The next badge to hit is 25,000 steps. I will have to try and do that on a weekend day...I am game.
Biggest problem is actually finding the time to get the steps in, so it has force me to become creative. I am on conference calls about 3-4 hours every other day. So I have decided that during those times, I am going to pull up my 1 or 2 mile "Walk Away The Pounds" routine and do it in my office while on the call. This way I am getting in some exercise, getting some work done and it covers me in the event that I am too tired or have something to do and can't work out after I get home.
Not much in the way of a loss this week...down 0.9 lbs, but I will take every ounce 
Hope everyone is having much success with the challenge.
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I would like to join in on the challenge. I am little late, but, I would love to target 10 lbs by labor day.
Cout me in!!
Happy Fitbitting all!!! 
Best AnswerGood morning everyone,
Been a while since I have checked in...started using the fitbit in June and as of today I am down 14.2 lbs. I am totally loving wearing the fitbit and can see it makes a difference as far as tracking my activity and food.
Seeing the numbers actually stirs my inner competitive spirit, so I find myself competing with myself each day.
So far, so good....taking it one day at a time. As I told my GF, I didn't gain the weight in one day, so it is not going to drop off in one day. I do feel so much better since I started working out again and feel lighter.
Doing the "Walk Away The Pounds" videos early in the morning while on conference calls has been a big help. It allows me to get a good solid workout in the event things pop up and I can't do it after work. I have found an area where one of the warehouse worker's hangs out...he keeps it on the cold side (35-40 deg), so I take my iPad and phone and have been going in there Mon-Fri to do 3 or 4 miles walk. Temp is great as I don't sweat that much.
I have also started drinking more water....not that I wasn't before, but I have been adding fresh squeezed lemon juice to it and now I can't live without it! As a scientist, I am not buying all of the claims that are on the internet about it helping with weight loss per se, but it is great for my skin and it hydrates me
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Hi everyone!
It has been weeks since I checked in! The scale has not been moving --I am down 81.5 pounds (5.5 in this challenge) but still 15 pounds from my original goal weight (which is at the top end of my BMI range). I had a few good weeks getting in my 10,000 steps (until I went back to work 
) and I knew that I was losing fat and gaining muscle this week when I put on a pair of pants that I last wore in May -- they were a bit roomy . So this morning I wanted to see how i was doing on my goal to reduce my body fat so I took all the measurements and calculated (when I started this I used the military formula so I used that one again). I was curious about whether I could "focus" this week and do the work I needed to do to get to 34% (my goal was to get to the top end of normal for women). But I much to my surprise -- according to that method I am at 32.2%!!! YIPPEEE!!!!
This is why you have to take those measurements every few weeks and focus on how you feel (and your clothes feel) -- my scale has been hooving around the same number since July 14th but I am clearly still loosing fat and I know that all that muscle will just make it harder to gain the weight back. I will keep plugging along with my steps and logging my food and I know that I will do this!
Hope everyone is well and making strides toward their goals!
Best AnswerBeen a while since I checked in but I am down 11 lbs since starting the challenge on 7/6/14
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