Skinny Christmas Challenge
liveskinnyxo
Posts: 259 Member
Hey Everyone!
So I was thinking about how I'm going to see my family on Christmas & how great it would feel to be half the person I was last christmas. I think starting a challenge from now until Christmas would be an amazing way to keep motivated. I'm sure a lot of you are going to be seeing family that you don't see all the time & want to look good. Plus I think it would be pretty fabulous to be talking about our weight loss while everyone else is talking about going on a diet for new years (:
So here's how it'll work... Post your name, starting weight, goal weight by Christmas, (somewhere around 40lbs, but you can choose whatever you want) & a little bit about yourself. Weigh-in's will be on Sunday, but you can weight yourself whatever day you want, just make sure you post on sundays. Final Weigh in will be the Sunday before Christmas weekend, December 18th!
We'll have weekly weigh-in's & weekley challenges, one challege that will be set individually & one that will be for all the members of the group.
For example maybe the group challenge will be 200 squats over the course of the week & then my personal goal can be drinking at least 10 glasses of water, since that's something I'm really working on!
The person with the biggest weight loss during our weekly weigh-in can pick the challege for the group that week.
Feel free to friend me or message me! I'm excited about doing a challenge & I hope a lot of others join.
So I was thinking about how I'm going to see my family on Christmas & how great it would feel to be half the person I was last christmas. I think starting a challenge from now until Christmas would be an amazing way to keep motivated. I'm sure a lot of you are going to be seeing family that you don't see all the time & want to look good. Plus I think it would be pretty fabulous to be talking about our weight loss while everyone else is talking about going on a diet for new years (:
So here's how it'll work... Post your name, starting weight, goal weight by Christmas, (somewhere around 40lbs, but you can choose whatever you want) & a little bit about yourself. Weigh-in's will be on Sunday, but you can weight yourself whatever day you want, just make sure you post on sundays. Final Weigh in will be the Sunday before Christmas weekend, December 18th!
We'll have weekly weigh-in's & weekley challenges, one challege that will be set individually & one that will be for all the members of the group.
For example maybe the group challenge will be 200 squats over the course of the week & then my personal goal can be drinking at least 10 glasses of water, since that's something I'm really working on!
The person with the biggest weight loss during our weekly weigh-in can pick the challege for the group that week.
Feel free to friend me or message me! I'm excited about doing a challenge & I hope a lot of others join.
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Sounds awesome - I want in!
I have not weighed in recently, to tell the truth. I will post a weigh in on Sunday morning though.
Starting weight: 25_???
Goal weight by Christmas: 2100 -
I'm in0
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Ithink this is a good idea. I am terribly forgetful on keeping up on these challenges though : /0
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Me too0
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This sounds fantastic...count me IN!!
Name: Jackie
Starting weight (current weight) 205
Christmas Goal Weight: 140
My Birthday is Dec 22 and I want so badly to reach 140 by then.0 -
oh sounds great, im in. x0
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I'm all in!0
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I'll join!0
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I would love to join. My internet at home sucks so I can either enter my weight mondays or fridays. I always weigh on fridays.
name: Sarah
starting weight: 184
goal weight by Christmas:160
This will be fun. I love mini daily/weekly challenges.0 -
Count me in!!!!
Name: JustJenn419
SW: 195.4
GW: 170 by Christmas, loss of 25 pounds. I'm hoping for more but realistic goals always work better for me
Something about myself: I am 33 years old and a born and raised Jersey Girl :-) Not like the ones you see on TV on the Jersey Shore but the REAL kind, hehe. I am a single mother of a B-E-A-U-TIFUL little girl who is turning 3 a week from today (6/23). She is my life, my everything. I am going for my educational interpreters certification next month and there's nothing I'd love more than to do what I love while loving what I do. I started my weight loss journey in March of this year after a brief stay in the hospital with a collapsed lung and chest pain, being discharged, and then finding myself in a depression that led to a 10lbs weight gain in about 7 weeks. I was the same weight I had been when I was 9 months pregnant and I hated myself. So I stopped the vicious cycle and got off my @$$.
I started running for the first time in my life. I am a life-long asthmatic with back and knee problems and that was always my excuse. I decided at 33 that I was done with my excuses and I ran my first 5k this past Sunday over the George Washington Bridge in NYC. It was absolutely incredible and I don't want to ever look back at the person I was.
I am super excited about this challenge. My losses have been slow but steady as I REFUSE to diet. I am just eating less and moving more. What a concept!!! LOL0 -
I am in....my goal for this year was to lose 35lbs. I have lost 13 lbs so far but I haven't really done my part either. My ultimate goal is 39 lbs by Christmas for a total of over 50 lbs for the year.
CW 214lbs
Goal weight is 175 lbs by Christmas or 12/18/110 -
I'm so in! :happy:
Name: Rachael
Starting Weight: 201 pds
Christmas Goal Weight: 145 pds
About me: I am 27 years old. I live in the San Francisco bay area. My birthday is Oct 25th, Scorpio! My gift to myself was going to be a nice, healthier, sexy body! I'm well on my way! I hope by Christmas to impress my family and help them start their journey on a healthier lifestyle. :flowerforyou:0 -
I'm in.
Name: Lucy
CW: 200
GW: 154 (puts me at a healthy BMI)
Something about myself: I love baking, its my downfall , why can't cakes be calorie free???0 -
ahh yay! i'm so excited all of you are here!!
smitchell37 it's fine for you to weigh in on friday!
