Hi - I'm in.

I'd love to lose 15lbs by Mid-December. I'm so close to Onederland I can taste it, but can't quite get there. Hopefully this will help!

plus we have friends coming down on Dec 20th. It'd be awesome to be under 190 by then. 15lbs will put me right there.

Hi everyone!

My name is Sandy. I am happily married going on 29 years now. I have 2 boys away at college. They will both be graduating in the Spring, one with a bachelor's in business and the other with a master's in accounting. I WANT TO BE SKINNY FOR THE PICTURES!!!

I am 15.2 lbs away from my original goal of 150 lbs. I really wanted to hit my goal before Christmas (actually by my birthday which is Dec 4th). This challenge will help keep me in line so I can accomplish my goal. Than I want to enjoy the holidays. :drinker: After the first of the year I will re-evaluate & possibly set a new goal weight. I thought losing 50 pounds, to get me to 150 was a great start for a fantastic birthday/Christmas present to myself!!

I sure wish everybody the best of luck attempting to reach their goal! :happy:

Hi! I'm Jenn. I will be turning 40 in November and am ready to get this weight off for good. Tomorrow is my 15 year anniversary with my wonderful husband and we have a 13 year old daughter.

I would really like to lose 15 pounds by Christmas as we have a New Years Cruise planned.

Hey everyone my name is Cotrese I am 27 just had my son back on July 3 so I am by far ready to drop some weight!! My plan on doing this is by doing the 30DS, counting every calorie that goes into my mouth, get my membership back, and walking! What is nice is my 8 year son and 4 year old daughter are my support and motivation they love to make sure mommy is losing weight lol!!
My goal for this challenge is to lose 15 pounds and overall to get to my goal weight of 160-170 in 4-6 months!
Good luck to ya'll we can do it by motivating each other!!

Hi everyone my name is Toya and I am 46 years old with a broken foot for 3 and 1/2 months now. I have gained over 20 lbs since the injury and I would love to lose that 20 before Christmas. I plan on counting calories and finding some way to exercise 5 days a week. I need motivation and I hope to encourage someone else as well. Let's do this!

Hi. i'm Kay. i just joined yesterday and had my first weigh in today. I would love to lose 2 stone by Xmas, but wil lbe happy wiht 18lbs by the 18th of December!! Good luck to everyone.

Hi all

My name is Savannah, and I am 23 years old. I had gotten into some pretty decent habits and lost some weight earlier in the year, but in May I ended up moving a few hours away from where I had been living when my boyfriend took a new job. So all of my friends (support system) were just out of reach and I was home all day every day, since I couldn't find a job right away. I should've probably used that time to continue what I had started. Ha- I gained back the ten-ish pounds I'd lost, and then 5 more. Two months later, I STILL couldn't find a job, so I decided I'd go back to school. I'm now in chiropractic school, which means I'm in class ALL stinkin' day - most days 8-5, and then I get to come home and rush to make dinner between whatever studying I may have and taking ten minutes for myself.
Needless to say, it's difficult for me to find time to workout, and very easy to slip into bad eating habits (there's a fountain machine at school w/free refills all day and dr. pepper is my weakness). But I think I've settled down enough and settled into my new life that I'm ready to start this journey again, and one of the big things that I'm lacking is the support - hopefully I can find that here

I attribute any success I had this year to MFP. It's AMAZING what a difference actually paying attention to the numbers makes.

Now that I've ranted, I wish you all the best and look forward to getting to know you

Hello everyone! It's nice to meet you all. My name is Tammy. I have been endeavoring to lead a healthy lifestyle since right after Thanksgiving last year. I visited the doctor in July of 2011 and discovered that I weighed 162lbs, which was about 10 pounds above normal BMI for my 5'5" frame, and I was not at all happy with myself, but I was having too much fun partying and eating what I wanted last summer to do anything about it. However, as we crept up on my New Year's cruise, I realized that I was going to be miserable because I was too ashamed to wear shorts, let alone a bathing suit. I decided for several reason to become a vegetarian and I started making wise choices--for example, I ate more whole foods than processed ones. I also started reading labels. I lost about 8 pounds in a month and a half just by making those small changes and WITHOUT exercise. I continued eating well on my cruise, and when I got home, I joined MFP and started walking with my husband every day at lunchtime (weather permitting). In March, I added weight training to my regimen, and in April, I started running. I've run a couple of 5ks, but injuries have kept me out of the game for most of the summer.

I am now on my first week of training for a half marathon at Disney World in February. I let things slide a little while I was injured, and allowed more processed foods into my diet, but as of October 28th, I am back on the wagon. So my challenge isn't to lose weight, because I was still pretty careful about maintaining calories in vs. calories out. My challenge is to eat healthy and continue my training as it gets colder and as the holidays approach. Besides the half marathon in February, I have another cruise in January, and this year, I want to ROCK my shorts and bathing suit.

Hi everyone! It has been great reading through the posts and getting to meet all these new faces. I think it will be fun to motivate and encourage each other through this journey. I have been married for 20 years and have 2 wonderful kids (ages 12 & 14). The weight just kept creeping up on me and I just kept fooling myself that I was hiding it well under my “big” tops. I fell out of all my good habits that I had years ago. I was never exercising. I was making all bad food choices and my portion sizes were way out of control. I finally reached a breaking point in August and just could not stand the thought of having to buy more clothes in yet another larger size to accommodate all these extra, unwanted pounds! Did I mention how much I love soda?? Oh, and wine?? I have now gone 2 months without a soda and I am back to drinking a glass or 2 of wine only on the weekends. I have been watching what I eat and have put exercise back in my life. Feel free to add me as a friend as well. The people I have met on MFP have been great and it does help to share stories (and recipes) with people who are going through the same thing. I am giving myself a year to take off this extra weight so any pounds that are gone by December are good enough for me. I wish everyone the best!!

HI everyone!! My name is Shonie and I am a busy mom and wife! I work full time and am also in school full time! My son is 17 months old now! Trying to lose the weight I put back on after having him from stress plus the extra 25 pounds I had when I became pregnant!! I've started C25K and am currently in my 2nd week! Planning on running a 5K on December 30th! Countdown begins now I've always been "athletic" but family and work has changed that. My husband and I have been on a "clean eating" journey - I would say we try to eat clean about 80-90% of the time but we do splurge. My goal is 15 pounds for this 50 day challenge but I would be happy with 10 pounds Anyone feel free to add me for support!!