The Ultimate Biggest Losers

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This is a thread for the Ultimate Incentive threadies, and anyone else who would like to join in who would like to lose weight. We've been clearing debt together in my Ultimate Incentive diaries for about 6 years, now we want to battle a different kind of pounds as well. I've found as I've gotten older life has gotten messy, kids, housework, scraping said kids off said house after they find the sweetie stash, working from home, the endless ebay selling to clear clutter and pay off what we owe.... I just don't have time to be single mindedly focussed on any one goal anymore! So this thread is for all people with messy lives, knowing this won't be a smooth and 100% focussed journey, but who want to make a real effort to feel a bit more themselves again.

Weigh in day is every Wednesday, the challenge starts January 2nd so anyone taking part needs to post their starting weight then or thereabouts. I'll keep track of the weights and every week someone will be crowned the week's biggest loser.

Losses so far:

Recipe Catalogue (thanks Birdie)

Best answers:

• Could I join you please ?
  I really need to get going with the weight loss. I was with WW for years but ended up at around the same weight as when I started, so stopped wasting my money on the weekly fees. Early in 2014 I started off on my own and I've managed to shift about 21lb (although I suspect I am putting some of it back over Yule). So I know I can do it
  I'll be weighing an measuring on 2nd Jan (as I know measurements can be just as important to see progress)
  Marg
• I will join
  maybe do it as a percentage as someone weighing 20 stone will lose weight a lot quicker than someone weighing 12 stone.
• I may well join as I have a 'messy life' and the need to lose weight. I agree with MargB on wasting money on WW and SW and the like - if they worked it wouldnt be a multi million pound/dollar industry........I am a believer in a DIY approach - we all know what we need to do - eat less and move more and dont beat ourselves up about it when we slip up a little.
  One plea though...........can I campaign to get loose and lose used in the correct context - sorry its a bug bear of mine. LOSING weight please, to make our clothes LOOSE Apologies again I will go away and hide now until the 2nd ........
• I would like to join please. I have no money for SW or WW or gyms so will be doing this the old fashioned way. I have about 40lbs to lose and will weigh and measure on the 2nd of January. I agree with doing the weight loss as a % to make it more fair. Good luck everyone.
• I would like to lose weight as well so can I join please?
• Forgot to add I need to lose 50 lbs.
• I love the thread title :-) I have around a stone to lose but will weigh in on the 2nd with a definite figure as I'm sure I will put on a couple of pounds over Christmas and new year. Looking forward to the challenge!
• Checking in as well. Have 2 stones to lose I believe.
• i would like to join please. mine is slow and steady due to my crohns and what i can and cannot eat and still recovering from an op. All i will be able to do (till March) is walk and then frmo March onwards will be swimming regularly.
  Would like to lose 3 stone
• I would like to join also - I am for ever trying to move a few pounds but need a bit of a push. If I can just drop 1 stone I would be really happy! I try and get into the gym a least three times a week but the last two weeks I haven't be able to go at all. Walking is my alternative exercise.
• Happy to do it as a percentage for loser of the week, will enlist hubby to come up with a table I can just drop numbers into it and then paste it, one thing MSE has done for me is give me an innate love of charts and graphs! Point taken on lose and loose, I'll admit the highest I ever got in a spelling test was 6/12, it's really not my forte. I was quite proud of my 6 as well.
  I think I'm shedding (yep, developed a lose/loose fear now!) around 40lbs. I did it after the birth of my first child by the time she was 1, so that gives me about 6 months to be at the same place.
• I'd like to join this challenge please. I'm hoping to combine losing lbs with saving Јs. I don't have a specific loss figure in mind just to lose steadily over the next year will be my goal. I have an unnecessarily complicated life due excess poundage and need to simplify on both fronts.
• I'd like to join please! I have a lot of weight to lose and would like to shed it all in 2015 as well as get fitter and feel healthier.
  Do we have to post our actual weight or is it how much we've gained/lost?
  I'm excited. Just planning on eating right and moving more here. Nothing fancy and no fad diets.
• Please may I join, I need to lose 2 stone roughly. I have tried to lose weight before but didn't have any motivation, April 2015 we are going to a wedding so want to feel good but also look good.
  I will have to weigh myself on 3rd Jan if that's ok as I come home from holiday on 2nd Jan.
• Hi please can I join? I have 20 pounds to lose.
• Hello
  Can I join please? I think I will have around 3.5 st to lose but will weigh in for the start on 2nd Jan to update.
  I've got a nearly 4yr old son and the weight has just crept on due to eating on the go and eating the easy option. Also had some medicine for anxiety which caused my fullness switch to deactivate so ate and ate for about a year and managed to gain 3 stone! Few!
  Hope we can help each other through a bit!
• I loved the Ultimate incentive threads and although no kids I have one busy job, one elderly Mother, two dogs and a very messy life.
  Also have at least 3 extra stone I do not need.
  so can I join too please?
  xx
• Hello!
  I would love to join in, Im very overweight (so much that I don't want to think about just how far away my goal is!!) but would like to have some motivation as before Christmas I was doing well with a pound a week off, which will be my aim for next year as well, I love food and want this to be a lifestyle change so a pound a week doesn't feel like Im suddenly missing everything I love to eat!
  I would like to get into exercising more as well, might try to look at setting myself an exercise goal as well! Going to vegas in November and want to be lighter and fitter to really enjoy it!
  Jodles
• Count me in, I'll just go by my mini name if that makes it easier. About two stone for me.