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

[dvccruiser76]

Saturday July 9, 2011 QOTD
What has been your favorite day trip to take either with your friends or/and your family?

Hmmm.. I'd say when I was little it was day trips the the Museum of Science or the Aquarium with my parents which always ended with lunch at Faneuil Hall. Nowadays it might be Kittery with DS and my mom where we have breakfast somewhere tasty before like Amore Breakfast in Ogunquit.

They caught the idiots who torched the school buses! One even recorded his stupidity on his cell phone!

What is their punishment?

Oh, what the heck. Here are my blurry pictures.

This is what it looks like today:

And this is what it will look like the day we leave:

Wow nice work Super impressive.

DVC is actually sponsoring an event at the zoo this summer on the weekends and we're going today. supposedly safari mickey will be there!!

How was the zoo? How did you find out about the DVC event?

Biggest Loser Week 4 Results
Here we celebrate our progress and recognize our superstars.

Reminder:
-if anybody knows they will miss weighing in, just PM and let me know and you’ll be marked excused

First some stats

MAINTAINERS:
(staying within 2 lbs of their maintain weight is successfully maintaining!)
# of Maintainers Reporting In & Successfully Maintaining:1
Congrats Rose & Mike

LOSERS:
weigh ins----------------------- 21
gains----------------------------2
maintains------------------------4
losses-------------------------- 15
New members--------------------3
Biggest Loser Summer Challenge Week 4!
This week’s group loss is 4 lbs

For the entire challenge this group has lost 56.6 lbs. I wanted to mention this so that we don't dget discouraged.

The WISH Biggest Loser Summer Challenge Week 3
#10-zhoen .451%
#9- glss1/2fll .483%
#8- Worfiedoodles .520%
#7- pjstevens .554%
#6- Connie96 .564%
#5- bellebookworm .640%
#4- liesel .647%
#3- cclovesdis .648%
#2- mackeysmom .73%

and now
The WISH Biggest Loser Summer Challenge
Week 4 Biggest Loser is:
#1- JacksLilWench 1.58%

Great job everyone! Go JacksLilWench

 

[mikamah]

OH MY GAWWD!!!! This is so exciting!!!!!!!! I feel so skinny right now!!

Whoo hoo!! Congratulation on being the biggest loser this week!!!

Congrats to all the losers and maintainers this week!!

And a big thank you to Dona, our weightkeeper. No worries, we know you'll get the stats up when you can. Believe us, we all understand how busy you are. Some days I feel like there isn't enough time in the day for what needs to be done.

We've been having a fun and busy weekend. Got yesterday off from work, and saw Zookeeper which was hilarious. Highly recommmend it, but I am a big Kevin James fan. He is so funny. Went to a friends last night, and then a little league game today to see my friends son play. Ds really enjoyed watching the game, it was free except for lunch at the snack bar, so it was a win-win. It's a jimmy fund tournament, so we'll probably go to another game later this week.

We're heading to a friends bbq now for a little bit. Just wanted to pop in and say hello.

Hope you're all enjoying the weekend. It's a beautiful summer day here in MA.

 

[tigger813]

Hi all,

Busy day here. Went to work and ended up doing a chair massage and a hot stone. Both clients booked full sessions for next Saturday morning as well! They are both regulars so I'm excited knowing that my Saturday will be fulfilling making them feel better!

Came home and made food for our friend to come over and watch the series premiere of Torchwood from last night! It was awesome! We will be having them over every weekend to watch it as they don't have Starz. Kids played downstairs!

I purchased our tickets to see Harry Potter next Saturday afternoon at 3:30 at the IMAX 3D in Reading! SO excited to seeit but I will have my tissues on hand as I know I'll cry. And I get to see Cars 2 on Wednesday when we go to Patriot Place to see the NE Revolution soccer match! Also have to get Ash a good pair of sneakers to help with her healing! I may get a pair myself as I put holes in the toes of mine when I did the relay for life in May!

I finished my first book of the summer! It was a Danielle Steele novel and now I'll move onto the book Brian got at the silent auction last week! I still also need to finish Realityland that I have been reading for quite a long time.

