New You by the New Year Challenge

I'll start. My name is Lorie. I'm a 33 year old accountant. Married, no kids. Losing weight is hard when you sit 8 hours a day and drive 2.5 hours a day. But I know I can do it. I'm into all kinds of crafty things and love to read. I lost weight a few years back (about 65 lbs) and have gained all of it back. (I blame my husband! :bigsmile: ).

For the group I'd like everyone to weigh in once a week. You can weigh in more if you like. Also please let me know your goal and I will track everyones progress. If anyone wants to issue daily challenges feel free. Also I am going to work on a pic for you to put in your signature. Would you be interested in doing teams or solo? I think teams would be awesome, a little competition is good right?

Oh yeah and I would like to lose 50 by 2012!

Do we have a specific day to weight in or we just do it any day we would like ? and i think teams is a good idea

Can I get in on this? I want to lose at least 50, if not more.

Yes, Ok I will allow one more even though I said no more, just because well I am a softy, and once more will even out the teams. But sorries to anyone else this group is closed.

Anyone know how to change the topic name, to say closed?

Thank you!

Ok. So. My name is Mindy. I'm 22, will be 23 next month. I've pretty much always been overweight, and I work as a medical billing specialist, so I sit 8 hours a day, which doesn't help. Just married 3 months ago, and loving every minute of it. I don't have kids, but hubby and I would like to TTC, which I hear is made easier with weight loss. I love walking, I can walk miles at a time without getting tired, but I'd love to be able to run. I've been trying to do C25K, but I've been off for three weeks because I broke my toe, and then I was on vacation, and then my anxiety was bothering me and I couldn't breathe. I'm back to it starting today, so let's DO THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh no, am I too late? I've got about 80lbs to lose in total

Heck why not, but then we'll have to close the group, that way we will be able to get to know each other.

Fantastic.
I'm Bec, I'm 26 (27 in a few weeks) and I live in Cheshire, UK. I've been overweight for about 5 years, I lost loads of weight in my final year of Uni doing Weight watchers, but then I put it all back on. I got married just under 2 years ago, and I've put on about a stone and a half since then so I'm really really desperate to get the weight off as I'm fed up of being the big girl of the group!
I've signed up to Zumba every Tuesday as I enjoy that, and I want to get back into running. I did a half marathon last year (it took me nearly 4 hours!) but I've let the excercise standard slip recently.
My goal is 80lbs which will bring me to 11 and a half stone which is where I got to last time. I'd love to get into the 10 stone mark but I'm taking it step by step and I'll be happy with 11 and a half!

Would love to lose 50 by New Year.....and I'm definitely up for the challenge!

Hey Lorie! I'd love to do this! I dont necessarily have a number of how much i want to weigh by new years but I definitely have a clothing size in mind! I think that new years is a great time to close the challenge because it'd be starting the new year in the right way!!! Let me know what you think!!
Pam

My name is Marti and I'm 34. I have two biological children (6 &2) and a stepdaughter, all lovely. I also wish I could blame my weight gain on my pregnancies, but can't. With the first one I only netted 7 pounds gained over the course of the pregnancy (330-337). Since she was 6lb 13oz that's pretty much a wash. I gained a lot more with second one (220-280), but since he's 2 now I can hardly consider it baby weight. [big smile] In fact, I'm sure I threw in a few extra pounds in the period where I was supposed to be losing them after he was born. How many extra pounds I'm not exactly sure of because of an evil scale story I'll save for when we're better friends.

I like to exercise and recently developed a love for jogging when I finished Couch to 5k in March. I've been jogging on avg. 15 miles a week since then. And, in addition to wanting to wear a skimpy-ish costume for Halloween, I mostly want to lose weight so that I can run faster when my running season picks up again in October. (I live in the south and it's too hot for me to run long distances outside, so I've been hitting the treadmill instead.)

Current Weight: 273
Current Run Speed: 12.5 min/mile avg on a 4 mile run

Goals for January 1, 2012
Weight: 223
Run Speed: 12 min/mile avg on a 6 mile run

Hey Marti, I wish I could develop a love for jogging, but as it is, I think the only way you could get me to run is by chasing me with a gun. LOL I look forward to getting to know you and being on a team together! :happy:

Tazers are good motivators too. LOL. I do alot of hiking on weekends for cardio. But it's my treadmill M-F.

Here we go!!!
My name is Nikki. I am a 29 yr. Insurance Agent (honest we are not all bad ). Not married and no kids. I will go with Lorie and blame my boyfriend though Just kidding, I know it all boils down to me. I have always been "husky" (lol that word just sounds nicer) and go back and forth with my weight however right now I am at my all time heaviest and am NOT impressed. I am not afraid to work out. As a matter of fact I acutally enjoy it. The problem is finding the time. So I am hoping by doing something like this it will finally give me the motivation to put myself first and make exercise a priority.

I am up for anything.. teams work Now lets go kick some BUTT!!!

Hey Nikki, welcome How much would you like to lose for the challenge?

50 would be nice but 60-65 would be nicer.