Anyone interested in some friendly competition?
 

I need to get my butt in gear! I've been getting fatter and fatter by the day! Low carbing is the only thing that's ever worked for me (lost 75+ lbs on Atkins several years ago & gained it all back +)...

I can offer tons of experience to a new low-carber...in return I need someone with some drive and fire to stick to it! I feel inspired today but by this afternoon I could be saying "screw it" again.

I'd really like to meet up with some people who want to exchange food & exercise journals and keep each other in line. Competion may be a motivator as well.

If I can get a few people together looking to really inspire, compete, and hold each other accountable I think it would help...any takers? I've got a long road ahead of me!

Heather

Boy, have you ever come to the right place!! Everyone here will keep you in line and motivated. LOL. Congrats on making your way back to LCing. :)

~Angi~

Count me in! I could use some help, and motivation myself. I have been doing this WOE for about three months, and find I am getin lax about doing things the way I should be. Perhaps we can keep each other motivated.

yep, you sure have come to the right place. Its great here lots of motivation. you are right though competition is a great motivator. I am in my 4th week of induction and plan on remaining on induction for a while. I also was on Atkins last year, but went off or did maintenance while I was pregnant and now I am back to continue. I am very determined and I know I can do this and I know we all can do this!!!

Are you sure you want a challenge? I've been leaving several posts over the last few days, I want to team up with someone who REALLY wants to kick butt!

Let's set a target and throw a prize in to sweeten the pot. We can get the winner a set of exercise tapes (I'm hankering after Winsor Pilates myself).

Are you with me?

max,
I'm in
I want to lose 10 lbs in the next 3 weeks, aug 5. That's a challenge, but I'm up for it!

Hey! Count me in! I'll be in Europe for the next 3 weeks and I know it won't be easy :rolleyes:

I'm in! We have about the same amount of weight to lose, so feel free to PM me and we can exchange emails, etc.! :)

I'm pumped!
 

I'm so excited everyone is up for the challenge! Should we give a 3 week mini-goal and see who can lose the biggest percentage of weight? Obviously it's easier for someone w/ 100lbs to lose 10 than it is for someone who's 10 from their goal!

I'm up for the incintive of buying the winner a set of tapes or whatever...how do we work it out? Could we just ask each person who wants to compete to sign up & promise to send the winner $5 or something?? Each of us could afford the $5 probably and the winner could really rake it in! Of course we're on the honor system so I don't know how it works out exactly...do we trust everyone to tell the truth?

I'm planning on a walk and some free weights before days end...what's everyone else doing for exercise today?

Heh, I'm 2 meals in and doing fine...thanks for the inspiration guys!

Heather

I will gladly take the challenge too. I have some serious weight to lose and I have been doing this for almost 3 weeks now and I am very motivated. We are glad you came here. :yay: :yay: And if I can help you, just drop me a line, I will always help a fellow low carber

I think that the % idea is a good one. I think it's probably better to do a non$ thing as that will discourage cheating (the really bad kind of cheating.. :)) but I don't know what other prizes there are. I didn't weight this am, but will tomorrow and use that as my beginning weight.

Great Idea. I'm interested. I need a push, because I've been getting lax. When do we start?

I'm interested, how long, what are we aiming for etc?

If everyone has a PayPal account then we could send $5 each to the winner to get something LC such as fitness videos - who has more ideas?

Count me in!!! Just let me know how this is going to work, this will be great! I haven't lost anything in a few weeks and I'm really bummed out, this will be a great kick start!

Tannis

I think that it would be great to make this a sticky thread at the top and also to make it a poll so we can easily count the players.

Let's start tomorrow with a weigh-in. No time better than the present. Let's run it 2 or 3 weeks. I like 3 weeks, as I said above. Then we can weigh in on Aug 6.

And I think that none of us shld update our profile after the game starts. That way when we all post out weights on the 6th, there's no pre-posting 'tweaking' :). I like the idea of % loss as I also said above.

As for the prize, let's assume tapes are $20, and divide that by the number of players. Though I still think non-monetary incentives are better, it would be hard to do online.

Let's go!