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    • 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 !
    • 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!
    • Posts: 150 Member
      Anything past the Watford Gap is north IMO
    • 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
    • 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:
    • 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!!
    • Posts: 163
      I'm joining, I'm joining .. hands up, hands up !! :laugh:

      Need all the motivation I can get !! :bigsmile:
    • 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
    • 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!
    • Posts: 150 Member
      haha this thread is going to break MFP it's getting very popular !!
    • 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
    • Posts: 1,173 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.
    • 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:
    • Posts: 151 Member
      Anything past the Watford Gap is north IMO

      Definitely!
    • 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
    • Posts: 320
      I'm a northerner living in the south so not sure where my loyalties lie...:laugh:
    • Posts: 960 Member
      I'm a northerner living in the south so not sure where my loyalties lie...:laugh:
      The South Steve... The South!!!!
    • Posts: 282 Member
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      The South Steve... The South!!!!

      Surely the clue to where your loyalties lie is in your name! North- all the way :wink:
    • Posts: 285 Member
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      Definitely!

      Seconded!! :bigsmile:
    • 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?
    • Posts: 150 Member
      haha I was only joking about watford gap being the dividing area. I just always think North is past the gap.
    • 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 !
    • Posts: 119
      Please can i be added, im from Derby x
    • 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...)
    • 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
    • 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
    • Posts: 39
      Would love to join team uk
      im from middlesbrough....so north!!

      tracy
    • Posts: 277 Member
      put me in with the southerners
    • 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
    • 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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