Biggest Loser--Fall 2011 Challenge for Losers & Maintainers!!

[lisah0711]

Good morning all!

Lots of folks here needing a little extra

Thank you so much, Maria, for being our coach last week and a big BL welcome to Coach Kathy!

CC and Trina hope that power comes back very, very soon!

Jill, hope that your Mom is doing better today.

Pamela, congrats to your DD on her induction into NHS and good luck to your robotics guys!

lol, thanks rose.Yes, pamela, if there's a ban-nah at the Y, I'll be under it. lol. I really don't think it's me with the accent.

Well, not only do you have an accent but you also have a friend who obviously can't hear too well! Honestly the only person who didn't have an accent to me was Maria and that's because we both were raised by people from Missouri. Oh, and Lisa won't have an accent to me either because we are both California girls.

Saturday 11/5/11 QOTD- When you go to disney-WDW or DL where do you typically stay, in the parks, out of the parks? value, mod, deluxe, dvc? What do you like best about where you stay, and if you could stay any where else, where would you stay? If you haven't been yet, where would you want to stay?

We always stay onsite at WDW. For the longest time we always stayed at Wilderness Lodge which was always a bit of a joke since we live in the Pacific NW. We have branched out to Animal Kingdom Lodge now. I love the boat rides at WL and the animals at AK. I would love to stay at the Beachclub or Boardwalk some time.

At DL we love the Grand Californian. DL Hotel is fun, too but you just can't beat the location of the Grand Californian. One of my favorite memories is of listening to a big owl hoot in the middle of the night there.

Last week was by far my best week in BL - 4 days of exercise (3 run/walk, 1 weights), no soda at all, good food chocies overall... and I gained a pound. Grrr.... Someone upthread posted to not let the scale have more power than you do, and I love that thought - thanks!

That is a bummer! I'm sure the scale will show your hard work very soon!

LTS, hope that tummy gets to feeling better soon.

Buffy, great job making those small, positive, liveable changes!

WOW! I've never seen myself that high up on the list.. I've only made hat list one other time. HOLY COW! (Sorry, I'm just in shock)

Congratulations!

Finally back after a CRAZY week! And I don't think it's gonna be any less crazy over the next couple months...oh well! Fortunately I was able to maintain over the last week, so that's definitely a plus This week though, it kicks into high gear: I refuse to have one more week in the 180's, knowing full well I can get below that. This is so my week!

You can do it!

Sue, enjoy your shopping day. Hope you find some bargains!

Sunday 11/6/11 QOTD-There's been some talk about the scale this week, so lets continue on that subject. Do you have a love/hate relationship with your scale? Do you weigh yourself everyday? Do you only weigh once or twice a week? What time of the day do you weigh yourself? Do you feel your scale is really accurate and want to recommend it to others? Share your advice when it comes to the scale.

I do weigh myself every day -- it is a lifelong habit. So I don't get discouraged when I see the scale fluctuating from day to day but try to pay more attention to the trends. I always weigh first thing in the morning as soon I get up. My scale is old, over 15 years old, so it is probably not as accurate as it could be. It never compares favorably with the scales at the doctor's office.

I squeaked into my new decade on Friday so I'm on track to make it into new territory by the end of the month. The next two months are really do or die as far as making my goal for the Tinker Bell Half in January so I have to really, really watch it and stay OP. Thank goodness for the pjlla challenge!

Have a great day all!

 

[lovetoscrap]

Good Morning.

Started my day off fat, dumb and happy. Showered, dressed and grabbed a laundry basket of stuff that needed to go downstairs, headed down and missed the last step or two and had a good fall. So now I just feel fat and dumb. REALLY dumb! My get up and go for the day has gone. Good news is that I am fine, just some bruised knees. I think this is the first time I have every fallen down the stairs in the 6 years we have lived here.

Ended up not being able to find the craft supplies that I needed yesterday which was a real bummer. Had to tell the girl scout leader that she may need to come up with a different plan. Not sure if she will need me to go out today and buy other supplies. Didn't get any scrapbooking mojo but did come home and finish crocheting a hat for my mil for Christmas and made my first granny square. The granny square is pretty rough but I am excited that I was able to make it. Now I just need to keep practicing. It gives me something to do with my hands other than eat while I watch TV .

 

[bellebookworm9]

I come on every day and think maybe you'll be posting that your in the CP program today, and I can only imagine how hard the wait is for you. I hope you hear soon.

