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Four Week Challenge - - Want To Join Me?

whathapnd
whathapnd Posts: 1,332 Member
edited November 2024 in Social Groups
I'm starting a challenge today. I'm going to track for four solid weeks. I haven't tracked in ages. I've been maintaining, but I want to get back to losing. I feel myself getting a little sloppy, mentally.

You can make this four weeks anything you need it to be. Just state your intention here.

And if it's just me, I'll report back in four weeks.

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  • savignr
    savignr Posts: 711 Member
    I resumed tracking five days ago. Successfully maintaining at 30 pounds of goal just ain't cutting it. Hard part for me will be two weeks vacation at the end of July, but I will do what I can to stay on top of things. It is a new resort for us (Cayman Islands), so not sure how the internet situation will be. Do I have to use the numbers and letters on the right side of my keyboard instead of the left?
  • GavinFlynn1
    GavinFlynn1 Posts: 1,664 Member
    I am going to do tracking as well.
  • myallforjcbill
    myallforjcbill Posts: 5,786 Member
    Sign me up
  • whathapnd
    whathapnd Posts: 1,332 Member
    Woot-woot!!
  • linmueller
    linmueller Posts: 1,354 Member
    I finally got back on track, literally, been tracking for 9 days now. I could use some accountability to keep me at it. Im in!
  • susan092907
    susan092907 Posts: 364 Member
    I haven't been here in a while. I've been tracking on the WW tracker for a few months, but have been really overeating anyway, and have been gaining weight slowly for a long time. I'm still a free WW Lifetime member, and I maintained for a long time well below my WW goal. Now I'm closing in on that goal, and am close to losing my free status.

    Thanks for starting this 4 week challenge, @whathapnd. My goal is to stay within my points allowance for 4 weeks. I've had to tweak the WW tracker to make freestyle work for me by raising my daily points allowance. I know that I can lose weight as long as I stay below my higher limit, but it will be my challenge to actually do that.
  • Jerdtrmndone
    Jerdtrmndone Posts: 5,910 Member
    My challenge will be less snacking of non healthy foods.
  • imastar2
    imastar2 Posts: 6,336 Member
    This couldn't come at a better time for me. A fifty +- gain in in over a year and more over about 23 lbs since January of this year. not hard to describe what happened. I quit tracking for the most part. Opened a new business in January and totally ran off the rails. So at my current weight I have to do something. So I'm going to get it on.

    DW has lost 18 lbs and dieting while I went the other way. So good for her as she watched me take off 100 lbs she helped me more than anyone. So I'm ready.

    SW 400.8
    CW 346.4
    Next GW 300.0
    Final GW 185.0

    54.4 bs Total lost
  • whathapnd
    whathapnd Posts: 1,332 Member
    Just checking in with everyone so we don't let too much time pass if we get off track.

    I'm five for five on tracking. I can't ignore the snacking when I'm writing it down. There's been a lot lately.

    Have a great day!
  • linmueller
    linmueller Posts: 1,354 Member
    Thanks for checking in @whathapnd . I've tracked every day since restarting, so that's 14 days in a row today! I've been focusing more on what I'm eating then calories, but have happily stayed within my allotted calories most days, and close the others. My new 'diet' has left me much more satisfied, so some days I even left a few hundred calories on the table. I sure hope the honeymoon phase lasts a long while, it's been nice to not have to fight with myself all the time!
  • spospo1
    spospo1 Posts: 433 Member
    I'm in a week late but I have been tracking for the most part since the 28th. I need some accountability, as well. Thursday is my WI day so this works.

    SW 299.4 (1/1/18)
    CW 277.3 (6/28/18)
    GW 220
  • myallforjcbill
    myallforjcbill Posts: 5,786 Member
    I was doing pretty good, but fell off the wagon Tuesday night & yesterday. Back on it today.
  • savignr
    savignr Posts: 711 Member
    Had a full week of tracking. Had one day where I went 35 calories over my (self) allotted 2000, but otherwise below. Some walking each day, minimum 30 minutes, maximum 55, but did not use any of these against my calorie allowance.
  • cakeman21k
    cakeman21k Posts: 6,606 Member
    So I am 6 days into this challenge, tracked every day though not perfectly for a day like yesterday. Only another 3 weeks and 1 day left to the challenge!
  • whathapnd
    whathapnd Posts: 1,332 Member
    Let's keep it up, everyone! It's going to feel good to do what we said we were going to do.

  • linmueller
    linmueller Posts: 1,354 Member
    whathapnd wrote: »
    Let's keep it up, everyone! It's going to feel good to do what we said we were going to do.

    Interesting that you said that! I'm reading a book, and the author poses the question of why we break promises, especially the ones we make to ourselves. She points out that it becomes a way of being, that our subconscious knows we aren't going to follow thru. As a result, I'm working on considering more carefully what I commit to, and then being a woman of my word, with myself, as well as others.
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