Thanksgiving will be a challenge for most of us, that's for sure!
It is often helpful to create mini-goals throughout our weight loss journey. Using special events or holidays can motivate us to reach our goals even faster.
In an effort to help each other reach those goals, let's post our weight or other NSV goals for Thanksgiving. Where do you want to be by Thanksgiving?
Thanksgiving is November 24, just a little less than 4 weeks from now!!

I want my 50 pound chick!

My goal is lose 6 pounds by Thanksgiving and be comfortable in size 14 pants.
My other goal is to not go crazy at Thanksgiving dinners. I usually eat around 3 Thanksgiving meals. So my goal is to eat the things that I really love, making sure to get in lots of veggies and water. I don't want to feel deprived at Thanksgiving, or I guess I should say I'm not willing to. So anyway, I want to stay in control while eating those meals instead of stuffing my face everywhere I go. I'll save that for Christmas.

My Thanksgiving goal will be the same as my birthday goal, which is a solid 145 by then. It's 8 pounds (well, probably only 6 after Monday morning's w/i) and only 3 weeks til BD, 4 weeks to Thanksgiving, so I'd better chop-chop. The other goal will be like Melissa said, to not go crazy on the Thanksgiving eating or the birthday celebration. I think we're going to a Mavericks game for my BD, I'll have to really watch it because basketball games aren't exactly famous for their healthy food choices.

We already had our Thanksgiving so Im jumping ahead to my own christmas goal.,,,but if you guys dont mind I'll post my losses here if thats ok??

Oops, sorry! I didn't think about our Canadian friends already having had Thanksgiving!

i'm in for sure. i'll set up a ticker after my halloween wi. i'm not going to aim for losing much. i'm going to aim for losing period. when i first met all of you, i was about 7 lbs heavier than i was at my last wi so i'm heading in the right direction.

patti, you're smart to start on a holiday challenge.

i'll join ya'll in trying to eat sensibly during the holidays. that's a challenge in itself, isn't it? last year i was doing great. melissa, i was almost in the 170's. (almost but not quite) then we went to a christmas party. it was like i "unlearned" everything and undid all i had achieved. the scale kept rising till it hit 200 and i freaked. (i've weighed 228 before)

this year--i am positive i will stay focused. afterall, i have ya'll for help now. plus, i know firsthand it's taking me a whole year to undo what i did. life goes on.

okay, back to this thread. i'll make my ticker halloween. thank you, melissa, for starting this challenge for us. life is good!

Glad you started this challenge. I aim to lose 4# by Thanksgiving. I aim to exercise 5x a week by walking three miles on a treadmill. I also aim to keep in touch with this site because I know it helps me! Yay.
Judy Itry
234.6/206.8/thinner into onederland

i think we should come up with some kind of reward for ourselves when we meet this challenge. i'm not necessarily thinking of a money reward. any ideas?

Reward? How about pecan pie?

Okay, realistically. How about we each pick one thing we really, really want to get or want to do, and get or do it. For me, if I reach my Thanksgiving goal by my birthday and we go to the Mavericks game, I will buy a new jersey or maybe a sweatshirt. I have a very cool Nowitzki jersey that I got for my BD two years ago but would like to have a team shirt.

that sounds neat, kathy. hmmmmmmmmm? now i need to do some thinking.

Hmmm. I'm thinking a manicure. It's been a year since I had one (the only one I've had!). That's not too expensive and would be nice.

i'm still thinking. (kind of hard for a blonde.)

Okay - you mean an AMERICAN goal right? ha ha ha - as patti mentioned we have already had our turkey day - but heck I love turkey! What day of the week is the 24th anyways? Maybe I'll have to make another turkey!

Okay I need to get to that 30 pounds down on my ticker which has been there for so long it is starting to annoy me! Which means anothe 8 lbs gone by November 24th! This is quite a lofty goal, and I certainly have my work cut out for me - but I just can't keep hovering like this!

Now as for my present....hmmmm? Let's see now how about a CARIBBEAN CRUISE? or winter holiday vacation? okay okay - I'll try and think of something a little less flamboyant!

Frouf

mmmmI have to think on this one too...I love acrylic nails, I think thats what im going to do!
Melissa, where did you find that cute ticker...?