Hi everyone! Tomorrow is May 1st, as we all know. My birthday is one month away, June 1st. I was wondering if anyone would want to do a May challenge with me so that I can hopefully lose SOMETHING by my birthday?

What kind of challenge? There is also the lose 10 lb by June challenge in the main support forum if you don't get enough of a response here! I am in for anything

I was just thinking it would be just like any other challenge: personal goals and such. Mine is to actually stay on plan for the whole month. I'm not as concerned with the weight as I am setting habits. That's my weak spot. Glad you're in too!! What are your goals?

I would love to do a challenge with you all.

I'm in! I would like to lose 8 pounds by June 1st.

Hey! I'm glad to have people along with me for the ride! Today (so far) has been a great day. I've stayed totally on plan and had a great dinner! Saving a skinny cow desert for later

I exercised for the first time in a long time today also, which felt great. Exercising really helps me to stay motivated because I don't want to undo the hard work I've put in.

How has everyone else's day been?

I'm in. This morning I weighed in at 175. I would like to bounce down to 171 by June 1st. And continue to work towards my step goals on the fitbit. Good luck everyone!

Okay my goal for the month is to plan my meals every day, including weekends. Planning = success for me! As soon as I'm left to make a choice when I am STARVING, I make a poor choice. or if I feel there is nothing ot make a meal with in the house, I go out (even if there is food here).

So that's my challenge. So far I am off to a good start! Now I have to plan today!

I'm in! I'm just restarting a calorie counting diet and I'm new here so ....
I challenge you all to keep your heads on straight, plan your meals, and lose with me!!

(now if I could just have a weight ticker)

Ladies I am in,
I will include soups and salads daily in my main meals. I will not have cheat meal for this month. and counting calories in my fruit salad.

Keep going

Hello, I'd like to join you too.

I'm climbing back on the wagon just now. My May goal is to stick to 1400kcal per day on average and start my refeed/spike day after two weeks of this. But I plan on doing the refeed day for a couple of months at least so I don't know if this is the right thread for me. But I'd like the company! It helps motivate I think. And yes planning does make for success.

I think I'll join as well. After being really good most of last year, I've let 30+ pounds creep back on in 2012. Time to stop the insanity one calorie at a time..

My goal is to stick to 1600 calories or less 5 days/week (and not go too wild over the weekends). Ideally I'd be close to (if not under) 220 by the time June rolls around.

I'm in. My goal is to drop 3-5 inches on my hips by June 1. I started doing P90X again today. I was working on a project and one of the ladies in the group told me about it so I got in on it. 3-5 off my hips would be wonderful and would help tremendously with getting to my size 10. Heck it may put me in my size 10.

Welcome everyone!! I'm glad you have all your wonderful company! I think this is shaping up to be a great month. I agree, I think planning is so important. I have found that if I don't plan, I will typically just throw caution to the wind when dinner comes around and eat something packed with calories. I think sometimes calorie counting works best when you sort of get on auto-pilot, it does for me anyways.

I weigh myself every day. Yesterday was my first day back counting calories and today I saw a 3 pound loss on the scale. Even though I know it was water weight, I'll take it. At least I didn't see a 3 pound gain!

I hope everyone is having a good day so far!

Yay for that 3 pound loss!!... and nope it doesn't matter if it's water .. the scales moved in the right direction!