Biggest Loser 9 Spring Challenge -- thread closing -- see new thread Part 2!

[maiziezoe]

5 Guys...yum!! Did you stay away from the fries? I don't think I could have done that! DH has been wanting to go but I must stay away for a while! That place doesn't even PRETEND to be healthy! lol How fun that you guys got together!

I totally stayed away from the fries. I've never been a fan of french fries so it wasn't too hard to stay away. Because 5 Guys was so crowded, the kids sat at a different table than the adults so I wasn't tempted to finish their food. Yippee!

, maiziezoe, some days you are going to go over your points. Don't stress, just work a little harder the next few days and it will balance out. It doesn't hurt to give your body a few extra calories every once in awhile to keep yourself from plateauing!


It is a nice quiet Sunday here. I think I may give the Toy Story Mania Wii a try.

Have a great day!

Thanks for the hug!! I was very excited to see my weight down .02 this morning even though I had a terrible day yesterday. Enjoy Toy Story Mania. My family loves it!

I have to finish making my weekly grocery list and then I have to go to the grocery store. Yuck.

Go Colts.

 

[tigger813]

WOW, I'm only getting on for the first time now and I was behind by almost 2 pages!

Started off well and then came home from church and had some chips and dip and mozzarella sticks. That was lunch! Went downstairs and did my EA Sports Active workout. I'm behind a bit so I will need to do an extra one this week. I did the moderate level and my legs are killing me! That was really hard! One of the exercises was impossible! It was lunges to high knee jumps! Man, that was just impossible!

Gonna head down again in a while and so some Walk Away the Pounds! And maybe some more Wii and the elliptical later. Time for some water. Gonna have a grilled pork chop, carrots and rice pilaf for supper. Sticking to my guns and not having any more alcohol this weekend. I'm up about 2 lbs for the weekend but I only did 2 miles total yesterday.

Meant to get up and workout this morning but I woke up at almost 8:30 and had to head to church at 9:30. Major rushing this morning! 2 clients in the morning tomorrow so that's a good workout for me!

Watching Diners, Drive Ins and Dives! Not good because it's making me hungry but I love Guy Fieri!

 

[Cinderella Girl]

Hi Everyone,

Sorry for the late Sunday post, I unfortunetly had an accident with some ice this morning! It is mighty slippery in MN right now! Luckily, I slipped and fell into some snow, I think my ego is more bruised then my body!

Sounds like everyone is having a good Sunday. I tried to take a walk, but I am a little sore from the fall, so I think I will just chill at home tonight and watch my Vikings!

Sunday QOTD: If you could posses one 'power', what would it be and why?

I thought of this after my fall this morning. I would love the power to fly. If I had, had it this morning, I could have flown right over the ice!!! Plus it would make going to DW ALOT more affordable!

I hope everyone has a SUPER SUNDAY!!!!

Molly

 

[jenanderson]

Hi Everyone,

Sorry for the late Sunday post, I unfortunetly had an accident with some ice this morning! It is mighty slippery in MN right now! Luckily, I slipped and fell into some snow, I think my ego is more bruised then my body!

Molly

Hello Molly -

I am glad that you didn't hurt yourself badly. I have went outside running the past 3 days and that has been my biggest fear...falling on all our ice. This morning was the worse - very icy and slushy along with a horrible freezing mist. I am glad that tomorrow is an off day for my running.

I am going to go downstairs and try to get a workout in quick before dinner and VIKINGS football! Go VIKES!

 

[tigger813]

Glad you're ok! DD2 fell down the stairs the end of last week and was sore for a week! Sometimes snow is a good thing to have lying around!

QOTD: Flying would be nice so I could get places quicker! Especially WDW!

Did the 2 mile WATP after the EA Sports Active! My legs were having a slightly difficult time but I made it through. Still got a couple more workouts in me today! I need to make up for the junk I ate earlier today!

Just had a nice supper of Pork chops, rice pilaf and honey glazed carrots. Will have a Skinny cow later. I found the mint truffle bars on sale at the grocery store earlier today! Getting my water in. I have a 14 oz Brita bottle that I keep refilling. I have my BL Protein drink in it and then just refill it with water over and over again! I have 2 more bottles full to drink today.

