Weight loss army!!

justahorsen

I would like to joing too. I'm new here so just let me know what I need to do please. Don't assume everyone knows how to do things on the site, please.

pressica

I would like to joing too. I'm new here so just let me know what I need to do please. Don't assume everyone knows how to do things on the site, please.

Welcome to the group! All you need to do is post your weight on the message board each Monday for our weigh-in. Jenn will add you to the chart. There are challeges each week that we try to meet. One of the challenges is to drink at least 8 glasses of water a day. Another challenge that this army has is to exercise at least 210 minutes a week. If you review past posts, you will get an idea of how this group works. I have only been a member for almost 4 weeks now, but I am really liking the support that this group has to offer. Welcome again and best of luck!!

jennmcpherson

blondie76 – Oh I’m glad you like it! I’ve figured out a way to keep all the colours and shapes the exact same every week so the consistency will be nice. I’m the same way, I know this sounds super negative but I honestly think I might have given up if it weren’t for this group or at least be doing a heck of a lot worse. Showing off for summer is going to be so much fun! Don’t thank me, it’s all of us in the “army”, you’re just as much to thank as I am.
JustGizzy – Hello there! Welcome to the army, we’re incredibly strict and do not tolerate anything but a 5 pound loss per week! NO NO, I’M TOTALLY KIDDING. We love everyone and encourage everyone no matter what the case (thank goodness because I’d be kicked out of my own army if it were the other way). Looks like you’ve already read the basics for the group! Fantastic, I’m impressed already. I just need your current weight and when you weigh-in next Monday pop by, check out the new challenge for the week and post your new weight!
natgayle – If weekends are bad then this is the army to join! Monday weigh-in sure keep you in check! I do the chart every Tuesday so basically you post your current weight, post your updated weight on Mondays on this thread and BOOM you’ll be on the chart! Hope to see you on Monday!
enromero – “SOMETHING SO SMALL”, are you kidding me! That’s FANTASTIC!! My goodness, what a great feeling! You need to celebrate! Thank you for being a part of this army! I love love love your victory story! I’m so proud of you! P.S. I’m still too scared to try mine on again but maybe you’ve inspired me. . .
barty – You certainly did do the long half! Great job! I love doing charity walks, I’m a big fan of them. Let me know if you do another one and I’ll try and pledge you!
davedylan – Sounds good, so we weigh-in on Monday’s and I post a graph of the progress on Tuesdays.
aprilchampalmer – I’m sorry to hear that, I can’t imagine how stressed you must be right now. On the up side of your news, CONGRATS ON THE INCHES, or lack there of. . . Oh lady, I bet you are going to look nothing short of fine in that cream coloured suit. I’m expecting photos! Haha. Hooray for your wedding dress victory. . .hmm, maybe I should pull mine out.
justahorsen – Allo and greetings from the Weight loss army!! Don’t worry, we never “assume everyone knows how to do things on this site”. I try and break everything down for every newbie. You are more than welcome to take a glance through the thread to get caught up on everything that has been happening. As for right now, we weigh-in on Mondays, I post a progress graph on Tuesdays and I usually post a challenge for the week. There isn’t a current challenge this week but believe you me, there will be one this week!
pressica – Thanks so much welcoming the newbies, I’m sure it makes joining a lot easier. It means a lot! If nothing else, I think this group definitely offers support too! I hope you’re having a great week!


Alright recruits, so I noticed that I didn’t give a challenge this week. . . .hmm, someone was slacking there. I’m going to blame melbhall, no I’m kidding, it was totally me, sorry about that. This Monday I’m cooking up a fun challenge. . .

P.S. I’m truly sorry for the all CAPS and !!!!, I just finished working out and I think I’m still pumped up!

acasey0123

I'm in!!! I need to be held accountable

cw 156
gw 135

AprilChampion

aprilchampalmer – I’m sorry to hear that, I can’t imagine how stressed you must be right now. On the up side of your news, CONGRATS ON THE INCHES, or lack there of. . . Oh lady, I bet you are going to look nothing short of fine in that cream coloured suit. I’m expecting photos! Haha. Hooray for your wedding dress victory. . .hmm, maybe I should pull mine out.

