Biggest Loser 11 Spring Team Challenge--for Losers and Maintainers

[tmfranlk]

Hello all! Long, long, long time no post. Life has gotten insanely crazy, but then who's hasn't, and I find myself away from the computer for a day or two at a time lately, it seems. Then when I come back, I can't even catch up on my email let alone DIS, FB, etc. I will admit I also had a couple of weeks of not so great eating/lossing/etc time in there where I got frustrated as well. Made it easy to not want to take time to come back here. So, I stayed off of the scale for a month or so and just tried to focus on remembering to eat and eat right. When I got back on, I'd broken that no loss streak and gone done about 4. Now I've lost another 3 from there.

Now I'm ready to be back(ish). Still can't promise that I'll make it to the thread everyday, but I will be reporting to finish out the challenge. I'm getting pretty close to the weight goal I set for the challenge, I think, and I really want to focus on getting some exercise back into my routine. Actually, that right there is what I need - a routine. Between Girl Scouts (troop, service unit, and day camp), work (in-home daycare), homeschooling Terra, caring for Miss Deva and everything else that pops up in between I'm still forgetting how to take care of myself and leave time for me. Phil is on board with helping me out more and I'm working on setting up a routine to get it all going in the right direction and less stressful for me. He's going to start taking Deva for an hour or so every few days so that I can take that time to get some of my things under control - make my plans, plan my meals, exercise, file papers, whatever it is I need to do for me (and even just saying that is harder than it sounds, let alone doing it).

See, now I know you didn't miss my babbling typing! Just excuse me as I work though my thoughts through with my fingers and keyboard.

A lot of this, I'll admit, comes from looking through Terra's Disney photobook the other day. Our WDW trip in Sept 09 and then some DL pictures from that Christmas reminded me just how much I put back on both before and during my pregnancy. I want to look like that in our pictures (or even better!) this November, not like this. I want to walk the parks feeling better and not the tiredness I feel by the end of the day now.

So, I hi again, I guess.

 

[tmfranlk]

Okay, so I lied. I just went back and looked at my initial weigh-in and goal and I'm not even quite halfway there. However, I am appraoching the goal I thought I had set. I think I'll work toward that one instead now - a total of 20 for the challenge which would put me just under 200, a place I'd be thrilled to see in the next month.

 

[Disneywedding2010]

AFTERNOON TEAMS!


I was up til 3am reading Abby Rike's (BL contestant from Season 8) book. I couldn't put it down and read the whole thing. I didn't go to bed til after 3am. Abby and I have a lot in common and its not just the weight issue. She lost her husband and 2 children in a head on collision just like I did. The book talked about her meeting her husband, their relationship, her struggle when the accident happened and even years later. The book profoundly touched me because many of the things she described I went through myself.

I woke up around 530am with a pounding headache, took some medicine, and went back to bed. If my mom hadn't called i'd probably still be in bed. I'm just not feeling that great today. I started laundry and I've got like 4 or 5 loads to do. So, if I get that accomplished then I'll feel like I did something today.

25 days til Disney!

 

[Rose&Mike]

Ok, just wanted to pop on to say, I probably won't be around much the next couple of days. I hope everyone has a great weekend and a great weigh-in tomorrow.

Don't forget--tomorrow is a WIN day! And pm those HH points to CC.

And as always, include your Team Name when you pm Tracey your weight.

 

[dvccruiser76]

Yay for tax season being over!!! I would love to get together and walk some day. I should have michael's baseball schedule soon, and then we can make a plan. I don't work weekends, but a couple days a month do call, so I can still usually walk. We go down john george park a lot, so michael walks with me or plays while I walk/run. I think I have a short friday coming up too.

Great, let me know and we'll plan a walk. We almost went tonigt, but it was a little colder than I expected and kind of windy, so I made dinner early instead. While DH was putting DS to bed I did Leslie Sansone's walk at home on demand.