We have been watching Harry Potter marathon this afternoon and now the girls are playing games on the PS3 before bed. Izzie got sick earlier. SHe said she ate too much pizza. Thought she would nap but now she's fine.

Girls and I are going to go to church in the morning and then probably play games and watch movies. I need to start thinking about cleaning my bedroom. That will probably be Monday's chore as I don't think we need to leave the house.

I hope to start posting more and replying to people now that things are settling down here again.

LTS- Glad to hear that you are doing well!

Shawn- I am still so thankful for your thoughtfulness last Monday and glad you are settling in! Which hs is your son attending down there? Sorry to hear about your sis!

Mom was doing well earlier today but they got behind on meds so she was hurting again tonight. The Lasix finally kicked in today which hopefully will improve a lot of things.

TTFN

 

[SettinSail]

Congrats to all our biggest losers this week Esp JLW

Great job!!!!!

I hope to be on that list at some point this Summer

Hi Tracey, glad to hear all is going well for you back at home. I know you must worry about your Mom and feel so far away and helpless. Hoping things will improve for her and your Dad. I am sure your sister is making sure they get everything they need Hang in there!
DS was at BSA camp in Carthage (NC) and got back today He leaves again Monday morning for a Christian camp in the NC mountains. He just loves that camp and goes every year.

DH was scheduled to fly back to Germany today but his flight to ATL was cancelled, no explanation given. He worked out another route through Memphis/Amsterdam/Stuttgart, stayed at the airport several hours but was worried there was not enough time between flights to make all connections so eventually he called me to come pick him up. YAY, another night with DH He will try to get out again tomorrow. I am dreading the next 3 weeks when I am here by myself. Something always happens when he's away that I don't like to deal with. Sure enough, when he was at the airport, the kitchen was suddenly attacked by ANTS!!! I put out some ant bait and it's better now. I can't figure out if they are coming from the dishwasher or coming from somewhere else and trying to get into the dishwasher but YUCK! I'm such a wimp

Kathy, I am a Kevin James fan too. I think I saw Zookeeper a long time ago but don't remember it too well. Sounds like you guys are having a fun weekend!

Sue and Nancy, I just have to share that we had the opposite problem with DS, he started talking at 5 months and has not shut up since then Of course now that he is 14, he's not talking much with ME anymore

 

[SettinSail]

Hmmmm, I must have hit a button that submitted my post

Any way, Sue and Nancy, I promise you one day your boys will be talking up a storm and driving you crazy -- you will wish for a moment's peace. You are both great Moms to be concerned about it and have it checked out.

Linda, DH and I have been to Multnomah Falls and several other falls in that area...beautiful! And, I remember the hike being pretty difficult to reach the top. Chocolate poptarts (yum!)

Connie, I love your countdown chart, very very cute

LisaH, enjoy running school with Jeff Galloway How cool!

Dona, thanks for being our weighkeeper, you ROCK no matter when the results get posted Sorry to hear about Dnephew

BronxNancy, I thought about you yesterday, one of my friends I had lunch with has a dtr who is a rising Senior at Fordham and this is the 1st Summer she hasn't come home. My friend said she lives in an apt across the street from the Univ with 4 other girls and that it is actually pretty spacious!
Sorry about the Safari Mickey

CC, glad you had a good night's sleep Did you ever receive the package I mailed you?

Melissa, your pictures are great! You are so young and cute

Belle, loved the pics of you and Mom in your T-shirts.

Lindsay, hope you had fun at the beach.

QOTD: We could take many fun day trips when we were in Europe. I enjoyed the hiking trips a lot. Here, we are about 2-3 hours from the beaches and about 3-4 hours away from the mountains so we have the best of both worlds. I love a good day trip or a weekend away

I have done very well with eating this week but not so much with exercise. Just been too busy but I am moving a lot throughout the day. Tonight, DH & DS decided to get a pizza from Pizza Hut and I ate an Amy's Burrito. I've always heard how good they are but I thought it was just OK. It did not fill me up! I decided to eat one of their PH breadsticks. It was not so good so only ate half. Finally caved in and had a bite of the pizza. YUMM. Then during clean-up I ate a whole slice deeee-licious but I wish I could have controlled myself better.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend

Shawn

 

[cclovesdis]

CC, glad you had a good night's sleep Did you ever receive the package I mailed you?

