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Please post your introduction on this thread. I will take your current weight and that will be your start weight for the challenge once the spreadsheets go up next week for our 1st official weigh in.
So here's my introduction:
Name: Jane or MJT
Age: 40's
Height: 5'4 ish
Current Weight: 160.7
Challenge Goal Weight: 134
Ultimate Goal Weight: 129
My Motivation: I've been yo-yoing for the past couple of years and have a family fuction to attend in June and want to look my best!
My Plan: Clean-ish eating, free weights, running, & yoga
So here's my introduction:
Name: Jane or MJT
Age: 40's
Height: 5'4 ish
Current Weight: 160.7
Challenge Goal Weight: 134
Ultimate Goal Weight: 129
My Motivation: I've been yo-yoing for the past couple of years and have a family fuction to attend in June and want to look my best!
My Plan: Clean-ish eating, free weights, running, & yoga
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Toni
31
5'1 ish (slightly shorter)
Current weight 118
Challenge weight 105-110
Ultimate goal weight same
My motivation: looking to tone up my whole body and have nice looking skin before June 1st
Plan: running strength training yoga clean kind of keto experimenting with dairy free1 -
Bex
33
5'5
Current weight: 145
Challenge weight: 125
Ultimate goal weight: same
My motivation: feel healthier and more comfortable on holiday in July. Adopt better habits for the whole family. Oh and achieve shorts-worthy knees!
Plan: cut out the junk and enjoy exercise.2 -
Name: Terry
Age: 53
Height: 5'4
Current Weight:
Challenge Goal Weight:
Ultimate Goal Weight: 145
My Motivation: I can never seem to get the weight off and get to my goal. I'm hoping this will help.
My Plan: Clean eating, EXERCISE!!2 -
Name: Valerie
Age: 27
Height: 5'6 (you ladies are making me feel TALL)
Current Weight: 210 LBS
Challenge Goal Weight: 198
Ultimate Goal Weight: 180
My Motivation: I can't ever remember being 210 lbs! I have already come so far thanks to a BIG change in my life in 2015/2016. Now the goal is to get under 200 - I can DO IT!
My Plan: logging my food everyday, even the little treats every once in a while! Continue to practice yoga, using the 'RUNNING for weightloss' app to improve my endurance for cardio, and trying to incorporate strength training 2-3x a week...which is where I have been slacking!2 -
Name: Marianne
Age: 44
Height: 5'6ish
Current Weight: 167.4 (today's)
Challenge Goal Weight: 144
Ultimate Goal Weight: 124
My Motivation: My fitness has suffered as I devoted time to 4 children, hubby is now a retired athlete so finally he was home and my time came but then I was suddenly in pain and having other problems 2 years of visits to 18 different doctors and endless pain killers and finally the guilty party is gluten and wheat. So now I can get my body back.
My plan: Embrace new GF and WF lifestyle, continue to enjoy physical activity each and everyday day, enjoy life as lean and fit 40 something.
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Name: Melissa
Age: 42
Height: 5'4 ish
Current Weight: 134
Challenge Goal Weight: 123
Ultimate Goal Weight: 123
My Motivation: I had a baby last year. I want to become stronger so that I can keep up with him for the next 18 years. Also, I want to be fit, lean, and strong at 80. (Really, I just miss my favorite jeans, haha.)
My Plan: Eat 90% The Zone, 1 cheat day out of 7, complete RehabZone, 1/2 gallon of water daily2 -
Hi everyone!!!
Name: Zoe
Age: 29
Height: 5'8
SW: 239.2
Current weight: 232 ( was 229 but reading week was stressful!)
Challenge weight: 215
Ultimate weight goal: 170 ish
My motivation: I have a chronic back condition, used to dance seriously and miss feeling strong and healthy not limited by my back. I'm ready to do this and have been logging this year successfully!
My plan: log everything and stay in calorie range! Allow myself treats and let go of guilt about it. Continue with yoga and moving more! Consistency is my mantra this year!
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Name: Marianne
Age: 31
Height: 5'4 ish
Current Weight: 179.8
Challenge Goal Weight: 155
Ultimate Goal Weight: 135
My Motivation: get healthy and active in my 30s and look fine for my hot hubby
My Plan: Staying on target calorie wise, hiking a lot, and my home dvds.4 -
Name: Kacey
Age: 22
Height: 5'0
Current weight: 160.5
Challenge goal weight: 140
Ultimate goal weight: under 130
My motivation: I am getting married next year, and want to get in shape for my dress and for the honeymoon. I also just want to be healthier. Heart disease runs in my family, and is the number one killer for women in general, so I want to do everything I can to maintain my health.
Plan: logging EVERYTHING. Group fitness classes at my gym (specifically kickboxing, Zumba, and a strength training class). Couch to 5k (I start week four tomorrow. Super nervous). And I hired a personal trainer for eight weeks and start next Tuesday! Yay for health and fitness!5 -
Hello!
