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

[rhonda_2003]

6/16 QOTD: What other healthy habits have your developed (or are you trying to develop) along with losing weight and exercising? Are you trying to quit smoking? Eliminate artificial sweeteners? Reduce caffeine? Reduce stress?

I am trying to greatly reduce my caffeine consumption. I am also working on organizing my home with the hopes being that having my home organized will help reduce my stress and home cleaning times.

I very much wish this board had thread memory, where it would put you back where you were the last time you were on it. Oh, well.....I am having trouble keeping up but I will stick with it. I do not want to get on the scale in the morning but I will! I have not done well at all I have been running around with 50 different obligations and haven't planned for my food and exercise as I should.

 

[mommyof2Pirates]

SOrry to say the good news was short lived. Pain is back today with a vengeance and she can't walk. Doesn't want to eat and is just beside herself not knowing what is going to happen. I've got a bad headache so I'm going to lie down and nap so I can work tonight.

Sorry to hear this tracey and especially sorry that your mom is dealing with this rollercoaster of pain and emotions. Is it the radiation or the mass that is causing the pain? Either way I hope she is relieved of it all and at home soon.

I am a little nervous about the weigh-in tomorrow...I know it won't bite, but it feels like a test and I always get nervous at test-time, haha. But I'm sure I will do wonderfully NewlyDisneyCrazed brought up the point in another thread we chat on, that it is better to take it off slowly and keep it off forever than to drop it quick and gain it all back and then some. So let me rephrase my earlier statement: I am EXCITED about the weigh-in tomorrow because if I only take off a tiny little bit, I'll keep it off that much longer

That is a really great way of looking at it.

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I had a great day on the eating front I was a bit famished driving to pick up my boys and had to pass Mc'D, Arby's, and Yocco's (our local hot dog place that has hotdogs that are out of this world) anyway each time I got closer to one of these the ugly person in my head started telling me to just stop and get something and I would feel much better. But I passed each one of them and arrived at my parents without consuming any unneccesary calories. This was a huge NSV for me.

I am missing alot of grocery staples at home right now and did not make a plan for dinner so I got a pizza from our neighborhood pizzeria so its not as bad as pizza hut. I had 2 slices and now I am good. It was a saltier meal than I would have liked to have prior to weigh in but definitely I think I made the best choice under the situation. So I am proud of myself.

Tonight we are just hanging at home. I need to get to work early tomorrow because I have a meeting with my boss. He is going to talk to me about our new salary plans at work....to make a complicated story short everyone in our network that is a manager is titled Practice Manager. The bad thing was there were managers of really small non-productive offices and then managers of huge big very productive offices and we are all titled the same. They came up with tiers and salary ranges from least amount of docs,staff, revenue up to the highest. Tomorrow I will find out where I fall in that category and whether or not I will get any more money. I am really hoping for alot more but who wouldnt be. So I am a bit anxious to find out.

Have a great evening everyone and just in case I dont get back on here tonight. Good luck for those weighing in tomorrow.

 

[dumbo_buddy]

You're not allowed to curse on DisBoards!! It's so awful, all of these places are within 3miles of my house in NC and I really have to resist going to them. It's not easy!!

oh man having a cookout so close would be so deadly for me. maybe i should stay way up here in the north!!

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hi everyone! hope you all had a great day! i'm finally sitting down to my computer for the first time since the morning - i'm usually on way more than that.

this morning i was really inspired by kathy's 5k and felt like i had an extra bounce in my step as i went out with thomas in the jogger. i made it to the college where i run and turned to check so i could cross the street and a neighbor of mine was running behind me. she is...um...perfect! she is from brazil and has an all-year tan and weighs half of what i do and is always working out. anywho, she started running with me instead of going ahead. i told her i'm very slow with the jogger and she said she needs to go slow because she's pregnant. LOL! "me too!" anyway, she is a teacher and needed to get ready so she "only" did one lap. we ran it together and it really passed the time. so, i felt good and continued on after she left and decided to run a 5k myself it was tough at the end but i did it in 36:47. not bad! my PR is 29 something but that wasn't pushing any jogger. so, thanks kathy! i'm glad i did it and know i still have it in me

my friend from HS came up today and we had a nice time just hanging. thomas was a PITA but oh well. oh, when i said earlier i thought we would go to the beach it wasn't anything fancy. the beach is one block from my house. so we just walked over to the beach so i could show her the view and the 'hood. it was nice. i just dropped her off for her client's session. she is a child psychologist.

