Weight-Loss Fall Semester Challenge for Students

Weight-Loss
kandazzle

kandazzle

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Who: College and high school students
What: A challenge to lose the highest percentage of body weight
When: Now through the end of the fall semester. (August 13th-December 14th)

Ok, so only college and high school students can sign up for this challenge. There will be a maximum of 20 participants, because huge challenges can be overwhelming and I just don't like them, lol. Please post a weekly update at least.

There will be a weekly weigh in on Mondays.

Interested? Please copy and paste the following and fill in your info

User name:
Name/Nickname:
Male/Female:
Age:
Are you in HS or College:
Year:
Height:
Current Weight:
High Weight:
Ultimate Goal Weight:
Goal Weight for this comp:
Plan to achieve goals:
 
User name: Kandazzle
Name/Nickname: Cassie
Male/Female: Female
Age: 19, will be 20 by the end of this month
Are you in HS or College: College
Year: Senior
Height: 5'9"
Current Weight: 213
High Weight: 215
Ultimate Goal Weight: 150
Goal Weight for this comp: 180
Plan to achieve goals: eating 1800 calories per day, introducing an exercise program, keeping positive and staying on track!


Weigh In's Here:
8/13: 215
8/20: 215
8/27: We'll see!
 
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Good idea Cassie. Im totally in and want to lose a few pounds for Sept 4 (first day of school) so I can get some nice clothes for back-to-school shopping but continue going throughout the semeser to reach ultimate goal weight. My stats:

User name: Angelica
Name/Nickname: Angelica
Male/Female: female
Age: just turned 20 last week
Are you in HS or College: college
Year: 3
Height: 5'5.5
Current Weight: 163-165..fluctuates everyday
High Weight: 178
Ultimate Goal Weight: 135
Goal Weight for this comp: for Sept 4: 155, but i'll be happy just getting into the 150's! for Dec 14: 135
Plan to achieve goals: eating a healthy diet and burning atleast 300 calories through exercise. I may try a cleasing fast just to start with..not for weightloss really but just to rid my body of the bad stuff and hopefully kill some cravings.


Weigh In's Here:
8/13: 165
8/20: 165 (atleast it wasn't a gain)
8/27: 166
9/3: 166.5
9/8: 164
 
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Ooo I like this. I start school in a week, but hopefully I can get to my goal weight by the holidays. I've been stuck between 140-142 for months. I can't take it anymore! Good luck everyone!

User name:Nessa
Name/Nickname:Nessa
Male/Female:Female
Age:21
Are you in HS or College:College
Year:1
Height:5'3
Current Weight:141
High Weight:152
Ultimate Goal Weight:125
Goal Weight for this comp:125
Plan to achieve goals: Don't eat out so much! And go to the gym at least 5 days a week and stop procrastinating!
 
User name: SoSel
Name/Nickname: Selena [birth name] answers to Sel or Ce-Ce
Male/Female: female
Age: 24
Are you in HS or College: college
Year: freshman [ish]
Height: 5'4
Current Weight: 194
High Weight: 215
Ultimate Goal Weight: 140
Goal Weight for this comp: 170
Plan to achieve goals: Eating sensible meals [no fast food] and quit skipping meals. Bike riding 3x a week or more. Working abs and upper body 3x a week. Oh, and staying optimistic.



Aug 13 weigh-in: 194 lbs
Aug 20 weigh-in: 195.8 lbs [too much dining out]
Aug 27 weigh-in: 193 lbs [yeah!]
Sep 02 weigh-in: 191.6 lbs
Sep 09 weigh-in: 193 lbs [too much alcohol]
 
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User name: Stuco
Name/Nickname: Stuco
Male/Female: Male
Age: 23
Are you in HS or College: College
Year: SR
Height: 6ft
Current Weight: 268
High Weight: 289
Ultimate Goal Weight: 185
Goal Weight for this comp: 185 (83lbs to lose)
Plan to achieve goals: Healthy Eating/Exercise
 
Yay! People joined. So today's the day to start or whatever, even though my classes haven't started yet.

