**Accountability Buddies**: Lose 10 lbs by June 14

Welcome Back Old Buddies and Welcome New Buddies!

This thread is an extension of our two earlier challenges "Lose 20lbs by Dec 1 Accountability Buddies" & "Lose 20lbs by April 5 Accountability Buddies." Some of us have made goal (YAY! Congratulations!) but some of us are still working our way toward it, so we are starting this "**Accountability Buddies**: Lose 10lbs by June 14" group.

We have decided to put this challenge into a shorter time frame this time - time being so, well, weird these days and, I don't know about you, but I am having new challenges with food and exercise that I think may feel easier to manage if I can just tackle them one day at a time, one week at a time, for a total of about 10 weeks.

This is a "no frills" challenge. Personally, I love to read people's reports of their challenges and successes each week of the challenge, and it is great to give and get likes, hugs, and supportive comments, but the key thing that this challenge involves is to ** show up once a week and post your weight**. That is all.

Below are some instructions on how to join this challenge and post your weight weekly, in case you don't know how to do it.

Thank you for joining this challenge, and best wishes for making good progress toward meeting your June 14 goal!


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To join this challenge, copy the text below, paste it into the reply window, then edit it to show your original, starting, and goal weights:

Original Weight: (on your original start date)
Starting Weight: (on date you start the challenge)
Goal Weight:

W1 4/12:
W2 4/19:
W3 4/26:

W4 5/3:
W5 5/10:
W6 5/17:
W7 5/24:
W8 5/31:

W9 6/7:
FINAL!!! 6/14:

What I'd like to share about my progress this week (or not ):



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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