turkey tacos tonight. i used the super lean tacos and 40% less sodium seasoning. i had soft corn tacos that were only 50 calories each. had three of them. lettuce, tomatoes, part skim cheese, salsa, a tiny bit of sour cream and chopped olives. really good! now i need to just....STOP! or maybe have a little chocolate milk or something.

we are getting our bedroom furniture delivered tomorrow. looking forward to not having all my clothes all over the house!

 

[cclovesdis]

Healthy Habits Week 1 Results

Congratulations to our 9 participants!
6Smiles
bellebookworm9
buzz5985
Connie96
glass1/2fll
JacksLilWench
trinaweena
sahbushka
worfiedoodles

Congratulations to this week's prize winner: bellebookworm9. Please PM me your address and I will send out your prize! (I should mention that the post office's hours and my work schedule do not mesh well...)

Congratulations to the following people for earning 16/16 points!
buzz5985
JacksLilWench
trinaweena
worfiedoodles

Have a great week everyone!

 

[cclovesdis]

Welcome to Healthy Habits![/SIZE]

My name is CC (like see-see) and I will be your Healthy Habits (HH) coach for the Summer 2011 BL Challenge. I big thank you to donac and jenanderson for showing me the ropes.

Here's How HH Works: Each week, there will be 2 "things" to do each day. You earn 1 point for each day you do each "thing." So, if you do each "thing" for all 7 days, you earn 14 points. There will also be 2 mini-challenges each week. You earn 1 point for each mini-challenge you complete for a total of 16 possible points each week. At the end of the week, please PM me your total points. Here is an example:

4/7 eating 2 fruits
3/7 drinking 6 8 oz. glasses of water
1/2 mini-challenges completed

I will post the top scores as well as a list of the participants each week on/about Tuesday. You have until Tuesday at 5 PM EST to send me your points. Everyone who participates (regardless of his/her total points) will be entered into the drawing for a prize. It will be something related to the week's HH. You will need to PM me your address so I can send you the prize. If you do not WISH to be entered into the prize drawing, please let me know.

Healthy Habits Week 3

For All 7 Days:
1. Eat 5 servings of fruits and vegetables total per day.
2. Eat at least 2 servings of protein a day.
Mini-Challenge 1: Get in 3 30 minutes or longer workouts.
Mini-Challenge 2: Spend 10 minutes having "me" time at least twice this week.

Feel free to ask any questions! Have a great week!

 

[tigger813]

Been a very long and busy day! I did get in a very heavy hour long nap. I would've slept longer if Ash hadn't come home. I was trying to listen to one of the podcasts but didn't make it very far into it. I'll have to try and listen to it again sometime this weekend. Then I had 2 clients at work tonight. I'm only working on Tuesday(2 clients in the morning and 2 at night) and Wednesday morning next week though I don't have any clients yet. I hope to get my nails done before I go. They started peeling today.

Looks like the rain is going to hold off until the afternoon tomorrow so we will be able to hold field day. I've got to get up and shower right away and then load up the car with stuff we need for the day.

Was only able to get one Bruins Stanley cup shirt. Brian and I will try to get the rest of what we want when we're out tomorrow night. Got a baby -sitter coming at 5.

I'm going to take a leave of absence from the challenge at least in terms of the weigh ins as I'm not sure what the next several weeks is going to involve with my mom. I will get back into the challenge when I get back. I'm just so stressed and I have so many things going on that I just don't know when I will have time to focus before that.

