VERTICAL CHALLENGERS! Home to all shorties out there. (OPEN)

MissD89

it won't let me copy image to make my signature. Could someone the url code without the "img" so that I can just copy that?

Love this challenge and finding a support system that is tailored for us shorties!

Hello! Here is the "img" code for the first badge..


except when YOU add it to your signature, LOWERCASE the "img" and the beginning and end.

and here is the second one..


again, make the "img" LOWERCASE.

Feel free to add whichever one u guys choose! Happy losing!

preciousperez

Trying out my vertical challenger banner

preciousperez

Trying out my vertical challenger banner

readytoowhere

I have been LOOOKING for a challenge!,
I am 5'2 but people say I seem taller, its probebly because of the heels!

I would love to join the challenge, how what when

MissD89

Trying out my vertical challenger banner

Hey precious, make the "IMG" into "img" and it should work. That was my problem when I was first adding it.

preciousperez

Lets do this

preciousperez

again lol

beaner1st

5'2" Almost done losing (only 3 more pounds) and getting ready to maintain. Being short and looking at the future of how small the amount of calories I will ever be able to eat can look dauting. I little support on that would be good.

MissD89

hey Precious, how about u try and copy and paste one of eithere of these links... they are the image links .




except when YOU add it to your signature, LOWERCASE the "img" and the beginning and end.

and here is the second one..


again, make the "img" LOWERCASE.

preciousperez

this is the last time...

preciousperez

Okay i haven't quit yet lol

preciousperez

and again!

MissD89

you ALMOST GOT IT! just make the "IMG" lowercase to "[img][/img] "

MissD89

you ALMOST GOT IT! just make the "IMG" lowercase to "[ i m g] [/ i m g] " (WITHOUT the spaces i added)

amilynnM

5'3.5", about 125, looking to lose about 15 lbs. Gained a couple pounds a year in uni, graduated a year ago but despite much better eating habits, I take courses from home and don't live in a very walkable area so I have a very sedentary lifestyle. Lost a few lbs in the winter but gained it back in the summer from weddings/parties/bbqs and a general lack of discipline. I'll try to meet the 3 lbs in October challenge

MissD89

so basicly like this.. copy and paste this to ur signature and **REMOVE the SPACES** I put it in between "img"


[i m g]http://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee485/Adeluna89/zjytdg.jpg[/i m g]



and here is the second one..

[i m g]http://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee485/Adeluna89/Publication11-1.jpg[/i m g]

again, REMOVE THE SPACES.

Hope this helps..

MrsBlobs

I'm feeling good about this ladies!! There are a lot of hot little shorties out there that's going to be dropping into smaller sizes. I like what one poster put (sorry it doesn't let you scroll down the thread when replying, so forgive the shameless rip-off)

Lets all try and fit into our heights!! Let's do it!!

Oh and...C'mon precious....you can do it.......lol :bigsmile:

♥Amy♥

Hiya! So pleased to see you and all the others here!! Our family is growing and coming together...let's hope that's the only thing that grows while we're here (apart from lusciousness, confidence, abs etc. Although I would be mega chuffed with a bit of height growth, I think I've missed the boat).

YES! The challenge of losing 3lbs by October 14th is still going from the original thread. How is everyone doing on that score??

I have lost 2 lbs. since the beginning of the challenge and really hoping to lose at least 1 more by October 14th. Here's a little bit of info. about myself:

I'm a SAHM to my 2 year old and 7 year old and live in the DFW area of Texas. I started my weight-loss journey in September of 2010 weighing in at 223 lbs. (yes on a 4 ft. 11inch frame). I began losing weight just by cutting down my portion sizes, cutting out soda and snacking, and walking around my subdvision. I joined MFP in January and have lost a total of 94 lbs. so far. My first goal is 120 lb., which puts me at the top of the healthy range for my height, but I'll see what I want to do once I reach that.

Hello mom2caelebncasyn, is there another name we could call u? If not, it's fine. Congratulations on ur weight loss of 94 lbs! That is awesome! Keep up the hard work. I know it often gets tough, especially with young children at home but, with our mind set, we'll be at our goal in no time. Having eachother here I'm sure will help the time fly by. (and the pounds!) hehe
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Sorry, I guess my name would have helped out a bit, huh? LOL
My name is Amy. Luckily, I'm able to walk in the mornings (taking my son to school with my 2 year old in the stroller) and then I come home and work out using the Wii.

