HI roz140,I would love to join your challange as I have just reached my challange weight for surviving the holidays Jan 31 today and am feeling fairly good about myself I only set myself a goal of 10lbs to lose for the holidays as I would rather set myself not too ambitious a goal and get to feel like I do today then to set myself an over ambitious target and end up feeling a failure if I did not reach the goal set (yes I know about the power of positive thinking!) so my starting weight is 227 I would like to lose 37lbs down to 190lbs by july 23 my birthday any more and it would be a real bonus.What day is weigh in day?.Dewi my sister is the proud mother of a one month old little girl called Ellen after 18 years of marrige and she is convinced she conceived because she was on atkins something to do with all that meat!