I will still post as much as I can but everything is up in the air right now.

Thanks for all your love and support and I promise to be back in a few weeks. This week will be another gain as things are just too crazy. Hopefully once I get back things will be better all around!

TTFN

 

[mommyof2Pirates]

this morning i was really inspired by kathy's 5k and felt like i had an extra bounce in my step as i went out with thomas in the jogger. i made it to the college where i run and turned to check so i could cross the street and a neighbor of mine was running behind me. she is...um...perfect! she is from brazil and has an all-year tan and weighs half of what i do and is always working out. anywho, she started running with me instead of going ahead. i told her i'm very slow with the jogger and she said she needs to go slow because she's pregnant. LOL! "me too!" anyway, she is a teacher and needed to get ready so she "only" did one lap. we ran it together and it really passed the time. so, i felt good and continued on after she left and decided to run a 5k myself it was tough at the end but i did it in 36:47. not bad! my PR is 29 something but that wasn't pushing any jogger. so, thanks kathy! i'm glad i did it and know i still have it in me

Way to go on the run Nancy!!!!! Im very impressed.

I'm going to take a leave of absence from the challenge at least in terms of the weigh ins as I'm not sure what the next several weeks is going to involve with my mom. I will get back into the challenge when I get back. I'm just so stressed and I have so many things going on that I just don't know when I will have time to focus before that.

I will still post as much as I can but everything is up in the air right now.

Thanks for all your love and support and I promise to be back in a few weeks. This week will be another gain as things are just too crazy. Hopefully once I get back things will be better all around!

TTFN

Take care Tracy. You and your mom will be in my thoughts and prayers.

 

[pjlla]

You're not allowed to curse on DisBoards!! It's so awful, all of these places are within 3miles of my house in NC and I really have to resist going to them. It's not easy!!



I want to take what I learn here and turn it into a whole lifestyle for myself. I refuse to become a statistic to heart disease and diabetes and stroke just because my DNA says so. I've never smoked, I only drink socially, I wouldn't even do drugs if I could afford them, so food is my only vice, but I can't and won't let it do me in. I own food, it does NOT own me!!

I am a little nervous about the weigh-in tomorrow...I know it won't bite, but it feels like a test and I always get nervous at test-time, haha. But I'm sure I will do wonderfully NewlyDisneyCrazed brought up the point in another thread we chat on, that it is better to take it off slowly and keep it off forever than to drop it quick and gain it all back and then some. So let me rephrase my earlier statement: I am EXCITED about the weigh-in tomorrow because if I only take off a tiny little bit, I'll keep it off that much longer

Excellent attitude! Great way to think about it!! Positive thoughts only!

6/16 QOTD: What other healthy habits have your developed (or are you trying to develop) along with losing weight and exercising? Are you trying to quit smoking? Eliminate artificial sweeteners? Reduce caffeine? Reduce stress?

I am trying to greatly reduce my caffeine consumption. I am also working on organizing my home with the hopes being that having my home organized will help reduce my stress and home cleaning times.

I very much wish this board had thread memory, where it would put you back where you were the last time you were on it. Oh, well.....I am having trouble keeping up but I will stick with it. I do not want to get on the scale in the morning but I will! I have not done well at all I have been running around with 50 different obligations and haven't planned for my food and exercise as I should.

Organized home definitely equals less stress for me! And less stress definitely equals less stress eating! Win-win.... cleaner house AND healthier body!

I agree with you on the thread memory. I figured maybe it had something like that but I just didn't know how to use it. Sometimes I spend all of my Dis time just trying to figure out where I left off last!!

I had a great day on the eating front I was a bit famished driving to pick up my boys and had to pass Mc'D, Arby's, and Yocco's (our local hot dog place that has hotdogs that are out of this world) anyway each time I got closer to one of these the ugly person in my head started telling me to just stop and get something and I would feel much better. But I passed each one of them and arrived at my parents without consuming any unneccesary calories. This was a huge NSV for me.