I cant wait to be able to wear it too! :-) im looking REALLY forward to being able to put it on and it fit NICELY. =-)

Heather_023

Hey Jenn! Sorry I managed to miss Monday's weigh in again, I meant to let you know that we'd be away camping before we left but it totally slipped my mind. I'll definitely be around this week, hope it's not too much trouble to keep me on board!

reignman

Can men join too if so I'm in

luly727

Sorry I Just found this post can I still join???

My weigh in days are Mondays anyways. Last week weigh in I was at 170 lbs.
Rest of my info is on my signature
Please let me know how to post weigh- ins etc

Thanks,
Luly

enromero

reignman & luly727...welcome to the army :-) Jenn handles the chart and started this thread, Im sure she would love to add u guys!! We weigh in on mondays and she posts the chart on tues. We have fun lil weekly challenges like we aim to get atleast 64 oz of water in a day and 6 fruits and veggies, and atleast 210 min of exercise a week.

Once again welcome and good luck!!

Erin
SW (3/1/10) 241
CW (5/17/10) 215

slimkitty

Hi everyone! Can I join your weightoss army? I've been looking for a group like this for challenges and support instead of just randomly posting on the message boards. Looks like you are it

hooah_mj

Hey WLArmy, Jenn, & slimkitty...
I'm finally back from DC and an emergency visit to West Texas to care for my mom & I'm ready to get back to my normal routine. I've kept the lbs off & am thrilled, but shocked that it hasn't been all that difficult....

I'll check in/weigh-in with the rest of ya'll come Monday, have a great end of week and wonderful weekend:bigsmile:

jennmcpherson

healthyeater9 – Welcome to the group, we weigh-in Monday mornings, hope to see you there!
aprilchampalmer – Have you tried it on lately?
fordbarth – Oh my goodness you, don’t be sorry. Did you have fun camping? I love camping but haven’t been in ages. Of course it’s not to much trouble to keep you on board, You’re spot is still there, I just don’t put people on the chart who I haven’t seen a weight for on Monday, if I did that there would be over 35 people on the chart with only have of them with a current weight. Can’t wait to see how you’re doing on Monday!
reignman – 1 man with all these ladies! WE’D LOVE IT! haha, I’m sure you would too! All jokes aside, we would be happy to have you join us. We weigh-in on Mondays and I post a progress chart the following day.
luly727 – Well hello there, so I wrote you a message back and I hope to see you on Monday!
enromero – Thanks so much for welcoming the curious folk, I try to give everyone their own message but it’s hard to say “Hello” and “Welcome” that many different ways. Sure takes a load off of me. Thank you!
slimkitty – Hi slimkitty, if you are looking for a very motivating group, you’re looking in the right place! We weigh-in Mondays and I post a progress graph on Tuesdays. I set weekly challenges. . .that’s pretty much the deal. Hope to see you for our weigh-ins.
hooah_mj – I hope all is well and we’re super happy to have you back!

jillybeanruns

Lost 1 whole pound this week! I've been losing fractions of pounds for the last month but not this week. I weighed in yesterday but today I hopped on the scale and was down 1.2 from yesterday. Too much sodium...not enough water on Saturday Not counting today's weigh-in though

Officially sitting exactly in the middle of my healthy BMI. Less than 5 pounds until my goal weight and I hope to hit it on June 20th!

Last week's weight: 125.8
Current weight: 124.8

luly727

Slow but Steady for me

Start weight 3/24/2010 187

Current weight 5/24/2010 166.4

Good Luck Everyone

hooah_mj

Hey WLArmy, Jenn, & slimkitty...
I'm finally back from DC and an emergency visit to West Texas to care for my mom & I'm ready to get back to my normal routine. ~ hooah_mj:bigsmile:

Monday, May 24, 2010
It’s been forever since I’ve posted my weight….travel.

