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<p>This is the automated monthly weight loss challenge page for the <a
href="news:alt.support.diet.low-carb">alt.support.diet.low-carb</a>
newsgroup.  See participation details below</p>

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<th>LOW CARBER'S NAME</th>
<th>STARTED LCing</th>
<th>OVERALL STATS</th>
<th>MONTH'S GOAL</th>
<th>CURRENT WEIGHT</th>
<th>POUNDS LOST</th>
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<h2 align=center>Dec 2024</h2>
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<h2>Participation Details</h2>

<p>Note that your email <em>and</em> full name are used to uniquely
identify you.  So, spam-proofing your email is fine, but if you change
your email during the month you'll end up with two (or more) entries
in the challenge.

<p>One of my computers scans the postings to the adslc newsgroup a
couple of times a day, looking for signature lines that have weight
loss information.  The lines must look like this:

<pre>
start/current/goal tag:value tag:value ...
</pre>

These are the common "what are those three numbers?" lines you often
see on postings.  The numbers represent your weight at the start of
your weight loss journey, your current weight, and your final goal
weight.

<p>The various tags and values allow you to give extra information,
such as how much you are trying to lose this month, and URL to link to
from your name, etc.  Examples:

<pre>
200/187/160 url: http://www.delorie.com/users/fred/
215/171/140 monthly-goal: 5 since: 27/04/2001
</pre>

The line is accepted if it has the three numbers, and the third number
is less than the first number, and the third number is less than 1960
(this filters out dates ;).  Useful tags are:

<dl>

<dt><tt>monthly-goal</tt> <dd>The number of pounds (or kg, stone, etc)
you will try to lose this month.  If not given, a default of 5 is
used.

<dt><tt>month-start</tt> <dd>Your weight at the start of the month.
By default, the first "current" weight you report is used as the start
weight.

<dt><tt>url</tt> <dd>If given, your name on the form will be a link to
this.  You can recind a previous url by using "url:none".

<dt><tt>since</tt> <dd> When you started low carbing.  Note that the
format for this is day/month/year, which is different from the usual
month/day/year USA residents are familiar with.

<dt><tt>woe</tt> <dd>Your current Way Of Eating.  Not currently used.

</dl>

Note that each month's page is also available as YYYY-MM.html.  For
example, Dec 2004's page is <a href="2004-12.html">2004-12.html</a>.
Also, for any page YYYY-MM.html there's a corresponding page
YYYY-MM-tab.txt and YYYY-MM-csv.txt that contain tab-separated and
comma-separated tables of the data.

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