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SKINNYLYNNIE
1/10/05 4:08 P
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Hello everyone!
Wow, we are getting a really great group!!
Thank you Lynne for keeping up with everything!
Welcome to Team #2 Holly, Irene and Davina!!
Points for Week 1, Team #2 (so far): 453.5
Go Teams Go! 
Talk to y'all later!
Susan 
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SKINNYLYNNIE
1/10/05 3:28 P
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TEAM #2
1. Shackman-Susan (team leader)
2. Gogohazel
3. Cropdoc
4. Lolasmom19-Deb
5. Linpo47
6. Spoiledm3-Shannon
7. Diggs4-Dawn
8. Nolezgirl-Jill
9. Carrottop-Janet
10. Eaglemom53-Lucinda
11. Klady2004-Kaylene
12. Modlet-Krista
13. Nancyk1-Nancy
14. Goodforme-Irene
15. HollyD1-Holly
16. 1Bunner-Irene
17. Davina
18. Lorinda's Husband
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SKINNYLYNNIE
1/8/05 11:48 P
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Dear Kristy, Jeanette,Irene, and Davina,
Okay there are 4 of you who want to join so I am putting Klmetzge-Kristy and FlHappyChick-Jeanette on Team #1, and 1Bunner-Irene and Davina on Team #2. So go ahead and start posting on your teams message board. I'll answer your questions along the way. Remember to Weigh in and measure yourself tomorrow (morning preferably).
Lynne
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SKINNYLYNNIE
1/5/05 10:14 A
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Hi Holly,
Welcome! I have put you on team #2, so that is where you will meet your teammates and report your points. You will probubly be down a size or two by the time of your trip if you stick with this so hurray for that! I am so amazed at how much more alive and happy I feel when I am doing right with my diet and exercise.
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Thanks!! I am so glad i am in! I am going on a trip cross country the end of February and i want to be able to enjoy it. I think if i am heading in a positive direction with my weight i wont be so yucky feeling when we go out at night, the girl i am going with is a size 4 and i am a 18! Luckily she is awsome and is the most supportive person i have, she used to binge and has worked hard to get where she is so she understands! Thank you again, i will start today with my points! I am going to the gym tonight for about 1 1/2 hrs so there is 3 right there!!!!! Yeah, here is to the new year and my new life!!!!
Holly
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SKINNYLYNNIE
1/4/05 10:02 P
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Hi Holly,
Yep, you're in! Here's the challenge rules and the template to keep track of your points. It's a good idea to print out the rules for quick reference while you learn the ropes. I'll figure out which team you are on tomorrow after Aneokli decides which team she wants to be on. Good luck and welcome:
We give ourselves points each day for the things listed below. We check in as often as we can with our progress and list our totals for each category and give each other support along the way. On Sundays we total each category and list our total points for each category and a final week total, and any weight loss. (hopefully) Here are the guidelines:
1. 1 point each day for staying on your food plan. (Your food plan is completely up to you)
2. 1 point each day for eating 4 fruits/veggies a day.
3. 1 point each day for drinking 64 oz of water. (if you drink coffee you have to add 8 oz of water for every cup of coffee in order to get the point.)
4. 1 point each day for keeping a journal of everything you eat.
5. 1 point each day for eating no junk food (candy, pop, chips)
6. 1 point for taking a daily vitamin.
7. 1 point each day for EVERY 30 minutes of exercising. This can include heavy housework, mowing lawn, shoveling snow (bad word) or any activity that you consider gave you a workout. Example: ½ hour exercise – 1 point; 1-hour exercise – 2 points; 1 ½ hours exercise – 3 points. (15 minutes of exercising earns you 1/2 a point)
8. Weight yourself once a week (Sunday)
Weight loss - 2 points
Stay the same - no gain - 1 point
Weight gain - 0 points
8a. If you want to measure yourself in addition to or instead of weighing yourself, you can get the points for decreased size:
decreased size - 2 points
stay the same - 1 point
size gain - 0
I think if somebody has the motivation to weigh in and take measurements then they should be able to get points for both weight loss and size loss.
