20 weeks until the winter solstice challenge! Now NINE!!!!!
 

Ok 20 weeks till Christmas I want to get to 199 pounds by then which will be the thinnest I have been since I was...I dunno I was size 18 at 18 and then got fatter by the year. :p So probably since I was 21 or something.

So 20 weeks...I am going for 39 pounds which is 1.95 pounds a week so do-able.

Anyone else brave like me to set a do-able target (pound a week? half a pound a week?) :p :lol: :devil:

Also I am in a diet slump and need to get remotivated.

veggie i blooming well dont like you at this very moment imagine talking about xmasin august how could you for gods sake dont tell my kids or ill never forgive you
kirsty

Yeh, I'll second that :rollpin: someone just HAD to mention Christmas did'nt they! :mad: cotton picking varmint :rollpin: but its done now so we'd best get over it :lol: I was just thinking I could lose 2lbs a week and be at goal by then so why don't I just get on with it (as my hubby so easily sez :mad: ) i've no motivation/interest either :dunno: don't know when I last exercised or kept track of what i'm eating :( i'm hoping my interest comes back once the holidaymakers have been and gone and I can get back to normal. It just does'nt seem important at the moment.

Well that's just charming :( :p I'll just count down to my challenge by myself then. :smug: :p Not even a good luck! :coffee: You'll regret it when I'm slim and gorg and you're not. :lol: :smug:

Well I'm hoping to have lost 5.5 stones by christmas eve if that's any help? So that's about 1.7lbs a week between now and then.

Actually I want to get to my 4 stone mark by 13th September because I go for a 3-monthly injection with my local GP's nurse and she gives me a 3-month pep talk and its nice to have your weight validated by someone (i don't go to SW or WW or Scottish Slimmers). But as I've had a rubbish month I can't see it.

Ha - I too veggie have been going around saying "yey christmas day 20 weeks tommorow!" and thinking about how much I may lose in those 20 weeks! :hat:

Well done on giving yourself a target! :goodluck:

With SW tho -I can't control how much I lose - can you? Other diets - you can say - I am going to try especially hard this week to lose more - and it works but -with SW - it doesn't seem to work like that for me. I take what comes! :) :shrug:

But averaging it out over the 30 weeks I been doing this - I have lost 1.5lb a week - so by rights I should lose about another 30lb in 20 weeks - but I won't say for definite - as im the sort of person who if they don't do what they said - sadly feel like a failure - no matter how well I have done! :goodscale

I have actually got bought some presents ready! :cb:

You've bought presents already!!!!!!!!!!! Are you related to my mother????

I should of said New Year or December :lol:

:rofl: that would have been better Veggie ;) and btw :goodluck: I did'nt wish you that cuz I know that you don't need it :smug: I'm sure we'll all jump onboard when the time is right ;)

Christmas is cancelled. See title. :p

:rofl: :lol3: already noticed that Veggie :lol: winter solstice? feel all religious now :yikes: NO! don't change it again :rolleyes: :lol:

Thanks veggie!

I just about got to be a new number for the first time in donkeys years and you go getting me excited about hitting the next one before the year is out!

I can't think that far ahead! But then again....

OK. I am in. I'll rock my socks off to get a whole pound below 13 stone by the "Winter Solstice". Thats 23lbs at 1.15lbs per week!

PLEASE keep me motivated too. I just have to see my sisters face when I get there!
And I'll come back and shout / cajole / congratulate you every week, as long as you promise to nag nag nag nag in return.

20 weeks you say.....:chin:

Hmmmm! If I lost 2lbs a week in 20 weeks I'd be 10 stone! Wowza! Yeah baby and NEW CLOTHES for Christmas! WOOHOOOOOOOO!:dance:

This year I'm 21 and my Mum's 50, so to celebrate we're having a studio picture taken. We both vowed to lose weight. I haven't really lost any since last autumn, but I've toned up a bit and am doing lots of cycling - whereas mum has put it on HAHA! We were gonna schedule the shoot for September, but since we've both stalled on the scales front, we've rescheduled for just before Christmas, so 2lb a week until then would get me to 10stone!

