Valentine's Day Challenge!
 

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Wow-it's been a while since I've started a thread. I'm vowing to get moving so I can look smokin' for a romantic Valentine's day! I've been avoiding the scale over the holiday, but I'm going to commit to 12lbs by v-day. We have 45 days to shed this Winter coat!

I'll post my starting weight and a ticker tomorrow.

Happy New Year all!

I think I need a goal to keep me motivated. I think I will say 15lbs by V-day.
I know I gained 3lbs this holiday season so that needs to come off first.

I have been thinking about joining WW since my centre closed, I really do need the accountability

Ok. My ticker is up. Boy was that hard to do! I have gained 5lbs over the holidays. I'm hoping it's just "water" and will come off fast, but I really hated having to put that number. But it is reality so here I go!

I know we are all coming off of the Holidays, but let's think forward and try to have an OP weekend.


Who's with me??

Tues 1/6- 266 (-3)
Tues 1/13-264 (-2)

Okay you know I am in!! Here's to fitting back into my jeans by Valentines Day! Whew!

Starting Weight: 277

Weigh in 1 - Monday 1/5 - 274 (-3)
Weigh in 2 - Monday 1/12 - 271.8 (-2.2)
Weigh in 3 - Monday 1/19 - 280 (+8.2) (Gain from surgery on 1/13)
Weigh in 4 - Tuesday 1/27 - 276.4 (-3.6) Thats what I'm talkin 'bout!
Weigh in 5 - Monday 2/2 -
Weigh in 6 - Monday 2/9 -
Weigh in 7 - Valentines Day 2/14 -

Goal: 270 - revised 1/25
Actual:

I'm in! I would like to lose 10 lbs. by Valentine's Day! :carrot:

amylou7777: I love the emoticon's in your thread start!

Start Weight: 248 (Jan 2nd)

Jan 5th: 246
Jan 12th:
Jan 19th:
Jan 26th:
Feb 2nd:
Feb 9th:
Feb 14th:

:)

Yay challengers!

I'm all about mini goals right now, so my goal for today is to do a two-mile workout (done!) and to be completely, 100% POP.

Hey Guys,

Is it too late to sign up for the Valentine Challenge?? I just signed up on this website today. What do I do? I'd like to lose at lest 10lbs by V-Day.

I am in as well. I am off to Mexico with family on March 23. So, Val day is about half way. I will lose 10 lbs by that day, and I will exercise (treadmill) 5 out of 7 days per week minimum. Today, am cleaning out my treadmill room and getting all the stuff I piled onto it so that it's ready to go.

thanks for the challenge!!! I am also going to COD today to weigh in again today, I'm sure it will be busy. I'm in Calgary, and our centers are still open.

I'm in. I haven't done very well in maintenance. Gone from size 8 to size 12! Time to get back with it. Although, I'll have to figure out how to do the LAWL on a very limited budget until February. :) I think just adding back in exercise will help alot! I'll shoot for 10 pounds (or size 10) whichever comes first is fine with me.

AmyLou
I am in also. I am setting a modest 13 pound goal for V-Day. Right now I am at 153, but I am starting the new year off with some great walking so I hope that will help to motivate me to eat right also.
1/2/09 - 153 lbs.

I'll try to weigh in every Friday and see how that goes for me. Thanks everybody for all of the great support and motivation. Laura

Hey Amylou!

I am in! I cannot weigh myself as my battery died in my scale and am awaiting new batteries from eBay... but Iam guessing 245. I weighed 243 3 days ago on the Wii Fit, so this is a guess-timation!

I am in for 10lbs!

Wohooo! I need to eat 2 fruits for my dessert and I will have had a POP day! Yeah!

I'm so glad to see a good group of people up for a challenge. Just to be clear-this is just a place to come and post your short term goal and progress! No rules or anything. Join in whenever you like!

If you want to have specific w/i days or post menus etc, feel free! I'll probably be posting my mini-goals.

Have a weekend you and your scale can be proud of!

Hi all,
I have been on LAWL since 3/15/07. Did not continue faithfully, but made the commitment to go back faithfully only to find out my center is closed. I'm over the initial anger, and ready to get on with it. I know the program, and I know if I follow it I will lose the weight. Looking forward to joining in with all of you to my goals. Valentines goal of 12 pound loss. I will post starting weight on Monday.
Linda

Okay so I am committing to weighing myself "officially" on Mondays. I remember last year that my official weigh in day was like Wednesday or Friday so I would binge and cheat on the weekend hoping to recover before my WI day. Not this time! If I WI on Mondays, I have to be good on the weekend to see my progress! (Did that make sense to anybody? lol)

Hello everyone! Just checking in. I was able to complete my weekly exercise goal of 10 miles with WATP (Leslie Sansone) ... I actually did 11 miles! :D

I'll jump on board this one. 10 pounds by Valentine's Day.

1/03 172
1/10 167
1/17
1/24
1/31
2/07
2/14

i'm in goal 12 pounds
 

thats 2 pounds a week
1/5 172

I just started doing the take off this morning...weighing in at 197.8.....come on 180's...... CANT WAIT !!!
This is my first time doing the takeoff without the juice from the COD. I'm trying it with the oranges, and i do have enough LA lites left over from my last takeoff, so hopefully it'll work out well for me. See what happens on Wednesday morning, i guess....lol.

Hi Vday Challengers!

