JANUARY No Weigh Challenge!!!

[julirama723]

Hey Everybody!

Please complete this quick questionnaire on your own. Answer either yes or no.

1) I hate the scale.
2) The scale hasn't been loving me, and the feeling is mutual.
3) I want to throw it out the window.
4) I want to send the scale back to the manufacturer because those numbers simply CAN'T be right!
5) If I see one more weight loss ticker that says "I've lost 8652 pounds in 3 weeks," I'm going to SCREAM!

If you answered "yes" to ANY of the above questions, this challenge is for you!

Here's the plan: Take a month off from the weekly (or daily) torture of being a slave to the scale. When it comes to weighing in for January, simply say, "I prefer not to."

Report in each day. Tell us if it was a struggle. Tell us if you took a sledgehammer to the darn thing. Tell us if you couldn't resist the lure of the scale's shiny dial and inviting plastic platform and you gave in.

Let's see how many of us can tame the wild scale beast...at least for this month!

If you are interested, please reply to this thread saying "hey, I'm interested!"

DISCLAIMER: I can't promise prizes or monetary rewards, but at least you get bragging rights for the month, and perhaps a cool graphic or two!

This Challenge starts JANUARY 1st, 2007.

COME ONE, COME ALL!

If you're down for the count, here's a cool graphic to let everybody know how you roll:

[sillygirl]

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I'm in!

I have officially changed my siggy since I am up one pound and still down one from my goal weight as of today. Since I'm in maintenance, I really want to see if I can maintain without weighing 152 times a day!


Thanks for starting this Julirama. No worries about "hosting" the thread, it will happen on it's own, I guarantee!

[Adena]

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"Hey, I'm interested!"

My name is Adena, and I'm a scale addict. This month I'm focusing on seriously ramping up my exercise. After a week, I already see evidence (evil, mean evidence) of it on the scale. So, if I'm really going to focus on exercise and not get discouraged by what the scale does, I need to stay away from it. This will be really tough -- but I'm IN! Thanks for hosting, Julie. I look forward to your special brand of kick-in-the-pants encouragement. Despite your disclaimer, I AM holding out for prizes or monetary rewards.

[Chasin2Kids]

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I'm there, baby! Count me in! I'll make husband hide the darn thing if I have to!

[julirama723]

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YAY JWNWC members!

And hey, it's NEVER too late to sign up!

Each day, you'll look forward to (or dread, perhaps) the humor, fun fact, trivia, or bit of knowledge you'll be attaining. Why? 'cause KNOWLEDGE IS POWER! At least that's what School House Rocky would say.

How will you be keeping track of your success during this month? What's your preferred method? Is it measuring each week, or trying on those dang jeans that don't fit, hoping they get a little bigger each week?

I'm looking forward to DAY 1 tomorrow!!!

[Ayria]

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I'll hop on this one, instead of the dang scale =P. I'll only weigh on the 4th and 18th for the Mem. Day challenge weigh dates, other than that DEATH TO THE SCALE!

[julirama723]

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Yay Ayria, glad you've joined us!

[MaggieBE]

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I will join except I will be using the scale for the Memorial Day challenge.

[julirama723]

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Maggie, no problem! Glad to have you on board!

[julirama723]

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January 1st, 2007: DAY 1

Here's your SCALE SCOFF for the day 1/1/07:



Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so eloquently put it in a famous 1939 speech to the Physics Department at Princeton, "You have to exercise for a week to work off the thigh fat from a single Snickers."


~Dave Barry, Dave Barry Turns 50


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Hope your day is going well and the scale isn't beckoning you forth with its evil gleam. Mine sure isn't because I had a huge workout yesterday as well as a cranberry and vodka to ring in the new year. So I'm sure my body is filled with more water than the Pacific.


How did everyone celebrate? How did you ring in the New Year? I doubt the scale figured into anyones plans!

JWNWC Members DAILY TALLY
Adena 1/31 days weigh free!
Julirama723 1/31 days weigh free!
Sillygirl 1/31 days weigh free!
Chasin2Kids 1/31 days weigh free!
Ayria 1/31 days weigh free!
MaggieBE 1/31 days weigh free!

[Adena]

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Uh-oh... I'm in the Memorial Day Challenge and didn't know I'm supposed to be weighing twice a month... ? Oh well. I'm going to try to go cold-turkey this month regardless.

To answer your question about how how to track, I admit I did buy new keto stix yesterday, so the pink/purple will help reassure me I'm on track. (Is that cheating??) I also have a new pair of jeans I bought that are too tight, so I'll try those on periodically. And yes, measurements. I'll measure today, at mid-point, and then again at the end of the month.

Yup, the scale already beckoned me today.... I went to the bathroom three times after I woke up (within an hour), before I even drank any water, which tells me maybe I'm letting go of some of that water weight from my recent workouts. Makes sense, because I'm also a lot less sore today. Soooo, I was tempted to see if my guess was true. But, I didn't! I'm holding out for the cash and prizes...

[julirama723]

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Atta girl.

And when you find the cash and prizes, let me know.

[sillygirl]

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UGH. Scale is evil and staring me in the face. Do I, or do I not have DH hide the thing again?

[Adena]

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Hide it, hide it, hide it...!

[julirama723]

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My scale is in the bathroom, still in it's home. If you read my confession, you know why I have absolutely no desire to weigh myself.

It's going to get tough if I FEEL like I've lost weight, you know? Just to SEE how much is gone, how well I'm doing...but until then, I'll just leave the little bugger on the bathroom floor next to the towel rack.