Can you lose 5% of your body weight in 5 weeks? That's the challenge I'm putting forth for myself and thought there might be some folks here who would like to join and challenge themselves as well!

To find what 5% of your body weight is simply multiply your weight by .05

I weigh 198, 5% for me is 9.9 pounds (which I'm simply going to call 10) so it averages out to 2 pounds per week. It's ambitious but certainly doable (and if it were easy it wouldn't be called a challenge! lol).

So anyone else want to try for it? You can report in here every day along the way or once a week or just check in at the end, it doesn't really matter as long as you make the commitment to yourself to DO IT! And you can certainly jump in any time.

My stats:
Start Date - 4/3/09
Start Weight - 198.5
Goal Weight - 188.5
Goal Date - 5/5/09

Challenge it is! Whooo, this is gonna be some challenge! I have to lose 13 pounds!

Stats-
Start Date 4/3/2009
Current Wt 259
Goal Wt 246
Goal Date 5/8/2009

4/10/2009-253.2 (-5.8)
4/17/2009-253.2 (0)
4/24/2009-251 (-2.2)
5/1/2009-248 (-3.8)
5/8/2009-

Im in. 5% is 10.25 lbs so im gunna go with 11 pounds.

Stats
Starting date- 4/3/2009
SW- 205
GW- 194
Goal date- 5/5/2009

I'll give it a go!

That's 9 pounds for me, which would take me to 176.5. That'd be pretty rowdy since it's getting very close to what I had envisioned at one time as my ultimate goal weight.

(I've not set a goal weight, and I'm keeping it that way for now.)

I'm in for the challange, 5% is 10.35 so I'll say 11 pounds too.
CandyKisses that will put you and I back in Onederland, WooHoo!!!

4/2 SW - 207
5/5 Goal - 196

Thanks Fox for the challenge.

I think that attaching a 5 week limit is a bad idea. For some people, it would not be physically possible to lose that much weight in that time. Even if it's technically possible, having deadlines for weight goals is often discouraging rather than encouraging. If you reach the end of the 5 weeks and have lost 4% instead of 5%, will you be happy or unhappy? Most people will see the negative -- "I failed" -- rather than the positive.

Funniegrrl If I lost 4% I would consider that a victory for me! It's an average of 2 pounds a week...very possible! I need these challenges to keep me motivated

Please can I be in too? I'm in the soltice challenge - but the more accountability the better for me!

5% is 10lbs, which swould take me to 190, after that only 11 more lbs in 6 weeks for my Spanish vac. hm. pushing it but I'll give it my best shot!

SW 200
GW 190

04/14 - 196.6 - 1.7%
04/21 - 194.6 - 2.7% ~ weighed a day early this week, complex mental issues!
04/28
05/05

I'll try it. 5% is 10.8 lbs, so I'll go with 11 lbs.

SW: 216
GW: 205
Goal Date: 5/5

April 5: 215
April 12: 214
April 19: 213.5
April 26:211.5
May 3:210.5
May 5:

Lbs lost: 4.5 of 11

I've discovered that for myself if I don't lose that specific amount by the "time limit" I'm ok with it, honestly any loss is a success to me. I've set many, many goals and some of them I didn't make it and others I went above and beyond. But it gives me something to work for. If I say I'm going to try lose 5% of my weight "sometime this year" it'll never happen and THEN I'll feel like a failure!

I think we as people know ourselves pretty well (even if we don't like to admit what we know sometimes) so if you know a time limit isn't a good idea for you then that's fine, you can just work on the 5% and whatever pace it comes off is the pace it comes off.

I know I can lose 5% of my body weight, I just wanted to make it a challenge to do so!

An just to update - I'm down 1 pound, 9 to go!

I'm in for 10 lbs., putting me at 191.

Yay! I love challenges!

Well, this is my first post and it sounds like a good way to kick it off!
5% will be 13.69 for me --- i'm going to cut myself some slack and call it 13#.
SW 273.8
CW 273.8
GW 260.8

4/4 273.8
4/11 268.6
4/18
4/25
5/2

4/11 edit -- well, my first week of calorie counting and i'm 5.2 down. Let's see what week #2 will bring. Good luck girls!

That would be 12.45 pounds for me. I guess 12 1/2.
That is 2.5 pounds a week.

Wow. Um.....
I think I'll give it a shot. I am already in for the Summer Enchanted Challenge.
I am 249 now. My scale only does whole numbers, so in 5 weeks, I should weight, 237 or 236.

SW: 249

April 6: 245 (-4)
April 13: 243 (-2)
April 20: 241 (-2)
April 27: 238 (-3)
May 4: 238 (-0)

May 5: 238 I can't believe I just missed my goal!

Total weight lost:

Im in!
5% of my body fat would be... 13.5 lbs. Wow that seems like alot! that would be about 3.75 pounds a week.
but why not give it ago. I lost about 3 lbs this week. so maybe!

thats why its a challenge right??