I haven't been 10 stone since I was 9! :(

That's so sad and yet so very motivating!

Nice challenge Veggie! I am going to bookmark this thread so I can actually find it again! I will tell you guys how I get on at least once a week!

Today I started the 21 day challenge on 30 weighted situps and 15 push ups (which I haven't actually done yet...). I have cycled to work and back, which was 20 miles, so I burnt nearly 900 calories! Hurrah!

Unfortunately I am at 1000 cals on the intake already! I think I overestimated those indian sweets I had, and maybe the amount of calories in my cereal.....

Oh well, fish fingers for tea! He He!

Buddhist Quote of the day:
If friends went on vacation and sent you a postcard, how much would you know of the place they'd visited? All releigions are like this. They are simply postcards from people who've been there. But if you want to know, you must go yourself.

Slim is my religion and I've never been!

Ok now go do those sit ups :drill:

Actually if I'm a good size 18 by Christmas then I'll be a happy bunny. I've gone from a 26 to a 20 so going by my previous form if I lose a stone and a half by then I should be good for a size 18.

I don't think I can control the amount of weight I lose per week but I get a good idea of what I probably will lose. If I'm a good girl and stick to it I'll lose between 1.5 and 2.5

Yeeeeeeeeehaaaaw!

I went kickboxing yesterday! My *** could crack walnuts! :rofl:

I'm already down a pound from Monday, so I guess I just have another one to go before Monday to stay on track.:smug:

Saying that, I'm off to a bbq on Thurs, that should be fun!:burger: I'm also going to be walking around London with a big sketchbook, so I shall have to make it a power walk!

I want to bike ride today but my shoulder is a bit sore from press ups (I'm on day 3 of my 21 day challenge to do 30 situps and 15 press ups), so I think I shall just clear out my clothes cupboard instead and then maybe go food shopping!

We can do it guys! :sunny:

I went kickboxing yesterday! My *** could crack walnuts! :lol3: :rofl: well don't offer me any :yikes:

I'm up for it. I want to weigh 14 stone dead, well actually I want to be alive and the stone to be the round number if that makes any sense !!!!!!!! This means I need to lose 37.5lbs in 20 weeks, needing an average weekly weight loss of 1.875lbs ( had to go into Excel to work that out)

I'm up for it, just amended my signature but will go update it again.

Count me in! :D

I want to be down to 13 stone for Christmas ~ so 28lbs to go. That's 1.4lbs a week.

just need to really start exercising now! :workout:

Everyone is welcome here :D :cool: I really would like to be under 200 for once in my life by the end of the year. :wave: :hat:

Thanx Cat!

Today is the day of the bbq, so :crossed: I don't eat too much and get all ill!

Anyway, I'd better do my daily sit ups before I go out!

Laters Ladies!

Hey Girls,

All this motivation is rubbing off on me :cb: ;) so hopefully i'll be joining you shortly :D

Hiya Sheila and WELCOME :balloons: :goodluck: with your goal, YOU CAN DO IT!!

:cheer: Come on cat ~ you can do it! :cheer:

Come on CAT!! :cheer:

Hey girlies, my bbq was cool - we actually had homemade pizza (I thought we were having bbq :() and lovely veggies and pine nuts and pistachios and those little ammeratti italian biscuits! Well posh food, I usuallly eat fish fingers! :rofl:

I did walk lots round London as well though, and bought a kooky original 70s suede and sheepskin jacket (in a size 12!) to spur me on! I will be wearing it on my xmas day walk!

How's everyone else doing?

We can do it girlies!

Go Sal and Cat, Hi Sheila and welcome!

1 down this week. So the new numbers are getting closer, next week the pounds will be 1'ers, 3 weeks until the stones are 13's yey yey yey!