Maybe you could come up with some healthy, lower calorie choices from those places for times when you are so hungry. I know I can get a plain grilled snack wrap from McD and Wendy's (and throw away most, if not all of the plain white flour tortilla). Hot dogs... maybe they offer a veggie dog or something? And I've never been to an Arby's (although I know what it is), but maybe they offer a roast beef wrap or something? I think if you eliminated the huge white flour buns and the cheese and just had the roast beef and lettuce and tomato, you could probably come up with something fairly lean from Arby's.

Don't get me wrong.... you did an EXCELLENT job avoiding all of that junk... but sometimes when you are truly hungry, you need to have a "plan" of some other options that you could go for.

I am missing alot of grocery staples at home right now and did not make a plan for dinner so I got a pizza from our neighborhood pizzeria so its not as bad as pizza hut. I had 2 slices and now I am good. It was a saltier meal than I would have liked to have prior to weigh in but definitely I think I made the best choice under the situation. So I am proud of myself.

Good, better, best! We just do what we can in the situation, right? I'd have a hard time stopping at two slices, so great job!

Tonight we are just hanging at home. I need to get to work early tomorrow because I have a meeting with my boss. He is going to talk to me about our new salary plans at work....to make a complicated story short everyone in our network that is a manager is titled Practice Manager. The bad thing was there were managers of really small non-productive offices and then managers of huge big very productive offices and we are all titled the same. They came up with tiers and salary ranges from least amount of docs,staff, revenue up to the highest. Tomorrow I will find out where I fall in that category and whether or not I will get any more money. I am really hoping for alot more but who wouldnt be. So I am a bit anxious to find out.

Have a great evening everyone and just in case I dont get back on here tonight. Good luck for those weighing in tomorrow.

Good luck at work tomorrow!

this morning i was really inspired by kathy's 5k and felt like i had an extra bounce in my step as i went out with thomas in the jogger. i made it to the college where i run and turned to check so i could cross the street and a neighbor of mine was running behind me. she is...um...perfect! she is from brazil and has an all-year tan and weighs half of what i do and is always working out. anywho, she started running with me instead of going ahead. i told her i'm very slow with the jogger and she said she needs to go slow because she's pregnant. LOL! "me too!" anyway, she is a teacher and needed to get ready so she "only" did one lap. we ran it together and it really passed the time. so, i felt good and continued on after she left and decided to run a 5k myself it was tough at the end but i did it in 36:47. not bad! my PR is 29 something but that wasn't pushing any jogger. so, thanks kathy! i'm glad i did it and know i still have it in me

my friend from HS came up today and we had a nice time just hanging. thomas was a PITA but oh well. oh, when i said earlier i thought we would go to the beach it wasn't anything fancy. the beach is one block from my house. so we just walked over to the beach so i could show her the view and the 'hood. it was nice. i just dropped her off for her client's session. she is a child psychologist.

turkey tacos tonight. i used the super lean tacos and 40% less sodium seasoning. i had soft corn tacos that were only 50 calories each. had three of them. lettuce, tomatoes, part skim cheese, salsa, a tiny bit of sour cream and chopped olives. really good! now i need to just....STOP! or maybe have a little chocolate milk or something.

we are getting our bedroom furniture delivered tomorrow. looking forward to not having all my clothes all over the house!

Great job with the 5K!! YOu should be very proud!

The turkey tacos sound delicious! I need to buy some soft corn tortillas.... haven't had them for ages!

Been a very long and busy day! I did get in a very heavy hour long nap. I would've slept longer if Ash hadn't come home. I was trying to listen to one of the podcasts but didn't make it very far into it. I'll have to try and listen to it again sometime this weekend. Then I had 2 clients at work tonight. I'm only working on Tuesday(2 clients in the morning and 2 at night) and Wednesday morning next week though I don't have any clients yet. I hope to get my nails done before I go. They started peeling today.