Eveline_ph

Hey hey, shortie here too 5'1"! I decided i'm going to lose the tons of weight i gained at the start of the year, so far managed to get about 20 lbs off with just trying to eat better! But it's time to really focus on it because i want to get it done by the end of the year!

JeannieFK

4' 11 I am in!!!!
(shrunk an inch from old age)

TrufflePig

My name is Kim and I started my weight loss journey about a month and a half ago. I've lost about 11 lb. since then. My SW was 173 and my goal weight is 120 (I'm 5'2). I'm definitely in for the 3 lb. challenge! CW is 161.7.

MrsBlobs

Hey Liz, Glad to know your mom is doing better. I also put on weight myself due to being home with my kids for a couple years. I'm just ready to have my pre baby but BETTER body back! and i know we can ALL definately relate to the struggles of a shortie. and I love ur honetsly with the vanity being a reason for u wanting to lose weight. I'll admit, I think about looking good ina bikini every time I need to distract myself from temptation. But, I also just want to be healthy. Be able to run 20 minutes without feeling like I'm going to die. lol. Hopefully , all us challengers can encourage and motivate eachother to reach our goals! We can all do this!!

VERTICAL CHALLENGERS! LET'S GO!

If you haven't already, please give us a lil intro about urself, whatever u choose to share, and perhaps how u came to find urself on this journey.

Thanks MissD :flowerforyou: ..and I totally agree, pre-baby but better would be awesome!! And...hmmm I guess yes, being able to move without feeling like having a heart attack would be a bonus.
Actually there are an awful lot of bonuses to losing the weight and getting down into a comfortable size...but for me personally, it was a photo that did it (it's hidden on my profile) firstly the many rolls, secondly the sheer size of the mass and then thirdly...I LOOKED LIKE MY DAD! Not 'I've got features of my father' I mean I looked exactly like him!. All the fat was smooshing my face and I didn't even look feminine.
It's vanity all the way :embarassed: lol

Ittee

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Hello! Here is the "img" code for the first badge..


except when YOU add it to your signature, LOWERCASE the "img" and the beginning and end.

and here is the second one..


again, make the "img" LOWERCASE.

Feel free to add whichever one u guys choose! Happy losing!
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thank you for all your help, I really appreciate it!

Ittee

trufflepig: I started about the same time, almost 2 months now. Love this site.

About me: I'm recently remarried to an incredibly fit, tall (6'2") marine. I want to be able to keep up with him physically (or at least come close). I have three children, from 16 to 3 years old. I am used to yo-yo-ing between 115 and 125 lbs, but I went up to 130 due to stress this last year. My goal is to get down to 115 and possibly a little lower, and stay there. I'm 4'11", and I've learned if I want to look/get healthy it has to come from exercise. I shouldn't go lower than 1200 calories because I need the nutrition, but I really can't go higher despite exercise. So from the aide of this site and inspirational people like you guys, I've dropped 13 lbs and am very close to my goal weight now.

Shellitz

OOoh I love our new home

Ok - mini bio:

I'm 29 and living in Melbourne, Australia. I am 5 ft even and don't have a lot of room to store excess weight (like every single one of us!). I'm currently at 61.5 kilos and it's the pits. I would love to start a family soon and I don't want to add baby weight ON TOP of my largest weight of all time. So my plan is to get in shape before even trying.

I had started the C25K program, and was loving it - until I hurt my hip just over a week ago. But I will not be discouraged, I did some aqua aerobics last night and coped ok so hopefully will be back to the gym next week.

Here's to all of us giving it a red hot go!!! xo

laroja1110

Hello Everyone! I'm a 5'0" vertical challenger Now can someone help me figure out how to get the little picture in my signature??? LOL

Iheartsushi

Woot woot! Team VERTICAL CHALLENGERS! :drinker: (tea lol)

4'11 here and I am 139 lbs. Since the challenge I've already lost 2 pounds...yeaaahh! Goal weight is 110. My body hasn't seen below 120 since I was a kid lol. But this time I want to push myself further than ever. I'm doing the Turbo Fire program. Anybody else doing TF?

