February Weight Loss Challenge **Sign ups always welcome!**

Welcome to the February Challenge!
I hope you all had a great January, boy didn't that month go fast??
But anyway, Welcome back for another month to all those who have done my previous challenges and welcome aboard to any newbies!

The challenge is pretty easy.
We'll have 5 weekly weigh In's and the dates will be...:

1/2/09:
8/2/09:
15/2/09:
22/2/09:
29/2/09:

And yes, I use the European writing method!
If you would like to change it in your personal posts, that's fine.

Weigh in days have been changed to Sunday.
I'm sorry, I know lots of you don't like weighing in around the weekends, but maybe this will be a really good motivator to behave on Saturdays now?
Well, TRY and look at it positively anyway!

So!
Sign up any time you want, then come back on the 1st of the month, fill out the form below and post it EVERY Sunday with your new weights.

Name:
Age:
Height:
Start Weight (Your February 1st Weight):
Goal Weight (by February 29):

1/2/09:
8/2/09:
15/2/09:
22/2/09:
1/3/09:

Total weight loss:

Fill in the form, and re-post it every Sunday with your new weights.
DO NOT EDIT YOUR ORIGIONAL POST because i wont notice.
Thanks :]


The challenge is about personal motivation and success and just knowing you're making a good change for yourself... but the person to lose the most weight will receive a "i won a challenge" type badge for their photo gallery, also!

Participants:

Adaknits - SW: 260.4. GW: 253. Total Weight Loss: 4.6
Akasharainen - SW: 230. GW: 225. Total Weight Loss: 6
Akriss12321 - SW: 148. GW: 142. Total Weight Loss:
Alegna98 - SW: 119. GW: 115. Total Weight Loss:
Aliceinonderland - SW: 200. GW: 200. Total Weight Loss: 0
Alle0299 - SW: 162.4. GW: 157. Total Weight Loss: 4.6
Amber1l - SW: 266. GW: 250. Total Weight Loss: 2
Ashmommyof2 - SW: 324.2. GW: --. Total Weight Loss: +1.6
Bahai99 - SW: 174. GW: 171. Total Weight Loss: 2
Betzc - SW: 144.1. GW: 137. Total Weight Loss: 4.1
Birki - SW: 169.5. GW: 162. Total Weight Loss: 4.5
Born2doit2 - SW: 131. GW: 125. Total Weight Loss: 3
Carlynj21 - SW: 126. GW: 121. Total Weight Loss: 3.6
Changling - SW: 184. GW: 180. Total Weight Loss: 1
Christinedavidson - SW: 235. GW: 225. Total Weight Loss: 1
Colorado_Sunshine - SW: 126.5. GW: 122.5. Total Weight Loss: 3.5
Cpa2b - SW: 198. GW: 190. Total Weight Loss:
Crazybeautifulxo
Cricketro05 - SW: --. GW: --. Total Weight Loss:
Damndetermined - SW: 140.2. GW: 134. Total Weight Loss: 4.4
Danyellc - SW: 167. GW: 155. Total Weight Loss:
Devins_kitten - SW: 155. GW: 150. Total Weight Loss: 2
Diva_n_da_making - SW: 198.5. GW: 193. Total weight Loss: 0.5
Doulia - SW: 148. GW: 140. Total Weight Loss:
Earth_mom - SW: 247. GW: 240. Total Weight Loss: 5.2
Fakeout - SW: 140. GW: 137. Total Weight Loss: +2.6
Findingmeagain2009 - SW: 218. GW: 210. Total Weight Loss: 13
Girlfighting27 - SW: 147.4. GW: 145. Total Weight Loss: 0
Godsmissiongal - SW: 201.6. GW: 198. Total Weight Loss: 2.4
Hales_angel - SW: 186. GW: 176. Total Weight Loss: 2.5
Hilary_88 - SW: 163. GW: 150. Total Weight Loss: 4.2
Huntingmay - SW: 186. GW: 180. Total Weight Loss:
Iamacommitmentto - SW: 204. GW: 200. Total Weight Loss: 1.5
Iamdwalrus - SW: 131.4. GW: 125. Total Weight Loss:
Jackolina
James_64
Javla - SW: 237. GW: 225. Total Weight Loss:
Jennifer1100 - SW: 172. GW: 164. Total Weight Loss: 4
Jesscod - SW: 197. GW: 188. Total Weight Loss: 8
Justine11 - SW: 207. GW: 198. Total Weight Loss:
Kalikat003 - SW: 176.6. GW: 170. Total Weight Loss: 7.2
Katalina0610 - SW: 132. GW: 127. Total Weight Loss:
Kckstrt - SW: 132.5. GW: 128. Total Weight Loss: 3.5
Kellybadlass - SW: 132. GW: 129. Total Weight Loss: 0
Laurenmariesmith - SW: 210. GW: 205. Total weight Loss: 1
Loudflower - SW: 285.3. GW: 275. Total Weight Loss: 15.3
Lovelyjenna - SW: 253.5. GW: 240. Total Weight Loss: 6.5
Lozzle - SW: 144.2. GW: 140. Total Weight Loss: 0.6
Mellisonmiranda - SW: 120. GW: 115. Total Weight Loss: 0.5
Mischiefdm - SW: 134.2. GW: 132. Total Weight Loss: 0.6
Navane - SW: 167.5. GW: 164. Total Weight Loss: +0.3
Nicolet123 - SW: 143.4. GW: 140. Total Weight Loss: 0.2
Obrules15
Opusanna - SW: 175. GW: 165. Total Weight Loss: 5
Paty22 - SW: 163.8. GW: 155. Total Weight Loss: 0.6
Pgeorgian - SW: 143. GW: 138. Total Weight Loss: 0.5
Pudster24 - SW: 168.4. GW: 160. Total Weight Loss: 2.7
Quintanion - SW: 171.2. GW: 166. Total Weight Loss: 4.4
Rachieee
Raginheadache - SW: 150. GW: 145. Total Weight Loss: 4
Restless_Girl - SW: 146.5. GW: 140. Total Weight Loss: 3.1
Runningbuns - SW: 144. GW: 138. Total Weight Loss: 0
Sugarkelly24 - SW: 136. GW: --. Total Weight Loss: 0
Sakuragreenlily - SW: 210.4. GW: 200.4. Total Weight Loss: 1
satyrswoman - SW: 167.2. GW: 162. Total Weight Loss: 3.8
Sconzzy - SW: 148. GW: 145. Total Weight Loss: 2
Septimusette - SW: 111.6. GW: 105. Total Weight Loss:
Sez_babe00 - SW: 151. GW: 147. Total Weight Loss: 2
Sugarkelly24
Suziecarney - SW: 219. GW: 204. Total Weight Loss:
Swimmin_sunscreen - SW: 140.2. GW: 134. Total Weight Loss: 2.2
Tasha21217 - SW: 281. GW: 277. Total Weight Loss: 2
Tazzie_23 - SW: 220. GW: 213. Total Weight Loss: 4.8
Tennisjess1701 - SW: 207.4. GW: 199. Total Weight Loss:
Thax - SW: 293. GW: 275. Total Weight Loss:
Thesilverstar121 - SW: 182. GW: 178. Total Weight Loss: 0.4
Tothepointe
Tsc319 - SW: 206. GW: 199. Total Weight Loss: 7
Txmom04 - SW: 157.6. GW: 155. Total Weight Loss: 1.6
Wesmoot - SW: 144. GW: 140. Total Weight Loss: 1
Yerushalem - SW: 169. GW: 159. Total Weight Loss: +2
Yola1369