Jenn I checked back and the last post I can locate was on 4/26, so if I’m on the right page that puts me at:
SW: 170+
LM: 150.4
CW: 148.8

Yippie….held off the lbs! Broke thru my big blockade…….now under 150
Wow, can that possibly be?!

P.S. Jenn, if you found Longhorn Orange I'll take it!:laugh:

chgraham

Current Weight = 187.5lbs
Last Week = 189lbs
Lost = 1.5lbs in the last week.
Lost altogether = 9lbs :happy: :happy: :happy: :happy:

melbhall

CW: 173.0.

I lost .8lbs last week!!! I can't believe that I ate as much as I did (birthday week) and still managed to lose. I guess moving burns more calories than I thought!

I'm not sure what this week's challenges will be, but personally I will be working on getting in more water, exercise & fruits/veggies. These are things I haven't mastered yet so I'm continuing with those.

Hope everyone has a great week!

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metfanlisa

Hmmm... so I guess exercising has A LOT to do w/losing weight. Ugh.

Today's weigh in reflects the fact that I didn't get in my cardio this past week. But, armed with this knowledge motivates me to kick it in gear!

Today's weigh-in is 152.0lbs, up from last week-boo!

Here's to a new week! Good luck to all! :bigsmile:

jennmcpherson

allislefttogain – Wow, so tell us, how does it feel to be so close to your goal? That’s so exciting! Congrats!
luly727 – Once again welcome! Slow and steady is the best way to go, the highest success rates are with those who lost the weight at a slow and steady pace. You’re doing wonderful!
hooah_mj – Happy to have you back, You’ll have to check out the orange I found and let me know if that is Longhorn Orange or not, if not let me know if it should be darker or lighter and we’ll go from there.
chgraham – Great work on the loss this past week! Keep it up!
melbhall – Loving the new photo, Wes and you look great! Once again happy birthday and hooray on losing this week!
metfanlisa – I’m sorry to hear about your gain, great job on seeing where it might have happened and being able to smile and say “Here’s to a new week!” I know you can do it!


Well recruits, I’ve been in a funk for the last 2 weeks, boo. I did lose this week but it was only 0.3 pounds, I’m going to take that and smile seeing as I haven’t been very focused the last 2 days. I really believe that I would have had a great weigh-in this week if it wasn’t for my actions on Friday and Saturday. Oh well, live and learn right?!
LW – 200.9
CW – 200.6


So, the challenges for this week are. . . First off, I think it’s super important that we keep the water in there, that means AT LEAST 8 8 oz (250mL) glasses a day. Also, some form of exercise is right up there so we'll be keeping that one in here too, 30 minutes per day for a total of 210 minutes of exercise for the week but it doesn’t matter how you want to split it up, 60 minutes one day, 45 another, as long as at the end of the week you have 210 minutes (or more if that’s under you own personal goal). Well, three for three sound better than two for three so let’s keep up the 6 servings per day of fruits and veggies!

I wanted to add a fun challenge this week. A challenge that has nothing to do with getting healthy so much but not counter the healthy habits either. This week I want everyone to do one thing that they’ve never done before. It doesn’t have to be crazy and huge like sky diving, it can be anything. Lean the intro to one song on a guitar. Eat dinner by yourself in a restaurant. Go to a movie alone. Ask someone out, if you’re single, please no cheating on spouses for this challenge. You get the idea, so go out there and make your heart jump by trying something completely new to the norm and report back and let us know what it was and how it went!!

acasey0123

sw (for weight loss army) 156
cw 155.6
.....I'm just excited that the scale went in the right direction...baby steps here

Heather_023

Hi everyone, hope it was a good week!

This week I'm down 1.2 to 134.7.

Camping was pretty good but wow, are the wood ticks out in full force. We actually ended up cutting our trip short because we were starting to find so many of them on our dog. Ewww, I don't handle stuff like that well!