I hope I hear soon too, but it could be a while. I guess they are kind of putting us on hold because a)current CPers already there are being asked to extend so they need replies from them and b)people who auditioned for character roles are being notified if they have been accepted for that, which means they can choose to be a character or to keep whatever other role hey were assigned when they were accepted.

Really though, that list of people to tell that I posted will take about 5 minutes to get through, and when I post here it will be in giant purple letters with as many excited smilies as I can find.

Sunday 11/6/11 QOTD-There's been some talk about the scale this week, so lets continue on that subject. Do you have a love/hate relationship with your scale? Do you weigh yourself everyday? Do you only weigh once or twice a week? What time of the day do you weigh yourself? Do you feel your scale is really accurate and want to recommend it to others? Share your advice when it comes to the scale.

I was weighing myself every day but right now I'm not, because I'm just trying to stay at a maintain. I think my scale is pretty accurate because I just bought it a few months ago at Target. It was only $20 but it's holding up fine. When I do weigh myself it's first thing in the morning after I use the bathroom, as I've been told that it your true weight.

 

[glss1/2fll]

QOTD: I weigh myself first thing in the morning on weigh-in days. That being said, I usually do a "peek" Wednesday morning! Our scale is nothing special; DH picked it out a few years ago when he was beginning to get some love handles! He's a workout demon so they were gone in no time. He weighs himself daily.

Jill- for your mom

LTS- I, too, fell this morning on the stairs. The pathetic thing is there are only 2 stairs. I didn't fall to the ground, just did the "catch-me" dance down the last stair and across the room. Now my ankle hurts. I had it elevated for a bit but may take some aspirin and ice it while I read the paper.

Trina- OMG I hope you are staying warm and the power comes on soon!

Not a lot going on today. Took DS2 to church at 8 AM because the guitar group where he plays flute is performing today. We told him we'd go to the 11 o'clock service and wished him luck for the 9 AM one! My walking partner and her DH are trying to come hear him play at 11. Hope they make it, although it will be a different type of service for them. She says she's really curious about Episcopalians since she's read The Mitford Series. Gotta love Father Tim!

I believe it is definitely time for aspirin. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

 

[donac]

Good afternoon everyone.

I suggested to CC that I would do some pampering until she gets back on line.



Pampering Suggestion for Sunday

Take some time either outside or at a window and look at the fall colors. If you live somewhere where the leaves don't change colors then either take some time otside or by a window and remember how lucky you are that you don't get as much snow as some places


Here on the jersey shore we are in the middle of the fall season. Some of the colors are beautiful. Many of the trees in my yard have not turned yet so we have a couple more weeks before fall is over.

 

[Disneywedding2010]

Good Morning.

Started my day off fat, dumb and happy. Showered, dressed and grabbed a laundry basket of stuff that needed to go downstairs, headed down and missed the last step or two and had a good fall. So now I just feel fat and dumb. REALLY dumb! My get up and go for the day has gone. Good news is that I am fine, just some bruised knees. I think this is the first time I have every fallen down the stairs in the 6 years we have lived here.
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Your not dumb!! I'm sorry you fell down the stairs. If it will make you feel any better I constantly am tripping over my own two feet. I have cerebral palsy and I'm constantly tripping myself up, . I do it in public a lot sometimes and to keep me from feeling completely embarassed Alan will say something funny so I won't feel so bad about it.

Sunday 11/6/11 QOTD-There's been some talk about the scale this week, so lets continue on that subject. Do you have a love/hate relationship with your scale? Do you weigh yourself everyday? Do you only weigh once or twice a week? What time of the day do you weigh yourself? Do you feel your scale is really accurate and want to recommend it to others? Share your advice when it comes to the scale.

I used to weigh myself every day but I would get so discouraged. So now I only weigh myself on Fridays when I first get up. I've done that for most of the year and it seems to work.

Well, today is the beginning of week 3 for me on this journey. The daylight savings time screwed me up and I didn't get up til noon. I will say the extra few hours of sleep felt great. I didn't eat breakfast, had leftovers from dinner last night for lunch, and we have a roast in the crockpot. I have 32 more ounces of water I need to drink by the end of the day.

I was up til 2am this morning playing with my Wii. We have Wii Sports that I didn't even know til I started going through the games. WOW! I love it. I spent 45 minutes trying all the different games out. The boxing definately got my heart going. The golfing I hateed but only because well my eye hand coordination sucks. The baseball was cool but I'd say my favorite was the bowling. Its pretty funny that I can get a better bowling score through a video game then when I play it in real life. I was amazed when I plugged in all the information on my Sparkpeople fitness tracker that I had burned 250 calories! I'm going to do a little strength training today, my Biggest Loser weigh in, and the challenge.

