Hi Ellie!
I'll try to answer some of your questions...
I haven't received any confirmation that my entry was received.
1. How can I verify this?
You should have seen a response to your sign in something like, "Thank you! You have been added to my spreadsheet" when you officially joined the challenge. If you then went to the Week 1 Weigh In thread, and posted, you are good to go.
2. Will we get notification/reminder about the weekly meeting?
You won't get an email notification/reminder about the weekly meeting. But I'm betting that Richard or Shawn will post the URL on the message boards like they did earlier this week. There are 2 opportunities for the weekly meetings -- Monday at noon (eastern) and Friday at 3:00 p.m. (eastern).
3. Is this the tread we use to get to the meeting?
There will be a new thread for each meeting. It will state the week and that this is the weekly meeting.
4. What are the possibilities of evening meetings? The times set now are during people work times. Either they are on their way to work, at work, or on their way home. Seems this time frame cuts out alot of people having that chance to win the challange since attending has been stressed it is a factor with the judges.
There has been some conversation amongst the volunteers and the site admins about some sort of informal evening conversation/meeting. We wouldn't have the "guest" (this week's guest is Nutritionist Maureen) with us, but we could still have a chat amongst the participants. So far no decision has been made. You can get "credit" for attending the meetings, though, by reading through the transcript and then posting some of your own successes, challenges, questions, or reflections on the meeting thread.
Hope that this helps,
Linda
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