count me in! Just the little extra motivation that will help me succeed.
I am 47 years old. Live in the midwest, engaged and have a May wedding to slim down for. Yikes! 14# by the 14th, would be a great start! :love:

http://www.3fatchicks.com/weight-tra...lb/0/58/0/.png

wow,Shrinkingchick looks like we are in the same boat with our weight,my long term is 179 too even though i don't have a meter for that yet,well its my goal for now ;)

sounds good to me, im in, that would put me at 130 yay!

I am brand new to this site and would love to get in on the Valentine's Day challenge. I have no idea how to get set up yet but will figure it out and will post all my stats ASAP. I'm starting at 231 with my goal weight a long way down the road at 145. I'm excited to get started.

Hi Charliekay,
Well, I was going to put 180, but 179 just looked so much nicer :D
Good luck, I know we'll get there!! :strong:

WOW!! I am sooo excited that all of us are in this challenge! I am CONFIDENT that all of us are going to make it through too!!!! :carrot:

BTW, the tip of setting a timer for 15mins if you want to snack on something...AMAZING...I definitely suggest you try it out if you get the midday munchies...especially for something unhealthy...i really wanted to go inside starbucks yesterday, but I set the timer on my cellphone and the fact that I had to wait made me both walk by it and not consume an extra unnecessary 400 calories!!

YAY for goalweight160 on your walking!! :cheer: I definitely know you can do it again today!

I made it through my dance dvd yesterday..whew..now that I'm getting used to the steps a bit more it's definitely more of a workout rather than just staring at the instructor and trying to figure out what to do...haha

G'luck to everyone today!! :dancer:

I am also in - great, realistic challenge. I have added new tracker to show progress.

What is everyone doing to reach this goal? I am making sure calories in are less than calories out with the help of a Mio watch. Found a friend from high school to go to the gym with as soon as I make it through the ALL annoying introductory, pitch and guilt session at the gym on Thursday. Just let me workout - I know how to do it!

Good luck everyone - keep going!

I use Nutridiary as a way of counting and tracking calories.

That's how i found this place actually, because a lady who posts on the (very quiet) community board there had a tracker in her sig.

Thanks phatpanda for the support, I dropped another pound!!!!! YEAH!!!! I AM determined to match or beat my step total from yesterday. I'm going to go outside and walk on my lunch----I don't care if it is raining outside.

Thanks phatpanda for the 15 minute snack attach trick, I'm going to use that one next time food calls!!!!!

I use ediets FREE nutrition tracker to see my calories. I love it because at anytime during the day you can pull up and view your nutritional info eaten for the day----it looks like a food label, it is soooo easy to read.

Ok, I'm off to get thin!!!!

Ok i am in !!
My first challange..YAY!

change will include drinking water before eating Dinner. And no eating after 7 op less its a veggie or fruit.

try to work out at home more....

hello everyone i'm in with all of you !!!!!

i'm 28 years old i live in miami and my goal weight is 160 i weight right now 235lbs.

What I'm doing
 

Hi all,
I'm just getting started here, so right now I'm focusing on eating every 2-3 hours, preferably with a little protein in every meal, avoiding sweets and shooting for 10 mins of exercise a day. I've found in the past that for me, if I plan out my food and always have a healthy snack on hand, I don't get a chance to crave anything unhealthy. I've been following this for a few days and saw a 3lb loss this morning! I know it's just the initial water weight, but still nice to see! I have a bit of a scale addiction so I'm trying to only weigh once a week. Is there a particular day that everyone weighs in here?

:strong: :dance: :goodvibes

I dont even have a scale ,,,I got to buy one yet. I been weighing in at curves.

Guess its time to buy one huh ???hehehe

scales
 

sometimes i think I would be better off if I didn't have a scale at home. It is too tempting to weigh myself a hundred times and then get mad at myself if the numbers aren't going down fast enough or even worse they go up then it really messes with my head. So one of my goals is to stay away from my scale as much as possible. Now, if I could be sure my scale always gave me good news, that would be another story......:devil: :D :goodscale

I`ll join too thats about what I need to keep up with my goal in june

Thanx for the idea
now lets start sharing what we are going to do - this newbie needs some ideas!