2005 THANKSGIVING CHALLENGE!

[Effie]

Welcome Karen! You and I are about the same weight & age, so I'd love to have you in the challenge!

Fighting - I'm definitely going to donate my clothes, which is why they've been sitting here so long. If I was just going to trash them, they'd be gone a long time ago. I am an avid "freecycler" so I hesitate to throw anything away because I know someone out there wants it! Maybe I'll take these clothes away today and put them in the planet clothing drop box. I might as well since I've been talking about it now for 3 days!

25 Weeks from Today is Thanksgiving!
If you lose 1 pound a week, you'll be down 25 pounds!
If you lose 2 pounds a week, you'll be down 50 pounds!
If you lose 3 pounds a week, you'll be down 75 pounds!

200.5/196.6/175

[FightingTheFight]

ooooooo....75lbs sounds nice! lol


Gotta love my young male metabolisim!

[sparkles52502]

Wow Effie that is a good way to look it .........I absolutely think 2lbs a week is very doable unless I hit a stall or something........my goal today is go through my closet and see what I don't need and also go through my food cabinets and give mom or my MIL all non atkins food..........my DH is trying to do this also but he has to watch his salt intake he is borderline with High blood pressure...............well I am going to go get started talk to you later.....

[cruiser gal]

Hey, count me in too!! I'm at 228 today, and would like to lose 50lbs by Thanksgiving, so that would put me at 178. I lost 48 lbs in 4 months, so I should be able to lose at least 50 if not more in 25 weeks!

[ztachick]

Hope everyone is doing great today...

im down to 179 today, i was at 181.5 forever i thought i was never gonna get past that...
181.5 / 179 / 150

[pockets]

I am in. I want to lose 40lbs. I am 170 now.

[sparkles52502]

way to go ztachick its all down hill now before you know it you will be at 169.......
Welcome pockets and congratulations cruiser gal on 48lbs in 4 months that is Fantastic... :icondance

[ztachick]

Pockets- (welcome)
sparkles52502- thanks so mcuh

[Effie]

I lost 48 lbs in 4 months, so I should be able to lose at least 50 if not more in 25 weeks!

Holy crap! That's awesome! You can definitely lose 50 by Thanksgiving. I have faith in you! :icondance

Where in Alberta are you from? I married a man from Edmonton, but made him move allllll the way to Boston, Massachusetts.

[DebbietheHugBug]

I'll join! :wave

I'm such a sloooooooooowwwwwwwwwwww loser! If I work hard, I MIGHT be able to lose 20 lbs by then but I'll set a goal for 15 lbs GONE!!! I want to start Monday because I'm going to spend this weekend making legal *treats* so I don't cheat when hubby feels sorry for me LOL

[sparkles52502]

How is everyone doing today? I am doing great....I have to go grocery shopping a little later for all Atkins food.......I have some now but I want to get some more.....I plan on doing some walking this evening if it don't rain me out .........if it does I will use the treadmill.......well I am going to go for now........

[DebbietheHugBug]

Hi Karen :wave

TGIF!!!! I will be shopping this weekend and making my Atkins friendly foods. I think I'm going to make hubby and daughter keep their junk food in the garage or somewhere out of my face until I can get the cravings under control. Either that or I'll have to get my own apartment.. LOL :guns

Anyway, if I have time I'll check in this weekend. If not, everyone have a GREAT weekend and we WILL have an awesome week next week!!! ha

[FightingTheFight]

My thanksgiving goal Is 230. I am 299 now, well I was 299 at my last weigh in which was May 23, I due monthly weigh ins.

I think theres a possibilty that I might be able to surpass that goal before november, but I am still going to stick with it this way. That way I will be Uber suprised lol.

Oh my, did I just say Uber? I think I've been Reading to many of cleo's posts. :joy

[Effie]

Fighting - a 230 goal by November seems like a lot! Not saying you won't do it, just saying that if you came close, it would already be an Uber success!

I cannot wait for Monday's weigh-in! I went on a 30 minute run/walk today, which is the first REAL exercise I've done. I've mostly just been walking, but this felt like a real workout. It was so much fun too!! I went to this park down the street and did 3 loops around it. There was this cute little girl, maybe 1.5 years old, who was in her little swimsuit playing in the water fountain park -- you know where the water shoots up from the holes in the ground. It was so fun to be able to watch her play in the fountain whenever I'd run past it. I was having a blast. I usually run on the streets around my house, which are hilly, and I'm always miserable. I'm psyched that I finally found a pleasurable course that I can do regularly now. :icondance

How's everyone else doing??

[sparkles52502]

Good Morning.... :wave
WTG effie ......sounds like you are doing great...I am trying to get back into exercising also ...I use to walk about 2 miles a day lately it has been less than that due to spur on my left heel.....but that is doing better so maybe I will be able to get back up to 2 miles before too long.......
I am doing great this time around ..... :icondance :icondance .......still feeling really good about everything........ well I am going to go clean house ........bye