Total Joint Weight Loss:

Name: Hilary
Age: 20
Height: 5'101/2
Start Weight (Your February 1st Weight): 163
Goal Weight (by February 29): 150

1/2/09:
8/2/09:
15/2/09:
22/2/09:
29/2/09:

Total weight loss:

Name: Paty22
Age: 21
Height: 5'3.5
Start Weight (Your February 1st Weight): 163.8
Goal Weight (by February 29): 155

1/2/09:163.8
8/2/09:
15/2/09:
22/2/09:
29/2/09:

Total weight loss:

Blurgh.
Not too bad I suppose after all those crisps. :)
Will hope to get back into more swimming... maybe biking.
I rather enjoyed biking around whangamata while on holiday and it's flat here in my neighbour hood so biking shouldn't be too bad.

Name: Claire
Age: 17
Height: 5'10"
Start Weight (Your February 1st Weight): 146.5
Goal Weight (by February 29): 140

1/2/09: 146.5
8/2/09:
15/2/09:
22/2/09:
29/2/09:

Total weight loss:

Name: Dodo
Age:16
Height: 5'7''
Start Weight (Your February 1st Weight): 148 ..gained it a matter of DAYS :(
Goal Weight (by February 29): 140

1/2/09: 148
8/2/09:
15/2/09:
22/2/09:
29/2/09:

Total weight loss:

Ok, finally updated the list!
It's great to hear that so many of you are feeling really motivated for this up and coming month.
... And I'm sorry to say, this might be my last challenge.
In the previous month and this month, I just really haven't been in the mood for any of this.
Any of the dieting, exercise or challenge hosting.
I will finish this challenge and if my mood changes in the next 27 days then I might host the March challenge too, but if not then this'll be the end for me.
However if someone else (if i do decide to stop) wants to copy the challenge and start hosting it, that'd be great.