The challenge will start January 2, 2005 and run thru February 27, 2005. That's eight weeks. At the end of the challenge we will add up the grand totals of points per person and grand totals of weight loss. Congratulate each other and then decide whether to do it again.
Point tracker:
Beginning Weight:
Beginning Measurements:
waist:
chest:
hips:
thigh:
calf:
Daily Points:
Staying on plan -
Eating fruits/vegies -
Water -
Food Journal -
No junk food -
Vitamin -
Exercise -
Daily totals:
Jan. 2 -
Jan. 3 -
Jan. 4 -
Jan. 5 -
Jan. 6 -
Jan. 7 -
Jan. 8 -
Weekly weigh-in
Weekly Measure-in
Total Points for:
Jan. 2 - 8:
Jan. 9 -15:
Jan. 16 - 22:
Jan. 23 - 29:
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Hi! So i took this to be a sign that i should do this. You are looking for another person it sounds like, am i correct? If you are let me know and i will join. I have been with sparks for a month now but am having a hard time staying on track with the eating part, which you know is like the whole thing!!!! So let me know and i am in, not really sure what i need to do but i am sure i can figure it out!!!!!!!
Holly
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SKINNYLYNNIE
1/4/05 8:37 P
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Aneokli,
Opps! You asked first to join the team but I didn't notice the time on the post till just now. What the heck why don't you start tomorrow by just going enny meany mo and picking a team to be on? Someone is bound to come along soon and even it up again.
Lynne
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SKINNYLYNNIE
1/4/05 6:56 P
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Hi Aneokli,
Welcome! Let's see we are even teams right now. Hang in limbo land for just a bit until someone else wants to join and then you will be on team #1. I hope someone comes along today. It should be fair if you start on the same day.
How's that sound?
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| Good Tuesday all, some of you may remember me I was in the original points challenge, got lost in the holiday haze, trying to get back. If its not too late to join count me in. Just let me know which team to report to. It is awesome so many are up for this this time. Good luck to all, Is its too late to join I will just keep track of how well you all are doing. Thanks Deb
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Hello everyone,
Lynne, You have done a great job and the challenge is fine. It will just take a few days for everyone to get the hang of it. I don't mind you popping in to our Team 2 thread at all, come over any time!!
I am back after a few days of bad allergies, what they call cedar fever here in Texas, even though there aren't any cedar trees in sight!!
For my team, I am catching up with getting the totals so far. I made a cool excel spreadsheet, and I am plugging in the numbers now!
Have a great day everyone, and you are all doing great!
Susan
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SKINNYLYNNIE
1/3/05 8:18 P
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HI there everybody,
I am starting to think I could have made this challenge a little less confusing. But lets work out the bugs this first week and then it will be smooth sailing. Here are the lists again of who's on what team:
TEAM #1
1. Skinnylynnie-Lynne
2. Aprilfool59-Debbie
3. Nickyleari-Nicky
4. Countress-Cindy
5. HNelson-Holly
6. LSutigerfan
7. Jackie01
8. Marjep-Marina
9. Meemaw1949
10. CMCLB1-Lorinda
11. Dheil77
12. BDHUGH
13. Toniparker-Toni
14. Babygrand88-Lesli
TEAM #2
1. Shackman-Susan
2. Gogohazel
3. Cropdoc
4. Lolasmom19-Deb
5. Linpo47
6. Spoiledm3-Shannon
7. Diggs4-Dawn
8. Nolezgirl-Jill
9. Carrottop-Janet
10. Eaglemom53-Lucinda
11. Klady2004-Kaylene
12. Modlet-Krista
13. Nancyk1-Nancy
14. Goodforme-Irene
If you are on team #1, you report your points to the message board Points Challenge 2 team #1.
