This is the place for all of us UK Chicks to come and make a pledge to really stick at our diets/exercise plans/lifestyle changes for the next three months and beyond, and most importantly to help each other stay on track.
Can I be added please, Just joined and think is this a fab idea to give everyone motivation and support, I will get all my measurements together tomorrow afternoon
Hi and welcome Danielle I've added you to the spreadsheet, along with Aseret123 The more the merrier to help keep each other going for the next 3 months, eeekkkk!
Added my start weight 12s 5.5 or 173.5, after having two on and off food weeks, I really want to be more on plan this week to kick start this challenge with my first big loss in ages!!!
Just about to do my measurements now.
Please remember that for the first week, when you add your start weight the formula I've put in will make some of the other numbers change and be wrong. Please just leave these as they are, and next week when we add week one weigh in figures everything will resolve itself, hopefully!
Morning challengers! Off to add my starting weight which is sadly up on last week - have been trying to drink lots of water and it always makes me gain (weird) but hey - onwards and downwards.
An hour to kill between scrubbing the house (done!) and spinning class, so rather than crack on with my ever mounting pile of uni assignments, thought I'd do an intro post on here instead, whoops!
I've taken this format from a challenge I did last year, to help us all get to know each other better
Age: 27
Location: North Yorkshire
Most Recent NSV: jogging 10 minutes straight, and my increased fitness level generally is becoming a bigger motivator than numbers on the scale. Starting to enjoy shopping without panicing nothing will fit is also cool
Weight Lose Goal for the Challenge: I'd absolutely love to be at target, but whether this is realistic or not I've no idea, but it's what I'm going to work towards. I think I'm not at the lowest weight I've been as an adult, so I've no idea how losing the rest of my pounds will work out!
Battle Plan for Reaching BL Challenge Goal: Exercise! Making good food choices 90% of the time but being realistic, NOT giving up, keeping at it, visualising the me I want to be until I am her.
Particular Challenges/Upcoming Temptations that You are Working to/or Planning to Overcome: Well life really, Easter (obviously!) then I've got a Christening the week after, a wedding the week after that, then 4 weeks home alone which is went my binging comes out. So lots of challenges, but learning how to deal with these things is all part of the journey, and being in a challenge like this one helps me stay on track because I don't want to come on one week and give a bad number.
Anything Else You Would Like to Share About Yourself: I've been back in the UK for almost a year now, after almost 5 years abroad teaching English in India and Thailand. I'm home until October(ish) getting an MA in English Language Teaching so I can leave again and start on a proper career ladder.... But in the meantime, I've moved back in with my parents, which is the only way I could afford to study, and even almost a year in, it's still really blooming tough! So, as you get to know me better, I apologise in advance for the moaning that is bound to happen!
hello, not sure how to add my Weight! I'm 126lb (nine stone) but with a very small build, goal weigh it 116 which should be doable with will power except I keep on slipping up (gin and tonics on friday nights lead to me thinking it#s okay to buy chips on the way home, etcetera)
Age 26 (nearly 27) have a job which involves sitting at a desk most of the time which maybe doesn't help. Yesterday played rounders with some friends in meadows and didn't feel too unfit, would like to do things like this more often as well as starting running round holyrood park.
would love to do this with other people
have signed up for the 10lbs in April threat too, but not sure how realistic this is for me
Welcome Helen TC will add you to the spreadsheet if she hasn't already. The link is in the first post.
Following on from TC's post.....(and I'm so jealous of the teaching abroad - I spent years travelling in Asia and know India and Thailand well....)
Age: 40-something
Location: Sunny Hertfordshire
Most Recent NSV: Buying my first item of size 12 clothing since around 1990! (We won't mention vanity sizing or the fact that it probably isn't a 12...I;m happy!)
Weight Lose Goal for the Challenge: To finally get to target...and stay there!
Battle Plan for Reaching BL Challenge Goal: Exercise! I'm a lazy moo at heart and exercise does NOT come easy to me. I do lots of walking but really need to do strength training to tone up the flabby bits.