Looks like the rain is going to hold off until the afternoon tomorrow so we will be able to hold field day. I've got to get up and shower right away and then load up the car with stuff we need for the day.

Was only able to get one Bruins Stanley cup shirt. Brian and I will try to get the rest of what we want when we're out tomorrow night. Got a baby -sitter coming at 5.

I'm going to take a leave of absence from the challenge at least in terms of the weigh ins as I'm not sure what the next several weeks is going to involve with my mom. I will get back into the challenge when I get back. I'm just so stressed and I have so many things going on that I just don't know when I will have time to focus before that.

I will still post as much as I can but everything is up in the air right now.

Thanks for all your love and support and I promise to be back in a few weeks. This week will be another gain as things are just too crazy. Hopefully once I get back things will be better all around!

TTFN

You will most definitely be missed, but we all understand. You need to put your attention and energy into your kids now and your Mom in another week. But remember to take care of yourself!!

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Good evening all! Busy day. Got the garage at least partially cleaned! But I would prefer to have one of those "haul everything to the driveway and start fresh" kind of cleanings, but I need to be happy with "rearrange a few of the shelves and sweep the floor" kind of cleaning! HOpefully next week I can take a day to finish the job properly.

DD and I have a special day planned (lunch out, shopping, strawberry picking) ... can anyone guess the occasion? (Other than the end of finals/school!) I'll tell you tomorrow if you can't guess.

I'll be on early to post the QOTD! ..........................P

 

[JacksLilWench]

Healthy Habits Week 3

For All 7 Days:
1. Eat 5 servings of fruits and vegetables total per day.
2. Eat at least 2 servings of protein a day.
Mini-Challenge 1: Get in 3 30 minutes or longer workouts.
Mini-Challenge 2: Spend 10 minutes having "me" time at least twice this week.

Feel free to ask any questions! Have a great week!

I'm up to the challenge!!!! The big challenge is going to be the workouts...but I want that extra point!

Been a very long and busy day! I did get in a very heavy hour long nap. I would've slept longer if Ash hadn't come home. I was trying to listen to one of the podcasts but didn't make it very far into it. I'll have to try and listen to it again sometime this weekend. Then I had 2 clients at work tonight. I'm only working on Tuesday(2 clients in the morning and 2 at night) and Wednesday morning next week though I don't have any clients yet. I hope to get my nails done before I go. They started peeling today.

Looks like the rain is going to hold off until the afternoon tomorrow so we will be able to hold field day. I've got to get up and shower right away and then load up the car with stuff we need for the day.

Was only able to get one Bruins Stanley cup shirt. Brian and I will try to get the rest of what we want when we're out tomorrow night. Got a baby -sitter coming at 5.

I'm going to take a leave of absence from the challenge at least in terms of the weigh ins as I'm not sure what the next several weeks is going to involve with my mom. I will get back into the challenge when I get back. I'm just so stressed and I have so many things going on that I just don't know when I will have time to focus before that.

I will still post as much as I can but everything is up in the air right now.

Thanks for all your love and support and I promise to be back in a few weeks. This week will be another gain as things are just too crazy. Hopefully once I get back things will be better all around!

TTFN

Tracy, even though you have to take a little break, it's 100% understandable. Plus, I get the feeling that you'll still be here in spirit I'll definitely be keeping you and your family in my prayers in the upcoming weeks!

 

[my3princes]

I find that the DIS has thread memory, but it only works for the first thread that you go to. I always check this one first as it is easily the fastest moving and it will take me to the last post that I looked at. Then I can open other threads and it will bring me to any posts since the "time stamp" that I opened a recent thread. Does that make sense? For example if I leave this thread now and don't open it again (through a link in my email) until 9 am tomorrow it will bring me back to this post. Or whateve post I last look at. Then if I click on another link in my email it will bring me to the closest post to 9 am, not the last time I was on that thread. I hope that makes sense.

 

[SettinSail]

That is good to know Deb - I will have to try that next time. Would be a big time saver.

