Hello everyone! I'm new to the forum, but I'm ready to go.

My name is Rachel, I'm a 22 y/o college student living in Indianapolis, IN. My weight has bounced around in the 155 - 170 range for the past 3 or 4 years, but lately I've noticed how out of control my eating habits have become. I know if I don't stop now and get healthier, I could potentially gain a lot of weight.

I'm really excited and looking forward to getting to know you all!

adeon's Personal Birthday Challenge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Start Date: June 2, 2008
Upcoming Birthday: October 25, 2008
Duration of Challenge: 20 weeks 5 days

Starting Weight: 144 lbs
Goal Weight: 125
Total Pounds to Lose: 14
Average Pounds Per Week to Lose: 0.7

Checkpoint 1: July 10, 2008
Goal Weight: 135
Weigh IN: 137.2 lbs (sooo close!!)
(Loss/Gain): -6.8 lbs

Checkpoint 2: August 15, 2008
Goal Weight: 130
Weigh IN:135.4 lbs
(Loss/Gain): -1.8 lbs

Checkpoint 3: September 20, 2008
Goal Weight: 127
Weigh IN:
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Checkpoint 4: October 25, 2008 Happy Birthday to Me!!!
Goal Weight: 125
Weigh IN:
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This is such a great idea!! I'll start it from today (just a note that I've already lost 30 pounds in the last 7 weeks) but this will be great motivation for me in the coming months!!


Keelynn414's Personal Birthday Challenge!
Start Date: 8.18.08
Upcoming Birthday: 4.14.09
Duration of Challenge: 8 months

Starting Weight: 250 (down from 285 on June 22nd)
Goal Weight: 165 (then maybe another 10-20 after that for toning up)
Total Pounds to Lose: 85
Average Pounds Per Week to Lose: 2.5 per week

Checkpoint 1: (October 22, 2008)
Goal Weight: 225-230
Weigh IN:
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Checkpoint 2: (December 22, 2008)
Goal Weight: 200-210
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Checkpoint 3: (February 22, 2009)
Goal Weight: 180-190
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Checkpoint 4: (April 14, 2009) Happy Birthday to Me!!!
Goal Weight: 160
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Kate's Birthday Challenge!

Start Date: 8/18/08
Up Coming B-Day: 9/19/08
Duration Of Challenge: 4wks.
Starting Weight: 140lbs.
Goal Weight: 130lbs.
Total Pounds To Lose: 10lbs.
Average Pounds A Week To Lose: 1-2lbs.

Check Point 1: 8/25/08
Goal Weight: 138lbs.
Weigh-In:
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Check Point 2: 9/1/08
Goal Weight: 136lbs.
Weigh-In:
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Check Point 3: 9/8/08
Goal Weight:133lbs.
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Check Point 4: My Birthday 9/19/08
Goal Weight: 130lbs.
Weigh-In:
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Personal Reward: Buy a new outfit in whatever size clothing im into at that time.

Sara Maria's Personal Birthday Challenge!
Start Date: September 9, 2008
Upcoming Birthday: April 12, 2009
Duration of Challenge: 7 months.

Starting Weight: 235 lbs
Goal Weight: 185 lbs
Total Pounds to Lose: 50 lbs
Average Pounds Per Week to Lose: 2 lbs

Checkpoint 1: November 9, 2008
Goal Weight: 220 lbs
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Checkpoint 2: January 9, 2009
Goal Weight: 210 lbs
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Checkpoint 3: March 9, 2009
Goal Weight: 200 lbs
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Checkpoint 4: April 12, 2009
Goal Weight: 185
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Just wanted to update this. I've been away and haven't weighed myself in a while. I weigh myself next on Friday 10/3. When I do I'll change things if I need to, but for now I'm keeping the same goals.

Ginger's Personal Birthday Challenge!
Start Date: July 11, 2008
Upcoming Birthday: October 28, 2008
Duration of Challenge: 3 mos. 16 days

Starting Weight:138
Goal Weight:125
Total Pounds to Lose:13
Goal Body Fat: 16%
Total BF to lose: About 5%
Average Pounds Per Week to Lose:a little less than 1

Checkpoint 1: August 15, 2008 (end of this trimester)
Goal Weight/BF%: 132; 19%
Weigh IN: ?
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Checkpoint 2: September 10, 2008 (beginning of next trimester)
Goal Weight/BF%: 130; 18%
Weigh IN: ?
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Checkpoint 3: October 3, 2008
Goal Weight/BF%: 128; 17%
Weigh IN:
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Checkpoint 4: October 28, 2008. Happy Birthday to Me!!!
Goal Weight/BF%: 125; 16%
Weigh IN:
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Personal Reward: A cruise to the Bahamas over my winter break from school. My boyfriend and I were talking about it last winter, but decided it was too expensive. But this would be the perfect gift to myself. I'd get myself a new bathing suit too!

P.S. This is an awesome idea! I love it.