Unfortunatly, this morning I found out that I am up 2 pounds! I am not thrilled with this at all and am hoping it's water weight, but regardless, my official starting weight is 215. ugh.

also, i fell down the stairs this morning, due to my astounding gracefulness and now my butt muscle is so tight that I can barely walk. i guess that means exercise is for the most part out today. *sigh*
 
User name: CartoonJunkie
Name/Nickname: Heather
Male/Female: female
Age: 20
Are you in HS or College: college
Year: Junior
Height: 5'1"
Current Weight: 140 :(
High Weight: 145
Ultimate Goal Weight: 110
Goal Weight for this comp: 120
Plan to achieve goals: Exercise and cut calories
 
I love this! Great idea... I'm in :)

User name: miss muffet
Name/Nickname: miss muffet (or anything else you happen to think of)
Male/Female: female
Age: 18
Are you in HS or College: college
Year: 2010 / sophomore
Height: 5'4"
Current Weight: 164 lbs
High Weight: 164 lbs
Ultimate Goal Weight: 130 lbs
Goal Weight for this comp: 143 lbs
Plan to achieve goals: eat! last semester i only ate one meal a day since i was so busy. this semester i'm going to be very strict about getting 5 small meals a day. i'll also exercise -- cardio and weight training five days a week.

good luck to everyone!

weigh-ins:

8/13: 164.0
8/20: 161.4
8/27: 160.2
9/3: 158.6
9/10: 157.4
 
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wow i'm the only high-schooler!

User name: Wacky
Name/Nickname: Annie
Male/Female: F
Age: 16
Are you in HS or College: HS
Year: 12th grade
Height: 5'1''
Current Weight:133
High Weight: 151
Ultimate Goal Weight: 120, possibly 115
Goal Weight for this comp: i gueess 115
Plan to achieve goals: Exercise daily at least 45 mins a day, eat and control intake of calories
 
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More new people! Yay! Welcome everyone.

How did your first day go?

I did ok on food. I could have made some better choices (salad instead of fries) but I'm pretty sure I did ok on calories. I need to drink some more water though! It was hot here today. Exercise didn't happen today due to my stupid fall down the stairs, but I plan on attempting a pilates video here in a little bit to see if I can possibly stretch the muscle back out and get a little bit of movement in.

I hope everyone had a good day!
 
I think we should all update by editing our original posts. That way the thread won't get too long.
 
What's wrong with a long thread? And won't that get confusing?

I'm pretty new to this forum, but I would imagine we can make a new thread every month for this and have the old one locked...that way it's still manageable. That's how it works on most of the forums I've been too.

Not to be offensive or anything...just curious about how things work around here!
 
Can I still join? If so, here's my info:

User name:Britta Bear
Name/Nickname: Britta
Male/Female:F
Age:21
Are you in HS or College: College
Year:unknown
Height:5'6"
Current Weight:239
High Weight:244
Ultimate Goal Weight:140
Goal Weight for this comp:209
Plan to achieve goals:moniter daily caloric intake, track percentage of fats/protein/carbs, drink 8 cups of water a day, and at least 30 mins cardio 5x weekly, and weight training 3-4x weekly.
 
miss muffet said:
i agree, i think it would be too confusing to go back and edit
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Whats confusing about hitting the edit button? I think its confusing to search through a 200 page thread. So what are we going to, repost the whole thing everytime we update?
 
Britta Bear said:
Can I still join? If so, here's my info
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Welcome! We're glad to have you!

stuco said:
Whats confusing about hitting the edit button? I think its confusing to search through a 200 page thread. So what are we going to, repost the whole thing everytime we update?
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The process of editing your original post is not confusing. But if people want to come in, talk about their day, how they did, etc...and then another person comments on it, I don't understand at all how the thread will make sense.

If you just meant to update our weights in the original posts, that would work fine so you could quickly see how things were going.
 
stuco said:
Whats confusing about hitting the edit button? I think its confusing to search through a 200 page thread. So what are we going to, repost the whole thing everytime we update?
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let's say i come in and edit my post before you get a chance to read what my post said before. that would be confusing. let's say you said something in your post, and i had a question about it. i have to go back and edit my post to ask the question? okay, say i do that. then you edit your post to answer it. nobody would know what i was asking about in the first place. maybe it's just me, but i think a lot can get lost if we go back and keep editing our posts. also, at the end of it all, i'm going to want to go back and see what i did, notice what i did poorly with and celebrate my accomplishments (as well as those of others). hope that clarifies why i think it'd be a bit confusing! perhaps it's just a personal thing...
 
I think stuco's way makes sense. I have been in challenges in this forum before, and we did it the way he is referring to.
But it's not so confusing
Say there are 20 people in this challenge.
So there will only be 20 posts to look for when adding things up. This will be on the first few pages.
Every week, we would include our starting weight, and current weight, so you could see how much I have lost.
If you have a question, a new post would be fine.
He is referring only to our origional posts, where we posted our stats.
And if you want to congradulate someone, or yourself, or talk about what's been going on in the week, a new post is fine for that too.

Either way, I dont care. It's primarily for the people who start the challenge, in case they are trying to keep track. It's just a more clean approach. Nothing fancy.
 
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oh okay, i think i understand. so we're just going to edit our stats in the first post rather than reposting every time something changes. that would indeed make lots of sense. am i getting that right? thanks for your patience :p
 
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