Name: Barb
Age: 36
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 181.6 as of 3/1/17
Challenge goal weight: under 170
Ultimate goal: 155-160 range
My motivation: part long term health part vanity. I have been the "big girl" in my group for a while now and I'm tired of it
Plan: logging, consistent exercise with increasing levels of difficulty and stamina, continue to restrict refined and added sugars (my own personal kryptonite)
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Name: Jennifer
31
5'5
Start weight: 134.2
Goal : 120
I'm joining get myself where I almost was a year or so ago. I know I can do it I just got off the good habit train. Lol
I hope to be able to workout each morning and eat clean. My family it pretty fit except me so I hope to get toned and tight too. My ultimate goal is to see my abs. Good luck to all of you.
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Name: Simone
Age: 26
Height: 5'4
Current Weight: 221.8
Challenge Goal Weight: 198
Ultimate Weight Goal: 175
Motivation: Getting married and starting a family. Feeling comfortable in my own skin.
Plan: Introduce strength training. Portion control. Cut down on dairy products
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Name: Stephanie
Age: 44
Height: 5'6"
Current Weight: 123.2
Challenge Goal Weight: 115
Ultimate Goal Weight: 115
Motivation: I've been working on my weight loss and fitness since last July to get ready for summer and so I can feel comfortable in shorts and a swimsuit. I've been slipping since the holidays and summer is creeping up soon!!!!
Plan: CICO following LCHF. I also am doing Jillian michaels workouts 6 days per week with Leslie Sansone for extra cardio.3 -
Name: Laurel
Age: 41
Height: 5'8
Current Weight: 192.8
Challenge Goal Weight: 180
Ultimate Goal Weight: 142
My Motivation: I have also been yo-yoing for the past couple of years. I want to reach my goal weight this year!
My Plan: Clean eating and daily walking/running2 -
Name: Krissy
Age: 52
Height: 5'2
Weight:150
Challenge Goal: 130
Ultimate Goal: 118
Motivation quit smoking 5 years ago and slowly started gaining a little every year. Also lost my whole family dad grandmother uncle mom moms boyfriend younger brother and was so depressed. In the process of leaving an 18 year marriage and have 2 teens who dont remember me being thin. I am a vegetarian and not a good cook so eat all processed food. I do walk everywhere since i dont drive.
My plan: go back to the gym eat before 6pm6 -
Name Kelsey
Age 24
Height 5'9
Weight 203.8
Challenge Goal 150
Ultimate Goal 140
The Motivation: I am getting married summer 2018 and my fiance and I are making lifestyle changes to be happy and healthy for our wedding. This summer I want to be within my goal weight so I can try on wedding dresses to find the perfect one for the perfect day!
My plan: stay within my diet and nutritional guidelines and allow myself one cheat meal a week, also workout 5x/week
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Name: Kristen
Age:24
Height:5'5
Current Weight: 182
Challenge Goal Weight:150
Ultimate Goal Weight:135
The Motivation: I want to do this for myself and to be able to feel comfortable in my own body after having 3 kids. I want to be all around healthier for my family.
My Plan: Stay on track with my diet. Only allowing one day to splurge and not eat crazy on weekends. I also want to workout 5x week by using my Dance with Jessica dvd.6 -
Name: Katie
Age: 24
Height: 5'6
Current weight: 193.8
Challenge goal weight: 175
Ultimate goal weight: 140
My motivation: I want to be comfortable in summer clothes for the first time in years
Plan: Prepping my meals so I have no excuses when I'm tired, getting at least 4 workouts a week in, develop a new way of eating that leaves flexibility so I don't feel deprived4 -
Name: Renee
Age:26
Height:5'3"
Current weight: 131.6 Lbs
Challenge goal weight: 120
Ultimate goal: more of healthy BMI than weight
Motivation: I want to be healthier and lower my cholesterol.
Plan: eat healthy (with some cheats), yoga, cardio, strength training4 -
Hello Everyone!
I love to make new MFP friends, so feel free to Add me, as I post daily encouraging little things that I do.
Name:Odette by I go by Shiloh online
Age: Just turned 43 years old.
Height: 5'1"
Current Weight: 159 pounds
Challenge Goal Weight: 10 pounds or 149 pounds for the month of March
Ultimate Goal Weight: 115 pounds or at least 120 pounds
My Motivation: Being the best that I can be! Monthly motivational music to help me walk 20,000 steps a day/ 8 miles a day. And fiting into my skinny shorts for the Summer.
My Plan: Eating healthy and in portion sizes by planing my meals and snacks, walking 20,000 steps/8 miles a day for the month of March, Riding my bike at least once a week (if possible) and dancing a bit.5
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