How about a Thanksgiving Challenge??
 

Anyone up for a Thanksgiving Challenge? We've got approx 14 weeks.

Let's all weigh in tomorrow (Wed 8/16) with a final weigh in on the day before Thanksgiving (Wed 11/22) and weekly (or how often you'd like) check ins.

This would be a great way to begin the holidays, with a huge accomplishment under our belts.

Anyone? Weigh in tomorrow! (Wed Aug 16).

I'm In
 

I'm new to the forum and this is my first challenge...!!:carrot: :carrot:

Im in. I need a challenge to help keep me motivated, good luck everyone

I'm new and IN! I would like to lose weight before my family pics in November! Good luck everyone!

thanksgiving challenge
 

Hello everyone......I just joined the group.Hope I am doing this the right way. I am up to the challenge, count me in. I will need support to get it going. This is day one. Do I need to post my weight, goals? Thanks Pat

Count Me In
 

I Started Weight Watchers Last November A Week Before Thanksgiving. I Want To Celebrate My Year! Do We Make Our Own Goal? I Would Like To Reach My 100 Pound Lost By Then!

I'm in. I need motivation big time!! Good luck to everyone!!

Let's post our weight goals
 

Let's post our weight goals and our approach for losing the weight.

My goal: I know it sounds very aggressive, is 37 lbs by Nov 22 (day before Thanksgiving). I am 186 and I'd like to be 149 by then. That is 2 1/2 lbs per week, average.

My approach: I plan to stick to a 1200 cal diet, plenty of protein, veg and fruits. For exercise I plan to do cardio 30 mins/6x a week and lift 6x a week, alternating upper and lower body. I am training for a 5k on Sept 17.

You can also use the ticker. Make one yourself at http://www.tickerfactory.com. It's pretty simple. Just add the code that gets generated to your signature under "user control panel" (CP).

How about you guys?

This looks like a great place for newbies like me to start!! (well, new to the boards, not new to the PLAN)

Well if I 'm 235 now (give or take) my Thanksgiving goal will be 215....I'll weigh in tomorrow to mark my "official" weight....I work 7p-7a night shift tonight so my weigh in will be around 2pm or so.

My plan will be to get to that gym 3-4 days a week and stick to a reasonable diet plan, 1500 cal? I'm not great at counting actual calories, etc., I just try to make smart choices.

OK pals.....looking forward to the support and the love....will check in tomorra

Elycia from Missouri
 

Hi, I would like to join. If it is about 14 weeks, I would like to lose 28 lbs by then. That is about 2 lbs per week and I should be able to do that. I am basically following points and working out. I am just now really getting going so this is perfect! Looking forward to losing with you guys!

Ciao!

Elycia

I would love to be 30 lbs thinner by Thanksgiving. I see there are alot of newbies here so I think this is the place for me. I am 266.5 lbs today. I'll come back in the morning and post my weight. I'm a calorie counter so let me see if I can get the job done. See you all tomorrow.
Norma aka harkeyvalley

begginings
 

I am 5ft 6in tall. I weigh in at 168.4lbs. My goal is to be 25 pounds less by Thanksgiving. To do this I will eat 1,250 calories a day. cardio 5x wk, use weights or resistance band 5x weekly. Alternating upper body and lower body.:carrot:

I'm so in, I need something to help me get motivated :D

I'll go for 20 pounds by thanksgiving. My current plan is to eat around 1,300ish calories a day. I've been doing pretty good lately, in the food part. Eating tons of veggies and fruit (this from a person who used to live on chips and bread and other carbs :-P), and trying to get tons of protein too. I need to step up the exercise (walk at least 4 days a week, and weights on off-days) and drink more water. Time to start getting up at 5 am to get a walk in before work ><


Good luck girls! :D

I would like to participate in the challenge. I'll post my weight tomorrow.

dustcatcher

I'm in :carrot:.. need to come up with a goal. Will post it later.

Me too me too....I will be back later with a goal weight. I'm here STARTING OVER AGAIN. Hopefully all these goal will keep me from falling off the diet train AGAIN

My goal is to be 214 by turkey day:turkey: thats 26 pounds to goal for me :thanks2:

Okay, my weigh in this morning is 248.0. I hope next week to be at least at 246.0.

Ciao!

Elycia

My weight this morning was 269, so I'm hoping to be at least 249 by thanksgiving. Good luck everyone!

I'm in. I'm going for 20lbs.
my weight today is 146

My tracker is not up to date, I was off the wagon and I gained 5 lbs. and I'm planning to lose them again ASAP, 4 lbs. to go.

Start Day: Aug 16. Here we go!
 

Here we are, ladies. Let's accomplish this together. I plan on posting any tips I find successful, as well as my weight updates.

Weight: 185 (down a lb from yesterday!)
Thanksgiving Goal: 149 (my college weight)
= 36 lb loss / 2.5 lbs per week

A couple of tips I've found to work:
- Nestle Carb Select hot chocolate in the evening (25 cals)
- power pops (lolipops which contain hoodia and help curb appetite, supposedly. mainly they keep my mouth busy. 24 cals and can be bought on ebay. Just search for "power pops". I cut the stick off and pop it in my mouth so that my 2 year old won't ask for one.