I'll be back later to read some more. I need to get the house vacuumed.

 

[mackeysmom]

Saturday 11/5/11 QOTD- When you go to disney-WDW or DL where do you typically stay, in the parks, out of the parks? value, mod, deluxe, dvc? What do you like best about where you stay, and if you could stay any where else, where would you stay? If you haven't been yet, where would you want to stay?

I used to pretty much always stay at POFQ. Then we started doing a split stay - a few days at POFQ and a few days at a deluxe (we would try a different deluxe each year.)

I've had DVC now for the past 6 years or so, but the first three trips after buying into it, I still stayed at POFQ. I took my nieces and nephew each on their own trip (just the two of us) the year they each made their First Communion. They got to pick where they wanted to stay, and each picked POFQ based on the pool and the food court.

I'd like to try AKL Kidani Village one more time - I stayed there when they first opened, and there were still some kinks to be worked out (including being stuck in an elevator for hours and hours - resulting in climbing out of said elevator on a "ladder" made of firemen. ).

Sunday 11/6/11 QOTD-There's been some talk about the scale this week, so lets continue on that subject. Do you have a love/hate relationship with your scale? Do you weigh yourself everyday? Do you only weigh once or twice a week? What time of the day do you weigh yourself? Do you feel your scale is really accurate and want to recommend it to others? Share your advice when it comes to the scale.

Every single day - after using bathroom, no clothes, right before getting in the shower. I do have an "official" weigh-in day, but I have always weighed myself every single day. It sort of keeps me "in check".

My scale is nothing special - a Tanita from Target that I've had for years. It is a few pounds off from the scale at my old WW center - but it is consistent.

I convinced my neices to pick Panera for lunch today - so I was able to make some good choices. Afterwards though, they did ask me to bring them to a new frozen yogurt place that just opened - one of those places that has 20+ flavor choices and 49 toppings and charges you by the ounce. I wanted everything - but managed to keep my portion at a decent size. I chose coconut flavored low-fat frozen yogurt (no more than about 1/4 cup) with some pineapple chunks and a smidge of chocolate sauce.

I reported one pound loss this week. Not as dramatic as last week's 3.5 pound loss, but a loss nonetheless. No complaints here.

- Laura

 

[tigger813]

UGH! Skipping weigh in this week! Just been a rough week! And am really aggravated right now with our online prescription service! I was checking the status of my BCP and from what I see they have no record of it! I better have it in the next 10 days or I may be gaining weight for the wrong reasons! I hate this company but I get 3 months worth! They have been nothing but a problem for me from the start! I sent a NASTY email to them demanding to hear from a manager on my cell phone tomorrow and I will also call them first thing in the morning! They called while I was away a few weeks ago with a recorded message about the prescription being in process and now it's no where to be found. Brian couldn't technically respond to the call as it was explicitly for me. I did find a page where it says it was being processed on the 27th and then when I click for the status it says there is no prescriptions available!

Sorry to vent!

Had a great day at Izzie's party. She got some fun gifts. We just played Disney Cranium which is a lot of fun. Ash is practicing her flute now. Planning on going to the mall in the morning to either walk with Redwalker or do some Christmas shopping. The mall was a madhouse today when we were looking for winter hats for the girls. 10-20 people in each line! JCPenney has some amazing deals going on right now!

TTFN

Watching the end of the Patriots game right now! OMG! This is painful!

 

[4HOLIDAYS]

QOTD Sat- We stay at all dif resorts. We have DVC as weel. This year has been AKL Jambo, BCV, POP, OKW,BWV. Last year we also had BLT , WL, BCV,BWV and POR, and POP. I love them all but for dif reasons. We really spend time at the resorts as well as the parks. The pools, restaurants, ping pong, shuffleboard, animals, shows, bch movies...it adds so much to the trip and when you go often you don't feel the need to do all the park stuff each and every time.

QOTD Sun- the Scale- have to have mine-it is the only way to keep me on track. All the other things help but I need to see that number daily.

 

[trinaweena]

The power is back! It felt really nice to have the power back finally. But at the same time, as much as I longed for things to return to normal I'm not ready for things to come back to normal, if that makes sense. I'm not ready to go back to school, work, working out, diet, meal planning, and just life in general. I've been very crabby lately, and I think it has something to do with the not working out and just eating what i can.

