were on a hill overlooking the city, the only firework we saw was 50m down the road. Got to hear it till 1am though ;)
I'll go back to bed now and try to sleep off the hangover - have a great day everyone!!

Joy- goal for kelijpa for Jan. 4.9 pounds
 

Hello all, happy 2014, looking forward to success for everyone!!

I was pleasantly surprised by my weigh in, especially after eating way too much for dinner last night, if you were on last month you know I was shooting for this yesterday, but I'll definitely take it for today!

So my goal is to lose 4.9 and get to 155

Jan 1 - 159.9

Jan 31 - 155

:yay: :woo: :celebrate: :newyear: HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014!!! :newyear: :celebrate: :woo: :yay:

I didn't make it to 171 to start the new year 40 lbs down, but that's okay! 39 lbs down works just fine! :hat:

SW: 172
GW: 167
CW: 172

Joy, I am going to change my mind and go for only 5 lbs this month. Since I'm getting closer to normal weight, I figure my weight loss might be slowing down a tad, so instead of 6 lbs being my goal, I'm going to say 5 lbs. Thanks!

183, wow that must have been some fog! Glad you had fun! :D

Kelijpa, yay, congrats on hitting the 150's to start the new year! :carrot:

:welcome3: to all the new friends joining the thread and so glad to see the returning friends! :grouphug: It's going to be a great month and a great year! :cheer:

31: 152.2
01: 152.4

:newyear::newyear::newyear: Welcome to 2014 folks! I'm glad to see so many people in this challenge.

I went way off plan last night, so much alcohol and carbs! Oh My! The scale is very disapproving this morning. So I will use yesterdays weigh in as my start weight, and I am aiming for 5 off of it. So first things first, lose the water weight!

SW - 244.6
GW - 239.6
01/01 - 249.8

Happy New Year everyone :)

SW (Dec 31) 145.6
GW: 140.6

Jan 1: 145.6

Goal 202

Jan 1: 208.4

Happy New Year, everyone! It's great to see all your shining faces in a shiny new year! A special welcome to the new people to the monthly weight loss challenge -- this is a terrific place to get support and encouragement to meet your healthy 2014 goals.

I'll make our challenge list tomorrow, so there's still time to join us and be on the initial list.

My goal for 2013 was to keep my weight between 165 and 170. What I really did was keep it between 164.8 and 176. I had some trouble over the summer. I've had trouble over the summer every year since I started this weight loss journey.

So, for 2014, I’m going to try to nudge the low end of my maintenance range to 160, with the idea that I can have some trouble and still stay below 170. So, my goals for 2014 are to get to a low of 159.9 and never go higher than 170.

For January, my start weight is 165.8 and I’d like to get to my lowest weight of 2013, 164.8. In kilograms, that’s:

SW: 75.2kgs
CW: 75.2 kgs
GW: 74.7 kgs

Hello people...
 

Happy New Year!

I dunno if I am supposed to use today's weigh in or yesterday's weigh in but today I am 260...and it's probably just getting rid of water weight going down this fast but I'm still happy it's happening :D ... also I'm weighing naked (sry TMI) so it probably changes things quite a bit... so that's what I'll keep doing.

Didn't drink yesterday, not feeling the holiday spirit there I guess.... our pipes all froze yesterday so I've been preoccupied. But, on that note I've saved myself the cals from drinking.... :carrot:

Hope you all had a fun new year's!

I'm in toooooo, lets see what can happen in a month.

Happy New Year y'all! So excited to start the first challenge of the year with you guys!

Last night was kind of an off-plan fiesta so my weigh-in wasn't stellar this morning, but oh well, it's just one day and it's a whole new year!

I'm going to shoot for 7 pounds (207) by the end of the month. Seems reasonably difficult considering the work trip/vacation I have coming up.

1/1 Starting Weight: 214

Goal Weight for Jan 31: 207

I am in :D

And the FIRST thing I did for this post is turn off my touch pad on the laptop.

