The Flowers weight loss contest!
January 4th, 2008 by Jim & EmRight, enough is enough! Post xmas our trousers are feeling tight around the waist (no, we’ve not swapped wardrobes) and we need motivation to shed a few KGs / lbs so what a better time to throw down the gauntlet for a % weight loss contest.
This post may not be for many of you nor will this inspirational image but we wanted to ‘put the feelers out’!
Commencing on Friday 11th January and closing on Friday 2nd May 2008, the winner will be announced on June 1st 2008 with the highest % weight loss AND a convincing 500 word account with diary if possible of how they managed it.
We thought 4 months should cover it nicely! The prize - Flowers, of course AND 7 nights stay for 2 in a Hotel at our cost (we’ll provide the lettuce leaves) to be used between July 1st and September 1st 2008. We’ll post more details as we firm up prizes along with our bodies over the next few months and see how this grows.
All you have to do is post your name in comments right here by Friday 11th January, as this post slides down the page, so we can gauge a level of interest. If it looks like a GO!-er then be ready to post your naked starting weight, in lbs in a special weigh-in post from Friday 12th January. We will then post a progress post every 2 weeks, on Fridays, where you can enter your weight as you GO! with any supporting comments to share.
So, anyone up for it? Comments welcomed and hold the mayo!
Please note: This contest is held in the spirit of the GO! Smell the flowers community and we will not ask for proof and will take what you post as fact together with your final weight and your convincing account.
Hmmmm
I could be up to the challenge….
I need to loose 8 kg… which is 17lbs…
So a little over a stone….
Could be fun…..
So count me in….. okie dokie but dont forget reminders…..hehehehe….
AC
OK great AC - you’re in!!
cool bananas….
When can I start….
Because we going camping soon… and 4WD so be ready for loads of pics and stories….
I am currently 136 kg
I will be down to 100 by close of comp
I win
7 nights in Ochos Rios for me
Gary really
I would have thought that would be alittle austintatious for you…..
heheheh…
Maybe that could be your Law of attraction…. challenge..heheh…
ONLY JOKING…..
Might be easier than the 11arms….
Hmmm
AC
but no AC!
I have scrapped plans to go to Chicago in july now and instead will go to JA for two weeks for Reggae Sumfest.
A bird I know who likes me muchly is moving back to JA in June and wants me to visit.
She loves me to bits so its a case of Airfare then chil for a fortnight. Also wants me over there crimbo next.
I only found out y’day so the attraction law has been proved wrong as I had no intention of going Jamaica - until she asked. I reckon she wants my babies.
Great - are you in for the comp Garence?
Way to go Gary……..
The Reggae Fest could be good fun……
We all know you are a lady killer we can tell from your sophisticated manner and the polite, mojho way you have about you here….
Go get them tiger…..
i was only joshing about the LOA thing.. thought I mightget a rise….
AC
I object to the ‘lady killer’ tag
it was manslaughter- well one of them was anyway
so you didnt think about it just happened naturally…
no premeditation in there….
We know you just cant help it…
Its all that witty banter that does it…
work that Mojo….
lol
nope
she phoned me crimbo time and said she was missing me
then said she is going back to JA in June and did I want to go with her. Obviously thats not practical so I’m going to go July and see how we get on. if ll is well will go there crimbo.
she is going to get a bar in Ocho Rios.
so except for the fact
she’s a great laugh
looks great
we both know our roles
she lives in the caribbean
she will be running a bar
she knows the place well
she likes me lots
not a lot going for her really!
at least they looked happy!
So are you in J? AKA Purple 13?
OMG I would love that…but I don’t have a scale…bummer…
Come on now TB - are you in???
Hé hé… I can found motivation on this site!!! Well… 104 Kg… Hope for 95 Kg… This is the problem… We have good cheese, good specialities… Youp! stop all… I want to be on starting block on Friday… for -9kg…
Bon Soir Arnaud and welcome aboard the wieght loss challenge!
What a great idea!!! Okay, count me in too. I think 2 kg a month is reasonable without going overboard and for longer lasting effects. Yikes!! I just weighed myself it’s time to get moving. Thanks for the motivation
OK Great! Welcome aboard!
Could I make one suggestion please… that is to look at it as “gaining thinness” rather than “weight loss.” This re-wires us to think we are gaining something rather than losing something. Nobody likes to lose at anything. What does everyone think?
I’m just as happy with weight loss to be honest Ange, weight is one thing I am definitely happy to lose.
okay Lib… if that makes you happy then so be it
I AM SOOOOO UP FOR THIS!!
