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Hey John,

I weigh every day so I like Option 6

Drop 10 for 2010 Challenge (be sure to bookmark this and visit often)
www.obesityhelp.com/group/Drop10410


Okay folks, time to face the music...

We need to find an accountability tool that works for each individual person...but you DO NOT need to share anything beyond what you are comfortable with. Everyone needs to find the method of accountabily that works for them. The only thing I see is that everyone should at least make the attempt to check in each wee****il you get to your 10 (or more) pound loss goal.

I'm throwing a few options out here for you to consider.

Option1
Weigh in on each Friday

Option 2
Weigh in on each Saturday

Option 3
Weigh in on each Sunday

Option 4 
Weigh in on each Monday

Option 5 
Weigh in each of those 4 days and take the lowest (I weigh each morning anyway)

Option 6
Use your lowest weight for the calendar week (example - Jan 3 through Jan 9)

Option 7
Anything else not memtioned

I'm also thinking that we all need to have a starting weight or a beginning personal benchmark. I don't think it needs to be the highest, but whatever you want to set at your target starting. For instance, I had a weight of around 218 pretty consistantly before the end of December. I spiked to over 230 (which quite frankly kind of freaked me out and led me here to this group) during my holiday eating. I'm now in the low 220's. I've decided to set my benchmark at 220 and I'm going after 23 pounds to get to 197 and then I'm going to focus in on staying between 197-199 for all of 2010. That is my personal goal and plan. I weighed in at 220.6 this morning so I am 0.6 over my new starting benchmark. I'm just looking at the 230 weight as a fluctuation and bloating more than anything (and I felt pretty crappy). For right now I'm personally going to use Friday as my official weighin for the week.

So when I check in my markers will look something like this

Starting Benchmark
220

Week                    Current                +/- Benchmark                    To 2010 goal
#1 (Jan 3-8)        220.6 (Jan 8)                   +0.6                                     23.6

I'm certainly open for suggestions on any other features you would like to see. Each Friday anyone should feel free to start the accountability thread and if everyone could just add to that one. If you get here early and start the thread, I think it would be good to to use CAPITAL letters for that weekly posting since it will be the one to key in on during the week. If you DO NOT want to post your current weight, then just go ahead and leave that column out and do not post your Starting Benchmark. Again it is important that you feel comfortable here and want to come back often and share your successes or concerns during the rest of the week. We will have more success when we enourage and work together.

Any other suggestions???...open to any and all.

I hope you had a good week and even a better one for week #2.

John

 P.S. Also, one little housekeeping chore I'd like to mention today. One of my goals is to see each new tread on the discusssion board have at least one or more responses. I would be happy to repond to each one, but it puts my mug up there too much. At least one response to a message says, "Hey, I respect what you had to say and I just want you to know I care". One thing I don't like on some of the other message boards is when someone posts and everyone just sits there mute with no response. It can make that person feel unwelcome. We want to be very inclusive of everyone because weight regain can be very scary and we never know where anyone is emotionally. Also, anyone interested in being a Group Leader can feel free to PM me and I'll add you on.

Alesia,

I can so hear you on that one. I just decided that I'm going to have a better 2010 than 2009. I'm pretty lucky in that department because I felt that I did a pretty poor job of being a WLS representative in 2009. Sure, I didn't gain all of my weight back, but I did manage to prove that without a proper focus, I could gain it all back. I truely believe that I could gain it all back and it scared me to death.

What I like about this new year is that I'm still feeling better about my start in 2010 than any given few days in 2009. I've already learned that many people like you and all of the other members have those demons and we are all working to tame them. I know that this is conquerable I'm with you on kicking the demon to the curb.

John

Hi Maureen,

I can so relate to your experience and the "fear".    Welcome to the group.

Get out those needles!