Mommy's Weight Loss and Health Challenge Sign Up

This group is for mommies who are in the process of reclaiming their pre-baby beauty!  On page 6, you will find our Biggest Loser competition.  We are dividing into groups and gonna shed as many pounds as we can before May.

If interested, email Hildieb your: first name, age, height and frame size, starting weight & goal weight.

 To just join the group, make a post with the above info.  Each week when you weigh in, edit your original post and indicate your total loss.

Weigh ins are on Mondays!  Welcome!

welcome Karen,

 I haven't been doing so hot. All my kids and the hubby were sick all last week and I got WAY behind on laundry. It was uglylet me tell you. It was just so much easier to grab a cookie or something like that than a good healthy meal or even a healthy snack. I am getting back on the wagon this week though and am determined to log everything! That really helps me.

How do you join? I think that this what I have been looking for. I am 23 and i have a 2yr old daughter and 6 yr old stepson and since my daughter it seems hard to loose the weight and when i think about how much i have gained it makes me upset. I am looking for some kind of a support group and i hope i can get that here.

Thanks

Jen

That's good enough for me! Welcome Jen! I must warn you though, most of us don't post too often, I mean think about what we do all day long!

I do think though that you might find a whole lot of people that are in very similar boats!Good for you for starting this so soon instead of doing what I did and wait until 4 kids later!  

Hope everyone is well. 163.5 today. Well we're getting ready for my mom to come live with us. ( My stepdad passed away in October and well we've got to help her out.) But she loves ice cream and cookies, chips and junk like that. These are things I don't buy anymore so I'll have to get really tough :O) Waiting for this week's challenge.

Welcome to all of our new mommies! It is great to see so many of us gathering!

 

I seem to be stuck at 151ish.  I guess I will be thankful I am not gaining.  I switched the diet and exercise, laid off exercise, started doing it more and it just isn't moving.  Ava is only 11 months old...maybe I am just in a hormonal wasteland waiting for things to normalize (again - or does this ever really happen?) :) 

Challenge - Mon Dec 17-Sun Dec 23 AND Dec. 24-30

 OK, so this may seem basic, but since we are in the Christmas season and around the cookies and more snacky food, we are going to go back to the water goal and stick with it for 2 weeks.  I can only speak for myself, but I love sweets and getting together with our friends and family.  So let's focus on drinking half of our body weight in ounces (i.e. I am 151 so I need to drink 75 ounces a day or 9.5 glasses) so we can cleanse our systems and flush out those yummy cookies (and hopefully a pound or 2).

 

Also - sorry there was no challenge last week.  I thought Cati was posting it and was out of town so didn't notice nothing was here.   If anyone has any ideas for challenges, just throw them out there with the dates.  Cati and I started the thread but we are a team.  :)

Idea!! 

What do you guys think of making teams at the start of the year to see which team can lose the most weight?  We could try to make sure each team has tall, short, wide weight range, etc. in it.   

sounds great!

Yay!

I think doing teams is a great idea!  Who is going to set it up?

Hadn't gotten that far.  Anyone want to volunteer?  How should we track it?  Maybe one original post like our personal ones?

I guess I can help, if you want me to. I really like the idea of everyone keeping thier original post and going back to edit it as they loose the weight and keep thier goals.

Kind of like the December weight loss challenge is doing, only maybe we can ad our own water/ caloric intake/ whatever goals at the bottom. What do you all think?

This sounds great for me!!!  Is it too late to join?  I'm a mother of 3 (2, 4, and 6).  Here we go:

Name: Yasmin
Age: 27
Height 5'6"
Frame size: Medium
Starting weight: 180 (around there, I have to buy a scale today)
Three kids: 2 girls (4 & 6); 1 boy (2)

WEIGH INS:
12/18/07:   180

I LOVE this idea!!!!  Let me know what I have to do!!!! YAY!!!  This would really motivate me.

 

Yasmin*

Original Post by clarkplace123:

I guess I can help, if you want me to. I really like the idea of everyone keeping thier original post and going back to edit it as they loose the weight and keep thier goals.

Kind of like the December weight loss challenge is doing, only maybe we can ad our own water/ caloric intake/ whatever goals at the bottom. What do you all think?

 

Can you cut and paste a format from the December challenge you mentioned?  Then we could each edit our weigh ins on Mondays & email our team captain our starting weight, total lost on Mondays as well.  Then the person in charge of each team could track total loss, etc.  What do you think?

 Is there a way to let others edit a post that you make? (i.e. can the team captain make a post and each person edit their weight etc?)  Also, if no one weighs in for 3 weeks, they are out.  That way we are not trying to track them down. 

 Thoughts?

 

• Goal for December :
  
• weight on Dec 1:
• weight on Dec 10:
• weight on Dec 17:
• weight on Dec 24:
• weight on Dec 31:
• Total weight lost so far in December: ( of course this will be January and so forth)

• other goal we might be working on for the week: (note following examples)
• Water intake:
• Carbs:
• Fats:
• proteins:
• minutes of exercise ( well you get the idea)

I am not sure how to let others edit your post. You would have to ask a moderator Or some such. That really would be the easiest wouldn't it! But not sure if that is even possible for us "lay folk".

 

I'm so excited about this!!!! 

I dont think you will be able to get the edit functionality - I'm not sure they could put a security around it that would only let you edit just within this group, you know?  It's a dangerous tool.

So will each team pick their own names or colors or something?  When can we start!!!!????

Yasmin*

That looks great!  We will start January 2nd (let's be realistic and start off on a high at the start of the year)

 

If you are interested in the weight loss competition, email me and include: 

Name, height, frame size, current weight, goal weight (this will help us form teams that are equal.  I don't want a team of people that are al 5 pounds from their goal weight b/c they will not lose as much. )

Example:  Amy, 5'7", medium frame, currently 150, 144 goal weight.

 

Should we just do pounds lost or go%age for what?  Once I have everyone, I will form teams and make a post.  When we know how many we have, we can pick team captains that will post each week.  YAY!!!

oh we have to have team names ! please oh please! 

I think there has to be team names, that would be so much fun!  I did HORRIBLE over the holiday, but I'm back on track now that I'm back at work again.  I didn't even do bad with the food - it was the snacking and chocolates that pushed me over.  I think if I hated chocolate I would be fine! :o)

 

Yasmin*