Well, I am up .6 this morning. I'm disappointed but not at all surprised. I guess I'm a little surprised it isn't more. I will try to work harder next week.
We are pursuing another rental house back home today and I have an exremely busy day today so I am feeling a little stressed. Had a nice day yesterday as 5 friends took me out for an all day jaunt to a neighboring town (Tubingen). It is a very cool town with an old castle, lots of half timbered building and lots of neat shops. We had a great time. I have really made some close friends in the short time we've lived here.

Tracey, sorry to hear about your Mom. We will miss you if you don't have time to post and look forward to when you can come back.

Lindsay, GREAT job passing by all the FF places and only having 2 slices.

Nancy, don't even try to compete with a Brazillian woman They are all beautiful, smart, warm open people from what I have experienced. A friend for life but don't compare yourself to them WTG on the 5K - ya still got it Cook Out here I come........and can you say BoBerry biscuit?????

Congrats to the HH winners and participants!

Good morning!

6/16 QOTD: What other healthy habits have your developed (or are you trying to develop) along with losing weight and exercising? Are you trying to quit smoking? Eliminate artificial sweeteners? Reduce caffeine? Reduce stress?


I dropped soda last Fall but need to kick Crystal Light to the curb. I'm trying to eat a better quality of food, focus more on lean proteins, whole grains, fruits and veggies instead of low cal carb type things. I'm a work in progress.

Good luck today with weigh-in and have a great weekend! Pamela, thanks so much for coaching us last week - great questions

Shawn

 

[aamomma]

6/17 QOTD: What is your plan to avoid the temptation to fall off the wagon as we head into the weekend? Are today's meals planned, exercise scheduled, etc...

Hello, everyone! My name is Linda, and I am your coach for the day. I hope everybody has a great OP day!!

 

[aamomma]

Well, I am up .6 this morning. I'm disappointed but not at all surprised. I guess I'm a little surprised it isn't more. I will try to work harder next week

Shawn, I love your attitude - I think the part of your quote that says, "SUCCESS" is:

I'm a work in progress.Shawn

 

[dumbo_buddy]

I had a great day on the eating front I was a bit famished driving to pick up my boys and had to pass Mc'D, Arby's, and Yocco's (our local hot dog place that has hotdogs that are out of this world)

i know yocco's! when we drive to york, pa to visit my grandpa we always stop in trexlertown (sp?) and there is a yocco's right there! i've never been there but i'm going to pretend that you said they are the most disgusting hot dogs so i won't start going!!

nice work on the eating! you are doing really well this week! you go!

DD and I have a special day planned (lunch out, shopping, strawberry picking) ... can anyone guess the occasion? (Other than the end of finals/school!) I'll tell you tomorrow if you can't guess.

let's see - DD's bday? YOUR bday? um...one month (?) since your disney trip?? tell me tell me! have fun today!

Nancy, don't even try to compete with a Brazillian woman They are all beautiful, smart, warm open people from what I have experienced. A friend for life but don't compare yourself to them WTG on the 5K - ya still got it Cook Out here I come........and can you say BoBerry biscuit?????

LOL! i know! i will never be able to compete with THAT! she has a 3 year old and the first summer after she had the baby she was down at the beach with a string bikini on! ok, not a string bikini but i couldn't really tell what she was wearing because i was too busy staring at her six pack! sheesh!

i haven't had a boberry bisquit! i usually go straight for the chicken! lol!!

6/17 QOTD: What is your plan to avoid the temptation to fall off the wagon as we head into the weekend? Are today's meals planned, exercise scheduled, etc...

Hello, everyone! My name is Linda, and I am your coach for the day. I hope everybody has a great OP day!!

hey coach!!

