Fighter Flight - Fly the World Challenge (closed group)

Athena413

Welcome to our thread!! Here's a link to our logo if you'd like to save it and put it in your signature. Let's get ready to fly!!

obstacleone

Bump! and sweet!!!

musicgirl88

Looks great!!!!

Athena413

Just kidding - use this logo - had to edit some screen names just a bit:

(change the IMG to img

obstacleone

since I'm a noob it looks like, what is the script I need to put the logo in my signature?

Athena413

Copy and paste that code I posted above, but change the "IMG" at the begging and end to lower case. That should be all you have to do to it.

Athena413

At the top of your message board page you should have a little tab that says "signature" - 4th one over - that's where you paste it.

2stepz

bump! Yay us?!?!!

AggieLu

Looking good, Team! How do I add it to my signature?

AggieLu

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AggieLu

Apparently, I am not doing well with reading instructions, but 3rd time is the charm

obstacleone

Well I am going to put this up here as a way for us to know each other:

My name is Eric, I'm 29, separated and have 2 daughters. I've been overweight since I was 9. The highest I've ever weighed was 309lbs which was about 3 years ago. At that time I started walking and eating better and lost about 60lbs in 3 months. After that I gained up to 40 of it back and have been between 280-300 since then. A friend of mine mentioned MFP and I decided to take a look, it didn't really seem that special and I was even not really being truthful in my food diary and not really caring too much about it. It's then that I started looking into the message boards and finding people, people like ME. People who have struggled, who are struggling, who are having success. I found support, I found friendship, I found hope. I found motivation to push me through.

I'm an extremely competitive person and I love challenges. the first challenge I took part of was the lose 10lbs in September challenge. I am loving it. Since then I've been making my own mini challenges (Looks like I'm going to fail one of them this week!) and I've had people join me in them.

My starting weight on MFP when I joined at the end of August was 286. My goal is to get to 180lbs. I really think that this time it's for real.

I'm personable, extremely social and supportive. I hope this challenge is a lot of fun and I hope that I can keep up with all of you.
Looking forward to doing this with you all.


Eric

2stepz

I really hate to do this guys, but can you find someone to replace me for this one? My laptop just committed suicide, which means my tech access is going to be extremely limited for a while, and my life is in complete chaos until I get it back.

I'm not just a tech junky of some sort... I am a graduate student who just lost my research work, my papers in progress, my draft thesis... all of my reference data... basically, I'm screwed.

I do apologize, but i don't have much option in this case. Sorry!!

obstacleone

yeah I can find a replacement. Sorry to hear that Lori!
hope it all gets fixed and back to a.o.k.
no stress!

obstacleone

Okay, I found a replacement.
IamSam25

he's my brother.
Jana, do you mind changing the logo again please? you're the best. Also, with Lori bowing out (which is understandable) does anyone feel like creating the spreadsheet for us to mark what we've done or to keep track. Anyone feel like being the skipper to report the calories burned daily?

Thanks,

Eric

Athena413

Okay, I found a replacement.
IamSam25

he's my brother.
Jana, do you mind changing the logo again please? you're the best. Also, with Lori bowing out (which is understandable) does anyone feel like creating the spreadsheet for us to mark what we've done or to keep track. Anyone feel like being the skipper to report the calories burned daily?

Thanks,

Eric

I can take care of our logo and the spreadsheet - just can't get to it right this second. I'll get caught up on stuff either tonight or tomorrow!!

obstacleone

Awesome thanks Jana,
I already messaged Lee and informed him of the replacement.

Athena413

Cool. I'll spend some time on here tomorrow afternoon and post a bio like you did for everyone, fix the logo, and get our spreadsheet set up. :drinker:

Athena413

I really hate to do this guys, but can you find someone to replace me for this one? My laptop just committed suicide, which means my tech access is going to be extremely limited for a while, and my life is in complete chaos until I get it back.

I'm not just a tech junky of some sort... I am a graduate student who just lost my research work, my papers in progress, my draft thesis... all of my reference data... basically, I'm screwed.

I do apologize, but i don't have much option in this case. Sorry!!

Don't sweat it, girlfriend! Do what you gotta do and know that we'll be here for you when you get back!

Athena413

Photo bucket is NOT cooperating with me today...

FINALLY got it to work! Here's the link to the new logo - don't forget to change IMG to img.

Athena413

Here's the new spreadsheet link - I basically just copied the one that Lori had already set up. I opened the access to allow all member to edit their totals, so all you have to do is copy/paste the link into your browser, find your name, and enter your weekly calorie totals.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApGWjN0Yz2hfdHFWM3oxeEVLOEY1SlEzcVVVUEZxd1E&hl=en_US

Athena413

Just so we're clear on the way this works - the challenge starts October 1, right? So since the spreadsheet is set up Week 1, week 2, etc...does that mean that week 1 would be Saturday October 1 - Friday October 7? And the challenge would end in 6 weeks on Friday November 11?

obstacleone

That there Jana is just the way Lori set it up. The challenge lasts until we are finished. We are supposed to submit our calorie burns to the captain (I'm guessing that'll be you or me) and they submit it to the guy running the challenge (leesomething) I think if the spreadsheet was set up like User A: and then lets say 31 spots for the days of the month of october with their total adding up at the end of it.. That sort of deal. Does that make sense?

Athena413

So you're saying track daily rather than weekly? I like that.

Athena413

Revamped it a little - but it's not as pretty as she had it with all the colors - either way - let me know if you think I need to make any changes.

obstacleone

This is precisely what I was thinking.
It's hard to make it neat and tidy with so many things on there as opposed to what it was. I changed the color to the names,
and then separated the days into weeks with different colors so it's easier to see in that regards.
Looks great thought Jana.
So the question is Do you want to be captain or do you want me to be captain?

Athena413

I'll let you be captain of this one since you pretty much organized the team and I'm already leading the 10# challenge.

obstacleone

Jana,
in your first initial post that you did to start this thread can you edit it and add the img for our logo, the spreadsheet for our calories,
as well as the map we are playing on http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msid=204655860575059420912.0004abdf0de2eadf90575&msa=0&ll=42.827639,-74.904785&spn=4.713081,9.876709
and finally the initial post that the challenge was created on:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/347913-those-magnificent-mfp-s-in-their-flying-machines-still-ope

and oh yeah, list everyone that is in our group:
obstacleone
aggielu
agentmattdionne
spiceshirl
iamsam25
jrdoty8986
leahjl
musicgirl88

so everyone knows who to add.

Thank you so much for getting everything set up.

Athena413

I can't edit my original post - it only lets you do that for an hour after you post it.

AggieLu

Hey group. How's everyone doing?

AggieLu

Sadly, I am starting to feel worse instead of better. I need to kick whatever I have before the challenge begins. Pray or send positive thoughts my way, please We're going to kick *kitten*!