Right now im just kind of catching up on tv shows. Watching Downton Abbey, it's the season finale and i've heard its going to make me cry. Right now everyone is getting sick which is not great because I already have a stomach ache so watching people get sick is not fun! I also watched The Walking Dead and Once Upon a Time tonight as well as watched American Horror Story which is....a really strange and freaky show. But interesting.

Tomorrow will be a day to get back on track a little, and then tuesday its studying like a mad woman for my exam (totally put off weeks of homework) and going to try to get back to working out. I bought some soups for lunch this week and some frozen things for meals. we didn't really have the grocery money for big meals this week so we will do our best.

I was supposed to make cupcakes to bring into my manager at work as a thank you for letting my dogs stay there while i was at work this week to keep warm, but i just didnt have the energy. We will see tomorrow maybe.

 

[tigger813]

Awake since 4:30. I should get in a workout but I think I'll do some cleaning and watch one of the many Christmas movies I recorded this weekend on Hallmark Channel. I'm trying to find all of my coupons for shopping today too. Out school sold these little special coupon books which for the first time were worth it for me to buy. I'm trying to be better at couponing. I'm so bad about forgetting to bring them when I shop.

Izzie got the Disney Cranium game at her party yesterday. It's so much fun!

Gotta get moving here. I also want to continue putting away Halloween decorations and get out my Thanksgiving turkey cookie jar that I always fill with candy. I think I'll put Izzie's Halloween candy in there. She knows that she has to ask me for some before she takes it so she doesn't break the turkey.

Have a great day everyone!

Excited that the Jet Blue flights came out today and next Sunday we should know the Southwest flights as well!!!!!

TTFN

 

[mikamah]

Sunday 11/6/11 QOTD-There's been some talk about the scale this week, so lets continue on that subject. Do you have a love/hate relationship with your scale? Do you weigh yourself everyday? Do you only weigh once or twice a week? What time of the day do you weigh yourself? Do you feel your scale is really accurate and want to recommend it to others? Share your advice when it comes to the scale.

I weigh myself almost every morning, before I eat and shower, and also have come to know the daily fluctuations, and not get frustrated when I'm up if I know I don't deserve it. It does help keep me in check when I'm not on track, and i start to see the scale inching up, it can help reel me back in. On the other hand, occassionally, I will have been really off track, and think the scale should be up and it's not, and that will sometimes make me stay off track, and then I'll see a huge gain. It is a bit of a head game I play with myself, but the long and short of it is, I know what I need to do. When I do it, eat well, exercise, I will lose the weight. When I don't I will gain the weight. Now looking at what I just wrote, you'd think it would be easier to just do it right, now wouldn't you.

How was the party? I mentioned that I knew you to Steve and he said yeah and went on and on about maybe a baseball that they got for Michael. Does that sound right? And when I mentioned the not so nice girl from traveling he said yup and gave me the initials. He must have been thinking about it, because later in the day he came back and said how do you know her again? Explaining the DIS to him wouldn't be an easy thing as he's not all into stuff like that, so I just said my Disney boards

That's so funny. I was explaining how i knew you to Michele and it didn't seem so simple to explain. We had a great time, so many laughs and stories from the past. Yes, at Michael's first game where steve gave us the tickets, he and Michele were sitting in the front row with some other friends, and they caught a foul ball, and he brought it over to us in our seats, with a beer for me. So sweet. Hope you had a successful day shopping.

Well, not only do you have an accent but you also have a friend who obviously can't hear too well! Honestly the only person who didn't have an accent to me was Maria and that's because we both were raised by people from Missouri. Oh, and Lisa won't have an accent to me either because we are both California girls.

Now I'm singing, I wish we all could be california girls.

I squeaked into my new decade on Friday so I'm on track to make it into new territory by the end of the month. The next two months are really do or die as far as making my goal for the Tinker Bell Half in January so I have to really, really watch it and stay OP. Thank goodness for the pjlla challenge!

Have a great day all!

Very exciting, Lisa. Your hard work is paying off!! Thank goodness for the pjlla plan. I am going to be successful at it, but used up another off track day yesterday. So only 2 more, but only 2 more weekends too, so I know I can do it.

Good Morning.

Started my day off fat, dumb and happy. Showered, dressed and grabbed a laundry basket of stuff that needed to go downstairs, headed down and missed the last step or two and had a good fall. So now I just feel fat and dumb. REALLY dumb! My get up and go for the day has gone. Good news is that I am fine, just some bruised knees. I think this is the first time I have every fallen down the stairs in the 6 years we have lived here.

Glad you're ok and didn't get hurt too badly. So scary. Hang in thee.

