Hi everyone!!! I am so excited we got a team!

My name is Rebecca. I am 31-years-old and live in Chattanooga, TN. I am a single, solo parent to my 4-year-old son Micah.

I began my lifestyle change for a second time in June 2011. The first time I made this journey, I did it through diet alone (doctor's orders), but this time I am determined to be fit when I am done! This will also be the LAST time I travel this road. My favorite exercise is Zumba - I take a class 3 to 5 days per week - but running is becoming a close contender! I am working on completing the C25K program (just finished week 6!) and have just completed my 2nd 5K (at a pace of 6.0 mph!). This coming year, I am looking to run a 10K by the end of the spring and a half marathon in October.

During this challenge, aside from working on my fitness goals, I am hoping to lose 25.5 to 34 pounds (1.5 to 2.0 pounds per week). My beginning weight for the challenge (from the "Starting Information" thread) is 188.2, which, assuming I hit my goal, should put me at 162.7 to 154.2.

I am looking forward to getting to know everyone!!!

I am looking farward to this challenge. I lost about 30 pounds a few years ago and gained it back would like to lose that and some more. I have lost 10 pounds so far. Made some changes in how I eat and going to gym as much as I can, right now about 4-5 times a week. Glad to be apart of this team. I hope we all can encourage each other and reach our goals and might as well win this thing while we are at it.

I snagged the below image from the net. If you want to add it to your ticker, you can right click, select "save image as...", save to your desktop, then personalize your ticker, and upload the image.

hi everyone!! glad we all are a part of such an amazing journey..... heres a little about me...

im 30 years old with 3 boys ranging from 13-1.
i have been battling with weight since my middle child(my 2 year old). I gained about 50 pounds with him. alot of it did come off, but then 6 months after he was born i was pregnant again, causing weight to be gained on top of the baby weight i was still trying to lose.... then 6 weeks after i had my last son i had to have hernia surgery, so again another 6 weeks of no major activity..... and the pounds pack on....
then when i went back to the doctor just a couple of months ago for more refills on my blood pressure meds.... she had seen that i had gained 4 pounds in 4 months. considering she knows my goal of eventually wanting to come off of my bp meds, she said if i didn't lose 10 pounds by jan 9 when i see her again, she was enrolling me in a weightloss program of her own..... EYE OPENER!!!

Since november.... i have lost 6 pounds, but i know I wont lose the other 4 before I go back, but what I am hoping is that she will see the results so far and find the need to not enroll me because i am losing. Once I reach my ideal weight, which is 123(the high end) then she will reconsider me being on my meds, with the proper blood work results of course....
So I am in this journey for medical reasons, healthy lifestyle for my kids reasons, and I just want to be in the shape i was in when I was in HS when I could out run the boys and do more push ups and pull ups than them.... awww those were the days.... 14 years ago I know but still it was a great feeling!!!
Outside of that... i love being a mom and watching my little ones grow... I am a manager of a fast food restaurant which i seriously want to change within the coming year but its also something that I have been doing since I got out of high school and always seem to resort back to it.
I really look forward to working with all of you and feel free to add me as a friend..... we all need to work together as a team to win this!!!

I like the ticker...but if we have to change it, I don't mind either...here's a little about me.

I'm Steph, 34 with 3 girls (5, almost 4 and 2)...single mom just getting back into working out since between my 1st and 2nd...so well over 4 years ago. My current weight is about 210 and I'd love to be at 175 (that's lower than when I got preggers the first time)....I'm sure I could be even lower than that, but I think I'll be happy at 175...we'll see when I get there.

I just joined a gym for my Christmas present to myself...and have gone 5-6 days a week for the past 2 weeks so far. I plan on continuing this journey 100%. I have also started the C25K on the treadmill, so it's not quite the same as being outside, but it will have to do for now since I can't run outside with 3 kiddos....

I look forward to working with all of you, can't wait to start this journey...and end it in such a better place!!!! I'm here to better myself, but also help you on your journey - we can do this together!

If someone comes up with another idea for the ticker, feel free! I just grabbed this because of the color.

As for the team name...I was thinking of something that played off of our team color like The Tangelos or Trimming Tangelos or The Tangy Tangelos or something like that. Just ideas...

We need a captain (we may have one, working with Biggest_Loser_2012 to see if she can be added, her name is Mimi)...but if we can't get her added:

We need 2 volunteers...captain and co-captain.

I found this:
Here are some rules for contestants.
1. Each week, your team captain will come up with a challenge for you to do. TRY your best.
2. You need to submit your weight to your captain each week by Friday. Your captain has to post your info to the spreadsheet starting at 10pm each Friday. Your team captain will let you know exactly what time they would like your weights to them. If something happens to you, and they cant reach a scale, they must give your weights early.
3. If you go MIA, your captain will try to reach out to you, if you do not respond by the weigh in time, you will be moved to the "not the biggest loser" bracket.
4. I would like each team have the same ticker, but that is up to your and your team.
5. You also need to come up with a team name. This is due to me by December 31st, Please take a vote so everyone can have a voice.
6. There will be a challenge that I come up with each week. I will post it every Sunday, along with each teams challenge.

Our first weight in will be almost 2 weeks after we start, just so everyone can push a bit harder and get used to each team. Our first weigh in is January 13th 2012.

I have not decided how we will do eliminations. I am waiting to see how many people we have on each team. There will be challenges that have Immunity, lb advantages and disadvantages, etc.

Also, no one is truly eliminated. If you become "not the biggest loser" you will be in it for the "at home winner" and "fan favorite" (which will really just be the recognition!!) So please do not give up and keep pushing. The real reason we are all doing this is because we want to get healthier and be "BATHING SUIT READY!"

You will know who your team is this weekend and I will post something with each team. I will make each of you of a starting thread this weekend once I figure out your teams. I each of you to add each other and do another introduction here. As I said before, you will have a weekly blog, its best that you guys post on there a few times a week to encourage each other. This way its more private between teams

Ideas for challenges:

- 10,000 steps per day
- 30 min of cardio per day
- one new thing per week (fitness class, zumba, wii...30 minutes)
- 50 squats per day
- 1000 crunches/reverse crunches per day
- eat your veggies
- eat your fruits
- push ups/pull ups
- jumping jacks

Just throwing out a few ideas....I'm sure there are tons more.

Awesome ideas!!! Just one to add:

- Drink your water! At least 8 glasses, but preferably more!

Completely agree to a group page! Deff think it's needed, each week challenge should be a different post I imagine. I don't really have the time to focus on being a captain, but I would be more then willing to help as a co-captain.

Have any of you guys reached out to the other team members that haven't posted here yet? I'm going to after I post this

You got it Carrie!!!! Thanks so much:flowerforyou:

I was just curious; with christmas approaching this weekend. How is everyone? Are you looking forward to food, friends, and family. I know alot of people stress this time of year but I always enjoy this time of year get to see family I don't get to see alot and we actually get along and have a great time to gether. So are you going to try to be good or our you going to wait until the first to crack down on this challenge. I know sometimes around holidays it can be harder to eat good with all this food in your face. I have not decided if I am going to do at our big get together. Just food for thought. What are you going to do this christmas weekend. Endulge and pick up where you left off. I have not decided yet. All i know is we are going to rock this challenge.

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