Hey there! My name is Rhonda. This may sound completely nerdy or even crazy, but ever since God started dealing with my heart a year ago, I've been on a journey to discipline, as I call it. (Truth be told, God has been dealing with me about my weight for years, I just haven't stayed consistent and seen things all the way through.) Three areas I'm working on simultaneously are my weight, my finances, and my time management. I'm doing MFP and exercising to address my weight. (I even registered for Run the Year 2019!) I'm following Dave Ramsey's baby steps to financial Peace. I must admit that this total process has been amazing and life changing for me! I'm still working on the time management piece. I know I can be way more productive with my time than I am. Just like He did with the other two areas, I'm confident God will give me a plan for this area too.

So I'm looking forward to 2019, a year of new beginnings and new victories. Thanks for joining me on my journey.

P.S. My weigh-in days are Mondays. So my first one for January will be 12/31/18.

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Hey there! My name is Rhonda. This may sound completely nerdy or even crazy, but ever since God started dealing with my heart a year ago, I've been on a journey to discipline, as I call it. (Truth be told, God has been dealing with me about my weight for years, I just haven't stayed consistent and seen things all the way through.) Three areas I'm working on simultaneously are my weight, my finances, and my time management. I'm doing MFP and exercising to address my weight. (I even registered for Run the Year 2019!) I'm following Dave Ramsey's baby steps to financial Peace. I must admit that this total process has been amazing and life changing for me! I'm still working on the time management piece. I know I can be way more productive with my time than I am. Just like He did with the other two areas, I'm confident God will give me a plan for this area too.

So I'm looking forward to 2019, a year of new beginnings and new victories. Thanks for joining me on my journey.

P.S. My weigh-in days are Mondays. So my first one for January will be 12/31/18.

Welcome Rhonda! You have great goals for the upcoming year and MFP and Dave Ramsey are both excellent tools to help you along. Glad to have you with us.

So excited to be continuing this for another month. Now that the stress of the holidays and moving during Christmas is over I am back full force.

Hi Team.
Continuing on for another month. December was a wash but every month before was good so I am anticipating a better January! Looking forward to continuing the journey with my fellow teammates. Let's kick some Biggest Loser a**! It is time for us to be #1

Hi and a warm welcome for Elena, Lauren, and Rhonda! I'm looking forward to another awesome month in Jan. ! We have the best team of veterans here too to help out with any questions anyone might have. It's gonna be Flab-U-Less! (sorry, couldn't resist)

Hi all, I’m Catherine and had a baby this month. I’m lucky in that I lost weight during my pregnancy but still have 2 stone to go to get back to pre first child weight
Look forward to getting back into tracking and staying motivated!!

Hi again everyone! So....tomorrow officially kicks off our January Challenge! If your weigh day is on Sunday or Monday, your 1st weigh in will be on Dec. 30 and Dec 31st...sorry for the confusion on this (it keeps thing equal). This month's challenge runs from Dec. 30th to Feb. 3rd.
We are also going to be running (Optional) Mini-challenges again this month: Question of the Week and Daily Posts

First and foremost is that participation in these challenges is optional. It's up to you as to whether you want to try this. If you don't want to participate in these challenges, you don't have to, the choice is yours, but 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.
#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".

A side note as there has been a bit of confusion for new members in the past, this is not the same as the official results, which are weight based, this is just another tool to help you reach your weight loss goals.

**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 10 mile run, activity is activity, anything that gets you up and moving!).
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.

Your posts should look like this:
Daily Post (Sunday/Date)

Track: Yes/no
Calories: Yes/no (were you under)
Exercise: Yes/no (what type and how long)
Goals/Day/Comments: (Tell us a brief description about your how your day went or your goals for the day)

The Question of the Week Challenge is a fun participation booster and we will be using it sometimes just as fun and sometimes it can help to foster new ideas for others as we all are different and have different experiences so sharing ideas can help someone else with motivation of freshening up their routine even!! Keep on the lookout for these questions.[/color]

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

Your posts should look like this:
Username:
Week: November Week 1
PW =(previous weight)
CW=(current weight)
Just type PW & CW if you'd like (or if it's easier, you could keep a note on your PC desktop to make it easier to copy and paste from week to week.)

Please, please setup your posts in that format as it really makes it much easier for me to track your progress for the challenges and the weight loss!!

I'd like to help us be as successful as possible and if I can help in any way, please let me know. Also, if you have any suggestions for the team or fun ideas to spice things up a bit, please feel free to share them, I look for new ways to help engagement and keep people motivated!!

I am committed to this group and to help where I can, and please let me know if I can help in any way!!

Your team Captain,
Melinda @mram3582

Welcome! We're live! Our first challengers of the month are:
@eminater (got it thanks!)
@Honey5
@WA_Teacher
@laureneh01
@mindylo37
@landryferguson

I hope everyone is off to a great start! Good day all!