I hope I hear soon too, but it could be a while. I guess they are kind of putting us on hold because a)current CPers already there are being asked to extend so they need replies from them and b)people who auditioned for character roles are being notified if they have been accepted for that, which means they can choose to be a character or to keep whatever other role hey were assigned when they were accepted.

Really though, that list of people to tell that I posted will take about 5 minutes to get through, and when I post here it will be in giant purple letters with as many excited smilies as I can find.

That's good they let you know the process and why it takes so long. But why don't they just know that you are the best candidate, and scoop you up right now and get on with it.

LTS- I, too, fell this morning on the stairs. The pathetic thing is there are only 2 stairs. I didn't fall to the ground, just did the "catch-me" dance down the last stair and across the room. Now my ankle hurts. I had it elevated for a bit but may take some aspirin and ice it while I read the paper.

I hope your ankle is ok today. Bad day for the stairs yesterday.

Pampering Suggestion for Sunday

Take some time either outside or at a window and look at the fall colors. If you live somewhere where the leaves don't change colors then either take some time otside or by a window and remember how lucky you are that you don't get as much snow as some places


Here on the jersey shore we are in the middle of the fall season. Some of the colors are beautiful. Many of the trees in my yard have not turned yet so we have a couple more weeks before fall is over.

Thanks so much for doing this Dona. What a great idea. I'm amazed how many leaves are still on the trees here, and the color is beautiful too.

I was up til 2am this morning playing with my Wii. We have Wii Sports that I didn't even know til I started going through the games. WOW! I love it. I spent 45 minutes trying all the different games out. The boxing definately got my heart going. The golfing I hateed but only because well my eye hand coordination sucks. The baseball was cool but I'd say my favorite was the bowling. Its pretty funny that I can get a better bowling score through a video game then when I play it in real life. I was amazed when I plugged in all the information on my Sparkpeople fitness tracker that I had burned 250 calories! I'm going to do a little strength training today, my Biggest Loser weigh in, and the challenge.

It is fun to pull the wii out after a break. I love the wii fit boxing too. The running and biking is fun also.

I've had DVC now for the past 6 years or so, but the first three trips after buying into it, I still stayed at POFQ. I took my nieces and nephew each on their own trip (just the two of us) the year they each made their First Communion. They got to pick where they wanted to stay, and each picked POFQ based on the pool and the food court.

I'd like to try AKL Kidani Village one more time - I stayed there when they first opened, and there were still some kinks to be worked out (including being stuck in an elevator for hours and hours - resulting in climbing out of said elevator on a "ladder" made of firemen. ).

I reported one pound loss this week. Not as dramatic as last week's 3.5 pound loss, but a loss nonetheless. No complaints here.

How awesome to take you niece and nephew on their own special trip with auntie. Such wonderful memories they will always treasure. Was one of them with you for the elevator rescue? How scary. Nice job on the loss.

Watching the end of the Patriots game right now! OMG! This is painful!

It was painful, and I'm not a big fan, watch every game but we were at some friends yesterday for the game, and it was quite a game. Hope the pharmacy stuff gets worked out.

QOTD Sat- We stay at all dif resorts. We have DVC as weel. This year has been AKL Jambo, BCV, POP, OKW,BWV. Last year we also had BLT , WL, BCV,BWV and POR, and POP. I love them all but for dif reasons. We really spend time at the resorts as well as the parks. The pools, restaurants, ping pong, shuffleboard, animals, shows, bch movies...it adds so much to the trip and when you go often you don't feel the need to do all the park stuff each and every time.

We seem to spend more time at the resorts on successive trips too. I think I came to realize a few trips ago that if we don't do something, we will defnitely be back, so it's more relaxing.

The power is back! It felt really nice to have the power back finally. But at the same time, as much as I longed for things to return to normal I'm not ready for things to come back to normal, if that makes sense. I'm not ready to go back to school, work, working out, diet, meal planning, and just life in general. I've been very crabby lately, and I think it has something to do with the not working out and just eating what i can.

Right now im just kind of catching up on tv shows. Watching Downton Abbey, it's the season finale and i've heard its going to make me cry. Right now everyone is getting sick which is not great because I already have a stomach ache so watching people get sick is not fun! I also watched The Walking Dead and Once Upon a Time tonight as well as watched American Horror Story which is....a really strange and freaky show. But interesting.

So excited the power is back for you, and I hope you're able to get back some semblance of normalcy soon.

Izzie got the Disney Cranium game at her party yesterday. It's so much fun!

Excited that the Jet Blue flights came out today and next Sunday we should know the Southwest flights as well!!!!!