Some years hardly at all, some years it's more frequent--couple times a month. It's often worse in the spring when we have warm temps, cause when the cold fronts come through it creates big storms. But I really like the warm temps, so it's worth putting up with.

Well, hopefully they're just scares and nothing serious

Anyway, Caleb is doing great after his first injection of chemo. He has not been sick, as of yet, and the doctors all remain very confident in his prognosis.

And Melissa (DD) has started a blog on CaringBridge to keep everyone up to speed on the goings-on of their little family. If you want to check it out you can visit:

www.caringbridge.org
web site is: calebhancock

Thanks for your concern everyone.

Dave

Thanks for the update and glad to hear the little guy is doing well. I'm going to check out her link right after my post.

I woke up around 530am with a pounding headache, took some medicine, and went back to bed. If my mom hadn't called i'd probably still be in bed. I'm just not feeling that great today. I started laundry and I've got like 4 or 5 loads to do. So, if I get that accomplished then I'll feel like I did something today.

25 days til Disney!

Hang in there Her story always broke my heart, hopefully your day turned out to get better as the day passed. 25 days and you'll be in the Happy Place


Hi everyone, it's my Friday I'm half tempted to do some work, but I'm going to try not to. It's funny to go from working 60 hours to only 40 or in this week's case 16.

Counting down the days until vacation where I don't plan on checking my work email or voicemail for the whole trip.

Have a nice night everyone

 

[lovetoscrap]

Popping in to see if I can catch up. My hip has been really making sitting painful so I have been using the computer time I have doing things I really have to, mostly making our menus for the next 8 weeks, making the grocery list, and some other things I had to get done.

I am trying to learn how to use coupons. My sister and I decided we need to save money so we can travel more so we are learning to coupon together. I tried to use them once when DD was little and it was just too much time and trouble. But now the internet has really made it much easier to find what you need and figure out where to go.

I saved $70 at Target today, but still spent almost $250! But I was buying a bunch of Easter stuff and we were out of paper products so I bought a bunch of TP and paper towels on sale.

I have been eating really well and as of today I have a total loss (from my highest ever) of 40 lbs! Just a few more pounds until my BL goal of 25 since the first of the year.

I didn't think things through very carefully in my menu planning and forgot that Sunday was Easter. I had Ham on the menu for tonight! I couldn't convince my kids that we should have Roast Beef for Easter so we had to find something else for tonight. We ended up with Baked Potatoes (sweet potato for me), salads and a SB Broccoli Cheese soup recipe I have been wanting to try. It went over pretty well with my family-- they prefer a "traditional" meat, starch, veggie on one plate meal so I wasn't sure how they would react. I will probably get the leftover soup all to myself though!

Gonna see if I can sit here long enough to do some reading back.

 

[dvccruiser76]

www.caringbridge.org
web site is: calebhancock

Thanks for your concern everyone.

Dave

That website brought tears to my eyes. He is such a little trooper. My DS is 21 months and I can't even imagine what they are going through. I'm 34 and your kids look younger, but still so strong and positive. My heart goes out to your whole family and Caleb of course

 

[lovetoscrap]

I was sooooo excited this weekend when I went shopping! I was on a mission to Old Navy, determined to buy a nice spring dress that I have never owned in my life

But I deserved this, so I marched right into my house, bags in hand, and told DH just how much I spent He honestly didn't care, he thinks I'm too frugal too, so he was pleased

That is so great and the dress is really cute. When I go through stores now instead of looking at cute stuff and thinking "I can't fit into that" I am saying to myself "By next year I WILL be able to wear something like that!"

I spent the morning bringing down all the clothes tubs from the attic. I have taken 7 bags to the clothing recycling bin at the grocery store and have 5 more in the car for tomorrow morning.

I found a lot of old clothes with great memories attached to them including a dress I wore for my niece's christening 14 years ago! IT FITS! It was so exciting to try these on again and actually be able to wear them! I am definitely comfortable where I am now.