Thanks! I can't believe I never told you that I received your package! Thank you so much. It was wonderful!



Today was a great day! I went to the gym and while I didn't do as much as I had hoped, I did get in a good workout. I drank plenty of water today and ate really well. My parents decided to go out to dinner tonight and I picked the place. I actually picked a buffet because they have lots of veggies, peel-eat-shrimp, a salad bar, and some good lean meats. My parents, sister, and BIL got what they wanted and I stayed within my calories!

I've decided that I'm going to challenge myself to reach the top of this "mountain" we have in town. There is a path to the top and some type of museum at the top too. I am giving myself the next five weekends to attempt it. I haven't done it in so long so I really have no idea how much of a challenge this will be, but I want to lose 10 lbs before WDW and this is one way I can make that happen.

Have a great day tomorrow everyone!

 

[bellebookworm9]

I purchased our tickets to see Harry Potter next Saturday afternoon at 3:30 at the IMAX 3D in Reading! SO excited to seeit but I will have my tissues on hand as I know I'll cry.
We have been watching Harry Potter marathon...

I'll definitely be bringing tissues too! The first part didn't make me cry (probably cause I was too focused on a)the fact that I had to pee so bad-I had drank a large soda before the movie started and b)I had gotten the news that they were deactivating my major only hours before), but I have a feeling that the second one will. My best friend and I think the Weasley twins are our imaginary boyfriends, so we'll be rather upset when Fred dies.

We've gotten through movies 1-6, and hope to watch 7 part 1 tonight. Mom got really confused during movie 5, because I've realized they kind of stopped explaining anything, including the prophecy.

I decided to eat one of their PH breadsticks. It was not so good so only ate half. Finally caved in and had a bite of the pizza. YUMM. Then during clean-up I ate a whole slice deeee-licious but I wish I could have controlled myself better.

Mmmmmm Pizza Hut. Mom and I split a personal pan and an order of 3 breadsticks every so often, because you can get them to go at Target!

Thanks! I can't believe I never told you that I received your package! Thank you so much. It was wonderful!

Today was a great day! I went to the gym and while I didn't do as much as I had hoped, I did get in a good workout. I drank plenty of water today and ate really well. My parents decided to go out to dinner tonight and I picked the place. I actually picked a buffet because they have lots of veggies, peel-eat-shrimp, a salad bar, and some good lean meats. My parents, sister, and BIL got what they wanted and I stayed within my calories!

Speaking of packages, did you ever have time to mail out my prize from a few weeks ago? Not to be a nag, just wondering when I should expect it. And good job with the buffet dinner!

 

[SettinSail]

Good morning losers Up 1 pound this morning for no apparent reason One of the bad things about being an every day weigher.
I did eat that one piece of PH pizza last night but how could that make me gain one pound Well, it will make me be more careful today and I need that because DS and I are going to a neighbor's 21st bday party this evening.

Thanks! I can't believe I never told you that I received your package! Thank you so much. It was wonderful!



I've decided that I'm going to challenge myself to reach the top of this "mountain" we have in town. There is a path to the top and some type of museum at the top too. I am giving myself the next five weekends to attempt it. I haven't done it in so long so I really have no idea how much of a challenge this will be, but I want to lose 10 lbs before WDW and this is one way I can make that happen.

Have a great day tomorrow everyone!

I'm glad you liked it. Good job on dinner and good luck on your challenge!

:

Kathy, I am a Kevin James fan too. I think I saw Zookeeper a long time ago but don't remember it too well. Sounds like you guys are having a fun weekend!

Quoting myself here, LOL Of course I DID NOT see Zookeeper a long time ago, I don't know what I was thinking about! Dangers of getting old!
I would like to see that movie.