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good morning everyone! my goodness the heavens opened up today! pouring rain and thunder and lightning! shoo! our shack (er, house) is so old and small that the thunder was making the whole house shake! yikes! seems to be clearing up a little.

we have our furniture delivery today. the window is 8:30-11:30. yeah, we'll see. i had a box spring delivered at 2pm the other day after a 8-12 window. annoying!

i'm driving to NJ to hit up a chick fil a today. ok, not JUST to go there but, yeah, kinda. i HAVE to get DH his father's day gift. they have a Coach store and i'm thinking a wallet - it'll be a combined father's day/ 5th anniversary present as our anniversary is next friday. and they have a disney store so i'm sure i'll wind up getting him a disney t-shirt too!

weight is still high as i thought i'd lose a little of the salt weight from earlier this week but i had a great run yesterday and ate well. so, i'm doing the best i can. yeah, i'm having chick fil a but i'm getting the grilled chicken sandwich (my fav) so i'm ok with that!

the little guy is turning 2 on monday! i can't believe it. saturday the 25th is his bday party and we haven't had that many people rsvp for it! meh, i'm ok with that. it'll be cheaper that way!

have a great friday!

 

[aamomma]

i had a great run yesterday and ate well. so, i'm doing the best i can.

Hey, Nancy!! Hope the storm has passed by now (and I hope it isn't headed my way!) Good job on the run yesterday - I'm sure you will be in GREAT shape for November (?) (if I recall correctly, that is when your bouncing baby boy is due to arrive) Have a fun day with Thomas, and enjoy the shopping!

 

[aamomma]

I find that the DIS has thread memory, but it only works for the first thread that you go to. I always check this one first as it is easily the fastest moving and it will take me to the last post that I looked at. Then I can open other threads and it will bring me to any posts since the "time stamp" that I opened a recent thread. Does that make sense? For example if I leave this thread now and don't open it again (through a link in my email) until 9 am tomorrow it will bring me back to this post. Or whateve post I last look at. Then if I click on another link in my email it will bring me to the closest post to 9 am, not the last time I was on that thread. I hope that makes sense.

This is totally awesome! I never knew it would do that! Thanks for the info.

 

[pjlla]

DD and I have a special day planned (lunch out, shopping, strawberry picking) ... can anyone guess the occasion? (Other than the end of finals/school!) I'll tell you tomorrow if you can't guess.

I'll be on early to post the QOTD! ..........................P

I'm a dope..... I don't need to post a QOTD cause my week is done! oh well. It was GREAT to be your coach last week! I hope you enjoyed my questions, cause I've got a few more coaching days coming up again soon!!

6/17 QOTD: What is your plan to avoid the temptation to fall off the wagon as we head into the weekend? Are today's meals planned, exercise scheduled, etc...

Hello, everyone! My name is Linda, and I am your coach for the day. I hope everybody has a great OP day!!

Hey Linda! Thanks for coming on board!

Well.... today is a total splurge day... and that is THE PLAN! As I hinted last night, today is a special day . But with the sunrise tomorrow comes a new day, FULLY BACK OP. I will be leaving the house very early to attend DD's swim meet at MIT (will pack healthy lunches and snacks for all of us).... then from there straight to my cousin's house in Central MA for a graduation open house (food land mines everywhere, I'm sure I will have to work HARD to stay OP there).

Then we will stay over at my parents' house tomorrow night and celebrate Father's Day there on Sunday. I've tried to convince my Mom that we should go out on Sunday, either for brunch or lunch. I'm not too worried about that meal....I've learned to deal with restaurant food pretty well over the years. Then probably home that night in time for dinner..... which will probably be something light if we've had a restaurant meal earlier in the day.

Overall, other than today, it shouldn't be TOO difficult to stay OP this weekend.

i let's see - DD's bday? YOUR bday? um...one month (?) since your disney trip?? tell me tell me! have fun today!

One of those guesses is right!


good morning everyone! my goodness the heavens opened up today! pouring rain and thunder and lightning! shoo! our shack (er, house) is so old and small that the thunder was making the whole house shake! yikes! seems to be clearing up a little.

