Team UK - January 2011!

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  • Matt_S_1978
    Matt_S_1978 Posts: 150 Member
    If there's enough from Scotland too then there's no harm in a menage a trois ;) hahaha

    although then are we discriminating against the Welsh and the Irish too ? Can't split it up too much or us Southerners will walk it !
  • Rosy67
    Rosy67 Posts: 282 Member
    I guess which side you choose depends on who you see your main loyalties lying with! Oddelly- I hope you haven't got even a hint of a geordie accent or that instantly puts you in the north team :wink:

    It won't be fair to do total weight loss- we'll have to do average weight loss per person in the team, or percentage weight loss per person (as the further above your target you are, the easier it should be to lose)- so no, Mat- the southerners will not be walking anything :laugh:


    It's a tricky one, but for those in the midlands, I'd suggest drawing a rough line between the Severn estuary and the Wash- putting Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Northants, Cambridgeshire and the whole of E. Anglia in with the south, and Wales, Hereford & Worcester, Warwickshire, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire in the North. Unless, of course, there are enough welsh people to have their own team- menage a quatre, anyone? (and to be honest, H&W always strike me as more southern than northern...just think of Elgar!). I'd be happy to have the Scots in with us, or have your own team if you'd prefer.

    The other way of doing it is whether you say bath or barth!
  • Matt_S_1978
    Matt_S_1978 Posts: 150 Member
    Anything past the Watford Gap is north IMO
  • crimsonaddict
    crimsonaddict Posts: 4
    The other way of doing it is whether you say bath or barth!

    That wouldn't work in our house. Me and my mum and my dad say 'barth' whereas everyone else says bath lol.

    My mum is from Kent and my dad is from Ashbourne and we live in Derby so i think its mainly my mums influence :D

    Oh and hi all btw

    Ruth x
  • gillleeman
    gillleeman Posts: 397 Member
    Love the sound of the challenge. I'm also a slow loser (deliberately), so that will balance out the Northerner (sorry can't remember your name) who is also one :smile:

    Pleased to announce 1lb of christmas podge disappeared this week, only another 3lb to go to pre-christmas weight.:embarassed:
  • RGPargy
    RGPargy Posts: 285 Member
    Hi everyone :)

    Forgive me for not reading the first 9 pages of this thread just yet, but i'm at work so i'll try and sneak a peak some other time ;o)

    I've got at least 6 stone to lose - Yikes!!
  • traceytoo
    traceytoo Posts: 163
    I'm joining, I'm joining .. hands up, hands up !! :laugh:

    Need all the motivation I can get !! :bigsmile:
  • traceytoo
    traceytoo Posts: 163
    You can do it RGPargy ... I lost 6 stone in 18 months doing Atkins and kept it off for 18 months then I met my fiance and put on 2 stone !!! :angry: but I'm here to lose that and already 8 pound down phew !!

    You can do it .. !!!1
  • AllieWhiteley
    AllieWhiteley Posts: 14
    Hi everyone, I'm new here. Lost the baby weight after my first one relatively easily just by breastfeeding. This time round it seems to be harder so I'm trying to make sure I eat more healthily and walk more. I'm hoping that as my son gets heavier I get lighter!

    Nice to meet you all.

    Wouldn't know which team to be on re North v South. I'm currently living in the south (and am a southerner by birth), but I have friends and family in the north and we intend on moving back up there at some point this year (to Huddersfield, to be exact).

    Wishing everybody lots of luck and looking forward to getting to know you!
  • Matt_S_1978
    Matt_S_1978 Posts: 150 Member
    haha this thread is going to break MFP it's getting very popular !!
  • marymoonpigUK
    marymoonpigUK Posts: 119
    Hi team UK!!!

    I started on monday 10th, im 160lbs, my first goal is 140lbs, im from Derby, im going to weigh in on Fridays tho, good luck everyone :wink: xx
  • bjshooter
    bjshooter Posts: 1,174 Member
    Hello UK peeps, can I join?

    Im katy, 28, from sheffield.

