I am so glad you thought of this! What a brilliant solution to the problem of not being able to find anyone. I am super excited to be in this challenge with all of you! This is my first challenge and I am looking forward to growing as a person while shrinking in mass hahaha. ok enough with the cheesy jokes. I'm excited to "meet" all of you!

Hi everyone! My name is Heather and I'm so excited to start this challenge. I am a busy mom to 2 year old Liam in Ottawa, Ontario. I gained a lot of weight in pregnancy (and was overweight before hand). I managed to lose most of it breastfeeding, but then gained it all back thanks to my antidepressants (treating my post partum depression). I am really excited to not only get in better shape, but to improve my nutrition, my spirituality and my life

What a terrific idea. It's so nice to put faces with names and to share with each other this great experience. I'm Michele, I'm 51 and from Eagle Mountain, Utah. I have 7 children, all are grown but my youngest son who is almost 12. I have 4 sweet little Grandkids. The reason I joined the challenge is to find some balance in my life. I find myself solely focusing on weight all the time, to the point that it drives everything out of my life and I have become very antisocial. I want to change and I've found that focusing on other things besides the scale and how I look has really helped me discover who I truly want to be for the rest of my life. I have gone swimming with my Grandkids, out to dinner with my husband and his colleagues and on a business trip with my husband all since I started the program. Those are things I had stopped doing or would never in a million years do. So I'm so grateful for the changes I've already seen happen and the way I'm feeling. Of course it doesn't hurt that my pants are loose too. and that I can now do an hour of LesMills BodyCombat, which really rocks!

And I'm not part of the Blue Challenge, I'm a Greenie, hope you don't mind that I kind of crashed your party.

It is great to meet you! Good luck! I think we are going to really have fun!!

My name is Brenda. I am 34 and have 7 boys ranging from 14 to 6 months in age. I went through a divorce in 2008, and was around 180-190 pounds. I had never thought of myself as thin, so when I dropped to 135 pounds within a few months of my divorce, it actually scared me a little. I wasn't watching what I was eating, nor exercising everyday...it just came off naturally. I remarried in 2010 and had a baby in 2011. My weight came back on and I was determined to lose my pregnancy weight. After I finished nursing, I joined Sparkpeople and started exercising to Jillian Michaels' Ripped in 30 and started running on my treadmill. I lost about 15-20 pounds but still had another 20 to go. I then got pregnant with my last son and the pregnancy weight came back on. I am now nursing but my weight has continued to creep back up. A friend of mine told me about this challenge after she had lost a bunch of her baby weight. She told me that nursing moms can do this challenge, so I decided to join. I am so excited to be a part of this!

I didn't even know that we had a Feel Great in 8 discussion board here on MFP!
Karlee, I am so sorry to hear about your miscarriage. I know the heartache.

Most of you have probably seen me on our Facebook group page. My name is Joy. I will be 48 in July. I have 7 children and 6 grandchildren. We will have two more grandchildren in October. My husband and I will be celebrating our 30th wedding anniversary in December. Four of our children are married, with three of them living close by and one living 2000 miles away, in Canada. Our 18 year old son (almost 19) is on a church mission in Paraguay. We still have two children living at home, a 13 year old daughter and a 9 year old son.

My husbands mother lives with us part time. We share care taking duties with my husband's oldest brother, trading every other month having her live with us. She is in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's. I also run our business from a home office. We build wind generators for home electric production and we also teach wind and solar power workshops. I also am the nursery leader at church, with two nurseries and several teachers that I am charge of.

As you can see I stay very busy and have always spent my life taking care of everyone else. At the end of last year my friend Rebecca mentioned that she was going to do this challenge. I checked it out and knew that it was what I needed. I feel so much better now that I also focus on taking care of myself.

I am excited to get to know all of you and to work together to improve our health, energy and happiness levels together as we learn to do what is best for our lives. Taking care of ourselves is also important to our families. We can't give to others if our own cup is empty.