Started planning my weekly menu for a change. Tomorrow will be hot dogs as we need something quick and simple due to dancing schedule. Tuesday will be turkey sloppy joe sliders. I found a recipe in the coupon inserts today and I had already bought small buns today. That's it so far. Trying to be more creative with our meals and have more of a variety. May do breakfast one night. I won't be home on Friday night so I will leave that up to DH.

Going to head down for another workout in about 25 minutes once my dinner settles a bit more.

Have a great night everyone!

 

[LuvBaloo]

Thanks to Eeyores Butterfly for coaching last week!
Thanks to Cinderella Girl for coaching this week!

Now to answer some of the QOTD that I missed:

1/20 Wednesday: Now that you have identified your obstacles, how can you overcome them to reach your goals?
Keep reminding myself of why I want to lose weight. Nobody can get me to exercise if I choose not to, so I have to convince myself to exercise and eat right.

1/21 Thursday QOTD: What's one healthy swap you can make in your eating?
I could swap water for Coke Zero, at least some of the time.

1/22 Friday QOTD: What is a fitness goal you have for 2010?
Good question! I don't really have anything specific, just to exercise more, which is too vague to really be a goal. I'll have to think about this one.

1/23 Saturday QOTD: If you could take a 'fitness' vacation (money no object), where would you go and why?
I think I'd take a long cruise 2weeks or so, and try all the different exercise classes, and at each port do an active excursion.


Now I'm off to enter some more weigh-ins, and I'll be back later to post the reminder

 

[iheartdolewhips]

That is so true about feeling good after a workout, I also focus on the effort it takes (sorry Tig not like you and have so many that I love that I have to figure out how to work them all in! but I hope to become that way...) I think I'm going to check Craigslist, great idea!

Well I got a new WATP dvd yesterday, the 5 mile one and did 3 miles today...wow that is a LOT faster than my other one! I liked it! DD, 11, is really getting into exercise. The girl does competitive cheer, so she's pretty strong, and does that (lots of tumbling and strength) already for 6 hours/week and now she's exercising at home. She got Jillian's Trouble spot workout dvd yesterday (not that she knows what a trouble spot is) to make her arms, abs and glutes stronger so she can be a better cheerleader. Rock on girl! I told her I'll do it with her (so I can keep an eye on her form) but I know it'll be hard for me! I've done her at home cheer exercises with her - well I've done 3 while she's done 20! so she should be good. Now DH is starting to join in - hooray!

I totally recommend Craigslist if you're looking for any equipment. You know how many people buy a machine and then only use it once. Pretty much all of the ones I saw on there were practically new machines. I got a $1000 elliptical for $150 from a family that's moving out of state.

I think it's great you're getting your family involved! I know how much fun I had when my mom and sisters would work out with me. Now my dh and I are trying to keep each other on track.

So I decided that if she could keep going, so could I... she finally stopped when I was at 57 minutes so I kept going for another 3 minutes. OMG. That's the longest I've ever run IN MY LIFE.

Doesn't it feel great to do something you didn't think you could do? That always helps me move forward - if I go for 30 minutes instead of 20 minutes, then the next time I'm working out and want to quit at 20 minutes, then I remind myself "You can do it - you've done it before!"

Sorry for the late Sunday post, I unfortunetly had an accident with some ice this morning! It is mighty slippery in MN right now! Luckily, I slipped and fell into some snow, I think my ego is more bruised then my body!

Sunday QOTD: If you could posses one 'power', what would it be and why?

Glad you weren't hurt!

I think I'd want to be able to spontaneously clone myself. That way one of me could be doing the dishes right now, one could be finishing up my work for today, one could be working out, and one could be sitting here playing like I am right now. Though I guess magic powers would work too.

 

[cclovesdis]

Glad to hear you are ok, Cinderella Girl.

I too, would like the power to fly. I'd love to be able to fly to the MK any time I need a little "pick-me-up." Plus, I'd get in loads of walking around the MK. I love when my pedometer says 10,000+ steps.

Have a great week everyone!

 

[corinnak]

Hi Everyone,

Sorry for the late Sunday post, I unfortunetly had an accident with some ice this morning! It is mighty slippery in MN right now! Luckily, I slipped and fell into some snow, I think my ego is more bruised then my body!

Yikes, Molly! It is definitely that time of year - Friday night was a literal sheet of ice, and there is still a good bit of it out there, it seems, in spite of the warmer temps. Hope you continue to feel OK.

Sunday QOTD: If you could posses one 'power', what would it be and why?

