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The Winter Games Week 1 Report...I must say how proud I am of everyone. We had 13 people that expressed an interest in taking part in the challenge and 11 that have reported so far. If the other two report later today I'll just put them in next week's figures. Our overall group goal is to lose 143.6 pounds over the next 8…

The Winter Games Name: Barb Age: 70 Height: 5'3” Highest weight: 258 Start Weight (Jan 1, 2018): 204.8 Goal Weight (Friday, Feb 23, 2018): 195 Weigh-ins on week of Jan 5: 206.2 Jan 12: Jan 19: Jan 26: Feb 2nd: Feb 9: Feb 16: Feb 23: Weight -/+ this week: +1.4 Weight -/+ this challenge: +1.4 Total weight lost: 51.8 Not a…

@NewCaddy welcome to the Winter Games Challenge. I just wanted to mention that the goal weight we set here is for the amount we want to lose during the challenge. Since this is only an eight week challenge this time I was thinking you misunderstood and gave your final weight loss goal. How much would you like to lose for…

@happygirlxxx Ana, I like your name for the new challenge (which I forgot to name, LOL). Just a reminder anyone can join, you are challenging yourself and recording it weekly to help keep yourself accountable! We report on Fridays. I'm reporting today just with my starting weight. :( up 5 pounds from just prior to…

Hi Everyone, it's been really quiet on the thread this week. I'm sure everyone is really busy and if you're anything like me you are also struggling with the effects of the holiday weight gain. I really need to wrap my head around the fact that even though I'm logging everyday, I'm not really achieving much because I'm…

@happygirlxxx Ana, sorry about your camera but your pictures taken with your iphone came out wonderful. Thanks for sharing them!

Hi everyone, I've been pretty quiet these last few weeks, not for any reason except that the holidays kind of get me down. So of course, what do I do when I'm down? EAT... I put on about 6 pounds since my low of 199! Onederland came and went. :( I have decided to just try to keep things at the 6 pound gain thru the rest of…

Thanks so much for the detailed instructions, Niki. I appreciate it. :smiley:

@Nikion901 Thank you Niki, that's one of my favorite songs. Your casserole sounds really good, too. Since the kitchen and I aren't friends I need everything spelled out for me. Put it together all at once? Add the noodles later? Cook on stove or in oven? How long? It really made me hungry and I would like to make it but as…

@pneschich what a beautiful tribute to what sounds like a special woman. I can tell she will be missed. My condolences to you and your family.

Beware woman's topic, don't read if you're squeamish. LOL Well, I am an extremely healthy 70 year old woman, it's just that my insides are falling out! :neutral: Need laparoscopic surgery to tie my bladder and uterus back in place. Very common for us women, I know, just annoying! The surgery is so much better now than it…

Well, I'm back from my trip and afraid to get on the scales. I don't think I did too bad, I'll know tomorrow morning. I decided to give myself a day or two to get back on track before I got on the scales. One thing I did not do was drink anywhere near enough water. When you're 70 and traveling with a weak bladder you tend…

I have finally caught up with the posts, thanks for all the articles and inspiration...I really need it right now. I seem to have gone totally off track. I'm eating all day long, and not health...no exercise. In a real funk! I'm leaving in a couple of hours to fly to Kentucky to see a friend I haven't see in three years,…

@Nikion901 I might had been better off just eating a pie, rather than all the food I stuffed into my mouth at my friend's Thanksgiving diner! Tomorrow is a new day and since I ate at someone else's house I won't be tempted by leftovers! :( Ah...I'd day no to the exercise LOL.

Wow, so much going on and so much information to learn/look into! @GOINSTD12 I am so sad to hear all you have gone thru recently. My heartfelt condolences on the loss of your loved one and then to have your own health problems on top of that. I pray you find peace to deal with everything and that you are able to regain…

Fall Challenge Report - Final I have good news and bad news! Over the course of the 9 weeks the 17 people that remained in the challenge lost a total of 103.5 pounds!! Good job! That's 53% of the overall goal. The not so good news is that with only 6 of us reporting for the final, Saturday weigh in we had another gain of…

FALL CHALLENGE Name: Barb Age: 70 Height: 5'3" Start Weight (as of Sept. 16th): 209.6 Goal Weight (for Nov. 18th): 199.6 Weigh in Weeks (listed by Wednesdays) 1. Sept. 20: 207.2 2. Sept. 27: 204.8 3. Oct. 4: 204.4 4. Oct. 11: 201.8 5. Oct. 18: 202.4 Birthday 6. Oct. 25: 202.6 7. Nov. 1: 199.6 8. Nov. 8: 199 9. Nov. 15:…

