Christmas Miracle Challenge!

Hey there yall..

I am looking for some people to get into a serious challenge mode!!!  To loose a goal weight by Christmas! It will be the best present you can give to yourself!

Ladies and Gentlemen, we are all in this together.

Here's how you start....

Name
Current Weight
Scale stepper or Judge by clothing
Amount of weight you wish to lose
How often do you want to weight-in?

Goal by Christmas?
What do you do to workout? Eat right? Tips or advice

ALSO I want you to make weekly challenges and put them in here and then report back once a week with your results and any new news!!

This is going to be mine every week:

10 miles on my bike

700 crunches

300 minutes of cardio and weights

 Is that good enough? I don't know I guess after my first week I'll find out!! lol.  We will start on Monday after we get some people interested!!

Start September 20th
End December 25th

We can do this. Challenge yourself to move weekly. This will be awesome and we can loose the weight by Christmas!!

~Jackie

Name: AK1435 (Angie)

Current Weight: 150
Scale stepper or Judge by clothing: Scale
Amount of weight you wish to lose: 20 pounds
How often do you want to weight-in? Weekdays

Goal by Christmas? 135
What do you do to workout? Eat right? Tips or advice:

Workout: Most days on home glider/eliptical but now that it's cooler I can walk/run outdoors... some free weights

Food: I love fruit and veggies... I'm finding it hard to eat healthy with my family around.  :( I eat wonderfully until it comes to sweets. Fast food/snack foods/decandent meals don't bother me at all to try and resisist... it's almost always the sugar.

Weekly Goal: 500 cal deficit a day.  Excercise every single day at least a little bit.

Hi,

Name: May
Current Weight: 172
Scale stepper or Judge by clothing: scale
Amount of weight you wish to lose: 17lbs
How often do you want to weight-in? weekly

Goal by Christmas? Goal Weight: 155lbs

other goals: workout at least 3x a week, eat more fish and less meat.

Name Monkey
Current Weight 148.5lbs (ish!)
Scale stepper or Judge by clothing Scale
Amount of weight you wish to lose 10lbs by Christmas - Christmas goal weight = 138.0lbs
How often do you want to weight-in? Weekly

What do you do to workout? Eat right? Tips or advice

Healthy eating while I'm at Uni, and go to my kickboxing class at least 2 out of 3 times per week for 1.5 hours each class. That will be my weekly challenge!

Name: Cristin
Current Weight: 187lb
Scale stepper or Judge by clothing: scale
Amount of weight you wish to lose: I will say 20 pounds
How often do you want to weight-in?: weekly

Goal by Christmas?
What do you do to workout? Eat right? Tips or advice: I would love to be consistantly working out and eating well.  I know how to do these things I just can't get motivated to do it. 

Hi all. I would really like a group to commiserate with and be encouraged by.

Name: Megan

Starting Weight: 167 lbs
Current Weight: 151 lbs
Christmas goal: 144 lbs
Scale stepper or judge by clothing: scale
How often do you want to weigh-in?: weekly, (although I can't seem to stop the habit of weighing myself daily)
What do you want to do?: Eat better and get tips for yummy healthy food.

I'm trying to lose based mostly on my diet. I really want to keep focused on my goal and not get discouraged every other day and driven to the point of recklessness only to recommit myself the next day. I want to learn to eat healthy all the time and get my weight down to my ideal size.

I've been at this plateau for the past 3 weeks and can't seem to get down below 150... its very frustrating... but I'm going to do it!

Hi,

just wondering what day we were weighing in? thanks!

Hey everyone!

I'd love to join. I want to finally look good in a Christmas family photo.

Here are my stats~!

Name: Gela (Jee-luh)

Current weight: 170

Scale stepper

Wish to lose: 20 pounds by Christmas (150), 40 pounds by Summer 2010 (130)

This week's goals:

30 mins. exercise daily

weigh 169.0 by Sept. 25

easily hold "plank" position for 30 seconds! gotta strengthen those core muscles.

log EVERYTHING even if I know I'm going to go over my goal for the day.

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Alright! Let's do this! Nice to meet you all~! Good luck everyone!

~*~Gela~*~

Hi everyone!  Finally a good group I can join!

Current Weight 195.8
Scale stepper or Judge by clothing BOTH!
Amount of weight you wish to lose I think 25 pounds by Christmas is do-able!
How often do you want to weight-in? Weekly!

Goal by Christmas? to weight 170 pounds and be a size 8 or 10 (currently a size 12/14)
What do you do to workout? Oye, my problem is eating.  I workout 6 days a week but always ruin my great workout by eating badly!  I LOVE food.  My goal is going to be to eat clean (natural foods, no fake stuff or processed) and keep my calories to 1200 on non-workout days and 1500 on workout days (approved by my doctor). 

I am trying to lose 2 pounds per week!  BUT since I'll be in Hawaii (YAY!) from the 25th until October 12th, I can't weigh in for awhile. 

