300+ Countdown to Jan 1, 2009 !

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      We share a long journey.
      January 1, 2009 is coming ... IS HERE ! 
      What progress we'll make ... WE'VE MADE !
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~ THE 2008 300+ COUNTDOWN CLUB ~
      Counting down to JAN 1, 2009!
 1. Post your 1st of month weigh in.
 2. Check your updated number below.
 3. Let me know of any corrections.

.......................... GROUP WEIGHT LOSS ..........................
SW: 320.0   JAN 1st 2009 185.0     Lost  135.0  bigbrett22
SW: 340.0   JAN 1st 2009 173.0     Lost  167.0  danielle_20077
SW: 343.0   JAN 1st 2009 275.0     Lost    68.0  denise07
SW: 326.0   JAN 1st 2009 280.0     Lost    38.0  freethrowtommy 
SW: 354.0   JAN 1st 2009 328.0     Lost    26.0  humorpam
SW: 329.0   JAN 1st 2009 295.0     Lost    34.0  korali
SW: 329.0   JAN 1st 2009 221.0     Lost  108.0  laurabow
SW: 370.0   JAN 1st 2009 286.0     Lost    84.0  mnic
SW: 442.2   JAN 1st 2009 392.0     Lost    50.2  mwiowa
SW: 325.0   JAN 1st 2009 267.0     Lost    58.0  punkrockriot
SW: 315.0   JAN 1st 2009 226.0     Lost  100.0  renaer14
SW: 317.0   JAN 1st 2009 311.0     Lost      6.0  shnitzel (tracy)
SW: 465.0   JAN 1st 2009 220.8     Lost  244.0  sun123
SW: 385.0   JAN 1st 2009 336.8     Lost    52.0  sunnyone24
SW: 305.0   JAN 1st 2009 234.5     Lost    70.5  Tina_4792
SW: 367.0   JAN 1st 2009 299.0     Lost    69.4  topeze
SW: 576.0   JAN 1st 2009 447.0     Lost  129.0  velvetkiss 
SW: 325.0   JAN 1st 2009 255.0     Lost    70.0  watchmeshine82
SW: 355.0   JAN 1st 2009 287.0     Lost    68.0  wobbley
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Hello everyone!  I started last year at this time at 310 and now I'm at 279.  I started out very motivated last year and it just got worse as the year went on.  Reading through this post gives me motivation to stay on track this year.  My goal is to be under 200 by this time next year ... that is if I don't lose my motivation again. 

Keep up the good work everyone!!!

SW: 345.0  LOST: (149.0) JAN 6th/08 196 lbs   GW: 200 new goal weight : 180-185 lbs

Kamut?  You wouldnt be pulling our leg.  Sounds like an amazing lower cal alternative.  Regarding not taking your measurements early, I didnt even take my pic until 2 months of dieting and then only 1 bad out of focus one. Just updated to a new one and hard to compare but I can see it in my arms, face and some in my waist (or what will hopefully soon be one).

Welcome Darian!  About losing motivation thru the year was what made me think to shoot longterm goal with the thread.  If you want to be included, just let me know!

syntitan, so you hit your goal and am going further?  Youve made so much progress and sounds like you will be hitting your new goal too,  assuming its within reason for you.  It will be good to hear how you maintain when you do - something I will eventually have to deal with and more challenging to me then losing.

Hey. I'm over 300. Just barely. Trying to get under 300 for the first time in a couple years. My name is Brett and I'm 24. I started about a month ago at 320. I weighed today and am at 302. So 18 pounds so far. My goal is to get down to 185 by my 25th birthday. I'd love to get in on this. I am super motivated and I love this site. Hook a brotha up!

 

-Brett 

You are very much on this now Brett, at the top of our alphabetical list!  Great start and we're taken this all the way.  We'll be using that motivation and enthusiasm too!   It'll take you far and this years the one!  Glad you signed up :D!

With this walking I started Thursday, dont know that I'll lose more which would be great but feeling reassurance that I will hit my weekly goal. On the otherhand, if it affects it Im thinking my best shot is my first week while my body doesnt know what hit it. 

Good foods, moving - this has to be good and anticipating Thursdays scale. 

Sun123 - sure!  I would love to be included.  My goal is to be 150 by June 2009 ... I know I can do it ... I just need to keep myself in check!

Thanks!

Great - I put you on the list and you'll do it.  Hope this thread will help you towards you goal :D

Thanks so much Sun. Let'**** those goals and drop those pounds people! We can do it!!!! YEAH!

Haha - absolutely!  Bethystan's on board too, ready to count down the whole year with us :D!

Together, lots of weight loss behind us and so much more progress to come. Januarys feeling like a good month.  Holidays past, now focused with warmer temperatures and less clothing layers ahead.  One more day to weigh in but next week we are halfway to Feb weigh in !!  Hope your all doing well so far this week :D

Hey guys - are we doing well?

Postponed walking last night with my walking partner til the night was over so with an early email from her this morn, headed out - think that counts as Im still going later.

Looking forward to weekly weighin especially tomorrow, see if the walking since last Thursday gives me a boost.  I'll be using it for my half month loss. 

Hi sun - my "official" weigh-in day is Thursday also! I did sneak a peak this morning, though - 272.8 (down from 276). My weight just fluctuates so much though, so it is hard to tell what it will say tomorrow. I don't pay much attention to salt, so maybe that is why. I do think I am finally safely out of the 280s, though, where I have made my home since October!

I must say I have been exceptionally "good" this week. I have been to the gym 5 of the last 6 days and did an hour of cardio (plus weights on 2 of those days). I had been slacking off before that. Must be the New Year's mentality. Oh, and the boss is out of town. :)

I'm so glad to have found this forum! This is such an inspiration for me :)

 Start Weight:  364.4

Current Weight: 344.0

Goal Weight:  199.0

I am not over 300lbs but I am heavier than I have ever been in my whole life. I packed on 100lbs during my mothers illness and then death. I felt so helpless like it was to bad for me to dig out of... but after looking in this group... I am more than ever inspired to get my A&& on track.... There are people that have come much further than me..... No more feeling sorry for the sad shape of things but instead take back control.

I think that for me getting this heavy was deeply involved in a loss of control that I felt in my life... it is time to take back control... 

Hi suddenly_joy, glad youre along for the ride!  We're off towards a healthier us and the benefits a lighter life brings.  I think we well know past a certain weight how much more challenging many things can get that can be easy for others to not even worry about.

Thanks for posting fyrnymph.  Yes contol and better decisions are something we can forget is within our means but that was then, and here we are now.  Glad to hear your movement towards empowerment and much success to you.

Off to morning weighin at the clinic, hoping to see a boast from my walks or at least that my regular goal will be met with some extra help.

Good morning - today is my weigh-in day and I'm at 276.9!  YEAH!

Yay darien!

It is my weigh-in day also, and  weighed in at 272.2! I really want to see the 260s this month.

Losing weight is so exciting but it is all-consuming for me! Does anyone else have trouble concentrating on work and other aspects of life? I need to find a balance but I am afraid to lose momentum.

Isnt it great being so close Denise!  Weighed in at 360.1 so the exercise didnt seem to make the biggest difference but my walking has progressed.  Darien, that is great - happy happy for you! 

Over 2 lbs is still a great loss, as you know! But walking is really its own reward, it makes you feel so much better!

Yesterday I achieved my 7th goal- 230 pounds. yay!