Iheartsushi

Hello Everyone! I'm a 5'0" vertical challenger Now can someone help me figure out how to get the little picture in my signature??? LOL

Scroll up mama. A few posts above yours lists the directions!

TooFatToFit

I stole this off my own intro post...I guess it was too long because no one replied, but maybe if you have a minute you will. lol I always seem to type too much:

Hello everyone....I've read a bit and it seems like a really friendly place, so I'm just going to push my shy habits to the side and jump in.

I'm a 35 year old mother of 2, and very unhappy with the way I've been living my life. I'm going to change it. I was raised in a very sedentary family and no one ever worried about eating healthy (except when my mother was yo-yo dieting, which I refuse to do). For my children, I want to break that cycle and show them a better way. I find it a pretty tough struggle because not only was I raised sedentary, but my own nature is just very sedentary...my favourite hobbies are reading, cross-stitching, the internet...so I'm constantly at battle with myself to get up and get moving. I've also never been that great around the kitchen so convenience food and fast food has been way too big a part of our diet for too long. Even if cooking isn't second nature to me, I am pretty good at following a recipe so I have no excuse for wimping out all the time.

I started really getting serious about this in my earlier 30's but I was so stuck in a rut...stay-at-home-mom with young kids who felt like there wasn't really much I could do at toddler pace to change things. My marriage wasn't going very well and my husband wanted me to be a supermodel, but the quick way through a juice diet or something instead of the slow, healthy way I wanted to. I felt very held back because I was trying to work active, healthy living into our family and he wasn't on board. When he decided to leave us in December '09 I was devastated...but also set free! Now the kids and I do all those things I wanted to do as a family and we still fall into old habits, but I'm proud of our accomplishments...as a family we now geocache (AWESOME family activity) and have started cross country skiing. Fat or not, I get on my suit and go swimming with them. We've had a great summer but now that they're back to school I'm on a mission of self improvement.

Obviously, being a single stay-at-home mom doesn't support your family, and as I've learned in the last 21 months, neither does minimum wage. So I'm also starting school (October 10th) and that's part of my self makeover. The schedule is such that I can also get to the gym without needing a sitter and making weekly meal plans are keeping us out of McDonalds. I'm trying to plan for my success and I think MFP will help a lot, especially the iPhone app because then I have no excuse for not logging my calories. I've been logging for almost a week and I've already learned I was wrong about a LOT of things and I'm learning the right choices to make about food.

Sorry for that being so long, but I'm rather excited about what the future can hold for me. I think I'll need the support (and peer pressure) to keep my enthusiasm going. I have such a strong hibernation instinct during the winter. lol

L2M1D52

Hello lovely people!!!!
I've created a fantastic way to help us remain accountable and to also see how many wonderful shorties we have in our family. I would like everyone to fill out the roster as you feel comfortable. I have asked for people to include their profile name, real name, location, starting weight, current weight, goal weight, and lbs lost for the challenge (for those participating). As I said, feel free to provide whichever info you feel comfortable with, I just thought those tidbits would be good to know. :happy: On the top of the roster we have four names in red, which are the lovely co-leaders in no particular order.

As we stated earlier not everyone has to participate in the challenges. However, I would love for everyone to still provide at least their profile name. In addition, to separate those who are participating and those who are not, I would like for people participating to highlight their name in blue, while people not participating highlight their name in purple. It doesn’t matter which hue of blue or purple you pick. I just want to be able to distinguish the two so we don’t “harass” people to provide a check in (only joking on the harassment of course):bigsmile: . Don’t worry about keeping the two in any order such as all participating stay together in blue because I will get that all squared away. All you have to do is fill out the information.

Below I have provided the link to the spreadsheet, which I have enabled everyone to edit. If you have any questions let us know! Thanks and GO VERTICAL CHALLENGERS!!! :drinker:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlcJqG9B3Q27dFRGRTRYMHNoQ3U2R2FRbnpoeDItcHc&hl=en_US