Mmmmmm Pizza Hut. Mom and I split a personal pan and an order of 3 breadsticks every so often, because you can get them to go at Target!

I just noticed that at our Target the other day! It is so delicious but the crust is just loaded with butter! (yum)

I'll be back later to answer QOTD

Shawn

 

[mommyof2Pirates]

Happy to report that Mom is doing much better today.

Glad to hear mom is doing better I hope the lasix starts to help and take away some of the swelling that is causing the discomfort.

I hope Ash's foot heals quickly. That stinks to have an injury in the beginning of summer. I hope she is able to get to a few of the camps she wanted to do.

I did go with Mom and DD to NYC on a day long bus trip, that was fun. We saw the Rockettes, went to American Girl, Rockefeller Center, etc.

That is a great day trip. I have taken the day trip to NYC a number of times but my favorite so far was the xmas trip I took with dh and we saw the rockettes for the first time, took a carriage ride through Central park, walked all over, saw the tree and the ice skaters. It was so fun. This was pre-kids. Now I am looking forward to taking our kids on the same trip in the next few years.

PS- I love IKEA too and for us the closest is in Philly so it would be a nice day trip get away.

My favorite day trip would have to be to Old Salem or Asheville. Old Salem is in Winston-Salem NC and is a Moravian Village that's been "preserved" from the time it was settled by the Quakers (I think that's right...if not, please feel free to correct me!) It's really cool to go up there and see everything and walk around. Plus the Moravian wafer cookies are delish!

Asheville is just a lot of fun because of all the stuff you can do there. I'm not much of an outdoors-y person so I don't really do any hiking or camping or anything. But there are some awesome restaurants and shops up there. Plus it's just really pretty!

sounds like great places. In my city we have moravian college and lots of moravian churches. Im sure there are some facts about the moravians that are attached to the city but Im not exactly sure what they are. We have a museum and a few exhibits downtown and it is really neat to see.

Finished my countdown calendar. I took a couple pics but then discovered they were blurry when I downloaded them. I'll have to try again. I am really VERY pleased with how my little project turned out. I really love it.

I love your calendar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think it is so awesome and came out great.

lindsay - have a fabulous time at the beach!! where on the shore do you go? i grew up going to ocean city, nj. my parents still go and every summer i say we need to go down but we never do. we have a beach a block away so i try to keep our summer spending DOWN (you know, so i can spend oodles at disney, lol).

I know you already know the answer!!! But yes I loved Ocean City! You have so much right in your area that I can understand not needing to do specific day trips. The zoo sounds like so much fun...even if they misrepresented safari mickey. and to have a beach within walking distance is great.

Today is going to be a very OP day. I can feel it. I've decided to try using Sparkpeople. The new PointsPlus does not seem to be working very well for me.

Good luck on the new plan. Sometimes you just need to change it up. I hope you have lots of success with it.

The WISH Biggest Loser Summer Challenge Week 3
#10-zhoen .451%
#9- glss1/2fll .483%
#8- Worfiedoodles .520%
#7- pjstevens .554%
#6- Connie96 .564%
#5- bellebookworm .640%
#4- liesel .647%
#3- cclovesdis .648%
#2- mackeysmom .73%

and now
The WISH Biggest Loser Summer Challenge
Week 4 Biggest Loser is:
#1- JacksLilWench 1.58%

Yay!!!! Congrats to all the BL this for last week. You all did great.

My boys would say the hour drive up to the mountains to go fishing. Not my favorite day trip!

I agree that wouldnt be my favorite trip. We are so close to the pocono's which is a popular travel area for PA. Its lots of mountains, fishing, camping, etc. Just not up my alley.

The falls sound like a lovely trip to take. I hope you get there someday.

Hmmm.. I'd say when I was little it was day trips the the Museum of Science or the Aquarium with my parents which always ended with lunch at Faneuil Hall. Nowadays it might be Kittery with DS and my mom where we have breakfast somewhere tasty before like Amore Breakfast in Ogunquit.

