Hey Everybody. Welcome to Week 0 of the Winter 2021 Loseit Challenge: LoseIt New Year, New You, New World
This week will focus on setting your goal for the challenge and beginning our activity tracking.
Loseit Challenges are a team-based competition that last for 6 weeks during which you set a weight-loss goal and then weigh in weekly, working to be at or beyond that goal by the end of the challenge. There will be a new post every Friday with Links/Instructions for each week's activities. The challenge subreddit and your team's discord channel will also have all the information you need.
This round your hosts continue to be u/hxcjosh23 and u/unrepentant_thinner
What are Loseit Challenges?
This challenge is a team-based "competition" that will last for 6 weeks. During the challenge you will be assigned to one of 6 teams, set a weight-loss goal for the challenge, and then weigh in weekly, working to be at or beyond that goal by the end of the challenge.
Each week, in addition to their weight, challenge members can choose to log their steps and activity minutes. Teams will compete in friendly head to head battles weekly for step totals and activity minute totals. This is optional, but encouraged!
Every Friday there will be a new post in r/loseit and r/LoseitChallenges with links and instructions for each week's weight in and activities. Your team captains will also share all the information you need on your team’s Discord server.
IF YOU HAVE ALREADY SIGNED UP, GO TO STEP 4
IF YOU HAVE ALREADY SIGNED UP, GO TO STEP 4
IF YOU MESSED UP YOUR SIGN UP, CONTACT YOUR CAPTAIN DO NOT RESUBMIT!!
NEW SIGNUPS COMPLETE ALL STEPS
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Step 1 - Sign up
Sign Up Here!
-You will be randomly assigned to a team following the submission of your sign up form. Do not ask to be assigned to a particular team. ALSO NOTE if you accidentally sign up more than once please follow your first entry. The duplicates will be removed.
Step 2 - Visit the Challenge Tracker to find your team!
Challenge Tracker Here!
-Newest signups are at the bottom of the list. The team assigner runs every 5 minutes. If your team is blank, just wait a moment. It will refresh in real time on desktop, but you may have to refresh the spreadsheet to see the changes.
-Do not request edit access to the tracker. Please contact one of your captains with any errors that need to be corrected
Step 3 - Join r/LoseitChallenges to introduce yourself and find your team's Discord server
-Please join our challenge subreddit, r/LoseitChallenges, to find the link to your team’s Discord server in their welcome post. Make sure to introduce yourself while you’re there!
-Joining your team discord isn’t mandatory but it should be noted that being active with your team keeps participation up and might be that extra little push you need to keep you going. It could be the difference between a 6 week grind or 6 weeks of fun and support to lose the weight you want.
Step 4 - Weigh in and set your goal for the challenge
Weigh in and set your goal here
This is where you will choose your challenge goal weight as well.
Please try to choose a reasonable goal! The goal of these challenges is to set up sustainable weight loss habits. If you gain one or two weeks, keep pushing and do not give up! There are no penalties for struggling, only for giving up.
Step 5 - Submit Steps and Activity Minutes (Optional)
Submit activity and/or step count here
You can submit one day at a time, or the whole week at once. If you’re submitting daily, no need to include previous days information. Your most recent entry for each day will be counted.
This week is a BATTLE ROYALE! Every team vs Every Team. Next week will begin our head to head challenges.
***Your and your family's health come first. Adapt your activity to the current guidelines in your communities.***
All steps count. Intentional minutes count.
We define activity minutes as "intentional additional activity to meet your health goals". This may include things like weight lifting, running, yoga, walking to work instead of driving, following youtube workout, etc. Things done for the purpose of reaching your goals that are not already a part of your normal day.
Our glorious teams for this challenge are:
Team Star Wars- u/hxcjosh23 & u/HeartMoonPeach & u/Jameson
Team Wizarding World - u/vicariousgluten & u/unrepentant_thinner & u/Kaimelar728
Team Middle Earth - u/Mtnwanderer & u/BatmanbyDay & u/betterball
Team DnD- u/kempenichanock & u/zidormi & u/Zukimi65
Team Wonderland - u/rooturbbomoth & u/Radoib & u/lemonbb
Team Marvel - u/UnconcernedLion & u/ZeCapitane & u/DaringSuzi
Timeline
Each week begins on a Friday, so you will have until the following Friday at 12:00 EST (when the next week is posted) to complete your weigh-in. You can weigh in multiple times during the week but only your most recent entry will be recorded on the tracker.
January 1 - Signups open
January 8 - Week 0, Establish challenge goals, signups open through end of week
January 15 - Week 1, Head to Head battles begin, Signups are closed
January 22 - Week 2
January 29 - Week 3
February 5 - Week 4
February 12 - Week 5 - Last Head to Head Battle
February 19 - Results
If you have any questions, problems, concerns, ideas, or just want to drop us all a line, please use the message the challenge admin feature, which you can find in the r/LoseitChallenges sidebar or by clicking here. Responding to this thread is great, but ultimately if you want to make sure all of us read it, the message the challenge admin feature is the way to go.
Please also note that we are not the r/loseit moderators. We’re volunteers and everyday users who run a specific aspect of one of the many interactive community elements of r/loseit. If you have questions about r/loseit that aren’t specific to the challenge, please take a look at the sidebar on r/loseit.
