We have two months till Xmas and i thought we were missing a Xmas challenge !!!!

We can set any kind of goals we want to achieve by Dec 25th and we'll use this thread to help keep us accountable. For weight loss goals i'm sugesting that we each choose at least a day to log our weight weekly, but each person can do this the way they think it's best.

(Now, this is santa sweating under the brazilian hot summer sun)

My goals are:

SW: 78 kg (171.9 lbs)
GW: 74 kg (163.1 lbs)
Will be logging my weight on mondays

Also, i don't want to be binging on all the food we get as gifts. Don't want to be overeating at all the holiday parties i atend at late november and december.

Oh, and this is an important one: i want to exercise even when the holiday season hits hard and i'm a guest at my parents

Marina , I started one too. LOL! I closed mine.

My goal is to look less like Santa (He had a broad face, and a little round belly that shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly: He was chubby and plump...) than I do right now! October has been really hard on me and the fact that I am up this week doesn't help matters. I keep telling myself it's all about my body readjusting though. Well, that and the high sodium intake this weekend!

Anyway, best of luck to all of us!

SW: 249.6
GW: 235

Hello Marina may I please join this challenge. My goal is to lose 20 lbs by Dec 25 Christmas. I will post on Fridays. Obrigado Marina!

SW: 121.3 kg (267.5 lb) 10/26/2014
GW: 112 kg (247 lb) 12/25/2014

I'm in!!

I am 144 pounds this morning, and my goal is to drop 10 pounds by Xmas. I am recording today's weight, but my weigh in dates will be Fridays.

SW 144
GW 134
CW 144

SW: 78 kg (171.9 lbs)
GW: 74 kg (163.1 lbs)

10/27 = 78, 5 (173 lbs)

Gained weight. Ok, not the greatest way to start... lol.... i binged on sweets yesterday and this was no amateur binge at all.

Jb1975 Love the "look less like Santa" goal. You made me Lol and people are staring me now (am at work) !

Welcome darius and rebelle!

Sum38 Welcome! That's ok. My starting weight is from saturday but i'll be weighing in on mondays. Not happy to see the scale going up today, though.

Marina's XMAS Challenge

Marina I have to post today instead of Friday because I will be travelling all through the rest of this week. For the next few weeks also I will be posting on Thursdays instead of Fridays.

Goal: reach 112 kg weight (20 lb loss from 10/26)

10/26 .... 121.3 kg .... START
10/28 .... 120.6 kg ....-0.7 kg
11/07 .... kg
11/14 .... kg
11/21 .... kg
11/28 .... kg
12/05 .... kg
12/12 .... kg
12/19 .... kg
12/25 .... kg

-0.7 kg total lost
7.5% of goal reached

I don't know how I missed seeing this challenge until now

Thanks for making it Marina, and you also Jill, seems both of you were into it.

My goal for Christmas has been 199, however it seems I may be able to push that a bit and make it 197, the weight I got down to when I lasted got into losing weight some 17 years ago. I kept my weight down for a year then started steadily back up.

I usually post my weight on the first, 8th, 15th etc, except for this past month where I posted daily. But for this challenge I will post only on Mondays.

My starting weight will be today's weight of 210.8
My Christmas goal will be 197, making that 14 lbs

Thanks VERY much again Marina, or muchas gracias, or obrigada

Marina, JB, Dairus, Rebelle, Sum, very glad to be in here with yall

And same for whoever else joins us, and I hope several will!!

JB, I have looked into the weight watchers program a bit since seeing you using it and doing great. I will probably be pumping you for some more info about it, they have been in business for some years and changed their program recently, and from what I understand making it even way better than it was before.

Good luck all, and may I be the first to wish you all a Merry Merry lighter Christmas

Let's do this thing!


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All you people posting on Mondays is really inspiring and impressive! I post on Fridays because it takes me all week to make up for failures over the weekend

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JB, I have looked into the weight watchers program a bit since seeing you using it and doing great. I will probably be pumping you for some more info about it, they have been in business for some years and changed their program recently, and from what I understand making it even way better than it was before.
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I follow the WW program by getting nutritional info online and product labels and using a WW calculator to track what I eat. I do not attend meetings or do anything through WW online. So, I may not be the best source for information on the program. LOL! I'm cheap and money is tight so I can't see paying for that program AND a Y membership. With that being said, I'm more than happy to tell you what I am doing but it may not, exactly, match the "official" WW program.

LOL! Sorry I mad people think you were a little off your rocker.

I need to figure out when my "official" weigh-ins will be. For the most part I want to use this as daily(ish) accountability.


SW: 249.6
CW: 248.0
GW: 235

Welcome to the gang, BFR. Oh, i'll take any of those 3, but my in my native language i'd use "obrigada". My spanish sucks! We say that brazilians can speak "portunhol" which is a fun way to say we can sort of comunicate with spanish speakers using a bizarre mix of portuguese and spanish that often leads us to basically make a lot of awkward mistakes while still being able to have something that resembles a conversation. As an example, i can understand what an spanish speaker says if he speakes slowly, but the word they use to say a woman is preagnant is similar to the one we use to say someone is embarassed, so there you go... that's how my "spanish" works.

Reesa Wisteria Welcome! I don't believe i've seen you on any other threads yet, so it's nice to meet you!

darius I have a hard time sticking to my plan on week days... wtf?!?! Lol....

Just do it the way you want to. No need for an official weigh in, it was just a sugestion. I never saw your xmas thread. Where was it? Oh, and never mind... people here know me for being a little weird.... everyone here is weird... good weird...

I like to be down 15 pounds by christmas