Looks like our army is growing in leaps and bounds! Jenn, you're doing a great thing keeping everyone motivated! (If it wasn't for this group my little fall off the wagon would have lasted MUCH longer.) This week's challenge is a fantastic idea!

barty

Hello!!! We have been having some beautiful weather the last few days and had the first BBQ of the year went kayaking yesterday for the first time this year too :happy: and I have lost another pound :laugh:


start weight (and heaviest weight) with MFP on 1/12/10 ....164.5 pounds
Last weeks weight ......................................................................133 .pounds
current weight ..............................................................................132 ..pounds
final goal .......................................................................................126 ..pounds

Good Luck to the rest of the Army !!!

enromero

Im down 1 lb this week. Been super busy...headin to the gym now (its like 8:30pm here and I get up at 4:30)

Erin
SW(3/1/10) 241
LW(5/17/10) 215
CW(5/24/10) 214

bowbee

Sorry for the quick drive by. Try to stop later to catch up with everyone on their weight losses for the week.

Pretty good week. Lost 1.8 lbs...current weight 221.2.

jennmcpherson

healthyeater9 – Baby steps are where it’s at! Great job!
fordbarth – Happy to see you post today! That’s awful about the ticks. Did you get them all off the dog? The army does feel like it is getting bigger with all the "hellos" and "is there room for one mores" but alas it is actually shrinking. . .almost all of the folks who say hello never return and several of our original recruits are MIA. That being said, we are still stronger than ever and will continue to push each other! I’m so happy that you like the challenge!
barty – My goodness you’ve been a busy bee! Sounds like everything is going wonderful for you and you deserve you! I love BBQ! Congrats on the pound down! I think with the nicer weather we’re going to see some really great results from everyone!
enromero – You are busy, make sure you don’t wear yourself out. You are doing so well!
bowbee – Thanks for the drive by! Look at you go! 1.8 pounds down! Fantastic!

maur52een

Hi Jennmcpherson,

This is a great plan and I would like to join. Any chance?

Cheers,
Maur52een

sweet148angel

Everyone is doing so well!! :flowerforyou:

I had Mon and Tues off of work this week, so I haven't been able to weigh myself. I could go in just to do it, but I never like to go into the hospital if I don't have to.
So I will report first thing in the morning.
It has been sooo beautiful here the past couple of days. Hope everyone else has been able to enjoy the beginning of summer!

AprilChampion

sorry i didnt weigh in and post yesterday...i worked 12 hours from 815 til 845 then went straight to bed because over the weekend, i worked 35 hours. i was BEAT...anyway....my weigh in is 135. :-) i believe thats one pound from last week.

melbhall

Jenn!!! I love the idea of the new challenge. I have no idea what I'm going to do, but I'm excited to do something fun and new. I WISH I could go to a movie by myself but that won't happen. Wes can't handle the loud noises and Kenny is working late Does standing up to a "bully" count? It's sad to be a grown woman and still be bullied by someone, but I've reached my breaking point! Anywho, I hope I have something positive and fun to report!!!

jennmcpherson

maur52een – There’s a huge chance that you can join us! We weigh-in on Monday mornings and on Tuesday I post a chart with everyone’s progress. I give weekly challenges and we motivate and support each other!
sweet148angel – Sounds good, well I will post the graph tomorrow morning then that way we’ll have your results on there as well. Can’t go into battle with out all of the troops now can we!
aprilchampalmer – Holy, you need some you time pronto! it’s all good, as long as you get it in before the graph then you’ll be on it.
melbhall – I thought it was a fun idea, I think I’m going to try and come up with fun challenges like that every week. Standing up to a bully? I don’t think I have the balls to do that, wow, good luck. Where do you know her from?

So, just a little change in plans this week, I’m going to post the graph tomorrow. On a personal note, I’m really trying hard to get to the down 20 pounds by Saturday so I’m going to be doing a weigh-in everyday this week. I know it’s bad to weigh yourself everyday and I use to do it and it wasn’t very constructive at all but for this I think I need to so that I can really push myself. That being said, I weighed myself this morning and I’m down 0.6 pounds! 2.6 pounds to go. I know it’s a huge chance but I’m really hoping I can do it.