Particular Challenges/Upcoming Temptations that You are Working to/or Planning to Overcome: Easter was easy to dodge last year so not worried but have MASSES of 40th birthday do's and drinking is really my biggest downfall.
Anything Else You Would Like to Share About Yourself: Not sure what to tell. I split up from my partner a year ago and am now finally getting back out there and dating again. I'm slightly mad, love motorbikes, football, travelling and generally being the eccentric nutter in the village where I live.
O0o I'd love to join . I'm a UK chick too and looking for a new spreadsheet kinda challenge thing and it'd be great to do measurements as well as weight although I don't know if I'll do below and above the knee!
Age: 21
Location: England
Most Recent NSV: I've got up to 25 minutes running continuously following a C25K plan. Also the belt on my jeans I have to do a notch tighter!
Weight Lose Goal for the Challenge: Well in my head I think "in 3 months I can totally hit my goal and lose 13lbs" but realistically no that's not going to happen. Let's go for just over half- 8lbs taking me to 135.2lbs
Battle Plan for Reaching BL Challenge Goal: Casual calorie counting, upping my exercise and protein intake and reducing my refined carbs intake!
Particular Challenges/Upcoming Temptations that You are Working to/or Planning to Overcome: Well there's Easter of course... and since I have (successfully!) given up chocolate for lent it's going to be a challenge not over doing it when it's over!
Anything Else You Would Like to Share About Yourself: I'm a student veterinary nurse starting in September
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Goal for this targeto fit into some of my clothes before I was pregnant, rather than still being in maternity trousers!
Battle plan for reaching target: health eating 3 meals a day and CC when I get time ( with a 7 week old I seem to have no time for anything apart from the weekend when hubbys about to help out-I thought babies slept-Not mine!) Plus lots of walking!
Challengers:temptation to order take aways rather than cook, due to lack of sleep!!! We have a christening coming up in may. Plus my birthday and our first wedding anniversary-need to find somewhere healthy to celebrate, thinking of maybe pizza express as they do the 1/2 pizza salad thingys i think!
Not sure if its going to make any difference to my weight but i have just been put on antidepressants for PND, i have been on some before and gained, i am hoping it wont make a difference, but i guess time will tell.
Hello everyone! Thank you for adding me to the spreadsheet TC
A little about me:
Age: 19
Location: London
Most Recent NSV: Been off the wagon for quite a while!
Weight Loss Goal for the Challenge: 205 - It's a stretch, but it'll be the first time I've weighed under 15st for 3 years!
Battle Plan for Reaching BL Challenge Goal: Making better choices, in regards to food AND exercise. To recognise when I'm hungry or just boredom eating, and to exercise exercise exercise!
Particular Challenges/Upcoming Temptations that You are Working to/or Planning to Overcome: Already faced the first today, a meal with my colleagues. I am pleased to report that it was mostly a success! The restaurant we went to didn't exactly offer healthy options so I just ate a very small amount. Easter! Eating after work is one big issue that I need to overcome: I tend to avoid eating at work, which then leads to a binge when I get home which is never good, especially since I often don't finish until after 9pm and I find that I have much more trouble controlling my eating during the evening than in the day.
Anything Else You Would Like to Share About Yourself: There isn't much to know.. I don't mind my current workplace but I'm only there for the money, my real goal is to train as an actress (I know, I'm a dreamer ) I also used to enjoy dance but then gained a lot of weight and now feel too self conscious, so when I'm back at a regular weight I would love to take lessons again. I love to read, walk, and attempt to teach myself how to play guitar! That last one isn't going so well though
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o fit into some of my clothes before I was pregnant, rather than still being in maternity trousers!
Elliemar you make me giggle 
"being the eccentric nutter in the village where I live" 
) I also used to enjoy dance but then gained a lot of weight and now feel too self conscious, so when I'm back at a regular weight I would love to take lessons again. I love to read, walk, and attempt to teach myself how to play guitar! That last one isn't going so well though 