I think I'm in a rutt.
Although I wanted to move and felt like I would get depressed again if I didn't move, since shifting house, I've felt really out of place.
My room doesn't feel like my room.
My brother got my bed since my mum wanted his bed as a spare bed in my brothers room, so I have the queen bed that had been in the garage.
Sounds great to anyone else, I upsized!
But I'm a creature of habit and I miss my old lumpy, narrow, tiny, one-person-only bed.
Most of my stuff is still in boxes.
The room still smells like the past inhabitants.
It's got no personal touches.
Mum wont doesn't want to have to re-wallpaper it so I can't make it my characteristic Lime Green like I've had in my last 2 previous bedrooms.
My duvet doesn't match the wallpaper OR the drapes.
I don't like having carpet.
My bed doesn't have room under it for my art box so it's going to have to go in my cupboard.
...
I don't feel like I belong here.
I don't feel like I belong in my boyfriends house.
I don't feel at home anywhere.
Everywhere I go I just seem to be bludgering off someone else.
I'm so unstable that anyone would be insane to hire me so the chances of me getting a job is low, so I can't go find my own place to live.
... And I'd have to go flatting anyway so I'd STILL feel like I was imposing on someone elses home.
*deep breath*

Hmmph.

Anyway, I gotta go txt my bf and see what he's up to and see if I can head down to his place to water my garden.
It's 5:16pm and I haven't heard anything from him so my borderline mind is screaming "He's dead, he's dead he's dead he's dead!" and like i'm just waiting for the phone call.

If only I had been born sane.

FORMAT ERROR:
Sorry, Fixed it.
Last weigh in will be on the 1st.
Just means the final weigh in for February and the First weigh in for March will be on the same day.
No biggy.
I edited the main OP format, and if it's bugging you just change it to the 1/3/2009 on your formats.

Oops, mistakenly edited my first post, so here are my details.. for the record 

Name: Sunshine
Age: 33
Height: 5'1''
Start Weight (Your February 1st Weight): 126.5
Goal Weight (by February 29): 122.5

1/2/09: 126.5
8/2/09:
15/2/09:
22/2/09:
1/3/09:

Total weight loss:

Well, I'm hoping for 4 lbs. this month.  Maybe a bit of a stretch, but I'm going to try for it!  Only a few months left 'til swimsuit weather

Colorado_sunshine - Awesome, shoot for the stars! :)

restless_girl, sorry you're feeling so out of place,  hope things improve for you soon.

I have to say I'm so jealous of your tomatoes and squash!  Still a couple of months before I can pick anything from our garden!  Right now I'm just daydreaming about planting seedlings, and window shopping all the seed catalogs!

Anyway, I hope this next week is better for you than the past week has been! 

Name:Danyellc
Age:24
Height:5'8"
Start Weight (Your February 1st Weight):167
Goal Weight (by February 29):155

1/2/09:167
8/2/09:
15/2/09:
22/2/09:
29/2/09:

Total weight loss:

Colorado_Sunshine - Thanks. :)
A fellow gardener I see!
I imagine in six months time I'll be in the same boat!
Right now I'm growing my winter crop.
Got the little baby seedlings tucked up in a mini-plastic house so that by the time my tomato plants die off, I'll have big strong healthy plants to plop into my lot. :)

Name: Age: earthmom
Age: 59

Height: 5 ft 6 in
Start Weight (Your February 1st Weight): 247
Goal Weight (by February 29): 240

1/2/09: 247
8/2/09:
15/2/09:
22/2/09:
28/2/09:

Total weight loss:

I'm sick. My sinuses are acting up, and I feel pretty groggy. I'm not sleeping well, and my dreams are full of anxiety, conflict and failure. Yuck. I cannot account for the weight gain between Thursday and Sunday. My last exercise was Friday. I worked through my weight routine along with some light cardio.  I have been hungry for every meal...and not gone overboard, even with some indulgences (rum drink, chocolate candy). Despite the evil scale, I am sticking to January's "goal weight" of 240.

I didn't even call in sick today: a miracle that almost didn't happen. I wanted to go back to bed and go to sleep. Not sure this was the right choice. But anyway, results are not in my control, just the choices of actions and attitudes. Enough poor me! I stick to the plan, and salvage what I can: my attitude. It will be all right, okay, and I'm going to be fine. Let us all accept today's challenges!

