-->>Christmas Challenge!<<--

[rissa]

okay add me in!! :icondance

start weight was 240 current weight is 211 and goal for x-mas is... 180

and i have no more room on my signature for those pictures :sadblinky is there a small one i could put on?

[towanda]

Hi Rissa - good to have you here!!! You'd better go tell your husband that if he buys you clothes for christmas, he better buy them in a smaller size, because you're going to be 30 pounds lighter by then!!

[rissa]

lol yea! i am going to really try hard to get to my goal! kinda nervous though hehe

[Kibs]

Since i'm 4 lbs from losing a total of 20 I was thinking about what ways I can reward myself while i'm broke. I brought this up with my fiance and he goes "...pizza?" BAH!! Secretly sabotaging my thoughts!! What I wanted to do originally was go shoppin. I may have to anyway, but at the moment I just can't afford it. I never in my life would have thought i'd get to 20lbs gone, and I wanna do something nice for me. Oh, the woes of being poor! lol

[rissa]

i know how you feel i am poor also. but once in a while i will tkae myself to the drive in since it is cheap. or have a movie night at home or..... well i have two kids and so i dont have much of any ideas since i have no life LOL so, sorry i am not much help! hehe :confused

[towanda]

Kibs and Rissa - I am also poor, and even if I wasn't, I am naturally cheap. I generally buy clothes at walmart. What I have been doing is to buy myself really nice clothes in the size that I want to be from either outlet malls, or overstock.com. (If any of you have not checked out overstock.com, you really should.) That way, I have incentive to get to my goal, and it's something that I would have neede anyway. For example, I bought a new winter jacket for less than I would pay for one at walmart, but it is a designer brand and absolutely gorgeous. When I get close to my christmas goal, I will have a really nice new winter jacket. If I don't make it, then I will be wearing the same junky old thing. I suppose I should set rewards for myself that are a little less long term, but I have always used food as a reward, so I had to find something that didn't involve food.

[rissa]

LOL well the day before i went onto atkins i bought myself a skirt to help motivate me. well when i got home the dang skirt wouldnt even go past my knees!!! talk about long term! gawd! so maybe when i am 100 pounds i can get into it. (which will never happen) oh well :sadblinky

[towanda]

LOL well the day before i went onto atkins i bought myself a skirt to help motivate me. well when i got home the dang skirt wouldnt even go past my knees!!! talk about long term! gawd! so maybe when i am 100 pounds i can get into it. (which will never happen) oh well :sadblinky

That's why my present for myself was a jacket. Even if it is too small, I can get it on, and see how it's going to look. Also, I can see how far it is from actually really fitting, and track how much closer it's becoming. Also, you'd be amazed how quickly things that seem as though their never going to fit actually start to fit. I have a pair of jeans that I bought when I first did atkins that wouldn't come to my knees. 40 pounds later they are too big.

[rissa]

yea i am stuck in the middle with my clothes right now. eitehr all my clothes are tooooo big or tooo small... so i have to safety pin my pants together just to hold em up.... my husband got a new job recently and he promised me new clothes with his first pay check :icondance i am very excited. but i figure i will buy just one pair of pants and a shirt since i am not staying this weight forever and i dont want to waste my money. :sarcasm

[Elmark]

weigh-in day for me.....but no changes....SIGH!!! TOM is on the way.....maybe that's why! I have been so good lately. Been eating right, exercising right and ...hmmm.....not drinking my water...
I'm trying to change that!

[Mystique]

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[Mystique]

Rissa, Welcome to the challenge!

FCatty, Nice to see you back and Congrats on the Loss!

Gabber , Weigh to lose!

Elmark, you will lose next week if I know you! I lost 4 at the start of the week and then it stopped LOL. Oh boy, was I wishin it would keep going!

Kibs, Don't reward yourself w/ food! :yikes :yikes :yikes How about something romantic or just plain nice? You could pack up a lo carb picnic lunch and go to the beach w/ hubby. You could go walk in woods that you have never been in, or go to a park. Me, I would go hunt for rocks.. but I am odd LOL. Tell hubby that you deserve a day of being pampered and spoiled. Not w/ money, but attention. You know we girls love that!
Congrats on how well you are doing

[Elmark]

Thanks Mystique....I really hope so! I know how you feel about those 4 pounds.....when it starts, you have a feeling it will last forever, until it doesn't and you'll feel really sad....SIGH! But at least you lost the 4 pounds...

I'm back to using fitday and counting everything. I want to be a big time looser! I tried the whooshie recipe, but it just didn't work for me!

By the way....what does the stars by our names mean? Did I miss something? Or am I just a STAR???

[Mystique]

You are just a star Dahling! :icondance :icondance :icondance
Actually, it is just a way for me to see who has confirmed thier goals and are still in the challenge The list is so big that I have lost track of who is posting and who has fallen away.

Well, I have a playdate to prepare for. I invited a family over and I had better think of something for lunch munchies for the kids. *hugs*

[moonwish]

No loss for me this week (it's tom, so I'm happy there's no gain).

About clothes - I must count my money extra carefully, too. But I'm a woman after all, and women need new clothes more than they need fresh air (that's what my bf said). I use second hand stores for that "I need a new thing" feeling - they're cheap and you can get really nice things there - if you're lucky or if you go often lol.
Like today I found myself a wonderful Mark&amp;Spencer's dark denim maxi skirt I'm totally happy with! It really looks nice on me, I swear. I love skirts (and I think I've got too many of them already...). But the price was less than 5 in USD, so...
And it's UK size 12 and the last skirt I bought was size 16...