New Year's Day 2008 Challenge!
 

Here ya go! I guess I'll shoot for 7 lbs! I have been stuck at 240 since Halloween! It's time to get focused!

I will shoot for 10 lbs. Wow! I know we can do this Kim! We are strong! Ha ha!

I will join and my goal will be 10 pounds. Good luck everyone!!!!

I'll go for 9 pounds.. that will put me at 170.. Good Luck Girlies! =)

Me too!
 

Alright, I will publicly and irrevocably commit to aiming for a 7 lb loss by New Years. :yikes:

I didn't meet my Thanksgiving Day Goal but I would love to make a New Years Goal and exceed it!! So my goal is 5lbs. I know that is extremely low, but since I've been stuck a while it seems like a hard goal!!

i'm in for 6lbs.

My goal for New Years is 5#. I am leaving for Hawaii on December 22 and will be back on the 30th. I doubt any weight loss would occur while traveling in paradise. 5#s is enough for me. Especially with the pressures of the holidays. My goal is to fit a size 14 swimsuit for the trip. Aloha! :sunny:

My goal is 163. That will bring me past the half way point to my weight loss goals. Won't it be great to have already made so much progress when everyone around us will be just starting their weight loss efforts?

My goal is to break out of this plateau and drop below 194 lbs. I weighed in tonight at 196.8...so I guess my goal would be 2 to 3 lbs. :)

I'm going to commit to 10 pounds! I really want to be at my goal weight by the 28th but I know it will be impossible so I'll just shoot to 10lbs :D

Ok, so this is the first challenge I've taken part in and I'm a little nervous because it's over the holiday season. So, I'm going to aim for 5 lbs just because I know that there are so many challenges coming up in the next month and want to be realistic. If I lose more then Happy New Year to me!

Tues you lucky dog.. going to hawaii! I love it there.. I would like to go in the winter time, the waterfalls are so much fuller in the winter!

I am glad we have this Challenge it will make me more accountable. I went and WI again today just because I had time. So I am down .2 so I have now losta total of 10 lbs. Whoo whoo! So hopefully by the end of Dec I am at 185. That is my goal. I just hope I don't lose focus. Anyway just wanted to say good luck to everyone. So I started this challeage at 195.4 and I am down .2 from there. Good start for 1 day! He he!
Oh yeah and by the way Jean I want to go to Hawaii too! I am jealous!

I am commiting to a 10 pound weight loss by New Years... 2 pounds a week should put me somewhere around 170-171... good luck everyone!!!

I am in for 10 lbs. ;)

I am in for 10 lbs ;)

whoops! posted twice!!

I'm on Maintenance so I'm not joining your challenge just wanted to offer a word of encouragement to all of you!!! Last year between Thanksgiving and New Years I lost 10 pounds! I came back to work after our school 2 week break and one of the teachers said, "YOU are the only person I know who looks slimmer AFTER the holidays!" Its a great feeling, you dont have to be deprived, just make good choices and enjoy!!! Good luck everybody!!

Thanks for the encouragement Kim. WOW, took lots of good choices!

I am shooting for 8 pounds. I want to be at 179. Tired of the 180s!

Thanks Kimberly for starting the thread!

Congrats on your weight loss so far. I joined LAWL in July and have lost 35 lbs. I have had a Thanksgiving set back though...cheated and feel SO guilty. any suggestions?
NYCAggie

Count me in for 10.4 lbs that will put me into the 180's (barely:D)
Good luck everyone
Cheers!
:xcheer:
Lori

NYCAggie - we are human and we will from time to time overindulge or indulge in something we shouldn't. When you fall off that wagon, the best thing to do is to pick yourself up and brush yourself off and get back on again. Don't let it get you down and do not beat yourself up about it :)

OK, I am in too.
I am shooting for 10 pounds. Fell short on the Thanksgiving Challenge by 1.5 pounds. Darn that stuffing and pear pie.

