Hi everyone. I'm Heather, 32- currently residing on Long Island. This is my first challenge ever. I'm looking forward to giving and getting support :-) Go team Violet!

Hi, I'm Rachel, 36, married with 2 kids. We are from the UK but emigrated to Australia in 2009. We love it here. We live in Port Macquarie, NSW but are traveling around Oz in a caravan and are 2 months in to a 12 monto trip. Currently in South Australia.

I was 108kg and last Christmas weighed 64kg. I know weigh 82kg and am desperate to get it off!!!

So looking forward to getting to know you all and supporting each other!

GO TEAM VIOLET!!

Hi everyone my name is Angie and I'm from North Carolina. I have 3 girls and I am real excited about this challenge.

Hello everyone!! My name is Melanie and excited about being the captain of Team Violet!! You can add me as a friend and add everyone on our team to your FL as well so we can all encourage one another.

Seems we have a group from all over the world, that is great!! I am in British Columbia, Canada just outside of Vancouver. I have been over weight my whole life, I have lost some of my weight then to put some of it back on :grumble: so this challenge is going to help me get the weight off.

We need to come up with a team name. So if you have any suggestions, please post it here.

Can't wait to start this challenge. Go Team Violet!!

Hi, my name is Tracy....married, mother of two boys (5&7) who is still trying to lose the last 12 lbs of baby weight:) Ready to get started with challenge!

Hey Y'all!

My name is Whitney and I'm 21. I live in NC, and I'm about to start my senior year at UNCW. My goal is to lose about 50-60 pounds this year so I can go out into the real world feeling confident in the way I look and feel. I'm excited to be on the violet team, and I'm ready to start kicking butt =]

Just going to throw out some random names for our team as I think of some-

The Incredible Shrinking Violets? (Too lame?)

I like that name!!

I was looking at the other team threads and some don't have their team colour in their name so I guess any name is good. I am going to have a few names to post tomorrow.

I would love to volunteer myself to be the co-captain. I'm very organized and great at multi-tasking. That, and I think that being co-captain would force me to be very dedicated to this challenge, which is exactly what I want.

As for my introduction, my name is Tati, I'm 22 but turning 23 during the challenge (12/30). I'm finishing up my second to last semester of graduate school for Social Justice (a combination of human rights studies, policy, and law) this week, which will leave me with much less stress than before.

I'd love to lose weight in order to be able to do anything. I find that there are so many things that I can't do, just because of how much I weigh. For example, I can't go skydiving until I'm under 200lbs (I'm currently 218.4), and I can't exactly do much adventure because of it because I'm not strong enough.

Anyway, I'm happy to be on Team Violet!

I like Incredible Shrinking Violets :laugh:

To add another- The Ultra-Violets! Hehehe........I haven't had my coffee yet.......going to make some!

Hey all!

I'm Steven, I think I'm the only male in the group! Fear not, I'm not going to be a slacker.

I'm 23 born, raised, and currently reside in Memphis, TN! I'm a good ol' Southern Boy!:)

I live a simple life, my hobbies consist of eating with family and friends and laughing a bunch with the same family and friends whenever I can.

I workout a lot in my head but not so much in the physical realm, rest assured that that will end today, I'm starting back up with Zumba this afternoon!

I'm single, no children, graduated from a small private Christian College in 2010. Other than that, I don't know what else to say about me. I'm a pretty easy going guy and will answer just about any question that is asked.

I look forward to getting to know you all and getting bathing suit ready with all as well!

Well it seems everyone likes the name The Incredible Shrinking Violets, so we will go with that name. Wooohooo we have a team name!! :drinker: Thanks Strength for coming up with that one!! :bigsmile: Awesome, so happy we have a name!! Cross that off the list, ha ha!!

Hey all!
Just wondering what everbody is doing to gear up for our start date.
I think it's great that we have a little prep time before the challenge begins!
A few things I've done or am working on-
I made a list of big numbers on posterboard with black ink. The top number is my goal weight. The bottom number is todays weight. As I lose, I will cross off each pound with red ink. ( I have it up on my workout room wall)
I am going to (maybe) drink another quart of light egg nog before the challenge begins!
I'm making a poster of motivational quotes- already have one but I always find more that I like.
I'm going to make a serious effort to pre-plan my weekly menu's. I think this will benefit my health, my budget, and hopefully make me think about food a lot less, since I won't be wondering what I'm going to eat next.

I'd love to hear some tips and such that y'all are using to motivate!

(and also, is this the proper place to post this?)

That's cool! I'm going to steal yours for making my workout plans! I like to borrow workout DVD's from the library, just to switch it up. They don't have everything, but enough for me to try new things. If I really like one, then I'll buy it.

I love your idea about listing your weight on the wall. That sounds motivating (although a bit intimidating for me)! I'm stealing that one as well. Can't wait to get started on this challenge. It's so great to see that we have so many motivated people in our group.