    I lost 36lb last year, but put on 3lb over xmas :(

    I am 158lb at the moment and want to lose another 35lb or so.
  • kpnuts23
    kpnuts23 Posts: 960 Member
    Im in on the challenge guys n girls... North VS South! As long as there is an even divide!!

    I hope your al having a good morning!

    :flowerforyou:
  • lrns88
    lrns88 Posts: 151 Member
    Anything past the Watford Gap is north IMO

    Definitely!
  • lrns88
    lrns88 Posts: 151 Member
    Hello UK peeps, can I join?

    Im katy, 28, from sheffield.

    I lost 36lb last year, but put on 3lb over xmas :(

    I am 158lb at the moment and want to lose another 35lb or so.

    Welcome Katy =) everyone is fab on here so you'll love it! xxx
  • sdscouser
    sdscouser Posts: 320
    I'm a northerner living in the south so not sure where my loyalties lie...:laugh:
  • kpnuts23
    kpnuts23 Posts: 960 Member
    I'm a northerner living in the south so not sure where my loyalties lie...:laugh:
    The South Steve... The South!!!!
  • Rosy67
    Rosy67 Posts: 282 Member
    I'm a northerner living in the south so not sure where my loyalties lie...:laugh:
    The South Steve... The South!!!!

    Surely the clue to where your loyalties lie is in your name! North- all the way :wink:
  • RGPargy
    RGPargy Posts: 285 Member
    Anything past the Watford Gap is north IMO

    Definitely!

    Seconded!! :bigsmile:
  • Rosy67
    Rosy67 Posts: 282 Member
    OK then- so far we've got:

    North:
    Me
    loxleys
    aimibean
    mellissacase
    bjshooter

    South:
    mat_lock
    James501
    Oddelly
    gilleeman
    traceytoo (assumption as you're London)
    Yvonnej1- ?chief cheerleader as maintaining

    Scotland:
    sapphirelazuli
    nickiit2003

    Undecided:
    finnhead
    crimsonaddict
    AllieWhitely
    sdscouser

    Join the team you will feel most motivated to supporting and losing weight for primarily, regardless of where you live/ were born etc
    If you still can't decide, the postcode for Watford Gap services is NN6 7UZ. Check out whether you live north or south of it on Google maps!

    I'll start putting a spreadsheet together and recruit on a separate thread. Shall we start Saturday or Monday for 8 weeks and see how it goes?
  • Matt_S_1978
    Matt_S_1978 Posts: 150 Member
    haha I was only joking about watford gap being the dividing area. I just always think North is past the gap.
  • Denziee
    Denziee Posts: 523 Member
    Well I am technically about 3 miles from watford gap (3 miles south west!!!) . but if you go the motorway i am 16!!

    so i am just in the southerners group !
  • marymoonpigUK
    marymoonpigUK Posts: 119
    Please can i be added, im from Derby x
  • elfward
    elfward Posts: 52 Member
    I'll join in too - I'm in London, so will join the Southerners! (although I am technically a Northerner, I haven't lived there for 8 years...)
  • barty
    barty Posts: 729
    Im in the South (near Southampton) but I have reached my target and now maintaining so not a lot of good for your challenge :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: but great idea and best of luck
  • karlydaniels
    karlydaniels Posts: 19 Member
    Hey everyone Karly, 26 from Leeds so happy to join team North!

    I joined MFP on 1st Jan, and am really enjoying the website and the iPhone app it's very addictive!

    Look forward to chatting to you all xx
  • tracybewick
    tracybewick Posts: 39
    Would love to join team uk
    im from middlesbrough....so north!!

    tracy
  • kettlewitch
    kettlewitch Posts: 277 Member
    put me in with the southerners
  • idharris
    idharris Posts: 10 Member
    Surely Cardiff can't be considered in the North! There aren't many more Taffs out there it would seem.

    Put me in with the best team - the southerners
  • nam14uk
    nam14uk Posts: 556 Member
    Im definitely a southerner!!! Like the idea of a bit of healthy competition!!

    Bought some new workout gear today - 3 sizes smaller so I'm now officially a 12!!!! Big fat smile on my face today!!
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