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User:up4thechallenge (14132779)
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Name:Up For The Challenge
Theme:Long term weight loss goal community! Accountability is key!
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Are you Up For the Challenge in 2008? Ready to Get Fit (or stay fit) with us?


Community Weight Loss: 462

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About
Rules
A weight loss challenge community where accountability is KEY to our success.
We will track each other's weight loss and keep a tally of how much weight this community has helped people to lose. You have to weigh in at least once a month. (Even if you are no longer losing and just maintaining you are still welcome to stay!)TO WEIGH-IN, COMMENT TO ONE OF THE WEIGH-IN POSTS WHICH ARE POSTED TWICE A WEEK. It is highly recommended that you also share your tracked food and fitness logs, articles, ideas, views, personal stories etc.
All diets are welcome, please be advised that everyone has different goals in mind and comes from different backgrounds. If you do not agree with anyone's diet please just do not comment on their posts. The only thing that I ask is that posts never contain out right pro-ED language or any sort of "how to become ED" etc language on it. Also if your BMI already puts you in an unhealthy underweight range you will not be allowed to join. If your goal weight will put you at an unhealthy weight you will not be allowed to join. You must be 18 or older to join.
You must report your weigh at least once a month or you will be removed. There will be weekly posts to remind you to post your weight loss!

How It Works
Get Started
Once you join you have no longer than one week to post your intro (See below) and first weigh in or you will be removed. Your first post will be moderated once you have made your first post and we see that you meet our guidlines of age, etc you will get unmoderated posting rights.
Your intro post must contain the following required information:

Your Name (can be your real or user name)
Your height
Your weight today

Non-required helpful things to post with your info:
Info about you
Info about your diet/fitness
Measurements
Any goals you have
A "before" photo

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Welcome we're glad you've decided to join us! We have opened the community now so that the posts can be viewed by all and anyone can join but your first post is moderated this is to make sure that your first post is an intro post - after that you will be able to posts freely.



What can I post here
Required - intro post within one week of joining
Required - post your weight at least once a month (can do it as much as once a day if you want, but once a month is required to stay in the community) If you have a bad month, post an entry about your month and for weight just say "PASS". If you are just maintaining just give us an update on that. Post your weigh-in as a comment to one of the bi-weekly weigh-in posts posted by the mods.

Other things you can post:
Updates on your diet, fitness
Progress photos, links to vlogs at youtube
Articles, views, rants, advice, product reviews, non-scale victories, photos that related to your personal weight loss, questions, support
Food and Fitness logs!! - can also be a link to your fitday or dailyplate type accounts...

I am your owner and host [info]lola_dark deannabalestra @ gmail .com
Co-mod [info]designed4living



How To Play The Game!

We like to have fun here while we get (and stay) healthy! Each month collect points with the random, weekly and daily posting games! To play read the challenge, and follow the directions - easy as that! The points will be collected on the spread sheet the member with the most points at the end of the month gets the LJ virtual gift and their name listed here on our profile page as a winner!


Some points have to be earned quickly while others are challenges that go one for weeks or months!

Always earn points for this:
- always earn 10 points for getting us a new member, that member must mention your name when they intro!
- always earn 2 points for your weight update/check-in (you can do this 2 times per week only)
- always earn 2 points per healthy recipe (must include nutrition info)
- recipes earn double if they match the "recipe of the month" topic
- NSV (non-scale victory) post (2 points for story, plus 2 points for picture, Once per week)
- Goals (Once a week set a goal for 2 points, complete a goal 3 points!)
-"Think About It" -posted by the mods, various point value, and the challenges do expire.

Month Long AUGUST Challenges
Month Long August Challenges.
NEW
-Recipe Theme: SNACKS! (Double points - 4 points per "snack" recipie)
-Extreme Makeover: Snacks! . Post the name of the original snack post the replacement. 2 points if it’s a name, 4 points if it’s a recipe, 6 points if it’s a recipe and there is at least one photo.
-Accountability Challenge: Rack up the points! +2 for fitness log, +2 for food log (But! +6 for food+Fitness!)
- Website review +5, Book reviews +5

AND

NEW NEW NEW!!!
Just for August, Non Scale Victories can be posted multiple times throughout the weeks! +2 for everyone and +2 for a picture. Focus on NSV this month!

More to come!



PAST WINNERS
April 2008 Member of the Month - [info]crazy8s
May 2008 Member of the Month - [info]chippydippy
June 2008 Member of the Month - [info]yzztik








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[info]healthystart - "This community is for people of all sizes and shapes who are seeking to build healthy habits in their lives - be it with eating right, exercising or finding other areas of your life that you're looking to improve."







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Maintainers:2: designed4living, lola_dark
Moderators:2: designed4living, lola_dark
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