Long-term weight-loss challenge... (Read 756 times)

Anyone interested? We've been talking in Jiggly Joggers about a fun way to inspire ourselves to lose some #s in time for Summer. Right now it looks like we're leaning towards a 5% weight loss goal for everyone. We'd do weigh-in on the 19th (Mondays are our regular weigh-in days), then figure our 5% goal amounts and start on Tues--the first day of Spring. We'd all have 3 months to work towards our goals, then. Everyone feel free to join us if you've got a few pounds you'd like to be rid of in time for Summer. I personally want to be a lean, mean running machine in time for bathing suit season and have not so many pounds to haul around during races, either. k

I'm in...I'm in!!! I too want to be a lean mean running machine. And it would also be nice to walk around in a bathing suit with no jiggle. how are you doing it? Do we just weigh in and post it, is their a certain time during the day you want us to weigh in by? I am motivated.

Hi zz, I like the idea of keeping the current weekly weigh-in threads and use them for this challenge as well. Each week, whenever a jiggler weighs in, the first line of their post would simply include their challenge weight. So for example, for this coming Monday (the start of the challenge), my weekly weigh-in post would (hopefully!) look like: Challenge Weight: 189.8 8/19/06 220.0 … 3/12/07 201.0 3/19/07 199.8 So you see my challenge weight is 95% of my 3/19 weight (189.8 = .95 * 199.8 ). Then the following week I would just add my weekly number as I always have: Challenge Weight: 189.8 8/19/06 220.0 … 3/12/07 201.0 3/19/07 199.8 3/26/07 199.0 For those who don't want to participate in the challenge, they simply would not post any challenge weight. Depending on how ambitious you are, you may also want to have a sticky for the challenge, where you could tabulate weekly or monthly summaries...

Challenge Summary - 3/26/07


Jiggler           Challenge         Current      To Go
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va123             189.9             199.0        9.1
ny321             abc.d             wxy.z        3.8
...

As you suggested, the challenge sticky could also be used to "post to that whenever we feel like it" on the topic of the challenge...

Jeff, we'd still keep our regular weekly weigh-ins, for sure...but I like VA's idea. Hey, BTW, how did you format that chart? That would be nice to do in a single stickied thread that I could update. k

Oh, that's right...I forgot about that! VA, I just made you an admin in JJ, since you already have a good handle on how to set that chart up. I think we can both edit the post/thread with the chart in it to keep it updated that way, too. k

It's gettin' pretty busy in there, anyhow...I've been thinkin' about having an extra moderator or two around there... k

Right here, Jill. I think tomorrow we will have a more official thread to start the actual Spring challenge, but today is our standard weekly weigh-in, so I think most of us are planning to use today's weight to figure our 5% goal from. k