Start Date: 10/04/2008
Upcoming Birthday: December 9, 2008
Duration of Challenge: 9 weeks 2 days

Starting Weight: 184
Goal Weight: 170
Total Pounds to Lose: 15
Average Pounds Per Week to Lose: 2

Checkpoint 1: 10/19/2008
Goal Weight: 180
Weigh IN:179
(Loss/Gain): -5

Checkpoint 2: 11/8/2008
Goal Weight: 176
Weigh IN: 174.4
(Loss/Gain): -4.6

Checkpoint 3: 11/30/2008
Goal Weight: 172
Weigh IN:
(Loss/Gain):

Checkpoint 4: 12/9/2008 Happy Birthday to Me!!!
Goal Weight: 170
Weigh IN:
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Personal Reward: Buying me a new pair of jeans. Hopefully a size 10 thats FITS not tight..lol

Natalie jo's Personal Birthday Challenge!
Start Date: October 6th, 2008
Upcoming Birthday: October 7th, 2009
Duration of Challenge: 12 months, 1 year!!

Starting Weight: 269.2 pounds
Goal weight: 240 pounds!!
Total Pounds to Lose: 30 pounds!!
Average Pounds Per Week to Lose: I want to lose from .5 oz to one pound per week!

We found my outfit for our wedding/ceremony on May 31st. Looking forward to it and hopefully twenty pounds less.
October 10th: 271.6 (ugh not a very good start. Still struggling ... after fifty pounds I have lost the rythm, u know... but another one hundred, I am ready, next week will be a better reading!!
October 17th: 268.2 ( some weight loss is starting. What a plateau its been!)
October 24th: 267.8 (Was excited when I saw this number... lmao))!!!
October 31st:

Month October weigh in?
Pounds lost:

November 7th:
November 14th:
November 21st:
November 30th:

November weigh in:
Total lost:

December 5th:
December 12th:
December 19th:
December 26th:
December 31st:

December Weigh in:
Total lost:

January 2nd:
January 9th:
January 16th:
January 23rd:
January 31st:

January weigh in:

Total lost:

February 6th:
Feb 13th:
Feb 20th:
Feb 28th:

February Weigh in:
Total lost?

March 6th:
March 13th:
March 20th:
March 27th:
March 31st:

March weigh in:
Total lost:

April 3rd:
April 10th:
April 17th:
April 24th:
April 30th:

April Weigh In:
Total lost:

May 1st:
May 8th:
May 15th:
May 22nd:
May 29th:
May 31st:

May Goal for the 31st:
My wedding day!!
Goal: 250 pounds!!

June 5th:
June 12th:
June 19th:
June 26th:
June 30th:

Total Weigh in:
Total lost since May 31st:

July 3rd:
July 10th:
July 17th:
July 24th:
July 31st:

Total weigh in:
Total lost:

August 1st:
August 7th:
August 14th:
August 21st:
August 28th:
August 31st:

Total weigh in:
Total lost?

Sept 4th:
Sept 11th:
Sept 18th:
Sept 25th:
Sept 30th:

Total lost in Sept:

October 2nd:
October 7th:
Goal weight: 240 pounds!!
Wish me love everyone to another Birthday Challenge!!!

Happier and healthier and married me! whoot whoot!!

love always
natalie jo

Sorry, there were to many posts so I couldn't browse through them. But this seemed like a really great idea so I thought I'd join in. GOOD LUCK ALL!!!

Kat's Personal Birthday Challenge!
Start Date: October 8th, 2008
Upcoming Birthday: February 3rd, 2009
Duration of Challenge: About 4 months.

Starting Weight: 180.0Lbs
Goal Weight: 145.0Lbs
Total Pounds to Lose: 35Lbs
Average Pounds Per Week to Lose: 2-2.5Lbs/week

Checkpoint 1: November 3rd, 2008
Goal Weight:
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Checkpoint 2: December 3rd, 2008
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Checkpoint 3: January 3rd, 2009
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Checkpoint 4: Happy Birthday to Me!!!
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Personal Reward: I am going to buy myself a killer leather jacket... something really sexy and fashionable. I've always wanted a leather jacket. But my breasts get pretty huge when I gain weight so I don't want to buy something before I am at my goal weight.

I like this idea and would love to join.

So, here is

San's personal Birthday Challenge

Start Date: October 5th 2008
Upcoming Birthday: February 14th 2009
Duration of Challenge: 4 months, 9 days

Starting Weight: 322.8 lbs
Goal weight: 275 lbs
Total Pounds to Lose: 47.8 lbs
Average Pounds Per Week to Lose: roughly 2.5 lbs / week

October
12th: 320.8 lbs
19th: 319.0 lbs
26th: 312.4 lbs
Total lost in October: 8.4 lbs

November
2nd: 309.6 lbs
9th: 309.0 lbs
16th: 304.6 lbs
23rd: 303.8 lbs
30th: 298.2 lbs
Total lost in November: 11.4 lbs

December
7th: 296.2 lbs
14th: 295.6 lbs
21st: 293.6 lbs
28th: 290.2 lbs
Total lost in December: 8 lbs

January
4th: 287.8 lbs
11th: n/a
18th: n/a
25th: n/a
Total lost in January:

February
1st: n/a
8th: 279.4 lbs
14th:
HAPPY. BIRTHDAY!!!

