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Glad to have you @pendennis, @frasee3 and @jband3 . Not to late to join at all. Just take a look at the first post to get an idea of how to log weekly, aside from weight, everything else is optional and we log on a spreadsheet so message me an email address so I can give you access. As you might have read we are looking to…

I agree dasher moderate can be harder than lower. 50 net is my goal too, congrats on your fitting in smaller clothes though. I always say the inches and how you look is so important because that will boost your self confidence and that is what others see, so inches lost in my eyes is more important than pounds sometimes.…

To my group I will add you to the spreadsheet so that you can edit if that add link is not working, however I have been in the hospital this week and unfortunately the phone will not let me add so please just bear with me until I am out and we will straighten it out. I am so happy to have more people participating. You can…

3/8 members including myself have contributed so far. I'm happy with as few or many to get to know each other. Those who are not posting please let me know what's going on so I can help or know if you are no longer interested. To the two that posted I'm so glad we are all similar in our goals and additional motives. I…

So brushing off the rough start I look forward to seeing the sheet filled up in the coming days. We all know weight loss is both mental and physical and part of it is loving our bodies. So I thought it would be a fun idea to use this space to ask a question each week, some more light and some deeper. Since it's the first…

Rough start guys from what I can see only me and Dasher entered our first week check in. If you had trouble with the document I gave you the option to enter it old fashioned here and/or message it to me and I would enter it for you as well as help you open the speedsheet. Someone please give me conformation that the link I…

Figured out how to use the sharing link here it is for everyone: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FLUuymeb0L3DxT_tsSJ-9vXO7MYONKlCzmFjTAjcf40/edit?usp=sharing sorry, new with the excel but wanted it to work for tracking convience, thanks for the patience, evenyone else should be able to fill it in by the end of…

p.s. Dasher I filled it out for you

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FLUuymeb0L3DxT_tsSJ-9vXO7MYONKlCzmFjTAjcf40/edit#gid=0 Perfect This is where we will post our weekly check ins. I think I need an email from your so that you have access to edit it as well. If you can edit it without the email that's great and don't worry about it otherwise you can…

Trying to test an excel sheet. If it does not work we will just do weekly posts as regularly in the thread. Additionally throughout it we can have the threads for recipes and any additional recources you would like. We can put that in the second week, everyone can email me what they would like to contribure and I will use…

Glad to have both of you, I look forward to you joining our group and making it more positive!

Get ready everyone, we start tomorrow! Anytime that works for you please use the template provided in the first post to track your information, make it work for you, if you need additional information to track or post that's what number 5 is for to make it unique for you :) Any last minute questions feel free to ask. I…

I am going to politely bow out. Good luck everyone!

Thanks for sharing! Appetite is one place I am blessed. I am never really hungry, it's just the sweet tooth craving but a little bit goes a long way for me, however I didn't want to start with processed sugars. I actually struggled my first few weeks on low carb because I was only making 700 calories a day and my energy…

I bought ice pop molds and now just made a bunch of 3 ounce plain Greek yogurt pops all different flavors using blueberries dark chocolate chips pecans and different goodies. Looking forward to dessert tonight. I don't think I'll get rid of the sweet tooth so it's best to feed it with healthy options.

******Important note********* if anyone knows how to insert an excel sheet into the text of their post that would be most helpful. Any additional ideas besides a recipe or menu section are welcome. One member already had ideas and excel would be perfect for its tabs and this way all members could participate. I would like…

To those who have said that they are in I'm Glad you want to join! Please enter starting weight and any other information you would like to add from the format I provide of the list of 5 items that you could potentially post each week :) This way we can have something to start from and know where we are going off of.…

I think using the MFP measurements is best. I personally do arms thighs and belly too but don't want it to become too long so keeping it uniform to MFP may be best unless as a group there is a measurement people really want [/quote] I do not see neck measurement as a common one for women and pretty useless. Hips, thighs,…

Ok long post but I'm covering several topics here! Glad to have you guys in! Just a few more days until we start. I'm hoping to have a small group, maybe 5-10, that way we can all really get to know each other to help out rather than a large group challenge where people just log numbers but don't know each other. This way…

I think using the MFP measurements is best. I personally do arms thighs and belly too but don't want it to become too long so keeping it uniform to MFP may be best unless as a group there is a measurement people really want

I like this but could you include the MFP measurements as well by any chance for those of us who want to include that or need to use that for certain weeks? Not sure where the op has been in all this. If I am not mistaken I haven't seen a post since the original. If I'm going to do a challenge I want a strong leader…

I never knew you could go into ketosis at 50, so that is encouraging. Everyone always says that it is between 20-40g so I thought that was the magic number and higher was considered a low carb diet. I am still learning the differerences and how to know if I'm on a Keto diet vs a low carb diet. Despite all the reading I…

I tried low fat I tried low calorie and all those diets failed me so the nutritionist put me on low carb. She wants me to go on ketogenic eventually but we are figuring that out still. Unfortunately as I said meds do take up 30 total carbs and there really is not much fiber in there so Keto is very very hard with 50 net…

This is a good idea, I'm new to using the community although I've have MFP for years. I think we should include the measurements in the spreadsheets as the op had mentioned members can add those and there may be some weeks where I can only go on measurements so I'd like to have them as a backup

Looking for friends just starting out like me so we can share the journey as well as a couple experienced friends who would not mind taking on a mentor type role

I already did my first week but I suppose if it's 4 months and you want it for the end of the year we really should start first Monday in September? OP can you please clarify this for us as several have already entered our week one while others are still joining? Additionally once we start how would you like us to do this…

Starting weight 180 Week 1 (really 5 days, switched from Monday to Friday) 179: -1lb -1/2 inch around neck, -1 1/2 inch around waist, - 0 inch around hips (not sure what went wrong with hips, could be different spot, found one spot to make sure it's same each week)

Thanks so much for your reply. My concern is being new I've had days where I have gone over and netted 70 or so and I was told that all it takes to get your body out of ketosis is one day of too many carbs so I'm not there yet even though I am seeing progress. I appreciate the link to the other group, will join as I can…

A calorie is a calorie whether healthy or not. I log all my calories as I need to know how many I eat. You may have a day where you just where within your goal but you left out 100 calories of veggies. If for example you ate 100 calories of vegetables a day which is easily done. Consistently leave out 100 a day, that would…

I should also mention I was 115 a year ago so being back up to 180 hurts me a lot but I became ill and have spent most of 2016 in the hospital on steroids and other meds that make you gain weight (1/3 probably water weight) plus I am now paralyzed waist down and weak upper body so exercise is limited so my weight loss will…