This week's goals:

continue 300 minutes of cardio week (120 of those minutes trying for kickboxing!)

continue 2 or more full body muscle workouts per week. 

be 193 before getting on the plane this Friday!

What day are we weighing in???

@Monkey!  Hey I love the twilight series too!  My husband and I are obsessed!(I hate to admit!)

I also do kickboxing.  Isn't is amazing!  It kicks my butt! I have a heart rate moniter and I burn up to 800 in an hour class and 1200 in an hour and half class. 

First Report In:

Lost 1 pound - 14 more to go in the challenge!

Walked at least 10,000 steps every day and alternated Joel Harper and Lotte Burke workouts every day.

Hi all! I am excited about starting this challenge this week.  Is there a day we are going to weigh in/report progress, sucess etc?  Good luck to you all.

Hope it's not to late for me to join.

Name: Ashley
Current Weight: 185
Scale stepper or Judge by clothing: scale
Amount of weight you wish to lose:22
How often do you want to weight-in? once a week

Goal by Christmas? to weight 163

Goals:

Do one hour of exercise on my Wii Fit every morning

Do half hour on the elliptical or stationary bike at least 3 times a week

Keep my calories under 1600

Drink more water

So what day are we weighing in, or do we pick our own day?

Hey all~! Happy to see some new faces! I'm really stoked about this challenge. And so far I'm doing pretty well! One of my goals that I set for myself was to weigh 169.0 on Friday, but that happened today! Yay! But I will keep my goal the same just in case my weight decides to go up again. But so far so good!

Good luck everybody! I'm gonna eat and then go exercise.

19 pounds to go before Christmas!

~*~Gela~*~

Well guys, it's Monday!!!  Time to start the challenge!! I'm super dooper excited!!  Only terrrible thing is I have to leave Wednesday and be gone till Saturday for a wedding I'm shooting in North Carolina (I"m from KY).  SOOO I'm gonna try and pack a lot of fruits and veggies and still get in some kind of exercise while I'm there.  I did wake up this morning and have a yummy bowl of Cherrios and a Banana.

I sit on my butt all day at work (thankfully no one is around since I own my own business with my dad) but I can stop right now and do 100 crunches!!!

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well that felt good.... lol.  Anyone else wanna drop and give me 100? lol

Ok....I'm off to the gym for session 1 of 3 weight trainings this week (as per this week's goal) and today went well (drank more water and ate well).  I will do my 5k walk with dog when I get back home.  And okay....I'll try 100 crunches..

When are we to weigh in?

I just got back from my first session at the gym!!! I am def. feeling it! I didn't want to leave either, but my husband who went with me (yay hubby!) wasn't feeling too good so we had to leave, but I did manage to make my hour mark per my weekly goal! I also did 45 minutes/ 10.5 miles on the stationary bike! I know I'll feel it tomorrow! :) Good luck everyone for our first week!

What if we make our weigh in day on Monday's since today is the day we started?

Jessica :)

Original Post by jefferies321:

I just got back from my first session at the gym!!! I am def. feeling it! I didn't want to leave either, but my husband who went with me (yay hubby!) wasn't feeling too good so we had to leave, but I did manage to make my hour mark per my weekly goal! I also did 45 minutes/ 10.5 miles on the stationary bike! I know I'll feel it tomorrow! :) Good luck everyone for our first week!

What if we make our weigh in day on Monday's since today is the day we started?

Jessica :)

 

 Monday's sound good to me, plus that keeps us honest all weekend.

I also want to change my exercise goals.  So, instead of stressing  about what exercise I did or hold myself to a specific exercise routine I want my goal to be at least 30 min of Cardio 3-5 days a week and 30 min strength training 3 days a week.  I think this way I will meet my goals and be less stressed.

Monday sounds great to me. I'm leaving to go out of town tomorrow, so I'm a little nervous about the weigh in but I'll try to be very good this weekend.  :)  I'm very excited to have so mahy people in this with me!! Yay for us!!

I like Monday too! I can't wait to see how good we all do!

Ijust found this thread and would like to join in...

Name: John
Current Weight: 165.0#
Scale stepper or Judge by clothing
Amount of weight you wish to lose: 5.0#
How often do you want to weight-in? Daily, but I'll post here once or twice a week.

Goal by Christmas? 160.0#

What do you do to workout? Weight lifting 3 times most weeks.  Hiking, walking, jogging, or running 5 or more miles 6 times most weeks.  Eat right? I journal all my food.  Make sure I burn at least 250 more calories a day than I take in most days, get at least 80 grams of protein and at most 55 grams of fat (at most 15 grams saturated fat) most days.

ALSO I want you to make weekly challenges My challenge this week is 7 hours of cardio exercise.

I've been working on this for 13 months and have lost 85.0# with just 5.0# more to go to reach my goal.  My actual goal date is December 1 which is 70 days away.  That's just 0.5# a week, so I know it can be done and I am really already beginning the transition to maintenance.