**Accountability Buddies**: Lose 20lbs by April 5

Welcome all!

This thread is an extension of our earlier challenge "Lose 20lbs by Dec 1 Accountability Buddies." Some of us made the 20 lb goal (congratulations!) but several of us still have a way to go, so we are starting this "**Accountability Buddies**: Lose 20lbs by April 5" group. I have found this group enormously helpful to keep me on-task toward slowly (ah, yes, verrrrrry sloooooowly) but surely meeting my weight loss goal.

This is a "no frills" challenge. You are of course welcome to include in your postings whatever thoughts and comments are helpful to you, and to give likes, hugs, and supportive comments to others' posts, but the key thing that this challenge involves is to ** show up once a week and post your weight**. That is all.

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To join this challenge, copy the text below, paste it into the reply window, then edit it to show your starting, goal, and first week's weight:

Current Weight:
Goal Weight:

W1 12/1:
W2 12/8:
W3 12/15:
W4 12/22:
W5 12/29:

W6 1/5:
W7 1/12:
W8 1/19:
W9 1/26:

W10 2/2:
W11 2/9:
W12 2/16:
W13 2/23:

W14 3/1:
W15 3/8:
W16 3/15:
W17 3/22:
W18 3/29:

Final!!!! 4/1:
Total loss:
What I've learned about myself :


Hit "Post Reply" to post it.


Here's how to continue participation for the remaining weeks of the challenge:

First, from inside the thread, hit the "star" at the upper right of the page. This will keep this thread as a favorite, and yours/others' most recent responses to the thread will show up in your account community section on the "bell" at the upper right. You can click on the most recent response in the bell list to go back to this thread to read the most recent responses to it and/or add a new response of your own.

Second, to add a new post, updated to show your new weight for the week, click the "community" page, click "search". At the lower left, to the left of the green "search" icon, click the downward arrow at the right of the "Search" window. That will open up a set of new windows beneath the "search window", called "Title", "Author", "Category", etc. In the Author window, type your username. Scroll down with the arrow at right in Category window, choose "Challenges." At the very bottom, at "Date within:" I always choose "2 weeks" and to the right I type "today". Click the "search" button. This should bring up list of your posts within the last two weeks.

Click the post where you reported your last weight to our group. Select text and copy it using "edit" in upper left bar of your browser. Now scroll down to the bottom of the page. In the "Reply" window, paste the text. Within the reply window, edit the text to add your new weight and any comments you wish to make. Hit "Post Reply." Your progress chart, with new weight added, will appear.

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Thank you for joining this challenge, and best wishes for making good progress forward toward meeting your April 5 goal!