Anyone in for a TO tomorrow and Tuesday? :)

TO we go
 

I am planning to TO for the next two days. I bought some fresh veggies and precooked some protein choices. I have been ok on food this week but very high in salt! and possibly a little too much alcohol. My DBL and picks great merlots and I do love a good merlot! :cheers:

Gettin' back on track after T-Day!
 

Emily, I am in for TO! I need it! My counselors at COD kinda let me loose for Thanksgiving, and well they gave an inch and I took a mile! I was really off plan. I will be doing mine Tuesday and Wednesday as I already cooked and packed my food for tomorrow ( I have to work all day then go to school). But I have pledged to my husband that I will stay POP til Christmas! (Well afterwards too, but definitely til then) I have set my goal for 2008 at 7lbs, but I am really hoping for 10lbs by Christmas. I am stepping up the workouts and POPness. I bought that walking dvd workout set today that comes with 2 2lb weights, but dh wont let me have it til Christmas! :( I have to work 4 days this week, and with work usually comes being POP as I usually take my lunch to walk a mile at the park, and we have no vending machines so I can only eat what I bring!

Oh and BTW my starting weight for this challenge right now is kinda being guessed as I havent WI since the 17th! I may go ahead and WI in the morning so I can see at my next WI on Sat what a POP week can do for me!

Hope everyone has a great week! :carrot: Let's motivate and help each other stay focused during this challenge like we never have before!

Oh and Amy Louuu where are youuu???

I'm in for 10! I really need a challenge like this one to motivate me during the holidays!!

I'm in. The only problem is I'm much better lately at gaining than I am at losing so I'm just going to jump in for 7 lbs. If I lose more I'll be a very happy camper.

We Can do this!! :cheer2: & here goes on the TO.. how many of us are there.. 3..4? POP, POP, POP!!! :cheer:

Well I went to WI thismorning and I was up 2.8! Ouch!! SO I will change my ticker so I guess I am shooting for 8.8 lbs now instead of 7!! WOW! TO here I come!!

Okay I'm in the New Year's Challenge for 6 lbs.........I'd love to see onederland by Christmas but starting the new year that way would be just as good.

Good luck ladies!

I hope to be at my goal weight by Christmas, but I will go with my last 4 pounds for this challenge.

Good Morning Ladies. I'm in for the New Year's Day Challenge. I'm still at 171 so my goal will be my goal of 160ish. The COD said I run out of WL weeks in 3 weeks and then will go on maintenance but am still hoping to continue losing when that happens. Anyway, hope everyone had a great holiday and is ready to get down to business and meet our goals!! As for TO, I'm doing it tomorrow and Wednesday.

I was planning on doing TO today and tomorrow but since I'm here, at work, and my TO is in the fridge at home, I guess I will be doing it tomorrow along with Kimberly R and Laurie :) That will work out better anyway because those 2 days will be crazy busy and I really won't have time to get in everything I need for a normal day. But.. I WILL be POP today! :hungry:

We can do this Emily. I'm glad to know someone else is doing TO with me.

Yep.. the 2 of us and Kimberly R :) Anyone else in?

Emily, you sound like your having my day! I left all but 1 of my starches at home and I am craving them so bad! lol

My BFF and I have decided that until christmas we are weighing in together on Wednesdays and Saturdays and we are calling each other every evening to make sure we are staying on plan and working out at least 3 times per week for 20 - 45 minutes. Its going to be nice. She has lost 50lbs with LAWL since January, but she has had a lot of sickness and had surgery in June. So she is trying to get out of the 200's and I am trying to get to 230! We have decided to shoot for 10 lbs! I am excited! :)

OK Kimberly and Emily - it's almost time for me to go home (feels like it's been a long day) and I'm going to mix up my juice so I can bring it with me to work tomorrow and Wednesday. We can do this and stay POP while doing it. We just have to believe in ourselves. I'll check in with you both tomorrow and see how it's going. Have a good night.

Laurie & Kimberly- We can do it :)

Kimberly- it seems like I am just trudging along today. I am so ready to go home! This is definately a Monday!!! You're lucky, I would love have someone to work out with! I don't ever do it because I hate to go walking and things by myself...