Time travel. How cool would that be?? Either that or invulenrability - it would be nice to be injury-proof!

 

[PeterPan09]

well, I was depressed over my scale numbers this week, only 1 pound down and I worked out like a fool!! However, when sanity returned I realized that while I didn't lose much, my clothing is fitting better. I also know that my eating was not as disciplined as it could have been, so now I have motivation to do better this week in that department.

Saturday's Question: Fitness Vacation? Do those two words really belong together?? Just kidding-I think I'd like to do a run in another city, like maybe a half in Disneyland.

Sunday's Question: This one takes me back to conversations with the neighbor kids growing up. I always had trouble deciding but I think being immune to injury could be really helpful, but then if I had super speed I could finish the marathon in like 15 minutes and then go volunteer at the water stops!!!

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

Saturday's QOTD:
If you could take a 'fitness' vacation (money no object), where would you go and why?

Biggest Loser Fitness Ridge. Why? It looks cool, I would have all the pros there to get info from, and because it's far far away from my family, I'd be alone!!!

Sunday QOTD: If you could posses one 'power', what would it be and why?


Super power? Teleport. I'd take the kids to school, teleport to WDW to walk and be back in time to pick them up.

Mad skill power? To know and speak every language fluently including sign language.

 

[heatherlynn444]

QOTD: I agree, being able to teleport would be awesome!

 

[jennz]

QOTD: Tough one! I can only choose one? I used to always want to be invisible but no more. I'll go with teleport...that way I can see friends and family all over the world for dinner or a walk AND reduce my carbon footprint by not having to dry or fly at the same time! (dd is brainwashing me...)

 

[iheartdolewhips]

well, I was depressed over my scale numbers this week, only 1 pound down and I worked out like a fool!! However, when sanity returned I realized that while I didn't lose much, my clothing is fitting better. I also know that my eating was not as disciplined as it could have been, so now I have motivation to do better this week in that department.

I bet you're toning up and replacing fat with muscle.

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

OH Jenn, I didn't even think about my carbon footprint, I was just being selfish and lazy. But yeah it's an added bonus for teleportation!!!
I'm trying to convince the kids to develop a tele-pad but no one's biting yet, they want to be chefs, a zookeeper, and a princess. Go figure!!

 

[denise]

Sunday QOTD: If you could posses one 'power', what would it be and why?

I would like to be able to go back in time and ask my dead relatives questions. I have so many questions about why they did the things they did. Who was married to who, where did they really come from. I wouldn't ask them all of course, only the brick walls I have in my research. If I had all the answers, then what would be the fun of all this research?....

 

[jennz]

Buffy get them on that telepad! Tell them they have their first customer - heck I'll even do beta testing for them! Think of all the time for scrapbooking I'd have! Oh and exercise.

 

[pppiglet]

Sunday QOTD: If you could posses one 'power', what would it be and why?
My power would be to grant a wish to each person I came across in my day. They couldn't be greedy or anything. Just one simple wish. It would make them happy and me happy to do it for them.
Gosh...the teleporting power sounds really fun though! Just think...I could clock out for lunch for one hour at work and then teleport to Mexico for a quick nap in the sun and then teleport back well rested!

 

[maiziezoe]

Hi Everyone,

Sorry for the late Sunday post, I unfortunetly had an accident with some ice this morning! It is mighty slippery in MN right now! Luckily, I slipped and fell into some snow, I think my ego is more bruised then my body!

Sounds like everyone is having a good Sunday. I tried to take a walk, but I am a little sore from the fall, so I think I will just chill at home tonight and watch my Vikings!

Sunday QOTD: If you could posses one 'power', what would it be and why?

I thought of this after my fall this morning. I would love the power to fly. If I had, had it this morning, I could have flown right over the ice!!! Plus it would make going to DW ALOT more affordable!

I hope everyone has a SUPER SUNDAY!!!!

Molly

I'm glad you are okay!!!

 

[maiziezoe]

Ugh! I always do that. I reply to other people and forget to answer the question of the day in my post.

Sunday QOTD: If you could posses one 'power', what would it be and why?

I want to fly. I hate to drive.

I have an awesome sense of smell already. It's not always a good "power" to have. I can smell what my neighbors are cooking in their houses... even when it's winter and the windows are closed. I can also smell when kids have dirty diapers in the grocery store. Sometimes I wish I had a cold just so my sniffer wouldn't work as well as it does.