How fun, like getting a new wardrobe without having to spend any money! We were going to pull boxes out last weekend but ran out of time so maybe this weekend. I really don't even remember what I have saved in the attic. could be interesting!

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But the end of the day the word is this: I AM NO LONGER PART OF THE OVERWEIGHT AMERICANS STATISTIC!!!!

That is absolutely AWESOME!

QOTD Tuesday, April 19
Do you have an "emergency" plan for a healthy dinner for those days when things go crazy and you just can't cook?

Too funny to go back and see this since today was one of those days. Our Emergency meals are usually hamburgers, frozen pizza, salads, tacos, spaghetti and leftovers. I have veggies in the freezer if we are out of fresh. All of these can be made pretty quick and easy and I can adapt to make sure they are healthy or at least meet my SB needs.

I have some Palermo's frozen pizza's in the freezer, and probably not the healthiest, but they're thin crust, and 1/3 of the pizza is 7 points, 330 calories, so not too bad, and definitely better than a fast food. I'll throw leftover vegies on my portion too. Ds doesn't like vegies on his pizza. .

Those are the ones that I have too. Love that thin crust! We have the Margarita ones and I will throw on some spinach or mushrooms or sometime deli ham if I really want some meat.

**Vent ahead.... feel free to skip if desired.**

It really doesn't matter much what happened other than that, suffice to say it has just left me feeling miserable today. I will need to pull myself together for my first grade class I am in today, but it will be tough.

So sorry that this happened.

Thanks to all who took the time to respond to my morning vent. I sent DD two text messages during the day to tell her I'm sorry that we argued and I love her so much. Then I sent an apology text to my Mom to apologize for all of the mornings I did that same thing to her when I was a teen!! Guess what comes around goes around!!

My mom just laughs when I apologize to her. I swear she put a curse on me that I would have a DD that was just like me and boy is she seeing her rewards!

Thank HEAVENS I am out of here at 2pm today.... not sure I would make it through an entire day..... between my mood and the kids' behavior today.... I can just sit in the dentist chair this afternoon and chill QUIETLY!!

It is a bad day when you are looking forward to the dentist!

Tomorrow night DS has his Board of Review to find out if he will move up to Star Scout. I am so nervous for him. He's met all of the qualifications but there are some requirements such as "Scout Spirit" and "Scout Participation" etc that I don't know how subjective they will be on. His volunteer service project was completed in the US last Summer and I'm afraid they may say it needs to be completed in this community here. I must say we've been so disappointed in the troop over here compared to back home. They do not make it easy for us to to participate being non-military. They did not even help us with base access until we'd been in the troop 8 months, no one had the time to bother with us. Anyway I am so hoping that he gets to advance in rank. He will only have Life Scout and Eagle to complete after that

I hope that it all works out for him. (of course maybe if I read ahead a few more days you will have already updated us!)

Every mile I went on Sunday I kept saying--hooray for Pooh! By mile 10 I was almost crying--happy crying, not pain crying, which was a nice change from all the frustration I've felt lately! They were ugly miles and I had to put in a lot of stretching and walk breaks, but I think I can do 13!

That is great to hear!

 

[ScubaD]

And I get to report to my teammates on this great occasion that I have officially reached the 50 pound weight loss mark. Thanks to everyone for keeping me motivated to keep going. I am hoping to be at the 60 pound mark by the time our challenge is done at the end of May.

Take care,
Dave

 

[ScubaD]

That website brought tears to my eyes. He is such a little trooper. My DS is 21 months and I can't even imagine what they are going through. I'm 34 and your kids look younger, but still so strong and positive. My heart goes out to your whole family and Caleb of course

Thanks for the kind words. Yes, they are young (25 years old) but they have grown up so much these last two weeks. We are so very proud of them for what they have endured and that they love each other more today than they did before this began.

A proud dad/grandpa,
Dave

 

[mommyof2Pirates]

Hello all!!!! I want to say a BIG thank you to Rose for being our coach this week and doing a marvelous job as always. Thank you also to Tracey for being a wonderful weight keeper and to CC who is so diligent with our Healthy Habits. You all rock!!!!!

I will be our coach this week. I am hoping I can motivate myself as well as the rest of you to do the best we can at staying on plan, journaling, and keeping moving!!!!!

I pretty much have fallen off the wagon a month or two ago and now I am looking yet again to climb back on. The great part about this group is that years ago when I would fall off the wagon I would put all the weight back on and just give up. Now due to all of you and your wonderful support and words of encouragement I have only put back on 5-7lbs and not the whole 35 I lost. So kuddos to everyone for still being here and not giving up.

4-22-11 Friday's QOTD:

We are starting the final month of this challenge. Are you close to accomplishing your goal you set at the start? If not what has gotten in your way, and what can you do to fix it? and if Yes what was the key to your success?

I am not anywhere near my goal actuall I think I may be even a few lbs heavier now than when I started. I have to say nothing has gotten in my way except for myself. I have been letting my stress/anxiety get the best of me. I think in order to fix it I have to really dig deep to the root of my issues and learn to channel the negative energy into a positive. I also have gotten a bit unorganized and with life getting so busy it just makes it harder. So those are the two things I will work on for the next month with the hope to at least finish the challenge at where I started or better.

 

[tipsytrtle]

I came into the challenge late and as we only have 4weeks left i know i wont reach goal...but i will try to lose something

I did good the first week and weeks 2 and 3 have been horrible like a few other posters stated, i find myself eating horribly and knowing better and feeling horrible afterwards but still doing it! like some bizarre way of self torture...
hoping to continue self reflection and get back on the horse sort of speak and hoping for another challenge come june to join

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

I'm back from Disney and just about caught up.

congrats to those making progress
Uplifting thoughts to those going through rough patches
and prayers to everyone

Disney was rougher then I thought it was. DH decided to pick every rich food restaurant out there. Loved Bistro de Paris but man oh man no good choices there!! I just picked something that had the least amount of food on it. We ended up eating there twice, and both times I was in serious stomach pain after. I think it was the truffles and chocolate in the pork and the dessert.
He also picked Raglan Road twice. I ended up getting the chicken both times, I could not focus on the menu because of the noise. He loves the place, I tolerate it. The last place he picked was Brown Derby, I again picked the chicken and barley, it was really good and I think it was a good choice.

I probably drank an entire ocean's worth of water!! I have never been more sick of water in my life!

I didn't run every day, it was really intimidating when big ol' fat me was trying to pick up the pace around the boardwalk. To many skinny girls and couples out there. I tried to walk as much as possible, doubling back and taking the long route when ever possible. We skipped the boat from Epcot every time and walked. And we both picked up the pace as much as we could when it was feasible.
I did not like touring Disney alone. I thought I would enjoy doing my own thing but it was really kind of boring and I was pretty much invisible to other guests. Well that or there is just an infinite amount of rude people out there now.

Anyway, not really looking forward to weigh in tomorrow but I'm going to do it anyway.

 

[lovetoscrap]

i had my doc's appt yesterday and everything looked good! measuring 8 weeks 2 days and doc said my due date is 11/27. two weeks ago he said it was 11/25 but i guess he looked at his little circle calendar thingy wrong. no biggie though,

11/25 is a GREAT birthday! (well, actually sometimes it does seem way too close to Christmas, and it falls on Thanksgiving every however many years so you have to decide if you want cake or a candle in a pumpkin pie, and it can be hard to schedule a party because everyone is so busy that time of year, but really some GREAT people have been born on the 25th! )

Caleb had his first dose of chemo yesterday and I wanted to keep my WISH family updated on his health.

First let me say how proud I am of my daughter and son-in-law. They are doing a great job of caring for Caleb.

All of his tests are coming back with wonderful news. His blood work is perfect, his MRI showed that the cancer had not spread to any other parts of the body, and the doctors continue to have a wonderful outlook on the diagnosis. And he was eating well at home last night when they all got home from the hospital. We could not be more excited for this little guy.

I thought I would include a picture of a proud grandpa with his two guys. Kai is on the left and little Caleb is on the right, my left.

Dave

You have PROUD Grandpa written all over your face! What beautiful boys. They are blessed to have such a strong and wonderful family. So glad to hear that Caleb is doing so well.

Things have been busy. My grandfather has been visiting from Texas at my parents' house and we all noticed that his health had very dramatically declined since we last saw him in September. They took him back to Dallas last week to see his doctor and discovered that he has type 2 diabetes so severe that he needs to have one of his kidneys removed next week. My parents are down there with him and discovered an extremely filthy house! Its clear that he can't be on his own anymore and some decisions have to be made. My family in Dallas doesn't want to look after him and the only people my grandfather wants to live with are my parents.

Sorry to hear about your grandfather. Prayers for his surgery and for all of you as you make the hard decisions.

I also have been doing a good job keeping up with my calories on Lose-it. I have lost 11 pounds since February 1st and have 22 to go.
David

Great job! Congratulations on being our Biggest Loser!

I agree--quite the debate about the women's only races. I have opinions, but so far have been avoiding being too vocal I'll ask Mike again, but I don't think he felt like anyone was rude to him at the Princess. We were actually planning on going again in 2012--any excuse to go to FL in winter! He also felt like it was a women's race, and that a woman should have crossed the finish line first. He told my Fairy Godmother when we met her that he was there to carry the water--she told him, oh you're a dromedary! He kept saying that the whole weekend was about me. Originally my sisters were supposed to come and I think he just really wanted me to have a good time. He spent a lot of time over the weekend being handed cameras and asked to take pictures, and he was perfectly ok with that. It just wasn't about him, and that was ok. He's a pretty good guy.

One comment I read on here that really bothered me personally, was someone who said that any woman who ran it with a boyfriend, husband, etc. was basically missing out because they just didn't get it. And that they felt sorry for those women. After reading that, I felt like a loser because I chose to run it with my running partner--who just happened to be a man. But if my running partner was a woman, that would have been ok.

The first thing that came to my mind when I read this was "Well, maybe they need to make it the Peter Pan and Tinkerbell race". . . then I realized that may not be the best idea to put the complaints to rest.

C DS had his board of review and he is now a Star Scout. He only has Life and Eagle to go. I am so proud of him.

See, I knew I should have kept reading! Congratulations. That is quite an accomplishment for young man.

I was getting ready to leave my house around 8 because I was going to head over to my mom's and take care of the cats. Then I was going to head to the gym. Well, I get ready to walk out the door and realize my purse isn't in my car.

This begins me tearing my house apart (not literally) and both vehicles looking for it. I can't find it anywhere and I'm not one to leave and drive somewhere without my drivers license. So, after searching I called Alan and asked if he had seen it. He comes back to the house to help me look and we can't find it. Then I realized "Wait, I went to mom's on Monday maybe I left it over there." We head over to mom's and sure enough it was sitting on her couch. By this time my training session has already come and gone so we head home.

I know exactly how you feel! The sad thing is that this kind of thing happens to me probably at least once a week! I am really bad about putting my keys or purse down somewhere and having no idea where I left it.

.Well, the less I gain this week the less I'll have to take off next week

I LOVE THIS! I think that is going in my inspiration journal. Great inspiration to get back on track ASAP after you have derailed!

Finally got to see the orthopedist today. He says I have Frozen Shoulder.
So on the 29th I am going to have it Manipulated. They put me under and force it to move breaking up the scar tissue then I do PT.
I am glad it is not "surgery" but not looking forward to this either.

Yikes, that sounds icky! No cutting is always good though.

. She had a few other ideas too that are related to the meds I am taking, but overall, there is no definitive conclusion. Well, except for one: I have to drink Gatorade.
It's like drinking liquid sugar. Try as I may, I was only able to drink about 8 oz. today. My doctor didn't say how much I needed to drink of it, but for some reason, I think she meant more than that. I will try again tomorrow. I'm not thrilled about drinking 5 points in Gatorade, but I wasn't nearly as lightheaded today, so it seems like I don't have much of a choice. I will stop again tomorrow for another bottle-maybe a different flavor-and see how the day goes.

Thanks! Cam suggested the G2, which I saw, but didn't know what it was. This sounds like a perfect idea!

Thanks for all the support everyone! I am not loving my Gatorade "diet" at all. I had something like strawberry-orange and it wasn't as sweet, but it still took me a long time to drink 20 oz. Like 7 hours.

I think you just have to keep trying them until you find one you can stand! Definitely get the sugar free ones so you at least aren't using all your points on it.

Good morning, everyone. Life is crazy but I had to stop here to read and get re-charged by friends who understand this journey. I did really well last night. I ate dinner and then nothing else. I have journaled every single bite, too.

I had to get up this morning at 3:30 to drive J. to meet his ride to the airport and then couldn't fall back to sleep until after 5:15. So, I missed my normal WW meeting, but I am going on Saturday. Regardless of how off-plan I might be at any given time, I try to hold myself accountable by stepping on the scale. That in itself is a big achievement for me -- acknowledgment instead of denial.

You have a great attitude. Sounds like you have turned it back around and are headed where you need to be.

Anyway, Caleb is doing great after his first injection of chemo. He has not been sick, as of yet, and the doctors all remain very confident in his prognosis.

And Melissa (DD) has started a blog on CaringBridge to keep everyone up to speed on the goings-on of their little family. If you want to check it out you can visit:

Wonderful news. I will take a look at the site this weekend.

Dh told me I started coughing at 3 this morning and it sounded like I was going to throw up. SO he didn't wake me up but turned so that I wouldn't throw up in his face Then I rolled over and stopped coughing. I don't remember coughing at all.

That sounds like what my DH would do!

And I get to report to my teammates on this great occasion that I have officially reached the 50 pound weight loss mark. Thanks to everyone for keeping me motivated to keep going. I am hoping to be at the 60 pound mark by the time our challenge is done at the end of May.

That is wonderful!

Have to get to bed. Passing out Popcorn to High Schoolers tomorrow. Why did I get myself on the committee that involves yummy foods on a monthly basis???

If I didn't get a chance to respond to someone personally I apologize. and for everyone.

 

[cclovesdis]

Welcome to Healthy Habits!

My name is CC (short for Christina) and I will be your Healthy Habits coach for BL 11. I love the BL challenges and Healthy Habits has helped me significantly in achieving many of my goals.

Some Background Information: Thanks to donac (Dona-hostess of Team Donald) and jenanderson for their amazing help so I know how to coach! I couldn’t do this without seeing them in action previously. I will be continuing the prizes that Jen started.

Here’s How Healthy Habits Works: Each week there will be 3 Healthy Habits (HH) to complete. The first two HHs will always be drinking water and exercising. (Note: The amount and time will increase throughout the challenge!) At the end of each week, you will tally up the number of points you earned for the week and send me a private message with your total. Here’s an example. For Week 1, the 3 HHs are drink Six 8 oz. glasses of water a day, exercise a minimum of 20 minutes per day, and eat at least 3 servings of vegetables a day. If on 4 days you get in all 3 HHs, you would report your points like this:

4/6 days of drinking water
4/6 days of exercising
4/6 days of eating veggies

Your total points (ex: 12/18) AND your team name should be in the subject of your PM.

On/about Tuesday evening, I will post the week’s results. I will share the number of participants and the top scorers. New for BL 11: I will also list the people who earned 7/7 on one or more of the HHs for the week. Everyone who participates will be entered into a drawing for the week's prize. Each prize will have something to do with the 3rd Healthy Habit for the week. I will post the winner and ask that you PM me your contact information. (Please Note: If you do not wish to be entered into the drawing, please let me know in your PM. I understand people’s WISHes for privacy.)

Participation in Healthy Habits is entirely optional, but I encourage you to participate. Good luck on your journey and I hope that HHs helps you as much as it continues to help me!

Welcome to Health Habits Week 17

Week 16 is 4/22-4/28.

This week's 3 Healthy Habits are:
1) Drink Six 8 oz. glasses of water.
2) Exercise a minimum of 30 minutes a day.
3) Eat 2 (or more) servings of protein per day.

At the end of the week, please PM me your points. I will post the results on/about Tuesday.

Remember, every participant counts, regardless of the number of points you earn!

If you have any questions, please free to ask!

 

[my3princes]

4-22-11 Friday's QOTD:

We are starting the final month of this challenge. Are you close to accomplishing your goal you set at the start? If not what has gotten in your way, and what can you do to fix it? and if Yes what was the key to your success?

I am not close to my goal. I am definitely up a few lbs from where I started. Life threw some curve balls at me, but I have taken the reigns again and I'm on the path to correct my shortfalls and regain my body. Atkins seems to be working pretty well though I'm up a bit this morning. I think lack of sleep my have something to do with that as I haven't even had a nibble off plan since I started on Monday. I'm not going to let it bother me and I'll keep moving forward. I hope to reach my original goals by the end of the challenge, but I know that it might take me longer than the 4 weeks and if that is the case I'm okay with it.

I'm up early again this time for a ride along with a tech. This could be a 10 hour day. At least I know it going in so I'm prepared. I'll have nearly 60 hours in this week between the 2 jobs. I feel horrible that I didn't spend any time with my boys over spring break and thankful that my parents were able to. Hopefully things will settle down a bit soon and the reality is that I may need to give up my job at the restaurant in order to keep my sanity. I will definitely need to be done by fall as my hours at my new job will require overtime and maybe some schedule changes as they stay open until 7 and run a 7 day schedule. I'm okay with working a day on the weekends in the winter as we're usually around. It will be nice to have weekends off over the summer though.

 

[tigger813]

Up and checking in before I head off to work for a few hours. Leaving at noon to run errands and pick up food for the weekend as well as Ash's BFF for the afternoon and some supper. Brian is going out with his boss and co-workers as today is his boss's last day!

I've made my list and hope I didn't forget anything. I'll think about it more at work. Just hoping I get to TJs before the lamb is all gone or otherwise I will have to buy a small turkey which I'm not thrilled about having. I have about 6 places to stop to get Easter candy and gifts.

Gotta 7 more bags of clothing to drop off. Taking some stuff during the week to one of the 2 consignment shops near here. I have several items with tags still on them. ALso have some of the kids' toys to take to the children's consignment shop including a whole bunch of Dora stuff that I just came across last week and the girls' sit and spin.

Time to shower so I can be already to go in an hour. Hoping for rain in the morning so Izzie's soccer game will be canceled. I have 2 clients tomorrow so I need the morning to finish straightening the house before our friends come over at 6:30.

TTFN

 

[sparks19]

Hey everyone

I have not stopped in for too long. things have been crazy. Dog was sick for a few days with lots of messes to clean up, trying to find things to entertain a 3 year old while it does nothing but rain, and then the full moon came this house is a mad house when there is a full moon.

So I didn't even weigh in last week... hopefully it's ok that i weigh in this week. I hit a bit of a plateau last week and was stuck at 216. Well first I was down to 217 and then suddenly gained two pounds and it took 4 days to get back down to 217 and then I was stuck at 216 for a WEEK. Now the numbers are moving again and I'm weighing in this week at 214.8 HOORAY. close to 210... next stop ONEDERLAND

I hope you are all doing well. I need to make a better effort to stop in more often instead of these drive by postings lol

 

[dvccruiser76]

And I get to report to my teammates on this great occasion that I have officially reached the 50 pound weight loss mark. Thanks to everyone for keeping me motivated to keep going. I am hoping to be at the 60 pound mark by the time our challenge is done at the end of May.

Take care,
Dave

Great job keep up the good work

Thanks for the kind words. Yes, they are young (25 years old) but they have grown up so much these last two weeks. We are so very proud of them for what they have endured and that they love each other more today than they did before this began.

A proud dad/grandpa,
Dave

Proud indeed, you can see it in the smile on your face from the piture of you with your two little guys

4-22-11 Friday's QOTD:
We are starting the final month of this challenge. Are you close to accomplishing your goal you set at the start? If not what has gotten in your way, and what can you do to fix it? and if Yes what was the key to your success?

I'm almost there. Tax season was in the way for most of this challenge, but I did manage to maintain during tax season for the most part. 3.5 pounds to go

Disney was rougher then I thought it was. DH decided to pick every rich food restaurant out there. Loved Bistro de Paris but man oh man no good choices there!! I just picked something that had the least amount of food on it. We ended up eating there twice, and both times I was in serious stomach pain after. I think it was the truffles and chocolate in the pork and the dessert.
He also picked Raglan Road twice. I ended up getting the chicken both times, I could not focus on the menu because of the noise. He loves the place, I tolerate it. The last place he picked was Brown Derby, I again picked the chicken and barley, it was really good and I think it was a good choice.

Sorry that you didn't have a great trip Hopefully next time it'll be much better.


Hi fellow losers. DS got up before 6 this morning, so I'm already pooped and it's only 8:30. I did manage to do a walk at home video last night, so hopefully today is another good day. Everyone have a great Friday

 

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I came into the challenge late and as we only have 4weeks left i know i wont reach goal...but i will try to lose something

I did good the first week and weeks 2 and 3 have been horrible like a few other posters stated, i find myself eating horribly and knowing better and feeling horrible afterwards but still doing it! like some bizarre way of self torture...
hoping to continue self reflection and get back on the horse sort of speak and hoping for another challenge come june to join

I hope you can find what works for you and hop back on the horse this week. We definitely will have a summer challenge for you to continue on. I would give yourself credit for still being here and posting!!!!!

I'm back from Disney

No matter what the scale says I think you did a great job being concious of your healthy habits while you were away. Sorry the trip was not as fun as you imagined.

I am not close to my goal. I am definitely up a few lbs from where I started. Life threw some curve balls at me, but I have taken the reigns again and I'm on the path to correct my shortfalls and regain my body.

You have had a rough few months Deb and give yourself credit for hanging in there. Glad to see you are back on the path. You are awesome.

So I didn't even weigh in last week... hopefully it's ok that i weigh in this week. I hit a bit of a plateau last week and was stuck at 216. Well first I was down to 217 and then suddenly gained two pounds and it took 4 days to get back down to 217 and then I was stuck at 216 for a WEEK. Now the numbers are moving again and I'm weighing in this week at 214.8 HOORAY. close to 210... next stop ONEDERLAND

I hope you are all doing well. I need to make a better effort to stop in more often instead of these drive by postings lol

Great job on the loss. My house and job gets a bit nutty during the full moon too!


Good Morning Losers!!!!!!

It was a bit rough coming to work today after having off yesterday. I am not a fan of taking off on thursday and working friday. Its just not right. My kiddos are with my parents today and hopefully they are better behaved today than they were yesterday. They were just out of control yesterday and I am still chalking it up to the full moon.

I am going to pray this day goes quickly and smoothly so I can start my holiday weekend on a good note.

Have a great Friday!!!!!! Remember to drink your water