TTFN

We've never played Cranium. I like to get michael some disney stuff for christmas, I'll have to check it out. When is your next trip? Very exciting when all the flight prices are out and you can book.


Good morning friends,

I'm sorry I didn't get back on last night. We went to a Patriots game party, and got home a little later than planned, and ds wasn't feeling well, so I laid down with him, and then it was morning. Oh well, at least I didn't do any late night eating, but I did enjoy the party, and thought I wasn't out of control, I didn't track, so it wasn't an on plan day for me. Though I did start the day out with an hour walk/run while ds was at ccd, and that felt good. I walked more than ran, I guess I walked 5 min, ran 3 min or so.

It's monday, back to work, back on track, and hope to see a loss this week, since this past week was a maintain.

Have a great day. brb with the qotd.

 

[mikamah]

I apologize if i repeat any questions that have been asked before.

Monday 11/7/11-QOTD- Where was your favorite non-Disney vacation? If you could take a vacation anywhere in the world, money no object, where would you like to go?

 

[lisah0711]

Now looking at what I just wrote, you'd think it would be easier to just do it right, now wouldn't you.

Isn't that the truth?!?

Now I'm singing, I wish we all could be california girls.

Make sure it is the Disney's California Adventure version that you hear in your head!

I apologize if i repeat any questions that have been asked before.

Monday 11/7/11-QOTD- Where was your favorite non-Disney vacation? If you could take a vacation anywhere in the world, money no object, where would you like to go?

You mean you can vacation somewhere besides Disney?!?

Okay, London, because both DH and DS want to go there but I might have to sneak in a side trip to Disneyland Paris since it is so close.

Trina, glad you have power back at last!

LTS, glad that you are okay after your fall.

You, too, Linda.

Gretchen, they are obviously looking for the perfect place for you!

Laura, that was quite an exciting story about Kidani! I actually prefer staying at Jambo house, even though the DVC rooms are a bit smaller. I love the animals. 4.5 pounds in two weeks is a great loss!

Have a great day all!

 

[bellebookworm9]

I apologize if i repeat any questions that have been asked before.

Monday 11/7/11-QOTD- Where was your favorite non-Disney vacation? If you could take a vacation anywhere in the world, money no object, where would you like to go?

We really don't go on vacations! I went to Cedar Point in 8th grade with some of my class, but that was definitely not my favorite trip. I would go on a world wide Disney tour. I'd spend time at WDW, DL, DL Paris, Tokyo DL, Hong Kong DL, do a Disney cruise, and an Adventures by Disney trip, probably the one in Ireland, or the Britain and France one.

 

[AUdisneyDad]

Friday 11/4/11 qotd- What are your weekend plans, and what weight loss challenges do you forsee over the weekend? What can you do to deal with these upcoming challenges, to keep on a healthy track and prevent you from backsliding?

Sorry for the late response. My MIL, FIL, neice and DW aunt visited us in Alabama this weekend from New Orleans. The girls all went to the Disney on Ice while FIL and I prepared dinner before the Alabama/LSU game. How about them Tigers!!! We ate pretty healthy up until the game and FIL cooked a bunch of different cajun dishes. So DW and I had to watch our portion sizes big time and we made sure we went for our weekend runs to help keep on track.

Saturday 11/5/11 QOTD- When you go to disney-WDW or DL where do you typically stay, in the parks, out of the parks? value, mod, deluxe, dvc? What do you like best about where you stay, and if you could stay any where else, where would you stay? If you haven't been yet, where would you want to stay?

If we travel with the inlaws we always stay at a DVC resort. If we go on just a family trip we stay at Pop Century or POFQ. We have stayed at most of the DVC resorts but the one I love is the Boardwalk. I love walking around in the mornings when everyone is still asleep and the atmosphere at night is just fun. The one resort I haven't stayed at but want to is the Grand Floridian. But thats not in plans anytime soon.

Sunday 11/6/11 QOTD-There's been some talk about the scale this week, so lets continue on that subject. Do you have a love/hate relationship with your scale? Do you weigh yourself everyday? Do you only weigh once or twice a week? What time of the day do you weigh yourself? Do you feel your scale is really accurate and want to recommend it to others? Share your advice when it comes to the scale.

I use to weigh daily, in the mornings before my shower. But then I found myself being disappointed when I thought it should show a negative and it didn't. Then over time as I began to realize that it is not healthy to stress out daily about it I began to weighly 2 times per week, Monday and Friday.