I really need to shift some weight ahead of being my brothers bridesmaid in the summer and community pressure works for me. Saves me a tenner joining fat fighters.
I would just like to point out ahead of me declaring my weight, that I am tall/big boned/have genetic over-eating disorder.
Will get weighed tomorrow. How do I explain being naked in Boots though?
LOL with the naked in boots - Boots the chemist, right - not what you wear on your feet? :0)
Puss in Boots? Anyway…on we GO!
Welcome aboard and if you do weigh in public then just wear the same clothes when you get weighed every 2 weeks - could be interesting as the spring and summer approaches in the UK, Lib!!!
Oh Lib!! you had me roflmao with you trying to explain being naked in Boots! I was wondering what you meant by that.
lol lib, you are so funny.
I am in too and for my exercise I am just going to read your comments as my stomach muscles work overtime!!!
Just find a really good looking guy, ask him if he will help you by holding your clothes as you undress. That way being naked in Boots will be worth it!
Great idea flowers. Too much chocolate ugggh
See now I have the added pressure of being funny whilst trying to lose weight, cheers Mel!
And trust me, if there was a good looking guy in Boots, I would not be getting naked in front of him.
I’ve just had my final fat dinner with friends, roast chicken with shed loads of roasties and chocolate cake with vanilla ice cream and having talked about diets this evening, we have decided that the way forward is the baby food diet.
Pureed (does anyone know how to put an accent over a letter?) fruit for breakfast x 2 jars.
Any other x 2 jars for lunch.
Healthy meal for dinner.
I reckon I may well end up winning this competition.
Its a shame I’m going to end up with an inexplicable addiction to Cow & Gate.
Darn, I wish I could go back in time a year and put the weight I just lost back on so I could join in!!! I went from 140ish to a whopping 108 this year. It sounds drastic, but I am naturally petite so it’s all good.
What a fun contest though, you guys are so cool!
Blimey great result - that is some % weight loss!!
Im in
Great, welcome Chris AKA Mattnutts!
British or American lbs?
Me being in Australia, a country using the metric system, I will have to use a converter so I want to ensure I get the right formula. But count me in, I have some spare tyres to get rid of.
Hey ShadowKnight… whereabouts in Oz are you growing that vegie garden of yours? I’m in Melbourne… no vegie garden though
It is growing in the suburbs of Sydney. Soon to be relocated to Wollongong.
Welcome - we’ll go for % weight loss so the units dont matter!
the best way to do this s to do it not as weight loss
but as fat loss %
otherwise all I will need to do is go for a colonic and lose this magic 10 kilo of rotting meat that ‘exists’.
I would go more for a change your shape contest.
if its pure weight loss
I’d just go zero carbs, take 400mg of Dinitrophenol, 125 mcgs of L-tyroxine, 60mcg of Clenbuterol daily and take a shed load of caffeine, smoke loads and thus not eat.
body composition is what matters not scale weight!!
Hmmm,
We wanted to keep it simple and use this post as a simple motivator over the next 16 weeks. % body fat measured can get tricky with lots of rules, right? Using calibration, water submersion and such like.
Trying to keep it billy basic here before we finalise the rules this Friday. What to do?
Send me naked pictures (female only) before and after weight loss and i will make a sound reasoned judgement of who the winner is - however i may have to circulate the photographs amongst a large circle of discrete, discerning male friends for confirmation.
As for the fat boys, all naked pictures to be sent to Lord Lonely
In your dreams Angry… as if!!
LOL Ange! Angry - what planet are you on?
J&E, Bridget is mightily upset with this contest…You’ll have to make it up to her, the next one should be weight GAIN contest ha!
Count me in!
We funepets are not over weight….yet…he he he
Me neither so not for me this time! BJ’s weight gain idea is far more my thing.
It’s so embarrassing to see my family reunion photo seen on other sites like this .. so your tactic worked. Good show. I guess I can be in, since I’m monitoring myself anyway once again this year.
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Yes, I decided to have my head amputated in order to win your contest. I figure it weighs a good 12lbs with all my brainage. thank you
Surely this means the scales are tipped (excuse the pun) in the favour of lardbuckets.
If you don’t have too much body fat today then it would mean you need to lose fat and muscle. Some of us could end up looking like the heavy weight champion of Belsen if we try and participate.
Lucky you!
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I wanna participate in the weight loss challenge, I weight 272 Friday Jan 11th.
Thanks