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Time to Weigh in before we start our walk!

GiftsbyNature
GiftsbyNature Posts: 54 Member
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Start calculating your walking today! It can be planned work out time, or if you have a pedometer it can be walking through out the day as an incentive to be more active in our day to day routines!

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  • GiftsbyNature
    GiftsbyNature Posts: 54 Member
    Name: Christy
    Start Weight: 174
    Current Weight: 174
    Goal Weight: 135
    Why you want to join: To be able to climb mountains and have enough breath to enjoy the view!
  • jetlag
    jetlag Posts: 800 Member
    Name: Karla
    Start Weight: 207
    Current Weight: 207
    Goal Weight: 170
    Why you want to join: Because I suffered a slipped disc 2 years ago and still can't run anymore so walking is one of my main forms of exercise. Any incentive to pile on the miles is a good one! I've also wanted to walk the App trail since reading A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson, but as I live in the UK, this is probably the closest I'll ever get LOL

    Edit: quick question, do we post our miles at the next weigh in?
    Edit 2: Sorry, I got my starting weight wrong! I have to keep converting from stones to lbs and it's doing my head in LOL
  • AliciaC81
    AliciaC81 Posts: 72 Member
    Name: Alicia
    Start Weight: 218
    Current Weight: 218
    Goal Weight: 160
    Why you want to join: Right now my weight goal is bothering me..I feel like I will never reach it, and it's something that I worry about far too much. I need a non-scale goal to keep me going and keep me motivated!
  • scythswife
    scythswife Posts: 1,100 Member
    Name: Julia
    Start Weight: 183.4
    Current Weight: 183.4
    Goal Weight: 135
    Why you want to join: I have been stuck where I am at for a while and hoping a goal thats non scale relate might help me stay motivated.
  • tenas
    tenas Posts: 121
    Name: Mike
    Start Weight: 380.6
    Current Weight: 380.6
    Goal Weight: TBD
    Why you want to join: Hoping this will help me get to a point where I'm physically able to really hike up a mountain.
  • GiftsbyNature
    GiftsbyNature Posts: 54 Member
    What a great turn out! And yes to answer your question, we will post miles walked on each weigh in!
  • GiftsbyNature
    GiftsbyNature Posts: 54 Member
    Also, to Karla, never say never! I'm from North Caroina and I went to London and York for three weeks years ago. I fell absolutely in love with the country and keep dreaming of going back. If you ever make it to our east coast, I'll hike it with you!
  • bathsheba_c
    bathsheba_c Posts: 1,873 Member
    Copying this from the other thread, more or less. :)

    Starting weight: 155-160
    Current weight: 139
    Goal weight: 135, but under deliberation.
    Why you want to join: I love hiking in nature when I get a chance. When I don't, about 1/3 of my calories burned are still from walking around my city. I've hiked small bits of the Appalachian Trail and would love to one day hike the entire Israel Trail (Israel's equivalent of the AT, except that the AT doesn't have completely vertical sections).

    How are we measuring miles walked, and how often are we going to weigh in?
  • GiftsbyNature
    GiftsbyNature Posts: 54 Member
    On every Friday we will weigh in and post total miles walked for the week :-)

    And the measurement can be on a set walking machine like a treadmill or elliptical, or with a pedometer for walking around town :-)
  • jetlag
    jetlag Posts: 800 Member
    GBN: I have family on the easy coast, but dad is in Cali and my mum died a few years back and he's on his own so all my returns to the US are to visit him. However, I will take you up on your offer one day, even if it's only to walk some of it lol
  • grrupp
    grrupp Posts: 159 Member
    Starting weight: 204.8
    Current weight: 200
    Goal weight: 135

    Why you want to join: I am wanting to join because I need a goal to get me moving.
    I have 4 kids ages 13, 9, 22 months and 6months and would like to be more active with them.
    We don't have any mountains near my local but there is a nature center in my neighborhood that I would like to walk with the kids in the spring.
    Also my husband and I enjoy camping and we would like to take the kids camping this summer. My husband and I went camping/hiking on Isle Royale when we were dating and I would like to be fit enough to take the kids somewhere like that this year.
    Until it thaws though it will be me and the treadmill in the basement.

    Thank you for starting this group, seems like it will be fun :)
  • GiftsbyNature
    GiftsbyNature Posts: 54 Member
    Thank you so much! I'm glad to have you all on this and I know that we will make a great team!!

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