Monday 11/7/11-QOTD- Where was your favorite non-Disney vacation? If you could take a vacation anywhere in the world, money no object, where would you like to go?

We vacationed at the Grand Canyon a few years ago and loved it. The place I would most like to vacation would be Ireland, with added days for Great Britain and France (Can't miss a chance to see the mouse in Paris). My family originated from Ireland so I would like to travel there to see where my heritage came from .

Hope everyone has been doing well and have a great week.

Tim

 

[JacksLilWench]

Sunday 11/6/11 QOTD-There's been some talk about the scale this week, so lets continue on that subject. Do you have a love/hate relationship with your scale? Do you weigh yourself everyday? Do you only weigh once or twice a week? What time of the day do you weigh yourself? Do you feel your scale is really accurate and want to recommend it to others? Share your advice when it comes to the scale.

I would say I have a "like" relationship with my scale. I don't always hate it, but I don't always love it either! I weigh myself about twice a week, first thing in the morning after going to the bathroom. I have a doctors' slide scale, so I think it's pretty accurate.

I apologize if i repeat any questions that have been asked before.

Monday 11/7/11-QOTD- Where was your favorite non-Disney vacation? If you could take a vacation anywhere in the world, money no object, where would you like to go?

I have been tossing around the idea of going to New Orleans next year for vacation. With all the construction going on in MK, I don't know if I would want to go, just to have something open (like the Little Mermaid ride...) a month after I get back home. So if I wait until it all opens, I think I'll be a much happier camper

 

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Dona Um, fall has been over here for a while, we are in winter! I do have a great mountain view outside my window and happened to be enjoying that on Friday.

Jill I hope your mom is feeling better.

Buffy Great job on the loss and resisting soda!

DisneyWedding2010 Sounds like you are doing fantastic and have a good routine going. Congrats on making the top 10!

Laura Congrats on losing again. I didn't have the greatest week between TOM and Halloween candy. This week will be better!

LTS and Linda Sorry about the falls down the stairs this morning.

Pamela I'm sorry about the lack of instruction at the Zumbathon. So not fun! Were they at least cueing with hand guestures. Some instructors do that instead of using verbal commands, which is annoying if you can't see them too well. The guy that developed Zumba prefers hand cues.

LisaH Great job on getting into the new decade! I moved to California when I was 9. Before that was Texas, Georgia, and Oklahoma. I guess I had a pretty strong southern accent while living in Georgia, but I got rid of it after moving to California. So yes, I sound like a Californian, people can't tell I was a southern girl! I've been to London, its a great city!

Trina So glad the power is back on! I'm sure you'll get back into your routine in no time.

Gretchen We are waiting right with you for your CP results. Here's some extra pixie dust.

Maria Sounds like a busy weekend. Sometimes takeout is unavoidable, you just have to do the best with the crazy schedule you have sometimes.

Tracey The Disney Cranium sounds like fun, I'll have to check that out sometime.

Kathy Thanks so much for coaching this week. You sounded like you needed the rest!

QOTD: My favorite vacation so far would be the one we took to Kauai in September, it wasn't long enough but it was so much fun! A close second would be the 2 week UK trip DH and I took prekids (England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland, and Wales). That was my first big adventure! Right now I would want to go to Bora Bora and stay in one of those fabulous huts over the ocean.

QOTD Sunday: I weigh in on the Wii fit once a week for my "official" weigh in and use a scale to spot check myself daily. Unfortunately our Wii broke last week and we need to send it in for repairs so I don't know my exact weight. My home scale has been on the fritz lately too so I need to replace it. I like knowing how much I weigh, it helps keep me in check although I do get frustrated when I don't see the results from the work I do!

 

[lovetoscrap]

LTS- I, too, fell this morning on the stairs. The pathetic thing is there are only 2 stairs. I didn't fall to the ground, just did the "catch-me" dance down the last stair and across the room. Now my ankle hurts. I had it elevated for a bit but may take some aspirin and ice it while I read the paper.

How are you doing today? I think I was lucky that I didn't even realize what was happening until I hit the floor! Probably saved me from really getting hurt. I am fine today-- hope your ankle is feeling better.

My DD11 said she had slipped on the upper part of our stairs yesterday morning too (no injuries, more funny than anything according to her and DD15) so I am going to blame it on the tilt of the earth or the magnetic poles or a gravity glitch! 3 people falling means it had to be some sort of geoglobal event, right?

I'd like to try AKL Kidani Village one more time - I stayed there when they first opened, and there were still some kinks to be worked out (including being stuck in an elevator for hours and hours - resulting in climbing out of said elevator on a "ladder" made of firemen. ).