Fall Challenge Report - Week 9 I would like to remind everyone that the reason we have challenges and post our weigh-ins is to hold ourselves accountable, whether we gain or lose. Sometimes it takes a lot of courage to put ourselves out there and admit we have gone up instead of down on the scales. In that respect, I'm…

@happygirlxxx I usually post the Challenge Report on Friday due to my schedule and the fact that quite a few people don't report until Thursday or even Friday morning so if you post your weigh in before I post the report I'll include you. It looks like a lot of us had gains this week including myself so you won't be alone!…

FALL CHALLENGE Name: Barb Age: 70 Height: 5'3" Start Weight (as of Sept. 16th): 209.6 Goal Weight (for Nov. 18th): 199.6 Weigh in Weeks (listed by Wednesdays) 1. Sept. 20: 207.2 2. Sept. 27: 204.8 3. Oct. 4: 204.4 4. Oct. 11: 201.8 5. Oct. 18: 202.4 Birthday 6. Oct. 25: 202.6 7. Nov. 1: 199.6 8. Nov. 8: 199 9. Nov. 15:…

@tdunnegan I think you meant @lydiapassthedonuts for the challenge, not @lydiapatton9000 ?? Okay Terry, I'm in! :neutral: Holiday Exercise Challenge Name: Bapcarrier (Barb) Goal: Exercise a min. of 4x/week 15 to 20 minutes November 22 November 29 December 6 December 13 December 20 December 27 January 3 January 10 Ugh!!! LOL

oops, Sorry @lydiapassthedonuts it wasn't you it was @jennordhavn that mentioned a miscalculation, which I did correct...just forgot who it was. :) @jennordhavn I'll count on you for our holiday mini challenge! My goal may be just to not gain any weight, I'm not sure yet! LOL Whatever it is, it won't be a big number.

@lydiapassthedonuts I think it was you that mentioned you realized you had made a mistake in reporting your challenge totals last week. Don't worry I noticed and fixed it. Plus, the spreadsheet program makes many of the calculations and catches errors too. You aren't the only one, there have been others too. :) No problem!

Fall Challenge Report - Week 8 Alas, we have not heard from a number of people who originally started this challenge, but for those of us reporting in, we had a 17.4 cumulative weight loss bringing our total up to 136.7 pounds. I'm not going to give the percentages we have achieved as a group until the last report. Just…

Just time for a quick note. @mtumale I feel your pain. I love McDonalds and it's very hard for me to pass one by especially if I'm hungry. Here's a trick I learned that might help you. Do you have a friend that knows you're on this quest to improve your health and lose weight? If so (and assuming you have Bluetooth in your…

FALL CHALLENGE Name: Barb Age: 70 Height: 5'3" Start Weight (as of Sept. 16th): 209.6 Goal Weight (for Nov. 18th): 199.6 Weigh in Weeks (listed by Wednesdays) 1. Sept. 20: 207.2 2. Sept. 27: 204.8 3. Oct. 4: 204.4 4. Oct. 11: 201.8 5. Oct. 18: 202.4 Birthday 6. Oct. 25: 202.6 7. Nov. 1: 199.6 8. Nov. 8: 199 9. Nov. 15:…

@b_lisieux I noticed the page numbers too...(after you mentioned it!) LOL Thanks for the time change reminder, I had forgotten even though I just checked a week ago. About challenges, as Niki said we all choose our own goals to meet and discuss how long the challenge should run plus if we want to add anything else to it…

Fall Challenge Report - Week 7 For those of us reporting in, we had a 13.7 cumulative weight loss bringing our total up to 120.3 pounds, way to go everyone. A special shout out to Niki, @Nikion901, Connie, @darlin930, and Barb, @bapcarrier, (me :smile: ) as the three of us have reached our goal for this challenge! Hip Hip…

It's kind of creepy...I'm 70 years old and I've gotten a few too! Just for the fun of it I looked at the profiles and almost all of their friends were young attractive women some with quite revealing profile pictures. That's fine, I don't care what people use for their picture, but come on, if they had looked at my profile…

FALL CHALLENGE Name: Barb Age: 70 Height: 5'3" Start Weight (as of Sept. 16th): 209.6 Goal Weight (for Nov. 18th): 199.6 Weigh in Weeks (listed by Wednesdays) 1. Sept. 20: 207.2 2. Sept. 27: 204.8 3. Oct. 4: 204.4 4. Oct. 11: 201.8 5. Oct. 18: 202.4 Birthday 6. Oct. 25: 202.6 7. Nov. 1: 199.6 8. Nov. 8: 9. Nov. 15: Final…