Am I relieved it's all moving down again? I really thought that 200 was never going to come - it was my "stuck at" weight for so many years and I just haven't been able to get back there since my big gain a couple of years ago!

So now this is my ground zero, so to speak. I was 14st 4lb (200lbs Sheila) for many many years. I always thought that it didn't matter what I did my weight was sort of superglued there. Then I gained 17lbs and totally freaked out!

Of course I now know that I had no control and had a handy excuse in the anaemia. But now that is being dealt with I don't have any excuse and, thankfully, the weight is moving a little again! So fingers crossed that this year will be the year I get control!

So come on - motivate, threaten, cajole and bully away - although a 'well done' would be nice for us all every now and then!!!

Well done Stef, I've a bit to go before I reach the 100's but I will get there this time round.

My 3lbs loss of this week, starts me off well towards my winter goal :) :dizzy: :)

Well Done :cheer: stef and carol and veggie for having a whole 24 hrs counting Slimming world!

I've been kickboxing again and am down to 12:12, but don't tell the scales otherwise they'll go back up!

So I guess I'm on track for 10stone by XMAS!

I'm going to do my sit ups and press ups before work!

:cheer:COME ON YOU SOLSTACE CHALLENGERS!!:cheer:

Oooh you are all doing so well girls :bravo: I got back from camping on Monday night and i'm a little :ink: in fact I think i'm even a heavier :ink: :o so I've got to pick a plan and get moving here. Get nagging and the :rollpin: out please :^:

Shelia I am very impressed with the stones in your sig :D

:bravo: everyone!

I've slipped a bit since Monday, my 'rents have been staying and buying me marks and spencers lemon tart! Yesterday I had a sausage roll AND a gingerbread man for lunch!! Such quality food!:hun:

I even forgot to do my sit ups and press ups yesterday :sssh: so I'm gonna do twice as many today. Then I'm gonna go out 4 a bike ride and pray it rains, cos it's still a bit warm for exercise!

I shall give myself a good kick up the *** and be back on track for Monday!

:grouphug:

Nuff's Enough as Popeye said :rolleyes: i've :ink: 'ed and :cheers: 'ed my way up to 12sts :yikes: so i'm in the challenge :cb: get the :rollpin: 's out girls and kick my arse when required :lol:

I have lost 3lbs!!! Hurrah! :dance:

I have shed my 182 sticky patch! I'm in the 170's and the 12st something! Hurray!

I haven't been this light since I was 12.....:o

so I'm happy!

It was the 15 and a half mile bike ride yesterday that did it!!

I'd better rest up today cos I'm kickboxing tonight!!!

Yeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwww!

Hurrah hurrah hurrah :D I was about 12 st at 12 too. :o

Ooh that's pretty :lol:

ooh thank you!

It's so pretty!

I like enthusiasm :D

Well done you!!! I think that was my birth weight! :D

Well the pressure is on ~ I've just agreed to go to my 1st works Christmas do (I've only worked there 6 years!). Ideally I'd like to be 12 and a half stone (ish) by then. That's 28lbs. Fingers crossed! :dizzy:

Well Done 2frustrated :cp: you might have to change your moniker soon eh? :lol:

He he! That's true! It's just falling off now!

I weighed again today after kickboxing last night and I'm down another pound or two - I can't really see cos my scales have tiny numbers!!

Ok enough gloating, come on girlies, if I can do it anyone can! I've been stuck at 13st for over a year and now it's beginning to shift , so let's get kicking some fat cells!!! :rofl:

:grouphug:

:chin: Kickboxing eh? I've always wondered if I could do that :yikes: My daughter does those Billy Blanks tapes and she's got a great bod and of course she tells me that its EASY :rolleyes: to lose weight :eek: yeh, might be for her :rofl:

I'm sure you'd be great at kicking things :D :lol:

:chin: You never know ;) cuz i'm good with a :rollpin: :joker: :lol3: