Biggest Loser 8 Fall Challenge -- for losers and maintainers!

[ShortyNBug]

Good morning. Had a terrible weekend. Back on my feet today though! Not expecting much of a loss if any this week.

 

[sskem96]

My computer at home is not letting me get on-line, so I'm at the library this morning. Trying to help my brother make his arrangements to come home! It will be this weekend or early next week. He's been gone 1 1/2 yrs, so we're very excited! Internet is limited to 90 minutes/day at the library, so it's a bit of a challenge when trying to chat with him and get the flights figured out and everything, but I have a couple minutes left, so I thought I better check in here.

I do have internet on my phone, so I've been reading along, but it's a pain to post on it unless I have to. I did send in my wt. loss to Shannon, I'm down 3.4# this week. Need to update my clippie to 20#!

Monday's QOTD:

How do you handle it when someone hurts your feelings??

I'm pretty much a forgive and forget type of person. I don't get my feelings hurt too easily. I do have an old friend from high school who refuses to speak to me because I supposedly hurt her so badly, but she won't tell me what I did to hurt her. This rift started over 15 years ago, and she still won't speak to me. That hurts me more that anything because to my knowledge I never did anything to hurt her, and I've always wondered if her boyfriend at the time told her some lies about me or something? I still miss her.

 

[tinkamom]

I'm so upset I haven't weighed myself in a long time simply because the batteries in my scale died. I finally got new batteries this morning and found myself 10 lbs heavier than I thought I was! Ten extra extra pounds!

 

[lisah0711]

I'm so upset I haven't weighed myself in a long time simply because the batteries in my scale died. I finally got new batteries this morning and found myself 10 lbs heavier than I thought I was! Ten extra extra pounds!

It's just a number, it's not who you are!

 

[anut4disney]

I took today off as a mental health day, and started with an hour of wii fit, followed by coffee with Ellen Degeneres, and then I had a good cry with some Touched by an Angels tapes that I got from my mom's. She loved that show, and it was a Christmas one and it was so sad, yet so inspiring. I forget who was saying they watched that show a little while back, but you were right, great for a cry.

It was me and it really did help having a good cry watching it.

 

[LuvBaloo]

Monday's QOTD:

How do you handle it when someone hurts your feelings??

It depends on who it is. If its something small I can shrug it off, if its something bigger or really bugging me I'll usually talk to DH and my mom and many times, its just to let it out in a safe place and then move forward. Now if its DH that did the hurting, I usually have a harder time letting it go, and if he didn't realize it, I usually end up blowing up at him after a few hours or a day or 2, and then its out and over with.
For many things, I just try to remind myself they didn't mean it and it doesn't really matter.
Its hard teaching kids how to handle dealing with hurt feelings. DD(age7) came home upset the other day, because a friend told her they didn't like the birthday present DD had given them. I tried to make the point that sometimes people don't think about what they are saying and reminded her that at her birthday she has to remember to be nice about all the gifts because she doesn't want to make anybody sad.

I'll be posting results tomorrow night. Its half-way through our challenge, so I'll come up with some special half-way stats to make it more interesting.

Maria - I'm enjoying the pampering ideas. I haven't done all of them, but I'm keeping them in mind to add in when I can.

tinkamom - use that scale number to motivate you, don't let it get you down, its just a number and you have the power to change it !

 

[lisah0711]

Thought that some of you might be interested in this calendar from www.sparkpeople.com about building habits to cultivate more happiness.
http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/calendar_2007-11.pdf
There are some interesting ideas.

Have a great day!

 

[TimandTanya]

Monday's QOTD:

How do you handle it when someone hurts your feelings??


Maria

Ever heard of a biff? It's when you smack someone upside the head, not to inflict pain or damage, but just to show them how idiotic they are being. I like doing that, works every time.

 

[pjlla]

Good evening all! Glad to see so many responses today.

Tinkamom.... sorry about the bad news on the scale. Wish I could offer some great insight. I can only say that if you let this get you down and you eat into your emotional state, then it won't be 10 pounds on the scale, but 15 or 20 or more. Ten is icky but not un-handle-able. With some hard work that 10 could be gone by Christmas and you could start 2010 on a good note!

Well.. it looks like some icky germs have finally settled here. Like I mentioned earlier this week, I had a scratchy throat on about Friday. I feel okay now, but I am coughing a bit and hoarse. But DD started coughing yesterday and she got just home from a Rainbow Girls meeting and said she feel TERRIBLE and I must admit, she looks pale. And DS mentioned tonight that he had "hot and dry" throat and headache. Not sure what all of this means, but we are definitely going to have to go into "healing" mode! My Mom was going to come up for a few days of Mother/Daughter time tomorrow, but I called her and told her she probably shouldn't come now. We will plan on next week and hope everyone is better.

Fortunately, DH is working from home this week, so he will be here tomorrow if the kids need to stay home and I can still work (assuming I still feel okay!).

I just remembered that DS is supposed to start tennis lessons tomorrow... he will be SO sad if he is sick and can't go!!

Well...I'm going to try and fit in 5 minutes of that "pampering time" that Maria had mentioned! 5-10 quick minutes of free weights with the upper arms and a 5 minute hand scrub and then I will tuck myself in for the night!

I'll try to back early again tomorrow to post the QOTD before I head to work.................P

 

[sahbushka]

I did it! I went ahead and bought the BodyBugg (today was the last day of the promotion.) I will let you all know how it works out.

Ohhh looking forward to seeing how you like it! You may have already posted, I haven't got caught up yet! Will have to go look!

.

Congrats to everyone who is losing and everyone who is still hanging in there!! and sahbushka for you dh getting a job!! what a huge relief for you both!!

Thanks! It really is! Today was his first day and it seemed to go well. From what he was saying, I think he will enjoy it!

SO
Glad to see that you are still working here with us. That last .2 will be gone in an instant and you will be right back on track before the holidays.



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Thanks! I wish I had more time to be on here but am so busy with work and kids right now! I am here in spirit and plugging along at home!

Yay! And won't it be nice to have your very own personal trainer at home?

ll!

I hope so! I am waiting to let him start on me until he learns a bit more and till I don't have to be at work quite so much!

You guys....thank you SO MUCH!!! I am glad I made the choice to post and not to quit, that is a positive step! Today is a day that I am in control

You go girl!

Hey all, I am still here. Doing ok this week although had a slight run in with some carmel corn the other night...still ok for the week points wise. Hope everyone here is doing well!

Sarah

 

[sahbushka]

I've been working out a lot, the trainer has been really kicking my butt. I also am getting used to the bodybugg. So far I like it. IT's really eye opening to enter in all the food and see just how bad I am doing. I also realized I am very much overestimating how many calories I burn in a day. I'll let you all know how it works out, but so far so good.

Wow! That's great! I think having an eye opener like that can really help get people back on track and start things happening....I see a very bright future for you!

Can't wait to hear more about it!

Sarah

 

[Eeyores Butterfly]

Today was a pretty good day. I thought the kids would be awful with us being off for 4.5 days, but they were really good. (Well, for them anyway.) It's scary, but I was dealing with a miscreant in the hallway, thinking how nicely our day was going. When I got him taken care of one of the other teachers said they couldn't pay them enough to do my job (after seeing me deal with this student.) It's weird how quickly your perspective shifts. I was thinking what a great day we were having, and another teacher was thinking how horrible it was!

I did work out for about 2 hours today. I noticed that when I was just doing WW, I would never log my food. With the bodybugg, I have found myself logging everything so that my graph will be accurate. It gives you this graphic that shows you how many calories you have burned vs. consumed and what your surplus or deficit is. It looks like this:

 

[LuvBaloo]

today was a busy day. I went to work an hour early so I could leave early to get to some of DD4's soccer time. I'm going to start doing that every Monday for the next 4 weeks, and I think I'll try getting up that hour earlier every day to get some exercise time in before heading to work. Wish me luck for tomorrow

pjlla - hope your DD feels better soon

Eeyores Butterfly - thanks for sharing about the Body Bugg. That graphic is great. And I'm glad you sound happier in your job

 

[50sjayne]

Well I seem to be back in the living. Trying to catch up to board.
Finally had the energy to come out and put the Norton on the new computer, anti spyware programs etc. and install msn. I was really bummed to find all my favorites were gone-- 7 years worth of highly organized fav's recipes and everything. Left the computer for about an hour and came back to find out msn had updated me and they were all there yay!

Mostly spent the last 5 days in my room with no cable, the electric blanket and the humidifier. I am so glad I got to spend a lot of time with my girls--my babies that just got fixed, they enjoyed my presence-- mostly my electric blanket granted. I read The Time Travellers wife-- that was really good and had a great Halloween in spite of the stupid swine flu. We didn't have as many trick or treaters this year due to the fact I think that the college here had some big espn game or something on Halloween but we had somewhere between 50-75. My neighbors kept count but went to bed early. The wolfman was a great success- husband put him all together with a severed hand on the seat next to him and also put one of those revolving lights in that makes the spooky patterns in the back part of the station wagon along with the strobe in the front ;-) I got dressed up in my costume and it fit great! I just sat and watched my husband hand out candy, could see them from my chair ;-) The house fortunately was already finished when I came down with it-- I did venture out for about a half an hour though Friday because it was so nice and warm and put one more length of spiderweb up.

Todays QOTD:

(outside of the DIS) to help keep you on track with your healthy lifestyle?

Right now it’s mostly my son and husband who are keeping me motivated. My husband really needs to lose weight because of his arthritis and blood pressure etc. The kid is 300 pounds.

I'm SO proud of you (Mikamah) for taking some "me" time. You really needed it, I'm sure. This entire YEAR has been so stressful for you it seems.

--I thought the same thing!

LuvBaloo—friggin’ adorable…

How do you handle compliments? And not just compliments about weight loss and such... about anything in life.

If I deserve it I say thanks—with enthusiasm!

Colleen-

I feel the same way about NIN & Reznor. I have the entire Pretty Hate Machine album on my mp3 player, along with a couple tracks from a bootleg of a live NIN/Bowie show I went to many years ago.

Oh we have that too—got it at a record show years ago. We went to that one too—that concert ;-) I'm a long time Bowie fan. Good times.

Monday's QOTD:

How do you handle it when someone hurts your feelings??

I forgive them.

Pjlla-
Well.. it looks like some icky germs have finally settled here. Like I mentioned earlier this week, I had a scratchy throat on about Friday. I feel okay now, but I am coughing a bit and hoarse. But DD started coughing yesterday and she got just home from a Rainbow Girls meeting and said she feel TERRIBLE and I must admit, she looks pale. And DS mentioned tonight that he had "hot and dry" throat and headache. Not sure what all of this means, but we are definitely going to have to go into "healing" mode! My Mom was going to come up for a few days of Mother/Daughter time tomorrow, but I called her and told her she probably shouldn't come now. We will plan on next week and hope everyone is better.

Ok—this is how I started. I am sure mine is swine flu. It’s the only flu in our area now and all over the news here—and I did have a reg flu shot over 3 weeks ago. I did everything I normally do to combat illness and took it way more easy than I normally do when I'm sick and I have been sick for 5 days. This is certainly nothing to underestimate. I didn't go to the doctor because I have heard there is only a 10-30% chance of being accurately diagnosed and the tamiflu is so scarce here it is only given out to pregnant women/high risk just like the vaccine. Just treat it like the flu-- except you need to give it more effort than any flu or virus you've ever dealt with.

