Thursday, February 19, 2009

Move It and Lose It!

After much discussion with friends and family, it seems that there's a general discontent with our health and weight. Jon and I decided to start tracking our weight and making more efforts to lose it. We set up a cool little chart to show our weight loss. But, to engender a bit more accountability and competition, we'd like to open up the challenge to everyone!

So here's the deal. If you'd like to lose weight (more than 5 pounds, please) and be involved in our little Move It and Lose It challenge, let me know in a comment! I'll set up a chart with the participants' names, and you can do a personal "weigh-in" every Friday and log it on the chart for all the participants to see. (It won't be up here on the blog.) AND, if everyone who participates will send me $5, then whoever loses the most weight (or gets closest to their goal weight, or something like that) will win the money collected in the form of a gift card to his/her favorite clothing store, since we'll all need new clothes to fit our new selves! (Or, if you're like me, your closet full of clothes will fit again.)

Our first weigh-in will be tomorrow, but you can sign up through next Friday, February 27. The challenge will last 6 months, to the end of August. The more the merrier! (And the better the prize will be in the end!)

10 comments:

  1. Wow! Sounds like fun...especially since now I have my WW calculator and help from Aimee! Count me in.

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  2. Count me in! Pre-pregnancy jeans, here I come!

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  3. Yall are too cute! I'm participating in something similiar in my Jazzercise class. so....can I participate with you too???

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  4. Oh, um, I'll start my weigh-in next week. Gotta get Ian's bday party out of the way... chocolate cupcakes, here I come! :-)

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  5. Hooray! This is so exciting! Yes, KarenN, sure you can participate!

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  6. KarenD: Actually, maybe you should weigh in this week. It'll give you a higher starting off point!

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  7. @Momma: I like your enthusiasm. :)

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  8. I shall ponder. Something about meeting my scale EVERY week leaves something to be desired.

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  9. I love how this post is immediately followed by the tempting picture of "Yummy Chocolatey-ness." Nice.

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