Every single day - after using bathroom, no clothes, right before getting in the shower. I do have an "official" weigh-in day, but I have always weighed myself every single day. It sort of keeps me "in check".

Me too!

I convinced my neices to pick Panera for lunch today - so I was able to make some good choices. Afterwards though, they did ask me to bring them to a new frozen yogurt place that just opened - one of those places that has 20+ flavor choices and 49 toppings and charges you by the ounce. I wanted everything - but managed to keep my portion at a decent size. I chose coconut flavored low-fat frozen yogurt (no more than about 1/4 cup) with some pineapple chunks and a smidge of chocolate sauce.

- Laura

Your AKL story has my claustrophobia meter pegged! Being stuck in an elevator is one of my biggest fears. But of course that has never stopped me from being lazy and taking the elevator instead of the stairs.

We have a new place called Sweet Frog that is like that. I had never heard of it or the concept. I just stopped in with my kids one day and was like what the heck?!! Great business concept though-- it is pretty hard to judge how much you are getting when you put it in the cup so more than likely it is more $$$ for them. I was disappointed they didn't have any truly small cups to make it easier to judge/control portion size better.

UGH! Skipping weigh in this week! Just been a rough week! And am really aggravated right now with our online prescription service! I was checking the status of my BCP and from what I see they have no record of it! I better have it in the next 10 days or I may be gaining weight for the wrong reasons! I hate this company but I get 3 months worth! They have been nothing but a problem for me from the start! I sent a NASTY email to them demanding to hear from a manager on my cell phone tomorrow and I will also call them first thing in the morning! They called while I was away a few weeks ago with a recorded message about the prescription being in process and now it's no where to be found. Brian couldn't technically respond to the call as it was explicitly for me. I did find a page where it says it was being processed on the 27th and then when I click for the status it says there is no prescriptions available!

That is so frustrating. I hope they get it figured out. If it is going to be delayed try calling your dr office and see if they have a sample you can pick up. My dr gave me 2 months samples at my visit a few weeks ago and I am holding on to them for "emergency" use.

The power is back! It felt really nice to have the power back finally. But at the same time, as much as I longed for things to return to normal I'm not ready for things to come back to normal, if that makes sense. I'm not ready to go back to school, work, working out, diet, meal planning, and just life in general. I've been very crabby lately, and I think it has something to do with the not working out and just eating what i can.

Glad you have power back!

A I'm trying to find all of my coupons for shopping today too. Out school sold these little special coupon books which for the first time were worth it for me to buy. I'm trying to be better at couponing. I'm so bad about forgetting to bring them when I shop.

I need to do that today too. In fact no one even brought in the Sunday paper yesterday. I really tried to get into the major couponing thing but just don't have the patience or dedication. And usually I send DH a list to pick up on his way home from work so the coupons are home with me anyway.



Not much for me to report today. Cleaned the kitchen, am descaling the coffee maker and doing laundry. Need to make a menu and grocery list WooHoo, I am a wild woman!

I learned to crochet Granny Squares this weekend so I spent all evening doing that yesterday. I am trying to use up a ball of yarn while I practice. I have 9 done and will probably get one or two more out of this yarn, then I have to figure out what to do with all of them!

Time to heat up some broccoli soup I made yesterday for lunch and probably make a salad.

 

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Pharmacy thing should be straightened out. I have to call and check Wednesday afternoon. They are expeiditing the order. Somebody apparently canceled the order but a manager expedited the order. I spoke to a very nice lady who spent quite a while taking care of things.

Got some Christmas shopping done. Got each of the girls a puffy vest and another Angry Bird for their stockings. I also got Ashleigh an action figure that I have been searching everywhere for. ToysRUs had it and I had a coupon. I'm doing really well getting good deals and using coupons. I am having a hard time finding an angry bird game that apparently is the hot item. I put my name on an email list to get it when it becomes available or otherwise I will order it on Amazon. I got my Mom a sweater she wanted and a shirt for myself at Old Navy that was only $5. They even gave me an extra 30% off. So ended up being a successful trip. I wanted to get Brian and me new pillows but I didn't seen any.

Watching one of the many holiday specials I recorded on Hallmark Channel this weekend. Watching Love's Christmas Journey but it's kind of frightening! It's 4 hours long!

Got about 30 minutes until I have to get Izzie and then I have to take her to dancing. Going to make some coffee cake tonight so we have easy meals this week. Got Drs appts and dentist appts this week. Glad Friday is a day off!

Gotta go!

TTFN