I did manage to weigh myself yesterday and lost a pound but we'll see. I'm just now starting to nose around the candy and the leftover pepperoni pizza the boys got for Halloween is sounding good darn it. Fortunately I'm back to work tomorrow ;-)

 

[donac]

Sorry to so many people are sick. The amount of kids in my school who were sick last week was getting worse so it is a good thing that we are off this week.

I have been missing since I have felt lousy about how I have been doing this weekend. Dh's birthday was on Halloween so we went out to eat and I wasn't watching as closely as I should have been. I did better on Sunday but yesterday I really didn't watch too carefully. BUT I am back on track today.

I spent a great deal of time yesterday cleaningbut it feels like I have accomplished. I still have all the drawers in my bedroom to clean out and the dreaded closet. My dh and I have only shared a closet the first year we were married. We think that is why we have stayed together for 31 years.

Today I get to take both cats to the vets. I thought dh was going to make the appointment for when he got home from school but no right in the middle of the morning. It is bad enough that I have a foot doctor appointment tomorrow where I am expecting at least an hour but now I have to do the vet today. One cat isn't bad but one weighs almost 20 pounds I don't know how I am going to handle to 2 of them.

I hope people who have been sick are getting better. I will be by later

 

[Worfiedoodles]

Election Day Pampering for All Voters!

Most if not all of you have to go out to vote today, so I want you to really notice your surroundings. Look around -- see the sky, clouds, trees, wildlife, flowers, plants. What is new? Is the air cool and crisp? Warm and lush? Dry and arid? Just take a moment to let the beauty of your natural surroundings wash over you.

Today let's depuff those poor eyes! Cucumber slices are great, a nice cool washcloth will work in a pinch. Lay down for 5 minutes and let your eyes rest while you cool them off, and take some of the fluid away. Aah, isn't that better?

Maria

 

[tinkamom]

It's just a number, it's not who you are!

Thanks

 

[tinkamom]

tinkamom - use that scale number to motivate you, don't let it get you down, its just a number and you have the power to change it !

I keep telling myself that! I'm glad I joined this challenge before it got even worse.

 

[tinkamom]

Ever heard of a biff? It's when you smack someone upside the head, not to inflict pain or damage, but just to show them how idiotic they are being. I like doing that, works every time.

I like this. I'm going to use it from this point on!

 

[tinkamom]

Tinkamom.... sorry about the bad news on the scale. Wish I could offer some great insight. I can only say that if you let this get you down and you eat into your emotional state, then it won't be 10 pounds on the scale, but 15 or 20 or more. Ten is icky but not un-handle-able. With some hard work that 10 could be gone by Christmas and you could start 2010 on a good note!

Well.. it looks like some icky germs have finally settled here. Like I mentioned earlier this week, I had a scratchy throat on about Friday. I feel okay now, but I am coughing a bit and hoarse. But DD started coughing yesterday and she got just home from a Rainbow Girls meeting and said she feel TERRIBLE and I must admit, she looks pale. And DS mentioned tonight that he had "hot and dry" throat and headache. Not sure what all of this means, but we are definitely going to have to go into "healing" mode! My Mom was going to come up for a few days of Mother/Daughter time tomorrow, but I called her and told her she probably shouldn't come now. We will plan on next week and hope everyone is better.

Fortunately, DH is working from home this week, so he will be here tomorrow if the kids need to stay home and I can still work (assuming I still feel okay!).

I just remembered that DS is supposed to start tennis lessons tomorrow... he will be SO sad if he is sick and can't go!!

Well...I'm going to try and fit in 5 minutes of that "pampering time" that Maria had mentioned! 5-10 quick minutes of free weights with the upper arms and a 5 minute hand scrub and then I will tuck myself in for the night!

I'll try to back early again tomorrow to post the QOTD before I head to work.................P

You are so right about the pounds piling on. I guess thats how I got to this point in the first place. I'll just have to work a little harder a little longer.

I hope everyone is starting to feel better.

Anyone want to explain how to multiquote? I can't get it to work for some reason. Maybe I'm forgetting a step?