I have lost 5...that is FIVE posts I have written which before I got to the point of hitting "post reply" suddenly disappeared, one even just two keystrokes before I wanted to post. Don't know what I hit but it suddenly changes the page and I cannot go back to the post/or it just clears the post.

Anyway, :newyear: to all of ya

My big celebration for New Years was yesterday, eating the "right foods" but without restriction. Lots of fruit being as that is one of my favorites.

Anyway, :congrat: to all of you, not just the ones who made "goal," but to all of ya. You are all winners. I have looked at the weight loss overall of each of you and it is a trememdous amount of which as a group you can be very proud, and same as individuals.

I used to post a lot on some different forums, mostly gun dog training forums, plus bee keeping forums, electricians forums and hunting/fishing. This is by far the most friendly supportative group I have ever been around. It would be a super pleasure to be in a "real life" support group such as you all are.

Repeating Jacqui, welcome to the newcomers, both the ones new to :wel3fc:3 fatchicks and to Joy's thread here. You can not find a better support group.

As far as I am concerned, you all made your goals last month, even 183 who took a month out for whatever :D She? will lose that fast and be right back in the "race?" with us. :D

Myself, though so close to my 12 lb loss goal for last month kinda took the last two weeks off myself.

I was at 227.5 briefly, only 2.5 lbs short of my goal with almost two weeks left to lose that in....... LOL Anyway.....

Starting weight using yesterdays weigh in in Dec thread, 229
Goal for January will only be 8.5 lbs.

My overall loss since starting weight loss on July 8 has been an average of 8.33 lbs per month. I did not really start a real weight loss plan until I joined 3fc in Sept. My first portion of loss was by stop drinking near beer, 12 pack per day, over 1200 calories a day and cutting back on my eating some, and by not buying/eating cheese. I finally had to cut out all dairy, I just cannot control myself when I have them, though I came close with some. Now I have included veggies and have been learning ways to make them tasty enough to have daily. At any rate, I have learned to include plenty of fibre in the diet to help carry out some fat and bile, lowering cholesterol and slowing digestion and slowing the blood glucose (lowering the gi)

But these last two weeks I have not followed all that too well, buying a pound of queso fresco and eating that in one sitting with some chicken fideo I had made for one thing. 1600 calories plus 4 days worth each of sodium and cholesterol.

And buying a 30 oz bottle of Bob's bleu cheese dressing from the refrigerated deli dept so I could try it on the veggies. I opened that when I got home for a "taste," sticking my finger in and scooping some out. Then another one. Then another one. Then a spoon with some. Then all a spoon would hold with some. Then........... before I knew it, I had ate 1/3 of the bottle, 10 oz at 140 calories an oz. 1400 calories... but in my own defense, I will add that my two girls got about 400 of those calories and were still wanting more. The next trip to town I also purchased a large bag of salad fixins and had salads with the rest of that bottle of bleu cheese. I realized it would probably not go well on steaming hot mixed veggies.

Anyway, back to earnest weight loss again, but I will be altering this some and will not be in as big of a hurry to lose. 8 lbs a month will be fine with me. By the end of this month I will be half way to my new total goal of 180 lbs. I initially only wanted to get down to 220. When I started in 3fc, Jacqui told me my feet and back I would be feeling much better as I got the weight off. I am happy to say, she was RIGHT. Back pain and foot pain is practically gone. I feel way better. I will reach 50 lbs of weight loss during January, which is half the total loss amount.

Funny thing also, --- not sure if I like it or not, is food tastes WAY WAY BETTER THAN IT DID BEFORE which is causing PROBLEMS. :dizzy: But I think it will be well worth it for the increase in pleasure of what I do eat. I used to smoke, and stopping smoking (about 38 years ago, four packs a day to zilch, cold turkey) made a huge difference in the taste of food also, and nearly as much of a difference again. Has anyone else had this experience with taste?

There was a mention of stopping drinking in this thread not far back to which I did not respond. Myself, I stopped drinking over 21 years ago also.

Starting weight 229
goal weight 221

50 lbs off weight will be 223 lbs

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