If you are on team #2, you report your points to the message board Points Challenge 2 team #2.
Then if you want to converse with people on the other team, post on the Points Challenge 2 message board.
Talk to you soon,
Lynne
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SKINNYLYNNIE
1/3/05 6:52 P
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deleting a few messages to conserve space.
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Lynne,
This question keep coming up in Team #2
Every day we complete the template?
or at the end of the week.
Do we just report our points every day, and not in the template??
Thanks
Irene
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SKINNYLYNNIE
1/3/05 9:32 A
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We have a new teammate on team #2. Her name is Pam. She is a friend of mine who will be signing up for Sparkpeople very soon, but she started the challenge with us. Her Sparkpeople name will change when she is on board, but for now I named her Bestfriend.
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SKINNYLYNNIE
1/2/05 11:12 P
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The question was asked of how to get the template for the points. What you do is go to the template and highlight it by holding down the left click on the mouse scrolling over it till its all blue. Then go to Edit and click Copy. Then you open a new reply box and go to Edit and click Paste. The template will copy to the new message. I will put the template here so you won't have to look for it.
Beginning Weight:
Beginning Measurements:
waist:
chest:
hips:
thigh:
calf:
Daily Points:
Staying on plan -
Eating fruits/vegies -
Water -
Food Journal -
No junk food -
Vitamin -
Exercise -
Daily totals:
Jan. 2 -
Jan. 3 -
Jan. 4 -
Jan. 5 -
Jan. 6 -
Jan. 7 -
Jan. 8 -
Weekly weigh-in
Weekly Measure-in
Total Points for:
Jan. 2 - 8:
Jan. 9 -15:
Jan. 16 - 22:
Jan. 23 - 29:
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SKINNYLYNNIE
1/2/05 11:37 A
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Hi Babygrand88 and Goodforme,
YES! you two can join...I have put Babygrand88 on team #1 and Goodforme on team #2. So look for your message thread on the challenge message board. That is where you meet your teammates and record your points. But, you can still come here to chat with everybody on both teams. Good luck!
Lynne
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BABYGRAND88
1/2/05 1:50 A
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| Ok final posting...I just made up a chart to record points on for this challenge. Email me if you would like the WordPerfect document emailed to you. I'm putting it on my fridge so that I can keep better track! ~Lesli email:babygrand88@yahoo.com
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BABYGRAND88
1/2/05 1:29 A
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| Ok...reread all posts...I'm in:) I would about die if I lost 16 pounds by that date, so I will give it my best and I suppose that finding this and now starting it at 11:25pm on January 1st must be a sign. I look forward to updating!! Good luck to all! ~Lesli
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BABYGRAND88
1/2/05 1:22 A
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Well hello! I am going to do this challenge, I think...don't see why not, but I'm gonna read it again first:) I just had to laugh out loud when I read the following from SKINNYLYNNIE on the starting of this post:
"I am in dire need of losing at least this first 16 pounds because when I lost it last time I got rid of all my biggest size clothes...so now I am running around in an old pair of blue jeans with a whole in the rear...lol. The only pair that fits me right now. What a crisis!"
I just cracked up because I am down to two pairs that I suppose one could say fit, however I wince at washing them because I have to do stretches in them just to get 'em to loosen up after the dryer shrinks em back up (haha)...I had sold my clothes on eBay last time I lost weight and am regretting it!! Anyhow, it's nice to meet you and I will be joining in this or another challenge soon!
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Lynne
I've read your rules and would like to join tomorrow morning if that is okay. It looks like you have an even number of people on each team, so if I would destroy the balance just let me know
Irene
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SKINNYLYNNIE
1/1/05 1:52 P
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Dear Debbie and everybody,
That's great you are getting ready to go. Half of it is thinking ahead so we have the means to meet our goal.
I've been thinking this message board can still be here for everybody who is in the challenge to share what we are thinking about etc. The new message boards can be there to report your points and chat with teammates.