So my "official" w/i day is Tuesdays-but I got a sneak peak today and things are looking good! I've walked 8miles since Jan 1st! My goal is to complete 12 miles by Friday. I feel SO good. I've done 6 miles with Leslie and 2 miles on the treadmill yesterday (first time back at the gym in a LONG time).

My food choices could be a lot better, so I'm really going to work on getting my portions under control today.

Monday goals: measure everything and walk at least 2 miles.

Have a great week everybody, I'll update tomorrow with a new weight!

Kim-I just saw your updated w/i-YEAH!!!!! 3 lbs is amazing. You must have had a great weekend!

Stephanie- I can't believe how much you have lost. Keep it up girl and let this challenge motivate you to fit into those skinny jeans!

WFaith-wow!! I'm glad you have Leslie too. I've been so motivated by her DVDs. I actually just rented a couple off of blockbuster online. I'm so excited I can switch them up! Keep up the great work!

Hi Susan, Lady and Jcap! Gl this week!


PS-is everyone tuning in to TBL this week? I just saw a "super tease" on you tube and I'm totally ready to be motivated by the show!

Kim-do you still do your commercial exercises during TBL?

Ohhh! I am sooo excited for Biggest Loser! I think I should stay at the gym for the whole show on Tuesdays! HA!

Amy, I didnt last season b/c I was pregnant.. I spent commercials looking for junk food! LMBO! But I am sitting here at work making out a routine for tomorrow's big Season Premier!! I will share it with you all once I get it done!

These are the exercises that I usually do during my Biggest Loser commercial breaks. I just repeat them until the show is over.

Start off the first commercial walking to warm up, dont wanna pull any muscles!

Squatkicks - Stand with feet shoulder width apart, squat down, kick up alternating legs. To make more intense add a punch with the arm opposite the leg that is kicking.

Lunges - Front, Side or alternate both, you can also use hand weights (or I use cans of soup) and bicep curls, to make more intense.

Knee lifts - pretty self explanatory, elbow to opposite knee(Think Y-M-C-A! lol) , dont limit your range of movement. Stand with feet spread further apart to make more intense.

You can also do some floor exercises like situps, and pushups but I try to refrain from these (especially this soon after having a c-section!)

If you have any ideas please share!!

I'll join y'all! High fives all around to a great and sexy 2009!

I'm forcing myself to wait until Saturday to change my ticker, but let's just say SO FAR SO GOOD! It's nice to see the scale inching down again. I haven't gone off plan, especially in the evenings when I was doing the most damage before. Have a great day everyone. Let's stay POP! Woo Hoo!

I'm in for this challenge - of course my goal will be the same as the last 2 challenges - to be at goal! So that's 8lbs... The difference this time will be that I AM going to exercise! I got a DVR especially for that reason!

Start
1/5/09 134 goal this week is to workout 4 times - 1 down already - and to make it through take off without dying or cheating :)
1/12/09 Goal 132
1/19/09
1/26/09
2/2/09
2/9/09
2/12/09

Lets do this!

Wow Julie-you are SO close! You can do this. I love your mini goals. This is the month!

I'm in! I'll do 11 lbs by feb 14- I need to weigh myself tomorrow morning to get an idea of where to start my ticker. Thanks for starting this thread---the holiday challenges kept me going last time and I love how people just compete for themselves and not AGAINST each other.

Well folks, Just wanted to let you guys know that the Takeoff with the oranges worked VERY well for me. I did it monday/tuesday, and I weighed in this morning 3.8 lbs lighter. I AM THRILLED !!! I wasnt sure how it was going to work, because this is my first time trying it with the substitute, but I have to say I am very pleased with the results. Its a great kick-start to my Valentine Challenge.

Ok, I weighed this morning and I was 200 lbs. Good news: short trip to onederland. Bad news: I weigh 200 lbs. This means I need to be 189 by Valentine's. I am not doing Takeoff because I need to start slow and my hubby gives me a lot of grief when I do TO...but he is going out of town next weekend so I might do limited TO when he is away.

Mary - why does DH give you grief over take off? I make salads for my DH also when I do takeoff - but if he's not up to it, I make him whatever he wants to eat... He told me yesterday that he "loves his new wife" :)

he gives me grief about how unhealthy he thinks it is- he thinks it is faddish and that you can only lose weight by long term changes. Blah blah blah he's even more overweight than I am! I really dislike TO myself but it is great to get a boost when you are stalled.

Yea, I used to get some looks when I did takeoff, especially over the juice. Everyone thought it was that hollywood juice that makes you "run" for 2 days. I just smiled gave a brief description and went on.

One Week Mark
 

Ok guys, it's been one week since I posted this challenge, I know we all joined in at different times, but make sure to update and let us all know how you are doing.

My mini goal today is to really get all of my veggies in. I've been doing ok with everything else but have really only been getting 2 veggies in a day. So I'm going to work on that today.

I also found out my mom is going to come visit in 2 weeks! I'm excited and am trying to use that time frame as a goal to get 5 more lbs off by then!

I really hope you all are doing well!

Well, I am moving right along! I may even surpass my Vday goal! That will be a HUGE first!

Keep it up chicks!

Wow! Was it the threat of the picture in bike pants that has you all so motivated?! I am very impressed :)

oops - I think that threat was in the Race to 20 - but it could work here as well!

LOL, it was etched into my brain Julie, it has me motivated everywhere!

Hello...I am on track with my weekly exercise goal having completed 8 of the 10 miles...yippee! I am trying to create a 2-week menu plan by this weekend with the hope that it will make my last 2 weeks on the LA Express Menu plan (Plan 3 with lites) will be easier.

:)