Okay my offical Weigh In today was: 151
I want to lose 20lbs by Thanksgiving, That will put my goal at: 131
To do this I plan to at least 4days of exercise a week, and I also plan on concentrating my eating to just whole foods and correct portions. Im also going to check in here everyday to help keep me motivated and accountable.
Good Luck Ladies!!:carrot:

Wow, SugarRox. You've come a long way! How long did it take you to lose the 66 lbs? Right now you are exactly where I want to be after this challenge - 149. Do you mind if I ask: what size are you at that weight? I'm thinking at 5'6 I would be wearing size 8 or 10, but who knows. Sizes run differently, I know.

Great job!

I'll try the challenge too
 

I joined the web-site a while back but I haven't been very active. I would like to have some motivation for a Thanksgiving loss goal. I am doing cardio kickboxing three times a week and eating between 1000 ann 1200 calories a day. Some say that my caloiries are too few and my body will not lose as fast. Does anyone have any insight on that?

Anyway I think I am currently around 200lbs so I would like to hit 180 for my Thanksgiving goal. I'll be going back to WW weigh ins starting in September so I'll be able to confirm my weights weekly starting then. I'm having some work problems and relationship problems right now which are making me weaken on eating right. Hopefully this goal will help me focus away from the things I can't change and onto what I can.:cool: :cool:

Hi, I'd like to join too. I'm 189.3 as of today. And by Thanksgiving I would like to be at 170. So 19.3 lbs. for me. :)

Its taken about 2-3 years to get where I am today. Im 5'4, I started at a size 16 and Im currently a size 8. Im only 18, soon to be 19 (Sept 26.) my weightloss was slow (but thats good right?) I would say mainly because I was still in school, and I had several things to focus on and not enough time in the day. Im still not comfortable with my weight at all, hopefully this challenge will help me get my butt in gear so I can finally reach my goal.

I hope this isn't a duplicate, My post didn't show up.Weight today 184/goal158 26 pound loss.
My plan
Water 80 oz (water does so much good for you especially when you are trying to lose weight)
Exercise: 17 min (+2 minutes per week) on exercise bike 5 X a week Walk 2.5 miles after work, atleast 10 minutes of pilate type exercises/abs/stretching every day.
Eats: 1300 calories a day
Daily goals: persoal goals not necessarily to do with weight loss, but it will help keep each day interesting

Let's do it! I'm in!

Our goals and current weight are are so similar! Our approach as well. I'll be interested in tracking how you do! Good luck! :)

Tracking our Weight Loss
 

Does anyone object to me posting and updating a list of everyone, their goals and their progress on a weekly basis?

Sometimes I join these groups and I feel like I post and no one reads it, and it makes it easier to just drop out of the challenge or thread.

I can make a list and post it to this thread with Subject: Group Goals.
Each week the updated post will have the subject Group Progress and have the amount of weight lost for each person.

Any objections to doing this?

Thanks!

AWWW MAN!!!!!!!!! I just typed this elaborate goal, plan etc....and the browser bumped me off the site and erased it!!! So I'll condense it, which I should have in the first place...I get a bit gabby being so excited and all.

WEIGHT-now 232...so 210 (-22)

WATER- 80 + oz / day

EXERCISE--4-5 days/week (currently barely getting there 3 days)

DIET--1200 cal, more VEGGIES---not a great veg eater, need to work on that.

Lets see if this ticker works...GOOD LUCK YA'LL!

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List of Challengers
 

Hi, guys.
I've collected all of your names for the participants thus far and included your current wt and goals.

Please review and let me know if there is any inaccuracy. I'll update again tomorrow morning, and weekly thereafter.

I'd love to join this challenege. As of this morning I'm 278.8 and I want to loose 20lbs so i'll be down to 258

Hi Mellyann. I have no objections to the progress report. :) For update, my goal is to lose about 2 lbs. per wek or 28 lbs by Thanksgiving. So, my goal weight will be 220.

Thanx

Elycia

Good idea with the progress tracker melly, keep us accountable :-P

Great! I'm updating the list and will repost tomorrow afternoon. Any new joiners, get your posts in by tomorrow morning and you'll be on the updated list. Otherwise, I'll add the new joiners to the list next week, after the first weigh in (Wed 8/23).

Melly

Hi I have me ticker ready. I Have been good today with eating, drinking water and exercise.
http://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt...1d2/weight.png

Awesome. Night is the hardest for me. I just have to remind myself: either I can choose to wake up thinner or wake up regretful. I'm sick of starting over every day.

One thing that helps me is to keep a calendar inside my bathroom cabinet. When I have a good eating day I cross out the day in pink marker. If I mess up I color the day all in purple marker. I also fill in my exercise in the square. For example:

2.5 mi/30 min
upper/Abs

This means I ran 2.5 miles in 30 mins and did upper lifting and crunches.

I strive to get as many pink X days as possible. I discovered that about 60-70% of the time I was cheating with my eating. This is over the course of the past 6 months. With that I lost about 15 lbs. Just think what I could have accomplished if I had kept the cheating down to 5-10%.

I love the chart :D What a great idea. Looking forward to getting to know you all :hug:

Sounds like a great idea mellyanne! Knowing my weight will be posted will definately keep me in the game! :)