& JustJenna419 amazing job! I've made very similar excuses for not running & finally got to it & I love love love it, can't believe I took so long to get into it!
i forgot to post my info =/ oops haha
SW: 210.2
GW dec: 175
Fun Fact: I also love to bake & cook, I'm working on making all my treats sugar free & finding ways to switch out high cal items for low cal... I'm sure I'll be sharing recipes as I find or create them with all of you (:0 -
CW 259
GW for Christmas:210
I might be being ambitious - but I want to be in ONEderland by early 2012
A little scoop on me:
Im a 26 year old powerhouse from Canda. Ive been overweight my whole life - except for a few years where I UNhealthiely lost 60lbs. Due to medications and poor life circumstances I landed myself over 300lbs. Im slowly (and properly) losing it now. I want kids - and my weight is standing in the way of that.0 -
I'm in! Will post my CW on sunday, I WI on Saturday so I'm not sure what my current weight is right now.
CW 19?
GW 145 ish
About mw: Hmm not much to say
I live in Northern Alberta and Im a 42 year SAHM of 2 kids, my DD is13 and my DS is 4. My husband and I will be celebrating our 14th anniversary this August. I love to cook and bake and enjoy trying out new recipes. 0 -
Yay!!! I have been wanting to join a challenge but I ALWAYS seem to find them to late :P Well today is the day I get to join....if you will have me...haha! and even my goal says to 150 by Christmas so this is absolutly perfect!
So I am in!
CW: 190
GW: 150
Thanks and I will be adding you!0 -
ok i'm in too.
Name : Louise or Lou for short
starting weight :182.4
goal : 140.00
about me : i'm 31 and live in the uk, i am married with 2 boys 10 and 5. i work full time in our local shopping center.
i'm hopping this will get me back being focused again as i seem to be lagging abit.0 -
It is funny that you mention that because that was my goal all along was to get able to lose the weight by Christmas!0
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Same here! I'm always too late for challenges and this one was what I was striving for personally too. I've been on poor diets with medications and starving myself in the past and looking back now, I can see it only made things worse. I'm ready to do this properly and be completely satisfied that I did it on my own.
Sw: 170 June 2
Cw: 165 June 13
Gw: 125 my Christmas gift to myself
Dw: 100 maybe a new bikini next year
I'm 5'0 and would love to build some muscles and tone once I get to 100-105 range.
I am engaged and would love to start planning a wedding when I get down to my dream weight, but I'm willing to work on it slowly because one day it'll all come off!0 -
I'd like to do it.
Current weight: 197 (down 60 lbs since January!)
Goal weight: 150
About me: working mom with three kids and a husband - kids are 7, 12, and 16. Working towards my black belt in karate in 2012.0 -
I hope more people join! Oh an feel free to add me do we can keep our eating and exercising habits in check!0
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This is a great idea, and it will help to have the motivation from others with a similar goal!! We are having a family reunion at Christmas this year, and I would like to weigh a lot less than I do now.
I have struggled with my weight for many years. The Fitness Pal seems to be working for me because it keeps me on track.
Current Weight: 172
Goal Weight 150
About Me: Married for 30 years, 2 grown kids - 27 and 29, work during the day, play the piano.
Created by MyFitnessPal.com - Free Calorie Counter0 -
Guess I should introduce myself - I'm Trent, from Colorado. 27 years old, an accountant by day, runner & experimental cook by night. :laugh: I will be running my 1st half marathon on October 9th. I love cooking - trying new recipes and finding healthy ways to make things. I try to eat mostly clean, though I do like my definitely-not-clean no-sugar-added hot cocoa every day. :bigsmile:
I've lost about 40 lbs since last summer (from 210ish to 170ish), and am hoping to eventually get down to somewhere between 125 and 135. (Yes, that's low for a guy, but I'm only 5' 3.5" and that puts me toward the middle of my healthy BMI range.)
Current weight per MFP is 171.6, though I'll weigh in on Sunday for an "official" starting weight for this challenge.
Goal weight at Christmas is 135-140.0 -
I'm in,
I've already lost 21 since joining MFP, but I want to be skinnier by Christmas
SW: 165
GW by Christmas:140
My name is Alexandra from Philadelphia, PA, mother of 11 yrs old boy and 2 yrs. baby girl,
I tend to forget about challenges, so please remind me, I weigh myself every single day 0 -
I'm in!
I'm 29 years old from a very cold South Africa at the moment! I'd like to drop 60 lbs by my birthday which is in early January so hopefully this challenge will help keep me on target.0 -
I'm ready to do this!
Starting weight: 197
Christmas goal: 160
Mini bio: my name is Amanda and I'm 26 years old from Iowa. I'm trying to get healthy for myself and to help my husband and I have a baby. I just started the couch to 5k just slowly get into running/jogging. I just hope can stick with this0 -
Hi! I'm super excited, I've been looking for a good challenge and Christmas is when I hope to reach my goal
I'm Megan, 31 years old. I live in the Bay Area and am a single mom to an almost 3 year old daughter! I want to get fit and healthy for her, and for myself.
Current weight: 193
Christmas Goal: 1550 -
I'm in! I'd like to NOT have LOSING WEIGHT as a New Year's Resolution for 2012.
SW: 171 (6/3/11)
CW: 165 (last time I checked was on 6/11/11)
GW: 125 (by Christmas)0 -
I am so IN!!!0
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