I'm in! I was in the December challenge, and then went away for January on vacation, but now I'm back and ready to go!

Name: fakeout
Age: 21
Height: 5 ft 5 in
Start Weight (Your February 1st Weight): 140
Goal Weight (by February 29): 137

1/2/09: 140 (that's today's, actually, but oh well)
8/2/09:
15/2/09:
22/2/09:
1/3/09:

Total weight loss: ...ready to go!

Name: Bee
Age: 23
Height: 5'4"
Start Weight (Your February 1st Weight): 131.4 
Goal Weight (by February 29): 125

1/2/09: 131.4
8/2/09: 129
15/2/09:
22/2/09:
1/3/09:

Total weight loss:

Hi everyone!  I am a cancer survivor, just beginning to get back into my life after a couple years of chemo, radiation and a recent bone marrow transplant. Have been cal counting for a week today and so fat less than 2 lbs gone! I hope that this will help me shed the extra weight by mid April, when I'm heading off to Mexico to visit a friend and will need to be in shape to keep up! 

I have great trouble sticking to my calorie goal (esp when around those who eat too much) , or exercising for that matter. Hope this will keep me motivated. 

Original Post by restless_girl:

Although I wanted to move and felt like I would get depressed again if I didn't move, since shifting house, I've felt really out of place.
My room doesn't feel like my room.
But I'm a creature of habit and I miss my old lumpy, narrow, tiny, one-person-only bed.
Most of my stuff is still in boxes.
The room still smells like the past inhabitants.
It's got no personal touches.
...
I don't feel like I belong here.
I don't feel like I belong in my boyfriends house.
I don't feel at home anywhere.
Everywhere I go I just seem to be bludgering off someone else.
I'm so unstable that anyone would be insane to hire me so the chances of me getting a job is low, so I can't go find my own place to live.
... And I'd have to go flatting anyway so I'd STILL feel like I was imposing on someone elses home.
*deep breath*

 

 What you are feeling is totally normal.  I call it "mover's remorse".  It's what happens when you really really REALLY want something to happen and then when it does and it doesn't live up to the idea you had in your mind, you end up feeling especially awful.  Did you take that deep breath?  It will get better.  The first thing you need to do is make that room yours.  Start with unpacking your boxes and putting all your things where you want them.  Then go and buy yourself a scented candle.  Putting  your fragrance stamp on the room will help alot.   You need to stop beating yourself up.  There are plenty of yucky people out in the world that are willing to beat us up.  We can't and shouldn't do it to ourselves.   Please take care, and know that you are SO appreciated!

Name: MischiefDM
Age: 70
Height: 5' 6.25"
Start Weight: 134.... [174 three years ago!]
Goal Weight (by March 1): 132

1/2/09: 134.2
8/2/09:
15/2/09:
22/2/09:
1/3/09:

Total weight loss:

Oops! Almost forgot to get this posted.  Good luck to everyone.

Hope you get to feeling better Claire; you are a wonderful person to share the world with.

Name: Alegna98
Age: 29
Height: 5'3"
Start Weight: 119
Goal Weight (by March 1): 115

1/2/09: 119
8/2/09:
15/2/09:
22/2/09:
1/3/09:

I missed the last Jan weigh-in, but I'm ready for a new month!!!

My stats have remained the same over the weekend, so my officially start weight is:

2/1/09- 136 lbs

I am really looking forward to getting my butt in shape this month- getting back to the gym has really given me an energy and confidence boost. 

Claire, I am sorry to hear about your hard time adjusting to your new place.  I am the same way and tend to deal with changes slowly.  It will all work out- once you start putting all your own things in place it will feel better.  I agree that candles really do make a difference- I always feel more "at home" and relaxed when there is a candle burning in my home.  My fiance jokes about how I stock up on candles whenever there is a sale, just to make sure I have a selection to pick from- depending on the season and what mood I am in. 

Good luck to everyone this week!

my my my, my weight is still not falling and I kinda know why. I hate the winter, it makes me lazy and I have no desire to workout or do anything. I can't wait for the spring to get here. here are my stats. I hope to lose at least 5 pounds, thats a small goal that should be attainable. I hope

Name: CRYSTAL
Age: 28
Height: 5'11
Start Weight: 198.5
Goal Weight (by March 1): 193

1/2/09: 198.5
8/2/09:
15/2/09:
22/2/09:
1/3/09:

Happy Groundhog Day!

Is it too late to join this challenge?