Sounds like a fun thing to do. I love science museums and aquariums too.

I finished my first book of the summer! It was a Danielle Steele novel

Which one...I love her novels?

Sure enough, when he was at the airport, the kitchen was suddenly attacked by ANTS!!!

Glad you got an extra night with dh and I hope the time apart goes fast. Sorry about the ANTS. Those kind of things always seem to happen when the men are away.

I've decided that I'm going to challenge myself to reach the top of this "mountain" we have in town. There is a path to the top and some type of museum at the top too. I am giving myself the next five weekends to attempt it. I haven't done it in so long so I really have no idea how much of a challenge this will be, but I want to lose 10 lbs before WDW and this is one way I can make that happen.

That is an excellent idea. Keep us posted on how its going.

 

[Rose&Mike]

Happy Birthday to SarahMay!!!!

And congratulations to all of our Losers this week!!

 

[mommyof2Pirates]

Sorry for taking so long this morning. I will be much better during the week. We did not get home until 1am so It took me awhile to get moving today.

Sunday July 10, 2011 QOTD:

What is your favorite summertime healthy treat?


I love to have really cold, fresh watermelon!!!! and when I need an ice cream fix I get the turkey hill lite cookies and cream ice cream and plop one serving onto a cone. Or I get Rita's sugar free pink lemonade ice. They are both tasty and less calories and fat that the traditional treats.

 

[mommyof2Pirates]

We had a wonderful day trip to the beach yesterday. It was hot and sunny. The kids loved the ocean. We went swimming back at my in laws hotel. Walked the boardwalk. The kids insisted on spending their money on hermit crabs...so now I have one more thing that I will end up having to take care of. We did not get home until 1am. So we were up from 430am sat. until 1am sun. It was quite a long day but very enjoyable and a much needed break from reality.

As far as eating it was pretty rough and I know I could have made alot of better choices but in all honestly I didnt want to. It was my one day this summer that we were doing this so I wanted to enjoy the things I like.

We had mcd's on the way down for breakfast so that was 11pts.
I got chicken fingers for lunch which was about 12 pts
Dinner was pizza for 10 pts
snack on the boardwalk was chickie and petes crab fries (philly thing) god only know how many points those were. I did only eat a large handful and then handed them off to my FIL.
I passed up ice cream!!!!!!

So tomorrow I am getting back into the groove. Today I need to recuperate and get some groceries.

I hope you all enjoyed your weekend as much as I did.

 

[DisneyKim68]

Sunday July 10, 2011 QOTD:

What is your favorite summertime healthy treat?

Watermelon! I think I've eaten my weight in i the last couple of weeks

 

[RemembertheMagic98]

Good Morning Lovely Ladies!!

I've been celebrating my birthday a little early so I have been absent from the thread...so I am checking in!

Friday was fun!! Birthday lunch with a former colleague, a Vera Bradley spree (lots of paper products for my desk and some flip flops!), birthday dinner for my dad at our favorite restaurant, and my DSis, DBIL, and DNephew arrived that night!!

Yesterday I spent the entire day with family celebrating all of the July birthday people with a party at my parent's house. My God Parents are bigger Disney fans than I am and bought me new black Mickey Fitflops!! Soooo excited! They are heading down to WDW for 18 nights in late July at OKW. I am sooo jealous! We are trying to coordinate things so that can all go at the same time in 2013...just can't figure out where we all want to stay for that trip. I'm still pushing the Poly but they have DVC at Beach Club and love it there....decisions!!! Anyway, it was so fun to be with family. I was exhausted last night!!

This morning I had birthday breakfast out with the family...my nephew is such a nut! He likes the song "Move it, Move it" and LOVES to sing it and do a little dance. They are headed back to PA today. I'm most likely going to clean up here a bit and do some relaxing by the pool. Brian returns tonight from his week at the shore with his mom....he sounded not happy last night when he called. She gives him a hard time all the time and it really drains him

Anyway, I am watching Harry Potter and cleaning at the same time. Need to throw in some laundry because I want to do nothing but relax tomorrow (MY BIRTHDAY!!).

