Hi All, I know that there is a 4th of July challenge going on now and I'm thinking about a challenge for myself.  Beginning July 1st, I'm challenging myself to lose 50 pounds (which would bring me to 199) by December 31st.  That would require me to lose a little over 8 pounds a month, which I know is quite a stretch.  So, this challenge would be more for fun (although I will do my best) than anything else. I was wondering if anyone else would like to give themselves a 6-month challenge of some sort and join me.  Please think about it and let me know your thoughts.

Yes, I would be interested in losing 30 pounds by December 31, 2007.  Right now I'm 279.5 pounds.  That would be 245.5 by December 31, 2007. Denise Phares

Great Denise, I'm sure we can get at least a couple of more people to accept the challenge by the 1st.  It will be fun.

I'm in! Besides our July 4th challenge...i am trying to set personal goals every 6 months, so I am due after July.  I would say at the rate I am going, I'll set another 10# challenge.  I think i'll stay with WW online for that amount of time.

I'm in too.  I'm going to start taking my weight seriously in July.  Right now, I'm being totally lazy about it, not going to the gym, eating (close to) whatever I want.  I need to be serious. 

 this thing is heating up.  Six months is a long time and I thought it might be too long of a time period for anyone to be interested.  Don't forget when you're deciding your 6-month goal, that we have Thanksgiving and Christimas to contend with.  I usually gain 5 pounds during the holidays but this time I'm determined to end the year off much smaller than I started it.

Well, since I clearly didn't make the 4th of July challenge - grrrrrrrrrrrrr -- I'm in for the December challenge.  It will help keep me on track during the holidays.  I guess I will stick to my "get to 200 pounds".  I'll call it my "constantly reset goal." LOL

I am not likely to make July 4, either, Donna! I had no way to know that my body would plateau out, though.  And what is that quote...

“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?”  Browning

i wanna do this but i don't know exactly how much i want to set my goal for... could you do like a 6 month mega goal with a mini goal every month or two months? cause that would be cool... and you could change your mega goal according to the progress? or would that be too complicated?

Hi C -- Yeah, I think I'm gonna just keep it at one overall 6-month goal.  Of course you can set mini personal goals for yourself.  About setting your goal, you know from past weight loss attempts how much weight you normally lose and how fast right?  And don't forget to take the holidays into account.  It doesn't have to be an exact number just a number that you feel comfortable with.  Not so low that you're not challenging yourself and not so high that it's impossible to make and you become discouraged.  I think that I will post everyone's losses at the beginning of each month, the cumulative losses and, of course, the grand total on December 31st.