Day One FAMILY WEIGHT LOSS CHALLENGE (posted by Janine)

Hey Everyone!

Today is the day to raid your cupboards and throw away all the transfats, burn your takeout menus and say a mental bye bye to all of your beloved comfort foods. Who feels so comfortable with all that excess weight, anyway?

Our fun little challenge begins today and officially ends August 20th. Mark this date on your calendar as the final weigh in day. We'll be able to talley the scores and see which team made it closest to their weight loss goal (or lost the most collective weight). Our teams and weight loss goals are as follows:

Team A

Janine (15 lbs)

Lorna (20 lbs)

Angie (20 lbs)

Birgie (20 lbs)

Al (10 lbs)

Jenny

TEAM GOAL - 85 lbs to lose

Team B

Jess (20 lbs)

Olena (5 lbs)

John (30 lbs)

Matt (20 lbs)

Sue (15 lbs)

Omi

TEAM GOAL - 90 lbs to lose

I'm going to be optomistic and bet that we as a whole will lose over 200 lbs. I believe in all of you, and know that you're going to work really hard to get healthy and feel great! What does the winning team get? That is yet to be determined. But it's going to be a sweet prize.
I realize that for many of us the challenge will go beyond 3 months. For us all I'm sure finding and maintianing a healthy weight will be a life-long challenge. So we should continue to show love, encouragement and care to one another in this journey so that we can all reach our happy places and live there forever and ever, amen.

I wish you all the best of luck, especially to my team - Team A - who are going to rock this challenge leaving Team B in a pile of sticky saturated fats and chemical preservatives.

much love and luck,

Neenie