Have a fabulous day and make great choices!!

 

[mommyof2Pirates]

Friday was fun!! Birthday lunch with a former colleague, a Vera Bradley spree (lots of paper products for my desk and some flip flops!), birthday dinner for my dad at our favorite restaurant, and my DSis, DBIL, and DNephew arrived that night!!

Yesterday I spent the entire day with family celebrating all of the July birthday people with a party at my parent's house. My God Parents are bigger Disney fans than I am and bought me new black Mickey Fitflops!! Soooo excited! They are heading down to WDW for 18 nights in late July at OKW. I am sooo jealous! We are trying to coordinate things so that can all go at the same time in 2013...just can't figure out where we all want to stay for that trip. I'm still pushing the Poly but they have DVC at Beach Club and love it there....decisions!!! Anyway, it was so fun to be with family. I was exhausted last night!!

This morning I had birthday breakfast out with the family...my nephew is such a nut! He likes the song "Move it, Move it" and LOVES to sing it and do a little dance. They are headed back to PA today. I'm most likely going to clean up here a bit and do some relaxing by the pool.

Sounds like a wonderful birthday weekend. Enjoy the rest of your day!!!!

 

[bellebookworm9]

Sunday July 10, 2011 QOTD:

What is your favorite summertime healthy treat?

Watermelon! And Mom bought some sugar free popsicles that I have yet to try, but I am hoping they are good.

 

[glss1/2fll]

What is your favorite summertime healthy treat



Oh, watermelon. Yummmmm

 

[tigger813]

mommyof2pirates: It was Matters of the Heart! About a sociopath. Very intense. I couldn't put it down yesterday afternoon.

Starting reading Charlie Ridgeway's book about being press agent for Disney. Didn't get very far yet as I was tired last night.

I got up and did the 2mile WATP this morning. It felt good to work out again. Then the girls and I went to church. We came back and I pulled out snacky stuff for lunch. Not a good choice but I want it out of my house! We're watching the US Women's Soccer World Cup match against Brazil. US has had some MAJORLY bad calls against them that may be costing them this match. I'm not happy! So unfair!!!!

I'm excited tonight as I'm going to British Beer Company with some local ladies for trivia night, drinks and buy one get one pizzas! I'm going to allow myself one drink and one or two slices of pizza. I couldn't go last time so I'm excited to go this time! I have another lady picking me up so I can enjoy my drink!

Time to go change over the laundry!

TTFN

 

[SettinSail]

Favorite healthy Summertime treat: guess I can't say a mini Blizzard from DQ? I like those Eddy's frozen fruit bars. You can get them all year long but they are so good when it's hot

Lindsay, what a long day but sounds like fun! What a great job passing up ice cream We are thinking of a NYC trip over Thanksgiving to watch the parade. I know it will be very crowded but when is NYC not I have a good friend who lives somewhere in NJ very close to the city and she's invited us to stay with her.

Karen, your weekend sounds like fun too!

We just finished watching the Women's soccer game, USA~!!!!!
we only started watching just a few mins before US tied the game. Before that we were at the Mall getting DS some new clothes. He likes American Eagle, I signed up for their cc today to get some more coupons and discounts. We dropped DH at the airport this morning and I guess he got out OK, have not heard from him since.

Tracey, I need to get back into exercise too. Haven't done anything but a few walks outside this week. Now that we have re-activated our YMCA memb, I have no excuses!! I might head over there in the morning after dropping DS off at 6:00 for the camp bus. I feel like I will have a good loss next week since I will be by myself. Again, no excuses for bad eating! Thinking about eating Supper every night from the Whole Foods Bar. I can get some fish and veg or salad, etc every night. Hoping my discipline will hold up through the week!!!

Shawn

 

[tigger813]

Shawn- Did you hear me screaming at the Refs???? They were horrible!!!!! So glad that it turned out the correct way!!!!

What HS is your son going to? My niece attends Green Hope.

TTFN