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yayyyy we are in for the win!

Username: barbiedol46
Weigh in week: Jan Week 1
Weigh in day: Sunday
Previous Week's weight: 194.8
Today's Weight: 196.8

Too many treats

Hi Team Run Track Minds!

My name is Kris (@DreamPhedre) and I'll be your team captain for January! I've been a part of this group for a few months now and really appreciate how awesome everyone is at encouraging each other, and helping each other stay on track with whatever goals they have. I've personally found the accountability of this group to be super helpful.

I hope everyone has had a fantastic end to 2017 and are ready to get going in 2018!!

If you need help please msg me directly, or just tag me ( @ DreamPhedre with no space).

I'll be posting a mini-challenge later today to get us started for the New Year!

Just wanted to say Happy New Year to everyone! I'm looking forward to this challenge. I just started my weight loss journey late in 2017 and am hoping this challenge will help kickstart my success for 2018!

barbiedol46 wrote: »

Username: barbiedol46
Weigh in week: Jan Week 1
Weigh in day: Sunday
Previous Week's weight: 194.8
Today's Weight: 196.8

Too many treats

@barbiedol46 Happens to the best of us! This week you'll rock it!

Welcome to January Run Track Minds!

I am going to be running the (Optional) Mini-challenges this month: Question of the Week and Daily Check In Posts.

First and foremost is that participation in these challenge is optional. It's up to you as to whether you want to try this. (If you take the attitude that "this is not what I signed up for", that is up to you). I would like to encourage you to participate as it seems to help keep us on track and thinking about our goals on a daily basis and it's encouraging to see other's successes and struggles so that we realize that we are not alone!

The Daily Posts Challenge is based on another challenge on MFP called UAC (ultimate accountability challenge). The way UAC works is that the aim is to follow 5 basic rules.

#1. Track EVERYTHING you eat that has calories on MFP.
#2. Stay inside your allocated daily budget.
#3. Try to do at least 20 minutes of activity a day (anything: walk, run, cycle, swim, gardening, housework, yoga, gym, etc.. As long as it gets you active and off the couch)
#4. 1 pass day permitted per week (went over calories, could not track, not enough exercise, intentional pass)
#5. Check in daily (tracking yes/no, calories yes/no, exercise yes/no).

****End of the week. those who have managed to keep to plan for 6 out of 7 days are recognized in the thread as being part of the weekly "winners circle".

**REMEMBER**
You set your own daily budget.
You choose you own exercise and intensity (no step limit, no exercises you cannot or should not do, 20 mins of gardening counts as much as a 10mile run).
Is not weight based (as weight fluctuates day by day).
Can continue beyond weight loss.

Daily check in keeps you in touch with those doing similar. Longer term weight management is hard to do on your own. It also has frequent resets (as in a circle each week).

It works on an honor system. Being honest with yourself and others is a key to making things work. Remember, this is a judgement free zone, everyone has good days and bad days, but the way to get to the finish line is by being honest and when we have a bad day, picking ourselves up and carrying on the next day!

Consistency and new habits have been shown the only long term successful way to change weight. We all want the progress made here to last a lifetime.

My commitment to this group is to post my daily results for this accountability tracking (and help out where I can).

Which should look like this:
Daily Post
Date: (Tell us a brief description about your day or goals)
Track: Yes/no
Calories: Yes/no (were you under)
Exercise: Yes/no (what type and how long)
Water Intake: how many ounces? (optional--but good to help keep track)

Please post your weight on your weigh day as scheduled, as if you miss weigh-ins, you may be eliminated from the challenge and we don't want to see that happen!! Your post should look like this:

Username:
Week: January Week 1
PW =(previous weight)
CW=(current weight)

Looking forward to having a great month with everyone! If you have any questions please let me know!

Track: Yes
Calories: Yes at my target, but not under
Exercise: Yes... 20 min Yoga & 5 minutes Stretching
Water Intake: 48 ounces

Happy New Year!

Username:sellis9
Week: January Week 1
PW =147.7
CW= 145

Got the flu yesterday, so I guess it started my year out ahead lol

Monday -
Calories: Under
Exercise: Yes, 45 minute walk
Water Intake: 80oz so far, planning on another 20

jm216 wrote: »

Username: jm2167
Week: January Week 1
PW =221
CW=220.6

Good loss to start the year!

BadgerLamb236
January Week 1
Tuesday
Prev weight 170
Current weight 171.5

Could have been worse. Getting back on track from tomorrow!

Monday 01/01
Track: yes logged everything
Calories: Under
Exercise: Yes, 30 minute walk
Water Intake: 8 glasses