Weight loss challenge/Support group

I'll do it.  I need a good challenge.  I vote that we use one scale and meeting place.  Or at least have a partner to keep us honest. 

How about adding a prize for the top finishers?

azstaterick - 2008-12-01 3:47 PM Not sure about Zilla and Adam but Javamom looks fantastic. She must simply be organizing this thing.

Oh I look good.  From my knee to my ankle... I am hot! 

I will be in. 

However, trust is going to have to be the plan as I like Zilla - but not sure I can take the scale to her every week!   Besides, so many of you bagged on Wed night runs that there no longer exists a common meeting spot until the lake warms up again.

Thanks JavaMom,

I am definitely in for this. I need to lose more weight than all of you. So I started today. Since finding out that my knee was actually broken I am staying away from running until I lose 30 pounds.

I am concentrating on swimming and cycling. I will use what ever weight I have achieved at the start of this thing. Let me know a specific date we are starting and I'll record my weight for that day and start there.

How much weight does everyone wanna lose? Personally I'm going for 55lbs.

I'm in for 10 lbs (or 12ish after the Thanksgiving eating fest). 

If you Phoenix folks all get together to weigh in, perhaps Zilla and I can get together down here.  Our tri club is doing a Dec Run-a-thon as well - goal is 2 miles everyday in Dec.  "Walk w/intention of running" counts as well.

I vote for something competitive, we are all very competitive and that would give us all an incentive.

Do we want the goal to be a percent of body weight, or overall weight loss?

I'm okay with the accountability but I assure you that I need this so I' don't care if someone else looks at the scale.

This is embarrasing, but I weighed in last night at the gym at 290lbs. A very loud wake up call.

To be honest, you all are a huge inspiration to me. I just love looking at your albums and seeing where you were and where you are now.

For the longest time I didn't see a fat man when I looked in the mirror. Now I realize that I have become someone that I don't even recognize. It has taken me 6 months to come out of the depression from my divorce, but now I am completely committed to getting back in shape.

My main focus is my diet. I think that I am going to start carrying a book and keeping track of everything that I eat.

Well, while this stomach flu diet has been extremely successful, it hasn't been very conducive to training so I think I'd like to join in on the support group thing. It sounds like an excellent idea!

I'm not into a competition, and, like Sandy, I would rather focus on bodyfat % rather than weight. 

Maybe we could all post our own personal goals and go from there, and those who want to get competitive about it can call each other out? I have plenty of pink tu-tu's, crocs, etc. that have previously been reserved for Jerry when he's lost his personal pride to my inherent superiority that we can pass out to losers 

Well since having two surgeries this year and only getting in half a season after deciding that I wanted to pursue triathlon, I've gone from 195-180. Ideally my goal weight would be around 170 with almost half the body fat that I have now (about 20% according to my ironman scale). The past two months I've stayed at 180 largely due to happy hours and Sundays at the bar with friends. Not to mention the "I'm training so I don't need to be that strict nutrition wise" thinking that I know is dead wrong. I know that loosing the next 10 pounds and 8-10% body fat is largely gonna come down to diet. I also don't know how to calculate how much I need to consume with my current training load and how to adjust that with increases in training volume. I want to get some LT/Vo2 max testing done in the beginning of 2009 and I'd be interested in having my body fat accurately measured.

I'd be willing to offer support and participate in a weight loss challenge. I may not be able to post to it everyday but I would be committed to check in once a week with a weight and status report.