For anybody who has no idea what I am talking about..scroll down a couple of messages and you will see I split everybody into two teams and there are new message boards for each team.
Happy New Year!
Lynne
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APRILFOOL59
1/1/05 12:48 P
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Happy New Year to all us Challengers!!!!!!
I am a day ahead of myself. Woke up this morning, weighed and measured myself, then I realized it was only Saturday and not Sunday. I guess it's better to be ready to go then not.
Going to the food store to make sure I have all the food I need to get started.
Enjoy the day everyone.
Debbie
189/189/145
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SKINNYLYNNIE
12/31/04 8:09 P
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Hi all,
I am going to split the groups into odd numbers and even numbers. If your number is odd, you are on team #1 led by Lynne-Skinnylynnie. If your number is even, you are on team #2 led by Susan-Shackman.
Beginning January 2 We will convene with our teammates of our new challenge message board thread.
They will be called:
Points Challenge 2- Team #1
Points Challenge 2- Team #2
I am creating the new threads tonight so you can start meeting there now if you want.
Here is the list so you can find out which team you are on:
ORIGINAL LIST:
1. Skinnylynnie-Lynne
2. Shackman-Susan
3. Aprilfool59-Debbie
4. Gogohazel
5. Nickyleari-Nicky
6. Cropdoc
7. Countress-Cindy
8. Lolasmom19-Deb
9. HNelson-Holly
10. Linpo47
11. LSutigerfan
12. Spoiledm3-Shannon
13. Jackie01
14. Diggs4-Dawn
15. Marjep-Marina
16. Nolezgirl
17. Meemaw1949
18. Carrottop-Janet
19. CMCLB1
20. Eaglemom53-Lucinda
21. Dheil77
22. Klady2004-Kaylene
23. BDHUGH
24. CMCLB1's husband
25. Cropdoc's husband?
26. Nancyk1-Nancy
TEAM #1
1. Skinnylynnie-Lynne
2. Aprilfool59-Debbie
3. Nickyleari-Nicky
4. Countress-Cindy
5. HNelson-Holly
6. LSutigerfan
7. Jackie01
8. Marjep-Marina
9. Meemaw1949
10. CMCLB1
11. Dheil77
12. BDHUGH
13. Cropdoc's husband?
TEAM #2
1. Shackman-Susan
2. Gogohazel
3. Cropdoc
4. Lolasmom19-Deb
5. Linpo47
6. Spoiledm3-Shannon
7. Diggs4-Dawn
8. Nolezgirl
9. Carrottop-Janet
10. Eaglemom53-Lucinda
11. Klady2004-Kaylene
12. CMCLB1's husband
13. Nancyk1-Nancy
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SKINNYLYNNIE
12/31/04 7:40 P
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Hi Deb (Lolasmom),
You can keep your eyes closed while you stand on that scale for as long as you want as long as you open your eyes before you step off...lol.
Facing our fears is the first step to success. You can do it, we have faith in you. My big hurdle was taking my measurements and it was a real reality check when I found I had gained 5 inches around my hips...ouch!
Speaking of measurements...remember you get extra pounts for losing size too, so to get those points you have to take your measurements Sunday on the start day so you will have something to compare it to the next Sunday. So get that clothe measuring tape and go at it.
Talk to you soon,
Lynne
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Cute! The good news is that we are on our way to a healthier new body that won't be afraid of the scale.
Happy New Year! 
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LOLASMOM19
12/31/04 8:36 A
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| Good Morning Lynne.....Real dumb question.....when Sunday morning rolls around...and I am forced to deal with the evil scale......Do I still get a point if I keep my eyes closed????? Deb
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| I would like join the challenge also! It might just give me the motivation I need to loose this weight. (I also have a bathing suit trip this winter and a bunch of summer shorts that don't fit)
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| Do you have room for my husband on the opposite team from me? He's eq-junkie. I challenged him at dinner!
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