Hi everyone! My name is Christine and I live in North-East England. In taking part in this mostly to focus myself to get the last bit of my weight down in more easily achievable mini-targets. I tend to fall off the wagon otherwise.

Hi Team Forest!

My name is Karen and I really do live at 9000 feet in the mountains of Colorado. I need a push to start my exercise program and I thought what better way than to be accountable to others, as well as myself.

I'm really excited for the coming weeks! I know we'll rock this!

~Karen

Hi all - Christina from Northern VA here. Just trying to lose the last few pounds. Also hoping to get back into strength training this month. I slacked because I had a big exam to study for, and now I *should* have more time.

Good luck to all!

Also, anyone from my team can feel free to friend me. I'm not the *most* active on the news feed, but I try to be present and supportive when I can

Team poll... What kind of challenges do you want? I'm doing a few challenges that overlap so I have tons of ideas. I was thinking we can do a weekly challenges with exercise and intake elements. This week I am doing 60 minutes of cardio per day and a salad for one meal everyday.

I currently use Pact (an app) to track my veggies - if I don't meet my goals I pay into the community pool, if I do meet my goals I get a portion of the community pool. I love the app!

I could go for an intake challenge. I could totally use more salads in my life this summer

I'm not very regular with my activities, but I did sign up for the other challenge listed on the main discussion page; the one with the Matchup App - it's a step challenge. I've never counted steps before, and I'm super inactive! Haha it's a struggle to get over 5,000 steps per day at this point.

Don't forget to weigh in everyone!

I lost 2 lbs between the sign up and now, so I adjusted my goal weight when I weighed in this morning. I hope that's okay!

Happy 4th of July to all my friends from the US!

Which exam are you working on. I passed p and fm, but then my wife got pregnant so I had to take the first job I could. Been teaching since.

I have passed P, FM, and MFE. I just failed C, so I'll be re-taking it in October.

Have you considered studying for more exams on your own and trying to break into the actuarial field as a career changer?

I'm worried how hard it'll be to find a job, and not really in a position for it as of now. Had to get my masters to keep teaching credentials, so I did that over the last year. So maybe in a few years.

Gotcha. The job market is definitely tough. Good luck if you decide to get back into it!

Need someone to remind me to weigh in tomorrow morning! I hate that we don't get updates from the community/forums!!!!

Everyone is doing so awesome. Great job!! I think we should do measurements too see how many inches are lost at some point. Weight can be a good boost to the ego but if you see how many inches you loose while the weight is coming off. I think that can be an even bigger insensitive to keep the fight against those pounds creeping back onto you. Just a thought.

I've gone up this week. Not really sure why - my exercise has actually increased. Maybe I was more hungry as a result and my portions got bigger without my noticing? I'll have to watch out for that.

Lost 1 lb this week! Finally.. only 1 week to go and I MIGHT get back down to the weight I STARTED this challenge at.