I love storms like that sometimes! It really clears the air too!

we have our furniture delivery today. the window is 8:30-11:30. yeah, we'll see. i had a box spring delivered at 2pm the other day after a 8-12 window. annoying!

i'm driving to NJ to hit up a chick fil a today. ok, not JUST to go there but, yeah, kinda. i HAVE to get DH his father's day gift. they have a Coach store and i'm thinking a wallet - it'll be a combined father's day/ 5th anniversary present as our anniversary is next friday. and they have a disney store so i'm sure i'll wind up getting him a disney t-shirt too!

Didn't know they sold Coach for men
Never been to a chick fil-a.... is it really that great? I've heard people talk about it.

weight is still high as i thought i'd lose a little of the salt weight from earlier this week but i had a great run yesterday and ate well. so, i'm doing the best i can. yeah, i'm having chick fil a but i'm getting the grilled chicken sandwich (my fav) so i'm ok with that!

Good, better, best... it is all about making the best possible decision based on the circumstances, right?

the little guy is turning 2 on monday! i can't believe it. saturday the 25th is his bday party and we haven't had that many people rsvp for it! meh, i'm ok with that. it'll be cheaper that way!

have a great friday!

Happy Birthday to Thomas! What is the birthday party theme??


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HAPPY Friday morning friends!! I hope EVERYONE has a great number on the scale this morning! I must admit, I did! It was a great gift to me today, as my workouts have been really lacking lately. But I KNOW that being here with you all and being your coach really helped me last week ( and "Aunt Flo" visiting after a 60+ day absence didn't hurt either!).

DD made me a delightful celebratory breakfast.... healthy carbs, but OH SO YUMMY! Fiberone pancakes with extra wheat bran and some light pancake syrup. I only had 3 (which is a normal serving size), but I savored every single bite. Fresh coffee and a half of a small homemade banana muffin (grilled...mmmmm) to top it off! Best breakfast I have had in a long, long, looooong time!! I'm pretty sick and tired of egg white omelets, truth be told.

Well.... time to move along with my day! I need to go PM my weight to Donac so I don't forget until the last possible minute like I did last week.

I'll try to pop on again after I get some laundry going................P

 

[aamomma]

It was GREAT to be your coach last week! I hope you enjoyed my questions, cause I've got a few more coaching days coming up again soon!!



I hope EVERYONE has a great number on the scale this morning! I must admit, I did! It was a great gift to me today DD made me a delightful celebratory breakfast....

It was great having you coach last week - some very thought provoking questions - and especially liked the vow you suggested we make to never give up. Yay!!!!! for the great weigh in today And have a great SPECIAL day for whatever reason (????)

 

[mikamah]

Tracey- Thinking of you and praying for your mom, and your whole family. We are always here for you if and when you feel like talking.

Dona- I am so sorry to hear about your friend. I will pray she finds some peace with her situation, and be able to reach out to her friends for their love and support. I think sending cards so she know you're there for her if she needs you is the best thing to do.

Pamela- Thank you for coaching last week. You did a fabulous job as always, and even thought I didn't have the time I would have liked to post more, I did get on most days and read the thread. I get so much inspiration from everyone here.

Shawn- I hope the rest of your time in Germany goes smoothly. The time just flew by, didn't it.

Nancy-great job on the run. I am happy I could inspire you.

Lindsay-great job driving by those restaurants. It's not easy having it all right in our faces, is it? You're doing great!!

Linda- thanks for coaching today! I hope to get back on tonight and catch up on the qotds.

I know there was more to say, but time's up. I've done pretty well the past 2 days, and the scale was down 2 pounds. So I am thrilled with that. Journalling is what I need to do to keep on track. Connie, you are right, as long as you keep track, it does keep you in some type of control. Congrats on 7.5 pounds gone! That is awesome.

have a fabulous friday!! Drink that water, move those bodies!!

 

[aamomma]

I've done pretty well the past 2 days, and the scale was down 2 pounds. So I am thrilled with that. Journalling is what I need to do to keep on track.

Way to go, Kathy!!!! Sounds like you've found something that works for you!!!