Total lost in February:

Total lost during challenge: 43.4 lbs so far

October Birthdays!!! Happy Birthday!


October '08
07 nataliejo (page 5)
25 adeon (page 5)
28 GonnaGetAbs (page 6)

I just wanted to say Welcome to everyone who's joined up for their very own Birthday Challenge!!

I'm trying to swing by and say hello to all of you in your threads. If you ever need a friend and some support, just swing by my diary and drop me a line.

Good luck to everyone! You can do it! This is your year!

MissJellyBelly's Personal Birthday Challenge!
Start Date: 2/27/08
Upcoming Birthday: 03/03/09
Duration of Challenge: 12 months

Starting Weight: 214.6 lbs
Goal Weight: 160 lbs
Total Pounds to Lose: 54.6 lbs
Average Pounds Per Week to Lose: 1 lbs

Checkpoint 1: 06/01/08
Goal Weight: 190 Doh! Just 5 pounds shy!
Weigh IN: 195.0
(Loss): (-19.6 lbs)

Checkpoint 2: 09/01/08
Goal Weight: 170
Weigh IN: 188.4 lbs
(Loss): (-6.6 lbs)

Checkpoint 3: 12/01/08
Goal Weight: 180 (Had to recalculate my goals, I'm slackin!.)
Weigh IN:
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Checkpoint 4: (03/03/09) Happy Birthday to Me!!!
Goal Weight: 160
Weigh IN:
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AMY'S PERSONAL BIRTHDAY CHALLENGE

My upcoming birthday is December 7th, when I will turn 45. However, I am going to Italy for a lot of November. So I am going to try to set this up for a year, from one birthday to the next.

Start Date: December 7, 2008
Duration of Challenge: 2 years


Checkpoint 0: December 7, 2008 Happy Birthday to Me!!!
Goal Weight: 200
Weigh IN: 204.4

Didn't make it. The sad thing is that I had gotten down to this weight about a month ago, but then gained weight.


Checkpoint 1: March 7, 2008
Goal Weight: 190
Weigh IN:205.5
(Loss/Gain): gained 1.1 lbs. Am going in the Wrong direction

************** I did not want to change this and admit defeat. I was hoping to catch up with my goal. But I think I'll just end up giving up. So I am going to change everything below, and put everything back by half a year, and try again.

Start Date: March 9, 2009
Duration of Challenge: 2 years

Checkpoint 1: June 7, 2009
Goal Weight: 200
Weigh IN:
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Checkpoint 2: September 7, 2009
Goal Weight: 190
Weigh IN:
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Checkpoint 3: December 7, 2009 - Happy Birthday to Me!!!
Goal Weight: 180
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Checkpoint 4: March 7, 2010
Goal Weight: 170
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Checkpoint 5: June 7, 2010
Goal Weight: 160
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Checkpoint 6: September 7, 2010
Goal Weight: 155
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Checkpoint 4: December 7, 2010 - Happy Birthday to Me!!!
Goal Weight: 150
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Checkpoint 4: March 7, 2011
Goal Weight: 145
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Checkpoint 5: June 7, 2011
Goal Weight: 140
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Personal Reward: Will send in application for the beauty contest in "More" magazine.

I'm game for this! My birthday is in January, but I want to make this a challenge to my 40th which is in 2010 so I'm shooting for that. I reckon I'll be at and hopefully surpassed my goal by then and might make the 2nd half of the year fitness goals if that's ok?


Start Date: 10/31/08
Upcoming Birthday: 01/08/10
Duration of Challenge: 14 months

Starting Weight: 198.5(10/24)
Goal Weight: 140 lbs
Total Pounds to Lose: 58.5 lbs
Average Pounds Per Week to Lose: 1-2 lbs

Checkpoint 1: 11/30/08
Goal Weight: 185
Weigh IN:
(Loss):

Checkpoint 2: 12/31/08
Goal Weight: 175
Weigh IN:
(Loss):

Checkpoint 3: 01/01/09
Goal Weight: 173
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Checkpoint 4: 02/28/09
Goal Weight: 165
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Checkpoint 5: 03/31/09
Goal Weight: 153
Weigh IN:
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Checkpoint 2: 04/30/09
Goal Weight: 148
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Checkpoint 3: 5/31/09
Goal Weight: 140
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Checkpoint 4: 09/30/09
Goal Weight: retain weight-fat reduction goal tbd
Weigh IN:
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I'll finish the rest out to the finish. Hopefully this challenge will end early.
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