"Brand New You"-New weight loss group!

I'm interested!

Jen: Starting weight:  178 ;bs
Goal weight (July 27th): 165 lbs

I'm 25 (but also turn 26 during the challenge on July 22).  I've been tri training for about two years.  I had some good luck losing weight last year and was even down to about 150 about 15 months ago.  Then I developed hypothyroidism and gained a lot of weight.  I'm getting it treated now and working out the kinks with my medication, but I think  I can start losing weight if I get serious about it. 

Josh - I'll join a group despite my "not in a group" thread.  I've included in bold below my interim goals for this group, as well as my longer term goals.

My one suggestion would be to make the group longer than a month... a month is not that much time... have a bad week and you've blown it kind of thing.  Maybe a "brand new you in 90" (but I defer to the OPs and the group's wishes).

Starting weight (in March) - 228.6

Current weight - 209

Goal weight (end of July) - 200

Goal weight (September 16 race) - 190

Goal weight (January 1, 2008) - 180

So this challenge starts tomorrow.  Braden, I'm assuming you've signed up for the honors of posting all our results in a nice table each week   Also, any thoughts from you or others on making this a longer event ( "new you in 90" was my humble suggestion).

Best of luck everyone!!!!!!!!!

Josh

I want to play too

Starting weight (On Jan 7th 2006): 229

Current weight: 199.6lbs (finally made it to ONEderland )

Goal weight (July 27th): 193

Ultimate Goal: 159lbs (not date set for that) 

I have been loosing slow but steady since January so I am setting a realistic goal for myself which is 6lbs or 1.5lbs a week.

I need some motivation so I want to play too:

Kathy
Starting Weight 4/21/03:253
Current Weight:167
Goal Weight:145-153, lose 100 then decide?
July 27th Goal: 163/164

I've been at this a long time and lose slowly if I can lose 3-4 pounds I'll be stoked. I have 5 kids, this is my 4th year doing triathlons; I'm supposed to do my first HIM in September but was in a bike race crash June 9th and have some recovering to do; When depressed/stressed I tend to eat as I don't smoke, drink or do other bad stuff...with this injury I'm feeling very stressed..more than normal. 2 of our kids just graduated HS and are starting college. When I got back from doing St. A's I found the company I was contracting at replaced me so I'm looking for something new. Working out feels so good and is like therapy I'm limited in how much I can do and for modified amounts of time.

I gained 3-4 pounds since end of April which is not acceptable to me and I need motivation to eat cleaner. I do track what I eat via Calorie King...seems the more I think of eating healthy and trying to cut calories I do worse.

Braden, not to steal your thunder at all, but you haven't checked in and I wanted to get this going (thanks for motivating me).  Here's what I have so far from everyone... feel free to let me know if you would like to ammend your goals for the official chart.  All you need to do is weigh in every friday and I will update my spreadsheet and post here (just post your current weight... I've set everything up to do all the calculations for you).

For starters, I'd suggest we all pick together a final *end of challenge* date so that we can bring this thing to a conclusion at some point.  As you'll see in the chart below we have various dates from 7/27 to 9/23.  Not to sound like a broken record... but 90 days is both alliterative (new you in ninety) and gives us time to accomplish something.  90 days from today is September 20th.  So if you need prompting, give me a new goal for September 20th.

Braden - if you want to administer this... shoot me your email and I'll give you my spreadsheet if you want it.

Hello all - here are my stats as of today.  224.5 33% BF   My goal by the July 27 date is 214 and 195 by the 90 day mark.  Please chart my progress and goals as you see fit.

I am 39 and have not been under 200 in about 9 years and I would love to be at my athletic weight of 180 (which I have not seen in about 15 years)  My main issue is overeating.. the portion sizes that I eat are large.  I just returned from Denmark - and although I ate constantly - I lost 4 lbs..this was due to the portion sizes as well as the fact that I did not eat any fast food....everything was meat, fish, potatos and cheese. If I just eat like I did there, I will have no problem losing the weight.  (There is something to be said for open faced sandwiches).     Scott.

Now I'm getting me some excited!!!!!!!1